After a night of drizzle, the East Crossroads were cleaned.

Now, the rain has stopped, but a thin mist has risen, making the East Crossroads feel like a misty smoke.

Su Lida of the Su family's shop also got up early in the morning, opening as before, but on the fat and bulging face, there was a little more pride that he hadn't had before.

Regardless of the opposition of his family, he borrowed his mother's private room to buy this tea shop.

If you don't do it well, won't you be laughed at by those brothers and uncles who only know how to make vinegar and sell vinegar?

But at the intersection of Panlou Street at the East Crossroads, how many people who have been doing calligraphy, painting and literature for generations can look up to him Su Dalang?

When I don't think about him when I have good things, I will bring some shoddy fakes to the door to deceive him.

They don't want to think about it, the old vinegar of the Su family in Kaifeng Mansion has been done since the Later Liang Dynasty, and now it has been two hundred years, and the old vinegar of the Su family has been sold to the Khitan Kingdom and the Goryeo Kingdom, and even the daughter of the old Zhao family (the daughter of the Zhao family) has married no less than ten, will you ever see the baby?

However, five days ago, the Su family shop on East Cross Street finally had a chance to make a name for itself.

There will be a treasure to appear in the Su family shop, and it will also use the singing and selling method that has never been seen in the ghost market on East Cross Street!

If the original painting of "Drunken Arhat" could have been sold at a sky-high price, the Su family shop might be able to develop in the business of singing and selling. Nowadays, although there are singing and selling in the calligraphy, painting and literary toys of Kaifeng Mansion, there is no shop specializing in singing and selling in the entire Panlou Street plus the East Cross Street. The Su family shop can set a precedent......

Just when Su Dalang was a little nervous, his Su family shop already had its first customer.

"Shop, one tabletop."

The guest wore a hat and walked briskly to a table in the corner as he spoke.

"This guest officer, there is a big deal to do in the small shop today......" Su Dalang hurriedly stepped forward with a smile on his face and explained the situation to the visitor.

"You know, sing and sell "Drunken Arhat".

The person who came was Wu Dalang, he got up too early today, he couldn't even rent a donkey, and walked for almost an hour from Daxiangguo Temple to East Cross Street, his feet were already sore and his legs were sore, and he was thirsty and hungry.

"Let's have a bowl of cold water first, and then a few cooking cakes." As he spoke, he threw a string of copper coins on the table.

"Guest officer, do you want to take a look at the facsimile of "Drunken Arhat?" Su Dalang put away the copper coin and asked again with a smile.

"Oh? You also spent a few hundred yuan to buy a facsimile of "Drunken Arhat"? Wu Dalang doesn't remember selling a copy to Su Dalang.

"Of course I bought it," Su Dalang laughed, "but it only cost fifty tassels." ”

"Fifty?" Wu Dalang was stunned.

"It was copied by Li Xi," Su Dalang said, "a fifty-fifty copy, but many people bought it." ”

Li Xigu is Li Tang, and that day he also bought a copy of "Drunken Arhat" by Wu Hao Gu in Su's shop. However, Li Tang's business acumen is also developed, and after he bought a copy of Wu Haogu and went back, he copied twenty or thirty copies and sold them on Panlou Street, selling one for fifty yuan, not only earning back the three hundred yuan for buying paintings, but also a small one thousand.

"It's a way to get rich." Wu Dalang nodded.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the most common ways to learn painting were "copy" and "lin". If you want to make a difference in painting, you need to copy the works of famous artists.

The object of the copy usually cannot be the original ...... How expensive the famous family was, I can't take it without a thousand or eight thousand. Therefore, good "facsimile" and "copy" are necessary for learning painting.

The twenty copies of Wu Haogu's own facsimiles (copying his own paintings) sold in Wanjiazi a few days ago and the twenty or thirty facsimiles sold by Li Tang are all worth the money - because they allow buyers to learn the brushwork of human body portraits in later generations through copying!

Of course, the body paintings of later generations can be described as broad and profound, and they cannot be mastered by copying a single work.

In other words, Wu Haogu can also make more profits in the future by selling copies of body paintings and realistic architectural drawings......

Although this kind of "facsimile" cannot reach a high price of 10,000 yuan, it is better than small profits and quick turnover.

Moreover, Wu Haogu does not have to copy it himself, he can hire a few unknown small painters to write on his behalf.

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu was in a good mood and said to Su Dalang: "Let's take a look." ”

"Okay." Su Dalang turned around and left, and not long after, Xiao Er sent Wu Haogu a copy of Li Tang.

That's Li Tang, one of the four families of the Southern Song Dynasty in history! Wu Haogu looked at Li Tang's copy through a thin veil, and thought: Even these people are copying my paintings, it seems that there will be a great Wu Dalang of the Northern Song Dynasty in the history of painting after 920......

I really want Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives!

When Wu Haogu was thinking of Li Tang, Su Dalang's voice came up again: "Master Li, you came early." ”

Wu Haogu raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at the door of the Su family's shop, but it was a woman.

Dressed in a pale green shirt, with a moon-white mandarin duck belt tied around his waist, a fairy sideburns on his head, and a pair of embroidered shoes on his feet, he looks graceful and beautiful. The face is slightly powdered, and it looks coquettish. It's just that between the eyebrows, there seems to be a hint of worry.

Wu Haogu's face suddenly laughed uncontrollably......

It turned out that this woman was Pan Qiaolian. She and Li Tang also had the female envoy named Xiao Bottle, and a few guys carrying boxes, none of whom wore hats.

"Su Dalang, a private room." Li Tang threw three strings of copper coins to Su Dalang, who greeted him with a smile on his face.

Pan Qiaolian's beautiful eyes swept the bottom floor of the Su family's shop and found Wu Dalang wearing a hat, although he didn't recognize who the other party was, he had a sense of déjà vu.

And Wu Haogu's gaze also had no way to move away from Pan Qiaolian...... In fact, these days, he has been trying to suppress his feelings for Pan Qiaolian.

On the one hand, it was because Wu Haogu knew that the class difference between him and Pan Qiaolian was not small, and it was difficult to come together in the end; On the other hand, one is Wu Dalang and the other is Pan Qiaolian, which is too easy to associate with Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian......

But as soon as he saw Pan Qiaolian herself today, the love that was firmly suppressed gushed out like a volcanic eruption.

Don't...... Is this what love feels like? Wu Haogu thought to himself, but who does this love belong to? Is it me, or is it the "True Martial Artist" who lost his soul?

"Eighteenth sister, go upstairs."

Just when Wu Haogu was puzzled, Li Tang had already instructed the guy from the Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk shop to carry the box upstairs, and then called Pan Qiaolian upstairs.

Pan Qiaolian withdrew her gaze from Wu Dalang, sighed kissing, and went upstairs with Li Tang. Li Tang also discovered Pan Qiaolian's distraction, he knew what it was for, so he comforted in a low voice: "Eighteen sister, don't worry, the calligraphy and painting industry has its own rules of the calligraphy and painting industry, and the difficulty of the martial arts family is just bankruptcy." With the ability of their three fathers and sons, there will always be a comeback. ”

Pan Qiaolian sighed lightly: "Master Li, I also know this rule...... But Brother Dawu has not heard from him for the past few days, how can he not be worried? ”

"He's supposed to be raising money around, right?"

"Raising money?" Pan Qiaolian shook her head and said softly, "Why don't you come to my shop if you want to raise money?" Pan Wu's two families have been friends for generations, and now that his family is in trouble, my family always has to help him......"

Pan Qiaolian and Li Tang talked softly, went upstairs and entered a private room by the window facing the street.

After a while, the sound of cars and horses came from the street. When he arrived at the door, he saw an old man dressed in brocade clothes with a white beard and another man in his forties, also dressed gorgeously and without a beard, getting out of a richly decorated carriage.

Men in the Song Dynasty regarded beard growth as beauty, as long as they were older, they would generally start to grow beards, and if there was no beard, most of them would not be able to give birth. In Kaifeng Mansion, if you see someone who is old and unnecessary, and is beautifully dressed, then seven or eight out of ten are the nobles who serve the official family.

"Xiao Di has seen two big officials." Su Dalang stepped forward and gave a salute, and then said with a smile on his face, "Do you two know the bad rules of the ghost market?" ”

"We know." The old man called himself "our family" when he opened his mouth, which is a common self-name used by the nobles.

The person who came turned out to be Liu Youfang and Liu Ai, the eunuch father and son who were not related by blood.

"Do you have a private room?" Liu Ai asked loudly.

"Yes, yes." Su Dalang responded continuously, made a gesture of solemnity, and led the way in front, introducing Liu Youfang, Liu Ai and his son into his own shop.

Liu Youfang and Liu Ai followed behind the two fathers and sons, two of whom were Chen Youwen, the edict of the Hanlin Academy, and his son Chen Bao, who were also like the two fathers and sons of the Liu family, without wearing hats. The two of them didn't go upstairs with the two nobles who had no eggs, but went straight to Wu Haogu, who was sitting in the corner.