Chapter Ninety-Nine: He wondered if she was waiting for him
Li Dong looked at Bai Ruoheng solemnly, and said truthfully, "I just went down to hand over the master's favorite painting to the auction hall, and when the person in charge of trading the auction matters and storing the collections was in charge, on the way to verify the authenticity of the painting in charge of the essential oil, there was a glass door in front of me that could map all the people in the back row of the auction hall to the window, and I saw two people who didn't look like they came to the Nanjiang auction to participate in the auction at all. ”
Bai Ruoheng's eyebrows moved, and he carefully recalled what he had just seen in the monitoring room through the surveillance video screen, and he seemed to always fix his eyes on the back similar to his grandfather.
As well as the appearance of some people who turned their faces, it seems to ignore the fact that there are people who come to the Nanjiang Auction House and do not intend to come to the auction.
I didn't notice that someone had infiltrated the auction house as a collector.
Realizing their own negligence, Bai Ruoheng and Director Wang looked at each other, and each saw a flash of light in each other's eyes. The light seemed like some kind of hope.
Bai Ruoheng did not hesitate to turn around with Director Wang and face it
Surveillance footage of all the surveillance cameras in the surveillance room monitoring the auction hall.
Director Wang also lost his previous calmness, as if he thought Li Dong's walking pace was too slow, he turned around and went back, grabbed Li Dong's arm, and quickly dragged Li Dong to the front of each monitoring screen to stand.
I saw Director Wang stretch out his hand and point to the picture monitored by the monitor, and asked, "Tell me, where are the two suspicious people you just saw?" ”
Li Dong looked at the surveillance screen with deep eyes, and ate the surveillance video footage that appeared in the monitoring room corresponding to the general orientation of the monitor he had just seen, and said with great confidence, "The southeast of the auction hall, the 7th and 8th in the 6th row from the bottom." ”
Li Dong has always been known for his excellent memory in the army, has keen insight, is relatively complete in all aspects of logic and rationality, and has the ability to never forget. What he saw in the hall just now, he could basically analyze which monitoring monitor it would display according to his analytical ability.
Through Li Dong's accurate identification, Bai Ruoheng and Director Wang's eyes looked at the monitored screen displayed by the monitor pointed by Lidong, and observed it carefully for a while.
Looking at the surveillance screen, one collection after another was carefully removed from the backstage by the responsible staff and placed in the auction hall for all the people who came to the auction to see.
Then there will be a professional narrator to explain the historical dynasties, origins and inheritance significance of each collection that has moved from the backstage to the auction hall.
There are also auctioneers who preside over the scene with hammers, and the collectors below continue to bid upwards one by one, and finally the highest bidder wins.
After going back and forth several times, several pieces of the collection were sold to the peak by the collectors who came to auction in the auction hall after a while, and the hammer fell three times.
Director Wang and Bai Ruoheng both noticed the two suspicious people that Li Dong told them one after another. It's really like Li Dong said, sitting in the back row, the seventh and eighth people of the author in the penultimate row have been sitting quietly in their original seats.
The moment Li Dong was observing in the auction hall, plus the time they were observing now, he had never seen them get up, nor had he ever raised a price tag for a collection that was quickly explained by the person in charge.
On the contrary, they have been sitting there quietly, watching the auction of major collections in full swing in the auction hall. It looks out of place with other collectors who come to auction their collections.
And the location purchased by the two people looks very ingenious from the angle of the main entrance of the Nanjiang Auction House.
Li Dong said his opinion to Bai Ruoheng respectfully, "Mr. Bai, Director Wang, you see, from this surveillance video screen, when I gave the painting to the person in charge of the collection transaction in charge of the auction in the auction hall, there was a huge glass door on the side. ”
Bai Ruoheng looked fixedly, behind Li Dong, all the collectors who came to the auction, as well as all the movements and expressions, could be seen clearly through the glass door.
Li Dong then said, "Not only are they acting strangely, but the location they purchased also seems to be suspicious."
"You must know that almost everyone who works at the Nanjiang Auction House wants to be in the front or middle position, but they are in the middle and back rows, unassumingly but very eye-catching, looking at the whole auction hall as a whole. Although it is impossible to determine what purpose the two of them came to the clubhouse with in secret, the purpose must not be pure. ”
Speaking of this, Director Wang quite agrees with Li Dong's point of view.
Because during the auction of the collection, when the person in charge of the auction takes something
Go to the table in the center of the auction hall, start bidding, start at the lowest price, and then many auction Tang families will hold up the number plate, even if it is once or twice, I have never seen a collector who does not raise a card to the scene to auction items.
Not only Li Dong has never seen it, but even he, the director of the auction house, has not seen it.
"Ruoheng, what do you think about this matter?"
Director Wang turned his head to look at the meticulous and serious Bai Ruoheng, wanting to hear his opinion on this matter.
From the surveillance footage displayed by the monitors, plus some of the items they just saw that were taken out of the background, these are the collections provided by many well-known collectors from all over the country for everyone to auction.
In terms of its value, it is extremely precious antique calligraphy and painting. Since he came to his auction house, he is a collector who has already seen and returned empty-handed.
And these two suspicious people, there is always one thing that they are satisfied with and want to auction home. If none of them are satisfied with all the antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the hall that have been put up for auction today, why should they come?
Bai Ruoheng looked at the monitoring monitor steadily, and said inexplicably, "I think there are four possibilities. ”
Director Wang asked again, "Which four?" ”
For Bai Ruoheng's ability, Director Wang still believes very much.
Not to mention that there has been no news since his friend disappeared, most of the time he helped him behind Bai Ruoheng, that is, the perverse things that Bai Ruoheng did when he was a child, and some of them were settled for him by his friend instead of him.
Therefore, Director Wang knows that Bai Ruoheng has inherited the high IQ of his father and grandfather, and he can be said to be a proud son of heaven since he was a child. After so many years, his friend and I have been by his side, and countless setbacks have sharpened him, and he has been trained to excel.
Whether it is means or strategy, or heart and courage. He, an elder who has been in the business world for more than thirty or forty years, is impressed. The perception of some things is also much sharper than that of ordinary people.
"The first is that they haven't seen the collection they came here to auction home. So they are unmoved by it. The reason why I don't raise the price tag is just waiting for the last piece of the collection to appear. ”
This point, Bai Ruoheng is based on the fact that although they have not raised a price code card once, their eyes and cities and counties are firmly fixed on the stage of the auction hall
The person in charge of the auction holds in the hand of the collection that is about to be auctioned and sold.
This shows that they are still here for a collection after all, but that collection has not yet appeared. Therefore, it cannot arouse their attention to the auction transactions of collections in full swing in the auction hall at this time.
Because it is not yet the final stage of this auction.
"Second, they are the first time they have entered this Nanjiang auction house, and they are not familiar with the process of auction transactions."
"Thirdly, they don't have much money with them. In the auction hall, there are more and more people shouting for their favorite collections, and the corresponding collection prices are also getting higher and higher. ”
"Fourth, maybe they're not really here to take pictures of the collections they like, but to find the person or people they want to find."
"That makes sense. No matter what, we have to follow this speculation to figure out what their purpose is, right? ”
Li Dong straightened his back and volunteered, "Mr. Bai, leave this matter to me." ”
"Hmm. Don't forget to startle the snake. ”
"Yes!"
Just when Li Dong was about to turn around and walk out of the door of the monitoring room. Bai Ruoheng seemed to have thought of something and stopped him.
He asked, "Which door did you come in from the Nanjiang Auction House?" ”
Li Dong was a little puzzled, and he didn't understand why Bai Ruoheng asked this question. The fox looked at him suspiciously and replied, "Nanmen, why is Mr. Bai asking this?" ”
Bai Ruoheng looked a little uncomfortable, put his five-fingered hand to his lips, and coughed slightly, "Then did you see a strangely dressed woman when you came in from the south gate?" ”
He came in, and it had been nearly two hours inside the clubhouse. He remembered the woman she told him before he came in that she liked him. He hadn't intended to pay attention to his crazy words regardless of the occasion, but who knew that the woman gritted her teeth and continued to speak.
I like it very much, and she said that she wanted to know when he would come out of the auction hall and from which exit, so she would go to the exit he chose in advance and wait for him to come out.
Her words were bold and straightforward, and he had seen too many women who wanted to show themselves in front of him, so he just thought it was funny, and immediately asked her, "Like me?" How much do you like it? ”
She replied categorically that she wanted to be his woman, his... Wife. Mrs. White. He also said that he would give her a chance. It's the first time he's seen such a novel way of talking.
I don't know why, Bai Ruoheng just wanted to know if the woman swore that she would really wait at the south gate for two hours under the scorching sun.