Chapter 340: Chat explains the funeral arrangements
When Su Mingzhe arrived at Haicheng, it was already night.
There is no airport in Haicheng, so Su Mingzhe took a bus and came here.
Chat had been waiting in the living room on the first floor. When he heard the sound of a car outside the door, he opened the door to greet him and saw Su Mingzhe getting out of the car.
"Xiao Su, you're here."
"Teacher Xia, please excuse me for waiting."
Su Mingzhe came over this time with two boxes of gifts in his hand, one box of food and one box of drinks, both bought by Assistant Fang.
Normally, when Su Mingzhe goes out, he rarely carries gifts by himself, and his assistant only takes care of them.
The two of them entered Xia's house. Su Mingzhe took a quick look and saw that there was a lot more furniture in the hall on the first floor than last time.
However, Su Mingzhe didn't see sisters Xia Jiji and Xia Mimi coming out to greet him.
By this time, they should have had dinner and were doing homework in the bedroom.
Feeling a pity, Su Mingzhe and Xia Te sat on the sofa and started chatting.
"Teacher Xia, how many people have come to see you recently? How much is the highest price they have quoted?"
"There were more than a dozen, and the highest offer was over 200,000, but I rejected them all."
Xia Te still believed that he was not suitable for negotiating prices, so he simply refused them all and wanted to wait for Su Mingzhe to come and ask him to help deal with it.
Regarding this kind of trust, Su Mingzhe suddenly felt his heart heavy.
Everything he did was actually to covet the beauty of Sister Xia Jiji, but now he unexpectedly gained Xia Te's trust.
This kind of thing where he wanted to do bad things but was labeled as a good person made Su Mingzhe feel guilty.
"How about accepting one and letting the other go?"
I had mixed thoughts in my mind, but I didn't delay chatting with Chat.
The two chatted for a while and exchanged views.
Mainly because Su Mingzhe said that Chat was listening.
After finally waiting for Su Mingzhe to stop and drink tea, Xia Te hesitated for a moment, then stumbled and said:
"Xiao Su, actually there was something I forgot to tell you before."
"Teacher Xia, you can just tell me if you have anything to do. You're welcome."
Su Mingzhe felt a little displeased when he saw the hesitant behavior of a man like Xia Te, but thinking of his two beautiful daughters, he still endured his impatience and told him to just say what he had to say.
Anyway, for your daughter's sake, I won't embarrass you.
"It's like this. In fact, I not only paint Chinese-style ink paintings, I also paint some oil paintings."
Chatter stumbled and explained the situation.
When he was studying painting, he was influenced by the thoughts of his elders and wanted to learn both Chinese and Western art, so he not only learned Chinese painting, but also oil painting.
Later, when his family fell into decline, he could not afford good pens, inks, paper and inkstones, so he could only make his own oil paints. He also painted oil paintings to pass the time on weekdays.
Moreover, he taught his eldest daughter Xia Jiji painting, also oil painting.
"So, Teacher Xia, what you are saying is that you still have more than a hundred oil paintings at home?"
Su Mingzhe was stunned.
Last time I was surprised that after more than 20 years of painting experience, Chartre only had more than fifty ink paintings. The number of works was too small.
Only now do I know that Chatter had no money to buy pens, inks, paper and inkstones, so he could only make his own oil paints and paint oil paintings to fill his hobbies.
Su Mingzhe quickly asked Chat to lead him to see his oil paintings.
Oil painting and ink painting are different.
The ink painting can be rolled into a scroll and then wrapped in oil paper and stored in a small cardboard box. It can be stored for at least a thousand years or tens of thousands of years without any need to worry about it, at least for decades.
Oil paintings need to be placed in a dry, cool place, properly stored, and checked, ventilated, and maintained every one or two years.
The weather in the south is rainy and the air is humid.
The preservation of oil paintings must be done with great care.
However, the Xia family used to be very wealthy, with a specially built cellar that was dry and cold, perfect for storing oil paintings.
Xia Te took Su Mingzhe and went directly into his cellar.
Su Mingzhe then saw an entire cellar of oil paintings, all wrapped in simple wooden frames and plastic films.
Using a simple method of counting troops on the battlefield, I counted the number of oil paintings in the cellar. There were more than a hundred, almost three hundred.
Su Mingzhe immediately raised his own question, the quantity of so many oil paintings does not match.
Chat quickly explained that although there were nearly 300 oil paintings in it, half of them were made by himself and his daughter in a playful way, scribbling randomly.
This Chateau is really interesting. Aren’t oil paintings just random graffiti?
Su Mingzhe first looked at a few of Chateau's favorite works.
It feels a bit like imitating a cat and painting a tiger, which is far inferior to the level of his ink painting.
Since there are too many oil paintings, it is not easy for Su Mingzhe to work on them at night.
In the end, I could only make an agreement with Chatter to check out these oil paintings tomorrow.
Chat also knew that the large number of these oil paintings would definitely take some time. He made an agreement that when Su Mingzhe came back tomorrow, he would send Su Mingzhe away.
As for the question of whether Su Mingzhe should stay overnight as there are many vacant rooms at home.
Chat didn't think about it at all.
With two precious daughters at home, Chater would definitely not let a strange man stay overnight at his home.
Su Mingzhe came to visit for more than an hour tonight, but neither Xia Jiji nor the sisters came out. It was obvious that Xia Te had specially warned her.
Su Mingzhe had also been a father and had a daughter, so he understood Chat's thoughts, so he didn't bother too much.
Anyway, since Chat was terminally ill, he could only protect Sister Xia Jiji for two or three years at most.
Two or three years later, when Xia Te is gone and the Xia Jiji sisters are only sixteen or seventeen years old, they will still have no choice but to seek shelter from Su Mingzhe.
Su Mingzhe can afford to wait for these two or three years.
the next day.
Su Mingzhe arrived at Xia's house early in the morning before sisters Xia Jiji went to school.
This is inevitable.
Chat could only watch helplessly as the two girls greeted Su Mingzhe warmly, and then the two girls looked at Su Mingzhe with admiration.
Before Su Mingzhe arrived, Xia Te was a down-and-out "teacher". Even his daughter-in-law ran away with a foreigner. The two daughters could only rely on each other, and the family of three lived a life of barely enough food and clothing.
After Su Mingzhe arrived, he first discovered Schatt's talent and gave him enough respect and attention. Finally, he spent a lot of money to buy Schatt's works to help promote them.
Nowadays, the Xia family not only has enough food and clothing to live a well-off life, but with the arrival of reporters and media, Xia Te has become a cultural celebrity in high school and in Haicheng.
The two sisters Xia Jiji were highly valued by the school because of this, and their classmates also began to envy the two sisters for having a "good father".
But the Xia Jiji sisters themselves understood that although the person who changed the fate of the Xia family was Xia Te's efforts and persistence in creation, the greater credit should be attributed to Su Mingzhe.
There is an article in the junior high school textbook "Horses":
"There are Bole horses in the world, and then there are thousand-mile horses. Thousand-mile horses always exist, but Bole horses don't always exist. Therefore, although there are famous horses, they are humiliated in the hands of slaves and die in stalls, and are not called thousand-mile horses..."
Although my father is talented, he is considered a horse with a thousand li horse.
But if Su Mingzhe is not his father's bole, then Xia Te will be like, "Although he has the ability to run a thousand miles, he doesn't have enough to eat, he doesn't have enough strength, his talent and beauty are not visible, and if he wants to be like an ordinary horse, he can't get it, so he can't even hope that he can run a thousand miles."
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Therefore, both Xia Jiji sisters understand that Su Mingzhe is the one who really changed the fate of the Xia family.
What's more, Su Mingzhe not only has vision, but also talent. The most important thing is that he is handsome enough!
There are few teenage girls whose views on love are not affected by their appearance.
In the movie, Li Bala just because Zhang Yang is handsome enough, then ignores the fact that he already has a girlfriend. He doesn't even care about being a mistress and follows Zhang Yang wholeheartedly.
Xia Mimi is a little younger, only thirteen or fourteen years old, and doesn't understand much about these things yet.
But Xia Jiji was already fifteen or sixteen, and it was the flowering season of ignorance. When the girl was pregnant, her heart had long been set on Su Mingzhe.
Chat stood aside, seeing that the two girls had forgotten to be reserved, and kept focusing on Su Mingzhe. He coughed twice and asked them to go to class quickly.
Xia Jiji and Xia Mimi had no choice but to pick up their schoolbags and go to school.
Su Mingzhe smiled and waved goodbye to the two Xia sisters.
Afterwards, Su Mingzhe and Chater began to move the oil paintings out of the cellar.
Chat's health was not very good, so Su Mingzhe did most of the work.
The two were busy for nearly two hours, and nearly 300 oil paintings were finally "rediscovered".
Su Mingzhe checked the recent international oil painting market last night, and now checked Chatter's works one by one, and finally came to a conclusion.
The value of these oil paintings is not very great, far less than that of Chateau's ink paintings.
After Xia Te heard Su Mingzhe's comments, he felt a little resentful for a moment.
In fact, he already knew the answer.
After all, he has been learning ink painting since he was a child. Not only did he have a family background, but he also studied under famous teachers.
After some calculation, he has been immersed in it for thirty years, and his skills in traditional Chinese painting are so profound that few people in China can compare with him.
Although he has been studying oil painting for some years, he has been working hard on it only in the past ten years or so. His family has been in decline and he has slowly changed his direction in order to cater to the market.
As a result, the oil paintings he had high hopes for in order to cater to the market were only at the level of ordinary masters.
"Then, Xiao Su, can this oil painting be sold?"
Seeing that his work was so belittled by Su Mingzhe, Chater felt uncomfortable, so he could only brace himself and ask Su Mingzhe.
He now wants to sell the money and leave some wealth for his two daughters, so that they will not be bullied by others after his death.
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Although Su Mingzhe looked down upon these oil paintings, he was also realistic and gave a way to sell them for money.
It's nothing more than spending a few years building Chat into a master of traditional Chinese painting.
After Chateau's status is improved, if these oil paintings are sold, others will pay high prices because these works are "produced by Chateau".
"I can't wait any longer."
Xia Te didn't want to hide it from Su Mingzhe at this time, so he directly told him that he had a terminal illness:
"Xiao Su, with this disease of mine, even if we estimate according to the best-case scenario, I will live for another two or three years. Jiji and Mimi are too young, and they can't survive with these things hidden at home."
When Su Mingzhe heard this, he was also convinced.
Children hoarding gold while busy in the city is a recipe for disaster.
"I just want to convert everything into money and set up a trust fund for them."
Chater was very concerned about his children.
Trust funds are a method of inheritance for young and minor descendants when many elders pass away.
The purpose is to prevent the inheritance from being robbed by outsiders or other relatives.
However, Chat could not have imagined how bumpy the future opportunities for his two daughters would be.