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Lin Yi was sobering up the tea. He didn't expect that Mr. Wu would praise him so much, especially as a master of appraisal. He almost spurted out the tea in surprise. He waved his hand and said, "I don't dare to be it, I don't dare to be it. In fact, I'm not very familiar with that aspect."

"Young Master Xu is right. Brother, you are humble! But don't treat me as an outsider. Everyone is a brother--Come on, take the calligraphy and painting I bought!" Mr. Wu greeted his subordinates with great dignity.

While someone went to get calligraphy and paintings, Wu Dashao began to brag about how he got the calligraphy and painting by chance. He said that he went to the county town to eat wild game. When he passed by a market, he happened to see a mud-legged farmer selling the calligraphy and painting on the side of the road. Wu Dashao didn't understand calligraphy and paintings, but thought the painting was pretty good. When he asked for the price, he said he wanted 30,000 yuan. Wu Dashao generously handed over the price of 20,000 yuan and got the calligraphy and painting.

After hearing this, Lin Yi shook his head in his heart. Isn’t it the trick of selling fake goods often? He dressed up as a construction site worker or a farmer, squatting on the side of the road smoking a cigarette, and putting a big turtle covered in mud in front of him. The turtle held a big pearl, claiming to be dug out from the ground of the construction site, and he didn’t know what it was or what the price... Then, as long as you are greedy together, you will pay for it.

Seeing that Lin Yi didn't speak, Wu Dashao thought Lin Yi was shocked by his story of finding a bargain, and his expression became even more proud. He said that he was enlightened now and he should also have more contact with these things in the future. He collects calligraphy and paintings, and has great prospects. It can not only improve his taste, but also invest and make money.

Lin Yi agrees with this sentence. You should know that investment in calligraphy and painting does have high risks, but it is also accompanied by high profits. There was once a saying that a person who loves collection finally chose calligraphy and painting, and when he chooses to give up collection, the one he sells in the end is also calligraphy and painting. This shows that investment in calligraphy and painting has great value-added potential and has a very broad market foundation.

Someone has done statistics that since the early stage of "Literature and Reform", in just over 30 years, the investment income of calligraphy and painting has been more than 100 times, which is far higher than other collectibles. However, the risks of investment in calligraphy and painting are multifaceted, and the market is only one of the factors. In fact, the biggest risk of investment in calligraphy and painting comes from the works themselves, and first of all, the risk of fakes.

However, it is definitely not as easy as Wu Dashao said. When he met a farmer on the roadside - does a farmer know how to write and paint? He even dared to ask you for 30,000 yuan when he opened his mouth. Either his head was struck by lightning or your head was kicked by a donkey.

Of course, Lin Yi would not say these words easily, just sipped in tea and continued to listen to Mr. Wu’s nonsense.

Mr. Wu probably had drunk too much. At this moment, he seemed to be possessed by something, chatting, talking nonstop about his friends who collected calligraphy and paintings, just like those who were the cabbages on the roadside, picking up casually.

Lin Yi could only smile bitterly in response to this.

Yes, there are some bargains in calligraphy and painting, such as the original manuscript of Wang Duo that I picked up last time. However, this kind of bargaining is so mysterious that it will not be as relaxed and lively as Wu Dashou said, like a child playing house, and pulling radish and pulling baskets.

In fact, the opportunity to "picking up bargains" generally comes from two aspects. On the one hand, it is the value of the work itself. The seller or auction house does not realize that the price is set relatively low; on the other hand, the reason is that there are few people who understand it, and they dare not buy it when they see the price is low. Therefore, only those who understand can "pick out bargains". If a work should be set at 100,000, but the result is 20,000 yuan, you can buy it below 80,000 yuan. Whether it is 20,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan, it is considered "picking up bargains". Sometimes thousands of paintings are taken out at one time, and 50 of them can be picked up.

However, the premise of "picking up a bargain" is that when buying a painting, you must first be familiar with the painter and his works, and have a correct understanding of the artistic level of the painter's works and its due economic value, so that you can know what price to buy is considered "picking up a bargain". For example, someone bought Wu Changshuo's four screens to spend 1.5 million, but it was sold for 750,000 yuan. Because the painting was dirty at the time, many laymen stopped buying it when they saw it dirty. They did not understand the real value of these paintings, nor did they understand that these paintings can be made up of the old as new. Now these paintings are reframed in Shanghai, and they can be marked with 5 million after a year.

For example, a four-screen lotus painting by Zhang Daqian, with a total of 30 square feet. It is a work of Zhang Daqian in his 30s. It is a complete painting. The buyer asked an expert at that time, how much it costs to buy, but the expert thought that it would be fine if it was about 300,000 yuan. Even if it was more expensive, it could be started. As a result, it was sold for more than 100,000 yuan.

From this we can see that if a layman like Wu Kai and Wu Dashao really want to collect calligraphy and paintings, he would be better off going to the auction hall instead of the county market where the dragon and the tiger are hidden. The reason is very simple. The water in that place is too deep--the masters are among the people.

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Just when Lin Yi was listening to Mr. Wu’s chatter, someone saw him take a painting and hand it over to Mr. Wu Kai.

It seems that Lin Yi really needs to identify the authenticity.

Lin Yi was so amused and laughed at this. You should know that helping others identify calligraphy and painting is the most thankless. If the calligraphy and painting are real, it would be fine. Everyone would be happy, but if it is fake, they would immediately tell the other party the truth, and from the moment they would start to disgust you.

Besides, Lin Yi was right. He really didn't have much ability to distinguish calligraphy and painting. He focused on collecting old books and learning versions. The lines are like mountains. The only thing he could do was to know a little about Wang Duo's calligraphy and Liu Ji's paintings.

But at this time it was already difficult to get rid of the tiger. The young master Wu Kai took advantage of the drunkenness to open the painting directly---
Chapter completed!