Chapter Seventy-Four: The Opening
"Go buy some painting jars and fabrics and come back!" Yan Qing told her. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"That's good!"
They first went to a few ceramic shops, selected a few celadon landscape paintings to decorate the scrolls, and selected two three-dimensional large ceramic bottles as the decoration of the gallery.
Yan Qing instructed his men to send these to Du Er's wood carving shop on Lu Street at the North Gate.
Immediately afterward, they went to a few more fabric shops.
This time, the choice of fabric is not embroidered clothes, so it is exquisite, not only the color tone and the layout of the gallery should be matched, but also the look is more comfortable.
Yan Qing and Fang Xin are willing to choose...
The two finally unanimously decided to buy the Shu brocade material for the painting scene of Qinglian and the weaving cloud brocade material for the painting scene of Fuguizhu.
When they returned to the woodcarving shop, it was already late afternoon.
Mr. Du is really a trustworthy person, when they came back, except for the counter and lattice cabinets in the shop, the rest were emptied.
Du Er gave the key to the shop to Guo Yanqing, collected eight taels of silver and left.
He had just left for a while when Su Jin and Aunt Li arrived.
Because the signboard of the gallery has not mentioned the plaque, Su Jin went to Qingyang Street to find a carpenter master, and he personally mentioned the three big characters of "Hongyantang", saying that he would come to pick up the plaque tomorrow afternoon.
August 14th.
Yan Qing, Su Jin and Aunt Li arrived at the gallery early, and they brought all the paintings they had painted at home.
Su Jin also had a lot of ideas about the layout of the gallery, he thought that the zoning was better, the landscape painting was a sales area, the flowers, birds, grasses and insects painting was a sales area, and the portrait painting and the painting of rare things painted by the lady were each used as a sales area.
Yan Qing praised her husband, which happened to coincide with her thoughts.
The trio quickly arranged the scrolls in sections, either hanging them on the wall or spreading them out on a long wooden table, and the rest went directly into the vats.
Busy for an hour.
Gong Wenshen and Fang Xinrong came to help, and Hongsheng and Xiaoyu were very careful when they started their work.
In the afternoon, before they could pick up the plaque, the master carpenter sent the plaque to the gallery in advance.
A large number of people not only has great strength, but also works more energetically.
Su Jin saw that everything that should be prepared in the gallery had been prepared, and he thanked Gong Wenshen and said: "Brother Gong, thanks to you today, otherwise with the strength of the three of us, I am afraid that the opening of tomorrow will be delayed."
"It should be, it should be!" Gong Wenshen said with a smile: "Since the opening of the Tomorrow Art Museum, those literati and artists will be blessed in the future."
They chatted while walking, and the group went to the Chunyue Restaurant on Qingyang Street.
Su Jin and Yan Qing are the two of them, thank you for working hard for the gallery for a day, so tonight's guests are invited.
At the dinner table, Gong Wenshen remembered and asked them: "I don't know Brother Su Xian, but you can invite the painters from the previous mansion to come to the art gallery tomorrow to have a show?" ”
Hearing this, Su Jin and Yan Qing looked at each other, looked at Gong Wenshen and shook their heads.
Su Jin said ashamedly: "If Brother Gong doesn't mention this matter, Xiaoqing and I really didn't think of this." In fact, although we went to the mansion to paint at that time, our friendship with them was shallow, and it was really difficult to invite them."
"Hmm!" Gong Wenshen was thoughtful, it was understandable that Brother Su Xian had this idea, he had made up his mind, he didn't say anything more, and laughed and just had a good drink with Brother Su Xian tonight.
They left their seats and went their separate ways.
On this day of August 15, the sky was blue and the clouds were like flowers, and the beauty was like a picture.
The streets of Qingyang are full of traffic, the crowd is not lively, and it just so happens that a nearby private school is closed for one day today.
Therefore, on this street at the north gate, you can see scholars with elegant temperament everywhere.
What Su Jin and Yan Qing never expected was that Brother Gong was still asking them last night, but they could invite those painters in the previous mansion. When the opening was about to open, Li Gongzi of the Li Mansion actually came to the scene with a congratulatory gift. Subsequently, Master Peng of the Peng Mansion and Gu Gongzi of the Gu Mansion came one by one.
"Hehe, congratulations to Mr. Hee and Mrs. Su!"
Hu Shumin and Hu Lanzhi, who was dressed as a man, walked into the crowd of onlookers, came to the front of the art gallery, and joked to Su Jin who greeted him with a smile: "Mr. Su opened the art gallery today, and he didn't inform Hu in advance, fortunately, Hu Mou listened to all directions and heard about your art gallery, otherwise he would have missed the happy event."
Su Jin smiled gratefully, he knew that it was Brother Gong who was working hard for them again, if it wasn't for Gong Wenshen writing the invitation for him, how would they have heard about it.
"Su, thank you Brother Hu and Miss Hu for coming to the gallery! Let you break the bank! Su Jin invited the two of them into the gallery and sat down.
Xiao Yu served tea to the two.
Yan Qing and Fang Xinrong entertained a wave of painters who had just arrived on the second floor. At this time, she went downstairs to get tea, and when she saw that Hu Gongzi and Miss Hu were also here, she happily walked towards them and greeted them.
Look, Miss Hu sat obediently next to her brother, her smiling face was as gentle and calm as ever.
"Hello Miss Hu!" Yan Qing approached her, feeling very sorry for being aggressive to Miss Hu in the Hu Mansion before, and when she came to Tiankui, she encountered disagreement, and her temper was inevitably a little impatient.
"Hello Mrs. Su!" Hu Zhilan shouted politely, she had already let go of the past. This morning, I heard her second brother say that Brother Gong's friend opened an art gallery, so she wanted to join in the fun, but she didn't expect this art gallery to be opened by Mr. Su and Mrs. Su.
"Why don't you take Miss Hu with me to the second floor to have a look! There's a sister upstairs! Yan Qing smiled kindly.
"Good!" Hu Zhilan smiled, nodded after her brother, got up and followed Mrs. Su to the second floor.
At this moment, there are still six minutes before the auspicious time for the opening of the gallery.
In the gallery, there are these painters from the mansion to cheer the scene, upstairs and downstairs talk and laugh, and it is very lively to appreciate and discuss paintings.
It's just that it's been this hour, and they haven't seen Brother Gong for a long time.
Su Jin and Yan Qing asked Hongsheng, who had come early, but he shook his head, where did Childe go? He didn't know either.
Suddenly, there was a lion dance on the street outside the gallery, and Su Jin and Yan Qing heard the sound and curiously walked out of the gallery to take a look at the street.
I saw a few red and yellow lions, dancing towards the gallery in a majestic manner.
"Husband, did you invite this lion dance?" Yan Qing asked.
Su Jin shook his head and guessed: "Could it be that Brother Gong invited it?"
"Hmmm! That's what Brother Gong invited! "They are really grateful to Brother Gong for their kindness.
A few lions danced all the way, so that the people wandering on the street listened to it, and they all thought that it was a happy event. They all wanted to join in the fun, and followed the lion dance team to the door of the "Hongyan Hall" art museum.
The crowd of onlookers looked lively and laughed, and consciously gave way to a way.
"Good!" The lord and son of the mansion bought and saw these lions, and their dancing skills were very wonderful, and they smiled and praised them.
This should be an acrobatic troupe like Wu Ji! Today, if you can invite them, everyone will be feasted on them.
"It's auspicious!" Hongsheng stood next to the firecracker and shouted. With it, firecrackers were lit.
The crackling sound of firecrackers mixed with the liveliness of the lion dance made the mood of the people present even higher, and Su Jin and Yan Qing received a burst of congratulations.
As soon as the firecrackers were over, a red lion from the lion dance team was dancing towards them.