Zeng Shaoxiang hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Qin Feng, don't be impulsive, my side was indeed delayed because of something, so I came late."

As your elder, I naturally won't be untrustworthy, since you came to pick up the book on behalf of your mother, then you wait a while, and I'll bring the book to you. ”

After speaking, Zeng Shaoxiang motioned to Qin Feng to wait for a while, and he turned around and left.

Now that Zeng Shaoxiang appeared, he was naturally no longer in a hurry. The old god waited.

More than ten minutes later, Zeng Shaoxiang held an antique book in his hand and put it in front of Qin Feng, and said with a smile: "Qin Feng, take a look, if there is no problem, I will return it to its original owner." After handing the book to Qin Feng, Zeng Shaoxiang's eyes kept staring at Qin Feng tightly, and the expression on his face was extremely nervous.

Qin Feng took the book and carefully looked at the time that was almost seven or eight minutes, and then slowly raised his head, with a sneer of disdain on his face: "Uncle Zeng, this is the last time I call you, and from now on, we will be the same passers-by." So now, I would like to ask you a question: What do you mean by giving me a fake annotated version of the Tao Te Ching by Master Hanshan of the Ming Dynasty? Do you want to hide from the world? Or do you want to steal the beams and change the pillars? To be honest, don't you think it's a little too shameless for you, an old man in his 60s, to play this kind of trick in front of a young man like me?

Who are you, you are a famous master of calligraphy and painting, you are ashamed to do such a thing. ”

Zeng Shaoxiang's old face changed red and blue, he was angry and ashamed, but he was speechless.

However, Zeng Shaoxiang was an old fox after all, and he had a lot of experience in dealing with it, so he immediately said with doubts in his eyes: "Oh, is the book wrong? No, I got it from my study." Come on, I'll take another look. ”

After speaking, he took the ancient book from Qin Feng's hand and pretended to look at it, and after reading it for a while, Zeng Shaoxiang nodded and said, "I'm sorry Qin Feng, I really took it wrong." Usually this book is placed on my desk, but when the nanny cleaned up the room, she put the real one elsewhere and put the fake one on my desk. ”

Qin Feng said coldly: "Boss Zeng, I'm curious, since you usually read the real book, why do you prepare a fake one?

Zeng Shaoxiang hurriedly said: "No, no, Qin Feng, you misunderstood." The reason why I prepared a fake one is to prevent some thieves with malicious intentions, so I have to do it as a last resort, because I stole it here some time ago, so for such an important thing, I must focus on protecting ......"

Subsequently, Zeng Shaoxiang spoke freely for more than ten minutes, but still did not mention the matter of handing over the real book to Qin Feng.

After listening to it for a while, Qin Feng understood what Zeng Shaoxiang meant, and he said bluntly about this kind of cultural hooligan: "Boss Zeng, you don't have to tell me so much, I'll just ask you a word, do you want to return our family's things to me." If you are willing, you can say yes, if you are not willing, you will say no, and don't care about him. It's a waste of everyone's time to do that. ”

Zeng Shaoxiang couldn't fool the past, and immediately said with a serious look on his face: "Qin Feng, it's not that I don't want to give you this book, but this book is very important and of immeasurable value, with your current identity and status, it is not enough to control this book, and it may even bring you death, you are Qin Ruijie's child, I naturally have to be responsible for you."

If you really want to get this book back, ask your mother to come, as long as she does, I won't say anything. ”

When Qin Feng heard this, his face couldn't help but sink, and he secretly said in his heart: "If my mother can come, what else do I want to ask you for this book? ”

Of course, in this case, Qin Feng naturally couldn't say it directly to Zeng Shaoxiang, but said coldly: "Boss Zeng, you don't have to play these twists and turns with me, I can tell you clearly, my mother is traveling abroad now, she can't come, but now I really need this book here, so I hope you don't play hooligan with me, I believe you should be clear about the relationship between our mother and son, my mother's things and mine are no different." ”

Zeng Shaoxiang couldn't help frowning, and after a moment of silence, he said slowly: "Qin Feng, the reason why I say this is not to play hooligan, but because this book has extremely high historical research value, calligraphy research value, and even the illustrations and paintings in the book have extremely high painting research value, which has extremely high reference value for us to study the history, calligraphy, and painting art of the Ming Dynasty."

So, in order to make sure that the good things of our country do not become dusty, I beg you to keep this book with me, for the sake of the big picture. ”

Qin Feng sneered and said: "Chief boss, you don't have to use the overall situation to pressure me, I can deal with my own things as much as I want, even if it is set on fire, it has nothing to do with you, not to mention, why do you think that only you can research something? What you can do, I can completely do." ”

Zeng Shaoxiang smiled, what he was waiting for was Qin Feng's words.

Zeng Shaoxiang said in a deep voice: "Qin Feng, if you say that, I will have to test your level well." Otherwise, Qin Feng, you write a few words for me, and I'll see if I can reach a certain level. ”

Qin Feng shook his head and said: "Boss Zeng, with all due respect, I despise your ink shooting calligraphy art and closed-eyes calligraphy art, especially ugly calligraphy art, I think that it is not art at all, but hype and garbage." So, we don't have a common language between us. And you are not qualified to evaluate my artistic level. ”

Zeng Shaoxiang smiled: "It seems that it is really different, otherwise, Qin Feng, when do you think that your calligraphy and painting level can surpass mine, you can come over and challenge me at any time, as long as your level is higher than mine, I can give you this book at any time." ”

Zeng Shaoxiang played a good calculation. In his opinion, Qin Feng is so young, he is probably not interested in calligraphy and painting at all, and even if he is interested, it is impossible to surpass Zeng Shaoxiang, who has been in this industry for more than 30 years.

Therefore, Zeng Shaoxiang believed that his proposal of this condition was enough to stump Qin Feng.

But he didn't expect that Qin Feng directly said lightly: "Zeng Shaoxiang, do you count what you say?" I hope you won't be as untrustworthy as before?"

Zeng Shaoxiang said with a smile: "I speak indifferently. ”

Qin Feng said: "Okay, since that's the case, then we will challenge you tomorrow afternoon, because I can't believe your words now." Of course, in order to prevent us from cheating, I think we should lightly hire some well-known big bowls, scholars and experts in our entire northern literary and artistic circles to serve as judges, and the judges must be unanimously approved by both of us, what do you think?"

Zeng Shaoxiang nodded: "That's for sure." Don't worry, I will definitely find some top expert judges to evaluate the level of calligraphy and painting of the two of us. I don't know if you've heard of Zhang Entai, the director of the famous art museum in Yanjing City, who is very famous in the calligraphy, painting and collecting circles in Yanjing City, and I heard that several big bowls in the collecting world are also in Yanjing City recently, and I plan to ask him to help invite two more top names in the collecting industry to serve as judges."

Qin Fengting once mentioned Director Zhang Entai in Shaoxiang, and immediately remembered the Director Zhang who he met at the door of Xinyuan Hotel before and wanted to buy Huangfuyun's four-character calligraphy work, and he remembered that the name written on Director Zhang's business card was Zhang Entai.

Qin Feng hesitated for a moment, frowned and said, "Wait a moment, I'll check his information first." ”

Zeng Shaoxiang's face immediately showed a confident smile and said, "You can check." ”

Qin Feng immediately searched for it with his mobile phone, and after searching for a while, Qin Feng said with a smile: "Okay, this Zhang Entai seems to be a celebrity in the collection and art circles of Yanjing City, so let's do it, as for the judges he invited, it must also be confirmed by both of us on the spot, how about it?"

Zeng Shaoxiang nodded: "Okay, no problem, we will implement the judges' matters tomorrow morning, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we will hold a challenge directly in my art museum, how about it?"

Qin Feng nodded: "Okay, that's no problem." But how will we determine the content of the game?"

Zeng Shaoxiang said: "In this way, our competition is divided into three layers, the first one is antique appraisal, the reason is that this book belongs to antiques, if you want to take it, you must know how to identify antiques, you must understand the value of this book, this is a test of your ability." ”

Qin Feng frowned and said, "This is not good. Antique appraisal involves all kinds of knowledge, so it doesn't seem fair, right?"

In fact, Qin Feng meant that this was not fair to Zeng Shaoxiang.

But Zeng Shaoxiang was mistaken, thinking that Qin Feng was saying that he was not very fair to himself, and immediately retorted: "There is nothing fair or unfair, a super classic book like "Tao Te Ching", its own content value can no longer be described in words, plus this book was personally annotated and personally supervised and printed by Master Hanshan in the Ming Dynasty, and the value of its cultural relics is so high that it can no longer be measured by economic value. Therefore, if we don't know how to appreciate and protect antiques, how can we ensure that this book can be preserved forever? Qin Feng, I don't think there is any fairness or unfairness in this regard, but we must set up such an evaluation, whether it is for you or for me, it is necessary. ”

Qin Feng frowned and said, "Then where did this antique come from?"

Zeng Shaoxiang said: "Of course, it was brought by the judges, Zhang Entai, you have also learned about his information, I believe you should know that this Director Zhang is not only a calligrapher, but also a painter, but also a collector, his collection is all-inclusive, and he brought an antique to the two of us to appreciate and compete, wouldn't it be more fair and reasonable?"

Qin Feng hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded helplessly, and said, "Okay, since you say so, I have nothing to say, so what do we compare between the second and third items?"

Zeng Shaoxiang said: "This is too simple, the second item is the art of calligraphy, and the third item is the art of painting. To put it bluntly, the experts were invited to ask the questions on the spot, and the two of us each created a pair of calligraphy works and paintings according to the content of the experts' questions. How about it, do you have any objections?"

Qin Feng sighed and said, "Boss Zeng, you are a strong man." ”

When Qin Feng said this, Fan Hongjian and Zhuge Qiang were all snickering, but they all held back.

Zeng Shaoxiang paid all his attention to Qin Feng's body, naturally he couldn't see other people's expressions, seeing the kind of dissatisfaction and unwillingness that Qin Feng revealed, his mood became more and more comfortable, and he immediately said: "Qin Feng, I have to tell you one thing carefully, there are some things that only the virtuous can rely on, otherwise the unvirtuous people will bring disaster." I hope you understand my painstaking efforts. ”

Qin Feng nodded with a stern expression: "Okay, I understand." Then let's encourage the two of us together!"

After speaking, Qin Feng walked out of Zeng Shaoxiang's art gallery with everyone.

Looking at Qin Feng's departing back, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of Zeng Shaoxiang's mouth: "Qin Feng, Qin Feng, fight an old fox like me, you are still tender!"

After speaking, Zeng Shaoxiang took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone number of Director Zhang Entai. On the phone, there was another round of sycophancy, and then he proposed to Zhang Entai to let him come over as a judge and invite two people to be judges.

After hearing this, Zhang Entai pondered for a moment before agreeing.

After hanging up the phone, Zeng Shaoxiang waved his arm vigorously and said, "It's okay, tomorrow's challenge is done, Qin Feng, you are doomed! This book will be mine from now on!"