Uncle Wu smiled when he heard this. "For people in the know like us, we understand some of the tricks involved in an auction company's operations, but ordinary people may not. Besides, the auction company Shuang Shilo hired has quite a reputation in our country. How many people would suspect that the experts they hired could make a mistake?"
Take Sotheby's, for example. As a giant in the auction industry that had survived for more than two hundred years, it had seen plenty of storms. It had certainly auctioned genuine items as fakes more than once; it was just that many such cases had never been exposed.
If the news had not reported something like this, how could an ordinary collector imagine that such a major auction company could make this kind of mistake?
Old Wu felt that Uncle Wu's words made sense. "Heh, let Shuang Shilo worry about it himself."
Chu Chen nodded. "The problem now is how to buy the remaining four figurines."
Old Wu frowned. "That's difficult! It won't be easy to get those four figurines from Chang Zili."
The Chang Zili Old Wu mentioned was the "shovel" Shuang Shilo had spoken of. He was extremely shrewd in business and was the sort who would split every penny in half before spending it. If he found out that the five figurines had ended up in Chu Chen's hands, Chu Chen would have no chance of buying them without paying a substantial price.
Although Chang Zili did not yet know that Shuang Shilo had sold the items to Chu Chen, he clearly intended to make money from those figurines and certainly would not sell them cheaply to Chu Chen.
Therefore, aside from letting Chang Zili fleece him, Chu Chen could only rely on dragging things out.
Chu Chen