Antique Dealer

Chapter 73 Prejudice
When Li Jikai walked up to him, Li Mingchao said, "Mr. Li, who is this?"

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I really came here for this painting."

Li Jikai pointed to the painting box in Fang Hao's hand: "Just now after I went out, I thought about it, and felt that I had a glimpse of this painting, and I felt a little regretful. It's just that I am very face-saving, so I am embarrassed to go back. So I waited for you at the gate of the community, if you didn't buy it, I will ask someone to take a look."

Li Mingchao was refreshed after hearing this, "Mr. Li, do you think this is an authentic painting by Dong Qichang?"

"I didn't look at it carefully just now, but afterwards I felt that the style of writing was very similar to Dong Qichang, what do you think?" Li Jikai looked at Fang Hao.

Fang Hao smiled slightly: "It's definitely not Dong Qichang's work."

"Ok?"

Li Jikai didn't expect Fang Hao's tone to be so sure, but he was also very curious about the basis for Fang Hao's judgment: "It's not convenient to discuss in detail here, why don't we find a place to sit?"

Fang Hao thought that Li Jikai might be the client of this painting, so he naturally agreed to the proposal, and Li Mingchao was also very curious about the authenticity of this painting, so everyone hit it off.

It happened that the location of the three of them was not far from a well-known teahouse in the capital, so they took a car to go after leaving the community.

Li Jikai is a regular customer of this teahouse. When the waiter saw Li Jikai, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, and then took them to a private room at Li Jikai's request.

After entering the private room, Li Jiqi dismissed the waiter, and then asked Fang Hao to take out the painting for appreciation.

Li Jikai is a very face-saving person. He made a mistake just now, and he made a mistake in front of Fang Hao and the other two juniors. He felt that his face had nothing to do with it, so he resisted asking Fang Hao for the conclusion along the way.

After the scroll was unfolded, Li Jikai put on his gloves, took out a magnifying glass, and began to appreciate it carefully.

Li Mingchao was beside Fang Hao, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Hao, can you reveal a little information?"

Fang Hao chuckled and said, "Don't you know how to judge yourself?"

"I don't have much research on calligraphy and painting, how do you ask me to judge?"

Li Mingchao spread his hands and looked Fang Hao up and down again: "If it's you, why do you feel like you know everything!"

This is exactly where Li Mingchao became more and more confused. From the time he met Fang Hao for the first time to when Fang Hao was about to set foot in the antique industry, he didn't think that Fang Hao was particularly good at antiques. Why suddenly, Fang Hao is so amazing!
Of course, Fang Hao has always been a quiet listener when he was talking about antique knowledge in the past, and he rarely heard anything from Fang Hao's mouth. Now that I think about it, Fang Hao thinks what he said is too simple , so don't want to comment?And why didn't Fang Hao show it before?
Fang Hao's father told him since he was a child not to comment on things he didn't understand, which is why he didn't interrupt when Li Mingchao talked about antiques.Unexpectedly, it happened to cover up the strangeness after he got the system, otherwise he would have been exposed long ago.

Fang Hao smiled slightly: "I will tell you again when I have a chance in the future."

"Sir, there are guests in this private room, please..."

Fang Hao and the others vaguely heard noises coming from outside, and then, a middle-aged man pushed open the door vigorously and walked in.

The middle-aged man is quite energetic, but at this time his face is flushed, and he still smells of alcohol, obviously drinking too much.

Li Jikai raised his head, and when he saw the person coming, his face was very ugly: "Ji Dacheng, why are you here, don't you have to go to work today?"

Ji Dacheng burped: "I'm here today to discuss business with a big client. I just saw you coming in, so I came over to have a look. Did you receive another good painting?"

Li Jikai had a gloomy face: "What paintings I receive has nothing to do with you. Since you are negotiating business with clients, then go back quickly and don't bother us!"

Ji Dacheng is also thick-skinned, Li Jikai's tone is already serious, he pretends he didn't hear it, and said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, you see I finally have a big client, do you support me?"

"You're stupid, get out of here quickly!" Li Jikai said every word, his face was so gloomy that he was about to drip water.

"All right, all right, I'll be leaving right away." Ji Dacheng raised his hand, looked at the paintings on the table a few more times, and then walked out vainly.

When Ji Dacheng left, the waiter hurriedly apologized to Li Jikai, Li Jikai waved his hand, saying that the waiter was not to blame for this matter, his brother-in-law is just a jerk.

Let the waiter go out first, Li Jikai said: "I'm really sorry, I made you laugh."

Fang Hao and Li Mingchao said it was okay just now, but Ji Dacheng came back again, and he also brought a middle-aged man with a bald head and a big belly in clothes and leather shoes.

When the middle-aged man saw Li Jikai, with a smile on his face, he stepped forward quickly, and stretched out his hand: "Oh, Mr. Li, I have admired you for a long time, and I finally saw the deity today!"

Li Jikai almost yelled at Ji Dacheng, and even had some prejudices against middle-aged people, but as the old saying goes, if you don't hit a smiling face with your hand, he is not good at putting on a tiger's face, and reached out to shake his hand: "You are welcome, we are all friends Your love for me. I don’t know what is the name of this gentleman?”

The middle-aged man quickly introduced himself: "I am Cheng He, and this is my business card."

With that said, he took out his business card and handed it to Li Jikai.

Li Jikai took a look, and saw that it said "Huayou Art Trading Center, Deputy General Manager, Cheng He" and other information such as phone number and email address.

The name of this company can be seen at a glance, it must be a collection trading organization, no wonder Cheng He is so polite to him.In addition, Ji Dacheng's contact with this person was obviously for the purpose of his collection, which made him very angry, and he gave Ji Dacheng a hard look.

"So it's Mr. Cheng, but I'm ignorant, I don't seem to have heard of your company before!"

Cheng He said: "Our company is a newly established collection institution, dedicated to bringing domestic collections in line with international standards. Our company has discussed cooperation with many large foreign collection institutions. I believe that if you cooperate with our company, There must be a win-win situation.”

From the words "talked about cooperation", Fang Hao felt that this Huayou was a little unreliable, maybe it was a leather bag company.

Li Jikai is also an old man, and of course he would not believe Cheng He's empty words, so he laughed and said, "Oh, if you need anything in the future, you must contact Cheng Zong."

Of course, Cheng He also knew that Li Jikai was playing tricks on him, so he quickly said: "Mr. Li, to tell you the truth, our company is preparing for the first auction. As long as the collection is appraised by our company's experts, we can get a certain discount. If it is a high-quality goods, You can even reduce or exempt various service fees, and only pay personal income tax at that time.”

(End of this chapter)