Chapter 274: Qi "Shrimp"
Prussia stared at Wei Xiu, and the gentlemanly smile on his face did not disappear because of this, but it was a little superficial. Tomato -''.'f'q'x-s' There seemed to be ice particles floating in the air, and there was a chill to the bone.
Wei Xiu's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes looked at Prussia calmly, this kind of calm was not forced calm, but it was a calm that did not care about fear.
"Mr. Wei doesn't like wine?ah, that's a pity!Locke, are there any drinkable sweet wines in the castle?" The gentlemanly smile on Prussia's face remained unchanged, and he remembered something and asked Wei Xiu, "Do you like it?"
"It's okay!" Wei Xiu smiled.
Steward Locke bowed slightly and said, "There are still two bottles of forty-six years of Riesling dry white wine in the sixth cabinet of the castle cellar!"
When Prussia heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "There is still such a superb product in the fort?
Locke smiled and said, "These are the three bottles of Thirty-four Riesling dry white wine sent by His Excellency Ivane of the House of Luson twelve years ago, when His Royal Highness Milott Prussian Bavaria opened one bottle and did not like its sweet aroma, so two bottles have been kept in the cellar. ”
"I see!" Prussia heard that it was his father's collection of dry white, and his face showed a hint of surprise, and he smiled: "Such a fine wine has waited for Mr. Wei for forty-six years, it is really a good wine with a hero! haha......"
When Locke heard this, he bowed slightly and retreated quietly. ▽ Tomato◇ ''.
Wei Xiu waved his hand when he heard this: "I can't afford this title of hero!"
"You Chinese people are good at everything, but you are too modest!" said Prussia with emotion.
Wei Xiu was silent when he heard this, and Prussia turned to the charcoal painting in front of him and said, "This charcoal painting, Mr. Wei is really willing to change it?"
Some inexplicable words made a smile rise at the corner of Wei Xiu's mouth: "Of course!
"Good, very good!" Prussia slapped his face, and a waiter appeared at the corner of the castle, who came over with a lacquered bamboo tube in his hand, and leaned over to hand it to Wei Xiu.
Wei Xiu took the bamboo tube with some surprise and glanced at Prussia.
At this time, Prussia smiled and was making a gesture of please!
With a hint of curiosity, Wei Xiu easily found a way to open the bamboo tube, pulled off the extremely delicate stopper at one end of the bamboo tube, and then slowly poured out a roll of calligraphy and paintings wrapped in light yarn.
The moment I saw the calligraphy and paintings, a trace of ink fragrance wafted away.
The curiosity in Wei Xiu's eyes became more and more victorious, he opened the light veil and gently unfolded the scroll, and suddenly Wei Xiuzhen's eyes widened, and his pupils trembled with excitement.
This is a roll of ink paintings, the composition of the picture is extremely simple, at first glance it seems that there are only two brushstrokes, but if you look closely, there seem to be countless brushstrokes, the ink walks like a snake, and the depth and shade show a unique tension of ink. Tomato--.
There seem to be only two strokes of the long-arm shrimp (grass shrimp) in the picture, but it is vivid as if it can be alarmed and splashed at any time. The shrimp tail is as if you can see the fluff under the shrimp tail in the stroke of a stroke.
These two shrimps seem to be funny, like fighting, or straight waist attack, or curled up tail and dodge, long arms waving, tentacles smart, that kind of soft and rigid has a kind of feeling of reaching out to touch and teasing.
"It's ...... Master Qi Baishi's painting!!" Wei Xiu, who didn't need to look at the payment at all, looked directly at Prussia, and blurted out in shock.
"Mr. Wei is indeed an excellent treasure connoisseur, this is indeed a painting by Master Qi Baishi, as far as I know, this painting was painted by Master Qi Baishi when he was 91 years old!" Prussia smiled and spat out a bombshell.
Wei Xiu was completely shocked, and the excitement and excitement in his eyes were beyond words. For Wei Xiu, who has personally found many national treasure-level antiques, in fact, he shouldn't be so out of shape.
However, it also depends on what kind of antique, no, who created the artwork!
Xuande furnace is a national treasure, that is because of the collection of the wisdom of the country's craftsmen, under the royal backdrop to have the glory of the national treasure; the Japanese demon knife Muramasa, that is purely to take advantage of the gamma metal; and the other nameless treasure knife, that is because of Japan's special historical productivity and the formation of the rare and expensive form of the degree of cherishment!
is the fragment of "Sending the Son to the Heavenly King" that Wei Xiu found, and it is also because Wu Daozi created a painting school......
However, in terms of real artistic creativity and value, in Wei Xiu's point of view, these national treasures are far inferior to Mr. Qi Baishi, a great painter in modern times!!
Mr. Qi Baishi can be described as a late bloomer, he has studied a lifetime of painting, sold a lifetime of painting, and copied a lifetime of painting, until his later years, he collected the essence of everyone and became a supreme art!
So when Prussia said that this "Prawn" was the work of Master Qi Baishi at the age of 91 in his later years, how could Wei Xiu not be shocked?
You must know that in the 2011 Spring Auction of Guardian, the first joint night show of ancient and modern calligraphy and painting "Grand View - Night of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Treasures", Master Qi Baishi's largest work "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu - Four Words of Seal Script" was auctioned at a sky-high price of 425.5 million yuan, setting a record for modern calligraphy and painting. □▽○ Tomato ☆ Small ○ Say Net '--.- f'q'x-s--.com
The almost deified master Picasso, who has a supreme position in the Western art world, once commented: "Qi Baishi is really a great painter in China! How amazing a Chinese painter is! Qi Baishi's ink painting of fish is not colored, but it makes people see the long river and swimming fish." Tomato □◇Say☆Net '--.-F-Q'"
Wei Xiu was excited to put this volume of "Shrimp" into the red lacquer bamboo tube, for fear that he would accidentally damage such a national treasure.
Prussia looked at Wei Xiu's expression, and there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes, only people of the same kind can understand the gaffe of the same kind of people for the cherished things.
Wei Xiu looked at Prussia and did not speak. His previous gaffe put him at a disadvantage in the barter trade, but Prussia had also lost his temper when he had faced Dürer's charcoal paintings.
So it seems that the first invisible confrontation between the two is comparable.
Prussia pointed to the box on the table and said, "I'll exchange this bamboo tube for your wooden box, okay?"
Wei Xiu was stunned, a little unbelieving his ears, this is too gentle, right?
"No other conditions?" Wei Xiu couldn't help but ask.
Prussia grinned: "If other conditions are added, it will not only be an insult to you and me, but also an insult to the great work of art!!"
Wei Xiu was speechless for a long time when he heard this, this point of view was the first time he had encountered it, and it had a strong impact on his worldview, Wei Xiu opened his mouth, thought about it carefully, and said seriously: "I don't quite understand, I don't seem to be a nameless boy like me, it seems that it is not worth stepping into the castle of His Royal Highness Manvis Prussia Bavaria, you personally invite him to the castle to trade, right?" Wei Xiu learned the butler's respectful title of Prussia.
Wei Xiu's words made Prussia stunned, and he seemed to have some expectations of Wei Xiu's leapfrog thinking, shook his head and smiled: "Mr. Wei is too arrogant, there are two kinds of people in this world worthy of fear, one is a scholar, and the other is an artist. Mr. Wei is not a scholar or an artist, but he ...... In my opinion, they are half scholars and half artists, so they deserve respect. ”
When Prussia's words fell, Wei Xiu became more and more surprised in his heart, this value simply subverted his perception of things, and for a while he felt at a loss.
Wei Xiu didn't know that Sun Lao valued him at the beginning, not only because of his style of acting, but also because he had a "skill", which actually influenced Wei Xiu on the way of Wei Xiu's growth.
Wei Xiu did not know that in the system of European aristocracy, except for a few constitutional monarchies that also recognized nobility. In fact, other countries do not recognize the existence of aristocracy, for example, Germany officially does not recognize the existence of aristocracy. However, for the de facto rulers of the German government, and indeed for Europe as a whole, the German aristocracy was more valuable than the nobility of any other kingdom.
The reason why the German aristocracy has such gold content is not only related to the illustrious history of Germany in ancient times and the special history of modern times, but also because the German aristocracy still retains a set of extremely strict self-discipline standards.
In World War II, the highest rate of German war losses was not soldiers, but commanders! Because these elites who were educated by aristocratic academies, the spirit of nobility did not allow them to hide behind the soldiers! This is the spirit of nobility!!
This is a major reason for the scarcity of a large number of titles in Germany after World War II!
In addition, the standards of the German aristocracy are simply not enough for outsiders.
You must know that those knights who were canonized by the Queen of Great Britain were not recognized by the European aristocracy at all, and at most they were considered to be bursts, and they bought the title with money.
In this set of standards, the financial standard is only the minimum standard, and the aristocratic spirit, knowledge, cultivation, heritage, etc. are all strict. And many of these strict standards can only be possessed by relying on the precipitation of years, as the so-called "ten years of rich, a hundred years of aristocrats", "three generations of nobles!"
As a result, the characteristics that represent the age of time have been sought after by many nobles, such as rich collections, cross-era wines, old castles, and a servant system of generations of servants.
Some can only rely on the accumulation and precipitation of years, while some things that do not need the precipitation of years, or can take shortcuts, are naturally hot!
There is a joke among the European aristocracy that if you don't have one or two Picasso paintings in the collection, you are not an aristocrat!
This is also the reason why Prussia attaches great importance to Wei Xiu! When Wei Xiu was shocked, a cup of Riesling dry white was quietly delivered to Wei Xiu's finger on the coffee table.
At this moment, Wei Xiu came back to his senses and smiled at the waiter who served dry white: "Thank you!"
However, when he heard the word "thank you" from Wei Xiu, the waiter's face turned pale, as if he had been struck by lightning!