Xie Qian smiled very well and asked the servant to solemnly place the scroll on the table of the long desk. Then the servant carried a desk of the same height from outside again, and the two pieces were pieced together.n∈n∈,.

Xie Qian waved his hand and said, "I invite you to come today to appreciate a famous work of the previous dynasty, which is the famous Song Dynasty man Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival."

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this!

This painting is not collected by the former chief assistant Xu Pu, who sent someone to the capital but was stolen halfway. Why does it appear in Xie's mansion now?

Is Xie Qian related to the thief?

Thinking again, who is Xie Qian? A grand cabinet minister! He has always had a good relationship with Li Dongyang, so how could he do such shameless things?

Yes, it was probably Xie Qian who sent someone to help Xu Pu and Li Dongyang recover the painting. Today, taking advantage of the opportunity to let everyone appreciate the famous paintings, he returned the painting to Li Dongyang in person, fulfilling Xu Pu's wish.

"People, please come forward and look."

If anyone present has heard of this famous painting, no one except Li Dongyang has seen it with his own eyes. They all want to see what is unique about this long-standing painting.

The scroll slowly opened under the gaze of everyone, and the scenery of Bianliang in the Song Dynasty gradually appeared before everyone's eyes.

If you want to say that this painting is indeed a bit long, about two feet long, but it is only one foot high. The painting uses a long scroll to show the markets, buildings, pedestrians, landscapes and human nature on both sides of the Bian River. This is different from ordinary landscape paintings focusing on artistic conception. It can be said that it was made to faithfully record the market style at that time.

Even if a person who doesn't know how to paint, when he sees such a painting, he should sigh at the scenery depicted in the painting, imagine himself as a small figure in the painting, and shuttle through the streets and alleys of the Northern Song capital hundreds of years ago.

Shen Xi followed Zhu Xizhou forward and looked around the picture... It is unrealistic to pick out the repairs in the painting in this quick glance. In fact, even if you look carefully with your naked eyes, it is difficult to detect the clues.

There is no magnifying glass these days. To check the repairs of Shen Xi before, it is necessary to carefully observe and compare them over the years. Shen Xi asked himself that his understanding of this painting is enough to "distort the real with fakes", not to mention that the damage is only a few inconspicuous corners. It is not easy to pay attention to these details?

"Everyone, what do you think?" Xie Qian asked with a smug smile on his face and stroked his beard.

Li Dongyang's face looked a little solemn. After all, this was a painting that Xu Pu asked someone to give him. If it were someone else's mansion, he would have asked the government to come to the house to "get the stolen goods". But now the painting appears strangely in Xie Qian's mansion. The two are both the Grand Secretary of the Administration, and their relationship is very good on weekdays. When Xie Qian saw him just now, he didn't mention the matter of returning the painting, which made Li Dongyang feel that Xie Qian had the intention to take it for himself, but he was worried about his face and was embarrassed to directly ask for the painting back.

Cheng Yu, the head and guest of the Ministry of Rites, asked directly: "This painting is a national treasure, but the officials heard that this painting was collected by Master Xu, but for some reason... it was obtained by Master Xie?"

After Cheng Yu said that, everyone present looked at Xie Qian and thought to himself that since Xie Qian called someone, it should be said that Cheng Yu was going to be the matter of returning the painting. It would be a bit inappropriate for Cheng Yu to question this. But most of the people present knew that Cheng Yu was Li Dongyang's person, and now he was clearly "designing paintings" for Li Dongyang. After saying this, Xie Qian's righteous act of returning the painting became a matter of being exposed and had to be returned, which clearly did not give Xie Qian face.

Unexpectedly, Xie Qian was not surprised and laughed and said, "This painting was hidden by Mr. Xu. Why have I never heard of it? Who has evidence?"

One sentence made everyone confused!

If anyone present knew about the matter, it was just a rumor from the recent capital. Xu Pu knew that he was old and sent his grandson Xu Wencan to the capital to "deliver paintings". As a result, the painting was stolen and was unknown. Xu Wencan personally went to Li Dongyang's mansion to apologize. Then Li Dongyang came forward and captured the thieves in Shuntian Mansion. There was no news for several days.

I don't know whether this is true or not, but it is rumored outside, which is not like fiction. But if anyone can find evidence, I'm afraid that even Xu Wencan can come here in person.

Why do you say that this painting belongs to your Xu family?

In a word, the people present were speechless.

Chen Xi felt that Xie Qian seemed to be targeted, and his sentences focused on some "strange". Xie Qian asked the people present, "Who has evidence?" instead of "what is there any evidence". This seemed to be saying, who can come up with evidence to refute me? Is this the culprit behind the painting revealed its true colors?

But the problem is that even if the thief himself does not know who collected the painting and how to prove it? Where can I find evidence? Then Xie Qian's question seems to be a waste of time?

From the beginning, Chen Xi did not think that Xie Qian would take this painting for himself. If Xie Qian really did this, he would just keep silent after getting the painting and hide the painting. Even if Li Dongyang and Shuntian Mansion did not dare to search in his mansion. Over time, no one remembered this matter, so the painting would naturally belong to Xie Qian.

Since Mr. Xie took out the painting to display the day he got the painting, either he wanted to take the opportunity to find the person behind the scenes who stole the painting, or he wanted to use the return of the painting to achieve his ulterior motives.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "What exactly does Xie Qian want to do?"

The people present were either appreciating the painting or thinking, and no one answered. At this time, Li Dongyang finally spoke: "Brother Yu Qiao, I don't know where you came from this painting?"

Li Dongyang did not call Xie Qian official position, but said this in the tone of a friend's narration. In fact, he expressed his attitude to Xie Qian: Return the painting to me, we are still good friends, otherwise don't blame me for turning against others!

They are both the Grand Secretary of the Republic of China, but they are also sorted in the cabinet.

Now the ranking of the three people in the cabinet is that Liu Jian is the first, Li Dongyang is the second, and Xie Qian is the last among the three.

You can distinguish it from the title and title. Liu Jian was the Young Master and the Grand Tutor of the Prince Jinshen Hall. The Young Master was one of the "Three Owls", and was ranked first-rank. The Prince Taifu was one of the third-rank prince and also ranked first-rank. In the Ming Dynasty's civil servant system, these two civil servants were second only to the three "Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao". In the entire Ming Dynasty, there were only a few civil servants who were listed in the third-rank justice and first-rank when they were alive, but Liu Jian is now at the highest position.

Let’s talk about Li Dongyang and Xie Qian. They entered the cabinet in the same year. They are now both the Prince’s Young Masters, and are one of the “Three Princess Young Masters” and have the second rank of official rank. However, Li Dongyang is the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, while Xie Qian is the Grand Secretary of Dong Pavilion.

In the ranking of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the Grand Secretary of the Huagai Palace is the first, followed by the Jinshen Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Hall, and Dong Pavilion.

From this point of view, Xie Qian, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, was behind Li Dongyang, the Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion. When discussing affairs in the cabinet, Liu Jian could be said to be a word of the word, followed by Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian was the one with the lowest speaking among the three.

Cheng Yu asked Xie Qian what he got from the painting. Xie Qian pretended that he didn't hear it and didn't need to pay attention to it. But now he asked him that he was Li Dongyang, his "shangguan", so he could not help but give face. Xie Qian replied: "This painting was obtained by coincidence. As for the details, I will explain it in detail to Brother Bin later."

Saying it means not saying it. A sentence "It is obtained by coincidence" obviously cannot relieve the doubts of the people present, and even Li Dongyang was not very satisfied after hearing it.

Chen Xi looked at Xie Qian carefully, trying to see the true thoughts in his heart from Xie Qian's face... But this old guy is indeed cunning and hides his thoughts very well. Chen Xi could not find any flaws in his expression.

Originally, he was invited to the Ge Lao Mansion to appreciate the paintings, but suddenly the scene became very embarrassing because of this "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". The paintings were spread there, and no one could take the painting away from the Xie Mansion without "evidence". It seemed that Li Dongyang was destined to suffer a loss.

Xie Qian saw that everyone present was very cautious and seemed to dare not speak too much to cause trouble, so he had to solve the mystery. Xie Qian asked, "I asked you all to come and appreciate the paintings today. I want to ask you who are familiar with calligraphy and painting?"

It is fake, but it is good at being good at being real. Xie Qian suddenly asked who is good at calligraphy and painting. The piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are essential skills for literati and poets. But if you are a big group of people with Jinshi and profound attainments, you really don’t know what you know. No matter how good you are, can you compare with Li Dongyang and Xie Qian?

Zhu Xizhou gritted his teeth and saluted: "We are just a little knowledge of calligraphy and painting."

In a word, it attracts the support of those present. You cannot say that you are good at it. You can only say that you know a little bit. You shouldn't use this problem to make things difficult for us.

Xie Qian suddenly sighed: "I heard that there was a scholar named Tang from Jiangnan in this examination. It was said that calligraphy and painting were great, but he...ah."

Xie Qian sighed so much that he was giving people some advice. He said that "the scholar of Tang surnamed Jiangnan" was "necessary of Tang in Jiangnan". Needless to say, Tang Yin, who is now detained in the prison of the Fufu Department, had not yet concluded the case of the Ministry of Rites' examination. It is still unknown whether Tang Yin can come out alive.

Xie Qian suddenly mentioned Tang Yin, which seemed to have something else to say.

The people in the Hanlin Academy looked at Chen Xi intentionally or unintentionally.

If Tang Yin is very good at calligraphy and painting, Chen Xi beat Tang Yin before the imperial examination. Now, there are still two people's calligraphy and paintings hanging in Minsheng Teahouse. Every day, people have judged the quality of calligraphy and painting. Now, there is almost a consensus that Chen Xi's paintings are better than Tang Yin's.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Is Xie Qian's target me? He would never know that I sent this painting, or what he wanted to express through this?"

Zhu Xizhou smiled and said, "I don't know if Mr. Xie has heard of it. On that day, the surname of Tang... was a Juzi. He once competed with someone in landscape painting, but ended up in a crushing defeat. If you want to talk about this person, he was the first in the Jiwei Palace Test List and was here today."

Chen Xi can be understood as Zhu Xizhou is helping him, but he also fell into the "trap" set by Xie Qian in disguise, and the misfortune and fortune are unknown.

After hearing what Zhu Xizhou said, even if he hadn't heard of this, he began to look at Chen Xi following the eyes of everyone, and Chen Xi became the target of public criticism for a moment.

Chen Xi was forced to go forward and bowed: "Students are polite."

Li Dongyang looked at Chen Xi curiously.

As a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the court officials can basically call them names, but not many people leave an impression, let alone a new Jinshi with a low rank. However, Chen Xi left a great impression on Li Dongyang. He first recited silently in the peace department, and later unexpectedly won the championship in the palace examination. Li Dongyang got up early to love talent for Chen Xi.

Later, Emperor Hongzhi intended to mention the old story of Jianwen, and Li Dongyang heard Xie Qian say that the memorial was also presented on the Chenxi River...

Among so many people in the Hanlin Academy, Xie Qian did not look for others, but only looked for Chen Xi. In addition to "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger", it also shows from one aspect that Chen Xi is indeed capable.

************

ps: The first update is here!
Chapter completed!