The man sneered at what the old man said. "Give me a break. Just because you say it's valuable, that doesn't make it valuable! Besides, even if it is valuable, it has to be genuine. And there's something I'm curious about. If it really is worth so much, who would believe you just left it in this cloth bag?"
The old man angrily retorted, "I just bought it from someone else and was on my way home. Who knew you'd hit someone and run away—and then even hit people!"
The young woman let out a cold laugh. "Hey! Who told you to get in the way? You're already seventy or eighty years old. Don't you know what it means to overestimate yourself?"
"How can you talk like that? Are you saying what you did was justified?!"
The middle-aged woman who had just tried to break up the fight flew into a rage at those words and began cursing. The expressions on the other people's faces were just as unpleasant.
Seeing Chu Chen's gloomy expression, the man quickly tugged at the young woman's hand, signaling her to stop talking. He then said to the old man, "Anyway, without proof, I won't believe you just because you say so."
At that moment, the police officer spoke up. "All right! Isn't Curator Chu here? Just have him appraise it."
Only then did everyone remember that Chu Chen, the expert, was there. The old man hurriedly handed the object to him.
As mentioned earlier, a xi zun was shaped like a rhinoceros. However, this Zisha xi zun was not a simple imitation of a rhinoceros. It had been artistically refined. Its head was slightly longer than that of a real rhinoceros, and its ears stood tall. Its entire body had sturdy bones and full,