All Heavens Pension started from the fiery era

Chapter 112 112. Cultural Heritage Store
Lin Suzhi shook her head, "It doesn't start until eight o'clock in the evening. When the performance ends, it must be after ten o'clock. It's too late, and mom will be worried. Let's forget it."

"Then what's your suggestion? We can't just sit in the car all morning."

Entertainment in this era is too scarce, it is rare to go on a date, and for a while, Yue Wenxuan didn't know what to do.

Yue Wenxuan, who has a lot of experience, doesn't know what to do, and Lin Suzhi, who has no dating experience, is even more clueless, "Why don't we go shopping? There are so many shopping malls, and we can't finish shopping in one day."

For going shopping with his girlfriend, Yue Wenxuan has a psychological shadow. He doesn't want to go, and if he goes once in a while, he must make good time.

If she really went shopping with Lin Suzhi for a whole day, she would have broken her leg.Whether the legs are tired or not is a trivial matter, but the main thing is that the heart is tired. After seeing it but not buying it, and obviously like it, you have to shop around. It really tests a man's patience.

Yue Wenxuan didn't dare to overestimate his patience. He felt that he could bear it for half a day, but if he went shopping for a whole day, it would really kill him.

His brain turned quickly, and he immediately had a new idea, "Don't you like calligraphy and Chinese painting? How about we go to the cultural relics store for a while?"

Lin Suzhi was really tempted, "It's a good suggestion, why don't we go and have a look?"

"Okay, let's go to Xidan for a turn." Yue Wenxuan said immediately.

Having traveled through it for several months, Yue Wenxuan has a fairly good understanding of the capital city.

He had seen the purchasing departments of the foreign trade department in Dongsi and Bamiancao, which were specialized in buying jewelry and diamonds. These stores were very attractive to women, so he could visit them someday if he had time.

It belongs to the acquisition department of cultural relics stores that purchase calligraphy, painting and porcelain. He has seen them in Xidan, Xijiekou and Liulichang.

There must be other places, but most of them are not as large as these places.

When they came to the entrance of the cultural relics store, the two got out of the car, opened the store door and walked in.

Most of the various shops in this period were full of people and bustling, but the cultural relics shops were quite deserted.In such a big store, apart from the staff, there are only three or four customers in total.

Including the two of them, these three or four customers were still here to hang out, and none of them looked like buyers.

What kind of person is like a buyer?Foreigners, overseas Chinese with foreign exchange, high-level cadres, high-level intellectuals, calligraphers, and painters are the buyers.

The original intention of the establishment of the cultural relics store is to exchange for foreign exchange to support national construction, so the main customer group is foreigners.

Cultural relics stores are divided into outer cabinets and inner cabinets. The outer cabinets are naturally for foreigners, and the inner cabinets are for Chinese people.

But not all Chinese people can buy things at the counter inside the cabinet, and cultural relics stores have great restrictions on the qualifications of buyers.

Only Ganbu above the thirteenth grade, senior intellectuals, professors, calligraphers, and painters are eligible to buy cultural relics at the counter in the name of research and study.

Of course, the counter inside the cabinet accepts RMB, not foreign exchange.

Yue Wenxuan and Lin Suzhi definitely did not have the qualifications, they could only stand outside the counter and admire the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall.

They came here to hang out to pass the time, the store is so quiet, it suits their wishes.

It was also the first time for Yue Wenxuan to enter a cultural relic store. He didn't have any in-depth research on calligraphy, painting and porcelain, but just took a look at them. What he paid attention to was the selling price of these calligraphy, painting and porcelain.

He is quite familiar with the prices of cultural relics and works of art in this period.

After all, he browses the system mall every day, and the prices of cultural relics and artworks have always been the key categories he pays attention to.

Browsing with the help of the system, compared with looking at the real thing now, there is still a big difference in perception.

For example, Qi Baishi's "Shrimp Play Picture" he is looking at now makes him very tempted, and he has an urge to buy it.

This "Shrimp Playing Picture" can be placed in a conspicuous position in the cultural relics store. It is naturally a masterpiece among Qi Baishi's paintings, and the size is not small. 6000 million.

And what is the price of this painting in the cultural relics store?
Only 18 RMB!

Why is the price so low?Because the domestic prices of works of art during this period were not high, and the old man Baishi was still alive and productive, so it was naturally the price of cabbage.

This cabbage price is not an adjective, but a real reality!
It is said that the old man Baishi has lived a very difficult life in the past few years. If he wants to exchange a painting for a Chinese cabbage, no one will exchange it for him.

If you buy this painting and put it away for five or sixty years before selling it, the profit ratio of this painting will even be far higher than the authentic Da Vinci that he never forgets.

But his desire to buy the painting was not urgent.

Because in 20 years, the prices of domestic artworks and cultural relics will not change.

If he wants to buy, he can wait until 20 years before making a large purchase.

After all, even if you buy it now, you still put it away. If you buy too much, it is not easy to hide, and it is easy to cause trouble in a few years.

But the original work of Da Vinci that he has been thinking about is different. As long as he can go abroad, he can exchange it for a huge amount of foreign exchange.

Even if there is no chance in the last 20 years, it is not too late to exchange foreign currency for foreign exchange after opening.

At that time, he had a huge amount of foreign exchange, and he used foreign exchange to purchase the inventory of the cultural relic store. It was not up to him to choose, but it was much more convenient than buying now.

The two were only interested in the paintings and calligraphy in the cultural relics store, and after seeing all the works hanging on the wall, an hour passed without knowing it.

Thanks to the teaching of the original owner's mother, Yue Wenxuan has an entry-level level in calligraphy and Chinese painting.

But this level is still too superficial. He is not very interested in the artistic achievements of these paintings and calligraphy works, but only interested in the price at which these works can be sold decades later.

Although the price of cultural relics in this period is not high, there are no works of calligraphy and painting from the Qing Dynasty and before the Qing Dynasty in the shop that are less than [-] yuan a piece.

All the paintings and calligraphy of Ming and Qing Dynasties hanging on the wall, including several works by Bada Shanren, are not as expensive in later generations as the "Shrimp Playing Picture" by Old Baishi.

And the prices of Ming and Qing calligraphy and paintings in the store are relatively high, so after going around, he went back to the "Picture of Shrimp Play" and looked at it carefully.

Lin Suzhi came to Yue Wenxuan's side and whispered: "Do you also like this painting by old man Baishi? I also think this painting is very good. Every shrimp is so lively, so lifelike and interesting. I was very inspired after watching it.”

"It seems that we both have the same opinion. I like this painting very much, and I don't know if I can buy it?"

Now that we met, Yue Wenxuan still wanted to buy this painting and keep it as a collection.

(End of this chapter)