Zeng Lao was also modest and said, "Actually, I was also forced...... Master Tang, I don't know if you have ever been beaten in the eye? To be honest, I have planted too many heels on calligraphy and paintings, and the methods of these people are almost fake and true, and I have been fooled several times. Later, I studied the paper, seals, ink, painting style, age, and the personal factors of the painter...... Now I can say that I am already half an expert in calligraphy and painting!"

Tang Chen couldn't hold his tongue when he heard this, and said in his heart: "Good girl, why do you have to learn so many things from antiques?"

Zeng Lao and Tang Chen walked back side by side, and they were in a good mood, and continued: "This 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay' is the most suitable thing for cheating. ”

"How do you say that?" Tang Chen felt a little surprised.

Zeng Lao smiled and said, "Master Tang, do you know that there is a special method for counterfeiting in the antique world, which is called picking seals?"

"What do you mean? I don't understand......" Tang Chen asked rhetorically with a blank face, he is not an antique player, how can he know the subtleties and rules of this industry?

Zeng Lao smiled bitterly: "Master Tang, you should know that most of the ancient calligraphy and paintings, especially the calligraphy and painting after the Ming Dynasty, used rice paper as the writing material. However, rice paper is made in layers, an ordinary piece of rice paper can be split into two or three layers, and a good and thick rice paper can even be split into dozens of layers.

Because of this unique function, all ancient calligraphy and paintings made of rice paper will be split into the original works as soon as they reach the hands of unscrupulous merchants. In this way, one piece becomes two. The kind-hearted ones are just split in two. Those who are not kind can simply reveal as many layers as they can.

Even if the color is not as good as the original, as long as the master is asked to draw it on the original painting, and then use the old method to make it old, it will naturally become a genuine work. Dishonest framers often use this method to steal other people's paintings and calligraphy, which is hated by many collectors. I thought it was long lost, but I didn't expect it...... Alas......"

Tang Chen was stunned for a moment, knowing that Zeng Lao remembered something sad.

Sure enough, Zeng Lao said: "...... When I first started in the industry, I encountered this incident. This painting is said to be a landscape painting by Li Gonglin in the Northern Song Dynasty, and I showed it to an old connoisseur in the bank, who looked at it carefully for a long time, but said that he couldn't see it accurately. But in the end, he still thinks that this is Li Gonglin's real handiwork......"

Tang Chen had already guessed the end of the story, and as expected, Zeng Lao sighed and said, "His judgment comes from this seal." ”

"Is it a seal made of 'Eight Treasure Seal Clay'?" Although Tang Chen was not extremely smart, listening to what Zeng Lao meant, this was what he wanted to say.

Zeng Lao nodded with a wry smile and said, "That's right, the painting is copied, and the seal is also old." Because of the characteristics of 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay': fresh color, fragrant smell, no soaking in water, fire marks, no drying in dry weather, no mildew in rainy days, no oil seepage in summer, no freezing in winter, etc. And because the color of the 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay' is vermilion, bright and eye-catching, delicate and thick, the smell is fragrant, the cold does not condense in winter, the summer heat does not leak, the heat does not dry, the rain does not mildew, the imprint is clear, and the color never fades, so these antique counterfeiters took the 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay' to carefully forge a Ming Dynasty appreciation seal. ”

"It stands to reason that this fraud will always be a little flawed, right?"

Tang Chen asked a little strangely, and as he spoke, the two of them had already walked to the side of the car. After telling the driver and bodyguard to drive to a place, Zeng Lao continued to say in Cantonese: "There must be flaws, such as ...... Smell. The smell of 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay' is very special, even after being aged with all the old methods, it still has a very light fragrance. It's just that...... The old man was old, his eyes were spent, and his nose was not working, so he didn't notice it for a while...... But this is not the culprit of the old connoisseur, what really makes the old connoisseur fool is the stamp. ”

Tang Chen was a little enlightened: "That is, from another ancient painting, cut off the seal and frame it on that landscape painting?"

Zeng Lao sat in the car and nodded heavily: "That's it...... Later I learned that the hateful counterfeiter had a broken old painting in his hand, and instead of trying to restore it with technology, he removed the seal to forge it. The more this old connoisseur thought about it, the more wrong it became, and when he looked back and looked closely, he realized that it was a unique skill of revealing the painting. After he learned about it, he didn't hide it from me, but told me honestly, and was even willing to compensate me for my losses. ”

From Zeng Lao's words, Tang Chen already felt that the "price" of that painting was expensive.

“...... I invited him here, so how could I be embarrassed to blame him? If you want to blame the counterfeiter, the counterfeiter is too clever, and the painting is really quite similar, the paper, the materials, and even the style of painting are all decent. But outside of the gold and jade, it was ruined, and when the old connoisseur approached his nose and smelled it, the horse's feet were exposed......" Zeng Lao said hatefully, "I spent more than a million dollars in vain, and I bought such a lesson!"

Hearing the words "more than one million", Tang Chen gasped and said in his heart: "I'm a good person, more than one million to buy a calligraphy and painting, only the real rich can be willing to do it......"

“...... More than a million is actually not a lot of money, but I am annoyed that this fake person is too shady. The biggest danger of unmasking is that because the painting is not original, it becomes very fragile. Once it is damp or for a long time, it is easy to deform, rot, and even fall off on the mounting. The broken old painting he had in hand could have been restored and remounted, but he chose to fake it. It's a good old painting, and it's been ruined like this!"

Tang Chen could feel Zeng Lao's anger, and there seemed to be a little resonance in his heart.

Yes, when he saw the "Trapped Dragon Nail", "Dragon Rope" and "Green Worm Money", he was also so angry.

In Tang Chen's view, feng shui magic tools should seek well-being for people, rather than using yin damage methods to harm others. Such a thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself simply makes every person with a conscience indignant. Not to mention that Zeng Lao was the most direct victim, Tang Chen was even more resentful, and he couldn't wait to break the situation immediately and prevent such an evil feng shui bureau from continuing to harm people.

Now, though, he's figured it out. There is no right or wrong in the ritual instrument itself, only people are right and wrong. It is understandable for people to use magic instruments to pray for blessings and increase luck, after all, people are not for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. But if you use magic tools to harm people, it's a different matter. It's as if the "Eight Treasures Seal Clay" itself is excellent, but some people will use their brains crookedly and use it for antique counterfeiting. The "Eight Treasure Seal Clay" is right, and there is nothing wrong with the magic weapons, the fault is only the people who use them to do bad things.

It seems that if the "green worm money", if it was Tang Chen's use, he would definitely not absorb the luck, but would set up a feng shui bureau, so that the aura and the dragon vein would resonate, nourish each other, and grow together to achieve the goal. That person used "green worm money" to set up such an evil feng shui bureau, which is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs!

(End of chapter)