Getting to the bottom of it

Chapter 16: Getting to the bottom of it

"Is this really what you bought for one hundred and fifty dollars?" Xiaolan's father turned his head and asked.

"Yes! Eighty for the bronze Buddha, seventy for the snuff bottle, it adds up to one hundred and fifty, what's wrong? What's wrong with it?" Sun Xiaolan saw her father looking strange and couldn't help but ask a strange rhetorical question.

"Seventy? Eighty?"

Xiaolan's father held the two treasures and froze in place, crying and laughing.

It was a while before he took a deep breath, calmed his mind and said, "It's not right, and it's too wrong. The two items you bought are not fakes, but the real thing! And quite valuable real ones! The market price of this bronze Buddha is 50,000! And this pinched white ground set of five-colored snuff bottles, a friend of mine had offered eighty thousand to buy it from others, and they refused to sell it!"

"Ah?!"

"No way!"

Sun Xiaolan and her mother were stunned and exclaimed at the same time, no one thought that the two small things bought for one hundred and fifty dollars were worth more than one hundred thousand!

Especially Sun Xiaolan, her eyes were rounded and her mouth was open, her face was unbelievable, she had decided from the beginning that these two things were fakes, she had not expected that the two things that Zhao Rui helped herself to pick were expensive antiques!

"Are this bronze Buddha and snuff bottle really worth so much money? Aren't they imitations?" Sun Xiaolan was stunned for a long time, then she reacted and asked in a hurry.

"Of course they are not counterfeits, you have to have confidence in dad's vision." Xiaolan's father said with great certainty.

Sun Xiaolan turned her suspicious gaze to Zhao Rui, these two items were the ones that Zhao Rui had strongly advised her to buy at that time, and she had some doubts that Zhao Rui had already seen that these two items were genuine from the very beginning.

However, where did Xiao Rui get such good eyesight? He hadn't seen him touch any antiques before, had he? Besides, if he really has such good eyesight, then the jade plaque he bought for 2,000 yuan, is it really fake?

Sun Xiaolan thought this way in her heart and asked tentatively, "Xiao Rui, you picked these two items, did you recognize that the bronze Buddha and the snuff bottle were both valuable antiques at that time?"

"How could it be?" Zhao Rui hastily denied, "I just saw that these two things were exquisitely made, so I suggested you to buy them, who knew they were so valuable? I don't know anything about antiques, so I can't be that good at recognizing them. Didn't I buy myself a jade medal? That's a fake, two thousand dollars down the drain."

"Is that so?" Sun Xiaolan still has some doubts, "But I remember, you seemed to be very sure that you bought a treasure at that time!"

"Hey, that's just to support the scene, at that time by so many antique vendors taunted, I can not say nothing, slink away, that is too humiliating." Zhao Rui laughed dryly and hurriedly made excuses for himself.

Sun Xiaolan squinted at him: "Then ... you take out the jade medal you bought and show it to my father."

Zhao Rui heart heavy sigh, think Xiao Lan sister is really too meticulous, too serious, not to check themselves to the bottom of the sky, will not give up.

As for the piece of earth core jade essence, during the cultivation, due to the spiritual energy was sucked out, has been turned into powder, where to find another piece to?

"Two days ago it fell to the ground and broke, so I threw it away." Zhao Rui laughed bitterly and made up a random excuse, hoping to put it off.

"A two thousand dollar jade token was broken and thrown away by you just like that?" Sun Xiaolan's big eyes narrowed into a crescent shape, with a dangerous light flashing inside, "Little Rui, are you lying to sister me?"

"No, no, absolutely not." Zhao Rui hurriedly shook his hand to clarify, sister Xiaolan if launched a rage, and pinching and scratching, powerful, he grew up suffering from it, and still has a psychological shadow.

"All right, all right, Xiaolan. Look at you force Xiao Rui, the brain is almost sweating!" Xiaolan's father, who couldn't stand it, laughed and came out to round up the situation.

Xiaolan's mother also joked: "Yes, look at your appearance just now, how similar to my usual interrogation of your father!"

Xiaolan's pretty face was suddenly as stained with rouge, shy and charming at the same time.

"Mom! What are you talking about?" She stomped her foot in a pout, "It's Xiao Rui who didn't tell me the truth!"

Xiaolan's father laughed and said, "It's not that he didn't tell the truth, it's that you're too suspicious. The business of antiques is so profound that even the most powerful veterans have lost their footing. The bronze Buddha and snuff bottle can be bought by you, that is really good luck. However, luck can't always be on your side, and it's normal for Xiao Rui to spend 2,000 on a fake jade. You, don't be suspicious!"

Sun Xiaolan flattened her mouth and reluctantly accepted this explanation, but she always felt that Zhao Rui was hiding something from him, she was familiar with that Xiao Rui, there seems to be something in his body has quietly changed, but in the end what is the place change, but how can not say.

Ate the birthday cake, drank some wine, eating and talking until 3:00 p.m., everyone was happy to break up.

After the meal, a little rest, Zhao Rui and Sun Xiaolan took the car back to school.

Tomorrow is Monday, and classes will start again!

After arriving at school, Zhao Rui parted with Sun Xiaolan and went back to his dormitory.

As soon as they entered the dormitory, they saw that Luo Cheng, Zhou Wei and Han Xing were all there and were sitting there, talking passionately about something.

"What are you talking about? So lively." He asked with a smile.

"Oops, Boss Zhao is back." As soon as Han Xing saw him, he yelled.

"What's up, so lively, tell me." Zhao Rui sat down on a chair and joined their conversation.

Luo Cheng fished out a bar of chocolate from somewhere and stuffed it into his mouth while saying, "We were just talking about Yun Fei, the eldest Miss of the Yun family."

"What's there to talk about her? She's not even close to us." Zhao Rui let out a big yawn.

"Then you're very wrong. Yun Fei is now in the same school as us and is a freshman!" Luo Cheng chewed the chocolate and said with a slurred mouth.

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