One-Eyed didn't even look at them. Who were they trying to act tough with? They were spoiled rotten, still thinking it was feudal society. Did they think he had to kneel down to them? "It was agreed beforehand that if you can't do it, then don't look. Do you think I'm worried about selling this stuff?"
The three men instantly lost their temper. Indeed, once word got out about this thing, countless people at home and abroad would rush to buy it.
Take a few deep breaths and keep watching.
Half an hour, an hour, two hours passed, and One-Eyed kept reminding them not to touch it with their hands or vent their anger on it, which infuriated the two experts. But the item belonged to them, and if they didn't listen to them, they wouldn't be allowed to look at it. They had nowhere to vent their anger.
Jin Huaizhao rubbed his eyes and sat down on the stool. In his opinion, there was nothing wrong with the picture. He was still waiting for the opinions of the two experts.
Guan Yi and the others were all sleepy.
The one-eyed creature stared blankly, its mouth half-open, and hadn't spoken for half an hour. Guan Yi waved his hand in front of the one-eyed creature's eyes.
One-Eyed blinked, smacked his lips and closed them, then wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "Oh my god, he's asleep. What time is it? Is he done reading? He could have finished painting by now."
Guan Yi... he's really carefree, he can even fall asleep at a time like this.
The two experts examined it carefully, inch by inch, several times.
One of them frowned and said, "The lines of this Five Oxen painting are too rough."
Jin Huaizhao quickly got up and came over to check.
Guan Yi glanced at the one-eyed man.
"What are you comparing the rough lines to? Do you have a reference? Have you seen the real thing? Does this style not fit the overall style of Tang Dynasty paintings, or does it not fit the artist's artistic style?" The one-eyed man's tone was sarcastic.
The expert looked at the one-eyed man and said, "I saw the Five Oxen painting in my childhood, that Five Oxen painting..."
"That's a fake. You're comparing it to a genuine piece? Are you out of your mind?" One-Eyed interrupted the expert rudely. "Does that fake have a clear history of collection? Look at my piece. It has works by famous artists from various dynasties, and it was once in the Qing court collection. It has a clear provenance, and it even has inscriptions by Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qianlong. What were you looking at all that time, lying there like a dog?"
The expert… he actually couldn't see any signs of counterfeiting; he was just saying that to help Jin Huaizhao lower the price. They'd done this to Jin Huaizhao many times before, and seeing the one-eyed man humiliate him like this, the expert's face immediately fell.
“Seals and inscriptions can be moved or copied, so what you’re saying doesn’t mean anything.”
“Yes, the color of this hemp paper seems a bit too dark,” another expert immediately chimed in. Even if it were real, so what? They didn’t accept it; it was fake.
The one-eyed man chuckled, "You're trying to pull this on your grandpa? When grandpa was doing this, you were still peeing and playing in the mud."
Guan Yi stepped forward and put the painting away, placing it in a box. "Heh, like an old sow wearing a bra, trying to pull this trick on us. If you can't afford it, why pretend to be something you're not? You're wasting my time."
"It's clearly a fake, just a bluff. The overall style doesn't fit the context of the Song Dynasty at all. The composition and layout are crude. It's so obviously fake that it couldn't be more fake," an expert said dismissively.
"We've wasted so much of your time waiting. Here's two thousand yuan. Leave your stuff and get out of here." Another expert's face turned menacing. There were several bodyguards at the door, and dealing with these two old geezers was a piece of cake.
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