Almighty painter

Chapter 67 Are you there?
Austria, in Jelena's estate.

At this time, it was 45:[-] in the morning, and the tall and tall French butler directed the servants to push the cart to the front door of the study.

"Miss' breakfast."

Said the nursing lady sitting behind the desk at the housekeeper's door.

As an heiress raised by a traditional upper-class family.

Although the Elena family has always been famous for art lovers, the workaholic style of the military lords and military aristocratic society in the past in Germany and Austria can still be seen in Anna.

Miss Anna's daily schedule is extremely regular and self-disciplined, as accurate as a wind-up clock.

She never stays up late and insists on doing an hour and a half of upper body yoga every day.

She cannot walk. In order to prevent the atrophy of the leg muscles, a dedicated physical therapist will spend an hour in the evening massaging and relaxing the corresponding muscles for her.

Anna goes to bed at 10:30 and wakes up at 06:30 every day.

After a simple wash, she will deal with official duties for an hour in the morning, and read the current political newspapers and various art magazines of the day.

An associated review outline is also written, if required.

At 45:[-] a.m., the butler orders a breakfast of mostly organic cornmeal and decaf coffee.

She just finished breakfast in the study.

If she needs to go to work or have a formal social event, the housekeeper will pick out suitable clothes for her and arrange a driver to prepare for departure.

If it's an unscheduled day off, she'll take care of some personal business before lunch.

Day after day, year after year, the pattern is not at all like a young woman in her 20s.

But today, for the first time, the door of the study room did not open as usual with the ringing of the bell by the nurse sitting in the secretary's office at the door.

"Miss Anna? Your breakfast."

The nursing lady rang the intercom in the room.

"Oh, please come in."

A few seconds later, just as the servants began to wonder if the hostess of the manor was unwell, Anna's voice came from inside.

The butler opened the door.

There is an open MAC on Anna's desk. She is sitting behind the computer, staring at the computer screen with her face up.

"Let's put the breakfast car here, I'll eat it later."

The hostess said without raising her head.

Although the butler was curious, he naturally would not have any objections to the employer's decision.

He ordered the servant to put aside the breakfast cart and the hot towel for wiping his face, turned around, and tiptoed away.

before leaving,

He noticed that the newspapers and magazines he put in the corner of the room this morning were still there intact, without even touching them once.

The housekeeper felt that Anna was behaving very unnaturally recently.

Especially on that day, after the manor had poured in to set up groups to tap the show.He often saw Anna frowning, looking dazed.

……

"Hurry up, why haven't you responded to the message yet?"

Anna tapped the refresh button on the top of the screen again with her fingers on the touchpad.

Her face was still cold, but her slightly frowned brows and her fingers tapping on the table from time to time showed that she was definitely not calm at this time.

On the computer webpage is Gu Weijing's Detective Cat online shop.

The page shows that Anna has sent a lot of messages to the other party.And the mysterious detective cat still didn't reply a word.

"what is she doing?"

"Did she see my message?"

"If you saw it, why didn't you reply?"

"Is she scolded by people on the Internet? Will she be sad. "

"Did she get tricked by those bloody art vampires into signing contracts she shouldn't have?"

Numerous chaotic thoughts flooded into Anna's mind, making this lady critic who was always known for her elegance and calmness lose her former composure.

Ever since the video recording of Thomas was completed that day, Anna has been wanting to contact the detective Mrs. Cat all the time.

If it weren't for the requirements of the confidentiality contract, I could neither disclose the relevant situation nor contact any of the seven illustrators before the Thomas video was officially launched.

She had already sent Detective Cat a message on the day she saw the other party's work.

In Anna's heart, it was not only because of the joy of discovering that she had discovered an outstanding genius, but also because of the urgency to talk to the master.

More, it is pure worry.

Judging from the behavior of this master-level painting skill but still selling cheap popular illustrations online, Anna guessed that the other party's living conditions would not be very good.

At this time, she suddenly became famous, and all kinds of complicated news rushed towards her all at once.

There are so many people on the Internet, there are praises, and naturally some people think that he is not worthy of the abuse alongside Jane Arnold.

Anna doesn't think this illustrator who makes a living selling paintings online might handle it well.

She might even fall into certain traps.

Why does a master like Mr. Cao need a special art assistant and agent to handle the contract and related content for him.

Moreover, the salary structure of these most personal staff is basically high salary + commission.

Great painters can earn a total of [-] million US dollars a year, and these assistants can easily earn tens of millions of dollars in salary.

It's not that the master is arrogant, or that there is nowhere to spend the money, but that countless predecessors have planted it on it.

Not to mention that the ability of many masters to deal with property is very worrying, and the level of self-care is almost like that of a disabled person. There are many twists and turns in the contract that normal people can't understand.

High commission is nothing.

I am afraid that some small galleries like to make some seemingly generous signing fees, but actually make some breach of contract clauses that cannot be fulfilled at all.

Similar to some art economic companies in South Korea that have been denounced by the media as sweatshops.

Signing a 10-year contract looks good on the surface, but after finishing the work, I find that I still owe the company money.

These informal art dealers like to attract Detective Cat the most, with excellent painting skills, painters who were originally unknown and suddenly gained huge traffic.

It seemed like a gold mine to them.

Like slave masters, they will whip their painters, squeeze their labor and inspiration, and finally throw them away mercilessly.

This kind of news is not only in the field of painting and music, and it is not only a modern thing.Anna is clear about this, Balzac was almost forced to jump off a building by his publisher.

But there is still something special about the field of painting... money laundering.

No need to shy away.

In the art market, which has been rising steadily over the years for art and antiques, in addition to the benign art economy, there are shocking money laundering activities.

Some inexplicable auctions may even be behind Latin American drug lords or human trafficking and other unscrupulous activities.

If these people are accidentally glued, a painter will be ruined.

Even if none of these things happened, if in a hurry to make money, he took over some paintings that he didn't like or was not good at, it would be a huge stain on his career.

Faced with the temptation of getting rich suddenly, can that detective cat really handle it?
For a while, Anna was worried that the other party had accepted a contract that she shouldn't have accepted, for a while she was worried that someone would use his work to launder money, and for a while she was worried that the other party would be sprayed by some jealous trolls. She couldn't accept it...

She felt like an old mother who worried about her children and hadn't slept well for several days.

"Detective Mrs. Cat, are you there?"

Anna typed again.

(End of this chapter)