Vol 2 Chapter 356: . Strange Hornfish (1/10, the outbreak begins)
After the chat, Qin Shiou remembered the letter he found with the painting, and asked, “Whose eyes are better, come and read this letter. I believe this letter is also a treasure.”
The letter used in this letter seems to be English, but he is too scribbled, and the grammar is different from modern English, Qin Shiou can’t understand it, so he put it on hold.
Little Black took a look and said, “Oh, this is Dutch. It belongs to the Indo-European family of Germanic languages. The language is closer to English, eh…”
As he said, little Blake suddenly frowned. He read the letter carefully, then raised his head and smiled in surprise: “Qin, you are right, this is indeed a treasure! This is a letter written by Van Gogh, he To my brother Theo!”
As soon as he heard this, Krzyzewski and others surrounded him. Qin Shiou couldn’t understand it, so he asked Little Black to read it to him.
“Dear brother, see Xin An, I am in Arles in the south of France…”
“Don’t worry about me, my brother, I’m all right now. I live in the Benedictine Abbey in Montmartre…”
“This is a beautiful place. At sunset yesterday, I was in a rocky wilderness where there were dwarf and crooked oak trees. There is a ruin on the mountain in the distance, and there are wheat fields in the valley. It is too romantic. In Monticelli, the sun sprinkled golden light on the bushes and the ground without hesitation, and everything was shrouded in gold. How beautiful these lines are, and the whole scenery reveals a charming noble temperament… ”
“My inspiration was touched, and I want to make a picture for it. I also finished this picture. But I am not satisfied, the color transition is not very good, and the style of painting is also a little dark. But my brother, I am very happy now. The creation of this painting in Montmartre this time gave me a lot of inspiration…”
“Believe me, my brother, your brother is about to become a world-famous painter! May God bless you, may you always be healthy and happy. My soul will always be with you, Amen. Vincent Van High.”
Little Blake slowly read aloud, and everyone else listened quietly. Qin Shiou closed his eyes and vaguely saw an arrogant and sad middle-aged man standing in the sunset wilderness. In front of him, there were oak trees on the left and wheat fields on the right.
Just as that sentence said. Hell to the left, heaven to the right…
After reading the content of the letter, Little Blake put the letter paper carefully on the painting and said: “Van Gogh is right, he did start a new style of painting era after this painting, and he has indeed become a world-famous painter. Unfortunately, he did not wait. If he can be as tough as Picasso. Just wait another ten years, he will be able to see the scene where he is worshipped by artists all over the world!”
The last group of people left the basement. Krzyzewski said to Qin Shiou: “With this letter, the identity of this painting is even more unquestionable. What you have to consider now is whether to sell it or to collect it, and nothing else. Need to think more.”
Little Blake and Billy also looked at Qin Shiou. The two were not so good-minded. Little Blake persuaded: “Qin, collect it, this painting will continue to increase in value. And it has special significance. This is Van Gogh’s transformation. Make…”
“This special meaning, can it help us auction it at a higher price?” Qin Shiou laughed.
Collect this painting? Forget it, the family is already recruiting thieves, and hanging a famous painting worth forty to fifty million is simply putting oneself on the fire. He doesn’t do that.
As for depositing the paintings in a bank or a museum? Why don’t you change it into money and save it? Wait for this picture to appreciate, no. Qin Shiou would rather sell this painting and invest in the fishery, which will add value faster.
Qin Shiou said so, little Blake and Billy also laughed, thank God, and they will get the money right away.
After dinner in the evening, Qin Shiou arranged a few people to live-now the town accommodation is tight, but many people are using their brains. Almost every household in the town provides accommodation, allowing tourists to experience the pure North American town life, similar to domestic farm houses. The same works are different.
Qin Shiou is still very convenient to find a hotel, he now has too much face in the small town.
Back to the villa, Qin Shiou lay down on the bed and put the seagod consciousness on the fishing ground. Swimming with the seagod consciousness in the ocean has become a pleasure for him.
The squid drudgery group has arrived near the wreck of the Titanic, and Qin Shiou asked them to choose a place to stay, and then slowly clean up the Titanic.
Under the transformation of Poseidon’s energy, the squids are full of vitality and grow rapidly. When they were first discovered, the largest tentacles of these squids were no more than one meter long. Now they are generally more than two meters long, and some even grow to more than three meters. .
Qin Shiou thought, will these squids become king squid someday?
If that’s the case, it would be overbearing. Five hundred squids, each tentacled with a length of twenty to thirty meters, would be able to fight a battleship.
The Seagod consciousness returned to the fishing ground. Qin Shiou first encountered a group of hard-headed trouts, who had just returned from migrating in the river. This fish, like the salmon, grows in the river and grows in the sea. Every autumn, it migrates along the river to mate and lay eggs, and then returns to the sea before winter arrives.
The ocean in winter is much warmer than the river, and it is more suitable for the survival of these fish.
Seeing a large group of small hardhead trouts following, Qin Shiou sprinkled some sea **** consciousness and called two sea pythons to come and provide protection.
If there is no protection, these little trouts are the food of the big cod and bluefin tuna, and they will be eaten up for you in a few days.
When we arrived near the coral reef, Qin Shiou followed some small hardhead trouts, they wandered happily.
Some water and grass-like creatures more than half a meter long fell vertically from the upper seawater. Qin Shiou hadn’t noticed, but he discovered that the heads of these creatures were changing color and turned into a reddish brown similar to that of a small hardhead trout.
Chameleon in the sea? Qin Shiou became curious.
These waterweeds drifted into the school of small trouts, and then a predation began. These “waterweeds” suddenly began to twist, the heads of the same body color as the small trouts opened, and the small fish around them were swallowed into their mouths. .
This is the trumpet fish, right? Qin Shiou guessed their identities when they saw their predation. The trumpet fish has a slender body and likes to live in the coral reef area. Then pretend to be coral or seaweed to prey.
Qin Shiou did not drive the hornfish, this is a normal marine life chain. Later in the offshore waters, a group of soft fish similar to loach appeared on the seafloor. Qin Shiou thought they were American eels and ignored them.
He turned around and found that there was no problem, so he continued to play in the deep sea with the Black Overlord.
The next day, Little Blake found Qin Shiou and discussed how to deal with Van Gogh’s paintings. The auction was affirmative, but now there is no good chance. It is almost mid-November when the autumn auctions of the large-scale auction are over.
“Then wait for next year’s spring auction.” Qin Shiou is not in a hurry to spend the money, “Isn’t your Ritchie auction house having a spring auction in April?”
Little Blake and Billy thought it was better, they smiled and agreed. Little Blake then left with the painting. Although it is still a long time before the spring auction, it is time for publicity work. ,
The more publicity, the higher the price, which is correct. (To be continued ^ )