Ke Xuezhuo's son-in-law

Chapter 189 Worthless Art Museum
  Under the morning light, one large and one small child were running.

"Conan still has one more lap to go, come on."

"Yeah, I'll try my best."

Since that encounter with Sayuri, Kogoro has suffered from a difficult disease called "morning running phobia". The specific manifestation is that the patient is afraid that a poor woman named Sayuri will suddenly appear halfway during his morning run. Reluctant to chase. After running into Sayuri inexplicably several times in a row, Kogoro gave up his morning jogging completely. Even if Fujiwara suggested changing the route to run on another section, it could not change his determination, so Fujiwara simply gave up.

After running to the finish line, the two of them rested on the bench next to the path.

"Have you heard that the author of Death Note is planning to hold an exhibition of original paintings at the Mihua Museum of Modern Art? Have you ever wanted to go and join in the fun?"

"Yes, I saw Yuantai and the others. However, teenagers under the age of sixteen are not allowed to participate in this event, and the pre-sale tickets have been sold out."

"Really, I really don't know this."

These things should have been added by the museum itself. In addition, the values ​​​​of the collaborative works are not in line with the positive values ​​​​of the youth group, so it is understandable that under 16 years old are not allowed to participate.

Fujiwara opened the sports drink he had prepared in advance and took a sip, then threw the other bottle to Conan, "Then, do you want me to help each of you get an autographed original painting or something like that?"

"It's okay to autograph the paintings, but it should be very expensive. I have no problem with it, but their parents probably won't allow it."

An autographed painting can range from as little as two thousand to tens of thousands, which is indeed not a big deal to him.

"No need to spend money. I know the author. It's easy to get a few original paintings based on our friendship."

"Well, by the way, Brother Fujiwara hasn't drawn comics for a long time. I haven't seen you take out the drawings recently. Did you give up because of the novel?"

Fujiwara put down his drink and smiled, "Of course I'm still painting. My creation has never stopped. But recently I've been thinking about how to make my works deeper and more connotative, so I need more time and energy to think and Conception, and new novels are also very tricky, so now it’s more about conceiving.”

Conan nodded in understanding. He also knows that creation is a process that requires constant exploration and challenge, and sometimes it takes more time to think and polish before he can create truly valuable works.

"However, I am also looking forward to this original painting exhibition. I can meet many readers who like Death Note, listen to their opinions and ideas, and also exchange creative ideas with other authors. I believe this is also an opportunity for me. Great opportunity.”

"That's right."

After returning to the office and saying goodbye to Conan, Fujiwara took a quick shower, then ran to the art museum non-stop to prepare for an inspection of the original painting exhibition.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard the two security guards at the door looking at today's morning newspaper and laughing happily, "Hahaha, I have long said that the security at the Narita Museum of Art is not as good as ours. Isn't something wrong?"

"Stop bragging. If those monster thieves come to steal it once, you will cry. It's better not to laugh at others."

The security guard who was refuted still said unconvinced, "What's the point? We have the strictest infrared security system here, and we patrol in groups of four and three at night, so nothing can go wrong."

Standing behind them, Fujiwara was speechless when he heard these people bragging. If there weren't anything of real value in the museum, everything would have been stolen long ago.

So he leaned over to the security guard who was bragging just now and said calmly, "What if something goes wrong?"

"If something goes wrong, I will commit seppuku in a minute." After realizing who was coming from behind, the man suddenly turned around and saw his boss behind him, so he was too embarrassed to say anything.

Fujiwara didn't want to delve deeper into this issue, so he turned around and asked others what happened when the Takeda Museum was stolen just now, and what was stolen.

"Report to the boss that a precious gem called the 'Girl of Tears' hidden in the underground vault has been stolen. Today's big headline."

Fujiwara rushed over in a hurry before he could read the newspaper in the morning. Naturally, he didn’t know what they were talking about, so he took the newspaper and took a look. The headline was [The Girl of Tears was stolen by the Kaitou Cat’s Eye. Unwilling to admit defeat, Officer Nakamori declared war on the Cat’s Eye, vowing to This group of rampant thieves must be arrested and brought to justice! 】

"A monster thief who stole gems?"

After this new phantom thief may be Kidd's strong enemy, Fujiwara plans to draw a card to talk to Kuroba Kaito about this matter.

After reading the newspaper, he patted his shoulder carefully and walked directly into the art gallery without saying anything.

He had actually carefully analyzed with Kuroba Kaito whether the art museum would be stolen. There are a total of more than 500 paintings and some other stone tablets and gems in the whole museum. Most of the paintings are first-hand paintings, that is, the kind that were bought directly from the painter. They have not been put into any auctions and are artificially given. She appreciates.

Compared to famous paintings that cost hundreds of millions, their prices are very affordable.

For Fujiwara, art appreciation itself is a very subjective matter. If you like it, you just like it. However, in order to show that you are knowledgeable and appreciate it, most people will make up a bunch of reasons for it to gain the respect of others.

Art is not like mathematics and physics. There is a certain range for people to distinguish between true and false. There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. In short, it is your concept, there is no right or wrong.

Most of the items acquired were from the collection of Denjiro Maru, and they were all purchased directly from art exhibitions, and the prices were equally affordable.

At that time, after reading it, Kuroba Kaito said that if he were Kidd, he would never come here to steal anything, because it had no actual value at all.

When I came to the hall where the event was going to be held, I saw Director Ochiai nervously ordering others to move away the extra things. It wasn’t until he saw that two staff members couldn’t move a single plaster that he said angrily, “What the hell? Why are you two taking so long to lift this thing? How can you be manly?" As he said this, he pushed one of them away and lifted the plaster by himself and put it on the cart, leaving everyone stunned.

Everyone has one question, ‘Why is this 70-year-old man so strong? ’

Seeing this scene, Fujiwara was even more convinced of the doubts he had when watching the cartoon. Director Ochiai was indeed capable of nailing people to the wall while wearing heavy armor.

"Director Ochiai is really getting stronger and stronger. Today I really opened my eyes."

"Ah, nothing." After laughing, Director Ochiai took Fujiwara for a brief tour of the newly added area of ​​the museum, and then told Fujiwara about the recent slight recovery in sales, so that he could make a profit for the museum. Keep faith with this thing.

"That's good. As long as you don't owe anything, it doesn't matter whether you make a profit or not."

After walking around with the curator for a few times, Fujiwara was about to leave. "It seems that things are almost done. Then I will leave the matter of the original painting exhibition to you, Director Ochiai."

"This is what I should do."

(End of this chapter)