Chapter 264: Mantis and Yellow Bird



Hearing this, the Dog moved uncomfortably.

The Dragon was surprised, angry, and confused, and seemed to want to say something, but he held it back.

"First of all, I can tell you that I have found the bronze head." Jian Jing lifted the drooping tablecloth, revealing the sheep head she had hidden under the table.

She took out the bronze statue and placed it on the dining table, but stopped others from coming forward.

Shen Hou asked, "Where did you find it?"

"Safe Room No. 2." Jian Jing readily announced the answer, "The area from the lobby to the auction room was originally a banquet hall. The waiting room and safe room were all temporarily added. The bronze head is on top of the safe and has never been lost."

Wei Yang was stunned for a moment and asked puzzledly, "Why did he do this?"

"Because this person's purpose is not to steal the bronze head, but to find out the identity of the seller." Jian Jing said.

Youji thought for a while and shook his head: "No, before boarding the ship, no one knew whether there was really a bronze head, let alone how to auction it. You said that the thief was very professionally equipped. Did he anticipate all this in advance?"

"You make a lot of sense." Jian Jing treated the old woman with more respect and said patiently, "So, the professional thief who released the smoke and blocked the surveillance was not the one who took the bronze head."

Everyone was shocked and became more confused.

"A thief who came prepared. Well, considering his professionalism, I will call him a big thief. His real purpose was indeed the bronze head, but he didn't steal it openly. After all, once something disappears, everyone will definitely try their best to find it, and once the police are called, they will be in trouble.

"But it happened that Mr. Rat died, and Mr. Gu only recognized the power of attorney, not the person, so there is a simpler way to take the bronze head openly."

"Power of attorney." The Monkey sneered, "If you can steal the power of attorney, you can pretend to be the owner and take it away directly. What a good plan - who is this person?"

Jian Jing looked at the Dog and shrugged.

The Dog shouted: "Are you crazy? How can you slander me like this?"

Even the Rooster was a little suspicious: "She is well-known in France, how can she be a big thief? "

Because she is not that musician at all." Jian Jing said, "Although she speaks French well and showed me the musician's Instagram photos, especially emphasizing her cat, and the dishes she ordered were also classic French dishes, but I found a few suspicious points, but I didn't think much about it."

"How many?"

"First, her fingers are not curled. I looked through the musician's Twitter. There are not many photos of her hands, but you can still barely see the deformed joints. This is the result of hard violin practice. Second, she told me to take photo number 3 and made this gesture. "

Jane Jing raised her index finger, middle finger and ring finger, and made a "3" that everyone is familiar with.

"I have been in contact with a fanatical French girl," she was talking about Kimberly, the unlucky cousin who died tragically in Winter Castle, "her gestures for counting are a little different from ours, it's like this."

Change to thumb, index finger, middle finger.

Rooster immediately said: "Oh, yes, that's right."

"I can't believe that you actually accused me of such a serious crime because of such a thing." Dog was not panicked at all, and said coldly, "I believed you wrongly."

"Don't be impatient." Jian Jing said, "These details only make me doubt you. What really makes me sure that there is something wrong with you is because the real seller couldn't help it-right, Mr. Chenlong? What you lost was not the jade carving, but the letter of authorization."

Chen Long's face was gloomy, and he neither admitted nor denied it.

"Don't blame yourself too much." She kindly advised, "I didn't doubt you because you came to me, I also felt it was strange a long time ago."

Youji asked: "Why this time?"

"The first time, it was Mr. Chou Niu who reminded me. He said that the auction process was unreasonable. Zishu knew the identities of the buyer and the seller, and at the same time, he was the only one who knew the price. If he was bribed by someone and changed the price, wouldn't the seller suffer a great loss? Since he didn't trust Zishu, how could he delegate power like this?"

Jian Jing asked herself and answered: "Two possibilities: either Zishu is the seller, which has been proven to be wrong, or the seller is on the boat and will open the quotation list personally. The Rat was playing tricks to hide his identity. So Mr. Chen Long, who was the last to go and took only 10 minutes, was undoubtedly the most likely person.

"Plus, he was indifferent to Zishu's death, and suddenly cooperated actively after the bronze head was stolen, and claimed that he had lost the jade carving and asked me to investigate. These are all reasonable explanations. Right?"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Chen Long could not deny it, so he had to say: "I only kept it secret for safety reasons. Facts have proved that I was right. Zishu was dead, and someone didn't want the bronze head to be sold. But I didn't expect that this woman turned out to be a thief and stole my power of attorney."

Xu Gou turned his face away, still insisting: "I don't know why you insist that I am not the thief and he is. Unless you have evidence of my theft, otherwise, I have the power of attorney, but you insist that I am not the thief, and the law will not recognize it."

"Then take out the power of attorney."

Xu Gou said: "This is my personal property. You want to search my things, where is the search warrant?"

"Are you guilty of being a thief?" Jian Jing asked back.

The Dog raised the corner of his lips and said aggressively: "If you must search, it's not impossible, but if you find nothing, I will sue you to bankruptcy."

"Okay, forget it."

No one expected Jian Jing to change her mind. They were stunned and looked at her.

Jian Jing was not in a hurry and said, "You are so confident, it's just because you have an accomplice." She stood up and paced, and suddenly dodged and grabbed Wu Ma's arm, "The thing is with you."

Wu Ma was surprised and confused: "What are you talking about?"

"You put smoke in the safe room just to attract people on the ship to gather here, so as to take the opportunity to steal from the safe. Although the access control requires fingerprints and passwords, it is not difficult for you who are well prepared. It's just that you didn't expect that the bronze head was lost, and there was actually a yellow bird on the ship besides you.

"I think, out of prudence and professionalism, you will not leave valuables in the room or safe. Carrying with you is the best choice. "

Jane Jing adjusted her glasses, turned on the thermal imaging device, and then went blind.

"Did you hide it in your pants?" She rubbed her arms and said to Mr. Gu, "Who of you will search it?"

"I'll do it." Si Snake suddenly raised his hand and firmly grasped Wu Ma's wrist. Wu Ma tried to break free with his backhand, but he didn't expect the sickly man to be so strong, and his hands were clamped instead.

On the other side, Shen Monkey, who was old but still strong, also joined in to help and directly pulled off his pants.

Clank, metal fell to the floor, dazzling the eyes.

Mr. Gu's eyes fixed: "Golden scepter?"

"Yes." Even though he had already used the appraisal card to prove that the scepter in the safe was a fake, Jian Jing still breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the real thing appear, and looked at Xu Gou, "You won't say that this is also your personal property, right?"

Xu Gou glanced at Wu Ma who was pinned to the ground: "What does this have to do with me? I just said that the power of attorney is mine."

"So I asked you to take out the power of attorney. It hasn't been washed, right? Now that technology is advanced, it is not difficult to extract fingerprints from paper. I think there must be Chen Long's fingerprints on it." Jian Jing was very calm, "Also, are you the musician? Just go ashore and verify it. If you are lucky, you two may have a criminal record."

Xu Gou's lips moved, and his eyes turned rapidly, as if he was thinking of a rebuttal.

Jian Jing added, "It's unreasonable that the safe in Wu Ma's room was pried open. He was the middleman, and the money was transferred directly. No one would steal from him. The best explanation is that he was crying thief, asking others to put valuables in the safe, which made it easier for them to start."

Wei Yang cursed.

"Perhaps, their original purpose was just valuable antiques, but when they searched the safe, they accidentally found Mr. Chen Long's power of attorney, so they immediately came up with the idea of ​​​​transferring flowers and trees."

She said she was tired, sat down to drink a cup of coffee, and asked, "Do you understand what 'transferring flowers and trees' means? Do you want me to translate it for you?"

It was extremely insulting, and Xu Gou's face turned green.

"By the way, do you know why I guessed that you two are accomplices?" She was so angry that she couldn't help but say, "Because I think you two are a couple. The reason? The movements of your two shrugging shoulders are exactly the same."

As she spoke, she also imitated their shrugging movements, which were very lifelike.

The atmosphere suddenly relaxed.

Only Mr. Gu had a serious expression: "The two thefts have been investigated clearly. Should we say it was murder?"

"Of course, we can continue to analyze after we have sorted out their identities." Jian Jing took a deep breath, and her face gradually became serious.

"First of all, we can be sure that Mr. Chen Long is the seller. He should have no motive to kill Mr. Zishu. Unless he got the bronze head for revenge. So, I want to ask clearly, where are you from, have you seen the deceased before?"

Chen Long said: "Yes, but we are not familiar with each other. He also didn't know that I was the client."

"When did you know each other?" "About

three years ago."

Jian Jing said: "I can't completely rule out his suspicion, but there are other things to prove it, which I will talk about later. Now, let's believe his testimony for the time being. When you left at 10 pm, the deceased was still alive, right?"

Chen Long nodded.

She asked the Dog again: "You left at that time, did you want to take the golden scepter that had been switched?"

Dog: "Anyway, I didn't kill anyone, why would I kill him?!"

"Why not? The Rat found out that you had switched things." The Sheep reacted quickly and stared at her, "You just killed him directly."

His identity was exposed, the Dog no longer maintained his reserved musician's attitude, and refuted quickly: "I ran to the auction room, told him that I stole something, and then stabbed him to death?"

"Indeed, if the deceased had found out about their behavior, he would not have died in the auction room." Jian Jing ruled out the Dog as a suspect.

Next, there were only two suspects left.

The Tiger and the Pig became obviously uneasy, their eyes exchanged, full of suspicion.

Haizhu looks carefree and simple, but a person without brains can't make that much money. He immediately found a perfect excuse for himself.

"He said that when he went there, the door was locked." Haizhu pointed at Yinhu and said, "I hadn't left the hall at that time, how could he lock the door? This little guy and I can't be accomplices, right?"

Everyone thought it made sense, and looked at Yinhu with more and more unfriendly eyes.

Yinhu said in a deep voice: "It's not me, I didn't kill Mr. Rat."

"Yes or no, let me ask you a question first." Jian Jing said, "Did you bribe Zishu?"

Yinhu was suddenly stunned.

"I don't think it's reasonable for you and Hai Zhu to suddenly leave and ask about the price before the results are announced. Unless you are sure you can convince Zi Rat." She said, "On the day of the public auction, I happened to hear people talking on the deck. One of them sounded very much like you. Was it you and Zi Rat?"

At this point, Yin Hu was clearly the biggest suspect. He didn't dare to hide it anymore and admitted, "Yes."

"How many millions did you bribe him to let you off the hook?" Jian Jing thought at the time that several million was the price for the bronze head, and he had to buy it.

But after You Ji's popular science, she realized that 20 or 30 million was considered low, and a million was obviously not right. In addition, her memory got better, and she carefully recalled the sporadic words at the time, and finally matched Yin Hu's way of speaking.

He didn't want No. 1 and No. 3, so what was a million?

bribe.


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