musicians of old

Chapter 12 Sunset and Moonrise
Behind the wall where "Moon Night on the Dnieper River" is hung, there is a cloth wallpaper with elegant blue and black floral patterns. Fan Ning stretched out his hand and stroked every place gently.
He suddenly touched an uneven place.

Put your nails in it, shake it a few times, and a stone brick becomes loose.

As soon as Fan Ning exerted force, the entire wall brick was pulled out, and he threw it on the ground with a "bang", causing the corridor to resound with hollow echoes.

He didn't care about so much, he reached in and groped in every direction.

A brick below the movable wall brick is hollowed out to form a large groove.

but
Fanning felt nothing but roughness from his fingertips.

empty?

Why would it be empty?
If it is true that my father is using some means to give reminders of the audio sequence fragments and paintings so that I can find it here, why is there nothing there?

audio sequence fragments
In Fanning's mind, the original yellowed and rough papyrus that he had seen at the party at Teacher Anton's house resurfaced.

Their dimensions, and the approximate thickness of eleven stacked sheets.
"Could it be that the hidden compartment behind the painting originally contained fragments of the music sequence, and then someone took it away." Fan Ning looked strange.

This is illogical. I will only take off the painting if I get the fragments and deduce the information.

There is no key locked in the key cabinet.
No, strictly speaking, I didn't take down the painting by relying on the information from the scroll.

because of that dream
Fanning stood at the dark end of the corridor, his mind racing.

"Assume that I didn't get the fragments, or deduce the information about the missing C sharp."

"With the existence of that dream, when I search the art gallery, I will still come to the end of this corridor."

"Then what do I do?."

"Of course I will take a look at the contents of these paintings, and then, the most special one among them is the one I saw in my previous life, and I will still take it off!"

Under this logic, playing the fragmented scrolls in the hidden compartment is not the nature of a "key lock cabinet".

The fragments are not the key, the dream given by the subconscious mind is the key, and the fragments are the items you want to get!
After clarifying this relationship, Fanning made a hypothesis:

So, what is placed in the hidden compartment are the fragments of the sound sequence?
It has been taken?It's just a coincidence that it got into the hands of Mr. An Dong, but I still got the information on it?Although for me who is currently standing here, the result has not changed, but
If someone took it, it meant that someone, or a certain force, had noticed him!

Fanning's thoughts drifted into the void darkness of the gallery, down the stairs, towards the guide hall on the first floor, towards the door that had been re-locked by himself, towards the courtyard, alleys and East Mecklen outside. bustling streets of the district.

He felt that the situation that was slightly safe, now became dangerous again!
"Go to the other side of this floor first, to see the former living area of ​​my house." Fanning leaned "Moon Night Over the Dnieper" against the wall, and picked up the lantern again.

Back from several permanent exhibition halls, go to the short side of the "L" and push open the wooden door that is hidden in front of you. This is the father's former office.

The sound of the door opening was unusually loud in the silent environment.

This is a large room over [-] square meters. The floor is covered with Banton pottery from the south. A wooden shelf divides the room into two parts. The outside is used as a reception room. Three dark-colored long The leather sofas are arranged in a U shape, and the silk cushions are scattered on the ground.
Fanning went to the window and tried to open it to no avail except a handful of rust.

"The anti-theft measures are a bit too much, but it's true, my father still has a lot of paintings."

He walked straight into the office area of ​​the inner space, and the lantern in his hand slowly swept across the desk.

There are two stacks of paper documents scattered on the table, illuminated by the light, and the top one is the "Uflandser Review" issued in early 910. The headline is about the government's legislation to promote the popularization of Hooter's sterilization in the dairy industry law reports.

On the checkered wooden box at the corner of the table, there is a black telephone receiver upside down, and a black wire sticks out and breaks on the ground.

In addition to this there remains a medium-sized glass greenhouse displaying what resembles a fern, mutilated and dead of course - this seems to have become popular among urban residents of Uflanderse in the last ten years One of those weird hobbies.

Most of the drawers are empty, and the back of the office chair is also a storage compartment embedded in the wall, which is full of sundries.

After a fruitless search, Fanning returned to the outer drawing room.

"There are also paintings on the two walls." He took off his shoes, stepped on the old leather sofa, and raised the lantern to look carefully.

In terms of content, there are landscapes, figures, and still lifes.

"Still Life with Flowers and Plaster", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent van Nin, 896.

"Twilight and Wall at the Top of the Mountain", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent van Nin, 906.

Laundry Ladies Drying Laundry, 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent van Nin, 900.

"River of Silver Mirrors", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent van Nin, 905.

Fanning examined its contents one by one, but found nothing special.

"I have no idea at this end, and then think about it at the other end." Fan Ning decided to change his mind.

If it is said that the cipher is really hidden in the audio sequence fragments, what is its presentation form?
"Missing C sharp is a dotted shape code, which can help me develop associations and lock the relationship between certain special things and C sharp."

"And the other form is"

"The position in the order!" Fan Ning's eyes lit up, "Count the number of paintings!"

One, two, three. The total number of paintings is twelve!

Within an octave, there are also twelve sound names!

From left to right on the piano, climbing up one semitone by one semitone, they are white key C, black key sharp C, white key D, black key E flat, white key E, white key F, black key flat G, white key Key G, black key A down, white key A, black key B down, white key B, and finally back to white key C.

The position of C sharp on the black key is the second!
Fanning returned to the second painting "Twilight and Wall on the Top of the Mountain", brought the lantern closer, and examined it carefully.

This is a landscape, the ground on the top of the mountain is covered with withered grass, the afterglow of the setting sun hits a section of white remnant wall, causing a strange light effect, and in the distance are more distant blue mountains.

"A normal original work, wouldn't it be another play with a hidden grid behind the painting?" Fan Ning was a little puzzled.

He stepped on the back of the sofa, moved "Twilight and the Wall on the Top of the Mountain" down, then tiptoed and reached out to stroke it carefully.

The walls, framed with gold patterned wallpaper, have nothing but the snap-rails and snaps of the picture frames.

"The content of "Twilight and Wall on the Top of the Mountain" can be summed up as the scenery of sunset."

"Second position, it's sunset now."

"And the original number two position is C sharp, "Moonlight Sonata", moonlight?"

Sunset and moonrise?

In a flash of inspiration, Fanning remembered the painting at the end of the corridor, "Moon Night Over the Dnieper River"!
Both dimensions are the same!

He jumped off the sofa, put on his shoes, took the lantern, and walked quickly to the permanent exhibition hall, ignoring the bumps and bumps in the dark twists and turns-if it wasn't for the fear that the tallow candle inside the lantern would fall, he might have to run.

It took a lot of time to move the painting to the office, because I couldn't spare a portable lamp, so I had to walk a little bit to move the lighting once.

Finally, breathlessly, he hung "Moon Night Over the Dnieper River" in the original "Twilight and Wall on the Top of the Mountain".

"Why?" Fan Ning's muttering was not over yet, but was suddenly interrupted by a continuous, dull rumbling sound!
(End of this chapter)