Chapter Eighty-Eight: Earned

As Dong Ce's hammer fell, Zhongshan Chunyu was sold to Zhou Gongzi at a price of sixty-five yuan.

This disappointed many customers, but also calculated the true price of the lacquer paintings and how much money they spent on the remaining two paintings.

"The east gate of Jinling is a sign of the prosperity of our Jinling Mansion, try to ask the past dynasties, which dynasty of Jinling can be the enemy of the world? Therefore, this painting is very significant, and it is also the one I have spent the most time painting, starting with the characters in this painting...... ”

With Dong Ce's introduction, everyone looked at the picture of the east gate of Jinling, looking at the lifelike characters inside, hawkers, brightly dressed dignitaries, and beautiful women who stayed in front of the jade hairpin stall, not only painted the charm of the characters, but even the thin hair was clearly visible, of course, this was only discovered when they came to the stage to take a closer look, but at the moment when they thought about it under the stage, they felt that this painting was vulgar and elegant, and it was wonderful.

After a round of bidding, the east gate of Jinling was sold to a middle-aged gentleman for fifty-two yuan.

This made Dong Ce very depressed, because this market painting took him three days, but it was not as valuable as the landscape painting painted in two days, which shows that contemporary literati still love landscapes!

These three paintings are not already done as Dong Ce and the guests said, but after learning that they were pitted by Meng Cunlang on the opening day, he hurried to the stage upstairs every day before and after the play, and rushed to work on the stage as soon as he had time, five days, even two, as for the last one, it was Dong Ce's most painstaking work, but it took the least time.

When Dong Ce painted landscapes and markets, he slowly conceived a beauty, as long as he thought of it, he quickly painted it, because except for the ten beauties, the rest of the scenery was painted very simply, especially the thousands of troops and horses outside the city wall under the moon, all of them were reflected in the dust, and the description of flowers and plants was also very simple, but because of this, it was more reflective of the style of the ten beauties!

When Dong Ce spent another quarter of an hour quickly and simply describing some allusions to the top ten beauties, he just made an offer, and the audience suddenly became angry!

"Ten beautiful pictures of Ben Gongzi are determined to win, no matter how much you increase the price, this son will add ten times to it!" Zhou Gongzi got up first.

"Isn't the Ning Dynasty surnamed Zhou very rich?" Dong Ce was a little shocked, he didn't know the origin of this Zhou Gongzi, he only knew that Zhou Cong was already a wealthy man, but compared with this son with the same surname, it was far inferior!

"Three paintings, you want to have two for yourself, I said Tuesday, do you know what it means to be ashamed!" With a very disdainful voice, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

When Zhou Gongzi heard this, his eyes swept away from him, and the young man who was also sitting in the VIP seat immediately smiled lightly: "It turned out to be Kong Gongzi of Guanwen Pavilion, it's really strange, the art garden sells paintings, and you also sell paintings, why do you still come here to buy paintings?" ”

Kong Gongzi grinned when he heard this, and said: "It is because of his love for painting that he sells paintings, and Kong is inspired to sell the world's famous paintings to match their prices, so he naturally wants to buy them." Unlike some people, in the name of loving painting, they secretly do private buying and selling! After speaking, Kong Gongzi glanced at Zhou Gongzi very coldly, and said, "Do you know where this painting is expensive?" ”

"Naturally, the ten beauties of lifelike have gathered together!" Zhou Gongzi didn't pay attention to Kong Gongzi's sentence of buying and selling privately!

"Superficial!" Kong Gongzi pursed his lips, then looked at the painting on the stage, and said: "This painting, ten beauties are just a point, in the next opinion, its most expensive place is the ten women's clothing, hair accessories and the state of the situation, Su Daji has a bead chain wrapped in a bun, a white fox on her shoulders, two light cloths half covered and half hidden, the original style is incisive, what a bewitching and unparalleled disaster country red face!" And Xi Shi was born ordinary, if the clothes when the raccoon yarn is gorgeous, it is very problematic, but in this painting, Xi Shi is simple and generous in flower cloth, which seems to be the most inconspicuous among the women, but the nine women are all beautiful, the only daughter is Jane, and after a long time, she is the most eye-catching, and Diao Chan ......"

With Kong Gongzi's comments one by one, everyone gradually understood the value of this ten beautiful pictures.

Even Dong Ce didn't expect that the ten beautiful pictures could be so praised by others, especially the costumes, which made him a little embarrassed, the ten girls wore were all made by him from the combination of some Chinese paintings and film and television dramas, and he didn't pay special attention at the beginning, but he was praised, it was really unintentional to plant willows and willows!

"Idiot!" Zhou Gongzi was really annoyed in his heart, how could he not have noticed this, but he knew very well that if he said this, could the price of this painting be low?

Ignoring Zhou Gongzi's resentful gaze at him, Kong Gongzi looked at Dong Ce on the stage and said, "Master Dong, I'll go out a hundred times." ”

Before Dong Ce could speak, Zhou Gongzi immediately said: "One hundred and ten!" ”

"Three hundred!" The middle-aged gentleman who had purchased the east gate of Jinling before got up and smiled.

As soon as this person spoke, there was an instant silence, so that many guests who wanted a price could only swallow their words.

Dong Ce looked at the middle-aged gentleman with some surprise, and found that this guy was a little familiar between his eyebrows, but he definitely didn't know him, but since he was offered, he couldn't be stupid.

"The VIP seat No. 7 guest offered three hundred yuan, I counted three times, and no one asked for the price after three sounds, this ten beautiful pictures will be won by the No. 7 distinguished guest, one ...... Second ......" When Dong Ce said this, his eyes swept around, and he found that no one wanted to make a price, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed, although the price far exceeded his estimate, but it was so simple for people to buy, as the master of ceremonies, he was very unhappy!

"Three!" As Dong Ce spit out the word a little depressed, the gavel fell on the counter.

"Congratulations to VIP No. 7, please go backstage with the maid to pay for the painting." After Dong Ce finished speaking, a maid immediately walked to the VIP seat No. 7, bowed respectfully, and waited for the middle-aged gentleman to get up, and led him slowly to the backstage.

When the audience was about to get up and leave, suddenly Dong Ce said: "Next, please watch the introduction of Yiyuan's new play "Liang Zhu"! ”

Hearing this, the people who had just gotten up nailed their butts to their seats.

"The Jin family moved south, scholars and civilians followed one after another, and there was a daughter named Zhu Yingtai in the Zhu family of Shangyu County, Huiji County in the Jin Dynasty......" When Dong Ce looked at the manuscript and gave a brief introduction to Liang Zhu, he left the stage to Lu Qing and Yu Nan, and he walked backstage to take a breath.

"The proprietor drinks tea." A maid handed over tea.

Dong Ce glanced at the maid he bought from Bai Xuemoth, took the tea and took a sip and said, "I've been busy and don't have time to ask you, what is your name, what is your surname, and where are you?" ”

"The maid's surname is Zhen, nicknamed Wan'er, originally a native of Yangzhou, because his father died of illness, his mother was unable to raise him, so he went back to his hometown in Huzhou to join his relatives, lived there for three years, and fled here because of the recent ****." The maid explained lightly.

"What the hell is that night? Or is it really late? Dong Ce smiled lightly.

The maid pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Zhen Mi's family has been painted, I don't know if Jiang Wan can recognize it?" ”

"Oh! Zhen Wan, the name is good, I don't know if it's true or not, it's just that, I said Wan'er, can you get used to coming to me? Dong Ce said as he walked to the dressing table and sat down, the old god was drinking tea.

"Nothing unaccustomed." Zhen Wan smiled lightly.

"Don't mind?" Dong Ce raised his eyes and asked.

"What does the proprietor want to hear?" Zhen Wan tilted his head slightly, curious.

Dong Ce thought for a while and said, "What will you do?" ”

"I heard that the owner knows everything, and what do you want the maid to teach the maid?" Zhen Wan smiled lightly.

"Earned!" Dong Ce smiled in his heart, but he didn't teach Zhen Wan what to do.