Attack and suffer properly

"Miss Ruth isn't here?" I saw that the person who came to pick them up was not the Ruth I met last time, but a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper.

"Ruth is on a business trip, the young master is already waiting for you above, please follow me." The housekeeper politely led the three of them upstairs.

The security of this hotel is very strict. Foreign guests need to go through rigorous inspections before they can enter, and the housekeeper will come out to pick them up in person, which will not avoid some unnecessary troubles.

The butler led them straight up to the sixth floor, came to the middle room, knocked on the door, "Master, they are here."

"Come in." A male voice came from inside, and Gao Zhe heard it with an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

The butler pushed open the door, Gao Zhe and the three stepped into the door, and saw the young man sitting on the sofa at a glance.

Hearing the voice, the young man raised his head, and Gao Zhe was slightly stunned. He seemed to have seen this familiar face before him, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.

Seeing them coming in, Zhang Rui stood up, "Mr. Zhuo and Mr. Gao, I'm the boss behind the website. I heard that you are interested in that jade bracelet?"

Gao Zhe just had a flash, and soon returned to normal. He took a step forward and shook hands with Zhang Rui, "Hello, Boss Zhang."

Zhang Rui seemed to have just discovered Xiao Xiaodong's existence at this time, and nodded to him, and invited the three of them to sit down, and the butler brought three cups of black tea.

Gao Zhe's eyes fell on the jade bracelet placed in the middle of the coffee table. Looking at the photos yesterday, he found that this jade bracelet was what he had been looking for all along. Now that he saw the real thing, the feeling of familiarity became stronger.

"Boss Zhang's time is precious, so I won't beat around the bush anymore. I don't know why Boss Zhang is willing to part with this jade bracelet?"

Zhang Rui reached out to pick up the jade bracelet, and stroked the jade bracelet with an expression, as if he was touching the most precious and beloved thing.

"Before, before I made a deal with someone, I always asked the other party to tell a story, but this time, on the contrary, I have a story to tell you."

"Please tell me." Gao Zhe has an intuition that what he will hear next should be related to him, or to the Gao family.

"This is the story of a big family that happened 40 years ago. At that time, it was a time of national turmoil. The head of the family was a very far-sighted person. He had a son and a daughter. He has been Cultivate this pair of children carefully. If they lived in a peaceful age, with their ancestral shadow and their ability to appreciate antiques, this family would definitely be able to occupy a place in the country. It is a pity that they were born at an untimely time.

When his two sons and daughters were adults, he chose an in-law family for his daughter. At that time, many people came to propose marriage, but he chose that marriage not because the man was rich and powerful, but because the other party planned to immigrate the whole family abroad. , he married his daughter in order to let her take some of the ancestral treasures out of the country, in case of unexpected needs in the future.Sure enough, in the second year after his daughter went abroad, his family was framed by the enemy and liquidated.

After her daughter found out about this while abroad, she entrusted someone to find a way to take her family abroad. Unfortunately, the news leaked out, and the plan was aborted. Because of her husband's betrayal, she narrowly escaped death. When she got rid of her husband, she found that she had found someone The whereabouts of her family members are unknown, and because of policy reasons, she cannot return to the country, and she has lost contact with her family members. The regret of her life is that she cannot reunite with her family members. "

Having said that, Zhang Rui stopped, and Gao Zhe looked at him fixedly and asked, "Is that daughter Gao Mei?"

"That's right, my mother's name is Gao Mei." Zhang Rui admitted it bluntly.

Back then, Gao Mei took a batch of antiques with her husband to go abroad, but she knew in her heart that her father gave her the batch of antiques in order to leave a way for the family, not to really let her hand them over to her husband's family.So, after going abroad, she tried to collect those antiques.

She didn't do this to guard against her husband, but subconsciously wanted to fulfill her father's entrustment. She didn't know that her husband married her because of her priceless antiques.She hid the antiques so that he couldn't get any benefits, and when she found out that he was raising a mistress outside, he stopped pretending and broke his face with her, forcing her to hand over the batch of antiques.

After being imprisoned and tortured by her husband for two years, she found a chance to escape. Later, she sold one of the antiques and got the money to kill her husband's family. She wanted to contact her father and the others, but found out that she had lost her family. I want to go back to China, but because of policy reasons, I can't go back, so I have to ask someone to find out the whereabouts of my family.

"Back then, the Gao family was framed by the enemy. In order to avoid the enemy, my grandfather took our family to move around. When I was ten years old, my house was set on fire and all my belongings were burned. My grandfather died because he couldn't bear the blow. After that, My father took our family to immigrate to the UK." Gao Zhe said.

Last time, Zhang Rui also heard Gao Zhe talk about this matter, so he didn't ask any more questions at this time. He just asked where his grandfather was buried, and planned to tell his mother when he went back.

"You put the jade ruyi and the jade bracelet on the online auction, are you trying to find us?" Gao Zhe asked what was in his heart.

"Yes."

Over the years, Gao Mei has never given up looking for her relatives, but her health is not good, so this task is entrusted to him.

"Then how did you get these two things?"

"After leaving her ex-husband, my mother married my father, gave birth to me and my sister, and started an antique shop with my father. Just a few years ago, a man came to the door with these two items and wanted to sell them on consignment. At that time Mother immediately recognized that they belonged to Gao's family, so she bought them from the other party." Zhang Rui briefly explained how he got them.

"Who is that person?" Gao Zhe asked nervously. After so many years of investigation, he finally saw a glimmer of light.

Zhang Rui shook his head, "I know what you want to ask, but what happened back then should have nothing to do with him. At that time, he consigned not only these two lots, but also other antiques. At that time, Mom also tried He, it turns out that he auctioned off those things from other places, but he needed money, so he had to sell them all."

"Then he always knows where those things are bought from?"

"He said, and we also checked, only found that they were sold at the same auction. I tried to trace from the auction who consigned them, but unfortunately there was no result."

"Can't even you find out?" Xiao Xiaodong, who had been sitting on the sidelines listening to their discussion, couldn't help interjecting.

Isn't Zhuo Rui the owner of the auction website? It shouldn't be too difficult to inquire about some news from his peers, right?

"My peers are like enemies." Zhang Rui smiled bitterly, "Although I am a little famous in this industry, I am still incomparable with those old auction houses, especially that auction house, they have done a good job of keeping secrets No one can pry their mouths away. Moreover, they never ask the details of the auction items, as long as they can afford the commission, the person who chooses to hand them over to the auction house for auction may not give the real information. "

Listening to his explanation, a trace of disappointment flashed across Gao Zhe's face, and the clue was cut off again.