What happened in the courtyard was no longer Lin Fan's business, and he would only go back to see the eldest father and eldest mother occasionally.
If it weren't for the place where his predecessor Lin Fan grew up, and it was his own house after all, Lin Fan wouldn't have gone back.
After all, there are still people I care about in the courtyard, so going there is like visiting friends.
After the lesson learned last time, no one came to make trouble at Lin Fan and Mengzi's braised vegetable restaurant.
The thin man is still hanging out in Pigeon Market, and opening a store is not of much interest to him.
Even though he knew that this business was very profitable, Pigeon Market had been in business for so long and there were many people eating with him.
So after consulting Lin Fan's opinion, Lin Fan thought twice and let the thin man stay in the pigeon market for the time being.
Because it is a bit troublesome to arrange for so many people. The braised vegetable restaurant only needs so many people.
Half a month later, the thin man came to Lin Fan's house excitedly.
"Brother Fan, I brought you something good today!"
Seeing the thin man holding something in his hand, Lin Fan asked with interest, "Oh? What good thing makes you so happy?"
The thin man couldn't wait to come to the table and opened the things in his hands.
"Is this... a painting by Tang Bohu?"
Mengzi heard Lin Fan's surprised voice and came over in disbelief: "What? Tang Bohu's painting?"
After following Lin Fan for so long, they also knew that Brother Fan liked some antiques. Over time, they also became interested in these and slowly discovered their interest in them.
Even if he is not as good as some experts, he still has some basic vision.
Having dealt with so many things frequently, it is natural for me to understand a lot more by being immersed in them.
Therefore, they know that some calligraphy and paintings of famous celebrities are very precious and rare.
For example, Tang Bohu.
At first glance, this is a picture of Tang Bohu's lady.
It can be seen at a glance that it is indeed a painting by Tang Bohu. Tang Bohu's paintings of ladies are unique.
If you look closely, you will see that the image of the lady is holding auspicious and wishful hands. She is graceful, her eyebrows and hair are finely angled, and her hair is evenly dyed. She has the round, thin and smooth strokes of Li Gonglin in the Northern Song Dynasty. The lines of her clothes are strong and smooth, and it also draws on the strong square folds of Li, Tang and Yuan people in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The unique brushwork has the characteristics of combining hardness and softness, as well as the use of both handwriting and writing, creating a new model for the paintings of ladies in the Ming Dynasty.
The three boys from Panasonic are either holding birthday peaches, looking up to the ladies, or looking down at the porcelain statue. The whole picture contains the good wishes of "wealth and happiness"!
"But it seems to have been repaired!"
Mengzi pointed at a place and said, the thin man nodded, and Lin Fan asked: "Look, whose handiwork is it!"
"It's from Tang Yin!"
"Ask who you patched up!"
Lin Fan said angrily, and Mengzi immediately lay down on the table and looked at it carefully.
"It seems that the restoration was not that old. It could have been within twenty years at most. The original painting was restored during the restoration, but the color is almost invisible!"
"Silk script is difficult to cultivate. In the past ten years, there have been no more than three masters who can cultivate silk script. Could it be that Mr. Hong has this ability?"
Mengzi asked incredulously, Mr. Hong was sent down to feed cattle and lived in a cowshed. Although he has been rehabilitated now, his strength is not as good as before.
This thing requires training. If you don't practice for one day, you will be finished. Mr. Hong has been herding cattle for so many years, and his skills must have deteriorated.
But now, Mr. Hong is still alive and well. Now he is educating his son and his apprentice, hoping to pass on the art of framing.
This giant Buddha has a well-known name in the industry!
"The Miracle Doctor in the Painting World".
There are countless restorations of calligraphy and paintings!
The point is, many are very valuable.
"Where did this come from?"
Mengzi asked in confusion!
"Something happened to Mr. Hong's family, so I helped him out. This is a gift from Mr. Hong to thank me!"
"real?"
"of course it's true!"
The thin man has done this kind of thing more than once. There are many people who can help, so the thin man will help!
"anything else!"
Lin Fan proudly took out a new scroll, opened it, and Mengzi's eyes gleamed.
"Go, go, this is mine!"
Lin Fan fell in love with it as soon as he saw it, because it was a landscape painting, but the description of the landscape was written in thin gold style.
"This is the landscape of Song Huizong!"
Promotion of Slim Golden Body in Landscape Zone?
Good guys, Song Huizong was most proud of these two. When they come together again and again, the value of this picture is immeasurable. Someone wants it for 200 million yuan.
"Okay, what a picture of clouds and mountains!"
There are also Qianlong's promotion and seal on the side, and even Qianlong's own handwriting: Sanxitang Appreciation of the Authentic Painting of Clouds and Mountains by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty!
Everyone is used to seeing this line of writing, and many authentic works have inscriptions like Qianlong!
But the problem is...
"Qianlong is really shameless. A good painting, a good stroke of thin gold bodywork, but in the end Qianlong's inscription was ruined!"
Mengzi said depressedly, and the thin man laughed. This is true. Putting the word Qianlong next to Song Huizong's is simply asking for self-humiliation!
If you want to compare with others, it’s fine, but compare with Song Huizong!
Good guy, in history, Song Huizong's calligraphy, although not beaten or crushed, was enough to make all emperors proud!
The calligraphy of Xiao Yan, the king of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, was also very good, but compared with the thin gold calligraphy of Huizong of the Song Dynasty who founded the sect, it really pales in comparison.
In the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi's calligraphy was actually the best, while Qianlong's was not as good as Kangxi's.
"This was also given to you by Mr. Hong?"
"Yes, three paintings, three calligraphy, three books, nine items in total. I resisted for a long time, but refused, and almost tore them up in front of me. Good guy, it scared me!"
The skinny guy doesn't have a frightened expression, he just screams!
"Where's another painting?"
"After reading it, over there!"
Mengzi immediately went over to take a look, and his scalp suddenly went numb!
"This is... Su Dongpo's bamboo?"
This is still colored!
The lingo of calligraphy and painting is vertical scroll, horizontal scroll, and hand scroll.
As for the vertical axis, it unfolds vertically!
As for Hengzhu, it is pushed sideways!
As for hand rolls, they are small and can be held in your hand and then spread out!
Paper and silk, needless to say.
This coloring corresponds to "ink and wash".
As for graphite, it is drawn with black ink and matched with the white space of paper or silk to achieve a certain artistic conception.
As for coloring, you can understand it as "coloring". This is the calligraphy and painting, which is colored, not just ink!
"How about Su Dongpo, Zhu Zhu, vertical scroll and colors, it's beautiful!"
The thin man said coquettishly, and Mengzi's eyes turned red with envy, but after looking at it for a while, his face was full of smiles.
"Why are you laughing?"
Lin Fan asked. Mengzi's face was filled with envy, but he couldn't hide his smile.
"Although I am envious, these things belong to virtuous people. What makes me even happier is that these treasures are well collected and have not been lost abroad!"
"Come and look at the calligraphy. You still need to practice the calligraphy you came here with!"
A scroll with a horizontal axis was carefully unfolded. As soon as it was unfolded, the three people held their breath!
Thin people are accustomed to looking at the seal first. This is a sequelae of identification. At first glance, people are dumbfounded!
Then I saw, on the seal, four big characters!
Seal: Farewell to Zeng Gong!
Zeng Gong!
This is a name that is underestimated by countless people!
More importantly, if you are not a history major, if you are not an archeology major, you may not even know this person’s name!
Zeng Gong was born in the third year of Tianxi and the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty. This year seemed ordinary, but in fact it was quite extraordinary.
It’s not easy to be a Jinshi this year!
The top three are Zhang Heng, the top pick, Dou Bian, the top pick, and Luo Kai, the top pick!
Don’t you know him?
It's okay!
Look at the back!
Su Shi, Su Che, Zeng Gong, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Zhang Dun...
Are these names familiar?
These people are all friends of Zeng Gong...
Among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, the one with the least sense of presence was this one!
However, in later generations, Zeng Gong's works were taken out and immediately became popular!
In 2018, 170 million pictures were taken of a painting!
In fact, in 2009, Zeng Gong's characters reached a sky-high price of 100 million!
The calligraphy in front of me is called "Bureau Affairs Post"!
I won’t mention a section of the inscription for now, but what follows is a dense collection of treasure identification seals.
Densely packed, a lot!
But fortunately, I didn’t see Qianlong’s...
This thing still has its source, including the Qing Dynasty's "Da Guan Lu", "Mo Yuan Hui Guan Dharma Book", "Six Arts One Record", etc., the source of this calligraphy can be found in them!
Such things are liked by countless people, but in fact many people think that Zeng Gong is the one who buys seven and gets one free in the eight families of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and even thinks that they are here to make up the numbers!
But in fact, this is a super boss.
His teacher Ouyang Xiu commented: There are hundreds of thousands of people who have passed through my family, but I am happy just to be alive!
Wang Anshi commented: Zeng Zi’s articles are like no other, the battle between the rivers of water and the stars of Han Dynasty!
The "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasty" compiled by Qing Dynasty scholars contains a total of 316 works, of which Zeng Gong's accounted for 128!
Su Shi and Su Che passed the Jinshi examination together in the second year of Jiayou's reign, awesome!
But Zeng Gong’s family is even better!
This year, six members of Zeng Gong’s family were admitted to high school!
If you are a sixth-level scholar in a certain discipline, I will ask you whether you are good or not!
Him, his third brother and two brothers-in-law!
Before that, because his father passed away, Zeng Gong dropped out of school and returned home to take care of his mother, four younger brothers, and nine younger sisters!
Then, on the one hand, he made a living, on the other hand, he took care of the whole family, and on the other hand, he had to teach his younger brother and brothers-in-law.
He persisted in this kind of life for ten years!
In the next ten years, Zeng Gong's younger brother and brother-in-law successively obtained 10 more Jinshis from high school!
Good guy, what kind of literary master is this? This is clearly to educate everyone!
In modern times, a cram school that only earns 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a day is not worthy of his status.
The most famous poem, "The flying flowers are covered by the sun and the moon, and I don't know that there is clear frost in the sky and the earth." It can be said that the willow tree is described to the extreme.
Lin Fan really knew about this official post, because it was later auctioned for a sky-high price of 100 million, which directly made many people know about Zeng Gong.
Otherwise, very few people know about it.
Then, during the second auction, the same work was sold for 200 million!
After all, arty people all like Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Su Che, etc...
But in fact, how could one be ranked among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties and be recognized by the world? How could it be a bronze!
"Tsk, tsk, this word, good guy, he is indeed Zeng Gong. He sees the word as he sees the person. This word can prove that he is definitely a gentleman!"
Zeng Gong's calligraphy is clean, neat, and neat. It's so comfortable to look at such calligraphy!
"Yes, this handwriting is really neat!"
Several people appreciate this word, and they don't feel tired after reading it all day long.
"Don't you have to watch today? Leave the things there and you can leave!"
"It's okay. Someone is watching in the store. I have to appreciate it. After all, Mr. Hong gave this to me!"
The thin man said quickly, "Good guy, does Brother Fan want to steal our good things?"
It will definitely not be sold, and the ownership will definitely belong to Slim, but the problem is that Brother Fan will definitely choose to stay and appreciate it for a while.
This is unbearable, he wants to see it too!
As for one person sharing the same amount, that's impossible.
Although Lin Fan said this, he would not really force it. We are all brothers, and we just need to appreciate each other's good things.
Whoever gets good things is his ability.
Lin Fan didn't want to keep everything in his pocket, which was not a good thing.
"I want it all to myself!"
"I also want!"
"I……"
"roll!"
Mengzi was hiding pitifully on the side, he was not qualified to participate!
The three of them admired the calligraphy and paintings. In the evening, Lin Xiaomu came directly with the child, and then they realized what they were doing.
"I said you three gentlemen don't care about the time?"
Lin Xiaomu looked at the three people speechlessly. They were squatting on the couch, lying on the floor, and the one standing by the wall was still rubbing his feet. He had been standing there for who knows how long. Wouldn't it be nice to just leave it alone?
"ah?"
The three people raised their heads and glanced outside, only to find that it was already dark!
"It's night?"
"Hey, how strange it is, you three don't know you are hungry? You didn't eat lunch!"
The three people looked at each other and suddenly felt hungry!
"Dad, you don't know how to take care of yourself!"
The daughter said in an old-fashioned way, but the accusing look made Lin Fan happy. The daughter cares about him!
"Eat, I brought you dinner!"
Braised food, rice, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there is something to eat.
Lin Fan quickly took the food, carefully put away the scroll, then took the mat and placed it on the table.
"Come and eat quickly, has Xinxin eaten?"
"Eat it. When dad didn't come back for a long time, mom said, I don't care, just eat it!"
Lin Fan smiled awkwardly and picked up his daughter. Although her daughter was full, Lin Fan knew that this little girl of hers was a complete foodie.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Clawpaw!"
The little girl especially likes to nibble on claws, so give it to her. Just as she was about to take off her chopsticks, Mengzi picked up a duck claw and handed it to the little girl.
"Thank you, Uncle Mengzi!"
"Oh, Xinxin is so good!"
Mengzi was all smiles.
Lin Fan asked while eating: "Where are Xixi, Haohao and Binbin? Why didn't you see them coming back?"
Lin Xiaomu replied: "They went crazy. They stayed in the store and didn't want to come back. They said they would come back when the store is closed."
Lin Fan knew that children at this age were playful and there was no danger in the store since there were clerks there, so he didn't care.
"That's fine. When they get tired of playing, they will come back naturally."
