The leaders of the two teams responsible for the interrogation of the Cheng family father and son met in the lounge.

A: "I'm all here." ”

B: "I'm sick here." ”

The two briefly compared the situation and immediately reacted:

The Cheng family father and son designed a confession in advance!

They want to put all the blame on a 75-year-old man, at this age, even if he pleads guilty, the sentence will be commuted.

"What now?"

Police officer B, who was in charge of interrogating Old Man Cheng, touched his cheeks and was a little annoyed.

The old man in the room is still only asking to see a doctor, and he won't know what will happen later.

"It's okay, I'll notify the leaders of the city bureau of the results on my side first."

Police officer A's mood is stable, and he has indeed interrogated dry goods.

"Anyway, the breakthrough is on the side of the city bureau."

Master Qiu, known as the "breakthrough", was holding a small cup of green tea at this time, tasting it one bite at a time.

To go to jail, but also to be gracious.

Since he agreed to cooperate with the police, he has been treated much better.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that from time to time someone would come and ask him if he had anything he hadn't explained.

This kind of thing always makes his liver tremble.

"Qiu Junchun, listen, do you have any impression of this incident...... "The police took the information they had just gotten and asked the "breakthrough" for verification.

"Yes, yes." After Master Qiu listened, he nodded busily: "These fakes are also what I said before, sent by a guy named Li Laoqi, haven't you caught him yet?" ”

"You don't have to worry about that, you just have to answer my questions."

The policeman continued to ask questions in a serious tone.

When asked about the Cheng family's donation of cultural relics to the Hailin Museum, Qiu Junchun shook his head for the first time:

"I haven't heard of this, but the Cheng family used to donate things to the museum."

"I don't know if it's true or not, the things in the museum, Boss Cheng told me that they were true, and I thought he was real."

"Let me help him sell it, and of course I did! So it's not up to me. Qiu Junchun did not forget to clear his name.

"Do you still have an impression of who this purported thing came out of the museum was sold to?" The police asked.

"I can't remember this exactly. At that time, we held a small exhibition, and the national treasures we sold, no, they were fakes, and the prices were not high, and the cheap ones were only tens of thousands of yuan. ”

"Those old men and old ladies rushed up to give money, and they ran away after buying them, for fear of being remembered."

The policeman nodded, recorded these things in his notebook, and then closed the notebook with a "snap".

"Okay, you prepare, I'll send you to the hospital for a check-up later."

"Great, are you finally going to the detention center?"

Qiu Junchun drank all the tea in the cup in one go, smacked his lips, and the expression on his face was very satisfied.

"You like, looking forward to it?" The policeman asked suspiciously.

"I can't expect it, I'll go early and get a better bed. Because I have a hunch that it won't be long before a lot of people will come in to accompany me. ”

……

Two days later, the Hering Museum welcomed several special guests.

A group of four people, all of whom are experts from the Provincial Museum, accepted the commission of the Jinmen City Public Security Bureau to identify the cultural relics donated by the Cheng family to the Hailin Museum.

In Captain Liu's words, it is possible that the things are "stolen goods", which were purchased and donated by the Cheng family with the funds involved in the case.

If the value is too high, it needs to be recovered and used to compensate the victims.

"Then you just take all the things!" Zhang Yang is very simple.

Although they are all fakes, if they are sold according to high imitations, they can still be sold for a thousand yuan.

"How can it be so simple, you have to evaluate it first, and then recover it when the compensation funds are not enough."

"We have procedures for this kind of donation."

The sentence "there is a procedure" made Zhang Yang have to get up early in the morning and come to the door of the museum to greet the appraisers.

"Welcome all experts to the Hailin Museum."

The four members of the expert team, headed by Du Shiming, are current members of the State Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.

The remaining three are members of the Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.

"Director Zhang, I'm glad to see you."

Du Shiming held Zhang Yang's hand affectionately, with a bright smile on his face.

"I have long heard that the new deputy director of the Hailin Museum is young and promising, but I didn't expect it to be even younger than I imagined!"

"Mr. Du, you have won the award, I finally met the national treasure-level appraisal expert today, and I will ask you for advice later."

Zhang Yang politely greeted the experts one by one.

These experts, because they are specifically responsible for the identification of the cultural relics involved, have special identities, and they can hardly accept private appraisal work, and it is not clear what level they are.

But before they came, Zhang Yang heard a story:

Two years ago, Linhai Customs found that there were a batch of suspected cultural relics that wanted to leave the country, but the person who reported it wrote "high-imitation handicrafts" on the application form.

So the thing was handed over to several experts for identification of the cultural relics involved.

Later, the items were identified as cultural relics by experts, and the person concerned was sentenced to four years.

It wasn't until the person who made the high-imitation handicrafts was arrested for something else that it was confirmed that the batch of things at that time was indeed imitations, but at that time, the person concerned had been in prison for half a year.

After Zhang Yang heard this story, he was a little panicked.

Because the things donated by the Cheng family are all large utensils, fake prototypes, and the value is going up to millions.

Don't come up and do the appraisal, say that the thirty-two things are genuine, pat your ass and leave.

When the police put the things away, they were found to be fake by the discerning people, and they came back to ask for the real thing.

The Hailin Museum also lost money, that is, after Wang Jianye was released from prison, it is estimated that he would have to ask:

"Wait a minute, where's my museum?"

After greeting a few people, the expert team was very pragmatic, and they didn't even bother to drink tea, so they took out the mineral water from the bag and took a few sips, and they were about to go to the appraisal.

This is for fear of any interest in the museum, in case someone takes 200,000 catties of tea out to entertain?

Of course, Zhang Yang had no opinion, and led a few people to the warehouse.

"Curator Zhang, who are you?"

Du Shiming pointed to the banner with the three big characters "Fake Zone" written on it, and asked suspiciously.

"It's an area we've carved out specifically." Zhang Yang explained with a smile.

"Because what the collector donates, or what we buy ourselves, is not necessarily real. But Mr. Wang didn't want these fakes to flow into the market and harm people, so he made some special counters in the warehouse to store these fakes. ”

"The things donated by the Cheng family before are all in this. It's all fakes. ”

Du Shiming and his partners around him glanced at each other and commented: "Director Zhang and Master Wang have a heart." ”

He looked around and immediately figured out how to do it:

"There happens to be a table here, and the top of the head is facing the light, so please ask Zhang Guan to send someone to help and bring things here for identification."

"Okay." Zhang Yang agreed, and immediately arranged for his librarians to move things.

……

"This is, three bronze carriages?"

Du Shiming lifted his glasses and looked at the bronze on the table.

A female appraiser who came with him looked at the appraisal certificate issued by the Che Lijun on the table, and was a little surprised:

"Old Du, this is what Teacher Che has identified."

"Oh?" Du Shiming hurried over.

Seeing this, Zhang Yang hurriedly spoke: "This certificate is forged. ”

"Impossible." The female appraiser swore and said: "I took Mr. Che's class during the training, and this is his new signature in recent years, just for fear that someone will use his previous signature to forge it." ”

"Makes sense." Du Shiming nodded.

Zhang Yang glanced at the female appraiser in her forties and thought:

Teacher Che, your former students want you to die!

Fortunately, he was prepared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this certificate, Mr. Che Lijun has come to fight the fake in person, and here is the video as proof."

Zhang Yang said, put the video that Xiao Tang helped edit on the tablet, and handed it to the four people.

After the four of them finished reading, the female appraiser asked Zhang Yang:

"Are Director Zhang and Teacher Che very familiar? He seems to approve of your results. ”

"Under the recommendation of Master Wang, I have had several encounters with Mr. Che."

Zhang Yang explained two sentences with a smile, and then put forward his thoughts:

"Ladies and gentlemen, everything here has an appraisal certificate."

"But they even dare to fake the certificates of seniors like Mr. Che, I really don't know what they don't dare."

"So let's stop looking at these broken certificates."

"Makes sense." Du Shiming nodded again.

In the next two hours, four experts conducted a comprehensive observation and appraisal of 32 cultural relics.

In the end, three genuine pieces were selected.

"Director Zhang, these three things, in our opinion, should be true."

When Zhang Yang heard this, his phone almost shook off.

He hurried to see what it was that made the four teachers all look away.

The first is a landscape painting by Li Keran.

The black-and-white landscape painting, with the mountains in the distance, and a shepherd boy holding a cow nearby, strolling in the countryside, is very meaningful.

The moment Zhang Yang saw the painting, he thought: These experts may have taken a fancy to this museum.

Because of Li Keran's paintings, the price of this cow on the painting, which is close to half a square foot, has exceeded 10 million.

The stuff is, of course, fake, and the production date is clearly in 2015.

But the challenge for Zhang Yang is how to convince the four experts.

"Teacher Du, like Qi Baishi and Li Keran, aren't the paintings of these two gentlemen fake by default?"

Zhang Yang asked tentatively, he still did some preparations.

"In his lifetime, Li Keran created more than 1,000 works, and now there are 14,000 of his paintings on the auction market alone, with a genuine rate of less than 5%."

"This one, if it's right, how can the auction price get 100 million, how do you think the Cheng family will donate such an expensive thing?"

"You're talking about the auction price, it's a recent quarrel, and the real price is around 20 million."

One of the members of the appraisal team seemed to have studied the auction of paintings.

Du Shiming continued: "We have a very reliable basis for judging the authenticity of this painting......

According to him, Li Keran's relatives opened a gallery to authenticate his paintings, and if they were sure they were genuine, they would take photos with them.

And just now, they searched for a photo of Li Keran's relatives and this painting on the Internet.

"Is it such a coincidence?"

Zhang Yang followed the connection given by Du Shiming, searched on the Internet, and sure enough, he found this "Picture of a Shepherd Boy in the Distant Mountains".

The time when the picture was uploaded was in 2016, after this painting was imitated, it shows that it is really possible to take this fake photo at that time.

A high imitation that even the painter's relatives can't distinguish?

Zhang Yang thought about it, if it was himself, if he didn't see the item information, he would believe that this thing was real.

After all, a relative of a family member can make any expert speechless with a sentence of "this is what I was painting by the old man's side and watching him paint".

If you know it's fake, how do you prove it's fake?

Zhang Yang felt that he needed a helper.

"Wait a minute, I'll take a look at this painting, whose appraisal certificate is the Cheng family copied."

"Didn't you say that the certificate was useless?" The female appraiser was surprised by Zhang Yang's approach.

"The certificate is useless, but the person who issued the certificate is useful." Zhang Yang replied with a smile.

The painting was issued by an expert named Lu Zhong in September last year.

After searching for this person's information on the Internet, it was a coincidence that Lu Zhong turned out to be a senior researcher at the Yangcheng Museum.

Zhang Yang hurriedly asked Mr. Zhong for his contact information.

……

Du Shiming and his entourage, seeing that Zhang Yang made a phone call and made a second call, thought that he was busy with the museum's affairs, silently sorted out the appraisal opinions, and prepared to leave.

Just about to leave, he suddenly heard Zhang Yang shouting: "Don't move!" ”

"Curator Zhang, things are over, we are going to have lunch now."

"What are you kidding, our museum, do we still need you four pairs of chopsticks?"

Zhang Yang took the tablet and trotted all the way to the identification team.

"The painting just now, Lu Zhong, a senior researcher at the Yangcheng Museum, has seen it personally."

"Yes, he said it's true, isn't the appraisal certificate written?"

"It's not like that, the painting is fake!" Suddenly, a man's urgent shout came from the tablet.

Everyone looked at the tablet in Zhang Yang's hand, only to find that there was a big bald head wearing black-framed glasses, who was connecting with Zhang Yang's video.

Seeing the four people of the treasure team, the bald man greeted happily:

"Teacher Du Shiming, I am Xiao Lu of Yangcheng Museum, we have seen it before at Mr. Qigong's calligraphy and painting exhibition in Yanjing."

"Not impressed." Du Shiming shook his head.

"The Thai SPA ......"

"Ahem! Cough! Du Shiming hurriedly interrupted the other party: "It turned out to be Xiao Lu, I remembered." ”

Zhang Yang glanced at Teacher Du in surprise, he should be sixty years old, right......

On the other side of the video, Lu Zhong began to explain the reason why he just said that "the painting is fake".

As soon as he opened his mouth, he stopped the four teachers:

"I actually painted this picture."

"Li Keran's relatives, when they identify the authenticity of his paintings, they actually only look at a few points."

"The details of the mountains, the demeanor of the cows, the color of the ink, and the composition of the ink."

"These few points are imitated well, and they can't tell the real from the fake."

"I took it to the gallery for appraisal out of the intention of showing off, and sure enough, I didn't recognize it."

"But this painting, I sold it according to the high imitation, and it was sold for 30,000 yuan......"

Lu Zhong's words are still convincing, and as a quasi-expert-level figure in the museum painting and calligraphy industry, it is not surprising that he has such ability.

As for what he said, it was sold as an imitation, and only this one was sold, whether it was true or not, no one present was entangled.

However, Du Shiming was very curious and asked Zhang Yang how he persuaded Lu Zhong to admit to making fake paintings.

Zhang Yang smiled and shook his head: "I promised him to keep this matter secret." ”

Time went back to four minutes ago, when Zhang Yang dialed Lu Zhong's phone.

After identifying himself, he had a direct showdown:

"Mr. Lu, you don't want everyone to know about you working as a childcare for the National Treasure Gang and issuing fake certificates, right?"

Thanks to the 100 coin reward from two book friends, Chang Crazy Yi and Caesar von Augustus Manden! Thank you all for your monthly pass! I accompanied my family to see a doctor today, and I will update the second chapter later.

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