High...... Huh? He, he is actually a lieutenant?

Wu Haogu was shocked when he heard this name: he is the golden thigh that God gave him?

Or is it just a coincidence?

Wu Haogu thought about it carefully, Gao Yu just said that he was a small official under the Wang Thorn History, and the "King Thorn History" in his mouth should be the famous painting history, but in the officialdom, he had bad luck all his life.

Wang Shu himself is unlucky, what kind of golden thighs are the little officials under his door? At best, a seedling of a golden thigh.

As for the coincidence or something, Wu Haogu also didn't believe it, the population in the Kaifeng Mansion of the Northern Song Dynasty was always more than one million, and what kind of fate did it have to be to meet "Gao Taiwei" among millions of people?

Therefore, the appearance of Gao Yu is probably not a good thing for the current Wu Haogu, and nine times out of ten it is also for the treasure of that Laoshizi!

Of course, it's definitely not Gao Yu himself who wants a baby...... Treasures of things, those who are virtuous live there!

The current Gao Yu is far from being a "virtuous person", and his unlucky master, Wang Xu, is a well-known fan of calligraphy and painting...... And Wang Xu, no matter how unlucky he is, is also a concubine from Jiangmen Xungui, and he is a figure who cannot afford to be offended by businessmen like Wu Haogu.

Now that the baby is gone, there is another group of people who want the baby, which is troublesome...... It's getting bigger!

"Xiao Diwu is ancient, and he is doing something in the Panlou Street Market."

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu still respectfully bowed his hand to the future "Gao Taiwei" and reported his name.

Gao Yu smiled and nodded, as if he wanted to continue talking to Wu Haogu.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Wu Dalang, why are you still here?" ”

Being called "Wu Dalang", Wu Haogu could only smile bitterly in his heart, and when he looked back, he saw a Taoist priest dressed as a monk, with a green hibiscus inserted in his sideburns, and a white-faced little Taoist priest who was slightly shorter than Wu Haogu walked briskly along the Mahang Street, shouting at Wu Haogu from a distance, looking very anxious.

The person who came was named Liu Wuji, and he was a candidate for the Taoist of "no trouble". Earlier, he "cultivated immortals" in a small Taoist temple outside Kaifeng City, and advanced to Kaifeng City in three years, and also mixed up in the area of Panlou Street and Mahang Street. Fortune telling, ghost hunting, drawing talismans, reading feng shui, selling medicine, and calligraphy and painting are all his activities.

Because he has a particularly capable mouth, and he is similar to Wu Hao's ancient age, and he also plays with calligraphy, painting and literature, so he is very familiar with Wu Haogu before he was replaced. Under the care of Wu Haogu, he often did some errands and news for the Wu family's painting house, in exchange for some hard-earned money, and sometimes he could also bring in some small businesses to earn a little commission.

At this time on weekdays, Liu Wuji should find a place to have dinner in Panlou Market.

Pan Lou is located to the east of the Imperial Palace, west of Sangjia Wazi, and is the closest to the Imperial Palace among the 72 main stores (hotels that can be sold for sake brewing) in Kaifeng Prefecture. Therefore, it has become a frequent place for dignitaries and dignitaries, and dignitaries are the main buyers of literary toys and paintings.

Therefore, the Panlou Street to the east of the Pan Lou has also become a gathering place for antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and pearls, silk, incense and medicine shops, and there are also many eagle shops in the south of the street, specializing in selling eagles, birds, and birds. However, these shops selling toys, calligraphy, paintings, and birds are not open from morning to night, but are open every morning and evening.

During the day, there are many food stalls in front of these "treasure" shops, selling food such as sheep's head, belly and lungs, red and white kidneys, milk rooms, crispy honey food, sand dumplings, fragrant candy seeds, and honey fried carvings. Because it is a stall along the street, the customers facing it are also ordinary people who are begging for life or play in the area of Panlou Street, Mahang Street, and Sangjia Wazi, so it is naturally cheap and good.

Liu Wuji, who had no family in Kaifeng Mansion, spent most of his dinners at the food stalls on Panlou Street – the habit of eating three meals a day during the Northern Song Dynasty had become popular in the metropolis, but the meal times were different from those of later generations. It is usually a midday meal, an evening meal, and a late night snack after dark.

After dinner, Liu Wuji would do some small things such as inquiring about news or running errands for the Wu family painting restaurant on Panlou Street. And today, Liu Wuji didn't even bother to eat dinner and came to Mahang Street, obviously in a hurry.

Wu Haogu hurriedly sang with Gao Yu, and then walked out of the teahouse and walked forward quickly.

"Brother Xiaoyi, what's the matter?"

"Brother Xiaoyi" is a market name, just like Wu Haogu's "Wu Dalang". During the Northern Song Dynasty, where the family was big, it would be called "big" or "one". Because "one" and "b" are homophones, "small one" will be called "small b".

Liu Wuji, like Wu Haogu, is the eldest son in the family, so one is called Liu Xiaoyi, and the other is called Wu Dalang.

Liu Wuji hurriedly said: "Da Lang, something happened to your painting studio again." Just now I was looking for food on Panlou Street, and I saw that Zhao Sanheizi was going to Wujia Huazhai with someone, saying that he wanted to seek justice for his friend who bought your things by mistake, why don't you go back quickly? ”

When Wu Haogu heard this, he immediately gritted his teeth.

"Thank you Xiaoyi, I'll go back."

After saying that, he pulled his feet and left.

Liu Wuji glanced at Wu Haogu's back, shook his head slightly, sighed lightly, and just wanted to follow, but heard someone behind him: "This small path is long and walks slowly." ”

Liu Wuji stopped and looked back. I saw Gao Yu standing next to Wu Haogu's strange easel, waving at him. So he hurriedly walked up and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the big official?" ”

Gao Yu said: "I forgot Brother Wu's easel, so it's better to send him back." ”

"Thank you for the reminder."

Liu Wuji responded, stepped forward to put away the easel, and Gao Yu carefully took the charcoal strip painting stuck to the wooden board, and followed Liu Wuji towards Panlou Street.

On the way, Gao Yu asked: "In Xia Gao Yu, I don't know Xiao Langjun's surname?" ”

Liu Wuji said: "A tall official, a small bottom Liu Wuji." ”

Gao Yu inquired: "Little Brother Liu, what happened to this martial arts painting house?" ”

"Sold a fake."

"Fakes?" Gao Yu chuckled, "I'm going to be very serious." ”

Although the merchants of the Song Dynasty were generally more honest, and fakes were relatively rare in most industries, the antique painting and calligraphy market was a special case. As with the mixed counterfeits in the art market in later generations, there were also very serious counterfeiting behaviors in the trade of calligraphy, painting and antiques in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting market was flooded with fakes, and the number exceeded the genuine ones by a hundred times. According to one of the four Song Dynasty Mi Fu in the "history of painting" in the record "Li Cheng real work to see two, pseudo see three hundred", "Wu Daozi real work one or two, and pseudo see three hundred".

And in the "History of Painting" wrote a lot of fraudulent events and means of Mi Fu himself, in fact, he is also a master of counterfeiting. I often borrow my friends' paintings and calligraphy, go home to copy, return the facsimile and leave its authenticity, so as to leave a notoriety. And such as Mi Fu in general, the Northern Song Dynasty literati doctors who fake and deceive people are countless.

The participation of these literati doctors has also caused the Northern Song Dynasty calligraphy, painting and literary play to fake the situation that the government basically ignores it - most of the fake calligraphy and painting are readers, and some have official bodies (Mi Fu is an official, and he is also a big artist from Jiangmen), and most of the deceived are businessmen with a lot of wealth, so there is nothing to trace.

Gao Yu's master Wang Shu is also a master of counterfeiting, Mi Fu in the "book history" "exposed", once saw with his own eyes "Wang Shu will be his king dedicated to the "goose group post" dyed old, and then cut his book behind it." It is also said that Wang Shu "also pretended to dye in Yu Shinan and made the public secretary".

As Wang Xu's little official, Gao Yu, who also served in Su Shi's mansion, naturally would not regard forging famous paintings and calligraphy as a crime.

"There is nothing in the fake," Liu Wuji also said, "However, Wu Dalang's father was originally a calligraphy and painting official." ”

The official tooth is the tooth person (broker, middleman) licensed and certified by the government, responsible for the government to "buy" (in fact, it also means a bit of forced buying) items, and also manages the market order, is the leader in the tooth industry.

The Northern Song Dynasty had developed commerce, and private teeth (unlicensed) were rampant, but there were not many official teeth. The calligraphy and painting of Kaifeng Mansion is even more remarkable, not only for the court, the palace and the official office "and buy" calligraphy and painting, but also responsible for participating in the appraisal of the palace collection of calligraphy and painting, the responsibility is very heavy.

And the calligraphy and painting official tooth is not a way to do, it is a job that relies on eyesight to eat with ability, so the people who can become the calligraphy and painting official tooth are all the people of Kaifeng calligraphy and painting shop, and I don't know how many wealthy "good things" pay a lot of money to invite them to palm, but it is inevitable that there will be things that look away.

"It's not very bottom," Gao Yu didn't care, and said with a smile, "It's not easy to be fake, but it's even more difficult to recognize fakes. ”

In the Song Dynasty, each industry had its own rules, and the calligraphy and painting industry was no exception. Moreover, these rules are very beneficial to the merchants of calligraphy and painting...... They set the rules themselves!

"But the matter involves ...... palace," Liu Wuji shook his head again and again, "If you want to return it, the martial arts family can't take out as much money as you can for a while." ”

"How so?" Gao Yu asked with interest, "The calligraphy and paintings bought in the palace are not very expensive, at most tens of thousands of dollars, if they are fakes, the price of the purchase is at most thousands of yuan, and a calligraphy and painting official tooth will not be able to afford to lose?" ”

The money is a string of money, each string should theoretically have 1,000 copper coins, but the Northern Song Dynasty made a "money shortage", so there are only 770 copper coins in a string. At this time, the price of rice in Kaifeng Mansion is about 60-90 copper coins per bucket, and if calculated according to the median, one tassel of rice is about ten buckets of rice.

A few hundred yuan is certainly a huge amount of money for the small people of Shengdou, but for the samurai who opened a painting in the Panlou Street Market and still held the calligraphy and painting official tooth card, it was not a lot of money at all.

In addition, the official family of the Great Song Dynasty is actually not particularly rich, and most of the time, their pockets are firmly watched by civil officials, and they dare not spend money indiscriminately. Therefore, there is not a lot of money that can be used to play with the collection, and I can't afford to buy too expensive treasures. Tens of thousands of things are already sky-high for the palace.

Liu Wuji shook his head and said: "The big officials don't know, this time the palace will return seven pieces of calligraphy and painting at the same time, a total of more than 50,000 yuan, and the Wu Daguan and Wu Dalang will be arrested in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, this Dalang only came out more than ten days ago......"

"This ......" Gao Yu's face changed at this time, "It turns out that someone wants to frame the martial artist!" ”

Liu Wuji nodded and did not speak.

The martial arts family was indeed harmed by someone, and it was harmed a lot!