Tang Xinyi was stunned when Tang Hongying said these words. She really didn't expect that her brother, who had always been nerdy and never seemed to care about her sister, would actually say such things for her.
Although Chen Feng was a little surprised, he reacted immediately and nodded immediately and said: "Of course, I can give you this guarantee. I will definitely take good care of Xinyi and give her happiness."
Chen Feng had already told Mother Tang before about a similar guarantee.
Unexpectedly, he made another guarantee in front of Tang Hongying.
Of course, Chen Feng has no psychological burden on this, because the promises he made are true. As long as Tang Xinyi follows him, he will definitely take care of her and make her happy as much as possible.
It can be seen that both Tang's mother and brother Tang Hongying care about Tang Xinyi.
In the past, they just didn't communicate well with each other, which made Tang Xinyi feel that she didn't have a deep relationship or close relationship with them, but this is obviously not the case.
Now that Chen Feng had given his guarantee again, Tang Hongying was very happy. He immediately toasted to Chen Feng with a smile and said "thank you".
Tang Hongying was obviously not a talkative person, but he still tried his best to chat with Chen Feng as much as possible, ranging from international affairs to the online novels he had read. Unexpectedly, the other party, a university associate professor, also liked to read online novels. They both read many novels.
However, this time the two of them had a common topic.
Before they knew it, the two of them had been chatting for more than an hour, and the bottle of red wine was also empty.
The two of them actually felt like they had met each other too late. After all, it is not easy to find a like-minded person with common topics in reality.
Chen Feng usually likes to read online novels. In reality, there are not many people who can chat with him about online novels, and Zhang Kewei is barely one of them.
It's just that this guy is busy with business and reads less novels. In the last few times we met, he didn't take the initiative to talk to Chen Feng about novels.
In addition, although both of them actually like online novels, Chen Feng prefers fantasy novels and rarely reads urban novels. Zhang Kewei is just the opposite, preferring urban novels and rarely reads fantasy novels.
Therefore, if two people talk about online novels, they actually don't have many common topics, because they have not read many novels each other, and it is difficult to chat about a certain novel for a long time.
But Tang Hongying was different. Like Chen Feng, he also liked fantasy novels. They had read many novels, and when they started chatting, they could talk about the specific contents. This of course made the two of them feel like close friends.
Neither Tang Xinyi nor her sister-in-law expected that they would actually chat together, and the conversation would be so congenial, they were both a little surprised.
The meal was not over until the bottle of wine was finished and the food on the table was eaten.
Because after eating and drinking, the two of them came to the living room to drink tea and watch TV together.
The two discussed their respective opinions on several novels and discussed the future plots of several follow-up novels.
In this way, it was not until almost ten o'clock in the evening that Tang Xinyi reminded her to say goodbye and leave.
On the way back, Tang Xinyi said to him in surprise: "Since I was a child, I have never seen my brother chatting with someone so harmoniously for so long. Even my sister-in-law said that my brother is in love with her.
I have never talked to you so much tonight."
Chen Feng said with a smile: "I am also a little surprised. People often say that it is not enough to talk to each other, but if they talk to each other, it means that a thousand glasses of wine are too short to meet a close friend. It is normal to talk about the last three days and three nights.
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"Maybe this is fate. I never expected that you and my brother would be so close to each other."
Tang Xinyi still felt a little incredible.
When the two returned to the hotel, Tang Xinyi did not leave, but stayed.
After all, Chen Feng was leaving tomorrow. She didn't know when they would see each other again, and she felt very reluctant to leave.
After the two of them washed up, they lay on the bed and chatted for a while. When it was almost early in the morning, Tang Xinyi couldn't hold on any longer and slowly fell asleep.
A night of silence.
The next day, Chen Feng got up early and did a simple exercise in the room, and then had breakfast with Tang Xinyi in the hotel.
Originally, Chen Feng planned to ask Tang Xinyi to take him to the train station after breakfast, but her brother Tang Hongying sent him a WeChat message, saying that his college colleague's family has a lot of calligraphy and painting collections. If he is interested,
, you can take him there now to have a look.
When the two were chatting last night, Chen Feng told him about his hobby of collecting paintings, calligraphy and photography, and casually mentioned to him that if he knew where there were good paintings, calligraphy and photography, he could let him know.
He likes it and price is not an issue.
Chen Feng just said it casually and spent most of the time talking about online novels with Tang Hongying. But unexpectedly, Tang Hongying actually took it to heart and brought him news early this morning.
Chen Feng actually had nothing to do when he went back now. As soon as he heard the news and Tang Hongying's warm invitation, he decided to go and have a look.
Tang Xinyi was of course very happy when she saw that Chen Feng was not leaving for the time being, and immediately decided to go with Chen Feng.
So, the two drove to his colleague's home according to the address provided by Tang Hongying.
His colleague is a university professor, surnamed Li, who is more than ten years older than him. He is now in his fifties, energetic, wearing glasses, with a half-bald head, and he looks very knowledgeable at first glance.
His family has a duplex villa in the city with a yard. It looks quite old, so it's obvious that the family is not short of money.
Professor Li's collection includes many types of antique jades, calligraphy and painting works, fans and seals.
For this reason, Professor Li specially converted the second floor of the villa into a collection room. The things he collected were collected and kept in a museum style, which seemed very formal.
Chen Feng was only interested in his collection of calligraphy and painting works, which he specially collected in a separate room.
There are transparent glass storage cabinets inside, which are also equipped with anti-theft locks and alarms. In addition, of course, surveillance cameras are indispensable.
"I have a calligraphy work here by Zhu Zhishan from the Ming Dynasty. I would normally be reluctant to take it out, but today Hongying specially brought you here, so I will take it out and show it to you."
After Professor Li finished speaking, he went to open a locked cabinet, put on gloves, carefully took out a scroll from inside, and unfolded it for them to see.
"This is the "Yueyang Tower" handwritten by Zhu Yunming. It is authentic. If it were auctioned, it would be worth at least 20 million."
Professor Li introduced them to them with a bit of pride and ostentation.
Chen Feng glanced at it, but he didn't feel the life energy from this calligraphy, and he suddenly lost interest.
On the other hand, brothers and sisters Tang Xinyi and Tang Hongying stared at this calligraphy with great interest and praised it.
Just looking at the cursive script written with a brush, even people who don't know calligraphy can still see it pleasing to the eye, and there is a sense of style and artistic beauty in it.
"Mr. Chen, what do you think of this calligraphy?"
Professor Li saw that Chen Feng was a little distracted and couldn't help but ask.
When Chen Feng heard this, he nodded and said: "Very good, very good."
Professor Li smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, I had no intention of selling this painting before I changed it, but recently my son is going to buy a house in New York and get married. You must also know the housing prices in New York.
The housing prices are higher than those in our capital city, and the prices in better areas are more than 200,000 US dollars per square meter. But the house my son is interested in is priced at 30,000 US dollars per square meter. There is no way, in order to have a grandson early, I also
I can only pay for it for him. Therefore, I plan to sell this work to the outside world. The base price is 20 million. If you are interested, you can find someone to come and appraise it, and then we can trade."
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng immediately shook his head and refused: "Thank you, I'm not very interested in this calligraphy. However, I might be interested in your other calligraphy and painting works. For example, this one."
Chen Feng pointed to a painting in a glass showcase on the right. It was a scroll landscape painting. Although there was a signature and the name of the author on it, Chen Feng couldn't understand it, but it was obvious that this painting contained what he needed.
He could absorb the life energy for half an hour, so Chen Feng certainly didn't want to miss it.
"This painting was painted by a local painter in Jinling in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Although he was not very famous when he was alive, his painting skills were recognized as good. Therefore, I have been using this painting since I bought it.
It was taken very seriously and well preserved to this day.”
Chen Feng said directly: "If the price of your painting is right, I will buy it."
After Professor Li hesitated for a moment, he tentatively quoted the price: "500,000, if you think the price is right, you can take it."
Chen Feng directly counter-offered: "The maximum price is 200,000. If it exceeds this price, I won't take it."
Chen Feng had bought works similar to this with the same amount of life energy for tens of thousands of dollars before, so the 200,000 yuan was not considered low.
The main reason was the introduction just now. He himself said that this painting was painted by an unknown artist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
"200,000 is too little, the minimum is 300,000." Professor Li also started bargaining.
Chen Feng pretended to think for a while, and was too lazy to bargain with him anymore, so he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, that's the price. Show me your other paintings and calligraphy works."
"Okay, I'll take them out for you right away."
Professor Li happily agreed, then went to open the locked cabinet, took it out one by one, and showed it to Chen Feng.
There is no doubt that Chen Feng is now a big customer in his eyes. You know, he only spent 50,000 yuan to buy the painting just now. It took only three or four years to sell it for 300,000 yuan. It must be
Not a loss.
Chen Feng looked through his collection of calligraphy and painting works one by one, and found that there were quite a few, totaling fifty or sixty works.
Unfortunately, the "pass rate" was too low. In addition to the painting selected by Chen Feng at the beginning, Chen Feng only found two more works among them, one was a flower and bird painting, and the other was calligraphy.
The three paintings were packaged, and the other party bid a total of 1 million. Chen Feng went for 800,000. In the end, the other party agreed to the price.
Next, Chen Feng asked Tang Hongying to help contact the lawyer here, signed a legal and compliant sales contract with Professor Li, transferred money and paid for the three works to be taken away.
Professor Li also wanted to take Chen Feng to see his other collections, but Chen Feng refused, as well as his invitation to dinner.
When the three of them came out of Professor Li's house, Tang Hongying said with some emotion: "I didn't expect that you really like these collections and spent so much money on them. I'm afraid you bought them too expensive. After all, the authors of these three paintings seem to be
Not very famous."
Chen Feng said with a smile: "When I buy these works of art, I never care about their reputation, as long as I like them."
Tang Hongying shook his head but didn't say anything more.
Tang Xinyi asked curiously: "I'm very curious, which aspect of these three works do you mainly like?"
Chen Feng briefly explained: "The main thing is feeling. If I feel that I am destined to this work, I will buy it."
"Well, you think it's quite valuable. I think you're a little overpriced."
"As long as it's not expensive for me."
Tang Xinyi stopped talking. Chen Feng has money, so it seems right to spend more money to buy the things he likes.
Tang Hongying answered with a smile: "You are so generous, I don't dare to introduce anyone else to you, lest you be taken as a victim."
Chen Feng shook his head quickly: "No, do you have any other introductions?"
After Tang Hongying was silent for a while, he said: "Didn't you say you were also interested in photography? It happens that a college classmate of mine is a photography enthusiast. He has collected and photographed many photography works over the years. Anyway, I want to go and see
Yes, I think some of the works are very good. He happened to be thinking of selling some of his photography collection to raise money for his son’s medical expenses. I originally didn’t plan to take you there, after all, he asked for a very high price, but now I see you are so generous.
, I changed my mind, if you want to go, I will take you there."
Chen Feng asked curiously: "What disease does his son have?"
"leukemia."
After hearing this answer, Chen Feng sighed in his heart and said that he could go and have a look.
So, Tang Hongying immediately contacted his old classmate by phone.
Half an hour later, Chen Feng arrived at the home of his classmate Tang Hongying, in an old community.
After exchanging pleasantries, we went directly to see the photography works.
Not to mention, there are actually several works that meet Chen Feng's requirements.
The other party's bid was indeed very high. The lowest price for a photo cost Chen Feng 50,000 yuan, and the highest bid was 300,000 yuan without any intention of lowering the price.
Chen Feng considered that all six works in total met his requirements, and that the energy they could absorb lasted for at least twenty minutes. In addition, the other party was raising medical expenses for his son, so Chen Feng finally accepted the other party's offer.
For six pieces of photography, Chen Feng paid the other party a total of 1.2 million yuan. The average price of each piece was 200,000 yuan, which is not a low price.
After signing the sales contract, the money was transferred directly. This made Tang Hongying, a classmate, so excited that he cried on the spot. His son was saved.
Once again, they declined the other party's invitation to eat, and the three of them said goodbye to each other and left together.
At this time, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, so the three of them found a restaurant nearby and had a meal together.
During the dinner, Tang Hongying expressed his gratitude to Chen Feng, because he felt that the reason why Chen Feng agreed to such a high price was mainly because of his reputation as a "cheap brother-in-law" and his sympathy for his classmate's experience.
In short, Chen Feng is a good person.
Chen Feng did not deny this. He was able to agree to the other party's price of 1.2 million without much counter-offering, really because the other party had a son with leukemia. ()