Chapter 44: Business and Marriage
When the word "imitation" was spoken, Fan Yangming's face turned white.
He looked at Chu Feng almost in horror, looking at this young man who was obviously shallow and indifferent, and he simply and thoroughly turned out the pickles hidden at the bottom of his heart and put them on the bright side.
Fan Yangming felt as if all the blood in his body had been drained, and his heart forgot to beat.
But after all, Fan Qiuming is a person who has been immersed in the business field for a long time, and he has experienced many things, and I don't know how many winds and waves he has seen. Now the storm in front of him, although it is more serious and earth-shaking than the previous experience, but after all, it is the root bone that has been tempered for decades, and this feeling of almost panic is only a matter of a moment, and soon, Fan Yangming calmed down again.
The yard chirped, butterflies wore flowers, and willows whispered. In the middle of summer, an unknown little insect jumped out of the grass, jumped on Fan Yangming's shoes, and after feeling the smell that belonged to human beings, they quickly escaped.
"So I misread you."
Fan Qiuming had been looking at Chu Feng, and at this time, listening to the noise of midsummer in the garden, he carefully looked at Chu Feng again, and then shook his head and laughed at himself.
"I thought you were just an ordinary teenager with a little talent. You know, I've had people check your details, and strangely, they can't find anything. There aren't many cases that can cause this outcome, almost only two cases. Either your hometown has suffered a catastrophe, and the county records and records of the people have been lost. Either that, or you're from an extraordinary background, and while you're out into the sun, someone has already wiped all the clues behind you. ”
Fan Yangming felt a little tired and sighed slightly: "I originally thought you were just the first kind. But now that I look at it, I am gradually leaning towards the second possibility. ”
It was the first time Chu Feng had heard such words, and at this time he couldn't help but feel funny, and shook his head with a smile: "Uncle Fan thinks too much, my hometown has indeed suffered some disasters, how to be specific." Don't mention it. As for the latter thought, I don't believe that anyone from a famous family would be as ignorant of affairs and etiquette as I am, do I? ”
Fan Yangming didn't speak, but judging from his expression, he was naturally skeptical of Chu Feng's statement.
Seeing this, Chu Feng sighed slightly.
"The reason why I know about the Li family's affairs is actually a coincidence." Chu Feng said. "When I was in Hangzhou before, Mr. Wen Duan's calligraphy and painting shop received a codex of Su Dongpo, and after taking it for a closer look, I found that it was opened on the second floor. Looking down this line, I found Li Liangji, and because of some miscellaneous reasons, I probably understood what kind of business their family was doing. ”
Chu Feng glanced at Fan Yangming and shook his head: "It's hard for me to say whether this technique is good or bad. Truly. The Li family's methods are indeed amazing and exquisite, but I also understand it. There are many people, like the shopkeeper Huang, who cannot accept the act of confusing the real with the fake, knowing that it is a fake but selling it as the real thing...... Uncle Fan, although I didn't hear the argument between you and Shopkeeper Huang, I guessed it now. It should have something to do with it, shouldn't it? ”
Fan Yangming listened silently, and after Chu Feng finished speaking, he looked at Chu Feng for a long time, and then finally opened his mouth. chuckled: "Looks like you're right. ”
Chu Feng was slightly puzzled, not knowing what the other party was referring to.
"You shouldn't have come from a prestigious family." Fan Yangming smiled and said, "People from a big family speak of the word 'li'. Not to mention the rest, at the very least, when talking to people, you don't put everything on the table so plainly and straightforwardly. ”
When Chu Feng heard this, he suddenly remembered the words of Fan Qiubai who reprimanded the mother-in-law, the kind of method of wrapping layers of cotton and hiding the sharp needles inside was indeed not something that Chu Feng could use. I couldn't help but agree for a while, and nodded with a smile.
Fan Yangming restrained his smile and turned his head to look at the scenery in the back garden.
"Chu Lang, what do you think, how is this garden?" Fan Yangming asked.
"The winding path is secluded, one step at a time, and it is quite a wonderful appreciation of the Jiangnan garden." Chu Feng said sincerely.
"Then, Chu Lang, you say. If the walls of our Fan family's yard are gone, will this back garden still be what it is today? ”
Chu Feng fell silent when he heard this, he probably understood what Fan Yangming was talking about.
Fan Yangming smiled slightly: "If the skin doesn't exist, the hair will be attached?" The Fan family has a big business, but in the end, it is only the surface. I have more than the rise and fall of the Fan family on my shoulders. You have been working in the calligraphy and painting industry for a while, and you naturally understand how many people rely on it for their livelihoods. People in the world value agriculture over business, but it is the businessmen who can really make most people buy food to eat. The calligraphy and painting shop may be more elegant, wrapped in a layer of literati elegance on the outside, but in the bones, this is a mess of business, from the inside out, it bears the livelihood of thousands of people. Just like Yan Chaofeng in your shop, his elderly mother is blind, his wife died young, and his three sons have not yet married. If he didn't have this pilgrimage job, where would he, and even their family, go? ”
Chu Feng listened, not knowing what to say.
Fan Yangming still smiled faintly: "Old Huang, he ...... I have always been a little obsessed with the way of painting and calligraphy, as you said, I am afraid that I will not be able to accept the real thing for a while. But his good intentions, he will eventually understand. Again...... Scold! He has never seen the methods of the Li family, so where else is it shoddy, fake and real, it is clearly a replica of the real thing! I don't know what kind of characters are hidden behind their family, and they can make such a quality imitation! ”
"Speaking of which......" Fan Yangming suddenly remembered something, "Chu Lang, you just said that the Dongpo Codex that had been uncovered on the second floor. How do you tell if it's genuine? The things that Li Jialin imitated were obviously so fine that even if they were seen by others......"
"It's not supposed to be seen by people my age." Chu Feng knew what Fan Yangming meant, so he answered with a smile and shook his head slightly, "That's a special case." It wasn't her intention to uncover the second layer of the codex, so she made it hastily and fooled around a bit. ”
"I see." Fan Yangming nodded. "It seems that Chu Lang has seen this 'him'."
Chu Feng touched his nose and said with a complicated smile: "I have indeed seen it." ”
Chu Feng looked at Fan Yangming's admiring expression, and wondered if the other party knew that this "he" was actually a woman who was not much older than himself, would he be so frightened that he jumped directly onto the tree.
I was amazed by the thoughts. Fan Yangming's words returned to the predicament facing the business today: "Chu Lang, you are not a business person after all, and I don't know how much you can understand what I said." Let's put it this way, what I am facing now is not a question of whether I can choose, but for the sake of everyone, I have to take such a path. ”
Speaking of this, Fan Yangming's eyes showed a resolute light: "The union of the Fan family and the Li family." Imperative. The same is true of the marriage of the two families. ”
"Whether Fan Niangzi wants to or not?" Chu Feng lowered his eyes.
Fan Yangming smiled bitterly, full of self-blame: "The most sorry person among them is Qiubai." She's just ...... What can be said? ”
Chu Feng said: "Uncle Fan should know her temperament, even if she really has something in her heart, it is impossible to say it." ”
"You're right...... But now, what choice do I have......"
"Mr. Bundua has already spoken, if you need help......"
"No, Chu Lang. You don't get it! Fan Yangming stood up and paced back and forth. I understand what Mr. Wen Duan meant, and I am very grateful for his help, but the problems faced by the calligraphy and painting industry today cannot be remedied by money alone. There are problems in the whole chain, there are problems in the whole industry. The situation in the north has always been unstable, and there are people in the Central Plains who are constantly rebelling. Plagued by rogues and plagued for years...... Chu Lang, do you understand that today's problems cannot be solved by relying on money alone. In the calligraphy and painting industry, sooner or later there will be big problems. Everything I'm doing now. In fact, I myself understand that it's just a trapped beast fighting. ”
Chu Feng naturally understood, even more so than Fan Yangming.
When the Jin soldiers go south, the war is together, and what calligraphy, painting and antiques are probably just a piece of waste paper for the fleeing people, and they are meaningless in the face of life safety.
Now, Chu Feng almost admired the viciousness of Fan Yangming's eyes.
"I have ...... Some thoughts, maybe what Uncle Fan said in front of him, may be a bit of an axe. But after all, I have been working in the calligraphy and painting industry for more than a month, and I have seen some doorways, so I have some ideas that I can say now. If Uncle Fan thinks it's interesting, it's better to promote it. If it's not realistic, you can think of it as the ignorant whispering of our juniors. Chu Feng smiled.
Fan Yangming didn't know what Chu Feng was going to say, most of his thoughts were still stuck in the emotion and contemplation of the broken mountains and rivers in the future, so he just nodded subconsciously.
Chu Feng looked at the other party's slightly distracted expression and smiled: "First of all, the first point, has Uncle Fan ever heard of the word 'commission'......"
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"Chu Feng, Chu Feng, you robbed me of business in Hangzhou City, and when you arrived in Bianliang City, Tokyo, you started to rob women with me again. Did I go out and commit Tai Sui, or did I offend you somewhere, so that you targeted me everywhere? ”
In the restaurant on Qianmen Street in Liangzi Lane, Li Liangji sighed with emotion and added a glass of wine for himself, and was about to add a glass for Chu Feng, but he remembered this guy's bastard, smiled, and put the wine bottle on the table with a bang.
Chu Feng smiled helplessly, he didn't drink in the first place, so he naturally didn't care about it. At this time, he looked at Li Liangji, who was well-dressed and had an unbeatable bearing on the other side, and said with a smile: "It's just a coincidence, Brother Li, is this really to blame me?" ”
Li Liangji rolled his eyes and didn't speak.
He turned his head sideways to look at the bustling street, the traffic was busy and shoulder to shoulder, and a kind of lost emotion gradually appeared on his face.
Chu Feng looked at it, secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect him to show such an expression, so he hurriedly pretended not to see it, lowered his head and ate the vegetables.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you the truth. Actually, I don't want to marry Fan Qiubai. Li Liangji was the master who couldn't help but talk in his heart, and at this time, he slapped the table and didn't vomit or be unhappy.
The diners around were startled by the sound of the table slapping and looked sideways.
Li Liangji stuck out his tongue.
When everyone's eyes dispersed, Li Liangji sighed and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Fan family's lady is bad, it's just that it's ...... I already have someone in my heart. ”
This is something that Chu Feng really didn't expect, such a person whose arrogance is exposed on the surface, would have a woman who can't ask for it?
Taking the initiative to add a glass of wine to Li Liangji, Chu Feng asked, "Can you ask, whose girl is it?" It makes our eldest son Li so haunted? ”
Li Liangji glanced at Chu Feng when he heard this, but he didn't turn away the wine cup in front of him, he raised his head and drank, and said after a while: "If I say it, don't laugh at me!" ”
Chu Feng nodded hurriedly.
"That...... You've definitely seen it. Yes, those of you who passed the township test before would always go to the West Lake. Li Liangji slowly blushed, scratched his ears, and looked up at Chu Feng embarrassedly, "Oh, it's the piano girl anyway!" Piano! ”
Chu Feng blinked.
Blinked again.
The two people sitting opposite each other began to fall into a very awkward state of silence, and the noisy sound next to them became clearer and clearer, but at the same time, this awkward atmosphere became more and more embarrassing.
"You're talking about something!"
Li Liangji couldn't help it, and slapped the table again.
There was silence again for a moment, and everyone's eyes converged.
Li Liangji shrunk his neck, eager to find a place to hide.
Chu Feng worked hard for a long time, from astronomy and geography to the love of his children, and finally raised his hands in surrender: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really can't think of what to say...... Why don't we discuss the three philosophical questions? ”
"What are the three philosophical questions?" Li Liangji frowned.
"Where do we come from? What to do here? Where are you going? Chu Feng's face was serious.
Li Liangji's eyes stared at Chu Feng deadly, and he forcibly resisted the urge to splash the wine in front of him on the latter's face.
"I'm so angry." Li Liangji stood up with a thud and grabbed Chu Feng's collar across the table, "If you want to laugh at me, laugh quickly!" Don't hide it, Lao Tzu is even more unhappy! ”
Chu Feng looked at the other party's face that was flushed with annoyance and anger, and suddenly had a feeling of messing around with his classmates in the classroom, so he felt more and more cordial.
"Why are you laughing at you?" Chu Feng smiled slightly, extremely sincere, "I think the piano girl is indeed a very good girl, and she is very worthy of love." ”
Li Liangji's gaze gradually changed, and he became a little puzzled: "She...... After all, it's the girl on the painting boat. I like people like that, and you don't look down on me for that? (To be continued.) )