Dreamland Guide

　　 This is a strange painting.

　　 The picture is bright in tone, and the pen is straightforward, and the bright lines outline the graceful figure of a **** girl. The girl was lying on a bright red sofa with her head tilted. Her face was split in half, and the black line connected her nose and mouth from the background above her forehead.

　　 If you distinguish carefully, you will find that this is a combination of half of the side face and half of the front face. This combination makes the picture look three-dimensional, which is also a commonly used technique by Picasso.

　　 The strangest thing is the girl's hand. Judging from the color, weight, or shape, it is obvious that this is not a human hand. What's more interesting is that each of her hands has six fingers.

"I bought this painting from the United States during Christmas last year." Xia Wenyuan didn't know why Aoki suddenly asked about this, but after he came out of his dream, he already trusted Aoki a lot, "I have been hanging it here since I bought it. ."

　　 Aoki leaned close to the picture, and the tip of his nose was almost touching the paint. Generally speaking, it is very impolite to appreciate paintings in this way. It is easy to damage the paintings. Even if you do not touch them, the moisture exhaled from your mouth is a serious injury to the oil paintings that are difficult to preserve.

　　 Wu Lixia knew that Xia Wenyuan loved this painting so much, she reminded her euphemistically: “This painting cost 150 million U.S. dollars. It shouldn’t have been directly hung on the wall like this.”

　　 "Oh, I understand." Aoki was a little farther away from the painting, but it still seemed to worry that he would touch the paint off the painting at any time, "You must like this painting very much."

　　 "Of course." Xia Wenyuan said, "I don't need to invest in art to make a difference. If I don't really like it, I won't spend so much money to buy an oil painting and hang it in my study every day."

"Can you tell me why you like this painting so much? As you can see from the style of the study and the collection of books, you still prefer an Eastern aesthetic. If the oil painting downstairs is meant to match the fireplace, then this one in your study Oil painting is too strange." Aoki asked.

　　 "Mr. Eyes! It is said that this painting is also related to me."

　　 Xia Wenyuan praised Aoki, and then talked about the process of buying paintings.

"Last year I was invited to the United States to participate in a charity auction. At the VIP preview before the auction, I saw this Picasso's "Dream". To be honest, I don't know much about Western art and I rarely collect related collections. This painting, I liked it the first time I saw it. It has a very familiar feeling to me, as if I have seen it somewhere."

　　 "Such a famous painting must have seen pictures on the Internet or elsewhere!" Aoki said.

　　 Xia Wenyuan said: "No, it's not that familiar, it's a kind of'long-lost' feeling, just like meeting a loved one who has been separated for many years."

　　 Aoki suddenly thought of a time hourglass symbol. At that time, there was also a feeling of "long-lost", so he understood Xia Wenyuan's feelings very well. But he can be sure that he is inextricably linked to that symbol, and what does Xia Wenyuan have to do with a famous oil painting?

　　 It’s impossible to see a painting for no reason and it’s been a long time since I saw it!

　　 "Then you bought it?"

"Of course not." Xia Wenyuan said, "I am a businessman. I will not buy a piece of art worth more than 100 million US dollars because of a momentary emotional impulse, but I don't know how to really appreciate art. You know, 100 million US dollars. You can invest in a very good Hollywood movie. If it is used to support young people in the family, you can set up more than ten startup companies."

　　 Aoki has no idea about money, especially dollars, but he can still do simple arithmetic problems. What is one hundred million dollars? It is the income of a taxi driver who has been driving the car for five thousand years without interruption; it is the price that can be sold by spending 10 million cocktails behind the bar; even those greased and powdered in the unnamed alley of Liuying alley Women do business without capital, and receive thirty men every day, and it takes five hundred years to earn money.

　　 "Then what caused you to buy it later?" Aoki asked.

Xia Wenyuan said: "You know that fate is a wonderful thing. At that time, I only had a small fluctuation in my heart, and did not intend to bid at the auction, but at the cocktail party that night, Ronald Cohen, the chairman of the Dream Foundation , That is, the owner of this painting happened to be sitting next to me. He gave me a detailed introduction to the ins and outs of this painting, and then I knew how much fate this painting had with me."

"I was born in 1932, and this painting was created by Mr. Picasso in 1932. That year, my mother gave birth to me during the war. This may be a coincidence, but there are more coincidental things. Picasso This painting is of his lover Teresa. He should have painted many portraits of Teresa, but only this one is the most perfect."

"In 1927, they met at the train station, and Picasso Beatrice was thirty years older. My father and my mother also met in 1927, and they were also thirty years apart. At the time, my father was silk. Shang, a well-off family and well-known. My mother was a student of the National University. She was injured by the suppressed military police during a student demonstration. My father saved her, so I was born. I was born That year, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War broke out. My father brought the raised supplies to the frontline to support, but unfortunately disappeared in the war. My mother was sick and sick. When my father came back, her grave All the Evergreens have already blossomed."

"Cohen heard my story and said that this painting exists for me. He suggested that I buy this painting. In order to show respect for my father and mother, he is willing to sell it to me at a very favorable price. As everyone knows, he bought this painting from Las Vegas tycoon Michael Jones for $15,550, and the price he offered me that day was only five more than the original price. Millions of dollars. UU reading www.uukanshu.com"

"Although so many coincidences make my heart move, and the price is fair enough, I still won't buy it. As a qualified family manager, every decision I make may affect the fate of the family, so I must exercise restraint. My own inflated desire, even if this business does not seem to be a loss."

"Until after the dinner, when Mr. Cohen invited me to admire this painting up close again, I finally knew where the'déjà vu' feeling came from when I first saw it-the girl in this painting. The posture is exactly the same as in a photo taken by my daughter."

　　 "The more I watched, the more I felt that she looked like my daughter Xiaoxiao. I even had an idea in my heart that she is my daughter, and this painting was painted by the artist for my daughter."

"So, I made up my mind to buy this painting. I asked Cohen to sell it to me. I thought he would take the opportunity to offer a high price. I didn't expect that he would give it to me after hearing about my daughter. I dropped another five million dollars."

　　 "Please forgive me for taking the liberty," Aoki thought these coincidences were too bizarre, "Can you show me the picture of your daughter?"

　　 Xia Wenyuan seemed to hesitate a little, looked at each other with Wu Lixia, and then nodded.

　　 Wu Lixia took out a photo album from a drawer of the desk and pulled out a photo from it.

　　 In the photo, a beautiful young woman leaned on the red sofa with her eyes closed, and she looked a bit like an oil painting on the wall.

　　 Aoki looked at the photo, scratching his messy hair, stunned, and his expression looked a little strange: Isn't this a beautiful young mother?

　　 "Excuse me, where is your daughter now?"

　　 Xia Wenyuan suddenly looked sad: "Xiao Xiao passed away five years ago."