"How's it going, Tang? Life in New York is quite colorful, right?" When Tang Zhengqing came back, Joubert didn't even rest. Instead, he was waiting for Tang Zhengqing.

"It's okay. You also know that I'm not the kind of person who likes excitement. I just want to go shopping today."

"Okay, I'm going to rest first. Don't forget to attend an auction tomorrow. I spent a lot of energy to get the tickets." Joubert heard that Tang Zhengqing liked ancient Tang Dynasty, so he tried every means.

Got him a ticket for the Christie's auction.

"I know, I won't forget it. When I went to Chinatown today, I met a very interesting person. I will tell you about it then." Tang Zhengqing did not mention Mr. Ma's name directly.

Early the next morning, Tang Zhengqing got up early. He had already made an appointment to go shopping with Mr. Ma. As for the auction, it was in the evening, not in the morning. Unexpectedly, Tang Zhengqing had just left.

When I went downstairs, I saw Mr. Ma sitting on the sofa in the hall reading the newspaper.

"Good morning, Mr. Ma!" Tang Zhengqing came to Mr. Ma's side and greeted him.

"Xiao Tang, it's morning for you too!" Mr. Ma put down the newspaper and greeted Tang Zhengqing.

"Mr. Ma, why are you so early? It's only around seven o'clock. Why don't you take a break?" Tang Zhengqing asked, sitting on the side of the sofa.

"When people get older, they don't want to sleep anymore. Anyway, there will be more time to sleep in the future, so there is no need to sleep in now." Mr. Ma knows that sleeping in is a common problem among young people. When he was young, he also liked to sleep in, but as people get older,

The older I get, the less and less I want to sleep in, and I get up very early every day.

"Have you had breakfast, Mr. Ma? Let's go have breakfast first, and then continue shopping." Tang Zhengqing suggested.

"Let's go, we need to take time to go shopping today, otherwise we won't have time." Mr. Ma said to Tang Zhengqing.

After the two of them had breakfast, they continued shopping in Chinatown. Seeing the ancient Tang shops everywhere, Tang Zhengqing learned a lot from Mr. Ma. During this stroll, they went straight to lunch at three o'clock in the afternoon.

We didn’t eat, we just had lunch when we returned to the Four Seasons Hotel.

"Take a rest, the auction will start at seven o'clock in the evening." Mr. Ma said to Tang Zhengqing.

"Mr. Ma, you should also rest. Please bear with me if there is anything I don't understand." Tang Zhengqing said to Mr. Ma respectfully.

In this day and a half, Tang Zhengqing learned a lot of knowledge from Professor Ma. With his photographic memory, Tang Zhengqing quickly integrated Professor Ma's knowledge. In other words, Tang Zhengqing closely followed Professor Ma.

In just one and a half days, he was able to accomplish what others would have taken three to five years or even longer to accomplish. It can also be said that even if Tang Zhengqing goes to the Gutang Store alone now, he will not be fooled by that kind of fake person at first glance.

Things can be fooled, unless it is a very high-level imitation, you may not recognize it.

At six o'clock in the evening, Tang Zhengqing and Joubert had dinner together. After the meal, Tang Zhengqing came out of the room. When he came out, Tang Zhengqing had already received a message from Mr. Ma. He had already gone downstairs.

He met some colleagues in New York and needed to go there to communicate.

Tang Zhengqing didn't wait and took the elevator directly to the banquet hall.

When he just walked to the banquet hall, Tang Zhengqing saw that the place was crowded with people. Although it was still more than half an hour before the auction started, almost everyone who was supposed to come had arrived. Unless he was a real big shot, he would

It took me more than ten minutes, but after all, there are not many people like this.

After Tang Zhengqing went down, he wandered alone in the banquet hall. Looking at the auction table that had been set up, the rows of chairs and the brands on them, Tang Zhengqing knew that this was the highlight of the evening.

It stands to reason that before the auction, brochures will be distributed to let everyone know that the above items will be available tonight. Tang Zhengqing has never seen this item, but it doesn't matter to him. He won't buy it anyway, and he doesn't know it anyway.

The things inside, I just came here to see the excitement this time.

Tang Zhengqing, who had nothing to do, took out his mobile phone and took several photos of the entire hall, and then posted them on his WeChat Moments, "I went to attend an auction and was lucky enough to meet Mr. Ma." Nine photos in a row,

The last picture is of Mr. Ma.

Although Tang Zhengqing has changed a lot, there are still some things that have never changed. Sometimes, he will record his life. When he looks at these lives when he is old, he will find it very interesting.

"Hello, can I sit here?" Just as Tang Zhengqing was scrolling through Weibo, a burst of rapid English greetings came from beside him.

"Oh, please sit down, please sit down." Tang Zhengqing raised his head and saw a girl, stretched out his hand and said.

"Thank you!" The girl thanked Tang Zhengqing, and then sat quietly next to Tang Zhengqing.

At this time, Tang Zhengqing had no intention of browsing Weibo, because he always felt that the girl around him had a familiar feeling, but he suddenly couldn't remember it.

The girl is very tall. Tang Zhengqing just made a visual inspection. She is almost 1.8 meters tall. She is a giant pony. She has long golden hair and big punk eyes, which covers most of her face, so Tang Zhengqing didn't notice it for a while.

who is she.

But the more Tang Zhengqing looked, the more familiar he felt, "Why are you staring at me secretly?" While Tang Zhengqing was watching carefully, the girl next to him suddenly turned sideways and asked.

The girl's body was almost leaning against Tang Zhengqing's, so Tang Zhengqing could easily ask about a scent on her body, "Well, No. 5."

"I just think you are very familiar. I seem to have seen you somewhere, but I just can't remember." Tang Zhengqing said honestly to the girl next to him.

"Do you like listening to songs? I have sung many songs." The girl whispered to Tang Zhengqing.

At this moment, Tang Zhengqing's mind was like a big explosion in the universe, and he figured out in an instant, could the girl in front of him be the European and American singer that he liked when he was in school?

"Are you Taylor?" Tang Zhengqing asked gently.

"Do you really know who I am?" Swift asked curiously. She always thought how could the Asian in front of her know her, because she had changed a lot now.

"I almost didn't recognize it." Tang Zhengqing nodded, feeling concerned.

The Swifty in front of me is definitely different from the impression Tang Zhengqing had seen ten years ago. She was very thin at that time, but now she has become plump. I don't know if she has grown again or has a boyfriend after not seeing her for ten years.

"Thank you!" Tang Zhengqing thanked Swift. This made Swift very puzzled. Why did he want to thank himself?

"Don, this way?" Just when Lavigne was about to ask why Tang Zhengqing wanted to thank him, Joubert shouted to Tang Zhengqing.

"Sorry, I have to go over there." Tang Zhengqing said apologetically, and then walked directly to the front.

At seven o'clock, the auction officially started. The auctioneer was an old man with a white beard. He was quite old and looked to be at least sixty years old. However, he was not the kind of old man with a white beard who travels around in novels.

"Tang, Mr. Andy is very powerful. He is one of the few white gloves." Tang Zhengqing didn't know what white gloves were. Anyway, according to Joubert's words, he was very powerful.

"Oh, let's take a look at that later." Originally, Tang Zhengqing wanted to do one with Ma Lao, but for some reason he still couldn't do it. Ma Lao was in the front row in front of him.

"Today our auction is a Chinese special event, an auction of modern calligraphy and painting. The starting price is listed in the brochure, and each increase is ten thousand dollars. It starts now." With the auctioneer's order, the auction officially began.

, Tang Zhengqing also looked at the stage.

Although there is already a manual, each auction item is still displayed on the big screen behind the auction table.

Tang Zhengqing saw many familiar names, such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Huang Binhong, Fu Baoshi, Wu Changshuo, Xu Beihong, Li Keran, Wu Guanzhong, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong and so on.

Although Tang Zhengqing didn't know who these people were, he might as well know that their paintings were valuable, because after looking at a dozen auction items, the lowest one had a starting price of 300,000 U.S. dollars, which is nearly

Two million, this is not a small number, and these paintings and calligraphy are not large-scale paintings and calligraphy, they are basically four feet in size.

"What we are auctioning now is Mr. Fu Baoshi's Spring Showers. The starting price is one million US dollars." Even if Tang Zhengqing didn't understand anything, he knew that this was a very famous painter, because this was the first auction of this auction.

A work with a starting price of one million US dollars.

Tang Zhengqing likes Chinese painting, but does not know how to appreciate it. However, looking at it from a distance, he just feels that this painting is very beautiful. To use a very fashionable word, it is harmonious, and does not feel abrupt or awkward.

Tang Zhengqing also likes painting, but he has never done much traditional Chinese painting. Instead, he paints more oil paintings. This is mainly because when he was in high school, Tang Zhengqing had a friend who was an art student and studied art.

I also learned basic knowledge from him for a period of time. Later, when I went to Tianyuan Star and had nothing to do, Tang Zhengqing could also draw. Over time, he became a master.

The auction lasted for more than three hours and ended at 10:30 in the evening, mainly because there were not many auction items, and the main ones were modern Chinese paintings and calligraphy. In the eyes of white Americans, they didn't like it very much, they just thought it was novel.

That’s all, if it were an oil painting by Vincent van da Vinci, it would be more or less the same.

It can be seen that Eastern and Western people have different perceptions of beauty. However, Tang Zhengqing did not have the ability to make people all over the world accept China's three views, unless China became the world's leader.

The highest auction item tonight was a painting by Mr. Zhang Daqian, which was successfully auctioned for 5 million US dollars. Plus 12% commission, it is 6.6 million US dollars. If converted into RMB, it is 40 million US dollars. This price

It's not very high, much less than Mr. Huang Zhou's hundreds of millions of donkeys, but Tang Zhengqing can't do anything about it. Who told this to be an auction in the United States? If it were in China, it would be more than half a billion.

Moreover, people in the United States originally wanted to hack the Chinese people, but the Chinese people have learned to be smart. Since they have been hacked so many times, there have not been so many impulsive auctions, let alone the so-called national sentiments and patriotic sentiments.

Among the more than 100 auctioned cultural relics, a dozen paintings and calligraphy failed to be auctioned, which also caused a very embarrassing matter.

However, this had nothing to do with Tang Zhengqing. Tang Zhengqing sat quietly in the auction hall for more than three hours without raising a single bid.

"Joubert, please wait for me for a moment. I'll go and have a few words with others." Tang Zhengqing said to Smith, and then hurriedly walked towards Mr. Ma.

"Mr. Ma, congratulations." Tang Zhengqing came up with a burst of congratulations.

"What I have to congratulate is that I just snatched back a piece of calligraphy and painting from a foreigner." Mr. Ma sighed and said with great emotion.

This year, the British Museum made a brief history of 100 cultural relics for display in China. Mr. Ma looked around, but he could only feel heartbroken. Such a good national treasure has become someone else's, and his own people can only see it if they want to.

If you go to a foreign country to see it, you may not be able to see it.

"It would be great to be able to harvest two things, so I came to congratulate you." Tang Zhengqing originally wanted to tell Mr. Ma about some of the cultural relics in his hands, but after thinking about it, now is not a good time or a good place.

I gave up my idea, since there will be plenty of opportunities in the future anyway.

"Mr. Ma, I have some things to do over there. I won't be accompanying you for a while. I will go shopping with you tomorrow when I have time." Tang Zhengqing said to Mr. Ma.

"I'm going back tomorrow. I also plan to take a rest. I've been busy these past two days and haven't had any rest at all. I'm sixty years old. How can I have as much energy as a young guy like you?" Ma Lao laughed.

said with a smile.

"What the hell, Mr. Ma, you are full of energy. You don't look old at all. Every time I watch your videos, I feel that you live a very comfortable life." Tang Zhengqing complimented you casually.

"That's all in front of the camera. If I don't pretend to be better, then how can I do it? I'll chat with a few good guys and then go back to rest. If you have something to do, go ahead." Mr. Ma saw him talking to Tang Zhengqing

Joubert, who had been sitting together, came over and said to him.

"Mr. Ma, I also have a lot of things in my hands. When I have time to return to China, I will let you take a look." Tang Zhengqing thought for a while and decided to say something first to give Mr. Ma a mental preparation.

"Okay, come to me when you have time." Mr. Ma said with a smile.

After a day and a half of getting to know each other, Mr. Ma also gave Tang Zhengqing his business card, which contained his personal number.

Seeing that Joubert had come over, Tang Zhengqing said to Mr. Ma, "Mr. Ma, let's meet again later. Goodbye!"
Chapter completed!