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Chapter 83 Identification of calligraphy and painting

Situ Ce still returned to the yamen in a sedan chair, but He Lanbing still did not come back. Situ Ce took his survey box and returned to the Dongchang Yamen in a sedan chair.

Diao Peng's movements were a little faster than him, and he was already waiting at the door. He immediately took Situ Ce to his study room. A large wooden box was placed in the corner with a lock. Diao Peng took out the key and opened it. It was full of scrolls. Diao Peng said, "That's all." He pointed to another box of things and said, "These are all borrowed from where I borrowed the scoundrels in the city. They all had notes, indicating the source of the books, from the pre-Qin period to the current dynasty. What do you think?"

Situ Ce said: "It's great, but I have to ask the adults to avoid it, because when I do it, there must be no one else present, otherwise it will not work."

Diao Peng had no idea about Situ Ce's rules from his eyeliner, so he quickly agreed and retreated.

Situ Ce took out a scroll of scrolls of calligraphy and paintings and expanded them to see them, but from the calligraphy and paintings themselves, they were all calligraphy and paintings of landscapes, fish and insects or various fonts. Judging from the allocation and signature, many of them were calligraphy and paintings of famous figures in history, such as Wang Xizhi, Ouyang Xun, Chu Suiliang, Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Zhao Mengfu, etc., and even calligraphy and paintings of Tang Bohu, a romantic talent in the Ming Dynasty!

Situ Ce was funny. If the calligraphy and paintings of these celebrities were hidden in an inconspicuous tomb, then the calligraphy and paintings of these people would be too valuable. It seems that these things are probably fakes imitated by later generations.

He didn't understand these things at first, but after reading these celebrity inscriptions and seals, he found it even more funny. He didn't want to spend too much energy on his work for Dongchang. His disgust of Dongchang did not change anything because of Diao Peng's apology, apologies and compensation, so he decided to just check the matter.

He started the inspection from the first scroll. He did not understand cultural relics identification, and all he could do was to identify the different reactions of these brushes, ink and paper under microscope and ultraviolet light to identify whether they belong to the same era.

Because he was in large quantities and he was not in the mood to do things for the Dongchang, so he was too lazy to carefully identify them one by one. He first used an ultraviolet lamp to illuminate the ancient books borrowed by Diao Peng, and recorded the different fluorescences of the pen and ink and paper. Then, he used an ultraviolet lamp to illuminate the calligraphy and paintings of the scrolls one by one, and classified the scrolls according to the same reflected fluorescence.

After a brief analysis of this, I found that most of the calligraphy and paintings in this box were from the Ming Dynasty. Only a small number were from the Yuan Dynasty, while there were four pairs in the Song Dynasty and only one pair in the Tang Dynasty. The so-called Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasty did not.

This result was not beyond Situ Ce's expectations, and it also confirmed that the speculation that the calligraphy and paintings he had expected were all fakes.

However, after all, there are five paintings like this that are from the Tang and Song dynasties, so it is better to have a good idea to identify them. Situ Ce decided to focus on the identification of these five copies.

The method he used was the microscope observation method. There are two aspects to the observation method. One is to observe the structure of the paper, whether it is the same as the Tang and Song dynasties, and the papers of each dynasty are obviously different; the other is to observe whether the brush and ink are smooth and whether there are any traces of the brush strokes. If so, it is generally certain that it is a fake copy by others.

After some observation, he found that the one from the Tang Dynasty was fake, while two of the four pairs from the Song Dynasty were fake, and the other two were fake, from paper and ink marks, there was no sign of fake.

Although he used a relatively brief identification method, it took more than an hour to identify more than 100 copies of calligraphy and paintings in this box.

After identification, Situ Cerang Diao Peng, who had been waiting in the yard, came in.

Diao Peng's face was full of reverence. He had been waiting in the yard just now. When he saw purple silver lights flashing from time to time, his face changed in horror. He didn't know that it was the light emitted by Situ Ce's purple light, and he thought that Situ Ce was performing Taoism.

So when I entered the house, Diao Peng nodded and bowed, and was more awe-inspiring than before. Situ Ce picked up the two scrolls of the Song Dynasty and said, "Here, these two are genuine works of the Song Dynasty. The rest are all fakes. - But, I would like to make a statement that I don't know how to identify calligraphy and paintings. This is purely the result of my use of magic to explore paper and ink. It may also be the original works of the painter and calligrapher himself. At the same time, it may also be the calligraphy and paintings of famous artists in that dynasty, so I can't do it accurately. If you are wrong, don't blame me."

Diao Peng smiled all over his face, took the two scrolls carefully, opened them and nodded frequently: "Well, it's really good, it must be my original work! Thank you! Thank you Mr. Situ!"

Situ Ce said: "If there is nothing else, then I will say goodbye."

"Okay," Diao Peng lowered his voice and leaned into Situ Ce's ear and said, "These two brothers immediately find the buyer to get it out. If you get money, let's get three sevens! I'm sevens and you three!" Speaking of this, Diao Peng felt that this was a bit inappropriate, so he quickly changed his words and said, "Ah no, June 4 is good, I'm six and you four, - Hehe, I have many brothers under my command to manage. In fact, I can occupy at most 34% of the 60% of the money, and I have to share the rest with my brothers. Everyone should spend it together if they have money, so we are actually half-divided. Hehehe."

Situ Ce originally wanted to say he didn't want it, but when he said that when he was right, he thought about it, why don't you want it? If you don't want it, the people won't get a penny more, but they took it away for the Dongchang. If you should get the ill-gotten wealth!

Thinking of this, Situ Cegong bowed and said, "Okay, then I'll say goodbye."

Diao Peng kept sending Situ Ce into the sedan chair before waved goodbye.

Situ Ce returned to the yamen in a sedan chair, and the sun was already westward.

Helanbing still didn't return to the yamen. Helanbing hadn't come all day long, which made Situ Ce somewhat worried. Linglong saw it and told Situ Ce that Helanbing had someone send a message to the county magistrate to ask for leave, saying that he was unwell and was resting at home. He would not come to the yamen today.

Situ Ce felt a little relieved, but he began to worry about Helanbing's health. He was in good health when he left in the morning. Could it be that he suddenly suffered from any disease?

Situ Ce continued to look at his file.

After a while, Linglong came again and whispered: "Sir, Master Long from the Jinyiwei is here again, waiting at the back door of the backyard, saying that there is something important to come to you! Is there a chance to see you or not? If you don't see me, I will say you are out."

In the past, Linglong would never have said the next two sentences. She also saw that Helanbing and Situ Ce had a little quarrel in the morning. She also knew that it was because Situ Ce helped Jinyiwei. Now Jinyiwei came to ask for help again. If Situ Ce went there again, would he add a layer of frost and snow to the already stiff relationship between him and Helanbing?

Situ Ce also thought of this, but it was only a moment. He immediately made a decision and said, "I'll go!"

Situ Ce walked towards the back door, Linglong followed, Situ Ce seemed to be talking to Linglong, and also seemed to be talking to himself: "Entertainment Uniform Guard, Dongchang is different from the murder case in their hands. I helped solve the case and uphold justice for the deceased, not with Jinyiwei, Dongchang. Although the Jinyiwei got the advantage in the end, it seemed to be helping them, as long as you uphold justice for the victims, you are doing the right thing, right?"

Linglong was stunned for a moment, and saw that there was no one else on the side. Thinking that she was talking to herself, she hurriedly said, "That's right, nails are nails, rivets are rivets, one code is one code, you are a master of Zheng, you can't watch the murder case not be solved. I think you did the right thing!"

Situ Ce turned his head and looked at her. Seeing her black black eyes bright, he felt the sincerity of her words. He couldn't help but feel a little moved and said, "Linglong said it is right, that's right!"

Linglong was a little shy and said, "I don't understand anything. I'm talking nonsense. Don't joke if you don't know anything."

"It's pretty good! That's what it will be from now on!"

Situ Ce quickly walked to the back door. Sure enough, Long Xiang was still standing there in white clothes, with his hands behind his back, and kept turning around like an ant on the hot pan. His eyes were red, and it was obvious that he had not had a good sleep for several nights. When he saw Situ Ce, he hurried over, bowed and said, "Brother Liuchuan! What happened to that thing last night...?"

When it comes to identifying such high-tech things with ultraviolet fuzzy seals, Situ Ce didn't know how to say this for a moment, so he vaguely said: "It's not done yet. Is there anything wrong?"
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