Chapter 41 Treasure identification

Words : 2111 Updated : Dec 4th, 2024

This dumbfounded the owners of the antique shops. This guy... This guy’s way too rich! Precious as this Phoenix Blood Jade was, it wouldn’t worth more than five million dollars. While De Qiu was patting his leg, Zhengjiang Fang, with a look of smug, glanced at Xiaorou Xu’s face. As if he were saying, "Look, I offered you three million dollars and you are still hesitating; but now I'm offering five million dollars, they just took it without even thinking about it, and you're going to regret it." Sure enough, seeing the Phoenix Blood Jade to be taken by others, Xiaorou then started to get panicked. She walked up to Zhengjiang and said, "Mr. Fang, you promised to sell this Phoenix Blood Jade to me first. First come, first served; don’t you know that?" The key to bargaining in the antique business is to avoid impatience. Now that Xiaorou talked actively and unexpectedly, it’s obvious that she really wanted this Phoenix Blood Jade. "Then three million dollars it is!" Xiaorou took a deep breath and said, "According to the quotation given by you, three million dollars then I’ll take it." Seeing this scene, Kris Chen could not help laughing. This Xiaorou was really able to make things worse. This Zhengjiang Fang and De Qiu were obviously together; it’s not hard to see that the former made up a story about an ancient jade and the latter raised the price, which was quite common in the antique circle. It is hard to imagine that Xiaorou who was born and raised in an antique family could not see through such a scam, which sounded so unbelievable to him. "My beautiful lady, who pays more, who gets it; don’t you know that?" De Qiu said lightly, "I shall take this Phoenix blood Jade with five million dollars, you can keep your three million dollars to yourself." Xiaorou did not reply and turned to Zhengjiang, "Mr. Fang, I am your first client after all; it’s reasonable that this jade belongs to me; although my payment is low, the most important thing is honesty, what do you think?" The antique shop owners also supported her, "Miss. Xu is right; there are trade rules, this business should also obey the rule of ‘first come, first served’." "Yes, be honest!" Hearing the people supporting Xiaorou, Zhengjiang had a change of heart. He thought for a while and he sighed and made a fist-palm salute, then he said to De Qiu, "I'm sorry brother, I know you are willing to spend five million dollars buying this ancient jade, but what they said makes sense, too; since childhood, my mother has been teaching me to be a man of integrity, so I’ll have to sell this ancient jade to young master Xiaorou." Then he said to Xiaoru, "As what I said earlier, three million dollars, this jade is yours." "Ah, I did not expect you to be so honest, you just refused two million dollars." De said with regret, "This ancient jade could be worth at least ten million dollars in the auction abroad; beautiful lady, you just earned a big deal." Seeing that she could actually convince Zhengjiang, Xiaorou felt great joy in the heart and hurriedly said to Jun Yang next to her, "Hurry, go transfer money to Mr. Fang." YJun nodded and went over to ask for Zhengjiang's bank account number. At this moment, Kris Chen, who was quietly watching them from the side, could not help laughing out loud, "Haha, this is too interesting." De and Zhengjiang were cooperating and performing together, indeed interesting. "What are you laughing about?" Seeing Kris laugh, Zhengjiang felt uncomfortable, he felt he was the one being laughed at. Xiaorou also glanced at Kris, not knowing why he was laughing. "Sorry, seeing you bargaining for a fake good really makes me laugh, I couldn’t control myself..." Kris shook his head and with a smile, he took out the mobile phone from his pocket and sent the message he had edited in advance to Lan Yu, captain of the Criminal investigation department of Westriver City. After Mingdong Wei was caught last time, Kris was asked to go to the police station to make a record, but he didn’t go; thus they got each other's contact numbers. Frankly speaking, the acting skill of these two people was really good, and their cooperation was also perfect; not only were the antique shop owners fooled, but Xiaorou was taken in. Unfortunately, they met Kris this time, he just couldn’t sit and watch it happen since he already saw through their scheme. What? He’s saying this Phoenix Blood Jade’s fake! There must be something wrong with his brain. The antique shop owners had been in this business for decades, they should be able to tell whether it’s real or fake. After they had confirmed it’s a real jade, Kris was accusing it’s a fake one. Wasn't it a slap on the face? Zhengjiang realized what happened first, he sneered, "Nonsense, this jade is our family heirloom, and it has passed down many generations, what are you to say it is fake?" At this time, other people also understood what’s happening. One of the antique shop owners looked Kris up and down carefully and said in surprise, "Ah, isn't this the adopted son-in-law of The Su Family?" "The adopted son-in-law of the Su Family?" Several other antique shop owners heard him saying so, they all recognized Kris. "He's really the adopted son-in-law of the Su Family!" "I heard since he got adopted into the bride’s Family, he had been depending on his wife entirely." They started to laugh and make fun of Kris. The boss Liu from the shop next door looked at Kris with amusement and said, "Son-in-law Of the Su Family, why do you say this piece of Phoenix Blood Jade is fake? You are saying you know how to identify treasure?" The others burst out laughing. Everyone knew that the adopted son-in-law of Su Family was ignorant and lazy; it’s so ridiculous that he knew how to identify treasure! "In my opinion, he must feel bored at home and comes out for pleasure ." "Boy, the several bosses all have been in the antique business for decades; don’t embarrass yourself." Hearing the ironic words of the owners, Xiaorou’s mood was also a little bit complex, this Phoenix Blood Jade could meet the requirements in accordance with quality sculpture craft. In particular, it’s recorded that the Phoenix Blood Jade, under the irradiation of strong light, will show the chalcedony that is as red as blood, which in this case, was true; why did he say it’s fake? She only heard that Kris Chen was a useless fool, lazy and ignorant, which she thought was a rumor because people were only jealous of him becoming the adopted son-in-law of the Su Family. Now to think about it again, it’s obviously true; no wonder everyone in the Su Family disliked him, that’s why. Zhengjiang and De looked at each other with a sense of irony in each other's eyes. This guy was in no way a big deal; turned out he’s just an adopted son-in-law disliked by everyone. It almost scared the two to death earlier. De picked his eyebrows, and Zhengjiang immediately got the message. He stepped forward, like a cat got stepped on its tail, pointed to Kris's nose and said, "The bosses here are experts in treasure identification, and are the benchmark in the industry; they think it’s true, only you think it’s false. If you don't give me an explanation today, I'll call the police and accuse you of maligning me out of nothing!" This is really a thief shouting to catch another thief! Kris could not help laughing again. With a performance like this, It's a shame the kid didn’t go to make a movie. He reached into the box and picked it up, holding it up to the bright light outside. "The reason why this jade is called the Phoenix Blood Jade is that the red chalcedony inside the jade becomes so red that it looks as if it was set on fire. That's how it gets its name." "The natural Phoenix Blood Jade requires very harsh environment, it’s the blood jade dip into different human blood. The Phoenix Blood Jade is formed naturally, so it is very precious. Look, under strong sunlight, does the chalcedony become as red as fire?" "This is a jade for sure, but it is just an ordinary jade made to look old, and the texture of the jade is truly not that good; when taking a close look at it, we can see the impurities mottled; it only looks like starlight because of its chalcedony. "Such jade is worth thousands of dollars at most." Kris said and threw the jade into the box, "Three million dollars, why don't you go to rob a bank?" Kris's voice was not loud, but the others heard everything without missing a word. For a moment, everyone was dumbfounded.