Long Dan's calligraphy and painting academy is very impressive, and Long Dan does not live in his own manor in order to better run the painting academy. entrusted the manor to his eldest brother to manage, and moved back to the city to live. Chen Ying's unit also built a welfare house in the center of the city, and Long Dan renovated the welfare house assigned to his wife and moved in. The two-story villa I bought before was rented out. Since the calligraphy and painting institute is not far from the assigned house, Long Dan commutes to work on time every day and manages the calligraphy and painting institute, which is very convenient.

Longdan's calligraphy and painting institute has been open for a long time, and many painters have come to admire it, and the painters who come to Longdan's calligraphy and painting academy are not very famous, and Longdan doesn't care, they are all guests, and Longdan is still a guest. Fortunately, the vast majority of painters ask for a very low price, and the cost of painting a day is only a few hundred yuan, and Long Dan's funds can still cope with it.

Some painters' calligraphy and paintings are very easy to sell, Long Dan will pay a little more to the painters who come, and those that are not good to sell will be collected by themselves, and Long Dan still pays the painter a part of the cost of polishing the pen. The more this happens, the more painters come, sometimes seven or eight painters get together in a day. For more than a year, Long Dan accumulated more and more calligraphy and paintings, and if he couldn't sell them, Long Dan sorted them out and collected them, until later, Long Dan paid millions of dollars and collected a large number of calligraphy and paintings of not very famous painters.

Long Dan's wife persuaded him a lot, saying that it was not a way for Long Dan to go on like this, and it would be useless to lose all the family property. Long Dan smiled and said, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, don't be in a hurry, I'll think of a way in a few days. Long Dan's wife is a standard good wife and mother, and she never interferes in Long Dan's affairs, and this matter dragged on like this.

Once, there was a painter named Chen Jian from Guilin, Guangxi, who also came to Longdan's calligraphy and painting academy. Chen Jian is painting landscapes, the style of painting is close to the style of heavy ink, most of the paintings are Guilin landscapes, but because it is heavy ink, Chen Jian's landscape paintings are painted, and he suddenly looks at a large black piece, and if he doesn't look carefully, he really doesn't look at anything. Most of the paintings that come to buy are vassals and elegant, and few of them really understand. Long Dan looked very good, and tried his best to sell Chen Jian, but it backfired. Almost no one admired Chen Jian's landscapes, and Chen Jian took them to Longdan's calligraphy and painting academy for more than ten days, but he didn't sell a single one.

Chen Jian saw that his paintings were not selling, and he was embarrassed to ask for the cost of polishing the pen. When Long Dan saw it, he comforted Chen Jiandao: "Brother Chen, don't worry, you just have to concentrate on painting, and I will be responsible for the sales problem." I just can't sell it, I'll collect it myself, and I won't let you go home empty-handed."

Long Dan also led Chen Jian to live in his manor, drinking and chatting with Chen Jian every day, in addition, Long Dan fished, and Chen Jian continued to paint. I have been living for nearly a month, Chen Jian's landscape paintings have been nearly 100, Chen Jian proposed to go back to his hometown, and he is really not in the mood to live here again.

Long Dan saw that Chen Jian wanted to go back, and he didn't insist on keeping it, so he asked Chen Jian how much it cost to paint in other places, and Chen Jian truthfully told Long Dan, and Long Dan took 5,000 yuan from his account and gave it to Chen Jian.

It is said that Chen Jian painted nearly 100 landscape paintings, which is by no means lower than this price. It's just that a pair hasn't been sold, so Chen Jian can't say anything. Seeing that Long Dan still took out 5,000 yuan to himself, he was even more grateful to Long Dan.

Chen Jian asked Long Dan: "Has my brother ever been to Guilin?" Long Dan said: "It's really not, I always want to go out for a walk in the past few years, but I don't have time", Chen Jian said: "Why don't you go to Guilin with me to see, Guilin's landscapes are famous all over the world, after you go, I will also entertain my brother to thank me for taking care of my brother for a month." Long Dan was also moved in his heart, and said: "I'll ask my family if they want to go" So he went home and asked Chen Hong, Chen Hong had never been to Guilin, and when he saw that he had the opportunity to travel, he agreed to come down. Long Dan saw that his wife was also willing to travel, so he bought a plane ticket from the provincial capital, and the family of three and the painter Chen Jian came to Guilin, which is the best in the world.

Chen Jian is a native of Guilin, and his living habits are authentic southern customs. Especially when I drink alcohol, I like to drink home-brewed rice wine. Long Dan is a pure northern man, and he doesn't like rice wine very much. The first time I drank rice wine, it was okay to taste fresh, but I didn't want to drink it for the second meal.

Chen Jian saw that Long Dan didn't like to drink rice wine, so he said to Long Dan: "There is also a kind of bamboo wine, I don't know if Brother Long wants to drink it", Long Dan is a guest, and it is not easy to excuse himself, so he said: "Take it and taste it." Chen Jian took out his home-brewed bamboo wine and let Long Dan taste it. Long Dan took the bamboo wine, tasted it was more than a catty, and felt that the wine was sweet and long, and he immediately liked the bamboo wine. During the meal, he asked Chen Jian to take out a few more barrels of bamboo wine at home, and Long Dan drank five or six catties in one go before stopping, and he was addicted. Long Dan has liked the bamboo wine since then, and he must drink it every meal in Chen Jian's house, and within a few days, he drank all the wine in Chen Jian's house.

When Long Dan was eating, he saw that Chen Jian took the rice wine again, so he asked: "I said, brother, why did you take the rice wine again, bamboo wine?" Seeing this, Chen Jian smiled bitterly and said, "I let you drink it out", Long Dan was embarrassed when he heard it, and said: "I'm really embarrassed, I actually drank it all for you, is there anything for sale outside?" Chen Jian said: "There is really nothing to sell outside, they are all brewed by the farmers themselves, and each family has its own bamboo wine, but it is not good to go to other people's houses to get it." Long Dan carefully inquired about Chen Jian's bamboo wine method, and only then did he know that this wine was peculiar, and it really couldn't be made for a while.

It turns out that the practice of bamboo wine is like this: to cut down the bamboo that is more than two years old, make a hole in each bamboo node, pour the high liquor into it, and then seal it; The liquor is soaked in fresh bamboo for 30 days, and then the small holes are pried open, and then the liquor is poured out, at this time, the liquor absorbs the nutrients of the fresh bamboo, becomes golden yellow or light red, and the alcohol content also decreases; The poured wine is filtered and bottled and slowly fermented for a few days, at which point the wine becomes sweet and mellow, and the aroma is incomparably rich, which becomes bamboo wine. Because it cannot be produced on a large scale, there are very few things that are sold outside, and they are all brewed by the farmers themselves to drink or entertain guests.

Long Dan lived in Chen Jian's house for a few days, drinking and chatting with Chen Jian every day, and discussing Chen Jian's landscape paintings with Chen Jian. Long Dan encouraged Chen Jian not to give up his beliefs and stick to his own style of painting, perhaps at some point he will be recognized by society. He also complimented Chen Jian and said: "Maybe in the future, your landscape paintings will become famous in the future, and others can't ask for them, and it will be difficult to find a painting, and a painting will be sold for tens of thousands of yuan, and my saved landscape paintings may be able to make a fortune." Since then, Chen Jian and Long Dan have cherished each other and become close friends.

Although Long Dan likes Chen Jian's bamboo wine, he is not good at living in other people's homes, besides, he is here to travel, so he can't stay at home and not go out, which goes against the original intention of tourism. Long Dan said goodbye to Chen Jian, a family of three, visited the famous landscapes of Guilin, and then went to Xishuangbanna in Yunnan. In the Dai village in Xishuangbanna, Long Dan discovered a good wine, which made Long Dan linger and live in Xishuangbanna for more than ten days.

In the Dai village, there are generally three things, one is wine, the second is cigarette, and the third is bacon. The sake is baked at home from glutinous rice that is absolutely green, and the so-called roasted sake is different from the steamed sake in the north. Generally, the practice of liquor is to ferment the grain first, and then distill and filter it out. And the roasted wine of the Dai people is roasted. Generally, four catties of glutinous rice are made into one catty of wine, due to the peculiar roasting method, the roasted original liquor has no impurities at all, which is equivalent to other liquors stored and fermented for decades. Generally speaking, the more liquor is stored, the more fragrant it becomes, and the principle is that the liquor is continuously fermented without aerobic to dissolve the methanol and other impurities in the original liquor, and produce substances that are beneficial to the human body with aromatic odor. Roasted sake, on the other hand, is roasted instead of steamed, which removes impurities from the original sake at once and produces an aromatic smell. This roasted wine is actually much better than that Wuliangye and Moutai, but it is not as famous as Moutai.

Long Dan's family came out to play for 20 days, Long Dan was to taste the delicious local wine of the farmer everywhere, and his wife also complained, and did not enjoy the scenery. Yelling to go back. Long Dan was helpless, temporarily endured the gluttony, accompanied his wife to travel to eighteen landscapes in Xishuangbanna, and returned to his hometown Luzhong City with a long heart.