......... After tidying up the antiques in the study, the group returned to the living room. |[2][3][w][x]} By this time, nearly an hour had passed.
The tea Li Yuncong brewed had long since cooled down. After brewing it again, they sat down on the sofa in the living room.
"By the way, Xiaodong, I forgot to ask you! What are you preparing for your birthday gift this time? Brother Zhou is a difficult master to serve!" Mr. Li, who had been on the phone for a long time, naturally knew that this time Liu Dong
Why come to Beijing?
Hearing this, Liu Dong quickly put down his tea cup and said: "Brother Zhou told me that the old man likes calligraphy and painting, and he doesn't allow too expensive gifts, so I wrote the subtitles myself and carved a wood carving of the longevity star in ebony!"
"Did you write the subtitles yourself?" Mr. Li asked in surprise. When he was in Quancheng, he knew that Liu Dong was very skilled in wood carving. But he didn't know that Liu Dong could also do calligraphy, and here he mostly used ballpoint pens and fountain pens.
In the age of writing, it is not an easy task to have good calligraphy.
From Mr. Li's obviously suspicious tone, Liu Dong naturally guessed what he was thinking, "Yes, my father likes calligraphy, so I learned a lot from him when I was young!"
"Then the relationship is good, and it happens to be good for me too. Let's go, let's go to the study room and write for me to see how your level is?" Mr. Li, who became more interested, stood up again.
"Old man, you just sat down, what are you going to do?" The old lady came from the kitchen carrying a plate of fruit. After seeing this, she frowned and asked.
"I'll take Xiaodong to practice calligraphy, don't worry about it!" After saying that, he took Liu Dong's arm and walked into the study.
"Yuncong. Why don't you go!" After putting down the fruit plate, the old lady couldn't help but ask as she looked at Li Yuncong who was lying lazily on the sofa and didn't move.
"I'm not going! Based on my understanding of Xiaodong, since he dares to take action, his calligraphy level must be very high. When I am next to him, the second grandfather will definitely compare me with him, and then he will scold me. I
You're not stupid. How could you follow him in?"
After listening to Li Yuncong's words, the old lady sat down and asked with a smile: "Why are you so sure that Xiaodong's calligraphy is very good?"
"I'm 100% sure that that guy gives me the same feeling as my dad. He's not as mature as a young man. How could he be careless about such an important thing as birthday wishes? Besides, I've known him for such a long time and I've never seen him before.
There’s nothing I can’t do, such as wood carving, jade carving, stone gambling, antique appraisal and collection, he’s really too evil! I can’t accept it!”
Looking at his appearance, the old lady smiled and said, "It's rare for someone to convince you! ...By the way. Xiaodong is so good, so you two are friends, so you can't be too bad! What are your plans for the future?"
, People who are about to get married can’t just idle around and not do their job, right?”
Hearing this, Li Yuncong sat up hard and said with a trace of distress: "I don't want to be idle, but I don't know what I can do. I don't like being in politics or being a soldier. I can do business, but I
I don’t have much money and I don’t know where to start…!”
In fact, given his status, if he really wanted to do business, there would definitely be a lot of people sending money to help him make money. However, with the Li family's current status, the most fundamental thing is the family's political status. No matter how important money is, it is only
It's just a auxiliary. As long as they maintain the family's current status, they don't have to worry about expenses. Naturally, they can't leave any flaws in the economy and give their political opponents an excuse to attack them. Therefore, the higher the status of a person, the more they cherish their feathers.
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Therefore, although Li Yuncong can get some help from his family if he wants to do business, he still has to follow the rules.
"Why do you have an elm head!" The old lady hated that iron could not make steel.
"If you don't know what to do yourself, you won't find others to partner with you! Didn't Mingyuan just come back from studying abroad some time ago? I heard that he is the same as you. He doesn't want to be in politics and wants to do business. Then you two can form a partnership
Wouldn't it be enough if you just have a partner? Besides, I heard from your second grandfather that Xiaodong's career is quite big, and you have people giving you advice. With these friends, are you still afraid that you won't be able to accomplish anything?"
"That's right! I almost forgot. Xiaodong pointed me to the money I have now, and I won it while betting on stones. How could I forget about this!" Li Yuncong clapped his hands and said happily.
"Bang!" The old lady knocked Li Yuncong on the forehead with her finger.
"Grandma, don't hit me on the head, you'll make me stupid!"
"You deserve to be beaten stupidly, and the beating is light." Looking at the aggrieved look on Li Yuncong's face, the old lady continued: "I let you do business because I hope you can start a serious business. Betting on stones is considered serious.
Career?"
Just when Li Yuncong was about to say something, the old man's joyful laughter suddenly came from the open study. It was obvious that the old man admired Liu Dong's calligraphy skills very much.
After hearing this, Li Yuncong and the old lady looked at each other, then they stood up at the same time and walked towards the study. In fact, they were also quite curious about Liu Dong's calligraphy level.
But before they could reach the door, they heard Mr. Li exclaiming in the study: "Xiaodong, I didn't expect that your attainments in regular script are so good, much better than an old man like me!"
"Mr. Li deserves the prize, but I'm still far behind!"
"Hey, compared to those calligraphy masters, you are indeed a little behind, but at your age, it is already very rare to reach this level!"
"Old lady, come here and take a look. How good Xiaodong's regular script is! The pen is rich and delicate, the stipples are precise, and there is a masculine atmosphere in the square shape. It's really good!" Looking at his wife who walked in, Mr. Li greeted him quickly.
road.
Even people with no calligraphy foundation can tell the quality of calligraphy, so even the old lady and Li Yuncong, who are not very good at calligraphy, can tell that Liu Dong's regular script is indeed extraordinary.
"Xiaodong, can't you tell, you can do this!"
Faced with Li Yuncong's praise, Liu Dong just smiled and didn't say much.
While several people were admiring Liu Dong's calligraphy, they suddenly heard a knock on the door outside.
"Those old guys must be here! Let's go out and take a look!" As he said that, Mr. Li was the first to walk out the door. Liu Dong and others naturally followed.
And just when Mr. Li walked to the door and opened the door, he saw an old man wearing white half-sleeves and white hair and beard walking in. "Old Li, what's going on? I didn't explain it clearly on the phone, so I said in a hurry.
I'll call you over!"
"Haha, Lao Zheng, I have a reason for calling you here! Don't worry, I promise not to let you suffer today! Come in quickly!" As he said this, Mr. Li took the other party's arm and walked towards the living room.
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"Come Xiaodong, let me introduce you to you. This is the deputy director of our Palace Museum and an expert in calligraphy and painting appraisal. His surname is Zheng and his name is Zhongping."
"Hello, Mr. Zheng!" As a junior, Liu Dong naturally wanted to say hello first. Moreover, he has long been famous for this master figure in the field of calligraphy and painting appraisal, and he is also a role model for himself to learn from.
"Haha, hello!" After saying that, the old man looked him up and down, then hesitated and said: "If I guess correctly, your name is Liu Dong, right?"
"Yes, my name is Liu Dong. How do you know me, Mr. Zheng?" The moment he said this, Liu Dong clearly saw something called 'interest' in Mr. Zheng's eyes.
"Haha, of course I know you. You caused such a big stir in Quancheng last month. I'm afraid there aren't many people in the antique collecting community across the country who haven't heard of your name!"
"You're always over the top!" Liu Dong naturally knew how much of a disturbance his entrance examination for joining the Quancheng Antique Collecting Association a month ago had caused. Although Liu Dong didn't think much about it afterward, during that time, there were a lot of things on his phone
There were more than 200 missed calls every day, and it was not until more than a week later that the number of missed calls gradually subsided.
Up to now, his work cell phone still receives five or six calls every day from people who want to buy antiques from him.
"No prize, no prize!" After waving his hand, Mr. Zheng glanced at Mr. Li, his eyes lit up and said, "Old Li, I know you called me more than just this time, what? Could it be this guy?
Brother Liu, you want to transfer antiques, and then you, an old guy, ask us to come over and conduct an on-site bidding?"
Hearing this, Mr. Li couldn't help but roll his eyes. This old friend of his was good at everything, but he never left his profession. He always wanted to collect all the good treasures in the world into the collection of the Forbidden City. For decades.
Still obsessed with it.
"Stop it, I'm asking you to come over today to help appraise an ancient painting. I'm not here to make money!"
After hearing what Mr. Li said, Mr. Zheng naturally didn't want to give up easily. Anyone who collects or appraises the antiques in Liu Dong's hands will be greedy.
"Of course there is no problem in appraising ancient paintings. But let's talk about something else...!" Of course, after so many years, he knew that Mr. Li was not good at it, so he turned his focus to Liu Dong, "Young man, I call you
Is Liu Dong OK?"
"You're welcome, just call me Xiaodong!" Liu Dong said quickly.
"Okay, Xiaodong! Look...!" After five minutes of this lecture, Mr. Zheng stopped still.
Of course, the core meaning of these words is: let Liu Dong donate the antiques he collects to the Forbidden City, and then Liu Dong can get a certificate from the Forbidden City Museum that Mr. Zheng said represents honor, and then it will be written into the Forbidden City-
Go into the history of the Palace Museum and be famous for generations to come!
"Xiaodong, what do you think?"
Looking at Mr. Zheng's helpless look, to be honest, Liu Dong really couldn't refuse, but he didn't want to put the treasure he had worked so hard to get into the quagmire of the Forbidden City. (To be continued, please search Gone with the Wind.
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