Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Several cars parked in front of Luo Xiulan's apartment.At this time, everyone who went to work in the afternoon went home one after another.I think parking should be crowded. I backed the company car until it lightly bumped into the front bumper of the car parked behind me, and then managed to get the company car out. In front of me, a car pulled out from the side of the road. The man driving it was about thirty-five years old, and he didn't look very eager to get on the road.Another man was sitting next to him, no features, like the kind of person you see on the road every day.They weren't talking about anything either.They don't look around, but look straight ahead.I honked my horn and drove past them.I looked back in the rearview mirror and saw another car behind me pulling out of a parking space on the street.The man who drove that car seemed to be in a hurry.He honked his horn and squeezed to the outside of me, trying to pass my car.He obviously misjudged the traffic situation, slowed down, spun the wheel and followed my car.

That car was also driven by a man, and he also had a friend who was expressionless and silent sitting beside him. I drove slowly, thinking to myself. These guys don't look like cops.If they're a private eye, am I worth someone spending that much money on me? I immediately discovered that the car on the left rear also intended to turn left. The slow-moving car suddenly became active and squeezed into a space in the outer lane. At the last second, I suddenly changed the signal, from left to right, and suddenly cut into the right lane.The two drivers honked their horns and refused to let go, cursing all kinds of obscenities as they passed by my car.I ignored them, spotted Yilu Street, and turned right into it.

The car that entered the lane couldn't turn back, and the other car behind me to the right managed to follow in its busy schedule. I leaned to the side of the street and stopped in front of a fire hydrant. I pulled the brakes on, opened the door, and got out of the car. I said: Two friends, do we have any holidays? They didn't even look back.They don't see me.They also slowed the car almost to a complete stop.I got out of the car and they passed me slowly, looking like they were too busy looking for the number of a house on the left side of the street to see what was going on on my side.

I got back into the company car, took the risk of eating the order, and turned around in the middle of the street.I never saw any of the cars with me again. I observed for a long time, and found out by various means that the person following me had indeed given up, so I drove the car to Qiu Beide's office. Qiu Beide didn't want to see me.He told me he was about to close up and go home.He said it was late and he had other dinners.He's said he said all he had to say when he gave me the tip over the phone.He asked me to talk about something tomorrow. I told him no. He looked at his watch impatiently and let me in.

I sat across from him with a desk in the middle. I had looked at him in Niu Banming's office before, and this time I observed him more carefully. He was tall, languid, fifty-two or fifty-three years old, and the top two-thirds of his head was bald.She has little hair, but her eyebrows are long, long, thick, and fluffy.Most of the time when he talks to people, he lowers his head, raises his eyes, and looks at the other person from between his brows.This trick is quite capable of bluffing and putting people on the defensive. At least that's how I feel now that I'm sitting across from him.

I made him keep looking at me sharply to show that I didn't care.Then I said.What does it mean to drag Ben Wanlu out and give it to me? His persuasive eyes suddenly hesitated, and unconsciously narrowed into a small slit.But because of his persuasive personality, he noticed it immediately, and returned to his original attitude: I occasionally do a business of one or two batches of antique jewelry.This can only be said to be a sideline.I happened to think of Miss Ben Wanlu and her pendant.I got it from her. Do you often do this kind of thing?I asked. You mean antique jewelry? Yes. Quite a few, but not as much as I've been doing for a while.There is less need for that now.

How to do it?What to do when there are a lot of them. He touched his head and said: Let me tell you, don't you understand everything? OK, let's talk about something else.I said: You didn't tell the Foshan police officer about your side job, right? He didn't ask me! You didn't take the initiative to provide any information. You are not a rap person yourself. Is Mellobo a go-to for your vintage jewelry? Absolutely not. Let's assume that Ben Wanlu is telling the truth, then she sold you a garnet pendant.What did you do with it? I solved it through the transaction pipeline.

Wasn't it Mr. Melober? Absolutely not. But then it appeared in the hands of Melobo, and suddenly changed into emerald-encrusted? Qiu Beide's hands were busy scratching his hair again.Of course, it was most likely not the same pendant.I don't remember exactly whether it was garnet or not. Got it, you just have a vague memory of the pendant, so you want to investigate.Is it right? His eyes sparkled.Yes, that's it. You can't remember now, when you bought it, was it red garnet or green emerald? He said nothing. A person of your status, with antique jewelry as a side job, will you forget to spend ten yuan to buy a really valuable pendant?

When I saw this pendant, there was no emerald on the pendant. You don't know if it's the same pendant? I really don't know, I only know that among the jewelry bought from Ben Wanlu, there is a pendant that is very similar to the design of the jewelry in this case.In fact, if I hadn't looked up the previous records, I would have forgotten her name.I just want to help you, Mr. Lai is not trying to cause a lot of inconvenience for himself. In such cases the outcome is often unpredictable. May be true. In my opinion, Ben Wanlu is used to distract me. Sorry, I thought I was doing you a favour.

She is calm, knows what to say, kind, endless talker.In fact, she was very cooperative.Cooperate to the point where I think it was deliberately arranged. Mr. Lai, I assure you that there is absolutely no such thing. You see, how to explain this possibility, that pendant was sold by Ben Wanlu, to you.You handed over a business channel that you didn't want to talk about, and somehow the pendant fell into the hands of Melobo.Melobe removes the garnet and artificial ruby ​​from the top, and replaces it with a very good emerald, and gives it to you for appreciation, and you take it to Niu Banming's shop for valuation.You took it back and handed it back to Melobo, who immediately took the emeralds down again, probably to put back the garnets and artificial rubies.

Let me put it this way, it is meaningless to do this thing. Can you put it another way to make sense of this one?I asked. no.he admitted.Pull up his own earlobe. You yourself are quite prominent in this matter.I said: First of all, the pendant is in your hands. You sold it. Someone bought it and put jadeite in it. He brought it to you and asked you to take it to Niu Banming for an appraisal.You also call it your side hustle.You yourself are like Rome. What does it mean to be like Rome? All roads lead to Rome.I said. He still kept pulling on his own earlobe.I guess there is only one explanation.He said. what explanation? The pendant I bought from Ben Wanlu was not the one Melober sent me to value, but I could swear the two pendants were the same. At first, you didn't notice their similarities? No, because I only paid attention to the gemstones, not the pendant itself, you know what I mean. I don't understand. Let's put it this way, I have long forgotten about the pendant I bought from Ben Wanlu.When I realized the importance of the Melobo pendant, I remembered that there was a pendant sold to me by Ben Wanlu, which was exactly the same as this one. I said: That pendant is a masterpiece of antique jewelry.It is likely that quite a few pendants of this kind have been popular in the market. It is possible yes. And among these goods, one may be inlaid with garnet, and the other may be inlaid with emerald.Yeah? This is certainly a possibility.But, to be honest, Lai, I still think the one pendant that Melober has is the one that I bought from Ben. Then, finding out where Merobe got it from has become the most important thing at the moment. Qiu Beide said: If you say this, things will be difficult to handle. Why? The reason is that it is impossible for me to tell you the way out of these antique jewelry.First, it would be against my client's interest to do so.Besides, it would seal off a very good line of money for myself.But I can say that it is likely that Mr. Mak was doing a little detective work himself when he died. He wanted to know how this pendant came to be set with emeralds, or where the emeralds came from. In this way, the person who bought the antique jewelry from you was playing tricks? I didn't say that. Well, Melobe, he is a friend of the South American government, and Emerald is completely controlled by the government in South America.Melober wants to do a little detective work for his friend.Yes or no? I just wanted to tell you about this possibility without compromising professional ethics.Qiu Beide said. Thanks.I told him: I'll think about it again.You sent me Ben Wanlu's news, I'm sorry for the way I reacted.I know now that you are much smarter than I thought. Thank you, I think so myself.Qiu Beide said.He bid me good night. I walked back down the street and started to get into my car, naturally looking around to ascertain my surroundings. There were two other cars parked within a hundred feet of my car.There are two people in each car.Those were the two cars that had followed me earlier. I got in the car and drove away. Neither car had the slightest look to follow.I started getting chills from the back of my neck down.If these people are following me here, they must have clairvoyance.I don't think they are very smart people, and I also dumped them earlier, but they are here now, just outside Qiu Beide's office door, waiting for me to come out.