"Mr. Tang, don't listen to this kid's nonsense!" Shi Wenyuan immediately shouted.
"That's right, Mr. Tang, you clearly don't trust us. In this case, we're leaving." Professor Xue and Professor Zhao also stood up at the same time and shouted angrily.
Tang Junshan smiled slightly: "What's wrong with you? I just asked Gu Junlin to check it out. It's not like I don't believe you. Why are you so excited?"
With that said, regardless of the objections of several people, Tang Junshan raised his arm towards Gu Junlin:
"Gu Junlin, let's start the appraisal. I've agreed in advance that if you can't come up with a reasonable explanation, you must apologize to Shi Wenyuan and the other two professors."
Gu Junlin originally didn't want to get involved in such nonsense, but now that Mr. Tang has called his name, there's nothing he can do.
Gu Junlin stood up and walked towards the sword box on the table.
In full view of everyone.
Gu Junlin grabbed the antique long sword with a bronze luster and struck it hard against the ground!
With a crisp click, the sword broke into three pieces on the ground.
"Gu Junlin, you kid, what are you doing! That is an antique from thousands of years ago. You dare to destroy it. You deserve to die!" Shi Wenyuan was the first to attack.
"Mr. Tang, what do you want to do now? You hired this guy Gu Junlin. You are also responsible for this!" Professor Xue and Professor Zhao attacked Mr. Tang at the same time.
Mr. Tang frowned slightly. He did not expect that Gu Junlin would be so impulsive in doing things.
"Gu Junlin, please give me an explanation." Mr. Tang sighed helplessly and looked up at Gu Junlin, his expression slightly cold.
Gu Junlin didn't say anything. He grabbed the small sword again and slashed it on the ground.
With a soft sneer, the hard marble floor was split into two in an instant.
"Everyone, is this explanation clear enough?" Gu Junlin stood up and asked loudly.
The scene was extremely quiet for a while.
"You know what the hell!"
At this time, Shi Wenyuan suddenly roared, rushed to Gu Junlin's side again, and shouted angrily:
"You kid doesn't know how to identify cultural relics at all. I already told you that those two cultural relics are thousands of years old. The sword has been buried underground for thousands of years and will inevitably carbonize."
"After carbonization, it will become brittle. If you chop it hard on the ground, it will naturally break into pieces. What are you trying to quibble about?"
"Since it is a mother-and-son sword, it should have been produced in the same era, made by the same craftsmen, and made using the same processing technology. Then why is the short sword intact but the long sword broken?"
Gu Junlin asked calmly.
Uh... Shi Wenyuan was immediately speechless when he was asked, unable to come up with an answer.
"besides"
Just when everyone thought Gu Junlin had finished speaking, Gu Junlin suddenly bent down and groped on the ground for a while, then picked up a few broken sword fragments and threw them on the table, saying calmly.
"If I read it correctly, these pieces should be steel fragments. Inside the bronze sword thousands of years ago, there are steel fragments made by modern technology. Is this possible?"
"These are all senior experts in the field of appraisal. Steel will never make a mistake."
Hearing this, Tang Junshan and the other two seniors gathered around and appraised the fragments on the table.
After a while, several people raised their heads together.
"It is indeed pig iron. The processing technology is very rough. It looks like it was made in a hurry recently." The two old seniors said in unison.
Tang Junshan cast his gaze on Shi Wenyuan’s face and asked coldly:
"Shi Wenyuan, now it's your turn to explain why there are pig iron fragments in a good ancient bronze sword?"
"This... Mr. Tang...I..."
Cold sweat broke out on Shi Wenyuan's forehead, and he was speechless, unable to even speak a complete sentence.
"What are you!"
Mr. Tang's expression suddenly became extremely stern, and he started to scold him angrily.
"Shi Wenyuan, you were once my most proud student. I never thought you would do something like this. You used a fake sword to deceive the Wenwan Association. According to the regulations, you will be expelled from the association."
"Tell me, how do you want me to handle this matter?"
"Teacher!"
Shi Wenyuan's face instantly turned pale, and he began to cry out in tears:
"Please, Master, give me a chance. I was confused and lost my mind for a while. My wife is hospitalized and I need a lot of money. I have no choice but to do so."
"Last resort?"
Mr. Tang suddenly raised his voice: "As a last resort, can you resort to fraud and violate principles?"
At this point, Shi Wenyuan had no way to refute, so he could only lower his head and said: "Please punish Mr. Tang."
"never mind."
Unexpectedly, Mr. Tang handled them with care: "Fortunately, these two swords haven't been sent to the museum yet, so they haven't caused a big mistake. Let's not do this next time."
After saying that, Mr. Tang's eyes fell on the faces of Professor Li and Professor Zhao again.
The two men trembled and hurriedly bent down and said: "Please punish Mr. Tang."
Mr. Tang waved his hand helplessly: "Forget it, there are not many people in our association, but the appraisal level of the two of you is still very good. Let's not do the same again."
"Thank you, Mr. Tang." The two of them immediately burst into tears of gratitude.
After teaching these three people a lesson, Shi Wenyuan and others were too embarrassed to stay any longer and found excuses to leave.
Mr. Tang was also happy with the peace and had no intention of staying.
After a few people left, Mr. Tang stood up and said to Gu Junlin with a smile:
"Gu Junlin, thanks to you this time, otherwise it would be really difficult for me to judge which of the two swords is real and which is fake."
"But you just sat there and looked at it without touching the ancient sword. How did you judge whether it was true or false?"
Gu Junlin didn't hold anything back and said bluntly: "It's nothing special, just based on feeling."
Mr. Tang looked stunned.
This answer is too perfunctory.
How did he know that what Gu Junlin said was indeed the truth and that he was really relying on his feelings.
Seeing that Gu Junlin refused to tell the truth, Mr. Tang had no choice but to say: "No matter what, Mr. Gu has always helped me a lot, so why don't you join our Art and Play Association regardless of Mr. Gu?"
"I'm short of manpower here."
"No," Gu Junlin flatly refused.
"Now I just want to live a relaxed and simple life, spending time with my wife and children. This time I can repay the favor given by Mr. Tang to the store."
Seeing that Gu Junlin was so stubborn, Tang Junshan couldn't force himself, so he had to say:
"Okay, I'll ask Xiao Fang to take Mr. Gu back."
Waving to Xiao Fang, Xiao Fang immediately came to Gu Junlin and said respectfully: "Mr. Gu, I will take you home."
Gu Junlin didn't refuse and took Xiaofang's car back to the city.
"Gu Junlin, where did you go, you brat? I called you more than a dozen times but you didn't answer. Come home quickly."
"Something happened to your cousin."
As soon as he got out of the car, Gu Junlin received a call from his third aunt Song Shanshan. Song Shanshan's playful roar came from the phone.
"Third Aunt, don't worry, I'll be back soon."
As soon as he heard that something happened to Zhong Li, Gu Junlin didn't dare to neglect, took a taxi and hurried to Song Shanshan's house.
