Wang Xueyi's situation in this family can be regarded as a father who doesn't love her mother. The patriarchal mentality in this family has been deeply rooted in the influence of tradition, and Wang Qingyuan has never attached importance to this daughter. Therefore, even if she saw her daughter who hadn't been back to her parents' house for a long time coming back today, she didn't show much joy.

On the contrary, seeing that her daughter had just divorced and brought a man back, she was inevitably a little unhappy.

Wang Qingyuan asked Meng Que several questions one after another, some of which were about him and Wang Xueyi, and some about himself.

For the question, Meng Que came easily and answered very neatly. On the one hand, she is perfunctory to her mother-in-law, and on the other hand, she also flatters Wang Da Beauty.

The lies he told made him truly Xiaoxiao's "biological father", and even made him a lover who fell in love with Wang Xueyi a long time ago. The story woven by him is beautiful and moving, and while touching the beauty of Wang Da, it also makes the mother-in-law who is as cold as an iceberg also feel compassion.

After asking, Wang Qingyuan didn't ask anymore.

Meng Que felt that this mother-in-law did not have a good impression of herself, and she had to save this bad situation. Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly froze, he glanced around, and when he saw the landscape paintings hanging on the wall, he suddenly came to the topic and asked, "Aunt likes traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting?" ”

"That's right." Wang Qingyuan drank tea and replied lightly.

"The paintings hanging on my aunt's wall are all painted by the saint 'Wu Daozi', which shows that these paintings are very precious." Meng Que sighed slightly.

Wang Qingyuan was expressionless and said: "This is nature, it can be hung in the living room to show people, and naturally it will not be vulgar and other things." ”

Meng Que smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "It's a pity that these paintings are not genuine, but fake." If it is said to be elegant, I am afraid that it will be laughed at and generous. ”

Hearing Meng Que's words, Wang Qingyuan suddenly stopped the teacup, seemed to look at Meng Que again, and said, "Why do you say that these paintings are fakes?" ”

Meng Que still has a lot of research on these things, thanks to the careful teaching of his grandfather before. Elegantly picked up the teacup, took a small sip of tea, and said leisurely: "As the saying goes, 'the change of mountains and rivers begins in Wu and becomes in Erli', although Wu Daozi is also good at landscape painting, especially the strange stones of Shu Road." But that's not what he's best at. Although the paintings made in this room are fakes, they are still precious.

If my guess is correct, it should be from Li Sixun. ”

"Oh? How so? Wang Qingyuan seemed a little surprised.

Meng Que said: "Li Sixun's painting style is more unique, in terms of the use of the brush, the law is rigorous, the artistic conception is superb, the pen is strong, the color is complex, and look at the first "Spring Tree Picture", the color is stacked and green, and a green is better than green to represent the whole process of development and maturity. This person's heart is full of heart, the paintings he made are mostly quiet scenes, and Wu Daozi's favorite gods and devils are very different, this painting should be his early imitation of the painting, although the power of imitation is there, but did not get Wu Daozi's aura, it can be described as a pity. ”

"Well, that's a good point, I can't see that you still have such eyesight." Wang Qingyuan suddenly laughed for the first time, clapped her hands, and praised: "That's right, these paintings are indeed imitations of Li Sixun in his early years, although they are fakes, they are also precious. Wu Daozi's paintings, it is difficult to find a pair of gold, and I naturally don't have that blessing here to hang so much. ”

"You can tell that it is a painting made by Li Sixun without touching the real thing from such a distance, isn't it Xue Yi who told you?" Wang Qingyuan suddenly changed her words and asked meaningfully.

"Mom, it's not, I didn't tell him." Wang Xueyi hurriedly explained. Fang Cai Meng Que said that the painting hanging on the wall was not the work of Wu Daozi but the work of Li Sixun, she was surprised, but she didn't expect her mother to suddenly pop out of such a suspicion.

Wang Qingyuan sneered: "Even if you are an expert in appreciation, I'm afraid you don't have such eyesight as him, if you didn't tell him, could it be that he really recognized it?" ”

Wang Xueyi defended: "Mom, I really didn't tell him. ”

Meng Que smiled slightly and said, "Auntie is too underestimated?" ”

Wang Qingyuan shrugged her eyebrows, looked at Meng Que, and said, "Could it really be that you saw it yourself?" ”

Meng Que shrugged his shoulders and said, "If my aunt believes it, I don't need to say more; If my aunt doesn't believe me, it's useless for me to say more, isn't it? ”

"Ho!" Wang Qingyuan suddenly stood up and said, "Since you really have such strong eyesight, then I still have a painting here, see if you can tell who made it." ”

With that, she walked straight into the room.

After a while, she walked out with a mahogany brocade box in her hand, and when she arrived at the hall, she placed it on the table. Then he opened the lid of the brocade box, carefully took out a painting from it, slowly spread it out, beckoned to Meng Que, and said, "Young man, let's see who this painting is?" ”

Meng Que stepped forward and looked at the painting, only to see that the paper was hairy, obviously very old. The opening part of the painting has traces of damage in many places, but as the scroll slowly unfolds, the middle part is still intact, with bright colors, and the characters are vivid and lifelike.

It's a long painting, but unfortunately it's only half cut from it, and it's hard to see who made it.

In terms of scenery, it is somewhat similar to "Qingming Riverside Map", but it will definitely not be "Qingming Riverside Map". Meng Que has seen a lot of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", and remembers every detail very clearly, this painting is not only not "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", but also not from Zhang Zerui's hand.

In terms of color, it is colorful and bold, and it is almost two extremes with "Qingming Riverside Picture". Although his painting is magnificent, there is a lot of astringency in the magnificence, which is not like the painting made by an author who has experienced a long life and tasted the ups and downs. There is a bit of young people's fearlessness, and its colorful colors are indicating the ambition of the eagle to strike the sky.

Meng Que looked at it carefully for a while, but he didn't guess whose painting it was, and turned his head to look at Wang Xueyi. I saw that she also shook her head, indicating that she didn't know anything about it.

Wang Qingyuan said with a smile: "What's the matter, I can recognize Li Sixun's painting at a glance, but I can't recognize the author of this painting?" ”

"No, it's not that I don't recognize it, it's just that I'm not sure." Meng Que shook his head and said.

"Oh? Whose painting do you think it is, and let's hear it. Wang Qingyuan asked curiously.

Meng Que said seriously: "Judging from the paper of this painting, it should be the paper of the Song Dynasty." Its quality is far better than that of the Tang Dynasty, and it is inferior to that of the Yuan Dynasty. This point only needs to look at the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" to know. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng created movable type printing, so that the demand for paper began to increase, and the quality also developed rapidly.

The paper of this painting should be the legendary hemp paper from the point of view of texture, and this painting, I guess, should be the remnant of the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". ”

"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"? Do you think it's genuine or fake? Wang Qingyuan continued to ask.

Meng Que looked at it carefully and said, "Genuine, it should be genuine." ”

"Really? "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings of the state-owned country, and it is now in the Forbidden City. If this painting is genuine, doesn't that mean that the painting in the Forbidden City is a fake? Wang Qingyuan said with a smile.

Meng Que shook his head repeatedly: "I haven't seen the Forbidden City, I don't know if it's true or not, but it can be placed in the Palace Museum as a national treasure, it must be genuine." And this painting should also be genuine. ”

"Tell me your reasoning?" Wang Qingyuan said with interest.

"Although there is no shortage of imitations in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", most of the works should not imitate the youthful edge of the works. The author of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is the young genius Wang Ximeng, who wrote it when he was eighteen years old. At that time, he was still childish, and his paintings were majestic and sharp, heroic and indifferent, and ordinary people could imitate the general trajectory, but they could not imitate his age and spiritual aura. Auntie, this painting of yours is just in line with the character of a young man, if it wasn't made by Wang Ximeng, then I can't guess whose painting it was. Meng Que said seriously.

After Meng Que finished talking about this, Wang Qingyuan laughed again. The smile was not a sneer, but a rare kind smile, nodded, and said: "What you said is very reasonable, but as for whether this painting is Wang Ximeng's work or not, I don't know." I've consulted a lot of experts before, and their rhetoric is very similar to yours. It seems that you really have a lot of research on this aspect, but I really misunderstood you before. ”

"You're welcome, aunt."

Wang Xueyi looked at her mother and Meng Que in a daze, she stared at Meng Que with watery eyes full of surprise, she really couldn't imagine that the boyfriend she was looking for actually knew everything, and she really picked a treasure.

This time, Wang Qingyuan no longer doubted Meng Que's ability. Because even Wang Xueyi didn't know about this painting, and Meng Que could talk about so much painting knowledge just by looking at the painting, which already showed that he had studied this way.

Until here, Wang Qingyuan seemed to have a slight change in her impression of Meng Que.

At least in her opinion, this cheap son-in-law is not a prodigal son, but a man who does have real talent and learning. Compared with Wang Ruian, who values profit and light separation, it seems that he is indeed a lot stronger.

Although Wang Qingyuan has never paid attention to Wang Xueyi, Wang Xueyi is her daughter after all. If her daughter can marry a good person and be happy, she will be more or less relieved in her heart no matter what.

"Rocky, I wonder if you know how to paint in addition to appreciating paintings?" Wang Qingyuan asked suddenly.

Meng Yi smiled, in order to wait for Wang Qingyuan's words, he didn't put in a lot of effort, the things he learned from the masters of Chinese painting invited by his grandfather in the past can finally be used today, "Auntie, in fact, I have a special talent for painting." ”

"Special talents? What special talents? Wang Qingyuan asked curiously.

Meng Que said: "No matter what kind of painting it is, as long as I look at the remnants, I can draw other parts of it with inspiration." ”

"Oh? Seriously? Wang Qingyuan smiled, not quite convinced. Who in the world would have such a talent? If so, then what's the deal?

"If my aunt doesn't believe me, you can let me try." Meng Que's eyes were firm, and his tone was pertinent. In order to plan to get to this point, he has a lot of time to make ink, and every time he paints, he has to remember it deeply. With his superhuman memory, he memorized all the imitation paintings in his mind.

Under his full preparation, let alone let him restore a certain painting, even if he just said the name, he could imitate it according to the gourd painting!

"Okay, I'll go get the four treasures of the study, and see if you can recover." Wang Qingyuan was very interested, and turned around and went into the side room again!