Chapter Seventy-Seven: Brothers in Distress
Tang Xin knew that Huang Zhixin proposed to "open his eyes", but he still didn't believe in his special skills, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll show you something first." ”
Subsequently, he returned to Dexinzhai, took a piece of jadeite rough stone, and asked Huang Zhixin: "Do you still have an impression of this stone?"
Huang Zhixin looked at it and said, "This is the rough stone I gave you when you left Gu Xinzhai." You see, there is a word 'Xin' painted with red paint on this side, which should be correct. ”
Tang Xin nodded and asked, "Do you think this rough stone is worth anything?"
Huang Zhixin picked up the stone and observed it carefully, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be worth much." Let me tell you the truth: these rough stones piled up in my house are all waste materials that experts have seen and felt that they can't find any good jadeite, and it's okay to leave them as souvenirs, but the value can't be discussed. ”
Tang Xin said with a smile: "Master, maybe the other rough stones in your house are not valuable, but the stone you gave me as a souvenir is wrapped in a piece of 'cockscomb red' jadeite, and it is of good color." According to my estimates, this 'cockscomb red' jadeite is worth millions. ”
Huang Zhixin shook his head and said: "How is it possible?" Although the 'cockscomb red' jadeite is not as good as the glass green jadeite, it is also extremely rare. The experts I invited are all of a very high level, so there shouldn't be such a big mistake, are you mistaken?"
Tang Xin said: "There are ready-made cutting tools in the store, let's cut them and verify them!"
Huang Zhixin hurriedly found cutting and grinding tools, and carefully cut the stone according to the cutting line drawn by Tang Xin, and sure enough, he saw a piece of soap-sized, red as a cockscomb, very beautiful.
When Huang Zhixin saw this pure and crystalline rooster comb red jade, he was both annoyed and envious in his heart, and muttered in his mouth: "This is the best red jade, why didn't those experts see it? Xiao Tang, it seems that you are really in time." I remember when you picked a random piece of that pile of stones, I didn't expect it to be the most valuable one, this is luck!"
Tang Xin asked, "How much liquidity do you have now?"
Huang Zhixin sighed and said: "Where is there any liquidity? The only 50,000 yuan in the safe was snatched up and spent by those debt collectors. Now only by waiting for customers to come to buy goods and sell a few pieces of inventory can there be working capital receipt. ”
Tang Xin pointed to the "cockscomb red" jadeite with his hand and said: "Since this is the case, you can sell this piece of red jadeite, it is best to sell it to Mr. Jiang of 'Fuyuan Jewelry Store', he likes this rare jadeite very much, and the price is fair, and it is estimated that it is not a problem to sell it for millions of yuan." This money will be left in your store as working capital!"
Huang Zhixin was so excited that tears came out of his eyes, and he nodded desperately and said, "Okay, good, thank you, thank you!"
At four o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Tang Xin was bored in the store, and suddenly received a call from Xie Benhang, saying that the cultural relics inspection team had arrested a criminal suspect who had sold stolen goods for the tomb robbery gang, and seized several cultural relics stolen from the ancient tomb, and asked him to go over to see those cultural relics to see if he could find out the leader of the tomb robbery gang from the information stored on the cultural relics.
Tang Xin owed Xie Benhang a favor, and was embarrassed to shirk it, so he had to close the roller shutter of the store, say hello to Huang Zhixin on the opposite side, and then walked out of the antique street, stopped a taxi at the west side of the street, and drove straight to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
After entering the cultural relics inspection team, Xie Benhang briefly introduced the case to Tang Xin: Last night, according to the tip, they arrested a cultural relics vendor in a teahouse. The peddler's nickname is "Monkey", and his name on his ID card is Zhu Xiaolong.
During the interrogation, Zhu Xiaolong confessed that those cultural relics were entrusted to him by a cultural relics dealer nicknamed "Bucktooth," and that he could get a 10 percent reward for each item sold. However, he did not know the real name of "Bucktooth" or where he lived.
Every time he picked up the goods, it was "Bucktooth" who used the phone to inform Zhu Xiaolong to go somewhere, and then handed over the goods to him. After the goods were sold, "Bucktooth" temporarily provided him with an account number and asked him to pay for the goods.
The case-handling personnel called the "bucktooth" mobile phone number provided by Zhu Xiaolong, but they could not get through at all. checked the accounts he had provided to Zhu Xiaolong before, and found that they were all opened with other people's lost ID cards, and all of them had been cancelled, so it was impossible to find out the true identity of "Bucktooth" at all......
After listening to the introduction of the case, Tang Xin suddenly asked: "Captain Xie, what does this suspect nicknamed 'Monkey' look like?"
"He is not tall, about 1.65 meters, very thin, with a bony protruding face and a collapsed nose, but his eyes are very big and bright, his lips are very thin, he can speak well, and he looks very cunning and clever. ”
Tang Xin's heart moved, and he asked, "Is he detained in the brigade?" Can I go and meet him?"
"Yes, he is now locked up in the temporary detention cell of the brigade, and I will take you to meet him!"
After entering the temporary detention room, Tang Xin glanced at the suspect and immediately recognized it: this is the "monkey" who wandered on the street with him at the beginning. A few years have passed, and his image has not changed at all, he is still so short and thin, he still has a small flat head, but he has taken off the childishness on his face and looks more mature.
Because Tang Xin came in with the captain, the monkey subconsciously lowered his gaze and made an honest, docile and obedient look, and didn't dare to look at Tang Xin, so he didn't recognize him.
"Monkey, do you still know me?"
Tang Xin suddenly saw the brothers who had been in trouble together, and his heart couldn't help but stir, and he couldn't help but ask without caring about Xie Benhang's presence.
The monkey was taken aback, raised his head suddenly, looked Tang Xin up and down a few times, with a look of surprise on his face, and asked excitedly: "Is it Brother Heipi? Why, you were also arrested?"
It turned out that when he was wandering on the street, because Tang Xin had dark skin, he got the nickname "Black Skin", but no one knew his real name. The rest of the people are the same, they only know each other's nicknames and don't ask each other's real names......
Xie Benhang didn't expect Tang Xin to be familiar with the monkey, and when the monkey asked if Tang Xin had also been arrested, he hurriedly shouted: "Zhu Xiaolong, what are you talking nonsense? Mr. Tang is here to help us solve the case." You know him better, you have to have a correct attitude, honestly explain the problem, strive for meritorious service and atonement, and go out to meet Mr. Tang as soon as possible. ”
"What? Brother Heipi is here to help you solve the case? Brother Heipi, when did you become a policeman?"
The monkey had a surprised and happy expression on his face, and hurriedly asked Tang Xin.
Tang Xin smiled and shook his head: "Monkey, I'm not a policeman, but I'm friends with Captain Xie. ”