Chapter 702 Ancestral Jewelry
A hint of pride flashed in Tang Yuye's eyes, but her face looked innocent. "I was just kind enough to bring a cup of coffee to my aunt, and I didn't mean to break your things. Why are you so aggressive?
How expensive can jewelry made of coral beads be? It's so old, so you name the price and I'll compensate you at the original price."
Su Rina was so angry that her hands were shaking. "Tang Yuye, this set of jewelry in my family was passed down from the early Qing Dynasty."
Su Rina has a straightforward and simple personality and is not good at beating around the bush like a green tea girl.
In this situation, I have to step forward and help her.
Seeing Suna's sad look, I said angrily: "Tang Yuye, although you may not have done it on purpose, it is common sense to compensate for damaging other people's things.
The price of something isn't just based on how much you think it's worth. My classmate said this set of coral jewelry was passed down from her family in the early Qing Dynasty. Not only does it hold special commemorative significance, but the value of the item itself isn't something you can justify with a few thousand yuan.
When I said this, I kept glancing at Su Rina, hoping that she could tell me the value of this thing. To be honest, I didn't know how much it was worth, and I felt that I was not confident enough to argue for others.
But she didn't seem sure how much it was worth, and looked at me blankly.
I had no choice but to change the direction of attack.
"Tang Yuye, your grandfather has collected so many antiques, how come you don't have any common sense at all? If he saw this coral jewelry being ruined like this by you, would he be heartbroken?"
Sure enough, when Tang Yuye mentioned Mr. Tang's love for antiques, her face changed and she said defensively, "This thing looks like a plastic bead. How can I know if it's an antique?"
Huang Tianyi finally finished brushing her eyelashes. She walked towards us while fanning her eyelashes with her hands.
Seeing her coming over, I immediately felt at ease. Among us, Huang Tianyi is definitely ranked first in terms of fighting ability.
She started talking as she walked. "Whether this jewelry is antique or not has nothing to do with whether you recognize it or not. If you don't recognize it, it's because you don't know it. How can I recognize it at first glance as the earrings from the Chahar Princess's silver and coral headpiece?"
Su Rina and I looked at Huang Tianyi in surprise. This girl is amazing. She can tell the origin of this object with just one glance? I started to admire her.
A flash of panic crossed Tang Yuye's face. She said stubbornly, "Do you mean what you said? Who knows if it's just a Chahar Princess or something? Why didn't you mention Empress Dowager Cixi's jewelry?"
Huang Tianyi shrugged, "Because Empress Dowager Cixi's jewelry is not as valuable as Princess Chahar's. As for antiques, the older they are, the more valuable they are.
At the Sotheby's auction two years ago, similar coral jewelry was sold for more than one million.
Although it's not worth much, you're asking for several thousand dollars. That's really unbecoming of the eldest daughter of the Tang family. You're really ignorant and stingy."
Tang Yuye's expression changed again and again. She bit her lip and suddenly turned around to run out. "You guys ganged up on me and bullied me. I'm going to ask Brother Ling to sort things out!"
"Stop!" Huang Tianyi, tall and long-legged, grabbed her arm and said, "You want to run away after breaking something? Do you think this is your home?"
There was a knock on the dressing room door. "Is it convenient for me to come in now?"
It was Ling Xiuzhi's voice, "Come in." Huang Tianyi answered loudly.
Ling Xiuzhi pushed the door open and came in. "What happened? I heard it in the corridor..."
His eyes swept across the mess on the ground and his voice stopped abruptly.
"Brother Ling," seeing that the person who came in was Ling Xiuzhi, Tang Yuye immediately shook off Huang Tianyi's hand with a look of grievance and rushed towards him. Ling Xiuzhi was as if facing a great enemy and nimbly moved to the side.
Tang Yuye's attack was in vain, and she felt even more aggrieved. "Brother Ling, these few people bullied me, insisting that these broken beads were worth a million. They wanted to blackmail me..."
At this time, other students from the Film Academy heard the noise and gathered at the door to watch the fun.
Even the young man with a crew cut who had just led us squeezed to the door to see what was happening inside.
The curly-haired girl and the one named Xiaoya seemed to be Tang Yuye's closest friends. They entered the dressing room and stood on either side of Tang Yuye. "Xiaoye, what's wrong? Did they bully you because they were outnumbered?"
Ling Xiuzhi looked at the ground, then at Tang Yuye, and asked her with a headache, "Did you do all this?"
Seeing that more of her classmates had come, Tang Yuye suddenly felt more confident and said with her head held high, "I don't know why, but as soon as I got close to the dressing table," she pointed at Su Rina, "her glass jar fell to the ground.
I was so scared that my hand was shaking and I spilled both cups of Geisha coffee. Then I accidentally stepped on some beads. I don't know if they were made of plastic, but they were too flimsy and broke when I stepped on them. Now they say that thing is worth a million and they want me to pay for it.
Xiaoya exclaimed in an exaggerated tone, "Oh my god, how dare you ask for a million for these few broken beads? You must be crazy because you're broke."
Although Su Rina felt sorry for the jewelry passed down from her family, she obviously didn't think it was that valuable, so she looked a little guilty. In the eyes of Tang Yuye and the others, they were sure that we were trying to blackmail them.
But in Ling Xiuzhi's eyes, Su Rina was bullied by them so much that she didn't even dare to speak.
His brows were stern, completely different from his usual playful expression. "Ye Zi, considering seniority, you should call me uncle. Normally, you call me brother without any respect, and I don't mind you. But you are bullying your future aunt like this, which is too much!"
Seeing Ling Xiuzhi, who had always been kind to her, suddenly turn hostile, Tang Yuye's face turned pale and she said hurriedly, "Brother Ling, I really didn't..."
"Call me Uncle Ling! It's been several years, and I'm a generation shorter than them out of thin air! Why?
Tell me the truth, do you think I'm easy to bully, so you think my wife is also easy to bully?"
As an artist, Ling Xiuzhi's thinking is always somewhat different from that of ordinary people.
"No~" Tang Yuye tried to defend herself in a crying voice.
"That's enough," Ling Xiuzhi interrupted her impatiently, pointing to the camera in the corner and saying, "There's a surveillance camera in the dressing room. We'll know what's going on at a glance. As for how much this coral jewelry is worth..."
He turned his head and looked outside the door, "Jing Feng, go ask Mr. Fei to come over and tell him there's an old item here that he wants to take a look at."
As soon as these words were spoken, I noticed that Tang Yuye's face changed and she shuddered noticeably. It seemed that she knew who this Mr. Fei was.
But we didn't know, so we heard Huang Tianyi ask casually, "Mr. Fei? Are you an antique dealer? Have you ever been on a treasure appraisal program? Is he trustworthy?"
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