Chapter 20 The police come to the door
A Chinese student studying in the UK found three Picasso sketches at the flea market. The news spread quickly across Greater London and even half of Europe, just like the shock wave after a mushroom bomb exploded.
As a veteran professor of Royal Holloway, Professor Wilson is an expert who is proficient in studying Picasso's works. The news that came from him was naturally very important. Not to mention that there were three other experts with similar identities as Professor Wilson, who jointly proved that the three paintings were indeed the original works of Picasso.
The three experts Professor Wilson asked, two were senior experts from the British Museum, and one was from the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain. This expert was the deputy director of the Picasso Museum...
In addition, Professor Wilson, the identification results issued by these four people are enough to prove that these three paintings are the original works of Picasso.
With Yang Jing's permission, Professor Wilson also took photos of these three paintings and uploaded them to the Internet. Since he had decided to sell these three paintings, news about these three paintings must be spread, otherwise how can he attract potential buyers to bid?
This is the original work of Picasso. Although it is just the least valuable sketch, it is also painted by Picasso. If it does not attract a lot of rich people to bid for, how can the price be raised?
Sure enough, when Professor Wilson uploaded photos of these three paintings online, the whole of London and even half of Europe caused a sensation.
The two experts from the British Museum wanted to buy these three paintings directly, but Yang Jing did not agree.
Just kidding, this is the original work of Picasso, and it is a painting that has never appeared on the record. If you want to take it away for 300,000 pounds, you are really a fool! If it weren't for your hard work to identify these three paintings for us, my buddy would have driven you away long ago!
If it is reasonable to say that the two experts from the British Museum want to buy these three paintings at a low price, then the deputy director of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona's practice is simply whimsical.
"Yang, these three paintings are the hard work of Mr. Picasso. I think Mr. Picasso is willing to see his paintings in heaven be appreciated by more people, so I sincerely plead for you to donate these three sketches to our Picasso Museum, so that more people can appreciate Mr. Picasso's works."
Faced with such a shameless request, Yang Jing and the fat man were almost angrily annoyed!
Donate? Why don’t you donate some of the money in your pocket to us!
Why should I donate the paintings I have worked hard to buy to your museum for free? Is it because your museum has the three words "Picasso" hanging?
Okay, you should stay wherever you are cool, can you stay there? Can you not afford to serve you?
Moreover, not only these three people, but in the following days, people from the Louvre in Paris, the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, and several other famous museums in Europe all came to ask Yang Jing to donate the three paintings free of charge.
Even the people at Madame Tussauds in London made such a request.
Well, it is understandable whether it is the Louvre or the Prado Museum to make such a request. After all, they are serious museums. In order to let more tourists see the authentic works of Picasso, it is a bit too much for people to make such requests, but at least they can be argued.
But what does it mean that the people from Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum make such a request? You are just wax figures. When did you change your career and write calligraphy and painting?
Shameless! So shameless!
It’s hard to imagine how the brain circuits of these Europeans have grown!
Donate free of charge, you really dare to think about it! Why don’t you donate the treasures in your collection for free? If you dare to donate, your buddy will dare to donate these three paintings too!
Your sister, two brothers are more like birds, both of them are like a slut! If you don’t donate, why should I donate?
In order to avoid more such situations, Yang Jing said to these people very surely, I'm sorry, my buddy is in a hurry to use it, so these three paintings will not be donated to the museum, so you all have lost your heart...
This blocked the people in the museum, but things did not calm down.
Because the people in the museum here had just calmed down, several people who caught Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang off guard came to the door.
Early that morning, Yang Jing had just gotten up and was brushing his teeth when the door was knocked.
"Is it Albert Yang? An international student from China?" As soon as Yang Jing opened the door, three people wearing London police uniforms stood outside the door. This was really true, Yang Jing was shocked.
Yang Jing just hesitated for a moment and said directly: "Yes, I am Albert Yang, a Chinese. Is there anything you have to do?"
"Hello, Mr. Yang, we are police officers of Egham Town Police Station, I am Sheriff Holmes. We received a report that you have three sketches of Picasso here. The reporter said that these three paintings were illegally obtained from his house, so we need to take you to the police station to ask about related matters. Oh, by the way, the reporter claimed to be Mr. Bob John, the housekeeper of the Fishgard Valdi family, I think you should know him, right?"
When Yang Jing heard this, he was shocked.
He looked at the three big-sleeved policemen in front of him, and after thinking for a while, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "Mr. Officer, I do know Mr. John, but I don't understand why he reported such a case, because I have not illegally obtained any Mr. Picasso's paintings from him. Yes, I have three Picasso sketches in my hand, but they were not obtained from Mr. John, I..."
Sheriff Holmes waved his hand and interrupted Yang Jing, "Mr. Yang, it is useless to explain these things to me here. I hope you can follow me to the police station. You can explain these things after we sit together."
Sheriff Holmes shrugged and said, "You know, our police officers need procedures for handling cases, so please respect our case procedures. Let's go, Mr. Yang."
Yang Jing looked at the fat man who ran out when he heard the sound and found that the guy was still wearing only a pair of big underwear. Then he said helplessly: "Can you wait for me for a while? Can you let me change my clothes?"
"No problem, but please change your clothes quickly. We are very busy at work."
Yang Jing didn't even close the door. Even if he wanted to close it, he couldn't. The police wouldn't let you close the door and isolate their sight.
Guo Xiaoxiang asked nervously: "What the hell is going on?"
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on. Anyway, Egm's police came to the door, and the three paintings he named them. It's probably because the Valdy family knew that we had three Picasso's paintings in our hands, and then we came here to find a problem."
"I'm rough! How did they know that we have Picasso's paintings in our hands?"
"Haha, is this more important? Of course, I saw the news online. I said fat, don't ask those useless ones. Now the Vardy family has come to the door, so we have to deal with it well. Then, I'll go to the police station with the police. You can find me a lawyer first. Without a lawyer, it's probably difficult for us to save those three paintings! By the way, don't say anything about the lawyer, just say that those three paintings were purchased by me in the Greenwich handicraft market for 300 pounds! You must bite this to death, and you'll be fine if you don't know the others! Only the two of us know this, and the third person will definitely not know, do you understand?"
The fat man nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, Lao Yang, this matter will be left to me!"
Chapter completed!