Chapter 422 Test
"That's a pity!" Li Jinxing said with some regret.
The gallery manager thought for a moment and suggested with a smile, "How about this? I'll ask the agent who commissioned this painting to see if he can entrust the artist's other paintings to our gallery for sale. If we have any news, we'll notify you both immediately!"
"Alright!" Li Jinxing nodded slightly, put his arm around Nie Yao's shoulders, and whispered, "Let's go?"
Nie Yao looked up at the gallery manager in front of her and said hesitantly, "Could you give us the client's contact information?"
The gallery manager quickly pulled out a business card from his pocket and respectfully handed it to Nie Yao, explaining with a smile, "Ms. Nie, this is his business card. He used the phone number on it to contact us before!"
Nie Yao nodded, took the business card and took a look. It said Warren Gray, art agent, with the contact email and phone number clearly stated.
"Thank you!" Nie Yao put away the business card and said to Li Jinxing with a faint smile, "Let's go. I'm tired and don't want to continue shopping!"
"Okay, let's go home!" Li Jinxing curled his lips slightly, ordered someone to carefully put the packaged papyrus painting in the car, and left the art gallery with Nie Yao.
On the way back, Nie Yao looked out the window silently without saying a word, his thoughts already flying far away.
Li Jinxing had originally brought her to the art gallery to see an exhibition of emerging artists in order to help her relax. Seeing that she had been lost in thought since she came out of the gallery, he couldn't help but hold her hand and asked with concern, "What are you thinking about? You haven't said a word since you came out..."
"I'm still thinking about that painting and the business card that the gallery manager handed me just now!" Nie Yao said in a low voice, supporting her chin with one hand.
"I haven't heard you tell me before that you really like this kind of papyrus painting?" Li Jinxing raised his eyebrows slightly. If he had known this, he would have sent someone to buy a batch.
Nie Yao shook her head and smiled faintly, then turned her head to look at Li Jinxing and said seriously, "Don't you find it strange?"
"What's strange?"
"The appearance of this painting is strange, and the painter's refusal to show his face is also strange!" Nie Yao frowned slightly and murmured, "Not to mention that there are some painters in Egypt who can draw this kind of papyrus painting. Putting it up for sale at an exhibition like this, and then asking the buyer to answer questions before selling it, is very strange..."
"Maybe this painter just has a weird personality and doesn't want to sell to people who don't know the value of his works?" Li Jinxing replied with a smile.
"It seems so!" Nie Yao nodded. She had no objection to Li Jinxing's answer. However, when she thought about the three questions that the gallery manager had asked the painter, she felt something was wrong.
"Those who understand papyrus painting and are interested in ancient Egyptian culture can probably answer the first two questions, but the third question is not easy to answer correctly!"
Nie Yao sighed softly as she spoke, "I always feel like someone is testing something."
"Probing?" Li Jinxing frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice, "Is it the painter who is probing, or the agent? Or is it the person in charge of this gallery?"
"I can't really say..." Nie Yao shrugged and answered hesitantly, "Right now, the gallery manager is the first to be ruled out because when Ji Minghuan proposed to buy this painting, he directly persuaded us to buy another one!"
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