Everyone ordered their food. After the waiter left to notify the chef to prepare the dishes, Chen Yingping asked with a smile, "Curator Chu, I imagine you had a pretty good haul today, didn't you?"
Chu Chen smiled and nodded. "It was all right."
Chen Yingping's eyes lit up. "Oh? I wonder if you'd let me have a look too?"
"No problem..."
As he spoke, Chu Chen took out the few items he had just bought.
The first thing Chen Yingping took was the silver lock. After examining it, he sighed. "This Guang lock is quite good!"
Chen Laiming curled his lips. "Not necessarily. It looks to be in such poor condition. What's so good about it?"
Chen Yingping glared at him. "What do you know? This is a Song-dynasty silver lock."
"What? This is a Song-dynasty lock?" Chen Laiming looked somewhat surprised.
Chen Yingping said disdainfully, "You've been buying antiques for so many years, yet you can't even recognize a Song-dynasty lock. No wonder you bought two fakes in a row."
Chen Laiming shrugged. "I admit my eye for antiques isn't very good, but I always hired appraisers to inspect the things I bought. Those two misjudgments can't really be blamed on me, can they? Besides, didn't you fail to recognize them either?"
"Er..." Chen Yingping was speechless for a moment. After a while, he defended himself, "Even the appraisers you hired couldn't tell. It's normal that I was fooled too, right?"
Then he muttered, "Why has the level of counterfeiting become so high these days? I don't even dare touch porcelain anymore!"
Chen Laiming smiled. "Uncle, you don't need to worry so much. Although they're capable of making fakes look real, the costs are high too. They definitely wouldn't make ordinary pieces worth only a few thousand or