"Some so-called experts have bad character. I saw a report on the Internet before that two brothers who knew nothing about ancient painting appraisal asked an expert to appraise an ancient painting. After the expert appraised it, they deceived him and found that it was clearly from Qianlong.

He claimed that the original painting was a fake, and he also pretended to help find the seller. In the end, he spent hundreds of thousands to defraud the painting, and then resold it at auction for tens of millions."

"I know this story."

"What do you think about this?"

"It's free to get an expert appraisal, right?"

"It seems to be free."

Bai He was silent for a moment and said, "Even if it's free, you can't deceive people."

Wang Xiaoya said: "Yes."

"In the antiques industry, this is normal. They are all people with little thought. A horse will not be fat without night grass, and a person will not be rich without windfall."

"Is this what you are?"

"How do you say that?" Bai He smiled, "If I see a landscape tree in front of a house in the countryside that can be sold for a high price, in order to make money, I will not tell the real market value of this landscape tree.

, belittle it and buy it at the lowest price.”

"If it was a Podocarpus and someone asked you what kind of tree it was, would you lie and say it was some other kind of tree?"

"Probably... I don't know, maybe, maybe not, most likely not. Even if I say the tree is a podocarpus, I won't tell the true value."

"It's normal that you don't tell the true value."

"You have a double standard." Bai He joked.

"Shouldn't I say that the expert's character is not good?"

"It's totally okay if you think his character is not good, but if others think this is a normal thing..."

Bai He paused for a moment, smiled slightly, and said seriously, "Nowadays, many people will do all kinds of illegal things for money. We can't just follow the trend."

"You have the capital not to follow the crowd."

"It's not me, it's us!" Bai He smiled and kissed his wife's cheek. "To be honest, if I meet the expert you mentioned in the future, I will not refuse to deal with him, but I will not become friends with him.

.”

"Is it necessary to deal with him?"

"I plan to open an auction company in the future, and I will inevitably have to deal with celebrities in the collecting world."

"When do you plan to open an auction company?"
Chapter completed!