Chapter 193: Free and Easy

"Nine generations of the Lorende family have served His Excellency the Duke. The Venn family has not accumulated much wealth in the past three hundred years. The most proud thing is this collection room."

This is a large room on the second floor of the mansion. As soon as you enter, you will be dazzled.

There are a large number of strange items displayed in the room, ranging from oil paintings, statues, tapestries, furniture, plates, weapons, armor, machinery, all kinds of things that should be found and should not be found.

It seems that taking people to visit the collection has become a repertoire. A large group of guests in the living room followed them noisily and surrounded Lynch and Count Lorende into the collection room.

As soon as you enter, an ancient smell hits your face. It's hard to describe what the smell is. I can only say that it is the smell of the ancient items themselves.

Hiss, so many.

Lin Qi still had the same half-smiling expression, looking calm and at ease, scanning the collection one by one.

Hmm...I don't know anything.

Professor Dartmond from heaven, I'm sorry.

"What do you think of our family's collection, Mr. Detective? Please review it."

The fat Earl pointed to the huge collection room with a proud look on his face, his big round face shrank into a ball, and his bean-like eyes stared at Lynch's expression.

"Well, not bad, not bad..."

Lynch walked through the collection room with his hands behind his back:

‘Neighbors, neighbors, help, come to the rescue. ’

【I just……】

‘Don’t be just, you are my neighbor, okay? Aren’t the gods omniscient? Just give me some information. ’

[That was limited to the first era when I still existed. After my death, my perception of the world became very vague. I am not omniscient, so don’t expect too much. I can tell you their approximate age based on the style of these things at most. . 】

‘That’s enough, that’s enough. As long as there is a little bit of truth, the rest is not just made up. ’

Lynch immediately smiled and stopped in front of a pair of armor.

"At the dawn of the Fourth Age, the armor of the King of Marun Kingdom's guards weighed forty kilograms, and it took an experienced blacksmith half a year to forge one." Lynch said while recalling the remaining memories from school, "That period The forging process is very close to that of the Salem Dynasty in the Third Age, but the gap joining technology is very different, which is easy to judge.”

With that said, he pointed at the gap in the armor and walked towards the next collection without looking back.

"The bronze plates at the end of the Dark Age of the Third Age are beyond the reach of ordinary people. It is worthy of Your Excellency to collect such precious things. Bronze utensils are mostly found in the Third Age, but the early and late periods span the two ages. Millennium, if you want to judge the period, you have to look at their edge processing technology. Those who have learned to use silver plating technology to process the edges are a standard feature of the late period. "

"Hiss, this is even more serious. Your Excellency, Earl, is it really okay for you to collect this? I'm worried that Chairman Ole of the Archaeological Association will come to your door soon. A tribal totem from the barbaric era of the Second Age, a certain alien race The specific tribe needs further research. This thing is usually stuck in the center of the tribe and has a weak sacrificial attribute. No, you must bring out the wine in your collection to entertain me today, otherwise I will go and fight with you tomorrow. Chairman Ole reported that when he visited me at my home five days ago, we made an appointment to meet him in the next two days, and we just happened to complain to him. "

Lin Qi talked as he went, describing everything in general, not in detail, but it was enough for a layman.

After introducing seven or eight things in a row, Lin Qi stopped. The rough information came from the great Ms. Hongyue. As for the more detailed information...it was very hard to compile it in a decent way. Lin Qi spent a lot of time on it. The nobles following him listened with great concentration.

However, when he turned around, he found that the Earl next to him was staring at him with a very strange look, like staring at a flying insect that has hit a spider web, with a bit of malice and mockery in his eyes.

It was just a fleeting moment, but it was still keenly captured by Lynch.

My performance should be pretty good, but why does he have this expression? Did I step into a trap after all?

Is there something I didn't notice?

His heart immediately jumped, and Lin Qi suddenly fell silent, trying to keep his expression calm as he walked around the collection. The nobles watching the excitement didn't know why Lynch suddenly fell silent and looked at him with doubtful eyes, while Earl Lorende wore a strange smile and remained silent without saying a word.

No, definitely not right.

There is definitely something wrong.

Lynch recalled what Miss Valente had said when she was training him.

You don't need to worry too much about making things difficult. You are just a civilian-born detective. Everyone has an idea of ​​what level you should be. Politics, economy, culture, or the scandals of kings, ladies, and ladies are not things you should know about. In these aspects There's no point in making a fool of yourself, it just makes you look stupid and incompetent. Just like going to great lengths to highlight the poverty of a dock worker and show off his wealth in front of textile workers, only the most uncultured nouveau riche would use this method to have fun, and the only one who could become the laughing stock of this behavior would be himself.

So to insult you, to distort your reputation, you must be embarrassed in areas where you should be good at, in order to perpetuate your image of incompetence and stupidity.

Let me make a fool of myself in an area I should be good at, which is obviously now, but how can he be sure that I will make a fool of myself instead of taking the opportunity to express myself? This is not something he can control, unless... this is a trap at its root, and I will make a fool of myself no matter how I behave.

In a flash, Lynch's brain was spinning rapidly, and all kinds of dramas and conspiracies he had watched before flashed through his mind one by one. Time passed quickly, and seeing the nobles who were watching the excitement becoming impatient, and Count Lorende's eyes becoming more and more sinister, Lynch suddenly had an idea.

These are all precious antiquities, and he just put them out in public?

There are even antiquities from the Second Age. You know, Chairman Ole can bully the younger generation for the knowledge of the Second Age, and he just puts the antiquities from the Second Age like this? He doesn't feel sad, and people don't feel sad when they see it?

There must be something wrong here. By the way, I remember that in the stories I read, it was said that many collectors would hide their collections secretly, and the ones displayed were all fakes.

Yes, if all these are fakes, then the more professional and wonderful I perform, the more embarrassed I will be later, because I will become a laughing stock for talking nonsense to a bunch of fakes.

The more I thought about it, the more likely it was. Lynch made up his mind after a little hesitation.

Take a gamble.

"But, Count Lorende, I still have a question." Lynch narrowed his eyes, poked a leather shield beside him with his cane, and whispered, "These collections that almost hid from my eyes, which master did you ask to imitate? The skills are superb, enough to be real."

The collection room was quiet in an instant, and everyone's eyes kept wandering between Lynch and Count Lorende, with surprise in their eyes. And Count Lorende's face became very gloomy for a moment, but he immediately returned to smiling and clapped his hands gently.

"Awesome, you are worthy of being a detective praised by His Excellency the Duke. You have a pair of eyes that can distinguish true from false. Haha, of course, the authentic ones are hidden in the safe. If you are interested, I will take you to see them later. Now let's continue the previous topic and appreciate these paintings. These are all authentic works."

"I'm sorry, my Excellencies. I'm just a detective from a civilian background. I can't compare with you. My understanding of art is very shallow. I'm afraid I will disappoint you."

This is also the guidance from Miss Valente. There is no need to avoid your weaknesses. If you don't understand, you don't understand. This is not an area that Lynch should be good at. It's normal not to understand. As long as you don't be high-profile and don't pretend to understand, you won't damage your image.

But if you can still show enough accomplishment in this aspect, it will be an unexpected plus point, and it is a high-scoring item.

Lynch bowed slightly to everyone and said with a smile: "However, if you don't mind, I will tell you my shallow insights. If there is any problem with what I say, please point it out."

As he said, Lynch grabbed a small conch in his pocket.

The concentric conch shells, a strange item used once before in Zul'Glasar, can be used as a walkie-talkie within a certain distance.

For others, the sound coming out of it may be discovered, but for Lynch, who has the ability of phantom sound, this is the best cheating tool.

Speaking of artistic insights, who can have more say than the eldest daughter of an aristocratic family with a thousand years of heritage?

So, under the surprised gaze of everyone, Lynch stopped in front of an oil painting, his lips opened and closed for a while, but silently, as if talking to himself, and after a moment he said loudly: "The Woman Holding a Silver Fox, a less popular work by David Lucas. Mr. Lucas is a person from the Fourth Epoch, but it was not until the Fifth Epoch that his paintings were accepted by the public. He..."

Clear logic, fluent language, and full of confidence, the audience dared not say a word until the voice fell, and a thunderous applause immediately rang out.

Lynch turned to Count Lorende with a half-smile, and the fat Count could only smile and praised with a dry laugh: "Your Excellency the Detective is really beyond my expectations. You will definitely become the most dazzling star in Rhine City in the future, hahahaha..."

Amid the unpleasant laughter, a bell rang from outside. The Count immediately seemed to have waited for a savior, and said with a sigh of relief: "Her Royal Highness has rested well, the cocktail party will start soon, let's go down, don't keep Her Royal Highness waiting for a long time."

Lynch was actually relieved, he knew that the appetizers were finally passed, and the main meal tonight was finally coming.

It's time to meet the main person who brought me so much trouble today.

As a client who asked me to help him with things, but let the people around me be full of malice towards me, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation.

Her Royal Highness Chloe Russell.