Shen Yu fell into a drowsy sleep and vaguely felt his phone vibrating. He turned over and picked up the phone from the bedside table to see that there was indeed a call.
"Hello, who's there?"
Liu Yan's gentle and charming voice came from the microphone: "Boss, I have something to report to you. Yesterday Xiaoqing and I accidentally sprained our feet when we went to the mall. I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the store today."
Shen Yu sat up after hearing this, "It's okay if you can't come. Is the injury serious?"
"Well, I slipped a bit while walking, and then the heel of the high-heeled shoes broke. Not only did it twist the ankle, it also swelled badly. Now it's difficult to get off the ground." Liu Yan replied weakly.
"Then just take care of yourself for a few days, relax, and your salary will continue."
"Boss, you are so kind."
"By the way, there's something I need to let you know. It's like this. I hired a store manager before you. He may come to work in the next two days. Don't be surprised when you come."
Liu Yan was stunned: "Ah, besides you, boss, don't I have another boss?"
"It's not a boss, it's just a colleague relationship. In the future, the store will get bigger and bigger, and you won't be able to handle it alone without me in the store. Let's leave it like this for now. Just rest in peace and recuperate!"
To be a boss, you have to act like a boss. Shen Yu didn't want to explain too much to Liu Yan, so he hung up the phone after finishing speaking.
After checking that it was still less than six o'clock, Shen Yu put his phone on the bedside table, turned over and continued to sleep.
A few minutes later, Shen Yu opened his eyes again. His biological clock had been formed. No matter how sleepy or tired he was, he would definitely wake up on time at six o'clock.
"Forget it, I won't sleep anymore."
I got up and folded the summer quilt, turned off the air conditioner, and opened the window. It was raining lightly outside, but the air was not bad.
Stretching, Shen Yu said to himself: "I have nothing to do on a rainy day, just look at the store in the store."
After coming out of "Er Meat Shop" yesterday, Shen Yu went to Chuzhou Commercial Bank to pick up his car, and then drove directly into the underground parking space of the Antique City. He got up from the elevator, opened the door, lay down and fell asleep. He didn't even have a dream all night.< /p>
To be honest, Shen Yu doesn't really like going back to his old house. It's too big and deserted. Sometimes he feels uncomfortable when he sees his grandfather's photos, so he often rests in the shop.
Of course, Shen Yu strictly abides by the rule that no fire is allowed in antique city shops. He doesn't even smoke, let alone lighting a fire for cooking.
After brushing his teeth, washing his face, and cleaning up the store again, Shen Yu took in his hands the "Picture of Fish Playing in Water" that he bought from Chen Dashan yesterday.
"The painting itself has dazzling golden light, and it can be dated to the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, the light is as big as a pebble, so it can be said to be a masterpiece among Song Dynasty paintings.
"This is the oldest and most valuable ancient painting I have seen since I got the Golden Eyes for Appreciating Treasures. What a pity, it is an unknown painting!" After saying that, Shen Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Anonymous paintings, all collectors who want to find them love and hate them.
Once an unknown painting has a clue that can prove its identity, the price will be doubled, several times, or even hundreds of times.
What's annoying is that if you can't find any clues, you'll often lose them.
This is because the collection of calligraphy and painting is no more important than other collections. Jade tablets and snuff bottles also pay attention to one material, while calligraphy and painting pay most attention to reputation.
If you are famous, you are worth money; if you are not famous, you are worthless.
Any illusory artistic value must be pushed to the back.
For example, if Shen Yu gets a good painting, people will ask, "Which famous artist is this painting of yours?"
Then Shen Yu said I don’t know. Even if the other person doesn’t say it on the surface, he still despises it in his heart. He doesn’t even know whose work it is. What kind of good painting is that?
If calligraphy and painting were only circulated in a small circle of collectors, they would not be worth hundreds of millions now. It is precisely because of the participation of rich and wealthy businessmen that calligraphy and painting are as valuable as they are today. This has been the case in ancient and modern times.
To put it bluntly, a great collector like Xiang Yuanbian relied on his own wealth to collect. In the eyes of future generations, he was regarded as the top collector in ancient times, but at that time, he was also regarded as a wealthy businessman by other people who sold paintings.
If the calligraphy and paintings that a wealthy businessman hangs in his office and study are not famous, even if you give him money, he will not hang them!
Anonymous paintings will never hang up.
In the eyes of these wealthy businessmen, an ancient painting whose author cannot be guaranteed is not as good as a work by a famous modern painter. At least it has a name.
Unless you can prove 100% who painted this painting.
But here comes the problem. Even if Taishan Beidou, who is an expert in antique appraisal, says who painted this painting, there must be some people who are not convinced because there is no signature or inscription!
Not to mention rich people, even for many ordinary collectors, artistic value and fame are inseparable. If a painting is a work of a famous artist, it is valuable. On the other hand, no matter how high the so-called artistic value is, it is not valuable. So simple.
But having said that, many unknown paintings have "hidden money", which is the hidden identification.
After the author paints a work, he hides his name in the painting, either in trees, on rocks, in temples or pavilions, or even on stone tablets. You can't tell it unless you look carefully.
Hidden inscriptions were more popular in the Song Dynasty. For example, "Traveling in Streams and Mountains" by Fan Kuan, a famous Chinese painter and one of the three great masters of the Northern Song Dynasty, was originally an unknown painting, but there was an inscription of "Fan Kuan" among the leaves.
There is also Li Cheng, who is also one of the three great masters. There are two lines of small characters on the side of the ruined stele of his "Reading Stone Tablets", one book "Li Cheng Paints Trees and Stones" and the other "Wang Xiao Paints Figures", especially Magical.
In addition, the works of famous painters such as Guo Xi and Li Tang all have hidden money.
Slowly unfolding the picture of swimming fish on the glass cabinet, Shen Yu decided to look for it carefully.
Anyway, I have a lot of time today. Even if I can't find the hidden money, if I can find a certain seal, the value of this painting will greatly increase.
In the painting, the peach trees are in bloom.
Cold pool, mist transpires.
Petals, sinking and floating.
Water plants sway with the waves.
Fish, lifelike.
The painting is filled with water, and there are fish in the water. The fish and water blend together, full of vitality.
"Great painting, supreme masterpiece!" Shen Yu felt that any calligraphy and painting collector would praise this painting for the first time.
It was indeed the first time for Shen Yu to see the ancient paintings where the sceneries changed due to bright light. When he shined a strong flashlight again, the hidden names of the paintings and the fish appeared automatically. When he moved the flashlight away, they all disappeared again. It was strange. Incomparable.
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The fish in the ancient paintings is very interesting to talk about. It is not the well-known carp, silver carp, crucian carp, or grass carp.
It is a kind of fish called "minnow". This kind of fish appears in almost all ancient paintings. People who don't specialize in ancient paintings would not know this at all.
Minnows live in groups, are slender and move quickly. The body length of an adult minnow is about the size of a small carp.
The fish eyes are located in the front of the head, the back of the fish is light blue-grey, and the sides and abdomen are silvery white.
This kind of fish is a freshwater fish that mainly lives in rivers and lakes. It swims in coastal waters in spring and autumn, and forages in deep water in winter. Its food is mainly algae, aquatic plants, etc.
As for why this fish was loved by all the famous fish painters in ancient times and became the exclusive fish for swimming fish paintings, Shen Yu actually couldn't figure it out.
If I have to find a reason, it might be related to the extra chapter of "Zhuangzi".
It is said that Zhuangzi and Huizi traveled above Haoliang.
Zhuangzi said: "The minnow travels calmly, which is the joy of fish."
Huizi said: "You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?"
Zhuangzi said: "You are not me, how do you know that I don't know the joy of fish?"
Huizi said: "I am not a son, so I don't know the son; I am not a fish, so I don't know the joy of fish, that's all!"
Perhaps this has something to do with the ancients’ worship of the past.
Ordinary magnifying glasses were useless, so I took out a hand-held high-power magnifying glass. This kind of mirror can magnify objects up to 300 times. In this case, any hidden money that may exist will be revealed.
Of course, Shen Yu would not be so stupid as to magnify the painting three hundred times, otherwise he would only be able to see the dirt on the painting.
The main reason for using it is that this high-tech magnifying glass is clearer than ordinary magnifying glasses, and it can magnify twenty times.
Looking up and down, left and right, Shen Yu felt his waist was sore, but found nothing.
Shen Yu was not disappointed at all. What should I say about this thing? Since the Chen family invited countless appraisers and palm-eye masters to look at the painting, someone must have seen this painting countless times.
Assuming that there is hidden money in this painting, it will definitely not be easily found. If it were easy to find, it would not be Shen Yu's turn to get this picture of swimming fish.
Being hungry, Shen Yu was too lazy to go downstairs to buy breakfast. He boiled water and made a box of instant noodles. While eating, he paced around and slowly thought about some of the secrets of ancient painting appraisal that his grandfather once said.
Legend has it that ancient people had three things to do when they looked at paintings.
First of all, never look at paintings after meals, because no one can guarantee that their hands will not be stained by some oily soup while eating, and the paintings will be all stained by touching them.
Secondly, don’t look at paintings when you are drunk. Some people paint when they are drunk, but there are no people who look at paintings when they are drunk. They are afraid of losing their minds and tearing up the paintings, or vomiting on them, so some collectors will ask their servants to do so. , be sure not to take out the paintings when you are drunk and want to look at them.
Third, do not look at paintings under an oil lamp. In ancient times, there were no electric lamps, only oil lamps or candles. If you accidentally touch the oil lamp, let alone burn the painting, or even spill the lamp oil on the painting, it is an unforgivable mistake for those who love painting. .
Even Emperor Qianlong was like this. It is said that he never looked at paintings at night and only looked at paintings at Sanxi Hall in his free time in the afternoon.
"Since the painting changes with the light, what if it is viewed in a place without lights?
"Like in the dark?
"You must know that ancient people would not read paintings at night, and even modern people would not read in total darkness, because you can't see anything.
"Maybe this is the black light used to identify this painting!"
