Chu Chen had found it strange that some of these fake seals looked as though they had been made by the same person. He had even wondered whether He Lihang had bought them all from the same source. He never expected that to be exactly what had happened. He Lihang had bought so many fake seals from one person without noticing a single problem. His eye for antiques really was "something."
At that moment, Huang Shanyi asked, "Old He, did you buy these seals on the mainland?"
"No, I bought them right here in Haojing. What's the problem?" He Lihang replied.
"Ha!" Huang Shanyi didn't know what to say. After a long while, he said with a speechless expression, "How exactly is your brain wired? Don't you know what procedures antiques have to go through to be taken out of here? You actually believed something like that. I really don't know what to say to you!"
He Lihang opened and closed his mouth, unable to speak for quite some time. Only then did he realize that Haojing wasn't the mainland. The old man had wanted to take the seals out, and it hadn't been nearly as troublesome as he claimed.
What kind of idiot was I to believe such nonsense?! He Lihang thought as he slapped himself hard on the head several times.
"Stop hitting yourself. No matter how hard you hit it, you won't be able to put the money back."
Huang Shanyi secretly shook his head and said, "There is one thing I'm curious about, though. You're usually pretty sharp. How did you make a mistake like this?"
He Lihang came back to himself and said bitterly, "The main reason is that I went to the mainland before buying these seals. I originally planned to buy an antique