"You can go out first."
Anna picked up the phone and nodded gently to the housekeeper, "I will give you an answer tonight."
"You also Let’s leave together and leave the blanket in your hand. August recently liked to have something to cover himself with when he took a nap.”
The housekeeper bowed slightly.
He walked out of the study with the two servants.
The moment before turning around and pushing the door open, the corner of his eye glanced at the contact name flashing on the screen of Anna's mobile phone.
A good housekeeper should not pry into the privacy that the owner is unwilling to share.
In this study, we may have talked about the reorganization of the Land Ministry, the contradiction between the policies of Wilhelm II of Prussia and Bismarck next door, and the secret military expansion plan of the generals of the General Staff to deal with the Russians.
Prying around about things he shouldn’t know could be fatal.
However.
After all, things are no longer the same as before.
He didn’t mean it, but the housekeeper couldn’t help but be curious.
After walking out of the room to a deserted place, the housekeeper buried the word he saw deep in his heart, and then covered it with two shovels of soil to ensure that it would never be dug up again.
He still murmured in confusion and repeated the name on the phone, "Who is Miss Kate?"
"Hello"
Gu Wei Jingqing Cleared his throat.
It is a bit strange to hear my own voice that has been modified by a sound card through my ears, as if there is another woman or a ventriloquist hiding in my chest.
But Gu Weijing has used it many times, so he has adapted to this sense of dissonance very well.
He was more curious.
The reason why Mr. Sloth suddenly contacted me.
“I am still drawing the manuscript, and there are a few scenes that need to be considered again. I think I am not satisfied with the queen feeling of the protagonist in the chapter. But the speed of progress is as expected, and it is published "Where is the company?"
"It's not the publishing house's business. I just want to chat with someone. Will it disturb you?"
Anna stared at the busy crowd at the window.
In order to prepare for the possible arrival of the presidential motorcade, from servants to chefs, the manor has been rehearsing from top to bottom many times since last week.
Although the trip has been canceled at this time, this feeling of busyness is still continuing.
Anna knew that it was not just the manor in front of her.
The entire city and even the entire country are turning into a huge administrative machine.
Modern Austria is a very small country.
The upcoming European Art Annual Conference will basically be the most important large-scale external event in the next few months.
At this moment.
In countless departments across the country, tens of thousands of civil servants and support staff are like worker ants building a nest, busy brewing medicine for the annual meeting.
That spray gunThe old Fokker 100 jet presidential plane, painted in red and white with the national emblem of the black single-headed eagle painted on the tail fin, should begin routine mechanical maintenance one day in advance before flying short-distance missions.
Secret Service security personnel, along with explosive odor analyzers and explosive-disposal dogs, were busy eliminating possible danger factors in the steakhouse.
Farther away.
Europe, North America, Asia.
All major gallery owners and their representatives, including Larry Gagosian of Gagosian Gallery, Manuel Perrotin of Perrotin Gallery, Yukito Tabata of Tokyo Gallery, and Mas III of Mas Gallery, will attend the event. Arrive in Gelize in two days or have already arrived.
International flights and private jets will fly here from all over the world like migrating swallows.
Gelitz International Airport is the largest international airport in Austria, with three main runways for large jet aircraft.
Even so.
The nearly saturated flight volume will still make the control tower busy and noisy like the hall of the stock exchange.
There will be international tourists and art lovers who cannot buy air tickets.
And because there are too many business jets taking off and landing, and there are no matching parking spaces, big collectors and artists have to choose to take the slow country train to Glitz City.
Twenty kilometers away.
In the coffee shop in the city center, her secretary was having private discussions with Cao Xuan's assistant.
Sir Brown is also sitting in a suit and tie on the leather chair in his chairman's office. In front of the large picture frame of the Last Supper, one after another is busy answering phone calls. The little silver goatee might get stained in the tea at the table.
This is just what is happening on the surface.
Anna knows.
There is another unknown world.
Citibank’s art investment department, the Rockefeller Family Foundation, the Abu Dhabi National Sovereign Fund, the French public pension fund’s glittering glass building, London’s Financial Street, and Wall Street’s investor offices , countless bright or dark sights are directed at the opening ceremony venue.
Deloitte’s report the year before last showed that in the twenty years from 1995 to 2021.
The annual growth rate of global contemporary art prices reached 138, which is much higher than the 102, 57, 62 and 42 of the S&P 500 Index, global stocks, gold and North American real estate during the same period.
High-end art investment is still one of the best choices for wealth inheritance and tax avoidance operations for high-net-worth individuals.
In the past twenty years, all the ripples caused by insider information in the art market have not been as influential as the upcoming oil painting foundation.
The hot money around the world is closely watching the big news that Sir Brown will release at the opening ceremony.
AnnSitting in the study room at home, Na could imagine in her ears the sound of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds flowing from one account to another, and finally forming a great tide like a rushing river.
Smell the smell of burning tobacco and cigars in the offices of professional investors.
If only at this moment.
All the harmful gas-emitting tobacco on the lips of the financiers who are meeting to study "Sir Brown's Big News" are gathered together, and it will definitely form a blazing torch enough to light up the city's night sky.
Or restless, or uneasy.
The atmosphere of tension and excitement is spreading rapidly.
"What a burning world." Anna sighed in her heart.
The only thing that flows faster than money is gossip.
When even various ordinary retail netizens on Reddit and Twitter began to beat their chests and talk mysteriously about the upcoming changes in the art market.
Countless rumors are woven into a huge spider web like spider silk.
Sir Brown and Miss Irina are like two big spiders crawling in the center of a spider web.
No, Sir Brown is a big spider. She is just a little dragonfly or butterfly that is stuck by the spider thread and is helpless as its fangs and mouthparts are about to be inserted into her body.
"Talk to me, Ms. Cat. I want to hear you talk."
Anna requested into the microphone at hand.
She rarely spoke to people in such a weak tone, not even when she was a young woman facing the pressure of Kruger Bank.
But she was really tired and tired.
Intellectually speaking.
She felt that she should have more important things to do than chatting with people and staring at the blue sky outside the window in a daze.
Such as sending a text message to the secretary to ask about the progress of the negotiation with Cao Xuan, or concentrating on studying how to persuade the president during a one-hour dinner.
At this point in time.
It is no exaggeration to describe that every inch of time is worth an inch of gold.
One ounce of gold is only two thousand dollars. She held the microphone in front of the window. Every minute she wasted cannot be compensated for by any amount of money.
The butterfly wrapped in cobwebs will also try to flutter twice.
But Anna just couldn't cheer up.
Very strange.
She is not as interested in these things as in giving August a bath. Now she just wants to put down her disguise and find someone to talk to casually and unabashedly.
She considered calling her college roommate Aurora, but she hesitated, hesitated, and somehow picked up the cell phone that was used to contact Detective Cat.
Anna has only known each other for a few months.
But she found that the other person had become someone in her heart, making her feel closer to her.select.
The agent Mr. Sloth and the painter of her choice.
Never met.
But it is the purest relationship.
"Uh"
Let yourself speak
Gu Weijing on the other end of the phone was a little hesitant. He had never heard Mr. Sloth use such a tone. Talking to him, I have never heard such a weird request.
He thinks that his agent can easily help him manage a tens-billion-dollar listed company like Schostic, the leader in the publishing industry. When talking about some industry anecdotes and art secrets, it is more like a Like a walking encyclopedia, it knows everything.
In his heart, Mr. Sloth is simply an omnipotent jingle cat.
Suddenly.
His Dingdang Cat's tone suddenly revealed fatigue and trouble, which made Gu Weijing feel at a loss.
"If it's inconvenient, forget it. I'm just a little irritable. I'm sorry that this negative emotion has disturbed you. Next Wednesday, we will continue to study the manuscript of The Burning World. Last time we said Get there." Anna heard the hesitation in Gu Weijing's tone.
Change your words immediately.
No matter how powerful she looks on the outside, Anna is still a delicate and sensitive person on the inside.
Sensitive people are always afraid of getting hurt.
They stood in the inner castle through numerous windows, pressing their noses against the cold glass surface, observing the world vigilantly.
Occasionally, occasionally.
She will carefully open a corner of her heart and try to tell herself to those close to her.
But once rejected or aware of the other party's impatience.
She will immediately retract herself into the powerful and indifferent shell of "Elena's Patriarch" like a little turtle that has discovered danger, and will not give others the chance to hurt her.
Anna regretted a little and dialed the number rashly.
She didn't want to hear a rejection or a perfunctory reply from Detective Cat, so she took the initiative to end this nonsensical conversation.
"No, no, no, I'm happy to listen, and I'm happy to speak, but I don't know what to do." Detective Cat's voice came quickly from the receiver, "You are"
p>Gu Weijing thought for a while.
Think of possible answers.
"Are you out of love? I'm just afraid that I don't have any good advice on this kind of thing, and I don't know much about feelings."
Probably only out of love.
Only one can make a person as powerful as Mr. Sloth feel so tired inside.
He didn’t know Mr. Sloth’s specific age. In his mind, he should be a cool uncle who was thirty-seven or eight years old. When they first met, Gu Weijing thought that with such a gentle temperament and a slightly aged voice, Mr. Sloth should be a wealthy gentleman in his fifties.
Talked a lot.
Even though Gu Weijing didn't ask about his age, he vaguely felt that judging from the content and tone of the conversation, the other party looked quite young.
So much so that there are certain moments.
If this word had not been applied to Mr. Sloth, it would have seemed strange.
He even felt that the other party was a bit "contrastingly cute".
There will be that feeling of a young girl emerging from the voice of an uncle.
It looks like a delicate flower blooming from the dark gray iron tree.
"Broken Love"
Anna pondered for a moment.
"You can say it this way." She nodded and actually admitted it.
"Graham Green said that after a short and sweet love period, couples in love will either become soul mates and move towards the sanctification of piety. Otherwise, they will realize that each other is in trivial matters. The ugly faces in life are becoming vulgar in trivial arguments, and there is no third possibility."
She thought of the uncles and aunts on the board of directors whom she had known and even been close to when she was a child.
Even Sir Brown.
Even if he and his aunt have some differences in concepts, they have been a good pair in their cooperation for more than ten years. To be honest, the booming development of oil painting magazines after the millennium is due to Sir Brown. A big contribution.
Once.
The other party is also a frequent visitor to Elena's manor, and he even took her as a little girl to play sailing on the lake behind the manor.
Times have changed.
When everyone embarks on different paths, everyone is drifting apart, which is indeed the end of a love affair.
"If the partner you are talking about refers to the disillusionment of some abstract beautiful fantasy. Then, lovelorn is a good term, and what you said is not wrong." She smiled.
“I don’t understand.”
Gu Weijing said honestly that he didn’t understand.
"It's okay, tell me about you."
Anna asked curiously, "Ms. Cat, I don't want to be rude. But your information says that you are 36 years old. Well, you shouldn’t know anything about emotional issues. Even if you are not married, you should have been in love several times.”
“I’ve talked about it, I’ve talked about it”
Gu. Realizing that the image he inadvertently conveyed between the lines was inconsistent with his persona on the Internet, he hurriedly found someone who said, "I've been in love, and I've been attracted to people. I have a lot of emotional experience."
< p>"Really?"Anna, who was originally filled with a touch of sadness because of the oil painting, now couldn't help but was amused by the other party's youthful appearance.
It’s so green that you want to take a bite.
Only a very immature brother in love would answer this in a hurry when faced with this kind of question.
“You are so cute.”
Anna bit her lip and said.
After she finished speaking, she realized that she had also made a mistake.
The other party did not act like a wolf and a tiger. My middle-aged sister doesn’t act like a stable art blogger today.
It doesn’t matter if my best friend talks about gossip.
I use the voice of a middle-aged man to say this to a girl. Talking.
It’s a bit frivolous.
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