Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 342 Fake Paintings
Lu Tieshi discussed with Ning Wan: "It's time to go to Luo's house to accompany us, Brother Luo and Yan'er are still annoying us for some reason."

It turned out that they did not discuss with Luo Bing about the move, but told Mrs. Wei to move out because Luo Bing was not at home for the important event of canonization of the prince, on the grounds that Baozhu wanted to do something for the biological mother.On the second day, Luo Yan came to the door to make a fuss, and they finally coaxed them over. Now that the crown prince has been registered, it is time to make an apology.

Although it was out of good intentions, it was embarrassing right now.They both changed their clothes but hesitated again, Ning Wan suddenly remembered something, "Where are the two paintings we bought at Liulichang the day before yesterday?" She took them out and wrapped them in high-quality satin.

Tie Shi asked puzzledly: "That day I said that these two paintings must be fake. You just said that they looked good and bought them for three cents and two cents. What are you doing with them now? Brother Luo Can't you see it? If you want to give Brother Luo calligraphy and painting, you should ask someone who knows how to do it to buy two authentic works."

Ning Wan just laughed, "You won't be angry if we buy the real ones and send them to Brother Luo, or should we just take these two fake ones?"

"It's still the daughter-in-law who has a plan!" Tie Shi understood, "Brother Luo exposed the previous incident after seeing the fake painting."

When Luo Bing arrived at the Ministry of Rites, he encountered the matter of appointing the crown prince. He was the chief official in charge of etiquette. Hearing this, he was about to go to Jinyiwei to look for Lu Tieshi, when he heard that Lu's couple had come, they didn't come out to greet him, they just sat on the couch in casual robes and got angry.

But Luo Yan ran out to pick them up, but said with a pretty face: "My brother was very angry, and said that when he was in Duolun and Hutai, he had never seen Brother Lu and Sister Ning get so particular about doing a religious ceremony. So what? During the previous war, everyone was not taboo about anything! And I also agree with my brother, it is indeed Brother Lu and Sister Ning who are wrong!"

Ning Wan took Luo Yan's hand and said: "We regret it too. I went to Liulichang the day before yesterday and saw two paintings that were very good, so I bought them with a lot of money. She also said that if she was still living in Luo's house, she could go to Luo Yan directly. Eldest Brother will take a look for us, as for returning to the Jinyiwei Yamen, they don’t know how to be elegant, they will only praise you indiscriminately!"

Luo Yan has been learning painting recently, so she became curious when she heard it, "Bring me the painting first."

As she entered the room, she unfolded the painting on the table. Luo Yan looked left and right and became a little puzzled. She turned her head and asked, "Sister Ning, how much did you pay for this painting?"

Ning Wan said solemnly: "The man said that they were handed down from the ancestors. They were the flowers and birds of Song Huizong. Because the family suffered a sudden disaster, he was willing to sell them for 5000 taels. Later, I bargained for 3000 taels and bought them. I plan to hang them at home." I’m afraid it’s not good, so I’ll ask Brother Luo to help us take a look.” The man asked for 5000 taels, but it was true that Ning Wan gave three taels of silver.

After hearing this, Mrs. Wei also came to look at the painting, and called Luo Bing, "Sir, come and have a look."

Luo Bingyuan ignored them, so now he had to walk over, glanced at the painting and then at them, "This painting is not bad, I like it, so let's keep it." He also called Mrs. Wei, "Choose two from home. Give them a picture."

Mrs. Wei was bright-hearted, so she smiled and said, "These two paintings of flowers and birds look good to me, but they are not suitable for hanging in the middle hall. Why don't you take a big landscape painting at home, and I will pick some more paintings of flowers, birds, fish and insects?" put them in the house."

"Your family's paintings are naturally good," Tie Shi said, "but I'll ask Brother Luo to draw one for us. It's better to hang in the nave than anyone else's."

Ning Wan also hurriedly said: "I also like Brother Luo's paintings, and they will definitely be valuable in the future!"

Mrs. Wei rolled up the two paintings and said with a smile: "My husband hasn't touched a paintbrush for a long time, why don't you draw a middle-class picture for Brother Lu after dinner, so as not to be unfamiliar with it."

Luo Bing also became interested, "Draw first, then cook!" He took a group of people to the study room, took out a piece of yellowed rice paper, and said with half a piece of ink: "This is Song paper and Song ink, I will give it to you. It's like a Song Dynasty painting."

Luo Yan carefully picked up the ink, turned it on the inkstone, and Luo Bing ejected more than a dozen tubes of pens. After contemplating for a while, she suddenly grabbed the pen and began to draw quickly. Everyone stood on both sides of the table, watching intently, even the atmosphere I dare not breathe.After a meal, the picture of a tiger going up the mountain appeared vividly on the paper.

Mrs. Wei sighed: "The tiger painted by Mr. Xiang is the most majestic, better than the ones from the previous dynasty!"

Luo Yan said: "Many people who painted tigers in the past have never seen real tigers, or only seen tigers in cages. My brother is different. He and Brother Lu have hunted tigers before!" He laughed again, "Today my brother is angry again, so the tiger I drew is more majestic than usual!"

"No wonder I feel that the tiger is about to roar and jump off the painting!" Ning Wan urged with a smile, "Brother Luo hastened to pay the money, we will take it back and hang it in the central hall, it is much more suitable than the painting of flowers and birds Already!"

Tie Shi also said: "I don't like the emperor who was captured by the barbarians even if his paintings are good!"

Luo Bing then changed a pen, and wrote on one side of the painting: "Bing Chou Rihua Hu sends brother Lu and his wife away", stamped on the bottom, smiled and said to Mrs. Wei and Luo Yan: "You also added Seal it."

Mrs. Wei felt a little embarrassed, "I'm a woman, so it doesn't matter if I leave a seal on it."

Ning Wan hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law is a generation of talented women, and she put her seal on Big Brother Luo's painting just like husband and wife. And we husband and wife are playing with each other in our free time, and we immediately think of the situation at this time, how wonderful it is!"

Mrs. Wei took a pen and wrote the words "White Mountains and Black Waters, Linquan Minghu" on the bottom, and asked her to take her "Qingxiang Sanren" small seal to add.

Luo Yan took out the seal early with a smile. It turned out that she had always hung the small seal on her body, "My handwriting is too ugly, so I won't write it. I just added a seal to let the viewers know that I was there."

Ning Wan stuck out her tongue and said, "You still can't speak well, so how dare we use a pen!" Looking at her account, it was 'Xianyuan Old Friend', and she was very envious, "Your family is really elegant. .”

Luo Yan said, "Why don't Brother Lu and Sister Ning also get a number and engrave their seals."

Both Tie Shi and Ning Wanzhu waved their hands repeatedly, "Forget it, we are not in this way, and it is not beautiful to pretend to be elegant." They discussed again: "Tomorrow we will send it to be mounted, and I don't know if it can be hung at home a year ago. "

Luo Bing suddenly threw the pen in his hand and pointed at them with a smile, "Actually, you all knew that those two paintings were fake, and you came here to coax me on purpose!"

Tie Shi laughed, "Brother Luo is really smart!"

Luo Bing asked: "This idea must be from the siblings, right?"

Lu Tieshi said: "The daughter-in-law is also a plan to mourn the soldiers out of desperation."

"Back then, Wei Wu lamented that Yang Xiu and I were thirty miles behind in talent and learning, but now my siblings and I are only a painting away."

Ning Wan hurriedly said: "Actually, if Brother Luo didn't care about it, there would be chaos, how could he be fooled!"

Mrs. Wei and Luo Yan also understood and laughed together.Luo Yan asked, "Sister Ning, how do you know those two paintings are fake? I haven't seen it at a glance after studying for so long."

Ning Wan said: "I actually don't know that it is a fake painting, but I know that the person who sells the painting is telling lies." Randomly stopped two people on the road, there are so many shops in Liulichang that accept calligraphy and paintings, and they are full of knowledgeable people, so they must be liars!

Luo Bing pointed out to his younger sister, "You actually saw that it was a fake painting, but you were fooled by the 3000 taels of silver, so you didn't dare to recognize it."

Luo Yan nodded, "I learned painting for nothing, but I'm not as sharp-eyed as Sister Ning."

Ning Wan said: "It is precisely because you have learned painting that you think about what is right and wrong about this painting. I don't know it at all, so I just bargain."

Everyone was curious, "How much did you cut?"

Lu Tieshi quickly stretched out three fingers, and Luo Yan guessed, "Thirty?"

Luo Bing said: "It must be two or three!"

Ning Wan smiled and said, "That's right. I thought the paper scroll and the framed silk satin would cost two taels of silver in total, plus his wages of one tael, so it's still three taels."

Luo Yan sighed: "Sister Ning, you really dare to bargain! But these two paintings are actually pretty good imitations, it seems that some effort has been spent on them, and you can buy them for three taels."

"So I don't lose, and he also gains, isn't it just right?"

Mrs. Wei smiled and said, "It's getting late, I've already had the banquet set up and I've cooked some Jiangnan dishes."

Although Ning Wan is a master at cooking, she actually knows mostly Liaodong home-cooked dishes. She is very interested in the light and elegant dishes in Jiangnan, so she smiled at this time: "We are so lucky, and we will come to eat more often in the future. !"

Mrs. Wei said: "If you do better, I will send someone to invite you."

Everyone laughed and entered the table, Luo Bing said: "You are in a hurry to move out, but you are thinking too much. Now Tieshi's reputation is very good. This time the house raid was done well, and everyone in the household department misses you After all, they have been struggling for so many years. In the past, most of the money stolen from the house went into Lu Yan's hands, and the other half went into the internal treasury. They couldn't even touch a copper coin. Now they follow the book and can get half of it. , many things can be done.”

Lu Tieshi laughed, "My wife helped me out with this idea."

"I guessed it too," Luo Bing was not surprised, "Although you have the ability to fight, but in terms of worldly sophistication and ingenuity, you are worse than your sister-in-law."

"My daughter-in-law is my military advisor!"

Luo Bing just laughed, and said: "Don't watch Yan Yushi scold you twice for three days, in fact, there are more people who are secretly in love with you. Last time you reported to the Emperor Xiangwu Houfu and Lu Yan's family The letters were all burned, and many people seemed to have been pardoned. It’s just that they can’t say it, but they still know it in their hearts.”

"Actually, I saved a lot of trouble by burning those letters. Otherwise, I would only have to check piles of letters one by one. I am afraid that half of the people in the capital would be involved? But it is only Xiang Xiang who really intends to rebel. It’s just the ones headed by Marquis Wu.” But Lu Tieshi was still very puzzled, “I’ve never offended Yan Yushi, and I don’t even know him, so why does he hate me? It’s hard to find fault all day long.”

"A person like Yan Yushi has no reason to say. In his eyes, everyone has all kinds of mistakes, but he himself is as pure and innocent as the white snow on the mountain." Luo Bing said: "Besides, There are also a few people who followed him and scolded you. They had been with King Jing in private. At this time, seeing that the letters were all destroyed, they jumped out and scolded you to prove that they had nothing to do with King Jing. They burned those letters for you. I don't appreciate it either."

"Sure enough, people have ulterior motives, and I just do what my wife said, to be worthy of my own conscience."

(End of this chapter)