Chapter 9

He still got up at 6:30 in the morning. When Qin Shiou left Hickson's father's restaurant yesterday, he stopped by the supermarket to buy some rice and cooked some fish and rice porridge in the morning.

The strong smell of rice and the fresh smell of wild fish blend together. The snow-white rice grains and the glittering fish complement each other, with complete color, flavor and taste.

Qin Shiou was happily eating breakfast. The bedroom window was knocked 'Bang Bang'. He opened the window and red squirrel Xiaoming jumped in. He held his small paw in front of his chest, looked up at him foolishly with dark eyes and licked him with his small tongue.

"Your boy is addicted to my fruit salad?" Qin Shiou smiled. He put down his dishes and chopsticks, took out blueberries and Heiti, mixed a small bowl with syrup and salad dressing and put it on the table.

He picked up a blueberry, ordered the table and said, "Xiao Ming, come up."

The little squirrel didn't know why, so he jumped around on the ground, stretched out his claws and squeaked greedily.

Qin Shiou called again. The little squirrel blinked his black eyes, climbed up along the table legs and ran to the position indicated by Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou was surprised at the little squirrel's intelligence. He handed him the blueberry and repeated it several times. When he called Xiao Ming again, the little squirrel would run to him happily.

"Shit, it's smarter than my dog." Qin Shiou sighed and was praising. The little squirrel had enough to eat and drink, shook his big tail and ran away.

After a while, Xiao Ming, the squirrel, bounced back. With him, there was a red squirrel a little bigger than it.

Qin Shiou was depressed and smiled. This guy regarded himself as a charity hall and called friends to dinner.

But the two little squirrels didn't eat directly. Xiao Ming took the new squirrels and jumped in front of Qin Shiou and stretched out their front paws. They each held a full pine nut and knew to bring gifts.

This should be the food stored by squirrels for overwintering and spring. In Canada, spring comes late, and squirrels can't find food until April. This gift is very precious to them.

The two pine nuts are full. Qin Shiou receives the hand. Xiao Ming jumps up happily. The other squirrel is a little stiff and lies down on the side.

Xiao Ming climbs to the table and cries "Zhizhi". Another squirrel looks at Qin Shiou and carefully climbs to the table.

Qin Shiou puts down the pine nuts. Xiao Ming jumps over, grabs one and hands it to him. It is clear that it means to let him eat.

No way, Qin Shiou had to break open one and fill it in his mouth. As a result, the pine nuts were sweeter than the syrup he mixed with fruit. They tasted very good. Those fried pine nuts in China could not compare with this.

Seeing that he ate two pine nuts, Xiao Ming was happy and jumped around the fruit plate.

Qin Shiou handed him the blueberry. This time he didn't eat it, but gave it to another little squirrel.

With two squirrels, Qin Shiou returned to the bedroom to watch TV. Xiao Ming was also very interested in the TV scene. Qin Shiou jumped as soon as he smiled, and the other little squirrel fell asleep on Qin Shiou's shoulder with a Heiti.

The cell phone rang, and Auerbach's voice rang, saying that he and his friends at lees's auction house would arrive later.

Before long, a BMW 750Li drove into the fishing ground. Auerbach got off. In addition, three people followed, one was a semi bald and energetic old man, and two were middle-aged white men with yellow hair in suits and shoes.

Olbach introduced the bald old man to Qin Shiou and said, "this is my good friend shashevsky, the art director of Lee's auction house in Ontario. These two are his colleagues and both are appraisers of Lee's auction house."

Two men in suits introduced themselves. One was Kelvin, who mainly studied sketch painting, and the other was Petrus, who was good at oil painting.

Qin Shiou put 30 paintings on display. The three put on gloves, took out a magnifying glass, and took a small machine. After connecting to a laptop, they could scan these paintings.

Auerbach introduced Li's auction house to Qin Shiou. Although it cannot be compared with the world's top auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips and Sotheby's, this auction house is also very famous in Canada.

Lee brothers auction house was founded in kirona, British Columbia, Canada in 1958. Now its headquarters is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It has more than 110 business institutions and more than 1160 full-time employees around the world. It is a well deserved leader in the Canadian auction industry.

Shashevsky was serious. After seeing the painting, he frowned and discussed with two subordinates while studying.

The three appraisers first looked at pinarang's paintings. They looked at them carefully one by one. It took about an hour. Shashevsky went to Qin Shiou, sat down and said, "Hello, Mr. Qin. According to our research, Mr. pinarang's paintings are authentic."

Qin Shiou wondered, what's the difference between genuine and fake goods? Is this PI najean or some painter? Previously, he searched the Internet and didn't find the information of this person.

Shashevsky answered his doubts: "Arthur pinajan is an Armenian American painter and cartoonist. He was born in 1914. His parents survived the Armenian genocide in 1915. Then he came to the United States and taught himself painting since childhood."

"Like most famous artists, Mr. pinajan was depressed and frustrated. He had to make a living by painting for the comic company and died in 1999. One year after his death, his achievements in the field of pure art were discovered by the art circle. He has profound attainments in the fields of portrait painting, landscape painting and abstract painting, especially his abstract expressionism painting, which is considered to have high artistic value. "

Shashevsky briefly introduced it. Qin Shiou was delighted and asked, "are Mr. pinajan's paintings very valuable?"

After hearing this, shashevsky smiled and said, "yes, some of Mr. pinajen's paintings are really valuable now, but this is limited to his abstract paintings. Although you have four abstract paintings here, it's a pity that they are all his early works and are not very valuable. "

Qin Shiou was helpless. The man couldn't speak directly. He felt really uncomfortable. He simply asked, "how much do you think my paintings here are worth?"

Shashevsky pondered for a moment and said, "if these paintings of Pina Jean are sold separately, they can be sold for about $2 million to $2.2 million. If it is a package auction, it may be about 1.5 million Canadian dollars. "

Auerbach asked, "why is the price gap so large?"

Qin Shiou is very satisfied. At least he has paid enough tax on his probate. He can take the fishery.

Shashevsky explained: "rare things are more expensive. If thirty paintings appear in the market at the same time, it will reduce the value of Pina's paintings. If they are sold separately - not auctioned separately - there will be no such concern."

"Why not auction separately?" Olbach asked.

Shashevsky further explained: "because the artists who like Pina Jean's paintings are not collectors, artists will not participate in the auction. They have no money to compete with those giants and celebrities. If a single painting is auctioned, collectors will not be interested in such a low-grade painting. They can only package it for auction. "

Seeing that his old friend was quite disappointed, he comforted: "the copy of sunflower can be auctioned alone. My valuation is $300000, which should not be too low."

At the same time, shashevsky explained to Qin Shiou why the sunflower was a fake at first sight. It is well known that Van Gogh was Dutch and the language he used was Dutch.

The similarity between Dutch and English is that it is also a letter combination, but there are no three letters' Q, X and y '. This picture of sunflower has a sentence: in my wandering life, there are two letters X and y, so it is obvious that this is not an authentic work.

Qin Shiou is also satisfied with this result. What he urgently needs now is the part of the probate tax. Obviously, after the auction of these paintings, he can solve his urgent need. As for more money, Qin Shiou is not in a hurry. He has the awareness that he can freely cross the ocean and find the real treasure sooner or later.

The remaining focus is to identify the authenticity of Picasso's woman with a golden drum.

Shashevsky told the two that identifying Picasso's paintings was a waste of time, at least two hours, because they had to go online to discuss with experts from the company's international famous painting department.

Qin Shiou waited for a while and lost interest. He ran upstairs to the bedroom and watched TV with two little squirrels.

Unknowingly, at eleven o'clock, shashevsky knocked on the door and came in. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the bronze statues for decoration on the balcony. His attention was suddenly attracted, so he quickly walked over and looked carefully.

The statue was picked up from Chenbao Lake together with those paintings. Qin Shiou felt that the statue was rusty and should not be worth money.

Shashevsky turned around the statue several times. For a long time, he looked back and frowned: "Mr. Qin, now there is good news, bad news and uncertain news for you. Which do you listen to first?"

Qin Shiou roared in his heart. Sir, are you playing with me? We're not making a movie. Just say what you have. Why is it good news? Bad news? I'm not sure which one to listen to first?

However, they came to help. Qin Shiou must be polite and said, "feel free, sir."

Shashevsky nodded and said, "let's say the good news first. The woman with the golden drum is indeed the genuine work of Picasso. According to the identification of carbon 14, the painting was born in 1939."

"The bad news is that this painting is Picasso's work in the transition period. It should be painted by him casually. It is not of high value. It may only be a little more expensive than the sunflower copied by pinajan."

"In addition, there is another uncertain news. Your statue of Perseus and medusa may be genuine. I will invite colleagues to identify it immediately. If it is genuine, I will value it at least 30 million Canadian dollars!"

I would like to thank my brothers for their rewards, such as "Xinghe let me break through, Xiaoai God, although things happen quickly, Linglong four criminals, and wind transit". I would also like to thank every friend who has collected this book. The cartridge case bows here and thanks! I hope brothers can continue to support us and let our fishing ground work red!