Halfway through the dinner, the auctioneer sent in and presented all the participants with a tentative provisional auction list, which listed the details of all the lots that had been submitted so far.

Most of the auction items were received in advance, but there were also some fish that slipped through the net that they did not know, and the details are worth taking a good look at, lest there be some fakes or something, and they spend a lot of money to bring back a pair of fakes.

As for the auction items that may be reported in the next two days, the auctioneer will make up another supplementary auction list on the day of the auction starts, and separate it from other lots for auction in two sessions, without delay.

After getting the auction list, most of the participants discussed the topic of the auction items, and they more or less tested each other about what the other party wanted to auction, but most of them laughed and didn't mention it much, unless they were sure that no one dared to fight with them, or there were not many people who wanted to say it generously.

But with the auction list, it was different, the temptations between each other became more frequent and deeper, and in less than an hour, most of the people had a rough idea of who their main goals were, and they also had a bottom of how many competitors they had.

For example, Zhang Aizhi's two pieces of jade, there are more than 20 people who are interested, and there are no less than 10 people who may become strong competitors, including Zhou Ming.

As I said before, Zhou Ming is very rich, but he prefers to spend less and earn more.

Zhou Ming's malice was directed at Zhang Aizhi, because he wanted to get his hands on the jade before the auction began, but he also looked down on those who wanted to grab it from him, and felt that they were not self-sufficient.

The others didn't see how good their impression of Zhou Ming was, they had to let go of each other's ridicule, and strive to overwhelm each other in momentum before the auction began, if they could make some people retreat, and when the real auction began, there would be less competition.

In the second half of the feast, the atmosphere among the guests is no more tense than the friendliness of the previous one, even if it is only superficially friendly.

The wolf also came as a participant, and they had to show their ambition for some auction items, and make a statement with others, so as not to attract unnecessary attention, and the auction items they chose were not jade, but several famous paintings at home and abroad.

There are many people who are willing to collect famous paintings, and the competition is not much worse than jade, so it is also difficult to arouse suspicion.

Qin Shuang and Ah Chen have been following Zhang Aizhi for a while, and they have also paid attention to the movements of the black crow, but until the end of the whole dinner, they have not seen him behave strangely every year, and he has not even left halfway.

Qin Shuang wondered if it was possible that the black crow came late, because he went to Zhang Aizhi's room first and took the jade, because he had already succeeded in dealing with it?

However, the Heavenly Wolf had been in contact with Ah Yan, and it was certain that the Black Crow's people had never approached Zhang Aizhi's room, and the little arrangement they had made on the jade had clearly told them that the jade had not been touched by anyone, which was a bit strange.

Could it be that the other party is planning to wait for the jade to be sent to the auctioneer? In order for Zhang Aizhi to get at least one-tenth of the compensation?

No matter how you think about it, you don't think that Black Crow will be such a 'considerate' person.

Giving up this possibility is to fight from the beginning, and zài is within the scope of Qin Shuang and Ah Chen's considerations.

There must be something wrong with this that they haven't thought of yet.

The dinner party lasted until ten o'clock, Zhang Aizhi was a little old after all, and his expression looked quite tired, so he originally planned to go back to the room to rest and send the jade to the auctioneer early tomorrow morning.

Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, who were not very at ease, temporarily said that they wanted to confirm the safety of the jade again to avoid any accidents in the few hours they left.

There is monitoring equipment in Zhang Aizhi's room, which is deliberately hidden for anti-theft, but as long as there is a person who understands high-tech, it is not too difficult to block the camera or something, for the black crow and the dawn.

Zhang Aizhi is also a cautious person, and he doesn't think that Qin Shuang and Ah Chen are thinking too much, so he cooperated with them and let them go in together, called the secretary to open the safe again to confirm, and by the way, he also took out the video of the surveillance equipment to take a look.

After a two-pronged approach, it was finally determined that no one had been in or out of the room, and that the safe was ...... It is indeed lying quietly two jade stones that exude a translucent luster.

Qin Shuang and Ah Chen looked at the two pieces of jade and smiled meaningfully, said goodnight and left Zhang Aizhi's room.

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Returning to their own room, changing out of the evening dress suit on their bodies, putting on casual clothes and lying down on the sofa, Qin Shuang leaned on Ah Chen's arms and laughed twice, "Ah Yan also said that no one came in or out of Zhang Lao's room, but...... Heh, this is a thief? ”

There are indeed two pieces of jade in the safe, but those two pieces of jade are clearly the guys who were dropped! It looks like glass and imperial green, but the former has to remove the last word, not to mention the latter.

Zhang Aizhi is very good at studying all kinds of antique cultural relics, but for jade, it is a little worse, and he was quite tired from the previous banquet, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and the other party's counterfeiting skills were really good, so he didn't find anything wrong.

"A secretary, or a life assistant." Ah Chenmo stroked Qin Shuang's long hair and squinted.

Qin Shuang said: "I am more inclined to the secretary, although I pick up loyalty, it must be that the life assistant is worse, more susceptible to money or other temptations, or it may be some kind of threat, but the life assistant may not know the password of the safe, and it is the secretary who looks like Sven Wen when he opens the safe twice before and takes out the jade." ”

"Well, I think so, too." Ah Chen said: "Looking at Zhang Aizhi's attitude, he should have great trust in that secretary, and such a person, it is unlikely that he would have known Zhou Ming or Black Crow before, but he was willing to help them do things, the most likely thing should be that the life of some important person around him was threatened, or else there was something that could not be exposed. ”

Qin Shuang groaned, "This, it's really hard to say which one it is, after all, it's just a secretary, and it's someone next to Zhang Lao, and we haven't done any investigation, so let Vivi investigate." With that, he contacted Vivi with Daybreak's small internal contact, explained what had just happened, and said that they could handle it, and told them to wait quietly and continue to keep an eye on the crow.

Judging from the fact that Xiao Qi's side has not mentioned the current situation of jade being touched by living people, things may have reached the hands of some people, but these people have not touched jade yet.

But that doesn't stop them from finding people.

Both left and right are going to participate in the auction, and even if the things they want the most are in hand, they are unlikely to leave immediately, and if they really leave, it is equivalent to telling them who did it, and the things must still be in this hotel at this time.

Besides, the price of 500 million yuan for these two pieces of jade is just an estimated price in the form of auction, if it is really sold privately, it may be more than 300 million, a difference of more than 100 million, with Zhou Ming's greed, can he give it up?

The two of them got together and muttered for a while, and it didn't take long for Qin Shuang to grin, turn on the map function, cover the entire hotel, and then search for Zhou Ming's name, without any investigation or let Vivi hack into the hotel's system find out the location of Zhou Ming's room.

It happened to be in the same room two floors above them.

It's really convenient.

At this time, the time has been unconsciously more than eleven o'clock, because of the special nature of the underground auction, the location of the hotel chosen by the auctioneer is relatively remote, and the outside of the room where they are is facing the back of an office building where no one is occupied at night, there are only a few ventilation windows.

After Qin Shuang and Ah Chen determined that he was the only one in Zhou Ming's room at this time, Ah Chen took Qin Shuang into his arms, and after finding Xiao Qi to make sure that there was no one in the office building in front of him, he performed light skills and flew up to Zhou Ming's window on the two floors above.

It's good to have light work, and you don't need any tools to fly and fly.

Zhou Ming's room was covered by curtains, but there was still a gap, just enough to see the view inside, Ah Chen jumped onto the balcony with Qin Shuang in his arms, and silently looked inside through the gap.

Coincidentally, at this time, there were two boxes on the small coffee table in front of Zhou Ming, and what was placed in the box were the two identical jade stones they had seen in the safe in Zhang Aizhi's room not long ago.

People get stolen goods, that's what kind of scene we're talking about.

Zhou Ming looked at it for a while, then put the box away, looked around the room, and finally stuffed the box under the bed, and then entered the bathroom.

Qin Shuang and Ah Chen also took this opportunity to open the window and quietly enter.

Well? How can they open a locked window, you ask? Ah Chen's internal force, a slight shock can shatter a small piece of the window glass near the lock, and the faint sound of water can be heard in the bathroom, obviously Zhou Ming went in to take a bath, the sound of water covered the sound of glass breaking, and they successfully entered the room without causing anyone to think.

Not only that, but he also sat on the sofa in a dignified manner, waiting for Zhou Ming to come out.

When she came in, Qin Shuang also asked Xiao Qi to confirm that there was no monitoring equipment in this room, invisible cameras, and bugging devices or something, the opponent was a black crow, and she would not take it lightly because she had found the stolen things.

Sure enough, Xiao Qi said that there were not only cameras in this room, but also bugs, and there were several in the living room, and Xiao Qi blocked the signals of these things as soon as possible, and let them return to normal when they left.

About fifteen minutes later, Zhou Ming came out of it in a white bathrobe while humming a song in his mouth, and when he saw two people sitting on the sofa, he reflexively wanted to scream, Qin Shuang casually took a lighter from the table and threw it at Zhou Ming, just hitting his dumb hole and blocking his mouth.

Ah Chen came to Zhou Ming in another flash, and pressed the person down in three or two clicks, a pill for 'forced confession', and in less than ten minutes, they confessed from Zhou Ming's mouth the other party's next plans, the content of the cooperation with the black crow, and the reward to be given after the end.

After hearing this, Qin Shuang and Ah Chen both felt that this Zhou Ming was really despicable and shameless, which was disgusting.

He stole the jade and took it for himself, and even wanted to send the jade to the auctioneer for auction tomorrow! Don't worry about being discovered by Zhang Aizhi at all!

According to his words, even if Zhang Aizhi will find out that he is the one who did it, and the things are already in his hands, can he still be expected to spit it out? When Zhang Aizhi said jade, what was his was his? In whom's hands it is theirs!

At that time, he will be able to expose Zhang Aizhi's statement that Zhang Lao's hand is fake, and he is simply imitating his jade, so that not only Zhang Aizhi's reputation will be greatly damaged, but he will also have to compensate the auctioneer a lot of compensation.

Even if the auctioneer can guess the truth of the matter from Zhang Aizhi and Zhou Ming's comments, they may not be nosy, after all, as long as the matter does not happen to their auctioneer, they can not only get an extra amount of compensation, but also have jade to sell, and the commission will still be drawn, and there will be no loss to them at all.

And the compensation given by Zhang Aizhi to the auctioneer is just enough for the auctioneer to take advantage, and after taking advantage of it, it is natural that he will turn a blind eye to Zhou Ming's behavior.

It was Zhang Aizhi who lost money, but it was Zhou Ming who got the biggest benefit, if Zhang Aizhi knew his calculations, he wouldn't have to make his body angry?

Since Zhou Ming is so despicable and shameless, they can't just take the jade away, just treat it as if this didn't happen, right?

Qin Shuang looked at Zhou Ming, who was dazed and unfocused, and smiled coldly, he wanted to calculate others, and he still wanted people to take money, right? Hmph, she let him also taste the taste of being countercalculated by others! Teach him what it means to steal chickens and rice!

Without saying a word, Qin Shuang took out the fake jade that they had dropped from Zhang Aizhi's room with the two pieces of jade they had copied, and the original jade in the two boxes on the coffee table dropped a bag again.

After that, all the traces of their visit in the room were erased, and Zhou Ming's memories of the two of them were erased, and the broken window next to the bed was used as a trick to ensure that no one would find anything abnormal in at least the next three or four days, and then patted his ass and left as chic as when he came.

Zhou Ming came back to his senses in a trance, and found that he was actually sitting on the bed in a daze, looking left and right, and didn't find anything wrong, yawned and felt tired, so he went straight to sleep, still thinking about Zhang Aizhi's embarrassing happy appearance after the success of his despicable plan.

The next day.

Qin Shuang and Ah Chen got up early, first contacted the Heavenly Wolf, and exchanged news with each other, Qin Shuang told them about Zhou Ming's plan and what she and Ah Chen had done, and they mentioned the black crow's actions this night.

These guys had left the room after the early hours of last night to meet with someone secretly, because the crow's person was not simple, and Ah Yan didn't dare to get too close, but then waited for the crow's person to leave and quietly followed the other party, and determined that the identity of the other party was the honest secretary next to Zhang Aizhi.

They spent a night investigating the secretary and found that the secretary united with the accountant of Zhang Aizhi's son's company, and in two or three years, he successively embezzled a lot of public funds from the company, adding up to several millions, but because the evidence was relatively clean, it has not been exposed so far.

It is also Zhang Aizhi's son's company, which is very large, and the transaction volume of a business reaches tens of millions at every turn, which is also the main reason why Zhang Aizhi can have so much money to constantly buy back various cultural relics, the Zhang family is very rich! Zhang Aizhi worked hard when he was young, and his young son is still earning.

But these are not the key now, the point is that once the secretary's embezzlement of millions of dollars from the company is exposed, it will be light to be driven away by Zhang Aizhi, and he will have to be taken in prison for ten or eight years.

In order to save himself, it is not difficult to understand that he will be threatened by the crows who found these things to help them steal the jade.

The crow only took advantage of the secretary, and did not arrest his family to threaten him, and he barely had a bottom line.