33. His tattered my national treasure
"You have to use a bucket!"
"…………"
Zhang Chaoyun had a disapproving expression on his face. He couldn't swallow it into his stomach and bring it out again. He couldn't swallow this thing either.
"The bucket is not big enough to hold it!"
The smelly steam engine was also a steam engine, and Hong Dashou didn't care how they brought it out. But how big was the toilet? No matter how small the steam engine model was, it couldn't fit in it.
"How old are those demos?" Zhang Chaoyun suddenly felt that this matter might be difficult to handle.
"It's about one and a half feet long and half wide, and one and a half feet tall. I've never actually seen it before."
Hong Dashou only had a superficial impression, and had never cared about this thing before. Planes were flying all over the sky, and cars were running all over the place. Even if he had seen the real thing in a Western-style restaurant, he would have left it on Java Island long ago.
"It's difficult..." Zhang Chaoyun tapped the table with his fingers.
I saw his fingers tapping aggressively and gently, making a rhythmic sound, as if he was deliberately attracting people to watch him knocking on the table. If you look carefully, you will find that Zhang Chaoyun's index finger and middle finger are specially extended.
The two fingers are hinting at something.
If you still don’t understand this, then don’t mess around in this society.
Since everyone has hinted at this, they must see if Hong Dashou has the financial resources to allow them to take the risk to do this job.
He took out two stacked bills from his wallet, unfolded them and laid them flat on the table. Hong Dashou gently pushed the bills forward, just enough for Zhang Chaoyun to see them clearly.
"Just make a deposit!"
He glanced at the two unfolded money notes lightly and quickly. These businessmen were very good at seeing money, and they could tell whether it was true or false without even having to touch it. Zhang Chaoyun coughed lightly, and a cashier came up to collect the money.
"The rules of this business are not to ask the master's name or address, so four days later, the master will send someone to Liulichang West Street. If the fourth window from the left on the second floor is open, it means the matter is done. If not
Open it, please wait another four days."
"And what's more, you won't recognize each other after walking out of this door!"
Hong Dashou nodded and was about to walk out, but Li Xizu quietly held him back.
"Brother Hong, the screen over there is a bit interesting."
"Screen?" Following the direction Li Xi looked at, he saw a folded and folded screen-like object with only one side exposed.
Zhang Chaoyun seemed to have noticed that the three people were looking at the screen, and subconsciously looked at it too.
"How many of you have elders in your family?"
"My mother is here." Hong Dashou blurted out, and the other two people actually nodded, just saying that I was the same.
"Then this is a good item."
Since both Li Xizhu and Zhang Chaoyun said so, let's just take a look. The two shop assistants stepped forward and unfolded the screen. It had four screens and a mahogany base. It might have been painted with gold before, and the carvings were very delicate.
As for the screen painting, it is a picture of a hundred little boys playing in spring, which is an auspicious painting of a hundred little boys playing and having fun. It is a bit old and the silk surface is a little dark, but it can be seen that the person who originally painted it was very careful and the painting is vivid.
Because it is said that King Wen of Zhou Dynasty gave birth to one hundred sons in history. On his birthday, all one hundred sons congratulated him on his birthday and made him happy. This is an auspicious painting that means more children, more blessings, and more children and grandchildren.
No wonder Zhang Chaoyun asked if there were any elders at home. If this thing were given to his parents at home, it would be auspicious and pleasing, and it would be very suitable.
"This is a spring screen of the Hundred Sons' Play from the previous dynasty. The material is good and the painting is good, but it's a pity that it was not made by a famous artist."
"It's good, but I don't know how much it will cost?" Li Xizhu was very determined, telling Hong Dashou to buy it.
"Eighty taels," Zhang Chaoyun bid directly.
Pay up and leave!
"Brother Li, how can this screen be worth eighty taels of silver? Even if you ask a carpenter to order one and make a picture of the Hundred Sons, it will only cost you thirty or forty taels."
There are so many down-and-out literati in Yanjing. I used to buy fifty sets of large-scale intercourse pictures for only one hundred taels. I asked a poor guy to draw a picture of a hundred sons playing in spring, which cost at most ten taels. Mahogany is not the best wood these days, Xiaoye Rosewood is almost the same. To build such a screen, as long as you are willing to wait, thirty taels is enough.
"Brother Hong, look at the money he got, he is Zuimian layman."
"Something sounds familiar..." In fact, Hong Dashou didn't recognize him at all.
"Oh, it's Duke Jin Jisui, the left prime minister when the King of Zhongmiao was there!" [Note 1]
"It's that one!" Hong Dashou quickly pretended to suddenly realize it, but in fact he still didn't know which one it was.
The only memory in my mind is the appearance of the white-bearded old man in "Dae Jang Geum" who always fought against Jang Geum in the later period. As for whether he is this Jin Ti, I don't know at all.
"This is a good thing. If you take it back to Hanyang, it will be worth at least two thousand taels of silver. If it happens to be dedicated to the parents of a certain eunuch on his birthday, it will be worth more than that!"
Li Xi's words were very colorful, but Hong Dashou only heard the words "two thousand taels"!
Sure enough, cultural relics are subject to cultural and geographical limitations. Jin Ti, who had no reputation in China, was the top and most famous painter in the Li Dynasty.
For example, the most famous female painter in the history of the Lee Dynasty, "Shin Saimdang", was a positive figure with 50,000 won, and also raised a son who was an idealist philosopher. In today's era of information explosion, there are several Do you know?
In China, it is a low-end commodity that can be obtained for only eighty taels, but in Hanyang of the Li Dynasty, it was worth two thousand taels!
No wonder the foreign auction in 9102, when selling Chinese antiques and antiques, only found Chinese buyers.
Rich! Like it!
"If it's really worth so much money, let's divide it into three parts, one for each person."
Lin Shangwo, who had never spoken, quickly refused, "No, no, I haven't contributed at all, so I shouldn't be given a share."
"We will share the unexpected wealth when we meet. We are all brothers." Hong Dashou refused to see him outside.
Since the three people all spoke in Li Chao dialect, they were not afraid that the screen picker would understand. If the picker knew that the screen he picked was worth more than two thousand taels of silver, he might have thought of something.
Because the Hundred Sons painting on the screen was connected and could not be taken apart, Hong Dashou had no choice but to make a cloth cover and cover the entire screen. He would try to take action after returning to Hanyang.
All that was left was to wait for news from Songzhuzhai. Four days passed by in a flash, and Hong Dashou was really anxious as he waited.
Li Xi, who quietly went to inquire, took advantage of the hottest time in the middle of the day and when there were the fewest people on the street, he quietly ran to take a look.
The window is open!
[Note 1]: Jin Ti (1524-1593), also known as Ji Sui, also known as Yangsongtang, Yangsongxuan, Yangsong Jushi, Zuimian. Zuo Yizheng in the Zhongzong era, Jin Anlao, the author of "Longquan Tanjilu" The second son of (1481-1537) was a painter who was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting.
After 1537 (the 32nd year of King Jungjong), his father died and lost power, so he stayed away from officialdom and devoted himself to creation. He was not only good at landscape painting, but also excellent at other paintings such as figures, cows and horses, feathers, grass and insects. In his later years, his father's reputation was restored and he became an official at the Drawing Department. Don't mention it.
In 1590, he participated in the creation of the scroll "Guang Guoyuan Meritorious Officials". His landscape painter Fa'anjian and the Southern Song Dynasty Yuan style also absorbed many characteristics of the Zhejiang School to form a unique painting style. With Cui Li's poems and essays, Han Yi
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