Chapter 629

When Xie Gong talked about it here, he sighed a long time. What he said next also made Chu Chen and Lao Wu sigh.

Because considering that the child may have congenital diseases, and the daughter-in-law's health is too bad, in order to prevent accidents, Xie Gong entrusted his friend's relationship and let his daughter-in-law enter the Beijing Children's hospital.

With the help of friends, they also contacted a pediatrician with excellent medical skills and made a detailed plan, which also made Xie Gong and his wife a little relieved.

However, there was an accident on the day of delivery, because the daughter-in-law's body was too weak and there was postpartum hemorrhage. Even if he had prepared in advance, he died because of the daughter-in-law's body.

After learning the news from the doctor, the parents of both families were devastated. Xie Gong's son was even more upset. He injected himself with a lot of drugs and left with his daughter-in-law.

To make matters worse, the child seems to be normal, but after the doctor's examination, it is found that congenital intestinal atresia and small intestine is too short, if not treated in time, the child will definitely die.

The son and daughter-in-law are gone. Xie Gong and his wife do not want to lose the child any more, so they put all their energy into saving the child.

The child had an operation immediately, but the situation was not very good. He was rescued again and again, but he was critically ill again and again. In order for the child to survive, Xie Gong asked the doctor to give the child the best medicine. In this way, the family's savings were soon gone, so there was something about selling antique toys before.

"The child's condition is still not very good?" Chu Chen asked as he drove.

"Yes, or I wouldn't have sold the rest of the antiques."

Xie Gong sighed: "the doctor said that there would be another operation the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid this money is not enough, so I want to take out the thing at home and sell it."

"Sir, what is that thing in your house?" Asked the fifth.

"It's Wen Zhengming's copy of Li Song's" skeleton fantasy. " Xie Gong replied.

"What?" Old five was shocked, not only by him, but also by Chu Chen.

You know, whether it's Wen Zhengming or "skeleton fantasy" is too famous.

Wen Zhengming is a famous painter, calligrapher and writer in Ming Dynasty. In poetry, Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin and Xu Zhenqing are called "four talented persons in Wuzhong". Together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying in the history of painting, they are known as the "four schools of Wumen".

Li song was a famous court painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in a poor family and worked as a carpenter when he was young. Good painting, a long way to go. Li congxun, a court painter, accepted him as his adopted son and was awarded painting skills. He eventually became a famous painter of his generation. He was an old painter of song Guangzong, song ningzong and song LiZong.

Li Song's paintings are rich and colorful, from the palace to the folk, from the city to the countryside, from production to life, from eating and drinking to entertainment, from Xianshan to Longgong, from history to reality.

The picture of skeleton fantasy is just one of Li Song's masterpieces. The picture is weird and has strong contrast. The famous artists of past dynasties have many guesses about the content of the picture, and there is no lack of mysticism. After thousands of years, it has been changed many times and now is collected by Gugong Museum in Beijing.

Chu Chen did not expect that Wen Zhengming would copy this work, and this is also a very strange thing for him.

There is no doubt that Wen Zhengming is good at drawing figures. However, most of his figure paintings are "point scenery" works in landscape paintings, while only three or four individual figure paintings exist in the world, such as the axis of Laozi, the page of Laozi, the axis of xiangjunxiang lady, the axis of Bajiao lady, etc. If this picture is the real work of Wen Zhengming, its cultural and artistic value can be said to be inestimable.

However, because of his high reputation, Wen Zhengming was hard to change even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The so-called "virtue, admiration from the sea, mountain and mountain accumulation, noise overflowing the inner gate, Cuntu just came out, dried up in hundreds of copies, sold in the home market, true and false.".

When Wen Zhengming's painting was just finished, people rushed to the door to buy it, and there was a mountain of vegetables for it. His inscriptions and postscripts in the calligraphy and painting business at that time had the weight of "get a word, often price", so Wen Zhengming's works became the object of pursuit of counterfeiters, which led to the fact that Wen Zhengming's works were also one of the most popular counterfeits in Suzhou during this period.

Moreover, Wen Zhengming is too kind-hearted. As long as someone asks him for promotion, he seldom refuses.

He Liangjun, a man of the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his "four friends Zhai Cong Shuo" that Wen Zhengming: in all the houses of collecting calligraphy and painting in Wuzhong, there are those who ask for the identification of their teachers with calligraphy and painting. Although they are fake, their teachers will say, "this is also the true work."

When asked why, the teacher said, "anyone who buys calligraphy and painting must have a spare home. This person is poor and sells things, or stays here to raise a fire. If I can't do it because of one word, my family will be in trouble. I want to take a temporary name and make my family suffer. How can I bear it? "

Wen Zhengming's strange logic also made him an easy target for counterfeiters to use. As a result, there were frequent imitations, forgeries and ghostwriting, and even formed a special cultural landscape in Suzhou area at that time.It is because of the above reasons, and in Wen Zhengming's paintings, he rarely copied the works of his predecessors, and mostly created for himself. Therefore, Chu Chen had to worry that Xie Gong's "skeleton fantasy play" would be a fake or his proxy work.

But whether it's true or not still needs to be seen before we know. If it's the real work of Wen Zhengming, it's a great surprise. Chu Chen will definitely buy it back.

Xie Gong lived in a small courtyard, just like Uncle Wu. When Chu Chen stopped, he found that the door was still closed.

While opening the door, Xie Gong explained, "my husband and wife have been watching the children in the hospital, so there is no one at home."

Chu Chen nodded to show his understanding.

Opening the door, Chu Chen goes in with Xie Gong and finds that there are still some funeral things in the corner of the yard. There is a depressing atmosphere in the room, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

Xie Gong takes people to the hall and gives Chu Chen and Lao Wu a cup of tea before greeting them. He goes back to the bedroom and is ready to take out the things.

During this period, Chu Chen looked around and found that in the corner of the hall, there were still some unfinished handicrafts, red in color and good looking, which made him curious, so he stood up and went up.

When he got there, Chu Chen found out that these handicrafts were unfinished lacquer carving works, and in terms of craftsmanship, they should be lacquer carving in the capital.

Carved lacquer has been introduced before. Among them, carved lacquer in the capital has the characteristics of simple and solemn shape, exquisite and exquisite decoration, lustrous color, elegant shape, moisture-proof, heat resistance, acid and alkali resistance, no deformation and no deterioration. It is a traditional handicraft in Beijing. It is as famous as cloisonne, ivory carving and jade carving. It is known as one of the "four famous dans" in Beijing.

Chu Chen saw that most of the unfinished carved lacquer had been finished, and some had just started. In this case, it was obvious that Xie Gong was the maker of them, which was unexpected to him.

Judging from these lacquer carving works, Xie Gong's craftsmanship is very exquisite. Although he may not be as good as some masters, he is not much different. Maybe he only needs one chance to become a lacquer carving master.

Just as chuchen was about to enjoy it carefully, Xie Gong came out of the bedroom with a picture box in his arms.

Seeing this, Chu Chen put the carved lacquer in his hand and went back to its original position. Then he asked with a smile, "Mr. Xie, did you specially make carved lacquer before?"

Xie Gong put the box on the table and said, "yes, it's a family craft. Originally I wanted to pass it on to my son, but I didn't expect Ah

When he mentioned his dead son, he was immediately dejected. Although his son is poisoned, as long as he is alive, there is still hope of getting better. But if he is gone, there will be nothing. What's more, it's always the saddest thing in the world for a white haired man to give a black haired man away. He would rather suffer himself than let his son go ahead of him.

Seeing Xie Gong's grief stricken appearance, Chu Chen quickly comforted him: "old Xie, your health is important. Don't be too sad, and now your grandson is in need of you."

Hearing Chu Chen mention his grandson, Xie Gong immediately perked up and said with a strong smile, "boss Chu, I'm sorry to see you. Let's take a look at this painting."

"OK..."

Chu Chen nodded, then Xie Gong took out the painting from the box and unfolded it.

In front of me, this work is light colored on white paper. On the left side of the picture, there is a large skeleton sitting on the ground, manipulating a small skeleton with hanging wires. This is one of the forms of puppet performance in the Song Dynasty - hanging silk puppet performance.

Of course, in real life, such performances are manipulated by people, and the moral of taking the skeleton as the protagonist is about to reflect the illusory, impermanent and sudden disillusionment of life fate. You are the manipulator today, and maybe you will be the manipulated tomorrow. Therefore, life is about a walking corpse.

Beside the skeleton, there is a puppet play burden, with straw mat, umbrella and other things on it. Behind the skeleton, there is a woman feeding Ru baby, perhaps his wife.

On the right side of the picture, a child is attracted by the action of a small skeleton and is ready to run. Behind the child, there is a woman, who should be the child's mother or guardian. She seems to be worried that the child will get too close, hurt or damage the skeleton.

The postscript in running script on the top right says: "without any skin or meat, there is a burden of pain and sorrow. Puppet son will also draw silk thread, make a small appearance to tease the enemy. Who is not ashamed to see through a shame? I've been alone since five miles. " And wrote down the date of creation of the Department of funds, the Department of funds under the seal of Zhu Lianzhu Fang Yin "Zheng" and "Ming".