There is a dragon in my fish pond

Chapter 471

In Li Yafan's impression, it seems that those who engage in art can generally live to an advanced age. Qi Qingshi exchanged pleasantries with Ye Houxiong, and then invited Li Yafan and Ye Houxiong into his home.

From the outside, Qi Qingshi's villa is full of Western European style, but the interior furnishings have nothing to do with Western European style. As soon as you enter the villa, you can smell a faint fragrance of pen and ink.

"This is Qianlong's Imperial Dragon Ink!"

"Oh, little brother, I didn't think I was a man of knowledge!"

"Where is!"

In fact, Li Yafan didn't know what kind of "Imperial Dragon Pattern Ink" it was, it's just that Xiao Hei has a keen sense of smell.Especially for the old antiques.

The furnishings in the room are very antique. Li Yafan once went to Grandpa Bailu's study room. If you can find a few modern things in Grandpa Bailu's study room, then Qi Qingshi's room can't find any modern things at all. , just like an ancient room.

Even the teacups placed on the coffee table are all carved out of fine gold silk jade, with patterns of dragons engraved on them, so lifelike, it seems to be made by Qi Qingshi himself.

Qi Qingshi brewed a pot of high-quality Longjing tea for Li Yafan, poured it into the jade bowl, and saw the dragon pattern on the jade cup reflected in the water, as if it had come to life.

"It's amazing!" Li Yafan couldn't help exclaiming as he looked at the swaying dragon pattern in the teacup.

"Is this jade cup from your hands?"

Li Yafan asked.

Qi Qingshi smiled and shook his head.

"Don't talk nonsense, kid, do you know how much this cup would be worth if it was really carved by Qi Lao?"

Li Yafan shook his head.

"At least it's worth this amount!"

Ye Houxiong stretched out a finger.

"100?"

Ye Houxiong shook his head.

"1000 million!"

Ye Houxiong nodded.

1000 million?Li Yafan couldn't help secretly admiring that a piece of fine gold silk jade can be sold for 200 yuan per gram in the market.But it is really unexpected that such a famous carving can be sold for such a high price.

"To be honest, I am old and dizzy now, and I can't do the delicate work of carving jade. If that precious jade is planted in my hands, it will ruin my reputation. To tell the truth, these cups, It is my granddaughter's clumsy work."

"The granddaughter's jade carving is so good, one can imagine how superb Qi Qingshi's craftsmanship was back then."

Hearing Qi Qingshi say that he was old and dim-sighted, Ye Houxiong and Li Yafan looked at each other, thinking in their hearts: "Could it be that this Qi Qingshi knows the purpose of the two of them."

But you still have to ask to know everything, Li Yafan winked at Ye Houxiong, Ye Houxiong understood, and told Qi Qingshi the history of this trip.

Sure enough, as Li Yafan expected, Qi Qingshi refused the matter without even thinking about it.

"Old Ye, this matter is unforgivable. You have seen my old and dim-sighted appearance now. I am afraid that this jade carving will not be completed, and many precious jade materials will be destroyed instead."

Li Yafan nodded. In fact, he knew very well in his heart that there is another very important reason why some artists will take the initiative to retire in their later years, besides wanting to enjoy their old age comfortably.

They are afraid that they seem to be old and will make mistakes, and these mistakes are very likely to cause their decades of reputation in the industry to be ruined.

Hearing Qi Qingshi's straight refusal, Li Yafan turned his eyes to other places, searching every corner of the room, killing the boring time.

Suddenly, Li Yafan's gaze was attracted by a black stone placed in the corner of the wall. Ever since he made up his mind to buy and sell stones, Li Yafan has become very sensitive to stones.

When Li Yafan approached the black stone, he realized that it was not a stone at all, but just a mass of black lead.However, the strange shape still attracted Li Yafan's attention.

"What is this?"

"That's a star porch."

"Xingchen pier?" Li Yafan seemed to have heard the name before, but he just couldn't remember it. Seeing the stone pier resting on the groove, Li Yafan stretched out his hand to move it.

Who would have thought that the star pole is extremely heavy, and it is very easy to push the pier in the groove, but there is no way to move the star pole.

"Save your energy, boy, this star is made by my granddaughter's imitation of Fengdu's star, and on top of that, it weighs more than 40 catties, and now it weighs more than 400 catties. Without special training, it is impossible to pick it up."

As soon as the words fell, Li Yafan held the stone pier with both hands, shouted "get up", and lifted the stone pier several feet above the ground.

"Old Qi, it's not that difficult!"

Qi Qingshi stood up in shock when he saw this scene. The nanny upstairs was wiping the steps with a rag. Seeing this scene, he almost fell off the steps.

"Miss, ma'am"

He stumbled and went upstairs to find the lady.

Li Yafan also couldn't figure out what the relationship between this Xingchenmao and the young lady was.

With a sound of "bang", Li Yafan put the star box in its place, his face not flushed and his breath not out of breath.

"What strength~!"

Qi Qingshi couldn't help admiring, and there was a little more intimacy towards Li Yafan in his eyes,

"Since Mr. Qi has rejected us, we can't stay here any longer. Boss Li, let's go!"

With that said, Ye Houxiong was about to take Li Yafan away from Qi Qingshi's home.

"and many more!"

"how?"

"I changed my mind!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yafan was overjoyed.

"Are you willing to help me?"

"Of course it's not me. It's my granddaughter. I'll ask my granddaughter to help you."

"Your granddaughter?" Although Li Yafan has never met Qi Qingshi's granddaughter, but seeing the carving skills of the cups on the table, I am afraid that it is no less than Qi Qingshi.

But Li Yafan said: "Your granddaughter's kung fu is probably not as deep as yours."

"You boy!" Qi Qingshi stroked his beard on his chest.

"To be honest, my granddaughter's attainments in jade carving are far better than me at that time." According to Qi Qingshi, his granddaughter's name is Qi Xueqian, who graduated from the Louvre Museum of Art in France. jade carving process.

Although he is only 24 years old, he is already well-known in the jade carving industry. Take the dragon cup carved by Qi Xueqian as an example. After a wealthy businessman saw it, he was willing to buy it for 500 million yuan.

Of course Qi Qingshi didn't sell it, because this set of quilts was a birthday present from Qi Xueqian to him on his [-]th birthday.

"The Louvre Academy of Art, wow, what a talented woman!"

Hearing Li Yafan praise his granddaughter, Qi Qingshi was also very happy.

"Just one thing!"

(End of this chapter)