Chapter 1220: 1220. Ancient Paintings (4/5)

Chapter 1220 1220. Ancient Painting (45)

Li Du smiled and shook his head: "This report is for their students to read, and it doesn't have that much influence."

Sophie listened silently at the side, and when the middle-aged man returned home disappointed, she asked in surprise, "I heard that right, your fellow villager wants to demolish this place?"

Just now, the Martins kept praising the charm of these ancient buildings, but Li Du didn't say much. In fact, in their county, these ancient buildings are not popular at all.

Their county seat is a small place, and there are no scholars to investigate and no tourists to consume. These ancient buildings cannot generate economic value.

The government is not a vandal. They decided to demolish some old houses and buildings ten or twenty years ago in order to expand the urban area, attract investment, and develop the economy.

But at that time, they were not the only ones doing this. Many governments across the country were doing this, and valuable ancient buildings in some big cities were also demolished.

This incident triggered protests from many architects and knowledgeable people, who believed that these buildings were the wealth left by their ancestors and should be preserved for scientific research and tourism.

No problem with that, indeed, some ancient buildings are valuable.

After receiving more criticism, local governments became more conservative and stopped the demolition of ancient buildings.

However, it is not only those big cities and developed areas that have become conservative, the leaders of small cities like them are also restrained.

In order to avoid public criticism, they simply retained some ancient buildings, as long as they did not seriously affect the development and construction of the urban area, they would preserve them.

But there are no tourists in their county, and the ancient buildings can't be converted into profits. People who live here can't get money, and they still live in dilapidated houses, so they are a little reluctant.

In the past few years, the city has been developing faster and faster, the economy is getting better and better, and the land value in the county has risen. Once many places are demolished, a group of people will become richer immediately.

However, the old buildings cannot be demolished, the government is not willing to demolish them, and the developers cannot afford to demolish them, so they are preserved like this, which makes the local people even more psychologically unbalanced when they see their acquaintances around them become rich because of the demolition.

They don't care about the scientific research value of their houses. As ordinary people, they just hope that they can get more money, so that their children can buy a good mobile phone, live a better life at home, and change themselves to a better car.

Li Du told Sophie and the Martin couple, and Mrs. Martin said: "The people need to live, and their needs often conflict with the decisions of the superstructure."

Mr. Martin suddenly asked: "You said just now that the patterns on these bricks were set up during the construction of the city wall to prevent brick and stone manufacturers from shoddy goods?"

Li Du smiled and said nothing. He knew that Mr. Martin had discovered the problem, but he didn't want to say it.

These bricks were specially fired for the construction of city walls, so how could they appear on these dwellings?

This is another matter. In fact, many old houses in the local area have been bulldozed long ago, and red brick and tiled houses have been built.

Later, the government tore down part of the city wall to expand the size of the county. At that time, there was already a trend of protecting old buildings, so the local people thought it was profitable, so they went to pick up the bricks that emerged from the demolition of the city wall, and came back to rebuild the current house.

They thought that the government would develop the tourism industry and take this opportunity to make a fortune. As a result, the government did find a way to develop the tourism industry, but it has no characteristics and cannot be developed.

In this way, the local residents have nothing to do. Building a house is not about building blocks. They cannot be demolished and rebuilt.

Li Du has gone through those processes. According to their previous rules, building a new house has an important step of "beam erecting". On that day, the owner will sprinkle sugar, snacks, and small steamed buns. When he was young, he was short of living supplies, and he liked to be with his little ones the most. Friends go grab these things.

He introduced to Sophie some interesting stories that happened when he robbed these things. By the way, he recalled his childhood, and suddenly felt a little emotional:

Time is so fast!

He couldn't help releasing the little flying insects, thinking that it's a pity that this little guy can't travel through time, otherwise he would really like to visit his childhood.

It was also a coincidence, he just took out the little flying insect to have a look, when suddenly someone came up and asked, "Hey, brother, do you foreigner friends want to buy antiques?"

Li Du asked, "Do you have antiques?"

The man looked around with treacherous eyebrows, and said solemnly: "Yes, good stuff, take a look..."

As he said that, he took out a painting from his backpack and showed it to him, "This is something I dug out in the cellar at home a few days ago. It is definitely an antique! Maybe it is an antique of their foreigners!"

The scroll opened, and it was an oil painting with old colors due to oxidation. The red was no longer bright, the green was no longer eye-catching, and the gold was no longer gorgeous.

The painting depicts a Chinese girl, dressed as in a Qing Dynasty braid drama, with a pipa lapel vest on the upper body, decorated with small butterflies, and a phoenix tail skirt on the lower body, which looks quite similar.

However, Xiao Fei Chong had no interest in this oil painting that looked very old, and was not excited by its appearance.

Li Du naturally understood the reason, and laughed loudly: "Brother, I believe you dug this thing up, but it won't last long, or it would have rotted underground, right?"

The middle-aged man was not convinced, and said: "There was a box at the time, and the color was pretty when I first opened it. Really, why don't you let your foreign friends take a look and let them study it, and you can find an expert to appraise it. year."

Li Du shook his head and said with a smile: "If this thing is really an antique, you can have it appraised by experts, and once it shows up to let the police station know, it will be a reward of 500 yuan plus a pennant, are you sure?"

"Forget it if you don't believe it." The middle-aged man took back the oil painting resentfully, and left with his mouth curled up.

The spectators around were laughing, and someone said: "This young man is not stupid."

"Who still believes in such tricks now?"

"That's right, this guy is also interesting. He actually made an oil painting and turned it into an antique. Isn't this thing made by foreigners? We Chinese should make an ink painting."

Hearing their ridicule, the middle-aged man became angry and said, "You know what, I really dug this up. Just wait, I will sell it sooner or later, and I will definitely sell it for a good price."

After speaking, he looked back at Li Du and said, "Little young man has a big tone, you are blocking your friend's way of making money, wait for them to trouble you in the future."

Li Du hated liars the most. Seeing him being so jealous of himself, especially when he was just cheated by those bastards from the soft company, so he decided not to give this person face, but to give him some color.

He quickly caught up with this man, and said with a sneer, "You said your painting is an antique, right? Okay, bring it here, and today I will show you what an expert is!"

After speaking, he used the ability of the little flying insect to reverse time.