Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner

"Tony, help me identify a painting!" On this day, Brian came to the door mysteriously and said.

"You've also started buying paintings?" Tangning asked casually, because in his mind, Bryan didn't have any artistic talent at all, and he wasn't usually interested in paintings, so why did he suddenly think of buying paintings? .

"Hey, Tony, this painting of mine is not easy!" Saying that, Brian lifted the cloth covering the oil painting.

Tangning leaned over to take a look and found that it was a painting of Venus, but something was not right. He reached out and touched it before asking, "Is this painting cleaned up recently?"

Brian praised: "Tony, you are worthy of being a master appraiser. You found the problem at a glance. That's right, this painting has just been cleaned up. Let me tell you, this is a special legend. I heard about it a few days ago. There's a ghost painting to be purified in the church..."

"Wait a minute, ghost painting? What does this mean?" Tangning asked curiously.

Bryan explained: "It's like this, the blacksmith Hollier found that a family ancestral painting has inexplicably started to grow hair, that is, the hair of the woman in the painting is slowly growing, and it is still growing a little bit every day. , this frightened him, especially when someone said that there was a ghost in the painting, and now only the hair came out, and when the whole body came out, it would break out of the painting and start eating people! So he sent the painting to him Go to the church, I hope the priest will help to purify this ghost painting!"

Tangning coldly snorted disapprovingly, "Hmph, I think he's dazzled by drinking too much. You must know that Hollier is a famous alcoholic!"

Brian said with some displeasure: "Tony, wait for me to finish my sentence! I originally wanted to go to see the excitement, but when I was about to burn it, someone suddenly said that this painting was not a ghost painting, but a ghost painting. Two-layer painting is to paint another painting on top of one painting, but now because the paint peels off, the hair of the characters in the painting below is exposed!"

"Well, this explanation is very reasonable. It is true that some people will carefully paint another rough painting on it in order to protect the more expensive oil painting, because this kind of painting is enough to cover up. , so the paint won't be too thick, so it's normal for it to peel off over time!" Tangning nodded in agreement.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's what that person said at the time, so I thought it must be a very valuable painting, otherwise there is no need to do this kind of cover up, so I spent a lot of effort to put this I bought a painting!" Brian said proudly.

"It took a lot of effort? Could it be that someone was arguing with you for this painting at the time?" Tangning said with a frown.

Brian nodded and replied: "Yes, there are several people, especially the guy who saw that this was not a ghost painting, but he was a poor ghost and couldn't get much money, so he didn't rob me!"

"Then how much did you spend in the end?" Tangning had a bad feeling in her heart.

Brian shook his right hand and said, "Not much, only five hundred dollars!"

"Five hundred dollars?!" Tangning couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, then looked at the painting for a long time before sighing, "You've been cheated!"

"I was deceived? What do you mean?" Brian asked in confusion.

Tangning sighed and said, "Because this painting is definitely not worth five hundred dollars! If I'm not mistaken, you definitely don't know the guys who bid with you, especially the guy who said that this painting is not a ghost painting. ,right?"

"Uh, that guy is indeed a foreigner, but how could they know that I would go to the church to watch the fun that day? I was completely improvised!" Brian questioned.

Tangning explained, "Because they didn't set a target at all, as long as enough people were there to watch the fun, then after they uncovered the secret of the painting, and they created an atmosphere of scramble, then it would definitely be possible. Someone will be fooled! Even if no one offered a high enough price at the time, they could choose to get the painting first and then sell it slowly. Anyway, the cleaning process of this kind of painting is very troublesome, and it cannot be cleaned in a short time. Clean!"

"Eh, Tony, you're right, I asked someone to clean up this painting with good turpentine and alcohol for nearly two days as they said!" Brian said depressedly.

Then he speculated: "So the whole thing started with the blacksmith Hollier as a conspiracy. They first made such a two-layer painting, and then let the wind out to attract everyone to the church to watch the fun, and then found a fool to sell the painting at a high price. go out?"

"Yes, that's the way of thinking!" Tangning nodded and confirmed.

"But I don't think Houllier is like this kind of person. Everyone has known him for so many years, and he is usually a good person!" Brian frowned and said~www.readwn.com~ Who can say such a thing Exactly, it may be that he has recently been short of money or has been bewitched by others! " Tangning analyzed.

Although being deceived makes Brian very depressed, but fortunately, as a qualified businessman, his mentality is still good. After drinking a glass of wine, he has almost adjusted, and said with emotion: "Hey, it seems that I don't understand in the future. You really can't do business casually!"

After Bryan left, Jonathan ran over to Tangning with a look of excitement, "Tony, the matter is clear, Underwood is indeed dead, and the one who killed Perry was a copycat!"

"A copycat? What copycat?" Tangning asked in confusion.

"It was a guy who had a grudge against Perry who killed Perry, forged evidence such as a letter to you, and put the crime on Underwood!" Jonathan explained.

"But how could he know Underwood's handwriting? Isn't this something only the police can know?" Tangning asked again.

"Because this guy has a good friend who is the police officer in charge of investigating this case, so he copied a letter that Underwood wrote to you in Sao Paulo, so the handwriting is exactly the same! Fortunately, we also have people in the police station, Otherwise, I would have been wronged to death by this incident..."

Just as Jonathan's face was full of "wrongful grievances", Tangning's mind suddenly flashed, "Oh, if you put it this way, isn't the story written by a serial killer from New Orleans to Memphis true? Could this author have something to do with Eucalyptus?"

ps: "Chicago 1990 saw the protagonist being shot in a coma for 100 days, and the ugly state of some subordinates, relatives and women fighting for inheritance is really infectious and ironic. I can refer to it when I write similar plots in the future. !