Three days later, at the 15th summer auction of Jinbo Auction House, Zhao Ran officially launched a special sale of calligraphy and painting works.

In this special exhibition of calligraphy and painting, he did not have enough time to plan, and if it was compared with later generations, the quality would obviously be much worse. But in this world, this innovative way of selling paintings and calligraphy is enough to attract countless art lovers.

The second half of the auction of Jinbo Auction House is a special session of calligraphy and painting, bringing together 16 works from the Ming Dynasty, the Xia Kingdom, the Tibetan Kingdom and some small countries in the Western Regions.

At Zhao Ran's insistence, the lord of Rou'an shyly took out two paintings to participate in the auction. Her identity is there-the niece of the Empress Dowager Liang, and she is indeed a skilled painter, so the transaction price is actually comparable to the two famous Western Xia masters in the same auction, with two hundred and thirty taels and three hundred and ten taels respectively, ranking among the famous painters of the Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop.

In the whole auction, the most eye-catching is an authentic painting of the Ming calligrapher "Mountain Guest" who has risen in recent years. The work is a banner, five feet long and two feet wide, and it is written in the line of "Peach Blossom Fairy Poem", which is said to have been made by a drunken mountain guest.

"Peach Blossom Nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, Peach Blossom Nunnery under Peach Blossom Nunnery, Peach Blossom Fairy people plant peach trees, and pick peach blossoms to sell wine money......"

The poems are straightforward and simple, and even use a lot of colloquial language, but the words are smooth and the artistic conception is fresh, and the implied meaning of the alienation and dispersion really has a bit of the true meaning of the drunkenness of the immortals.

Therefore, as soon as the book was launched, the bidding price reached a new high, starting from 200 taels, and was scrambling to bid for the rich and powerful from all walks of life, soaring all the way to 1,800 taels, before finally being won by the lord of Jo'an.

With a conscience, Zhao Ran really did not arrange for the gunman to ask for the price this time, so Liang Xingxia felt very surprised, saying that he could not understand and did not understand the business experience of the owner.

In fact, the reason is very simple, Zhao Ran has self-esteem and wants face, he really wants to see what price his calligraphy works can be sold for, so he can't do the shameful thing of finding many people to raise the price of his works in later generations.

To Zhao Ran's relief, this transaction price was not deliberately raised by the lord of Rou'an, but reached through fierce bidding - after shouting a thousand taels, there were still five bidders raising their cards as proof.

Xia Guo's culture and education are far weaker than those of the Ming Dynasty, and the number and wealth of art seekers and lovers are far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, so after the market of this auction is fed back to the Ming Dynasty, there should be a rise, and it is estimated that it can reach more than 2,500 taels.

Such a price has actually pushed Zhao Ran to the top position of calligraphy and painting art, which is equivalent to the holy hand of the national teacher.

After the auction, the lord of Rou'an held an exhibition of calligraphy works in the mountains at the Jinbo Clubhouse, which once again pushed Zhao Ran's calligraphy fame to a new peak.

There was an invitation from the county lord of Rou'an, and Gao Da Yanai personally ran errands, and such a host lineup made it impossible for the vast majority of invitees to refuse. Therefore, at the exhibition, hundreds of the top magnates and tycoons of Xingqing Mansion, literati and artists, and famous teachers of calligraphy and painting participated in the grand event.

What caught Zhao Ran off guard was that there were two monks who had entered the Arhat realm in Gaotai Temple and Jietan Temple who came to watch the exhibition, these two are well-known "elegant monks" who like calligraphy and painting, and they are well-known in the Xia Kingdom calligraphy and painting circle, and they also have a lot of contacts with the lord of Rou'an.

After Zhao Ran found out, he hurriedly found an excuse and avoided it far away. He really didn't dare to show his face, the "Cheng'an" mask he was wearing on his face, and as long as he cultivated in the bhikshu realm, as long as he used his mana, he would immediately have to show his stuffing.

At the exhibition, a wealthy businessman in Yinzhou wanted to buy these nine calligraphy works in a package and invest 10,000 taels, but was resolutely rejected by the lord of Rou'an. According to the lord of Rou'an, the wealthy businessman had "bad intentions" and obviously wanted to sell it to Daming to make a fortune.

This offer is very amazing, Zhao Ran is so hung that he almost wants to pull this wealthy businessman over in private to discuss: Big brother, 10,000 silver, don't say nine pieces of calligraphy, give you eighteen pieces, do you think it's okay?

Of course, this is just crooked, in fact, Zhao Ran didn't dare to sell it like this, scarce is expensive, if he really didn't care about taking out eighteen works to sell in one go, the price would immediately plummet, and the gains outweighed the losses.

On the night after the personal calligraphy exhibition of the mountain guest, Zhao Ran slipped back from the suburbs quietly, but as soon as he entered the club, he was blocked by Liang Xingxia.

"Cheng Dongjia, I'll be waiting for you here for a day. ”

"Yo, Third Brother Liang, is there anything urgent?"

Liang Xingxia rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "This matter shouldn't have been to trouble the owner, but I really don't have a trick." Do you remember that last month, when we were discussing together, a monk who practiced came to me?"

Zhao Ran thought for a while and said, "Remember, what's the matter? He embarrassed you? Third Brother Liang rest assured, even if it is a cultivator, we are not afraid, and now Jinbo Club is not someone who can come to blackmail." ”

Liang Xingxia said: "This monk can't talk about blackmail, he is here to ask for ideas." When the wave of snow lotus was hyped, this monk took out the money from the temple to fry snow lotus......

When Zhao Ran heard this, he couldn't help but be happy: "This monk, if you don't eat well and recite Buddha, you have to follow the learning to speculate, this is called a deserved, and this is the kind of person who is cured! Leave him alone!"

Liang Xingxia said with a bitter face: "This monk is not here to ask for money, he is here to ask me for ideas, saying that he must let me think of an idea to help them pass this year's famine in the temple, otherwise everyone in the temple will starve to death." ”

Zhao Ran sneered: "Isn't this different? Third Brother Liang, don't worry about it, I still don't believe it, I can really starve to death if I practice Buddhist temples?"

Liang Xingxia said: "This monk said that if there is no way, he will hang himself on the city gate building." ”

What annoys Zhao Ran the most is this kind of "trouble" that threatens his own life and death, but he also knows that this kind of trouble is also the most powerful. In the final analysis, in this wave of Snow Lotus hype, even if the Jinbo Group is not the initiator, it is definitely one of the masterminds behind the scenes, and it plays the ruthless role of the terminator cutting leeks. It's absolutely impossible to clean your hands underneath.

Once this thing makes a big fuss, for example, if this monk really fights to the death and dies on the city gate tower, this is really disturbing. What was it that forced a monk who had entered the threshold of cultivation to hang himself? What role did the Jinbo Club play in this matter? Will the monks of other spiritual temples have any ideas? Will Tenryu-in Temple come out on top?

frowned, and said to Liang Xingxia: "Which temple is this monk from? Let them come to the temple to lead people, and tell them, if you don't take this monk away, let's go to Tianlong Academy to judge!"

Liang Xingxia sighed: "Chengdongjia, I have kept a mind these days, and I have found someone to inquire around, this monk is from Tianmatai Temple at the southern foot of Helan Mountain." This Tianmatai Temple is indeed poor, and it is not a little poor......"

At the moment, I told Zhao Ran in detail about the situation of Tianmatai Temple.

Zhao Ranqi said: "If the world is really big, there are no wonders? How can you be so poor? You just said that their abbot is a high monk in the Arhat Realm, how did this mix? Just sell some elixir casually, it won't be so miserable." ”

Liang Xingxia said: "It's so miserable, this time they hyped the silver of Snow Lotus, which was the money from selling elixirs, refining those elixirs, and putting the last bit of foundation in their temple." ”

Zhao Ran was angry and funny, but he felt unbelievable.

I only heard Liang Xingxia say: "I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I really want to force a temple with cultivation in a hurry, and it's really hard to clean up the tail of the hands in the back." Cheng Dongjia, you see, if we give up some silver, isn't it just a thousand taels? ”

Zhao Ran shook his head: "Doing good deeds is not like this, the so-called Shengmien, Doumiqiu, directly give him silver, it seems simple and easy, but there are endless troubles." When the time comes, our club will be regarded as a big household, and there will be more than 200 people in the entire Tianmatai Temple, how can you raise it?"

These words were very insightful, and Liang Xingxia couldn't help but be unconvinced, he sighed secretly, and his heart was based on this sentence, if someone becomes an owner, he should be an owner, and he should be a shopkeeper.

Liang Xingxia followed Zhao Ran's ass three times, and suddenly heard Zhao Ran say: "Third Brother Liang, you go and find that monk, and I'll ask a few words." ”

"Hey. Liang Xingxia hurriedly went out, while Zhao Ran returned to the study, pinching his temples and thinking.

This year is the first year of the small country's change to Yuan Zhenguan, in order to highlight the "prosperous national situation" of Great Xia, in order to show the "prosperity and peace" of Xingqing Mansion, the edict specially announced that Xingqing Mansion will not curfew in the first year of Zhenguan, so it didn't take long for Liang Xingxia to lead the monk to Zhao Ran.

Aslan respectfully saluted, sat on half of his ass diagonally, and only moved the other half of his ass in Zhao Ran's pleasant face.

As soon as he saw the other party's sitting posture, Zhao Ran roughly understood the other party's situation, which was really not good. How many setbacks and blows does it take for a dignified cultivator, a monk who has entered the realm of a monk, to show this inferiority complex in front of a businessman?

"This master ......"

"The little monk should not be called that. ”

"Whatever you say, I heard that the master has entered the cultivation, and it is completely deserving to be called a master. Has the master eaten?"

Aslan shook his head, and nodded hurriedly: "I've used it, I've used it." ”

Zhao Ran pointed to the small few beside Aslan: "Then ask the master to taste the small pastries made by my Jinbo Club." He had seen the monk enter the door early in the morning, and his eyes had been on the plate of dim sum that was being treated.

Aslan let out a "hey" and carefully picked up a piece of shortbread and stuffed it into his mouth, then another one...... Continue with a piece of ...... The pastries on the plate were quickly devoured.

Liang Xingxia served another plate, and Aslan continued to eat......

Zhao Ran waited until Liang Xingxia had eaten almost before he said, "I invited the master here today to learn about the situation of Tianmatai Temple." I've always wondered why your monastery has a great monk, but it's so downcast? Don't other monasteries take care of it? Don't Tianlong Monastery care? Why did you build a temple in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the first place?"