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Chapter 221 Treasure Pavilion?Look at the spring and listen to the wind!
It was still early, so Lin Ran decided to stroll around for a while.
Most shops look similar from the outside. The bosses here are basically good at calligraphy and painting, so they are not suitable for picking up missing items.
However, as I walked around, a building like a bookstore appeared in front of me.
Unexpectedly, there is a small antique city in Yanziwu.
He didn't really invest a lot of money in opening an antique shop in a place where painters gathered.
So Lin Ran decided to go in and take a look.
It was only about eleven o'clock in the morning, and the store looked a little deserted, which was completely opposite to the overcrowded scenes in other stores.
The name of this antique shop is also very casual, directly calling itself the Treasure Pavilion.
Judging from the decoration, it seems that it has just opened.
A young man in yellow leather and linen clothes was packing things on the shelves.
The other person wearing a Tang suit and lying leisurely on a mahogany chair listening to the radio must be the boss.
Although it is an antique store, it still inherits the characteristics of Yanziwu.
Various ancient paintings hang on the walls.
Lin Ran became interested. There were specialties in the art industry, but in ancient paintings, any boss was an expert.
But if it is an antique store, this may not be the case.
The man in Tang suit saw Lin Ran and Li Yuanhao and took a look at their clothes. They looked like they were from the countryside.
However, he still called to the waiter: "Xiao Wu, don't just pack your things, go and greet the guests."
"Yes, boss." The young man replied, and then came forward with a smile.
"Two guests, welcome to the Treasure Pavilion. What do you want to buy? In our store, we have all kinds of porcelain, jade, bronze, calligraphy and painting."
The young man looked very professional and kept talking.
"Let me see for myself first." Lin Ran smiled and rejected his promotion.
The owner of this store is quite attentive and will take the initiative to let the clerks do sales. Service awareness is the most lacking quality among businessmen in this era.
"Okay, sir, please take a look." The young man led Lin Ran and the two to the calligraphy and painting area, and then stood aside and watched silently.
No wonder there are fewer customers in this store. It turns out that the paintings in this store do seem cheap compared to other stores.
Several calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall are obviously fakes at a glance, and they are completely inferior to Li Yuanhao's imitations.
Even Li Yuanhao couldn't help but frowned and whispered to Lin Ran: "Mr. Lin, I'm afraid this store doesn't have what we want. It's better to go shopping in other stores before noon."
"Wait a minute." Lin Ran looked at the calligraphy and painting on the wall, and there were obvious traces of imitation.
However, they still have some calligraphy and paintings that they haven't had time to hang up.
As a professional in picking up leaks, Lin Ran would naturally not miss these details!
"Can I take a look at these on the ground?" Lin Ran asked.
The young man seemed unconcerned: "Okay, as long as you don't damage it, you can look at it."
If it were other items in the store, he would definitely look at them carefully.
But these calligraphy and paintings were all collected by the boss from second-hand vendors, so if you can sell them for money, you will have to worry about them!
The reason why I bought these paintings was because I opened a store in Yanziwu. There were no decent calligraphy and paintings in the store, so it was difficult to attract customers.
The young man looked on and saw that the calligraphy and painting on the ground had obviously not been polished carefully.
This shop is probably still under renovation, and some paintings haven't been hung up yet.
And it can be seen that they treated these paintings very casually, stacking them together in the corner, and some of the scrolls even had some paint on them.
Li Yuanhao couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't stand people who insulted the art of painting, so he went to visit other exhibition areas.
The young man also followed, leaving Lin Ran alone to look at the painting.
Lin Ran unfolded a scroll, and it was another fake painting. He shook his head, rerolled the scroll and put it back in its place.
After looking at seven paintings in a row, he began to waver.
The owner of this store is really interesting. Is he collecting so many worthless fake paintings just to attract customers to the store?
Just when he was about to give up, he saw a yellowed scroll on the ground.
There are traces of dirt behind it. Although the shop is still being renovated, some of the scrolls are stained with dust and paint.
But the mud behind this painting has obviously been integrated with the scroll, at least for a certain period of time.
Lin Ran's eyes lit up and he unfolded the painting.
This is a scroll about one meter long, a landscape painting.
On the scroll, there are high mountains and lofty mountains. There are old trees growing between the cliffs. They grow in curves and have lush branches and leaves, which look vigorous and powerful. Next to it, between the rocks, there is a spring water slowly flowing down.
The moment he saw this painting, Lin Ran felt touched in his heart.
"Is this...?"
He immediately unfolded the painting and saw two laymen sitting on the rocks talking loudly, seemingly intoxicated by the mountains and rivers.
Lin Ran checked the seal on it and found it was stamped by layman Wu Shan!
The calligraphy and painting in front of me is Tang Yin's picture of watching the spring and listening to the wind!
Lin Ran looked at the painting carefully. Just looking at the painting, he could feel a detached attitude towards life.
At the bottom of the scroll, there is a poem.
Looking down at the flowing spring and listening to the wind, the sound of the spring is as charming as the Sheng Yong. Why not write about the Yao Qin, because no one has a surname of Zhong.
In this painting, the mountain is not high and steep. Only half of the mountain is left, and the top of the mountain is not drawn.
However, through the clouds and the distant views, the towering mountains are depicted.
The landscape paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty were good at depicting distant views, and this painting vividly embodies the "profound".
In the painting, there is no majestic, majestic or dangerous majesty.
Instead, there is the sound of clear spring water, adding a pure and calm elegance.
On the hillside, there is dense jungle.
A stream of clear spring gushes out from the cliff.
Near the scroll, two lay people sit facing each other.
Both of them turned their gazes to the gurgling spring and raised their heads slightly, as if listening to the sound of running water and the rustling of treetops.
The quiet and indifferent scene comes to life on the page!
This shows that the artist's painting skills are sharp, the strokes of the brush are strong and tough, and the vigorous brushwork is delicate and precise.
The strokes are simple and unambiguous, coupled with the poem at the end.
"This is exactly Tang Yin's "Looking at the Spring and Listening to the Wind"!" Lin Ran was delighted. He didn't expect to see the real thing in a store like this.
What's more, the owner of this store only treats it as second-hand goods.
The boss was still listening to the radio boredly, while Li Yuanhao and the young man were nearby, continuing to appreciate other cultural relics.
Lin Ran looked at the ground, but there were still two scrolls that he had not read.
He gently rolled up the painting and opened the other two paintings.
One of them is still a fake, but the other one is equally promising!