Chapter 37: The Origin of the Painting
Chen Xiaodonkey doesn't do business, and Pan Liuzhi is not annoyed.
In fact, opening a shop in Liulichang to do antique business, not paying attention to opening and eating for three years, being a repeat customer is a big deal.
And after roughly understanding Chen Xiaodonkey's roots, Pan Liuzhi also had the idea of making friends, after all, even if he doesn't do business this time, there will be no next time, next time?
So seeing what Chen Xiaodonkey said simply, he also didn't go around the bend, but he also didn't ask Chen Xiaodonkey who was instructed to come here, and simply said: "Brother, your surname?" What do you want to see? ”
"The surname is Chen, Chen Zhibai." Chen Xiaodonkey reported his name, "The thing I want to see is a picture of calligraphy and painting, and ...... is painted on it."
Chen Xiaodonkey roughly described the appearance of the strange sacrificial picture.
Pan Liuzhi nodded and said: "What else should I be, it turned out to be that thing, it's easy to say, but that thing is not here, Brother Chen and I will go to the warehouse to see." ”
Pan Liuzhi didn't do business either, locked the door and led Chen Xiaodonkey to a small warehouse he used to stockpile, not far away, also in Liulichang, but not on this street full of all kinds of shops.
On the way, Pan Liuzhi explained again, saying that the picture looked strange, and he felt a little infiltrated when it was hung in the store, and he didn't know the source, and there was no seal signature on it at all, and almost no one cared about it, so after hanging it for a while, he put it in the warehouse to press the bottom of the box.
Pan Liuzhi's warehouse was a small room with two large locks, and when Chen Xiaodonkey followed in, he saw that it was even more chaotic than in the store, with only a simple single sofa and a small table, and the rest of the place was filled with wooden boxes covered with straw.
Pan Liuzhi rummaged through the cabinets, and found the sacrificial picture that Chen Xiaodonkey wanted to see from the bottom box full of calligraphy and paintings, and sure enough, as Pei Luo said, on this picture, those people kneeling on the ground, each of them had a knife stuck in their bodies, which was very strange.
"This picture is not only like this, Brother Chen, look here." Pan Liuzhi handed over a magnifying glass very attentively, and pointed to the small black dot in the middle of the altar on the painting, "You use the magnifying glass to look carefully." ”
Chen Xiaodonkey knew what Pan Liuzhi was talking about.
But he still took a magnifying glass and looked at it again.
However, he found some problems at this look, and felt that this picture should be something that someone had copied from someone, because the black dot, the hand that seemed to stretch out from the mouth of the abyss, was slightly blurred compared to what he saw in Xiaofoling and Caishen Mountain, and the colors of his fingers seemed to be glued together.
Seeing that Chen Xiaodonkey was looking seriously, Pan Liuzhi said to the side: "Brother Chen, do you think that this piece of painting is actually a hand?" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey didn't want to expose that he had seen this picture elsewhere, so he nodded and said, "Don't say it, when Boss Pan talks about it, it looks really similar." ”
Pan Liuzhi nodded and said: "Actually, from my point of view, the person who painted this painting seems to be trying his best to show that hand, but I don't know if it's a color problem or a lack of skill, and in the end I still couldn't make it, which is a pity, otherwise I can only find this place with a magnifying glass, with the weird style of this painting, even if it is not an antique, I can sell it to him as a heirloom." ”
"Boss Pan is amazing."
Chen Xiaodonkey nodded with a smile, hesitated, and then asked, "Is it convenient to reveal the origin of this painting?" After speaking, he added: "Of course, I just asked in passing, if Boss Pan finds it inconvenient to disclose it, forget it, when I haven't asked." ”
Pan Liuzhi shook his head and waved his hand, "Harm, what's inconvenient about this, in fact, this painting was received by me three years ago---- and it can't be counted, and the guest didn't care about me asking for money, but just came to me with this painting and said that it would be consigned in my store, and when it was sold, she would come to me to collect money, and I could take four of the money from it as payment." ”
"But I have been hanging this thing in the store for two and a half years, let alone selling it, even if I push this painting with some old customers, no one wants to take a second look, and the customer who placed the order has never come to my store again, I don't have any thoughts, so I temporarily came to the warehouse."
"If it weren't for Brother Xiao Chen, you would have come today and you would have seen this painting by name, brother, I would have almost forgotten that I still had such a thing in my hand----"
Chen Xiaodonkey listened to Pan Liuzhi babbling a lot, and he didn't interrupt, just listened quietly.
When Pan Liuzhi finally finished speaking, Chen Xiaodonkey nodded on the painting and said, "Just now Boss Pan said that this thing is not an antique?" ”
Pan Liuzhi didn't hide it, and nodded openly: "Seriously, let's definitely count ourselves as half a peer, not to mention it, just my father, who did the work of the palm back then, so I don't fight with you haha." In terms of calligraphy and painting, I think I still have a little research, so I can conclude that this picture is really not an antique, let's not talk about anything else, just take the painting method of this picture as an example, the technique is Western painting techniques, and this kind of painting skills have only been introduced to our country for a few years? Not to mention this kind of coloring material, the use of the same is the painting material that has only become popular in recent years---- to say that this painting, the only thing that makes me feel a little interesting, is to paint this strange idea, the content of his painting, looks like some kind of evil sacrifice scene, let alone painting, ordinary people can't think of it at all......
I'm afraid it's a copy!
Chen Xiaodonkey's eyelids jumped slightly, and he was suddenly more interested in the person who painted this painting.
Since it is not an antique, the person who painted this painting must have seen its original picture somewhere before painting it.
He interrupted Pan Liuzhi's words, and said a little bit inch: "Boss Pan, can you allow me to ask another excessive question?" ”
Pan Liu gestured to him, and Chen Xiaodonkey said, "I want to know who the person who sold this painting is and what is his name?" ”
Pan Liuzhi hesitated when he heard this question.
Chen Xiaodonkey knew that the question he asked was taboo, antique calligraphy and paintings, especially the antique calligraphy and paintings that were put in a place like Liulichang to sell, and most of the sellers did not want to reveal their identities.
As a seller who opens a store, generally speaking, he also has the responsibility to protect the privacy of the listed person, otherwise once the rumor leaks out, it will be a job to smash his own store signboard and his reputation in the industry.
So Chen Xiaodonkey didn't urge after asking, just watched Pan Liuzhi wait quietly, and was ready that Pan Liuzhi would not disclose this information.
As for Pan Liuzhi, he weighed it silently, and after a while, he still revealed the news to Chen Xiaodonkey.
"It's not that I can't say it, but Brother Chen, I told you, you must not sell me, otherwise my business will be cold, brother."
"That's for sure." Chen Xiaodonkey nodded.
Pan Liu pointed out: "I don't know what her name is, I didn't say anything when I asked her, but the guest was a girl---- I think about it, the hair is slightly longer, probably a goose egg face, but the more eye-catching thing about that girl is that she wears a pair of embroidered shoes that are becoming more and more rare now, and when she walks, her heels don't seem to touch the ground at all, and she always walks on tiptoe. ”
What's that?
Chen Xiaodonkey was frightened by Pan Liuzhi's description, isn't this deflated calf talking about Aunt Fang!
Could it be that Fang Gu had seen this painting three years ago, or even more ago, and copied it?
And it's no wonder.
If this were not the case, how could the hand on the mural, which could only be seen with a magnifying glass, be found so easily by Aunt Fang in Xiaofoling?
Shocked in his heart, Chen Xiaodonkey remained silent on the surface.
Pan Liuzhi thought about it, since he said it, he simply sold it thoroughly, and the value of Chen Xiaodonkey, a young man who is expected to develop into a shipper for himself in the future, is obviously above the girl who came three years ago and has not appeared again for three years.
He continued: "Actually, the girl made a request to me at that time. ”
Chen Xiaodonkey became more and more curious, and said, "What requirements?" ”
Pan Liu pointed out: "Before she left, she told me that if someone really wants to buy this painting, the price will definitely not be low, and I am equivalent to picking up money for nothing, so when the time comes, she will come to withdraw the money, and in return, I have to tell her who bought the painting, and even as long as I give more information, she will give me more commission." ”
"Brother Chen, to be honest, I actually suspected that the girl was fishing."
Chen Xiaodonkey nodded silently.
The heart said what the hell is Aunt Fang doing?