? A romantic candlelight dinner was held between the young lovers who had reconciled their feud. The fragrant foie gras paired with the mellow wine was particularly delicious.
Xu Qing was not used to using Western-style table knives, and always felt that they were too blunt. Even though foie gras was a soft thing, it was too laborious to cut, like using a curling saw to pull out a tree.
Lu Yinxue smiled sweetly, put the tip of the knife on the foie gras on the plate, then held it with a fork, moved the knife downwards and cut it down. A small square piece of foie gras was picked up on the fork tines, and he stretched out his hand to pick up the foie gras piece.
In front of Qing.
Aww!
Xu Qing deliberately and exaggeratedly opened his mouth and bit the foie gras in his mouth, squinting his eyes and chewing it tastefully. He also wanted to cut a piece of foie gras in return, but unexpectedly the knife was not strong enough, and the cut foie gras turned into persimmons.
, which makes Xiao Xu, who has excellent carving skills, very depressed.
"Shall I teach you how to use a table knife?" Lu Yinxue smiled and cut another piece of foie gras and presented it to him. Xu Qing put his head in his mouth and said vaguely: "No need to teach you, foreign things are not as useful as our Chinese ones."
He put down the table knife and pulled out the Long Yuan dagger from his waist with his backhand.
Tsk!
Xu Qing turned the hilt of his sword upside down and quickly stroked it on the foie gras. Lu Yinxue felt that his eyes were blurred, and he could not catch the movement of his wrist at all, until his wrist stopped and a silver arc was drawn back to his waist.
"Try it!" Xu Qing smiled and took a small piece of foie gras to Lu Yinxue's lips. When he lowered his head, he saw that the piece of foie gras had been carved into a small heart shape.
Lu Yinxue glanced at the plate in front of Xu Qing involuntarily. She was surprised to find that except for the heart of the foie gras, the other pieces were carved into the shape of a pair of rabbits, and those leftovers happened to be rabbits.
On the grass blades near the mouth, the two rabbits have different shapes, which is really cute.
"I want to trade with you." Lu Yinxue wrinkled her nose and pointed at the foie gras on the plate. The cute look on her face made Xu Qing's heart heat up. She couldn't help but feel for the hotel room card in her pocket.
Still there.
Xu Qing pushed the entire plate in front of her to Lu Yinxue, then dragged the plate in front of her to him, and said with an evil smile: "I will take you somewhere for dinner and prepare a little gift for you."
Lu Yinxue hummed, naturally she had no objections. What attracted her most now were the two rabbits carved from foie gras in front of her. She was thinking about where to start, unaware of the big-tailed wolf opposite.
He was thinking about how to eat her.
There were two French men with big noses sitting at the table next to them. They seemed to be chirping and talking about something. There was also a framed oil painting on the corner of the table. The two big noses were looking at the oil painting and making comments.
French happened to be one of the languages Xu Qing chose to learn at Wuhun Base. It turned out that the two Frenchmen were engaged in an oil painting transaction.
"Tony, my dear friend, don't you think this imitation Picasso painting is too fake? Look at this woman, she has three eyes, and her expression is as stiff as a burnt steak. This cannot be a work by Picasso.
."
A Frenchman with hair that looked like it had been dipped in limewater pointed at a woman with three eyes on the screen and made a series of exaggerated metaphors, then looked at another blond man with an expression that looked like an idiot.
The blond Frenchman looked a little embarrassed, shrugged and said: "France, I found this painting from the old attic at home. He was very good friends with Mr. Picasso during his lifetime, so I thought it was possible.
It is the work of Mr. Picasso..."
The white-haired Frenchman named France is the owner of this Western restaurant. His full name is Jean-France. He has opened hundreds of Western-style restaurants like Paris Night all over the world. He is also a wealthy man.
The rich man has a hobby, he likes to collect all kinds of famous paintings and antiques, and he is most passionate about oil paintings.
Tony, who came from France, had known him before. He was a son of a wealthy family whose family was in decline. He was now working as a foreign teacher at a university in Beijing. This time he came to Jiangcheng to see France to give him this so-called famous Picasso painting.
, in his opinion, this painting is quite good, but even he himself cannot believe that this painting is authentic.
What is the concept of Picasso's paintings? Each piece is a priceless treasure. If the Tony family randomly took out a painting from the attic and it was genuine, they would not be in trouble.
France smiled and said: "Tony, if this painting is an authentic work by Picasso, I would be willing to give you all this restaurant, but are you confident enough?"
There are many Picasso works in existence, but each one is a valuable masterpiece. The most valuable painting is called "Boy with a Pipe", which was sold by the world-famous Sotheby's auction house in 2004.
France paid a sky-high price of 1.04 billion U.S. dollars to trade a restaurant for a famous Picasso painting. France was very willing to do this business, provided that (4) the painting must be authentic.
Tony was silent. He had no confidence in the authenticity of the painting. The reason why he brought it here was just to exchange for some money, at least to earn back the cost of mounting it and the air ticket to Jiangcheng!
"Frances, how much do you think this painting is worth?" Now Tony no longer mentioned Picasso and regarded it as a good oil painting.
France smiled and said: "This style of painting has little collection value, so please take it back."
Tony said with a disappointed look on his face: "Is it worth two hundred dollars? You know, I spent a hundred dollars just to hire someone to frame it."
France shook his head: "If it were me, I would never spend money to frame a worthless oil painting. To use a Chinese term, worthless, this painting is worthless."
"I'm sorry, can you please let me appreciate this oil painting?" A young man at the next table came up with a smile and pointed to the worthless oil painting the two of them were talking about.
The young man spoke standard French and always had a warm smile on his face. The two Frenchmen stopped talking and turned their attention to this rash young man.
A hint of displeasure appeared on Tony's face and he said, "Do you know anything about oil painting? You know it's very impolite to disturb other people's conversations."
The young man was Xu Qing. When he heard the two of them discussing the oil painting, he couldn't help but be curious and scanned the oil painting with his clairvoyant eyes. Unexpectedly, he discovered something very interesting.
If possible, he would like to buy this oil painting at a relatively small price.
Xu Qing smiled and said: "I like oil paintings, no matter what style they are. I just overheard that the characters in the painting actually have three eyes. I was very curious and wanted to appreciate it."
Tony's face relaxed, and he looked at France jokingly and said, "Didn't you just say that oil paintings are worthless? I didn't expect that there are people who appreciate them in this foreign country. Maybe this young man will offer more than two hundred dollars."
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