Liu Heng went quickly and came back quickly.
Holding a one-and-a-half-foot-long box in his arms, the thief looked around, like a thief.
After he got into the restaurant, he immediately asked the owner of the restaurant to close the door.
When knocks and shouts sounded outside the door, he remembered that two people carrying pens, inks, papers and inks were thrown outside by him.
"You go and arrange for them to come in, don't let people find out, I will go up first."
Liu Heng told the shopkeeper to pick up the person outside, holding the box by himself, and stepping up to the second floor of the restaurant.
Kou Ji sat at the two side-by-side tables, and saw Liu Heng's head and brain. He couldn't help but smile and said, "How do you get things from your own house, like a thief."
Liu Heng rolled his eyes, sat down opposite Kou Ji, carefully put down the box in his hand, and said, "You can't stand and talk. Is this something ordinary? There must be something wrong with this thing. Not only my father will If angry, my aunt will not spare us lightly."
Liu Heng's words made Er Bao amused.
When Liu Heng saw this, he just gave Erbao a sideways glance, but he didn't treat him like a forbidden army.
The reason for this is that Liu Heng has already developed a sense of closeness to Kou Ji.
Two people, especially two men, may not be able to develop a sense of intimacy when doing good deeds, but when they do bad things, it is easy to develop a sense of intimacy and thus draw closer the relationship between each other.
"Open and see..."
Kou Ji's eyes fell on Liu Heng's guarded box, and said with a smile.
Liu Heng glanced at him warily, clutching the box and said: "Don't move, I will show it to you."
Under the gaze of Kou Ji.
Like a peerless beauty, Liu Heng carefully opened the box and pulled out a scroll of paintings from the box.
Along the long table, the painting unfolded little by little.
Kou Ji stared at the painting with piercing eyes.
This painting caused divergent opinions in later generations, but no one saw it as it was. It is said that it has been lost.
Kou Ji is also a little excited to see the true content of this painting now. ,
The picture scroll was slowly unfolded, and a picture of a painted figure appeared on the paper.
Kou Ji was taken aback when he saw the content on the scroll.
There are two figures in the painting, a man and a woman. The male is dressed in bright yellow long gowns, lying on the brocade couch. The female is glamorous, and the green skirt is spread on the ground, nestled in the man’s arms, helping He feeds grapes.
The entire volume of the painting, the characters are lifelike, the look is natural, the colors are colorful, it is a rare masterpiece.
But Kou Ji's eyes couldn't hide his disappointment.
The reason I was disappointed is that this painting has another name in later generations, called the first eroticism of the world.
Now it seems that the name of the first erotica in the world is a bit misleading.
But after thinking about it, Kou Ji was relieved.
After all, this painting has been lost in later generations, and all rumors about this painting are mostly speculations.
"What is your look? You suspect that I gave you a fake painting?"
Liu Heng couldn't guess Kou Ji's mind, but his disappointed eyes could not hide from Liu Heng's eyes.
Hearing this, Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "I am a little disappointed, but it has nothing to do with the authenticity of this painting."
Liu Heng was stunned, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Kou Ji in disbelief, "You didn't believe the rumors, and thought this painting was an erotic painting?"
Koji nodded calmly.
Liu Heng yelled, "The rumors can be believed. If this painting is really an erotic painting, do you think my aunt can give it to my dad?"
Kou Ji laughed blankly, and nodded for a long time before saying: "It's because I thought about it a lot. Thank you, Brother Liu Heng, for the suggestion."
Liu Heng hummed and waved his hand: "Don't say these are useless, have you finished reading the painting? I will send it back after reading it."
Kou Ji smiled, "No hurry, anyway, the painting has already been taken out, and it won't matter if I leave it for an extra hour. Erbao, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are waiting."
"Here is the young master..."
Er Bao ran forward and grabbed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from Liu Heng's attendant, and laid it on the blank table.
Seeing this, Liu Heng gritted his teeth bitterly, "Are you trying to fake it? Imitating a painting like this, it won't work at all without three or five days."
What Liu Heng said was correct.
A painting can be created in a few hours.
It is possible to imitate a painting, especially if the imitation of the gods and forms are both, it often takes more time.
While Liu Heng was speaking, Er Bao had already helped Kou Ji spread the paper and rubbed the ink.
Kou Ji picked out a good wolf pen, moistened the pen, dipped it in ink, and said something.
"For me, it only takes one hour."
Kou Ji has already drew a few strokes on paper.
Liu Heng didn't know how to paint, but seeing Kou Ji strolling around in a leisurely courtyard, he felt confident and relieved before he knew it.
Kou Ji continued to paint, but the words in his mouth did not stop.
"I have to say that your father kept this painting very well. It is obviously a painting from decades ago, but there is no trace of time on the paper. The old paper from these decades ago is the same as the new one this year. Paper, the difference is only that slight.
After the new painting is finished, it is only necessary to bake it for a period of time and then dry it in the shade, which is enough to make it fake.
It saves me the work of old paper, but it gives me one more day to breathe. "
Liu Heng stared at the paintings written by Kou Ji, and asked in a deep voice, "What about after?"
Kou Ji raised his head and glanced at him, rinsed the pen in the brush wash, dried up the water contaminated in the wolf's hair with a dry sweat towel, dipped in the paint, and started writing again.
"After that...you, the prodigal son, went to Donglai Pawnshop to sell paintings."
Liu Heng frowned and said, "Just so? It's easy for people to see the flaws."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "So I have to help you prepare a few more paintings, the true and the false are mixed together, in order to attract people to the bait."
Liu Heng stretched his brows and smiled and said, "It's fine if you are ready."
After a pause, Liu Heng asked, "How can you predict that Wu Xian will definitely be hooked?"
"Listen more and read more..."
Liu Heng rolled his eyes involuntarily.
Kou Ji explained with a smile: "I have inquired in the shops that Wu Xian has saved a lot of money during his years as an official and opened several shops, including one for food, two for cloth, and one for gambling. There are three pawnshops.
The business of this pawnshop is far less profitable than the other four shops, and it even cannot make ends meet. It needs the other four shops to help in order to sustain it. "
Liu Heng heard the problem at once, and stared at him immediately: "It shouldn't be. I don't know what other businesses are in Bianjing, but the business of this pawnshop has always been very prosperous. How could his pawnshop not make money
There must be a problem. "
Kou Ji nodded and said: "There is indeed a problem. I thought about it, and the only thing that can explain it is that Wu Xian likes antique calligraphy and painting, so he often uses the pawnshop to help him collect antique calligraphy and painting. This caused the pawnshop to lose money and make ends meet. situation.
The three pawnshops of the Wu family have been struggling to make ends meet, and Wu Xian never planned to shut them down, which illustrates this point. "