Chapter 21: The Old Man

Yun Zhong couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this person. He knew this person, and although the two had never spoken anything, the two met almost every day. At the beginning, Yunzhong spent most of the semester in the school library, reading a wide range of books. Among them, this old man is his "comrade-in-arms". Unlike Yun Chong, this old man just stayed in front of the bookshelf related to ancient history and archaeology and other humanities. He never went anywhere else.

When Yunzhong saw humanities books at that time, he sat on the ground with him and flipped through the books. The speed of turning the page is too fast, if it were someone else, I am afraid that I would have started to be surprised. And this old man was so engrossed in reading that he didn't notice when there were more people around. Usually the old man comes first, and when he leaves, he also walks later, and it is estimated that he still doesn't know that there was one more person next to him.

I didn't expect him to be so interested in cultural relics, so it's no wonder that he reads some humanities books every day. Yun Zhong said, is it just that he has so much money? Looking at the old man's appearance, it should be impossible to participate in an auction of this level, but he came. And when the bidding price of "Zixu Shanglin Tu" exceeded 15 million, he was one of the three who were still bidding. The other two, one is a young man, with a frivolous appearance, and at first glance he is a spoiled child of a family. The other was covered with red oil, which seemed to drip down at any moment. Hypertrophied belly, typical of the big belly anencephaly.

The second wife of the pot-bellied man was a student studying painting in the art department of a university. When he saw that the painting was so expensive, he thought that it should be a good painting. So I want to buy it back and give it to my second wife. He could already imagine his second wife's expression and movements after getting the painting. The thought of this made his hormones skyrocket.

The children of that family were different. He came to this auction purely to play. But I didn't expect an old man in rags to pay more than 10 million yuan to buy a painting. If this bad old man were allowed to buy the painting, he would definitely feel that his family's dignity was gone. So for this absurd reason, he kept increasing the price to 20 million.

As Yun Zhong expected, the old man was an artifact enthusiast. When it comes to buying cultural relics, even if you are bankrupt, you have to buy them, but you can save other things. That's why he reads in the school library to save money, which is why he only wears a green military coat every winter. His passion for artifacts had made him feel the cold.

When the price was increased to 20 million, the big belly gave up. He doesn't think there's a need to spend 20 million for a second wife. Besides, if he spends so much money on the second wife, what if the second wife shows off to his third wife, fourth wife, and so on, all the way to the seventh or eighth wife? Not cost-effective, very uneconomical.

But the children of the family still insisted on his unwavering belief that this bad old man could not be allowed to buy the painting. This family often encourages himself with a sentence, "Spend Dad's money and let others say it." Whenever he felt that he was about to give up, he told himself, "Anything is possible if you have faith." In this way, the family has been in a stalemate with the old man until the price of 30 million.

The old man couldn't hold it anymore. The 25 million just now was already the bottom line he set for himself when he came here. But I didn't expect that this painting of "Zixu Shanglintu" turned out to be a genuine handiwork! So the old man did not hesitate to increase the price, the price, and the price. But now he really felt like he couldn't do it. The old man was considering whether he could buy the painting if he sold his house and the ancestral house in the countryside. It's really not possible to transfer your pension insurance, but this is only enough for 30 million, what if the family continues to increase the price? Do you want to buy a collection, but it is all cultural relics, treasures left by ancestors. The old man is choosing.

Seeing that the old man couldn't hold on, he felt that the time was ripe, and said mockingly: "Hey, that old man, don't come if you don't have money." Look what you're wearing, let's change your clothes first. Hahahaha. The family laughed, and finally a bad breath came out in his heart. The dignity of the children of his family will be successfully preserved.

After much hesitation, the old man decided to leave. After all, even if you can hold the cultural relics and skip eating, your wife and children will have to eat. Besides, the family's collection is his treasure, and he is reluctant to sell any of them. The old man had just wanted to get up, when he was suddenly forced down by a hand. In front of the old man's eyes stood a man, who whispered a few words in the old man's ear. The old man looked at him suspiciously, as if to say, is what you said true?

The man said softly, "You'll know if you try." If not, I'll accompany you. ”

That person was Yun Chong. Yun Zhong saw that he really liked this "Zixu Shanglin Tu", so he wanted to fulfill him. At first, Yun Zhong planned to pay for the painting, and then hand it over to the old man. But when he heard the news from An Tianshi, he changed his mind. It turned out that the son of the family was just the son of the boss of a small company in Kunming, and even if he sold his father's company, it was not worth 30 million. So Yun Zhong told the old man the news.

The old man now preferred to believe the man's painting, and he said to the family, "Little one, that painting is yours." ”

When the family saw him succumb, he wanted to ridicule him. But he suddenly remembered that he only cared about the dignity of his family, and forgot that he didn't have that much money at all. That's when he started to panic. He hurriedly took out his mobile phone and called his father for help, but when his father found out what he had done, he immediately severed the father-son relationship with him. Originally, this son was brought over by his ex-wife, and the man had to ask for him.

At this moment, the family was a little crying and laughing. I have no money. These were the last words of the family before he fainted in shame and anger. The family is said to have been saved in the end, but when he woke up, he kept repeating the words, "I have no money." "There are no other words. Because the former son of the family had no money to pay for hospitalization, the hospital swept him out of the house according to the rules left by his ancestors. The last hospital nurse also spat in his face. After vomiting, he said, "Don't be hospitalized if you don't have money." The old lady has taken care of you for nothing these days. I thought there would be consumption, but I didn't even get it. "What is the result of the family, Yun Zhong doesn't know.

According to the rules of the auction house, the painting should be re-auctioned. The auction went very smoothly, because everyone else present knew the old man's determination to buy the painting, so they didn't take it from him. Because you can't grab it. In the end, the old man bought "Zixu Shanglintu" at the lowest price of 8 million. The old man was very happy to get the painting he had liked for a long time. Then he remembered the man who had told him that his family had no money.

The old man walked up to Yun Chong and said with a smile: "Young man, how much money do you want? "The old man is now proud. Buying "Zixu Shanglintu" at a low price of 8 million was something he didn't expect, which was 17 million lower than the 25 million he imagined in his mind.