Chapter 374: A straw bag?

It would have been fine if Li Wancai hadn't said that. As soon as these words came out, Chen Sanping became even more annoyed. He actually slammed the signature pen in his hand onto the table with a "slap" and turned to walk upstairs.

Li Wancai hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Boss Chen, what's wrong with you? Anger hurts the body!"

Although he put on a confused expression on the surface, he was actually blooming with joy in his heart.

It seems his information was correct; this Chen Sanping must have had a conflict with the Tang family people, and I'm afraid this transaction won't be completed either.

Boss Chen was stopped by Li Wancai, so he didn't continue to go to the second floor. He swept a glance at Xu Tian, who was sitting not far away, with an unkind gaze and said sarcastically: "Who doesn't want to make money in peace when doing business, but some people just don't know what's good for them!"

The staff member next to him also hurriedly explained to Li Wancai: "Boss Li, you don't know, this time my boss and the Tang Group even negotiated the price, and the porcelain was taken out of the warehouse. As a result, when it came time to sign the contract and pay, they suddenly went back on their word and said they wouldn't buy it."

"What? This is the best-preserved set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain in the circle right now, and they just said they didn't want it?" Li Wancai was very shocked.

Chen Sanping still kept a straight face, but his tone softened a little: "Since he doesn't want it, then forget it. I didn't want to sell it to him in the first place."

"This time it clearly should have been Gu Xiansheng coming to negotiate with me, but I didn't expect a pretty boy who knows nothing to suddenly parachute in. I only relented to give him the porcelain vases out of respect for Gu Xiansheng, but he actually put on airs with me, making it seem like I was begging him to buy it!"

"I, Chen Sanping, have been in the business for so many years, and I have never been given a cold shoulder like today. I really don't know how that eldest daughter of the Tang family could send such a bucket of rice; just because he is good-looking and knows how to please people?"

"I think the rumors about the business queen were all exaggerated. To be able to send such a person to negotiate such an important business is simply outrageous!"

Originally, when Chen Sanping mocked Xu Tian, he didn't care at all, but now hearing the other party mock Tang Bingyan, bursts of chill immediately surged in his eyes.

Li Wancai smiled meaningfully at Chen Sanping upon hearing this.

"I heard long ago that the Tang family head, Tang Zong, has been getting very close to a man recently, even embarrassing the elders in the family several times for his sake. Later, because she was addicted to pleasure, she didn't even go to the company much... I originally thought someone was deliberately smearing Tang Zong, but now I didn't expect those rumors to be true..."

Xu Tian's eyes became a few degrees colder upon hearing this.

Where did this outrageous rumor come from? The fundamental reason Tang Bingyan didn't go to the company was clearly because she was sick.

Watching the rumors spread more and more outrageously, Xu Tian's face also became a bit ugly.

Just then, Jiang Yan stepped to his side and said with a straight face: "Mr. Xu, this person is named Li Wancai, and he is also in the antique business. He is in a competitive relationship with our Tang Group. He has always wanted to snatch this set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain from us."

"And, I heard that he also secretly contacted a rich man from Yinghua Country, intending to resell this set of porcelain vases immediately after getting his hands on them. If this set of porcelain vases really falls into his hands, you should know the consequences without me saying it, right?"

Facing Jiang Yan's threat, Xu Tian still didn't nod.

"You all think this set of porcelain vases is priceless, but in my opinion, they are just fakes that can pass for genuine, and they aren't worth that much money at all."

"You brat! What did you say?"

Chen Sanping was completely provoked by this sentence of Xu Tian's. He immediately couldn't care about his airs, rushed straight to him, and pointed at him, shouting: "Do you dare to say my Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain is a fake?"

"That's right," Xu Tian replied indifferently: "But it's not quite accurate; it should be a fake among antiques."

"You... you..." Chen Sanping was so angry that he took a few deep breaths, trying hard to calm his emotions: "I, Chen Sanping, have been in the business for decades, and there has never been a fake among the antiques that passed through my hands. You, a wet-behind-the-ears kid who doesn't understand antiques at all, what qualifications do you have to question my judgment?"

He had originally considered that Xu Tian was Tang Bingyan's person, so he didn't dare to make things too difficult. He originally thought about giving this wet-behind-the-ears kid a warning first, and then selling this set of porcelain to them after he yielded.

He hadn't expected this pretty boy to be so arrogant and ignorant, even talking nonsense and saying that his set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain was a fake.

With things reaching this point, the happiest person among the crowd was Li Wancai. He hurriedly walked to Chen Sanping to appease him: "Boss Chen, calm down; don't lower yourself to the level of someone who has never seen the world."

Then he looked at Xu Tian meaningfully and said deliberately: "Boss Chen is a senior expert in the antique trade, and he has never made a mistake with the things that passed through his hands. You actually say his set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain is a fake; what evidence do you have? If you don't have solid evidence, you are nakedly slandering him, and you will be held responsible!"

Xu Tian smiled faintly upon hearing this and said unhurriedly: "I don't have evidence, but I am just certain that this set of porcelain cannot be considered a true genuine item."

Chen Sanping was furious at Xu Tian's near-rogue attitude.

"Mr. Xu, you have to be responsible for what you said. You are not only questioning my, Chen Sanping's, eye for appraising treasures, but even questioning the reputation of our Linglong Zhai!"

"Since our Linglong Zhai was established, we have never sold a single fake. Your behavior of slandering people has already caused damage to the reputation of Linglong Zhai!"

"You go! I won't do your business anymore, and you are not welcome to attend the private auction in a while. Even if you regret it, it's too late. It's useless to say anything now. No matter what, I will never hand over this set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain to a straw bag like you who is arrogant and conceited!"

Chen Sanping took a deep breath and pointed at Xu Tian, who was still sitting in the chair, and said: "Hurry up and get out of here; don't force me to have the security guards throw you all out!"

Li Wancai also didn't expect things to reach this point. He originally just wanted to come over to see that well-preserved set of Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain and didn't hold any hope at all, but he didn't expect that the person sent by the Tang family this time would actually seek his own death, hard-headedly ruining this business and giving him a chance to pick up a bargain.

If it were normal times, he would absolutely not dare to dream of snatching business from the Tang family, but it seemed as if even God was helping him.

The Tang family didn't send the shrewd Gu Beicheng, but casually let a pretty boy who knew nothing come to communicate with Chen Sanping, and now he had directly angered him, publicly announcing that he wouldn't sell the porcelain vases to them. For him, this was simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

So Li Wancai immediately came to Chen Sanping's side and persuaded him with kind words: "Boss Chen, don't lower yourself to the level of such a straw bag. Looking at him, he isn't someone who understands the trade. We who do antique business come into contact with so many laymen every day. If we were to get angry at all of them, I'm afraid we would have been angered to death long ago."

"He thinks your set of blue-and-white porcelain is a fake and doesn't want to buy it, but others are probably begging for it! You have to know that the buyers coveting your set of porcelain are probably lined up from Pawa to the capital, and there will definitely be someone willing to buy this treasure at a higher price than the Tang family." ===== CHAPTER 375 =====