"Grandpa, I want to ask you something. Lin Zitan hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but say.

"Tell me, boy, what's the matter?" Grandpa Lin said happily.

"If someone gives you a calligraphy and painting, but this calligraphy and painting is a high imitation, will you be angry when you tell you the truth, or will you be angry when you find out that it is a high imitation later?" Lin Zi pondered.

"Why do you want to send this calligraphy and painting to a high imitation? Is it Wang Xizhi's or Zhao Mengfu's? If it weren't for these famous artists, you might as well send a calligraphy and painting that is not very famous, but genuine, so that people will not be unhappy to know about it." Grandpa Lin said seriously.

"But I'm afraid I won't be able to buy the real thing for a while, and you know that it's hard for me to buy the real thing here in the United States......"

Lin Zitan then told him about going to see his girlfriend's family.

"When you go to see your girlfriend's grandfather, you can't send a high imitation, even if you write a pair yourself, you have more heart than that, didn't your grandfather teach you calligraphy when you were a child?

If you copy a copy of that calligraphy and painting, and say that you wrote it yourself, it is better than taking a fake one!" insisted the old man.

"I haven't written for years, and it's too late to say it...... Oh, by the way, someone can frame it, but I ...... that word."

Lin Zitan remembered that since Eric had a traitor painting there, there must be someone who could frame it, but when he thought of writing it himself, he hesitated a little, although he had bought pen, ink, paper, and inkstone as early as when he was in Flushing.

But at that time, I just wanted to write a few Spring Festival couplets, and I posted them in front of the door, so I thought of writing them and giving them away!

"What's wrong with your words? Grandpa can't be so unconfident, you forgot that I took your words out to show off, and how many old people didn't write as well as you! Be confident, believe in grandpa, and write better than fake. ”

Lin Zi hung up his grandfather's phone, hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to give it a try as grandpa said, after all, foreigners are not like our countrymen, they don't pay much attention to the price of gifts, but they value your intentions very much.

Originally, Lin Zitan could just take a bottle of good wine from Mike, but as a Chinese son-in-law, he always felt that it was not enough, at least there should be some Chinese characteristics, not to mention that the old man's first wife was also Chinese.

Just do it, Emma has been accompanying her family in the past few nights, and even if she comes over occasionally, she comes very late, so Lin Zi is bored.

Tidying up the desk in the study to a spotless level, and laying out the rice paper he had brought back from the mainland, Lin Zitan unfolded the high-quality calligraphy and copied it with one stroke.

Time ticked by, and before he knew it, it had come to half past eight in the evening, Lin Zitan looked at the more than a dozen words on the floor that had been invalidated by himself, and his heart was quite irritable, because he always felt that the writing was unsatisfactory,

It doesn't matter if he just writes that he practices the pen, but if he takes it out and gives it away, he is really a little too stressed, even if he just uses it to fool a foreigner.

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Emma came in lightly, because it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and if it wasn't for the old nanny to send her, she wouldn't dare to walk for five minutes.

But when she walked into the bedroom and looked, she found that Lin Zitan was not there, and further on, the light in the study came out from under the crack in the door, and it was white.

"Knock~Daniel?" Emma's voice startled Lin Zitan when he sounded, and he accidentally put on a pen that was originally very good, but he accidentally inked a little more.

When Lin Zi delayed his brush and turned out from behind his desk, Emma had already turned the door open with the doorknob.

"Huh, what are you doing here?" Emma was stunned as she looked at the calligraphy all over the floor, she had never seen so many calligraphy, okay?

"Uh...... I'm practicing calligraphy. Lin Zitan looked at this mess and felt very embarrassed.

"Why do you practice calligraphy? Alas, isn't that the word you bought from Eric?" Emma picked up the high imitation from the table, and looked at the rice paper that had been thrown everywhere by the forest.

"You want to write it yourself for my grandfather?" said Emma, surprised.

"Ah...... I had this intention, but I couldn't write it well. Lin Zi scratched his head, he really felt that he couldn't take it.

"No, this is really good, much better than this one, my grandfather will definitely like it, and he will definitely like you!" Emma was excited to come up in both Chinese and English, which meant that Lin Zitan's writing was good and his creativity was also very good.

So with Emma's encouragement, Lin Zitan carefully copied it again, compared the twenty or thirty paintings he had written before, and felt that this one was the most ideal.

"You're my lady of luck, that's it, I'll go to Eric early tomorrow morning to help frame it. Lin Zitan took this painting and said with satisfaction.

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No matter how nervous Lin Zitan is, Christmas Eve is still coming, Lin Zitan was ready early that night, holding wine in his left hand, painting in his right hand, usually holding a handbag, but today he had to carry a bag crossbody,

After looking in the mirror several times, Lin Zitan always had the feeling that he had when he went back to school and just went to business school, and he was a little excited.

This time, Lin Zi asked Kyle to drop him downstairs, and then drove around and parked back in the apartment's parking lot, so that he wouldn't have to walk so awkward from his home, even though it was only a little more than five minutes away.

When he arrived at the door, Lin Zitan rang the doorbell by himself, the doorman at the door opened the electronic door, and Lin Zitan nodded slightly to others like last time, but I don't know why, this time he always felt that he was not as calm as last time.

Emma told him that everyone was in the hall on the first floor, so Lin Zitan went in and turned left according to the doorman's instructions, and rang the doorbell again, and just after pressing it, he saw the black-framed glass door open.

Lin Zitan walked in and found that this was just a large courtyard, and there were several groups of sofa chairs in the courtyard, and each sofa chair had a pillow that looked very soft.

"Hey, Daniel~" As soon as Lin Zitan observed this, he saw Emma be the first to come out of another wide glass door, and with her came out there was a group of people, several young people of his age, and two or three children who were only five or six years old.

"Hi good evening, everyone!"

Lin Zitan held something in his hand, and it was very inconvenient to hold up the wine bottle to say hello to everyone, but he thought that he was probably stupid at the moment, because he had already seen two of the men snickering.

"Good evening and welcome. ”

The two young women beside Emma seemed very hospitable, and one of them, along with Emma, took his gift and led him inside.

After Lin Zitan entered, he found that the hall inside was almost like a church, the beams were very high, and the windows were almost invisible, and he could only see a long dining table on the right hand that could accommodate at least thirty people.

On the left-hand side is a large chess and card room, and at the end of the hallway are clusters of comfortable sofas scattered around. The sofa is basically around the fireplace,

On one side of the fireplace, there was a ceiling-high Christmas tree decorated with colorful decorations, and on top of the huge fireplace was a large circle of red Christmas stockings of various sizes, with names written on them.

"Emma, did you cheat on a boyfriend from some school?"

Walking into the living room inside, before Lin Zitan could sit down, he heard a benevolent brother who was secretly laughing at him just now.

"Add, are you trying to say I'm old?" said Emma to the smiling man.

"I also think he's too tender, sister, do you still only look at his appearance? Don't forget how stupid that guy was last time, you must not be deceived again!" said another young man with a smile.