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Along the bluestone road with thin bricks and small tiles on both sides, Ming Dynasty-style courtyards with flying eaves and beams, I traveled hundreds of years ago to have a secret meeting with the famous prostitute Chen Yuanyuan.

There are many shops along the street, most of which are antique shops, jade shops, ivory shops, etc. The bosses are not in a hurry to shout at customers, but instead drink their skills leisurely, play with the utensils in their hands, and intoxicate their appearance.

Dexinzhai is located at the top of the southeast of Baoguang Street. It is obviously an old-fashioned antique shop. It is more than 20 meters away from there, and I saw a large circle of people in front of the door. Needless to say, they are all collectors pointing to a painting to comment on their heads.

When he walked up to him, Mu Yuqiu stood in the crowd and listened for a while before he figured out the whole story:

Someone just praised the imperial painting written by Emperor Zhang Shunzhi to Dexinzhai for the valuation. The boss was not there, and the guy saw that it was a fake and refused to give the price. The seller refused to follow the plan and simply hung the painting at the door for the collection to judge, threatening to smash Dexinzhai's signboard if the guy said it wrong!

The painting is called "Drinking Horses and Loading Shahe River". According to the seller, it was written in the eighth year of Shunzhi. The painting is called Drinking Horses, but no drop of water is painted. However, the fallen leaves floating on the water, the horse legs standing in the water and the horse boy's whip and playing in the water all show a clear river with exquisite ideas and unique creativity, which can be regarded as the finest of Emperor Shunzhi's calligraphy and painting.

This painting is included in the Qing Dynasty's "Yunshizhai Bitan" catalogue. It is a well-documented emperor's works. Its circulation is also orderly. Each generation of collectors has genealogy or letters as evidence. The handover is clear and there is no drag on it. It is the clear source and clear context that collectors value the most.

Compared with the Kangxi and Qianlong, Shunzhi's calligraphy and painting skills were slightly inferior, but due to its short reign, few works circulated in the world, and rare things are precious, it has been favored by collectors since the Republic of China. Many people either wore glasses or held magnifying glasses and took turns to get close to them and carefully observed them.

There is an obviously senior collector who said that the painting is genuine. The reason is firstly because of the texture. Emperor Shunzhi likes to use plain silk ink paintings. Because it is white and dense and mercerized, the material can make the ink look dark and dark with strong contrast. Secondly, the style of painting. Emperor Shunzhi mostly imitates Dong Yuan and Wu Zhen. The ink color is rich and the brushwork is strong. The ink brushwork is dotted and dyed, which is rich in sparse and simple; Thirdly, the seals are clear and the seals are majestic, so they should be genuine.

There was a head in the crowd who immediately fought back and said that everyone understood the principles of the road. If you said it, it would be like not to say it. For example, the seals of Shunzhi paintings are all "Shunzhi Yiwei Imperial Pen", which is the year seal specially created and engraved for calligraphy and painting in the year of Yiwei. The counterfeiter also knows this. Any counterfeit of Shunzhi uses the year seal and cannot be used as the basis for identification!

At present, collectors are divided into two groups and are in a panic.

The guy couldn't listen anymore, and ran out of the store to say why it was a quarrel. The fake place was obvious! He pointed to the branch and leaf on the right side of the picture and said, "Look at the bamboo branch that wanted to draw diagonally downwards. He hesitated when he started writing. When he was halfway through the drawing, he found that the effect was not good, which affected the artistic conception of the right half, so he stopped. Then someone divided the bamboo branch into two branches to make up for the original mistakes. In the similar situation, there were also the lower part of the picture. Look at the two stones and the cluster of grass. If you look closely, you will know that it has been processed. It is obvious that the two people painted it!

Hey, yes, guy said it well!

Collectors are talking about it, and more and more people tend to think of the man, thinking that the paintings are repaired with heavy traces. Undoubtedly, the two of them work together, and it is impossible for the imperial painting written by Emperor Shunzhi!

The seller's mood gradually became colder. He looked left and right and felt something was wrong. He planned to go forward and take off the painting and run away quickly, so as not to continue to embarrass him.

"Wait!" A gentle and honest voice sounded outside the crowd, "Let me see."

"Oh, the house owner is back." The collectors greeted with a smile.

The boss of the house is medium-sized, with a slightly round face, and a faint smile in his eyes. He calmly walked through the crowd and stood in front of the painting for a while, and said with a smile:

"Yes, it was indeed a collaboration between the two, but it is still the original work of Emperor Shunzhi."

There was a burst of surprise in the crowd.

A collector said: "Old House, this sentence is inconsistent, it is even more amateur than an outsider."

The boss of Fang did not think it was offended, and still laughed: "In the seventh year of Shunzhi, the Minister of Revenue, Dai Ming, said that he was from Jiading, Zhejiang. He was good at painting ink and brushes, bamboo and stone, and was also good at landscapes. His painting style was deeply influenced by Dong Qichang. His paintings were full of ink and brushes, and he was a master of calligraphy and painting at that time..."

"The boss of the house has started to tell allusions again." A collector smiled.

"That's right, just collect it for fun," the boss of Fang continued, and then said, "The Emperor Shunzhi admired Dai Ming's works very much, and also received his guidance and guidance. The existing landscape, bamboo and stone paintings of Emperor Shunzhi's imperial edition are some of the more naive and not very good at writing. Some of the brushworks and inks are mixed with very pure brushwork. Most of them are polished by Dai Ming's explanation. Later, some imperial calligraphy and paintings were even written by Dai Ming's explanation and stamped with the 'Shunzhi Yiwei Imperial Brush'..."

"oh--"

The collectors all showed a sudden look.

"So as long as the seal is fully identified and the texture and year are matched, it can be considered the work of Emperor Shunzhi." Boss Fang said with a smile.

Another collector stared at it: "If sold to Dexinzhai, what price would the house owner pay?"

Yes, it’s one thing to talk about, and buying it yourself is another thing to buy it. Collectors all looked at the house owner with concern.

The boss of Fang thought for a moment and raised three fingers: "300,000 yuan, a bargain."

Collectors all think that the price is fair. Although the paintings are not of high quality and have other people's embellishments, they were written by emperors of the early Qing Dynasty. The seal "Shunzhi Yiwei Imperial Pen" alone is worth at least 100,000 yuan.

"What's the basis for this price?" asked the seller.

"Two months ago, Emperor Shunzhi's "Peace of Pavilions" sold at the Bihai Auction Market for 270,000 yuan, which is similar in size to it. Dai Ming also said that it is polished. "Drinking Horses and Falling the Shahe River" is better in the conception, and it is called the River but has no water, so it costs tens of thousands more yuan."

The seller bowed and thanked him, rolled up the painting and left quickly.

After walking around four or five alleys, I came to a small wood. The figure flashed and Mu Yuqiu turned out from behind the tree.

"Mr. Mu..." What did the seller want to say with his painting in his hands?

Mu Yuqiu waved his hand to stop it, and smiled deeply and said, "I heard it all... I'll find a car back by myself, be careful not to be followed."

The seller responded and froze.

After a while, Mu Yuqiu called Fang Sheng's mobile phone and said, "I have tried it. This painting was bought by me for 320,000 yuan. He reported 300,000 yuan. The argument was exactly the same as the auction house. The shopkeepers all identified it as a fake and were recognized by everyone. As the boss, he could have maintained his reputation, or temporarily avoided it, or attached his partner's opinion, but he stood up and told the truth! Mayor Fang, the one with the surname Fang is indeed a gentleman!"

"knew."

Fang Sheng said lightly, looking at the afterglow of the sunset, he couldn't tell anything, but just held his cell phone and didn't move.

Thinking of Zhou Xiaorong, thinking of Xu Li's heart-killing words last night, and even circling the so-called only feasible strategy she proposed, her heart was in a mess.

After a long time, Mu Yuqiu saw that Fang Sheng had not hung up yet, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and hang up first.
Chapter completed!