After resting at home for two days, and seeing that Suisui was about to start school, Wei Ran reluctantly packed his few luggage.
"Are you really not taking that 800,000 yuan with you?" Suisui asked, holding her own piano bag.
"I won't take it with me anymore. I'll buy another one when I get back!"
Wei Ran simply shook his head. The Youquan bed was an antique after all. Not to mention the inconvenience of flying around with him. If something happened and he had no place to buy regret medicine, it would be better to leave it in his new home.
The hanging on the wall of the study is very practical. Anyway, my parents live across the door, so there is no need to worry about being stolen or anything like that.
"You weren't hit by me, were you?"
Suisui asked proudly. During this winter vacation, in addition to secretly helping Wei Ran decorate the house, her other major achievement was to completely learn the Xian Weng Cao song. If school hadn't started soon, she would have
They all started to learn the second piece of music.
"When I come back next year, we'll compete and we'll know who gets hit," Wei Ran said confidently, then he grabbed his luggage and was the first to leave the house during his parents' farewell.
The two took the high-speed train to the capital. Wei Ran sent Suisui to school first, then found a bathroom, took out the piano case from the notebook, and took a taxi to Chen Guangling's musical instrument store.
"Mr. Wei, happy New Year!"
As soon as Wei Ran got off the car, Chen Guangling, who had been waiting for a long time, greeted him enthusiastically.
"Mr. Chen, happy New Year." Wei Ran shook hands with the other party while carrying the heavy piano case.
"Is this the Guqin Yaoguang bed you are talking about?" Chen Guangling looked eagerly at the piano case in Wei Ran's hand and led him directly to the piano room on the second floor.
"that's it"
Wei Ran followed the other party as he walked in and said, "Unlike the previous Youquan, this Guqin bed is passed down from ancestors. This time, I brought it here specifically to ask Mr. Chen to see if there is any secret in it."
“Let’s start with the piano case!”
Chen Guangling waited for Wei Ran to place the piano case on the table, then put on his white gloves, gently stroked the piano case and said, "Mr. Wei, have you ever heard of Babao Gray Lacquer?"
"Eight-treasure gray paint?" Wei Ran looked confused, "If you said eight-treasure porridge, maybe I would know about it."
"Babao gray lacquer is made by grinding precious gemstones such as gold, silver, pearl agate, coral jade, red emerald or malachite into powder and mixing it into lacquer. Lacquerware made with this kind of lacquer, regardless of
Whether it is today or in ancient times, it can be regarded as a real luxury product, and it is easy to throw away today's LV and the like."
Chen Guangling motioned Wei Ran to look at the piano box, "In the Yangzhou Museum, there is a Qing Dynasty eight-treasure gray lacquered square box. The box is only slightly larger than the Rubik's Cube, but it is already a very precious cultural relic.
The case of your piano is also made of Babao gray lacquer, but such a large piece of Babao gray lacquer is considered rare in China."
Speaking of this, Chen Guangling sighed, "To be willing to make a piano case out of eight treasures gray paint, in ancient times, even if you were not a high-ranking official, prince or general, you would have to be a wealthy merchant tycoon at least.
It is no exaggeration to say that this box alone is probably enough to replace one or two guqins like Youquan."
"That old book is really generous..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, suppressed the surprise in his heart and said calmly, "Mr. Chen, please take a look at the piano inside."
Chen Guangling nodded and carefully opened the buckle on the piano case. After seeing the guqin, he couldn't help but praise, "It's really a great experience!"
Without any prompting from Wei Ran, Chen Guangling explained, "This is a Liezi-style guqin. The most valuable thing is the tortoise pattern break on it. There is an old saying in China that it is difficult to buy a tortoise pattern break after a thousand years. This is what it means.
It is a kind of texture, and it is also one of the important basis for judging the age of a guqin."
Having said this, Chen Guangling reached out and carefully took out the guqin, "The weight of this guqin is quite large. Just like the Youquan bed before, good guqins are often either extremely light or extremely heavy, but this guqin is quite heavy."
The weight is really unexpected.”
Seeing Chen Guangling turn over the guqin in his hand, Wei Ran asked, "Mr. Chen, how do you explain the word Yaoguang?"
"I've checked it out in the past few days."
Chen Guangling said regretfully, "But none of the records about guqin that I know of mentioned this bed qin, so I can only rely on guessing. Judging from the name Yaoguang, I think there are two explanations.
Guqin is also called Yaoqin. From this perspective, the name Yaoguang undoubtedly praises this qin, which is the first type."
"What's another explanation?" Wei Ran asked.
"In our traditional Chinese culture, the last star of the Big Dipper is also called Yaoguang. According to the Zhouyi Bagua, this star is also called Pojun. Pojun is generally used to describe the charge of the army.
of generals and soldiers.”
Chen Guangling paused and continued, "If we follow this explanation, and consider the song "Returning to the boat at night" mentioned behind the guqin, maybe the bed guqin was the favorite of a general who joined the army at that time.
"General?" Wei Ran nodded secretly. Based on his understanding of the broken book, it was obvious that the second explanation should be more appropriate.
Chen Guangling didn't know that Wei Ran was already distracted, so he asked expectantly, "Mr. Wei, can I try this piano?"
"Of course" Wei Ran nodded, "Also, I want to learn the piano from you for a few days."
"no problem!"
Chen Guangling happily agreed to Wei Ran's request and was able to bring out two valuable Guqins at every turn. Last time, he happily bought an 8,000-yuan Guqin for his girlfriend to practice playing. With all these things, even if Wei Ran looks like Wei Ran,
Ran is a novice who doesn't understand anything, and he will never neglect him.
After some preparation, Chen Guangling sat in front of the Guqin bed named Yaoguang. As the strings played, he immediately realized that the timbre of this Guqin bed was far superior to that of the Youquan bed from years ago, and even better than that of the Youquan bed.
It was on par with or even far superior to any famous piano he had seen or heard before!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He suppressed his excitement and played a complete song, but this time Chen Guangling never mentioned that he wanted to buy it. If it was before
He was somewhat confident about the bed of guqin in Youquan, but facing the bed of guqin, the most he could afford with his little wealth was the eight-treasure gray lacquered piano case.
It was the piano bed brought by Wei Ran that made Chen Guangling, who was obsessed with playing the piano, happily free up for the next five days. The former also found a hotel nearby to stay at the piano store before going abroad.
The last bit of my time was devoted to studying piano with Chen Guangling.
Time flew by to March 10th. Wei Ran left Chen Guangling some cigarettes and wine as a thank you gift, and then called Suisui out of school for a meal before embarking on the flight to Volgograd.
flight.
After a long flight, when the plane landed smoothly, he also saw Professor Alexei waiting at the pick-up gate and Ji Ma, who was dressed like a human and dog.
"Victor, you are finally back, come back with me." Professor Alexei didn't give Wei Ran a chance to speak, and he and Jima grabbed his luggage and walked out.
"No, what's wrong with you two being so impatient?" Wei Ran asked from behind, almost jogging.
"Let me tell you!"
Jima slowed down a little, and after putting some distance between him and Professor Alexei, he immediately took out a folded A4 paper from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, and then lowered his voice and said, "The day after tomorrow, we are going back to Hongqi."
Class at the forest farm. But before that, there are two TV stations that want to interview you, including a German media.
The contents on the paper are the questions that will be asked by the first media that will interview you immediately after you arrive at the studio. The corresponding answers have been prepared for you by Teacher Dalia. Also, Dalia
The teacher asked me to tell you that when the time comes, she will find mistakes on one side, whether it is the content of the answer, the dress, the manner or the speed of speech, each mistake is worth twenty thousand rubles."
"The price is going up again..." Wei Ran muttered to himself and quickly read the questions and answers on the paper.
Ji Ma next to him handed over the second piece of paper and continued without pause, "In addition to the interviews conducted by these two media, there are five museums hoping to get the two photos tomorrow afternoon.
The exhibition authorizations are all on this piece of paper. In addition to four Russian museums, there is also a Polish museum, but Teacher Dalia recommends that you reject this museum’s exhibition request.”
"Why?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked confused.
"Why else?" Jima spread his hands in a matter-of-fact manner, "They are Polish, isn't that enough?"
Seeing Wei Ran's confused look, Jima explained with a playful smile, "Teacher Dalia said that you need to retain some controversy in your body to maintain the popularity of this character. According to historical experience, you stand on the opposite side of Poland.
It is undoubtedly the safest and will also win the favor of most Europeans."
"Jima, I haven't seen you for a month. You and Teacher Dalia are quite familiar with each other, right?"
Wei Ran joked with a smile. It could be seen that Teacher Dalia must have told him something, otherwise Ji Ma would not have said something like "sustaining the popularity of this character."
Based on Wei Ran's understanding of Jima, the most he could say would be "Although I like Polish girls' boobs, I don't like Polish people." This is an easy-to-understand sentence that is popular among all ages.
"Correction"
Ji Ma pretended to cough and said, "Victor, a lot of things happened during the month you came home. First of all, Inta's two camps accepted five batches of guests. Secondly..."
"Wait a minute? How many? Five batches? So many?"
Ji Ma seemed to be very satisfied with Wei Ran's surprise and said happily, "Aurora sent us the second batch of courses, about 30 students and teachers. Ms. Zhou sent us the third and fourth batch of guests.
.The two batches combined exceeded 80 people.”
"Where are there another batch?" Wei Ran asked after him.
"Do you remember that classmate of Avrole?"
Jima made a shooting gesture, "The Italian girl who used a machine gun to shoot at the photos of her ex-boyfriend, she also brought many classmates from Italy half a month ago, and even brought me authentic Italian coffee
, of course, it’s not delicious.”
"Keep talking," Wei Ran urged with interest.
The expression on Jima's face became more and more proud, and he continued following the topic just now, "Secondly, Teacher Dalia and Mr. Culp came forward to buy the hot spring camp and the abandoned military base."
"Did they buy the place?" Wei Ran became more and more surprised, how long had it been and how could so many things have happened?
“Not only did I buy it, but I was also given the exclusive responsibility to operate and develop tourism resources.”
The expression on Jima's face became more and more charming, "Mr. Culp and Teacher Dalia are now the largest shareholders of those two camps, and I am the general manager of operations of those two camps."
Why did the two of them buy a campground? Wei Ran thought about it secretly, but before he could get the result of his guess, he was greeted by Professor Alexei and got into the car.
