Winter in Xiangjiang is really comfortable, there is no raging cold wind, and there is no need to wear heavy coats or down jackets.

Chen Li'an still wants to spend the winter here, but now he has to go back to the capital.

He was accompanied by Ji Fa, and the two of them were going back to the capital to bring the artists Chen Li'an had communicated with to Xiangjiang together.

By the way, they brought all their works to Hong Kong, and the art space will open ahead of schedule.

Chen Li'an felt that this was quite hasty, the original plan was to wait until Jiuqi to start, but now that something happened to him, the timing was better.

On the plane back to the capital from Shencheng, Chen Li'an flipped through the plan made by Ji Fa and Cheng Shufen overnight.

These two women are really suitable to work together, and the plan is perfect, but whether it can succeed depends on the specific implementation.

Chen Li'an and Ji Fa returned to Beijing to contact artists from the mainland, while Cheng Shufen began to build momentum in Xiangjiang.

Along with Cheng Shufen, there is also Wang Zuxian, who can only speculate in real estate, and she will be quite worried about whether Cheng Shufen's publicity plan will be effective.

"Sister Shufen, has Allah broken these news? Will people not admit it? Wang Zuxian asked with some concern.

Cheng Shufen said with a smile: "It is a fact that Da Liu wants to collect Chen Li'an's works, and it is also a fact that he has invested so many artworks and made a profit of more than ten times, why doesn't he admit it." ”

After Cheng Shufen finished speaking, she no longer explained so much to Wang Zuxian, and directly began to contact the media to speculate on art investment.

Both financial magazines and gossip magazines are carried out simultaneously, and Chen Li'an is also introduced in detail in gossip magazines.

The highlight is that Chen Li'an's artwork has risen from $5,000 to $3 million in two years!

Six hundredfold increase! What an exaggeration!

Serious financial magazines are boasting about the thriving art investment market, many foreign tycoons are investing in art, and Liu, the most talked-about tycoon in Hong Kong, has also made hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars through art investment.

Some celebrity magazines have also begun to boast about which wealthy families will take the initiative to collect art, and art is also a compulsory course and threshold for social interaction in high society.

Most of these examples are special cases within special cases, but they are gimmicky enough, and they are still very effective under the overwhelming publicity.

At the very least, many of the middle class who aspire to be among the upper class are very excited, and most of them are highly educated elites and are no strangers to art.

The main thing is that the middle class is probably the most confident group of people in society, and they mostly rely on themselves to become the middle class, with a pretentious spirit in it.

Such a group of people are very interested in art investment, one is to distinguish themselves from ordinary people, and the other is to show their class nature through certain forms and means.

The cost of buying a house and a car is too high, and the savings cannot be taken out every day as a talking point, and there are not many choices except luxury goods that can be used as a daily show-off.

But luxury goods have already begun to depreciate the moment they are not maintained or even bought, and they will be mistaken for nouveau riche if they talk too much.

Compared with art, it is much better, the price will not be very expensive, it has investment attributes, and it will be very stylish and connotative as a talking point.

For such an elite, this last point is important.

In the words of the British, this is the decency of the middle class.

People will use all kinds of things at a certain stage to maintain the dignity of their class.

Such propaganda is persistent, silently appearing wherever the various middle classes are within reach.

The TV shows that the middle class likes to read, the magazines they like to read, and the places they frequent, will continue to use the term art investment for some time to come.

There will also be a lot of people who will deliberately start talking about this topic in the circle.

Chen Li'an doesn't know if this kind of publicity will be effective, but he thinks it should be able to attract some people.

After getting off the plane in Beijing, Chen Li'an and Ji Fa got busy, Ji Fa was responsible for collecting artworks, and Chen Li'an was responsible for talking about art and the survival of artists with these artists.

Artists struggling to make ends meet say that they don't love money but only art, but who would refuse to make their lives better.

No one wants to live in a dilapidated compound all the time.

Someone is willing to spend money on their art, and they are happy to accept it, and the price is not low.

The price of a few thousand yuan to buy a painting is not low, and it is already the income of most people in the mainland for a whole year.

Of course, for some Ji Fa and Chen Li'an, who are already a little famous or have good works, they will not be stingy, and will always give the highest price.

They are not capitalists, they are still artists at heart, and they will naturally help them within their means.

In Chen Li'an's studio, he had just sent away a few painters who had just graduated from college, turned around and saw Bai Qing sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, walked over and sat next to her and sighed a little tiredly.

Bai Qing glanced at him and said, "You are doing a good deed, if I could have encountered such a thing at the beginning, maybe I wouldn't have been able to afford a new canvas." ”

Chen Li'an smiled and said, "Then you won't be able to meet me." ”

"Now that I think about it, it's better not to meet you." Bai Qing's gaze fell on Chen Li'an's fair-skinned and slender fingers, and he suddenly smiled and said, "If we hadn't met at the beginning, you might still be just an actor now, not a great artist." ”

"What a great artist, I've always thought I was lucky." Chen Li'an looked at the clear sky and really felt that he was able to achieve his current achievements because of luck.

God gave me a chance to start over, and I missed a little chance from between my fingers.

"It's not a good thing to be too modest." Bai Qing said with a smile.

Chen Li'an laughed and stood up and said, "Then I'll be a little narcissistic, I'm a great artist!" ”

Looking at the radiant Chen Li'an, the smile on Bai Qing's face was very bright, she liked him like this, just like when she taught him to paint, she was just a novice but she could always give herself so many surprises.

It's just that those memories feel very far away, and the only thing that is alive is the man with a charming smile in front of him.

Chen Li'an stretched his waist, turned his head to look at Bai Qing and said, "I will also take your paintings with me and go to Xiangjiang to exhibit them." ”

"Whatever you want, just don't sell it to me."

"Ordinary people can't afford it, you didn't sell it when you opened more than one million in the United States, and Ji Fa is still distressed about the share he didn't get."

Bai Qing and Chen Li'an couldn't help but laugh when they said this.

"Are you speaking ill of me? I collected fifteen works of art today, and I conservatively estimated that I could make more than $50,000! ”

Suddenly Ji Fa's voice came from the courtyard, Chen Li'an and Bai Qing both turned their heads to look over, looked at Ji Fa who was in a hurry, and then glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing at all.

"What are you laughing at?" Ji Fa looked at Chen Li'an and Bai Qing blankly.

Chen Li'an stopped laughing and shook his head and said, "It's nothing, praise you for what you can do!" ”

"You lied to me!" Ji Fa leaned in front of Chen Li'an, looked into his eyes and said, "You must have said bad things about me!" Hurry up and confess! ”

Ji Fa played with Chen Li'an as he spoke, walking around the yard like two children who had not grown up, Bai Qing sat next to him and watched the play with a smile, but he didn't laugh for a while before he was accurately attacked by Ji Fa.

Bai Qing suddenly blushed and looked at Ji Fa's hand away, turned his head to look at Chen Li'an and said, "Ji Fa eats my tofu!" You avenge me! ”

Chen Li'an rubbed his nose and said, "I'm not suitable for this."

"That's it!" Ji Fa hugged Bai Qing with a smile and said, "Stinky man, don't want to touch me!" ”

Chen Li'an: "??? "That's not what you said two days ago in Xiangjiang!

Woman, why do you still have two faces!

After Chen Li'an and Ji Fa returned to Xiangjiang with many works of art, Ji Fa's face changed again, and he pulled Chen Li'an into the room as soon as he arrived at the hotel.

Chen Li'an, who was dragged all the way and pushed down on the sofa, looked at Ji Fa and asked, "Didn't you say that I was a stinky man?" ”

Ji Fa, who had just sat on Chen Li'an's lap, paused and looked at him and said, "Do you want Bai Qing to know about the relationship between us?" ”

"Okay, but I'm still angry, you can do it yourself." Chen Li'an said with his hands behind his head.

"Stingy man!"

Chen Li'an and Ji Fa returned to Xiangjiang at 3 p.m., and it was not until 6 p.m. that the two of them came to the art space to receive the artworks brought from the mainland at the urging of the logistics driver's phone.

More than 400 works of art, one by one acceptance, busy until more than eight o'clock to get all done, looking at the room full of artworks, Chen Li'an felt like swimming in the ocean of art.

Ji Fa looked at the receipt in his hand a little tiredly, and said with a sigh of relief: "When everything is laid out tomorrow, you can start the next plan." ”

"How are you going to advertise it?" Chen Li'an looked at Ji Fa and asked curiously.

Ji Fa put away the list and said: "Invite someone to invite celebrities to cheer, Bernard is planning to go to Japan recently, and I am going to invite him to come and have a look." ”

"There are also some art collectors who are interested in you, and in addition to some rich celebrities and celebrities in Hong Kong."

Ji Fa sighed and said, "It's a pity that this time the time is a bit rushed, and I don't know how many people I can invite over." ”

"Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, this hasn't started yet, it's going to cost tens of millions, you be careful of losing money."

Chen Li'an felt that the momentum was a bit big, and the investment in the early stage was a bit too much.

Ji Fa shook his head and said: "A large part of the tens of millions are fixed assets, even if they fail, they will not lose, at most they will not be able to earn back the publicity fees." ”

Chen Li'an shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, I hope it can be successful, this set of combination punches should have a good effect." ”

"Of course it won't be bad!" Ji Fa said confidently.

In the next few days, Ji Fa and Cheng Shufen began to invite people from all walks of life through their own connections.

Chen Li'an arranges those artworks in the art space, and he can't really make a supermarket and just find a shelf to put those artworks on it.

Pork sellers also know how to turn on a red light.

Chen Li'an has carefully arranged each artwork according to its characteristics, and it must also conform to the positioning and style of the art space.

There are some artworks that have certain defects in their own right, and they need to be arranged to make up for them.

Just as an art exhibition needs a curator, a work of art needs to be embellished with a later installation.

Chen Li'an lived for several days, and almost every day he didn't come out of the art space, just like a renovation worker, he was disgraced every day.

Wang Zuxian, who was busy cooperating with Cheng Shufen and Ji Fa to prepare for the opening, would come over to bring food to Chen Li'an whenever she was free, but she didn't have a lot of time, and she could only spare more than an hour a day to see him.

Compared with the busy Wang Zuxian, the princess has a lot of time, except for playing mahjong every day, she sneaks over to find Chen Li'an.

She seems to enjoy this sneaky feeling, and Chen Li'an also likes this feeling, but she doesn't dare to indulge too much, otherwise if the inspiration is squeezed dry, there will be no way to put so many works of art together.

Chen Li'an, who had been busy for several days, finally breathed a sigh of relief after putting the last work in the right place.

It's a good rest.

After looking around for a week, Chen Li'an took out his camera and took pictures of each work, which had to be recorded, and he also took the photos back to show the authors of these works.

After using up the stock of more than a dozen films, Chen Li'an was about to go out to buy film, when he met Li Lizhen at the door with a painting.

Chen Li'an looked at the tightly wrapped painting in Li Lizhen's hand, stopped and asked, "Are you done painting?" ”

"Well, I'll show you." Li Li was really a little apprehensive, and the hand holding the painting was raised several times and put it down.

Looking at her nervous appearance, Chen Li'an was not in a hurry, raised the camera in his hand and said: "Then you go inside and wait for me first, I am in a hurry to buy film, I want to take pictures of the space that has just been arranged, and I will come back to appreciate your paintings." ”

"Okay." As soon as Li Lizhen answered, Chen Li'an ran away, so that she didn't have a chance to say her next words.

"I still want to be with you" Li Lizhen looked at Chen Li'an who ran away, and couldn't help muttering.

But that's fine, Li Li is really bottomless about her works, and she doesn't know what kind of evaluation her paintings will be in the eyes of professionals.

Li Lizhen walked into the art space with her painting in her arms, which was different from the last time she came.

As soon as the entrance light dimmed, the light in the hundreds of square meters of the front hall was unusually dim, and only a few small spotlights could illuminate it.

There are oil paintings of various sizes hanging on the dark blue walls, and there are several very strange installations in the corners of the front hall.

The styles of these artworks are all very different, the installations look a little inexplicable, and the overall tone of the paintings is also very oppressive, with brilliant colors but a touch of weirdness.

Most of the themes of these works are with a primitive and rugged beauty, like the totems and sacrifices of primitive tribes.

Li Lizhen looked at those artworks, and couldn't tell for a while whether it was the feeling of this environment or those artworks that made her feel depressed and weird.

But when she walked through the front hall and turned a corner, she instantly felt that her vision was broadened, the long corridor was bright and full of technology, the streamlined light strips on the white walls said that there were streamers, and the walls were inlaid with oil paintings and photographs, like the windows of a spaceship.

Li Li really felt amazing, as if she had suddenly come to the future world from a primitive society, without any excess, she felt like a monkey suddenly caught on an alien spaceship.

This strong abruptness and contrast made Li Li's heart beat so much that she couldn't help but speed up, and her brain's thinking became active.

Passing through the corridor, her eyes swept over the artworks one by one, and before she could memorize those paintings, the scene in front of her suddenly changed greatly, and this time the visual impact on her was even stronger, and she stood in place for several seconds.

"These are all arranged by Chen Li'an. How did he think of it? ”

Li Lizhen suddenly clenched the oil painting in her hand, and there was a feeling in her heart that she wanted to escape, so don't show it to Chen Li'an at this level.

It's a shame.

(End of chapter)