Li Yi is not very interested in participating in the competition, but Hu Jinquan and his wife are very serious.

There is no other reason, mainly because the young and middle-aged calligraphers and painters who can be recognized by everyone and deserve their names are basically killed all the way from various large and small competitions, and Hu Jinquan and his wife also want Li Yi to take this road.

There are many ways for calligraphers and painters to become famous, such as being a famous teacher and apprentice, such as guiding public opinion to build momentum, and then holding art exhibitions everywhere, operating the price of auction works, and so on.

But these, in the eyes of discerning people like Hu Jinquan and Zhong Haoqing, are all crooked and heretical. It's not that those people's level is necessarily not good, but most of those who climb up through this method will be despised by their peers.

If the pen is really hard enough and capable, then go to the national competition!

Several of their disciples had participated in the competition that year, except for Zhong Qi, who participated in that session and barely won a third prize, the rest of them did not achieve good results, which made the two masters lose face.

Now that they have finally received a genius, and the level has indeed reached that line, both of them can't wait to push Li Yi to the forefront.

This is actually the same reason as parents showing off their children everywhere. When people are old, their own achievements have long been recognized by everyone, and there is nothing to fight for, and the only thing that can still make them compete with each other and show off is the next generation of training.

Therefore, this time, Li Yi can go up if he wants to, and he can go up if he doesn't want to.

After a few sentences, Li Yi's participation in the competition was determined, and the next step was to study which category of competition he participated in.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "painting is divided into three subjects", figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, the figure painting shows the relationship between people, the landscape painting shows the relationship between man and nature, and the flower and bird painting shows the various lives of nature.

These three constitute the whole of the universe, and the philosophical reflection sublimated by art is the true meaning of art.

Therefore, this competition is also divided into these three subjects according to the theme, but there are no specific requirements for the specific performance methods and materials used.

"To put it simply, these three subjects can be divided into fine brushwork and freehand, or part-time with several painting methods, these painting methods are not superior or inferior, but because the competition is a young painter, so the problem arises, generally speaking, figure painting and flower and bird painting with a brush to occupy some advantages, and landscape is freehand to be more dominant."

Hu Jinquan nodded, Zhong Haoqing was right, there was indeed a problem, because Li Yi is good at freehand painting, but the subject matter he is good at is flowers in flowers and birds......

"That's it, this month's time first focus on freehand landscapes, at the same time freehand flowers and birds can not be lost, when the time comes, the level of freehand landscapes has arrived, on the freehand landscape, the level is not enough, you can only use freehand flowers and birds to fight."

In the end, Zhong Haoqing made a final decision and decided the direction of Li Yi's main attack in the next month.

"You just came back, there should be some things to deal with, it just so happens that Lao Hu and I also have to study the course schedule during this time, so you go to get busy first, early tomorrow morning, go directly to the studio you went to last time, and start closed training."

Nodding, Li Yi didn't even get lunch, and was kicked out of the house by the two masters. He stood at the door of the corridor and pondered for a while, took out the phone, called Chang Huaizhi, and after making sure that the old man was in the store, he drove home, picked up the plum vase and broken porcelain pieces found in the box found on the seabed of Taiwan last time, and went directly to the door.

"It's ...... The blue and white Ruyi plum vase in the Yongle period? Caught in the sea? ”

Chang Huaizhi was particularly sensitive to the blue and white jar in the Yongle period because of his previous research on the Yongle blue and white jar that Li Yi brought over, so although he had no money, he quickly recognized the origin of this plum vase.

"Well, there are still these that were fished up, this should be another Ruyi plum vase and a pair of fragments of a red dragon pattern plum vase in the blue and white glaze, there should be a lot of them, but I don't know if they can be restored."

Chang Huaizhi cautiously picked up a few slightly larger pieces of broken porcelain and looked at them, and nodded, these are all real rare objects, but unfortunately, broken like this, even if they are restored, the value will be greatly reduced.

"Where did you get all this?"

"I found them when I was diving in Taiwan, and they were all packed in a box of golden silk nanmu, and the box also said that the Huagai Palace Collection, so I suspect that this is the palace secret of the Yongle Emperor."

"Where's the box?"

"At home, it's not easy to hold."

"Let's go, I'll take a look with you."

As soon as the porcelain and porcelain pieces were collected, Chang Huaizhi gave an explanation to the store, and walked towards the outside of the market.

"Hurry up, the young man is not as good as my old man's legs! By the way, Li Yi, Dean Huang of Yenching University, has been saying that he wants to invite you to sit together, and what they did last time was really not authentic, but ......"

"Chang Lao, there's nothing going on over there, and besides, it's been so long, I don't think it's necessary, right?"

"Hmph, even if you want him to invite him now, I guess he's not in the mood! Last time, the Italian police cracked a case of smuggling counterfeit Chinese cultural relics, and one of the participating institutes hung their signs, and now the school and the police are strictly investigating their colleges, and they are all scared like quails......"

Li Yi raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that the matter was really done by them, so he didn't want to have anything to do with that Dean Huang anymore.

"So I entrust the old man to help me say hello to him, it's really unnecessary."

"Well, it's okay to ignore them, in the past few years, Lao Huang has also changed a lot......"

Pan Jiayuan was not far from Yan Yuan, so Chang Huaizhi quickly saw the box.

"The Huagai Palace is a treasure trove of two, this is really the palace secret of the Yongle Emperor! Xiao Li, do you have the coordinates of that sea area? Also, didn't you find anything else? ”

Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, knowing that he would ask this.

Talking about the situation at the time, Chang Huaizhi sighed regretfully, but then he came to the spirit again,

"It doesn't matter where it comes from, go, I'll take you to the old horse!" This old boy, if you can't repair these three plum bottles, see if I don't smash his signboard! ”

Lao Ma's family is not in the city, but in the countryside of Shunyi, but when Li Yi saw the house he lived in, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise, what is?

"The boy of the old Ma family is engaged in the restoration of ancient buildings, so their house was built like this, it can be regarded as a model, go, go in and visit."

Lao Ma's house is indeed quite alternative, surrounded by a number of modern small western-style buildings in the village, an antique Chinese classical building, as if it is a little green among thousands of flowers, which is particularly eye-catching.

This house is divided into two rooms, but the front one does not build a house at all, but makes a garden-style garden with a cloister. At this time, it is the height of summer, the garden is lush, all kinds of plants are luxuriant, coupled with small bridges and flowing water, rockery fountains, koi playing in the water, golden cicadas singing, and it is a picture of the world!

"This old boy will really enjoy it!"

The door of Ma's house was not closed at all, so as soon as the two walked in, they saw that in the gazebo on the side of the garden, Lao Ma was holding a pot of tea, drinking and playing with a middle-aged man.

"Yo, Brother Chang is here, you don't make a call in advance, so you're not afraid of running away?"

"Calling? I called, your old boy hid, where am I going to eat? ”

"Hahaha, even if I'm not at home, can you still eat without your bowl of rice when you come? This is ......"

Lao Ma didn't remember who Li Yi was for a long time, but when Chang Huai mentioned the pastel disc that had been split in half, Lao Ma became enthusiastic.

After a few words of greeting, he glanced at the big box Li Yi was carrying, and raised his eyebrows,

"Baby? Take it out and take a look, it's been a long time since I've come across something worth my shot! ”

On the stone table of the pavilion, Li Yi took out the plum vase and broken porcelain pieces, and the old horse frowned when he saw it,

"Hailao porcelain? You've not done a thorough cleanup. ”

Li Yi shook his head helplessly, he had been running around for a while, and he didn't have time to greet these porcelain tiles, it was already good to be able to do this.

"Xiaoyu, go to the house and get me a pen and paper."

The middle-aged man who had just played chess with Lao Ma had also greeted the two before, so Li Yi knew that he was Ma Hangyu, Lao Ma's son.

After a while, the pen and paper were brought, and the old man began to draw on the paper, and with a few thick strokes, an antique plum bottle pattern appeared on the paper.

After thinking for a moment, he made a few more changes, then put the paper aside and began to examine the second pile of broken porcelain.

An hour later, Old Man Ma let out a long breath of turbidity, closed his eyes for a long time, and then spoke:

"These three pieces of porcelain, the same one as your Ruyi plum vase, are best repaired, about 80% of them can be repaired, and the remaining two dragon pattern plum vases, I estimate, can be repaired to 60% is considered good."

"So low?"

Chang Huaizhi's brows furrowed.

"Well, even if it is a newly broken porcelain, if you want to repair it well, you need to repair the porcelain and the glaze. The biggest problem with these pieces is that they have been soaked in the sea for hundreds of years, and even if they are cleaned, the newly added porcelain powder and glaze will definitely have color differences, so ......"

Li Yi nodded,

"It's okay, you can repair it as much as you want, it's already a great luck to get these porcelain tiles, and then the extravagant expectations are too high, doesn't it seem too insatiable?"

"Haha, the young man is good, better than the old man! He, as long as a piece of porcelain is not repaired more than ninety percent, look at his stinky face! Okay, it's past dinner, let's talk while eating! ”

PS: At eight o'clock tonight, the book review area will answer questions, 8.8 yuan per question, everyone is welcome to participate! (To be continued.) )