Almighty painter

Chapter 539 The Great Detective August (Part )
Whether she likes it or not.

She really doesn't have the squeamishness of an ordinary girl when it comes to blood.

At nine years old.

The first time Anna fired, she screamed so hard she almost passed out.

Just two years later, at an age when ordinary people were still in elementary school, young girls would hold their hearts up when they saw a sika deer and say, "It's so cute, so cute." She was able to cut open the throat of a fawn brought back by the ranger without batting an eyelid, which was shot by lead bullets and was struggling with its mouth.

Not just any eleven-year-old girl has such a talent.

To be precise, not just anyone——

No matter he is a boy or a girl, an adult or a minor, he can have such a talent.

Hunting and shooting are two different things.

How many urban otakus with a combat power of only 5 will be chased around the yard by a big rooster that has not been killed during the Chinese New Year and has not yet expired, clucking and squawking wildly?

Facing the loss of life, you need courage and determination.

Napoleon founded the Saint-Cyr Army College, and issued a training manual to his military command trainees who dreamed of becoming generals in the future. The title page of the training manual read: "A man, at the moment he embarks on war, he You must have the courage and determination to shoot a lead bullet through the enemy's chest very calmly, and you must also have the courage and determination to be shot through the chest by a lead bullet very calmly. These two things can be equated in a sense.

Modern thermal weapons romanticize and simplify death to a certain extent.

You are 4000 kilometers away, pressing the operating button on the infrared monitoring screen of the striker drone, and 400 yards away, you are facing the militants in the scope and you are pulling the trigger, and you are face to face and you are stabbing the knife into the opponent's ribs. , a completely different psychological impact.

same.

In the manor, I drank Darjeeling black tea, smoked a cigar, talked about the autumn fashion in Paris with my friends, and played multi-directional flying saucer.

And sitting in a helicopter, hunting rhinos with a semi-automatic rifle roaring on the African savannah.

Face to face again, I inserted the Bowie hunting knife into the deer's neck and felt the metal Damascus blade in my hand, slowly going deep into my hand, passing through the skin, through the muscles, sliding through the tough fascia, and cutting through the blood vessels and arteries.

Feel the warm blood gradually flowing over your palms, staining the cuffs of your hunting suit, feeling your heartbeat slowly weakening, staring face to face at the fawn's weak, ignorant, and innocent black eyes that are gradually losing sight of you. look.

The clear grainy feeling of death hits your face in the fishy-sweet air.

They also pack a completely different emotional punch.

Many people will either collapse or experience something similar to depersonalization - feeling like their spirit has been withdrawn from the body, in a daze, and less responsive to the external environment.

It may take a few days of rest, but it may take several weeks or even a month or two to fully recover from such effects.

There are also a few people who are addicted to this kind of primitive violence that controls life and death and makes life end with blood on their fingertips. Their whole beings are filled with great happiness and a huge sense of power, and they are doubly addicted to this kind of hunting ever since. In the game.

Anna is neither.

Anna...she's just calm.

Miss Anna skinned the deer, went home, took a shower, changed clothes, and went to piano lessons without changing her expression.

Even the veteran hunter next to her who had been hunting in the forest farm all her life said that if it weren't for the inconvenience of her legs and feet, she would definitely be a very good hunter.

Auntie said.

She is not cold.

in contrast.

There is a lingering flame in her heart, with a lust stronger than ordinary people.

Stronger love, stronger hate.

She could be so calm because the original stimulation of killing itself could not make her feel intense sadness, obsession or catharsis.

Only some special feelings would make her feel a greater resonance, like when a handful of salt was thrown into the fire and it reacted with the hot coals, exploding like hydrogen gas.

This natural calmness.

If she hadn't been born three hundred years late, and if she had been a boy, Anna would have been a good candidate to become a cavalry colonel of the Imperial Dragoon Regiment.

The deer's skin was turned into a leather tapestry on the wall of the room.

After the death of my aunt.

Except for Anna herself, no servants or maids could enter this collection room.

In addition to occasionally maintaining the "fire" as her aunt calls it, Miss Elena would shoot quails and sparrows on the lawn, and add firewood to the small flames.

I rarely hunt medium to large animals anymore.

But today, she gave the key to the housekeeper again and asked someone to clean up the hunting room.

She moved all the strange collections left over from her ancestors to a corner, moved in a few boxes that had been shipped from the Schönbrunn Palace Office in the morning, and left everything else alone. She took care of it herself.

The housekeeper recognized the box that should be the artwork.

But he didn't know why it was so mysterious.

He handles more than one painting with a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars on a daily basis.

The employees at the estate are real experts in dealing with this kind of thing.

A Las Vegas gambling king spent $100 million to buy a Picasso, intending to show it off to his friends and family. However, he rarely came into contact with these things on a daily basis. When he took it out, he accidentally poked it with his finger, which was embarrassing. Exposed, this kind of low-level mistake is impossible to happen.

The housekeeper even couldn't help but wonder for a moment whether the contents in the box were not legal or whether the property rights were questionable.

Not to mention the black market for art, which has a circulation volume of tens to tens of billions every year.

Affected by the historical issues left over from World War II, there are a lot of famous paintings with unclear origins and doubtful ownership in the art museums and art markets of Guangde and Austria. Some famous public cases have been litigated by several governments for more than half a century. .

but.

Just because he is very knowledgeable.

Therefore, the housekeeper quickly gave up this speculation.

First of all, this thing is packed in a large three-part wood crate that is commonly used for express delivery furniture.

Not cool at all.

Not to mention the kind of "super exhibits" that are escorted by the security team, not to mention the kind of "super exhibits" that are often escorted by the security team, even the multi-layered aluminum alloy art storage boxes with combination locks and foam moisture-proof pads commonly used in museums are not included.

The only security measure is an English machine-printed label hanging on it that says, "Oil paintings, please handle with care. Delivery guys, please be gentle!"

Too cheap.

It's really downgraded.

While carrying it, the housekeeper squinted at the thing for a long time.

It had been many years since he had seen such a "fresh and refined" package shipped in any of the art transactions he handled.

He even thought about whether he didn't know how to do it, or whether others were playing in the style of "performance art".

Otherwise, Mr. Hyperion ordered a painting worth 100 million dollars from Jane Arnold, and a security guard handcuffed it to his belt at any time.

If a black marketeer could get on Miss Elena's line, he would have this delivery attitude, his structure, and his stinginess in doing business.

The housekeeper looked down on him on behalf of the lady.

In addition, to be honest, if Anna really buys some works with unclear origins, there is no need to go to such trouble.

indeed.

Buying some works similar to Leopold's (Note) legacy in Austria involves the risk of encountering procedural problems, which will deter ordinary collectors.

(Collectors from the World War II era, it is said that a large number of collections came from the Dachau concentration camp, such as the famous "Portrait of Wally", which was seized by the United States when purchased and never returned to Vienna. Finally, in the federal court, he paid an additional 1,900 It took a million dollars to successfully reach an out-of-court settlement.)
but. This kind of thing is aimed at ordinary collectors and art investors.

It has reached the collection size and social status of the Elena family.

As long as Miss Elena secretly contacted Ethan Hunt, smashed the Louvre with bricks in the middle of the night, and stole the Mona Lisa.

otherwise.

No matter how the work came from, as long as it could be transported to Elena's manor, there was no need for Anna to hide it from him.

"I don't understand."

The butler moved the box into the collection room.

After the servant left, he carefully touched his chin and looked at it for several minutes. He really felt that no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like it contained the Mona Lisa.

I had to scratch my head, close the door, shake my head and walk away.

……

Anna finally removed the layers of rough yellow tape wrapped around the box.

Put the painted knife in your hand on the shelf on the side. It is actually a short Finnish hunting knife with a length of 70mm. Nordic hunters like to carry such a mini knife with them for shaving or trimming their nails. of.

but.

Judging from the fact that the craftsmen turned the leather handguard into a painted porcelain handle that has no practical function other than being beautiful.

From the moment this knife is manufactured, it should be a mere ornament rather than a practical one.

"The cat lady is so sincere and lovely."

Anna finally removed the last strip of tape.

Not only did such outer packaging make the housekeeper confused about the situation, but it also made Miss Irina, who was sitting in a wheelchair, spend a lot of time unpacking it alone.

I even worked up a thin layer of sweat.

Fortunately.

She casually grabbed a small knife from the nearby shelf, which was quite handy for cutting tape.

This small, collectible hunting knife cost over $1000, but I probably never imagined that it would actually be used as a utility knife.

At this time, it is often possible to realize the importance of loving the house and the house, and letting each flower catch its own eye.

In the eyes of the housekeeper, stingy behavior turned into performance art, but in Miss Anna's mouth, it became a virtue of not being pretentious.

When she didn't know Detective Cat, she saw him drawing illustrations on student sketch paper. Miss Anna commented that he was "not serious" and "irresponsible fool".

It's only been a few months.

When I saw the other person put the painting in a wooden box and wrapped it with tape like a rice dumpling, I sent it to him, and it became "The cat lady is quite cute."

The nature of human beings is double standards in various places and at any time.

If Gu Tongxiang were around right now, he would definitely pat his bald head and express his gratitude to Miss Anna - this is the packing method passed down from our old Gu family!
Small galleries have the survival wisdom of small galleries.

Many impasto paintings are not suitable for being stuffed into painting tubes when transported over long distances.

It must be packed in a frame and shipped in a box.

A better solid alloy art storage box can easily cost hundreds of dollars. How much does it cost to sell many of their paintings?

As for the guaranteed price.

Ordinary works of art are difficult to value and it is difficult to accurately calculate losses.

Insuring prices often turns into wrangling with each other.

It's better to wrap a few more circles of tape and save the money for Old Man Gu to take home and buy two more bottles of minoxidil hair growth agent to treat baldness.

Gu Tongxiang himself figured out a whole set of "five-flower tied" style of sending and releasing paintings.

To sum it up, just wrap more tape.

By the way, the four legs of the frame were fixed with wooden boards in the box, and the canvas was suspended in the middle.

The biggest advantage is that if the customer is in a hurry, you can finish the painting today and send it out tomorrow without waiting for the oil painting to completely dry.

As a micro-business person, what we pay attention to is efficiency first.

Gu Weijing has been helping his family pack express packages since he was a child, and it has become a natural habit. This time when he sent "The Blazing World" to Miss Irina, he still used their home-made method.

It was a sharp contrast to the fact that Irina gave him a small cross, which was also carefully held by Lao Yang. He was afraid that something would go wrong when he entered the immigration system, so he took a 12-hour red-eye flight to deliver the human body.

of course.

Gu Weijing definitely didn't know that this painting would be sent to Anna.

It is different from "The Little Prince" which completely exchanged electronic manuscripts.

In order to prepare for the Scholastic Group's art award next month, he specially packaged some of the masterpieces from "The Blazing World" and handed them over to his agent at Schönbrunn Palace.

The agent will then select a few paintings at his discretion and submit them to the publishing house for exhibition.

Anna took out a painting from the box.

This kind of illustration is not very long.

On it is a scene of a war between birds and giants——

The feathered men with wings behind them flew in criss-cross circles, leaving traces of blood on the iron-colored skin of the giant with its back against the cliff.

Miss Irina is already very familiar with Detective Cat's strong and simple personal style when painting knife paintings.

She knew that the picture in her hands was by no means the best among Detective Cat's works.

However, when Anna held the painting in her own hands and had close contact with it, she couldn't help but be impressed by the splendor and beauty of Detective Cat's painting techniques.

It seems that what is painted on the painting is not a kind of paint, but a kind of feeling.

The sun is hot, the sea water is cold, the flowing blood is hot, and the wind is cold.

The birdman's wings seemed to be iron sheets made of molten tin.

It seems to be made of jade, and it feels slightly cool to the touch.

"Uh, uh... woof woof."

August scratched his chin with his hind legs and made an abnormal gurgling sound in his throat.

"Don't you like this picture? Why? It's so beautiful, isn't it? Or maybe it's a little too difficult for you to understand."

Miss Irina seemed to understand the springer spaniel's bark.

But Anna was still focused on the painting in her hand and did not look up.

otherwise.

She would find that her beagle had its head lowered to the ground abnormally, and its two silly big ears were twitching, as if searching for something.

in front of it.

An almost invisible strand of cat hair is falling from the painting.

(End of this chapter)