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Li Yan spread the painting on the table.

Everyone gathered around, wanting to see what he was doing.

Cheng Lao asked: "Li Yan, what are you doing?"

Li Yan smiled slightly: "What does Mr. Cheng think of the technique of this painting?"

Cheng Lao pondered for a moment and said: "To be honest, it's very ordinary. When I saw this painting for the first time, I even suspected that it was imitated by later generations. Neither the composition nor the technique reached Bian Jingzhao's true level. It was later I looked through the ancient books and found some evidence, proving that this is indeed Bian Jingzhao's authentic work, so I accepted it."

Li Yan said: "Has Mr. Cheng ever doubted why Bian Jingzhao painted such a work that is so substandard?"

Cheng Lao shook his head and said: "No matter what level of master, there will always be some failed works. This is also a common thing."

"I think Bian Jingzhao painted it like this on purpose!" Li Yan said.

"Hiss...why do you say that?" Old Cheng asked in surprise.

At this time, Cheng Xiaoxiao brought a paper cutter.

Li Yan thanked him, picked up the knife and said, "You will know soon."

As he said that, Li Yan began to dismantle the top and bottom poles and the shaft head of the painting scroll, and soon there was only one scroll left.

"Are you going to..." Seeing Li Yan's actions, Mr. Cheng opened his mouth wide in surprise, "...uncover the frame!"

In the early years, there was a kind of mounting craftsman who specialized in exposing and mounting paintings.

The so-called unmounting painting is to use the principle that rice paper is easy to render with ink, and uncover the rice paper layer by layer, because each layer of rice paper is soaked with the brush and ink of calligraphers and painters. After unmounting, a painting will become a painting. Two paintings or even three paintings!

However, this kind of painting has a fatal flaw, that is, the pen and ink on each layer of painting will become lighter after unmounting.

Therefore, there are special counterfeiters, and then use rice paper to mount on the painting, and fill in the light places of the pen and ink.

After this treatment, the painting is almost indistinguishable from the original, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Li Yan's posture is clearly about to expose the frame!
Seeing that Li Yan was about to make a move, Mr. Cheng said in surprise: "Li Yan, you are just messing around. If you do this, you will ruin the painting. Even if you want to uncover the mounting layer, there is still a process, and you have to adjust it first. Potion, maintain the toughness of the rice paper, and then use special techniques to uncover it. If any process goes wrong, the painting will be completely ruined!"

Bian Hai folded his arms and said: "Take a paper knife and uncover the frame, hahaha, this is really the funniest joke I've seen this year. Why don't you take a red-tasseled gun to embroider!"

"What do you know?" Li Yan said lightly.

"I don't understand? There are several masters of mounting in my museum, many calligraphers and painters from Jingzhou fly to them for mounting, you say I don't understand?" Bian Hai curled his lips, "If you take a paper knife, you can uncover the frame , I'll grab my head and kick it for you."

"Hehe..." Li Yan didn't even bother to look at him, and with a shake of his hand, the paper cutter landed on the edge of the painting.

"Hiss!" Cheng Lao wanted to reach out to stop him, but he was already a step too late. His face turned pale as he watched the blade fall on the screen.

Ling Shanyue said dumbfounded: "Li Yan, are you crazy!"

Cheng Xiaoxiao and the others were also dumbstruck, not understanding what Li Yan was getting into.

If it’s expensive, then it’s more expensive. Next time, it’s okay to be less impulsive. As for destroying the painting directly?

But then, they all widened their eyes and witnessed an unbelievable scene.

In Li Yan's hand, the paper cutter was like a stream of water, gently cutting the top of the painting.

Li Yan stretched out two fingers and twirled lightly at the crack, and the whole picture scroll was divided into two layers.

"Huh!" Everyone was startled.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yan inserted the paper cutter into the middle of the two layers of paintings, and stroked from top to bottom like a flowing cloud!
After this stroke, the hearts of knowledgeable people like Cheng Lao and Bian Hai were all pulled into a ball.

How reckless!

In this way, as long as there is a half millimeter difference in the hand, the painting will be broken!
But who knew that Li Yan's saber technique was even more powerful than Pao Ding Jieniu's. He cut the painting in two in one go.

"Pa", Li Yan dropped the knife, picked up a painting with each hand, and shook it slightly.

"What!" Everyone's eyes widened and their mouths opened wide in surprise, unable to believe their own eyes.

Li Yan's left hand is pinching the original painting of "Spring Peach Birds and Birds", but what is surprising is that there has been a huge change in the originally dull painting. The blossoming spring peaches seem to be in bud, and they seem to be wafting a fragrance. The birds also seem to come alive, as if they will jump out of the painting in the next second and jump into the arms of everyone.

Li Yan's right hand is holding a completely different painting, with jagged rocks, small bridges and flowing water, peach blossoms, and birds in the forest.No matter the artistic conception or technique of this painting, it is inferior to those meticulous paintings of the Ming Dynasty, but it can also be regarded as a fine work.

"This is, what's going on?" Cheng Lao asked in surprise.

Others were also dumbfounded, completely unable to understand how one painting turned into two paintings.

Li Yan said: "This is a painting within a painting."

picture in picture?
Cheng Lao suddenly clapped his hands and said, "I've heard of this saying in an ancient book, but I've never seen a real picture-in-picture! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, today is an eye-opener."

"Why is there such a thing?" Cheng Xiaoxiao asked.

Cheng Laodao: "The entertainment of the ancient literati was not as rich as it is today. They often played some games such as Feihualing and guessing puzzles. This picture-in-picture is also a kind of puzzle-solving game. Putting two paintings on top of each other is a riddle. , only by separating the two paintings can the answer be obtained."

Everyone was in an uproar, the ancients were too good at playing!

Mr. Cheng pointed to [Picture of Birds and Peaches in Spring] and said, "At first, I thought the technique of this painting was rusty, the layout was messy, and it was not up to standard. Now I know that Bian Jingzhao left these strange places on purpose to It is to cover up the brushstrokes of the painting below. Look again, after the two paintings are separated, without the influence of the brushstrokes of the painting below, the artistic level of this [Spring Peach Birds and Birds Picture] has risen by more than one level! In my opinion , not worse than Dai Jin's [Picture of Remnant Snow in Spring Mountains]!"

Everyone took a deep breath.

This rating is too high.

The price of Dai Jin's [Remnant Snow in Spring Mountains] at Rongbaotang starts from eight figures.According to Cheng Lao, wouldn't this [Picture of Spring Peach Birds and Birds] also sell for eight figures?
Before, they thought that Li Yan spent a lot of money buying [Peach of Spring Peach, Bird and Bird], but after listening to what Mr. Cheng said, they actually made a lot of money!

Bian Hai's face turned green, all the smugness and sarcasm just now turned into a big slap on his face.

Ling Shanyue also murmured: "Eight digits? Eight digits? Li Yan, you've gotten rich too!"

Cheng Lao's eyes fell on the painting below again, and after a few glances, he suddenly took a breath and said, "Oh! This painting is impossible!"