The silent auction was always going on. Many parents and their children sat on their seats and had something to eat. The next step was the bidding auction.
During the meal, Dinah had already returned to the dining table, eating some steak and salad with the Ju An family of three and waiting for the bidding auction to begin.
At this time, a young male teacher walked to the open space next to the table, picked up the microphone and said to the parents surrounding the table: "Parents, welcome to our school's annual auction dinner. Although
The U.S. economy is not doing well this year, but with
We in Floss County have nothing to do with it, you know that? Everyone! According to our town statistics this year, our overall income has increased by 6%. What does this prove? I always thought he was a good president, but unfortunately I was wrong! In fact,
Our mayor can go to the White House!".
There was a burst of laughter from below, and applause immediately started. Anyway, as long as there are many people, there will always be a few major politicians from Austria, Heilongjiang and the United States who are shot while lying down. Ju An has become accustomed to it over the years, and politicians’ jokes are casual.
Yes, no one will accuse you of anything because they are public figures.
Moreover, the per capita life in the town has indeed improved a lot in the past few years, mainly due to the development of tourism. Originally, the county's population was only a little over 12,000 people, and the number of domestic tourists every year is many times more than this number.
, now many small handicraft shops in the town have also come to life. In addition, several tourist ranches in Taylor have recruited dozens of people.
The number one is inconspicuous. For this small county where there are only 10,000 people, old and young, in total, and most of them are ranchers and farmers, they are not unemployed. If these people are unemployed, they are not called unemployed, they are called bankrupt.
Since then, the employment rate has been increased by several percentage points, and the per capita income has naturally been getting higher and higher. Now the roads in the town are bilingual in both Chinese and English.
The host then said: "The first auction item below is a dinner for a family of six provided by our chef." After speaking, the host stretched out his hand towards a table, and a man stood up from the chair.
He stood up, smiled and nodded to everyone.
The host then said: "The starting price is two hundred dollars." As soon as he finished speaking, someone raised his hand. The host smiled and said: "Someone has made a bid, are there any more?" After saying it once, someone raised his hand.
He raised his hand, and the host made jokes from time to time, and the last dinner was auctioned for more than four hundred dollars.
Ju An wasn't very interested in the next few things. Instead, he was the right to use the Paris countryside vacation villa for a week that the host auctioned. Ju An raised his hand twice, but finally gave up. He got better, but he couldn't get anything.
There was no loss at all. In the end, the two families were left competing. The price soared to almost 600 US dollars. The host finally said that the two families could go back and forth apart from each other. It took three days for the family to end the bidding process. Finally, the owner of the villa stood up.
They came out and generously gave each family a week. They immediately received a round of warm applause.
The next projects will depend on the parents to pay for the children's handicrafts or paintings. Of course, not every child has one. What can be put up for auction are some very beautiful works. Basically
They are all made under the guidance of art teachers.
When their children's works are put up for auction, of course the parents will support it. The host mentioned the first child's work and the parents paid $600.
The next several children's works were sold for several hundred dollars, with the highest being over seven hundred and sixty dollars.
While waiting for the auction teacher to hold up Nini's work, Ju An felt that no matter how much money he spent, he would buy this work. There was a light blue sky and green grass on the screen, with a little girl sitting on a stool.
With a smile on his face, he stretched out his hands to one side of the picture. On the other side were two much larger people. One with long hair was holding a baby elephant in his hand, and the other with short hair was holding a giraffe in his hand. Standing in front of the picture
The girl seemed to be running towards the little girl, with happy smiles on her three faces, and birds standing on the branches singing.
Ju An's eyes felt sore when he saw this painting. The plush elephant was the first thing Dinah gave to Nini. The giraffe was the first gift Ju An gave. It was the first time the two of them saw Nini's.
At that time, the girl was sitting on a small stool, but at that time she refused to say a word. She didn't talk much to anyone. Now the little girl in the picture is grinning happily.
Although the paintings don't look alike, Dinah and Giannini don't look alike. They all have a big face with a smile that takes up most of their face. The eyes of the three of them are almost the same.
The big and small ones have no sense of beauty, but Ju An just thinks they are beautiful when they look at them. The colors are beautiful, the pictures are beautiful, and even the crooked trees in the background are beautiful.
Just as he was looking at the painting, he saw someone pulling him. Ju An turned around and saw that Dinah had held Nini, who was smiling happily, in her arms. There was clearly a trace of tears in her eyes.
Ju An looked at his wife and nodded gently to Dinah: "I know!". Now even if Ju An exchanged the man and animal that he kept at the auction house for this painting by Nini,
An didn't hesitate. That painting meant money to Ju An, while this painting meant a daughter to Ju An. There was no comparison.
The host just said: "The reserve price of this painting is one hundred dollars."
Ju An raised his hand: "Eight hundred dollars!".
The host said something this time, and then asked around if there was anyone bidding, and of course there was no one. Who would spend eight hundred dollars to buy other people's children's paintings? It's a pain in the ass. The teacher probably knows this too.
What did the girl draw? The host asked twice and then said to Ju An: "An won the bid for this painting." After saying this, he gestured to the young female teacher holding the painting next to him, and the female teacher handed the painting to him.
It was given to Ju An, and a burst of warm applause followed from all around.
Why can't Ju'an pay more than 800? It's nothing if someone else's maximum is 760. If you pay a few dozen dollars more, it doesn't matter. If it's one or two times higher, it's just a slap in the face of others. What's the point of slapping someone in the face without any grudge? And it's not just a slap in the face.
The whole thing was a group attack, and Ju An's IQ was not that low.
Ju An took the painting from the teacher's hand and looked at it carefully. The whole painting was about A1 size and was made of oil paint. The entire painting had undulating shapes. You could directly see the girl's face.
The brushstrokes started, and he turned around to look at Dinah and said jokingly with a trace of tears in her eyes: "I think our daughter can be an abstract painter when she grows up. Picasso No. 2, you look at the use of brushstrokes, and then look at this
The contrast between warm and cold colors is simply amazing!”.
Dinah laughed after hearing the sound, looked at Ju An and said, "Hang it up when you get home!".
Ju An nodded: "Yes! Hang it up in my study. I just agreed with Nini."
"Hang it in our bedroom. I also want to see this painting often," Dinah hugged Nini and said to Ju An.
Ju An smiled after listening to Dinah's words: "Yeah! Then hang it in our bedroom and put it together with our wedding photos."
Next, Ju An had nothing to think about. He just waited for the auction to end. At the end of the day, the teachers totaled it up and found that Ju An failed to win the remaining two bids. Only the football ticket and the painting were won by Ju An.
After writing a check at a table, Ju An returned home with Dinah, Nini, and the night's spoils.
As soon as the car stopped, Nini ran out and ran towards the house while running and said loudly: "I have to tell grandpa quickly, so that when grandpa has something to do, no one will take me to watch the game.
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"Run slower. Once you tell grandpa, he will be fine if he has something to do." Dinah got out of the car and said loudly to Nini who was running.
Ju An took Nini’s painting out of the back seat, and now there was a piece of white paper on top of the painting as a cover. He was afraid that the painting would be damaged in the car. When he saw Nini running all the way, Ju An said to Dinah: "
Don’t you girl have a mobile phone? Why are you running so fast?”
"Nini is wearing a little dragonfly costume, where can I put down my phone!" Dinah glanced at Ju An, and then Ju An remembered, smiled and touched his head, holding the painting in his nest, hugging Dinah's waist and heading toward the house.
Walk inside.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Nini holding the phone next to the sofa and talking loudly into the phone. Xiaochi stood beside her and said anxiously to Nini: "Sister! Let me talk to grandpa.
Two words!" After saying that, he grabbed Nini's arm and shouted loudly: "grandpa! grandpa!".
While waiting for Nini to give the microphone to Xiaochi, the little boy didn't know what to say to his grandfather anymore. He only knew that he was calling grandpa! After calling twice in a row, he seemed to remember something and said to the microphone: "grandpa."
!The weather is so nice today." The weather is really nice, usually when foreigners have nothing to say.
Dinah and Ju An, who were standing next to them, laughed immediately. Ju An was so bent over from laughing that he translated Xiao Chi's words to his father and mother, and the two old men also laughed.
Seeing Xiao Chi chatting with Marcos on the phone, Ju An put the painting on the coffee table and said to Nini: "Grandpa, have you agreed?".
"Yeah! Yeah!" The girl nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Grandpa agreed. He will go to watch the game in two days. Grandpa also promised to take me skiing."
Ju An nodded after hearing this, while his father and mother picked up the painting. The two old men looked at the painting and praised Nini for her good painting, which made the girl grin and laugh proudly.
Dad and Mom didn't see Nini's appearance at that time, and they didn't know the meaning of this painting, so they were not as emotional as Dinah and Ju An. Anyway, it was the principle of two old people that their children were fine in everything.
Ju An, Dinah and Nini were not full yet. Ju An and Dinah went to the house and heated up the rice and vegetables left by their mother. The rice was already cold, so Ju An simply fried it.
After a while, the family of three was full.
In the evening, Dinah asked Ju An to find nails and hang Nini's painting on the bed in their bedroom. When it was hung, Ju An held Dinah in his arms and stood looking at it for a long time, immersed in memories.