Chapter 44: Worthless

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Before it was time to get off work, the angry Li Ma went home and lay on the bed, and when she saw Li Yi coming in with a smile, she was still holding the painting in her hand, and she couldn't help but say angrily:

"Why haven't you thrown it yet?"

"Mom, I didn't look at it carefully just now, but when I was about to throw it, I took a look at it and found a little secret, this painting is probably really a treasure!"

"Really?"

Mama Li jumped out of bed, and her vigorous skills didn't look like an old lady in her fifties, so that she and Li Yi were stunned, is this still the old mother who shouts pain every day and has to move for a long time to climb the fourth floor?

"Let's not talk about this first, tell me, so many people haven't seen it, where did you see that this painting is a treasure?"

Li Yi opened the painting,

"Everyone is right about this painting, it is a print from the Republic of China, not a treasure. But there is another mystery behind this painting, come, you touch it first, what is the feeling? ”

"Feelings? The paper is relatively thick, and there is a little thick...... Was the paper so thick back then? ”

Li Yi couldn't help but stretch out his hand and give his mother thirty-two likes, if there was a non-professional standing next to those shopkeepers when they looked at this painting, it is estimated that they would have discovered the clue a long time ago. Because these people probably don't know about framing, they won't step into this misconception. Once doubts arise and a closer look at it, the secret of the painting is completely hidden.

"It's true that the printed paper is a little thicker than the average paper, but it's not that thick. The reason why this painting is so thick is that the person who framed it has another layer of paper on the back of the painting. So the question is, first, this is just a very common and ordinary print on the market, is it necessary to frame it? The answer is obvious, no. Then the second question comes ......"

After some rhetoric, my mother nodded in agreement, but then asked another question, since you can find that this painting should not be framed, then why can't others find it?

Li Yi couldn't help but give his mother a thumbs up again, now it can finally be determined, he didn't use his hard work in school but his grades were always so good, and he was definitely inherited from his mother!

"This is another misunderstanding, because the people who see this painting are all modern people, and they think that the people who own this painting may not know much about ancient paintings, thinking that they are valuable in the Republic of China, so they take it to frame. In other words, they actually misjudged the age of the mounting! ”

Now my mother finally understood, and she became excited.

"You mean there's probably a painting or a word hidden here? And then, since it can be so carefully hidden, then this painting or character must be very valuable? Right? ”

"Bingo! All-in! ”

"Then let's open it!"

Li Yi means to wait for Dad to get off work and open it together, otherwise wouldn't the old man not see your Yingming side? Mom nodded happily. Then Li Yi saw her pick up her mobile phone and make a call.

Ten minutes later, Dad Li arrived home, and when he entered the door, he complained vigorously,

"What's going on, I can't wait to get off work in an hour and a half, so I have to ask for leave!"

"What's so good about that broken class? Come here, there's something good to show you! ”

Mother Li pointed to the Guanyin statue and babbled Li Yi's rhetoric just now, and Dad Li was stunned for a moment, and then reached out and touched Mama Li's forehead,

"You don't have a fever, do you? What kind of logic is this, is there a problem with people framing a little thicker? I think you're crazy about money, aren't you? ”

Mama Li was almost mad, grabbed the pillow and hammered the old man twice, but fortunately Li Yi shouted "Start the treasure search operation", otherwise Dad Li would not have died to eat today!

Li Yi used a paper cutter to cut off one end of the scroll first, and then touched it down little by little along the picture, and after touching it, it felt as if it was almost thick, and there was no way but to destroy it little by little.

After the destruction, it was found that the painting was indeed three layers, but the person who framed it was very cunning, afraid that people would find out the difference in thickness, so he filled in the blank paper in the place where the size of the painting was not large, no wonder it was the same thickness from beginning to end just now.

Finding the head is naturally simple, and after a while, Li Yi took out the painting, first looked at the payment, a total of three seals, "Bitter Melon Monk", "Ice and Snow Wu Predecessor", "Shi Tao". Now it's Li Yi's turn to scratch his head, it's obviously Zhang Daqian, how could he pop up a stone Tao again?

"Who is Shi Tao? How much are his paintings worth? ”

Li Yi was still struggling with Zhang Daqian and Shi Tao's questions, and replied casually:

"Shi Tao seems to be a great painter of the Qing Dynasty, and it is said that he has a very high status in the history of Chinese painting, and his paintings are ...... I know one, it seems to have sold for more than 40 million at the time! ”

"More than 40 million!"

The voices of Li's mother and Li's father were trembling, and after a while, Li's mother said in a trembling voice:

"Xiaoyi, this is too valuable, why don't we send someone to the hospital?"

Li Yi smiled bitterly, my mother is so kind! I was angry just now, as if I was something, but now I heard that the painting is so valuable, but I have to return it to others!

"That's more than 40 million! Are you sure? ”

"OK...... Hmm, not sure, right? What do you say, old man? ”

"I listen to my son."

"Mom, Dad, it's impossible to go back, you don't understand this, this is the rule!"

Dad Li glanced at the picture with fascination, and said leisurely:

"I don't think it's so good, do you? How can it be worth more than 40 million? But this painting is really well preserved......"

A bolt of lightning swept through Li Yi's heart, oh no, forget about it, this kind of thing from decades ago has just been taken out and touched the air, and if it is not treated, it will quickly break!

What to do? What to do? Looking for a framing line? Someone replaced or broken, and there was no place to cry, so ...... His eyes lit up, looking for Hu Lao!

quickly picked up the phone and dialed it, saying this, Hu Lao was also anxious,

"Don't come to me, I don't know how to frame and don't have tools, I'll give you an address, you go quickly, we'll see you there."

Li Yi carefully sandwiched the painting in the cardboard found by his mother, and ran downstairs with a smoke. In the car, Li Yi told his father the address he received, and thirty minutes later, at the gate of an exclusive courtyard in Baihenan, Li Yi got out of the car with the painting.

Hearing the sound of the car, the door opened, and Hu Lao and another old man with white hair stood together to greet the father and son.

"Quick, don't say anything, take the painting and deal with it first!"

A few people hurriedly walked into a room in the west wing, where there was also a big wooden case, which was smaller than the one Li Yi saw in Hu Jinquan, but the layout was similar.

"Old Zhou, how is it?"

"It's okay, this painting has been processed before, and it has been carefully preserved, and I will be fine if I deal with it again. But just in case, it's still necessary to do your best to frame kuài. ”

Several people watched Zhou Lao brush the painting with a layer of solution that had been adjusted a long time ago, and then Zhou Lao and Hu Lao got together to look at the painting.

"Did you bring the Guanyin diagram?"

"Brought it."

Li Yi put the tattered Guanyin diagram on the wooden table.

Zhou Lao carefully checked it for a while, then picked up a piece of shredded paper and put it in his mouth to taste it, and then said:

"Judging from the process method, glue formula and paper situation, it should have been framed 40 years later, 49 years ago. Lao Hu, what do you think of this painting? ”

Hu Lao smiled bitterly and said:

"I don't have much research on this, but I think this painting is pretty good, as for whether it is Shi Tao's real work, I'm a little unsure."

Zhou Lao nodded and said:

"Judging by the paper used and the time of mounting this painting, I think this is a copy of Zhang Daqian! As we all know, Zhang Daqian is a first-class master in antique calligraphy and painting, and when he first became famous, people were surprised not by how his paintings were, but because he copied Shi Tao's works vividly, almost exactly the same as the real works. ”

Dad Li was stunned, Zhang Daqian had heard of it, but Zhou Lao said that this painting is an imitation, and imitation is a fake painting, that is to say, this painting is worthless?