Chapter 41: Simple Form

Book:The Blind Wife Published:2024-6-3

Yolanda was stunned for a moment, then frowned and looked at Albina:
-Albina, don’t be stubborn, you’d better admit your mistake now so as not to embarrass yourself anymore.
-You know, you’re really funny, you’re eager to admit my fault before you know the truth.
Albina laughed with her eyes full of sarcasm:
-Who are you to apologize to them in my place, I didn’t do anything wrong, even if I did, it’s none of your business to meddle in my affairs with your hypocrisy.
-You are so ungrateful, Yolanda is helping you! Emma pointed her finger at her.
Albina frowned, grabbed her finger suddenly and pulled it upwards.
Emma instantly screamed:
-Albina, what are you doing?
Albina looked at her with hatred:
-I told you, I hate it when people point their finger at me, before it was Yolanda, and now you. It seems that you and your master have the same vice, you are both rude.
Although Emma got along very well with Yolanda, she was very upset that she considered him as a servant of hers.
Umberto seeing Albina tease those women, put on a face of amusement.
He had been with her for three years, and thought he had seen all her characters, but she was never as vivid as she was now, even when she attacked others, she still looked nice.
Umberto decided to do nothing to let Albina resolve the matter herself, otherwise she would be annoyed by his intervention, so it was better to stay silent to watch the show.
After seeing that Emma stopped talking, Albina looked at Yolanda with sharp eyes that gave a fright to her.
Yolanda swallowed saliva and pretended to be calm:
-All right, show us how you will prove that this painting is original!
Yolanda was sure that there was something wrong with this painting, how could Albina, a poor bastard, get the real painting?
Albina walked over to the picture, pointed to the stamp in the corner and said:
-This seal is not the one commonly used on Mr. Athens’ paintings, it is his private seal. Few people have seen it, so it is normal that most of you cannot identify it.
Then he looked at Raul:
-The seal you saw before at your friend’s house is not the same as this one is it?
Raul looked at it carefully and nodded: “Right, it is different, but the writing on both seals is the same.
Albina smiled:-That’s right, because both seals were carved by himself. Next, let’s look at the drawing paper, the mark on the paper is red star. It is not particularly expensive, but cheap paints that you can buy anywhere are almost not used this kind of paper. The ink has a slight purple color and is also a very good ink. Even if it’s a fake, it’s still worth a lot.
As he spoke, Raul nodded his head in agreement.
Albina continued:-Now let’s see the calligraphy and painting of this painting, both painting skills, painting habits and writing of the poem, tell me Mr. Eagle that you like Mr. Athens’ works so much, is this painting an imitation or not?
Raul smiled: “I never said it was a forgery.
Yolanda was stunned to hear Albina’s explanations, especially Mr. Aguila also agreed with her:《Can it really be a genuine painting, but how is that possible?》
-Perhaps, you found a person who is very skilled at imitating Mr. Athens’ paintings, that could explain everything.
Yolanda panicked and excused herself: “Although Mr. Aguila likes to collect calligraphy and paintings, he is not a professional anyway, maybe I could not identify him in a short time.
As soon as these words came out, even Emma knew she had said something wrong, she wanted to take her hand to stop her.
What Yolanda had just said would mean that Raul did not have good eyesight, he was not able to distinguish the pictures.
But Yolanda was furious, she couldn’t detect the signals Emma was throwing with her eyes.
As she thought, Emma looked up and saw that Raul’s face was pale.
-Miss Carballal Family, what do you mean by that? Even though I’m old, I’m not too useless to be able to distinguish between the fakes and the originals.
There was anger in Raul’s voice and Yolanda realized that when he was pointing at Albina, he also disrespected Mr. Aguila unintentionally.
She hastened to explain:
-No, forgive me, I didn’t mean by that…..
Albina suddenly interrupted her words at this moment with a very beautiful smile:
-Miss Yolanda, in fact, to test whether this painting is genuine or not, I know a simple and direct method.
Without knowing why, Yolanda was nervous and confused when she saw her smile and really wanted to scratch her face.
-What method? Although Raul knew the painting was genuine, he was also curious to see the way she wanted to show Albina
If it was him testifying for Albina, people could probably say that he was biased to take care of his son’s fame.
On the other hand, if he did not find a useful proof to check this picture, Yolanda would be able to exaggerate and curse things that would harm Albina’s reputation.
Albina looked at Raul with great confidence:
-Mr. Eagle, we can call Mr. Athens directly to check it out.
Emma snorted coldly:
-Albina, who do you think you are, a person like you who wants to contact such a famous teacher with Mr. Atenas, don’t even dream about it, don’t you know that if you keep lying, it will make the situation worse?
At this moment Yolanda felt relieved and smiled sarcastically:
-I thought you had come up with a better idea, I see that your method is really simple, but it is also stupid enough. You don’t even have any contact information for Mr. Athens.
Albina raised her eyebrows, took out her phone and directly made a video call.
In an instant, the entire banquet hall fell silent.
The guests looked at each other, they couldn’t believe that she actually dialed her cell phone, what if the person who answered was not Mr. Athens, how could she get out of this scandal?
Everyone held their breath and looked at Albina and her cell phone screen, but the doorbell rang for a long time without anyone answering.
Yolanda’s smile grew bigger and bigger, Umberto frowned and when he was about to take a step to help Albina, suddenly the call connected.
Albina looked at the old man on the screen and greeted him with a good smile:
-Professor, you finally answered my call!
Professor!!!?
Raul was stunned and looked at Albina with surprise.
Could it be that Mr. Athens is this girl’s teacher!
-Albina, I’ve told you many times before that I don’t know how to handle young people’s things. The phone rang for a long time and I couldn’t answer it, I had to ask one of my students to teach me how to use it.
Said the person on the opposite side with an old voice, but full of energy.
Albina smiled mischievously and said in a flirtatious tone:
-Excuse me professor, I had an emergency to solve, next time I will bring you a jug of good wine and no one will know.
Then Mr. Athens forgave her:
-Tell me, Albina, what’s the matter with you, didn’t you ask me to paint a picture before and something bad happened again?
-It’s that painting that caused me the problem!
Albina looked in Yolanda’s direction, saw her face turn pale and snorted angrily:
-Someone doubted that this painting is a forgery and said that I am a hypocrite!
Mr. Athens became angry when he heard this, his voice rose very high:
-Who is this bastard and illiterate who dares to question my painting?!
Yolanda’s face was turning red and pale, due to the old man’s insults, she was ashamed and angry and felt guilty for what she did.
Albina quickly calmed the old man down:
-Calm down please, she is just an unlettered idiot, she has no reason to get angry with that kind of person.
Those words gave new blows to Yolanda, she was really angry.
Everyone around her looked at her with bad intentions, but none of them dared to say anything when they saw her angry look.
If it were not for the influence of the Carballal Family, she would possibly hide for being ridiculous in front of the public.
-Dear Mr. Athens!
Raul stepped forward to greet him, he had always been mature, but this time he was quite excited and very nervous to see his idol.
Mr. Athens looked at him:
-You must be Raul, Albina said she was going to your birthday party, and specifically asked me to paint you. Was it you who doubted my painting?
-No, no!
Raul waved his hands quickly.
Mr. Atenas snorted coldly:
-All right, that idiot who said it’s fake, she should study more so she won’t embarrass herself again.
Mr. Athens’ insults were very aggressive, Albina chatted with him for a while and hung up the call. Then she looked at Yolanda:
-How about it, Miss Yolanda, do you still think this painting is a fake?