Chapter 157 - Chapter 157: Chapter 138 No One Can Beat Him in This Field (Please Subscribe)_2 (2/2)

‘So, I hope to use my life to expose antique forgery, to alert those looking to get into antiques, or who have already done so.’

‘…’

Reading this far, Chief Editor Zhang Yixing’s brows furrowed deeply, and his expression was complex.

“Chief Editor, is there a problem with how this is starting out?”

Youyou sensed something off about Zhang Yixing’s demeanor and asked.

“The schemes in the antiques circle, such a pitfall!” Zhang Yixing exclaimed.

Youyou’s mouth fell open slightly, her face registering surprise as she tentatively asked, “Have you been scammed by a scheme?”

Zhang Yixing waved his hands repeatedly in denial: “Not me, I didn’t, how could I be scammed?”

“I thought you had been scammed,” Youyou said with a laugh.

“Ahem…”

Zhang Yixing’s mouth twitched, and he spoke indignantly, “Not me, not me. I have a friend who liked to buy jade and collectibles. Someone introduced him to a Qing Dynasty bowl-shaped porcelain piece, something called the Qing Kangxi Five-colored Fish something Bowl, bought it for two hundred and eighty-eight thousand yuan, but a few days later, my friend discovered it was fake! Damn it!”

“Is it the ‘Qing Kangxi Five-colored Fish and Algae Pattern Douli Bowl’?”

Youyou raised an eyebrow slightly, asking.

“Ah, right, right! That’s the bowl.” Zhang Yixing replied quickly, but then he looked at Youyou and asked, “Youyou, how do you know the name of this bowl?”

“There’s nobody else here, you answer my question first,” Youyou said with a smile.

“What’s the question?”

“The friend who got scammed, was it you?” Youyou asked, her eyes sparkling with mirth.

“Not me, not me, how could I possibly get scammed?” Zhang Yixing replied sulkily, quickly changing the subject, “Do you also mix in the antiques circle? You even know about the ‘Qing Kangxi Five-colored Fish and Algae Pattern Douli Bowl’.”

“I’m not involved in the antiques circle, but in Lin Chuan’s novel here, it details the perfect method for forging the ‘Qing Kangxi Five-colored Fish and Algae Pattern Douli Bowl,’ right in these fifty thousand words at the beginning.”

Youyou shook her head and pointed the finger at Chief Editor Zhang Yixing’s phone.

Hmm?

Zhang Yixing frowned and looked at his phone intently and got deeply engrossed in the opening chapter of Lin Chuan’s “Last Week’s Antique.”

‘Lin Family Porcelain was originally a large porcelain workshop in town, well-loved.’

‘But then, the son of the Ceramics Association chairman, who had studied abroad, returned with porcelain design ideas very different from mine, but he was more popular in every ceramics art exhibit and competition.’

‘Until a certain reception where I spoke out of turn, saying that not a single person in the entire county appreciated his works and was ridiculed by the Ceramics Association chairman’s son, resulting in my offending all the major porcelain merchants. The Lin Family Porcelain workshop found itself in a crisis without any buyers, nearly bankrupt.’

‘I sat there dumbly in the courtyard of the Lin Family Porcelain workshop, listening to the crisp sound of the few strands of wind chimes hanging from the eaves and looked over at Qing, who had always stuck by me, asking in concern what we would do.’