Alpine pasture

Chapter 451

The silent auction was going on all the time. Many parents and their children sat on the seats and had a little something to eat. The next thing is the bidding auction.

During the meal, Dinah had already returned to the dining table, followed Ju An's family of three to eat some steak and salad and waited for the start of the bidding auction.

At this time, a young male teacher walked to the empty space beside the table, picked up the microphone and said to the parents around the table: "Parents, welcome to our school's annual auction dinner, although The U.S. economy is not doing very well this year, but it has nothing to do with us in Flos County, you know? Guys! This year, our town statistics show that our overall income has increased by another [-]%. What does this prove? I always thought He is a good president, unfortunately I was wrong! In fact, our Mr. Mayor can go to the White House!".

There was a burst of laughter from below, and the applause immediately rang out. Anyway, as long as there are many people, there will always be a few major dignitaries in Austria and the United States who were shot while lying down. Ju An has also gotten used to it over the years, and politicians joke casually Open, no one will accuse you of anything, because they are public figures.

Moreover, the per capita living standard in the town has indeed improved a lot in the past few years, mainly due to the development of the tourism industry. Originally, the population of the county was only a little over 1 people, and the number of tourists from China every year is many times more than this number. Now, many small handicraft shops in the town have also come to life. In addition, several tourist ranches in Taylor have recruited dozens of people, and these dozens of people in China are not conspicuous. For the old and young, it is only 1 It is a small county with tens of thousands of people, and most of them are originally ranchers and farmers, and there is no such thing as unemployment. These people are not unemployed but bankrupt.In this way, the employment rate has been raised by several percentage points at once, and the per capita income has naturally increased. Now the roads in the town are bilingual in Chinese and English.

The host then said: "The first auction below is a dinner for a family of six provided by our chef."After speaking, the host stretched out his hand towards a table, a man stood up from the chair, smiled and nodded to everyone.

The host went on to say: "The starting price is two hundred dollars."As soon as the words were finished, one person raised his hand, and the host said with a smile: "Someone has bid, is there any more?"Someone raised their hand after saying it, and the host made jokes from time to time, and the last dinner was auctioned for more than 400 US dollars.

Ju An wasn't very interested in the next few things, but the host's right to use the country house in Paris for a week.Ju An raised his hand twice, but finally gave up. He got better, and there was no loss if he didn’t get it. In the end, the two companies competed. The family came and went at intervals, and it took three days for the family to finish bidding. Finally, the owner of the villa stood up and generously gave each family a week, which immediately won a round of warm applause.

The next project is to be paid by each parent. The children’s handicrafts or paintings, of course, not every child has them. The ones that can be auctioned are some very beautiful works. Basically All are made under the guidance of the art teacher.

Of course, the parents should support their child's work when it is auctioned. The host said that the parents paid $[-] for the first child's work.

The next few children's works were sold for hundreds of dollars, the highest being more than 760 dollars.

When the teacher waiting for the auction held up Nini's work, Ju An felt that he would buy it no matter how much it cost. In the picture, there is a light blue sky and green grass, and a little girl is sitting on a stool. With a smile on his mouth, he stretched out his hands towards one side of the picture. On the other side, there are two bigger people, one with long hair holding a baby elephant in his hand, and the other with short hair holding a giraffe in his hand, standing at the side of the picture The side seems to be running towards the little girl, the three faces are full of happy smiles, and there are birds singing on the branches.

Ju An's eyes became sour when he saw this painting. The little plush seemed to be the first thing Dinah gave Nini. The giraffe was the first gift Ju An gave. The two saw Nini for the first time. At that time, the girl was sitting on the small stool, but at that time she refused to say a word, and she didn't talk much to anyone.Now the little girl on the picture is grinning happily. Although the painting is not very similar, none of Dinah and Juannini are like each other. Most of the faces, the eyes of the three people are almost one big and one small, and there is no aesthetic feeling, but Ju An feels beautiful when he looks at it, the colors are beautiful, the picture is beautiful, even the crooked trees in the background of the painting think it is beautiful.

While looking at the painting, she saw someone pulling her. Ju An turned her head and saw that Dinah had hugged the smiling Nini into her arms, with tears clearly shining in her eyes.

Ju An looked at his wife and nodded slightly to Dinah: "Understood!".Now even if Ju An is asked to exchange the man and beast in the auction house for this painting of Nini, Ju An will not hesitate. The meaning of that painting to Ju An is money, and this painting means money to Ju An. The meaning is a daughter, without any comparison.

The host just said: "The reserve price of this painting is one hundred dollars."

Ju An raised his hand: "Eight hundred dollars!".

The host talked about it this time, and then asked if there were any bids around. Of course, there was no one. Who would spend [-] dollars to buy other people's children's paintings? Isn't it a pain in the ass, probably the teacher knows this too What did the girl draw, the host asked twice and then said to Ju An: "An won the bidding for this painting".After speaking, she gestured to the young female teacher who was holding the painting next to her, and the female teacher handed the painting to Ju An, and there was a burst of warm applause from all around.

Why does Ju’an pay [-] but not higher? It’s okay for others to pay up to [-]. It’s nothing if you pay tens of dollars. If it’s twice as high, it’s slapping others in the face. The whole thing is a group attack, Ju An's IQ is not so low yet.

After receiving the painting from the teacher, Ju An took a closer look. The whole painting is about A1 size, using oil paint, and the whole painting has ups and downs, and you can see the girl's face directly. The brush strokes were completed, and she turned her head to look at Dinah with tears in her eyes and said jokingly, "I think our daughter can be an abstract painter when she grows up. The contrast of warm and cold colors is simply amazing!".

Dinah laughed out loud when she heard this, looked at Ju An and said, "Hang up when I get home!".

Ju An nodded: "Yes! Hang it up and put it in my study. I just talked to Nini about it."

"Let's hang it in our bedroom, I also want to see this painting often." Dinah said to Ju An with her arms around Nini.

Ju An smiled after listening to Dinah's words: "Well! Then hang it in our bedroom and put it together with our wedding photos."

Afterwards, Ju An didn't have any thoughts, just waited for the auction to end. At the end, the teachers made a total calculation, and the other two voted by Ju An failed to win the bid. Only the ball ticket and the painting Ju An got in the end. A check was drawn at the edge of a table, and Juan returned home with Dinah and Nini, and the night's spoils.

As soon as the car stopped, Nini ran down, and then ran towards the house and said loudly while running: "I want to tell grandpa quickly, before the time when grandpa has something to do, no one will take me to the football game." !”.

"Run slowly, once you tell grandpa, grandpa will be fine if he has something to do." Dinah got out of the car and said loudly to Nini who was running.

Ju An took Nini's painting off the back seat, and now there is a white paper on top of the painting as a cover, in case the painting is damaged in the car, seeing Nini trotting all the way, Ju An said to Dinah: " Doesn't the girl have a mobile phone, why is she running so fast?"

"Nini is wearing a little dragonfly costume, where can I put down my phone!" Dinah glanced at Ju An, and then Ju An remembered, scratched her head and smiled, and put her arms around Dinah's waist towards the room. walk in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Nini was holding the phone next to the sofa, chatting into the phone, Xiao Chi stood beside her and said anxiously to Nini: "Sister! Let me talk to grandpa. Two sentences!".After speaking, he grabbed Nini's arm and shouted loudly: "Grandpa! Grandpa!".

When Nini gave the microphone to Xiaochi, Xiaowazi didn't know what to say to grandpa, but only called Grandpa!After calling twice in a row, he seemed to remember something and said into the microphone: "Grandpa! The weather is so nice today."When the weather is so nice, foreigners generally have nothing to say.

Hearing that, Dinah and Ju An immediately laughed. Ju An bent over laughing, and then translated Xiao Chi's words to his father and mother, and the two old people also laughed.

Seeing Xiao Chi chatting with Marcos on the phone, Ju An put the painting on the coffee table and said to Nini: "Did Grandpa agree?".

"Hmm! Mmm!" The little chicken ordered by the girl seemed to be pecking rice: "Grandpa agreed, and I will go to the football game in two days, and grandpa also agreed to take me to go skiing."

Ju An nodded after hearing this, and the father and mother picked up the painting. The two old people looked at the painting and praised Nini for its good painting, which made the girl grin and smile triumphantly.

Dad and Mom didn't see Nini's appearance at that time, and they didn't know the meaning of this painting, so they were not as emotional as Dinah and Ju An. Anyway, their own baby is good in everything, which is the principle of the two old people.

Ju An, Dinah, and Nini and Nini were not full yet. Ju An and Dinah went to the house and heated up the rice and vegetables left by their mother. The rice was cold, so Ju An simply fried it After a few bites, the family of three is full.

At night, Dinah asked Ju An to find nails, and hung Nini's painting on the bed in the bedroom of the two of them. When it was finished, Ju An stood with Dinah in his arms and looked at it for a long time, immersed in the memories. among.Until the cry of the devil woke them up.

(End of this chapter)