Chapter 1196 1196. American Birds (5/5)

Chapter 1196 1196. American Birds (55)

Taking advantage of the sunshine in the afternoon, the treasure hunters were busy picking up the things they took.

Li Du waved his hand, and Godzilla and the bodyguards went in to clean up the exhibition room he had photographed.

Director Saatchi stood beside him in a daze, watching him wave his hand to let people in, and then asked with wide eyes, "You took pictures of this room?"

"Yes," Li Du said with a smile, "I took pictures of a few rooms to see if I could make some money from them."

Director Saqi is by no means a good businessman, when he heard Li Du's words, he immediately grabbed his arm and said, "This museum has been cleaned up by the city government, the bank and several universities, so how can there be anything valuable in it? Why don't you sell me the things in this house, and I'll give you, give you two thousand yuan..."

Li Du looked at him with strange eyes.

Noticing this, the chattering curator Saatchi changed his words again. He swallowed his saliva and tried to say: "It's like this. I am full of affection for the buildings, tables and chairs here, and I want to buy the tables and chairs."

Li Du said: "I respect your feelings for this building, but if you want to buy some tables and chairs, not only I have them here, but there are many other rooms too..."

"I'll buy them all." Director Saatchi interrupted him. "I'll buy all these tables and chairs and put them in my home to reproduce the museum scene."

Then, he showed a pitiful look, and continued: "You will agree to this request of a bad old man, right? You will definitely agree, I have lived here all my life, God, I have merged with this place ..."

Having said that, his expression suddenly changed, he slowly closed his mouth, and then stared at Li Du carefully.

Li Du felt terrified when he saw him, and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Doctor?"

Director Saatchi said: "Last night, it was you I saw on the street last night? It was you, right?"

He looked at Godzilla and the others, whose body shape and appearance were more recognizable.

Li Du said generously: "Yes, I was walking around last night, we did meet, what's the matter?"

Director Saqi's face turned livid, he stopped talking, and stared at Li Du again with straight eyes.

Li Du shrugged, ignored him, and directed everyone to pack up the things inside.

Now the exhibition room is in disarray, with broken ceilings falling down, concrete blocks, wooden floors and their fragments, falling everywhere.

Godzilla cleared out a table, and pulled the big table out abruptly with both hands.

The table is made of solid wood and was originally very hard, but now it fell from the second floor and was hit by concrete blocks and chairs during the fall, so the table was inevitably scattered.

Godzilla yanked the table with brute force, the table was completely broken, the top was pulled away, and the solid solid wood table finally became torn apart.

The table was built to be strong, and instead of four legs to support the table, it had two thick and wide planks of solid wood.

After the table top is pulled off, a wooden board reveals the hollow inside.

Godzilla glanced inside, and said strangely, "Hey, boss, there's something inside."

Li Du asked: "What? Someone wouldn't have hidden silver coins in it like they did in the prison warehouse?"

Godzilla shook his head and said, "No, it's a book, a big book."

Li Du said disappointedly: "Who would put books in the table support board? What books?"

"It's a big book." Godzilla picked up the wooden board and poured out the book, and then a super big book that was one meter long, sixty to seventy centimeters wide, and more than ten centimeters thick was poured out.

Seeing this book, Director Saatchi's expression changed drastically, but he didn't read more, but hid aside and made a phone call.

Li Du brought out the book with a puzzled expression on his face. The treasure hunters around were attracted, and they came over and asked, "What kind of book is this? Why is it so big?"

There was a name on the cover of the book, and Li Du read: ""Birds of America"? The author is John James Audubon. Does anyone know this book and this person?"

John James Audubon, this name is not well-known to the Chinese, but to the Americans, it is definitely well-known.

Just as Chinese students have learned the deeds of ancient scientists Zhang Heng, Shen Kuo, Xu Xiake, etc. in elementary school, American students have also learned the story of John James Audubon.

Looking at the name on this book, some treasure hunters were stunned: "God, John James Audubon? The famous painter and naturalist two centuries ago, the bird illustrations he drew have always been in the United States. Known as a national treasure."

"That's the book, "Birds of America," God! I'm not dreaming, am I? You actually found a copy of "Birds of America"? This is the national treasure on which he became famous!"

"Yes, this is the one, "Birds of America", "Turkey", and "Quadrupeds of America". These books are all national treasures."

The exclamation of the treasure hunters attracted more people, but the curator Saatchi did not approach. He stepped aside and stared at the street outside with a sullen face in a daze.

Soon, Li Du got to know the situation of Audubon after people chatted about it.

In the hearts of Americans, this Mr. Audubon is no less famous than the modern scientists in Europe and the artists of the medieval Renaissance. He left countless paintings in his life. Each work is not only an important material for scientific research, but also a A rare masterpiece of art.

American academic circles called Audubon "the greatest bird naturalist in history". He was born in France in 1785 and immigrated to North America when he was 18 years old.

Because of his excellent hunting skills in the countryside when he was a child, Audubon hunted a large number of birds after he came to North America, fixed them with wires to make temporary specimens, and then drew them on a one-to-one scale.

This approach seems cruel today, but at the time, due to technology, naturalists could only rely on this method to accurately record the appearance details of wild animals.

Everyone was doing this at the time, and Audubon's fame lasts forever because he improved the painting method of natural bird paintings with his years of experience in bird watching and big birds.

The birds in his paintings no longer stand stupidly like in the early naturalist paintings, but show various natural habits: flying, foraging, brooding, hatching, fighting and so on.

Because a large number of birds have become extinct in modern times, people can only understand the birds on the American continent hundreds of years ago through these natural history paintings.

Among them, Audubon's natural history paintings are the best way, and among these best ways to understand, there is a broad road, which is the "Birds of America" ​​in the hands of Li Du.

Someone checked the current transaction price of this book on the Internet, and then opened their mouths in shock. Others go to check, and when they see the price, they will open their mouths.