After the scourge of criminals at home and abroad, John finally stopped, and he originally wanted to go back to Los Angeles to start filming "Independence Day", but the attack frightened Mrs. Morgan, who refused to let him go back anyway, afraid that something would happen to him.

In the end, John was kind of talking, bitter and bitter, and after repeated reassurances, Mrs. Morgan finally relented, but John had to stay at home with her for a month.

"This drama is really good, but it's too tragic, and I still like comedy. After lunch, John accompanied Mrs. Morgan to the Morgan Theatre to watch the famous American play "Beyond the Sky", but this play was too tragic for him to enjoy.

A misplaced choice has led to the tragedy of three people's lives and the helplessness of not being able to control their fate, but the emotions contained in this drama and the extraordinary power of fate are very shocking. Although the play was a tragedy, Mrs. Morgan liked it, but when she heard that John wanted to see a comedy, she nodded and agreed, "Okay, okay...... Next time I'll watch A Midsummer Night's Dream with you, okay!"

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic play by English playwright William Shakespeare, about a love story about lovers who eventually become married.

"Okay!" John nodded happily, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said, "Mother, it's not early, let's go back to dinner!"

"Okay, let's go back!"

In addition to writing scripts and drawing, John stayed at Morgan Manor every day, and he accompanied Mrs. Morgan to watch plays, eat, and feed the swans.

The swans in Swan Lake were fed a lot of weight by John during this time.

Let him feed for a while, and it is estimated that many swans may not be able to fly in the autumn.

But it doesn't matter, the Morgan family built some greenhouse for the swans by the lake, and those swans who can't migrate in the autumn because of injuries will live in it, and they will be cared for by someone else, and they will not die of cold or starvation.

When he returned to the dining room, John had dinner with Mrs. Morgan, and when he was idle, he was ready to change the furnishings of his room, so he asked Mrs. Morgan to get the key to the underground storeroom.

Most of the furnishings in John's room were oil paintings and some porcelain, so when he arrived at the storeroom, he first went to the oil painting section to select.

"Palace Maid!"

John came to a wooden box and shook his head when he saw the message on it: "Ingres's painting is not suitable for a bedroom. ”

"Why?" asked Dani, who was beside him.

"Because most of his paintings are nude! An unmarried man should not put this kind of painting in his bedroom, he will lose his kidneys. ”

John said as he walked to the next wooden box and looked down at the marker on it, and after seeing the information on it, he nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It's better to hang "Water Lilies" in the bedroom, which is conducive to sleep." ”

This wooden box contains the French impressionist master Monet's "Water Lilies", Monet painted more than 200 "Water Lilies" in his lifetime, and the Morgan family collected 9 pieces, which is the smallest of them is only 50cm * 45Ccm, which is very suitable for hanging in the bedroom.

"That's it!" John pointed to the wooden box, and Dinney, who was beside her, asked the custodian to open the wooden box and take out the oil paintings inside.

Soon after the painting was taken out, the conservator handed it to John, who took it and looked at it in his hand, but his brow furrowed when he looked at him.

"The painting is damp. John saw a few small spots on the painting, and then handed it to Dinney and said, "Wait a minute, take this painting to the studio, and I'll fix it and hang it." As a painter, John naturally knows how to remove mildew spots from oil paintings, but the mildew spots on oil paintings also alerted him that these works of art have been placed here for dozens or hundreds of years without maintenance, and sooner or later they will be damaged.

"Danie, find someone who can maintain the works of art on the estate, or the works here will be damaged sooner or later. ”

"Okay boss!" Dini nodded, thought about it, and said, "I knew someone who maintained the art when I was at Harvard, and now she is in charge of maintaining the art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ”

"Oh, is that reliable?" asked John.

The people John needs are not only the technical qualifications, but also the character, otherwise what if he steals the Morgan family's artwork, and what if he goes out and talks nonsense? You must know that many of the Morgan's artworks have never been published, and some Egyptian artworks are not so upright and bright, and if they are said to be known, it will not have a good impact on the Morgan family.

"This man has good skills, good character, and a tight mouth, but it's just ......!" Daini was a little slurred.

"Just what?" John asked, looking at Daini.

"It's just that her temper is a little weird, and she regards art as her life, I'm afraid you can't stand her. Dani said worriedly.

"That's a good thing! People who value art as their life will be careful with the art here, and we'll meet her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tomorrow. "John believed in Denny, but the stakes were so high that he had to investigate it himself.

"Okay. Dani nodded, silently mourning for John.

Morgan Manor is estimated to never be clean again.

After settling the issue of maintaining the artwork, John continued to take Dani to continue wandering around the painting area.

"By the way, Dani, there is an abstract painter in Paris named Zhao Wuji and Zhu Dequn, do you know?" asked John as he walked.

"You know, these two Chinese painters are very famous, I heard their names when I was studying in England. Dani replied.

"Yes!" John nodded, and commanded, "I will write two letters when the time comes, and you will help me deliver them to them." ”

John wrote to these two people to ask Zhao Wuji to help him paint 12 oil paintings with the theme of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs, and ask Zhu Dequn to help him paint five oil paintings with the theme of the five mountains of China.

As for whether these two people will agree, there is no need to worry.

John met these two Chinese painters when he was studying painting with his teacher in Europe in his early years, and they were still neighbors at that time, and the two would guide John when they had time, so he and John were also teachers and friends, and they had a very good relationship with each other, so it was okay to invite them to a few paintings.

"Alright, Boss!" Daini nodded.

John then walked around the painting area for more than 20 minutes, and chose a pair of Raul Dufei's "Danfeng Dew Town" and Kandinsky's "Structure No. 6".

After choosing the oil paintings, he went to the porcelain section and took two pastel ornamental bottles from the Qianlong period.

The Morgan family has a lot of Chinese art collection, JP was alive at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was in chaos at that time, so there are many sources of these artworks, some of them are the Qing government's compensation for no money, mortgaged to the bank for loans, some are bought from the eunuchs and palace maids, some are brought out of the Forbidden City by the Braided Emperor to sell, some are bought from the RB people, and some are bought from the Eight-Nation Alliance.

According to the Morgan family's "Phantom" record, after the Eight-Nation Alliance burned down the Old Summer Palace, JP Morgan, the collector of the Morgan family, immediately arranged for people to go to the barracks to buy the art in the hands of these robbers.

In the end, from the eight barracks, the Morgan family collected more than 70,000 works of art, loaded a boatload and brought them back to the United States.

However, this ship is only a drop in the bucket, after these robbers took Beiping, not only robbed the Old Summer Palace, in fact, the Forbidden City, the Old Summer Palace, temples, and official residences were all looted by these robbers, millions of cultural relics were looted, and the Morgan family got only a fraction.

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