My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 74 The Old Father Who Is Getting More and More Confused

During this period, Li Momo found that his father was a little strange. Sometimes he was worried about gains and losses, sometimes he was mysterious, and sometimes he disappeared without a trace.

But there is no problem with the family business, and the business is getting more and more prosperous.

But there is one good thing about this, which is that my dad doesn’t seem to mention Li Han’s shop much anymore.

It seems that the old mountain ginseng I sent worked.

However, Li Momo has no time to take care of her father's affairs at the moment. She has been so busy recently that she is almost dizzy.

Chain stores in other provinces and cities have already opened, with several stores being rolled out one after another. According to feedback from local regional managers, the market response has been very good.

At the same time, she also planned a new business model, which is to use chain stores as a platform, invite treasure appraisal experts to take charge, and carry out evaluations and competitions of folk antiques, using this as a gimmick to expand her influence.

Offline, treasure appraisal experts meet with treasure lovers one-on-one and also conduct online live broadcasts, which quickly go viral on platforms such as Bilibili and Douyin.

Of course, treasure appraisal is the surface, selling things is the inside, and the core is to purchase treasures scattered among the people.

But all this is just preparation for the treasure appraisal conference one month later.

The Treasure Appraisal Conference is carefully planned and hosted by CCTV-1, which enjoys the highest influence in the country. It aims to deeply explore folk treasures and show the profound heritage and brilliant achievements of China's 5,000-year civilization from a unique perspective.

The conference will have a judging committee composed of the country's top antique experts who will score each folk collection and then select the top ten folk treasures. From the top ten, the top three will be selected.

Once the TV stations and various mobile network platforms announced the film, it instantly caused an uproar among the public and quickly broke out of the circle. Many people dug up all their family secrets just to find a treasure to show off on CCTV.

Of course, the rewards for the top ten alone are enough to make people jealous. Not only can they be exhibited to the world for a month in the National Museum, but they can also receive generous bonuses.

Private collectors don't want to miss this opportunity to bring honor to their family.

Li Momo naturally also wanted to seize this precious opportunity to have his company listed on CCTV, which would be more effective than any advertisement.

The entire company was mobilized for the treasure appraisal conference, but Li Tianming disappeared again.

Ever since he came back from Li Han's shop last time, he gave up the idea of ​​a merger.

This young man came from a different background. He secretly asked someone to find out Li Han's background, but he found out nothing.

Li Han is just like everyone else. He goes to school and works simply. His social relationships are not complicated. He doesn't have many friends. There are only a few of them who can be found out, including Xu Nian and Li Momo.

So who is the friend who painted "Visiting a Friend with a Lute" that he mentioned?
Could it be that he drew it himself?
How is it possible that someone so young can have such high attainments?

The more this happened, the more he wanted to know what secrets Li Han was hiding, and when he thought about how Li Momo was particularly concerned about this kid, he felt angry.

We can't let him take away our good crops!

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When Li Han received Zhu Yuanzhang's reply, he once again sighed that old Zhu really dared to send anything to him!

He even dared to casually send over Chu Suiliang's copy of "Preface to the Lanting Poems".

The problem is that Chu Suiliang was a famous calligrapher in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. This copy of "Preface to the Lanting Poems" was copied under the instructions of Li Shimin.

In fact, there are many copies of "Preface to the Lanting Poems", the most famous of which is Feng Chengsu's Shenlong version.

Chu Suiliang's calligraphy is no less impressive. His copy not only has the elegance of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, but also incorporates his own style, creating a unique artistic effect.

Chu Suiliang's copy was later called the Mi Fu copy because Mi Fu once wrote a postscript on it.

The Shenlong version is collected in the Palace Museum, while the Mi Fu version is collected in the Hunan Museum. Both are rare and precious treasures.

However, the Mi Fu copy in Li Han's hand has an awkward point, because there is no postscript by Xiang Yuanbian on it.

Xiang Yuanbian was a famous collector and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. He wrote inscriptions for many famous calligraphy works, including the Shenlong version and the Mi Fu version.

But, this guy was born in 1525!
In other words, he was a person from the Jiajing period. When Zhu Yuanzhang gave him the painting, Xiang Yuanbian's grandfather was probably still a tadpole.

Of course, this is not the point. It doesn’t matter whether there is Xiang Yuanbian’s inscription or not. Li Han has no intention of selling it anyway.

What’s important is that this copy of “Preface to the Lanting Poems” by Chu Suiliang was completed during the Zhenguan period in the early Tang Dynasty, which was more than 700 years after the 15th year of Hongwu.

It was not easy for this Mi Fu copy to be preserved in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang.

But I can't stand the torture.

In terms of age, this thing belongs to the ancestor generation compared with "Visiting Friends with a Lute" and Lao Zhu's portraits.

If it was damaged even a little bit, Li Han would hang himself to apologize to the world.

While he was studying how to preserve Mi Fu's works at the counter, he saw a familiar figure enter the store out of the corner of his eye.

When he looked closely, he saw that this was the big customer who had been coming to his store frequently in recent days.

As soon as Li Tianming entered the store, he saw a large rug on the counter, and on the rug, a piece of calligraphy seemed to be half spread out.

How many precious things does this kid Li Han have?
Li Tianming took a closer look and saw at a glance that under the word "Siwen" at the end of the text there were two red seals, "Fuyin" and "Ziyou".

He was startled and blurted out: "Mi Fu version?"

Li Han quickly covered his body with the copybook, fearing that Li Tianming's saliva would get on it.

"Stay away and don't get startled."

Even though he is a big customer, he can't be so without sense of boundaries.

Li Tianming took two steps back, then subconsciously said, "Did you go to the Hunan Museum to steal?"

Li Han almost vomited blood. Even though he was an old customer, he could still sue him for defamation if he said anything wrong.

However, he understood what Li Tianming meant. Anyone who saw that he had an extra Mi Fu painting would probably subconsciously think so.

He shook his head and said, "This is not the Mi Fu version."

Not the Mi Fu version?
Li Tianming looked over suspiciously, and sure enough, there was no inscription by Xiang Yuanbian on it. He then breathed a sigh of relief, as he had thought that this kid had embarked on a path of crime.

However, although it is not Mi Fu's copy, why is the handwriting on it almost the same as Chu Suiliang's in shape and spirit?

Chu Suiliang copied more than one copy of "Lanting Preface", but if it is said to be Chu Suiliang's work, the texture of the paper is not right.

The Zhenguan period was more than a thousand years ago, but the calligraphy looks like it is only about six or seven hundred years old. The age doesn't match.

But if you think about it carefully, it's still not right. In history, there were people who imitated Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and imitated his style very well, and there were also people who imitated Chu Suiliang's calligraphy very well, but...

He had never heard of anyone who copied the Preface to the Lanting Collection, that is, copied the charm of Wang Xizhi and wrote in the style of Chu Suiliang!

Is there such a person in history?
Where did Li Han get this calligraphy? Don't even mention that it was given to him by a friend. After checking, we found that you don't have such a friend at all!

I had thought that I could hide this trip from Li Momo, skip work and sneak over here, so that I could find out a little bit about Li Han's background, but I didn't expect that the more I investigated, the more confused I became.

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