Chapter 30 Beauty Grace
Wu Haogu cannot find the original work of "The Eighty-Seven Immortals" because he has no idea where the thing is, and it is not necessarily lost by his ancestors, so he can only make a fake one to fool people.
However, Wu Haogu did not have a high-quality copy of "The Eighty-Seven Immortals" in his hand. How did he create a volume of Wu Daozi's masterpiece to be missed?
It is impossible to do something like "The Drunken Arhat Picture". "The Drunken Arhat Picture" is an imitation of ancient times and is actually a kind of creation. However, "The Eighty-Seven Immortals Picture" can only be copied, because the copy of this picture (Wu Zong Yuan Edition) is still hidden in Wanshou Temple. There are many people who have seen it. How can Wu Hao draw a different ancient painting of ancient people?
But Wu Haogu is not qualified to read paintings.
I can’t even see it. How can Wu Haogu paint?
Fortunately, he knew that there must be a copy of "The Eighty-Seven Immortals" in the whole world, that is Mi Fu and Mi Xiangyang's home.
Because whenever you have a good painting to the Mi family, you must have copied it and copied it again and again.
Of course, Mi Youren knew that Wu Haogu was having a good idea, but he didn't point it out, just nodded and said, "If my father really saw that the "Eighty-Seven Immortals" in Wanshou Temple was not true, then my family should have a copy, but I have never seen it before... I'm afraid that my father took it to Lianshui Army."
Pan Qiaolian also understood Wu Haogu's idea, so she let out a sigh and mocked: "Brother Yin is afraid that he can't win, just say it, why bother to find such an excuse? If the thing is from your father, you can steal it."
"Eighteen, how do you say?" Mi Youren smiled, "How can my son steal my things? Moreover, as long as I pass a letter, my father will ask someone to bring it, and it will only take some time."
Mi Youren is a beloved child. He is considered to be of high quality and excellent academic performance among the students of the Imperial College. He has no problem except for his favorite copying calligraphy and paintings from famous artists. He also had a great career in history, and became the Minister of War and the Bachelor of Fuwenge, who was much better than his father.
So he could indeed get a copy of "The Eighty-Seven Immortals" from Mi Fu. And Mi Fu's copy is equivalent to the original copy!
Wu Haogu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "No need for such trouble. I will leave the south of Beijing soon. Then I will take a letter and go to the Lianshui Army."
He did have the intention of going out to Beijing, mainly for "money laundering". The thousands of gifts (mainly tea entries) he and his brothers were difficult to cash in Kaifeng Prefecture, but they could use Haizhou (not far from Lianshui) with goods (this is the name of a specialty yamen) to replace them with tea leaves and transport them back to Kaifeng Prefecture for sale. Of course, they can also be sold directly on the market in Haizhou. At present, Haizhou is a big port, and it is still easy to sell with tens of thousands of yuan worth of transfers.
When the war leads to the action, I will make a few more ancient paintings in the name of Wujia Huazhai and sing them to my own storm in the Sujia Shop, and then I will be able to whitewash the tens of thousands of "black money".
"Brother Dawu is going south?" Pan Qiaolian was stunned for the first time, and then thought of the current situation of the Wu family. "It's better to go south, just be careful."
Although there is a risk of leaving Beijing... the places outside Kaifeng Prefecture are not so lawful!
However, staying in Kaifeng Prefecture is not a solution. The Wu family's business will sooner or later be tossed away.
However, Pan Qiaolian immediately thought that she would be unlikely to meet Brother Dawu in the future, so she frowned and looked depressed.
When Wu Haogu saw that she was unhappy, he felt uncomfortable. Although he and Pan Qiaolian had never made a private decision for life, nor did he have the idea of resisting the feudal arranged marriage, they did have each other in their hearts.
Speaking of which, they are also a pair of miserable mandarin ducks...
"Then if I win, how can you teach your writing style?" Mi Youren interrupted and asked.
He was very confident in his painting skills. Although he admitted that he was not as good as Wu Haogu in the field painting and tower, he was confident that he would not lose to Wu Haogu in the portraits of Wu Family.
How to teach it?
Wu Haogu was a little difficult for a while, and he couldn't memorize the textbooks for painting perspective. Even if he memorized it silently, it was still the sentences and words of later generations. Can Mi Youren understand it?
"How do Brother Yin want to learn?" Pan Qiaolian's beautiful eyes rolled and smiled, "Or, follow Brother Dawu and let him teach him step by step."
She was actually planning for Wu Haogu. Mi Youren was a student of the Imperial College, was born in Kaifeng's noble general, his father was also an envoy of the Lianshui Army, and his grandmother was even more miserable than Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty. He wanted to follow Wu Haogu all day long, and other people who were greedy for the "Eighty-Seven Immortals" were not easy to take ruthless actions.
In addition, it may also make people mistakenly believe that the Wu family has presented the original work of "The Eighty-Seven Immortals" to Mi Fu.
"What a good girl..."
Wu Haogu didn't know what Pan Qiaolian thought, so he looked at her gratefully. Unexpectedly, when he looked out, he felt that Pan Qiaolian was unparalleled and there was no more outstanding beauty in this world than her, and he was stunned for a moment.
"Okay, let's do it... Chongdao, Brother Chongdao, how about it?"
"Ah," Wu Haogu then reacted and moved his eyes away from Pan Qiaolian, "That's it... But if we are in a hurry today, without easels, ink and paint, how about choosing another day?"
Of course, there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones and various pigments in the Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk shop, but it is not something that Wu Haogu uses, and there is no easel.
"Pigment?" Li Tang was stunned, "Do you still need to set colors?"
Color setting means coloring, and coloring. The Wu Hao ancient family tradition of "Wu Family Style" is a white drawing, which means a black half picture without coloring.
"Yes, color, silk!" Wu Haogu said affirmatively.
Silk is easier to keep than paper, so most of the old paintings that have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years are silk. Wu Haogu thinks that his "Pan Qiaolian Photo Album" must be a masterpiece, so he will have to be put into the Palace Museum in the future?
"Okay, good, the colored silk photo, great!" Mi Youren smiled and said, "Let's make an appointment for a time and place. Sister 18, please tell me."
Pan Qiaolian thought for a while and said, "Then let's meet Pan Jiayuan on the first day of April."
Panjiayuan is Cidi, the ancestor of Pan Qiaolian, Pan Mei. Its official name is Baozhongfang Cidi, located in the northwest corner of the inner city of Kaifeng Prefecture, on the banks of the Jinshui River.
However, this old house has been disrepair for a long time and has long since no longer lived in the Pan family, and has become a place for children of the Kaifeng generals to gather and play.
"A word is determined." Mi Youren glanced at Wu Dalang and bowed, "Brother Chongdao, I still have some mundane affairs in the Imperial College, so let's take the lead."
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"Brother Dawu, there are many characters in this "Eighty-Seven Immortals" and they are all very vividly painted. Even if it is copied by Mi Xiangyang, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be discovered..."
As soon as Mi Youren left, Li Tang and Pan Qiaolian became worried.
Their worries are not unreasonable. The "Eighty-Seven Gods and Immortals" is not comparable to the "Drunk Arhat Picture". Although the arhat in "Drunk Arhat Picture" is real, there is only one character after all. The "Eighty-Seven Gods and Immortals" are drawn on the "Eighty-Seven Gods and Immortals", all of whom are graceful and vivid in their postures, and give people the interest and dynamic feeling of immortals lined up.
If the original painting is taken out and sold, it will not be possible to win tens of thousands of pieces, at least one ten!
If Wu Haogu created a fake Mengren and was discovered again, then it would be a disaster - because, without the original, how could there be a copy?
If Wu Haogu took out the copy, and then he said that he had no original, would anyone believe it?
"If you see through it, you can deal with it!" Wu Haogu smiled faintly, took out a folded land deed, and spread it in front of Pan Qiaolian.
Pan Qiaolian glanced at it and sighed softly, "Brother Dawu, how much do you want to bet?"
"Ten thousand silks."
Wu Haogu didn't want to bet too much, because the interest rate of loans in the Song Dynasty was extremely high, with an annual rate of 20%, and the profits were common.
"Give it 30,000 yuan." Pan Qiaolian said, "Your father's body card is also brought, and I will give you 10,000 yuan."
Wu Haogu smiled bitterly in his heart. The one he met was probably the best "credit manager" to talk to.
"Sister 18, this is not suitable..."
"What's wrong?" Pan Qiaolian said with a smile on her face and said angrily, "I told you Brother Dawu that the assistant named Chen had long taken a fancy to your shop and the card, and even greeted the managers of Jiesin Lane.
Now I use 40,000 yuan to take down your shop and body cards, and then sell it for 80,000 yuan to sell it. There are still 40,000 yuan to make money in the middle."
"Eighty thousand thousand tills? Is he willing to give up?"
Pan Qiaolian sneered: "Do he dare not bear to bear it? The Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk transfer shop is only run by our house, and each house in the Pan family has shares."
Pan Xiao'an and Pan Qiaolian are illegitimate and come from branches of the Pan family's houses, so it is naturally impossible to take the large shares of the Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk shop.
Compared with the calligraphy, painting, cultural and entertainment business on Panlou Street, Jieshi Lane is the real big deal. The gold, silver and silk shops that can be set up here are all the heroes and generals. Many shops are simply from the Zhao family. They are not the giants that Chen Youwen can provoke!
So Chen Youwen could only swallow his anger and be blackmailed by the Pan family, which was also determined by his position in the "food chain".
However, Wu Haogu’s Wu family is one level lower in this "food chain" than Chen family.
Therefore, there is an insurmountable gap between Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian...
Chapter completed!