Chapter 1823

In fact, Jiqingtang has not yet announced the news of co-hosting the auction with Bai Jinhangong.

This is also Ye Chen's intention.

Some time ago, the outside world thought that the Ye family had been eaten up by the Cataclysmic Front by half, and many people were inclined to draw a clear line with the Ye family, so the business of over a hundred Bai Jinhangong hotels worldwide was significantly affected.

This time, Ye Chen intends to use this auction to give those rich people a good slap in the face, making them realize they must stay at Bai Jinhangong to participate in the auction.

However, he did not intend to announce this news immediately. This is because if the auction venue were announced too early, many people with ulterior motives or malicious intentions would definitely come to the auction venue to scout it out in advance.

It might even lead to people setting their sights on the Rejuvenation Pill and trying to stir up trouble at the venue.

Therefore, Ye Chen intends to keep this suspense until the very end, letting those rich people who signed up for the auction arrive in Jin Ling, and then have the organizer, Jiqingtang, come forward to directly arrange for them to check into Bai Jinhangong. By that time, whether the room rate is one million, ten million, or one hundred million a night, they can set the price as they please.

Anyway, by then, Bai Jinhangong will be under closed management in advance; those who don't stay there won't have the opportunity to participate in the auction.

Moreover, this period of time can just happen to be used to secretly prepare for the renovation of the Bai Jinhangong banquet hall and the security work to ensure nothing goes wrong.

But what Ye Chen did not expect was that his intentions were detected by a woman he had never met before.

Like Su Zhiyu, Fei Kexin is an elite talent carefully cultivated by a large family. The only difference is that Fei Kexin began practical operations in her teens, while Su Zhiyu was always a student before being pushed to the high position of head of the Su family by Ye Chen, and even originally planned to continue her studies in the United States.

Therefore, although the two are not far apart in age and their upbringing environments are not very different, Fei Kexin is far superior to Su Zhiyu in terms of style of action and level of sophistication.

When she realized that something was wrong with Bai Jinhangong, she immediately speculated that there must be some connection between Bai Jinhangong and Jiqingtang.

She was even 70% sure that Bai Jinhangong was the actual venue for the Rejuvenation Pill auction.

Consequently, she immediately had Chen Yishan book a room at Bai Jinhangong, and then the group was escorted by the motorcade directly to Bai Jinhangong.

At this time, business at Bai Jinhangong was still somewhat sluggish.

Although the entire executive floor was closed to the public, the occupancy rate of the remaining half of the rooms was only about 30%.

For a hotel that had an occupancy rate of over 80% most of the time in previous years, this was even more desolate than during the New Year.

In the hotel lobby, the number of service staff was even greater than the number of guests.

When Fei Kexin stepped into the hotel lobby, she also felt a bit surprised; for a five-star hotel to have such dismal business was indeed somewhat unexpected.

Just as she was standing in the middle of the empty lobby, looking around with doubts in her heart, two men walked past her quickly.

As they passed, she only heard the younger man say, "Send those people to Hong Wu. As for the one doing research, leave him alone for now; let him research slowly."

The older man nodded and said, "Okay, Master Ye."

Immediately after, the young man called Master Ye asked, "Has Wanting arrived?"

The older man said hurriedly, "Miss Song has already arrived."

While speaking, the two men had already quickly left Fei Kexin's side.

As they brushed past, Fei Kexin saw their side profiles, and the first thought in her mind was: "This young guy is actually quite handsome."

And the two people who brushed past her were none other than Ye Chen and Chen Zekai.

Ye Chen had just arranged for Song Wanting to come over to discuss the next details of the auction with Chen Zekai. Just as they arrived at the hotel entrance, Chen Zekai was already waiting there.

When the two met, Chen Zekai first told him that the soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front lurking at Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical had captured several agents who had infiltrated Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical last night and this noon. These people were now under strict control but had not yet been transferred.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front also discovered a man acting suspiciously near Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical. Although this person looked very much like a Chinese person, because he had been photographed by Hong Wu's underlings when he first arrived in Jin Ling and cleared customs, they kept a close eye on him as soon as he was discovered at Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical.

According to Chen Zekai, the man hadn't done anything other than dig up some soil and collect some plant specimens near Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical; he hadn't infiltrated the interior of Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical.

Moreover, according to the investigation by the Cataclysmic Front, it was discovered that the man's name was Nakamura Junpei, a Japanese-American microbiologist and pharmacist.

As for those agents, Ye Chen's requirement was naturally to send them to Hong Wu for strict custody.

However, upon learning that this Nakamura Junpei was a drug researcher, Ye Chen did not prepare to have him captured.

On the contrary, he even had Chen Zekai give instructions to leave that guy alone and let him research whatever he wanted.

After all, Ye Chen also hoped that the Americans would waste more time and energy in the dead end of reverse engineering.

When Chen Zekai reported these situations, he was already very careful, using vague vocabulary in many places, and he didn't dare to call Ye Chen 'Young Master' outside. However, neither he nor Ye Chen expected that such a brief conversation would still be overheard by someone with a keen ear.

The content Fei Kexin heard was not much.

She only heard about sending people to Hong Wu. Who Hong Wu was, she didn't know, and what kind of place Hong Wu's place was, she also didn't know.

However, she immediately paid attention when she heard Ye Chen mention the two words 'Wanting'.

Because she had previously gained a preliminary understanding of the Song Group and knew that the person in charge of the Song Group was named Song Wanting.

Moreover, she heard the three words 'Miss Song' from Chen Zekai's mouth. Combining 'Wanting' and 'Song', she immediately determined that these two were talking about Song Wanting.

At this moment, she was puzzled and thought to herself: "Could it be that Song Wanting is also at Bai Jinhangong now? That really coincides highly with my previous speculation about Bai Jinhangong! In this way, the possibility that the Jiqingtang auction will be held at Bai Jinhangong has risen from 70% to 99%!"

Immediately, she speculated to herself: "That young man actually addressed Song Wanting by her name directly, and even omitted her surname, calling her Wanting directly. That proves that his relationship with Song Wanting is very good, and his social status is not inferior to Song Wanting's at all, and it is even possible that it is higher than Song Wanting's..."

"The other person called him Master Ye... but he is young, looking only in his twenties. That person is older than him, so why would he respectfully call him Master?"

"And... who is that middle-aged man beside him? Why does it feel like this place is his home turf?"

Thinking of this, she immediately called Chen Yishan over and whispered instructions: "Shanshan, check the information on the person in charge of this hotel for me, preferably with image data!"