Chapter Eighty-Nine: Only One Piece
In their impression, this is still the same exhibition hall yesterday, except for the ceiling, almost all the layouts in this exhibition hall have changed, and all the collected items in the room have been replaced with famous paintings, that is, there is nothing else in this room except famous paintings.
Previously, they learned that this museum was the residence of Jin Xi, a master painter at the end of the last century. Jin Xi is a painter, and his largest collection should also be famous paintings, and the layout of this room just illustrates this characteristic of his.
Ling Yu and the others stepped forward in their own footsteps and stepped into here step by step. They were still spread out in this exhibition hall as before, and they were not gathered together. Everyone has their own different observation points, and everyone has their own doubts.
However, before starting, Shu Xiaoran has one more thing to do, her watch was lost here yesterday. As far as I can remember, that place should be closer to the wall than from the main door of the museum, on the side of the display case.
Xiao Ran went alone, and Chu Ming went to the other side. But when Xiao Ran passed, she looked at the layout there, there was nothing except famous paintings, and the walls did not have the original dazzling colors, but only monotonous white.
She looked at the walls and the floor, and if yesterday this room felt like a warm color that made people feel hot, then today, this room is characterized by a cold white tone that makes people feel a little cold.
The characteristics of the famous paintings have also changed, there are no excessive colors, and they have returned to normal, which are some simple landscape paintings, and some character paintings. Xiao Ran remembered correctly. This place is where my arm touched the cabinet yesterday, and the cabinet I still remember, it was by my side, and its position has not changed, but the items on it are no longer anything else, but have become a famous painting.
But here, Shu Xiaoran didn't find his watch, although the dial of the watch is not very big, but the color is pink, and the contrast with the white here should be seen at once, not that he didn't find it for a long time.
Could it be that your watch is not lost here at all? Or I remembered it wrong.
"It's okay, don't worry about the watch, we'll find it, we've got six days left here."
Seeing that Shu Xiaoran was a little anxious that he didn't find his watch, Chu Ming stepped forward and comforted Shu Xiaoran. Xiao Ran nodded afterwards. But Chu Ming saw some beads of sweat on Xiao Ran's face. The kind of sweat that flows in a hurry when you can't find something. And in those bright eyes, there was a crystal-like liquid that shimmered slightly. Xiao Ran was really a little anxious.
After listening to Chu Ming's words, Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief, she started to explore this exhibition hall first, but she would not give up on the watch thing, you were given to her by Chu Ming, and she must find it.
After finishing speaking, Chu Ming left Xiao Ran and continued to explore on his own, he still felt a little strange about the paintings on the wall.
And on Shu Xiaoran's side, after Chu Ming left, she looked at the collections around her. Yesterday's walls were made of a jumble of colors, but now they are white. And the ceiling hasn't changed, it's still the same sporadic night sky roof.
Then there's the connection between the ground and the wall, where there's still a whole circle of gaps, and they still don't know what it's for. Xiao Ran approached the display case in front of him that housed famous paintings. In front of himself is a portrait of a person.
Judging from the appearance of the person on this portrait, this person should be a European after the age of fifty, but Xiao Ran also noticed that although the painting seems to be covered with some protective film on the surface, it should be to protect the painting from being damaged by others, but it is not difficult to see that the portrait of this character is not drawn with a pencil.
Xiao Ran got closer to the painting, almost touching his entire face.
The ink used in this painting should be a special one, darker than ordinary ink, and easy to make the lines visible. It's not just this color and this painting, it should be said that in this exhibition hall, almost all the colors and all the inks are used in this one. It should have been specially developed by Jin Xi at the end of the last century. However, it seems that the market value is not very high, it should be to be different, anyway, Jin Xi himself is a strange person.
By the way, why did Shu Xiaoran react at the first time that this painting was created by Jin Xi, this is not a preconceived thought, it is not that this was originally Jin Xi's residence, and it is taken for granted that all famous paintings were created by Jin Xi.
She must have seen something and thus given herself a psychological cue. Xiao Ran guessed this in her heart, and she thought back to when it was.
Shu Xiaoran lowered her head and thought, and suddenly, her eyes lit up, as if she had found the magic needle in the ocean.
That's it!
Shu Xiaoran squatted down, docked on the side of this exhibition case, and looked at the introduction of the famous painting above. It does have Jin Xi's name on it, and it should be that when I was looking for a watch here just now, I accidentally saw the introduction to this painting. At that time, I didn't have anything in my mind but wanted to find my watch, so at that time, I subconsciously gave myself an idea, and I happened to see Jin Xi's name, so it was reasonable for people to think that this painting was painted by Jin Xi.
She looked at the introduction below the painting, which not only stated that the creator of the painting was Jin Xi, but also marked the creation time of the famous painting, which was painted in 1902.
Wait a minute, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered something. Yesterday was also in this room, and at that time the furnishings here were not all famous paintings, in addition to the famous paintings on the walls, there were also colorful objects such as vases and porcelain on these display cases.
But except for the famous paintings on the walls, all the objects are not introduced, and there is no source and no time.
And now, it's still yesterday's room, and although all the furnishings in it have been replaced, I don't know how to do this. But now, all the famous paintings in this room have been marked with the time and introduction.
Then two hypotheses appeared in Xiao Ran's mind.
The first hypothesis is that the reason why all the famous paintings in the room are annotated is because they are all famous paintings, and in this room yesterday, only the famous paintings have a brief introduction, time and Jin Xi's signature. So it's very likely that only famous paintings are introduced.
The second hypothesis is that the reason why all the famous paintings in the room are annotated is because of the characteristics of this room, this room yesterday was characterized by a large number of colors and disorganized, but now all the furnishings in this room have become famous paintings, probably a characteristic of this exhibition hall, and the walls, which are not colored, but white.
These two assumptions can be combined into one question, and there is another question, what is the purpose of this, what is it trying to express?
That's all Xiao Ran could think of. Wait until lunch to ask them these questions, maybe Ling Yu and Qin Jian will find out differently.
On the other side, Chu Ming stood in front of a wall, just like Qin Jian and Shu Xiaoran yesterday, in front of him was a famous painting, which looked no different from the famous paintings on the display cabinets behind him, the content and introduction on it were all after 1900, and the only difference should be that the painting in front of him had a border on it.
But this is also as it should be, after all, if it is hung on the wall without a frame, it should look awkward, and like the famous place of the Museum of the Dead, if the card does not come out, it will not attract so many people here every year.
The painting in front of me doesn't look any different from anything else, except that the border is wooden. And by his side, Qin Jian's position, Qin Jian is still standing in the same position as yesterday.
He couldn't understand this matter since yesterday, so as soon as he came in, he stood in this position and began to observe, just like yesterday, the painting in front of him was hung with a metal frame, compared with yesterday, only the content of the famous painting was different, yesterday's painting was an abstract work with many colors, and the painting in front of him today seems to be just an ordinary oil painting, it depicts an angel and a demon intertwined with each other, it looks a little crazy. The name of this painting is "Parallel Devil Angels"
No, there should be another place that is different, Qin Jian looked at the introduction under this painting, the time marked on this painting is 1893, and yesterday's painting, if Qin Jian remembers correctly, it should be from 1882, and it is also a painting before the nineteenth century. And it also exuded the same smell as yesterday's painting, the smell was very familiar, but Qin Jian just couldn't remember when he smelled it.
While Qin Jian was still observing, Ling Yu walked to her side, and she stood with Qin Jian.
"How's it going, did you find anything?" Qin Jian asked Ling Yu.
"Yes," Ling Yu nodded and said on Qin Jian's side, "I asked Han Mo and Zhang Xiaoqian a question just now. ”
"What's the problem?"
"I asked them when they saw all the famous paintings."
Qin Jian recalled that he was the only one standing in front of this painting after he came in just now, and everyone except himself was scattered in this exhibition hall, and what they saw should only be the famous paintings hanging in the center or on the wall, thinking about the characteristics of the painting in front of him, Qin Jian had a bold conjecture in his heart.
"They won't answer that all famous paintings date after 1900."
"That's right! Han Mo and Zhang Xiaoqian both answered like this, and Yin Fei'er also observed this. ”
Ling Yu wasn't too surprised by Qin Jian's answer, she knew that he had the ability to deduce this result.
"Why are all the paintings in this room from after 1900?" Ling Yu bowed her head and muttered to herself.
At this time, Qin Jian's expression was extremely serious, he looked at the famous painting in front of him and said to Ling Yu:
"No, there's one that isn't!"
"Huh?" Ling Yu suddenly recalled that in this room yesterday, although only the famous paintings were hung on the walls, all the paintings on the walls were created after 1900, and only one was hung by a metal frame in 1882, and today Qin Jian said this, there will be no such a painting.
After Qin Jian finished speaking, Ling Yu realized that Qin Jian was staring at the famous painting in front of him, and at this time Ling Yu also stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, the time recorded on it was 1893. It was before 1900!
Then Qin Jian said to Ling Yu: "It's not this one, and there is only this one!" ”