Zheng Anzhi said with a smile: "That's good, this piece of jade, I think it can be worth about six or seven hundred thousand, and the remaining two things, as long as they can be worth one hundred and forty or five million, you won't lose anything." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Then which one shall we look at next?"

Zheng Anzhi said with a smile: "You see that your Uncle Qi is looking forward to it, if you don't take out the painting again, he will probably have to fight with you." ”

Qi Lao joked: "What you said, even if I want to fight with Xiao Meng, I can't fight him." ”

"I don't dare fight with you. ”

Meng Zitao smiled and waved his hand, and then said, "Master, why don't we go to the study to enjoy it." ”

Seeing Meng Zitao say this, Zheng Anzhi's heart moved and asked, "Is there anything special about this work?"

Meng Zitao said: "The main thing is that I think the silk paper of this painting looks like a ...... before the Tang Dynasty."

"What!"

Before Meng Zitao could finish speaking, Qi Lao stood up from the sofa and asked eagerly, "Xiao Meng, what you said is true?"

Zheng Anzhi said: "Lao Qi, you see that you are anxious again, can you wait for Zitao to finish speaking?"

Qi Lao waved his hand: "Got it, Xiao Meng, say it quickly." ”

Meng Zitao said, "Elder Qi, sit down first." ”

Qi Lao lost his temper: "Hey, if you have something to say, say it quickly, don't be like a girl." ”

Zheng Anzhi said: "He is like this, you go with him." ”

Mencius continued: "I think in terms of practice, it looks like silk paper before the Tang Dynasty, but it is so well preserved that it is unlikely to be handed down from there." ”

Hear here. Zheng Anzhi stood up: "Let's go, go to my study." ”

The group walked quickly to the study. After tidying up the table, Meng Zitao carefully took out the scroll. And carefully unfolded.

Seeing the contents of the painting, the two old men were first surprised, then happy, and couldn't help but lean towards the scroll, both wanting to appreciate it carefully.

"Phew!"

Meng Zitao didn't expect the two old men to be so concentrated, and when he wanted to remind them, the heads of the two elders had already collided together.

Zheng Anzhi glared and said, "Lao Qi, this is my apprentice's painting, you should let me go first, right?"

Qi Lao also blew his beard at Zheng Anzhi and glared: "Old Zheng." Are you polite, don't you even know how to respect the guests?"

Zheng Anzhi sneered: "I am in charge of my territory!"

"Hey, you old fellow, why are you so unreasonable?"

"I think it's you old guy who is unreasonable......"

Seeing that the two elders actually quarreled, Meng Zitao and Qi Longxian were a little speechless, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.

Zheng Anzhi said: "Zitao, you are the owner of the painting, who do you say will come first?"

"Yes, you decide!"

"It's an old child. You two are elders, what can I do?"

Meng Zitao secretly smiled bitterly, and then said: "Master, for me. I'm definitely willing to let you appreciate it first, but Qi Lao is a guest after all, otherwise it's good. How about you guess the fist?"

Qi Lao objected: "No. Who doesn't know that your master is fast, I guess how can he win him?"

Zheng Anzhi snorted: "Then draw lots?"

Qi Lao pursed his lips: "It's not fair!"

Zheng Anzhi was happy: "You old guy." Why are you more unreasonable as you get older? Okay, I'm afraid of you, you can see that this is always okay first, right?"

"Wouldn't it have been okay to do this earlier?" Qi Lao immediately had a smile on his face, carefully admiring the painting.

At this glance, more than thirty minutes passed, and at the end, Qi Lao was about to lie on the picture scroll, eager to stick his eyes to the painting.

During this period, Zheng Anzhi asked Meng Zitao several questions, and seeing that so much time had passed, Qi Lao had not finished reading it, so he was a little impatient, and said: "Hey, what's the matter with you, I haven't seen it yet, it's embarrassing that you have occupied it for so long?"

Qi Lao waved his hand: "Don't worry, wait a while......"

After waiting for more than ten minutes, he reluctantly stood up under Zheng Anzhi's urging.

"Ouch!

When Qi Lao came back to his senses, he felt that because he had bent over for too long, his waist was extremely sore, and he couldn't straighten up.

Seeing this situation, Meng Zitao and Qi Longxian hurriedly stepped forward and helped Qi Lao to the chair.

"You old man, you have a bad waist and you can do it!" Zheng Anzhi couldn't help but complain.

Qi Lao laughed: "I am fortunate enough to appreciate such a national treasure-level work, what is it to suffer from this?"

"Stop, don't talk about it, wait until I've seen it. ”

In order not to affect his judgment, Zheng Anzhi hurriedly waved his hand, and then walked to the table and began to appreciate.

Qi Longxian couldn't help the doubts in his heart, and asked, "Grandpa, is this painting really a painting before the Tang Dynasty?"

Qi Lao nodded and said, "That's right, it should be a painting of the Sui Dynasty." ”

Qi Longxian was surprised: "Didn't you say that silk paper is not easy to preserve? Not to mention the paintings left over a thousand years ago, why is this painting so well preserved?"

Qi Lao thought about it for a while, and then said: "It's okay to sue sù, but try not to spread the word, do you know?"

Meng Zitao and Qi Longxian all agreed with solemn expressions.

Qi Lao said: "Actually, in ancient times, there was a potion to preserve silk paper, as long as the painted silk painting was carefully smeared with this potion, it could greatly delay the oxidation process of silk paper. However, one of the main ingredients of this potion is so difficult to obtain that few paintings have been able to use it since ancient times. ”

Qi Long asked quickly, "Grandpa, what is the main material?"

Qi Lao gently spit out two words in his mouth: "Shark tears." ”

"Shark tears?" Meng Zitao and Qi Longxian were first puzzled, and then shocked.

Qi Longxian said: "Are you talking about the dragon's eye, or is it really the legendary shark tears?"

Qi Lao said: "Aren't you talking nonsense? I have a problem with my brain, so I said that the dragon's eye is a shark's tears." ”

"There are mermaids in the waters of the South China Sea, and the water dwells like fish, and their eyes can cry beads. ”

Meng Zitao silently recited a passage from the "Naturalist Chronicles", and at this time, he suddenly thought of what Qi Lao said before, and asked: "Qi Lao, this shark pearl will not really save zài, right?"

Qi Longxian preemptively said: "How is it possible, if there is really a shark pearl, then there will be a shark man? That is a legend, similar to a mermaid, but the shark is evil." If there really are mermaids, then there will be mermaids?"

Qi Lao shook his head: "No, there are indeed shark beads." ”

"What?!" Qi Longxian stammered, "Grandpa, you're not joking, are you?"

Qi Lao said: "If the shark bead does not exist zài, why did I just want you not to spread this matter?"

Qi Longxian was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "No, is there really such a thing as a shark?

Qi Lao smiled: "I haven't seen a shark before, I've only seen a shark bead." ”

Qi Longxian breathed a long sigh of relief when he heard this: "I'll just say, how can there be a creature like a shark?"

"Then how do you think the shark bead came from?" asked Qi Lao.

"How else can it come from, of course, it grows in shellfish. Qi Longxian replied.

Qi Lao shook his head again: "But the original owner of the shark bead said that his ancestor did get the shark bead from the shark man, how do you think it can be explained?"

Qi Longxian blurted out: "Bragging." ”

Qi Lao said with a smile: "This matter, his ancestor told him not to say it, if it is not true, why do you do it?"

Qi Long said hesitantly: "Maybe there is some special reason? I am not the person concerned, how do I know what is going on." ”

Qi Lao said: "So, don't try to deny it just because some things are beyond your worldview. ”

Qi Longxian scratched his head: "I know, do you always believe that there are sharks?"

Qi Lao said: "The world is full of wonders, who knows what's going on? Many truths may have been lost in history, I hope you can find the answers to some ancient mysteries in your lifetime......

After more than half an hour, Zheng Anzhi also straightened up with some difficulty, and Meng Zitao hurriedly helped him to his seat.

"How is it, whose work do you think this is?" Qi Lao asked with a smile.

Zheng Anzhi said with a smile: "I'm not blind, and I can't even see Zhan Ziqian's style." ”

"Zhan Ziqian?!" Qi Longxian was stunned for a moment, and although Meng Zitao already knew it in his heart, he was still extremely excited when he got this answer.

Many people may not know much about Zhan Ziqian, but in fact, he has a pivotal position in the history of painting.

He was an outstanding painter in the early Sui Dynasty of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who went through the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties, and entered the Sui Dynasty as a doctor and a governor in the tent. He has painted many murals in monasteries in Luoyang, Xijing, Yangcheng and other places. He is good at painting stories, people, landscapes, and buildings, and the characters are depicted in detail, and then the faces of the characters are blurred with color, and the brilliance is extremely profound.

Historians of art have called Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengqiu, and Zhan Ziqian the four outstanding painters before the Tang Dynasty.

"Xuanhe Painting" praised him: "It is especially important to write about the distance and proximity of the country, so there is a thousand miles of fun at hand." His landscape paintings are much more mature than the naïve painting method of landscape painting before the Six Dynasties, in which "water does not dissolve and people are greater than mountains". Later generations called him the "ancestor of Tang painting".

In addition, Zhan Ziqian's painting "Spring Tour" is the oldest of the surviving landscape scroll paintings found in our country, and it is also his only hand-me-down painting, and now there is another one, no wonder everyone's reaction will be so strong. (To be continued.) )