Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 30 Chapter 30

Having successfully sneaked into this shady underground ghost market in Black Dragon Pool, Chen Muwu didn't know where to focus his attention when facing the dazzling array of rare treasures flowing out of the palace.

The pair of vases placed in the middle of the long table are undoubtedly the most dazzling treasures in the room, and the few Westerners circled around the pair of vases non-stop.

Chen Muwu also knew that the vases were beautiful, but he didn't know what dynasty and style these vases belonged to, and what subjects were painted on them.

Really complied with the saying, "However, elder brother is uneducated, and he can walk the world with one word", Chen Muwu should now be the embodiment of the elder brother in this sentence.

In addition to the pair of vases, there are several small utensils made of bronze on the table, which also attracted foreigners to stop and linger frequently.

Compared with vases, Chen Muwu has more knowledge about bronze wares, at least he knows that these are the products of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

As for the patterns and inscriptions on the bronze ware, his eyes are still darkened.

There are a large number of scrolls in the corner of the table, which has become the most neglected place in the whole room.

Chen Muwu had no choice but to focus on these calligraphy and paintings. He also didn't know how to appreciate Chinese paintings, but he thought that if he could recognize the name written on the signature, he could roughly judge the value of the calligraphy and painting through the author's popularity.

So Chen Muwu went to a corner and unfolded a calligraphy and painting casually.

Seeing this, the eunuchs behind the desk just glanced at him, and then continued to court the foreigners around the vases and bronze vessels.

It seems that the value of those utensils is in their hearts, much more valuable than these calligraphy and paintings.

The ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. With his equally shallow knowledge of ancient art, it is equally difficult for Chen Muwu to recognize the authors of these paintings.

The first scroll he unfolded was a piece of wild cursive, which was like a heavenly book to him who had no cursive skills, so he could only roll it up as it was.

In the second picture, he could recognize the writing on it, but he didn't know who the author was.

In the third picture, the nephew plays the lantern, as usual.

……

In this way, Chen Muwu unfolded and closed seven or eight calligraphy and paintings in a row, each of which could be seen to be old from the yellowed paper, but none of them could recognize the author of the work.

Now he only regrets that the artistic influence he received in the past was not enough, it is true that the books are not enough until they are used.

Chen Muwu already had the idea of ​​retreating in his heart, but he subconsciously unfolded the ninth painting.

This time, he first saw a clump of branches with small white flowers blooming on them. Without common knowledge in this area, he didn't even know what kind of flowers this was.

Then on one of the branches stood a little bird with red cheeks.

On the screen of a few feet square, there is only so much content as above.

Chen Muwu didn't know whether the artistic level of this painting was high or low, so he could only follow the stupid method he had always used to find the author's postscript.

Huang Tian paid off, looking through nearly ten paintings, and finally gave him a surprise in the inscription of this one.

Although the author's name was not found, Chen Muwu was very familiar with his handwriting.

In China's 5000 years of history, among the hundreds of emperors, many had high artistic attainments.

However, only Emperor Daojun is the only one whose calligraphy can be self-contained.

This beautiful thin gold body made Chen Muwu immediately think of Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

He carefully looked at the contents of the inscription and the postscript, and saw words such as "Forbidden", "Lai Gong" and other words that showed the royal status, which made Chen Muwu further confirm that his guess was correct.

He is not sure of the origin and value of other calligraphy and paintings, but Chen Muwu can be sure that the one in front of him came from the imperial palace in Bianliang, Tokyo nearly 1000 years ago.

He suppressed his excitement, tried his best to relax his facial muscles, and tried his best not to let others, especially the eunuchs, see his abnormality.

Chen Muwu carefully rolled up the painting and put it back in the pile of calligraphy and painting scrolls, but he firmly remembered the shape and characteristics of this painting in his heart.

He pretended to linger here for a while, and during this period, several foreigners came to the pile of paintings and calligraphy to find treasures. Every time he saw someone's finger approaching the painting, Chen Muwu always raised his heart to his throat. .

Guessing that the time was almost up, he pulled out the painting firmly and firmly. To cover up, he took another scroll casually and hugged it to his chest.

"Sir, I love these two calligraphy and paintings very much. I feel that they are very close to me. I was too short to appreciate them carefully. I want to take them home and have fun with them. I wonder if I can part with them?"

Chen Muwu walked up to the eunuch who questioned him before, and deliberately spoke in a polite manner.

This is a problem that I am used to nowadays. I always like to mix some words with my words, and I like to drag words even more than Chinese people.

He simulated many scenes in the business war in his mind, thinking that today's bargaining with these eunuchs would be a bloody battle of wits and courage.

As a result, he never expected that the burly eunuch didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, and replied to Chen Muwu with a sentence that he couldn't think of no matter how hard he racked his brains: "The thin one is 100 yuan per roll, and the thick one is [-] yuan."

Dare to feel that this is not about artistic value at all, but about the length of the painting?

After thinking about it, I was relieved.

If these eunuchs would take over the painting, explain to themselves how good and wonderful the painting is, and then keep driving up the price, then it would be abnormal.

He, a doctoral student who has received 20 years of high-quality education in later generations, can't tell the quality of calligraphy and painting works. How can those eunuchs distinguish which ones are valuable and which ones are not?

In fact, they only have one point of view in their hearts, that is, there is nothing bad in the palace, and if they steal a few and sell them, they can make a fortune.

The performance of the eunuchs made Chen Muwu believe that the treasures on the table were genuine products from the palace!

He quickly calculated all the money on his body, five small yellow croakers are worth 150 yuan (in the era when silver dollars and silver taels are still used as the main currency in circulation, gold is far less valuable in China than later, and one small yellow croaker can be exchanged for about thirty About 200 piece of ocean), 180 yuan Jiang Xingye Bank paper note, can be folded [-] yuan.

In other words, besides the two calligraphy and paintings in his arms, he could even go back and pick another one.

At this moment, several Westerners also ended their competition for vases and bronze wares.

The highest bidder wins. A foreigner with a big beard finally got the ownership of the vase, and several bronze vessels were also returned to the new owners.

Then they rushed to the pile of calligraphy and paintings in a swarm, without even opening or looking at them, just like the old ladies in Beijing scrambling for cabbage in winter. It is necessary to carve up more than a dozen calligraphy and paintings.

(End of this chapter)