Seeing Old Xia leave looking utterly dejected, Gu Gongyi shook his head and sighed. "My friend is just too stubborn. Before this, I told him that if he wanted to collect, he should start by studying porcelain shards. Not only could he accomplish more with less money, but the chances of shards being fake were also relatively low. But it's not like I didn't warn him that shards weren't completely free of fakes and that he needed to be careful. I didn't expect him to have already suffered a loss once and still be so careless this time."
"Everyone starts out that way."
Chu Chen smiled faintly. In the antiques trade, suffering losses and being deceived were common occurrences. That was why every time he visited Old Liu, Old Liu would basically remind him, "You can never relax your anti-counterfeiting mindset, not even for a moment."
Besides, merely having an anti-counterfeiting mindset wasn't enough. Logical thinking was also very important. Take Old Xia's mistake this time. Even when Chu Chen had just entered the trade, he wouldn't have been fooled. The reasoning was simple: if you smashed a bowl on the ground, it wouldn't be easy to piece it back together, let alone a porcelain artifact from a thousand years ago.
Chu Chen felt that the porcelain shards Old Xia had bought might have been made by counterfeiters placing fake porcelain in a sack, smashing it, and then selling it to him together with the sack.
After chatting for a few more moments, Chu Chen arranged a time to meet Gu Gongyi the next day. He then said goodbye and prepared to return to the hotel.
Once they got into the car, Wu Ke said with some emotion, "Achen, luckily hardly anyone dares to provoke you anymore. Otherwise, it really