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Chapter 221 True and False Wood Carving

Chapter 221 True and False Wood Carving

Chapter 221. True and false woodcarving

Thinking of this somewhat evil speculation, Ren Ping couldn't help but tremble all over, feeling a chill.

At this time, the man had already come to the front, although his manner and clothes were quite funny, but he had the aura of a superior person,

As soon as those dandies saw him coming, they immediately stepped aside, and their expressions were solemn, as if they were in awe of him from the bottom of their hearts.

Ren Ping glanced at him and frowned: "Are you Rong Qiancheng's son?"

"Yeah, who are you?"

"Ren Ping, your father asked me to come."

When Qi Wulei and the others saw him calling Rong Qiancheng by his name, they all changed color, thinking that even their parents of the older generation would not easily say these three words, this kid is too condescending.

Na Rongyi didn't think much of it, and smiled: "So it's my guest, that's just right, everyone is so close."

Ren Ping saw that he was older than all the children present, about 30 years old, his eyebrows were indeed somewhat similar to Rong Qiancheng, but his temperament was quite different, he was not the deep and old-fashioned look of his father at all, so he couldn't help being a little surprised.

But it's not necessarily that he's not doing his job properly, it's better to say he's enigmatic.

After casually greeting everyone, Rong Yi was not polite, and directly took the wooden statue of Guan Gong from Ren Ping's hand, looking at it with gusto.

Qi Wulei on the side paused:

"Brother Rong doesn't even agree with Su Rui's marriage, does he?"

"A marriage? What marriage?"

Rong Yi was taken aback when he heard this, and turned his head: "Su Rui, are you getting married? Congratulations!"

Su Rui had black lines all over his head and didn't speak.

Qi Wulei had no choice but to continue: "The elders said a few days ago that Su Rui was engaged to Mr. Ren." He pointed at Ren Ping: "Brother Rong, don't you know?"

"I don't know. I haven't been in Nanling during this time. I just came back this morning."

"That's okay, we're going to discuss it with you."

"Since it's already settled, what else is there to discuss?"

Rong Yi still had a faint smile on his face: "It's enough for Grandpa Su and the others to make the decision on this kind of matter. There's no need for us juniors to worry about it."

Everyone's face changed slightly when they heard the words. They thought that with a strong support, they would definitely fail Ren Ping in the exam, but it turned out that he didn't care about anything, and they couldn't help but feel very depressed.

Qi Wulei frowned: "Didn't Senior Brother Rong just say that he would also write a question?"

"Yeah, I also have a topic here, but it's just to exchange ideas with each other, and it has nothing to do with other things."

"But……"

"Needless to say, since you asked the question first, you will go first and I will follow."

Rong Yi returned the wooden statue of Guan Gong to him, and then put his hands behind his back, smiling all over his face, as if I was watching the fun first.

Qi Wulei was helpless, thinking that this person is the heir of Rong Luxing, no matter in terms of seniority or seniority, he can be called the head of the disciples of the Nine Families, and he is only a descendant of Qitaixing, so he can't instruct him instead.

At the moment, I had no choice but to press the button and handed the portrait of Guan Gong to Ren Ping: "Mr. Ren, as long as you can guess the auction price of this thing, you will pass my test. I will never marry you and Su Rui." Cut in again."

Ren Ping nodded, and was about to speak after taking the things, but suddenly, his eyebrows twitched, as if he had found something, he turned it over and over again, rubbed his fingertips lightly on the wood carving, and scraped off a little sawdust.

After a while, Wei Wei sneered: "This thing is fake."

"What?" As soon as the voice fell, everyone changed their colors.

Especially Qi Wulei, whose initial shock quickly turned into anger.

After all, he photographed this thing in public, and Ren Ping directly pointed out that it was a fake, that is to say, he was cheated by someone who punched his eyes. In a big way, the reputation of Qitaihang and the Jiu Family would also be affected.

This is no longer a question of passing the exam.

"Mr. Ren, please be careful when speaking. This is a wooden statue of Guan Gong made by the modern sculptor Mr. Ju Ming. His works are available at home and abroad. Even though this is not a masterpiece, it has been widely circulated. How can it be fake? "

"That's right, I've seen this wooden statue of Guan Gong some time ago. It came from the coast. The auction house is a medium-sized auction house in this city. It's also considered to be a good one. It's impossible to sell a fake."

"What do you think of the nine of us? We are in the auction business, can people deceive us? We are too underestimated!"

"Mr. Ren probably doesn't know yet. Among the nine of us, Qi Taixing is the most proficient in carvings such as wood carvings and stone carvings. With senior brother Qi's eyesight, how could he be mistaken? I advise you to look carefully. "

After Qi Wulei finished speaking, several young disciples followed suit, with the intention of swearing and swearing.

Even Su Rui felt that with Qi Wulei's ability, it was impossible to be cheated at the Tangtang auction. Could it be that Ren Ping was really wrong?

At that moment, dozens of eyes shot at him, Ren Ping smiled:

"Everyone misunderstood. I'm not saying that Senior Brother Qi has poor eyesight. His wooden statue of Guan Gong is indeed real, but it's not this one."

"Not this one? What do you mean?" Everyone was at a loss.

"I mean, this isn't the one that Senior Brother Qi gave me just now, someone changed the package in the middle,"

Ren Ping put the statue of Guan Gong in his hands and threw it away, then suddenly looked at Rong Yi who was aside: "Senior Brother Rong, did you do it?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Before Ren Ping finished speaking, Rong Yi burst out laughing.

While laughing, he pointed at Ren Ping excitedly: "Awesome! Awesome! As expected of a guest invited by my father, there are indeed two brushes! But I'm curious, how did you find out?"

"That's simple. The Guan Gong statue that Senior Brother Qi gave me for the first time just now is made of rosewood. This kind of wood is tough and fine-grained. It is a high-quality material for carving, and it is usually used to select fine carvings."

"As for the piece that was handed over to me by Senior Brother Rong just now, it is made of Guyi Sumu. This kind of wood is very similar to rosewood, and it is usually used to pretend to be rosewood. , The weight is still slightly different, as long as you distinguish carefully, you can see it, "

"It's strange to say that this kind of ancient Yisumu is produced abroad, and it is not common. Brother Rong has this kind of material in his hand, and it happens to be the same as Master Zhu Ming's statue of Guan Gong. Isn't it a coincidence? I guess I know Brother Qi got such a statue of Guan Gong, so he just used it as a joke."

At this point, everyone still didn't understand that it was Rong Yi who just dropped the two Guan Gong statues while talking to Qi Wulei and others. It turned out that he had already hidden the other one.

But this is not important. When everyone first heard it, they were only slightly stunned, not surprised. What surprised them the most seemed to be the few words Ren Ping said.

Seeing everyone looking at him with strange eyes, Ren Ping was taken aback:

"What? Am I wrong?"

Immediately afterwards, he whispered to Su Rui: "What's wrong with them? Why do they look like they're going to eat me?"

Su Rui rolled his eyes, not knowing what to say, and sighed after a while:

"It's not that you were wrong, but that you were right and scared them. Do you still remember when I told you that Senior Brother Rong is only half the heir of Rong Luxing?"

"Remember, what exactly do you mean?"

"It means that he is very capable. None of the disciples of the Nine Great Families can compare to him, but none of them are on the right path."

"Not on the right path?"

Ren Ping was slightly stunned, then looked at the fake wooden statue of Guan Gong in his hand, and understood a little: "Does he like to make fakes?"

(End of this chapter)