Chapter 163: Painting Titles, What Do the Alphanumeric Labels Represent?
After hearing that the final transaction price was 15.1 million, Li Mingliang knew that this painting was the target he was looking for.
The transaction price of this auction seemed to have been quietly agreed upon behind the scenes.
Zhang Kui, who had become an old man, looked at the painting with only a blood-red sunset as the scenery with a look of astonishment, wondering why it was worth such a high price.
"How can this painting be worth more than 15 million?" His voice was full of confusion and puzzlement. He could not find the value of this seemingly simple work at all.
"Whether the painting is valuable depends on what the buyer buys it for." Li Mingliang looked at the overwhelming news on his mobile phone, all of which were promoting Chu Chaoyang's painting price this time.
There was no evidence for Chu Mengyao's case, only a few victims denounced it, but after the incident between Jun Yunfeng and Cai Ruxin broke out, most people still believed that Chu Mengyao's case was true.
But as the news about Chu Chaoyang was widely publicized, some people began to question why Chu Mengyao would do something illegal when a painting of the Chu family could be sold for millions to tens of millions.
The Chu family only has her as an only daughter, and even if she does nothing, she will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of her life. The comments below Chu Chaoyang's major news appeared.
Those seemingly spontaneous discussions on the Internet are actually hidden mysteries.
The same doubts, different expressions, but like copy and paste, are obviously traces of manipulation by the Internet trolls. "Does this mean that someone is trying to whitewash Chu Mengyao?" He secretly speculated in his heart, but then wondered, "What does this have to do with those debt collection companies?" All these signs made him feel that things were much more complicated than they seemed on the surface.
At this time, the whispers of two visitors next to him drifted into his ears inadvertently.
"After Chu Mengyao got into trouble, Chu Chaoyang was able to hold an exhibition with peace of mind. Is he trying to help his sister?" One person asked.
"What's the point of whitewashing when the person is gone? Besides, even if Chu Mengyao really has problems, his paintings can still be sold." Another person responded.
"Yes, even better than before. I remember that the highest price he sold before was just over 10 million."
"After all, his paintings are valuable. I heard that the painting was sold for 2 million in a week."
After the auction, everyone dispersed to visit the paintings hanging on the wall.
Every time Chu Chaoyang would auction one or two paintings, and sell paintings with fixed prices hanging on the wall.
Two old people took a child and an adult to appreciate these paintings in the exhibition center.
"Didn't you say you had a clue? What does this have to do with our village?" Zhang Kui was anxious when he saw Li Mingliang, who had turned into an old man, leisurely looking at the paintings in the exhibition with the two of them.
"You didn't come here to trick me, to make you older and younger, didn't you say you weren't afraid? Don't you need to hide your identity?"
"Why are you so anxious? How can I know that the investigation is the truth if I don't make a secret visit?" Li Mingliang carefully observed the labels and names on each painting, and asked Bu Bu, who had turned into an adult, to check the back of each painting.
"Cypress" H18 -E 530w
"Eucalyptus" BK25-N-1 200w
"Dark Cave" BK25-N-1 200w
"Shore" L20-E 300w
"Saw" H21-N 530w
Li Mingliang soon discovered that the pinyin of the first character of the names of these paintings either started with a, b or J. "What do A, B, and J mean, and what do the letters and numbers behind them represent?"
The paintings that were auctioned at high prices were all single-character "Smoke", "Coo", and "Star". These were all sold for about 8 million yuan. There were only two paintings that exceeded 10 million yuan, today's "Sky" and the previous "Field".
"X, T?" When the exhibition was over, Li Mingliang still hadn't figured out the meaning of these letters and numbers.
It wasn't until they saw the buyer who bought the painting for 15.1 million yuan came to pick up the painting that they knew why the price of the painting was so high.
The box containing the painting was very large, and it took two people to move it.
Bu Bu also quickly built a model on the side. In the model, there was a person with his hands and feet tied and unconscious in the painting box.
"It seems that the person in the box is worth 15.1 million." Li Mingliang probably guessed the meaning of those letters and numbers.
"Why spend so much money to buy a person?" Zhang Kui finally realized that this exhibition was not simple.
"Organ sales, people who are in urgent need of organ replacement to save their lives and are not short of money. If you want to confirm your guess, you can find someone from your village to take the person in the car away for testing."
After Li Mingliang finished speaking, he looked at Lin Shang, "Doctor Lin, there is a patient in the car who has claustrophobia and urgently needs your treatment."
Bu Bu glanced at Li Mingliang, and then at Lin Shang who had already opened the door.
He secretly made a note that he could ask Doctor Lin to take him to "see a doctor" in the future.
After the four people hijacked the high-priced person in the car, Li Mingliang asked Lin Shang to take a few people back to the hospital to test the person's blood type.
Since the "doctors" and "nurses" in the First Hospital did not know how to draw blood for examination, Li Mingliang called Tian Jin to trick the doctors and law enforcers who could not leave the First Hospital to come in.
He directed the nearby dogs to follow the car and kept confirming the buyer's address.
He watched the live broadcast shot by the electronic watch hanging on the neck of the dog brother in his hand.
The buyer's appearance was also presented on Li Mingliang's mobile phone, and he quickly checked the information online.
He soon found the buyer's name-Ji Zhiping, the richest man in Yuhai City.
His beloved wife died of heavy bleeding during childbirth because her blood type was the rarest in the world - T-type (made up, not real).
He finally found someone with the same blood type at a high price to buy blood, but because of heavy bleeding, it was not enough, and she died on the operating table.
The child his wife risked her life to give birth to - Ji Xue, also had T-type blood.
The more tragic thing is that she suffers from hemophilia, a congenital lack of coagulation factors, and once she bleeds, she will bleed continuously.
Ji Xue has been held in the palm of Ji Zhiping's hand since she was a child, for fear that she would get hurt.
But an accident happened five years ago, and Ji Xue was injured. At that time, Ji Zhiping spent a high price to seek help for T-type blood online, but this blood type is rare.
It is not certain that you can find someone with T-type blood in the entire Yuhai City, not to mention that people with this blood type are also afraid that their blood type will be exposed, causing unnecessary follow-up troubles.
In the end, Ji Zhiping made more and more noise about this news, and the final result was not announced, but Ji Xue survived the crisis.
Ji Zhiping anxiously pried open the nails on the box, but found only a painting and many stones inside.
"Where are the people?" He questioned the escorting driver and the security personnel sitting in the back car.
"No one has moved the box since it was brought up. We watched the box the whole time, and no one moved the box. It is impossible for it to disappear. Maybe there was no one in the beginning. We just confirmed the weight of the box and didn't open it." The security personnel didn't expect this to happen.
Ji Zhiping kicked the box heavily. "Damn it, you dare to play tricks on me."
He took out his mobile phone and made a call. "What do you mean? Send a broken painting? Cheating my money, where is the person I want?"