The time is tight and the task is heavy, so Qin Heqing, who has completed the check-in procedures, did not hesitate, after a simple bath and breakfast on the ground, he found the phone number of Sotheby's auction house as soon as possible, made an appointment with the other party to meet, and took the car provided by the hotel to Sotheby's auction house at ten o'clock in the morning and met the manager of the auction house.

"Hello, Mr. Qin, I'm Marion Cook, the manager of the auction house. I don't know if you brought the lot you want to consign. Dressed in a suit and leather shoes, dressed like a bank elite, Marien introduced Qin Heqing into the reception room and asked.

"Brought it, it's in the box, does the manager want to take a look?" Qin Heqing patted the large suitcase in his hand and asked rhetorically.

"If you don't mind."

"Of course."

Immediately, Qin Heqing put the suitcase flat on the coffee table in front of him, untied the password lock on it, and opened the suitcase-

Suddenly, a small pile of gold coins, some pure gold items, and some Egyptian pottery and stone statues and other things came into Marion's eyes.

"It's a beautiful work of art." Marien sighed with emotion on his face.

However, he did not hesitate in the slightest action, and immediately took out his mobile phone and called the appraiser in the auction house.

"Are these all the auction items that Mr. Qin is going to consign?"

"No, that's only part of it." Qin Heqing shook his head and said.

"What about the rest of ......," Marien asked, with a stir in his heart.

As the manager of the auction house, he naturally hoped that Qin Heqing could entrust them with all the things for auction, which could not only improve his performance, but also increase his income.

Not to mention, if there are enough antiquities, he may be able to use his authority to directly open a so-called special sale of Egyptian antiquities to enhance the auction house's status in the hearts of some customers.

With so many benefits in front of him, he didn't have a reason to let it go.

"Then it depends on whether your bank can offer terms that are satisfactory to me." Qin Heqing said with a smile.

Then Qin Heqing and Marien didn't say much, and they talked nonsense.

It wasn't until the experts and appraisers of Egyptian antiquities from the auction house arrived that they began to firm and evaluate these cultural relics taken out by Qin and Qing.

The process is relatively boring, and it is not very interesting, if it is replaced by ordinary people, they don't know where their thinking has deviated, but it can be replaced by Qin Heqing, a person who has been engaged in this related work in his previous life, but he is full of interest in this area, so not only did he not feel bored, but also got up with great interest, listened to the identification and judgment of experts in related aspects, and learned the knowledge that he had not been exposed to in his previous life.

Until all items have been identified.

"Professor Mark, how's it going?" Marien asked one of the elders on the expert team.

"We can talk." Professor Mark replied.

The meaning is that these things are real, and the auction house can take them.

Therefore, Marien did not hesitate, and after the members of the appraisal team largely left, he negotiated the contract with Qin Heqing with another expert.

The two sides went back and forth, and it wasn't until half an hour later that both sides came up with a contract that was satisfactory to both parties.

Then Qin Heqing signed a letter of intent with Sotheby's, and left a variety of notes and pictures and video materials - after all, the cultural relics will be handed over to Sotheby's for safekeeping, although the other party's big business should not make any trouble, playing the trick of changing the tanuki for the prince, but just in case, the other party sees the wealth and plays black hands for him, and some precautions are still worth doing.

So the formalities were a bit cumbersome, but Qin Heqing still endured it.

After Qin and Qing watched the other party send the collection he commissioned into the underground vault, he returned to the hotel with Sotheby's experts to pick up and authenticate the remaining Egyptian collection in his hand.

The whole process took several hours, and it was not completely completed until around 3 p.m., when everything was sent to the underground vault of Sotheby's auction house for the final handover.

In this way, Qin and Qing came to the Eagle Kingdom to deal with the main business, and then they just had to wait for the auction to start, and then take the money.

But that won't be possible until more than half a month later, in mid-November.

So after Qin Heqing rested in the hotel for a while, he picked up the phone in the room and called Brenda.

"Beautiful lady, would you like to join me for a stroll along the Thames, watching Big Ben at sunset, and then have dinner together at a nearby Scottish restaurant?"

"Of course, why not?" Brenda chuckled.

……

In front of the city park south of the east entrance of Westminster Bridge, Brenda, dressed in blue jeans with a brown sweater and a long black trench coat, walked quickly in front of Qin Heqing.

"Hey, Qin, I'm not late."

"No, I've just arrived." Qin Heqing said with a smile.

"You're done?"

"Well, now it's just time to wait."

"Mind what it is?"

"Absolutely." Then Qin Heqing did not hesitate, and simply told Brenda the purpose of his coming to London.

"I didn't expect you to be a skilled adventurer." Brenda said with a look of admiration in her eyes.

"I just happened to have it." Qin Heqing said with a smile.

The two chatted as they moved along Westminster Bridge......

The vast Thames River flows quietly under the feet of the two men, and the sunset shines obliquely, casting a little golden light through the dark clouds in the sky, and even the fog looks beautiful.

However, the good times did not last long, and soon the sunset was enveloped in dark clouds, and as the sun set, it fell into the night.

The smell of water is pervasive, and it casts a layer of mystery over London.

"The fog in London is really heavy."

"After all, the sea is all around, and the existence of the River Thames means that almost half of London is shrouded in this thick fog throughout the year. Not to mention that it's still late autumn and winter, and the fog is even thicker, which is very unaccustomed to the average foreigner who first arrives in London. ”

"That's true, it's too wet." Qin Heqing nodded in agreement.

Then the two of them quickened their pace a little, and sped across the Westminster Bridge to the west side of the bridge in front of Big Ben, and took a brief tour for a while—without taking pictures.

Because Qin Heqing is not the one who likes to take pictures. So after browsing, the two parted and chose a good French restaurant nearby to have dinner together.

As for British cuisine......

Even if Qin Heqing had never been abroad in his previous life, he had heard a lot about the dark cuisine such as looking up at the starry sky, which was a specialty of the Eagle Country, and he didn't dare to try it, for fear that he would not die under the assassination of the Forbidden Dao, but in the end he would be carried on the dark cuisine of the Eagle Country.

"When we're done eating, we'll start trying to solve your problem." Qin Heqing, who was holding a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, cutting the steak with non-standard Western etiquette, said suddenly.

"Okay."