A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 202 Doubt, temptation
Xu Shenfang asked: "Then what do you think of these two portraits?"

Meng Yan rolled his eyes at him and said, "You can see the difference at a glance, what does it look like?"

Xu Shenfang said: "I'm talking about painting rhyme."

Yin Heng said at the right time: "The landscape paintings are basically the same. I was very fortunate to have seen the handwriting of King Yin Wu once before. I was very impressed, so I imitated one."

Xu Shenfang said: "Since Brother Wang is so impressed, why not make the painting exactly the same, or deliberately make it different?"

Yin Heng lowered his eyes and pulled the corner of his clothes, calmly said: "Maybe the one I saw is also a fake, if it is copied again and again, the deviation will be large."

"..." Xu Chenfang narrowed her eyes and looked at him, but couldn't find anything to refute for a moment.

Meng Yan asked in surprise: "Xu Chenfang, why did Ah Heng's painting come into your hands again?"

Xu Chenfang suddenly smiled again, and said, "I bought it. Do you know how much one of his paintings sells for in the city now?"

Meng Yan asked, "How much?"

Xu Shenfang stroked his fan and said, "His gilt painting of the king's pavilion has already cost nearly a thousand taels of silver. Even if it is a fake, it is said that it is the most similar fake that has been imitated for a long time."

Meng Yan's face was filled with pain.

When she sold it, she only sold it for how much, dozens of hundreds of taels of silver!Now that King Yin Wu's shareholding wind blows, it will multiply several times immediately!
Meng Yan supported her forehead and sighed: "This King Wu of Yin is really real, why didn't he pass it on sooner! If the price had been raised earlier, we wouldn't have sold so much!"

Yin Heng: "..."

At present, all kinds of items related to King Wu of Yin are on sale in the market, which cannot arouse suspicion for a while.

Later, Xu Shenfang smiled and said: "Ah, as Brother Wang said, these landscape paintings are similar with minor differences. If I collect them, I can only collect one. How about you choose one and I will give it to you?"

Meng Yan chose Yin Heng's new painting without hesitation.She didn't expect that the first painting he made would go around in a circle, and finally returned to her hands. Of course, it must be carefully kept as a souvenir.

Xu Shenfang sighed: "Obviously the handwriting of King Yin Wu is more valuable for collection, cousin Auntie, are you ignorant?"

Meng Yan glanced at him and said, "Is it up to you to determine whether an item is valuable?"

Xu Chenfang smiled without saying a word.

Afterwards, Meng Yan put away the scroll and took it back to the room for storage, and then went to the kitchen to help Mrs. Xia cook together.

Only Yin Heng and Xu Chenfang were left in the courtyard, and Monkey Bugui was playing on the swing in the porch.

Xu Shenfang showed the picture of King Yin Wu to Yin Heng, squinted her eyes and said, "Why don't you come and taste the handwriting, is this handwriting real or not?"

Yin Heng said: "Didn't you say that you basically don't collect fakes, and you still need others to distinguish the real from the fake?"

"It's not a bad thing to taste with one more person."

Yin Heng didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and left in the wheelchair.

Xu Chenfang was not annoyed either, and sat lazily leaning on the porch pillar, while waving her fan, she said leisurely: "This is really a coincidence, I inquired about the time when King Yin Wu disappeared, and it happened to be the time with Suixiang. Not far behind."

Yin Heng stopped moving.

Xu Chenfang laughed twice, and said again: "Others imitate the handwriting of famous paintings, wishing to be exactly the same, but you deliberately leave something different. Tsk tsk, imitating your own things, is it hard? Am I right? , King Yin Wu?"

Yin Heng moved the wheelchair and turned around, staring straight at Xu Chenfang.In those light-colored pupils, there was no surprise, no emotion.

Xu Chenfang knew that Yin Heng had always been hiding very well, and he also knew that this person must have an extraordinary background. After careful investigation, Yin Heng's appearance was very coincidental, and he was thoughtful and calm, and would even make the bow he bought Today, rumors about King Wu of Yin are spreading all over the sky, and it just so happens that Yin Heng's painting appeared again at this time.

It is easy to imitate a person's painting, and there are countless people who can imitate it exactly.But no matter how powerful it is, the strength of character in the painting cannot be imitated, because no two people are the same in the world, nor do they have the same strength of character.Otherwise, how can I say that imitators only get the shape but not the soul?

Xu Shenfang used Yin Heng's painting and Yin Wuwang's painting for comparison. They do not have exactly the same shape, but they seem to have the same soul.

But Xu Chenfang has never seen the most real side of Yin Heng with his own eyes, and he was only skeptical at first, not very sure.

This temptation right now is like throwing a stone into the sea, no matter how hard you try, Yin Heng just doesn't get in and doesn't respond.

It wasn't once or twice that Xu Shenfang was deeply frustrated by him.

Yin Heng raised his eyebrows lightly, and said slowly: "I heard that King Wu of Yin kills people and drinks blood. He is nine feet long and looks fierce. He can intimidate the enemy in front of the battle, and the house can be a town house. The wicked will retreat when they see it, and the children will stop crying when they hear it. A rather wicked person. Do I look wicked?"

Xu Shenfang said leisurely: "I heard that although King Yin Wu kills people like hemp, he is handsome and heroic, especially his appearance, which is very handsome."

Yin Heng said: "Which one do you think is more believable?"

For such a frightening figure, it sounds like the former is more convincing.

In the end, Xu Shenfang failed to find out a definite result.

Later, there were more mixed people from the city, so Meng Yan and Yin Heng were right that they didn't go out to the streets much.

The news of the battle reports between the two countries and the news of the disappearance of King Wu of Yin, in addition to the word of mouth of the common people, of course, there is official side confirmation.

The imperial court cede land and pay compensation to quell the war, not only to settle down the border people, but also to spend spare energy to recuperate.The empty basket can only be filled from other places.

So except for the war-torn areas on the border, other relatively stable places in Yin State began to arrest the people for taxation.

Two groups of people have come to the city to collect this year's tax.

The poorer people may have to tighten their belts this year.

The second batch of people who came was the chief envoy of the upper province, and they brought their own officials. When they arrived, Zuo Chengjin, the prefect, led people to greet them in person.

The Chief Minister is now Zuo Chengjin's direct superior. After the death of the former magistrate, Zuo Chengjin was able to get promoted and appointed because of his help. Of course, he is not from the gang.

This time the chief minister came in person, mainly to check the taxes of the merchants in the city, and to inspect the lower-level officials by the way.

All merchants in the city have to pay a part of the tax more than ordinary people.

But the world is not fair, and the top and bottom collect more taxes, and no one knows whose pocket it ends up in.After all, the more troubled times are, the better opportunities for the common people.

So they all figured out how to pay less.Those who make accounts step up to do accounts, and those who stock up on warehouses step up to stock up on warehouses, just to make their own portals look a bit down and shabby.

The Xu family's main family and the two side branches are no exception.

Xu Chenfang is also busy, but he is not busy pretending to be poor.He paid all the taxes that should be paid without paying a penny.

(End of this chapter)