Queen's Road Central, New World Building, in front of Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Store.
Five minibuses drove up in a flash, and then a group of strong bodyguards got out of the cars. Although they didn't wear sunglasses or suits, they couldn't hide the chilling atmosphere.
Anyone with experience would know at a glance that these are the young and Dangerous guys who came off the battlefield, and they are definitely not the young and Dangerous guys from ordinary societies.
So when the security guards at Zhou Taifu Headquarters saw this posture, they immediately quietly raised the security level. All the security guards pretended to stand on both sides of the gate, and some security guards were already preparing.
In Hong Kong in the 1960s, let alone gold shop robberies, robberies were everywhere. Some were local societies, some were remnants of mainland soldiers who fled Hong Kong, and some were South Vietnamese monkey refugees. The public security was quite chaotic.
After receiving the news, store manager Yu Yingzhang quickly came out of the office and pretended to greet him at the door of the store.
Anyway, with this attitude, the other party is either a super rich patron or a super bold robber. He can't afford to offend either of them.
Lin Sanqi wore sunglasses, a mustache on his lips, and a set of white casual clothes, giving him the image of a second-generation ancestor, and he looked like a rich man.
After getting off the car, Lin Sanqi looked up and glanced at Zhou Taifu's huge light billboard, then waved:
"Let's go, you have to protect me for a while, do you understand?"
These 20 people are said to be bodyguards, but in fact they are secret service personnel stationed in Hong Kong by our country. They are all in their thirties and had traveled to South Korea back then.
Because this group of people are from Dongguang Province and can speak Cantonese, they were arranged by the organization to go to Xiangjiang.
So when such a group of serious people heard Lin Sanqi's unserious words, they all wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh, and could only pretend to be indifferent.
"Yes, Master!"
Lin Sanqi walked to the door of the store with steps that she didn't recognize, and store manager Yu Yingzhang immediately greeted her:
"Hello, sir, I am the manager of our store. You can call me Yuzai. How can I serve you?"
Don’t reach out to hit the smiling person. Manager Yu understands this, so he keeps his attitude very low. A man in his 40s calls himself Yu Zai.
Lin Sanqi shook her legs, holding a cigar in her mouth, and said arrogantly:
"Manager Yu, right? Don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble for you. Please remove all the security guards in your store. I'm here this time to have a big business deal with you. I'll keep it to make you rich."< br>
Manager Yu continued to smile and asked: "What do you call this gentleman?"
"Ling Lingran."
Manager Yu rolled his eyes in his mind and thought, why don't you just say 008?
"Mr. Ling, please come inside first and have a cup of tea with your subordinates..."
Lin Sanqi waved his hand:
"Everyone else is waiting for me outside. You, and you, go in with me. If I don't come out within an hour and don't see the two of them, you can rush in and rescue this young master."
"Yes!"
Store manager Yu once again despised him in his heart, thinking that he didn't know where this upstart came from.
After entering the store and serving coffee, Manager Yu asked politely:
"Mr. Ling, right? Do you want to buy or sell this big business?"
It is not easy for anyone to be a store manager, especially if this is the head store manager. Zhou Taifu's headquarters is upstairs in the New World Building. It is not easy to be a store manager under the emperor.
“Of course it’s for sale!”
"What does Mr. Ling want to sell to us?"
Lin Sanqi nodded, and a bodyguard who looked as strong as Zhang Fei opened a lockbox next to him, revealing several velvet black bags inside.
Lin Sanqi picked up the bag and threw it on the table, making a sound of gravel colliding.
"Manager Yu, look at what's inside. Is it considered a big business?"
Yu Xingzhang had a guess in his mind. He took the bag and quickly looked inside, and his breathing stopped suddenly.
Under the illumination of the light, the inside of the bag was shining brightly. Manager Yu had been an expert in jewelry for many years, so he immediately knew that there were diamonds inside.
And it’s a big diamond!
Manager Yu quickly tied the mouth of the bag tightly and said with a serious face: "Boss Lin, do you mind if I ask someone to identify it?"
"Whatever!"
"Boss Lin, this business is too big and I don't have high authority. Could you please move to the VIP room? I'll ask my boss to talk to you." Lin Sanqi stood up immediately: "Let's go Come on, hurry up, I want to go to Haojiang to play a few games.”
In the VIP room.
While Zeng Yutong, general manager of Zhou Taifu, was chatting politely with Lin Sanqi, he kept glancing at the diamond appraiser next to him, appearing absent-minded.
Lin Sanqi was equally absent-minded. Although he appeared to be unable to sit or stand, and looked like a nouveau riche, he was actually very nervous inside.
After all, he knew that his diamond was fake, and he was betting that the other party would not be able to identify it.
If the other party is a master craftsman and can tell at a glance that it is a fake diamond, then being sent to the police station is a minor matter. If the person is poured with cement and thrown into the South China Sea to grow lotus flowers, it will be over.
The associations in Xiangjiang are terrible, but the local associations in Xiangjiang are all dogs raised by the rich. They will bite whoever they are told to bite, which makes no sense.
In fact, Lin Sanqi was overly worried. Although there were diamonds in the world in 1960, they were all used for industry. They were incomparable to gem-quality diamonds. They were fake at first glance.
It will take decades for top-quality products like Henan fake diamonds to be produced. No one in this world has ever seen them. It would be strange to be able to identify the authenticity.
This is just like the stimulants used by American athletes. Their faces have all turned purple. Do you think it is possible without stimulants?
It's just that Americans' doping is more advanced and cannot be detected using the existing methods of the Olympic Organizing Committee. But as an official, if you can't detect it, you can't convict them even if you have suspicions.
Zhou Taifu's appraiser wore a magnifying glass over his eyes and carefully identified the diamonds on the plate one by one.
What was originally thought to be only one or two hours of appraisal turned out to last a long time. In the afternoon, the appraiser straightened up tiredly and excitedly.
Don't ask why we didn't hire more appraisers for fear of leaking the secret.
In 1960, 90% of the world's diamonds were in the hands of De Beers. This company was very overbearing. Either you use my goods, or if you dare to use other people's goods, I will not supply them to you. I will treat you badly. Implement a ban.
So the less people know about this kind of thing, the better, unless they are close confidants.
"Manager Zeng, I have appraised it. There is no problem with these diamonds in terms of color, clarity, and cut. The color has reached the highest standard of D grade, and the clarity has reached VVVS grade. It is better than all the diamonds in our store. It is absolutely It’s the best.”
Zeng Yutong was also delighted, "Real product?"
The appraiser said confidently: "If these diamonds are fake, then all diamonds on the market now are fake."
Lin Sanqi was secretly happy, thinking that she would definitely give this appraiser a big red envelope soon.
Zeng Yutong's eyes were shining as he looked at the diamonds on the plate in front of him.
Jewelry stores are actually similar to traditional Chinese medicine clinics.
For example, for traditional Chinese medicine clinics, whoever can get top-quality medicinal materials, such as top-grade wild ginseng, top-grade cordyceps, top-grade polygonatum, etc., will become the favorite in the eyes of patients.
In the same way, for jewelry stores, whoever can get the top gems can become the darling of the rich circle.
The rich family is not short of money, but what they want is something "special".
If you don’t believe it, go and watch the gatherings of wealthy wives. The women are competing to see whose clothes are designed by celebrities, whose bags are limited edition, and whose jewelry is more top-notch and luxurious.
Just take the wife of the richest man in India, and in any photo, the gems she wears are as big as eggs, including diamonds. This is appearance, this is self-confidence, it embodies a kind of privilege, and all she fights for is face. .
As the actual helmsman of Zhou Taifu Jewelry Store, Zeng Yutong is very visionary, otherwise it would be impossible to become one of the four major families in Hong Kong in the future.
Since the second-generation ancestor of the other party came to them first, Zhou Taifu, and not other jewelry stores, they naturally had to stay with all their strength, otherwise they would be endangering their enemies.
"Mr. Ling, I am a real person and don't like to beat around the bush. I am very satisfied with these diamonds and like them very much, so I bought them all. But the source of these diamonds..."
After all, Zeng Yutong in this era has not grown up yet, and he is afraid of offending others, so he naturally wants to ask questions.
Lin Sanqi replied casually in Cantonese:
"My family has a diamond mine in Africa, which was managed by my father at the time. It's not that I couldn't bear the remoteness of Africa, so I sneaked back alone. I had no travel expenses, so I had to take some diamonds to sell. ”
Zeng Yutong looked at Lin Sanqi's behavior. He looked like a second-generation ancestor who was ignorant and unskilled. He might have stolen the family's diamonds and sold them.
If so, he would be relieved. (End of chapter)