"You really can do it!" Fang Zuiyun looked at Ren Xia's gaze at this time, not only a little surprised, but also a little admired: "I just met Zhang Zhigang twice, and I counted the words I said with both hands, and I actually succeeded in digging a pit for Zhang Zhigang!"

"I took advantage of Liu Zhengmin, and I deserved to pay more than 10 million, but Zhang Zhigang didn't want to get more than 10 million for nothing, he had to pay the price......" Ren Xia said meaningfully: "That's why I said-come out to mix, you have to pay it back!"

Fang Zuiyun nodded approvingly: "Everyone is the same." ”

"Do me a favor. Ren Xia proposed: "The matter of fakes depends on you." ”

"There are no ready-made fakes, but I know a person who lives in Longcheng Village......" Fang Zuiyun told Ren Xia: "He is a first-class master of counterfeiting, and he is best at imitating Western paintings of the 20th century." ”

"Can you please ask him to come over? ”

"This person is stuck in his studio and doesn't move, he can't go out once a month, it's impossible to invite him over, let's go for a trip." Fang Zuiyun looked at the time and proposed, "It's just in time." ”

Ren Xia drove in person, Fang Zuiyun sat in the passenger seat, left Guangsha City, and went to Longcheng Village according to the navigation.

Longcheng Village is a beautiful place in the suburbs of Guangsha, many years ago, a few painters went out to sketch when they fell in love with this place, spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy two houses from local farmers, transformed into a studio and settled down for a long time.

Later, more and more painters came here, and it gradually became a painters' village, where many people from different art fields gathered to engage in various creations.

There was a bungalow on the edge of Longcheng Village, Fang Zuiyun asked Ren Xia to park the car at the door, and knocked on the door after getting out of the car.

After a while, a man in his fifties opened the door and smiled: "It turned out that Mr. Fang was here." ”

Fang Zuiyun said directly: "Talk to you about business." ”

The man's eyes flashed with a hint of vigilance: "Come in and talk about it." ”

Ren Xia and Fang Zuiyun entered the courtyard, the man immediately closed the courtyard door, and Fang Zuiyun introduced to Ren Xia: "This Mr. Zhang Shushan, you can call Lao Shan, and I have been friends for many years. In the field of famous painting fakes, Lao Shan is very famous, and now he lives here and does not dare to make a noise, and outsiders do not know that this house is owned by Zhang Shushan. ”

"Imitation?" Lao Shan's eyes rolled: "I don't understand what you mean, what am I copying?"

Fang Zuiyun sighed lightly and told Lao Shan: "There are no outsiders behind closed doors, this Ren Xia is my very good friend, and I want you to help imitate famous paintings." ”

"That's not going to work. Lao Shan shook his head vigorously: "I haven't done this for many years, I almost went to prison back then, and then I didn't dare anymore." Now hiding here, no one knows, otherwise no one will be allowed to step through the threshold. ”

"Don't you help me with my favor?" Fang Zuiyun was quite disappointed: "You are a top master, except for you, you can't find any other suitable person." ”

"Awards, awards. Lao Shan smiled and said: "I don't dare to say that it is top-level, but there are not many people who have reached my level." ”

"Don't tell lies in front of real people, for Ms. Fang's sake, you can help with this. Ren Xia looked at Lao Shan, who was a little semi-bald, with very long hair, a scruffy beard, and a very ordinary T-shirt and suspender jeans. It can be seen that this person is usually unkempt, and people who are obsessed with their own careers are often like this, so there are such people, in order to show their artistic atmosphere, they deliberately make them sloppy, and the standard configuration is long hair and beard and torn clothes.

"What help?" asked Lao Shan pretending to be confused, "Do you have any paintings to repair?"

Fang Zuiyun hurriedly said: "He doesn't want to repair the painting, but to make a fake painting." ”

"I haven't done this for many years......" Lao Shan shook his head: "This is illegal, it's not right to deceive people, I'm an artist, how can I deceive people." ”

Ren Xia asked directly: "How much money do you need?"

Lao Shan still shook his head: "It's not a matter of money. ”

Ren Xia proposed: "One million!"

"It's really not about money. ”

"Two million. Before Ren Xia could answer, he raised the price again: "Just three million." ”

This time, Lao Shan didn't shake his head: "Whose paintings do you want, I am the best at works in the early 20th century, and I can also do oil paintings from other periods, but the technique is not so high." ”

"I want works from this period. Ren Xia thought about it and said slowly: "The most valuable works of art on the market are those that have become famous artists, those works that have not yet been discovered. If it is a famous work of a famous artist, it is registered when and where it is kept, and if it is imitated, it will be seen through at a glance. So, we need to find a painter who is well-known and at the same time prolific......"

Lao Shan directly proposed: "Picasso." ”

"Good. Ren Xia agreed: "Picasso painted more than 37,000 paintings in his lifetime, many of which have been lost, but the market price of his paintings is very high. ”

"It seems that you are a knowledgeable person. Lao Shan nodded approvingly: "Come in with me." ”

Lao Shan invited Ren Xia and Fang Zuiyun into his studio, only to see all kinds of paintings everywhere, some of which were genuine, some of which were fakes, and some of which were Lao Shan's own creations. However, even if it is genuine, it is not a valuable work, and it can be seen that Lao Shan is not a rich master, unlike Zhang Zhigang, who has earned mountains and mountains of silver through art trading.

What Ren Xia pays attention to is not what paintings there are here in Laoshan, but how the studio is arranged.

Generally speaking, the more brilliant the artist, the more cluttered the studio becomes, especially the color palette is very dirty. Because only a dirty enough palette can present a stunning artistic effect.

If you see someone who paints with a clean palette and a variety of pigments sorted and placed, then this person is not even half-, he is a layman at all.

Lao Shan's studio layout is very professional, especially the color palette is so dirty that you can hardly see what it is, which makes Ren Xia very satisfied: "Let's start now." ”

"In the first decade of the twentieth century, Picasso was in the period of classicism, and his personal style was not yet established. There are not many paintings from this period that have been preserved......" Lao Shan casually pulled out a painting from the shelf, and said: "So I suggest that it be imitated from this period, which is not easy to have problems." ”

Ren Xia agreed: "Yes." ”

Fang Zuiyun pointed to the painting: "You shouldn't have already made a copy, right?"

"Of course not. Lao Shan explained to Fang Zuiyun: "This painting is genuine, the work of an unknown Parisian painter, and the canvas and various materials he uses are basically the same as Picasso at that time." We just had to get rid of his paintings, use the original canvas to imitate Picasso, and then go through the old ones, and no one could tell that they were fakes. ”

Ren Xia was very satisfied: "This technique is good. ”

"However, you must keep it highly confidential...... Lao Shan's face sank: "Take out this painting, whether you have deceived people or failed to deceive people, don't say that it is from me." ”