“Wait a moment.”
Then Mr. Cassius got the book and turned to the page that he talked about.
“One more time.”
Angelia recited again with no compliant.
With a frown, Mr. Cassius looked at some following pages to remind her some and asked her to continue.
Repeating for several times and changing several books, finally, Mr. Cassius finished the exam.
He watched Angelia carefully and seemed to be confused.
“How did you recite so many books in short time? You cheated?”
Angelia shook her head.
“No. I tried all the best to finish it.”
Mr. Cassius did not believe her because he intended to give Angelia a mission impossible. He never thought someone could recite all of those so soon.
For sure, he did not believe Angelia told the truth.
He turned back to the cabinet behind him where he took a box out to open. There were several pieces of blue and white porcelain inside.
And said, “I heard you repaired Martin’s bowl of blue and white porcelain. Now you could try this one. This is from Song Dynasty, very precious. You stay here for some days to repair. I will come back when you finish.”
Before Angelia answered, he rushed to leave the room.
A minute later, Mr. Cassius regretted and hided outside by the window quietly, looking at Angelia in the room.
He had a smile when he saw she was too careful and tried to come up with the solution to the fake; he was satisfied with his plan.
“It is not blue and white porcelain from Song Dynasty. Merely a fake one costs twenty yuan. How to learn repair if she cannot distinguish the authentic from the fake.”
Then he turned to leave with great pleasure.
Angelia observed the porcelain with caution in the room.
It looked too abnormal from each aspect.
It was so weird.
She started to repair the vase with the tools left by Mr. Cassius.
It took her three days to finish only one third job for this twenty-centimeter vase.
She became more doubtful with more job being finished.
The vase did not look like a product from Song Dynasty at all.
Angelia did not find any professionalism though the hand-made style; it looked the same as the ones sold in common shops.
Nevertheless, when Mr. Cassius left, he told her this was blue and white porcelain from Song Dynasty.
“What happened?”
She had to call Martin to enquire about Mr. Cassius.
Martin listened to her and said, “Cassius is not nice. Stingy and selfish. Nobody would like to get along with him if he is not so competent in the industry.”
Angelia asked, “Has he ever made some mistake in the antique identification.”
Martin answered, “If talking about this, probably never.” Stopping for a while, he confirmed, “No. I will let him review everyone I picked up.”
She hung off and observed more details of the porcelain in her hands.
Though it looked like a fake one, she decided to repair it first.
Mr. Cassius might have some other follow-ups after this exam.
Angelia lowered her head to be concentrated on the last steps.
Without knowing how long had passed, she heard somebody was talking outside the door.
“Jonathan, you are here. Do you come to pick me up?”
Angelia stopped her work for the voice.
This was Claudia Hunk talking?
And she was calling Jonathan…
So, Jonathan was here now?
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