Without waiting for Artur to speak, Khima said to Fang Yi: "A week ago, Altur and I went to USC to give a lecture to the students, and when we came back, we happened to meet a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old with a little girl of seven or eight years old who was setting up a stall on the side of the road. The little girl is buying lemonade that she has made herself."

"And you bought it?" Fang Yi looked at the two friends and touched his head and said, this work looks like Rubens's, but it is only a statue, it is not a real big butt control, and this imitation painting has not been completed for a long time, at most it has been painted in the past two years. Two of my friends have been deceived!

"We saw that there was something unusual about this work, but instead of trying to take advantage of the two children, we told the older young man about it, and asked him to find someone to spend some money to remove the work on it, and maybe it would be a good work!" ”。

Some artists are lazy enough to cover their previous paintings with paint and start new paintings, but generally speaking, these are practice works. Hearing Artur say this, Fang Yi understood that his friend did not have his own ability to see the painting below. But I still kindly want to remind people that the child washed off the paint on this work and looked at the painting below.

Khima took over and said: "At that time, the paint on it was already very thin, and almost the Venus below was about to reveal its color form, and Artur and I looked at a small piece of color and felt that the author of this painting was not simple. Naturally, we should remind children not to sell the baby as a cabbage price! ”。

"How did that end up in your hands, Artur?" Fang Yi was a little confused at this moment, and looked at his friend and asked. Both said let the child take it back. How did it get to Artur again.

"The young man said that this work is sold on behalf of others, and if we like it, we can buy it, and if we don't like it, don't get in the way of our business!" Artur said.

"When Artur and I heard this, we were a little angry, and we kindly told this young man who knew that this young man didn't appreciate it at all! We said a few more words to this young man, but this young man's attitude has not been good......" Kahima said to Fang Yi.

Fang Yi couldn't help but take a bite when he heard this, and said, "So you bought this work back when you were angry?" ”。 Looking at the two of them, they nodded and asked, "How much did you buy it?" ”。

"Eight thousand dollars!" Artur stretched out his hand and gestured at Fang Yi.

Kahima explained: "The half-old kid said at the time. We are troublemakers, if we want to buy 8,000 yuan, not a single child! ”。

"I see. I know! ”。

What else didn't I understand, my two kindly reminded the young man who sold the painting that the work was good, but the young man who didn't know how to paint couldn't listen to it at all, and asked for a high price if he had a bad temper. And these two friends are also rich masters. Eight thousand dollars is a lot for ordinary people, but for the two of them, it is not even a cow's hair, so naturally it was given to this young liar with one hand!

"You're saying it's a lie, and that the young man is a liar?" Kahima looked at Fang Yi's expression, and now finally confirmed that Fang Yi had decided that the work that Artur had bought was a fake.

Fang Yi nodded and said: "This work is very similar, if you don't use any instruments, it is difficult to see the authenticity at a glance, but there are still some open holes in the brushstrokes, and the painting is not firm and accurate enough." It's just extremely small," Fang Yi stretched out his hand and casually clicked one or two places on this Venus work looking in the mirror.

Fang Yi could see these two now, but Khima and Artur couldn't see it. Even if you can't see it, you still trust your friend's eyesight. As long as Fang Yi said that it was a fake, it must be a fake, and Fang Yi, the appraisal master in the painting world, was not called in vain.

"Fortunately, it's only 8,000 yuan!" Fang Yi could only say that, his friend was still a little more simple, if he didn't go around with that young man at that time, as long as he thought about it, he would understand that there were too many unreasonable places. To put it bluntly, this young man is like a domestic liar, first using the professional knowledge of the two Kahima, and then he began to guide the thinking of the two, and has been inadvertently guiding, so that the two of them cannot stop and think about the reasonableness of the matter, and have been irritating the two, and ensuring that the two will not throw their hands away, and finally get on the way.

Fang Yi looked at the two of them and said, "Next time there is such a thing, as long as you think it is true, give me a call first, and then wait for me to go to the scene to see!" ”。

Looking at the two old friends, Fang Yi thought to himself: I picked up the leak of the picture-in-picture once, and the two of you were provoked by others and thought that you could also pick up the leak? Where in the world are there so many leaks for you to pick up? I took the automatic discriminator with me, and I picked it up once or twice, and I don't know how many galleries I looked for, but I didn't come across another one. Besides, even if you pick up leaks, you have to have a little bottom, for identification, how much difference is there between the two of you and laymen?

After thinking for a while, Fang Yi asked the two of them again, "Is this young man's stall near the art village?" ”。

"yes, how do you know?" Artur's IQ in this area is a little insufficient, and he subconsciously asked this sentence from his mouth.

Kahima sighed and explained self-deprecatingly, "If you weren't close to the Art Village, where else in Los Angeles would you find so many paintings!" ”。

"Take me somewhere!" Fang Yi asked the two of them.

"It's not going to be anywhere!" Artur asked Fang Yi.

Now this simple old boy has figured out that he has been cheated out of 8,000 dollars. However, this incident did not annoy Artur, not to mention that he was annoyed and did not mean to be angry at all. Originally, Artur's temper was the best among the men, and the eight thousand dollars were really nothing to him. That is, now eight thousand pieces are no longer worth the anger of the linealist master Artur.

Fang Yi smiled when he heard this and said, "As long as this person is bold enough, he will stay there!" I'll see if he's bold enough to die."

Didn't Comrade Lao Ma say it? If capital has a 50 percent profit, it will take risks. If I make a 100% profit, it dares to trample on the laws of the world. If there is a profit of three hundred percent, it dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Now this profit, Fang Yi doesn't know if it will make this painting seller trample on the law, but Fang Yi believes that this kind of thing will be addictive after doing something for nothing. Even if he wants to change places to continue this trick, there seems to be little place for him to perform it except here.

Kahima nodded and said, "Then let's take a look!" ”。

Listening to Khima's words, Fang Yi nodded and walked towards the door with his feet raised.

The three of them got into a car, and Artur drove the car to the place where Fang Yi met the person who bought the painting, Fang Yi didn't see anyone, only saw a small wooden table being placed on the lawn on the side of the small fork road, which is the most important fork of the road leading to the painter's village, and there were many people coming and going at this time.

Of course, the painters' village is not as unfamous as it used to be, and it seems to be developing towards the Montmartre highlands of France, not only for painting, but also for a bit of tourism, but not as commercial as Montmartre. Even if you want to commercialize, it depends on Zou Heming's meaning, because almost all the wasteland in the vicinity has the surname Zou.

It is precisely because of this that there were not many people in the past, but now there are more people coming and going than before, and there is a gas station near here, so I know that it is several times more prosperous than before.

As the car drove to the edge of the gas station, Artur shouted into the gas station: "Billy! ”。

As soon as the voice fell, a chubby black man's head stuck out, and the three of them said hello when they saw that it was Artur.

"A week ago, there was a young man with a child...... Altur asked.

"Oh, you said Steven and Ellie?" Billy asked. Seeing that Artur nodded, he said: "They were still in the morning, and now they are estimated to be home, they don't come all day, but just two or three days a week!" ”。

Fang Yi interjected and asked, "Do they still sell paintings?" ”。

"Sell! Are you interested in his paintings? As soon as Billy heard Fang Yi say this, he immediately became curious, but when he was excited, he was suppressed by his own reason.

"Not at all!" Fang Yi shook his head and said, "I heard that they said that there are paintings for sale here, so I stopped by to take a look!" ”。

After a few words, the three of them drove away and turned back to Artur's house.

"And we'll come back next time?" Artur asked Fang Yi.

Fang Yi said without thinking about it: "Forget it, I'm just more curious today, and I'll talk about it later if I can't see it!" ”。 After confirming that this young man was still here, Fang Yi had no interest in seeing it.

"What do you think of his copy?" Kehima asked at Fang Yi.

Fang Yi thought for a moment and said, "If you give a score, out of one hundred, I will give ninety points to the person who is copying!" ”。 That's a pretty good score, and of course it's unlikely that without such a score would have gotten past Khima and Artur's eyes.

"Did you think the young man drew it himself?" Artur suddenly thought of this and asked the two.

Kahima also seemed a little interested when he heard this: "Then let's take a look in two days!" ”。

Fang Yi didn't have much interest in whether this young man was painting, not that he didn't have any talent for painting such a young man, on the contrary, if he could paint such a similar Rubens, he would be considered talented at the age of eighteen or nineteen, but Fang Yi didn't like to have any intersection with this kind of person who didn't know the height of the sky, because such a person was always in trouble. (To be continued......)