Chapter 906: Half-Baked Appraisal Master

Shi Lei estimated that after he transferred another 30 million to Ding Yu in the next credit cycle, even if there was no more reputation points in the account during this period, he should be able to exchange for the intuition card.

Moreover, judging from today's situation, he would always get some scattered reputation points no matter what he did. It might not take long for it to exceed 9,000, and then he could exchange for this intuition card that Shi Lei had longed for.

Of course, the intuition card was not the goal, but to exchange all the feeling cards. Shi Lei always had a hunch that if the feeling cards were used at the same time, there would be a magical power.

But now, no matter how entangled he was, Shi Lei still had to exchange for the three levels of mastery of magic and painting. At the moment, it was the priority to deal with the Scola family and finally complete the task of the black card.

Shi Lei, frustrated, clicked on the B-level exchange, chose to exchange for 800 reputation points, and then found the elementary calligraphy mastery and elementary painting mastery again, and chose to exchange them respectively.

Then came the C-level exchange. Among the 1,000 reputation points, he found the medium calligraphy proficiency and medium painting proficiency to exchange.

Advanced...

After the exchange was completed, he returned to the homepage of the reputation system and saw that he only had more than 1,700 reputation points left, hanging there miserably.

With a long sigh, Shi Lei completely left the reputation system.

Then, he retrieved the cards in his mind, and the three levels of magic and painting proficiency cards, elementary, intermediate and advanced, appeared in his mind at the same time.

Shi Lei selected the two elementary cards and confirmed their use, but he didn't feel any changes in himself, and then the intermediate and advanced cards in order. Similarly, he didn't feel any big changes after using them.

However, these six cards have completely disappeared.

Shi Lei got up from the bed, turned on the tablet, entered the world famous paintings in the search engine, and chose the image search.

Shi Lei found that every time he saw a painting, the name of the painting, the author, the year of creation and other simple information immediately emerged in his mind. Following the name of the painting and the name of the author, he found that he knew these paintings and authors like the back of his hand, just like Shi Lei was really a fan of these famous painters.

He searched for famous calligraphy again, and the effect was the same.

In fact, Shi Lei could not only appreciate these paintings and techniques, but also keenly see the flaws and shortcomings in a certain work.

He recalled the Five Elements and Twenty-Eight Mansions True Shape Map that he had seen before. To be honest, Shi Lei really couldn't see anything at the time, and didn't think that the painting was so awesome, but now, his mind is full of knowledge of calligraphy and painting, and when he thinks about the painting again, he is immediately shocked.

At the same time, he can also judge from the painting that the Five Elements and Twenty-Eight Mansions True Shape Map is really an early work of Wu Daozi, and it is definitely not Liang Lingzan's.

Shi Lei suddenly realized that when he was appraising calligraphy and painting artworks in the future, he might not need the help of the appraisal card at all. His current proficiency in calligraphy and painting works alone was enough for him to become a true appraisal master in calligraphy and painting.

Even an appraisal master, because as long as Shi Lei had appraised the works, he would almost never make mistakes.

Shi Lei was excited about this...

But soon, he realized that it might not be the case.

Because a true appraisal master needs to appraise not only the paintings and techniques themselves, but also the carriers, such as paper, silk, etc., with a clear enough judgment.

Otherwise, it seems that what Shi Lei saw on the Internet were obviously photos of these paintings and techniques, or even copied works, but Shi Lei could still get the information of the original paintings from these pictures.

This means that if someone can copy a calligraphy and painting work in its entirety, even if it is a photo of exactly the same size, Shi Lei may mistake it for the original.

The road to appraisal is long, and it is not so easy to become a master!

However, the age of paper, silk and other carriers can be completed through a series of high-tech means. If Shi Lei is only asked to identify whether the painting is from the original author, he can still do it.

In other words, with a series of high-tech means, Shi Lei can still become an unparalleled master of appraisal.

A half-baked master of appraisal is not bad!

Shi Lei laughed at himself and went back to bed and fell asleep.

On Christmas Eve, Shi Lei was still strolling alone. In order to test his newly acquired knowledge of calligraphy and painting, Shi Lei went to the British Museum.

In front of the calligraphy and painting works, Shi Lei stayed for a long time. His purpose was simple, he wanted to test the knowledge he had acquired.

Shi Lei knew every calligraphy and painting work well, and as long as he thought about it, everything about the cause and effect of this calligraphy and painting work, the historical origin, and even the background of the creator's creation of this calligraphy and painting, etc., all came to his mind.

He really knows everything, whether it is Western oil paintings or Eastern ink paintings, nothing is difficult for Shi Lei.

Shi Lei can understand the past and present of these calligraphy and painting works very thoroughly.

At the same time, Shi Lei also has another idea. He wants to see if there are any fakes in the British Museum. He also wants to test his current level of appraisal.

The final result was not beyond Shi Lei's expectation. The treasures in the British Museum may not all be authentic. At least there are a few that Shi Lei is sure are definitely imitations or even forgeries.

It's just that these imitations and forgeries may be quite old. In addition to the fact that they are not written or painted by the original authors, in the sense of antiques, these cannot be completely said to be forgeries.

These things are equivalent to deceiving the eyes of the whole world.

If it weren't for the lack of time, Shi Lei would have wanted to fly back to China and go to the Forbidden City to see if there are any forgeries in the Forbidden City.

After having dinner alone in the evening, Shi Lei returned to the hotel early to recharge his energy and prepare to go to Jenny's house the next day to have a good talk with Mayor Scola.

English is really a problem.

Shi Lei's English is no problem for simple communication, but when it comes to calligraphy and painting, there are many professional terms involved, which makes Shi Lei hesitate whether he should exchange an English proficiency card in the reputation system again.

Forget it, let's save some reputation points. Who knows what special situation will require temporary use of reputation points to exchange for some cards that Shi Lei now thinks are useless?

For example, this exchange, Shi Lei had never thought about it before. His only purpose was to exchange the intuition card, but things did not go as he wished, and Shi Lei was forced to exchange for the third-level mastery of magic and painting.

For the English problem, I think Jenny and Xiaodie should be able to help, right? Although it was a bit strange to have multiple translators next to Scola when chatting, Shi Lei had to do so in order to complete the black card task.

Especially Yao Keji, who had not replied for a long time, which meant that Yao Keji's investigation was not going smoothly.

The next day, when Shi Lei woke up, he finished washing and enjoying breakfast in the restaurant, but his mobile phone rang.

He took it out and saw that it was a local number in London. Shi Lei had already estimated who it was, so he chose to answer it.

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