Chapter 407 Being Embarrassed
Zhuo Ya and the other guests turned to look at him as soon as they heard his words.
Zhuo Ya was the most astonished one.
And the smile on Mrs. Zhuo's face disappeared all of a sudden.
"Mr. Si, I know that Si Yejue and Gu Nian just announced their relationship and you allowed them to be with eath other, but you can't lie to the guests for the sake of them."
The guests were the elderly Mr. Si's friends or partners.
They all nodded in agreement with Mrs. Zhuo's words.
"Yeah, Gu Nian's painting is obviously fake."
"It is much darker and has lots of wrinkles. The paper is really bad. It is absolutely not genuine."
"Just judging from the oil spot on it, it's fake. She fooled us with the fake painting. It is a disrespect for the precious genuine one!"
"Mr. Si, she fooled you. After all, even a fool can see this painting is fake."
Gu Nian blinked and said, "The reason why there's an oil spot on it is that Master Changyuan was eating instant noodles when painting."
Mrs. Zhuo sneered, "How did you know that? Did you watch Master Changyuan painting?"
The elderly Mr. Si said in a deep voice, "Gu Nian is right. Her painting is genuine, and there is indeed an oil spot on it."
Mrs. Zhuo said, "Mr. Si, you are partial to..."
The elderly Mr. Si did not raise his head, but stroked the painting gently, showing that he treasured it very much.
"The genuine Gui Guzi At Night does look darker, dispicting an indifferent and cold kind of mountains and rivers. Besdes, it is even more rare to draw such a precious painting on low-quality paper."
The elderly Mr. Si scrutinized the painting with great excitement in his eyes.
"Cao, go to the study and fetch the other paintings of Master Changyuan. As long as we put them together, we can tell whether this one is genunine."
All the guests still didn't believe that Gu Nian's painting was genuine.
After giving a suspicious glance at the painting, Butler Cao went to the study and returned with several paintings in a minute.
The paintings in his hands were the elderly Mr. Si's private collection. The elderly Mr. Si had them be well-protected and was even reluctant to frame them to let other people appreciate them.
The elderly Mr. Si picked up Zhuo Ya's painting and gave it to Butler Cao as soon as he saw his collection.
He carefully held the paintings of Master Changyuan and placed them on the table.
Zhuo Ya frowned when seeing the elderly Mr. Si put down her painting in such a casual manner.
The elderly Mr. Si opened his paintings and said to the guests, "Look! Master Changyuan's brushstrokes are rather peculiar. There are lots of zigzag lines..."
"Looking at the rice paper. All those who are into painting know that Master Changyuan only uses this kind of rice paper..."
With the various perspectives of analyzing and comparing, the elderly Mr. Si soon drew some conclusions.
The paintings of Master Changyuan all had one thing in common that they were painted on the cheap rice paper of inferior quality and they were not cherished by Master Changyuan so much that there were many hard-to-be-smoothed wrinkles on them.
Beside, there were spots on the paintings.
Gui Guzi At Night was stained with oil, but other paintings were stained with fruit or something else.
In short, none of Master Changyuan's paintings were spotless.
No comparison, no result.
By comparison, it could be seen that Zhuo Ya's painting was fake.
The elderly Mr. Si treasured the Gui Guzi At Night that Gu Nian gave him so much that he rolled it up carefully.
The he said, "The painting that Gu Nian gave to me is the genuine one."
Gu Nian said with a smile, "Just now some people said that one could see that it was fake as long as he was not an idiot. Then now..."
"Some people" blushed with shame even though Gu Nian didn't finish her words.
They mistook the fake one for the genuine one and even sneered at...
They had egg on their faces.
Si Yejue didn't care that they were embarrassed at the moment and just sneered, "They didn't know that it was genuine, so they are stupider than a fool."
The guests, "..."
They felt much more embarrassed after Si Yejue said that frankly.
Gu Nian turned her head and looked at Mrs. Zhuo, saying, "Mrs. Zhuo, you just said that the fake painting should be thrown into the trash can, so why don't you do it now?"
Gu Nian's words were more like a slap, hitting Mrs. Zhuo hard in the face.
Mrs. Zhuo didn't expect that the painting that her daughter bought with tens of millions of dollars was fake.
Zhuo Ya looked embarrassed, saying in a low voice, "I didn't know the painting was fake. After all, I got a discount and spent forty million dollars for it."
She added, "This painting can't be thrown away. I have to keep it for questioning why I got a fake painting."
Forty million dollars!
Throwing the fake painting into the trash can was no difference from throwing a large sum of money!
Zhuo Ya didn't care the money, but Mrs. Zhuo did. She was so distressed that she felt like she was stabbed.
The other guests had a good relationship with the Zhuo family, so they tried to help Mrs. Zhuo and Zhuo Ya out.
"It's not Zhuo Ya's fault. It's completely the fault of the one who sold it. Selling a fake painting for forty million dollars is totally a crime!"
"It's the seller's fault. Ya is the victim. Blaming Ya is equal to blaming the victim. It's not right at all."
Si Yejue glanced at them coldly, asking, "Why didn't you deem Nian as the victim when you said her painting was fake?"
"After knowing Zhuo Ya's was fake, you said she was the victim? You really have double standards. Do you think you did the right thing?"
The guests, "..."
Si Yejue tried his best to protect Gu Nian without hesitation.
Sensing the embarrassing situation, the elderly Mr. Si hurriedly said, "It's really not a trivial matter that someone pretends to be Master Changyuan. Ya, you should call the police."
Zhuoya still felt embarrassed but had to nod with a smile, saying, "I will. Grandpa Si, I'm sorry to buy a fake painting with forty million dollars and give it as a gift to you. It must have made you be in a bad mood."
She smiled then, "Fortunately, Miss Gu's painting is genuine. Otherwise you would be unhappier and I would be a big sinner."
Mr. Si liked her gentle appearance, and laughed, "Be careful in the future. The forthy million dollars is on me."
Zhuo Ya waved her hand repeatedly, "Thank you but I've already had the ability to make money. I earned the forty million dollars on my own. I'll call the police to help me get it back."
"Miss Zhuo is really amazing. She made tens of millions of dollars by herself. It's amazing."
"Yeah. She's good-looking, well-educated, and can make a lot of money. Which man will be lucky to marry her?"
Seeing that the situation was less embarrassing and Zhuo Ya was praised, Mrs. Zhuo immediately became highly conceited.
"Yeah, the man who will marry her must be lucky."
When saying that, Mrs. Zhuo glanced at Si Yejue and Gu Nian on purpose.
It was obviously that Mrs. Zhuo did it to gesture Gu Nian that she was not good enough to be with Si Yejue and he would be Zhuo Ya's husband.
After sensing her gaze of provocation, Gu Nian raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "One who can be taken advantage of is not good at all."
After speaking that, she raised her head and asked Si Yejue with a smile, "Am I right, Jue?"
Si Yejue looked at Gu Nian with deep love in his eyes and nodded with a smile, "Yes, you are right. I don't like those who are not good, and I only like precious Nian."
Zhuo Ya and Mrs. Zhuo looked more embarrassed as soon as they heard his words.
They felt like they had been embarrassed and even humiliated for the whole day.
Butler Cao glanced at Gu Nian with a gloomy face...