"My dear grandson, come here and take a look at the painting I just bought."

Nan Yi came to Yangcheng Hotel and entered Fang Mengyin's room. Fang Mengyin invited him to look at the paintings.

"Grandma, I don't know how to draw either. You ask me to look at it and I can't even understand it."

Nan Yi said, walked to the desk and looked down at a painting placed on it.

"Do you know whose painting this is?"

"Grandma, I don't know how to draw, but I can still see the seal clearly. Huangshan Binhong, isn't it Huang Binhong's painting?"

"Do you know how much it cost?" Fang Mengyin said with a smile on her face.

"This question doesn't bother me. I bought several of his paintings. The year before last, I bought them for 60 cents each. If you hadn't been ripped off, it would have been about 1 or 2 cents now."

"Five yuan, this painting is a masterpiece among Huang Binhong's landscape paintings. I missed it."

"You still have a chance if you want to find out. The National Museum has many paintings by modern painters. As long as you pay foreign exchange, they are eager to sell them. There are many paintings by Qi Baishi and Li Keran in it."

"Huh? Since you know, why don't you buy it yourself?" Fang Mengyin asked in surprise.

"There's too much movement."

"You!" Fang Mengyin nodded at Nanyi, "If you don't buy it as soon as possible, aren't you afraid of being intercepted?"

"Haha, let Xianghe take a trip."

Whether it's Ke Jianzhen or Li Xiangrong, both of them have some paintings by modern painters, including Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Li Keran, and Huang Binhong.

Their paintings are not expensive at all now. Qi Baishi's paintings cost 5 yuan per square foot, Li Keran's paintings can be purchased for 70 yuan for a large painting, Huang Binhong's paintings are even as low as 1 yuan a piece, and Xu Beihong's paintings have a relatively large price range.

, but it’s not much more expensive.

"I just said, how could you not be tempted? Let's make a deal first. I will pick them out first and leave a few for you to do whatever you want with me a hundred years later."

"Okay, don't mention a few pictures, you can keep them all if you want."

"Forget it, I can't see it. What's going on over there in Xiangguan? Can I go back?"

"It's hard to say, Chen Songqing is quite tolerant. You'd better play for a while. If you get tired of playing in Yangcheng, you can go somewhere else."

"Okay, I'll go to Wutai Mountain and Wudang."

"Oh, grandma, you are the Taoist ancestor, and the Buddha is inseparable from both."

"I also plan to go to the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Ice City." Fang Mengyin said angrily.

"Hehehe."

After ending the argument with Fang Mengyin and having dinner with her, Nan Yi left the Yangcheng Hotel and found a guest house to stay outside.

There are hotels everywhere in Yangcheng, and guest houses are not so rigid. Nanyi successfully opened a single room.

The next day.

In the morning, Nan Yi rushed to the station to pick him up.

Nan Yi had never seen the person he wanted to pick up, so he could only take a piece of cardboard with his name on it and stand at the station where he got off the bus and wait.

Not long after the Nanyi sign was raised, the bus from Shenzhen to Yangcheng pulled into the station.

A young man wearing glasses got out of the car, looked around, and then stopped at the sign in Nan Yi's hand.

"Hello, Bao Jian from the Foreign Affairs Office."

"Hello, it's been a hard journey from Shenguo to Nanyi."

"No idea, when will the guests arrive?"

"Arrived at noon, Mr. Henry will be accompanied by a female guide from Xiangguan. The female guide is also arranged by our company. I have made an agreement with her that at noon, she will accompany Mr. Henry to dine at the Yangcheng Hotel. At 1:30 in the afternoon, we will go to the hotel

Pick them up to visit the art store."

"So what do we do now?"

"Rent a car. There are four of Mr. Henry and two of us. We can't fit in one car, so we have to rent two cars."

"Go to the taxi company?"

"Go to the Yangcheng Hotel first. They have a reception car with a higher standard. If it doesn't work, go to the taxi company."

How could it not be possible? Nanyi had already ordered two cars yesterday, and going there today was just a matter of going through the process.

After completing the formalities at the Yangcheng Hotel, the car will park at the door at what time and wait for all matters to be finalized.

Nan Yi did not neglect Bao Jian, and took a bus to take him to a roast goose stall on Panfu Road.

This roast goose stall doesn’t have a front and back sign, but the plum roast goose is so good that even the famous Tao Tao Ju doesn’t dare to challenge it.

"Comrade Bao, they all say that food is in Yangcheng. Today we are also going to eat meat and try the roast goose here."

After Nan Yi ordered something, Nan Yi asked Bao Jian to take down his chopsticks.

"Comrade Nan, won't this meal cost a lot of money?"

"Don't worry about whether you have money or not. Comrade Bao, you are here to help, and I should entertain you. That's it. I feel a little wronged to you. I can't help it. People are gentle, otherwise I will take you to Panxi and Taotaoju.

.”

"You're welcome, Comrade Nan, this is already very good." Bao Jian said politely, "There are only two of us, and one roast goose is a bit much."

"It's okay, don't think I'm stingy. I have a lunch box with me. Let's eat half of it and pack half of it back. I don't know if we should eat this meal with the foreign guests tonight. If not, we can buy some wine and go back to the guest house to drink.

.”

"Okay, this is good."

After eating for a while, the two started chatting, and their names also changed, becoming more intimate.

"Nanyi, why did Shen Guofa send you alone to entertain Mr. Henry?"

"Mr. Henry is a potential customer that I have contacted. The details have not been finalized yet, so it is not appropriate for the leader to come forward. This time, I just want to finalize the intention, and then invite the leader to come over for final negotiations."

"Oh, that's it." Bao Jian nodded, "You guys work in Xiangguan, can you go out for a walk?"

"I'm not in charge of business. I basically travel outside. If you ask me, I've gone to all the places in Hong Kong. But the internship subsidy I got was just a small amount. The transportation subsidy was also very tight, and the things in Hong Kong were expensive.

, I can only look at it, but I can’t afford anything.”

"Similarly, I have just joined the job, and I am very tight on money. My girlfriend's family is still urging me to get married. The requirements are not high. I only need to turn three times and have thirty-six legs. How can I get married? I am still living in a dormitory.

.”

"Bao Jian, you are only twenty-five or six years old this year, right?"

"Twenty-five."

"Then it's a little early to get married. Didn't your unit receive the documents? Aren't the higher-ups advocating late marriage and late childbearing?"

"There is nothing I can do. Both sides are urging me. My family is not in a deep state and we don't have a house. My girlfriend's family has said that I can live in her house." As he said that, Bao Jian lowered his voice and said, "But that's a barbaric door, how can I do it.

"

"Haha, you are quite feudal. If my girlfriend lets me live in my girlfriend's house in the future, I will live there right away. We can discuss it by the way. We can waive the hassle of turning, rattling, and legs, and give me a betrothal gift of 500 yuan.

That’s it.”

"Haha, you still expect to receive change?"

"Shouldn't it be right? I'll marry you!"

"It's not that easy to be a son-in-law." Bao Jian said, his face darkening.

When Nan Yi saw it, he changed the subject at the right time and talked about something else.

After finishing the meal, Nan Yi paid the bill in Hong Kong dollars. Not only was the exchange rate one to one, it was also a dollar cheaper.

Of course, he didn't forget to pack the remaining half of the roast goose. A roast goose with plums costs four yuan, two yuan, how could he be willing to throw it away.

While there was still time, they first went to the guest house to help Bao Jian open a room, then put down the sundries, went to the public washroom to tidy themselves up, and then the two of them went to Yangcheng Hotel.

"Mr. Henry, Miss Liang, hello, shall we go to the art store now?"

When I met Henry and Liang Huiwen at the Yangcheng Hotel, Nan Yi said something and stood there waiting for Bao Jian's translation.

Bao Jian: "Mr. Henry said to go there now."

"Mr. Henry, Miss Liang, the car is waiting at the door, please."

Welcoming people to the car at the door, Henry, Liang Huiwen, and Dai Wen got into one car, while Nan Yi and Bao Jian sat in one.

When the car arrived at the entrance of the art store, Nan Yi got off first and went to negotiate with the comrades standing guard at the door.

"Hello, comrade, this is my work permit. I am accompanying foreign guests to visit." Nan Yi handed over his work permit.

After Mengang looked at it, he returned the certificate to Nan Yi, "Do you need me to notify the leader?"

"No need, we are here just for a visit."

There is also a saying here about notification and non-notification. Notification is a big order, and the interests between units need to be coordinated. Nanyi brings customers here to buy things, and the art store needs to send some explanations to Shenguo.

If you don’t notify me, you just have to take a look and maybe buy one or two pieces, so you don’t need to alert the leaders.

The art store has a special reception department for foreign guests, where you can see many good things that Chinese people cannot see. Of course, the price for foreign guests is also very "intimate". If you sell it to foreign guests for 100 yuan, it will become 100 US dollars.
To be continued...