Chapter Forty-Seven: The Road to Growth That Can't Be Escaped
I don't quite understand Li Zhilin's current thoughts: "What, are we going to shoot things in a while?" "I thought he wanted to take another baby today to save his face. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 But I think it's hard to do this again today, in my state just now. To tell you the truth, I've quit now.
Li Zhilin looked at me strangely: "Didn't we say okay?" The rest is just to put on a show, and you don't need to take it seriously. Besides, you're nervous enough just now, and letting you continue to play in the second half will leave you with a psychological shadow, and removing the shadow is not something I can solve. ”
"Indeed." I didn't want to hide it, "I was really scared just now, I knew I couldn't handle it in the second half. "It was really a wise decision for Mizhen to send him to help me.
Li Zhilin didn't laugh at me, but nodded as if empathy: "I also have this point." Do you know what it was like for me to participate in an auction for the first time? I'm as flustered as you are. The first time I went on stage was as an auction exhibitor, and my job was to move the goods to the stage and wait for the final price to be set, write down the names of the successful bidders, and then handle the auctioned items according to the requirements of the person who won the auction. Although I was able to boast about some knowledge of antiquities at the time, I had never demonstrated this talent in public. So when I was holding the auction plate covered with red velvet cloth in my hand, I was so nervous that I almost threw the racket out of my hand, and I could feel my hands shaking violently. My heart was racing, my face was pale, and my mind was blank. Although the distance from the stage to the stage is only more than 50 meters, even if I think about it now, it is the longest road I have walked in my life. I was so scared that when I stood on the platform, I was trying to get out of that place as soon as possible, and my vision was blurry, and I couldn't see anything clearly. I couldn't hear what the audience was saying, and it wasn't until the host poked me that I mechanically turned around and walked off the stage. Later, I heard the host ask me to take the auction items with me, and I trembled and picked up the vase that had been auctioned at that time, but I didn't hold it firmly and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, the host was standing next to me at the time, and he hugged the fallen vase tightly, which prevented an unwarranted disaster and saved my life. To be on the safe side, it was the host who personally sent the antique vase backstage and completed the rest of the work, and I followed him alone in a daze, and I couldn't remember anything except being scolded by the organizer in the back. Oh, and one more thing that stuck in my mind was the laughter that stayed behind me as I walked backstage. At this point, he paused, turned his head to look at the people around him, and avoided those unfriendly glances.
When no one was looking at us, he continued: "I was covered in cold sweat, and I wanted to walk, but I couldn't move my legs. That's the scene I took the stage for the first time, stupid, right? It's a piece of black history that can't be erased. You know, sometimes, and I mean when I'm stressed, I still dream of the first time I'm on stage, and those lingering laughs. But even so, I'm still reluctant to let it go away. It's just because I feel like it's just encouraging me to see where I'm today. To tell you the truth, seeing you sweating just now reminded me of the past. I just became serious, not because I didn't think there was anything bad about your performance today, but because I saw and remembered how I used to be. But when I'm talking to you about it now, I suddenly want to laugh, do you know why? Seeing me shaking his head, Li Zhilin, who originally looked a little tired, laughed out loud, "Maybe you won't be able to go into detail if I say it, but it really happened to me." I left the first auction of my life that day, but when I got home, I was completely out of that state of numbness, and the pent-up tension and fear rushed out of my stomach. It's really rushing out of the stomach. After that I had a high fever for a day, and I believe I was really frightened. At the time I thought it was the end of the world, but now that I think about it, it's funny. He giggled and laughed.
Infected by his emotions, I also laughed: "I vomited just now." But I rinsed my mouth and it didn't taste at all. "The thought that it might be embarrassing, I explained right away. But soon, both of us, who had lost face, seemed to laugh: "I'm sorry to embarrass you." "Li Zhilin and I apologize.
Li Zhilin just looked at me and continued to shake his head slightly: "It's nothing, everyone has to go through such a stage. Including those who are now laughing at you, they are the same. I mean, I've made a fool of myself, but I don't know if I'm just as fragile as we are. Li Zhilin still smiled, "But no one can escape this feeling." Although I really felt very uncomfortable at the time, when you rushed over and looked back at this experience, what you wanted to do was not to destroy it, but to thank it for making you make a very brave attempt, and you will admire that brave self back then. However, since they can look down on you, it means that they have successfully passed that stage, at least now they are better than you. Do you know what it takes to avoid being ridiculed? Li Zhilin tilted his head slightly and asked me.
"Make yourself stronger than the people who laugh at you." I replied.
"That's smart." Li Zhilin was very satisfied with my answer, and nodded incessantly, "So, after a while, you still have to encourage yourself to try boldly, even if we can't shoot anything, you can try to re-participate in it." Don't be in a hurry, it won't hurt you to get used to this environment slowly. Anyway, since you've decided to do her a favor, I'm sure you'll be attending this kind of occasion more often in the future. If you use the second half as practice, I think you'll have an easier time in the future. ”
"It's very gentle." I looked at Li Zhilin and said.
Hearing me say this, Li Zhilin pointed to himself in some surprise: "Are you talking about me?" ”
After seeing my acquiescence, Li Zhilin's gaze became softer: "Because I also came step by step like this." Also, I'm very grateful to the host back then. If it weren't for him at that time, maybe I wouldn't really be involved in this industry in the future. He was the mentor who helped me really integrate into the circle, and he was the one who pulled me out of my self-pity. ”
"Thank you again." I looked at him earnestly.
He smiled as softly as he had just done before. I suddenly remembered the painting "The Tiger Descending from the Mountain" that I did not bid for. At the same time, I realized that my left side was empty, and in order to confirm, I glanced back, and there was only a brochure for the auction on the chair, "What about Mu Zixuan?" ”
"He went out before you came back." As soon as the conversation changed, Li Zhilin also mentioned the painting that we did not succeed in bidding, "That painting, it's not a pity if it wasn't photographed, anyway, this kind of unlucky painting has to be disposed of when it comes back, and if it doesn't succeed, it will save a big trouble." ”
I don't know if it's comforting me, but this sentence still sounds useful to me: "Thank you." I said.
Li Zhilin didn't answer, just frowned, put his eyes on the vacant seat next to me again, and then crossed over to me, picked up the brochure that Li Zhilin put on the chair, and then gently tapped my forehead with it: "Lose three and four." ”
I stared at him with wide eyes that I didn't know what he was singing.
"I'm not optimistic about my own things, so I just put them around." He put the brochure in my hand, and I realized that Li Zhilin was talking about Mu Zixuan taking my brochure to occupy a seat for himself. I smiled a little embarrassed, and I didn't understand why Li Zhilin was obsessed with this matter.
At this time, I felt a gust of wind passing by, and when I looked back, Mu Zixuan had returned to his seat, and I said hello again with some embarrassment. Mu Zixuan looked at me with some sarcasm: "Little girl, you behaved well just now." ”
I suddenly felt a nameless fire rushing to Tianling Gai: "For a newcomer, my performance is not bad. "Although it is inevitable that people will feel very embarrassed to say this kind of thing, I know that at this time, Li Zhilin usually watches jokes on the sidelines, so instead of expecting Li Zhilin to help me, it is better to be cheeky and ridicule.
Mu Zixuan probably didn't expect that I would return to such a vigorous life, and I was a little dumbfounded for a while, and I looked at it triumphantly. It was at this time that the second half of the auction began, and the first two lots were still not very well received, and the auction ended quickly. But when the third lot of the second half was brought up, for a moment, I couldn't take my eyes off it. It is the image of a lone wolf cast in brass, and a layer of green pottery is reported on the outside, which makes people feel creepy after seeing it. But I looked at it and felt unusually kind, and when the host Miss Yue quoted the starting price, I raised the price card in my hand. Not only the buyers, but I could even feel that Li Zhilin, who was sitting next to me, was also startled, but he quickly calmed down and began to keep putting sticky notes on my lap to remind me what kind of offer to shout.
I thought that no one would be interested in this terrifying-looking lone wolf statue, but to my surprise, there were not a few bidders for this bronze sculpture, and after some fierce competition, I finally bought the auction for 200,000 yuan. When it was over, the applause from the surrounding representatives of the ancestral hall seemed sparse, but it didn't affect my mood. I wiped the beads of sweat on my forehead and smiled at Li Zhilin.
Because I had already explained to the organizer, this auction item did not stay on the display table for long, and was brought back to the backstage to be handled according to our previous explanation.
One by one, the auction items were placed on the booth, and before the last auction item came up on the back panel, the host suddenly called a stop. At first, almost all the buyers in the venue thought that the organizers were adjusting their appetites. But in fact, this is not the case, because less than two minutes after the host called a stop, something unexpected happened.