Chapter 242 Chosen Worker
"How is this possible?" Before Manager Wen could say anything, an old employee who ran out to watch the fun exclaimed first.
Everyone turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a middle-aged man with a dark complexion standing behind the crowd.
The man was stunned for a moment after suddenly becoming the focus of everyone's attention, but he still said with a stiff upper lip: "This is impossible. The auction items are taken out of the exhibition hall and put back into the exhibition hall after the auction. The exhibition hall is guarded by special personnel 24 hours a day, so it is impossible for someone to steal and replace the items after the auction."
After listening to his explanation, Manager Wen glanced at Du Anrao silently. Seeing that she was only curious and not angry, he introduced her, "This is Manager Li, who is in charge of the storage of the auction items."
As soon as he learned the man's identity, Duanrao understood why he was so anxious to explain himself.
"Don't panic. I didn't mean to say that you were negligent in your work."
Manager Li's expression remained solemn: "Then..."
“There is no such thing as inside job theft.”
Manager Li: "..." Is the expression on his face so obvious? Before he even asked the question, the boss already knew what he was thinking!
"If that's the case, how could the auction item be..."
"The people who stole the genuine works were not from our auction house, but from outside."
The internal employees who came over to eat melons all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, but they were also a little puzzled.
"Outsiders? Outsiders who enter the auction house are the focus of surveillance by the security guards. How could they replace items without anyone noticing? Unless..."
"Unless someone is covering for him."
After hearing this, several people looked at each other, all confused: "Is there someone else covering for us? Who is it?"
"Could it be the...brother of that woman just now?" Manager Wen had a flash of inspiration and looked down at the contracts in his hand. He found that most of these contracts were from five or six years ago, and the earliest one was four years ago.
In other words, after his cousin was arrested, this man never found another opportunity to continue playing tricks in their auction house.
"It's him."
Du Anrao didn't expect that Manager Wen would guess the identity of the person who stole the dragon and the phoenix after he just made a few simple remarks.
When Duanrao was looking through Xiang Qiufu's life just now, he wanted to focus on Xiang Sida's affairs. As a result, he couldn't find anything related to her younger brother at first, and then he looked again and found the shocking news about her eldest son.
From the other party's memory, it can be seen that Xiang Star had come to the auction house several times with Manager Wen's cousin, pretending to be his wife's brother.
Before coming, he had already learned from Xiang Qiu Fu what items the auction house was going to auction that day, and he had already prepared the counterfeits to carry with him.
On the day of the auction, Xiang Qiufu asked Manager Wen's cousin to bring him to the auction house on the pretext of asking her husband to take her brother out to see the world.
As the accountant of the auction house at the time, his cousin was required to personally audit each item after the auction. Xiang Star took advantage of this gap to replace the items.
He was also smart and knew that things like vases and paintings were too big to carry and could easily be discovered, so he mostly targeted smaller items like seals, jade pendants and jewelry.
The day of the auction was the busiest time for his cousin, so he didn't notice that the little tail that had been following him had disappeared. By the time he was done with his work, Xiang Star's business had also been completed and he returned to him. After several times, he didn't even notice anything.
Because he brought the person in personally and he was related to the boss's family, the auction house staff did not have too much guard against Xiang Star, which gave him the opportunity to take advantage of.
But after his cousin was reported and imprisoned, Xiang Star no longer had a guide to enter the venue, so naturally he could no longer enter the auction house to do anything tricky.
For this reason, Xiang Sida even complained to Xiang Qiufu, blaming the two for their extravagant spending, which caused his "brother-in-law" to take risks and make mistakes, causing him to lose a way to make money.
Manager Wen already had a lot of resentment towards the "sister and brother" because of his cousin. Now that he knew that these people dared to do such a thing under his nose, he was even more furious.
"The nature of this matter is extremely bad. My suggestion is to call the police directly."
Du Anrao didn't expect Manager Wen to be so decisive, but after thinking about it carefully, this might be a way to sever ties with the Xiang siblings.
In this way, even if Xiang Star was later found to be reselling cultural relics, the auction house, as one of the victims, would not be dragged into the matter because of this overly sensitive relationship.
"Okay, but before that, you'd better redeem these items first to avoid unnecessary trouble."
Manager Wen's eyes flickered as he agreed, "You are right. We will deal with this matter as soon as possible and try to recover these items within three days, no, two days. We will then deal with the theft separately and try to give you a satisfactory answer within a week."
"It's okay as long as you know the idea. You know more about this than I do." Duanrao nodded in appreciation, expressing his deep agreement with Manager Wen's professional attitude.
[What a qualified worker who was chosen by heaven. He set the deadline without the boss saying much. A lazy boss like me deserves such a high-roller employee. If he is to be given a raise, he must be given a raise.]
Xi Jingyue: “…” Compared to you, a hands-off manager, he really is more like a boss.
but……
Xi Jingyue silently glanced at the complacent Duan Anrao. Some people might be born with the blessing of being able to lie down at any time.
After figuring out the whole story, Duanrao said that it was not because Manager Li and others were lazy at work, but the fact that the items were replaced under their noses was a major mistake in itself.
Manager Wen saw that Manager Li was worried, so he simply said, "This matter, in the final analysis, is due to the carelessness of the guards. Just because he was brought in by my cousin, they let him down and caused such a mess."
"Fortunately, these guests have great trust in our auction house. I'm afraid they didn't take a closer look at the matter after returning. Otherwise, the auction house's reputation would have fallen to the bottom because of this incident. How do you think we should deal with this matter?"
As soon as Manager Wen said this, Supervisor Li tensed up instantly and took a step forward and said, "Manager is right. This is indeed the responsibility of our entire department. We failed to take good care of the auction items, which led to the loss of genuine items and the customers bought fakes in our auction house. This is a major work mistake. I am willing to take this responsibility and let the company deal with it."
[Tsk tsk tsk, why do workers have to make things difficult for workers? The reason why people are so negligent in their work is because they were brought in by your cousin. However, Manager Wen is right to blame the matter, not the person. Since there is a problem, someone has to take responsibility...]
Thinking of this, Duanrao silently turned his gaze to Manager Wen beside him.
(End of this chapter)
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