I Become The Richest Man With A monthly Salary of Twenty Thousand Yuan-Chapter 534 - 437

All that talk about things that couldn’t even be confirmed. What a waste of my emotional energy, Chu Lingmu thought.

Among everyone, only Fang Youxue stood behind Xia Liang, watching the crowd with a regretful expression. She had once suspected Xia Liang in the same way, but in the end, she had only made a fool of herself.

Seeing everyone’s gazes fixed on him, Xia Liang smiled faintly and picked up the Tang Sancai. He spoke calmly, "It’s just a Tang Sancai worth a few Yuan, isn’t it? If I’m wrong, what’s the big deal about paying ten times the price?"

BOOM!

Before the others could even react to his words, Xia Liang smashed the Tang Sancai in his hand onto the ground.

With a CRACK, the ceramic instantly shattered into countless pieces.

The appraisal stage fell silent. Chu Lingmu and the others had never expected Xia Liang to actually dare to smash the Tang Sancai. That took an immense amount of confidence. After all, if that Tang Sancai had been authentic, Xia Liang would have been on the hook for a million Yuan in compensation.

At that moment, Chu Lingmu’s live stream chat exploded.

"Oh my god, he really did it!"

"He just smashed a one-Yuan Tang Sancai? Is this how the rich live?"

"This handsome guy is so confident! Maybe the Tang Sancai really is a fake like he said, which would make it worthless."

"Let’s wait and see! Mumu, get the camera on the pieces on the ground!"

After shattering the Tang Sancai, Xia Liang didn’t even glance at the fragments on the ground. Dusting off his hands, he addressed the three appraisers and Chu Lingmu, "Whether I’m right or wrong will be clear in a moment."

The three appraisers immediately crowded around the shards. Chu Lingmu shot Xia Liang a look before walking toward the nearest fragment herself. Although she was surprised that he had actually smashed it, she still didn’t believe a word he had said.

Just wait and see how you’ll go bankrupt paying for this!

Before Chu Lingmu could even reach the fragment, she heard the three appraisers, who had already picked up some pieces, let out sounds of confusion.

"Huh?"

Startled, Chu Lingmu quickly bent down and picked up the shard in front of her, gasping sharply. The inside of the Tang Sancai was already completely fractured. The cross-section of the fragment revealed layer after layer, and the extent of the damage was far beyond her imagination.

Still in disbelief, Chu Lingmu picked up another, larger piece. The faults in this one were even more obvious. The deeper she looked, the more shattered the interior was. Moreover, the luster and appearance of the material in the inner cross-section were clearly not from the Tang Dynasty. It only took a few glances for Chu Lingmu to realize that this fracture surface had been created by a firing process from the last few years.

Then, Chu Lingmu counted the fault lines. One, two, three, four, five! No more, no less—exactly the five times Xia Liang had mentioned!

Squatting on the ground, Chu Lingmu counted the layers on the Tang Sancai fragments over and over. But no matter how many times she counted, the answer was always the same: five layers. As she did, her expression became one of utter bewilderment.

After a few moments, Chu Lingmu slowly looked up. The other three appraisers were already standing to the side, watching her. The shock in their eyes grew more exaggerated by the second. One of them was even holding a teacup with a slightly trembling hand.

She glanced at Xia Liang, the disdain in her eyes completely gone. It was replaced by a profound sense of caution and curiosity.

Only Fang Youxue, standing behind Xia Liang, remained calm. She clicked her tongue and grinned. See? None of you believed me. Shocked now, aren’t you!

Just then, Chu Lingmu turned back to her camera and spoke to the live stream audience, who were waiting impatiently.

"This Tang Sancai is indeed a forgery, and its manufacturing process is exactly as Mister Xia described!"

BOOM!

Her statement was like a bomb, setting the chat on fire. The stream’s popularity soared once again. A moment earlier, the moderator had changed the stream title to "Live! Smashing a Hundred-Yuan Tang Sancai!" As a result, hundreds of thousands more viewers had joined.

"My god, this guy’s eye for this stuff is terrifying!"

"He’s a master, an absolute master! He identified things even Mumu couldn’t see and even laid out the manufacturing process!"

Among those watching Chu Lingmu’s stream were quite a few professionals. They were even more shocked than the average viewer and immediately started commenting.

Linglong Antique Shop: "I’ve been in the antique business for many years and have never seen someone who could describe the internal structure of a forgery at a glance. This man’s eyes must be sharper than an X-ray! I’m truly impressed. Sending a gift!"

Linglong Antique Shop sent a Rocket x1!

More and more gifts began flooding the screen.

Only professionals like Chu Lingmu and the others could truly understand how terrifying Xia Liang’s insight was. Setting aside how he knew the forgery’s manufacturing method and the number of times it had been fired, simply identifying it as a fake was a feat that perhaps not even a first-grade appraiser could accomplish. To be able to describe its internal structure directly was something probably no one in all of Huaxia could do.

Walking up to Xia Liang, Chu Lingmu offered a sincere apology. "I was impulsive just now, and I apologize. But I have to know, how on earth did you see all that?"

The other three appraisers also gathered around Xia Liang, all of them excitedly asking about his appraisal methods.