Chapter 597 Restoration of calligraphy and painting
In the next few days, Fang Yi's life became calmer again. Every day, he followed the teacher to learn about calligraphy and painting repair and maintenance. The fat man took his girlfriend to his hometown in the northwest, but no one came to disturb Fang Yi.
Manjun is very reliable in doing things. After Fang Yi told him that Hu Lizhi wanted to open a pet store, Manjun went to the flower and bird market to find a store and signed a two-year contract in his own name. It is being renovated and can be opened after the New Year.
Yu Xuan stayed in the capital for two more days, and on the fifth day, he returned to Jinling with the Xuande furnace. Not only did he come back with the Xuande furnace, but also an appraisal letter issued by Yu Xuan and Mr. Wang, which clearly stated that this was the authentic Xuande furnace made during the Xuande period.
With this appraisal book issued by two generations of cultural and miscellaneous arts, Fang Yi's Xuande furnace has doubled its value. Yu Xuan also brought a sentence from Mr. Wang, which is to thank Fang Yi for allowing him to see the authentic style of Xuande furnace in his lifetime, and invite Fang Yi to visit his home in the capital when he has time.
Mr. Wang's invitation surprised Sun Lianda, because the old man has been in poor health in recent years and has been missing for a long time. Not to mention young juniors like Fang Yi, it is difficult for his old friends to meet him.
Fang Yi didn't know much about Mr. Wang, and he didn't have time to enter Beijing now. In the past few days, Fang Yi has been completely involved in the restoration of calligraphy and paintings. After the systematic handing over Fang Yi's cultural relics identification knowledge, Sun Lianda opened a door to knowledge for Fang Yi.
The restoration of calligraphy and painting, especially the restoration of ancient calligraphy and painting, is always extremely cumbersome and complicated work. It requires multiple processes such as washing and decontamination, removing old and patching, grinding of broken mouths, making full color of alum, making stitches, inlaid silk, turning the edges and supporting the back, and calendering the pole.
Moreover, in this process, Fang Yi also needs to master certain chemical knowledge, because it can be used in many processes, such as the first step of repairing decontamination. If the stain is heavy, it must be soaked in hot water and applied with hydrogen peroxide to eliminate it. When the mold is moldy, it is applied with ************* solution to the mold, and then apply hydrogen peroxide and light oxalic acid water at a moment.
Therefore, before repairing, Sun Lianda first explained the required materials to Fang Yi, and then began to teach Fang Yi five steps to repair calligraphy and painting, namely, uncover, wash, repair, connect, and complete color.
As mentioned above, you must be very careful in this process, because ancient calligraphy and painting are written with brush and ink. If you are not careful, the original color of the painting will be destroyed. The combination of chemicals needs to be extremely accurate. During this process, Sun Lianda did not dare to let Fang Yi get started, and he always operated it himself.
The second step is to uncover the old. Sun Lianda first formulates an uncovered plan based on the specific situation of the thickness, residual shape, color and texture of the calligraphy and painting. Before uncovering, dip the brush with a brush on the front of the painting center with a brush and cover it with a new piece of paper. The counter-arrangement is to be uncovered.
According to Sun Lianda, ancient calligraphy and paintings are mostly broken. For example, before the heart is exposed, there is no paper attached. After the heart is revealed, it is not easy to cause a case. The color of the heart of a painting restored by Sun Lianda is not very stable. At that time, light glue and alum water were used. It took a full three days to remove the old one.
As for the reconnection, you use your hands to rub the edges of the broken parts of the painting out of thin mouths, choose the patch paper, correct the texture, and rub the thin edges on the edges of the repair. The key to reconnection is to make the thickness of the joints suitable. Fang Yi got started with this process because his grasp of the strength on his hands is far from comparable to Sun Lianda.
The last process of restoring calligraphy and painting is full color. The so-called full color refers to the completion of the colors of calligraphy and painting that have been diluted due to the long years or has been soaked. Before the full color is carried out, Sun Lianda spent a whole day to adjust the blended colors based on the color of the painting, and then repeatedly compared them on white paper.
It took almost a week to restore a calligraphy and painting, but Fang Yi was also happy because he learned a lot of knowledge in this process. In the words of Sun Lianda, this landscape painting by Shi Tao in the early Qing Dynasty had to be at least doubled after being restored.
When the second painting was halfway through restoration, Fang Yi was not so peaceful because the fat man was back. Since Meng Shuangshuang wanted to stay in his hometown for the New Year, the fat man came back alone. After knowing that Fang Yi wanted to help Hu Lizhi apply for a household registration in Gefang Village, he yelled to go home for the New Year.
It was indeed very close to the New Year at this time. Fang Yi and the teacher discussed it and decided that Fang Yi would go back to Fang Village first, while Sun Lianda lived in Fang Yi's house for restoration, because since the restoration began, he could not give up halfway, otherwise the painting would be destroyed.
Fang Yi was very eager for the teacher's decision, because he wanted to go up the mountain to worship his master this time, and he needed to bring the ghost-headed sword with him. Without the protection of the formation, Fang Yi was really worried about putting so many things in the room.
This time when I returned to Fangcun, Fatty and Sanpao returned home in glory. Fatty drove a newly bought Buick business car in the store, full of New Year's goods. The only thing that made Fatty feels regretful was that Sanpao, who had no relatives, had no relatives, and his girlfriend was unable to travel with him this time.
"Sanpao, haven't contacted Yuanjie yet?"
After the car left the city, Fang Yi asked Sanpao. It had been more than half a month since Si Yuanjie returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors. It was logical that he should have come back long ago, but he didn't know what happened. After Si Yuanjie called ten days later, there was no news.
"No, Si Yuanjie has no phone number at home. I took a telegram and couldn't find anyone!"
Sanpao shook his head with a wry smile. Si Yuanjie's home is in the countryside, and there is no telephone in the entire village. Si Yuanjie left the address before leaving, but Sanpao shot two telegrams in a row without replying, which made Sanpao feel helpless.
Fang Yi thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work, I'll go to Yuanjie's house after I go back..."
"Brother Yi, I thought about going there, but... but now I can't go except to drive there!"
Sanpao shook his head and said, "It's time for the Spring Festival travel rush now. You haven't seen the stations crowded like this. Why don't you do this? When we go back, we drive over and take a look. Hebei Province is not very far away. It takes thirteen or fourteen hours to drive to Si Yuanjie's house."
"Hey, Sanpao, please keep it and see the store. Brother Yi and I will go..." The fat man who was driving suddenly started yelling when he heard that he was about to go on a long journey.
"Aren't you going to celebrate the New Year at home?" Sanpao said angrily. This kid was bored before when he was bored in the shop and was clamoring to go home. Now he heard that he was driving out but was energetic again.
"Hey, Sanpao, this is what you are wrong. As the saying goes, brothers are like brothers, and wife is like clothes. Now something happens to my brother, I don't even care about my wife. How can I care about spending the New Year at home..."
The fat man was a misunderstanding. When he spoke, he looked back at Miao Qianqian. He looked at Sanpao and wanted to punch the fat man's fat face with a slutty smile.
"Hey, why did my phone record it?" Fang Yi, who was holding the phone and fiddling with it, suddenly released a passage, which was exactly the theory that the fat man had just mentioned.
"Hahaha, fat man, you're dead. When your family comes back, I'll show it to her!" Hearing the recording on Fang Yi's phone, Sanpao's eyes lit up. He snatched Fang Yi's phone and said, "Brother Yi, let's change the phone card, you can use this phone first!"
"No, Brother Yi, Master Pao, please, I was wrong, Fatty, because I was only found a wife at my age, let me spare me..." The fat man driving a miserable scream. If he hadn't been running on the highway, his throat would have attracted the police.
"Then are you still going to Hebei Province?" Fang Yi asked with a smile. He knew that the fat man couldn't say anything good, so he secretly recorded the sound just now.
"You have to go. Fatty, I won't go. Who can drive the two old men..." Fatty said proudly.
A few people were making noise, but time passed quickly. At around 11 o'clock in the morning, they rushed to Fangcun.
It is rare to get a car in the small village at the foot of this mountain. Although it had just snowed a few days ago and the ground was covered with mud, when the car drove into the village, seven or a half old men were still running behind.
"Ergou, Sanya, come here to eat candy..." The fat man parked the car at the door of the house, opened the trunk after getting off the car, and screamed, "Master Fat, I'm back!"
"Who are you calling me? Ergou's seniority is higher than you, you have to call him uncle..."
Before the fat man's voice fell, he slapped his head. When he looked back, he was staring at him with a kitchen knife. The fat man's spirit suddenly faded and said in disappointment: "Dad, your seniority in the village is too low. I am a group of uncles and uncles..."
"Little bastard, that's what your father is willing to do?"
Wei Dahu slapped his son on the head again, but looked up and saw Fang Yi and Sanpao getting out of the car. A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he pushed the fat man away and met Fang Yi.
"Uncle Wei, what are you doing with a knife?"
Seeing Wei Dahu's posture, Fang Yi couldn't help laughing. The first adult he knew since childhood was Wei Dahu in front of him, and the other party always regarded him as his nephew.
"Aren't I killing chickens? I know you are here. Uncle Wei has prepared a table of dishes today!" Wei Dahu laughed and patted Fang Yi on the shoulder with his other hand. Although he didn't say much, his gratitude was all in his movements.
For Wei Dahu, his biggest wish was to let his son break out of the farmhouse and become a city man. For this reason, he spent a lot of effort to send his son to the army to serve as a soldier, hoping that his son could become a soldier and stay in the city in the future.
But Wei Dahu's wish was lost on his lazy son. After retiring from the army, the fat man who was idle all day at home almost turned pale. Even when the fat man Sanpao and Fang Yi were going out to enter society, Wei Dahu didn't have much hope for this.
But what Village Chief Wei did not expect was that his son's wish that he could not realize for three years was achieved after half a year with Fang Yi. On the day when the fat man moved his household registration to Jinling, Wei Dahu held a banquet in the village and set off 20,000 firecrackers.
So Wei Dahu was grateful to Fang Yi. After learning about Fang Yi's return yesterday, he went to the market early in the morning to buy half a piece of pig and about ten kilograms of mutton. He was sharpening his knife and preparing to kill the chicken.
"Uncle Wei, there are some New Year's goods in the car. Please give it to the villagers..." Fang Yi smiled and took the knife from Wei Dahu's hand and said, "I'm good at killing chickens, I've done this job..."
Most of the people living in Fang Village have been married, and when Fang Yi was on the mountain, he ate a lot of rice and food sent by the villagers. Although Fang Yi and the old Taoist priest exchanged things, they were also considered to be favored by the villagers, so this car of New Year’s goods was basically prepared by Fang Yi.
"Hey, don't, you are a guest, Jinhua, come out quickly!" Wei Dahu shouted into the room, but he called out the fat man's name. Jinhua and Jinhua were basically the same pronunciation, which made Fang Yi and Sanpao laugh.
"It's really my real father. Why would you call him fat..."
The fat man muttered dissatisfiedly that he had been beaten by his father at least five or six times because of changing his name. Recently, this time he was when he moved his household registration. The fat man planned to change it secretly. Who knew that his father beat him up, which made the fat man's wish not come true.
After the New Year's goods were allocated lively, Wei Dahu invited several respected elderly people from the village to their homes and accompanied Fang Yi and the others to have a meal. This was the most solemn reception in the village. The meal ended until three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
"Uncle Wei, I want to ask you for help..." When the villagers dispersed, Fang Yi grabbed Wei Dahu, who was drunk. He was too busy just now, and Fang Yi did not tell me about the matter of registering Hu Lizhi for household registration.
However, the issue of applying for an ID card for Hu Lizhi is imminent, because the police station in their jurisdiction conducted a census some time ago. If Man Jun had not received the news in advance and stayed at home, if Hu Lizhi had opened the door, the matter would have been a big deal.
"Hmm? Foreigners? Do you want to leave your household registration in our village?"
After hearing Fang Yi's words, Wei Dahu woke up most of the wine. He dared to register Fang Yi before because he knew the truth. But now he wanted to settle a foreigner. Wei Dahu, who has always been honest, was a little timid.
"It's an overseas Chinese, Uncle Wei, I promise that something will happen..."
Fang Yi patted his chest, not to mention that Peng Bin's friendship was there, Fang Yi and Hu Lizhi were also very good at chatting, and he could also see that Hu Lizhi, after experiencing the storm, just wanted to find a place to spend his old age.
Wei Dahu thought for a while and said, "This matter can be done, but your friend can't call that name anymore..."
Wei Dahu's method is very simple. In the 1960s and 1970s, several people in their village went to the Northeast and never came back. However, their names were found on the family tree of the clan. Wei Dahu wanted Hu Lizhi to give them their names and get an ID card.
"Okay, Uncle Wei, just follow your method, you can name it anyway!"
Hearing Wei Dahu's words, Fang Yi's heart suddenly fell, and he said, "Uncle Wei, I'll give you this matter. If you need to go to the police station to take photos or something, I'll let the fat man take him over again..."
"Just send a photo. When the Chinese New Year is over, I will go to my nephew and he will be able to handle this matter..." Fang Yiyuan is not as good as Wei Dahu, an old farmer who has worked as a village cadre at the grassroots level in the countryside for decades, and he finished the matter in a few words.
"Uncle Wei, I won't live in the village tonight. Go up the mountain to see my master..." After talking about Hu Lizhi's affairs, Fang Yi planned to enter the mountain. Although it was getting late, it was nothing for him who had grown up in this forest since childhood.
"It just snowed a few days ago, and it's dark again now. You'd better go into the mountain tomorrow?" Wei Dahu said with some concern.
"It's okay, Uncle Wei, it's like I'm home when I get to the mountains. Are you still afraid that I can't find the way?" Fang Yi laughed. For him, only by returning to the Taoist temple where he had lived with his master for more than ten years would he feel like a wanderer returning home.
Chapter completed!