crossing yin and yang

The framer that Heipi introduced was surnamed Zhou, and he lived in Changle Street in the west of the city, which can be regarded as a part of the old city. The nearby alleys are intricate, and there are stretches of low-rise residential buildings. The studio is hidden among these residential buildings, although Holding the detailed house number, it took Wei Yang some effort to find the place.

It is said to be a studio, but it is actually a small courtyard house rebuilt from an old house. From the outside, the decoration is no different from that of an ordinary house. The house has obviously been remodeled, the windows have been widened and enlarged, ventilation equipment has been added, and there is a room similar to a steam room. There is a faint smell of chemicals coming from the closed door.

Wei Yang knew this kind of posture at a glance. The so-called "framing" was probably just a side job, and the production and sale of counterfeit goods was the main business of the studio.The calligraphy and painting industry has always been an industry full of fakes, and there are no highly skilled framers who don't know how to copy. Since Hei Pi dared to recommend it to him, it must be because of Master Zhou's superb craftsmanship.

A young man with black-rimmed glasses came to welcome the door, looked the two of them up and down, and said directly: "You were introduced by Ryoko, did you bring the painting?"

Wei Yang smiled and raised the painting box in his hand. If it was an ordinary guest, there might still be an inspection process, but obviously Heipi, the identity of the Liu family, is very useful. , directly took them to the side hall.

The side hall is not a reception room, but a serious work room. There are scrolls hanging on the four walls, some are in pieces, and some are inlays and painting hearts for drying. The workbench is more than two meters wide. Placed in the middle of the room, with a dozen or so brushes and some plates and bowls on it, it was obviously ready.Seeing a few people entering the door, an old man with a gray beard greeted him. He didn't put his eyes on the guests, but fixed his eyes on the box in Wei Yang's hand. painting?"

Obviously these two are the biggest reasons for him to accept the order. Wei Yang nodded and held the painting box over: "Master Zhou, please take a look at it first."

The old man was not polite to him, he took the painting box and walked towards the workbench, wiped his hands with a clean silk cloth, carefully took out the painting scroll, and did not rush to unfold it, but first carefully checked the scroll head He put the scroll on the table and slowly unfolded the scroll.

When he saw the whole picture of the scroll, Master Zhou couldn't help but praised: "It turned out to be my own handwriting, and the technique is good!"

What he was talking about was not the painting, but the mounting of the painting. There are also different schools in the world of mounting. Su, Shanghai, Yang, and Beijing are the four largest schools. Wei Yang had seen the scroll before, and he could only recognize the It is impossible to tell which style it is for the antique pool, but judging from Master Zhou's reaction, I think the mounting of this painting is quite good.

However, after he praised it, Master Zhou frowned, stretched out his hands to touch the painting up and down, and looked carefully at the seams of the mounting frame, and asked, "Who said that there are paintings in this painting?" ?”

Wei Yang didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "What? Is there something wrong with this painting?"

Master Zhou snorted coldly: "I don't know if there is any problem with the painting, but this mounting is a serious Yang mounting, and it is probably a new work in the late Qing Dynasty. I have studied mounting painting all my life, and there are only a handful of thinner pastes than this." , how can something framed like this be entrained with other paintings?"

Even if there are various techniques for mounting a line, the basic rules remain the same. If you want to hide something in a framed piece, you must first thicken the painting several layers to ensure that the things inside are separated from the outside and will not interfere with each other. Dip dyed.Therefore, as soon as he got started, Master Zhou felt that something was wrong. The painting was too thin, and there was no way it could hide anything.Bringing such a treasure here, if it wasn't for being deceived, it would be considered a mess. If he uncovered the painting, not only would there be no picture-in-picture inside, but the original painting would be damaged, whose fault would it be?

Wei Yang obviously knew what Master Zhou was worried about, but instead of answering, he put on a embarrassed posture, turned his head and looked at Zhang Xiuqi who was standing beside him: "Brother Qi, what kind of luck you were talking about, now there is ?"

Zhang Xiuqi frowned, and said in a cold voice, "Yes, it's better than everything in this room."

Master Zhou was stunned for a moment by these words, what kind of saying is luck or not luck?Wei Yang showed a smile: "As long as there is, then I will leave it to Master Zhou."

"You still want to expose the frame?" Master Zhou frowned even tighter, looking a little angry.

Generally speaking, it would be better if the ancient paintings could not be uncovered or not. Every time it would be a kind of harm to the painting itself, let alone facing such a fine product, it could be regarded as a waste of money.

Wei Yang showed a little apology on his face, and said sincerely: "This is really an important matter, and I have to bother Master Zhou, we just want to see what's inside, re-framing the painting can be done slowly, and I will leave it to you. "

This is a bit of a deep meaning. You must know that the art of mounting has a lot of moisture, and unmounting is an extremely easy method of fraud. Because rice paper is layered, some skilled mounters can make a piece of rice paper Splitting and making several copies, then re-mounting and coloring them separately, and selling them as genuine products, this kind of counterfeiting mode is extremely difficult to be recognized, and it is even more difficult for the owner to detect, so Heipi said that the guests need to come to the door in person for the unmounting, just to avoid This kind of thing happened under the plums in the melon field.

And Wei Yang said that re-framing can be done slowly, which means that they can use some means, even fake a painting, as a thank-you gift for the matter.Since Master Zhou has been immersed in calligraphy and painting all his life, he naturally knows that this piece in his hand is definitely an authentic one, and it is a masterpiece that has been treasured by collectors since it was released. The reward for this discovery is really not low.

After pondering for a moment, Master Zhou made a decisive decision and responded: "Forget it, anyway, it's your stuff, so I'll take it as learning from my predecessors."

They are all the inheritance of Yangzhou mounting. It is very rare to be able to reveal such a good mounted painting by yourself. Master Zhou no longer shirks, and stands in front of the workbench with his son, ready to start processing the scroll.

Unmounting is a delicate job, but this kind of mounting piece that has been carefully crafted by the predecessors does not take much effort to uncover. Master Zhou is very brisk, using a soft brush dipped in water to process the scroll, and talking to his son , obviously regarded this as on-site teaching.Wei Yang and Zhang Xiuqi sat aside, forming two background boards, quietly watching Master Zhou's flowing movements.

After sitting like this for half an hour, Wei Yang suddenly said casually: "I don't know what is hidden inside, even Master Yuan Ji's original works can only be used as a cover, Brother Qi, you really feel that the luck inside is very strong ?"

"It's not strong, it's strange." Zhang Xiuqi frowned slightly. Since just now, his attitude has changed a little. Something has changed, and it seems familiar, but I can't tell where it is familiar.

"I didn't expect to find something like this again. What about the other things? Don't you have similar luck?" Wei Yang asked again.

"No." Zhang Xiuqi answered simply, not paying attention to this side at all.

Wei Yang hummed softly: "That's right, it would be nice to find one from Lin's old house, brother Qi, don't you think so?"

The voice of this sentence is too soft, the tone is too natural, like an unconscious chat, Zhang Xiuqi responded casually, but Wei Yang immediately continued: "You really remember the things about Lin's old family."

The tone of these words was a bit different. It took a few seconds for Zhang Xiuqi to realize what Wei Yang was talking about. His straight back immediately stiffened, and Wei Yang seemed to have not seen it. Looking forward, he said lightly: "Apart from this, the corpse puppet and my fox, Brother Qi, do you remember? You remember all those demons and ghosts, but you forgot about me? Afterwards, you found out that you were 'lied' by me..."

There was a tremor in the ending sound of the word "lie", as if he was suppressing the unwillingness and sadness in his heart.Zhang Xiuqi felt a little stuffy in his heart, but this is not a closed place, and he really didn't know how to answer this question, so he could only clenched his fists and tensed himself even tighter.

This side is trying to escape, and there, looking at the little celestial master who is about to break him apart, Wei Yang has a touch of warmth in his eyes.He wasn't afraid to play hide-and-seek with people and play this kind of flirting game, but what he wanted was not just a game.

Exhaling softly, Wei Yang's voice had more weight, a kind of sincerity that seemed to want to cut his heart open: "But those are all true, and the truth almost exhausted me. I have never had a father or a mother since I was a child. , and I was jealous and hated by others. I lost too many things, so much that I dare not share them with others. I finally got something, and I couldn’t give up at all. Brother Qi, you can continue to spend time adjusting, or Just think about it slowly, but don't pretend you don't know me, don't throw me out of your life so simply, and don't..."

After a pause, he seemed to be looking for more appropriate words, and finally smiled wryly: "...don't avoid me either."

The last three words contained something similar to pleading, Zhang Xiuqi pursed his lips tightly, the things squeezed in his chest almost burst his heart, but the cold and pale face in the dream was still echoing, Freezes the things that make him restless.The man said that there was something he couldn't bear to lose, so why not him!

The conflict was so violent that it almost overflowed his body surface. Wei Yang did not wait for the answer he wanted, but he waited for the result of a guess. They did have something to hide from him, and it was quite important, so important that this Little celestial masters who know how to lie must try their best to deceive themselves.

What exactly is that?

There was a chill in his heart, just as Wei Yang was about to say something, there was a sudden surprise from the front of the workbench, and he saw Master Zhou holding a pair of tweezers and gently picking something up from the tabletop.

"This thing is not a painting, wait, it looks like some kind of record? Or... a map?" Master Zhou's voice became more and more weird, obviously he didn't expect that there was something in the painting, or it was so weird the same object.

I saw a small piece of silk cloth clamped on the tweezers. Because it was too thin, it was almost translucent. Under the illumination of the light, you could vaguely see something smeared on it.

Zhang Xiuqi stood up abruptly, and the moment he saw the thing, he suddenly realized that he had indeed seen this kind of luck before, and it was almost exactly the same as the one brought out in Sun Yunhe's manuscript!Could this be what the gang was looking for?

On the other side, Wei Yang's gaze was a little straight, and the moment the silk cloth left the table, his chest suddenly burned up, as if something was burning, it was the reaction brought by the bone array!