Chapter 172 The Queen of Gambling Stones
To be honest, this woman named Cindy gave him a feeling of deja vu.
However, Fred promised Nolan Sutton that he would not intervene in anything related to William Bryan. After making a simple statement to the two men, he left with six men.
After a busy day, Charlee Ford didn't get any useful information from William Bryan, and it didn't remind him of the slightest impression of himself.
She returned to the hotel a little tired.
After taking a shower, Chang Sheng's video phone also bounced up. This man seemed to pinch a dot every day, just in time to call when she took a shower.
"What?" Charlee Ford put on and asked as he wiped his hair.
Chang Sheng's big face is in the camera: "Xiao Jiujiu, have you missed me for so long?"
Charlee Ford rolled his eyes: "We just made a video yesterday. Should it be noon in Madison? You didn't go to eat, drink and have fun. Why do you video me?"
"No conscience, I want to see if you have gone behind my back to hook up with other men when I am not here." Chang Sheng complained.
Charlee Ford thought he was looking for trouble: "If you're okay, I'll hang up."
"No, no, no, I really have business today." Chang Sheng hurriedly seriously said: "When I checked Chang's family before, I found a clue related to the Collins. I want to know what transaction the Collins made with Chang's family twelve years ago."
"What do you mean?" Charlee Ford didn't understand.
Chang Sheng can only tell Charlee Ford what he did during this time: "Well, didn't Charlie give my family to me, along with my mother's original relics. I found something related to the Collins's current householder Long Peikai in her relics..."
"Do you suspect that the cause of your mother's death has something to do with Long Peikai?" Asked Charlee Ford, frowning.
"Yes." Chang Sheng nodded, paused, and a playful smile appeared on his face: "There is another person."
"What man?"
"Her name is Charlotte Collins, and she is the daughter of the Collins's former householder. She is said to have disappeared in the disaster twelve years ago, and her whereabouts are still unknown. I want you to find out her whereabouts." Chang Sheng said with a smile.
Charlee Ford looked at the fox-like smile on his face and intuitively felt that it was not easy.
She raised her eyebrows: "Reason."
Chang Sheng laughed again: "This Charlotte Collins is the best candidate for my fiancee appointed by my mother. I want to see what kind of person it is and can enter my mother's eyes."
Changsheng's mother is a good family from a noble family before, and her eyes on people are naturally very high.
Charlotte Collins …
Charlee Ford frowned slightly.
This person's name has not appeared in her ears once or twice.
The Collins, the Bryans, Chang's family, including the Fords, who is now in decline, all seem to have a great connection with this man.
Maybe she should find out who Charlotte Collins is.
Hung up Chang Sheng's phone, Charlee Ford sent a message to Dallas and asked her to investigate Charlotte Collins.
Dallas was surprised: "Boss, what are you investigating Charlotte Collins for?"
Charlee Ford: "What? Listen to your tone, you also know her?"
Dallas pondered for a moment, and his tone was complicated: "Boss, as you know, I am from the Steeles. Before that happened twelve years ago, the Steeles and the Collins were the same four families, and there were naturally many contacts."
"Hmm."
"Charlotte Collins is the daughter of the Collins's former householder. I only met her once at a banquet. At that time, she was only eight years old. She was very beautiful and looked like a Barbie doll. She was smart and lovable. No one in the elders of the four families didn't like her..."
Dallas talked about the past, and his tone was full of nostalgia.
"Oh yes." Dallas suddenly remembered something and said, "I remember Charlotte Collins made a young marriage with William Bryan at that time. I don't know if this was a joke between the elders, but I vaguely remember that William Bryan really spoiled her when he was a child."
Dallas stopped talking, and after that, he was afraid that Charlee Ford would be unhappy. He made up: "But you can rest assured, boss, that you were a child. Now William Bryan must like you wholeheartedly!"
Charlee Ford pulled the corners of his mouth and hung up.
The next day, Charlee Ford attended a gambling stone auction.
The auction of gambling stones is held every two years. In the past, it was held in places like Y city, Suzhou City. This year, because of the request of the Collins, the organizer set up the venue in LA.
Auctions are filled with stones shipped from other parts of the border, cut with different kinds of jadeite or nothing, and chosen by personal eyes.
There have been cases before, some people went bankrupt because of a piece of Stone, and of course some people earned a lot of money because they opened jade with good color.
Charlee Ford entered the meeting and, as expected, met Lydia Collins again.
But what puzzled her was that William Bryan was not there.
Last time Charlee Ford made her face, Lydia Collins held a grudge for a long time. This time, she finally found an opportunity. Naturally, she wanted to catch Charlee Ford and humiliate her.
"Why are you here? Can't Miss Cindy gamble on stones?" Lydia Collins looked at her disdainfully.
Charlee Ford smiled faintly: "As long as it is a play project, I am interested in participating."
"Play? This is not to play. Even if you lean against the Chang family, gambling stones can't be played casually." Lydia Collins scoffed, "Miss Cindy has been abroad all the year round. She may not know the rules of this gambling stone, but she can't live without a gambling word."
Charlee Ford was noncommittal: "It's just a Stone."
In her eyes, these so-called jade are just a Stone.
"What a big tone!" Just then, a slightly heavy voice came from the side.
Charlee Ford turned his head and unexpectedly met Long Peikai's turbid eyes. She frowned in disgust.
Long Peikai came over. "lamb, even the urban queen of America can't say such a thing. You are too frivolous as a girl."
Charlee Ford: "The queen of the city?"
"Bumpkin, who doesn't even know the queen of the city, dare to come to today's auction?" Lydia Collins laughed.
Charlee Ford was speechless. She really hadn't heard of any city queen.
Others on the side heard the words and gave her popular science: "At the auction in Y city two years ago, there appeared a straight-haired girl wearing a long black dress. She opened three imperial greens by herself, each of which sold at a high price and was called the Queen of the City!"
"Yes, I had the honor to witness the auction. The girl was very indifferent all the way, as if she was not in front of imperial green, but a Stone!"
"Unfortunately, I haven't seen her since then. I really want to see her open the raw materials again."