There are only 36 authentic paintings of Xia Dongyi, but 81 are claimed to be public, so people keep asking him to buy paintings, staring very closely, asking him where the other paintings have gone. He could only follow what Xia Dongyi taught him, saying that at the beginning, he didn't know that the painting would be valuable, and when he threw it away, he threw it away a lot, but later found that it was too late to be valuable, and he couldn't find it back. At first, this statement was accepted, but gradually began to be suspected, especially recently, more and more gossip in the circle said that the remaining dozens of paintings under Zhou Changshou's private eyes were waiting for the price to rise and make a lot of money, and more and more people were looking for him to buy paintings.

He was cornered.

Some time ago, the biggest buyer of Xia Dongyi's work suddenly found him, showed him a painting, and asked him if he could confirm that it was Xia Dongyi's authentic work. Although the style of the painting was similar, he had never seen it before, and it was not the right size, half the size of the previous paintings. He thought it was a fake, but the other party didn't believe him, and asked a lot of questions, which meant that he suspected that he had hidden most of the authentic works and didn't show them. Tell him that as long as he takes out all the paintings, it doesn't matter how much money he has, but if he refuses, they will have to be polite. He denied it again and again, swore that he didn't, and the other party didn't believe it.

Then something happened.

We all knew in our hearts that the picture that the buyer showed him was the one that was originally hung in the home of Lu Yaolin, one of the deceased in the "Hand of God" serial murder case.

It was Xia Dongyi who painted the one that he deliberately let Yang Wenshuo release as bait after he was released from prison.

Fortunately, Bai Yafeng stared at the clue of Lu Yaolin's disappearing painting at the beginning, and we were able to pull up such a large series of interrelated characters and events.

Zhou Changshou is a good woman, and there are three women with stable relationships, who are placed in different places, and usually pick wildflowers on the roadside. For a while, he took a new one in Shandong, and never went home, and suddenly received calls from three women in a row, all saying that the family had been burglarized, but he didn't lose anything. He immediately understood that it must be the previous buyer who saluted first and then the soldier, and if he couldn't talk about it, he would steal it directly, because he didn't know where he hid the painting, so he simply searched each of his homes, and he definitely wouldn't stop easily.

He hurriedly went back to the original home to see the situation, but was ambushed, the customer's car was waiting for him outside the community, and he rushed out of the oblique stab and hit his car into the green belt, fortunately he reacted quickly, immediately realized that it was a trap, jumped out of the car and ran, and did not dare to turn his head, so he was not caught by them.

Since then, Zhou Changshou has fled in all directions, and he has not dared to return to any of his homes. Because I am not sure how big the other party is, for the sake of caution, I don't dare to use bank cards and ID cards or anything, I have seen them on TV, and these things will be exposed.

Zhou Changshou said that in fact, since the prices of those paintings were getting higher and higher, and the two largest regular buyers were watching him more and more, he felt that something was wrong, thinking that what they really wanted was not the painting at all, but the secret hidden in the painting.

Zhou Changshou said that there is a saying circulating on the Internet, saying that the reason why Xia Dongyi's paintings are so valuable is not because of the artistic value at all, but because there is treasure information in the paintings, saying that the Yin family in Jiangnan had stolen more than a dozen tombs of dignitaries in the Spring and Autumn Period during the Anti-Japanese War, and a large amount of yin money was raised from the ground to support the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, but something went wrong when contacting, and the young master of the Yin family, who was in charge of negotiating this matter, suddenly disappeared, and he did not see anyone alive or dead, and he was suspected of being killed by the other party's people, and the Yin family was furious, and the funding matter stopped immediately. The treasures were buried again in the ground, and Xia Dongyi's paintings were actually treasure maps.

I said I had heard the rumor.

Zhou Changshou sighed and told us very seriously, saying that in fact, this rumor was spread by him according to Xia Dongyi's instructions.

This took us by surprise again.

He said: "I don't know if Xia Dongyi made up this story to speculate on the price of the paintings or for other reasons, but the two biggest buyers must have believed the story, otherwise how can they explain that they are willing to spend tens of millions on those paintings?" ”

I don't know if this story about treasure is true or not, but I think I suddenly know the real meaning behind so many of Xia Dongyi's actions.

That's what I guessed before: fishing.

He fished for bait with his paintings, trying to find out who was so interested in his paintings and the secrets they contained that they would be desperate to do whatever it took to find out.

He wanted to find the characters who were so deeply hidden.

Zhou Changshou said that in the past few years, there are two buyers who are most willing to bid and stare at him the most, one of them took a painting half smaller than the previous size to him a while ago to verify the authenticity, and it must be the one that once hung in the house of Lu Yaolin, a female lawyer who died in the "Hand of God" case. According to our investigation and analysis at the time, the painting should have been returned to Xia Dongyi's hands by Yang Wenshuo's hand, and if it appeared in the hands of the buyer and went to Zhou Changshou for appraisal, it can be inferred that Xia Dongyi had already connected with one of the buyers and sold the painting to the other party.

In other words, at least one fish has fallen into Xia Dongyi's net.

I asked Zhou how much he knew about his two buyers.

He shook his head: "I basically don't know, they are very tight-mouthed, and they can't get any information when they play side balls, when they found me, most of Xia Dongyi's paintings had already been shot, and there were only a few left." At that time, in order to see the situation, I raised the price, and I did not sell it all at once, but sold it to them one after another, and the price became higher and higher each time, which was one of the biggest reasons why they no longer trusted me and thought that I must still have more than 50 paintings. ”

As he spoke, he sighed helplessly and said, "I'm just a businessman, I want to make more money, who would have thought that so many things would be done!" ”

I forced Zhou Changshou to think about the two buyers, any details are fine, you have to think about it.

After a while, he said: "In addition to buying paintings, they will also look for me to see whether Xia Dongyi's works circulating on the market are real or fake, and they are also very concerned about Xia Dongyi's situation, whether he can reduce his sentence, when he will be released from prison, etc., so he has maintained close contact with me for several years, and then Xia Dongyi was really released from prison, but they didn't seem to go to him directly, but continued to inquire with me about the news, asking him if he was still painting, who he usually had contact with or something, I don't know what they want." ”

After a pause, he told us that the two buyers knew each other's existence, and that they had once looked for him one after the other and met him in the hallway.

I imagined the scene from above, and I somehow felt a little funny, as if watching a movie, not real at all.

Zhou Changshou said that the two groups of buyers, no matter which one, every time they appeared, there were two or three people, one of them was the main one, and the other was supplementary, they were low-key and polite, but it could be seen that they were all ruthless characters, like gangsters in movies and television. Zhou Changshou believes that the people who deal with him are not actually the buyers themselves, but just the cronies of the two rich and powerful big bosses.

He said that the backstage owner of one of the buyers was supposed to be Japanese.

When I heard the word "Japanese", my heart couldn't help but beat a little faster, because in the process of investigation, there have been several Japanese factors, but so far there are no substantive clues, I don't know what kind of role they play in it, so now it suddenly pops up again, it is very sensitive, a nerve in my brain collapsed heavily, the person sat straight, his eyes were wide open, and he was so serious that he asked Zhou Changshou almost sternly how he knew that the backstage boss was Japanese.

He said: "The people who contacted me were all Chinese, and the few people who came with me spoke Chinese, but on two occasions I heard them speak Japanese when they answered the phone, and although they were careful to avoid me and go outside to pick up, I could still hear a few ears." Another time, I saw one of them texting someone, and the call from the phone was in Japanese. ”

I asked him if he was 100% sure it was Japanese. This question made him anxious, his eyebrows were upside down, and he crooked his neck and cursed: "! Lao Tzu has watched thousands of island country action movies, can you still know what Japanese is? ”

The old lazy kicked him, and he hung his head with a gray face.

I actually believed in my heart that there were indeed Japanese people involved, and I just asked casually, so I didn't continue to argue, but asked a few questions about Xia Dongyi's daily life and personality, and the answers I got were basically the same as what I learned from others before: generally a good person, often helping people, no temper, very good to children, and responsible.

Zhou Changshou thinks that Xia Dongyi must have an unavoidable reason for abandoning Zhou Hong and leaving Huaqiao Town, and there is something that almost killed someone later, with his understanding, Xia Dongyi can't commit that kind of murderous crime, it must be that the other party is so bad that he has to force him to the point where he has to do it.

Speaking of this, he suddenly pursed his lips and said, "Of course, I just think so, and I don't know the specific situation. ”

This is the meaning of prevarication, which tells us that if Xia Dongyi's actions are not what he guessed, it is none of his business.

The person who was almost killed by Xia Dongyi back then, that is, Su Mosen, the police once took Zhou Changshou to the hospital to recognize him, but he didn't know him.

There is a situation where Zhou Changshou also feels weird.

It's Xia Dongyi's memory problem.

He said that when he was in Huaqiao Town before, although he didn't have much contact with Xia Dongyi, he didn't have contact at all, and he never found that his memory was bad, not particularly good, at least it was normal, but he didn't know what was going on, and then Xia Dongyi was imprisoned, and after they came and went closely, he found that his memory became very poor, and he often lost three and four and forgot about everything, and there was no way to live, so he could only carry a pen and paper with him, write down everything, and take it out to see if he had forgotten anything. What's even more strange is that he has never forgotten things, but he remembers people very clearly, Zhou Changshou has been to Xia Dongyi countless times, but he has never recognized him.

Zhou Changshou was at a loss for this, but I was in a trance and understood.

It's loaded!