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Chapter 204
Chapter 204. Secret Notes
While speaking, Ren Ping stepped aside to show his identity as a middle-aged man.

Seeing everyone looking at them in shock, Qiu Ci nodded:
"Yes, that set of hundred-character pictures belongs to my Qiu family."

"No! You said it belonged to the Mo family before, but now you want to change your mind!"

Liu Shitang said loudly when he heard the words.

Ren Ping smiled slightly: "Mr. Liu must have remembered it wrong. I only said it was collected by Mr. Mo Tan before, but I didn't say that the calligraphy was written by him. Isn't it okay to give the calligraphy written by others to the Mo family for collection?"

Everyone nodded silently, wanting to collect and collect. Originally, what was hidden was other people's things. Mr. Mo was famous in the industry for his collections, not for his calligraphy.

If it is said that the writing was written by the Qiu family, it would not be unusual to donate it to Mr. Mo.

"Mr. Qiu, are you, the Qiu family, really the descendants of the Zuoqiu family? The Qiu family's legal system is the same as Zuoqiu's Han Dynasty?"

"What? You don't believe it?"

Qiu Ci looked at Yang Song who had just spoken, although his face did not change, but the sharpness in his eyes made people feel shuddering.

"Don't dare, it's just that there are many rumors, and we all just hear it. In addition, when it comes to the origin of the Han Dynasty, it happened nearly 2000 years ago."

Everyone nodded again and again, with yes yes yes expressions on their faces.

"What about 2000 years ago? The descendants of Confucius have been passed down for more than [-] generations, and they have not been cut off. Why can't I, the Zuoqiu family, do it? Everyone is an expert. If you want to test it before you believe it, just ask questions. that is."

"Questions? That's unnecessary."

"Or do you want me to bring out the family tree?"

"No, no, no, no! Mr. Qiu, please don't worry, we never doubt your identity!"

Yang Song and others were very anxious when they heard the words, thinking that if this person is really the head of the Shanxi-Shanqiu family, he can be said to be one of the leaders in the current Chinese calligraphy circle, and the number of people comparable to him will never exceed double digits.

It's just strange, I haven't heard that Mr. Mo had made friends with the Qiu family before his death, and he just happened to be involved in this matter, which is too coincidental.

Liu Shitang was also puzzled. He knew that although Mo Tan was a well-known collector in Nanling, his status was very different from that of the Shanxi, Shaanxi and Qiu families.

But how is it possible?First the Mo family, then the Qiu family, how could he have such great energy?

Feeling more and more anxious, Liu Shitang couldn't help taking a closer look at the other party. He saw that his back was straight, his arms were slightly wide, and there was a faint layer of ink calluses on the lower edge of his right palm. Qi.

This is the typical characteristic of calligraphers. It can be seen that this person is by no means a random impostor. He didn't even have the courage to question him for a while.

"You said that the set of hundred-character maps belonged to your Qiu family. What proof do you have?"

"Proof? Those five words were written and sent by my father to wish Mr. Mo two years ago when he celebrated his birthday two years ago. What proof do you need? If you want a witness, the descendants of the Mo family can come and confront them."

"Hmph, they are the parties involved, but they can't testify by themselves."

"Even so, can't you see the Qiu family's official law in our Qiu family?"

Qiu Ci stared at Liu Shitang and the others coldly.

There was arrogance, confidence, and a sense of threat in this look.

No wonder, based on his status, Liu Shitang and the Nanling Calligraphy Association didn't care at all.

Not to mention them, even if the calligraphers in the entire Jiangning Province heard that he was coming, they would have to greet him and line up neatly to welcome him. How could anyone easily question what he said?

Sure enough, seeing him getting angry, Yang Song and the others immediately whispered in Liu Shitang's ear as if they were facing a formidable enemy:

"Mr. Liu, let me take a look. Those five large characters are indeed written by the Qiu family. In all likelihood, they were written by the Qiu family. Maybe Mr. Mo got to know them by chance."

"The Jinshanqiu family has a respectable status in the industry, so it's not appropriate to offend them easily. Besides, it involves the previous theft case. If we continue to entangle, the description will become darker and darker, and we will no longer be able to explain clearly."

"Yeah, I think you should consider yourself unlucky, close the case, and return the set of hundred-character pictures to them. At most, it will be regarded as a compensation of 500 million. Anyway, your family has a big business and has no shortage... "

"Shut me all up!"

With a loud shout, Liu Shitang suddenly lost his temper. Yang Song and others were stunned and silent. They all felt that his temperament had changed drastically and he was not as calm as before.

In fact, what they don't know is that this set of hundreds of characters involves more than 500 million yuan, but the overall plan of Shanglong Decoration.

Once something goes wrong, not only will it be impossible to compete with Ren's Wood Industry, but it will also cause a backlog of inventory and trigger a series of chain reactions. This is something that even Liu Shitang's temperament cannot bear!

"Stop talking nonsense! There are neither seals nor signatures on those five words. Why do you think they belong to your Qiu family? You are not the only one who can write the Qiu family's official law!"

"What did you say?"

"I said, what evidence do you have to prove that the writing is yours? Don't think that my surname is Liu is so easy to deceive!" Liu Shitang sternly ignored Qiu Ci's threats.

As soon as the words fell, Ren Ping laughed first: "It seems that Mr. Liu still doesn't know much about the hundred-character map?"

"What do you mean?" Liu Shitang turned to look at him.

"Don't Mr. Liu know that the author will leave some secret marks in the hundred-character map as a mark, so even if there is no seal signature, the attribution can be identified?"

"What? There is such a saying?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words. Although they had heard the name of the hundred-character map for a long time, it was the first time they had heard of the so-called secret logo. I think this kind of work is rare, and secondly, it is too profound and has a very high appreciation threshold. Even if someone I can't even see it.

"Yes, all the famous Hundred-Character Pictures works have the author's secret notes,"

At this time, Qiu Ci couldn't help but look gloomy, looking extremely displeased, and asked the director of the police station beside him to bring the five hundred-character pictures and spread them on the table, while looking at Liu Shitang:

"Didn't Mr. Liu say that you bought these words from an underground auction house? Then it seems that you can see the key? Please advise."

As he spoke, he waved his hand and made a gesture of please.

Liu Shitang took a deep breath and read carefully from the beginning to the end. In fact, he has read and read these five characters countless times since he bought them.

However, with his calligraphy skills, it is already the limit to be able to appreciate a little and distinguish the authenticity of the works, and it is beyond the scope of his ability to find any hidden records from them.

Sure enough, after a while, nothing was found.

Liu Shitang's face was gloomy, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "What is the secret, the surname Liu is listening carefully, wait, I want him to tell." He suddenly pointed at Ren Ping.

Ren Ping smiled, and without waiting to say more, he took out a pen from the pen holder on the table, turned the tip of the pen upside down, and drew two imaginary lines on the first picture of Baifu, and then drew two lines on the hundred little "Fu"s. There are a few false points in the words.

Immediately afterwards, the same is true for the subsequent Bailu pictures, Baishou pictures, Baixi pictures, and Ruyi pictures, but the two imaginary lines drawn on each picture are different, some are horizontal, some are vertical, and some are straight. , and some are inclined.

The position and order of those small characters are also completely different, which makes people confused.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what kind of secret this was, and when Ren Pingxu finished counting, he hurriedly said, "What does this mean?"

Ren Ping smiled: "Count me, how many small words did I click on each picture?"

"One, two, three, four, five...ten, ten, every picture."

"What fonts are they?"

"This... There are seal scripts, official scripts, regular scripts, and cursive. There is no rule. Oh, yes, the ten characters in each picture point are two sets of five fonts, and the beginning and the end are official script."

"Just official script?" Ren Ping said calmly.

Everyone thought that since this is a hundred-character map written by the Qiu family, it should be related to the Qiu family's official method. After a closer look, although they are not sure, they can still recognize the ten official characters at the beginning and end of the five characters. The head and the tail of the goose are indeed Han Li.

However, it seems too far-fetched to say that this is a secret.

Liu Shitang snorted when he saw this: "It's ridiculous. Each of the hundred-character picture books has one hundred small characters. From it, I clicked out two sets of seal script, official script, and regular cursive characters, totaling ten characters, and then deliberately arranged them so that they were all official characters at the beginning and the end. What's the matter? The difficulty is, is this also called a secret mark?"

Ren Ping ignored him and still looked at the crowd:

"What about the two lines drawn on each picture? Can they correspond to these ten characters?"

"Yes, it's all online."

"Look carefully, what do the two lines in the front and back of the five pictures look like when they are combined?"

"This……"

Everyone was puzzled, he seemed to be very casual when he drew those few lines just now, and he didn't seem to have any key points.

Looking back now, at most they are like the strokes of Chinese characters, with horizontal strokes, vertical strokes, left strokes, and strokes. When combined, they naturally become Chinese characters.

Wait, there is skimming, but there is no squatting!

Some people gradually understood, and then made a simple gesture with their fingers, and suddenly realized:
"I see, it's the word 'Zuoqiu'!"

(End of this chapter)