Chapter 429: Fraud
One day, Xiao Yu'er was patrolling the streets, and suddenly heard a few cries from a shop next to the road: "Oh my God, how can I live, even if my family is bankrupt, I can't pay off my debts!" ”
When Xiao Yu'er heard this, she couldn't help but perk up and walked over quickly.
Xiao Yuer walked to the shop and saw that it was a calligraphy and painting shop. In the Song Dynasty, there were shops that bought and sold calligraphy and paintings, and most of them were calligraphy or painting works by ancient masters and contemporary masters, buying low and selling high to make huge profits. Most of the buyers are some princes and grandsons, rich and wealthy businessmen and other vassal and elegant people, and of course, there are also many who buy and bribe high-ranking officials.
Xiao Yu'er stood at the head of the door and looked inside, only to see that the house was full of calligraphy and paintings, landscapes, people, flowers and birds, everything, but they were all ordinary goods. Next to the wall is a row of tables, on which are placed scrolls for people to choose from. The whole store is full of bookish ink, as if making the people who enter it suddenly elegant.
In the middle of the ground, there were five or six people standing, facing one person, wearing a square scarf, wearing a blue shirt, about forty years old, full of anger, pointing to a person opposite and reprimanding loudly: "Wang Peng, they are all good customers you introduced, it turned out to be a year-old liar, now, you can deceive me so miserably, if I go bankrupt, you can't get rid of it!" Lao Tzu fought with you. ”
When Xiao Yu'er heard this voice, she knew that what she heard outside the store just now was him howling, and it seemed that it was the boss. Just as this guy was doing it, Xiao Yu'er said sharply: "Stop?!" He decided that he had to take care of it!
So he walked in and pushed through the crowd. He snapped, "What the hell is going on here?" Why are you gathering to make trouble?! Xiao Yu'er gradually gained official authority, suppressing everyone and not daring to move.
The boss's name is Li Xian, and his peers jokingly call him "Li Yiyan", to praise him for his low eyesight in distinguishing calligraphy and painting, and he is a two-eyed person. Na Li glanced at Xiao Yu'er and saw that he was wearing a government uniform, but he was like seeing a relative. was very enthusiastic, stepped forward and dragged Xiao Yu'er, and said, "Poor master, you can come." This liar deceived me so badly. Li Yiyan pointed at Wang Peng and shouted.
Xiao Yu'er listened, turned around and looked at the Wang Peng he had accused. I saw that he was in his early thirties, with slender eyebrows, elegant appearance, and a delicate face; Wearing a green shirt. It has been washed white. But it still can't hide the elegant atmosphere. He seemed to be a learned scribe. So he arched his hand and said, "What's going on?" Let's tell me what happened first, and I want to see if I can solve it. ”
Li glanced at it and said angrily: "Wang Peng." This business is yours, so let's talk about it. ”
Wang Peng then frowned and recounted: It turned out that more than ten days ago, a son came here to pawn a painting and calligraphy, and Wang Peng was responsible for receiving it. When he opened the scroll and looked at it, he couldn't help but be shocked, this painting is a rare work, it is Yan Liben's "Xiao Yi Earns Lan Pavilion".
Yan Liben, a great painter of the Tang Dynasty, who is Yan Liben? The great painter of the Tang Dynasty, a cattle man who specially painted a portrait of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. "Twenty-four Heroes of Lingyan Pavilion" was painted by this old guy.
And "Xiao Yi Earns the Orchid Pavilion" is Yan Liben, based on the story of Tang He Yanzhi's "The Legend of the Orchid Pavilion". It depicts the story of Xiao Yi, the imperial history of Tang Taizong, from the hands of Yuan Biancai, the first son of the seventh generation of Wang Xizhi, who defrauded the "first book in the world" "Lanting Collection Preface" and dedicated it to Tang Taizong. The painting is Xiao Yi and Yuan Biancai, Xiao Yi is proud, and the old monk is stammering, lost his mind; There are two servants preparing tea on the tea stove; The expressions of each character are depicted in detail.
Therefore, the preciousness of this painting is not trivial, Wang Peng was shocked when he saw it. The prince said at the time that his family urgently needed 10,000 taels of silver, so he temporarily mortgaged the two paintings here. Half a month later, I will repay the money, and then add 2,000 taels of interest.
Wang Peng saw that he was gorgeously dressed and his face was full of anxiety, thinking that he was a famous family and temporarily short of money, so he took such a treasure to borrow, and such a huge amount of money was not something he could do, so he invited the boss to decide.
The shopkeeper Li was also shocked when he saw this painting, this is indeed a priceless treasure. He had been running this bookstore for many years, and when he saw such a precious scroll, he couldn't help but be suspicious, so he carefully identified it, and with his years of accumulated experience, he was sure that it was genuine. But it is really suspicious to take out such a precious picture scroll and use it in your own small shop.
The young man saw that he was hesitant, so he sneered and put away the painting, then turned around and wanted to leave, and said: "Since you don't know the goods here, this son will go to another house and put it here with you, I am still worried that the treasure painting will be defiled by you!" ”
Li was reluctant to pay off this big business at a glance, thinking that he was a swinger, stealing the family's treasure, changing the silver for nonsense, and if he didn't pay off the money after half a month, he would send it himself. So under the influence of greed, he turned his heart and nodded in agreement. But the boy said, "These are my heirlooms, and if they are destroyed by you, you will have to pay me tenfold!" ”
The shopkeeper was also a money-obsessed person at that time, so he agreed, and the two sides signed a contract, and went to the money with the boy to exchange the money, and the business was completed.
In a blink of an eye, it was almost half a moon, and Li couldn't help but be complacent, seeing that these two rare works were about to fall into his own bag, how did you dislike him. So I invited a few of my friends to come and enjoy the painting together.
When he carefully unfolded the painting in the brocade box, he triumphantly showed it off to his friends. At first, everyone was amazed, but later, one of them identified calligraphy and painting after careful observation, and said with a worried face: "Brother Wang, this time you are afraid that you will lose your eyes!" ”
Li was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Why did my brother say this?" ”
The man pointed to two paintings and said, "This painting is a little rough and formless. In particular, in this "Xiao Yi Earning Lan Pavilion", the paper obviously has traces of sulfur smoke, so it looks yellowish and very old, but the paper is old and the ink is new. So in my opinion, it's a fake! ”
A sentence woke up the person in the dream, and Li suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and with a plop, he was planted on the ground. He passed out of his coma, and it seemed that he had fainted from the 10,000 taels of silver.
When he sobered up, his anger was nowhere to vent, so he put the blame on Wang Peng, and forced him to find the silver, which was what happened in the past. Wang Peng finished speaking, with an innocent face.
Xiao Yu'er listened to this, and smiled secretly in her heart: "Li Yiyan, this matter is because of your own poor eyesight and greed, so you regard the fake as the real thing." So Wang Peng is just a normal reception of customers, so what's wrong? ”
So he glanced at Li confidently and said, "If you want to recover the silver, it's not difficult!" ”
Li Yiyan was skeptical of Xiao Yu'er's confidence, and looked at Xiao Yu'er with his own not very clever eyes, but he still couldn't see the depth of the other party. So he said, "I said sir, don't come to entertain me." This 10,000 taels of silver is not trivial, not child's play! ”
Xiao Yu'er smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as I do what I say, I will definitely be able to get back this silver." (To be continued......)