Chapter 8 Buying Paintings

Yu Wen felt that it was his fault for this matter, and when he was questioned by his daughter, he couldn't help but feel a little weak, and whispered: "Ah Tang, although your mother has to take medicine now, she doesn't have to go to the capital, and this silver should be regarded as if I took your mother to the capital." Besides, you also see what your Uncle Lu is doing to our family. How can I only care about my own own interests at this time? ”

Yu Tang was extremely angry and said, "Is he at a critical moment of life and death now?" Wouldn't he be able to live without these two hundred taels of silver? ”

"It's pretty much the same!" Yu Wen said, "Your Uncle Lu, he offended the people of the Pei family, and he can't stay in Lin'an Mansion anymore." Next year, he will open Enke again, and he can't get a good recommendation, and it is difficult for him to improve his studies. ”

This kind of thing Yu Tang knows.

Officials are usually willing to benefit one party. When local scholars enter Beijing for scientific examinations, they will write famous posts to familiar or good officials, asking them to help arrange accommodation and even give them guidance on their homework, in order to get a title on the gold list and achieve better results.

She sneered and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Uncle Lu is still just a showman, right?" The Pei family wrote him a letter of recommendation, I'm afraid he won't need it, right? Besides, the Pei family has always liked to help their neighbors, what did he do to offend the Pei family, didn't Daddy think about it carefully? ”

Yu Wen obviously didn't want to talk more, but said: "He has decided to live in the capital, and I don't know if he will come back in the future, this is the last time I help him, and it can be regarded as my repayment to him for saving your mother's life, so you don't hold it accountable." ”

The matter has come to this point, what else can Yu Tang say.

She said hatefully: "What about painting? ”

After all, the painting is an antique, and it is worth some silver, and in the future, if the family can't come up with the money for the mother's medicine, they can still take it as a pawn.

Yu Wen flatteringly handed the scroll to Yu Tang.

Yu Tang spread out the scroll on the bookcase, and muttered in a low voice: "That is, you are good to speak." Two hundred taels of silver, if he takes it to the pawnshop, he can make a hundred taels of silver at most......"

She didn't finish her sentence before her eyes widened.

This is not the "Hidden Picture of Pine Creek Fishing" that she often took out to watch in her previous life.

In the previous life, after the accident of his parents, the painting was left at home and forgotten. It wasn't until she got married that the eldest uncle considered that the Li family she was going to marry was a scholar, and wanted to buy some calligraphy and paintings for her to dowry, so that her dowry would be more decent, and the painting was rediscovered. And because her parents' accident was related to this painting, she took it as a thought, carefully kept it, and took it out from time to time to look at it.

She remembered very well that the painting had twenty-three seals, and the last two seals were "Chunshuitang" and one was "Slender Meiong", and "Chunshuitang" was stamped next to "Slender Meiong", and at this time, the place that was supposed to be stamped with the seal of "Chunshuitang" was covered with "Merlin".

This painting is a fake!

Yu Tang was furious and said, "Daddy, Lu Xin is a villain!" ”

Yu Wen saw that his daughter repeatedly slandered his friend, so he was a little unhappy, and walked over, while collecting the picture scroll, he said, "You kid, how can you talk?" There are no shortcomings in the world, you don't always hold on to your Uncle Lu's point, look at people, look at the main ......"

"It's not!" Yu Tang interrupted his father's words, stopped his father from rolling up the scroll, pointed to the seal stamped with "Merlin" and said, "Dad, look, this should be covered with 'Chunshui Hall'......"

Yu Wen laughed and said, "You don't read when you are asked to read on weekdays, now it's a joke!" I don't know whose seal is 'Chunshuitang', but this 'Merlin' is Zuo's private seal, and I have studied Zuo's manuscripts and seals in the past. This painting of your Uncle Lu's house was given to his late father by Lord Zuo, so it's strange that there is no such seal? You see, this 'Skinny Lemon' is the nickname of your Uncle Lu's father. ”

Yu Tang was completely messy.

Could it be that the famous paintings she used to play with in her hands in her previous life were fake?

Yu Tang was unwilling, she asked Yu Wen to find someone to identify.

Yu Wen disagreed: "Your father can't read, and he won't be blind to appreciating a few ancient paintings from the previous dynasty anyway." ”

The confusion in Yu Tang's heart is getting bigger and bigger.

In her previous life, after she married into the Li family, there was a thief in the family, and later everyone counted the family belongings, and only she lost two or three gold jewelry. At that time, she was still strange that someone went to the Li family to be a thief in the high-walled compound of the Li family, why did they only steal this little thing.

Could it be that the painting had already been stolen at that time?

In the days of the Li family, Yu Tang didn't want to think about it, but she couldn't deny that it was a knot in her heart. Especially the resentment towards the Li family, touching it would make her tremble with anger and speechless.

No way!

She couldn't just mess around and act as if nothing had happened.

Yu Tang asked Yu Wen for "Hidden Picture of Fishing in Songxi" to watch, but quietly took the painting to Pei's pawnshop in private.

The Pei family only opened one pawnshop in Lin'an.

At the intersection in front of the pier in Lin'an Province.

The shopkeeper is still the white and chubby Tong Gui.

In his previous life, Yu Tang was a lot of dowries in his hands.

She covered her head, dressed up as a country woman, and quietly entered the pawnshop.

The shopkeeper Tong was not there, and the one who was guarding the counter was Tong Hai, the son of the shopkeeper Tong.

Like Tong Gui, he is also white and fat, and now he is only a weak crown, and he has already seen people smiling, which is very amiable.

Yu Tang handed over the painting and said in a low voice, "Live".

Tong Hai took the painting with a smile and opened the scroll casually, but his expression was awe-inspiring the moment he saw the scroll. Although he immediately changed to a smiling face, the shock on his face had been captured by Yu Tang.

It can be seen that Tong Hai has practiced a good pair of eyesight at this time.

"The little lady waits slowly, and please go to the inner hall for a cup of tea first." He smiled like Maitreya Buddha, "You should be an antique calligraphy and painting, and you have to see the guest in our shop to make a price." ”

Why is the Pei family's pawnshop fair and just? As soon as many pawnshops see you going to be a thing, they will first deceive you, ask you how much silver you want to be, and no matter how much silver you want to be, they can devalue what you want to be worthless and persuade you to die.

Yu Tang nodded, since he knew that his father had bought this painting again, his anxiety had eased a lot.

Her experience is so wonderful, everything is changing, at least this Pei family's pawnshop is familiar to her, and the big and small shopkeepers of the pawnshop are still the same as before.

She followed Xiao Tong's shopkeeper to the inner hall.

A gust of wind blew, and the camphor trees in the patio rattled, causing a few koi to emerge from under the lily lily leaves.

Yu Tang couldn't help but slow down his pace, looked at it a few times, but heard someone talking faintly behind the half-hidden glass fan opposite.

She followed the prestige.

There were no faces in sight, only two men through the crack in the door.

The chubby one was Tong Gui, and she recognized it at a glance. The tall one was wearing an azure plain silk robe, with a tall posture, standing with his hands behind his back, and from a distance, he could feel the bearing of Linyuan Zhiyue through the Dao fan.

It should be a big customer in the pawnshop.

Yu Tang came here incognito to be a thing, afraid of revealing the stuffing, he didn't dare to look more, and couldn't help but think secretly in his heart.

has such a good bearing, but he comes to be a thing, and he doesn't know whose son it is......

She shook her head, feeling a little pity somehow.

After drinking two cups of tea, the big and small shopkeepers actually came together.

"This little lady," the shopkeeper Tong took the scroll she handed to the shopkeeper Tong before, wiped her sweat and said, "This painting of yours is a fake." ”

Fake painting?!

Yu Tang stood up suddenly.

She knew that this Lu Xin was not a good thing!

In her previous life, her father bought his paintings without refusing, and he even sold a real painting to her father. In this life, her father was reluctant to buy his paintings, so he simply sold a fake painting to her father.

Yu Tang gritted his teeth.

But I have to admit in my heart that if she hadn't intervened, this kind of thing would not have happened in this life.

Since she was in trouble, she naturally cleaned up the mess.

If you don't want the real painting in Lu Xin's hand back, you have to get the silver in his hand back!

Yu Tang snatched the painting from the shopkeeper Tong's hand, and said hatefully: "Thank you Shopkeeper Tong, for your interruption." ”

The shopkeeper looked at her in a daze, as if he was frightened.

Yu Tang had no choice but to smile reluctantly.

She resents Lu Xin, she complains about Lu Xin, but she shouldn't be angry with the shopkeeper Tong.

"Excuse me!" She apologized, "I didn't expect it to be a fake painting that delayed your time." ”

The big and small shopkeepers are really good. If it had been someone else, and a fake painting had been used, it would have been put out as porcelain by the pawnshop people and thrown on the street for people to see jokes.

"It's not!" Xiao Tong's shopkeeper stammered a little when he spoke, "You, your headscarf has fallen off." ”

What happened to the bandana falling off?

It took Yu Tang a while to react.

In order to come to the pawnshop, she deliberately found an old dress of double peach, not to mention, but also combed a woman's head, wore a pink velvet flower, originally thought about whether to smear some powder, so that the face looked haggard, but when she found out the powder of double peach, she disliked the powder used by double peach is not delicate enough, double peach said to go to "Xie Fuxiang" to buy a new box of back, and she felt that it was not worth spending two taels of silver for this - two taels of silver, which was enough for her mother to take medicine for half a month.

Yu Tang thought about his previous life and casually wrapped his bag and entered the pawnshop and no one knew him, so he wrapped his head like in his previous life, but he forgot that he had just reached the end of his life, and his face was as tender as a cherry that had just hung fruit on the branches in March, and it was still green and delicate, how to look like a child wearing adult clothes, and the blind could also see that she was dressed in disguise.

Yu Tang's face turned red, he wrapped his head indiscriminately, grabbed the painting scroll and walked out of the pawnshop.

At noon in the middle of summer, the sun is so hot that people can't open their eyes.

There was no one on the wharf, and under the eaves of the shop next door, there was a shopkeeper lying on a rocking chair with his shirt exposed, shaking a fan, and watching the dog of the shop lying listlessly beside the rocking chair, barking tirelessly, making this silent afternoon even more dull.

Yu Tang came back to his senses.

She only asked about the authenticity of the painting, but she didn't figure out where the painting was fake.

What should she say if Narushin denies it?

Yu Tang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and turned back to the pawnshop.

In the pawnshop, the man in Tsing Yi she saw before didn't know when he came out, and he was talking to the shopkeeper Tong: "I know how to deceive people at a young age, and if I encounter such a thing in the future, don't tolerate adultery!" ”

The shopkeeper Tong nodded and stood in front of the man, and was about to make a promise, but when he looked up, he saw Yu Tang walking in.

He stammered, embarrassed.