There is a painting spread out on the desk, and the painting paper is a little bit of plum blossoms with light ink marks, and the clusters of ink plums are placed on the jade white rice paper, showing the artistic conception of the fragrance of plum sea and snow.

"You say, this is Wu Changshuo's real handiwork?" Behind the desk, a young man with an inch of hair pushed his round-rimmed glasses, held the magnifying glass in front of the painting, and asked suspiciously while looking back and forth.

"Hmm. In front of the desk, Xia Keren's face was expressionless, the light in his eyes was cold, and his hands hung down at his sides, making people unable to see his thoughts.

This painting is a relic left by her mother, and if it is not for the fact that it has reached the point of last resort, how can she be willing to sell it.

Xia Keren's eyes moved around, and he saw that the calendar hanging on the wall was turning to the page of August 5, 2019.

The 6th is the date of her repayment.

Xia Keren couldn't help but secretly exert force and clenched his palms.

"Hmm...... Even if it is imitation, then the technique of this imitation painter can be regarded as perfect. The young man finally put down the magnifying glass, raised his head and looked at the person in front of the desk, the little girl was only twenty-two or three years old, it was the age when she loved to dress like a flower, but she wrapped herself from head to toe in a dull and dull way, and her untreated half-length bangs covered her eyebrows and eyes, and if you looked closely, you could find that her appearance was actually delicate and lovely, "It's not that I don't believe you, beauty, but I really doubt it, how can this Wu Changshuo's true work run into your hands?"

Xia Keren knew that he only needed one sentence to dispel his doubts: "My mother is Li Tong." ”

"Li Tong?!" the young man exclaimed, "Our famous Chinese painting master Li Tong in Qingchuan?"

This young man's name is Feng Jiayu, who runs a century-old pond shop at the end of Jimo Lane, and usually sells calligraphy and painting and calligraphy utensils in addition to framing calligraphy and paintings, tablets and tablets.

The business of calligraphy and painting will naturally be closely related to local calligraphers and painters, and whether they are famous or not, they will have more or less contact.

The name of Li Tong, a master of Qingchuan Chinese painting, he has heard of it for a long time.

Li Tong is good at painting flowers and birds, the brush and ink are moisturized, and he is full of fun, and a painting has been auctioned for a high price of 100,000 yuan when he was young.

However, Li Tong has very few works, only painting one and a half paintings all year round, and he is divorced and raising a daughter alone, although his life is not poor, he is not rich. It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, on the eve of Li Tong's daughter's college entrance examination, Li Tong was found to have systemic lupus erythematosus.

In order not to affect her daughter's exam, Li Tong hid her condition, and by the time her daughter finished the college entrance examination and had summer vacation, the nephritis associated with the disease had developed into severe kidney failure, and she was directly admitted to the intensive care unit as soon as she entered the hospital.

Li Tong's family background was not enough to support her expensive treatment costs, and Feng Jiayu only heard from the neighborhood that Li Tong's family had sold their house for treatment and borrowed a lot of foreign debts.

Seeing this girl now, Feng Jiayu realized that in order to treat Li Tong, their family was already destitute.

"Hmm. Xia Keren nodded and pinched his palm.

"Then you are, Xia ...... Xia ......" The young man rubbed his head and tried to recall.

"Xia Keren. "Xia Keren interface.

"Yes! Xia Keren!" Feng Jiayu's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands excitedly.

Li Tong's daughter is called Xia Keren, and her fame in the past few years has spread more than Li Tong, and she won the silver medal of Chinese painting at the 11th National Art Exhibition when she was in middle school.

It's just that since Li Tong's divorce, this Xia Keren has become extraordinarily willful, just perverse and mean, I heard that he had a lot of trouble with Li Tong, and even said ruthlessly that he wanted to break off the relationship, and he went to study high school in another place by himself.

Many people said that Li Tong's illness was caused by her anger.

However, this Xia Keren has never heard any news since Li Tong's death, and has long faded out of the circle, and now that Li Tong has been dead for four years, Xia Keren's temperament looks much colder.

Feng Jiayu sighed, took off his glasses and slowly rubbed his eyes: "That's it, it's not easy for you, I'll introduce you to a single business, if you do it, the income will not be less than the money from selling paintings." ”

"Your mother has also passed away, so you can keep this painting for yourself, and there may be some use for it in the future. Feng Jiayu put his glasses back on, "My surname is Feng, and my name is Feng Jiayu." ”

Xia Keren let go of his hand and asked, "Boss Feng, what kind of business are you talking about?"

"Have you heard of MNU?" Feng Jiayu left from behind the table, walked to the chair in the middle of the store, sat down while talking, and saw Xia Keren shaking his head, raising his eyebrows and smiling, "It's right if you haven't heard of it! This brand is from the United States, making some bags, belts or something, taking the road of high-end customization, and it is said to be very popular abroad." Recently, somehow, they want to come to China for development, and they plan to launch a small leather goods to try the effect. ”

Feng Jiayu paused and continued: "With my half-baked level, I will definitely not be able to take this job, but now that we have you, we can give it a try!"

……

In the afternoon of the same day, Xia Keren followed Feng Jiayu to the MMU Group.

Xia Keren took off her gray-black clothes, changed into the antique long skirt specially prepared for her by Feng Jiayu, and carefully braided her long hair, which had always been casually draped, she hadn't dressed up so brightly for four years.

As soon as I walked into the office building, someone greeted me.

"The two of you are Mr. Feng and Master Xia, right?" the young man looked at Xia Keren and pointed in the direction of the elevator, "Please come with me, Director Cai has been waiting for a long time." ”

When getting on the elevator, Xia Keren didn't stand firm and stumbled a little, Feng Jiayu hurriedly helped her, leaned close to her ear and whispered: "You have to cheer up, this skirt cost me a few thousand, if the business is not negotiated, you will have to pay for it!"

This Boss Feng looked kind and enthusiastic on the surface, and when it came to the critical moment, he revealed the prototype, Xia Keren was on the thief ship, but she was not afraid at all.

When she was a child, she was afraid that her mother and father would divorce, but they still left, and then her father Xia Sanyuan had liver cancer, she was afraid that he would die, and he still died of unstoppable illness, so Xia Keren once hated his mother Li Tong, and felt that his father's misfortune came from his strong and cold mother, and even chose a fierce and decisive way to escape from his mother in the three years of high school. It wasn't until she finished the college entrance examination that she learned from others that her mother Li Tong was also sick, and said that Li Tong's illness was the retribution that harmed Xia Sanyuan, and she once felt that this was her mother's retribution, but when she saw her mother, who was once so proud on the hospital bed, but now she was dying, she found that she didn't want her to die, and Xia Keren began to be afraid again, so she tried her best to treat her mother's illness, mortgaged the family's old house without telling her mother, and borrowed foreign debts, but everything was in vain......

Since then, Xia Keren has never been afraid.

The elevator bell rang, and the sixth floor arrived.

Xia Keren came back to his senses, followed Feng Jiayu, and walked into the conference room at the end of the corridor.

The conference room is not big, with transparent glass doors and windows on both sides, a long square table in the middle, and six chairs symmetrically placed on both sides, a middle-aged man in a black suit is sitting on the second chair on the left, watching the PPT playing in front of him.

On the PPT, an old picture of a beautiful woman is projected, and it can be vaguely seen on the yellowed and broken rice paper that under the pink and white pear blossom tree in early spring, there is a young woman wearing a gray lake green cheongsam and combing short hair with a swallowtail.

The woman's posture is graceful, like a little spring in the vast snow, but it should be the most dazzling face, but because of serious damage, people can't see the appearance.

On the left side of the painting are the words "repair", and the man frowns and circles the two words over and over again with his fingers on the touch screen.

It's a good painting, but it's too broken, and Xia Keren was the first to see the painting as soon as he entered the door.

"Director Cai, Boss Feng and Master Xia have arrived. Seeing that the man did not react, the young man reminded him loudly.

At this sound, Director Cai seemed to notice that someone had entered the conference room, and he quickly stood up: "You guys are finally here!"

As he spoke, he beckoned the young man to pour tea, and then looked at Xia Keren.

Feng Jiayu saw that Director Cai's gaze stayed on Xia Keren, and immediately opened his mouth to introduce: "Director Cai, this is the Xia Master Xia Keren I told you, she is our Qingchuan quite accomplished master of Chinese painting, when I was in high school, I painted a painting at random and sent it to the National Art Exhibition and won the silver medal, good guy, it was really almost unknown to everyone in our entire Qingchuan at that time." As long as the brush curtain you want to make can get into her eyes, then it will be no problem to push it out!"

Director Cai nodded with satisfaction, and asked Xia Keren: "Master Xia, I don't know if Boss Feng has introduced you to you." Our МU brand intends to first make a unique national style of small leather goods, customized brush roller blinds, specially promoted to the love of calligraphy and painting star writers and other celebrities, not only to achieve the media effect, but also unique to launch the trend of high-end customization with Chinese characteristics, you see, this is it. ”

Director Cai picked up the sample on the table and displayed it in front of Xia Keren.

A small cowhide roller blind, the shape is quite chic, Xia Keren's mind buzzed only to hear the words "National Art Exhibition Silver Award", that is her pride, but also her most hot/hot pursuit, but later her mother died, in order to relieve the discomfort, guilt, and debt in her heart, she just cared about her silent painting over and over again, and faded out of the circle, but I didn't expect that there were still people who remembered her past.

Letting go of the palm that he was unconsciously pinching, and coming back to his senses, Xia Keren glanced at the leather roller shutter and said without thinking: "It's good." ”

Director Cai was full of words for a while, in exchange for three simple words, and his expression was perfunctory, he was a little dissatisfied.

Feng Jiayu hurriedly rounded the scene: "Our Master Xia doesn't talk much, Director Cai has a lot of forbearance, but don't worry, Master Xia never opens his mouth to praise well, since she has said it well, it must be really good!"

In the past four years, Xia Keren has been accustomed to speaking outright, because there is nothing to lose, so she doesn't care about other people's moods and feelings at all, the three words "very good" are her habits and blurted out, and now seeing Feng Jiayu's anxious look, Xia Ke realized that although she has nothing to lose, she still has something to get back, and only when she becomes this business and pays off her debts, can she hope to redeem her old house in her home.

Xia Keren took a light breath, eased his cold and indifferent look, and just wanted to close his eyes and praise the pen curtain again to win this business, when he heard Feng Jiayu mention Li Tong's name.

"And our Master Xia's mother is Li Tong, Li Tong's name must have been heard of by Director Cai, right?" Feng Jiayu saw Director Cai's spirit, and he gushed endlessly, "Li Tong got the nickname of this Danqing master at a young age, if it weren't for the jealousy of her talent that caused her to die early, with her skills and realm, she would sooner or later become a well-known master of Chinese painting at home and abroad." ”

"Disrespectful and disrespectful!" Director Cai looked at Xia Keren's gaze with more respect and admiration, and the three words "very good" that he was originally dissatisfied with became a thousand words, "It turns out that Master Xia is still Li Tong's daughter, it's good, it's good, as long as you say it's good, it must be good!"

Xia Keren agreed to Feng Jiayu to take over this business, in the spirit of breaking the jar and breaking it, but now it involves her mother, Xia Keren's palm that has just let go of it is pinched again, and the tips of her nails poked into the tender flesh fiercely.

Mother cherishes feathers, and the thing she hated the most was that others used her fame to deceive her, Xia Keren didn't want an old house, and she couldn't use her mother's reputation to do business.

"I mean, it's nice to look at, but if I used it, I would never use it. The cold mood was thrown out of the clouds, Xia Keren stood up with a cold face, "You don't want to rush to the vassal elegance if you do leather goods, the brush is washed and hung up is the best, even if you want to sketch, you will choose a bamboo roller blind with better ventilation, what kind of cowhide to use, bells and whistles." ”

Feng Jiayu saw that the duck with his beak was about to fly, and he was so angry that he blushed and shouted thickly: "Xia Keren! Master Xia! What nonsense are you talking about!"

"By the way, don't call it a master, it's ugly, like a blind fortune teller on the flyover. Xia Keren was about to go out, and when he came to the door, he remembered something, turned around and took out the mean and perverse energy of the year, pointed to the beautiful picture of the pen on the PPT and added, "And this painting, broken into this appearance, even I am only seventy percent sure, you want to find someone to fix it, daydreaming!"

After saying that, he lifted his feet and walked out.

Feng Jiayu's face turned purple like a piece of pork liver, and he was about to apologize to Director Cai in a hoarse voice, but before he could speak, Director Cai had a dark face and pointed out his hand: "Get out." ”

Out of the MMU group, Feng Jiayu ran to catch up with Xia Keren, and pulled her sleeve: "Do you want to leave, you have to compensate me for my losses!"

"What do you have to lose?" Xia Keren shook off Feng Jiayu's hand, his feet didn't stop, his eyes didn't blink, his hand touched his back, and he pulled out a label from the long skirt, "The skirt will be taken off for you when I go back, you don't let me cut the label, isn't it just that I am dressed and returned?"

"You!" Feng Jiayu shouted angrily, "You messed up my hundreds of thousands of business, and you want to leave?"

Feng Jiayu caught up a few steps, and before he could say more, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, and the caller turned out to be Director Cai.

This Director Cai is really! It's not enough to let me go, is it possible that you have to call me to scold me?

But only five seconds after he picked up the phone, his face turned into a flower, hung up the phone, rushed up and twisted Xia Keren's arm tightly: "Sister, sister Keren! There is still a turning point in this matter, as long as you listen to me, I don't care about what happened just now, and I promised you to pay the arrears in advance." ”

Xia Keren stopped and turned his face to stare at Feng Jiayu's eyes.

"Mr. Meng!" Xia Keren's eyes were cold and cold, and Feng Jiayu shivered in the summer, he knew that this little girl was both ice and fire, but it was not easy to mess with, so he quickly told the truth, "Mr. Meng of the MMU Group just heard what you said outside, I don't know why I appreciate you very much, and let you go to his house tonight." ”

"What do you mean. Xia Keren frowned.

"You know. Feng Jiayu thought about it, "What kind of domineering president spoils the little wild cat, maybe your willful and spicy appearance just now is facing Mr. Meng's appetite." ”

Xia Keren raised his eyebrows: "Yes." ”

"What...... What?" Feng Jiayu didn't expect Xia Keren to agree so easily, "You don't have to think about it anymore?"

"The arrears will be paid to my account at once, and I will listen to your arrangement in the evening. Xia Keren ignored Feng Jiayu, and directly took out a card from his bag after speaking.

Feng Jiayu was stunned for a while before taking the card with both hands, knowing the current affairs is Junjie, this Xia Keren is not simple, he has to grasp this cash cow!

At eight o'clock in the evening, Director Cai personally drove to pick up Xia Keren and drove her to the Mushan Villa area located halfway up the mountain.

The houses here are far from each other, and most of the way through them are only dim street lamps, and the street lamps are surrounded by mountains and forests, and the air is so sweet that it is so good.

The car quickly drove to the gate of a manor, Director Cai got out of the car, stood next to the pager outside the carved iron gate, pressed the doorbell, and said respectfully: "Mr. Meng, Miss Xia has arrived." ”

This Director Cai is already middle-aged, not to mention being qualified for the position of president of the Chinese branch of the МU Group, Xia Keren guessed that the opposite side of the pager must be a man over half a hundred years old.

The iron door opened in response, and Director Cai beckoned to Xia Keren: "Mr. Meng doesn't like the car to drive in, and he has to trouble Miss Xia to take two more steps." ”

Xia Keren got out of the car when he heard this, took two steps forward, but found Director Cai standing in place, turned around, and heard him say again: "Mr. Meng doesn't like outsiders to go in casually, Miss Xia, please keep going inside." ”

Xia Keren walked towards the gate of the villa alone, although it was a summer night, the mountain was cold, and there were waves of insects in his ears.

As soon as I reached the steps outside the gate, the door in front of me opened automatically.

Xia Keren stood still, and through the entrance, he saw a lamp lit by the floor-to-ceiling window of the hall on the first floor, and a man in a shirt and trousers with a document in his hand leaning under the lamp.

The man was well-proportioned and looked very young, and when he heard the sound in front of the door, he put down the papers, revealing a handsome face, and looked straight at Xia Keren's eyes, which made her feel cooler than the mountain wind.

Xia Keren was stunned for a moment, and then said calmly: "Mr. Meng, I promised to come, but I didn't promise to come for long, let alone enter the house, I'll just stand here and give you three minutes, if you have anything, just say it." ”

Mr. Meng raised his chin slightly, he was only in his early twenties, but he had an aura that young people did not have.

"Come in. ”

His voice was faint, and the two words that were simply spoken made Xia Keren somehow difficult to refuse.

Xia Keren hesitated for a moment and then walked into the door with his legs raised, and stood in the entrance after only two steps.

"Xia Keren, you said that you are seventy percent sure that you can fix that painting?" Seeing that people stopped from afar, Mr. Meng glanced at her again, frowning slightly, but he didn't care about it anymore.

"What?" Xia Keren was stunned, a little confused, "What painting?"

As soon as the words fell, I remembered the PPT I saw in the conference room of the MMU Group in the afternoon, and then it suddenly dawned on me that this Mr. Meng called him because of this matter.

It's really Boss Feng's intention to plant flowers and flowers not to live, and he has no intention of planting willows and returning willows to the shade.

Immediately, the tense body suddenly relaxed, and it was also at this moment of relief that Xia Ke realized that he was so nervous just now.

While Xia Keren was thinking, Mr. Meng had already stood up, walked to the cabinet on the left side of the hall, took out a painting scroll from a red sandalwood box, carefully opened it and put it on the table.

"This painting. Mr. Meng spoke up.

Xia Keren stepped forward, the painting on the desktop was exactly the same as the one seen on the PPT in the afternoon, and it was even more exquisite when I looked closely.

"The breakage is severe. Xia Keren looked at it carefully.

"But seventy percent is my humble statement, as long as Mr. Meng can give me all the things I need to repair the painting, if it is completely repaired, it will only take two months. Xia Keren raised his head from the drawing paper and looked at Mr. Meng.

This is the first time that Xia Keren has looked directly into Mr. Meng's eyes.

His eyes were very bright, like the sun in the daytime, and Xia Keren couldn't avoid them.

"Two months is too long, time is faster, and the reward is yours. ”

"Open it with me?" If you can open it casually, then the redemption of the old mansion will be within reach, Xia Keren took a deep breath, "How fast does Mr. Meng want?"

"Half a month. Mr. Meng said, "It's just a brush painting." ”

"If this painting is easy to repair, Mr. Meng will not come to me. Mr. Meng's contempt for Chinese painting between his words was like a thorn, which made Xia Ke's heart very uncomfortable, but for the sake of casual payment, she still spoke calmly, "Mr. Meng may not understand that this rice paper is divided into raw Xuan and cooked Xuan, Shengxuan has strong water absorption, easy to produce rich ink color levels, suitable for ink painting; ”

Xia Keren paused, and patiently explained: "Your painting is a fine brush painting, but this painter has superb painting skills, but it is a strong absorbent Shengxuan, or a pure handmade special clean skin, now all that can be found outside is machine-made paper, and only the handmade Xuan Paper Workshop in Jingxian County is still producing." ”

"Pure handmade special clean skin?" Mr. Meng frowned slightly, he was not interested in Chinese painting or anything, he was tired of listening to the previous paragraph, but now he couldn't help but ask.

Xia Keren nodded: "That's right, look here." ”

Xia Keren held up the painting, pointed to the light by the floor-to-ceiling window, and pointed to the blank space of the drawing paper, and the damaged place of the covered paper revealed the transparent and light painting heart like a cicada's wings, and under the sunlight, the pattern was revealed in a circle.

"See, this is unique to handmade pure skin rice paper, and it has to be made by hand, and the paper can't deceive people. Xia Keren put the painting back on the table, "If you want to make up this painting, you have to have the same rice paper, it takes two days to go back and forth to Jing County, and it takes a week to find paper in the paper workshop, half a month is too short." ”

"That month. Meng Jin raised his hand and looked at his watch, "You will leave tonight." ”