At the beginning of December, with the efforts of Shen Fucai, Ding Hongxing's store was finally renovated and arranged, on this day, Ding Hongxing went to look at the store, Ding Chang and Yang Lianzhong were also here, Yang Lianzhong was looking at the signboard on the storefront, nodded and said: "This word is well written." ”

The signboard is written "Red Star Philatelic Store" five big characters in italics, these five words are written by Ding Hongxing himself, and then find someone to do it, Ding Hongxing was very ruthless in his previous life and practiced calligraphy for several years, so the words have been written beautifully.

Ding Hongxing smiled: "Master Yang, praise me behind your back again!" ”

Yang Lianzhong looked back and saw that it was Ding Hongxing, he smiled and said, "You wrote this word?" ”

Ding Hongxing nodded and said, "I originally wanted to find a famous calligrapher to write it, but we don't know that kind of person, so we had to write it ourselves." ”

Yang Lianzhong nodded: "Your writing is already very good, I didn't expect you to be so versatile!" But when it comes to calligraphers, I know an old calligrapher in Jiangcheng, named Cao Bingsen, who writes quite well. ”

"Mr. Cao Bingsen!" Ding Hongxing said: "I have heard his name, he is one of the best in the calligraphy industry in our province, Master Yang, you still know him!" ”

Yang Lianzhong said: "He is not only a calligrapher, but also a collector, and I am also engaged in the collection industry, so I met Mr. Cao by chance, and later dealt with him a few times, and sometimes went to pay a New Year's greeting." ”

Cao Bingsen is a famous old calligrapher in Jiangcheng, he is almost sixty years old this year, he is the vice chairman of the Hudong Provincial Calligraphers Association, and he is very famous in the national calligraphy circle, so Ding Hongxing has also heard his name in his previous life, and even came to his post when he practiced calligraphy.

Ding Hongxing said: "I only knew that he was a calligrapher, but I didn't expect him to be a collector?" ”

Yang Lianzhong said: "In fact, he is not only a collector, but also a great painter, since ancient times, Chinese calligraphy and painting are not separated, his calligraphy and painting are quite level, but the reputation in painting is not as good as the reputation in calligraphy." And engaged in calligraphy and painting, generally like to collect, he has a lot of calligraphy and painting friends in the world of calligraphy and painting to give him calligraphy and painting, many are calligraphy and painting, he also likes to collect ceramics, snuff bottles, jade, coins, Tang Sancai, mahogany furniture or something, the level of appreciation is also very high, I know him also once there is a thing to ask him to palm the eye, he has no shelf, a very kind old man, show me things very seriously, after reading carefully explain to me the origin of this thing, allusions, market value or something, Later, after getting acquainted with him, I became friends with him, I went to his house, and he sometimes cooked for us to eat, and his dishes were also cooked quite well, and he was called a gourmet. ”

After listening to Yang Lianzhong's words, Ding Hongxing had a three-dimensional impression of Mr. Cao, who was only famous in his previous life and had never met, and Mr. Cao's image became vivid and plump, I didn't expect Mr. Cao to have such a side! However, it is not surprising that traditional Chinese literati are generally versatile and involved in many fields, which can be regarded as a kind of expression of being very good at life.

While the two were talking, Shen Fu came out, he saw Ding Hongxing coming, and said to Ding Hongxing: "Hongxing is here, come in and have a look, and express some opinions." ”

Yang Lianzhong also said: "Yes, go in and take a look, today we have put all the stamps and other things on the table." ”

Ding Hongxing walked into the store, his eyes lit up as soon as he entered the door, although he had not come for a few days, but the layout of the store had made him a little unrecognizable.

There are rows of glass counters in the store, which have been spotlessly cleaned, and there are several rows of large cabinets inside the glass counters, and the counters are full of dazzling displays. Ding Hongxing walked over to take a look, the counter is an open philatelic album, the philatelic album has a variety of stamps, first day covers, souvenir sheets and other philatelic products, it is estimated that Yang Lianzhong's idea, these philatelic products are placed according to various themes, each theme of philatelic products placed in the same area, looks very hierarchical, the visual effect is very good.

Ding Hongxing nodded and praised: "Very good, the layout is very beautiful, very thoughtful!" ”

Shen Fucai said: "This is all Master Yang's idea." ”

Ding Hongxing said: "This kind of arrangement is really good, each theme of the philatelic products placed together, is very stimulating customers to buy **, many customers like to collect a theme of philatelic products." ”

Yang Lianzhong nodded and said: "Yes, I used to have some customers who were not really interested in stamp collecting, but they also came to me to buy stamps. I once had a customer who was very interested in the Chinese zodiac culture, he didn't actually collect stamps, but he collected all the items related to the zodiac culture, so he also bought a lot of zodiac tickets from me. There are also people who like Chinese paintings, and I have also bought stamps such as Qi Baishi's works and Xu Beihong's works here......"

Yang Lianzhong mentioned the stamp business, is to talk endlessly, he has rich experience, well-read and strong memory, talking about these to be interesting, Ding Hongxing, Shen Fucai, Ding Chang all listened to it with relish.

Ding Hongxing is really glad now, fortunately, Yang Lianzhong offered to partner with him to do business, otherwise, it would take at least a year for this store to get on the right track.

After Yang Lianzhong finished speaking, Ding Hongxing asked, "Master Yang, how is Aunt Luo's health lately?" ”

Yang Lianzhong nodded and said: "It's not bad, it's getting stronger day by day, I still walk with her every day, when I first came back, she had a hard time walking!" ”

Ding Hongxing nodded with satisfaction: "That's great!" ”

Yang Lianzhong asked: "Red Star, now that the store is arranged, when do you plan to open?" ”

Ding Hongxing pondered for a moment and said: "When the store opens, some friends will say that they want to come to congratulate it, so the opening day will be on the sixth day of this month, that day is Sunday, everyone can participate." ”

Several people nodded and said: "This day is good, No. 6, No. 6, six or six Shun, the meaning is better." ”

In this way, the opening date of the store was set for Sunday, December 6.

Subsequently, several people began to discuss which guests to invite on the opening day, this kind of thing is also a headache, if it is not related to others, it is not good to invite others, but if it is related, it is even worse not to invite others, in the customs of Guicheng, this is considered to look down on people, it is very offensive to people, once someone missed their good friends when they invited guests, and since then the two have not interacted with each other.

After repeated discussions, several people decided on a list of guests, and several people will go to the invitation cards and invite these guests to arrive on February 6.