Shu Xin's mind is very smart, but this does not constitute a sufficient condition for her to learn exorcism. Of course, Qiao Wei and his father were just joking.

We didn't have any further discussions that night.

The next morning, we contacted Gu Feng first, because the person who gave the "Dark Surge" to Gu Feng's grandfather was most likely the wizard, so we wanted to see if he could have any clues about the British businessman. In addition, we also asked if their family had any foreigners who were close to each other when they returned to Guangdong for development.

Gu Feng replied that he only knew the origin of the painting, and as for the merchant who had a cooperative relationship with his family, he did not know the name at all. As for the second question, Gu Feng gave an answer that surprised both Qiao Wei and me.

He gave us four names, all four of whom had been in business with their family and had visited their home, and one of them was Gerald! It's a name all too familiar to me and Qiao Wei, who just yesterday had visited Gerald's mansion and who had donated the painting "Early Morning" to the Whitechapel Gallery twenty years earlier.

Gu Feng didn't know what the full name of the person Gerald who had dealings with his family was, and he didn't know whether this "Gerald" was the person's surname or first name. But one thing that was important was that he was sixty or seventy years old when he met that Gerald.

Although there was a bit of a mismatch in age, Qiao Wei still asked Gu Feng to describe the Gerald he had seen, and Gu Feng's subsequent answer also made my whole body shake! Gu Feng said that the Gerald who had dealings with his family was black-haired, and he was very impressed by this, he said that he was still an older child at that time, and he asked his father curiously: Aren't foreigners all yellow-haired, how can there be black-haired foreigners.

The same black hair, the same name Gerald, and all around Spencer's paintings, I don't believe there could be so many coincidences on Shijie.

I don't know if it's our luck or not, but when I think about it, there are some contradictions.

If Gerald is the wizard, then who is the person who originally gave "Dark Surge" to Gu Feng's grandfather, and the British businessman obviously can't be the same person as Gerald.

Also, Gerald was very kind to give me and Qiao Wei clues, what is the point of him doing this? Is it to make yourself look innocent? Or did he realize that we would find him sooner or later, so he set off a smoke bomb in advance to mislead the two of us?

So far, we don't have much room to think, so we can only follow Gerald's clue to investigate.

Britain is Qiao Wei's father's territory, and the investigation of Gerald's background can only be entrusted to him. Fortunately, this uncle, who likes to be a mentor very much, didn't embarrass us anymore, and directly promised to find someone to check the details of this Gerald.

I also found help in China, and they all said that the wealth is rich, and this is really true. In the past, when I wanted to ask the two brothers of the Zhang family for help, I always had to weigh my wallet first, but now that I have Gu Feng, the big boss, as a financial sponsor, I have nothing to worry about.

I used 50,000 yuan as a labor service to ask Zhang Yuchi to go to the Harbin auction house for me, and "inquire" about the situation of the former owner of the painting "Dark Surge", and if there are still any alive, I will ask them if there is anything about Gerald this person.

After everything was explained, the next thing to do was to wait with peace of mind, which also gave us time to travel.

In the following nearly a week, Qiao Wei took Shu Xin and me to Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool and other places for a while, and also went to watch a Premier League football match.

When we were almost done, the investigation between Zhang Yuchi and Qiao Wei and his father had also made progress.

Zhang Yuchi easily asked for the news that we couldn't get out of the auction house, and in the eighteen years from '95 to '13, the painting "Undercurrent" caused a total of six people to commit suicide, and two of the three transactions were due to the death of the owner of the painting.

The person who auctioned "Dark Surge" this year was a Zhejiang businessman, and he himself did not have an accident, but his little lover committed suicide in his secret hut, and "Dark Surge" is the decorative painting in the secret hut.

Zhang Yuchi then approached the Zhejiang merchant and learned from him that he had also worked with a foreign businessman in the same year he bought the painting, and that person's name was Benny? Gerald is a brunette Englishman in his forties.

And that's not all.

Zhang Yuchi found the person who sold the painting for the first time in 95, and that person was an extremely ordinary middle-aged man who lived a very stable and ordinary family life.

According to the man, in '93 he was still an ordinary company employee, and one day suddenly a rich old English man gave him a painting and told him to sell it in two years, so he has the rich life he has now. He didn't know the name of the old foreign man, but he remembered that the old man was black-haired.

Zuihou Zhang Yuchi sent us a few photos of Gerald, the men in the photos have a wide age span, but they all have the same characteristics, that is, black hair and handsomeness. Although I think that foreigners basically look similar, I can still be sure that the man in the photo is the Gerald who donated paintings that Qiao Wei and I met before!

With the clues provided by Zhang Yuchi, I can also establish a timeline.

About the time of the reform and opening up in 79, the people of the Gu Feng family returned to the mainland to develop, and the wizard Gerald arranged for a friend to give Gu Feng's grandfather the "Dark Surge" sealed with his wizard Liliang on his behalf. In the following ten years, Gu Feng's family encountered strange murder cases one after another, and Gerald, as a businessman, frequently contacted Gu Feng's family to confirm whether they would sell the painting.

When Gu Feng's father decided to leave Guangdong for the north, Gerald retrieved the painting and gave it away again. This time, Gerald did not choose a stand-in, because he was ready to rejuvenate. By the time Gerald appeared in front of the wealthy Zhejiang businessman, he had already gone from a young man in his twenties to a successful businessman in his forties.

I didn't ask Zhang Yuchi how many people he had beaten and how many teeth he had pulled out during the investigation, but I told him to wait until I returned to China to settle the bill with him.

If Zhang Yuchi's investigation put a wizard hat on Gerald, then Qiao Wei's father's investigation put on a wizard's robe for Gerald.

According to the investigations of these exorcists, the aristocrat Gerard in London regularly travels abroad, and China is his favorite place to go. A week earlier, Gerrard had just returned to the UK from China. Another very interesting thing is that this Gerald is forty-two years old, but he was a blank man until he was twenty-six, he had no credit card records, no driver's license, almost no use of all the papers, it felt like he was twenty-six at birth.

In this way, the timeline is completely connected, and the reason why Gerald returned to the UK from China more than half a month ago is also very simple, he has been secretly monitoring Qiao Wei's every move and me, and he knows that we will return to the UK with the painting, so he came back early and waited for us to come to the door.

However, there is still one doubt that I can't figure out, the previous oil painting killing, Gerald was able to control the situation and firmly control the painting in his own hands, but Weishenme this time he let the painting easily fall into the hands of a royal exorcist? weishenme: Didn't he snatch the paintings away when he was in China?

Qiao Wei and I once put the painting in the detective agency without any precautions, and it was half a month as soon as it was released, and he didn't go to get the painting during this time?

What conspiracy is he working on in Jihua?

I told Qiao Wei and his father the questions I couldn't figure out, and they couldn't answer my questions either. But Qiao Wei and his father told me a shortcut to solve my doubts, that is, to go to Gerald's house at night and ask him in person, but this time it was not a friend Haode who asked questions, but a heretical interrogation!