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When Wang Haoqing called in the afternoon, Li Yi had been practicing calligraphy in Yanyuan for a long time.

"How is it? You still ask, "Oh, Lao Wang, I finally understand why you have to play by yourself with so much hard work. Your rich friend... He is simply a big liar! The person he introduced to me is also a big liar!"

Wang Haoqing on the other end of the phone was a little confused. What's wrong? Is the other party asking for a high price?

"Of course, it's ridiculously high! In 3 years, do you know how much he wants? 2 billion! 2 billion, why doesn't he grab his sister?"

Damn, Wang Haoqing was shocked. He dared to pay 2 billion in three years. It was so awesome. Then he said he didn’t say how much he could earn for you?

Li Yi was too lazy to explain when he heard Wang Haoqing’s misunderstanding.

"Start earning money in the fourth year, 700 million yuan, and 1 billion yuan in the fifth year..."

"My sister! You wait. I'll go find Lao Zhang now. If you don't want to come, just say it. No one blames you. You treat our brothers like monkeys, this won't work..."

"Wait... wait, the more you look for a person like this, the more powerful you become. Let's ignore him, treat him coldly, and treat him coldly."

After comforting Wang Haoqing, Li Yi picked up the pen and was about to write again, but suddenly received a call from Zhong Haoqing.

"Xiaoyi, are you free in the evening? Lao Ma just called and invited us to dinner, saying that he had already agreed, and thank you for discovering the insect eyes on his arhat bed..."

When Li Yi heard this, he threw the pen excitedly and summoned God Ma. He must have time!

"Okay, as long as you have time, you can wait at home, I will come to you at the same time as five o'clock, and then let's go there together!"

...

Ma Dashen is 60 years old this year, with short hair already gray, but although he looks a little tired, he still looks like a person in his early fifties and looks very young.

When he saw Li Yi, Ma Dashen was very enthusiastic. He first thanked him repeatedly for helping them discover the wormhole in the Arhat bed, and then he complimented Zhong Haoqing inconspicuously. Several talents divided the guests and hosts to sit down.

This time, Ma Dashen came with Tong Haisong. After chatting for a few words, Tong Haisong took out a painting tube and handed it to Ma Dashen.

"This was taken back by a friend of mine at an auction in London a few days ago. Both of them are here today. I want to ask you to help me see if there is any problem with this painting."

"oh?"

Now even Zhong Haoqing showed a little surprise. What kind of painting can't even see Lao Ma?

Several people walked to the area where the private room was resting, and Ma Dashen opened the painting and hung it on the wall.

This is a light crimson landscape painting with vertical colored paper. At first glance, the whole painting and the blank spaces of the paper present an old pale yellow color. The painting is slightly light colored, and the tones of the picture are simple and unified. The contrast between the thickness and lightness and weight is not obvious. Even the outlines of the mountains and rocks are not used with heavy ink.

Light-crystal landscape is a type of Chinese landscape painting. It refers to light-colored landscape paintings with ochre as the main color based on ink and water hooks. The characteristics of this painting method are simple, elegant, light, bright and clear.

The brush techniques of the shallow coriander landscape mainly include five types: outline, brush, dye, dot, and rub. The ink can also be divided into several ink methods such as splashing ink, accumulation of ink, breaking ink, and burning ink.

The painting in front of them obviously uses the most commonly used ink splashing method. The whole painting seems to be completed in one go, the layout of the picture flows with the shape, and the flying whites are quite eye-catching. The painter easily used the ink color to outline a vast scroll of clear layers in front of everyone, with distant mountains and near stones.

This painting is very skilled in using brush, outline and texture, and is rarely used in dotting and dyeing, but the ink color alone vividly reflects the contrast between the depth and distance of the scene in the picture, making the entire picture clear and vivid, and should be a master's work.

First, Li Yi turned his gaze to the signature. When he saw it, he suddenly realized that no wonder, it turned out that this was really a work by a top master, because the signature was written with a familiar name, which was the romantic talent Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, who was known as one of the "Four Schools of Ming Dynasty"!

Beside Li Yi, Zhong Haoqing's eyes fell on Tang Yin's signature earlier, but it was abruptly different from Li Yi's. After seeing the signature, she frowned.

"Xiaoyi, let's talk about your views on this work first."

Li Yi nodded, first twisted his fingers lightly, checked the paper, and then frowned:

"At first glance, this painting is indeed a masterpiece, but if you look closely, it does not match some of Tang Yin's usual brushwork, and the paper is also suspected of being used. Therefore, my opinion is that this painting is a new imitation, and it is a new imitation that has only been drawn within the past decade."

His tone was very calm, but when it came to the final conclusion, he didn't even use a word that should or may have speculated, but showed very positively that this was a new imitation within ten years!

Hearing Li Yi's decisive and confident conclusion, Zhong Haoqing's eyes showed a hint of relief, while Ma Dashen looked at Tong Haisong, and both saw the horror in each other's eyes. This kid is so powerful? Isn't he blind?

After seeing Li Yi say it, Zhong Haoqing nodded and affirmed his statement.

"Yes, this should be a new imitation, and it has been made old at least twice. At the beginning, I used the blank paper first, and after painting, and then used the whole painting to be treated... This technique is not used many people at present."

At this time, Master Ma also nodded.

"Well, that's right, this painting is a new imitation. But this new imitation cost my friend more than 30 million yuan. Alas, I was kind-hearted and wanted to return the cultural relics, but I didn't expect that someone would catch him. He just cheated tens of millions away..."

When talking about this topic, Zhong Haoqing was also a little silent. In fact, when it comes to the return of cultural relics, the opinions of the collection industry are not only not unified, but also have great contradictions. The real thing about this contradiction is because of the Twelve Beast Heads incident a few years ago.

Among them, the most influential one was the rat head and rabbit head that appeared at the special auction of "Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Beger" held by Christie's in Paris, France.

At that time, as soon as Christie's announced that the auction included the bronze statue of rat head and rabbit head in the Old Summer Palace, it caused a stir in China thousands of miles away. The Chinese official even expressed its opposition clearly.

Subsequently, a lawyer team composed of dozens of lawyers formally issued a lawyer's letter and a lawyer's statement to Christie's, expressing its position against the auction, and the incident began to enter legal proceedings.

After learning that Christie's had strongly rejected the Chinese request, the lawyer team submitted a request to a Paris court to prohibit the auction of lost cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace. A few days later, the auction was held as scheduled.

At that time, two precious Old Summer Palace cultural relics were sold at 9 million euros, and then they were taken down by the same buyer for the same price of 14 million yuan.

But afterwards, the buyer refused to pay and claimed that it was the responsibility of every Chinese to prevent and destroy the auction of this precious Chinese cultural relics.

This incident was a big deal at that time, and the two opposing views of the collection industry on the return of cultural relics were completely exposed to the public.

It has won a lot of praise, but few supporters are firmly supporting the return of cultural relics, calling on the vast number of patriots to collect lost cultural relics through various channels and return them to the country.

Another kind of criticism of winning has gained more silent support from people is to face up to history, not link this kind of cultural relics auction with political history, nor do they use everyone's patriotism to put a shackle on everyone's patriotism, and leave everything to the market to solve.

These two voices have been arguing endlessly in those years, and have only gradually faded recently. During this period, Chinese patriotic merchants have continuously invested huge amounts of money to purchase lost cultural relics and donated them to the country for free.

The fate of the rat head and the rabbit head also took a dramatic turn a few years after that auction. The French Pinault family bought the two beast heads from the original holder and donated them to the Chinese government for free the previous year!

"Actually, I'm very conflicted about the reflow of cultural relics."

Master Ma sighed and sat back on his seat.

"Sometimes I think that it would be great if we had a batch of their precious cultural relics in our hands. With their own attitude of cherishing themselves, there would definitely be people who would spend a lot of money to flow back and forth. Then, then we can make the conditions and exchange cultural relics for cultural relics. In this way, we may be able to exchange a batch of truly precious cultural relics from their museums through official channels."

After listening to the story of Master Ma, Zhong Haoqing spread his hands helplessly. This is just a good wish. Old Ma, we should still see it more. If we have the ability, we should return two more items. If we don’t have the ability, we should just stand on the side and watch it. Gradually, the country is becoming stronger. Many problems that seem to be impossible to solve at this time will naturally not be a problem.

"Well, the current return of cultural relics mainly depends on private acquisitions. The work hosted by the cultural relics department has almost no progress due to the evidence and other issues, so I can't do anything about it. Just say a few words of dreams. Okay, don't talk about these unhappy things, eat and eat well, you can try it, this dish is pretty good!"

Li Yi scratched his scalp. The idea of ​​Ma just now touched him. It is indeed a feasible way to exchange cultural relics for cultural relics. Moreover, he also happened to have two of their cultural relics in his hand. Why not just give them to him to operate and see if he could exchange them for some good things?

Li Yi had long clearly realized the change in his mentality and when he had just obtained the spirit card. At that time, he just wanted to pick up the bargain and then sell the bargain at a big price and make a big deal.

And now, perhaps because he is rich, or because he really likes these things, he has hidden almost all the items he received. In just a few months, he has completely changed from a layman to a stingy collector!
Chapter completed!