Chapter 9: Benoy
Lao Lin said, "We spent a long time investigating Martin's situation, and we touched his parents, wife, and friends. That's when I met your mother by chance when I was in Paris. That's really thanks to Martin.
Benoy, who had a dog, loved to take her dog along the Seine, from Shakespeare to Notre-Dame, looking at the spires of the church, imagining what it would be like to walk with Martin – how she wished Martin would be transferred to the headquarters so he could walk to work. It's a pity that Martin is getting busier and busier right now. However, the dog named Daisy died of illness not long after, and Benoy was very sad and got another one. Not long after, he fell ill and died, while Martin was busy solving the museum case. Benoy had no choice but to raise cats instead, and raised seven of them in one go, naming them Ja respectively
,Feb,Ma
,Ap
,May,Ju
, Jul, only Ap
It's a white cat. July 2004 was the month she and Martin met, when she was 23 years old and sunny. After Martin returned from Boston, his career was going well, but his relationship with Eva had been tepid, and Eva and Martin's mother had been at odds. Eva sensed this, and in order to improve the situation, Eva invited Martin and his parents to go to the opera at the Teatro Garnier, where a friend of Eva's worked as an actor. Martin's parents excused themselves, and Martin had no choice but to accompany her, the play is called "The Love of Porgisai", which tells the story of an artist and his love story who loves but does not love and is lost and regained. Benoy plays a supporting actress who can't be loved in the play, with a vigorous plot and touching acting skills, in short, Benoy's demeanor can see Martin's heart is magnificent and surging. After the performance, Martin made up his mind to pursue Benoy, and he deepened the cold war with Eva, and broke up with Eva on the pretext that he was suffering from severe Parisian depression. Martin took advantage of the small privilege of the police to continue to challenge Benoy's then-boyfriend, Fleisch, who was also an actor. The battle between Fleisch and Martin was a dilemma for Benoy, and Fleisch withdrew from the competition a year later, and soon married a café owner.
Since Benoy had a cat, he thinks cats are better than dogs. The cat is easy to feed, very tsundere, and doesn't need to be walked, and it doesn't seem to be sick all the time, but it doesn't catch mice. When Benoy is bored, he likes to read Alfeli's plays, and when he is tired, he goes to the Seine to feed the seagulls, watch the cruise ships and tourists from all over the world. Suddenly one day she read a passage in which the Italians accused the French:
"Doing everything, knowing nothing,
Knowing everything, doing nothing.
The frivolous guy is a Frenchman,
The more you give, the less he will pay you back. ”
Depressed and she decided to go for a walk far away. After leaving a note for Martin, she drove six hours to Melk. In the evening, she had a drink in a famous open-air restaurant and was recognized by a classmate with whom she had not been in touch for a long time, both of whom graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de la Visual Communication in Paris in the 15th arrondissement. At this time, Viya had already met a middle-aged American producer, and at the same time had the confidence to develop in Hollywood for a long time. She tried to persuade Benoy to go to Los Angeles, even though she later learned of Martin's existence.
Benoy was close to separating from Martin when he went to the United States, and Martin hated Via, who had recently married in the United States, and incidentally hated Americans, all Americans. Once a couple was robbed of their wallets in the alley behind St. Etienne's Church, Martin learned that he was from Tennessee and used the excuse to prevent his men from going to the police, and of course, the man from Chattanooga holding a snail in the police station was not without provocation. Less than three months after going to the United States, Benoy called to say that he was pregnant and that it was Martin's child. Excited to let her go back to Paris, Martin refused, saying that she might soon be starring in a big production, partnering Al Pacino. Martin is not interested in this, what kind of art do Americans know, they only know Schwarzenegger and Stallone. He began to go to the bar often to get drunk, and occasionally came home to watch Ap
Idle. The other cats all ran away, but this one remained.
Lao Lin said that after Martin's mad dog-like pounce, their Paris police finally made a breakthrough. Martin's men learned that in the weeks leading up to the theft, some people were paying high prices for oil painting copyists in underground artists' circles, especially those who excelled in the expressionist style. This person is Daddy and I.
Later, Shen Teng touched the melon, and they cracked an art counterfeiting gang, and sure enough, the four-leaf clover gallery run by Luo Kangcourt and his girlfriend was the core. According to Rokangul's girlfriend, she also has an important buyer, and this buyer should be behind Yanmnia. But a search of the whole Clover, the apartment of Rokangcourt and his girlfriend, all their possible hiding places, did not find any stolen paintings, not a single one. Therefore, it is impossible to crucify their connection to the theft of the museum, and it is impossible to convict them, so they can only be punished for false business.
Soon, some of the artists who assisted the police were unlucky, some were set on fire to their studios, and some were beaten to the point that they could no longer pick up brushes and plates. The worst is Xiao Mo, in order to protect his father's works, he was beaten and kicked to death, and he was re-shot after his death, which was miserable. The black man who beat people was already mute by the time he was captured, and he couldn't write.
Mo's wife came to Benoy crying, Martin told her that Benoy had gone abroad, Mo's wife sobbed and said that she was now with three children, the youngest was only three years old, and she had to sell Mo's beloved motorcycle, and Martin decided to help her out of sympathy. Soon Benoy called back from Los Angeles and asked Martin to help Mo's wife anyway. Benoy said that if she hadn't sold the painting given by Xiao Mo, where would she have the money to study in Hollywood? Only then did Martin know that Benoy had sold the symbol of his friendship with Xiao Mo behind his back, and he didn't believe it at first, but when he rummaged through the whole house, he finally believed that what Benoy said was true, which Martin couldn't accept anyway.
The more he thought about it at night, the more wrong it became, so he ran to the yard, turned on the flashlight, and soon found a bullet mark in the back seat of Xiao Mo's motorcycle. He was annoyed, and after a few days, he arranged for his subordinates to find a random charge of reselling fake paintings, and sent Xiao Mo's poor wife to prison. Even so, Martin still visits the prison himself from time to time and often takes care of Mo's three children. One day it was very hot Martin invited the three of them to eat ice cream, the eldest was a boy, he ate it quickly, then raised his head and said seriously, Uncle Martin, I want to be like you when I grow up, to be a guardian of justice. Martin smiled, crouched down and pinched his little face, and walked away without looking back.
In fact, here, Martin is wrong to blame Xiao Mo. The motorcycle is our take, and the painting is also our take, which has nothing to do with Xiao Mo. Even if he Martin can solve the case and be promoted, he has to thank Xiao Mo. Lao Lin became indignant at this time.
Lao Lin's sense of justice is very ridiculous in the eyes of his son. But this person is his father, and Lin Mu doesn't know what to think about for a while.
Martin later did not associate with Petit often, and Petit was so capable that he thought his idol would soon be promoted to the rank of head of the hall. Unexpectedly, one day, they were notified of a meeting, at which the assistant minister of the interior personally announced that Petit had been suspended for investigation, and when they heard that Petit was suspected of a serial rape and murder, everyone looked at each other, and Martin was almost laughed at angrily. How could Petit not find a woman? Even within the police station, his fan sister is a big deal. A clear example of the French attitude towards sex is the very low rate of rape, which ranks last in the world. He simply couldn't believe this superficial lie in his heart. This is the case in Paris, where the costs of framing others are so low and the benefits are so high that it has become an open secret.
Shortly after Petit's suspension, Martin was also transferred to the EU Police Headquarters as Director of Intelligence. About a month after Martin's transfer, the Lyon Courier newspaper suddenly reported on the front page that a homeless man had stumbled upon the frame of a stolen famous painting at an abandoned checkpoint on the Italian-French border, which had been confirmed by museums and experts to be authentic. Seeing this news, Martin admired Petit's insight and determination at the beginning. It is likely that the paintings were shipped out of France through the Italian mafia and then transferred to the vault of a large collector, where they were transferred from public to private collections. As for this frame, it may have been accidentally lost or abandoned during transportation. But Martin's office has moved from Paris to The Hague, and his life has changed completely. Before leaving Paris, he entrusted a direct subordinate to take care of Xiao Mo's children. Later, the man told him that Xiao Mo's wife disappeared with the children after she was released from prison, and that in the place where they used to live, Martin's head was painted and a cross was painted with red paint. I don't know how they became aware of it, but Martin suspected that it was a secret from his subordinates, but there was no evidence. Martin later called his friend at the Paris police station several times, and finally cleared the man out of the revolutionary ranks.
Not long after, Martin and Benoy divorced before Benoy was ready to star in the sensational literary film "Deception", and Martin's mother was very puzzled by this. She told Martin's father that she had never seen a girl as good as Benoy, with unobtrusive enthusiasm and reserve, unparalleled struggle and perseverance, and that the avocado toast salad she made was so delicious. Martin's father, on the other hand, did not speak, and sighed repeatedly. Later, Benoy still didn't get this film, and was snatched up by Léa Seydoux, who starred in 007 Bond Girl and Mission Impossible 4. Benoy then divorced the producer and returned to Paris, where she and Martin were reunited at the insistence of Martin's mother, but they separated again within a year, and then they went their separate ways, and Martin found a female psychiatrist, Lei, who Benoy heard was looking for a composer. After Leigh's death, Martin did not remarry, and now he is also alone, becoming an uncle with no children, while Benoy has two children, both in the United States. It's just that the classmate who originally persuaded Benoy to go to Hollywood heard that he drowned during a swim, and neither she nor Benoy looked forward to going far on the acting road. The rain is too heavy if you're not in the car, that's it.
Lin Mu interjected prominently and asked Lao Lin Dao, what are you stealing these paintings for? I read a novel called "The Rooster Is Dead", the author seems to be a German, called Ingrid Knoll, the story is a middle-aged woman, she almost gave up love when she suddenly met her crush man, this hopelessness made her start the process of pursuit at the cost of murder. Everyone asks for it, so why ask for it? In the novel, the protagonist tells everyone that people who know too much die early. Lao Lin laughed, and he said, "Then do you want to know Benoy's later story?" Don't worry, there's more. Everyone's ending is better than the novel, you see Martin's wife, as a psychiatrist, died not long after marrying Martin, isn't there anything strange in the middle? But you have to be patient to solve the puzzle, don't be in a hurry, son, don't be in a hurry.
"Son, tell me about Petit."
"Of course, Petit was also by our people. You don't know your grandfather's means. Alas, it's a pity that you haven't met him. He had many, many friends in Europe, and there was even an Italian who was stabbed seven times in order to save him.
That man didn't die later, and when your grandfather was alive, he used to visit him alone every year. He lived in a place north of Rome called Borgisai. ”
"Borgisai?"
"Yes, it's the opera Martin saw for the first time."
"I've heard your grandfather say that Martin is not worth buying, that his father is too decent. As a result, Martin was soon transferred, and later Paris was our world. ”