"Aha, Boss Zhou, what do you say now?"

Kong Si didn't believe the middle-aged man's rhetoric just now, but now that he has ironclad evidence in hand, he is naturally more and more sure that this is an old fake.

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and spread his hands, he didn't know what to say, speaking of which, in addition to the expert just mentioned, Wu Chen and they were not the first wave of people to see this painting, many people were stuck here in the end, and they couldn't do it.

For him, this is an unsolvable proposition, even if he doesn't say it, he believes that Wu Chen and them will find out in the end.

"When was this cut?" Wu Chen asked with a calm face, but unlike Kong Si and the middle-aged man's understanding, his heart was dripping blood at this moment! Who the fuck is this shit!

Under his ecstasy just now, he didn't take a closer look, and this place was too narrow, and he was not allowed to go through the whole painting carefully, so he didn't find that this "The Complete Map of the Emperor" was actually truncated in a paragraph, no wonder the big characters on the top were on one side, not in the middle, if predicted according to this ratio, roughly one-third of the ones were cut off a little more, and the rest of the part was only in the Qinling Mountains.

"I don't know about this, that's it in my hands." It is estimated that this has been asked a lot, and the middle-aged person is simply it. He was completely mentally prepared, it seemed that today's deal was yellow again, and he wasted so much time in vain.

"Could it be that your fourth uncle intercepted it?" Wu Chen still had a gloomy face, although the painting was not his, but he was already anxious to know the whereabouts of the other half, which could only be found out from the mouth of this middle-aged man.

"Impossible." The middle-aged man shook his head, he saw that the other party seemed to be interesting, and there was a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Where is there anyone who destroys his own things, not to mention that his fourth uncle regards this painting as a treasure and doesn't even show it to others.

"That's weird." Wu Chen groaned for a moment.

"Actually, this painting hasn't been in our house all the time." When the middle-aged man saw him, he gritted his teeth and simply told everything he knew.

When I was in the Siqing Dynasty, this painting was also collected like other things, and when it was returned to them later, it had become like this. At that time, there were many calligraphy and paintings that were burned, and this one was able to escape a catastrophe, but it was only a knife, which was already a blessing, where did you dare to care about anything!

"In this way, it should be the ghosts of those cadres or small soldiers back then." Kong Si was taken by them, gradually abandoning his prejudices, and he was also a little distressed, although he thought that this could not be an object of the Qing Dynasty, but it could also be imitated after the Republic of China.

"Impossible." Wu Chen shook his head, "You see, this cut is neat and smooth, it is not something that ordinary paper cutters can make, and the silk on the upper and lower sides does not have any chips, what kind of craftsmanship does this have to be, it won't be done by ordinary people, anyway, I can't do it." ”

When Kong Si heard him say this, he looked at the cut surface carefully again, and it was really the case. That's weird! A person with this kind of craftsmanship is naturally a person who understands treasures, but why not take the whole piece away, but secretly cut off half of it?

Well, secretly? Could it be that the whole picture is too conspicuous to be taken, so it is better to take half of it away and leave half of it? Anyway, those ignorant soldiers and so-called cadres won't care.

It seems that this is a more reasonable explanation, Wu Chen is also thinking like this, seeing that he can't ask anything else, he bargained with the middle-aged man, and finally spent 200,000 yuan to accept this "half" remnant!

"Let's go!"

Wu Chen picked up a treasure for nothing, was in a good mood, and patted Kong Si, who was holding the paper tube. This guy is too big, holding it in Kong Si's hand, and even more holding a piece of wood, in a crowded place, it is inconvenient to walk, and it is easy to poke others if you are not careful. So they simply came out.

"Is it really worth 200,000?"

Walking out of the bazaar, Kong Si asked, in his opinion, this kind of "non-mainstream" picture, even if it is imitated by the Republic of China, is only tens of thousands, not to mention that it is still a remnant!

"Zhou Peigong, do you know?" Wu Chen saw that there were already few people here, so he approached Kong Si and asked.

"Nonsense!" Kong Si glared at him.

Zhou Peigong is a generation of strange people during the Kangxi period, formerly known as Zhou Chang, Peigong is his word, it is said that Kangxi met on the road by accident, after a conversation, he sighed as a celestial, and later was specially promoted and became a popular person around Kangxi.

In the early years of Kangxi, when the confrontation between the Manchus and the Han was more serious, although Zhou Peigong had both civil and military skills, he could only be Tuhai's staff. During the rebellion of the three feudatories, the imperial army and the rebels of the three feudatories fought a decisive battle in the area of the two lakes, and the capital was empty, and as a result, the governor of Shaanxi in the abdomen rebelled ******, and the government and the opposition were shocked!

Kangxi pushed Zhou Peigong out of public opinion. As a result, Zhou Peigong was stunned in a short period of time, and trained the "miscellaneous army" composed of the servants of the ministers of the royal palace in the capital into an iron-blooded army, and after relieving the predicament of the capital, he went all the way to the west, and finally besieged the famous "horse harrier" ****** Ducheng and persuaded him to surrender and recover!

Such a strange man, how could Kong Si not know?

"In fact, the world only sees Zhou Peigong's literary and military side, but ignores his mastery of astronomy and geography." Wu Chen shook his head, these are all on the surface, according to the records in "Baolu", this Zhou Peigong himself is a strange person, he knows everything, and it is not as simple as a courtier.

"You mean?" When Kong Si heard Wu Chen mention Zhou Peigong for no reason, his mind turned, and he strung together tonight's events, and immediately came to a conclusion.

"That's right, this "The Complete Map of the Emperor" was made by Zhou Peigong. Are you worth 200,000? Wu Chen nodded, feeling a little regretful in his heart, if only it was really "full picture".

"Holy! Needless to say! "Although Kong Si doesn't know the true use of "The Complete Map of the Emperor", if it is really the true work of this strange person, it is worth it!" But you're not mistaken, right? ”

"Nine times out of ten! Do you remember how Zhou Peigong died in the end? "Wu Chen didn't deliberately sell Guanzi, he hadn't seen Zhou Peigong's authentic handwritings, and this picture has been in the right era so far, and the descendants of the Zhou family are not wrong, but it may have been drawn by someone else at that time? Although this is extremely unlikely, he has always been cautious, and it is not possible to guarantee 100% until he is sure.

Well! Kong Si nodded, a little lonely, the poor general failed to die in front of the battle, after quelling the Ma Harrier Rebellion, Zhou Peigong's reputation was shocked, he should have gone south to fight a decisive battle, and in one fell swoop, he made meritorious deeds through the ages, but it was a pity that he was a Han Chinese, and he was soon removed to the rear, and was promoted to the Senate Dao Platform and the title of a product. In the end, he was appointed as the governor of Shengjing, in charge of the border, but in fact, it meant exile, and finally died in office.

"This painting was delivered to Emperor Kangxi when he was dying." Wu Chen told Kong Si about the record of "The Complete Map of the Emperor" in "Treasure Road", 1510.

"Well, that's the case. But it's not right, since this painting has entered the palace, why is it here? Of course, Kong Si knew that Wu Chen was not a person who spoke his mouth, and there must be a place for what he said, but he still raised his doubts, this loophole was too obvious, and normal people could think of it.

This is also the doubt in Wu Chen's heart, if it weren't for "seeing it with his own eyes", he couldn't help but doubt, now Kong Si poked at the point, but asked him how to answer, just play Lai, his eyes glared, and the whites of his eyes flashed, "How do I know, I have to ask Kangxi Ye to go, or you go down and ask his old man?" ”

"What words! I'm serious with you! There is also a doubt, since Kangxi Ye received this painting back then, why did he never appear in the world again, and the royal archives never recorded it, but made a "Panorama of the Imperial Opinion"? If there really is such a thing, even if it is recorded in the top-secret archives, even in the Qing Dynasty, it cannot be declassified, and to this day, it must not be made public? ”

Kong Si's full divergent thinking, doubting is originally a kind of inertial thinking of archaeology, which made him catch a lot of insects at once, "If you can't figure out these doubts one by one, I'm afraid that after this painting is made public, it can only be doubtful." ”

"As long as you can!" Wu Chen made Kong Si a little depressed, he didn't know what he said, it was this "The Complete Map of the Emperor" that was so mysterious, was there really anything that couldn't be made public? "Do you think it will be like this, in fact, it is recorded in the top secret archives, but because it involves some ulterior secrets, it was destroyed, or it was siphoned off by the higher-ups?"

"Wouldn't it? What's the secret? Kong Si glanced at Wu Chen, and saw a trace of fear in his eyes, if this is the case, he is afraid that he will get this thing this time, whether it is a blessing or a curse or not.

You must know that the will of the state is definitely not something that one person can compete with. Thinking about it like this, he suddenly felt that the large picture he was holding in his hand was a little heavy.

"Hey, whatever! Anyway, only we know about it! Wu Chen was stunned for a while, and suddenly thought that he was not going to make a move on this thing, so he would keep it in his hands and study it by himself, so he didn't care what others thought, whether he believed it or not, anyway, he believed it himself.

Moreover, as long as the rumors don't leak out, who knows that they have this thing in their hands, even if there is really something mysterious, it's a big deal to turn around and ignore it, love it, and live as usual.

Thinking about it like this, he was relieved, but another question emerged, in "Treasure Road", why did he record this paragraph so carefully, could it be that this Zhou Peigong is also a member of the Guigu Society? It seems that I have to sharpen my master when I go back, this old man is too pitiful, he doesn't tell himself anything, is there such a master!

Both of them had something to digest in their hearts, so they didn't speak, and walked along the lake. By this time, it was already past ten o'clock, and the crowd was gradually beginning to dissipate, not as noisy as before.