Although Yang Nianzhong was a little drunk, he was completely awake after being poured down by Anne with a bucket of ice water, and hurriedly supported his wife, you go back to the room and lie down to rest, and only then did you get up from the bed at ten o'clock on the second day.

I didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so I went to the study with John to discuss things, and finally lunch and breakfast were eaten together, and after eating, Yang Nianzhong instructed Nick's housekeeper, Abu and his butler Alexander, who were sitting in the back garden and drinking tea, to invite them to the study.

After Butler Nick left, Yang Nianzhong looked at John, who was sitting on the sofa with a relaxed and smug face, and said helplessly. "You kid is quite easy, do you know how important today's negotiation is."

John blinked at Yang Nianzhong with big eyes and said deliberately funny. "What do I have to be nervous about, isn't it up to you in front,"

Yang Nianzhong looked at John and said with a smile. "This is a marathon negotiation, it has been going on for two days now, and if you don't help, you will have to exhaust me to death."

John knew that Yang Nianzhong was joking, they had grown up together, could he not know that Yang Nianzhong liked to control everything? That's why John wasn't fooled, leaning back on the couch, smoking a cigar and drinking coffee at the same time.

After a while, Abu appeared in the study with his butler, Alexander, and as soon as he sat down, Nick, the butler, walked in with freshly brewed coffee and freshly brewed black tea. Poured everyone their favorite drinks, then closed the door of the study and stood at the door himself, not allowing anyone to disturb him.

Abu took a sip of tea, then frowned and looked at Yang Nianzhong and said with a smile. "Mr. Yang, why didn't I see you come down at breakfast, it seems that Mr. Yang had insomnia yesterday, and I'm really sorry for the trouble I caused you."

As soon as he saw Abu's gloating appearance, Yang Nianzhong wanted to strangle him, and replied reciting it. "The word trouble is far away from me, and the reason why I woke up late this morning was because of the overexcitement yesterday."

"Mr. Abu, we are both adults, stop playing children's games, I want to ask the compass number, where is it now."

Abu laughed and snorted, and the butler Alexandria on the side immediately got up and said. "Mr. Yang, Mr. John, the Compass has departed from St. Petersburg and is expected to dock on Eros Island in two days."

"Just a few days later, I accompanied Mr. Yang to the island of Eros to investigate, and there was a compass parked by the dock, isn't it a double win?"

Yang Nianzhong nodded, approved such a plan, saved himself from running at both ends, and saved a lot of trouble. Seeing that Yang Nianzhong nodded in approval of the plan, Butler Alexander smiled slightly, dropped a folder from his laptop, and then lowered the curtains in the study and pulled the projection down.

The folder appeared on the projection cloth, and when opened, it was a painting, and a self-portrait of Van Gogh. This made Yang Nianzhong surprised, but after seeing this character portrait clearly, Yang Nianzhong felt incredulous and turned his head to look at what Abu said.

"Mr. Abu, don't tell me that this Van Gogh self-portrait is real."

Why did Yang Nianzhong have such a strange expression? Everyone can understand that this self-portrait is very tasteful, whether it is the use of color or the technique of painting, it can be called Van Gogh's top product.

Everyone knows that Van Gogh is not lightly tortured by depression, so there are very few brilliant paintings in Van Gogh's paintings, even the background color of self-portraits is very single, and they are generally cold colors.

Although this portrait is very different is that the background color is actually a starry sky, although the color is black, but fluorescent stars dot the sky, and there is also a half moon in the background color.

This is a self-portrait of Van Gogh, and it is normal for Van Gogh's image to appear in this painting, otherwise it cannot be called a self-portrait, but even if Van Gogh's painting is a bit abstract.

But there is no abstraction like this, Van Gogh's self-portrait, his eyes are blank, his face is not bearded, and his expression is dull, but the corners of his mouth actually show a very strange smile.

This is nothing, the most important thing is this self-portrait, Van Gogh's image actually holds a vase with both hands, and the flowers in the vase have Van Gogh's best sunflowers, but there are only 12 sunflowers, and there is a white rose in the middle of the 12 sunflowers.

Why did Yang Nianzhong feel so weird? Because Yang Nianzhong knows too much about the living habits of Westerners, whether in Europe or the United States, the number 13 is extremely taboo.

Why? Because Christ was betrayed by the 13th guest at the Last Supper, and in the tarot card fortune-telling that is popular in the West, 13 represents the god of death.

Don't look at the Industrial Revolution that arose from Europe, and the Renaissance also started from Europe, but Europeans are particularly conservative and superstitious in their bones, including new countries like the United States, and the number 13 is also extremely taboo.

For example, if you go to a restaurant to eat, there is usually a number plate on the table, but if you look at the whole restaurant, no matter how many tables there are in the hall, you can't find the number of table 13.

For example, if you build a tall building, you don't care how tall the building is, if you walk through the fire escape or take the elevator, you can't see the number 13 floors.

Even the auction, there is no 13th customer, Friday is enough to make people feel uncomfortable, if Friday and the 13th collide with good guys, it is a big bad day, most people will choose to stay at home and not go out that day, whether in Europe or in the United States, the economic loss is very large.

And the weird thing is Van Gogh's self-portrait, holding the vase actually inserted in 12 bright and dazzling sunflowers, this is the plant represented in Van Gogh's paintings, Van Gogh's sunflowers are the best, but also the most valuable.

But there was a white rose in the middle of the sunflowers, adding up to exactly 13, you say this is not strange, this is simply a self-portrait in the eyes of Europeans to the extreme, who would dare to buy it.

And this self-portrait actually appeared in the Abu family collection, today Abu took out this Van Gogh's self-portrait, Yang Nianzhong felt very happy at first, why don't you look at Van Gogh is a suicide, but his paintings are sought after in the West.

Which painting is worth no more than tens of millions of dollars, and the auction price of hundreds of millions of dollars abounds, whoever has a Van Gogh painting, it is a very decent thing, whether it is Van Gogh's self-portrait or Van Gogh's sunflowers, they are all good works of art before.

But there is an exception that does not include this self-portrait, which is why Yang Nianzhong asked stupidly, Abu on the side, are you kidding, how can this painting appear.

Although Yang Nianzhong does not know about Van Gogh's paintings, he also knows how many famous paintings Van Gogh has, how many self-portraits there are, and there is no news that such a strange self-portrait has appeared.

But it's not like it, but if it's a fake, it can't appear in the hands of the Russian billionaire Abu, can he have a fake for your net worth? Can he allow a fake to appear in front of him.