Ruyizhai

Wu Xingchen met Ruyi Zhai in the backstage of the Perfect Theater.Ruyi Zhai is wearing a snow-white long gown, made of satin, with embroidery on the sleeves and front, which cannot be seen clearly. Under the gown, she is also completely white, with a white top, white trousers, silk, and a loose style.Ruyizhai's face is also very white, not pale, but there is a bit of vitality in the white.Such a gleaming white Ru Yizhai sat crookedly on a red armchair, her long jet-black hair with wavy waves hung all over her right shoulder, her left ear was exposed, and a long long hair hung on her earlobe. Earrings—the ones he wore when he was a mermaid, the red tassels hung down to his collarbone, whenever he moved, the red tassels would move along with it, messy, and sweep across his collarbone.Such a black-haired, white-clothed Ruyizhai, leaning against a red chair with a string of red around his neck, was playing with a Ruan Qin in his hand, listening to the owner of the Consummation Theater while plucking the strings.

Yuan Yuan has a slender figure, Ru Yizhai is sitting, and when Yuan Yuan talks to him, he is half-bent, with his mouth close to his ear.The backstage was noisy, Wu Xingchen couldn't hear what Yuanyuan said, but could only see Ruyizhai's lips were pressed together, without saying a word, just listening, eyes lowered.Across the wall is the performance stage. At this time, the drums gradually sounded, and a new performance began.Yuanyuan and Ruyizhai got closer, and as they talked, the corners of Yuanyuan's mouth curled up.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, the sound of the drums outside was a bit chaotic, it sounded too anxious.

Yuanyuan finally finished speaking with Ruyizhai, straightened up, and waved to Wu Xingchen with a smile.Ruyizhai then raised his eyes and glanced at Wu Xingchen.The drums tightened, and the piccolo blew.Wu Xingchen came back to his senses, hurriedly patted his clothes, touched his collar, and walked towards Ruyizhai.

Yuan Yuan straightened up and introduced with a smile: "This is Wu Xingchen."

Wu Xingchen was still some distance away from the two of them at this time. Hearing this, he took two steps in three and hurried over. He bumped into many people along the way. The backstage was too small and crowded. Wu Xingchen Xingchen accidentally bumped into a girl with a hint of divination. This girl smiled and pushed him onto another shirtless girl, and that girl pushed him to have intimate contact with another girl. Xingchen couldn't dodge in time, so he had to stumble among a group of beautiful girls, and bumped into a dressing mirror that was as big as his body a few times, and finally reached Ruyizhai, Wu Xingchen wiped his forehead, sweating all over.

Yuan Yuan introduced to him: "This is Ruyi Zhai."

Ruyizhai nodded slightly, Wu Xingchen handed him a business card, stretched out his hand, raised it to his throat, and said softly: "Hello, hello."

Ruyizhai shook hands with him, Wu Xingchen heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "I always thought you were a special effect, a virtual image created by Boss Yuanyuan."

Wu Xingchen couldn't help but said: "You are too good-looking, not like a real person, and real people are also very good-looking, but there is no such thing as you."

Ruyizhai held Ruan Qin with one hand, propped his chin, and did not speak.On the contrary, he listened to Wu Xingchen's words perfectly, and laughed happily. After laughing, he patted Ruyizhai, then Wu Xingchen, and said: "Let's talk about professional matters." Then he walked away.

The backstage was still very noisy, with music coming from the direction of the stage and girls chattering.Wu Xingchen pulled up a chair, sat beside Ruyi Zhai, and said, "The performance just now was really wonderful."

Ruyizhai didn't take it seriously, and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

He was still plucking the strings in his hand, but Wu Xingchen couldn't hear the sound of the piano, and the surroundings were too noisy, so he had to stretch his neck and get closer to Ruyizhai.Now, he and Ruyizhai were too close again, he could only look at him with his eyes.

Ruyizhai's skin is smooth and clean, and there are some freckles on his nose, which are very light and small, and there are very few of them, which are not obtrusive, but make his facial features more delicate.

Wu Xingchen said: "Curator Xiaoyue said that you have done a lot of research on European Renaissance oil paintings."

Ruyizhai's eyes were filled with black and bright light, and his gaze was sharp but still heavy when looking at people.Black is such a heavy color.

Ruyizhai said: "Xiaoyue won the award, she is an expert, so what's the matter with you?"

Ruyizhai has unkind eyes.

Wu Xingchen said: "Two days ago, the museum received a batch of donations, and encountered some difficulties in authenticating one of the oil paintings. Director Xiaoyue said that maybe you can help the museum."

Ruyi Zhai said: "Cash settlement, 500 deposit, and 500 will be charged after the matter is completed."

"You want it now?" Wu Xingchen was not without surprise.

Ruyizhai asked suspiciously, "Did Xiaoyue really introduce you?"

Wu Xingchen was excited for a moment: "Of course, otherwise, who would know that there is an oil painting appraisal expert hidden in such an underground theater?"

Ruyizhai said: "It's appreciation."

Wu Xingchen lowered his voice, nodded and said, "Appreciation expert."

Ruyi Zhai said: "It's not an expert, it's a consultant. Didn't Xiaoyue tell you? What you buy is just a consultant's opinion. You won't buy the seal and report document of an appraisal expert like you. In other words, what you get is not Authoritative opinion, does not have any general authenticity."

Wu Xingchen blinked, paused for a while, and said, "Understood." He asked Ruyizhai, "Can you give me your professional advice within 24 hours?"

Ruyizhai held out his hand.Wu Xingchen was in a difficult situation: "Cash payments need to go through layers of audits. The Satanic Revival Party currently in power in the coalition is a personal credit system faction, and they strictly control cash flow."

Ruyizhai's hand was still outstretched, and Wu Xingchen said, "To tell you the truth, because of the content of this oil painting, the representatives of the Ministry of Literature and Art saw it at a glance yesterday when they were selecting exhibits for the Satanic Revival Party's rotation commemorative exhibition in the museum a week later. I won it, and I hope we can give the appraisal result as soon as possible, so that this work can be exhibited in the exhibition.”

Ruyi Zhai shrugged: "So?"

Wu Xingchen said: "Perhaps you can accommodate me a bit. The review of the cash remuneration will take one to two weeks, but the museum will definitely pay you!"

Ruyizhai raised his chin with Wu Xingchen's left hand: "Is this ring worth a lot of money?"

Wu Xingchen retracted his hand to the side, the ring on the ring finger of his left hand rubbed against his trouser leg, he looked at Ruyizhai.Ruyizhai sank into the armchair again, playing the Ruan Qin, leisurely.

The girls chatting non-stop walked around them, the music from the direction of the stage was getting louder and louder, Wu Xingchen raised the volume again, and asked, "Can we talk in another place?"

Ruyi Zhai smiled, shaking the earrings on her ears.

Wu Xingchen took off the ring and handed it to him.Ruyizhai took the ring, tried it on, and put it on her right index finger.He put down Ruan Qin, picked up the cigarette and matches on the dressing table, and lit a cigarette.Wu Xingchen saw that the matches were polished, and couldn't help asking: "Where else can I buy such matches and smoke?" He touched the dressing table, and said with emotion: "I always thought that only in museums can I see this kind of smoke." s things."

Ruyizhai smiled and smoked.Wu Xingchen stretched out his right hand in front of him, revealing a section of his wrist, and around his wrist was a golden bracelet that was integrated with his skin.Ruyizhai didn't move or speak, Wu Xingchen squeezed his eyes and looked at him, Ruyizhai stretched out his hand, and the white coat he was wearing fell on the chair.He stretched out two hands, the wrists of both hands were white and clean.

Wu Xingchen was surprised for a moment, and said: "You didn't join the service of the smart terminal, so now..." He said to himself, "I have indeed heard of such a person, but this time..."

He muttered and looked around, there were many naked girls around. At this moment, everyone was responding to a girl's call, and they lined up in front of the three-sided full-length mirror without any haste, and walked into the full-length mirror in an orderly manner , By the time the girls came out of the mirror one after another, each of them had already put on close-fitting shapewear and gorgeous make-up, and walked out of the small door in the backstage one by one with catwalks.A girl who was still waiting in line caught Wu Xingchen's gaze and cast a wink over her. Wu Xingchen turned back and whispered to Ruyi Zhai: "Because it is not ready for exhibition, the museum prohibits public exhibitions." occasion to exhibit this work.”

I don’t know which girl found something funny, an exaggerated laugh broke out behind Wu Xingchen, Wu Xingchen looked back, there were very few girls in the background, there were only three left, and the three girls were Gathering together to play with each other's hairstyles, the lips move so fast that no one is laughing.Soon, the three of them also walked out.

"This is the 31st century!"

Wu Xingchen heard the prelude to the chorus.

Ruyi Zhai said: "Now there is no one else here, and you ask for help with work, so now it should be considered a private occasion for work."

Wu Xingchen thought for a while, and tapped twice on the gold ring on his right hand.A painting is projected on the vanity mirror.

Wu Xingchen adjusted the proportions of the painting and said, "The length of the painting is 230 cm, and the width is 180 cm. It is an oil painting and is tentatively named X12."

The painting on the mirror is dark in color as a whole, with only a small piece of empty white on the top. Between the dark and white, an angel wearing a golden crown looks up with a solemn expression.The angel holds the sword in his left hand, pointing to the sky. His right foot is stepping on a double-horned red-eyed demon. His right hand is holding a black snake with a fire-breathing mouth. The angel's pair of white wings Caught firmly by a group of beetles, the other only has a skeleton, on which grew many small snakes, as well as many creeping plants and anemones, lizard-like animals gnawed at the feet of the angel, the picture There are more monsters of all kinds below.A group of victory angels like grains of rice blow their golden horns in the white heights.The monsters are crowded with blooming flowers.

Ruyizhai poked the angel's golden crown with his finger, Wu Xingchen enlarged the angel's golden crown, and said: "Sorry, only the holder of the terminal can operate the terminal."

He said: "This angel should be Archangel Michael, and the demon trampled by him should be Lucifer who tried to challenge God, but was demoted to purgatory and turned into a devil. The snake should also be Lucifer one of the incarnations of

"The Book of Revelation mentions: There was a war in heaven, and Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon also fought with his angels. There is no place for them in heaven. The dragon is the ancient serpent named the devil , or Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast down to the ground, and his angels were cast down with him."

Wu Xingchen pointed to the monsters that almost filled the entire painting, and said, "These should be Satan's followers."

Ruyizhai smoked a cigarette and didn't speak.Wu Xingchen continued: "The results of the dating show that X12 was created in 1620, and the frame was made in 2008. After the frame was removed, the signature of the famous Flemish painter Rubens was found in the lower right corner of the back of the oil painting. "

He made a flipping motion, and the oil painting in the mirror turned around, revealing the beige back.Wu Xingchen pointed to a group of dark signatures in the lower right corner and said, "This is it."

Ruyizhai yawned and put the cigarette in his hand.Wu Xingchen also said: "The picture frame was made by an Italian craftsman named Rosa Florent. According to the transaction records kept by Rosa, Rosa bought it from an Italian craftsman named Mike on June 2008, 6. The customer received an order, which did not show Mike's surname, on October 12, 2008, Rosa completed the order, and there was another note: 10 Paris."

"Comprehensive creation age, brush strokes and other elements, it is preliminarily judged that this is the work of Rubens. The modern chronology of Rubens' works can be said to be very complete, but after consulting the catalog of relevant paintings, there is no such work in any version. Information related to X12 was found in the catalog, and there is no description of paintings similar to X12 in any existing artist's own diary, letters with others, and customer appointments from galleries and printing houses."

Wu Xingchen said: "Now the museum has entrusted the Information Registration Division of the Police Department to track down an art collector named Mike in the 21st century, or who used the name Mike, art middlemen, including legal , illegal, trying to restore the birth of X12, before getting any results, the Museum’s Identification Section will do its best to give a more detailed analysis.”

Ruyizhai asked, "What did the donor say?"

Wu Xingchen said: "The donor revealed that he found this painting in the storage room of the ancestral house on Earth, and he couldn't tell where it came from."

Ruyi Zhai said: "His ancestral home is in Paris?"

Wu Xingchen said, "No, in Hong Kong."

Wu Xingchen threw another painting in the air.The painting as a whole is also dark, only a slanting light from the upper right brings a little brightness.

"The one closest to X12 should be the painting "The Fall of the Anti-Angel" created by Rubens in 1620, which is now stored in the third exhibition hall on the seventh floor of the K Star Ancient European Art Museum. To be precise, this oil painting was also created in 1620."

Ruyizhai looked at X12 in the mirror with his chin, and said: ""The Fall of the Rebellious Angel" was drafted by an apprentice in the Rubens workshop, and then painted by himself. The coloring is similar to his other works. The comparison can be said to be very sloppy, probably because Rubens was busy completing a commission for the interior decoration of a church in 1620, and did not have time to complete such a work with too much detail."

"This is the 31st century..."

A cappella came backstage.Ruyizhai pointed to a sunflower blooming among a group of human-headed bats in the lower half of X12, and said: "Rubens and Jan Bruegel had collaborated many times. In Europe at that time, Yang was painting flowers, especially It is a little famous in flowers."

Wu Xingchen nodded, magnified the sunflower, picked it from the mirror, and handed it to Ruyizhai. He twirled the big yellow flower, and said: "Compare this sunflower with the one written by Bruegel in the existing materials. After comparing the drawn sunflowers, it is found that in terms of brushwork, there is a 90.00% similarity, which can basically be determined to be the handwriting of Jan Bruegel."

"Then what's the problem?" Ruyi Zhai rubbed her temples and said, "Isabella Visits the Art Workshop?"

Wu Xingchen responded, took off a petal of the sunflower, pinched it in his hand, and said: "But when Bruegel painted sunflowers, he used a kind of pigment from southern Italy. The craftsmen who made the pigment called it It is the 'Third Sunlight'. The third sun light was put on the market in 1610, and the pigment extracted from the sunflower of X12 was compared with the composition of the third sun light, and the result was surprising."

Hearing this, Ruyi Zhai laughed out loud, glanced at his glasses, started smoking again, and said, "So this is a novel in which the protagonist always speaks in the tone of a storyteller."

Wu Xingchen asked, "What did you say?"

"Trace!! Search!!"

"31st Century!! Ha!"

The stage performance became lively again, and for a while, Wu Xingchen couldn't even hear his own voice clearly, so he proposed again: "Is it convenient to talk in another place?"

Ruyizhai was smoking a cigarette and had no intention of leaving.Wu Xingchen had no choice but to continue talking in the background of the noisy chorus: "The yellow used for the sunflowers in X12 is all done with a yellow 006 paint, and the yellow 006 was made by a Dutch priest who is passionate about paint production. The craftsmanship is complicated, and only when the customer makes an appointment, the priest will start to make it. If it weren't for a Pieter Bruegel's manuscript recovered by archaeology in 2289, no one would know the origin of this pigment, and it was also in Pieter Bruegel. Paul’s handbook records a church fire in 1566. At that time, because of a series of religious movements in the Netherlands, the statue of the church where Father John lived was smashed, the church was burned, and all paints, including finished and semi-finished products, were burned. died in the fire."

Ruyizhai yawned and said, "That may be Pieter Bruegel's stock." He added: "Compared to Rubens's Rebel Angel, X12 is closer to Bruegel's Rebel Angel, and my son found that It’s not uncommon for me to use my father’s unused paint and use it myself.”

Wu Xingchen said: "This research direction was proposed as early as when X12 was sent to the Appraisal Department. However, Pieter Brueghel mentioned in his letter that after learning that the church was destroyed and the priest passed away, he Very sad because he has run out of 006 paint."

Wu Xingchen added: "Of course, this does not explain anything. After all, the sales record of the paint cannot be verified. Maybe someone bought the paint and never used it up, and it passed to the creator several times."

Wu Xingchen put down the petals, and continued: "After separating the drawing layers of X12, I found that the draft is far from the finished drawing. I don't know why, but the creator still insists on drawing on the draft."

Ruyi Zhai asked: "What does the draft look like?"

Wu Xingchen said: "I'm really sorry, due to confidentiality requirements, the draft cannot be displayed anywhere other than the museum."

Wu Xingchen asked: "Can I trouble you to go to the museum now? If you drive, you can get there in 45 minutes at the fastest. The car is parked in a nearby parking lot, and it takes 1 minute to walk there."

"Now?"

"If you're worried about the show..."

Ruyizhai laughed, stood up, put on the long white satin gown, glanced at Wu Xingchen, and suddenly asked strangely: "Aren't you in a hurry? What are you still doing?"

Wu Xingchen also stood up and asked, "Don't you need to say hello to Boss Yuanyuan?"

Ruyizhai shook his head, strode towards the door, and said, "Let's go, there is one place to go before going to the museum, don't waste time."

"Is there a place to go first?"

"Yes, go to the flower shop."

"Flower shop? Why do you go to the flower shop?" Wu Xingchen was really puzzled.

Ruyizhai was also very puzzled: "Of course you go to a flower shop to buy flowers."