treasure hunter

In fact, did Li Chufeng do anything wrong? No, the antique business is like this. Everyone eats according to their eyesight. Besides, Li Chufeng didn't even say a lie, but he just reserved it. Strictly speaking, it is not considered a cheat.

Pei Miao just felt that this Li Chufeng was a bit deep in her thoughts.

Moreover, Pei Miao felt that it was inappropriate for him to do so. After all, today is the day of Zhang Yanghe's big wedding. On such an occasion, at such a time, it would be very strange to just exchange a Qing Dynasty painting for Mr. Hong's tens of millions of famous paintings. Inappropriate, once exposed, it would embarrass Zhang Yanghe.

Pei Miao asked himself, if it were him, he would never covet Mr. Hong's painting, but happily told Mr. Hong that it was Qiu Ying's painting, and suggested that he go to an authoritative person for appraisal.

A group of men sat and chatted together, and smoking was inevitable. Zhang Yanghe’s nephew, Jia Xiangping, took out a box of soft Huazi and handed a cigarette to everyone on the table. Even those who did not smoke, he said enthusiastically: “Take Come on, this is my uncle's happy smoke, full of joy."

When it comes to this point, those who don't smoke can only accept it.

Everyone swallowed their clouds and continued to chat. After a while, the private room was full of smog. Pei Miao decided to quit smoking, and naturally he didn't want to smoke second-hand smoke. He walked to the window and opened the window. Fresh air rushed in, which was very comfortable. .

Li Chufeng also came over and stood by the bed breathing fresh air.

The two looked at each other, and Li Chufeng said, "Brother, how old are you this year?"

Pei Miao said, "18—centimeters."

Li Chufeng was stunned, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Pei has a great sense of humor, I'm asking about your age."

Pei Miao said, "It's 25."

Li Chufeng nodded and said, "Three years younger than me."

Pei Miao didn't say much.

Li Chufeng said again: "I just heard from Brother Zhang that you are an expert in antique appraisal?"

Pei Miao smiled lightly and said, "My friend is just bragging, don't take it seriously."

Li Chufeng said: "I don't think it's bragging, Brother Pei just saw the origin of this painting, right?"

Pei Miao was taken aback when he heard the words. He didn't expect him to have a showdown with him. After thinking about it, he decided to continue pretending to be confused, and said, "How do you say that? Isn't that a fake painting?"

"Oh? Didn't Brother Pei see it?" Li Chufeng raised her eyebrows and said in a low voice, "It's a famous painting, Qiu Ying's painting, which is priceless. If you bring it to my antique shop and hype it up a bit, It’s not a problem to sell hundreds of millions.”

Pei Miao decided to play it to the end, with a look of surprise on her face, she lowered her voice and said, "So expensive?"

Li Chufeng raised her eyebrows again, and said: "Yes, unfortunately, I could have picked up a big leak, but you cut it off."

"I'm really sorry." Pei Miao smiled apologetically, then changed her tone, and said, "But today is Elder He's happy day, you are here to pick up his friend's painting, if something happens, I'm afraid it will implicate Elder He. "

Li Chufeng said: "I don't agree with this. Business is business, and favors are favors. The so-called grievances have their heads and their debts. If I miss this painting by Mr. Hong, he will find out and hold grudges against me. There is no need." To anger Grandpa Zhang, if he can't do it, it means that this person is not worthy to be Grandpa Zhang's friend, even if he cut off contact with Grandpa Zhang, it doesn't matter."

Pei Miao was speechless for a while, but suddenly, he had a feeling that this Li Chufeng was like the protagonist in a novel, the kind with a halo, who could convince people no matter what he said.

Originally, she didn't agree with Li Chufeng's plan to pick up the leak just now, but after hearing what he said, Pei Miao felt that what he said was very reasonable.

Pei Miao could only laugh dryly and said, "Maybe."

Li Chufeng seemed to be quite interested in Pei Miao, so she asked, "Brother Pei, you have such a high skill in antique appreciation at such a young age, do you like to collect antiques or do antique business?"

Pei Miao said: "I opened a small antique shop with my friend, and I usually collect a little gadgets."

"Let me just say it." Li Chufeng asked with a chuckle, "What's the name of your antique shop and where is it? If you have time to go to your shop, maybe you can catch a leak."

Pei Miao said: "Welcome to pick up leaks, my shop is called Jubaozhai, in Chaotiangong Antique Market..."

"You opened Jubaozhai?" Li Chufeng exclaimed.

With this bluff, other people turned their heads to look over, Li Chufeng hurriedly smiled at them apologetically, and said, "Sorry, the voice is a little louder, you continue to chat."

Zhang Cheng got up and walked over, saying, "Are you talking about Jubaozhai?"

Li Chufeng asked: "Is Jubaozhai really opened by Pei Miao?"

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Yes, it was opened by Pei Miao, I can testify to that."

"It's too exaggerated to testify." Pei Miao smiled lightly and said, "My friend and I jointly opened it. In fact, I also contributed capital. My friend is in charge of the usual management work."

Li Chufeng said: "I have wanted to go to Jubao Zhai for a long time, but I have never had the chance to come to Jinling. This time I came to participate in the wedding banquet, and I just plan to go to Jinling Jubao Zhai. It is said that there are many rare treasures on display in the store. , Many treasures don’t even have a museum in my house, are these true?”

Pei Miao nodded, "There are some treasures that are only for exhibition, not for sale."

Li Chufeng hurriedly asked: "Is there really Ru Kiln Tianqing Brush Washer?"

Pei Miao nodded again: "Yes."

Li Chufeng excitedly said: "Then I will go and have a look tomorrow, I must go and have a look."

Pei Miao smiled and said, "You are very welcome."

At this time, a young beauty wearing a bridesmaid dress walked into the private room, and when she came in, she had a look of disgust on her face, and shouted: "My God, there is such a big smoke, are you going to light the house?"

Zhang Cheng hurriedly ran over, and said as if asking for credit: "I didn't smoke it, and it has nothing to do with me."

The beauty gave him a blank look, and said, "I came here because my aunt wanted to ask, besides you, is there anyone else in the family here?"

Zhang Cheng spread his hands and said: "Grandpa has given the order, how dare the rest of the family come."

The beauty said: "Actually, my aunt just wants to know if grandpa and grandma are here. This is what she cares most about."

Zhang Cheng sighed helplessly when he heard the words, shook his head and said, "Grandpa didn't come, and grandma probably wouldn't be able to come if she wanted to. Grandpa won't let her come."

Pei Miao came over suddenly and asked, "Zhang Cheng, is this your girlfriend?"

Zhang Cheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, my girlfriend Xue Yue, Xue Yue, this is my friend Pei Miao, I mentioned it to you."

Xue Yue smiled politely at Pei Miao: "Hello."

"Hello." Pei Miao also smiled politely, and said, "Go and tell Auntie not to worry too much. Today is her big wedding day, so she should be happier. When the child is born, she will go home with her grandson in her arms. At that time, even if her parents didn't give her face, they should give her grandson face."

Xue Yue thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's the reason."

Suddenly, she asked again: "Zhang Cheng, is your teacher not from a very good family background? On such a big day of marriage, you choose this kind of small restaurant and get married for a few thousand dollars?"

Zhang Chengdao: "What you said is that it's not good to save the money for later life, and it's my aunt who said that everything should be kept simple, just one or two tables of guests. Do you want to get it to a star-rated hotel?"

At this time, Mr. Hong and a middle-aged man in his forties walked over, and the middle-aged man in his forties smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang is not poor. The Housing Management Bureau once proposed to use his old house. He exchanged five sets of houses in the city center with him, but he didn’t exchange them, and he still has a lot of antiques in his house, at least a million yuan is no problem.”

Mr. Hong said: "Zhang Yanghe joined our Painting and Calligraphy Association two years ago, and his reputation has gradually grown. Now if you ask him for a painting, you don't have to ask for less than [-] yuan."

Pei Miao sighed inwardly when he heard the words: "Fifty thousand? Zhang Lao's level of Chinese painting is already at the top level of Chinese painting. Even if it is 50 yuan, he will make a lot of money. After Zhang Yanghe's immortal journey, the value of his paintings is unknown. How many times will it be doubled?"

Of course, such words must not be uttered. On someone's big wedding day, if you curse someone's immortality, even if the host doesn't care, it is estimated that other guests will think that Pei Miao is a young man.

But there is indeed such a law in the world of calligraphy and painting. As soon as a famous calligrapher or painter dies, the value of his surviving works will increase. It is not an exaggeration at all if he can turn from the ground to the cloud with the help of a caring person.

Xue Yue nodded, and said: "That's good, a few paintings a year are enough to support my aunt and children."

At this time, Jia Xiangping said with a smile: "My uncle can earn money, so it is absolutely no problem to raise his wife and children. He just got emptied of his family by his former son. Zhang Cheng knows about it."

Zhang Cheng also smiled and said, "Don't worry, my teacher is absolutely reliable, and there will be absolutely no financial problems."

"That's good." Xue Yue nodded, and said, "I'll go first, you guys... smoke less, the bride will come over later, the room is full of smog, how will the bride treat her?"

"Let's open the windows to disperse the smoke." Jia Xiangping ran to the bed and opened all three windows in the private room for ventilation.

Zhang Cheng sent Xue Yue out, and the others returned to the table to continue chatting, and several guests came one after another. It was almost time for the dinner party, and everyone took out their prepared gifts and asked each other what the others gave.

Li Chufeng called and asked the driver downstairs to bring up the congratulatory gifts. Pei Miao also made a phone call and asked her beautiful secretary to deliver the painting. Who was his beautiful secretary, of course it was Hou Lanhua.

As soon as Hou Lanhua appeared on the stage, there was a lot of exclamation. Everyone thought that Hou Lanhua was Pei Miao's girlfriend. Zhang Cheng even stepped forward to say hello, "Hi sister-in-law, my name is Zhang Cheng, and I'm Pei Miao's friend..."

Hou Lanhua was confused for a while, Pei Miao stepped forward to take the painting box from Hou Lanhua's hand, and said, "This is not your sister-in-law, this is my secretary."

"Secretary?" Zhang Cheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Is there any difference?"

Pei Miao said: "Don't mess with the mandarin ducks, it's just a secretary."

"I don't believe it." Zhang Cheng said, "If you have the ability, you can tell her to go downstairs and stay, and she is not allowed to participate in this dinner."

Pei Miao immediately waited for Lan Hua and said, "Go downstairs and stay in the car. If you're hungry, you can order takeaway. You can get reimbursed within 50 yuan."

"Okay." Hou Lanhua responded softly, turned and left.

Zhang Cheng was so confused that he really let her go. It seemed that she was indeed not a girlfriend.

Even Li Chufeng smiled and said, "Facing such a top-notch beauty, Brother Pei actually only asked her to be a secretary. This concentration is really amazing."

Pei Miao smiled lightly, "Why do I feel like I'm not being praised when I hear this?"

Li Chufeng laughed and said: "It's definitely a compliment, there is no other meaning, don't think too much about it."

Talking about the perfect girl, Zhang Cheng leaned over to Pei Miao, looked at the painting box in his hand, and asked, "Did you send the painting too?"

Pei Miao said: "Old Crane is a painter, so it's most appropriate to give away paintings. Look at everyone, more than half of the people are gifted paintings."

Zhang Chengdao: "I didn't send the painting, what I gave..."

He suddenly leaned close to Pei Miao's ear and whispered, "My grandfather specially asked me to give you a prescription."

Pei Miao was shocked when he heard the words, looked at Zhang Cheng in surprise, and asked, "The child is pregnant, what is your grandfather thinking?"

Zhang Cheng said with a smile: "My grandfather is worried that the teacher is not accurate in marksmanship, but good luck. This house nourishes lean energy, which is a prescription for warming and nourishing diet, which is good for the body."

Pei Miao nodded and said, "I have a friend..."

Hearing this, Zhang Cheng suddenly covered his mouth and laughed.

Pei Miao asked in astonishment, "What are you laughing at?"

Zhang Chengdao: "Make friends out of nothing, I understand, don't worry, I've already taken a picture of the recipe on my phone, and I'll send it to you."

Pei Miao was speechless and wanted to explain, but he was worried that the description would become darker and darker. If others heard it, he would become a laughing stock. He actually just wanted to ask if this prescription had the effect of secondary growth, because he had A friend has always disliked that his younger brother is a bit small, and wants him to grow "taller" and fatter. As for who this friend is, it is inconvenient to disclose.

Just now, Zhang Cheng had already sent the photo to Pei Miao. Pei Miao looked at it, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual about it, except that a little medicinal material was added to the soup, which was indeed a prescription for diet.

Zhang Cheng turned his attention to the painting box in Pei Miao's hand again, and asked, "What painting did you send?"

Pei Miao said, "Zhang Daqian's."

"Zhang..." Zhang Cheng covered his mouth and said in a low voice, "Are you crazy? Give Zhang Daqian a painting? My teacher will definitely not want such a valuable thing."

Pei Miao said: "If I don't open it, he won't know that this painting is Zhang Daqian's painting. When he goes back and opens it, it will be too late if he wants to regret it. Where can he find me?"

Zhang Cheng said: "He will definitely give me the painting and ask me to return it to you. You are embarrassing me."

Pei Miao raised her eyebrows and said, "You're embarrassing... what does it have to do with me, anyway, it's impossible to get back what I gave away."

"Damn, are you playing cheap with me?"

Li Chufeng suddenly stepped forward and said, "I have a suggestion, brother Zhang Cheng, do you want to listen?"

Zhang Chengbian pursed his lips and said, "It's impolite to eavesdrop on people."

"I'm really sorry." Li Chufeng smiled apologetically, and said, "My ears want to hear what they want, and I'm helpless."

Zhang Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "Forget it, let's talk, what's your suggestion?"

Li Chufeng said: "If Grandpa Zhang refuses to accept it, you can ask him to sell this painting to me. I am still very interested in Zhang Daqian's paintings."

Zhang Cheng laughed: "Isn't that equivalent to collecting Pei Miao's paintings, so it's better to collect them yourself?"

Li Chufeng smiled and said: "After Grandpa Zhang got married, life will be different. With a wife and children, there will be pressure. It is not a bad thing to save more money at home. Do you think I am right?"

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Of course."

Zhang Cheng said: "If you try to persuade Grandpa Zhang from this point, you should have a chance to persuade him. After all, this is Pei Miao's wish. If you just refuse like this, it is too inappropriate. Grandpa Zhang is a painter, not an antique lover. He appreciates ancient paintings, not collects them. However, paintings can be admired for a while, but it is impossible to appreciate them for a lifetime. After the appreciation, it is the most reasonable way to sell them to subsidize the family.”

Zhang Cheng nodded frequently, thinking that what he said made sense.

Not only Zhang Cheng, but also Pei Miao once again felt that Li Chufeng's words were hard to question. What kind of person is this? Does he really have the halo of the protagonist?