Chapter 430 - 430: 【430】The Number One Quick Draw in the Antique World_1
Chapter 430: 【430】The Number One Quick Draw in the Antique World_1
Ma Wentao, showing his age, lectured Tang Feng for a few sentences, then turned his attention to the audience on site.
“I see there are many customers here with ceramics. Let’s do this, we will randomly select three pieces of ceramics for appraisal from among these people and see who has the higher accuracy rate.”
“What if the accuracy rates are the same?” Tang Feng asked.
“If the accuracy rates are the same, then it will be decided by the speed of appraisal.”
“Agreed.”
Tang Feng had no further questions.
Ma Wentao immediately cast his gaze towards the customers.
The customers, seeing his glance come their way, hurriedly presented the ceramics they had brought.
They came to Elegant Pavilion today primarily to seek Tang Feng for appraisals.
Now that there was a free appraisal, they naturally couldn’t ask for more.
“You, you, and you, bring over the ceramics you three have.” Ma Wentao casually pointed out three customers.
These three customers were immediately overjoyed and rushed to present their ceramics.
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These three items were: a porcelain bowl, a porcelain vase, and a porcelain pillow.
Qin Yanan had already had someone bring over a table and arranged the three pieces of ceramics on it.
She then prepared a notebook and a pen for each of them to write down their answers.
“Mr. Tang, please.”
Ma Wentao had a confident smile on his face and didn’t forget to give way to Tang Feng.
Tang Feng didn’t bother with the formalities either, he went straight to the three pieces of ceramics and started inspecting them.
In fact, he had already activated the scanning system.
The information about these three pieces of ceramics was presented before his eyes in an instant.
Still, he pretended to inspect each item in turn and then picked up the pen and notebook to start writing his answers.
At this moment, Ma Wentao had just pulled out his magnifying glass, about to move forward to inspect the first piece of ceramics.
Seeing his unexpectedly fast action, he was immediately dumbfounded, “You… you’ve finished looking?”
Tang Feng “scribble scribble scribble” wrote a few lines in the notebook, then closed it, “Yep, any problems with that?”
“You… you… how could it be so fast? I think you just scribbled down some answer!”
Tang Feng’s appraisal speed was simply beyond the comprehension of Ma Wentao and most of the appraisers present.
When they appraised a piece of ceramic, they would look it over many times, fearful of missing a detail.
The shortest time could be several minutes, but it could also take days, weeks, or even months.
But Tang Feng’s appraisal speed, wasn’t it too fast?
They had all just seen with their own eyes, this guy only glanced over each piece of ceramic, as if to say the appraisal was complete.
Who appraises like that?
A light smile appeared on Tang Feng’s face, “What’s it to you, once we check the answers and see if they’re correct, won’t that settle it?”
Ma Wentao, finding himself at a loss for words, couldn’t be bothered to say more.
It was clear now that he couldn’t beat the other party in speed, so he had to focus on accuracy.
He began to inspect the details of each piece of ceramics carefully with his magnifying glass.
The surrounding customers started discussing in low voices.
“This appraiser named Tang, isn’t he being too childish? The appraisal process didn’t even last five seconds, and he’s finished?”
“I’m also a bit puzzled, his speed is just too fast, I guess he didn’t even get a clear look at the patterns on each piece of porcelain before rashly drawing his conclusions?”
“Hehe, he probably knows he can’t beat Mr. Ma, so he just gave up on himself, right?”
“It seems that this Elegant Pavilion really is all bark and no bite, thankfully we have Mr. Ma and others to expose their true colors, otherwise, who knows how many people would be deceived.”
“Yeah, who would have thought that such a shady place could be featured on Mao Anyi’s program…”
Of course, there were also many people at the scene who had seen Tang Feng’s performance in the appraiser’s assessment and knew his usual style.
In the appraiser’s assessment, he always gave his answers with incredible speed, and the accuracy was frighteningly high.
So they didn’t think there was anything wrong with Tang Feng ending the appraisal so quickly, and they felt it was others who were making a big deal out of nothing.
This included Zhong Pan’er.
She couldn’t help but find it amusing to herself, thinking that soon she’d show these people what it means to be the fastest gun in the antique world.
Er… fastest gun?
That sounded a bit evil.
Her pretty face blushed slightly, and she hurriedly looked around, relieved to find that no one had noticed her.
Ma Wentao took about twenty minutes to finish appraising the three pieces of porcelain and then calmly wrote down his answers in a notebook.
“Both appraisals are complete, so let me do the honors and reveal the answers for our two appraisers.”
Zhao Quande walked out at this moment, picked up Ma Wentao’s notebook, flipped through it, and couldn’t help but show a hint of a smile on his face.
In fact, just now, these appraisers weren’t idle either; they had been secretly observing these three pieces of porcelain and had more or less formed their own conclusions in their minds.
At this moment, Ma Wentao’s answers exactly matched what he had observed.
“Mr. Ma’s answer for the first item, the Song Dynasty Cizhou Kiln Sculpted Ceramic Pillow… identified as a forgery. Although the craft of this ceramic piece is realistic, there are clear signs of artificial aging…”
As he announced the answer for the first piece of porcelain, the owner of the ceramic pillow immediately grimaced.
But he still harbored the last shred of hope.
After all, this was just the result from one appraiser; there might be a different answer from Tang Feng’s side.
Zhao Quande then announced the appraisal results for the other two pieces by Ma Wentao.
The ceramic vase was also a forgery, whereas the ceramic bowl, although not authentic, was a Qing Dynasty imitation and was still worth some money.
The other two treasure holders were also full of disappointment.
They had earlier felt that Mr. Ma should be more reliable than Mr. Tang, but now it seemed that might not be the case.
Now, they placed their last hopes on Tang Feng, hoping he would have a different appraisal conclusion.
Zhao Quande had already picked up Tang Feng’s notebook, but when he saw the answer inside, he was instantly stunned.
“This… this… how is this possible?”
Seeing the change in his expression, the people around grew curious.
What kind of answer could it be that would make Mr. Zhao show such a face?
Zhao Quande himself realized he had lost his composure and quickly adjusted his state of mind.
After giving Tang Feng a deep look, he then announced his appraisal result.
“Mr. Tang’s appraisal result for the first item, the Song Dynasty Cizhou Kiln Sculpted Ceramic Pillow… identified as a forgery!”
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