As the sun begins to sink in the west, it will set.

But for the calligraphy, painting and antique shops in Pan Lou Market, the day's business has just begun. At the beginning of the lanterns, the Panlou Market, which was still a snack street during the day, has now turned back into a place where various playthings and artworks such as calligraphy, painting, literature, incense, medicine, eagle falcon and so on gather. The streets are full of officials, wealthy businessmen, and literati who have nothing to do, and who come to find some treasures and cultural toys.

The so-called chaotic times to buy gold, prosperous times to collect antiques, just look at the prosperity of the Panlou market today, you will know that the Great Song Dynasty is in the sky, if it is not prescient, probably no one would have thought that just more than 20 years later, there will be a catastrophe.

However, the prescient Wu Dalang didn't have much heart to think about Jing Kangnian's catastrophe at this time, because his martial arts painting was facing a catastrophe right now. If he can't get by, he Wu Dalang may have nothing, worse than the Wu Dalang who sells cooking cakes.

I don't know if it's because of the continuous outbreak of the "fake painting scandal", there are almost no customers coming to the door tonight, and Wu Dalang is sitting in the corner of the store, drinking alone.

Feng Erniang and Wu Haowen both returned to the house in Sweet Water Lane, and Liu Wuji didn't know where he went, and Wu Dalang was the only one left in the store. The shop has two floors, and the second floor is Wu Dalang's bedroom and studio, and when the night market on Panlou Street is over, he usually sleeps in this shop.

But tonight, Wu Dalang will definitely have trouble sleeping. Because he knows that there is no treasure in the martial arts family that can make characters like Wang Shu tempted!

But people have already stared at it and bitten it......

It's really hard to do!

Raising the wine bowl, Wu Dalang was just about to drink it all, but saw two men dressed as Taoist priests walking in from outside the store.

"Da Lang, why are you drinking alone?"

"Da Lang, are you angry with Zhao Sanhei's bird?"

Wu Dalang's drunken eyes were hazy, looking at the two, it turned out to be his two friends Liu Daoshi and Guo Banxian.

Daoist Liu is Liu Wuji. And Guo Banxian's name is Guo Jing, not Guo Jing, but he is also a black-faced man, born short and stocky. He is a soldier of the forbidden army of Kaifeng Prefecture, a cavalryman under the second command of the Cloud Cavalry Army, and a part-time fortune teller in the area of Panlou Street and Mahang Street, as well as calligraphy and painting......

Here is an explanation that the Song Dynasty's private teeth (tooth people) were rampant, and seven or eight out of ten people who lived on Panlou Street were part-time private teeth...... Private teeth don't need a dental shop, no deposit, and no need for a card issued by the government, it's almost a business without capital, and there are naturally more people doing it, but there are more people doing it, and it's difficult to make money.

And Wu Cheng, a calligraphy and painting official, is a big businessman with status, and he will not go all over the street to do business, so there is a large group of large and small private teeth below to help run errands. And Guo Jing and Liu Wuji are two of the little private teeth, and they have a good relationship with Wu Dalang.

"It's Guo Sanlang and Liu Xiaoyi," Wu Dalang beckoned to the guest, "Sit down and have two drinks together." ”

Guo Banxian and Liu Daoshi looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and sat down on both sides of Wu Dalang, Guo Banxian said in a thick voice: "Dalang, I heard Liu Xiaoyi say that you were deceived by Zhao Sanheizi and were deceived by him for more than 7,000 yuan?" ”

He didn't come to Panlou Street during the day today, but went to the barracks...... He's a forbidden horseman! Of course, he had to go to the barracks to pretend like Pan Daguan, but his kung fu was better than that of Pan Daguan, at least he didn't fall down, but he still found an excuse to leave.

He lowered his voice: "Da Lang, can't you give this money...... If there is a thousand, he will go to find a few brothers of the forbidden army and make Zhao Sanhei! ”

Wu Dalang burped, "Don't make trouble."

Now that my family is being targeted, I have to deal with it carefully, as long as I can keep it clean for a month, it doesn't hurt to spend a little more. ”

"But seven thousand two hundred yuan is not a decimal number......," said Daoist Liu, "I don't know how many zhang he can buy." ”

The degree of the Song Dynasty was originally a kind of financial instrument, which was sold in the "bank" of Pan Daguanren, but the price was not cheap at all. If there is no windfall, Liu Wuji doesn't know how long it will take to buy a Taoist identity.

Guo Jing and Liu Wuji are private teeth who have always helped the samurai painter run errands, so both of them know that Wu Shicheng and Wu Haogu have the ability to make windfalls by fake paintings.

Moreover, the martial arts are obviously in trouble now, and it is estimated that in the end, they may not be able to gain a foothold in the Kaifeng Painting and Calligraphy Shop, at least there is no way to support a painting studio alone. And if the martial artist wants to leave the feet of the Son of Heaven, he must make a lot of money before leaving.

With a large windfall, the warriors were able to ask for "peace charms" from the Pan family, and they could make a comeback elsewhere in the future and continue their ancestral calligraphy and painting business.

And this windfall is also an opportunity for Guo Jing and Liu Wuji. So Guo Jing returned to Panlou Street from the barracks, saw Liu Wuji, and heard what happened to Wu Dalang in the evening, so he immediately thought of a way to make money by counterfeiting paintings.

This is probably the only way out for Wu Haogu today.

After eyeing Guo Jing, Liu Wuji then said to Wu Haogu: "Da Lang, seven thousand two hundred is not a decimal number, it was not a very low number for your family in the past, but now...... Do you see if there is any business in this painting shop? ”

"So what? Isn't the job of the calligraphy and painting store not open for three years, and open for three years? With my skills, these 7,200 taels are not very low, even if you count the 18,000 taels that should be given to the palace, it is not impossible to raise them. ”

After saying this, Wu Dalang laughed and burped, which made Guo Jing and Liu Wuji suddenly feel that the opportunity was in front of them.

Guo Jingdao: "Da Lang, your craftsmanship and Brother Xiao Yi both know, the wealth of the Huang family can be real, and the white drawing of the Wu family (Wu Daozi's style) also has a seven, seven, eighty, or eight ......."

After pouring a lot of yellow soup, Wu Dalang, who was a little dazed, suddenly sobered up when he heard Guo Jing's words, and his chaotic eyes also showed a trace of vigilance. He reached out and grabbed Guo Jing's arm.

"Guo Sanlang, aren't you hurting me?"

"Harm? How do you say that? ”

Guo Jing was stunned when he heard this, and immediately asked rhetorically.

"San Lang doesn't know that my family has been targeted? If there is another handle exposed......" Wu Dalang looked at the two friends in front of him with burning eyes as he spoke.

They say they are friends, but they are just friends of wine and meat.

"Hey, how do you show your handle?" Guo Jing smiled, "I didn't ask you to do it in your own painting studio." ”

Liu Wuji also said: "You can take it to the ghost market at the intersection of Daxiangguo Temple and East Crossroads to sell, Dalang, you don't come forward, I and Guo Sange will do it, and keep it safe." ”

There is not only one calligraphy and painting market in Kaifeng Fucheng, but a total of three markets.

Pan Lou Market is the largest and most regulated market among them. The people who are engaged there are all businessmen like Wu Chengzhi, and most of them are also related to the Hanlin Painting Academy and the Calligraphy Bureau, and they can get high-quality goods, even if they are fakes.

The market of Daxiangguo Temple is combined with the temple fair, and it is open eight times a month, that is, Shuo, Wang, every Wednesday, and every 8th. It's not just selling calligraphy, paintings, and cultural toys, but everything, and there are people performing jugglers there, which is actually a big market that is open regularly. The quality of the calligraphy, paintings, and cultural toys bought there is uneven, and most of them are shoddy fakes, but sometimes there will be one or two fine products. These fine products are mainly from the dismissed officials, and they are taken to the Great Xiangguo Temple to make a quiet move so as not to attract attention.

It's just that the calligraphy and paintings sold in Daxiangguo Temple, even if they are fine (not necessarily true), are usually not too valuable. And the real high-priced boutiques, if you don't go to the Panlou Market, it must appear in the ghost market on East Cross Street.

The so-called "ghost market" refers to the transaction method of "trade without meeting", there are many tea shops on the East Cross Street is the location of the ghost market, where the five watches (more than four o'clock in the morning) are lit up to open, and they disperse at dawn. The goods traded are often from unknown sources, and they are not easy to see, while the buyers are all big experts in the world of calligraphy, painting, and cultural toys, and the father and son of Wu Dalang and Wu Cheng are also frequent visitors to East Cross Street.

If Wu Dalang wants to make fake paintings now, he can only ship them in Daxiangguo Temple and the ghost market on East Cross Street.

Moreover, there is only one way to fake and draw, so that Wu Dalang can make a lot of money in the short term...... As long as he has money, he can slip away from Kaifeng, go to Yangzhou to settle down first, and then go to Hangzhou to buy a house and land after Fang La's rebellion, and most likely he can be alone in the future chaos.

So Wu Haogu had this plan for a long time.

"My family and Pan Daguan are old friends," Wu Dalang looked at the two wine and meat friends in front of him, and said word by word, "If you really can't keep the family business, you can still take refuge in the Pan family." ”

His words are to scare Guo Jing and Liu Wuji, Pan Daguan is not the head of the Pan family, he is just a Bingyilang from the eighth grade. If the "big villain" who rectified the martial arts really wanted to be ruthless, Pan Daguan would not be up to it at all.

However, Pan Daguan's casual words can still make people like Guo Jing and Liu Wuji disappear from the streets of Kaifeng Mansion forever!

Therefore, as long as the father and son of the Wu family do not die, they can vote for Pan Daguan with their ability, if Guo Jing and Liu Wuji dare to harm Wu Dalang, it will be unlucky for the two of them at that time.

"That's, that's." Guo Jing's face did not change, "Actually, it doesn't matter much, with your Wu Dalang's skills, tens of thousands of people are not just here?" There is no store to be tired, and life is more leisurely. ”

"Yes," Liu Wuji also said, "Isn't the Li Zhang's case of the Pan family's quality library such a carefree?" ”

The Pan Family Treasure Bank is attached to the gold and silver silk silk shop, and mainly lends money to the calligraphy, painting, literature and entertainment shops in the Pan Lou market. Naturally, you need the eyes of a big expert, and Liu Wuji mentioned that Li Zhang's case is a big expert, and he is a big expert!

This person's name is Li Tang, one of the "Four Families of the Southern Song Dynasty" in history, and his works are also placed in the Palace Museum (the Palace Museums in Taipei and Beijing are available) - Panlou Street Market is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger!

"That's right." Seeing Guo Jing and Liu Wuji's reactions, Wu Dalang no longer had any doubts - he was a little rumored now, and everyone looked like they were sent by the "big villain".

"It's still not okay for me and the other three," Wu Dalang let go of Guo Jing's arm and said thoughtfully, "I have to call a monk." Together, the four brothers can prosper in this business. ”

The monk's surname is Fu, and now he is the little monk of Daxiangguo Temple, and he also mixed up in Panlou Market and Mahang Street before he became a monk, and he met Wu Dalang, Guo Jing, Liu Wuji and others in a small way, and the relationship is very good. He recently worshipped a big monk called the master of the "Roast Pig Academy" as a teacher, and it seems that he has a little power. Pull him in, Wu Haogu will be able to rent a monk's room in the Great Xiangguo Temple and make fake paintings safely.

After making up his mind, Wu Dalang said to Guo Jing and Liu Wuji: "Third brother, fifth brother, I have some things here, you take them to the monk of Daxiangguo Temple, and then tell the monk that I will move in with him in three days." ”

"Okay, let's go for a while." Guo Jing replied with a smile.

Liu Wuji nodded: "Da Lang, my brother will follow you in the future, but there is a dispatch, just open your mouth." ”

"Okay," Wu Dalang nodded towards the two of them, "In the future, my brothers and I will share blessings and difficulties." ”