After everyone left, Meng Xiaoyun turned his face to Lu Yuanwai and said, "I heard that you have two peerless calligraphy and paintings?"

Lu Yuanwai has long been familiar with these people, and knows what treasures you have, and will definitely lend them to you, of course, the borrowed items are yours or yours, but I don't know when he will return them. But things have developed to this point, concealment is definitely not possible, and these two works of calligraphy and painting do not be, even if he is valuable, he cannot offend this kind of person.

I saw him bounce up from the chair like a mid-electric machine, arched his hands, and said with a smile, "My lord, what are you kidding, it's not that you don't know me, I'm just a rough person, where do you know what calligraphy and painting works come from?" It's just that day I was wandering on the street with a chess player, and I saw an old man selling calligraphy and paintings, and the chess player wanted to buy them, so I bought them. Lu Yuanwai 1510, tremblingly said the general situation, "Your Excellency came just in time, why don't you see the authenticity? You are a master of calligraphy and painting today." ”

"I see, it seems that the rumors are true. Meng Xiaoyun stood up with a smile, "Okay, I'll help you see the authenticity of this calligraphy and painting." ”

Lu Yuanwai was overjoyed to make an invitation, led the way into the study, he had already regarded the two paintings and calligraphy as rare treasures, placed them in a beautiful brocade box, and after Lord Meng sat down, he hurriedly took out the calligraphy and paintings from the brocade box, tiptoed the calligraphy and paintings on the desk, and gently opened the scroll with his hands. "Your Excellency, please look!"

Meng Xiaoyun stood up, solemnly walked to the desk, carefully looked at the calligraphy and paintings on the table, his eyes swayed back and forth like a shuttle, and he twisted his sparse beard from time to time. "Which chess player did you buy this painting with?" asked Lu Yuanwai with a serious face.

"I went with a chess player surnamed Jia, and he was the best of the 40 chess players, and I think he liked it. I wanted to buy it for him, but I wouldn't accept it anyway. Lu Yuanwai told the reason for the incident, of course, when he learned that this calligraphy and painting was priceless, he didn't want to give it to Jia Mengle at all, and of course Jia Mengle never thought of getting this calligraphy and painting.

"Oh, there is such a thing, he knows calligraphy and painting, and he is also good at chess?" Meng Xiaoyun turned his head in surprise. "He said it was the work that was priceless!"

"Yes, it was him, when we came back from the street. He said how good this painting is......"

"You ask him to come, and I'll see what kind of person he is!" Lu Yuanwai also wanted to tell the story of him and calligraphy and painting, but Master Meng didn't want to listen to it and interrupted him. Summoning Jia Mengle. As soon as Lu Yuanwai heard that Master Meng was going to summon Jia Mengle, he hurriedly called his subordinates, "You go and call Jia Gongzi, and say that the adults want to see you." ”

Seeing that the master was so urgent, how dare he slack off, so he ran and rolled to Jia Mengle's room, called Jia Mengle, and rushed Jia Mengle and Guo Xueqin to the study.

"Childe. Come on, my lord has something to look for you!" Lu Yuanwai saw that Jia Mengle had arrived. Overjoyed, Jia Mengle and Guo Xueqin stepped forward, arched their hands, and hurriedly made a big salute, "The grass people meet the adults!" But Meng Xiaoyun was still reading the calligraphy and paintings, and responded without looking back, "Excuse me, how do you say that this calligraphy and painting are invaluable, who is this from?" It looked like he was interrogating a prisoner.

"In Xia Bucai, I read books for a few days when I was a child, and I only know a little about calligraphy and painting.

Hearing this person's extraordinary words, Master Meng slowly turned around, sat down, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea slowly, and said, "Tell me, whose handwriting is this?"

"My lord, according to the villain's humble opinion, this calligraphy and painting came from the great painter Dai Hao in the Tang Dynasty. Jia Mengle said with great certainty.

"Oh, let's hear it!" Master Meng said as he drank tea and interrogated Jia Mengle.

"Your Excellency, please see. Jia Mengle was not polite, took a step forward, walked to the table, and pointed to the painting, "This brushwork is slender and vigorous, a few strokes outline the mountains and rivers everywhere, the structure is rigorous, the pen is calm, the expression is vivid, purely from the realism, which confirms the characteristics of Dai Song's 'wild muscles and bones'." Jia Mengle didn't care if you liked to listen to it or not, and said it cracklingly.

Besides, I've only heard of him painting "Fighting Bulls", "Three Oxen", and "Returning to the Pasture", but I've never heard of him painting any landscape paintings. Master Meng didn't refute anything, but only questioned it.

Dai Song is good at painting buffaloes, and his "Bullfighting Picture" was written by Su Dongpo to make him even more famous, but this does not mean that Dai Song has no other works left for future generations. Of course, it is precisely because of this that his two landscape paintings are in the folk, only because Lu Yuanwaiji people have their own natural appearance, so they have this opportunity to meet, which has to be said to be the good fortune of these two masterpieces, and met such a good person as Lu Yuanwai, if they are still in the folk, I am afraid they will no longer exist. ”

Jia Mengle skillfully answered Meng Xiaoyun's question, and at the same time raised Lu Yuanwai to the old and high, "Very good, quite insightful, among young people, it is rare for young people to have this opinion in terms of calligraphy and painting, but this Tang Dynasty has a history of more than 1,000 years now, and there is no signature on this calligraphy and painting, it is a serious matter to identify the authenticity, but you can't believe it!"

"The adult's lesson is that the grass people are only shallow in learning, and they only say this on a whim, and they ask the adults to decide. Jia Mengle hurriedly lowered his head and gave up his hands to be trained.

"I'll have to weigh it when I bring it back! "After doing it for a long time, Master Meng still has to take the two paintings away.

Lu Yuanwai "chuckled" in his heart, his heart was half cold, but his face was still full of peach blossoms, "It's still a lot of trouble for Lord Lao!" He didn't want to agree and there was no way, who called him a citizen and someone else was an official?

"By the way, I heard that you are playing chess well? What is your name Jia?" After talking for a long time, I still haven't remembered the other party's name, no wonder, how difficult it is for one person to recognize so many people, and so many people recognize him, it is too difficult.

"Everywhere, this is all Lu Yuan's kindness, I just know a little bit about it. Jia Mengle replied flatteredly.

"He's the number one of the forty chess players. Even Yu Shengshou was defeated by him. Lu Yuanwai smiled and introduced with foaming at the mouth.

Master Meng, where does it matter if you are the first, in his eyes. Those who play chess are just eating here, at best they are just a vase and ornament.

"Okay, behave well!" Master Meng put away the two scrolls of calligraphy and paintings, gently patted Jia Mengle's shoulder, and hurried away. Lu Yuanwai wants to stay, but is Master Meng someone who can stay if you want to?" This chess tournament can't be sloppy. ”

Lu Yuanwai had a smile on his face, bent over, and nodded submissively. Surrounded and sent Master Meng out of the gate.

Away from the host An, sending off Master Meng, Lu Yuanwai was relieved and sighed softly. Stretched. If this Master Meng didn't leave, maybe his old waist would be broken, but now that he is gone, his waist will naturally stretch out, and the smile on his face will also be reduced a lot.

"Outside, how did you let Master Meng take away such two beautiful paintings?" Jia Mengle asked puzzled on the way back to the hall.

"Alas, don't mention it. Originally, these two paintings were given to Brother Jia, but you never thought that ......" Lu Yuan made an iron face. He said helplessly, "Who told Master Meng to take a fancy to them? The people in their official mansion will definitely get their hands on what they like! Mingli said that he would take it back and study it carefully, but he actually took possession of it!"

"Outsiders are polite, as the so-called red powder to send beauties, good knives to heroes, in the next is just a person in the rivers and lakes, where is worthy of such a precious calligraphy, take it to me, say that one day like the old man on the street, it is the turn to sell on the street. When he said that these two paintings and calligraphy were peerless treasures, Lu Yuanwai never mentioned giving them to him, so how could Lu Yuanwai give them away?

"Alas, it's superfluous to say anything now!" Who doesn't like priceless treasures? Although Lu Yuanwai is already a rich party, he still has some resentment about these two paintings and calligraphy.

If they are true, of course they are priceless, and if they are fake, they are worthless. Jia Mengle said with a smile.

"Brother, thank you for your comfort. Lu Yuanwai knew that it was not good, but he had nothing to say, so he could only give up.

Lord Meng's visit set off a lot of waves in Lufu, and everyone was tired up and down, but people came to drink a few sips of tea and left with the painting, even the dog in the yard was busy turning around, and now Lord Meng is gone, and the guest is gone, and the dog is also crawling on the ground, motionless, quiet, everyone dispersed, Jia Mengle dragged his tired body back to the room. also wanted to lie down quietly like that dog, but at this time Guo Xueqin came to the room.

"How's it going?" a woman is naturally curious.

"What's going on?" Jia Mengle deliberately tricked off the pass.

"Didn't you say that you can use these two paintings to test the depth of this Master Meng, and what is the result?" asked Guo Xueqin.

"Nine times out of ten, Lord Meng Xiaoyun has a problem. Jia Mengle said with certainty.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I wanted to use these two paintings to lure him out and meet him, as the saying goes, the fire does not burn the mountains and the land is not fertile, and only when I meet can I have the opportunity to understand this Lord Meng. These two paintings can be seen at a glance to be fake, how can there be so many rare treasures? Listening to what Yuan Muche, the boss of the four ghosts of the Western Regions, said that this Master Meng is a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and has a lot of knowledge, but why can't he see that this is a fake?" Jia Mengle said with a smile.

"Since you know it's a fake, why do you want Lu Yuanwai to buy it?" Guo Xueqin asked puzzledly, "It's not easy for people to make money, so it's a waste of other people's money!"

"Who is Lu Yuanwai? How can he put this hundred taels of silver in his eyes? Jia Mengle smiled proudly.

"I really didn't expect that if you want to meet the surnamed Meng, you will do whatever it takes to deceive people Lu Yuanwai!" Guo Xueqin thought that Jia Mengle's methods were a little excessive, but she admired Jia Mengle from the bottom of her heart.

"People use each other, he brought me to Lu Mansion just to use me to play chess, I came here to get close to Lord Meng. Jia Mengle said disappreciatively.

"I really didn't expect that you are the most insidious person in the world! It really confirms the old saying that 'the angry are common, and the laughing are unpredictable'. ”

The two were talking about Meng Xiaoyun in the room, but in the study of Lu Mansion, Lu Yuanwai stared at the lights, his heart was like lead, heavy, and he saw that the priceless calligraphy and paintings were taken away by others like this, who would feel good in his heart? )