The Leisure Life in the 1970s

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Chapter 97 97. Angry at Wen Qin and Yun Shu

Gu Xuezhong's 60th birthday is coming up. Gu Wenli and Wen Qin decided to make a good celebration for him. Gu Xuezhong originally thought it was unnecessary, but he couldn't resist his son and daughter-in-law's insistence, so he let them do it.

Zhao Dagang has a good relationship with Gu Xuezhong, so he must go. Song Jin, as Gu Lao's favorite student, will naturally go too. Although Qiao Zhenzhen doesn't like Wen Qin, she has a friendship with Gu Lao. The 60th birthday is a big birthday, so she should not only go, but also give a big gift.

Qiao Zhenzhen knew that Gu Lao liked Qi Baishi's paintings very much, so she found Huang San and asked him to help find out where Qi Baishi's paintings are.

Huang San was a professional swindler, much better than Qiao Zhenzhen who just changed careers to make a living. He was very quick-witted, and sent Qiao Zhenzhen a message on the third day, saying that he had taken someone to see it, and it should be authentic.

So he bought it on the spot, spending more than 8,000 yuan, because if he didn't buy the painting, the man would leave the capital and never come back. He didn't know if he had offended someone, so he left in such a hurry and didn't even want to wait for an entire afternoon.

Qiao Zhenzhen naturally wouldn't let Huang San suffer a loss, so she gave him 10,000 yuan directly, and the rest was considered as hard work fee, and then took the painting back.

The whole painting was just six shrimps painted with a brush, with a vertical row of brush calligraphy and a red seal next to it. Qiao Zhenzhen had no knowledge of these artworks. Apart from thinking that the shrimps were painted vividly, she couldn't tell whether they were real or fake.

So, when Song Jin and Zhao Dagang came back in the evening, Qiao Zhenzhen quickly took out the painting and asked them to help appraise it.

It wasn't that she felt sorry for the 10,000 yuan, but mainly because the painting was to be given to Mr. Gu, who was an expert in calligraphy and painting. If he gave him a fake one, it would be so embarrassing.

Song Jin didn't really know much about this kind of ink painting. He was only very familiar with various machine inks, so he couldn't help much.

Zhao Dagang looked at it for a long time and said with certainty, "It's real." After that, he was a little envious of Gu Xuezhong. He was originally going to write a calligraphy and painting for Gu Xuezhong, but now he didn't need to prepare it. He could just give him a red envelope.

Qiao Zhenzhen didn't pay attention to Zhao Dagang's little thoughts. She was relieved when he said that the painting was real.

In fact, since Song Jin recognized Zhao Dagang as her godparent, Qiao Zhenzhen would send things to Zhao Dagang from time to time. She also carefully prepared gifts for his birthdays in the past two years. For example, Qiao Zhenzhen gave Zhao Dagang an imported mechanical watch worth 30,000 yuan on his birthday this year.

At that time, Zhao Dagang even showed off in front of his old friends for a long time, not because the watch was expensive, but because it was given by his son and daughter-in-law.

In addition, except for the military uniform issued by the army, all other clothes, shoes, hats, gloves, etc. on Zhao Dagang were prepared for him by Qiao Zhenzhen.

Qiao Zhenzhen and Song Jin knew that he liked to write calligraphy, and they also collected a lot of fine brushes and inkstones for him.

Not to mention those brushes made of animal hair that no one had ever heard of, the inkstones alone were also very valuable, the cheapest ones cost a few hundred yuan, and the most expensive one cost thousands.