Play treasure master

Chapter 319
"Oh, it's because I didn't explain it clearly to Shangguan. It's indeed old material and new mounting. I think it should be the work of the past few years." While explaining, Yu Yao thought to himself, it should be easier to re-frame.

Uncovering and framing is the most difficult job in the mounting industry, and it is a test of skill.Especially the old frame, so many years have passed, and it may have been smoky, water-soaked and mildewed, and insects and rats bitten. It is hard to imagine the difficulty of peeling off the paper completely.

As for the new frame, after all, the time is short, and conventionally speaking, it is impossible to be more difficult than the old frame.

Mr. Meng seemed to see Yu Yao's thoughts, "If it's rice paper, new mounting is easier than old mounting. But this is bamboo paper, which tends to become brittle after a long time; old mounting, the brittleness of the paper is relatively consistent with the paste, and the handling I can master the technique; however, the old paper is pasted with new paste, which is very troublesome.”

Yu Yao nodded, "I just understand what you said."

Shangguan Yu asked, "Is bamboo paper more troublesome than rice paper?"

"That's natural."

Yu Yao added another sentence at this time, "Master Meng, I just want to leave my heart alone and complete."

Mr. Meng frowned, looked first at Yu Yao, then at Shangguan Yu, "Little Shang, I'll be straight with you. This painting skill is mediocre, even if you want to keep it, why do you have to expose it?" ?”

Mr. Meng should have been exposed to ancient paintings on bamboo paper, but he didn't know that they were moon shadow patches.The person who mounted the frame before must have no idea, otherwise how could it be possible to frame it?
Shangguan Yu seems to be reluctant to lie, but this is Yu Yao's, not his, and it is very special, "Old man, there are always some special circumstances in everything, if you can't handle it here, I'm afraid it's not too bad." It’s easy to find someone.”

Mr. Meng thought for a while, "It's not impossible to try, but it can't be guaranteed 100%. Unless you use a special potion, the potion I prepared is no problem for ordinary ink paintings. But this painting obviously added some unconventional pigments. Take it off, but I don’t know what unexpected reaction there will be on the painting.”

An expert is an expert. I have never seen a moon shadow patch, but I can still understand various basic attributes.

When Yu Yao heard this, he definitely didn't dare to take the risk of using the special potion, "Old man, if you don't use the special potion, there won't be any problem with passing the water, right?"

"The ink color pigment will not, only the problem of breakage."

Yu Yao pondered for a while, "Old man, if you take off the old silk first and don't reveal the fate paper, it should be fine, right?"

Fate paper is the supporting paper of the painting heart, that is, a piece of paper between the painting heart and the mounting material.This paper can prolong the life of the painting heart to a certain extent.

"Of course there's no problem with this. The difficulty I'm talking about is between the old bamboo paper and the fate paper. If you don't need the fate paper, I'm afraid Xiaoshang won't have to look for me, right?"

Yu Yao interjected, "Old man, I'm going to settle for the second best. Besides, even if you get rid of the old Lingzi first, can a master like you be the same as an ordinary master?"

"That's true." Mr. Meng revealed a hint of conceit.

"Okay! Then take off the old silk first." Shangguan Yu asked, "Look, when are we going to pick it up?"

"If you're willing to wait, I'll do it right away, within half an hour."

"So fast?" Yu Yao was surprised.

"Then just wait, thank you for your hard work." Shangguan Yu said, "I'm not polite anymore, Runge waits for you to come out and we'll talk."

Runge generally refers to the remuneration for calligraphy and painting, but for masters like Mr. Meng, many people also borrow the title for mounting and unmounting.

"It's a little thing! Come back and get me two bottles of good wine, sir." Mr. Meng waved his hand, "You two go to the living room, no one is allowed to work next to me."

Shangguan Yu didn't say much, and left the room with Yu Yao, and sat down on the sofa in the living room.

Yu Yao sighed slightly, "Master Meng is not sure yet, this matter is pending."

Shangguan Yu lowered his voice, "I was thinking just now, is it okay to put on the lamp with the life paper?"

"Definitely not." Yu Yao said, "I can't see this fate paper, and I don't know what it is used for. It should be rice paper. With the lamp on, it probably won't have any effect at all. I just take one step at a time."

Yu Yao paused, "Go to Teacher Lin's house first, and try your patch."

"Well, I'm taking it with me."

"By the way, besides Mr. Lin and me, it's okay for multiple people to see your patch, right?"

"That depends on who."

Yu Yao briefly introduced Yang Rui's situation.

"Wu Chen's colleague? We're friends with you again, no problem." Shangguan Yu agreed.

The two waited outside for half an hour, but Mr. Meng did not come out, and it was inconvenient to knock on the door to disturb him.

Shangguan Yu frowned and whispered, "The old man has always been very measured in his speech. If he can't speak for half an hour, then there will be no timeout, and there will be no problems, right?"

"I think the old man is very cautious. There shouldn't be any problems. Could it be that there are some new discoveries?" Yu Yao interjected, "We can only wait."

The two waited for an hour before the door opened.

Mr. Meng smiled happily, "Good luck!"

"Fate?" Yu Yao and Shangguan Yu said in unison.

"This painting does not use life paper! Moreover, I discovered this bamboo paper after going through the water. It is different from ordinary bamboo paper. After so many years, the toughness is not bad!"

"So it was just peeled off?" Yu Yao was overwhelmed with surprise, "It's useless, it's useless... old man, you didn't see it before?"

"I really didn't expect that the painting heart was directly pasted on the old silk! The main reason is that the paste was used thickly and evenly, like fate paper!" Master Meng waved, "Come in!"

Yu Yao followed into the room while thinking, no wonder it took so long!

After entering the room, I saw the old bamboo paper painting heart, spread flat on a square metal sheet on one side of the mounting table.When they came in before, they didn't see this piece of metal.

"Special alloy, stainless and non-absorbent, just dry it in the shade overnight!" Mr. Meng explained casually.After the two of them had seen enough, another gauze cover was added.

"This can't be done with two bottles of wine!" Shangguan Yu smiled and picked up the phone, "I'll call your account, follow the old rules?"

"How can I let you come!" Yu Yao said hastily, "What are the old rules?"

Mr. Meng was also very happy, "No, no! Today I saw another kind of bamboo paper, which is different from the ordinary old bamboo paper! If I meet again in the future, I will count it!"

Shangguan Yu waved his hand at Yu Yao, "Don't be polite to me, we will settle the matter later."

In other people's homes, it doesn't seem like a big deal to grab and grab, so Yu Yao didn't argue any more, let's ask after the heart is out.

However, in this way, it will have to be picked up tomorrow.

Shangguan Yu insisted on transferring the account, "It's unavoidable, this thing is very difficult, you have been busy for an hour, and the old rules are to take care of me! I will bring wine over tomorrow!"

"You child!" Mr. Meng did not continue to be hypocritical, "Hurry up and leave!"

(End of this chapter)