Chapter 6 After the Famous Artist
Seeing that the blood-stained kitchen knife was about to be cut at my neck, my head buzzed, and I opened my eyes, and it turned out to be a dream.
I opened my eyes and looked out the window, and the eastern sky was already faintly lit up with a white light. I sighed and sat up. The heart said that if this thing was no matter how good it was, I should do my business and still do my business, but now it's good, so I can't sleep well. Thinking of this, I got up from the bed and looked at my watch: a quarter past five. I went to the foyer, made a cup of tea, took out two cakes from the refrigerator, and drank tea while eating the cakes, but as I drank the water, I noticed that a drop of blood had slipped from my hand.
Seeing that I was sitting at seven o'clock, I picked up my phone and opened it tremblingly. I opened the phone and breathed a sigh of relief, WeChat, text messages, and call records have no new news, I opened the address book and made a call to Mengya, and it didn't take long for a short time to come out of Mengya's sweet voice on the phone.
"Eh, why did you call so early?"
"It's okay, ask if you got up."
Mengya smiled, I inexplicably fought a cold war, remembering the terrifying figure in my dream last night.
"Come and pick me up at half past eight, let's go straight to the glass factory."
Mengya was really very punctual, and the car drove downstairs before 8:20. I first looked at Mengya in the car from the upstairs window, and from a distance, she in the car didn't seem to have changed. I walked out of the building, and Mengya stepped out of the car. I looked at him carefully, but he was the same as before, very young and beautiful. I sat in the passenger seat without saying hello to her, and Mengya sat down and started the car.
I kept glancing at Mengya beside me with my spare eyes, only to see that she had not changed, looked at me and smiled: "What's wrong with you today, it's so strange." "I was in a cold sweat, and when I saw her smile, I remembered the monster in my dream last night.
At nine o'clock, Mengya and I came to the Rong Bao Zhai Building in Liulichang, Xicheng, Beijing. I saw Yun Ye and Xiao Ye standing outside the door of Rong Bao Zhai Building, and Xiao Ye was holding the mahogany box with a gold mask in his hand.
I stepped forward and waved my hand, and when Yun Ye saw it, he walked to us, and I led them into the basement of Rong Bao Zhai Building.
The basement of Rong Bao Zhai is all a small room, selling calligraphy and paintings, naturally it is mostly fake, and there are very few genuine products. When we went deeper into the basement, we saw a room on the side of the elevator that was much larger than the other shops, and by the door stood a wooden board with a few large letters written on it: "Selling the storefront and its antiques".
I was stunned and looked into the store. I saw an old man in his fifties, dressed in black Chinese-style clothes, stepping on a pair of inline liter mille-feuille cloth shoes, sitting at the table with his shoulders in a daze.
I walked to the door and knocked on the door frame: "Ren Tai'an, what, where do you want your daughter-in-law?" ”
Ren Tai'an raised his head to look at me, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Oh, Brother Qiu, you are here." "I'm about to cry when I say it.
I looked at him suspiciously: "Brother Ren, what's wrong with you, why did you close the shop?" ”
Ren Tai'an sighed: "Brother Qiu, do you know the liar in the antique city two days ago? ”
"It's like I've heard it for a while, and I don't quite know what's going on."
Ren Tai'an wiped the tears on his face: "My son Ren Bo participated in a WeChat auction on the second floor of the antique city some time ago, and spent 10,000 yuan to auction back a painting. I met the author of this painting, who claimed to be the grandson of Wu Hufan, and was also a well-known person, good at copying the works of Zhang Daqian, Chen Shaomei, Wu Hufan and other well-known painters and was very talkative. ”
I interrupted him with a sigh: "Brother Ren, you sit down first." Tell me what happened from beginning to end. ”
Ren Tai'an sat down in a chair and told us what was happening at home.
His son's name is Ren Bo, and the order of the ancients' names is: Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji, so Ren Tai'an's eldest son is called Ren Bo. Ren Bo has just emerged in the antique circle, and is basically familiar with all the merchants in Beijing, because his father Ren Tai'an is a veteran in the industry.
One day half a year ago, Ren Bo was wandering around the antique city as before. Just about to go home, I met a person outside the door, who was the shopkeeper of "Han Yunxuan" on the second floor of the antique city.
Ren Bo saw that he was an acquaintance and took care of her. The shopkeeper was very enthusiastic and invited Uncle Ren upstairs for tea. Ren Bo saw that it was difficult to be warm, but he returned to the "Han Yunxuan" on the second floor with the shopkeeper.
Sitting in Han Yunxuan, Ren Bo drank two sips of tea, and saw that the shopkeeper seemed to have something to say, put down the teacup and smiled: "Shopkeeper, you invited me to your store for something, right?" ”
I saw the shopkeeper smile: "It's nothing, we recently held a micro-shooting." Interested in taking a look at the goods? ”
When Ren Bo heard this, he thought that sure enough, the tea in this antique city was not drunk in vain, so he nodded immediately. Then the shopkeeper took out a soft piece of a picture from the cupboard. A soft film is a painting that is not framed, and it is called a soft film.
I saw that Han Yunxuan's shopkeeper opened this soft film, and there was an old birthday star painted in the middle of the painting, which was typically painted by imitating Chen Shaomei's brushwork, and the painting was also very exquisite. But when I saw the paragraph on the side, I frowned, it was not Chen Shaomei, it was written "Jiangzuo Wu Yue".
Ren Bo raised his head after seeing it, and looked at Han Yunxuan's shopkeeper: "Who is this Jiangzuo Wu Yue?" I don't know. ”
The shopkeeper smiled mysteriously: "Do you know Wu Hufan?" ”
Ren Bo nodded, and said in his heart, who doesn't know Wu Hufan. I looked at the seal again, and wrote four words on it: "Woyun Painting Building".
"This teacher Wu Yue is the grandson of Mr. Wu Hufan, and he has studied Chinese painting with Mr. Sun Yunsheng, a disciple of Zhang Daqian, since he was a child. There are quite a few insights. ”
Ren Bo nodded: "The painting is indeed good." ”
"I also told you that this teacher Wu Yue has a stunt, which is imitation. This year, I made tens of millions of dollars by imitating Zhang Daqian's paintings. ”
Ren Bo was stunned when he heard it, oops, he made tens of millions of dollars just by imitating paintings. Then he said: "I also participate in this micro-shooting." "In the evening, at the auction, I got this birthday picture of Mr. Wu Yue and Chen Shaomei's pen at a price of 10,000 yuan.
Ren Bo went to the antique city to pay for the goods the next day, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Han Yunxuan's shopkeeper eating with a man. I saw this man, dressed in Chinese-style clothes, stepping on a pair of mille-feuille bottoms, and holding a sandalwood folding fan carved by Yu Zi'an. is bowing his head and gobbling up food.
The shopkeeper saw Uncle Ren walk in from the outside, smiled and got up to introduce: "Mr. Wu, this is the buyer who bought your paintings, Uncle Ren of the Liuli Factory." ”
I saw Mr. Wu Yue, who was sitting at the table eating, nodded slightly, smiled, lowered his head and continued to eat.
Ren Bo looked at it and thought that if I had a good deal with this Mr. Wu, I could ask him to imitate the painting for me, thinking of this, sitting on the sidelines, intentionally or unintentionally, I was close to this Mr. Wu. This Mr. Wu is very friendly and very talkative. The two talked very speculatively for a few hours, and after a while they became friends. Take Ren Bo to walk the antique city together, and promise to paint a splash of color landscape to Ren Bo that night, so the two basically traveled to all the shops in Beijing's major antique cities in a month, visiting the antique city during the day, and Ren Bo invited Mr. Wu to eat together at night.
A few days later, the two walked the antique city as they did every day, and Ren Bo looked at Wu Yue and smiled: "Teacher Wu, you ......can see my splash of color."
Wu Yue nodded: "I haven't started painting yet, there are too many things in this time." Sotheby's, Christie's, and Poly have just finished their work. He said and took out his phone.
"Senior Brother Liu, Poly's Lang Shining has been prepared, you can take it." After saying a few words, he hung up the phone. looked at Uncle Ren
"I have to be busy with the decoration of the courtyard of Xishan No. 1 Courtyard this time. Well, I'll start drawing tomorrow. ”
Ren Bo was very happy when he heard this, but after seeing that Wu Yue seemed to have some embarrassed expression, he hurriedly asked, "Mr. Wu, is there anything difficult?" ”
Wu Yue nodded: "If you want to imitate Zhang Daqian's splash color, I don't have any paint here, I have to buy it, can you get the old paint here?" ”
Ren Bo shook his head, Wu Yue took out the phone and made another call, turned back to Ren Bo and said: "In this way, I told my apprentice Zhang Xuanyu, you go to him at night to settle the paint money, I will let him mail it to me now, I will paint you when the paint arrives, and I will give you the paint money in two days." ”
Ren Bo nodded and thought to himself how much money this paint could have, so he added this Zhang Xuanyu's WeChat at night, but this checkout looked at the list: 50,000 phthalocyanine blue, 85,000 stone blue, and 55,000 head green...... That's nearly half a million in total.
Ren Bo was shocked when he saw it, and he was a little hesitant to think about why it was so expensive. Thinking about it again, the consumption on this teacher Wu during this period of time must be tens of thousands of yuan, and he eats fragrant and spicy food every day. I gave this and that, and besides, didn't he say that he would give me the money in two days, and if you don't go into the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. Thinking of this, he took the bank card and transferred the money to Zhang Xuanyu's account the next morning.
Ren Bo successfully transferred the paint money to Zhang Xuanyu's account, opened WeChat and sent a notice to Wu Yue.
"Teacher Wu, the paint money has been transferred to your apprentice Zhang Xuanyu's account."
He was taken aback by this hair, and quickly replied on the screen: Wu Yue opened the friend verification, you are not his friend yet. Please send a friend verification request first, and the other party can only chat after the verification is passed.
Ren Bo's head buzzed when he saw it, and then he suddenly realized that he had been deceived, and hurriedly told his father Ren Tai'an about the past.
Ren Tai'an sighed when he heard this: "It's not okay to call the police for this matter, you and him are normal business transactions, and the police will not accept them." Forget it, eat a trench and grow a wisdom. He waved his hand to comfort his son Ren Bo.
Ren Taian thought that being cheated of hundreds of thousands of dollars would be considered a disaster avoidance, but a few days later, something unexpected happened. I saw four or five acquaintances from the antique city come to Ren Tai'an's shop.
Ren Tai'an greeted him with a smile, and saw several people with faces sinking like water.
"Tai'an, is your son Ren Bo here? Look at this. ”
I saw the person who spoke handing over a piece of letter paper from his hand, which read: I am here to take away the goods "Han Dynasty Cuo Gold, Silver and Bronze Kneeling Lampstand" and other fifteen goods, guarantor: Ren Bo
Pick-up person: Wu Yue
Ren Tai'an's eyes flickered when he saw it, and he fainted on the table with a pop.