After communicating with Zheng Shusen and Tan Moxuan, Li Yi directly came to Wang Haoqing. Of course, it is hard to say that he would directly introduce some customers to support him, but it is still no problem to borrow two people to give advice.

After getting all this done, Li Yi took Tan Moxuan to Jinling.

In the history of Chinese art, there are two very influential schools of painting in the Jinling area, one is called the Jinling School and the other is called the New Jinling School of Painting.

The Jinling School of Painting was founded in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, headed by Gong Xian, and seven others including Fan Qi and Gao Cen. They were also known as the "Eight Schools of Jinling" and were once famous.

The New Jinling School of Painting is even more amazing. It was led by Fu Baoshi, co-founded by older generation artists such as Qian Songyan, Yaming, and Song Wenzhi in the 1960s. It is still a very important force in the Chinese painting world. Li Yi focused on learning the materials of representatives during the Tongruibao training.

Shi Chongxuan is a representative figure among the young and middle-aged painters of the New Jinling School of Painting.

This solo exhibition is large in scale and high in specifications. The exhibition location rented an exhibition hall in the Jinling Art Museum. Not only were the main figures of the New Jinling School of Painting, but important figures also attended the New Beijing-Tianjin School of Painting, New Sea Ink and Painting School, New Zhejiang School and other schools. It can be seen that the New Jinling School of Painting is preparing to support Shi Chongxuan this time.

Li Yi arrived in Jinling a day in advance. As soon as he arrived at the hotel, he first contacted several young painters who were invited to participate in the art exhibition and participated in the competition on the same day. Soon after, Zhang Xiaofan, who would hold his first solo exhibition in Lin Gui, and Ma Weizhong, who accompanied him to Chang'an last time, were among them.

"I feel like I'm coming to the wrong place. I don't even know any of the others on this list except you guys!"

Li Yi looked at the brochure with the guest list for a long time and was embarrassed to find that his interpersonal relationship in this area was too thin. Apart from the few people in front of him, he didn't know anyone else on the list!

"What does it matter if you don't know each other? As long as you make the names of your two masters stand out, some people want to know you! But I'm different. Grandma doesn't love you and my uncle doesn't love you. If you want to invite a few more heavyweight guests to hold a painting exhibition, they all hit the walls everywhere. Alas, this person is so angry than others!"

Seeing Li Yi saying that his interpersonal relationship was weak, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help rolling his eyes, revealing his appearance as a foolish man and a resentful woman.

"Haha, Lao Shi is 35 years old, and it means that he has lived a better life in the past two years and has a longer life expectancy, so he can barely be among the young painters. Otherwise, he would have been included in the middle-aged and elderly. But what about you, Xiao Zhang? You are only twenty-seven, the age of flowers. When you reach our age, you will definitely be even better than him..."

Ma Weizhong patted Zhang Xiaofan on the shoulder vigorously. This guy is a human being and has a good relationship with Shi Chongxuan and Zhang Xiaofan, so he has no scruples when speaking.

"By the way, Li Yi, when will you go back to Yanjing? If you are not in a hurry to leave, do me a favor."

As soon as he finished talking to Zhang Xiaofan, Ma Weizhong found Li Yi.

"No problem, Brother Ma, your business is mine. Not to mention that you have to stay here for two days, even if you leave after participating tomorrow, you have to stay for you, right?"

"Are you poor, right? Okay, just say this to you, I want you to wait two more days!"

Ma Weizhong pointed at Li Yi and said with a smile. Liu Keyi, who had never spoken beside him, also smiled.

"Xiao Li, you are fooled. You can't be polite to Lao Ma. This guy is best at hitting snakes and sticks. Hey, do you know that this guy has a painting that uses his face to create? Think about it, even his face can be used to draw, how thick should it be?"

"Ah? There is still something going on? Tell me quickly!"

"Old Liu, you've had enough, let's be careful, I'll reveal your shortcomings!"

"Reveal quickly, reveal quickly, it's best to be able to hold Lao Liu's handle. Last time, I didn't give him any more than a painting because I didn't hold him."

The room suddenly became lively, and a few people said one by one, and they kept making trouble until dinner time before they parted.

Ma Weizhong naturally walked with Li Yi,

"I have a friend here forgot about age. A while ago, I bought a work by Gong Xian at an auction in the United States. I was seen by a friend of the New Jinling School of Painting. He insisted that it was a fake! I knew that I came to participate in the art exhibition, so I asked me to help him find the seniors in the Jinling School of Painting. I thought about it and thought it would be more reliable to find you..."

"Gong Xian's works are not cheap, right?"

"Not it? The commission is 4.86 million US dollars! Otherwise, what about the annoying..."

Li Yi nodded. The price of Gong Xian’s works has risen sharply in recent years, but there are not many of them that can earn 30 million soft girls. It is indeed depressing to say that a work bought with such a large sum of money is a fake.

"Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner first. After dinner, we'll go there. It's time to finish the breakfast."

Ma Weizhong hugged Li Yi's shoulder and led him into an alley.

"If you want to eat the most authentic one, you still have to rely on burying alleys. Although the restaurants are delicious, they have been improved more or less and are no longer the original flavor..."

"No, I don't want to eat the original ones, I want to eat delicious ones!"

Li Yi struggled for a while, but he never struggled with Ma Weizhong, but was dragged into a restaurant at the end of the alley.

"Come a dish of five-spice beans, a dish of dried shredded silk, Jinling salted duck, squirrel mandarin fish... For the staple food, you need a tray of soup buns, a tray of small roasted wheat... and a pot of Yuhua tea, a jar of daughter red, 30 years old!"

To Li Yi's expectation, although this restaurant is in the alley and looks small in the store, when I really came in, I found that the area was really large and clean, which was quite like a private restaurant.

"Don't underestimate this restaurant. It's not cheap to have a meal here. If the four of us don't drink, they will have to be more than 800 yuan to eat. If they drink, haha..."

After Ma Weizhong ordered the dishes, he handed the menu to Li Yi. Li Yi saw the price of the wine he had just ordered at a glance, 3888! It was indeed not cheap.

"The wines in this restaurant are all made of homemade, the most authentic ones. You will know after drinking them later."

Several people were chatting and waiting for the food to be served. After a while, the tea came first.

“Huh?”

Ma Weizhong was about to pick up the teapot and pour tea. Li Yi reached out and stopped it, and picked up the teapot himself.

This is a blue and white boy's cattle picture teapot, about 12 cm high and about six cm in diameter. The pot is painted with a boy's cattle picture. The blue and white hair color is bright, but the glaze is slightly dim.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this teapot?"

Seeing that Li Yi put the teapot back after seeing it, Ma Weizhong asked curiously, and Tan Moxuan picked up the teapot, looked it carefully for a while, and whispered in surprise:

"Is this a haystack porcelain?"

Li Yi nodded. This was indeed a piece of fishing porcelain, but because it was produced by a folk kiln and the age was only during the Daoguang period, it was not very valuable.

But no matter how low the value is, it is an antique. I don’t know where this store got it, but it is actually just used as an ordinary teapot. It is interesting enough.

"Sea fishing for porcelain? Is it the kind of porcelain that is caught from a shipwreck under the sea? So it's an old object?"

When Ma Weizhong heard that it was a haystack porcelain, he immediately became interested. He looked around and moved his position, blocked the teapot, and then asked in a low voice:

"How much is it worth?"

Li Yi stretched out a finger. Daily porcelain from the Daoguang period was not very expensive, and folk kilns were even cheaper. In addition, Shanghai porcelain was not as precious as normal ancient porcelain due to the erosion and damage of seawater, so this piece costs only about 10,000 yuan at most.

"Only ten thousand?"

Obviously, Ma Weizhong was a little disappointed, but he soon became excited again. He could pick up bargains even when he had a meal, not to mention the big leaks and the small leaks. This matter itself is an adventure worthy of big books. How can he let it go easily because of its low value?

"Take it?"

He glanced at Li Yi and gestured to a lip. Seeing his sneaky look, Li Yi couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

"I don't want it, let's talk about it. Today is your treat, even if you want it, you will be the first."

"Haha, then I'm not polite!"

Ma Weizhong rolled up his sleeves, carefully picked up the teapot, and poured a cup of each of them.

"Taste, taste the difference between the tea made from teapots hundreds of years ago!"

Unexpectedly, Li Yi and Tan Moxuan shook their heads at the same time. This thing has been at the bottom of the sea for at least 200 years. Even if it is carefully cleaned, those unclean things cannot be washed off. What's more, this family doesn't know that this is a haystack porcelain, so how can it be carefully cleaned?

When Ma Weizhong saw the actions of Li Yi and the other two, he also smiled and put down the teacup. Indeed, it really takes some courage to make tea with hundreds of years of antiques to drink.

Soon, the dishes from the small plate were served, and the jar of daughter Hong, worth 3,888 yuan, was also delivered to the table. It was also a very exquisite blue and white porcelain jar, but it was a modern new porcelain.

Li Yi tasted every dish, then took a sip of the wine, his eyes lit up, and he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Then he glanced at Ma Weizhong, who was a little restless, shook his head, and said:

"Well, this dish tastes really good, the wine tastes better, how did you find it here?"

"It was the old man who asked me to help find someone to read the painting told me... Hey, you guys say, if I want this teapot later, will they be suspicious? It would be great if it was a wine jar. If the wine was not finished, I would just carry it and leave..."

Ma Weizhong really doesn’t want to greed for this ten thousand yuan, but the more he thinks about this, the more interesting it becomes, so he has no intention of having a meal at all.

Seeing his appearance, Li Yi and Tan Moxuan looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and started to eat at the same time. It just so happened that the amount of dishes in the south was relatively small, and it was undesirable to eat one person less! (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!