A Clash of Gods - Chapter 515

[Chapter 516 Goddess Morning Dew Picture]

Gu Qinghan’s pretty face was cold and frosty, Qi Ning sat aside, and it was difficult to speak. After a while, he saw a figure dodging outside the door, glanced at it, and saw that Gu Wenwen was poking his head and looking in, his heart was amused.

“Don’t come in yet.” Naturally, Gu Qinghan also found out, and said angrily: “Do you want to never see each other again from now on?”

Gu Wenwen came in with a smiling face and said, “Sister, this time it’s for the sake of your brother, don’t be angry. Little Marquis, you can go back to Beijing. How is your trip to Xichuan this time? Are you leading troops to fight? Prestige or not?” He didn’t dare to look at Gu Qinghan, just smiled and said to Qi Ning: “I really regret it now, if I go to Xichuan with you this time, nothing will happen.”

Up to now, Qi Ning only knew that Gu Wenwen owed tens of thousands of taels of silver. He didn’t know what happened. He got up and cupped his hands, “How is your uncle?”

“It’s not good.” Gu Wenwen said with a bitter face: “Do you already know about my affairs? Little Marquis, since you’re back, it’s great, you have to decide for me, this time I It’s been miserable.”

“Shut up.” Gu Qinghan didn’t give face at all, and scolded: “It’s you who are greedy enough, and you are digging in yourself. Who is to blame? You have always been very ambitious in your work. If you are planted in this matter, sooner or later you will cause other troubles.” After glancing at Qi Ning, he said, “I brought him here, not to support you, you will clean up later and go directly to the Kyoto Palace with him. Yamen, go to the big prison.”

Gu Wenwen hurriedly said: “Sister, you just saw your elder brother being put in prison? You are still not my sister, how can you be so cruel?”

Gu Qinghan raised her eyebrows and scolded: “What are you talking about? Is it me being ruthless, or are you ruthless? You know that your mother is old, and after my father’s death, my mother’s body has become weaker and weaker in the past two years, don’t you? Maintain the family business and take good care of your mother, but instead you come from Jiangling to the capital. If you come to the capital, you can do things in a down-to-earth manner, that’s fine, but look at what you’ve done? .” At this point, the eye circles were red again.

Qi Ning had never seen Gu Qinghan so annoyed, for fear that Gu Qinghan would hurt her body, she said softly: “Sanniang, don’t worry, don’t make trouble if you have nothing to do, but if something comes up, don’t be afraid, try your best to find a way to solve it. ”

“Yes, yes, what Xiao Hou Ye said is true.” Gu Wenwen leaned halfway on a chair, as if he had met a great savior, “Sister, eldest brother did something wrong, you scolded and scolded, but let’s We have to figure out how to solve it. You and I only have two brothers and sisters. If I really have three strengths and two weaknesses, who will take care of my mother?”

Gu Qinghan bit her red lips, stared at him hatefully, and didn’t speak.

Qi Ning said: “Sanniang, why don’t you go and see the old lady first, I’ll chat with my uncle here.”

At this time, Gu Qinghan was angry and worried about Gu Wenwen, and even more worried about Mrs. Gu. He didn’t speak, got up, and went to see Mrs. Gu.

After Gu Qinghan left, Gu Wenwen let out a long breath, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, picked up the cold tea in his hand, and drank it in one gulp, then said with a wry smile: “Little Marquis, if you hadn’t come today, I don’t know what this girl wants. How to clean me up.”

“Uncle, what happened? I heard that you owe tens of thousands of taels outside?” Qi Ning frowned and said, “It’s because you lost money in business. I heard it’s related to a painting?”

Gu Wenwen didn’t speak for a while, then tiptoed to the door, looked out, and saw that Gu Qinghan’s beautiful and graceful figure had gone far, then came back and sat down beside Qi Ning, with a frustrated expression: “Little Hou Lord, this is a trap, someone from his mother is trying to plot against me.”

“Think about you?”

Gu Wenwen said: “Little Marquis knows that I came to the capital to honor the ancestors. My father stayed in Jiangling all his life. Although he also had some business, he was timid and did not dare to expand his business. Think about it, how old is Jiangling? How can the place compare to the prosperity of the capital?”

Qi Ning just smiled lightly and did not speak.

“I was in the capital, and I got three shops.

“Gu Wenwen said: “One of them is a pawn shop. I heard people say that opening a pawn shop can make a lot of money, so I opened one.”

If you want to do big things, you need to hire people, so I hired an old shopkeeper. This person has excellent eyesight and knows everything about pawnshops. Yes, this bastard’s surname is Jiang.

”

Qi Ning thought that Gu Wenwen was really clueless. The first two sentences were still complimenting others, and the last sentence was scolding them for being a piece of shit, and asked, “Does this have anything to do with Shopkeeper Jiang?”

“It’s a big relationship.” Gu Wenwen said angrily: “After I arrived in the capital, I inevitably made some friends. On weekdays, these few friends are very generous to me, and we often get together. One of them is named Qiao Yu, He is very talented, and he is very good at antique calligraphy and painting. Because I opened a pawnshop, I got closer to him on weekdays.”

“Qiao Yu?” Qi Ning asked, “Who is he?”

“He is a son of an official family. I heard that his father became a small official in the Ministry of Housing.” Gu Wenwen said, “I have been to his mansion. He has a mansion alone and has a woman in it. They are all antique calligraphy and painting, and they also told me the origin of those antique calligraphy and painting, there are several kinds of priceless value, so!” The expression was a little unnatural.

Qi Ning sighed, “So my uncle thought that antique calligraphy and painting are the easiest to make money?”

“I think so.” Gu Wenwen said with a wry smile, “Qiao Yu also said that, apart from some of those antique paintings and calligraphy that he collected himself, many of them were sold at a high price. I asked him to sell them to What kind of people, he told me that every year officials from other places come to Beijing to meet important officials in the court. Many officials will first go to him to buy some antique calligraphy and paintings, and they will pay tribute to those Shangguan with generous gifts. , Second, if he can buy antique calligraphy and paintings from him, his father can help matchmaking, and there is a way to meet those dignitaries.”

Qi Ning frowned and did not speak, Gu Wenwen continued: “I asked him how much the antique calligraphy and paintings were worth, and Qiao Yu told me a lot, telling me that some antique calligraphy and paintings seem to be very valuable, but they are really worth it. If you want to sell it, you can’t buy much money. Only those really big money can be valuable. He saw that I have a pawn shop and told me that I should collect those antique calligraphy and paintings. If I can get it, I can sell it to him. He will definitely sell it A huge purchase.”

“What happened afterward?”

Gu Wenwen said: “After the pawnshop opened, there were not many people at first, but luck was good. I did receive a few good things, but they were all dead, so I took it to Qiao Yu to see, Qiao Yu said that I was lucky, and it was true. All the money was collected, and in less than a month, the pawnshop only handed over from the middle, earning five or six thousand taels of silver.”

Qi Ning knew that five or six thousand taels of silver was by no means a small amount, and he felt that it was very strange. Gu Wenwen continued: “That evening, I was wandering around the pawnshop, and when it was about to close, a customer came to the door. I brought two scrolls of calligraphy and paintings.”

Qi Ning knew that this was what happened, and listened intently, only to listen to Gu Wenwen: “That person looks ordinary, I thought there would be nothing good, but the shopkeeper Jiang was also present at the time, and the person said nothing. Ask us if we have enough money.” He clenched his fists and sneered: “I heard that he was very loud, and I felt a little unhappy in my heart, and said that as long as it is a good thing, even 10,000 taels of gold is not a problem.”

Qi Ning knew that Gu Wenwen was exaggerating.

The Gu family is a big family in Jiangling, which is naturally true. If all the properties of the Gu family are added together, they are worth 10,000 taels of gold. Qi Ning does not doubt it. Maybe bring all the money on hand, because buying a stockade and storefront in the capital is naturally expensive. If you have tens of thousands of taels of silver on hand, it may not be false, but if you want to easily take out 10,000 taels of gold, That’s a bluff, of course.

“That person listened to me and handed over one of the paintings. I heard his big tone and wanted to see what the painting was.” Gu Wenwen smiled bitterly: “If I wasn’t there that day, maybe I wouldn’t have this shit. I was taken aback when I saw the painting, Little Marquis, do you know whose painting it is?”

Qi Ning wondered how I knew, but said: “It can surprise my uncle, of course it’s not an ordinary painting.”

“That’s Han Shengzi’s painting.” Gu Wenwen said, “Have you heard of Han Shengzi? That was a generation of painting saints more than two hundred years ago. When it comes to paintings, no one doesn’t know about Han Shengzi, his painting skills. Extraordinary, it is said that he can sell a painting for tens of thousands of taels. UU reading www.sonicmtl.com ”

This world is completely different from the history that Qi Ning knows. Naturally, I don’t know how sacred Han Shengzi is, but when I heard Gu Wenwen say this, I knew that this Han Shengzi must be a great person, but a painting can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Two silver coins still surprised Qi Ning.

“Although Han Shengzi’s painting skills are amazing, it is said that he does not take action easily. Sometimes he does not paint a single painting for several years, and there are very few paintings that have been passed down to the world.” Gu Wenwen said: “Existing in the world. There are no more than ten paintings that have been handed down, and the most famous of them is the Goddess.”

“Goddess picture?”

“That’s right.” Gu Wenwen nodded and said, “I usually heard them say that there are two pictures of the goddess, one is the picture of the goddess in the morning, which is the painting of the goddess flying in the sky at dawn, and the other is the picture of the goddess returning to the evening. It is the picture of the goddess returning to Xianfeng at dusk. It is said that these two pictures were drawn by Han Shengzi by order of the emperor at that time. Han Shengzi spent five years of hard work for these two pictures.”

Qi Ning thought to himself that a painting Han Shengzi could easily earn tens of thousands of taels of silver. If it took five years to paint a painting, it would only be a priceless treasure.

“According to the legend, the emperor dreamed of a goddess for several days in a row. He wanted to draw people the pictures in the dream. At that time, only Han Shengzi had the ability.” Gu Wenwen said: “The emperor sent people to look for it for two years. , only to find Han Shengzi, and it took another five years to complete the painting. After the completion, it is said that the painting is exactly the same as the emperor’s dream, so the two paintings have become the treasures of the court.”

Qi Ning frowned and said, “The one sent to the pawnshop that day was Han Shengzi’s goddess picture?”

“That’s right.” Gu Wenwen said, “The painting that person came out was exactly the picture of the Goddess Chaolu.”

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