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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 84

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:58:19 PM


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The old uncle looked on the bookshelf for a while, then took out a very heavy book from it, held it and came over.

Yang Jin recognized this book. It took grandpa a long time to make a set of books by himself. Yes, I didn't buy this book. My grandfather made it little by little.

There are five volumes of this set of books, all of which are about paper. Yang Jing didn't read less when she was a child, but there were only three volumes of this set of books at that time. The last two volumes were made in the two years before grandpa's illness.

Fortunately, Yang Jing often read these books when he was a child, otherwise he could not see the five pages of Song Shu carvings in huajianji today.

These five books are all an introduction and analysis of the paper that appeared in ancient China. In addition to photos and some paper samples, the contents of the book are the characteristics and subtle differences of these papers summarized by grandpa himself.

According to Grandpa himself, the reason why it took more than 20 years to produce these five books is that Grandpa drilled holes and took medicine to buy a fake painting when he went to Diling ghost city, the earliest place in Tianqu one day in the 1980s.

Yang Jing has seen that picture, and it has been hanging in this room.

Yang Jing involuntarily looked up at the picture that had been hanging next to the bookshelf.

The painting is an ink painting. Two birds stand on two crossed branches. One bird is looking up at something, and the other bird is looking down and arranging its feathers with its beak.

Although the picture is very simple, Yang Jing knows that the picture is not simple. If the painting is genuine, it will be of great value.

This painting is the painting of Zhu Da, a man from Badashan in history. The average auction price of Zhu Da's paintings at the auction has exceeded 4 million National dollars!

Unfortunately, although the picture looks lifelike, it is a fake.

This painting, called the painting of dead wood and birds, was once collected by Feng Kanghou, a famous calligrapher and painter and collector, and then by Wang Jiqian, a famous calligrapher and painter and collector. It has never been among the people.

On the authentic work of the painting of dead trees and birds, there is Mr. Feng Kanghou's old title: "the picture of the eight mountain people killing the pigeon and coming to tongs". They mistook the two birds for starlings and the dead trees for tongs. They can't see the name of the eight self titles, and the previous knowledge is limited.

It means that when he collected this picture, he mistook two birds in the picture as a starling, mistaking the two dead branches as Wutong trees, and thus gave the brother a name.

Later, after the painting was collected by Mr. Wang Jiqian, Mr. Wang made a title tag and side postscript for the painting, and printed a seal for collection on the painting.

Grandpa bought this fake in 1986. According to Grandpa, at that time, he met an old man with a southern accent in the ghost city of Diling, the earliest ghost city in Tianqu. The old man was in his 60s and dressed very decently. With that mouth of Hong Kong Island Mandarin, he knew that the old man should be a compatriot on Hong Kong Island.

At that time, Grandpa was very curious and asked the old man what he was doing in this ghost city? The old man said he was from Hong Kong Island and was going to work in Beijing, but because of his greedy mouth, the grilled chicken who was attracted to Tianqu stayed in Tianqu for two days. He heard that there was a ghost market here, so he came to the ghost market early in the morning.

My grandfather in 1986 was also 50 years old. There was little difference in their ages, and then they chatted. As a result, during the chat, the old man inadvertently said that he had a Zhu Da's painting of dead trees and birds in his hand, which was left over after the death of the old man at home. In addition to doing business in Beijing, he wanted to sell the painting.

When Grandpa heard the news, he became interested and talked again. Then he learned that the old man was the eldest son of Feng Kanghou, a famous calligraphy, painting and seal cutting artist on Hong Kong Island who died in 1983. The painting of dead wood and birds was a painting left to his son after Mr. Feng Kanghou died.

The old man liked calligraphy and painting very much, so he begged the old man to see the painting.

In the 1980s, China had just experienced turmoil, and many precious ancient books and paintings were burned in that turbulent era. Now the old man has the opportunity to see Zhu Da's paintings, he can't help it.

Originally, the old man disagreed. As a result, Grandpa begged others, and the old man reluctantly agreed. Finally, grandpa didn't even go to work that day, so he followed the old man to the Tianqu municipal Party Committee Guest House.

In fact, Grandpa was a little suspicious of the old man's identity at the beginning. After all, grandpa often visited the ghost market of 49 cities with his elders when he was a child. He knew something fishy. As a result, as soon as they saw that they lived here, their doubts immediately went to nine points.

That year, the people who could live in the municipal Party Committee Guest House were not ordinary people. Let alone ordinary people, they couldn't even enter the gate. There were armed police soldiers standing guard at the gate. The old man can live here, at least there is no problem with his identity.

In the hotel room, Grandpa saw the picture of dead wood and birds.

Because he didn't doubt the identity of the old man, and the painting was really impeccable, Grandpa saw it several times and didn't find anything wrong. He fell in love with the painting and proposed to buy it.

But the price of this painting was very expensive even in the 1980s. The old man said Grandpa couldn't afford it, and grandpa didn't have so much money at that time. After all, even in that era, the painting had to be at least HK $1 million. Grandpa was an ordinary worker. How could he afford it?

As a result, Grandpa was excited by the old man and immediately took off a Hotan jade card left by his grandfather.

According to my grandfather later, the jade plate was a serious Hotan jade. Although it could not reach the level of seed jade, it was also a serious mountain and flowing water material. And the most important thing is that the jade plate is the heirloom of his Lao Li family. It has been handed down from his grandfather's generation. It has been used for hundreds of years.

This kind of jade plate is very valuable. It may not be worth a million Hong Kong dollars, but it is estimated that it is not much worse.

At that time, Hotan jade was also more valuable, but what was more valuable was the jade ware, especially the jade ware from wenpan.

If grandpa didn't really like the picture, he wouldn't take out this heirloom.

The jade plate really moved the old man's heart, so Grandpa finally traded the jade plate for the painting.

If this painting is the genuine work of Zhu Da, it is fair and appropriate to exchange it, but the problem is that this painting is a fake.

Wai Gongxing happily took the painting home and enjoyed it for several days. One day, he suddenly felt as if something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. So Grandpa asked an old friend to help look at the picture. As a result, Grandpa's old friend said something was wrong after looking at the picture.

Finally, Grandpa found the old curator of Tianqu museum to help him. The old curator was also a big winner in the circle. After checking for a long time, he decided that the painting was a fake.

The painting itself is very good. There are no defects at all. The old curator saw the problem on the drawing paper.

PS: bow and thank you for the reward of "chilled octave" 500.





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