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Chapter 66 What antique painting? You've struck gold!

After the matter was discussed, Lin Qingsong took out his antique-style painting: "Seventh Brother, I also have something to ask you. This is a painting I recently found. Could you take a look and see what you think? If you have any connections, could you help me sell it?"

After putting one thing to mind, Qi Nan returned to her lazy state. Hearing Lin Qingsong's words, she nodded easily and said, "Okay, let me take a look. If it's not too expensive, I'll just buy it."

Although she didn't want to inherit the family business and become the gallery owner, her appreciation of calligraphy and painting, honed from childhood, was still quite good.

As Lin Qingsong slowly unfurled the scroll, Qi Nan raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but lean closer for a look. "Damn, Lao Lin, where did you get this painting? How much did it cost?"

"A decorative painting in a hotel, I think it's quite nice, it's said to be an antique reproduction from the Republic of China era, it cost about 12,000 yuan!!"

"Hotel decorative paintings??? Twelve thousand???" Qi Nan's voice was distorted. "You got a steal! And a pretty big one at that!"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but want to touch the slightly dusty painting in front of her, but she held back after remembering that her hands weren't clean.

"I am 80% certain that this is an antique-style painting by Pan Su, a famous female painter from the Republic of China era. Although I don't know why it is not signed, its ancient charm is absolutely worthy of Zhang Daqian's description of it as being close to the style of the Tang Dynasty!"

Lin Qingsong was somewhat bewildered.

But thinking back on my previous experiences, I feel that this is quite reasonable.

This wasn't the first time he'd experienced that what the system intelligence mentioned wasn't everything, and that there were likely things around him that were more valuable than him.

"Seventh Brother, is this Pan Su very capable? How much is this painting worth?" Lin Qingsong couldn't help but ask a rather mundane question. Compared to the painting, he preferred money, after all, he was still just a common man.

"Impressive, of course it's impressive! Her paintings have been presented as national gifts!" Qi Nan said, wiping his hands clean before carefully looking at the painting in front of him. "As for how much it cost? According to the auction data from a while ago, one of her paintings sold for 1.2 million, but auction items are often inflated. If you remove the inflated figures, the market value is probably around 500,000 to 800,000."

"Then my painting can sell for at least 500,000!!!" Lin Qingsong couldn't help but widen his eyes. This was a really big steal!

"No, not at all." Qi Nan looked around the painting but still couldn't find any signature. He could only shrug at the excited Lin Qingsong: "Although I can say with 80% certainty that this painting was painted by Pan Su based on the brushstrokes, it is unsigned after all. In addition, it was hung on the wall as a decorative painting and was not well maintained, so its condition is slightly lacking. Therefore, I estimate that the price is at most around 100,000."

"That's good too!" Lin Qingsong didn't lose his composure.

“If you’re comfortable with this, I’ll take it back and have it reframed, then I’ll put it in my gallery to sell.” Qi Nan said, tapping the scroll as he spoke. “It’s a good painting; with a little care, I estimate it can fetch tens of thousands more.”

However, she immediately sensed something was wrong when she tapped it; the sound of the scroll was off, and there might be something inside.

Qi Nan had heard his elders talk about finding bargains since he was a child. One way to find bargains was when someone bought a painting and found that there were good things hidden inside the scroll.

She never imagined that the things in the story would actually happen!
Qi Nan tapped the scroll carefully again, confirming his guess, before looking at Lin Qingsong with a strange expression:

"Old Lin, there's probably something good inside that scroll! Damn, what kind of luck do you have!"

"Not only can you snag a bargain on a Pan Su painting, but there might also be something good hidden inside the scroll!"

Lin Qingsong was taken aback. He hadn't expected that the contents of the scroll would be discovered so easily. Qi Nan had only been handling it for a short while when he noticed something inside.

However, he soon realized that it might not be that the contents of the scroll were easy to discover, but rather that Qi Nan was more capable.

Otherwise, if the copper coins inside the scroll were so easy to spot, it wouldn't have remained hanging in the hotel as decoration; it would have been taken away long ago. Lin Qingsong watched with interest as Qi Nan, who was engrossed in studying the scroll, thought to himself, "It seems Seventh Brother's gallery is no ordinary gallery."

He guessed that Qi Nan's family was likely involved in the antique and painting industry, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to notice the problem with the scroll so easily.

"Old Lin, are you going to take apart this scroll?" Qi Nan looked at the scroll in her hand with great excitement. Although she didn't want to inherit the family business, she was still very interested in the idea of ​​hiding things in a scroll.

"dismantle!"

Lin Qingsong had originally planned to search for tutorials online to see how to remove the scroll without damaging the painting itself, but now that Qi Nan, a professional, was doing it for him, he didn't have to worry about it anymore.

After receiving Lin Qingsong's reply, Qi Nan first looked at the scroll's end and found that it wasn't the kind that could be rotated or pried off. She opened the cabinet next to her desk and took out a set of tools.

"Old Lin, you're the only one who's run into me. Otherwise, most people wouldn't dare to disassemble the scroll and take anything out of it!" Qi Nan stopped drinking and looked at his tools with emotion.

Lin Qingsong looked at the huge set of tools and couldn't help but be speechless.

Seventh Brother, didn't you say you didn't want to inherit the family business? Why do you even have a set of these professional tools in your office?

Perhaps sensing his thoughts, Qi Nan pursed his lips and said, "I like retouching paintings, but I don't like painting, and I especially don't like running an art gallery!"

As she spoke, she carefully began to disassemble the scroll using professional techniques, and it was finally taken apart after about half of the scroll was completed.

Qi nodded with satisfaction and said, "How was it, Lao Lin? My skills are pretty good, right?"

"Seventh Brother, your skills are amazing!" Lin Qingsong was genuinely glad he hadn't messed around, otherwise he would have definitely ruined the painting.

After studying the disassembled scroll for a while, Qi Nan finally found a gap and split it in two. He then said with a hint of surprise, "Wow, Lao Lin, your luck is truly amazing."

Large-sized Xuantong Tongbao coins are extremely rare.

However, Qi Nan was soon speechless again. Who was this person? Even a large-format Xuantong Tongbao coin would only cost a thousand or so yuan. Why would he need to hide it in this painting?

Isn't this a bit like buying the box and returning the pearl?

Hearing Qi Nan's complaint, Lin Qingsong was somewhat understanding: "Seventh Brother, Pan Su only became famous later. At that time, this painting might have just been an ordinary painting."

Qi Nan nodded slightly. That wasn't impossible. Looking at the twelve copper coins in front of her, she smiled and said, "So, Lao Lin, are you willing to pay with copper coins? If you are, I can accept them."

"It's enough that the painting is finished. I'll keep the coins for myself to play with!" Paintings need preservation, but coins are a bit better. Lin Qingsong decided to keep them for his own collection.

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