Chapter 402: Give you a chamber pot as a wine glass?
The antique dealer named Paul Jacques was really unlucky in the Paris terrorist attack.
Anyone working in the antiques business has to deal with thieves. The story of making a killing selling stolen goods is endless. But this time, he'd failed miserably: he'd received a shipment of porcelain from Quat-Jacques, hoping to profit handsomely, but ended up financing terrorism. And it was all stolen goods. They were currently being held by the Paris police.
Fabian is still in Paris to recover the stolen goods.
Speaking of which, Quat-Jacques must die!
According to his confession, his father, Kaki Bol, had Heng Heng bring these items home to promote Chinese culture and use them for teaching. He would return them to Xiao Peng after use. However, Kaki Bol discovered they were valuable and sold them to Paul Jacques for cash. His father was completely unaware of this, as it was his own personal decision.
Xiao Peng could only sneer at the police investigation. Quat-Boer had taken full responsibility for the incident! It would be strange if Kaji-Boer didn't know about this! Back then, Xiao Peng had given Kaji-Boer a blue and white porcelain flask as a gift to make him treat Hengheng better! Kaji-Boer knew the value of these things!
However, Kaki-Boer did not tell Quat-Boer that Xiao Peng had given him the vase: he had too many children and it would not be appropriate to give it to anyone, so he hid it.
As a result, this statement revealed a loophole: If Kaji Bol had not died of an inexplicable myocardial infarction, he should now be investigated for stealing Xiao Peng's finances.
After hearing what Chen Zetao said, Xiao Peng asked in confusion, "Brother Chen, are you interested in these porcelain bottles and bowls?"
Chen Zetao lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Xiao, tell me the truth, are these stolen sea-salvaged porcelains from the Ansaldo?"
Xiao Peng glanced at Chen Zetao and said, "Brother Chen, you didn't hide anything from me, so I won't hide it from you either. You're right, those porcelains are from the Ansaldo!"
Chen Zetao exclaimed, "You put artifacts from the Old Summer Palace in the kitchen?"
Xiao Peng scratched his ears and said, "Be quiet, Brother Chen. There are only two of us in the room. I can hear it. I don't just put it in the kitchen, I have it in the study and the bedroom too."
Chen Zetao said angrily: "These are all cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace!"
Xiao Peng said helplessly, "We can't make the salvage of the Ansaldo public, so these porcelains are just ordinary 'sea-salvaged porcelains'. What's wrong with using some high-end porcelain for a wealthy man like me?"
Chen Zetao was speechless: "Even if this is just ordinary sea-salvaged porcelain, your quality is too high, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "There's no shortage of anything. The thing you don't lack the most when salvaging underwater is all kinds of cultural relics. Those who know about them think they're valuable, while those who don't think they're just trash. If you have too many things, they won't be treasures anymore, right? Do you like them? When Fabian brings these back, you can take them all home. I'll give them all to you. I have a bunch in my warehouse anyway."
"There's still a pile in the warehouse?" Chen Zetao widened his eyes.
Xiao Peng nodded. "Of course. I have too many things to use. The good stuff was taken by the British and French back then, and the Italian soldiers took everything like they were picking up garbage bags. I have several chamber pots alone. Why don't you take one back today?"
"Why should I carry the chamber pot?" Chen Zetao laughed angrily.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "Learn from the foreigners and bring it back to drink."
"Go to hell!" Chen Zetao laughed.
Xiao Peng also laughed.
Even though the Internet is very developed now, most Westerners still don't understand China, or they are unwilling to understand or believe what has happened. In the eyes of many people, China is still stuck in the past 50 years.
There are all sorts of bizarre perceptions of China on foreign social media. Even when Chinese people try to reason with them, it's useless; they just think China is terrible.
We have to thank China's "public intellectuals" for this. They have been tirelessly publishing various "insights" on the Internet for so many years, occupying the media and social networking sites with their enthusiasm and voices. Thanks to their efforts, the idea that "China will collapse and disintegrate at any moment" has been deeply implanted in the minds of foreigners.
In the early years, China was indeed not doing well. People who live poorly tend to feel inferior, as the saying goes, "The less you have, the more you show off." Therefore, when Chinese people saw various negative comments about China online, they would earnestly provide examples and photos to prove to foreigners that we are not what you think, and that we are still doing well.
But foreigners don’t believe this at all. In their eyes, such behavior is caused by brainwashing.
As a result, China's life has indeed improved over the years, and ordinary people no longer feel inferior. Seeing those stupid questions online, they have deeply realized: What should you do if you meet an idiot in life? Support his every point of view and turn him into an even bigger idiot. So they deceive foreigners in various ways.
When Xiao Peng first arrived in Marseille, he encountered all kinds of strange questions. Even the Derrida couple, who had the best relationship with him and took the most care of him, asked him strange questions like "Does China have refrigerators?" after they got to know Xiao Peng.
How did Xiao Peng respond? He pulled out his phone and searched the internet: "What's a refrigerator? Let me look it up. Oh, it turns out a refrigerator is a refrigeration device that keeps food fresh at a constant low temperature. It seems quite advanced. But do we still need to preserve food when we don't have enough to eat?"
What’s even more terrifying is that Derrida and his wife actually believed his answer to be true! In their eyes, China is really like this.
What surprised Xiao Peng the most was that when Derrida and his wife invited him to their boat for the first time, they took out their treasured Chinese wine vessels and wanted to drink with Xiao Peng. However, the "wine vessels" they took out were actually the ceramic chamber pots that Xiao Peng had seen when he was a child, the kind with big red flowers and red double happiness patterns printed on them.
Mr. Derrida excitedly told Xiao Peng that this was a precious gift his friend had brought back from China. It was the most beautiful wine vessel he had ever seen. It was very popular with people drinking from it these days, and many people were proud to drink from it. It was not only prestigious, but also quite expensive!
Xiao Peng thought that he had been quite cruel in deceiving him by using the refrigerator, but he didn't expect that there was an even more cruel deception senior who directly tricked the foreigner into drinking from the chamber pot! Only then did he realize that he was really kind.
After the two of them finished laughing, Chen Zetao suddenly asked, "Brother Xiao, I watched the video footage of the Ansaldo salvage operation. Didn't they give up on salvaging the porcelain at the end? How did they get these porcelains out?"
Without thinking, Xiao Peng replied, "I dived down and salvaged it."
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Chen Zetao asked back.
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