One night passed, and Lin Chen got up to Su Ningyu's knock on the door.
Today is Sunday, the day when the auction entrusted by Su Ningyu's grandfather Su Wuyi to participate in is held.
Although the auction would not start until the afternoon, Su Ningyu asked Lin Chen to make some preparations in advance, so she had to get up early.
While washing, Lin Chen checked his mobile phone.
There are text messages from Tang Xin and Zhou Ruoyun on it.
Tang Xin told Lin Chen that his stock had exceeded US$10 and it might not take long before it reached the target of US$15.
Zhou Ruoyun informed Lin Chen that she had recently found a suitable partner in the hospital. The partner was a single mother who had been in a car accident. She had no relatives and a daughter under ten years old to take care of. Now she was facing a lack of medical expenses.
The situation in which surgery is performed.
If possible, Zhou Ruoyun would like to support them.
Lin Chen replied to Zhou Ruoyun, telling her not to worry. She could use the money he gave her freely and donate it at any time as long as she felt it was appropriate.
After washing up and walking out of the room, Lin Chen saw Fang Han also there.
However, it was obviously early in the morning, but Fang Han looked tired, with heavy dark circles under his eyes.
Seeing Lin Chen, Fang Han opened his mouth to say hello, but yawned first.
"Lin, good morning, Brother Lin."
Lin Chen walked to the dining table, which was already filled with delicious breakfast.
Caviar from Maozi, foie gras from Faguo, macarons made by top pastry chefs, and cat poop coffee that Lin Chen is familiar with but has never tasted.
This breakfast alone is estimated to cost more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, but this small amount of money is already like drizzle to Lin Chen now.
Lin Chen casually picked up a macaron and asked while eating: "What's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep well last night?"
"The reason why he didn't sleep well is that he didn't sleep at all."
Su Ningyu came over with the newspaper and sat opposite Lin Chen.
She said while drinking coffee: "This guy went out to show off his wealth with a group of friends last night. I saw the photos he posted on Twitter as soon as I got up in the morning."
"Isn't it rare to be rich? Sister Su, people like you who can spend hundreds of millions at any time will not understand the hardships of poor people like us who can only spend a few million a month."
Fang Han walked to the dining table and poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Brother Lin, you don't know how impressive I was in front of my friends last night. When they found out that I was also involved in yesterday's 3T, they were dumbfounded and called me the God of Gamblers again... Haha, but I know that you are the real one.
God of Gamblers!"
"Stop flattering, you can't bet on God." Lin Chen said with a smile.
Although it was not pleasant when they first met, Fang Han now admires Lin Chen very much.
"Really, I told my friends about you, and they all wanted to see what a real gambling god looks like. Unfortunately, when I called Sister Su last night, she said you were already asleep.
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Speaking of this, Fang Han suddenly put down his coffee and looked curious: "By the way, Brother Lin, you went to bed so early last night. Is it because you were tired because you exerted too much energy like in the movie?"
"Fang Zai, you've watched too many movies." Lin Chen scolded with a smile and turned his gaze to Su Ningyu: "Ningyu, what's going on with today's art auction? Didn't you say you want me to make some preparations in advance?"
"Yeah, it was all interrupted by this kid."
Su Ningyu clapped her hands, took a photo album-like booklet from the side, and handed it to Lin Chen.
"Lin Chen, these are the works of art that will be auctioned today. You take a look first. I will tell you about the one that needs special attention later."
The auction that Lin Chen and the others are going to attend today is an auction of limited edition Western artworks.
The items at the conference are mainly from private collections.
Today, Hong Kong Island is one of the top three art trading markets in the world. Due to its geographical location, the art traded here is a mixture of Chinese and Western art, including both Chinese and Western art.
But this time Lin Chen and the others' main purpose was to acquire those Western works of art for Mr. Su.
Mr. Su also made a special statement that as long as the old ones are old, he would not accept any modern ones.
As for the reason, Lin Chen already knew after talking to Mr. Su last time that Mr. Su wanted to take all the national treasures of those foreigners into his pocket, so that those foreigners could also experience the feeling of having national treasures occupied by others.
Because Mr. Su had so many requirements, there were not many things in this auction that really met Lin Chen's requirements.
In it, Su Ningyu specifically pointed out one work.
"This is it, Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus"!"
Lin Chen glanced at the brochure. This brochure was provided by the auction house. It not only listed every auction item to be auctioned, but also attached photos of these auction items.
The work Su Ningyu was referring to was a beautifully crafted Western oil painting.
In the oil painting, there is a sleeping Western beauty, lying freely on a grassland.
However, although Su Ningyu said it so solemnly, it was a pity that Lin Chen knew nothing about Western paintings, so he didn't know what the value of this painting was. Why did Mr. Su Wuyi specifically specify it?
"Ningyu, is there anything special about this painting?"
"Brother Lin? Have you never heard of Giorgione?" Fang Han was a little surprised.
"Is he famous?" Lin Chen asked.
"Fuck me!"
If it were Fang Han who was before going to the racecourse yesterday, he would definitely be able to help but despise Lin Chen. Even Giorgione didn't know what kind of oil painting he was appraising?
But now, Fang Han could only hold back the complaints in his heart, and instead complimented: "It doesn't matter if Brother Lin has never heard of it. Anyway, with Brother Lin's skills, no one can deceive Brother Lin."
Su Ningyu glanced at him and shook her head: "Lin Chen, ignore him. Let's continue talking about business..."
"Giorgione was an art master during the Italian Renaissance and a representative of the Venetian School of Western oil painting. His most famous painting is called "Sleeping Venus", which depicts Greek mythology.
The scene of Venus sleeping, the goddess of love, is now in a German art museum."
Um?
When Lin Chen heard this, he suddenly raised his head and asked strangely: "You just said that the painting was collected in a German art museum? How could it be auctioned?"
"That's the problem!" Su Ningyu suddenly took out her mobile phone, opened the photo album and handed it to Lin Chen.
What appeared on the phone was an oil painting that looked familiar to Lin Chen. This oil painting was almost exactly the same as the "Sleeping Venus" he had just seen in the auction manual. However, the strange thing was that the manual
The Venus in the picture has her head on the right side and is sleeping on her left side, while the Venus on Su Ningyu’s mobile phone has her head on her left side and is sleeping on her right side.
"Are these two paintings?" Lin Chen asked.
"Yes." Su Ningyu said seriously: "No one thought that Giorgione actually painted two Venuses!"
"In fact, not all of the Venus that now exists in the German Art Museum was painted by Giorgione. Giorgione died before the painting was completed, and the subsequent parts were replaced by another painter.
He's done."
"But the Venus to be auctioned today is different. According to some experts, this Venus is probably a work entirely completed by Giorgione alone. So compared to the German one