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The painting, which is about one meter long and 80 centimeters wide, has been preserved intact and has not been oxidized or broken.

Billy unfolded the paper, revealing the painting for what it really was, with a simple depiction of a dark grey sky above and a mass of twisting oaks and shrubs below.

Seeing this painting, Qin Shiou felt uncomfortable, he couldn't understand what was on the painting, but he could inexplicably feel that the atmosphere was too depressing, and the color of this painting was too dim, so bleak that it made people despair.

And Billy gasped at the first sight of the oil painting, and then he tried to control his hands without shaking and flattened the upturned corner on the right side of the painting, where there was a scribbled signature, Qin Shiou couldn't understand it, so he looked at him and asked, "Whose masterpiece is this?" ”

"Van Gogh, Vincent Willem Van Gogh! It's Sunset in Montmajour! Billy exclaimed, somewhat nervously.

Hearing his call, Qin Shiou couldn't help but scream: "What? Is this a painting by Van Gogh? Is it genuine? ”

Billy pressed the oil painting with linen, closed the argon chamber and sat down on the chair, waved his hand, and said, "No, no, no, take a rest first." God, I must have been dreaming,+ ♀ I found Van Gogh's lost painting? O sunset in Montmajour! ”

Relatively speaking, Qin Shiou was calm, and he said, "Don't be so excited. I remember Van Gogh committing suicide in 1890, right? His paintings were not at all popular at the time, and the Titanic sank in 1912. After just over 20 years, how could his paintings suddenly be stored as treasures by a person? ”

This information was all he knew when he first found those copycats "Sunflowers". I didn't know much about it, but then I learned that it was a fake, so I didn't know anything about Van Gogh.

Billy naturally knew a lot more, he glanced at Qin Shiou, and said angrily: "Is it fake that you are Van Gogh's most unlucky artist?" Yes, Van Gogh's works were not accepted by the world for a long time. But ten years after his death, at the end of the nineteenth century, the world underwent a complete revolution, and people's thinking was changed like never before, and their ability to accept new things was greatly improved. The value of his paintings began to be revealed. ”

After a brief art science popularization for Qin Shiou, Billy began to get busy, and he made a phone call to the company's oil painting experts to ask about Van Gogh's paintings, while Qin Shiou continued to sort out the safe.

He thought there was more than one painting in the safe, and as he expected, there was something in the clumped activated charcoal in the box, but it wasn't a work of art, it was also a letter.

The letter was scribbled and not in English. Qin Shiou had no choice but to wait to show Billy.

Billy hung up the phone with a happy face, and he said to Qin Shiou: "Absolutely yes, this is the real work of "Montmaru Sunset", I found someone to check it just now." ”

said. He describes the journey of the painting: "The painting was painted by Van Gogh in 1888, two years later when he committed suicide, and the painting belongs to his own brother Theo. In 1901, Theo sold the painting to the Norwegian industrialist Musta. Musta's butler later said that he had kept the painting for about ten years before selling it to a French nobleman in 1911. After that, there was no news of the painting. ”

"Clearly, the owner of the painting wanted to bring it to New York. It ended up at the bottom of the sea! Qin Shiou finally said.

Billy smiled and said, "Absolutely! ”

After determining the identity of this painting, the two began to discuss the value of this painting, and little Blake was more authoritative in this regard, Qin Shiou called him and asked: "Man, if there is a real Van Gogh painting now, well, it is "Sunset in Montmagu", how much can it be sold for?" ”

Little Blake said professionally: "Sunset in Montmajou? The 1888 painting? The auction industry has previously appraised the price between $40 million and $48 million. However, at the Sotheby's Autumn Auction in New York on the 4th of last month, Van Gogh's last painting "Daisies and Poppies" sold for a high price of $61.8 million...... Wait a minute. ”

After talking a lot, little Blake finally reacted and exclaimed on the other end of the phone: "God, you didn't find Sunset in Montmajou, did you?" The painting has been gone for a century! ”

Knowing that this painting could sell for forty or fifty million, Qin Shiou was happy in his heart, so he said generously: "You are very lucky, man, you will be able to see this lost famous painting soon." And, you're going to have a big sum of money on your account. ”

"Tomorrow I will rush to your fishing ground, wait for me, and I will definitely save this painting." As soon as little Blake had said this, he shouted on the other side of the phone, asking his secretary to book him the fastest flight to St. John's.

Qin Shiou put away the phone and told Billy about Little Blake's valuation, and the two high-fived in celebration, and Billy said excitedly: "Do you have any champagne at home?" We're going to crack champagne to celebrate! ”

Qin Shiou stabilized his mind and said, "Don't worry, we still have a box, maybe something more valuable will appear in it." ”

"Even more valuable is the gold pocket watch, the family symbol of John Jacob Astor IV, and I would never have thought that a violin box would have such a thing in it." Billy laughed.

John Jacob Astor IV was the biggest name among the victims of the Titanic, the richest man in the world at the time, the patriarch of the Astor family in the United States, who once hired a legion to participate in the Spanish-American War and help the United States fight the war. His death caused turmoil in US Treasury bonds at the time, as he was the largest holder.

The two laughed, and Billy opened the last case, which was an ordinary violin, brown and black. Although the case is well sealed, the strings are still rotten and there are some salt deposits on the body.

Qin Shiou believes that this piano must also have its legend, because the Titanic is a legendary shipwreck, and any item found on board has a story.

But Billy was right, no matter how precious this instrument was, it could not compare to "Sunset in Montmarjou", or even Nathan Strauss's family letters.

Don't underestimate that letter, there was a letter on the Titanic that was auctioned for 89,000 pounds.

The owner of the letter was named Ethel Hart, an ordinary British housewife with her daughter preparing to immigrate to Canada. And what about this one? This is Strauss's family letter, the value of the two sides is not comparable, not to mention the energy of the Strauss family, just say that the old gentleman made a qiē on the sunken ship, it is worth doubling the value of this family letter, and it is no problem to sell it for a million pounds!

Sealing the letters, the violin, and the Van Gogh painting, the two walked out of the basement laughing, and Billy joked, "We'll have to hire a SWAT to protect your basement." ”

Qin Shiou said: "Why do you need special police? I have here the instructors of the delta and the fighters of the special forces, and most importantly there are two flocks of war geese, trying to snatch something from me, dreaming! ”

"War geese? What is that? Those goose-goslings you raised? Billy laughed.

Qin Shiou also laughed, and he suddenly found that Billy didn't know how powerful the Taihu goose and the lion-headed goose were, and some of them were playing. (To be continued......)