"Let's try it first and then tell if it's right or not!"
Shen Yu has such a temper, he does whatever he thinks of.
Pull down two layers of curtains, and because there is a layer of blackout cloth, the room becomes dark instantly.
Shen Yu looked at the painting again, but couldn't see anything on the paper...
"It seems I made a mistake in doing this."
Walking to the window in the dark, Shen Yu opened the curtains, but just halfway, Shen Yu suddenly seemed to think of something, and the movement of opening the curtains stopped.
He quickly returned to the glass cabinet, slowly rolled up the painting, and then went to the window to close the curtains. The room was dark again.
After staying there for a few minutes with his eyes closed, feeling that he had adapted to the darkness in the room, Shen Yu came to the glass cabinet and slowly unfolded the painting vertically.
Ten centimeters, twenty centimeters, thirty centimeters. When the scroll was extended to seventy centimeters, two slightly golden light spots appeared on the paper.
This is not a precious light, it is purely a light emitted from the paper. It is located between the two peach branches of the peach tree in the painting.
Shen Yuyun glanced around and saw two small characters in regular script written on a very small open space: Hongdao.
"This hidden money is so wonderful, it's simply miraculous."
"The two characters Hongdao are very familiar. Whose name is this?" Shen Yu murmured to himself.
After thinking for a long time, Shen Yu was stunned but could not figure out that there was a great painter named Hongdao in the Song Dynasty.
Forget about the name, there is no nickname.
It’s okay if you can’t remember it. This is the information age. Just search it.
I opened the curtains and rolled up the painting, picked up my phone, opened the mobile browser, and entered the word "Hongdao". The first thing that came out was "Hangzhengdao", followed by the reign name of Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. "Hongdao" (December 683) was only one month old.
This word is wrong, it turned out to be a typo...
I quickly entered Hongdao again, but nothing was found.
"Is it possible that the calligraphy is the name of a famous artist?"
Shen Yu added another word before Hongdao in the search bar, which is "word: Hongdao".
The search results this time still disappointed Shen Yu. There were many ancient Chinese characters with great names, but there were no clues about the painters, let alone the Song Dynasty painters.
"What's going on? Isn't 'Hongdao' the artist's name or font size?"
After thinking for a while, Shen Yu slapped his forehead fiercely, "Where's the brain? Since I'm searching for a famous fish painter, wouldn't it be enough to add someone who is good at painting fish?"
Opening the search bar again, Shen Yu entered "Good at painting fish, with the word Hongdao."
A large number of search results appeared in front of Shen Yu. Literary official Liu Cai, courtesy name Hongdao. When he was young, he lived in the capital. He was carefree and did nothing. He indulged in poetry and wine. He could also write short sentences. He spent time with the young people in Guizhou. Good at drawing fish...
"It turned out to be an authentic work by Liu Cai. How could I have forgotten this famous fish painter in the Northern Song Dynasty?"
Seeing the search results, Shen Yu suddenly calmed down. Perhaps only Liu Cai, the best at painting fish, could have such a magical pen.
Liu Cai, whose courtesy name is Hongdao, is also known as Hongdao in some legends. His birth and death dates are unknown. Because he was praised by Emperor Shenzong during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, he can be identified as a native of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Liu Cai was a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, especially good at painting fish. He can be said to be the first person to paint fish in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, Liu Cai only has three authentic paintings handed down from generation to generation, namely "Falling Flowers and Swimming Fish" and "Spring Stream Fish and Algae". , "Picture of Fish Playing with Nymphs" are all preserved in large museums at home and abroad.
Shen Yu had known Liu Cai's name for a long time, but he had completely forgotten his handwriting.
Liu Cai created a unique style of painting fish and had his own secret technique. It was highly praised by the literati at that time, and many later generations also imitated it. It had a great influence on later famous fish painting artists.
Xia Wenyan, a painter and great collector in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, said in his book "Pictures and Painting Treasures" that the fish in Liu Cai's paintings "Although the fish in Liu Cai's paintings are floating in the wind and water, watching their activities, as for the temperament of their scaly tails, swimming, diving and returning to swimming, they are all... It’s wonderful.”
"Xuanhe Painting Book" describes him as: good at painting and poetry, carefree and careless, he enjoys poetry and drinking. To put it bluntly, he doesn't like to work. He likes to drink and compose poetry. He has a crazy child.
But Liu Cai's official career was pretty good. He served as a county official and a state official, and he also held the position of a casual official in the seventh rank of Langzheng.
Shen Yu opened the paper hardcover version of "Xuanhe Painting Book" and turned to the Liu Cai page.
It records the thirty paintings of Liu Cai collected by the Imperial Palace:
"Picture 1 of a group of fish playing with algae, picture 1 of a group of quinos playing with wild turtles, picture 1 of swimming with duckweed and fish, picture 1 of playing with fish by falling bamboo, picture 1 of a group of fish playing with catfish, picture 1 of a group of carp chasing shrimps, picture 1 of playing with catfish and crucian carp.< /p>
"Nine pictures of swimming fish, five pictures of fish and algae, one picture of fish and crabs, and one picture of playing fish.
"One picture of fish playing in the water, one picture of turtle and fish, two pictures of algae and fish, one picture of peony and fish, one picture of fish swimming in falling flowers, one picture of fish swimming through the water."
"Sure enough, there is "Picture of Fish Playing in Water", so this is the right one!"
The so-called imperial palace refers to the treasury in the ancient imperial palace. It can also be understood as the place where the emperor's favorite books, calligraphy and paintings were collected.
The imperial palace special made during the reign of Song Huizong in the "Xuanhe Painting Book" means that during the reign of Song Huizong, there were thirty works by Liu Cai in the imperial palace, including Shen Yu's "Playing with Fish in the Water" .
In terms of paper, most of the paintings in the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty were silk paintings, and there were very few paintings on paper. This "Picture of Fish Playing in the Water" can be called a rare treasure, and its value is difficult to measure in terms of money. If you have to give a number , that is at least more than 20 million.
After receiving such a treasure, Shen Yu was unusually calm. First of all, he already knew at Chen Dashan's house on Jixiang Street that it was a calligraphy and painting from the Northern Song Dynasty. He also knew from the size of the treasure that it must be the work of a famous fish painter.
Second, no matter how much money is spent, Shen Yu, a rare treasure in ancient calligraphy and painting, will not sell it.
Opening the safe, he put the "Picture of Playing with Fishes in Water" in, and also put in Li Qing'er's piece of Zhengyang green jadeite. Before finding a suitable opportunity, Shen Yu had no intention of selling this piece of jadeite. Give it to Li Qing'er, after all, it's something worth millions.
The best way is to give Li Qing'er the jadeite when she needs money, or give her money directly.
"It's time to change to a special safe."
There is a special safe in the old house. Although the safe cannot be drilled with a hammer drill, Shen Yu would not know if a thief entered and messed around inside for a day, because Shen Yu basically did not go back except for sleeping. I don’t go back every day, I mostly rest in the store.
After careful consideration, Shen Yu decided that it would be better to leave this piece of Liu Cai in the store first, but he would have to order a special safe in the next few days.
Buzz!
The phone rang. Shen Yu picked up the iPhone 4s given by Pei Yuqin and took a look. It showed that it was Mr. Qian from "Ci Gu Zhai".
"Hello, Mr. Qian."
"Shen Yu, are you in the store?"
"Yes, Mr. Qian, I'm in the store."
"Well, if you don't have any customers, come to my shop. I have something to tell you."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
After hanging up the phone, Shen Yu took out another box of Lapsang Souchong black tea under the bed. These were bought by Chu Yaozong and Li Hanlin when Mr. Li was doing errands for Chongzhonglou. They are the best quality ones available on the market. Top quality tea.
After the funeral, there were still two boxes left. Chu Yaozong did not like to drink tea, and would only drink it unless there was a social event.
Li Lao did drink, but he only drank wild tea from Dongji Mountain in Chuzhou. Faced with a pile of top-quality tea, Shen Yu felt a little uncomfortable selling it and throwing it away would be a waste, so he simply brought all the tea back to Chuzhou from the Dongjiang River.
The shelf life of tea is only two years. Although Shen Yu loves to drink tea, he can't finish it every day. So give it away if you can. This is already the sixth box of tea that Shen Yu gave to Mr. Qian.< /p>
Pulling down the anti-theft rolling shutter door, Shen Yu took the escalator up to the third floor of the antique city, and then walked towards the "Porcelain Ancient Studio" in a familiar way.
