Han Daring heard Xu Lingfeng say that the annoying Lu Zhengxiong was also one of the owners of the lot, and his lot was a statue with a curse.

He has always been interested in strange things, so he was about to ask about the legend of the statue, who knew that Lu Zhengxiong, who was just about to walk out of the banquet hall at this time, broke out a fierce quarrel with a person.

The man opposite was a tall man, with a long thin face, a pale complexion, figure-eight eyebrows, a short beard, a dark face, and a dark coat.

Lu Zhengxiong and this impermanent ghost race man quarreled more and more fiercely, at first they just ridiculed each other, and then quarreled, looking like they didn't stop it, the two of them were about to start punching and kicking each other.

Although the man of the Impermanence Ghost Race is only of medium stature, he is not afraid of the tall and strong Lu Zhengxiong, and roars while rolling up his arms and sleeves:

"Before turning the belly, it was clear that it was divided, and after turning the salted fish, you will eat it alone! That thing isn't yours alone! ”

Lu Zhengxiong shouted:

"Fart! The object was not swept out of the disembowelment, it was all up to me, of course it was mine! ”

The people around listened to such a strange sentence coming out of this man's mouth, and they didn't understand what it meant, but Han Daring had been in the public gate for a long time, and he also knew some black words in the rivers and lakes, and the man who hanged the ghost race said the black words of the grave digger and robber.

In the past, people who dug graves and robbed graves spoke very different words to each other because of different regions. Now everyone knows that the inverted bucket refers to tomb robbery, but in fact, it is only called around Beijing and in the northeast outside the Guanwai.

In the south, it is generally called turning meat dumplings, in Henan it is called shaved sweet potatoes, and in the north there are also called turning salted fish. After Sun Dianying robbed the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, there were many warlords and stragglers, calling tomb robbery a tomb bombing. Beijing and Tianjin have the most black words, such as "digging mushrooms", "turning the belly", "sweeping the warehouse" and so on.

Earlier in the Qing Dynasty, there were also gangsters called "planing antiques" and "planing antiques", and even gangsters such as the Qinghong Gang also had their own black words about tomb robbing.

Han Daring listened to the meaning of the words of the impermanent ghost race man, and what he said was like robbing the tomb with Lu Zhengxiong, but the things that were poured out were swallowed by Lu Zhengxiong alone, so because of the entanglement of interests between the two people, it became fire and water.

It seems that the rumors Xu Lingfeng said are indeed true, this Lu Zhengxiong did start by robbing tombs. So he asked Xu Lingfeng:

"Who is the man who quarreled with Lu Zhengxiong? Are you here for the auction too? ”

Xu Lingfeng said:

"This person's name is Xie An, and he is also in the antiques business, and he often has dealings with our Durand auction house, and he must come to every auction. He seems to be in trouble with Lu Zhengxiong, the two often work against each other, every auction, as long as these two people can put the reserve price of 100 yuan, they are stunned to 5,000 yuan! ”

Han Daring said:

"It's not stupid, it's good for your auction house!"

Xu Lingfeng just smiled politely and didn't say anything.

At this time, Burroughs and a tall man hurriedly came forward to persuade the round, the tall man, wearing a suit, was the man who had talked to Lu Zhengxiong before and seemed a little submissive.

The man was tall and thin, with a rectangular face, quite fair-looking, less than forty years old, and a mustache. Han Daring also noticed that the left earlobe of this mustache seemed to be missing, and he didn't know if it was a congenital deformity.

Burroughs persuaded the two to separate and go to two reception rooms.

Han Da'er remembered what he had always wanted to ask, so he asked:

"Mr. Xu, in fact, I want to know about the owner of the oil painting "Sleeping Girl" in the lot!"

Xu Lingfeng heard Han Dada'er mention the painting "Sleeping Girl", and his expression changed extremely slightly, but the micro-expression of this change in expression only lasted less than half a second, and then returned to normal.

He asked:

"Why is Mr. Han interested in this painting by Walter Siegel? You said that this lot may be related to a serial murder, but you don't mean that Walter Siegel is seated in the painting, right?

Do you also believe the rumors that Siegel is the murderer of the Whitechapel tragedy in London, England, nearly half a century ago, Jack the Ripper? ”

Han Daring said:

"No, I'm not referring to the Jack the Ripper case, but the serial caesarean section case that happened in Tianjin Wei some time ago!"

Xu Lingfeng said strangely:

"Isn't that case closed? The police department announced the facts of the case, saying that a fake doctor nicknamed Nine and a Half Fingers did it, and he had already been punished! ”

It is inconvenient for Han Da'er to say that the murderer has not yet been arrested, and it will be even more troublesome if the news spreads and causes panic.

So he said:

"Actually, this serial murderer also created an explosion case, and there were some clues left in the case, which seem to be related to this painting, so I came here to look for clues, if it's really inconvenient, forget it!"

Xu Lingfeng nodded after hearing this and said:

"I see, this painting is a collection of collectors, this collector specializes in collecting some famous paintings, in fact, this "Sleeping Girl" is not a famous painting, but because of rumors, Walter Siegel may be Jack the Ripper, so this painting will rise!

The owner of this painting, named Lynch, as you saw just now, is a tall man in a suit when he was persuaded just now! ”

Han Daring didn't expect that the one who was submissive to Lu Zhengxiong just now turned out to be the owner of that painting. Could it be that this Lynch is the mysterious dealer who hides his head and tail?

He leaned closer to Xu Lingfeng and asked in a low voice:

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, are you sure that 'The Sleeping Girl' is the real work of Walter Siegel?"

Xu Lingfeng didn't expect Han Daring to suddenly ask, he was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"Why do you ask?"

Han Daring said:

"In the previous bombings, I found a lot of unfinished oil paintings that copied this painting, and even the brushwork was exactly the same, so I suspect ......"

"Of course this "Sleeping Girl" is real, this has been personally authenticated by our auction house, are you doubting my professionalism?"

Xu Lingfeng listened to Han Daring'er's words, and suddenly seemed a little unhappy, although he was very humble just now that he only knew a little about Western antique oil paintings, but his reaction at this time was telling Han Da'er that he was an undoubted expert.

Xu Lingfeng was a little emotional, and didn't want to talk to Han Daring anymore, so he put down his wine glass, turned around and left without saying a word.

At this time, Mei Ruohong, who had not spoken for a long time, said:

"This Xu Lingfeng is very proud, and he is also very conceited about his appraisal ability, what you just said angered him!"

Gao Jinghui saw Xu Lingfeng walk away, so he walked over and said:

"Officer Han, you're right, his appraisal skills are not necessarily very clever, I heard that once after appraising a Western oil painting, he was sure that the oil painting was real, but half a year later, the person who bought the painting found it back, saying that someone had identified it and said that the painting was a fake!"

Zhang Xi also walked over and said:

"It's not like this, it is said that the one at that time was indeed genuine, because the author of that painting painted two identical paintings, and the one identified by Xu Lingfeng was also genuine, and later the buyer knew about it and apologized to him!"

Gao Jinghui said:

"Why haven't I heard of this?"

Zhang Xi said:

"The person who bought the painting is a relative of my teacher, so I found out the inside story!"

Gao Jinghui said:

"That's not the version I've heard anyway......"

While the two were arguing, a soft and pleasant bell rang in the hall, reminding everyone that the auction was about to begin.

Everyone left from the banquet hall one after another, and then walked to the second floor of the western-style building with Lao Cai one after another.

When Han Daring saw Lao Cai, he stepped forward to chat with Lao Cai, because Lao Cai was working, it was inconvenient to talk more, so he only asked how the Du Boltman dog adopted by Han Daring was now.

He learned from Lao Cai's mouth that this western-style building was originally the property of the French Ministry of Industry, and was later transferred to the French Chamber of Commerce for use as a club. The first floor is the ballroom, the second floor is the Earth Hall, and the billiards hall.

Later, it was renovated several times, and a swimming pool was added to the backyard. The most recent renovation was not long ago. Because the Chamber of Commerce intended to use the upper floor as a special hall for auctions and intimate meetings, it was renovated with the Earth Hall.

Because the president's son, Abel Bertrand, temporarily decided to hold an auction here, so the Earth Hall was renovated in a hurry, and it had to be renovated according to Bertrand's design suggestions, but fortunately he was generous, so Durand Auction House also sent someone to help transform the Earth Tube into a standard auction hall. In order to ensure good sound insulation and privacy, in addition to the auction hall without windows, lighting equipment is used, and a soundproof layer is added to the wall to increase privacy, and a new soundproof floor is added to the original bowling alley floor, and it is redecorated again.

Han Daring walked up the stairs and followed everyone to the auction hall on the second floor. The corridor on the second floor is very spacious, and at the end of the corridor on the right is a door for the former billiard hall and lounge. At the end of the corridor on the left hand side is a wall with two doors at each end, and the middle wall is lit by many vertical white neon tubes, and the light from top to bottom makes the whole wall look like a light curtain.

Originally, there were only two large windows in the corridor, which made the corridor a little dark, but now this light curtain makes the whole corridor very bright and spacious. The décor was new and ahead of its time.

In the center of the light curtain stood near the wall a medieval knight's armor, somewhat like the one placed in the corridors of the Red Keep, but taller and larger, and without a velvet burqa, the armor held a long-handled battle axe, and the axe blade rushed forward.

The two doors on both sides of the light curtain are connected, both are the doors of the auction hall, and when you enter the auction hall from the door on one side, you will see that the area of the hall is not very large, only half the size of an ordinary earth hall. Lao Cai explained that this is because the Earth Hall is divided into two, just behind the auction table, and across a wall is a storage room for auction items with a coded door, as well as an office and an equipment storage room.

The auction room has no windows, but it doesn't feel sluggish because there are ventilation ducts installed under the ceiling and floor. There is a low platform around the hall, where ten marble statues of one meter and two meters high are placed, and every other statue, a large Chinese vase is placed, which is slightly shorter than the statue.

There are a number of insulated hanging chains from the ceiling of the hall, and two rows of white lamps are fixed, each in a zigzag shape, but not in a straight line, but diagonally from the corner of the ceiling on both sides of the stage in front of the auction hall towards the center of the doorway, and the two rows of lamps are arranged in an arrow shape, pointing straight to the center of the wall between the two doors. Since the lamp tube is fixed in a line, there are no windows in the room, so there is no fear of the wind blowing the lamp tube.

Although the whole auction hall is not large, it gives people a strong sense of depth from the moment you enter the door, as if the auction hall is far more extensive and far-reaching than it seems.

The auction hall has a smooth floor, and in front of it is the auction table, with an aisle in the middle of the auction table, and five rows of soft chairs on either side, each chair with a number, and everyone only needs to take a seat according to the number on the invitation.

The auction table in front of you is huge, more than half a meter high, and it can almost be used for a drama! There is a small auction table in the middle of the table, and there is a hammer on the table. Next to the auction table is a square table with a smooth tablecloth, which is supposed to be the place where the lots are placed.

At the center of the wall behind the stage, there is also a knight's armor, also holding a battle axe, and the axe blade rushes forward. There is also a statue in each of the two corners of the stage side, which is much taller than the statues placed in the surrounding circle.

In front of the auction table is also a row of long and narrow tables, on which are placed several objects with stands, which are probably some of the items in today's auction.

Han Daring saw at a glance that on a stand on the left side, there was a small bronze mirror the size of a palm, which was inconspicuous and dull, but it was the core of the fairy mirror!