Black friday

Chapter 8 #7 Temporary Activities

7:30 a.m.

Clement and Carmen arrive at the art gallery.

As the author of this personal art exhibition, Clement has personally led people to make arrangements for the paintings, and other work matters communicated with the organizers are fully represented by agents trusted by Clement.

Carmen's ability to work is absolutely unquestionable, especially when she works for Mr. Clement Addams.

Therefore, Clement walked around the art gallery, inspecting the places where he passed his hands, and after finding nothing wrong, he put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, turned around and left.

Carmen can handle things here alone, and Clement never doubts that the opponent's strength will not be able to control the overall situation. Probably, the possibility of accidents has been recorded by her and has preset several treatment plans.With such a capable Carmen in hand, Clement thought that he would be fine as a human figure in the pavilion.

Of course, Clement didn't mean to be just a hands-off shopkeeper.

He walked towards the door, stopped in front of the gate of the art gallery, asked the security guards if they bothered, and then joined them as the gateposts there.

Compared with the burly security guards who are not close to strangers, Clement really has a good face that can deceive people, so when Clement stood at the door like a maverick male model holding his sketchbook, It attracted the attention of many people.

Someone tried to say hello to him, but Clement glanced up and ignored it.

The visitor was puzzled and wanted to say something, so Clement showed the sketchbook in his hand, and there was a row of cursive English on it: Entrance for non-ticket holders.

Onlookers: "..."

All at a loss.

In fact, the Quantico Museum of Art put up a sign a month ago, saying that it will hold a three-day solo exhibition starting today, and visitors can buy tickets to enter and conduct a charity auction in the exhibition. All the profits will eventually flow into Quantico's charitable foundation... But, what's going on with this one?

Clement lowered his eyes and said casually: "This is a temporary event. Anyone who wants to enter can draw a picture on it. If I am satisfied, I will pay for your ticket."

The first middle-aged man who spoke to Clement said, "Well, it's interesting."

Then he took the pen and paper from Clement's hand and sketched a picture.

Clement glanced at it, and the evaluation was loose and out of scale, but this was originally a small game for outsiders.

He gave way: "please."

The middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes smiled slightly: "Thank you."

8:00 a.m.

The exhibition is officially open.

One after another, people who got tickets came to see the long-awaited art exhibition, and the first person who got a free ticket also walked in.

The onlookers were all aroused, but unfortunately, not many people successfully passed the level afterwards. Some people even suspected that Clement had hired a middle-aged man before. The above action - give the pen and paper, take it back and have a look.

Afterwards, Pass, Pass, Andpass one after another.

In this way, to No.20 four.

"Huh?" Clement made a nasal sound, his eyes moved away from the too messy and unstructured lines in the sketchbook, and fell on the young boy opposite.

His age is about 21 to 15. As you know, Europeans and Americans are always young and mature. At the age of 25, they have a 25-year-old face, and [-] years old is not worse than [-] years old.

Clement: "Please."

A young boy who looked like a student walked past him.

After that, some people tried unwillingly, some passed and some failed, no one knew what Clement's selection criteria were, men, women, office workers, student party, he just glanced at those scribbled pictures , a decision was made.

"Hi, Clement." An Italian man in a standard three-piece suit was not in a hurry to enter the museum, but stared at Clement's face with great interest, and said with a smile: "You decorate yourself like a performance artist instead of A cutting-edge painter."

Clement raised his eyebrows, swept away the idleness and all kinds of chatter on his face, and responded: "My talent does not depend on other people's comments."

"Nice to meet you, Rossi." Clement waved at the rare year-end hand.

It has to be said that their way of greeting is very special, there is no hug, no lively discussion, and no human relationship made of a lot of rhetoric.

Rossi just took out the cigar box, distributed one to Clement, and when Clement was free to pick it up, cut it open for him, lit it... and did the same action again by himself.

The two moved to the side and took a puff on their cigars at the same time.

The aroma of the first cigar is rich and gorgeous, and it is worth a long time to enjoy.

After slowly exhaling the aroma from his mouth, Clement said, "It's the box I gave you. This smell is really nostalgic. I grew up bathed in this aroma."

Rossi said: "That's right, but it's a pity you didn't tell me where the place of origin is. I really don't smoke one now."

Clement smiled playfully: "Because I told you that you couldn't buy it."

Rossi: "Oh?"

"It's an Addams specialty and my uncle loved it," Clement explained.

"He must be a gentleman who knows how to enjoy himself." Rossi said regretfully, "To be honest, I've always wanted to meet him."

"I've been curious about him since you first mentioned him in front of me."

Clement: "Because he taught me to smoke cigars since I was four?"

Rossi smiled: "Half and half."

Clement said: "This is not easy. My uncle's range of activities is only around the Addams, in a sense, around the Addams and the Addams' home."

Rossi sighed: "It's a pity."

Clement laughed and said nothing.

Clement didn't wait to finish smoking this cigar. In fact, he rarely smoked this cigar. He used to occasionally buy one with uncleAddams at home, and he didn't include the cigar in his shopping list after he came out.The same is true for the cigars sent from his hometown this time. If he hadn't given them to David Rossi, he didn't know that they would have been left out in the year of the monkey.

Clement looked at the pedestrians who had left because he left, and said to Rossi, "I'm going to continue my performance art, are you free?"

Rossi was holding a cigar, very personable: "I don't need people to accompany me."

Clement then turned around and was about to leave. He only took two steps. As if he remembered something, he turned his head and said to Rossi: "Because of some accidents, I dealt with the BAU police officers once and invited them over..."

Rossi looked surprised, glanced up and down at Clement, and asked, "You? BAU? What do you have to deal with?"

Clement: "An accident. I want to ask you, do you think they will come?"

Rossi pondered for a few seconds: "Maybe?"

Rossi, who is still a handsome guy after middle age, spread his hands quite naturally, and laughed at himself very humorously: "You have to understand Clement, I have been away from BAU for a long time, and now I can't figure out what they think."

Clement: "Don't say that about Rossi, I'm your big fan."

Clement smiled. It was good to see that the frivolous eyebrows were suppressed by the full presence of the wrasse spider, but the mysterious aura of the whole body was also enlarged to a degree that people could not ignore, "Even my black magic can't predict you Aren't you good enough for the plot direction of the pen?"

Rossi: "...the young people of today."

Rossi clicked his tongue twice and went to the art exhibition with a cigar in his mouth.

Although Clement didn't get an answer from Rossi, he stood guard in front of the art museum, but he soon waited for BAU's arrival.

The lively and pretty Garcia leads the charge with her cavaliers, followed by Elle and Reid, followed by Hotch and his wife Haley, and Gideon and his girlfriend Sarah.

The four of Garcia stopped in front of Clement: "Hello, handsome boy!"

Just as Clement was about to speak, the Hotch couple and Gideon caught up behind him. Because there were too many people around the door, they had to nod hastily to say hello.

Both Hotch and Gideon came together, and it seemed that they were going to have a wonderful date, and Clement had no intention of disturbing them.

Clement's attention was more on the four people in front, Garcia and Elle were very excited, and Morgan was willing to risk his life for a gentleman, so there was nothing dissatisfied about it.

Reid was last, and gave him a friendly smile.

Clement stopped him.

Clement said: "Dr. Reid, do you want to play?"

He held up the sketchbook in his hand, and explained to Reid the little activity they had made before they came.

Reid was really interested, and stayed with Clement after talking to the others, and looked at Clement nervously: "I don't know what to draw?"

Clement reassured: "Anything is fine, it's just a small game."

Clement led Reid away from the gate where the crowd had gathered, and handed the things over.

Reid took the notebook from him, and began to draw seriously on it with a pencil.

Clement looked at the drawing that was gradually taking shape, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Spider?"

"Yeah, spider." Reid said, pointing to Clement's face, and blushed: "You draw very well, I'm a little concerned, just..."

In front of Reid, Clement looked intently at his slightly abstract spider figure, and commented: "You are so cute, Dr. Reid."

Reid is even more embarrassed. His paintings are always laughed at by his colleagues—often with good intentions. He has heard Clement say this many times. Although he knows that he is not malicious, the other party is Clement Addams—a talented painter, how much Reid Some embarrassment that I don't know how to deal with.

Fortunately, Clement saw his predicament and didn't want to scare people away. He carefully closed the sketchbook and said, "Welcome to my exhibition, Dr. Reid."

Reid bit his lip and shook his head: "No, we're all looking forward to it."

Clement continued in a very natural way: "Then how about I show you around, and I can also explain it to you."

Reid: "Your activity?"

Clement put the hand holding the sketchbook behind his back as if nothing had happened, and said, "Oh, it just ended."

Reid was amused by him and laughed: "Then I will trouble you, A...Clement."

"My pleasure," Clement said, tucking the sketchbook between his arms, and walked into the gallery side by side with Reid.

Interestingly, before they entered the exhibition, other people from BAU bumped into Rossi who was slowly admiring the paintings.

Gideon and Hotch introduced the young people of BAU to Rossi, and then a few people chatted and found out that Rossi had an unexpected relationship with Clement.

Rossi's original words are: "Ah, we are quite familiar, that kid is my book fan, but after I knew he could smoke cigars at the age of four, we became good friends with similar interests."

Everyone laughed uncontrollably.

However, since Hotch had purposely accompanied Hailey to relax, and Gideon had brought a female companion, they didn't have much time to chat.Instead, the younger generation of BAU surrounded Rossi with admiration and curiosity, and listened to the big guy volunteering to explain Clement's paintings.

Yes, Rossi has a lot of appreciation for artworks, especially when it comes to Clement's paintings.

Garcia also pulled Morgan and muttered: "I think this is a very beautiful fan."

Morgan winked at her: "Sweetheart, don't tell me if you see through."

Among other things, Clement's painting skills are indeed superb and outstanding, and Rossi is funny and cute to a certain level. Even if Garcia and the others still miss Dr. Reid who was abducted by Clement, they quickly plunged into the dizzying and strange pictures , and completely forgot about Reid's leaving the team.

From this point of view, it is enough to see that Clement's reputation is good.At least there is Rossi, who is a BAU veteran, as a guarantee, and even Gideon and Hotch are quite assured that he will associate with Reid.

It seems a bit strange to say that?

Reid is no toothless white rabbit.

... Forget it, let's be considerate of the care of the parents.

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