Looking at the seven stores that fell into Xue Chen's hands, Wang Dong was speechless for a long time: "These seven stores belong entirely to you?" When he saw Xue Chen nodded, Wang Dong smacked his lips with a strange expression.
"I'm really convinced. In the past, when you left for a while, you always got one or two rare treasures when you came back. This time it's great. You upgraded and opened an antique shop directly. There were seven of them at one time. I'll wait for the next time.
When you leave, are you going to form a big alliance of antique shops across the country, and then you become the chairman of the alliance?"
When Xue Chen heard Wang Dong's idea, he pretended to consider it seriously: "Hey, what you said is quite thoughtful and meaningful. You can consider it."
"I'm going to say you're fat, and you're breathing heavily." Wang Dong twitched the corner of his mouth, looked at the seven stores recorded on the slip, shook his head and marveled, really feeling that the distance between himself and Xue Chen was getting bigger and bigger.
Now that I am older, I am now taking care of this store every day. Looking at the profits of millions every month, I feel very happy and feel that I am a successful person.
He is indeed considered a successful person and is considered the number one figure in the Haicheng antique circle. However, he now understands what the gap is.
"I'm really impressed by you. I really don't know how you did it. You actually got seven stores from Shengshi Antique Store. I heard that Shengshi Antique Store wants to go public. Eh, I can't figure it out. I can't figure it out.
, but no matter what, this is a good thing, I will treat you at noon to celebrate."
When they arrived at the restaurant at noon, the two of them walked to Ziyun Hotel and met Yan Ruxing, Cai Yuanming and Uncle Shen Shen Wanjun at the door of the hotel who also came to eat.
"Xiaochen, I haven't seen you for a long time. Have you been out of town recently?" Shen Wanjun looked at Xue Chen with a smile.
"Yeah, I went to other places for a while." Not only did he go to other places, he also went to Lebanon and Syria. Fortunately, he came back successfully.
"Now that we've met, let's go and eat together. I'll treat you this time." Wang Dong said with an air of dignity as he listened to his chest.
Yan Ruxing took a look and said, "Hey, look at the joy in your face and eyes. Why, is there a happy event? Could it be that your wife is pregnant?"
"That's not true." Wang Dong chuckled, coughed slightly, and cleared his throat, "I have some news for you, but don't be scared. Stand firm."
Yan Ruxing smiled: "Don't worry, just tell me, we are standing firm. Even if you tell me that the sky is falling, I won't move. Anyway, there are tall people watching, so what are you afraid of?"
"Listen up, now the number of our excellent antique store chain stores has exceeded the ten mark, reaching eleven!"
Although the store does not belong to him, it will definitely have the brand of Excellence in the future, and who founded Excellence? It was him! He can also be regarded as the founder, and he has a bright face when talking about it.
Of course Yan Ruxing was not shocked and sat on the ground, but there was a look of surprise on his face: "Fat Wang, could it be that you, the kid, ate the wrong food and your head is confused? We know that you two have been struggling a lot in the past two years.
, opened two or three branches, but why did it suddenly increase to eleven, and the remaining seven or eight were brought by the strong wind, or were they conjured by magic?"
Cai Yuanming and Shen Wanjun also had the same expression.
"Stop standing at the door, let's talk while we go in and eat." Wang Dong bought the hotel first.
In the private room, Wang Dong recounted the news that Xue Chen had brought back. The three people listening were amazed and had very unexpected expressions.
If someone else said it, the three of them would be skeptical and it would be difficult to believe it immediately. But now that Xue Chen is here, they have to believe it even if they don't believe it.
Yan Ruxing sighed softly: "Xue Chen, although I can't figure out how to get the store of Shengshi Antiques, I still have to admire you. It's really good. Now you have eleven stores under your name. Compared with me and
Lao Cai is too strong. We are really old and we no longer have the energy to be aggressive. We squat in a well in Haicheng and guard this small shop to live our lives."
"Alas." Cai Yuanming sighed loudly, "Not to mention the eleven stores, even one of them is not managed well and has been stolen. Who are you asking to explain this?" with a very irritated expression on his face.
Xue Chen was a little interested when Cai Yuanming mentioned the theft in the antique shop. After all, such rare thefts were not common.
"How many things were lost in the store? Is the loss big?" he asked.
"The loss is not big. It seems that the thief doesn't know much about antiques. He stole some goods displayed in the lobby in the store. The total cost is only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan."
"No one has been caught yet?"
"No, what can I say if I get caught?"
Even if there is no one to watch the antique shop, it must have installed careful surveillance cameras. When Xue Chen asked if the thief was caught on camera, Cai Yuanming had a strange expression on his face: "Of course he was caught on camera, but that person brought
He was wearing a hood, so his face was not photographed, and all he could see was a rather thin man."
Xue Chen nodded and asked how the thief got into the store. It was not easy to enter an antique store. There were rolling shutter doors outside and security doors inside.
When Xue Chen asked this question, Cai Yuanming's face looked a bit wrong, and he looked hesitant. In the end, he didn't say anything and just shook his head.
"Lao Shen and I have asked about this matter, and we have thought about it and taken precautions. But Lao Cai didn't know, because neither the windows nor the door were damaged at all, and there was no way for the thief to enter the store.
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Xue Chen was a little surprised: "How is this possible? It's impossible for the thief to suddenly appear in the store."
"Could it be that the thief hid in the store during the day and committed the crime when the door was closed at night?" Wang Dong touched his chin, "I recently watched a movie with a similar plot."
"You are right to have this idea. Even if I was negligent and let someone sneak into the store and hide without seeing it, he would always have to go out. But I don't know how he left the store. It's really weird.
The door was open, and when I looked at the surveillance camera, it felt like it was haunted."
Cai Yuanming described the footage captured by surveillance cameras in detail.
Longteng Antiques Store is a store with three floors. The first floor is the lobby, which sells some general goods worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. The second floor is a private room, which handles business worth tens of thousands of yuan. The third floor is the living room, office and rest room.
bedroom.
Only the second and third floors of the antique store have surveillance cameras, and the first scene the thief appears on the surveillance camera is walking down from the third floor and entering the camera, wearing a black hood on his head.
The next scene is that the thief came to the first floor to steal something, took a leather bag and filled it with things. After stealing the things, he walked back to the third floor, and the person completely disappeared from the surveillance camera.
"Is there an exit on the third floor?" Wang Dong touched his head.
"There are no doors on the third floor, only windows, but each window has a steel bar and is locked. If only I had it, and the police had checked it, there was no trace of tampering with each window." Cai Yuanming looked solemn.
with a straight face.
Wang Dong's stuffed meat jumped: "Holy crap, that's really a ghost. This person just disappeared out of thin air?"
"I also want to know how he left." Cai Yuanming shook his head and added that there were many other stores that were robbed, including his, and it seemed that the situations of being stolen were similar. The thief came without a trace.
It disappears without a trace, appears and disappears, and is very bizarre.
"There is very little noise outside now. That's because the police are suppressing this matter, fearing to cause panic, because this case is so unbelievable. I asked the police if it could be a supernatural incident, and they told me not to be superstitious.
It is said that it may have been done by a sophisticated international thief."
Cai Yuanming expressed disdain for this statement given by the police.
"You really fooled me into thinking I was a three-year-old child? Although places like gold stores and supermarkets were stolen, there were also clothing stores and even delicatessens. Do you think an international thief would be bored enough to steal a delicatessen? He would also steal a delicatessen.
Forget it, I didn’t steal any money, but I also took away a lot of cooked food, roast duck, sauced elbows, sausages... The owner of that delicatessen shop knows me, and he told me all this personally."
"Damn it, this thief is really awesome. He doesn't have any taboos. He just adheres to the principle that thieves don't steal anything. It's okay if he doesn't steal any money. He actually steals cooked food. It's awesome. It's awesome. He's really the best among thieves.
Role model.”
What Wang Dong said was a witticism, but Xue Chen thought it was reasonable. The scope of this thief's stealing targets was also too wide. From gold stores and antique shops, which have a large amount of money, to supermarkets and delicatessens, there was literally nothing.
If you don't steal, you won't choose what to eat when you're hungry.
However, this thief is also very elusive. He has committed so many crimes without being caught. It is incredible. It is hard to imagine what kind of thief this is.
"I hope the thief can be caught soon." Shen Wanjun said.
No one who is doing business or opening a shop wants to have such an awesome thief in their city. Otherwise, they will be worried every day if something is stolen, no matter how much it is worth, they will definitely feel very unhappy.
However, it just happened to be the opposite.
Two days later, the thief was still not caught. Instead, another theft occurred. Three stores were stolen overnight, including a fast food restaurant, a bookstore, and a hardware store.
The police have tried their best to suppress the news of these cases, not wanting to spread it too widely and causing public panic. However, some things cannot be hidden, especially when the cases occur so frequently, they will naturally spread among the people.
Already.
Word spread from one to ten, and quietly, people everywhere in the streets and alleys were talking about the recent spate of thefts.
Xue Chen also accidentally learned some information from Wang Dong's mouth, and was very surprised by this, and felt incredible about the thief.
On this day, a man came to the lotus pond early in the morning and came to see him. It was Liu Qingshuang, the captain of the criminal police squadron, with a very solemn expression. (To be continued)