Resisting the urge to see the appraisal conclusion, Li Yi slowly opened the scroll, and when he saw it, his brows furrowed, could it be ......

It is a vertical scroll on colored paper, with the horizontal axis about 70 centimeters and the vertical axis almost twice as large as the horizontal axis.

In the close-up of the picture, several willow trees with soft branches and crooked trunks are growing along the mountain stream. In the distance, there is a hazy distant mountain in a cloud of smoke.

In this painting, the painter's brushstrokes are delicate, and between the dots and dyes, the miasma is rampant, and the soft and enchanting willow trees and the light smoke and mist in the mountains are just right, constituting a wonderful picture of smoke and willows.

On the right side of the upper part of the picture, there is the inscription, a delicate regular script, starting with the words "Spring Clouds and Smoke Willows", followed by the painter's introduction to the painting.

"The scenery of Sanchun is included in the drawing, and it is flourishing in Huichong and the ...... of the New Year"

After the inscription, the inscription is Wu Hufan, and there are two seals, one is the seal of Wu Hufan, and the other is an idle chapter, "even if the mountains are so heavy."

In addition, there are two connoisseurship seals left on the screen: Yang Renkai's seal and Mu Yulou.

Li Yi knows that Wu Hufan, whose real name is Wu Wan, and whose calligraphy and painting are signed as Hufan, is the grandson of Wu Dashi, a famous calligrapher and painter in the Qing Dynasty. In the thirties and forties of the last century, together with Wu Zhiqiu, Wu Zishen and Feng Chaoran, they were called "three Wu and one Feng", at that time, their works were popular all over the country and were respected by countless people.

In addition, as a well-known appraisal master, Wu Hufan is also known as the "appraisal double" with the collector Qian Jingtang.

"Three Wu and one Feng" are all good at landscapes, and Wu Hufan is a leader. His painting style is beautiful and rich, the colors are deep and misty, and the spring stones are washed.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Hufan once made "Atomic Bomb Radiation Map", and many leaders of the People's Liberation Army took a fancy to his miasma pen between the dots and dyes, and publicly requested that his painting be printed and used for propaganda, which shows the deep influence of his paintings.

During the period of the Republic of China, Wu Hufan served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Art Exhibition of the Ministry of Education for a long time, and participated in the initiation and organization of the establishment of the Chinese Art Association, and was an important member of the organization.

Therefore, if the elders of this family have served as high-ranking officials in the government of the Republic of China, it should still be easy to buy a work by Wu Hufan, so this painting should be genuine.

It's just that no matter how high Wu Hufan's achievements are, no matter how good this painting "Spring Clouds and Smoke Willows" is, as a work painted in 1939, it is impossible to have such coolness.

So there is only one explanation for this situation, either it is a picture in a picture, or a picture in a scroll, in short, there must be another amazing work hidden in this scroll!

After opening the spirit identification card, Li Yi began to see through the picture. Sure enough, he soon discovered that in the scroll at the top of the painting was a yellowed, rough piece of paper that had been rolled into a barrel.

On the paper, there were about sixty or seventy small characters neatly written in block letters, Li Yi found the first line, and when he saw it, although he had been prepared, he was still startled. This is actually Zhong Xuan's "He Jie Watch" during the Three Kingdoms period!

"Wei Zhongtai Fu He Jiebiao, the minister said: Rong Road and Travel, Dangerous and Cold. Ministers have nothing to do......"

After carefully reading the words from beginning to end, Li Yi shook his head regretfully, this is just a fragment, starting from "Wei Zhongtai Fu He Jiebiao", to "being in the same situation as Xu Huang, and fighting hard", the full text is only 68 words, and the original text of He Jiebiao is at least more than 160 words!

But even if it's a fragment, it's hard to describe how precious it is!

Zhong Xiang Cao Wei famous calligrapher, politician, its seal, li, true, line, cursive a variety of calligraphy part-time, among which the best writing is the regular script, is recognized as the founder of the regular script, and even by later generations called the "originator of regular script".

His calligraphy had a profound impact on later generations, and famous calligraphers such as Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing had studied his calligraphy with great concentration.

In terms of historical evaluation, Yu Beiwu of the Southern Dynasty once evaluated his calligraphy as "above the top grade", and Zhang Huaijun of the Tang Dynasty rated his calligraphy as "divine product" in the book "Book Break".

Zhong Xuan occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese calligraphy, he and Zhang Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty are collectively called "Zhong Zhang", and the Eastern Jin Dynasty calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi is called "Zhong Wang", the status of the respect, for a while.

Unfortunately, Zhong Xuan's calligraphy was lost to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and what people see today is either a copy or a fake book.

It is generally believed that Zhong Xuan's representative works have more than a dozen articles such as "Five Tables", "Six Posts", "Three Monuments", etc., and "He Jie Table" is also known as "Rong Lu Table" and "Rong Lu Table", which is one of the five tables.

These materials have been in Li Yi's mind, and he judged that most of this fragment will not be Zhong Xuan's authentic handwriting, but it is definitely imitated by everyone.

With a preliminary judgment, he turned his gaze to the appraisal conclusion given by the spirit identification card.

The judgment about "Spring Clouds and Smoke Willows" is correct, it is indeed the authentic work of Wu Hufan, but there is a major problem with the identification of this fragment, because the spirit identification card shows that this is the authentic work of Zhong Xiang and Zhong Yuanchang!

For a time, Li Yi's mind was full of miscellaneous thoughts, the most prominent of which was that since this "Spring Clouds and Smoke Willows" was a work from 1939, this scroll was definitely a product of the same era. But where was this fragment before that? Why haven't I seen anything about it?

Looking at the remaining works in the box, Li Yi decided not to bother anymore and get the painting in his hands first.

"Mr. Zhang, how to sell this "Spring Cloud Smoke Willows"?"

"This is Mr. Wu Hufan's masterpiece, my father's meaning, if you want to transfer, the minimum cannot be less than 120 million. But Mr. Li is a friend of Yuhuang, and I ...... I'll only charge you 100 million yuan. ”

NT$100 million, which is equivalent to a soft sister coin, is only a little over 20 million, and judging from the current market situation of Wu Hufan's paintings and the level of this painting, this price is indeed not high.

Li Yi judged that if this painting is put up for auction now, if it works well, its auction price is likely to exceed 25 million soft girl coins. However, after deducting the risks assumed and the commissions and marketing expenses of the auction house, the collector is likely to only get more than 20 million yuan, which is not as refreshing as a private transaction.

Nodding, he put the scroll away and put it on Lu Ningshuang's hand with great importance.

Seeing Li Yi's movements, Zhang Xu's eyes showed a hint of surprise, he didn't expect to sell a collection worth hundreds of millions so easily, it seems that if he is lucky, maybe he can just get the money to buy that farm from this young man!

The fat elephant took five or six scrolls from the wooden box, and this time Li Yi did not directly use the spirit card, but honestly opened them one by one, first read the work, and then used the spirit card to close the bottom.

After looking at more than ten more paintings like this, his eyes suddenly lit up, this painting seems to be a real masterpiece!

This is a vertical scroll of figures on colored paper, which is not large, no more than 75 centimeters high, and only about 35 centimeters wide.

This painting depicts the scene of an ancient man sitting cross-legged and admiring the flowers, the color of the picture is simple and elegant, clear and bright, the characters in the painting are strange and ancient, although the shape is slightly exaggerated, but the details such as the hair bun, beard, temples, eyebrows and even the lines of the clothes are handled meticulously, and exquisite and novel, at a glance it is from everyone's hands.

The style of this painting, including the flowers appreciated by the figures, has obvious Shanghainese characteristics, and the seal left on the picture also proves his judgment very well.

The inscription shows that this is a "Flower Appreciation Picture" of Ren Yi Ren Bonian, one of the famous flower and bird figure painters in the late Qing Dynasty, and Wu Changshuo, Pu Hua and Xugu, who were known as one of the four masters of the Shanghai School in the late Qing Dynasty!

"How do you sell this painting?"

Zhang Xu hesitated for a moment and said:

"32 million."

Hearing this, Li Yi's brows furrowed, if it was this price, it would be a bit high.

Ren Bonian studied painting with his father when he was a child, went to Shanghai at the age of 14, worked as an apprentice in Fanzhuang, and later made a living by selling paintings, so the level of his works is quite uneven, including a large number of social works.

In the 80s of the last century, a work by Ren Bonian could only be sold for about 80,000 Hong Kong dollars. In the early 90s, it had not yet exceeded one million, and only one vertical scroll of "Zhong Kui" was auctioned for 930,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was already the highest price of all his works at that time.

After entering the new century, the price of Ren Bonian's works began to rise by leaps and bounds, all the way up, and some of these portrait works can easily break through 10 million soft girl coins, and for a while, they have become the most sought-after works in the market.

Among them, the most representative is the Gongbi figure painting "Huazhu Sanduotu".

The hammer price of this painting at the auction in 1997 was only 2.4 million yuan, and 8 years later, it was still this work, which skyrocketed to 28.6 million yuan at the 10th anniversary auction of Zhongmao Shengjia. After only 6 years, in 2011, the same painting actually hit a sky-high price of 167 million yuan of soft sister coins!

The same work appears on the auction market so frequently, and the price skyrockets by about 10 times each time, which not only creates a legend belonging to Ren Bonian, but also makes people wonder if there is another hidden meaning in it.

Since 2011, the price of Ren Bonian's works seems to have entered a blowout period, and there have been a number of works whose prices exceeded 20 million soft girl coins.

What is intriguing is that at the same time, the price of Xugu and others, who were once as famous as them, has always hovered at a low level around millions of soft girl coins.

However, just when everyone thought that the market for Ren Bonian's works would soar all the way, things took a strange turn in 2013.

In 2013, a large-scale work by Ren Bonian, "Banana White Chicken" was auctioned, and its final transaction price surprised everyone, and it only sold for 1.05 million soft girl coins!

Immediately afterwards, his other "Taoyuan Questioning Map" of almost the same size only sold for an ultra-low price of 1.09 million soft girl coins at another auction!

The myth is shattered!

PS: Ask for a ticket! (To be continued.) )