Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 688 Being targeted
Once the exhibition is successfully held, I would like to buy all the oil paintings created by Harder Richter in the past one or two years.

Basically there is no hope.

Moreover, if you buy all the paintings of a painter and keep these oil paintings, the price will not reach the expected increase in the future.

The reason is simple. Unless this person is already an undisputed great painter, the skyrocketing price of oil paintings also requires speculation.

And the hype may last ten or twenty years.

As long as galleries and collectors can profit from it, more collectors, galleries, and auction houses can be attracted to participate and work together to surpass the artist's oil paintings.

In this case, the artist needs to create and deliver oil paintings to galleries and auction houses, no more and no less.

If most of them were bought by Chu Xiangqian, the devil would help him raise the price of this artist's oil paintings.

As for the dozens of Harder Richter oil paintings in Chu Xiang's hands, if they wait for more than ten or twenty years, the prices of these oil paintings will increase dozens of times at least.

When one of his oil paintings was auctioned for 30 million pounds a piece, Chu Qianqian held the Harder Richter painting. The longer it was stored, the more valuable it became.

If the painter passes away, there will definitely be another surge in growth.

Chu Xiangqian's attention immediately focused on Titmouse's sight, and he saw three people riding bicycles and wearing sunhats not far behind him, following behind him.

Let the tits fly lower, and you can easily see from the three people's riding movements that they have guns on them.

Norton's eyes lit up after hearing this. He also wanted to meet the people who were saving people, but as he spoke, he suddenly felt that the friend Chu Xiangqian was talking about might have been told to him on purpose.

I believe that within a few days, newspapers will report the news that several local families were jointly arrested by Interpol and the local police. "

Chu Xiangqian cursed in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to kill these three people first.

Looking around, even though it was 8 o'clock at night, there were still quite a lot of people. Chu Qianqian simply stopped driving in circles and asked the driver to go directly to the yacht dock.

More than ten hours later, the plane landed smoothly in Singapore.

Chu Qianqian nodded. Norton and Mountbatten behind him might find it difficult to deal with the pirates.

When they arrived at the yacht dock, Chu Qianqian easily entered the dock because he hired a boat.

Chu Qianqian smiled and waved his hand, "No, I'm not in a hurry. I'll just spend three or four days in Xinjiapo. By the way, I'll meet the friends who are helping to save people."

But the tricycle hadn't gone far when the titmice in the sky, which acted as an early warning aircraft, suddenly issued a warning.

However, even though he was so suspicious in his mind, he still asked cautiously, "Master, do you want me to bring a gift and go with you to meet you and thank you for your friends?"

"Go away, it's not a good thing to expose you to the dark side too early."

Even if not every painting can be bought for tens of millions of pounds, but for millions of pounds, that is an increase of hundreds of times.

Norton nodded helplessly, and then he saw Chu Qianqian's expression become serious, "As for the collaborators or the forces behind those pirates, you'd better tell your grandfather to get rid of them as soon as possible."

After Chu Xiangqian and Norton checked into the hotel, they made an excuse to take care of the 13 oil paintings and separated from Norton, who was focused on welcoming the twenty or so crew members.

So Chu Xiangqian read the 12 oil paintings and confirmed that these words were all true, and there were several paintings in them, and the additional gold coupons were sixty or seventy points.

But these three people were not in a hurry to take action. Chu Qianqian, who had even taken out his gun, was not sure for a moment whether these three people wanted to harm him or were just following him.

But it is indeed not difficult at all to deal with the several indigenous forces on the shore.

Chu Qianqian laughed, knowing Norton's little thoughts.

Norton naturally nodded happily, which also reflected the importance he attached to these crew members.

After saying a few words to the driver riding a tricycle, the route quickly took a detour, but the three bicycles behind me kept following.

After Norton took the Mountbatten family and performed a reunion scene with these crew members, Chu Xiangqian took the opportunity to say to Norton.

In the evening, a group of people had a sumptuous dinner at the hotel, and Norton took them on the bus hired by the hotel and went to the airport.

When it was almost dark, the twenty or so crew members finally arrived at the port in an ordinary fishing boat left behind by the ninja.

Now Chu Xiangqian was certain that these three people were following him.

Naturally, the painting was put directly into the Novice Village warehouse, and then he found a deserted place to enter the Novice Village, put on makeup and disguised himself, and then went to the dock to rent a yacht that could go to sea.

To attract the attention of the tit, it must have been following me all the way for a long time.

Fortunately, this kid still has a conscience, "Master, how about you fly back to Hong Kong Island first, and then let the plane come and take us back to London."

Converted into pounds, it's hundreds to tens of millions.

It was around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Seeing that nothing happened, Chu Xiangqian simply went to the pier.

No fool would believe that he didn't have a group of people who specialized in roaming the grasslands of Central Asia and the rainforests of Southeast Asia.

The group of people who rescued people were most likely his master's subordinates.

More importantly, a big collector is more respected than a super rich man.

Norton nodded hurriedly, "Before we came, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta had already started taking action.

It's not that easy for the three people outside to get in.

Chu Xiangqian knew that these paintings would be worth tens of millions of Celestial Dynasty coins in the future, or even over 100 million yuan.

After all, Chu Xiangqian had captured several white and black tigers one after another before, and he was able to transport so many sweat-blooded horses from Central Asia to Hong Kong Island.

"How about you take these crew members on my private plane and fly directly to London?"

Chu Qianqian got on a human-powered tricycle and went to the dock.

Chu Xiangqian was not sure about the motives of these three people for the time being, so he was not in a hurry to sail out to sea, so he waited on the rented yacht, which was 27 meters long and had three floors.

Sure enough, when the three people saw him entering the yacht club, they didn't dare to go in anymore, but they continued to stare at him and one of them left.

It looked like he was going to call someone.

Chu Qianqian now felt more at ease and continued to wait.

While lying on the indoor sofa on the second floor of the yacht, I was checking two silver modified M1911s in my hand to make sure the guns were OK, and then loaded a large 15-round magazine.

Then he took out several M1 Garand rifles, checked and loaded them, and waited for someone to cause trouble for him.

Then I close my eyes and doze off, while the tits circle in the sky, acting as early warning aircraft.

The stingray was near the dock where the yacht was docked, guarding against any fish that might have slipped through the net unnoticed by the tits.

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, two cars drove over quickly.

Four thugs stepped out of the car, wearing shorts and jackets, with pistols or revolvers on their waists.

The two thugs who had been staring at the yacht dock hurriedly ran to the second car, nodded and hunched over, and said something to the people in the back seat of the car.

Fortunately, Huang Mao'er was not slow and ran dozens of meters in an instant. When he was more than a hundred meters away from the car, he could easily hear the conversation of these people.

After listening for a few minutes, Chu Xiangqian was probably sure that this group of people was a local gang in Singapore.

It's just that I don't know yet whether these people are targeting me to avenge the pirates.

He still recognized himself and wanted to kidnap him and make a fortune. What Chu Xiangqian was more concerned about was how these people recognized him.

After thinking about it, Chu Xiangqian started the yacht to leave the port.

After killing several thugs and capturing the leader in the car alive, Chu Xiangqian was full of information.

But the information that comes out through forced questioning may not be true.

But if these people saw the target leaving the port in a boat and knew that they could not catch up, what they said during the conversation must be true.

So although Chu Xiangqian left by boat, Huang Miaoer took the opportunity to climb into a car.

Seeing Chu Qianqian's yacht leaving the port, the group of people suddenly began to curse.

The leader in the car shook his head helplessly, and then said to a subordinate, "Go and notify Mr. Cao in Kuala Lumpur and let them get out of the boat and keep an eye on Mr. Chu from Hong Kong Island."

A thug nodded hurriedly and led the two of them into the car in front to find the phone booth.

The remaining two people got into the back car and asked as they drove, "Boss, I heard that Mr. Chu is very rich, why didn't you control him when he left the hotel?"

The boss sighed, "I have no enmity with him, and Mr. Chu is helping Yingguo to redeem his people this time. If something happens to him, Yingguo will pursue him.

It’s not worth it for Mr. Cao’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in Kuala Lumpur. "

Chu Xiangqian then realized that the three people who had followed him before might have been following him openly but secretly reminding him of the danger.

Even though this guess was unreliable, Chu Xiangqian was sure from what he just heard that this group of people had no ill intentions towards him.

So Chu Xiangqian quickly decided to let these people go.

As for how they knew their whereabouts, we will wait until they find Mr. Cao in Kuala Lumpur.

Anyway, these people are in Xinjiapo and can't escape.

As for Mr. Cao from Kuala Lumpur, he should be the collaborator behind the pirates, or the boss behind the pirates.

After the pirates robbed some of the gold, silver and jewelry, they would have to find a collaborator to sell the other part.

Or share money, or purchase daily necessities such as food.

Most of the pirates these days are actually from poor backgrounds, or are bankrupt fishermen and fishing boat owners.

Life was hard, so he went to the extreme to become a pirate.

Of course, this is only the bottom level, and in a few years, if you continue to be a pirate, it will be difficult to make ends meet.

After all, as the tonnage of ships becomes larger and larger, it is wishful thinking to think of driving a sailing wooden boat to rob at sea.

And as Malacca's shipping vessels become busier and busier, the crackdown on pirates becomes increasingly severe.

In addition, the economies of Singapore and Malay have experienced a certain degree of growth since the 60s. It only took more than ten or twenty years for the Malacca pirates, who had been rampant for two to three hundred years, to basically become a thing of the past.

With the rise of pirates, they began to wreak havoc around the Red Sea.

To put it bluntly, it is actually because of poverty.

The most representative one is naturally Somalia.

An oil mothership of dozens of tons was used as a supply ship, a dozen of them were carrying rocket launchers, and three to five or seven people were driving speedboats, wandering around.

When encountering a suitable passing ship, many speedboats will surround it.

Not only is the threat of rocket launchers quite great, but there are also hanging ladders specially used for climbing. Once the pirates board the freighter, they can basically control the ship.

The target of these pirates' robberies is not ordinary crew members, but shipping companies.

A single transaction is basically several million dollars, which is much more than the money obtained from kidnapping a crew member.

After all, the normal price for a freighter plus cargo is several million, or even 20 to 30 million.

Coupled with the pressure on crew safety, many shipping companies will indeed be unable to withstand the pressure from all parties and compromise.
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Chu Xiang drove the yacht while checking the map that came with the yacht.

The straight-line distance between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur is 325 kilometers. If you sail along the Malacca Channel, it will take about 6 hours.

Chu Xiangqian originally wanted to ask Norton if he had any information about a person named Cao.

But Norton must still be on the plane now. After thinking about it, he could only think of arriving at the port in Kuala Lumpur first.

Find a car to go to Kuala Lumpur, it will be tomorrow morning.

Later, Chu Xiangqian also began to worry that after getting the news, Cao would send someone to stop him.

Not only was Chu Xiangqian not afraid, but he was looking forward to it.
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As the yacht slowly passed through the narrow Malacca, five hours passed unknowingly.

The ship traveled at a speed of 30 knots and traveled almost 270 kilometers per hour.

Titmouse issued a warning again, and Chu Qiangqian saw several speedboats being carried by people and quickly pushed into the sea through Titmouse's sight.

Then a dozen thugs with long and short guns got on the speedboat and drove quickly towards him.

Chu Xiangqian didn't panic when he arrived and silently calculated in his mind that Singapore is 325 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur.

It is basically certain that this group of people are the men of Mr. Cao, the local leader of Singapore’s local forces.

And judging from the movements of these speedboats, these people are probably also pirates.

Or, if you are an ordinary person at ordinary times, when there is business, you will be a pirate on the ship.

As for why they targeted him, Chu Xiangqian thought back to what he had done in the past few days during the five-hour sailing.

It was quickly determined because he asked Sanjiang Shui to find connections on Hong Kong Island to contact the pirates.

It was said that he wanted to spend 400 million Hong Kong dollars to redeem the twenty-odd crew members.

If the man named Cao is really the boss behind the pirates, he will definitely investigate himself in the past few days.

Chu Xiangqian was not worried about his own safety. On the contrary, the first person he worried about was naturally Xue Jinglan.

Fortunately, my daughter-in-law is raising the baby at her parents' home in the capital, and the Hong Kong student is staying with his master, his wife, and the others in the capital.

Margaret didn't have to worry, so during the past five hours, he had already called Feifei, who had returned to Hong Kong Island after celebrating the New Year in Beijing, through the satellite phone on the yacht.

Let her live in the villa on the top of the mountain recently, protected by Zhang Tianzhi, Zhou Bili, Tony Jia and Yuanhua, as well as the three sisters Zhaodi.

Unless more than a dozen pirates besieged her, there was no need to worry about Feifei's safety.

But when the girl heard that she might be in danger, she immediately said she was going to the ranch.

There are so many cowboys on the ranch, and all of them are grazing with guns.

Even at ordinary times, a pistol or revolver is never left behind.

So in Feifei's mind, the pasture is the safest.

(End of this chapter)