Almighty painter

Chapter 774: Brother Hao, Elena's Family and Mr. G (Part )

The sound of Hao Ge's long breathing came from the speaker of the microphone.

Anna listened to the breathing sounds and imagined that the vocal diaphragm of the microphone was vibrating at an imperceptible amplitude following the other person's breathing.

Since entering this industry... to be more precise, since she could remember, Anna had seen all kinds of people, men and women, from different classes, different professions, some with gray hair and some with young and immature hair, or some with both gray hair and young and immature hair.

Some of them were so shy that they didn't know how to speak in front of her, while others carefully crafted every word they said to express their witty remarks.

Among all these people, Brother Hao's speaking accent is still very special.

The words he spoke and the impression his voice gave were of two completely different people.

The middle-aged man's malice was hidden in his quiet and polite tone. The deep jealousy, deep contempt, and deep hatred were woven together by his delicate voice, forming a kind of bewitching magic that sounded quite convincing.

Officer Dan shifted his gaze to the silent woman's face again, wanting to see if she would suddenly become furious because of the other party's offense.

Eat melon, eat melon.

This is the only fun for a middle-aged man with no desires or demands.

"[Mr. G is truly noble, but you, the Elena family... are not.] - At the beginning of the interview, Brother Hao said this to me."

The recorder on one side was turned on.

later.

Someone from the Oil Painting magazine team or Eliot's secretary would compile and proofread a record of their conversation for her.

Anna quickly wrote down this sentence in her notebook.

“Very interesting statement.”

Miss Elena said calmly. She drew a line under the text and asked, "Is this the opening statement you have prepared for all these years?"

"Are you not angry?" asked Brother Hao.

"I actually wanted to laugh a little, but... that's all." Anna said lightly.

"If you just wanted to say this, you didn't have to spend so much money to buy Renoir's painting. I suggest you try to mail a postcard to the mailbox at Elena Manor. International mail only costs a few euros."

This made Sheriff Dan, who loved to watch the fun, very disappointed.

The wealthy heiress was surprisingly not angry at all.

Just as Anna told her detective cat in the classic plot of "The Red and the Black", Prince Kolašov taught the poor boy Julien how to disguise himself as a noble man in front of others -

Don't be angry, don't be furious, be calm, be composed, and get used to it.

Anger represents your failure in trying to please others.

You get angry when you care about other people's opinions, feel offended, wronged, and feel powerless.

Yesterday, Anna was so angry that she almost bit her teeth off. She was so angry that she wanted to smash the other person's dog head. She was so angry that she went back to the hotel and stabbed that little man over and over again. Even the big dog August was ignored because Anna "cared" about the other person.

She cared about the other person's paintings, the other person's conversation, the way he looked when he held Goethe in his hands, and the light in his eyes when he talked about Carla or Van Gogh.

therefore.

She cared about the other person's pretense.

She also cared about what the other party said, "The Elena family should all go to hell."

Miss Elena's attempt to get to know Gu Weijing failed.

In a sense, that could be considered one of the few times in Anna's life that she took the initiative to "please" someone.

Even though Anna tried to express her flattery in a very arrogant and condescending way.

But there is no doubt that it was goodwill that she took the initiative to show.

She tried to give the other party a chance again and again, but failed every time, and finally got such a vicious comment. Sakai Katsuko didn't really make Anna angry, but Gu Weijing did it easily.

Who is Brother Hao?
Chen Shenglin could choose not to give face to Elena's family, because he was already like this, so what else did he have to lose?

What is his irony?
It would be ridiculous if he really thought he could be on par with the Elena family in the art world just because he was called the underground godfather.

Say a thousand words and ten thousand words.

Chen Shenglin was just a lowly person in the shadows who spent $360 million to buy Renoir's work, but in the end he was not even worthy of seeing Anna.

Anna easily ignored his taunting.

The manor's mailbox even received death threats, so Hao Ge's sarcastic words were not offensive enough when placed in it.

This level of venom is not even comparable to that of so-and-so.

The meaning of his words made Miss Elena want to laugh far more than that of making the young woman want to be angry.

"Very contemptuous."

Chen Shenglin seemed to realize why Anna remained calm.

"You are exactly what I imagined the heir of the Elena family to be like. You should be such an arrogant person. How could you care about my sarcasm when you were born and raised in a mountain of gold and jade? The response from a person like you should be this kind of indifference."

"You are not quite like the counterfeit godfather I imagined."

Who is Anna? Anna is so amazing. The woman responded with a sharp comment and dunked the ball back without any hesitation.

It is also a good idea to provoke the other party and test his true attitude towards Elena's family.

"Who do you think you are? A person who has emerged from blood and crime? With all due respect, Mr. Haoge, the word noble can be interpreted in many ways. But no matter which one it is, it is so humorous when it comes out of your mouth."

“If I hadn’t known, I would have thought I was interviewing Rousseau.”

Anna said, "You made your fortune by selling counterfeit goods and laundering money. Excuse me, don't you feel that every penny you make is stained with blood?"

Yes, that's the smell.

Dan Minming was absent-mindedly counting sparrows to kill time, while he took a big sip of tea with "tung tung tung".

Chen Shenglin was noticeably silent.

"You know what?" He didn't seem angry, nor did he refute. He just said quietly: "Someone once said this to me."

"Is it still Mr. G?" Anna asked with pursed lips.

"Yes."

"I told him that I hadn't done anything really bad. All I did were...so-called mild crimes. I don't traffic people, I don't trade organs, I don't sell drugs. I just sell art and deal with financial issues, like a digital actuary or a real estate agent," Chen Shenglin said. "What does that count as?" "Mr. G said I didn't want to be a whore and also a saint. He said that every penny I made was making the world worse and more chaotic, and chaos was the soil that bred human trafficking, organ trading, and drug abuse. He looked me in the eye and said that he looked down on me. He said - I was a cowardly old rogue through and through."

"Do you know how I answered him?"

Brother Hao paused for a moment.

He said softly, "I told him that I am exactly the same as the Elena family. There is no difference between us."

Anna's pen paused noticeably on the paper.

Her fingertips turned slightly white due to the force she applied, and the golden pen tip left a noticeable ink pool on the paper.

Miss Elena was angry.

It’s not because I was angry that Brother Hao said that my family was exactly the same as Elena’s, but because the words sounded so familiar.

The woman remembered it clearly.

Just yesterday, someone told him that he had met Brother Hao, and Brother Hao told him that his family and Elena's family were essentially the same.

Anna doesn't believe that so-and-so, the Mr. G mentioned by Brother Hao.

The portraits of the two people are very different.

At least, no matter how you look at it, Gu Weijing doesn't seem like someone that Brother Hao would be willing to pay 300 million US dollars to get to know.

It’s not that Anna looks down on Gu Weijing.

But it really doesn't make sense. The two people's status and identities... are too different.

It was even less likely that the young man was the one that Hao Ge said he had to "obey".

of course.

Anna also didn't believe what Gu Weijing said when Brother Hao told him that he and Elena's family were essentially birds of a feather, and that what Brother Hao said he told that Mr. G was exactly the same as Elena's family and it was just a pure coincidence.

Is Mr. G some powerful person in the local area?

Perhaps, there is some kind of connection between Gu Weijing and Mr. G, which is why Gu Weijing has the confidence to tell Brother Hao that he should go to hell.

Gu Weijing's answer was very similar to Mr. G's, and it was because he was influenced by the other party.

Anna probably guessed who Mr. G was.

She was very smart and the answers were never hard to guess.

If Mr. G is also a person in the art world, he would be prioritized before Anna. He would be able to make Brother Hao spend 300 million US dollars just to "get to know" him, and he would have the courage to refuse. He would also have some connection with Gu Weijing.

There are only a handful of people in the industry who meet each of the requirements.

If you want to meet all of them at the same time, then there is only one truth -

Of course it’s Cao Xuan.

With Cao Xuan's status and international influence, this top art master can indeed be like her, completely disdainful of the price offered by Brother Hao, and has enough magnanimity to say such words.

For someone of Cao Xuan's status, there is really no need for him to have any more disputes with Brother Hao and endorse his own legendary experience.

If Cao Xuan is also involved... then Anna does believe that Gu Weijing and Brother Hao don't have much connection.

And Anna felt that she had solved the case at the same time.

It turns out that the guy on the phone tells everyone that he and Elena's family are exactly the same.

It’s really too much!

It was probably because of this guy's eloquence that Gu Weijing felt so hostile towards Elena's family at the end of the conversation.

It’s so annoying, this is where the problem lies!
It's you who are spreading rumors and misleading people.JPG
“The more heinous a person is, the less willing they are to face themselves directly, and the more they give themselves reasons to escape reality.” Anna’s tone was still as indifferent, but it was a little colder.

"You have been pretending to be a respectable person for too long and you may have forgotten who you are. You are a complete and cowardly rogue. This is what Mr. G said. It is very well said. I will give it to you as well."

Anna said, "I forgive you for your rudeness and offense."

"Do you need it?"

Chen Shenglin asked back.

"Ms. Elena, do you need me to recall the glorious history of the Elena family? You said my money is stained with sin and blood, so what about your money?"

"Trust, estate, inheritance... Yes, ma'am, you were born like a princess, with long flowing dresses and no dust on your body. You are like your father, grandfather, grandfather, and great-grandfather... You were born into one of the richest people in Central Europe. But how did you get your money?"

"The glorious Irina family, the art-loving Irina family, I once asked Mr. G, is it possible that Miss Irina's endless wealth and the land that she couldn't reach even if she rode the fastest horse for ten days and ten nights were all earned by her love of art or speeches about love and peace?"

"You have millions of square acres of private land in Africa and Australia. Could it be that hundreds of years ago, the great Count Elena loved art so much and gave such good speeches that the local indigenous people burst into tears of gratitude? Did she desperately force her homeland and land into the hands of your ancestors?"

Chen Shenglin smiled.

The middle-aged man recited in an aria-like voice into the receiver of the phone.

“Art, whose art is it? The art of gladiator fights in ancient Roman murals, is it the art of slaves in chains, or is it the art of slave owners cheering in the theater?”

"These are the exact words from your speech at the European Art Conference. They were very well said, generous and passionate. I can recite them easily after listening to them once. You are truly a natural orator." Brother Hao praised.

"But why do you criticize Sir Brown so harshly, but are unwilling to face yourself bravely?"

"Love and peace? Whose love and peace? The love and peace that the glorious Irena family talks about in their palace-like manor is the love and peace of the African slaves trafficked in the triangular trade, or the love and peace of the slave owners who sang and danced at the royal banquet in Schönbrunn Palace?"

"Leopold killed 300 million people in Congo. If he worked a little slower, he would chop off a black man's arm like mowing the grass. The chopped arms were enough to pile up into a mountain. But in Belgium, he was a beloved and respected king! Oh, and he was the son-in-law of the Habsburg family. Considering that the Irene family was once the right-hand man of the Habsburg royal family, there was more than one princess in history."

"Maybe you are distant relatives."

Chen Shenglin asked back with a faint smile.

"There has never been any record showing that the Elena family participated in the colonial triangular trade. The Elena family never owned any black slaves. All the estates and territories were acquired through fiefdoms and commercial purchases."

Anna said.

"I believe that."

Haoge actually agreed. "You are too rich and too 'noble' to look down on black slaves, and there is no need to dirty your hands."

"Can……"

"What difference does it make?"

(End of this chapter)