Zhao Xin and Yao Fen, who were sent by Zhang Chen, have returned from Chongqing and Beijing respectively. Zhang Chen sent Zhao Xin to Chenyang Luyi again. The task is still the same, and Yao Fen was sent to Shanghai.

There is no specific school in Shanghai. What he asked Yao Fen to find a way to contact and understand was the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy. If you contact the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy, you can basically find it in the oil painting industry in Shanghai. Zhang Chongren, Ha Ding, Wu Dayu, Zhou Bichu, Chen Yifei, Qiu Ruimin and others were all from the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy.

Chen Danqing, Han Xin and Yu Xiaofu are also more or less related to the Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy.

Zhang Chen and Yao Fen said, "Shanghai hides dragons and tigers, be careful, you should know that most of the modern Chinese literature and art history are in Shanghai, and gold may be buried in any corner, waiting for you to dig it."

Yao Fen smiled and said, Boss, then am I going to work as a miner in Shanghai?

Yes, it can be said that. Zhang Chen smiled.

Yao Fen arrived in Shanghai. After more than a week, she called Zhang Chen to ask if she wanted to buy Wu Dayu's paintings, boss?

Zhang Chen said yes, where is it?

There are people here in Shanghai, but they are quite troublesome. They must sell a lot of things together, but they are unwilling to sell them one by one.

"What's going on?" Zhang Chen asked.

"I am an art teacher from a middle school in Shanghai. I seemed to have studied in France in my early years. I first studied at the National Arts College in Hangzhou. He has many paintings from his teachers, classmates and friends at home.

"After this teacher passed away, his son was going to sell these paintings, but he didn't want to sell them separately. He asked to buy them all at once. The offer was 1.8 million. Where did anyone have so much money? So this matter spread among the people who painted in Shanghai. He knew that there were good things there, but he couldn't afford them.

"I heard that there is Wu Dayu. Boss, you wrote a Wu Dayu when you were recruiting. I don't know who Wu Dayu is, but after remembering the name, I asked someone to take me to see it. I saw a lot of paintings at his house."

When Zhang Chen heard this, he knew that this person had a great background. He was a national art college, which was the former Zhejiang Meili. Lin Fengmian was the first principal appointed by Cai Yuanpei. Wu Dayu, Lin Wenzheng, Liu Kaiqu and others were all teachers here. Wu Guanzhong, Zhao Wuji, Zhu Dequn and others were all students here. Later, he went to France. It seemed that this teacher was on the same path as them.

Zhang Chen and Yao Fen said, I'll come over immediately.

Zhang Chen called the second guy and went to Shanghai.

When I arrived in Shanghai, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening. Yao Fen was waiting for him in the lobby of the Portman Hotel and told him that he had made an appointment with his son and would go to his house to read the paintings at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Zhang Chen said yes, Zhang Chen and Yao Fen said, you live here too today, and we will go to our own store to check it out. You are all from the company and you must have some understanding of the company. By the way, if you have something to do in Shanghai in the future, you can ask our manager for help. She is a local, and you will introduce you to you later.

Yao Fen looked at Zhang Chen and said excitedly: "Boss, I will stay here too at night? Is this too extravagant?"

"What should we do? Otherwise, we will stay in the hotel where you are?" Zhang Chen smiled.

"No, no." Yao Fen quickly shook her head, "I'll still live here, and I'll also enjoy the boss's glory."

When he finished check-in and walked towards the elevator, Zhang Chen remembered that when he was in Haicheng, the introduction of the Rock Decoration Company fabricated by Haibatian said that it was designed and constructed by himself. Zhang Chen couldn't help laughing. Yao Fen and Erhuo were laughed inexplicably by him.

The deceased art teacher lived in an old house on Sichuan Middle Road, a three-story old villa. The family occupied two rooms on the second floor. The teacher’s son’s surname was Qiu, and his name was Qiu Lixin. He was also a middle school teacher, but he taught mathematics.

Qiu Lixin was waiting for them at the gate of the villa. He looked like he cleaned up himself so that his paintings would look a little refreshing.

Qiu Lixin took them to the house. The house was very small, and a house was divided into two. Half inside was his mother and his deceased father. The outside was half where his brother slept and his family ate. He turned up during the day, made room for dinner, and at night he put away the foldable dining table and stool and put it down so that his brother could sleep.

Qiu Lixin and his family lived in a room opposite, which was smaller than this. There was no place in the room except for a desk and a chest of drawers.

My son is in the second grade of elementary school and still sleeps with the couple on the same page. Qiu Lixin looks at Yao Fen without avoiding suspicion. He told Zhang Chen that he would be punished for his husband's life at night.

The cooking is in the public kitchen on the second and a half floors, where there are six gas stoves from six families in the entire building. Except for the place the size of a square stool next to the gas stove, there is no extra place to put chopping boards and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

There are two faucets in total, and six companies share them. Because the electricity and water bills in the kitchen are also shared by six companies, they have eyes to keep their eyes on them when they use them more and less.

Qiu Lixin took Zhang Chen and Yao Fen to the half room where his mother lived, the old lady, his mother, the widow of the deceased middle school art teacher, with a stern face, sitting in a rattan chair wrapped in a glass window on the large balcony.

This is also the only spacious place in the house. There are two wooden cabinets on both sides of the balcony, and the paint outside has peeled off.

The glass windows on the balcony were pulled into curtains. Despite this, because the windows were closed, it was still very stuffy. An old electric fan on the cabinet sounded slammed, bringing a little wind.

Qiu Lixin told the old lady, "Mm, Boss Yila came to see the painting."

The old lady stood up, looked at Zhang Chen coldly, then looked at Yao Fen, walked to half of the room outside, sat next to the dining table, the two couldn't squeeze in, and sat on the other side of the dining table.

Qiu Lixin put the rattan chair that the old lady was sitting on and made a seat. He first opened the doors of the two cabinets near the balcony, called Zhang Chen over, and said apologetically to Yao Fen, Miss, you can only be outside. Yao Fen smiled and said nothing.

Qiu Lixin asked Zhang Chen to stand side by side by side by window. After the two of them stood, he reached out and opened the other half of the doors on both sides. The two doors opened, just separated the inside and outside. Qiu Lixin and Zhang Chen stood inside the two doors, and Yao Fen was outside.

The weather was stuffy, the space inside was too small, and the distance between the two was too close, so Zhang Chen could smell Qiu Lixin's bad breath.

Qiu Lixin pointed to the cabinets on both sides and told Zhang Chen that they were all inside.

Zhang Chen saw that there were picture frames inside, and there were stacks of canvases and oil painting papers, and there were not even picture frames. One painting or one newspaper was separated like this. Zhang Chen said regretfully, wouldn’t this be boring?

Qiu Lixin said no, Ala's wife, Ala's mother, would open the cabinet door before she woke up at night.

The place was too small to squat down at the same time, so only Qiu Lixinli stood at the same time. Zhang Chen squatted down and took it out to look at it one by one. Zhang Chen was frightened. After reading less than half of it, he saw that there were good things inside. He not only saw the works of Wu Dayu and Lin Fengmian, but also the paintings of Zhao Wuji, Wu Guanzhong, Zhu Dequn and Wu Zuoren.

What made Zhang Chen even more happy was the works of Guan Liang, Ni Yide, Pang Xunqiu, Chang Yu, Hu Shanyu, Lu Sibai, Fang Ganmin and others who were not very famous in society at that time, but Zhang Chen thought that the painting was great.

Zhang Chen felt that there was no need to watch anymore, so he stood up and said to Qiu Lixin, "Okay, close it."

Qiu Lixin thought Zhang Chen was not attracted to him, so he was a little anxious, so he told him, look here, there are also Pan Yuliang and Yan Wenliang here.

In the eyes of ordinary people at that time, this was the most famous painter. Pan Yuliang had a TV series "Pan Yuliang" and a movie "Painting Soul". The director of Er Dongsheng and starred in Pan Yuliang was Miss Gong. In addition to the vivid legends in the tabloids, it was impossible not to be famous.

Yan Wenliang had his paintings in many magazines at that time.

But to be honest, it doesn't matter to Zhang Chen whether there are paintings of these two people.

Seeing that Zhang Chen was a little indifferent to these two names, Qiu Lixin looked a little disappointed. He thought Zhang Chen didn't hear it clearly, so he asked again, "Boss, you are Pan Yuliang, don't you look at it?"

Zhang Chen smiled and shook his head and said, "I won't watch it anymore."

Qiu Lixin sighed and said, "It's a pity that there was a picture of Xu Beihong, boss, you will definitely like it. When I got married, there was really no way. Ala was selling special."

Zhang Chen smiled and said that Xu Beihong's oil paintings are actually average.

Zhang Chen said this, and Qiu Lixin had no choice but to close the cabinet door and let Zhang Chen go out.

Zhang Chen asked Qiu Lixin, do you have a list?

Yes, Qiu Lixin quickly took out a list from the cabinet, which was copied on the replica paper. Zhang Chen looked at it and found that there were 72 works in total.

Zhang Chen looked at his watch and it was already past eleven o'clock. Zhang Chen and Qiu Lixin said, "What's going on? It's time for dinner. We will find a place to have dinner, and we will talk about buying paintings while eating. I'll treat you to you."

Qiu Lixin was stunned for a moment, his face full of disappointment suddenly became alive, and he quickly said ok, thank you boss.

Zhang Chen asked, "You are the one who can decide this for selling paintings, or do you have to make a decision together?"

Qiu Lixin asked, boss, have you decided to?

Zhang Chen said yes, as long as the price is negotiated, I will decide to.

If this is the case, I have to go to the alley to call my brother and ask my brother to come back to talk together. Qiu Lixin said.

Zhang Chen took out his elder brother and told Qiu Lixin that he had called me. There was an old Taimen restaurant in the place where I saw it. Let's go directly to this hotel. We'll wait for him there.

Qiu Lixin said ok. He asked Zhang Chen how to use Brother Zhang. Zhang Chen told him, and he quickly took Brother Zhang, went back to his room, and called his brother.

When the old lady heard their conversation, her attitude towards Zhang Chen obviously changed. She asked him to sit at the dining table and told him that she was so annoyed that she was so annoyed. From the time of the Lord Yila, she brought people to see the paintings every few days, and they were all without copper. They looked at them for nothing and bought them again. The Lord Yila had told him that the paintings in the nest were very cheap and easy to sell.

Qiu Lixin came back and told them that the phone was connected and his brother came back soon.

Zhang Chen said yes, let’s go.

Zhang Chen and the old lady said, "Let's go to have a meal together, and decide this matter at the place where we eat."
Chapter completed!