Chapter 97 Pond Water Lilies
On January 26, 1982, Suslov passed away in his sleep. Inadvertently, newspapers and TV were full of special reports on the memory of Suslov. Sergei also took time to participate in the mourning activities in Gorky Prefecture , Seryozha has been busy with his studies during this time. In order to graduate smoothly and obtain a diploma from Leningrad University, Sobchak specially opened a small stove for Seryozha and provided him with individual tutoring . Fortunately, Seryozha has a good memory and is smart. He is quite comfortable with a logical subject like law. Therefore, Seryozha, who calmed down, began to improve rapidly, and was gradually praised by Professor Sobchak.
The new-generation Altai system is still progressing in an orderly manner. Eva and the Voronezh Institute of Communication Sciences often call him to discuss the current progress. At present, it seems that it should not be too difficult to push it to the western market before June. Sergio The only thing Sha is worried about now is that a competitor who has a more advanced system than the Altai system suddenly pops up from somewhere. Seryosha is not completely clear about the evolution and development of the communication industry. I only know that there are many developed places in the world, and even telephones are not popular yet. In order to reassure himself, Seryozha specially asked Eva and Karim to find professional consulting companies in the United States and Europe to conduct research on the development of the communication industry. Seryozha handed over the report to experts from the Voronezh Institute of Communication Sciences Interpreting it for him, the conclusion is that in terms of application (excluding black technology in some laboratories), the Altai system is currently the most advanced in the world.
This undoubtedly gave Seryozha a reassurance, and another thing that Seryozha was thinking about was 3G technology. Although Seryozha is a novice in communication technology, he clearly remembers a former Hollywood star named Heidi Rama. The reason why he remembers this is because when Seryozha was a soldier in later generations, there was a blizzard. Xie Liaosha, who was still called Xie Wenlong at the time, took the soldiers under his command to brave the blizzard to deliver supplies to a remote radar station. When they arrived, there happened to be a graduate of the National Defense University who majored in communication engineering and was assigned there. Sergey accidentally saw a photo of a stunning foreign woman in that guy's wallet, Sergey asked him curiously, and the guy told him flirtatiously, this is the master of their discipline, an invention A genius of spread spectrum communication technology, she is also the sexiest goddess in Hollywood.
Afterwards, Xie Liaosha carefully checked Heidi Rama's life, only to know that the core technology of Qualcomm, which will be extremely popular in the future, is the frequency hopping communication technology invented by Heidi Rama. This incident is still fresh in Sergey's memory, so Sergey also asked someone to investigate this patented technology. The results of the investigation showed that this technology is still under the supervision of the US government. Seryozha could only wait for the opportunity to act again.
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Similar to Seryozha's passion for communication technology, 14-year-old Karim has also found her own interest. That is the collection of works of art. Different from those rich and powerful who bought famous masterpieces to decorate their appearance or wait for the appreciation, Karim is the type of gold mining in the sand. Although he is young, he has a good eye. Several paintings were originally just to help Sergei The paintings used by customers as props for transferring assets are all selected by Karim, and after each transaction is completed, these paintings are useless and are placed in Karim’s gallery as disposals, but Every time these treats can be sold for a good price.
Karim's knowledge of art is actually related to the education she received. Karim's father, Amin, is an education expert. Although he was born in a poor family, he has always received the best education. Therefore, for his children, Amin also adopts an elite education method that is different from ordinary people, and specially spends a lot of money to invite experienced aristocratic tutors from abroad to educate his children, including the ability to appreciate art. Learn. Now that Seryozha has money in his hands, he will naturally support Karim when he sees that she has talent in this area.
What's more, Karim's gallery is also an important part of the underground financial group Sergesha, so Sergesha waved his hand and handed over 1 billion US dollars to Karim to take care of her gallery business.
At this moment, Karim has already flown to London, and she came here specially to participate in the Sotheby's New Year's Auction here. Karim's gallery is named Rose Palace, which was actually named to commemorate Karim's former home in Afghanistan. The reason why Karim came here today was to choose a town hall treasure for his Rose Palace.
Since today's auction is the first auction of the year, both the auction items and the collectors who came to participate are top-notch. Originally, Karim was not eligible to participate in this auction, but one of his clients, a Spanish countess, just bought a painting by the Spanish painter Juan Miro at the Rose Palace Gallery at a price below the market price. For her early works, she owed Karim a small favor, so she arranged for Karim to participate in this auction as an introducer.
At this auction, the most eye-catching item is a pair of pond water lilies created between 1918 and 1919 by the French Impressionist master Claude Monet. This is a work of Monet in his later years, the last work of water lilies before Monet underwent cataract surgery. Although Monet created hundreds of paintings of pond water lilies in his life, this one is the best work in his series of pond water lilies in terms of color and treatment of light and shadow. Painting is simply inevitable.
Today, Karim is wearing a beige Chanel custom-made professional suit, her hair is neatly tied behind her head, showing a kind of aristocratic air. Sitting among a group of men in gray or black suits is very eye-catching. From time to time, men in the venue cast their admiring eyes on this young and beautiful girl.
With the arrival of the appointed time, the long-awaited auction finally started. A total of 16 lots were arranged for today's auction, and the pair of Monet's pond water lilies was arranged as the finale. The auctioneer soon began to introduce the first lot, a painting by a master of surrealism. Karim just watched quietly and did not intend to sell it. This is not the type that Karim likes. At this moment, Karim has only one goal in mind, and that is the pair of water lilies by Monet. (To be continued..)