That was back in Peiping. "
Xie Songshan said eloquently: "At that time, there was a servant in the Du Mansion. My daughter-in-law was working as a cook in the Du Mansion. She was quite pretty. One night, Du Ge drank too much and woke up in the middle of the night. When I asked for mint and lotus seed soup to sober up, the cook quickly helped me make it and sent it to Mr. Du Ge.
As a result, Mr. Du Ge drank mint and lotus seed soup, and the alcohol was still strong. Looking at the cook, his heart was pounding, and he actually raped her. These servants don't dare to speak out about this. Mr. Du Ge got a taste of it, and for several days in a row, he called the cook into his room every night on the pretext of having a midnight snack...
After a while, the cook had it in her belly. He was born with a fat son. Mr. Du Ge already had a son. When he saw it, he was not very happy. He also thought about the cook and his man. Don't use this as an excuse to ask for money, so he thought about kicking them out.
But when his eldest wife heard about it, she wasn't happy, saying that she was the Du family's descendant no matter what. The cook and her husband could get out, but the child must stay.
Elder Du Ge thought that this was also the case, so he kept the child, drove away the cook and his wife, and gave them three oceans..."
Meng Shaoyuan finally understood after hearing this: "Is this child Du Zhenxian?"
"That's not him. Mr. Du Ge's eldest son is called Du Zhenchun, and he likes him the most. It's just that Du Zhenchun is a playboy, and he can't do anything at his age. On the contrary, Du Zhenxian has some business talents. The Du family depends on I want to make money with this son, otherwise..."
What's all this?
Meng Shaoyuan shook his head repeatedly as he listened.
It's a complete mess.
Also, there was a problem with that robbery.
The anti-Union people came to Xinjing to rob?
That's not right.
Xinjing was the capital of the puppet Manchukuo. The Japanese had sufficient military power. How could the Anti-Union people risk coming here just to rob a truck of smuggled goods?
And do you know so clearly the route, time and place of the smuggled goods?
There is definitely something wrong here.
Du Zhenxian had smuggled goods in the past, and relied on the protection of the Japanese to succeed this time. As soon as Takeo Fujiguchi joined, the goods were robbed?
"This Du family is in chaos, and we can't understand it." Meng Shaoyuan asked casually: "By the way, Boss Xie, all the anti-Union members came to Xinjing to kill people, so the Japanese just let it go? "
"How could that happen?" Xie Songshan quickly replied: "As soon as he heard that the Anti-Alliance fighters were coming, Takeo Fujiguchi personally led people to hunt them down and killed two of them, and the rest ran away with their goods. Until now. They are all still wanted.”
Fart.
This makes no sense at all.
Killed two people?
The one carrying the goods ran away instead?
Take a car full of goods and run away?
Isn't this nonsense?
Takeo Fujiguchi!
In all likelihood, it was the colonel who was eating and drinking in the dark.
Even if Du Zhenxian feels something is wrong, he is a mute who eats Coptis chinensis and cannot express his suffering.
"Thank you boss, thank you boss."
Suddenly a low voice came from outside.
"Come in."
A man who was about sixty years old, thin, fair, and fair came in, holding a roll of something unknown in his hand.
Seeing an unfamiliar face, the man was startled.
"Don't worry, we're on our own." Xie Songshan said.
The man was relieved: "Thank you, boss, I brought something out again."
The voice was sharp and sounded very awkward.
"Excuse me, this is Manager Zhu from Shanghai, one of our own. This is Eunuch Liu, from the palace."
Meng Shaoyuan suddenly realized.
Eunuch, no wonder he speaks so strangely.
"Bring that table over."
Xie Songshan and Meng Shaoyuan got off the kang together.
The table was moved over. Eunuch Liu took the roll out of the bag, carefully placed it on the table, and then slowly unfolded it.
This is a painting.
There is a dead tree in the painting. Its crouching posture is like a twisted and struggling body, showing endless vitality and majestic momentum. There is a strange stone at the foot of the tree. The stone is sharp and hard, but the stone is spiraling like a vortex. It is both square and round. It is both strange and ugly. It seems to be rotating rapidly, creating a strong sense of movement in the picture.
Let’s look at the signature again?
Good guy, Su Shi and Su Dongpo!
"Thank you, boss, take a look, how much is this painting worth?" Eunuch Liu asked flatteringly.
Xie Songshan hesitated: "It looks good, but... why don't you come tomorrow and I'll find someone to tell the authenticity."
Eunuch Liu was a little embarrassed: "Thank you, boss, tomorrow I will serve the emperor on a tour of heaven."
"this……"
While Xie Songshan was hesitating, Meng Shaoyuan said: "Boss Xie, send a driver to the hotel where I am staying and ask my housekeeper to come. He can tell the authenticity at a glance."
Xie Songshan did not hesitate and immediately gave the order.
Since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, those eunuchs, considering their own livelihood, have stolen national treasures and cultural relics from the Forbidden City and sold them off.
It is precisely because of this that a large number of national treasures have been lost.
When the emperor ran to Manchuria, a large number of eunuchs and maids had been laid off, but some still followed.
These eunuchs, when they arrived in Manchuria, were still dishonest and unclean. They would always find ways to steal something and sell it.
Those serious businessmen, black marketeers, and Japanese are all their buyers.
Anyway, although the emperor has left the Forbidden City, he has secretly given away many treasures over the years.
When I went to Manchuria, I took most of them with me, especially the calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, which were easy to carry.
This Eunuch Liu is in charge of the emperor's treasury, so it is most convenient to do it.
After waiting there for a while, Luo Yiyan hurriedly walked in: "Manager Zhu, can you call me?"
"Close the door." Meng Shaoyuan ordered: "Look at this painting."
"A picture of dead trees and strange rocks?" Luo Yi glanced at it, and then he exclaimed in a low voice. He came closer and took a closer look: "It's incredible, it's incredible. This is when Su Shi went to Shengquan Temple in Xiao County when he was the prefect of Xuzhou. An ink-and-ink painting on paper. Su Shi's paintings were very famous at the time, and there was a scene of "withered trees, bamboos and rocks being sold for tens of thousands of gold." However, Su Shi's paintings are mostly recorded in records, and there are very few authentic works handed down from generation to generation. National treasure! So valuable! Liancheng!"
Picture of dead wood and rocks?
Meng Shaoyuan suddenly remembered that in his time, he had seen a piece of news that a picture of Su Dongpo existed in the world. Could it be that the painting he saw was sold for a sky-high price of 460 million Hong Kong dollars, and it seemed to be called the Picture of Dead Wood and Strange Rocks?
"Isn't it right?" Xie Songshan frowned when he heard this: "During the Beiyang period, Bai Jianfu bought two rare works by Su Dongpo, the 'Withered Trees and Strange Rocks' and the 'Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Pictures' from the antique shop in Fengyu Tower in Peking. A treasure. Later, he sold the ‘Picture of Dead Woods and Strange Rocks’ to the Japanese?”
"Do you think rare treasures like dead wood and rocks will appear in antique shops? Or can Bai Jianfu afford it?" Luo Yiyi sneered.
This seems to be the case.
Meng Shaoyuan was trying to remember there.
According to the Christie's auction house of his own time, during the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China, the two paintings appeared at the Fengyu Tower in Beijing at the same time, and were collected by Bai Jianfuhua, a great collector and secretary-general of the warlord Wu Peifu, with a huge sum of money.
After that, "Picture of Dead Wood and Strange Rocks" was exiled to Japan, and there has been no news about it.
After its discovery, many people strongly questioned the authenticity of the painting.
Because so far, no one has been able to provide sufficient evidence to prove that this painting belongs to Su Shi himself, and many periods in the collection history of this painting are blank.
Where did this painting go during the blank period of collection? Collected by whom? Who is the witness? Wait, many questions are still unanswered.
Saying the painting is authentic is just a one-sided statement from Christie's.
"I've seen those two pictures of Fengyu Tower, and I know what's going on." Luo Yi glance didn't seem to say all the words:
"Those two paintings have their charm but not their rhyme, so they are fakes!"
Meng Shaoyuan didn't know anything about calligraphy and painting, but he always heard people say that when painting, one must draw something magical. That's what it means to convey the spirit and convey the spirit. But now, after listening to Luo Yiyan, why is it the other way around?
Luo stared at the painting in front of him:
"When Su Shi created this work, he was implicated in the 'Wutai Poetry Case' and was politically depressed. In order to express his depression, he created this painting.
The content of the picture is quite simple. A few strokes outline an old dead tree and a jagged and strange rock, which is just like the contradictory and depressed feeling in his chest.
Observing the paintings of scholars is like reading the horses in the world, and this is the meaning. You see, the strange rocks and ancient trees in this painting are not pictorial representations of objects, nor are they made up out of thin air. Instead, Su Shi used familiar strange rocks and ancient trees to paint together to more clearly reveal his resentful heart at that time.
There are several thin bamboo branches painted with burnt ink behind the stone, giving people a sense of hope. The artistic conception of the whole picture is desolate and gloomy; the swirling stones seem to embody the spirit of injustice. This kind of feeling cannot be painted by a counterfeiter! "
Meng Shaoyuan didn't understand either, so he just asked: "Can I buy it?"
"Genuine, you can buy it." Luo Yiyi answered simply.
He looked at Eunuch Liu again: "Stolen from the palace?"
"Yes, yes." Eunuch Liu nodded repeatedly: "The emperor's rewards are getting less and less. We, the people, can only think of some solutions on our own. Otherwise, what will we, the disabled, do when we are old and weak and come out of the palace? "
"You have stolen enough." Luo Yiyi sneered again and again: "How many treasures have been secretly sold to foreigners by you. The price is 50,000 yuan!"
Meng Shaoyuan was stunned.
A priceless treasure, only fifty thousand?
"A joke, a joke." Eunuch Liu said repeatedly: "This is Su Shi's authentic work. You just said it yourself. Fifty thousand? It's not worth taking such a big risk!"
Seeing that he was about to collect the painting, Luo Yiyan said: "You have to sell it today, or you have to sell it! If your emperor finds out about stealing things in the palace, don't let the emperor take action. Just send it to the gendarmerie!"
"Aren't you being unreasonable? You're robbing me!"
Eunuch Liu became anxious immediately.
Luo glanced calmly and said: "In the ninth year of Xuantong, the commander-in-chief was restored. Outside Liulichang, inside Qiru Lane!"
When Eunuch Liu heard this, his expression changed drastically:
"You, who are you!"
"Liu Guizi, open your dog eyes and see clearly who I am, grandpa!"
