Seeing that it was such a snuff box worth nearly three million, Chu Chen was surprised, he could only shake his head and smile bitterly, such a precious thing was regarded by Sun Dayou as the most valuable but tens of thousands, and he was too ignorant of the antique market!

It seems that he has to remind him that if there is anything else at home, he should take it to him to take a look, otherwise he will lose millions, and even he will feel distressed when he thinks about it.

Chu Chen saw Uncle Wu staring at the snuffbox in his hand, so he put the things back into the box and said with a smile: "Uncle Wu, take a look!" ”

Uncle Wu hurriedly stretched out his hands, took out the enamel snuff bottle from the box, held it up, looked at the light, and admired it carefully, while his mouth kept snorting and admiring.

Sun Dayou saw the expressions of the two, and he didn't understand that the thing he brought must be a great thing, which made him a little confused, and asked: "Isn't this a snuff bottle, my neighbor bought one for a few months, but it was only a thousand yuan, although the villain on my snuffbox looks good, but it doesn't cost much, right?" ”

Chu Chen shook his head and said: "Old Sun, this snuff bottle is also good and bad, you are a snuff box made by Emperor Qianlong, it is very precious." ”

"How precious is that?" Sun Dayou asked curiously.

"I guess it's about three million!" Chu Chen nodded to Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu, who came back, and then replied.

"What!" When Sun Dayou heard what Chu Chen said, he immediately opened his mouth wide, a small thing that was only five or six centimeters was worth so much money, and he was shocked that he didn't know what Lu Dao said.

Halfway through. Sun Dayoucai came back to his senses and said with some stammering: "Boss Chu." You're not going to lie to me, such a little bit of a big thing. How can it be such a high value? ”

Lao Wu said: "Sun Lao, how could our boss lie to you, you don't know the market for antiques, so you think it's expensive, but the value in the market is what our boss said, after all, our boss can't get along with money, you say no!" ”

Sun Dayou heard Lao Wu say this, and he already believed this fact in his heart. This made him a little embarrassed, after all, he was going to give this thing to Chu Chen, and it was like a door-to-door sales pitch, which really made his face a little embarrassed.

Chu Chen saw Sun Dayou's thoughts at a glance, he smiled and said: "Old Sun, speaking of which, I still want to thank you, snuff bottles like this are very rare, I usually can't buy them even if I want to, but I didn't expect you to send them to the door." No wonder I was out today. See a magpie barking in front of the door! ”

Although what Chu Chen said was more exaggerated, Sun Dayou was really not as embarrassed as he was just now, and he said with a smile: "Boss Chu, it's good if you like it." But this price must not be as expensive as you said, after all, you are talking about the market price. It's a friendship between us! ”

"Then I'll thank you first, thank you for being old!"

After Chu Chen thanked him, he said, "But it's a matter of price." Let's wait until I've finished reading the next thing! ”

Sun Da nodded and said, "Okay, you can just watch." But this box is a painting, probably a problem with early storage, there are a few cavities on it, I didn't want to take it, my son said that this painting looks like it is very old, let me bring it, said maybe you will like it! If it's a tattered piece, don't worry about it! ”

"No, no, don't worry about it!"

Chu Chen smiled and waved his hand, and then opened the lid of the box, and what was placed inside was a folded piece of drawing paper, which looked indeed a little old, and because of poor preservation, the painting paper looked like some mildew spots and cavities, but fortunately, the situation was not too serious, which made Chu Chen's brows loosen a lot.

Carefully unfold the paper, and the content on the scroll immediately came into everyone's eyes, but when everyone saw the content, they were all taken aback, and Zhou Wenping exclaimed: ""Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone"! ”

The reason why everyone is so surprised is precisely because the content on the picture scroll is very similar to Su Shi's "Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone".

In addition to the two inscriptions next to it, the whole picture is only made of a dead tree, a few thin grasses under the tree, a stubborn stone like a fist, and a sparse bamboo behind the stone.

The dead tree, without a single leaf, the main pole is curved and crooked, in one-third of the main pole, a thick branch is broken, two-thirds of the main pole is twisted and twisted in an unreasonable direction, and the treetops are trying to reach the slur, very much like the shape of deer antler velvet, and the strange appearance is like a depression in the chest.

Su Shi, the famous Su Dongpo, is a household name in my country. However, generally speaking, everyone pays attention to Su Dongpo's literary attainments, and calls him one of the most outstanding literary and artistic attainments in the thousands of years of history of our country.

But what is less known is that his achievements in painting creation and painting theory are high, and they are not below literary achievements. In the history of Chinese painting, Su Shi's status is far greater than that of many famous painters and theorists in the Song and Song dynasties.

Su Shi's main contribution in this field lies in the "scholar painting" that he advocated with his cousin Wen Tong and his close friend Mi Fu, that is, literati painting. Their purpose and pursuit are quite clear, mainly opposing the neat and exquisite style of the hospital, advocating sloppy writing and not striving for work.

"Shifu Painting" celebrates "morale" and "Yipin", advocates taste, seeks the integration of poetry, calligraphy and painting, makes painting literary, and opens up a precedent for the traditional theory of classical painting and Chinese painting in China.

However, it is a pity that among Su Shi's poems, calligraphy and paintings, there are very few paintings that have been handed down, and it is said that Zhou Wenping's exclaimed "Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone Map" has now flowed to the island country, which is rare to see, which makes Chu Chen and others feel very regretful, which is also the fundamental reason why everyone is so surprised.

But immediately Uncle Wu frowned and said: "No, although this is very similar to "Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone", some painting methods and techniques are different, and the artistic conception expressed is not the same. ”

In 1079, Su Shi's political opponents quoted Su Shi's poems out of context to fabricate political charges, which led to the famous literary prison, the Wutai Poetry Case. This time, if it weren't for the Song Shen ancestor's legacy of "not killing scribes" and his appreciation of Su Shi's talent in his bones, Su Shi would not have escaped this catastrophe. After the worst, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou.

And "Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone" was born because of this, and the picture scroll is full of pessimistic and depressive emotions, which makes people feel very uncomfortable after watching it for a long time.

But the painting in front of me, in addition to pessimism and depression, contains an extremely sad and desolate meaning, as if an old man who is in his last years, dragging his sick and weak body, is about to pass away.

However, soon everyone found out and understood why this painting had such an artistic conception, because judging from the poems promoted next to him, when Su Dongpo painted this painting, he was already dying, and that poem was the desperate poem he wrote.

Why did Su Dongpo paint this work and mention poetry before he died? This makes everyone feel very strange.

When Chu Chen saw the promotion of another person, he suddenly said: "It turns out that this painting was given to Huang Tingjian by Su Dongpo before he died!" ”

"How did Su Dongpo think that before he died, he would send a painting like this to Huang Tingjian?" The fifth asked strangely.

"Su Dongpo sent Huang Tingjian such a painting, it's normal!" Chu Chen thought about it and said.

At the beginning, Su Shi saw Huang Tingjian's poems on Huang Tingjian's maternal uncle Sun Jue for the first time, and he was shocked that he was super easy and dusty, Sun Jue asked Su Shi to make a name for him, Su Shi smiled: "This person is like fine gold and beautiful jade, if he doesn't approach others, others will take the initiative to approach him, and he can't get his name, so why should he be famous?" ”

When Huang Tingjian was thirty-four years old, he wrote two poems and sent them to Su Shi, and Su Shi replied to the book "Answer to Huang Luzhi": "I have always been afraid that I will not be able to make friends with you, and Jun today does not hesitate to humiliate me and lose his talent, and it is almost unbearable to be ashamed of treating me so well." ”

At that time, Su Shi was already famous all over the world, and Huang Tingjian was just a temporary appearance, which shows how much Su Shi appreciates Huang Tingjian, and the two have cherished each other since then. It is precisely because of Su Shi's appreciation that Huang Tingjian's life has been bumpy.

A year later, Su Shi was imprisoned for the "Wutai Poetry Case" and was almost killed.

Seven years later, because of the new emperor's accession to the throne, Su Shi seemed to be running from time to time, and Huang Tingjian was recruited back to Beijing together, and the two had been friends for a long time, but they met for the first time. However, the good times did not last long, and in the next few years, the two fell into a political turmoil again, and they were both demoted in the end.

After the last, Su Dongpo asked Huang Tingjian to meet at Poyang Lake for three days before leaving, and this meeting became a farewell.

After listening to Chu Chen's narration, the fifth child shouted for Huang Tingjian: "This Su Dongpo is simply a mourning star, Huang Tingjian is a good person, because of his intersection, it is a pity that he actually became like this after the last time!" ”

"That's not right!" Uncle Wu said with a smile: "I think the reason why the two of them are like this is because their personalities are too straight, and they are not suitable for staying in the deceitful officialdom at all. ”

"Alas! It's still a good person who has nothing to repay! Sun Dayou sighed beside him.

Everyone shook their heads, this political thing is often not achieved and will not give up, when someone will care whether the other party is a good person or not!

"And what does this painting mean?" Lao Wu still continued the question just now.

Chu Chen said: "I think it may be Su Dongpo's grievances before he died, his life is too bumpy, and he has been depressed, the depression in his heart can be imagined, and Huang Tingjian's experience and him can be described as sympathy, plus the two of them sympathize with each other, so it is a very good object to confide in, it is probably because of this, he painted this work to give to each other!" (To be continued......)