Delicate Flower Chapter 8: Buy paintings

Yu Wen felt that this matter was his fault. When his daughter questioned him, he couldn't help but feel guilty. He whispered: "Ah Tang, although your mother needs to take medicine now, she doesn't have to go to the capital. This money can be regarded as... I took your mother to the capital. Besides, you also see how your Uncle Lu treats our family. How can I only care about my own family at this time and ignore his life and death? "

Yu Tang was extremely angry and said: "Is he at a critical moment of life and death now? Can't he live without these two hundred taels of silver?"

"It's almost the same!" Yu Wen said, "Your Uncle Lu has offended the Pei family and can't stay in Lin'an Mansion anymore. He will start Encore next year. He won't get good recommendations and it will be difficult for him to study. Be diligent."

Yu Tang knows this kind of thing.

Officials who become official are usually willing to benefit a party. When local scholars came to Beijing for scientific examinations, they would write famous letters to officials they knew or were close friends with, asking them to help arrange accommodation and even provide guidance on their homework, in the hope of being named on the gold list and achieving better results.

She sneered and said: "If I remember correctly, Uncle Lu is just a scholar, right? The Pei family wrote him a letter of recommendation, so he probably won't need it, right? Besides, the Pei family has always liked to help their neighbors. , What did he do to offend the Pei family? Don’t you think about it carefully?"

Yu Wen obviously didn't want to talk more, and just said: "He has decided to live in the capital, and I don't know if he will come back in the future. This is the last time I help him, and it is also my way of repaying him for saving your mother's life. Just don’t pursue it."

Now that the matter has come to this, what else can Yu Tang say.

She said bitterly: "Where is the painting?"

After all, the painting is an antique and is still worth some money. If the family cannot afford the money for mother's medicine in the future, they can still **** the painting.

Yu Wen handed the scroll to Yu Tang flatteringly.

As Yu Tang spread the scroll on the desk, he muttered in a low voice: "It means you are easy to talk to. If he takes the two hundred taels of silver to a **** shop, he can only **** them for a hundred taels of silver..."

Before she finished speaking, her eyes widened.

This is not the "Picture of Fishing in the Pine River" that she often took out and looked at in her previous life.

In my previous life, after my parents had an accident, this painting was left at home and forgotten. It wasn't until she got married that her eldest uncle, considering that the Li family she was marrying into was a scholar, wanted to buy some calligraphy and paintings for her to dowry to make her dowry more respectable, so the painting was found again. And because her parents' accident was related to this painting, she took it as a thought and kept it carefully, taking it out to look at from time to time.

She remembered clearly that there were twenty-three seals in this painting. The last two seals were "Chun Shui Tang" and the other "Shou Mei Weng". "Chun Shui Tang" was stamped on "Slender Mei Weng". Next to it, at this time, the place where the seal of "Chun Shui Tang" should have been stamped was instead stamped with "Meilin".

This painting is fake!

Yu Tang was furious and said: "Dad, Lu Xin is a villain!"

Seeing his daughter repeatedly slandering his friends, Yu Wen felt a little unhappy. He came over and was about to collect the scroll and put it away, while saying: "How can you talk, kid? No one in the world has shortcomings. You Don’t always hold on to your Uncle Lu’s faults. Look at people for what’s important…”

"No!" Yu Tang interrupted his father, stopped him from rolling up the scroll, pointed to the seal with "Merlin" and said, "Dad, look, this should be covered with 'Chun Shui Tang' ..."

Yu Wen laughed and said: "You don't read when I ask you to read on weekdays. Now it's a joke! I don't know whose seal is 'Chun Shui Tang', but this 'Merlin' is Mr. Zuo's private seal." , I used to study Master Zuo's manuscripts and seals. The painting in your uncle Lu's house was given to his late father by Master Zuo. Is it strange that there is no such seal? You see, this 'Slender Mei Weng' is Your Uncle Lu’s father’s nickname.”

Yu Tang was completely messed up.

Could it be that the famous paintings she often held and played with in her previous life were fake?

Yu Tang was unwilling to give in. She asked Yu Wen to find someone to identify it.

Yu Wen disagreed: "Your father is not good at reading, so he will not be mistaken in appraising a few ancient paintings from the previous dynasty."

The confusion in Yu Tang's heart is getting bigger and bigger.

In her previous life, after she married into the Li family, there was a thief in the house. After everyone checked their belongings, she was the only one who lost two or three pieces of gold jewelry. At that time, she was still wondering why someone in the Li family's high-walled compound stole only this little thing.

Has the painting been stolen by that time?

Yu Tang doesn't want to think back on her days in the Li family, but she can't deny that it's a knot in her heart. Especially her resentment towards everyone in the Li family would make her tremble with rage and speechless at the slightest touch.

No!

She couldn't just act like nothing happened.

Yu Tang asked Yu Wen for "Picture of Fishing in Pine Creek" to view, but secretly took the painting to the Pei family's **** shop.

The Pei family only opened one pawnshop in Lin'an.

At the crossroads in front of Lin'anfu Pier.

The shopkeeper is still the fat and white Tong Gui.

In his previous life, Yu Tang paid a lot of money as a dowry in his hands.

She wrapped her head, dressed like a country woman, and quietly entered the **** shop.

Shopkeeper Tong is not here, and the person guarding the cabinet is Tong Hai, the son of shopkeeper Tong.

Like Tong Gui, he is also fair and fat. Now he is only a young man, but he already smiles and is very approachable.

Yu Tang handed the painting over and whispered, "It's a good job."

Tong Hai took the painting with a smile and opened it casually, but his expression froze the moment he saw the scroll. Although he immediately put on a smiling face, the shock on his face was captured by Yu Tang.

It can be seen that Tong Hai has developed a good eye at this time.

"Wait a moment, little lady, please come to the inner hall for a cup of tea first." He smiled like Maitreya Buddha, "What you are selling is an antique calligraphy and painting. The guests in our shop must see it before you can make a price."

Why is the Pei family's pawnshop considered fair and just? When many **** shops see you pawning something, they will first deceive you and ask you how much money you want to pawn. And no matter how much money you ask for, they will make the thing you want to **** worthless and try to persuade you. Damn it.

Yu Tang nodded, her anxiety relieved a lot since she found out that her father had bought this painting again.

Her situation is so wonderful, everything is changing. At least the Pei family's pawnshop is familiar to her. The big and small shopkeepers of the pawnshop are still the same as before.

She followed shopkeeper Xiao Tong to the inner hall.

A gust of wind blew by, making the camphor tree in the patio rustle, causing a few koi carp raised in the pond under the tree to emerge from under the water lily leaves.

Yu Tang couldn't help but slow down and took a few glances, but heard someone talking vaguely behind the half-covered glass fan opposite.

She followed the sound.

No faces were seen, only the silhouettes of two men could be seen through the crack in the door.

The fat one was Tong Gui, and she recognized it at a glance. The tall man wore an azure-colored hanging silk Taoist robe. He had a tall and straight posture and stood with his hands behind his back. From a distance, through the Taoist fan, you could feel the magnanimity of someone standing close to the abyss.

It should be a big customer coming to the **** shop.

Yu Tang came here to **** something incognito. He was afraid of exposing his secrets and didn’t dare to look more. He couldn’t help but ponder it secretly in his heart.

You have such a good temper, but you come here to be used as a tool, and you don’t know whose son it is...

She shook her head, feeling a little pity for no reason.

After drinking two cups of tea, shopkeepers Tong and Tong came together.

"This little lady," shopkeeper Tong Da said, wiping sweat while holding the scroll she had handed to shopkeeper Xiao Tong, "this painting of yours is a fake."

Fake painting? !

Yu Tang stood up suddenly.

She knew that this Lu Xin was not a good person!

In her previous life, her father bought his painting without refusing, and he even sold a real painting to her father. In this life, her father was unwilling to buy his painting, so he simply sold a fake painting to her father.

Yu Tang gritted his teeth.

But I have to admit in my heart that if she hadn't intervened, this kind of thing would never have happened in this life.

Since she was the one who caused the trouble, it was up to her to clean up the mess.

If you don’t want the real paintings in Lu Xin’s hands back, you also have to get back the money in his hands!

Yu Tang snatched the painting from shopkeeper Tong Da and said bitterly: "Thank you, shopkeeper Tong, for disturbing me."

But shopkeeper Tong and Xiao Tong looked at her blankly, as if they were frightened.

Yu Tang could only smile reluctantly.

She resented Lu Xin just as much as she resented Lu Xin, but she shouldn't anger shopkeeper Tong Da.

"Sorry!" she apologized, "I didn't expect it to be a fake painting and wasted your time."

Both shopkeeper Tong and Xiao are really well-educated. If it had been anyone else who pawned a fake painting, the pawnshop would have taken it out as a **** and thrown it on the street for people to laugh at.

"No!" Shopkeeper Xiao Tong stuttered a little, "You, your headscarf fell off."

What happened if the headscarf fell off?

It took Yu Tang a while to react.

In order to come to the **** shop, she specially found a pair of old clothes from Shuangtao~IndoMTL.com~ Not to mention this, she also combed her hair like a woman and wore a pink velvet flower. It turned out that she was thinking about whether to put some on it. However, when she found Shuangtao's powder, she felt that the powder used by Shuangtao was not fine enough. Shuangtao said that she would go to "Xie Fuxiang" to buy a new box of powder and come back. Two taels of silver was not worth it—two taels of silver was enough for her mother to take medicine for half a month.

Yu Tang thought about how in his previous life, he had wrapped his hair casually and entered a pawnshop without anyone recognizing him. He then wrapped his hair like he did in his previous life, but forgot that he had just grown haircuts now, and his face was as tender as a March branch. The cherry that has just borne fruit on its head is still green and delicate. It looks like a child wearing adult clothes. Even a blind person can tell that she is in disguise.

Yu Tang's face turned red, he wrapped his head carelessly, grabbed the scroll and left the **** shop.

At noon in midsummer, the sun is so hot that it makes people unable to open their eyes.

There was no one on the pier. Under the eaves of the shop next door, there was a shopkeeper lying on a rocking chair with his clothes uncovered and swinging a cattail leaf fan. The dog watching the shop lay listlessly beside the rocking chair, and the cicada barked tirelessly. , making this silent afternoon even more dull.

Yu Tang came to his senses.

She just asked whether the painting was authentic, but she didn’t find out where the painting was fake?

What should she say if Na Luxin denies it?

Yu Tang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and returned to the **** shop.

In the **** shop, the man in green clothes she saw before came out at some point and was talking to shopkeeper Tong Da: "You know how to lie to people at a young age. If you encounter such a thing in the future, you must not tolerate it!"

Shopkeeper Tong Da stood in front of the man with a bow and nod. He was about to agree when he looked up and saw Yu Tang walking in.

He was speechless and embarrassed.