Chapter 206: Respecting the Elderly and Loving the Young Respecting Behavior, Not Age
Dou Wenran was bewildered after hearing this: "Money? How can something like this be measured with money?"
Xiao Peng asked Zhang Cuijian, "Brother Zhang, is this expert Dou really stupid or just pretending to be stupid?"
Zhang Cuijian covered her face and said nothing.
Dou Wenran, however, became anxious after hearing this: "Young man, how can you talk like that? Who are you calling stupid? How could such a cultural relic be left in your hands? I just didn't see it. If I had seen it, I would have taken it back home!"
Xiao Peng gave a thumbs-up. "Well done! Expert Dou, I truly admire your awareness! So, tomorrow I'll buy you a plane ticket and tickets to take you to the Louvre. There are tens of thousands of artifacts from the Old Summer Palace there. If that's not enough, I'll take you to Fontainebleau Palace, which has quite a few too. If that's still not enough, I'll take you to the British Museum, where there's even more!"
Dou Wenran's eyes widened after hearing this: "How can this be the same? Those things you mentioned are from museums in other countries. I can't take them back!"
"Fuck!" Xiao Peng lost control of his temper and slammed the table. "Are you fucking sick? You bully me when foreigners are hard to bully? Brother Zhang, where did you get this weirdo?"
Zhang Cuijian was already scratching his head. "Expert Dou, put that thing down! This is Brother Xiao's stuff!"
Dou Wenran, however, held the paperweight tightly in his hand: "I must take this treasure back with me! I won't let go even if you kill me!"
Xiao Peng stood up and said, "Do you think this is a place to play rogue?"
Dou Wenran looked at Xiao Peng and couldn't help but take a step back. "What are you going to do? Want to hit someone? You've been abroad and you've even forgotten to respect the elderly and love the young?"
Xiao Peng lit a cigarette and said, "'Respect the old and love the young' means respecting your behavior, not your age! Do I have to respect those old men and women who run around the streets trying to scam people?"
Zhang Cuijian coughed dryly. "New regulations have been enacted in China regarding 'touching porcelain'. Anyone caught doing this will now be criminally detained at the very least. Do you know what criminal detention means?"
Xiao Peng glanced at Zhang Cuijian and expressed his dissatisfaction with his jokes.
Of course, he knew what "criminal detention" meant. It meant having a criminal record, didn't it? In China, once criminal detention was implemented, it meant not only the individual was affected, but also the future political review of his children would be affected. Basically, any hope of becoming a civil servant, being drafted into the military, or joining a state-owned enterprise, bank, or public institution was practically impossible.
Zhang Cuijian meant to stop provoking Xiao Peng. He wanted to buffer the situation and persuade Dou Wenran. However, Dou Wenran was unaware of this and said righteously, "I'm bringing our country's treasure back home. Isn't this worthy of respect?"
Xiao Peng clapped his hands: "It's worthy of respect, but the prerequisite is that it's yours. Do you really want to act like a rogue?" After he said that, he walked directly towards Dou Wenran.
Chen Zetao and Zhang Cuijian saw that things were going badly and reached out to stop Xiao Peng.
"Expert Dou! Stop messing around! This isn't China. If Xiao Peng kills you now, you deserve it!" Chen Zetao yelled, "You're committing robbery!"
Dou Wenran shook his head. "Everyone dies. If I die bringing cultural relics back to my country, I will die a worthy death!"
Xiao Peng laughed in anger. Damn, I really ran into this old scoundrel! Do you really think I can't do anything to you?
Dou Wenran protected himself with one hand and held a paperweight behind his back with the other hand. Xiao Peng did not hit him, but instead interlocked his thumb and middle finger and directly reached out and tapped the ulnar nerve root in his arm.
The location of the ulnar nerve root is what we commonly call "numb tendon". Because it is located shallowly, it is often accidentally touched. Many people have experienced the sore feeling of being unable to move one arm.
Xiao Peng has been learning Chinese medicine from his grandfather since he was a child, so how could he not find the location of the "numb eye"?
Dou Wenran screamed, and the paperweight fell out of his hand and onto the ground.
In fact, Xiao Peng could have reached out and caught the paperweight, but he didn't. He watched the paperweight fall to the ground with a crisp sound. After all, it was a solid copper paperweight and it did not break. However, due to the lack of maintenance on the seabed for many years, a lot of enamel inlaid in the filigree on the paperweight fell out.
The scene was quiet.
Xiao Peng was no longer in a hurry. He walked back to his desk, took out a wine glass, took out a bottle of whiskey from the wine cabinet, opened it, poured himself a glass, and took a sip.
"Brother Chen, Brother Zhang, would you like to drink? One cup?" Xiao Peng asked Chen Zetao and Zhang Cuijian.
Dou Wenran was so frightened that his face turned pale and he trembled as he said, "You...what have you done?"
"Hey!" Xiao Peng raised his voice. "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say anything you want. You had it in your hand, and you threw it on the ground. Now you ask me what I did? Forget it, why should I tell you this? Call the police and let them talk!"
Chen Zetao got anxious when he heard this: "Brother Xiao, you can't call the police. If the police come, this thing will be exposed!"
"If it leaked, it leaked!" Xiao Peng said, "I've done everything I should do. I've done my utmost. Ever since we met, I've done whatever you asked me to do. You shoved people in my place and asked me to be a broadcaster to spread knowledge about the ocean, and I did it. Now my boat isn't even salvaging shipwrecks. I'm paying for the gas out of my own pocket so your experts can use my boat for scientific research! But Brother Chen and Brother Zhang, ask yourselves: Am I, Xiao Peng, doing enough? I call you 'Brother' all the time, but how have you treated me? Now, you're bringing people to my place to rob me, and if you can't rob me, you're going to smash it? Okay, let this be my last act of righteousness. I'll pretend this never happened. Take the coordinates. From now on, you'll walk your own paths, and I'll walk mine. We'll keep our distance!"
"Fuck!" Zhang Cuijian cursed immediately upon hearing this, but she wasn't saying it to Xiao Peng. Instead, she pointed at Dou Wenran and said, "You old man, you're so shameless, aren't you? Do you really think you're such a big shot? I'll say nothing about you being so senior and bullying all the way here, but now that you've gotten into such a big trouble, don't expect me to hold you back! These days, prices for imperial cloisonné at auctions start at at least four figures! You can figure out how to lose money!"
Chen Zetao also said: "Brother Xiao, I will report this matter to the country right now and will definitely give you a satisfactory answer! Brother Xiao, don't be so anxious! I will definitely give you an answer to this matter!"
Xiao Peng picked up the fallen paperweight and sneered, "Calling this a 'national treasure' is a bit of an exaggeration, but it's a treasure, right? I usually wouldn't touch it, and now it's smashed like this? Brother Chen, Brother Zhang, I should have kept you for dinner, but I'm really not in the mood today. Take this so-called expert away quickly, or I might break his arms and legs! Expert Dou, didn't you say you weren't afraid of death? Now, if I kill you for smashing a cultural relic like this, your name will only be hung on the pillar of shame!"
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