Chapter 180: Many Artists
Duan Daqing saw Bai Lu looking at him, and asked with a smile, "Know me?"
Bai Lu hurriedly shook his head: "I don't know, I don't know how to paint, and I'm lonely and unheard, I don't know the names of the great names of the Dao, I'm really sorry." ”
Ma Chengping smiled: "You know money, it's done." "Raise your hand and throw out more than 100 million, this is a super rich person.
Zhao Ping called the waiter, made the decision for Bai Lu and Shasha, ordered two steaks, and casually paired with a salad, and waited for the food to be served, accompanied by the two juniors to eat, they were chatting, chatting about tomorrow's art exhibition.
Bai Lu listened for a while, and knew that Zhao Ping, Long Youhai, and Duan Daqing all participated in this exhibition, and couldn't help but be curious about the exhibition.
After eating the steak quickly, Long Youhai said, "Go to my house and sit down." The others had no opinion, so they checked out and left.
The next thing is to see how big Long Youhai's home is, and several old men continue to talk while drinking. Shiraji can only chat with Sasha.
Long Youhai is very rich, there is a house of more than 200 square meters in Manhattan, the living room alone is 100 square meters, there are several sets of sofas at random, and there are many paintings hanging on the wall, which shows the owner's extraordinary taste.
The guys chatted until ten o'clock, and Zhao Ping borrowed Long Youhai's car to send Bai Lu and Sha Sha home.
On the way, Zhao Ping had nothing to say: "Do you want to learn to paint?" ”
Bai Lu shook his head: "Don't learn." "In fact, Bai Lu is very good at drawing, but he is limited to sketching, and he can quickly draw an image of things, such as painting a crime scene, which can be used to solve crimes.
After saying these two words, I suddenly remembered something. He asked, "Lao Zhao, you promised to paint five pictures for me, when will you give them to me?"
Zhao Ping turned his head to look at him, but before he could speak, Bai Lu shouted: "Look at the road, don't look at me." ”
Zhao Ping said: "Tomorrow's art exhibition, do you know that my painting is more money?"
"More money, if it's like Duan Daqing's style, I don't want it for nothing. ”
Zhao Ping became interested: "Have you seen Duan Daqing's paintings?"
"Change the topic?" Seeing the kind of paintings that I couldn't understand at all, they marked them with high prices, saying that everyone was drunk and you woke up alone. Except for you, your kind, and the people who appreciate your paintings. Are everyone else stupid and ignorant of art?
Zhao Ping smiled: "Don't worry, I don't dare to paint like that, Daqing is the vice president of an art academy in the south, and I am a professor." Far from it. ”
Bai Lu smiled: "Why does it sound sour?"
When talking. The car drove back to Flushing. It's strange that there are so many people strolling around the streets on a big night.
Zhao Ping glanced twice: "It's a Mexican gangster." I don't know who provoked them again, and the whole area is looking for people. ”
"Gangsters are so arrogant?"
Zhao Ping smiled: "This is not arrogant, if you go to the black area, go to the territory of those Jamaicans...... If you don't talk about this, let's just say that these Mexicans, as well as people of Spanish descent, once made a big fuss in Los Angeles, and dozens of gangs were fighting, and it was enjoyable, right?"
As Zhao Ping said, these Mexican gangsters are not too arrogant, at least they did not stop the car on the street, let them go all the way, and go home easily.
The car stopped at the door, looked left and right, there was no figure, Bai Lu quickly got out of the car, helped Shasha into the house, and Zhao Ping helped move the wheelchair.
After sending the two home, Zhao Ping asked at the door, "Are you going to the exhibition tomorrow?"
Bai Lu thought for a while: "Go." ”
He wasn't interested in art, he only cared about things that kept people alive, such as water and food. However, because of the Mexican gangsters, White Road decided to be cautious and stay away as much as possible, while also doing something else.
Zhao Ping said, "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning." "Close the door and leave.
Inside the house, Sha Sha asked, "What about this gun?" The guns of the four gangsters picked up by Bai Lu were not easy to discard at will after the fight, so they could only be stuffed into their bags.
Bai Lu went to the kitchen to boil water and said, "Let's put it in the bag first." ”
Sasha thought for a moment and put the gun in his red bag. There is only a change of clothes, and it doesn't matter if you lose it.
At night, as usual, apply a warm compress and then go to bed.
Early the next morning, Zhao Ping picked them up and took them to Manhattan, where the Pace Art Center is located. At the same time, there is also a sub-gallery in this area, and today's exhibition is held in the sub-gallery.
On the way, Zhao Ping, Long Youhai and others agreed on the time to meet on WeChat, and Bai Lu looked dizzy: "Can't call?"
"We're a group, how do you make a phone call? If there's no urgency, we usually use this thing to get in touch. ”
"You're a good old man. ”
Manhattan during the day is completely different from the night one, it seems to be another world, the traffic is full of shuttles, no one dares to drive fast, and there are always people on the street yelling at the driver.
Bai Lu was curious: "What are they shouting?"
Zhao Ping's answer was not asked: "Guess how much is an hour to park here?"
"How much can an hour cost? Ten dollars and eight dollars is remarkable. ”
"Ten pieces and eight pieces can't even stop for half an hour, do you see the sign in front of you?"
Bai Lu memorized the dictionary for two days, looked at those words carefully, and exclaimed: "Half an hour to 11 Meizi?
Zhao Ping said with a smile: "Here, people who are not particularly rich, no one wants to buy a car, they can't afford to pay the parking fee, and the better parking lot costs dozens of yuan an hour, and those people are soliciting customers for the parking lot." ”
Bai Lu said with a smile: "Isn't Long Youhai particularly rich, he can afford a car, and he has a huge house." ”
Zhao Ping said yes: "He does have money. ”
It didn't take long to arrive at the place, and after parking and walking back, it was still a building, the gallery was on the second floor, and Long Youhai and Duan Daqing stood at the door to greet them.
As the author of the exhibits, of course I have to participate, and the three of them are dressed very similarly, which is completely professional. After greeting the two painters, Bai Lu pushed Shasha into the venue.
On the first day of the exhibition, there were many people standing in the hall, talking together, and there was also a person in a daze, skipping them, and there were some people standing sporadically in the gallery, admiring the paintings, but the number of people was a little small.
Bai Lu pushed Sha Sha in, and the first painting shocked him, okay, I admit that I have little knowledge, compared with this painting, Duan Daqing is just an ordinary person. Duan Daqing's painting has a title, and this painting has no name at all.
A painting more than a meter high, painted all over the canvas with orange-yellow oil paint, and then there is no more.
Bai Lu deliberately looked at it again and again, but did not mark the price.
Duan Daqing walked over and spoke: "You also like abstract paintings?"
It turns out that this thing is an abstract painting, but the question is what kind of image is he drawing? Bai Lu thought for a while and asked, "How much does this painting cost?"
"You want to buy it?"
"If you don't buy it, you're just curious. ”
"Look who drew it. Duan Daqing leaned over and looked at it, and said casually: "About one million." ”
"What did you say?" Bai Lu suspected that his ears were bad.
"About a million dollars. Duan Daqing repeated.
Bai Lu bar, the art industry is really amazing.
Duan Daqing explained to him: "This is the work of Master Mark, Master Mark is one of the leaders of abstraction, and it is normal for a painting to sell for two or three million dollars......
Bai Lu touched the fragile little heart, turned his head to find Zhao Ping, and didn't care who the guy was chatting with, walked over and said a very non-standard sorry to the man, and then told Zhao Ping: "I have to go around." "Push the rustle and go out.
Zhao Ping was a little worried: "You won't get lost again, right?"
"What do you think of me?" Bai Lu muttered dissatisfied, and Shasha slowly walked out of the place where the miracle was created.
Manhattan has many places that do wonders, not only in galleries, but also in one of the world's most famous streets, Wall Street. The short streets are lined with countless well-known institutions that have become a symbol of wealth.
Bai Lu didn't want to come here, he wanted to find a quiet place to make a call, but he didn't expect to just walk down the street, walk and walk to the church, and then wear it forward, so he appeared on Wall Street.
High-rise buildings divide the sky into pieces. Under the illumination of the sun piece by piece, Bai Lu moved forward, looking for a quiet existence.
This guy has no Wall Street in his eyes at all, he just wants to make a phone call, but he doesn't expect that the pile of securities he wants to trade will exist because of this, and it is also valuable because of this.
One of his piles of bonds is from an insurance company, and one stock is 10,000 shares, and he has a total of fifty bonds, and he wants to call the insurance company and ask them to send someone to redeem it himself.
Sha Sha checked the stock price, and the stock of the insurance company was a little more than 37 US dollars, and 500,000 shares was 18.5 million US dollars. It is said that there is not much money, and it is impossible to buy a wind studio in RMB. But there are also a lot, and such a bond of no more or no less is just used to test the waters.
Bai Lu thought very clearly, if he came to the United States all the way, he would not hang himself from a tree in Zhao Ping, and he would try his best to sell all the bonds within seven days.
New York is so good, you can see Chinese everywhere, Bai Lu asked a foreign student to help, check the phone number of the insurance company, and then call, directly say the idea, tell them, I have a large number of your company shares want to sell, if you have the desire to buy, please prepare a translator to interview me, please call this phone number.
These words were very domineering, and the international students were very happy, and after hanging up the phone, they laughed and asked Bai Lu: "Dude, what are you doing?
Bai Lu nodded: "Yes, I specialize in pranks." "Give 20 US dollars to international students.
The international student gave a slight push, then accepted it and said goodbye with a smile.
The things that should be done have been done, and Bai Lu has nothing to do for the time being, so he pays all his body and mind to hang out with Shasha.
I had a lot of fun in Flushing yesterday, but I forgot to take pictures, and today I must not make this kind of low-level mistake, basically I walked one place and took one place to take one photo, and I took more than 100 photos easily.
However, he had a good time, but the insurance company never replied. I don't know what the leaders of Ludao Insurance Company think.
Seeing that noon was approaching, Bai Lu pushed Sha Sha to find a restaurant, and at such times, a full meal was more important than anything else. (To be continued......)