The reason why Li Yi spoke out softly was because, in his eyes, the second painting that he had just opened was really the same as what Ren Xiaoyao said, exactly the same as the one he had just seen!

It's exactly the same, it's definitely not just the picture.

These two paintings are almost identical not only in terms of layout, structure, brushwork, and artistic conception, but also in terms of the paper they choose, and the intensity of the brush and ink are almost identical!

The more Li Yi looked, the more surprised he became, and the more he looked at it, the more incredible he felt, in this world, even if the same person was asked to paint, he would never be able to draw two paintings that were so similar!

"And that's not all, we've measured the size of these peaks, it's incredible, here, here, here, even the dimensions are the same! Also, if you look at these places, it's like a copy! ”

Ren Xiaoyao saw Li Yi staring at the painting with a shocked face, and couldn't help but come up and tell the results of their research in the past few days.

"Some people suspect that this is a painting that has been revealed, but how is it possible, such a large size! If you can even reveal this......"

Ren Xiaoyao shook his head,

"Isn't it possible that all famous paintings in this world will become two, or even more?"

Li Yi was silent for a long time, with his current skills, to identify such a painting that is not too complicated, even if he does not open the spirit card, he can judge that these two paintings are absolutely genuine, but ......

No, no, really, because it's so weird, what else can he say?

After thinking about it for a while, he opened the spirit identification card, although he knew that it was probably useless, but what if he could provide some useful clues?

With the cool air entering his body, Li Yi frowned, and there was really a problem!

This question includes both the conclusion given by the spirit card and the cool air.

Just as Li Yi's judgment, these two paintings, the spirit card gives the judgment of the authenticity, but the coolness in it is not the same, although the degree of coldness is about the same, but the one that was taken out first, the amount of coolness in it is slightly more!

This slightly, if it weren't for Li Yi's early preparation, and he was extremely sensitive to the coolness, he wouldn't even be able to detect it at all. But now, if there is a difference, there must be other differences between the two paintings, but they haven't found them yet!

Although he agreed with Ren Yao's judgment in every possible way that this painting could not be a revealing painting, Li Yi still turned on the perspective, and he wanted to observe the thickness of the paper to see if he could see something.

Unexpectedly, under this look, he really saw some clues.

There is almost no difference between the two paintings, just from the thickness of the paper, and this discovery made him almost give up the idea of revealing the painting. But after carefully observing the internal texture of the paper, Li Yi had a guess.

It is possible that these two paintings were prepared to be unveiled at the beginning of the painting, so the painter used special paper!

"Do you have any of this paper at home?"

Li Yi carefully identified the paper on which he painted, and recognized that this was the Yuan calligraphy paper commonly used by the ancients to make landscape painting scrolls.

Generally speaking, rice paper can be divided into three types: raw xuan, cooked xuan, and semi-cooked rice paper.

Among them, Shengxuan can be divided into many kinds. For example, the net skin and special clean skin have strong water absorption ability, and are also very sensitive to the shade of ink, which is suitable for drawing freehand. Cotton, on the other hand, is also absorbent, but it is not sensitive to ink color and is more suitable for calligraphy.

Cooked Xuan is generally divided into cicada clothes and mica, which basically does not absorb water, and is generally used for painting brushes. Because the fine brush needs to be colored many times and rendered repeatedly, the non-absorbent paper is just right for this painting technique.

There are also many kinds of half-cooked rice paper, including leather paper, yuan book paper, and boiled hammer paper. The rough-edged paper that we generally practice calligraphy can be classified as half-cooked.

Half-cooked rice paper is suitable for writing calligraphy and painting landscapes, of course, you can also draw others, it is very widely used, easy to master, especially suitable for beginners.

Yuanshu paper is a half-cooked rice paper, but also a kind of bamboo paper, known as Chiting paper in ancient times, also known as Xie Gongjian, mainly produced in Yangfu City, Jiangsu, Zhejiang.

This kind of paper has a long history of production, and it has been selected as "imperial paper" in the Zhenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty a thousand years ago. Because the emperor was used to write the sacrificial text during the temple sacrifice, it was originally called Yuan book paper.

At that time, the minister Xie Fuchun was very supportive of the production of this paper, so it was also known as Xie Gong paper or Xie Gong note.

Yuan calligraphy paper is characterized by white and flexible, easy to dissolve in water, ink does not seepage, long-term storage does not moth, does not change color, etc., so from ancient times to the present, it is the calligraphy and painting paper preferred by calligraphers and painters.

The problem lies in the lack of ink.

Xuan paper has a certain thickness, and if the ink contains a lot of water, it will not only seep downward, but also seep to the side like a halo of blue and white.

The meta-book paper is different, because of the special process and texture, its ink color infiltration is very powerful, but there is almost no side infiltration!

Painting on such paper, because the ink color is concentrated and infiltrated, the painted works will generally appear thick, stocky, clear and substantial.

Therefore, if you use this kind of paper to peel the painting, there is almost no difference between the first and second layers.

And that's exactly why these two paintings are almost identical!

"This painting has been revealed."

After carefully combing through his thoughts, Li Yi said amazingly,

"This one, now I can peel it off for you, but after it is removed, the ink color on the bottom should be very light."

Ren Xiaoyao was taken aback, Li Yi was referring to the painting he took out first,

"How?"

"Normal rice paper, although layered, but between the layers, the combination is very close, so not every painting can be revealed, dare to reveal. And such a large-scale one, let alone exposing it, even if you just put forward this idea, I am afraid that you will be laughed at for a long time. ”

But Gong Xian took advantage of people's ideas, so at the beginning of his paintings, he used very special paper. In other words, he is painting on two stacks of yuanshu paper, and these two yuanshu papers are one thin and one thick! ”

"This one is the thin piece of paper that is placed on the surface. After the painting was finished, the painter laid the painting flat for a while, then removed the thin paper from the surface and attached another thick sheet of paper to it, so that now it seems that the thickness of the paper is almost the same for the two paintings. ”

Ren Xiaoyao thought for a while, although Li Yi's statement was bizarre, it seemed to make sense, but ......

"If it's a piece of paper attached to the back of the tissue paper, you should be able to see it when you frame it."

Li Yi nodded,

"If it was not long ago, it would have been able to be seen, but this painting is at least 300 years old, and it has been reframed at least a few times during this period, and the paper has already changed......

Ren Xiaoyao thought about it, and couldn't refute Li Yi's statement, but he always felt a little incredible and incomprehensible in his heart. The inexplicable feeling is as uncomfortable as a cat's paw scratching.

"How much did you buy this painting?"

"Less than 200 million."

"I've learned a little bit of framing, and although I've never tried to uncover a painting, but yours is different, and I guess I should be able to remove it. Otherwise, you sell me this painting, and I'll take it off and look at it now. ”

Ren Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed,

"Brother Li, didn't you slap me in the face? I called you to come and help me look at the paintings, and in the end I asked you to pay to uncover the mystery, how is this possible? Tell me, what materials do you need, I'll ask people to buy them right away, and we'll unveil this painting today! ”

Li Yi carefully looked at Ren Xiaoyao's painting again, nodded, and confirmed his analysis just now.

"No, just prepare a basin of warm water......

As he spoke, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, if you want to soak such a long painting evenly, I am afraid that it must be placed in the bathtub, and the bathtub cannot be small......

"Isn't that easy? You come with me! ”

Ren Xiaoyao took Li Yi to the second floor and pushed open the glass door of a bathroom.

"This should be enough, right?"

Li Yidu went in to take a look, and was startled, I'm stuck, this is a bathtub, this is simply a small bath! Not to mention taking a bath, no matter how deep it is, it's enough to swim!

Suddenly, his arm tightened, but it was Lu Ningshuang who grabbed him, seeing the desire in the girl's eyes, Li Yi smiled and shook his head, it's not easy to want this? I'll change it for you when I go back!

Just as he was about to put the whole painting in, Li Yi's heart suddenly moved, and he rolled up most of the painting, but the lower painting scroll and a little bit of the painting center were immersed in the water.

"Later, we only need to uncover a little bit, and we should be able to judge whether these are two pieces of paper or not, it is not easy for this painting to survive to this day, so let's not risk it......"

When Ren Xiaoyao heard this, he nodded quickly, and at the same time, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although he knew that old paintings did need to be soaked in water when they were decontaminated and cleaned, he had never seen them with his own eyes. And just now, out of excitement, he actually agreed to Li Yi to soak the entire painting in water, but seeing that it was about to be implemented, he said that he was not worried that it would be fake.

Now that Li Yi's treatment method can not only reveal the secret of this painting, but also protect this painting as much as possible, how can he object?

After soaking for a while and feeling the softness of the paper, Li Yi took the painting to the long table that had been prepared a long time ago, first removed the mounting of the lower part, and then gently tossed it in the corner of the center of the painting for two minutes, and really slowly picked up a layer of paper as thin as a cicada's wings!

After trying, he carefully picked out all the lower edges of the painting heart, and then turned his head to Ren Xiaoyao and said:

"It should be about the same, right?"

Ren Xiaoyao came over and took a closer look, and found that it was really exactly the same as Li Yi's judgment at the beginning, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up,

"Damn, the water here is really deep!"

Li Yi nodded with a smile and said:

"Boss Ren, you can ask your friend if he is interested in selling that painting, and if you can get both of these paintings......

Ren Xiaoyao's eyes lit up, and then Li Yi's words continued:

"That's a big weapon for pretending, and it is estimated that it can make it difficult for 99% of the appraisers in the world to die! Hahahaha! (To be continued.) )