242. Signatures hidden in paintings
The lazy man got some photos from the experts, and circled the fancy signatures hidden in the paintings with a red marker to show me, because the photos were too small to see what they were signed with a magnifying glass. He took out a few slightly larger promotional photos from the catalog of the auction house, but he still couldn't understand it, probably because Xia Dongyi learned from those movie stars, and he couldn't understand the names he signed.
Just like those authoritative experts said, Xia Dongyi hid the signature in the painting, and people who are not connoisseurs can't see that the play is a signature, sometimes it is hidden between the branches, sometimes hidden in the lines of the rocks, and there is a painting that is actually hidden in a naked woman's **, a few lines are sparse, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the three words "Xia Dongyi" and it doesn't look like his stage name "Dongshan".
It would be nice if the photos could be bigger and sharper.
Or to put it simply, it would be best if you could get a real painting of Xia Dongyi.
Unfortunately not.
The old lazy said that it was a shortage of goods, and no matter how much money there was, he couldn't buy it.
Several large auction houses have heard important news, that is, Xia Dongyi's works, as long as they are genuine, the auction house does not need to go through the regular process at all, just directly contact a few big buyers to see which of them is willing to pay a higher price.
The lazy man failed to find out the names and backgrounds of the buyers, because the auction house had a duty of confidentiality for the client unless a search warrant was issued. The lazy person secretly investigated this matter, and couldn't get a search warrant, so he could only inquire about his connections, and finally a staff member revealed that in fact, they didn't know who those buyers were, but only knew that there were three big buyers, and they had an internal secret agreement with them, and as long as Xia Dongyi's works appeared, they would contact them, whether they were true or not. They will send authoritative figures they trust to appraise them, no fakes are aware, no money is spared for the real thing, the accounts are all foreign accounts, the contact is all e-mail, and the experts sent to appreciate the paintings are all unfamiliar faces, so there is no way to know who the other party is.
Among the three buyers, two of them are very ruthless, and they will do everything to get Xia Dongyi's authentic handwritings, and even seem to use some illegal means, such as artificially creating accidents to force competitors to give up, and there are two times when there is a lot of trouble.
Xia Dongyi's works are very limited, and people at the auction house say that there are only about thirty or forty paintings, and at most no more than fifty paintings, all of which were painted before he was imprisoned a dozen years ago.
The case that led to Xia Dongyi's imprisonment, Bai Yafeng had already transferred the file out, and he was lazy to read it and did part of the follow-up investigation, which was in June 1996, he owed people money and couldn't pay it back, the creditor came to collect the debt, the two fell into a verbal dispute, and tried to kill the creditor in anger but did not succeed, the whole process was seen by a neighbor on the other side, and the neighbor immediately called the police and later testified in court, proving that Xia Dongyi made the first move, so the crime was attempted murder rather than manslaughter or excessive defense, In the first trial, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, without appeal, and went directly to prison.
The old lazy also went to the prison where Xia Dongyi was serving his sentence before, and asked him about the situation when he was inside, the prison guard said that he was silent, alone, and very unsociable, generally such people would be unlucky in prison and would be bullied by other prisoners, but he was an exception, no one dared to bully him, because he was not afraid of anything, and it seemed that he had practiced martial arts. When he was first imprisoned, some of the most horizontal wanted to give him a dismount, but before he could get close to the others, he was frightened away, because he smashed his fist into the wall, and the wall was sunken into a pit, and no one dared to provoke him since then. He never provoked others without doing anything, but sometimes the bullying among his fellow inmates was too serious, and he would come forward to take care of it, and he would not speak, just go in and slip the bullied person away.
Xia Dongyi left a general impression on the prison staff: he was a ruthless character, but not a bad person.
This assessment fits perfectly with the profile of "The Hand of God".
In the first few years of Xia Dongyi's imprisonment, no one visited his prison. But every year on festivals such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, he would write letters to the outside world, attach a famous postcard, and receive a reply, and those letters and postcards were inspected by the prison department, and there was no problem.
When I checked this line, I copied the mailing address and found that it was a single apartment for rent, the landlord was in other provinces, and the apartment had been entrusted to the intermediary company in Qianzhou City for rent, but the intermediary company that accepted the commission in those years had closed down, so there was no place to ask, only a few employees of the apartment property management office still had a rough impression, saying that it seemed to be a single mother living in that house with a daughter in those years, but I don't remember the appearance of the mother and daughter.
In the third year of Xia Dongyi's imprisonment, that is, in 99, a person who claimed to be Xia Dongyi's uncle visited the prison and gave him some food, and this person often went after that.
The old lazy took out a few pages and a few photos from the document and handed them to me: "This is this person, Zhou Changshou, his hometown is in Huaqiao Town, Qianzhou City, and he is a fellow villager with Xiaohai." He is indeed Xia Dongyi's uncle, the cousin of Xia Dongyi's wife who abandoned his hometown, and left Huaqiao Town to work outside several years ago. ”
I took the photo in my hand and looked at it carefully, and I couldn't make a good impression of a man with a sharp beak and cheeks, and his eyes were sly and uneasy.
After getting the name of the self-proclaimed uncle from prison, Zhou Changshou is the person who handled and operated his paintings after Xia Dongyi was imprisoned, and his whereabouts are currently unknown, and his family is looking for him everywhere, and he has also reported his disappearance, suspecting that he was kidnapped by someone, but he has never received calls and letters asking for ransom.
Zhou Changshou is the kind of man who has no sense of family responsibility, he has a family and a room and raises a second and a third wife outside, usually likes to look for flowers and ask willows, and often can't contact people, so the family doesn't know that he is missing, and thinks that he just lives where the woman refuses to go home, until the second and third mothers go to the main room to ask for living expenses, only to realize that something is wrong, and I can't find it everywhere, so I quickly called the police, and it has been more than eight months since the case was filed, and there is no news at all.
The last person to see Zhou Changshou was his second wife who was raised outside, and the lazy man said that the calculation time should be after Yang Wenshuo bribed the painting to Lu Yaolin, so Zhou Changshou's disappearance is likely to be related to the painting in Lu Yaolin's house, but he hasn't figured out what the relationship between the two is, it's just an intuition.
Soon after Yang Wenshuo gave the painting to Lu Yaolin, he officially became Lu Yaolin's assistant, and then Yang Wenshuo came forward to hire an expert through the CP auction house to verify the authenticity of the painting, Yang Wenshuo kept his name and identity confidential, and did not disclose who owns the painting now. The results were not so satisfactory, and the expert said that all the details were fine except for the size of the painting. Because all the works of Xia Dongyi that have appeared on the market before are of the same size, but Lu Yaolin's one is much smaller, this difference is very wrong.
The CP auction house wanted to know more about the authenticity of the painting than Yang Wenshuo, and provided her with four free appraisals, one of which was sent by one of their secret clients. Several other experts struggled with the size of the painting, but in the end this one didn't say a word, and just came up with a reasonable price. The auction house determines that the painting is genuine from the price offered by the customer.
But Yang Wenshuo refused to sell, she said that she just wanted to verify the authenticity and did not plan to sell.
But the buyer who bids must buy.
After the customer's price rose higher and higher, and the figure exceeded three times that of the last one he had sold, Yang Wenshuo finally relented and said that it was okay to sell, but he had to meet with the buyer. She said that she is also a person who loves art, and she has to see what kind of people buy her beloved artworks. The auction house discussed with the buyer by email, and the buyer agreed, and showed up at the agreed time, but Yang Wenshuo did not show up and released a big pigeon. But even so, the client was not angry, but asked the auction house to continue to communicate with Yang Wenshuo, and the price was not a problem, as long as the painting could be bought.
The old lazy said: "Yang Wenshuo did all these things anonymously and concealed his identity, and he also changed his makeup. When I showed Yang Wenshuo's plain makeup photos to the auction house staff, they weren't very sure, and only said that it was a bit similar, especially the mole at the corner of his mouth. showed them the photos of her makeup several times in the 'Hand of God' case, and they all recognized her, saying that it was her. ”
There is another detail: Shortly before Yang Wenshuo's resignation, all the offices and staff dormitories of Qingqi Law Firm were burglarized, and a lot of property was lost.
The lazy man thought that it was supposed to be a specific theft disguised as an ordinary burglary, and that the buyer who had bought the painting had finally found out Yang Wenshuo's identity, thinking that she would hide the painting in her office or residence, so there would be a burglary.
Who would have thought that she would put the painting in Lu Yaolin's house.
Those who want to get a painting at all costs, even if they cut their heads, can't imagine that such a valuable thing can be hung in the living room of someone else's house.
Yang Wenshuo was afraid that they would steal or rob him after finding out, so he gave the painting to Lu Yaolin, which looked like a bribe on the surface, but in fact, Lu Yaolin had been her custodian for more than two years, and she should have been kept in the dark from beginning to end.
From the perspective of time, when Yang Wenshuo called Lu Yaolin to return the painting to her, Lu Yaolin must have seen the general order from the news, but because she had a lot of handles in Yang Wenshuo's hands and had to listen to her, the expression captured in the surveillance video was panicked and frightened.
Lu Yaolin has been taking advantage of legal loopholes to do things that lack morality, and Yang Wenshuo, as her assistant, must have a lot of evidence, which is too convenient to clamp.
Therefore, the painting has nothing to do with the serial murder planned by the "Hand of God", it is only related to the "Hand of God" himself.
It was a decoy released by Xia Dongyi.
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