The stall owner glanced at the hand stove in Chu Chen's hand and said with a smile: "Sir, you won't be cheating, right?" You just said that the workmanship is as meticulous as these six copper furnaces, and you didn't say that the size should be the same. You see a total of fourteen copper furnaces, I count you a little cheaper, a total of 11,000 pounds, and the cloth bag is also given to you, which is interesting enough! ”

Chu Chen opened his mouth, took out the money from his bag angrily, threw it in front of the stall owner, and then directly put the copper stove on the stall into the cloth bag that looked ruthless but actually carefully.

After counting the banknotes in his hand, the stall owner said with a slight meaning: "It's just right, welcome to come next time!" ”

Chu Chen snorted coldly, and pulled Wu Ke straight out of the market.

Out of the bazaar, Wu Ke asked curiously: "Achen, why are you walking so fast, can't these be genuine?" ”

Chu Chen couldn't hold back the joy in his heart anymore, and said with a smile: "It's indeed genuine, and the six copper furnaces at the beginning are all real Xuande furnaces!" ”

"Isn't it! When can Xuande furnace also be wholesaled? And I feel that these copper furnaces are very ancient, why would that person think they are all fakes? Wu Ke asked dumbfounded.

"In fact, antique identification is like this, if you think that something is a fake, then the more you look at it, the more you feel that the thing is wrong, even if the thing has an ancient charm, you will subconsciously feel that these characteristics are made by counterfeiters. And most importantly, the stall owner should not be proficient in this, and it is not surprising that he thinks the real is fake under the preconceived notions. ”

After Chu Chen explained, he said with a fluttering eyebrow: "You don't know what to do. One of the Xuande furnaces is also a unique superlative, which can be said to be a national treasure-level cultural relic, and this time the luck is really good! ”

Wu Ke was already a little numb in shock, she thought of the smug smile of the stall owner just now, and said with a smile: "Ah Chen, I don't think you are an actor, our country is missing an international superstar, and I don't know if the person who knows the true value of these things will vomit blood and die!" ”

Chu Chen said seriously: "I can't be an actor, otherwise thousands of girls will cry and shout that I won't marry." Then my sin will be great! ”

Wu Ke was amused, and Ha Lu laughed and said: "It's less smelly and beautiful!" ……”

Put the copper stove in the hotel room. Seeing that it was already time to eat, the two went to Meimei for a full meal first, and then went to the market.

Maybe it was all the luck in the morning, and I walked around for two hours. But I just bought a little bit of gadgets. I didn't pick up any leaks. Not to mention the big leaks.

Seeing that the vendors were closing their stalls one after another, the two decided to end their trip to the Notting Hill Market and then prepare to have a visit to Notting Hill.

The most distinctive feature of Notting Hill is that it is full of exoticism. There is an annual carnival that attracts at least 2 million people every year. However, Chu Chen came at the wrong time, because the carnival is held on the last weekend of August every year, and lasts for 2 days.

In addition to the carnival, with the filming and release of a film called "Notting Hill", countless love elements have also been added here.

So after the two played for a while, they went to watch this famous film together.

In fact, the content of the film "Notting Hill" has some imagination between Chu Chen and Wu Ke, but it has been adjusted one by one, and it has become a story in which the princess falls in love with a commoner, and then the two come together after a series of acquaintances and tribulations.

In the movie, a series of plots such as hot coffee, ex-boyfriend, two women in love, an unsustainable bookstore, many scandals, unequal careers, etc., all resonated with the two.

When he saw the park at the end of the movie, on the bench, the pregnant heroine rested her head on the thigh of the male protagonist who was flipping through the book, and quietly watched the children playing, Wu Ke couldn't help but say:

"Achen, I really want to have a few children for you now, and then our family will live a carefree life like in the movie!"

Chu Chen gently stroked her hair, kissed her lightly on the forehead, and said, "There will be that day soon." ”

"Hmmm! People want to think about it now! Wu Ke said coquettishly.

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Silly girl, we can indeed live such a life now, but you don't want our children to get on the bus first and then make up the ticket, right?" Of course, although we can't make people, we can do sports! ”

Wu Ke's pretty face was crimson by Chu Chen's words, and he said with a shy: "You are really bad!" ……”

For two days in a row, the two did not go to the market again, but just played around the attractions in London, although antiques are Chu Chen's favorite business, but they are not the whole of life, sometimes they have to enjoy other pleasures in life.

On Tuesday morning, the two went to the famous National Gallery in London, an elegant temple of fine art in London. It is a treasure trove of classic works from the Renaissance, including works by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cézanne, and others.

Although the styles of foreign paintings and Chinese paintings are different, the expression of artistic conception is the same, especially the works of those world-famous painters, who show the meaning they want to express vividly and vividly on the whole picture scroll, which makes Chu Chen look at it with relish.

By the time the two of them had admired all the paintings in the gallery, it was almost noon.

After lunch, the sky was not beautiful, it was drizzling, and Chu Chen felt that the morning was a little unfinished, so the two decided to go to a private gallery, if there were any good works, they could also buy them by the way.

I found two galleries, although there are also paintings by famous artists, but either Chu Chen can't see it, or the price is too expensive, although it can be bought as a long-term investment, but for Chu Chen, it is better to buy domestic antiques than to buy these paintings of foreign famous artists.

After questioning passers-by, the two went to a gallery again.

The scale of this gallery is medium, but the paintings inside can be described as dazzling, and there are even domestic ink landscape paintings, in addition to most of them are the works of domestic modern and modern painters, and some are paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which made Chu Chen interested.

The paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties are basically not masterpieces, and the level is also very average, not much better than the modern painters on display, but one of the paintings of Xiang Shengmo's "Green Shade Creek Pavilion" made Chu Chen praise it very much.

Among the painters of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties recorded in the history of Chinese painting, many of them liked to seek a sloppy style of painting, but there were only a few painters who were close to reality and elegant in charm, and Xiang Shengmo was a unique landscape painter with his own face in the late Ming Dynasty.

Xiang Shengmo not only painted landscapes, figures, flowers and birds transcendentally, but he was also very erudite, and was also good at calligraphy and poetry.

His landscape paintings do not have a special and direct teacher, but a wide range of appreciation of the ancients, the method of creation, like to absorb materials from life, his paintings can be described as close to reality, accurate modeling, serious and meticulous, quite praised by Dong Qichang and others.

This "Green Shade Creek Pavilion" embodies Xiang Shengmo's painting style, the painted object is close to reality, the shape is accurate, the brush is thorough, serious and meticulous, contrary to the sloppy and sloppy at that time, the pursuit of "Yi Brush and Grass" style of painting, and the artistic conception is beautiful, the atmosphere is elegant, and has a high character.

The artistic conception in the painting is depicted, the environmental layout is very appropriate, full of poetry, and the poems mentioned on the painting are appropriate, so that the reader can easily integrate into the artistic conception of the painting, and it can be said that this painting is a good painting that can be enjoyed for centuries.

It is rare to encounter a fine painting of Xiang Shengmo, of course Chu Chen does not want to miss it, looking at the list price, it costs 48,000 pounds, the size of this painting is eight square feet, in terms of the current market situation, this price seems a little expensive, so he asked the clerk on the side:

"I wonder if this painting can be cheaper?"

"Sir, we can only discount this painting by a maximum of ninety-fifty!" The clerk replied politely.

Chu Chen thought for a while and said, "If it's forty thousand pounds, I'll buy it." ”

The clerk pondered for a while and said, "Sir, please wait a moment, I'll go and ask for instructions." ”

After a while, the clerk came over and said that the boss had agreed to his price, so Chu Chen asked him to wrap the painting.

Except for "Pavilion in the Green Shade Stream", there was nothing Chu Chen liked in other Chinese paintings, so he began to browse the oil paintings in the gallery.

In the beginning, the oil paintings were also made by unknown painters, and the level was average, but the closer to the prominent position in the gallery, the better.

"Hey, this looks like Waterhouse's 'Lady Charlotte,' right?" Wu Ke asked lightly.

Chu Chen turned his head and saw that it was indeed Waterhouse's famous "Lady Charlotte", but judging from the degree of completion of the painting, this should be a sketch.

In the dark green mountains, a small boat was quietly docked on the twilight lake, and a Charlotte woman with reddish-brown hair and a white dress sat on it, about to loosen the cable, and then lay down quietly. The expression on the face of the Charlotte woman was sad and solemn, the broken aquatic plants beside the ship, the candles and crosses that were about to be extinguished on the bow of the ship, foreshadowing impending death.

Because Chu Chen had just bought a work, there was always a clerk standing not far from them, and when he heard Wu Ke's question, the clerk stepped forward and introduced:

"Yes, this is a sketch of 'Lady Charlotte', we have asked a number of master appraisers to authenticate it, and it is indeed Waterhouse's authentic work, and a certificate of appraisal has been issued."

"You see, although this painting is only a sketch, the artistic conception in it is not inferior. The sentimental, mysterious, lonely, alienated, and ethereal Ms. Charlotte in the painting is both in line with Victoria's repressed emotions and indescribably empty and desolate imagery......" (to be continued......)