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Chapter 241

Chapter 241. The Hand-Eye Bridge

With a buzzing sound, everyone in the three provinces felt Lu Ziliang's words buzzing in their ears.

According to what he said, this statue of Guan Gong is not a statue of bending a bow and shooting a feather, but a defective product, no wonder it is only worth 8 points, and now because Fan Zhiyi has made a mistake, even these 8 points have to be cancelled.

Fan Zhiyi tremblingly said: "How can this be a defective product? How can this be a defective product?"

No matter what you say, you can't believe it.

You must know that he also weighed everything when choosing this thing. Although it is a bow-shooting statue, it only lacks a bow and arrow in the hand, but this kind of empty-shooting shape has not been seen before. How did it come to him? Has it become a defective product?
Cui Hao and the others knew that the source of the matter was Ren Ping, so they glared at him immediately:
"Mr. Lu, it turns out that this person has the final say on whether things on the field are true or false?"

There is already quite dissatisfaction in the words.

Knowing that they would suspect that he was partial, Lu Zi immediately turned to the corresponding page of the scoring book in his hand:

"Three, please take a closer look. This thing is numbered 279. It is noted in the scoring book that 'Guan Gong sits and watches the afterimage of the Spring and Autumn Statue in late Qing Dynasty'. The score is 8 points. This is set before the game. I am not a troublemaker. .”

"Sit and watch the Spring and Autumn Statue? Why do you sit and watch the Spring and Autumn Statue again?"

Everyone was confused again. Looking at the score book, even Su Rui and others were at a loss. They thought that when Fan Zhiyi showed it off on the field just now, didn't even Ren Ping agree that it was a bow and feather statue?
When he turned his head to look, Ren Ping didn't say much, but pointed to Wang Jiandao in the distance:
"Mr. Lu, the outcome has been decided, can you fulfill the bet?"

Lu Ziliang nodded. Although he didn't participate in the gambling just now, he was a witness after all: "Mr. Wang, please go ahead." The implication was to ask him to leave on his own.

"Mr. Lu!"

At this time, Wang Jiandao's face was flushed, and he was shocked, angry and humiliated, but he and Lu Ziliang had never had any friendship, seeing his stern and selfless expression, he knew it would be useless to talk too much.

I had no choice but to turn to Cui Hao and the other three: "Old Cui!"

Cui Hao and the others didn't care whether he stayed or left, even if he died. What they cared about was the fight with Ren Ping and the Nanling City League, not to mention that the loss of this bet was unclear and they were always unwilling.

Immediately he said in a deep voice: "Mr. Lu, there is no rush now, there must be an explanation for winning or losing."

"Yes, why is this thing just sitting and watching the Spring and Autumn Statue? Even the scoring book preset by the headquarters will inevitably make mistakes, so please clarify."

"Is this still necessary?"

Hearing this, Rong Qiancheng and others interjected, although they haven't realized it yet, they know that this is a great opportunity, and they must not let the three provinces take advantage of the opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

I saw Fan Jingxian stood up slowly, his originally gloomy face became even more ruthless, as if frost could form at any time, his eyes swept across the nine families:
"Of course it is necessary. People in our business have always been rational and sensible. To win, you have to gain real talent. Even if you lose, you have to be convinced. Otherwise, isn't it deceiving?"

When he said this, Rong Qiancheng and the others felt speechless and couldn't help but look at Lu Ziliang.

Lu Ziliang looked at Ren Ping, as if asking for advice.

Ren Ping smiled: "Okay, if you die, you have to die to understand, that's the reason."

He raised the bronze ornament of Guan Gong and pointed it at Fan Zhiyi first: "Senior Brother Fan said this is a statue of Guan Gong bending his bow and shooting feathers. What about the bow and arrows?"

"There is a saying that the statue is empty. This statue of Guan Gong is like this. There is no bow or arrow in his hand, but his posture is indeed a statue of bending a bow and shooting a feather. What's so strange about it?"

"So you don't think it's a defective product?"

"Of course." At this point, Fan Zhiyi had no choice but to fight to the end: "Tell me what's wrong with it. If you can't tell, it's not a win!"

Ren Ping didn't answer, turned around and looked at Wang Jiandao: "It seems that President Wang thinks so too?"

Wang Jiandao was originally a very stubborn person, but today he is a villain first, and now he deserves to be humiliated, so his expression became stiff and he said nothing.

Ren Ping ignored him, but suddenly turned around and took a scroll from the table.

This scroll is exactly the portrait of Guan Gong by the modern painter Shi Youguang that Qi Xiaoshuang took before, and this time it is one of the combination of Rong Yi and Qi Wulei's portrait of Guan Gong.

When the scroll is opened, a picture of Guan Gong sitting on the roof and reading the Spring and Autumn Annals at night slowly unfolds.

Although the work is not precious, the technique is skillful and the painting is very realistic.

When everyone realized that they looked familiar, Ren Ping hung the scroll with his right hand, and the copper ornament in his left hand was compared to the center of the scroll, sticking it together.

Everyone was stunned for a while, whispering endlessly.

It turned out that everyone could see at this time that the posture of the Guan Gong copper ornament was more like sitting and watching the Spring and Autumn Period than so much bending the bow and shooting the feathers.

When you look at it alone, you don't feel any difference. Compared with each other, it is almost carved out of the same mold, but there are a few differences in details.

"Ah! I see. It turns out that what is missing on the left hand of this copper ornament is not a bow and arrow, but "Spring and Autumn".

Seeing this, Su Rui immediately exclaimed.

Qi Xiaoshuang on the side also nodded: "That's not the most important thing. The important thing is that there should be a wooden carved chair or wooden low couch under this copper ornament, but it was damaged and lost later,"

"In this way, not only does it become a defective product, but because the sitting posture of Guan Gong is very similar to the posture of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow, it can easily be mistaken for a statue of Guan Gong shooting feathers with a bow. Only those who can see the difference will probably be mistaken. Nothing left."

At this time, both of them had vaguely realized that Ren Ping had already seen the flaws of this copper ornament before, and the reason why he didn't say it clearly, and made a look of approval, was to deliberately mislead Fan Zhiyi and lure him into being fooled. .

Sure enough, now that the truth has been revealed, the two people's praises were filled with admiration and a shiver down their spines:
This kid's scheming is really... Fortunately, he is on the side of the Nine Great Masters.

Even the two younger generations can see something, and the elders on both sides are naturally more aware of it. This copper ornament is indeed the incomplete statue of Guan Gong sitting and watching the Spring and Autumn Period.

But how did Ren Ping see it in the first place? Could it be that he really has such vicious eyesight?
"You don't have to look at me that way. The lack of a copy of "Spring and Autumn" and a low couch is certainly not enough to explain the difference between this copper ornament and the real statue of bow and feather. Look at the eyes of this statue of Guan Gong. "

Ren Ping slightly shifted the copper ornament downwards, so that he faced the oblique side behind the statue of Guan Gong, was facing his left hand hanging in the air, and then swung it slightly from side to side.

Most of the people are at a loss and don't know the point, and a few who understand are only vague.

Lu Ziliang, who was still on the side, sighed, put his right index finger between the head of the Guan Gong statue and his right hand, forming a bridge, and then said:
"This is called the 'Hand-Eye Bridge', which is specially used to identify the posture of the figures in the sculptures. Like a real statue of bowing and shooting feathers, Guan Gong's hand-eye bridge should be straight forward, forming an angle close to 0 degrees with the front side of the body. "

"And the angle of this copper ornament is about 5 degrees to 10 degrees, which is a typical angle for sitting and watching the Spring and Autumn Statue. Although there is no "Spring and Autumn" and sitting down, this is enough to determine its posture."

As soon as the words fell, everyone was dumbfounded. They never expected that it was the slight difference that made Ren Ping see the flaw.

Not to mention Fan Zhiyi, there are very few people present who have heard of the Hand-Eye Bridge, let alone identified it based on it.

In an instant, his expression changed from anger to despair, and he looked at Ren Ping: "You, you..."

"Senior Brother Fan, don't feel wronged. In fact, even if this thing of yours is really a statue of bending a bow and shooting a feather, it won't be better than Senior Brother Rong and Senior Brother Qi."

"Nonsense! A bow and feather statue is worth at least 20 points, and my five pieces add up to 47, plus the bonus factor..."

"It's only about 51 points. You don't really think you can get a bonus of more than 0?"

Ren Ping smiled lightly: "The statue of Guan Gong composed of carved materials like yours belongs to the most elementary combination method. Although it has gathered copper, jade, wood, teeth, and stone, the quality is not high enough. There are two out of five. one is repeated,"

"Ask Elder Cui and Mr. Fan yourself, is this a hidden rule worthy of a higher bonus?"

(End of this chapter)