gifted collector

Chapter 267 Demolition
Fang Ming smiled bitterly. With Liu Hanyan here to disrupt the situation, it is impossible for him to keep the secret.

"Sister, it seems that you did this on purpose."

Fang Ming could also see now that Liu Hanyan said this on purpose, wanting to see his own jokes.

"laugh!"

The smile on Liu Hanyan's face was even bigger, and he continued: "That's right. Xuexue was born in a family of calligraphy and painting. If there is anything in this world that can arouse her interest, it is the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Now she knows If you have such an inkstone, you can obediently take it out and let her enjoy it, or you can wait to be bored to death."

Growing up with Song Xue when she was young, of course Liu Hanyan knew her character well, and she might not be interested in other things, but when it came to things related to calligraphy and painting, Song Xue was definitely like a hungry dog ​​who saw a fleshy bone, how could it be possible? Will give up?
Fang Ming became more vigilant when he heard this, and looked at Song Xue and said, "This...you can take it out, but you can only watch it, you can't buy it by force! I won't take it out unless you kill me."

"I'll offer a high price, one time the market price, no, two or three times."

Song Xue seemed unable to hear Fang Ming's words, and the light in her eyes became even brighter.

Shaking his head resolutely, Fang Ming said, "I'm not short of money. You can take a look. If you don't want to buy it, then it's out of the question."

"Are you not short of money?"

Song Xue looked at Liu Hanyan strangely, and then at Fang Ming. It's really rare that people dare to speak like this.

Liu Hanyan nodded, and said: "Xuexue, this kid is really not bad at money. What he said just now, if the pot he leaked is true, it will be worth at least hundreds of millions. And this is just something he picked up when he went to eat supper."

Although Song Xue came from a family of calligraphers and liked calligraphy and painting, she didn't know anything about antiques. When she heard Liu Hanyan say this, she was frightened and said after a while, "Ah? Isn't it? Is it so arrogant?"

"Hey, of course, this master is not a fake, but a real talent. So, don't try to lure me with money, I won't be fooled."

Fang Ming farted again, and even had a smug expression on his face.

"Okay... Then let me have a look, but it's agreed, then I have to use it to grind ink, write words, draw pictures and so on."

Song Xue knew that it was unrealistic for her to ask to buy the inkstone under such circumstances, so she could only retreat and seek the next best thing.

"Yes, but I have one condition."

As soon as Fang Ming rolled his eyes, he thought of an idea and said, "What you write or draw will belong to me after it is finished."

"Fang Ming, you really don't want to take a loss at all. You are really good at calculating."

Liu Hanyan knew that Fang Ming didn't know Song Xue's identity, but this request was too shrewd. You must know that Song Xue's reputation is already quite large in the painting and calligraphy industry. If a painting is carefully crafted, it is worth a lot It has exceeded 50, which is still the current value. If it is really collected for a few years, the price will definitely soar further.

"Hey, this is Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai. One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. There is nothing to say. Besides, that is the inkstone used by Xu Wenchang. Think about it, how can anyone have such an opportunity to use it now? An inkstone?"

As soon as Fang Ming heard Liu Hanyan's words, he immediately understood that although he had never heard of Song Xue's name, he must be someone with a lot of background. At most, I won't charge you when I appraise the antiques for you later. "

"Hey! How dare you talk to me about money?"

Liu Hanyan was very happy when he heard it.

"Just kidding, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously."

Fang Ming's words were of course a joke, but he used this method to "blackmail" Song Xue's calligraphy and painting.

Looking at Song Xue, Liu Hanyan said: "Xuexue, this is your business, you can make up your own mind."

"No problem, I agree to this condition, but you have to lend me this inkstone for half a year. After half a year, I will give you two paintings. I promise they are meticulous works."

Fang Ming opened his mouth wide, and only then did he realize that he was not the only one who could open his mouth like a lion in this world, Song Xue could too.

Liu Hanyan glanced at Fang Ming, then at Song Xue, with more and more smiles on his face, thinking that it was not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"If you don't agree, then Liu Hanyan's promise to help you find a worthy person just now must be a scandal."

Liu Hanyan nodded and said, "Fang Ming, she might not be able to do other things, but if it's something like this, she can really do it."

"Ok."

Fang Ming nodded and said, "It's all like this, how can I disagree?"

Song Xue finally showed a smile on her face and said, "Deal."

Carefully took out a bag from her carry-on bag, and put it gently on the table. Song Xue had already recovered her bookish look, and said softly: "I went on a trip some time ago, and I accidentally saw a This kind of paper is sold on street stalls, although the price is a little expensive, but I think the quality is not bad, so I bought it, but I am not an expert in appraisal, so I can’t say for sure about this, Han Yan said that you are a master of appraisal, so I'll bring it to you to see."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Fang Ming gently opened the small bag Song Xue put on the table—it was made of paper, the color was light blue with pink sandwiched between it, and it gave off a faint fragrance as soon as it was taken out. s things.

After opening it, I took it out and saw that it was a small piece of paper, about the size of a palm. Although the edges were neat, it could still be seen that it was cut.

"Cut from a whole sheet of paper?"

Fang Ming squeezed it lightly, and looked at it in front of his eyes. Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the back of his right hand, and found that Pixiu was only faintly emerging, not very clear, and he knew it immediately.

"Well, yes, there are three pieces of paper I bought back, and this is cut out of one of them."

In the Chinese tradition, paper is not made by machines, and there is no special paper cutting machine. Generally speaking, it is handmade paper. Common paper such as rice paper, raw edge paper, etc., are stacked together with a hundred sheets, about 100 sheets. [-] sheets, folded into three to four folds, will become a stack. This kind of paper is just one knife, and ten stacks will be packed together.Of course, this is in terms of quantity, and the real name of "knife" is related to paper cutting.

There are two ways to cut paper in ancient times, one is straight knife with double handles, which can cut four to five pieces of paper at a time. There is a special paper cutting table, about 35 cm high, which is as big as a bed. After the paper is arranged, it can be cut along the designed grid.The other, which is more common, is to use a machete. A long knife is used to create an arc of about 220 degrees. There is only one handle. Pulling the knife with one hand to cut the paper.For ordinary strong people, the limit is to cut about 100 sheets of paper at a time, so 100 sheets of paper are gradually called "one knife".

If all the paper Song Xue bought was of this quality and cost three times, it would be a big deal.

"Very good! I'm sure you must have missed it. The quality of this paper is quite good."

With the power, Fang Ming didn't need to look carefully to know that the paper was a good thing.

Paper is one of the four great inventions in ancient China. It was around the time of the Western Han Dynasty that relatively mature paper appeared. At that time, paper was mainly made of fibers of hemp plants. People in Fujian use tender bamboo, people in the north use mulberry bark, people in Shanxi use vines, people in Haizhou use moss, people in Zhejiang use wheat flour and rice straw, people in Wu use cocoons, and people in Chu use mulberry for paper.”

No matter what kind of raw material is used, the method is actually the same.First use the plants with relatively flexible fibers to boil, then mash them, add some things to make a mucus, and then "spread" them evenly in the basket, form a thin film, wait until it dries to a certain extent, and then use heavy objects to be pressed, and finally paper will be produced.

Of course, this is traditional hand-made paper, which has been done by machine for a long time now.

After the appearance of paper, it was mainly used for writing and calligraphy and painting, and the most well-known one in this respect is of course the famous Xuan paper.There is a legend about the emergence of Xuan paper, that is, Kong Dan, a disciple of Cai Lun, the "patriarch" of papermaking, has always wanted to make a special white paper for Cai Lun's portrait and music, but after trying many methods, there is no way to succeed. .Once in the mountains, he accidentally saw white fragments of sandalwood trees that fell on the ground after being soaked in water for a long time, so he used the sandalwood bark as raw material, and after many attempts, he finally made rice paper as white as jade. Of course, another important reason is that the distributing center of such paper is mainly located in the Xuancheng area, which is why it has such a name.No matter how the name comes from, it is undeniable that it quickly became a kind of paper that calligraphers and painters like to use after it appeared.

For example, Zhang Yanyuan, a calligraphy and painting critic in the Tang Dynasty, said in his "Records of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties": "A good man should buy a hundred pieces of Xuan paper and use wax to prepare for copying."

The reason why Xuan paper is so popular is that it has two characteristics. One is that calligraphers and painters can use its excellent paper quality and control the depth of ink to write well-defined and highly moist ink. Calligraphy and painting works form a unique artistic feature; another reason is very real, that is, the characteristic of rice paper is that it is rarely eaten by insects and can be preserved for a long time, so it is also called "thousand-year birthday paper". .In fact, most of the hundreds of years or even earlier paintings and calligraphy that can be preserved today are written or painted on rice paper.

From this, it can be seen that the rice paper is famous, the rice paper that Song Xue brought is exactly the rice paper and it is the best rice paper!

(End of this chapter)