The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 76, The Harvest of the Trust Store
After lunch, Li Weiguo pushed the car out.

After leaving the courtyard gate, I got on the bike and rode directly to Beixinqiao.

I had an agreement with Tong Dahai from the trust store before, and I would go there every half a month.

It happened that half a month had passed, and it was time to see Tong Dahai's results.

In ten minutes, Li Weiguo arrived at Beixinqiao Trust Store.

Parked the car, locked it, and walked directly into the acquisition department.

Walking into the purchase department, I saw Tong Dahai negotiating the price with the customer.

As soon as Li Weiguo walked in, Tong Dahai saw him, gave him a waiting look, and continued to deal with the customers in front of him.

Li Weiguo was not in a hurry and just watched from the side.

Listening to the conversation between the two, it seems that the customer in front of him is here to entrust the sale of paintings, but Tong Dahai did not approve of the price, so the two are negotiating the price.

"Let me tell you, comrade, this is a modern painting of yours, which has no collection value. Who would spend hundreds of dollars to buy these useless paintings back? At most, the price is 30 yuan, which cannot be higher." Tong Dahai said firmly .

The customer who entrusted the painting to sell the painting was unwilling to give in and wanted to fight for it: "Can't the price really be higher? Although this is a modern painting, the artist is quite famous. When I bought it, it cost dozens of dollars."

Tong Dahai gave him a blank look: "What year is this? No matter how famous it is, it can't be eaten as food. It's almost catching up with other people's half a year's salary. Who would spend half a year's salary to buy a painting?"

Then he pointed at the wall and said: "Did you see the paintings on the wall? Most of them are modern and contemporary paintings, and they are all at this price. I don't know how long they have been on sale, but they have not been sold. If you want to sell, just If you entrust it at this price, you can either go to a trust store elsewhere and check it out. I won’t dare to make a random decision if it exceeds the market price.”

Looking at Tong Dahai's fingers, there are six or seven modern paintings hanging on the wall, including landscapes, flowers and birds, and the prices on them are between ten and thirty.

The guest glanced at it, said nothing, and lowered his head to think for a moment.

In the end, he nodded reluctantly, thinking that he had asked about it at other commission stores, and the guide prices given should be about the same.

Seeing that the customer agreed, Tong Dahai put the oil painting aside, then took out the list, and issued him a consignment sales receipt at the agreed price.

After the item is sold, the customer can get the money with the receipt, and the trust store only charges a certain percentage of the handling fee.

After seeing off the guest, Tong Dahai smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, to keep you waiting."

Li Weiguo waved his hand: "It's okay, business is more important." As he said that, he glanced at the oil painting on the counter.

Huh. "The Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains"?
Curious, he leaned over and took a closer look.

That's right!It was Xu Beihong's "Foolish Old Man Moving Mountains", the first draft of oil painting.

"The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain" consists of three pieces, all of which were created around 1940 during the Anti-Japanese War.Including the first draft of the oil painting, which was slightly smaller in size, it was auctioned for more than 2006 million yuan in 3300, and it was resold for 2018 million yuan in 2.

Unexpectedly, I found a treasure here.

"Master Li, do you like modern paintings?" Tong Dahai asked.

Li Weiguo smiled and nodded. He liked it so much. How could he not like it if it was valuable?

Pointing to the painting, he asked, "This painting was commissioned for thirty?"

"Yes, Master Li"

"Okay, I want it."

Such a big leak, if we don’t pick it up now, when will we wait?

Li Weiguo immediately paid the bill, billed, and took the oil painting.

After Mr. Xu Beihong passed away in 53 years, his wife donated all of his more than 1200 works according to his will. There are very few original works by him in private hands, so this time it is considered to be picked up.

After taking down the oil painting, Li Weiguo looked at the six or seven modern paintings on the wall.

Seeing this, Li Weiguo was overjoyed.

Huang Binhong's landscape paintings, Li Ruochen's flower-and-bird paintings, Zhang Daqian's splash-ink landscape paintings, Fu Baoshi's paintings of ladies, and three more are by unknown painters.

The entrusted price above is only 30 to [-] yuan a pair, and the cheap ones are only [-] or [-] yuan.

The four people I recognized are well-known in the world of calligraphy and painting in later generations. Their works are also very popular in the world of calligraphy and painting collections. The auction works can easily cost hundreds of millions.Although the real high-quality products will generally not be sold out, it is good to collect one or two of their early and mid-term works. You must get them.

As for the three paintings he didn't recognize, Li Weiguo wasn't going to miss them either.There are too many famous painters, and Li Weiguo has only heard of the dozen or so most famous ones. Although he did not recognize the painters in the last three paintings, judging from the quality of the paintings, he should not suffer any loss if he buys them. He can collect them for decades before buying them. Come out, maybe there are people who know the goods.

Without saying anything, Li Weiguo pointed to the seven paintings on the wall and waved his hand: "I want these, help me take them down."

"Okay, just wait a moment." Tong Haihai responded swiftly.

Tong Dahai was not surprised that Li Weiguo was so generous. He had seen it when he bought furniture some time ago, and he spent money without blinking.

Tong Dahai turned around and took the pole, picked out the seven hanging paintings one by one, rolled them up one by one, put them in front of Li Weiguo, and then quickly took the abacus and made calculations with thunderbolt.

"Master Li, seven paintings, a total of 152 yuan."

"Row."

Without hesitation, Li Weiguo stretched his hand into his trouser pocket, took twenty big black ten from the space with his mind, counted sixteen and handed them to Tong Dahai, and put the rest back into his trouser pocket.

Tong Dahai took the money, took the receipt book, wrote the receipt, tore it off, gave eight yuan in change, and handed it back together.

Li Weiguo took the money ticket without looking at it, put it back in his pocket, and said, "Is there any progress on what I told you last time?"

"I have left a lot of things for you, waiting for you to come over. Please wait a moment." Tong Dahai said with a smile.

If it is a hot-selling item such as a three-turn ring, a camera, or a television, he may not be able to keep it, but for old items, it couldn't be easier. After all, no one is collecting them now.

After that, he bent down and pulled out a large wooden box from under the counter, lifted it up with both hands, and then carefully placed it on the counter.

Tong Dahai smiled confidently before opening the box: "Master Li, take a look and see if these things suit you."

With that said, he took out all the items in the box, put them on the counter, and arranged them neatly one by one.

There are a total of fifteen old objects, all of which are relatively small and delicate.

Among them, eight snuff bottles, three pieces of porcelain, three pieces of thumb rings, and one piece of copperware all had price tags written on them.

Then, Tong Dahai began to introduce the items in the box to Li Weiguo one by one.

First are eight exquisite and small snuff bottles.

Snuff has been popular in Europe since the 17th century. It was introduced into China from the Northeast in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Later, snuff boxes were gradually orientalized, resulting in snuff bottles.Afterwards, snuffing became the fashion of all classes, from the emperor to the common people.

After snuff was introduced to China, the production of snuff bottles quickly integrated into the Chinese artistic style, and various snuff bottles were developed.

Among them, the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were the best.

　I would like to thank [Cigarette@Hongtashan] individually. I can see the votes of the big guys every day. I am very grateful for the support. Thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)