Chapter 427

The stall owner looked at the hand stove in Chu Chen's hand and said with a smile: "Sir, you won't cheat, will you? You just said that the work should be as meticulous as these six copper furnaces, but you didn't say that the size should be the same. You see, there are 14 copper stoves in total. I'll give you a little cheaper. That's 11000 pounds in total. I'll give you the other cloth bag, isn't that interesting? "

Chu Chen opened his mouth, angrily took out the money from his bag, threw it in front of the stall owner, and then directly put the copper stove on the stall into the cloth bag.

After counting the bills, the stall owner said with a little pride: "just right, welcome to visit next time!"

Chu Chen cold hum a, pull Wu can directly left the market.

Out of the market, Wu Ke curiously asked: "ah Chen, why are you walking so fast? Can't these be genuine products again?"

Chuchen couldn't help his joy any longer. He laughed and said, "they are all genuine. In the beginning, the six copper stoves were all real Xuande stoves!"

"No! When can Xuande furnace be wholesale? And I can feel that these copper stoves are very ancient. Why does that person think they are all fakes? " Wu Ke is stunned to ask a way.

"In fact, antique identification is like this. If you think something is a fake, the more you look at it, the more wrong you will feel. Even if something has ancient charm, you will subconsciously think that these features are made by the forger. And most importantly, the stall owner should not be proficient in this. It's no surprise that he takes the real as the fake under the preconception. "

After Chu Chen explained, he beamed and said, "you don't know, one of the Xuande stoves is still a unique masterpiece. It can be said that it's a national treasure. It's really lucky this time!"

Wu Ke was shocked and numb. Thinking of the proud smile of the stall owner just now, she said with a smile, "ah Chen, I don't think you are an actor. Our country has lost an international star. I don't know if that person will spit blood and die when he knows the real value of these things."

Chuchen solemnly said: "I can't be an actor, otherwise thousands of girls will cry and shout that if I don't marry, then my sin will be great!"

Wu Ke laughed and said: "less stinky and beautiful!..."

Put the copper stove in the room of the hotel. When they saw that it was time for dinner, they went to Meimei to have a good meal first, and then went to the market.

Maybe I ran out of luck in the morning. After wandering for two hours, I just bought some gadgets. I didn't find any small leaks, let alone big ones.

Seeing the vendors closing up one after another, the two decided to end their trip to notting hill market and then prepare to have a visit in Notting Hill.

The most distinctive feature of notting hill is that it is full of exotic customs. There is an annual carnival here, which attracts at least 2 million people to participate in the activities every year. But Chu Chen didn't come at the right time, because the carnival is held on the last weekend of August every year for two days.

In addition to the carnival, with the shooting and release of a film called Notting Hill, countless love elements have been added here.

So they went to see the famous film together after a visit.

As a matter of fact, the content of Notting Hill and the imagination between Chu Chen and Wu Ke are just changed into the story that the princess falls in love with the common people. After a series of acquaintances and tribulations, the two finally come together.

In the movie, hot coffee, ex boyfriends, two loved women, an unsustainable bookstore, many gossip, unequal career, and a series of plots, all caused resonance between the two people.

When you see the park at the end of the movie, on the bar chair, the pregnant heroine leans her head against the thigh of the male protagonist who is reading the book, quietly watching the children play, Wu Ke can't help but say: "ah Chen, I really want to give birth to some children for you now, and then our family will live a carefree life like in the movie!"

Chuchen gently stroked her hair, gently kissed her forehead and said, "there will be that day soon."

"Well! People will think about it now! " Wu Ke is coquettish.

Chuchen said with a smile: "silly girl, we can really live such a life now, but you don't want our children to get on the bus first and then pay for the tickets, do you? Of course, although we can't make people, we can do sports! "

Wu Ke was blushed by Chu Chen's pretty face, and said shyly: "you are really necrotic!"

For two days in a row, they did not go to the market any more. They just visited various scenic spots in London. Although antiques were the cause Chu Chen loved, they were not the whole of his life. Sometimes they had to enjoy other pleasures in life.

On Tuesday morning, they came to the famous National Gallery in London, which is an elegant art palace with rich flavor. It can be regarded as a collection of classical works of the Renaissance, including the works of Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cezanne and others.

Although the style of foreign paintings is different from that of traditional Chinese paintings, the expression of artistic conception is the same, especially the works of the world-famous painters, who show the meaning they want to express incisively and vividly in the whole painting, making Chu Chen enjoy it.By the time they had enjoyed all the paintings in the gallery, it was almost noon.

After lunch, the weather was not beautiful, and it began to rain. In addition, Chu Chen felt that the morning was a little bit more meaningful, so they decided to go to a private gallery. If they had any good works, they could buy them by the way.

Although it's too expensive for chuchen to invest in these two famous paintings in the long run, it's better for chuchen to buy them as curios than to invest in them.

After asking passers-by, they came to a gallery.

The scale of this gallery is medium, but there are a great variety of paintings in it. There are even Chinese ink landscape paintings. In addition to most of them are the works of domestic modern painters, there are also some paintings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which makes Chu Chen interested.

The paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are basically not the works of famous artists, and their level is also very general, which is not much better than the modern painters on display. However, one of the paintings Xiang Shengmo's "the pavilion of the green shade River" is highly praised by Chu Chen.

Among the painters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty recorded in the history of traditional Chinese painting, many of them like the painting style of easy brushwork, but few of them are close to reality and elegant. Xiang Shengmo is a unique landscape painter in the late Ming Dynasty.

Xiang Shengmo not only paints unique landscapes, characters, flowers and birds, but also is very erudite, good at calligraphy and poetry.

His landscape paintings have no special and direct lessons, but widely appreciate the ancients, learn from nature, like to absorb materials from life. His paintings are close to reality, accurate modeling, serious and meticulous, and are praised by Dong Qichang and others.

Xiang Shengmo's painting style is reflected in the painting of lvyinxi Pavilion. The objects drawn are close to reality, accurate in shape, careful in brushwork, and serious. It is not only sloppy at that time, but also pursues the painting style of "leisurely brushwork". It has beautiful artistic conception, elegant charm and high quality.

The artistic conception of the painting is vividly portrayed, the environment layout is very appropriate, and it is full of poetry everywhere. In addition, the poems mentioned in the painting are appropriate, so that readers can easily integrate into the artistic conception of the painting. It can be said that this painting is a good painting that can last forever.

It's rare to meet a fine painting by Xiang Shengmo. Of course, Chu Chen didn't want to miss it. At the price, it costs 48000 pounds. The size of the painting is eight square feet. In the current market, the price seems a little expensive. So he asked the assistant: "I don't know if this painting can be cheaper?"

"Sir, the best we can do for this painting is a 15% discount." The clerk replied politely.

Chu Chen thought about it and said, "if it's 40000 pounds, I'll buy it."

The clerk pondered for a while and said, "please wait a moment, sir. I'll ask for instructions."

A moment later, the shop assistant came over and said that the boss agreed to his price, so Chu Chen asked him to wrap up the painting.

Chu Chen did not like any other traditional Chinese paintings except "the pavilion in lvyinxi", so he began to browse the oil paintings in the gallery.

At the beginning of the oil painting works, are not famous artists, the level is also average, but the closer to the gallery, the better.

"Well, it's like Ms. Charlotte by Waterhouse, isn't it?" Wu Ke asked lightly.

Chu Chen turned his head and saw that it was indeed the famous "Lady Charlotte" by Waterhouse, but judging from the degree of completion of the painting, it should be a sketch.

In the dark green mountains, a small boat was sitting quietly on the surface of the lake. With reddish brown hair, a Charlotte woman in white was sitting on it. She was about to loosen the rope and lay down quietly. The sad and dignified expression on Charlotte's face, the broken water grass beside the boat, the candle and cross about to go out at the bow of the boat, indicate the coming death.

Because Chu Chen had just bought a painting, a shop assistant stood not far away from them. Hearing Wu Ke's question, the shop assistant went forward and said, "yes, this is a sketch of Ms. Charlotte. We have asked many experts to identify it. It's really the authentic work of Waterhouse, and we have issued an identification certificate."

"You see, although this painting is only a sketch, its artistic conception is not inferior. The lady Charlotte in the painting is sentimental, mysterious, lonely, alienated and elegant, which not only coincides with Victoria's repressive emotion, but also has an indescribable image of emptiness and desolation.... "