"Okay, then you can come with me."
Freya beckoned to Eisen and walked out.Eisen thought that Freya was going to take him to the studio, but Freya took Eisen to a long corridor.Outside this promenade is a verdant garden, and the stone pillars that imitate the ancient Roman temple support the ceiling as beams, which looks quite magnificent.Eisen, who had never been here before, saw that the garden was planted with all kinds of plants, flowers, medicinal herbs, and some shrubs, but they did not seem obtrusive on the whole, but looked very harmonious.There is a soft lawn on the ground, and there are tables and chairs in the gazebo not far away."
This garden should be designed by a professional gardener."
Eisen thought to himself.At the end of the promenade there is a separate room.This room is even larger than the main hall, and it is a separate exhibition hall for Freya's works.Freya pushed open the door to the showroom, and Eisen's nose moved to smell a unique scent.The taste is not as delicate as jasmine or lemon, but has a hint of sweetness in a light woody note.The smell makes you feel calm, and you feel as if your whole body has been rinsed.Eisen couldn't help but stand in place and smell it a few more times, and Freya, who was watching from the sidelines, said, "This is the smell of lavender, I have a lot of it in my garden, but unfortunately it's not the lavender season yet, otherwise you will see a large field of blue-purple flowers." ”Eisen touched his smooth head embarrassedly, he didn't study these flowers and plants, and it would be embarrassing to comment rashly, so he said honestly, "Well, it smells good." ”"Indeed, I love it myself.My lavender comes from Provence, France, and is an adult plant that I bought from a merchant.It is the most famous lavender producing area in the world, and it is said that the suburbs there are lavender flower fields, and I have always wanted to see it... ”1 There was a look of anticipation in Freya's eyes, but she thought of the meaning behind the lavender flower language; Those words came out of her mouth, and it was inevitable that people would be misunderstood, so she stopped what she was going to say.2 Eisen didn't notice Freya's pause, he just wondered why there was a lavender scent in the showroom.Seeing the thoughts on Eisen's face, Freya guessed Eisen's mind and explained, "The scent of lavender helps repel insects, and legend has it that lavender can also repel unclean things, so I will light the incense of lavender in the exhibition hall for a long time." ”"I see, I see."
With that, Eisen followed Freya into the exhibition hall.The paintings in the exhibition hall are not hung on the wall as is customary, but each one is placed on a separate easel, so that visitors can get closer to the front of the painting and admire her paintings up close, without having to keep looking up.The rectangular exhibition hall is lined with neatly arranged oil paintings, and at the end of the exhibition hall is a small wooden stage with three steps and three wooden shelves.Twenty-four chairs were placed in front of the small stage, six in a row, and a path was left between the three chairs.Eisen was stunned for a moment, then reached out to the small stage and asked, "Where is that?"
”Freya glanced in the direction Eisen was pointing, and replied, "For auctions, people from the auction house come here every month to make a bid, and I don't want my paintings to be auctioned with other things."
So this is a special feature opened by the auction house for me, and this showroom was also funded and built by the auction house. ”Eisen suddenly realized that Freya was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, and that he had always underestimated Freya.He originally just thought Freya was a stupid woman, and he was tricked into bed by Eisen after hooking up at a party, but after seeing everything today, the image of Freya in his heart became unfathomable.Thinking of this, Eisen looked at Freya's face, but found that what he saw was only very superficial, and he couldn't see through Freya.Freya, feeling Eisen's gaze, shook her brown hair disappreciatively, and she thought of something interesting, and said, "Do you want to know how much my most expensive painting has been auctioned?"
”Eisen didn't expect Freya to ask such a question, so he casually guessed a number, "Five hundred gold marks?"
”Freya shook her head, and she raised her right hand in a four-four gesture toward Eisen.Eisen's eyes widened and he said suspiciously, "Four thousand gold marks?
So expensive?
”Freya tilted her head sideways and looked at Eisen, who was already surprised, with a triumphant smile on the corner of her mouth, "Forty thousand, and each of my works can be auctioned for more than two thousand gold marks." ”Eisen didn't expect that the value of the baron in front of him was actually higher than that of some barons and marquises, and for a moment he even felt that he could live a luxurious life as long as he was next to Freya, so what kind of butcher shop did he open?
But judging from her daily life, Freya is not like a person who has such a large amount of wealth, so where does her money go?
Thinking of this, Eisen had a hint of suspicion, but Freya smiled and said, "But...I donated most of them.He left some of it for his daily expenses, part of it for the Holy Light Society, and most of it for the Arkham Welfare Institute outside the city. ”3 Hearing this, Eisen felt that his behavior was very different from that of the baroness in front of him.For the sake of money, he put down his morality and dignity at any cost to do everything that could make him profitable; But when Freya had a stable income and could live a good life, she chose to donate.This made Eisen embarrassed, and he even dismissed the idea of spending the night at Freya's place, because he felt inferior and unworthy.The inferiority complex caused Eisen, who had always been confident, to lower his head, and Freya sensed Eisen's emotions and shrewdly took Eisen's hand to an oil painting."
Don't you want to listen to my inspiration for painting?
Let's start with my early work. ”Freya cleverly shifted the conversation to Eisen's previous question, which allowed Eisen to focus on listening to her explanation."
The painting in front of me was painted by me in imitation of the shipwreck of the master Vernet in 1772, and this is my first work."4 Although this is a copied painting, it still paints the charm in it: a sense of contradiction.Eisen noticed that Freya's paintings all embody strong contrasts, and the design of the structure of the picture expresses and emphasizes the conflict.