Chapter 2800 The ability to brag is born
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Ye Chen
When Ye Chen returned to Tangchen Yipin, Xiao Changkun was arguing with Ma Lan.
As soon as he entered the door with the cylinder storing Meng Changsheng's portrait, he heard Xiao Changkun complaining: "You said you don't do anything every day, you don't even cook breakfast, don't cook if you don't cook, you order It’s okay to order an extra portion, you’re full after you’ve ordered, and you didn’t even give me any leftovers, I’m still in a hurry to go to the association, you can’t let me go hungry!”
Ma Lan said confidently: "Didn't you hear that, do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, why don't you get up early and cook for me? It's a beautiful idea to ask me to cook for you! Besides, it doesn't cost much to order. Money? If you give me one hundred and eighty thousand pocket money a month, I will arrange three meals a day for you clearly!"
Xiao Changkun said angrily: "You really lost money!"
After all, he took a step and walked out.
Just as he was leaving the living room, he saw Ye Chen come in, and asked quickly, "Good son-in-law, why did you come back so early?"
Ye Chen said with a smile: "The customer's business is almost done, so I hurried back."
As he said that, Ye Chen took the initiative to ask him: "By the way, Dad, how is the calligraphy and painting exhibition of your Painting and Calligraphy Association doing?"
Xiao Changkun sighed, and said depressingly: "Isn't the painting and calligraphy exhibition still in preparation? Our cultural department in Jinling is also very supportive and provides a lot of help. Members of the association have also found some excellent paintings, and the exhibits that have now been finalized There are already more than 300 pieces."
Ye Chen smiled and said: "That's good, why do you look sad?"
Xiao Changkun said depressedly: "I'm worried because everyone can find good works, but I can't find them... They have been in this business for a long time, and they know some collectors more or less, and they can borrow some by saying something nice." When the work came to exhibit, my eyes were darkened, and I didn’t know who to borrow it from! I went to Zhang Ermao before, and that Ermao didn’t mess around with calligraphy and painting now, and concentrated on the business of slaughtering people. A piece of broken wood sold for hundreds of dollars. Wan, you are even more money-obsessed than your mother, apart from him, I don't know any other sources..."
Speaking of this, Xiao Changkun complained with an unhappy face: "The most hateful thing is those association members. I can't find a work. It doesn't matter. Every time they find a work, they have agreed to let me comment on it. , many of them are works of painters of the Jinling School of Painting in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, but the Jinling School of Painting is not well-known, and I don’t even know who their representative figures are. A lot of jokes were made one after another."
Ma Lan came out of the restaurant at this time, and said mockingly: "Xiao Changkun, you have no self-knowledge if you ask me! You know nothing about antique calligraphy and painting, so you dare to enter the calligraphy and painting association with a face. Is the standard nonsense enough? In the past, when we played together, we couldn’t show you as a parallel importer, but now that you, a parallel importer, come out to comment, it’s strange that you don’t leak anything!”
Xiao Changkun was poked into the weak spot by Ma Lan, gave her a blank look, and said angrily: "Ma Lan! I'm talking to my good son-in-law. What's the matter with you? Are you full?"
Ma Lan curled her lips: "Yeah, I'm full. Who told me that I just finished eating? What's the matter, do you have an opinion?"
Xiao Changkun waved his hand impatiently: "Whether it's cool or stay there, I don't bother to talk to you."
Ma Lan sneered disdainfully: "It doesn't matter if I'm lazy or not, but I'm afraid that you, the executive vice president, will stay for a while. Why do people ask you for comments? It must be because everyone knows that you are a parallel importer and want to let you go quickly." You show your true colors!"
Xiao Changkun's face was even more ugly, he hurriedly pulled Ye Chen's clothes, and said in a low voice: "Good son-in-law, let's talk outside!"
Ye Chen nodded with a smile, and followed Xiao Changkun to the yard.
Xiao Changkun said to Ye Chen with a sad face: "Good son-in-law, Dad's current situation is really a bit passive... Now there are a lot of gossip in the association, and many people say that I have no real talents and can be the executive deputy of this second-in-command." President, it is all supported by President Pei, saying that I am a related household, and now President Pei is also very passive..."
As he said that, Xiao Changkun lowered his voice and continued: "Chairman Pei asked me for a meal yesterday, and ordered me a few words in a cryptic manner, which means that too many people have asked him for advice recently, and everyone wants to impeach him. Me, if I can't come up with anything else, it's really hard to convince everyone..."
Ye Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Dad, this is easy to handle. It just so happened that I went to show my client Fengshui this time. I saw a lot of paintings in my client's home. It just so happened that your Painting and Calligraphy Association was going to hold a painting and calligraphy exhibition, so I asked him Can I lend you some paintings?"
When Xiao Changkun heard this, he asked excitedly: "Good son-in-law, what did your client say? Would you like to lend us?"
Ye Chen said: "My client has a special status, and many collections are not convenient to exhibit, but he is still very interesting. Knowing that my father-in-law is going to hold an art exhibition, he specially took out a painting, saying that he would donate it to this painting and calligraphy exhibition." exhibition."
After speaking, Ye Chen handed the painting tube in his hand to Xiao Changkun.
Xiao Changkun asked in surprise: "Want to donate a painting to the painting and calligraphy exhibition?! What painting?"
Ye Chen said casually: "I don't know either. This painting is quite mysterious. There is no author's signature, and there is no seal. There is only a paragraph of words. Open it and have a look."
Xiao Changkun was overjoyed, and quickly took the microphone, and pulled out the portrait of Meng Changsheng from it.
Regardless of going into the room to have a look, Xiao Changkun unfolded the painting scroll directly, held it in his hand and said in amazement: "I'll go! This painting is really good!"
Ye Chen raised his eyebrows, and asked curiously: "Dad, tell me about this painting, what's so good about it?"
Xiao Changkun smacked his lips and said: "If you want me to say it, I really can't tell the truth. I just think that the painting skills of this painting are very good, realistic! And it is definitely a rare realism in the field of Chinese painting. Pai, look at the little old man who asked him to draw it, it looks like it's real! And the little old man stood on this big rock, and he really wanted to give it to me! The painting is so real! Hello mom!"
Ye Chen couldn't laugh or cry at once, he didn't expect the old man's comment to be so down-to-earth, if Meng Changsheng himself heard this, no matter how strong his Dao heart is, he would be very angry.
At this time, Xiao Changkun looked at the words on the painting, and muttered: "Meng Sheng, style name Changming, a native of Chang'an, born in the first year of Linde in the Tang Dynasty..."
As he spoke, his eyes widened suddenly, and he blurted out, "Oh shit, the old man in this painting is from the Tang Dynasty? Does that mean that this painting was also drawn by people from the Tang Dynasty?"
Ye Chen smiled and said: "Maybe, but the artist didn't leave his name and time, so you can just treat it as a painting from the Tang Dynasty."
Xiao Changkun raised his brows with joy, and blurted out: "The painters of the Tang Dynasty have been around for more than 1000 years, and their paintings are still so good. If they are shown in the painting and calligraphy exhibition, how good would they be?"
Ye Chen shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "The key point is that there is no signature on this painting. Even if it is a painting by a Tang Dynasty painter, it is impossible to find out the actual creator. This kind of painting is difficult to sell at a price in the calligraphy and painting market. I guess It won't cause too much trouble."
Xiao Changkun said: "Never mind him, the painting is good, and it's from the Tang Dynasty. This is very powerful. Even if it doesn't cause too much trouble, at least it will help me complete the performance appraisal of the Painting and Calligraphy Association!"
After that, he quickly asked Ye Chen: "Good son-in-law, then I will take this painting?"
Ye Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Dad, if someone asks about your painting, you can just say that you bought it from someone who can't remember the appearance clearly. As for the process of picking up the leak, you can fully understand it." Use your imagination, brag and talk whatever you want, as long as you don’t deviate from the central idea, you can brag as much as you want.”
Xiao Changkun asked in surprise: "Good son-in-law, I'll just say that it was given by my friend, or that it is my own collection. Wouldn't that be more face-saving?"
Ye Chen said seriously: "Dad, other people don't know this painting, but my client does. If people find out that you used other people's paintings to brag, they will probably blame me. If you do as I say, they will know that we It's to protect other people's privacy, not to put gold on my face, and I will feel more comfortable in my heart."
Xiao Changkun was a little resentful, and sighed: "Okay, then do as you said."
Ye Chen smiled slightly, put his hand on his arm, and said seriously: "Dad, don't forget that from now on, you bought this painting by mistake, and it was at the gate of Tangchen Yipin. A good-looking person stops you and insists on selling it to you for 100 yuan."
After all, a trace of spiritual energy entered Xiao Changkun's mind, quietly imposing a psychological hint on him, and this psychological hint would only be triggered when someone asked about the origin of the painting.
Xiao Changkun nodded subconsciously. At this moment, a seed had already been planted deep in his heart.
Ye Chen asked him with a smile: "Dad, where did you get the painting in your hand?"
Xiao Changkun blurted out excitedly: "I picked it up by picking up the leak! I told you my son-in-law, if it weren't for my discerning eye, this painting is still hidden under another fake painting! At that time, in the antique street, someone took A fake celebrity calligraphy and painting wanted to fool me. My eyes are so poisonous. How could I be fooled by this? At that time, I just started to model it, and found that the painting was not right. It was thicker than ordinary paintings! At that time, I guessed When I came out, there were other mysteries hidden in it, so I pretended to be fooled and bought the fake painting back with 5000 yuan. Chao's masterpiece!"
Ye Chen was speechless secretly, thinking that as an old man, he was really born with the ability to brag.
However, what he wanted was Xiao Changkun's natural performance.
He believed that Wu Feiyan didn't dare to check the background of this painting, but he didn't dare rule out that he, the father-in-law, was talking nonsense outside and then passed it on to Wu Feiyan, so he gave Xiao Changkun this special psychological hint to be cautious.
Seeing that the father-in-law had fully entered the drama, Ye Chen nodded in satisfaction. It seems that the father-in-law not only remembered his psychological hints, but also remembered his instructions to let him brag casually.
He knew that deep in Xiao Changkun's heart at this moment, he firmly believed that this painting was picked up by himself, but he didn't want people to feel that he was completely lucky, so he had to You have to make up a legendary story to improve your technical content and make yourself look good.
Therefore, Ye Chen deliberately asked tentatively: "Dad, is it too much to brag to my family like this? You can tell your conscience, how did this painting come about?"
Xiao Changkun chuckled and said, "It's still my good son-in-law who knows me well, and can tell at a glance that I'm bragging."
As he said that, Xiao Changkun said mysteriously: "Dad, I won't hide it from you. I did buy this painting, but it's not as mysterious as what I said just now. When I went out yesterday, there was a guy at the door of our Tangchen Yipin." Stop me, insist on selling this painting to me, and the asking price is only 100 yuan. I think this painting is good, even if it is a modern work, it is more than 100 yuan. Isn’t it clear that I will give it to me to take advantage of it? So I bought it down!"
Ye Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Okay, Dad, hurry up and find a place in the Painting and Calligraphy Association. If you don't make a high profile, you, the executive vice president, probably won't be able to continue working!"
As soon as he entered the door with the cylinder storing Meng Changsheng's portrait, he heard Xiao Changkun complaining: "You said you don't do anything every day, you don't even cook breakfast, don't cook if you don't cook, you order It’s okay to order an extra portion, you’re full after you’ve ordered, and you didn’t even give me any leftovers, I’m still in a hurry to go to the association, you can’t let me go hungry!”
Ma Lan said confidently: "Didn't you hear that, do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, why don't you get up early and cook for me? It's a beautiful idea to ask me to cook for you! Besides, it doesn't cost much to order. Money? If you give me one hundred and eighty thousand pocket money a month, I will arrange three meals a day for you clearly!"
Xiao Changkun said angrily: "You really lost money!"
After all, he took a step and walked out.
Just as he was leaving the living room, he saw Ye Chen come in, and asked quickly, "Good son-in-law, why did you come back so early?"
Ye Chen said with a smile: "The customer's business is almost done, so I hurried back."
As he said that, Ye Chen took the initiative to ask him: "By the way, Dad, how is the calligraphy and painting exhibition of your Painting and Calligraphy Association doing?"
Xiao Changkun sighed, and said depressingly: "Isn't the painting and calligraphy exhibition still in preparation? Our cultural department in Jinling is also very supportive and provides a lot of help. Members of the association have also found some excellent paintings, and the exhibits that have now been finalized There are already more than 300 pieces."
Ye Chen smiled and said: "That's good, why do you look sad?"
Xiao Changkun said depressedly: "I'm worried because everyone can find good works, but I can't find them... They have been in this business for a long time, and they know some collectors more or less, and they can borrow some by saying something nice." When the work came to exhibit, my eyes were darkened, and I didn’t know who to borrow it from! I went to Zhang Ermao before, and that Ermao didn’t mess around with calligraphy and painting now, and concentrated on the business of slaughtering people. A piece of broken wood sold for hundreds of dollars. Wan, you are even more money-obsessed than your mother, apart from him, I don't know any other sources..."
Speaking of this, Xiao Changkun complained with an unhappy face: "The most hateful thing is those association members. I can't find a work. It doesn't matter. Every time they find a work, they have agreed to let me comment on it. , many of them are works of painters of the Jinling School of Painting in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, but the Jinling School of Painting is not well-known, and I don’t even know who their representative figures are. A lot of jokes were made one after another."
Ma Lan came out of the restaurant at this time, and said mockingly: "Xiao Changkun, you have no self-knowledge if you ask me! You know nothing about antique calligraphy and painting, so you dare to enter the calligraphy and painting association with a face. Is the standard nonsense enough? In the past, when we played together, we couldn’t show you as a parallel importer, but now that you, a parallel importer, come out to comment, it’s strange that you don’t leak anything!”
Xiao Changkun was poked into the weak spot by Ma Lan, gave her a blank look, and said angrily: "Ma Lan! I'm talking to my good son-in-law. What's the matter with you? Are you full?"
Ma Lan curled her lips: "Yeah, I'm full. Who told me that I just finished eating? What's the matter, do you have an opinion?"
Xiao Changkun waved his hand impatiently: "Whether it's cool or stay there, I don't bother to talk to you."
Ma Lan sneered disdainfully: "It doesn't matter if I'm lazy or not, but I'm afraid that you, the executive vice president, will stay for a while. Why do people ask you for comments? It must be because everyone knows that you are a parallel importer and want to let you go quickly." You show your true colors!"
Xiao Changkun's face was even more ugly, he hurriedly pulled Ye Chen's clothes, and said in a low voice: "Good son-in-law, let's talk outside!"
Ye Chen nodded with a smile, and followed Xiao Changkun to the yard.
Xiao Changkun said to Ye Chen with a sad face: "Good son-in-law, Dad's current situation is really a bit passive... Now there are a lot of gossip in the association, and many people say that I have no real talents and can be the executive deputy of this second-in-command." President, it is all supported by President Pei, saying that I am a related household, and now President Pei is also very passive..."
As he said that, Xiao Changkun lowered his voice and continued: "Chairman Pei asked me for a meal yesterday, and ordered me a few words in a cryptic manner, which means that too many people have asked him for advice recently, and everyone wants to impeach him. Me, if I can't come up with anything else, it's really hard to convince everyone..."
Ye Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Dad, this is easy to handle. It just so happened that I went to show my client Fengshui this time. I saw a lot of paintings in my client's home. It just so happened that your Painting and Calligraphy Association was going to hold a painting and calligraphy exhibition, so I asked him Can I lend you some paintings?"
When Xiao Changkun heard this, he asked excitedly: "Good son-in-law, what did your client say? Would you like to lend us?"
Ye Chen said: "My client has a special status, and many collections are not convenient to exhibit, but he is still very interesting. Knowing that my father-in-law is going to hold an art exhibition, he specially took out a painting, saying that he would donate it to this painting and calligraphy exhibition." exhibition."
After speaking, Ye Chen handed the painting tube in his hand to Xiao Changkun.
Xiao Changkun asked in surprise: "Want to donate a painting to the painting and calligraphy exhibition?! What painting?"
Ye Chen said casually: "I don't know either. This painting is quite mysterious. There is no author's signature, and there is no seal. There is only a paragraph of words. Open it and have a look."
Xiao Changkun was overjoyed, and quickly took the microphone, and pulled out the portrait of Meng Changsheng from it.
Regardless of going into the room to have a look, Xiao Changkun unfolded the painting scroll directly, held it in his hand and said in amazement: "I'll go! This painting is really good!"
Ye Chen raised his eyebrows, and asked curiously: "Dad, tell me about this painting, what's so good about it?"
Xiao Changkun smacked his lips and said: "If you want me to say it, I really can't tell the truth. I just think that the painting skills of this painting are very good, realistic! And it is definitely a rare realism in the field of Chinese painting. Pai, look at the little old man who asked him to draw it, it looks like it's real! And the little old man stood on this big rock, and he really wanted to give it to me! The painting is so real! Hello mom!"
Ye Chen couldn't laugh or cry at once, he didn't expect the old man's comment to be so down-to-earth, if Meng Changsheng himself heard this, no matter how strong his Dao heart is, he would be very angry.
At this time, Xiao Changkun looked at the words on the painting, and muttered: "Meng Sheng, style name Changming, a native of Chang'an, born in the first year of Linde in the Tang Dynasty..."
As he spoke, his eyes widened suddenly, and he blurted out, "Oh shit, the old man in this painting is from the Tang Dynasty? Does that mean that this painting was also drawn by people from the Tang Dynasty?"
Ye Chen smiled and said: "Maybe, but the artist didn't leave his name and time, so you can just treat it as a painting from the Tang Dynasty."
Xiao Changkun raised his brows with joy, and blurted out: "The painters of the Tang Dynasty have been around for more than 1000 years, and their paintings are still so good. If they are shown in the painting and calligraphy exhibition, how good would they be?"
Ye Chen shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "The key point is that there is no signature on this painting. Even if it is a painting by a Tang Dynasty painter, it is impossible to find out the actual creator. This kind of painting is difficult to sell at a price in the calligraphy and painting market. I guess It won't cause too much trouble."
Xiao Changkun said: "Never mind him, the painting is good, and it's from the Tang Dynasty. This is very powerful. Even if it doesn't cause too much trouble, at least it will help me complete the performance appraisal of the Painting and Calligraphy Association!"
After that, he quickly asked Ye Chen: "Good son-in-law, then I will take this painting?"
Ye Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Dad, if someone asks about your painting, you can just say that you bought it from someone who can't remember the appearance clearly. As for the process of picking up the leak, you can fully understand it." Use your imagination, brag and talk whatever you want, as long as you don’t deviate from the central idea, you can brag as much as you want.”
Xiao Changkun asked in surprise: "Good son-in-law, I'll just say that it was given by my friend, or that it is my own collection. Wouldn't that be more face-saving?"
Ye Chen said seriously: "Dad, other people don't know this painting, but my client does. If people find out that you used other people's paintings to brag, they will probably blame me. If you do as I say, they will know that we It's to protect other people's privacy, not to put gold on my face, and I will feel more comfortable in my heart."
Xiao Changkun was a little resentful, and sighed: "Okay, then do as you said."
Ye Chen smiled slightly, put his hand on his arm, and said seriously: "Dad, don't forget that from now on, you bought this painting by mistake, and it was at the gate of Tangchen Yipin. A good-looking person stops you and insists on selling it to you for 100 yuan."
After all, a trace of spiritual energy entered Xiao Changkun's mind, quietly imposing a psychological hint on him, and this psychological hint would only be triggered when someone asked about the origin of the painting.
Xiao Changkun nodded subconsciously. At this moment, a seed had already been planted deep in his heart.
Ye Chen asked him with a smile: "Dad, where did you get the painting in your hand?"
Xiao Changkun blurted out excitedly: "I picked it up by picking up the leak! I told you my son-in-law, if it weren't for my discerning eye, this painting is still hidden under another fake painting! At that time, in the antique street, someone took A fake celebrity calligraphy and painting wanted to fool me. My eyes are so poisonous. How could I be fooled by this? At that time, I just started to model it, and found that the painting was not right. It was thicker than ordinary paintings! At that time, I guessed When I came out, there were other mysteries hidden in it, so I pretended to be fooled and bought the fake painting back with 5000 yuan. Chao's masterpiece!"
Ye Chen was speechless secretly, thinking that as an old man, he was really born with the ability to brag.
However, what he wanted was Xiao Changkun's natural performance.
He believed that Wu Feiyan didn't dare to check the background of this painting, but he didn't dare rule out that he, the father-in-law, was talking nonsense outside and then passed it on to Wu Feiyan, so he gave Xiao Changkun this special psychological hint to be cautious.
Seeing that the father-in-law had fully entered the drama, Ye Chen nodded in satisfaction. It seems that the father-in-law not only remembered his psychological hints, but also remembered his instructions to let him brag casually.
He knew that deep in Xiao Changkun's heart at this moment, he firmly believed that this painting was picked up by himself, but he didn't want people to feel that he was completely lucky, so he had to You have to make up a legendary story to improve your technical content and make yourself look good.
Therefore, Ye Chen deliberately asked tentatively: "Dad, is it too much to brag to my family like this? You can tell your conscience, how did this painting come about?"
Xiao Changkun chuckled and said, "It's still my good son-in-law who knows me well, and can tell at a glance that I'm bragging."
As he said that, Xiao Changkun said mysteriously: "Dad, I won't hide it from you. I did buy this painting, but it's not as mysterious as what I said just now. When I went out yesterday, there was a guy at the door of our Tangchen Yipin." Stop me, insist on selling this painting to me, and the asking price is only 100 yuan. I think this painting is good, even if it is a modern work, it is more than 100 yuan. Isn’t it clear that I will give it to me to take advantage of it? So I bought it down!"
Ye Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Okay, Dad, hurry up and find a place in the Painting and Calligraphy Association. If you don't make a high profile, you, the executive vice president, probably won't be able to continue working!"
