() "No one has ever seen through my paintings, you are the first." Xu Fei admitted his identity in standard Nanjing dialect, which made Lin Meiru completely stunned. Although Li Tianbao had already guessed
It was Xu Fei, but the moment he admitted it personally still made Li Tianbao excited.
"Can you tell me how you saw it? I'm very curious about this." Xu Fei asked calmly.
"I can't tell you this!" Li Tianbao said with a smile.
"Why?" Xu Fei asked.
"Because I have conditions. If you can agree to my conditions, I will tell you."
"Is this considered a threat?" Xu Fei said.
"Not really, but I am sure that if you don't get the answer, you will be restless for the rest of your life!"
"Tell me, what are your conditions?"
"Stay and work for me."
As soon as Li Tianbao finished speaking, Xu Fei turned around and left, saying: "I swear I will never do this again. If it weren't for my daughter, I would never make this painting, let alone do it for others."
Do."
"I never said that I wanted you to stay because it was 'old-fashioned', and I, Li Tianbao, would not point to 'old-fashioned' to make money. I just wanted you to help me look after the store. I really need a master who knows antiques here.
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Xu Fei stopped when he heard this. He didn't know why he felt that Li Tianbao's words were very credible and sincere. Of course, Li Tianbao also had other reasons for keeping Xu Fei besides the reasons he just said.
"I can stay, but I have a request?" Xu Fei stopped and continued: "I don't want anyone to know my true identity, otherwise I'm afraid it will bring you trouble!"
Although Li Tianbao didn't know what happened to Xu Fei to make such a request, he immediately agreed: "No problem, I can swear to never disclose this."
After Li Tianbao finished speaking, he turned to Lin Meiru and said, "I don't think you will tell anyone?"
"Tch, I'm not an 'old lady' with long hair and short knowledge. Of course I won't tell anyone."
Li Tianbao glanced at Wang Fang, then turned around and said, "Wang Fang is my most trustworthy associate. She handles everything in my store, and she has no problems."
"Okay, I decided to stay, but my daughter is a little frightened. I have to take care of her for a few days. I will definitely come when she is discharged from the hospital."
After Xu Fei finished speaking, Li Tianbao did not let him turn around and leave this time. Instead, he quickly asked Wang Fang to withdraw 200,000 yuan in cash from the safe, and thrust it into Xu Fei's pocket.
"Don't worry, this money is not given to you for free. This is your monthly salary. The money should be paid to the hospital first. I will go see you soon. I will make arrangements for where you live. You don't have to worry about it."
Xu Fei is now even more convinced that Li Tianbao didn't keep him because he wanted him to be old-fashioned, and he certainly didn't need to be old-fashioned to support himself when he was so generous.
In fact, Li Tianbao's financial resources are not so strong that he can pay workers 200,000 yuan a month, but he does know that Xu Fei is short of money, so he bites the bullet and says it is his monthly salary, otherwise with Xu Fei's digging
Temper will definitely not accept that money.
After Xu Fei left, Wang Fang became impatient and said quickly: "Brother Bao, give him 200,000 yuan. I only get 50,000 yuan a month."
Li Tianbao also knew that Wang Fang was joking with him. A smart girl like her must also know that she wanted to help others, but Li Tianbao still scolded softly: "Hey, why are all the women I meet like this?"
If you are not satisfied, go and find out who among the white-collar workers who graduated from a good university can earn 50,000 yuan in the first month."
"What do you mean, women like us are so dissatisfied? What do you mean?" Lin Meiru said, obviously about to pinch her arm. Li Tianbao was so excited, how could he let her succeed? He quickly pulled away and ran towards the back room, and
Conveniently, he brought the painting left by Xu Fei into the room, and the "Tibetan Mastiff Black Bear" also ran in, wagging its big tail.
Lin Meiru outside the house left quickly because she was not watching in the store, but Li Tianbao was not idle inside the house. He had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on Li Longxing, from seeing through Xu Fei's identity to seeing the painting.
At the moment of authenticity, Li Tianbao had already paid attention, but the implementation still required careful planning.
Li Tianbao thought of Wang Xiaoyu this time, but obviously because Wang Xiaoyu had already played the trick last time, it might not be appropriate to let him go this time, because Li Longxing was much more cunning than Zhang Xiaoqi, and he did not sing the double act with Wang Xiaoyu himself.
I'm sure I won't be able to recruit teachers.
After much deliberation, Li Tianbao decided to take action on his own.
After thinking about it, he called Du Yumei's cell phone. After answering, the little beauty's excited voice came from the phone: "Brother, why did you take the initiative to call me? Do you miss me?"
"Of course I miss you, but there is really something special this time."
Li Tianbao's truthfulness did not make the reasonable Du Yumei angry at all. Instead, he said gently as always: "Whatever it is, brother, just say it. As long as I can help you, I will definitely help you."
"I would like to ask, if a person has good makeup, can he hide it from someone he has only met once or twice?"
"Don't tell me once or twice, even the parents of the person wearing makeup can't tell. Didn't you notice the last time I put on makeup? And I was still a woman pretending to be a man. If a man pretends to be a man, no one can tell.
, but you should also pay attention to the sound.”
Du Yumei's words made Li Tianbao completely relieved, and he immediately asked: "Do you know a better makeup artist?"
"This is easy to do. Just find a stylist who does makeup for movies and TV series. It doesn't cost much. That's what I did last time."
At noon the next day, an old man with white hair and white beard, wearing a modern summer Tang suit, walking into Li Longxing's shop with a walking stick in his hand and a long "sandwood box" under his arm.
Of course, this person was Li Tianbao. He walked towards Li Longxing's shop and said in his heart: "Damn, I spent 10,000 yuan on makeup, but the effect is really good."
"Hey, sir, hello, sit down quickly." As soon as Li Tianbao entered, the beautiful female clerk in the store pestered Li Tianbao to sit on the sofa.
"Old man, you have something in your hand. It's a painting. Do you want to estimate the price or sell it?"
Li Tianbao lowered his voice and imitated the old man's voice and said: "I'm here to sell. Normally, I also collect a lot of things. This grandson is unfilial. He got into trouble to harm others and was eager to use the money, so
I’ll ask you to estimate the price of the item for me. If it’s suitable, I’ll sell it to you.”
"Hey! It's still a red sandalwood box. It looks like it must be a good thing."
Li Tianbao thought to himself, "Nonsense, how can we act like that without making a good box?"
"Then I'm hooked!" After saying that, Li Longxing put on his gloves, opened the red sandalwood, and spread the painting on the table. After just one glance at Li Longxing, there was an ecstatic look in his eyes.
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Then he took a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully, and then said to Li Tianbao: "Old man, this painting looks more like a 'Republic of China' imitation, and it probably won't be worth a lot of money."
"Ahem!" Li Tianbao imitated the old man and coughed a few times, then stood up slowly, rolled up the painting, and said: "Shen Zhou's 'Green Mountains and Green Waters' picture with the wide open door can actually make you say that it is a 'people's painting'"
Fake, I think I'd better find a more reliable store to check it out, I heard that the Fengyuantang next door is also pretty good."
With that, Li Tianbao walked towards the door. Now Li Longxing was a little anxious. He hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Excuse me, old man, what does that boy from Fengyuan Hall know about painting? You still want me to see it."
, I didn’t understand it just now, and I was afraid that I might be too big of an eyesore to say it was a ‘civilian imitation.’ Please allow me to take a closer look.”
After Li Longxing finished speaking, he ordered the beautiful clerk next to him to help Li Tianbao do it, and asked him to make tea quickly.
After picking up the magnifying glass and looking at it carefully for a long time, Li Longxing took off his gloves. In fact, he had already confirmed that it was Shen Zhou's at first glance. The reason why he looked at it for so long now was obviously because he was thinking about how to transform this painting into something else.
The lowest guy shoots out.
"Old man, I think this painting is indeed Shen Zhou's masterpiece. However, judging from the brushwork, it seems to be from his early years when he was still immature. The charm is a bit loose." Li Longxing kept observing Li Tianbao's face as he spoke.
He was observing the situation and preparing the next countermeasures.
"Ahem! Let me just say, you are already a grown-up, why are you still so dishonest? I am about twenty years older than you, so based on your age, I should call you my grandson."
When Li Longxing heard that something was wrong, he was about to remind Li Tianbao that Li Tianbao had already changed his words and said: "No, no, I'm too old and confused. I should call you 'son'."
"Hey, that's right. No, that's not wrong either. Old man, if you have anything to say, just say it. Let's not talk about seniority."
Li Tianbao's words just now were naturally intended to tease Li Longxing, but things should not go too far, otherwise it would delay the big event if the flaws were revealed. Li Tianbao thought about it and said, "This painting is 100% a masterpiece made by Shen Zhou in his later years.
Look at this charm, this power, by the way, do you know what the style of Shen Zhou’s paintings is?”
Li Tianbao was asking questions knowingly, the purpose was to show that he was not a layman and let the other party give the most fair price. He also knew that because Li Longxing knew that the style of this painting was actually the style of Shen Zhou's exquisite paintings, of course he could not tell it, so
Said: "Old man, I really haven't had much contact with Shen Zhou's things. Can you give me some advice?"
"In his early years, Shen Zhou inherited his family education and also studied under Du Qiong. Later, he learned from others and went to various schools in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. He mainly inherited the ink and light crimson system methods of Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, and the "Four Yuan Schools" Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng, and Wu Zhen.
, and based on the characteristics of the pen and ink of Li, Liu, Ma and Xia Jinjian of the Southern Song Dynasty, he integrated them and used both hard and soft to form a new style of thick ink, which became his own style.
Shen Zhou mostly made small paintings in his early years, and only started to make large paintings after he was forty years old. In his middle age, his painting techniques were strictly forbidden to be delicate, and he used his brushes calmly and vigorously, relying on his strength to win. In his later years, his brushwork was simple and bold, and his powerful momentum can be seen from this painting.
You can see the clues.
Shen Zhou's paintings have a comprehensive memory and strong skills. He developed his own creativity on the basis of inheriting the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and pioneered the expression techniques of literati ink and freehand landscape, flower and bird painting, and became the leader of Wumen School of Painting. Most of his landscape paintings were based on
It mainly describes mountains and rivers, and mostly describes the scenery of southern landscape gardens."
