"Name?"
"Xu Lu!"
"gender?"
"male!"
"What did you do wrong?"
Although he was in an unfamiliar police station, upon hearing this strangely familiar question, Xu Lu had no choice but to answer with a helpless expression:
"Officer, if I say I haven't done anything wrong, will you believe me?"
"You didn't do anything wrong? You made this, didn't you? What else do you have to say for yourself?"
The officer in front of him took out an imperial seal and asked in a deep voice.
Xu Lu nodded, but asked with a puzzled look:
"Officer, I don't understand what's illegal or criminal about carving a few pieces of jade. Besides, I didn't sell them, so it doesn't even count as selling counterfeit goods."
On another note, what I bought is genuine top-grade Hetian jade, with superb carving and exquisite craftsmanship. Oh, and by the way, it's not for sale; it's for display only…”
Hearing this, the police officer was a little dumbfounded and said:
"So what did the people at the museum say about you committing a crime? That you deceived everyone's...feelings?"
"Heh, that guy must be crazy."
Xu Lu laughed.
He really didn't expect to be invited for tea again, and this time it was for something like this. It was so damn ridiculous!
The police officer on the other end of the line answered a phone call, hung up, and then pushed a statement towards me, saying:
"Okay, take a look first. If there are no problems, just sign here and you can leave!"
Xu Lu carefully read through the transcript, but before signing it, he added a comment:
"Officer, I wonder if you could return the jade seal you have, and the other seven pieces?"
This is my personal item. Although its intrinsic value isn't high, it still has some collectible value.
"Sure, you can take it now!"
The officer nodded and pushed the box to Xu Lu, who then signed his name on the statement.
For Xu Lu, the matter of the genuine and fake Imperial Seal of the State has come to an end.
But what he didn't know was that the chain reaction triggered by this incident had only just begun...
On the other side of the Gallic delegation.
Upon hearing the news, Mr. Brown's face turned ashen, and even his bulbous nose lost its usual rosy hue.
"Damn it! I never thought our 50 billion deal would fall through because of a counterfeit product! Damn it!"
"Mr. Brown, since this young man from Daxia has a fake, can we still sell our imperial seal?"
William, with his hooked nose, didn't understand the intricacies of the matter and asked in confusion.
Mr. Brown shook his head, his expression grim, and said:
"This is the second despicable thing. Although the jade seal in the hands of this young man from Daxia is a fake, it is made to resemble the genuine Imperial Seal of the State."
"If it weren't for this fake, our imperial seal wouldn't have been discovered. But now the people of Great Xia know that what we possess is not the Imperial Seal of the State!"
"But what we have are also antiques, things that were used by the emperors of their Great Xia Dynasty!"
William was about to speak.
But Mr. Brown interrupted:
“It’s different, William. Only the Imperial Seal of the State holds such important significance for the people of Great Xia.”
The other imperial seals, though also very valuable, hold entirely different significance.
No one would spend 50 billion to buy a seal that was merely used by an emperor.
"Then... how much can we sell this for? 10 billion, or 20 billion?"
Upon hearing this, the bearded Taylor, standing nearby, chimed in with some curiosity.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Mr. Brown nearly vomited blood from excitement, and after a long while, he said with a dejected expression:
"Don't even mention 10 billion or 20 billion. Selling 500 million would be good enough, and there might not even be any buyers!"
William and Taylor were stunned by these words.
How come something worth 50 billion or more just a few days ago has become so worthless in just two days?
...
"Fake? That Mr. Xu has as many as eight of these jade seals? And he made them all himself?"
Hongcheng TV Station.
Bingbing, a female reporter who had just heard the news, was stunned.
She suddenly remembered something that Mr. Xu had specifically said: he made no guarantee as to the authenticity of the jade seal!
Bingbing suddenly realized and muttered to herself:
"No wonder he made that statement on purpose back then. It turns out that the jade seal was something he made himself!"
Since he created it himself, it certainly couldn't be the legendary Imperial Seal of the State; he knew that perfectly well!
At this point, Bingbing looked puzzled again.
Because the person who claimed that the item was the Imperial Seal of the State was not Xu Lu himself, but an antique expert from Hong Kong.
"Judging from what I saw at the time, everything happened naturally!"
So it wasn't that the two had conspired beforehand; rather, the antique expert genuinely believed it to be the authentic Imperial Seal of the State!
Thinking of this, the female reporter Bingbing's eyes lit up.
She felt there was an even bigger story to uncover here, no less significant than the previous reports on the 'genuine and fake Imperial Seal'.
As a journalist, Bingbing immediately decided to dig deep into the inside story of this matter and report it to everyone.
But soon, the female reporter Bingbing was dumbfounded.
Aside from not being able to reach Mr. Xu, the person in question, she called each of the museums on the list one by one.
When they first heard that she was a reporter from Hongcheng TV, the other party was quite polite.
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