75: Is excellence also a disadvantage?

"You two are done talking about your business, right?"

At the same time, Wan Yuanliang heard the sounds of Ye Su and the other person reaching an agreement.

Handing the contracts for the antique painting and the silver coins to the two of them respectively, Wan Yuanliang asked symbolically.

Taking the contracts, Li Mengyao nodded: "We're done."

"ASu, Miss Li is also looking for two bottles of vintage Moutai. Do you have any good recommendations?"

"Huh?"

Wan Yuanliang asking this in front of Li Mengyao made Ye Su feel surprised.

He had specifically sent him a message on his phone because he didn't want to cut him out of the deal, but judging by his tone, it seemed he didn't intend to earn the price difference on the two bottles of Moutai.

"I do still have two bottles of thirty-year-old Moutai hidden away. If Miss Li needs them, I can part with them."

"You really do have them?" Wan Yuanliang put on a display of acting, pretending he hadn't known beforehand: "Just how many more good things are you hiding, kid?"

Having just received Ye Su's message, Wan Yuanliang also understood that Ye Su was a principled person and didn't have those dirty thoughts of wanting to bypass him to deal directly with Li Mengyao.

Doing business with someone like Ye Su undoubtedly made Wan Yuanliang feel very comfortable.

The things he brought were all guaranteed authentic, and he was straightforward, not making unreasonable offers.

Apart from having a level of excellence that shouldn't exist at his age, which disrupted his laid-back lifestyle, he had no other flaws.

The Wan father and son could thrive in Yangcheng, knowing acquaintances in all walks of life, and were absolutely impeccable when it came to social sophistication.

Facing such a partner, Wan Yuanliang, just like Wan Bowen, didn't mind making appropriate concessions to further consolidate the relationship between the two sides.

Since Li Mengyao wanted two bottles of vintage Moutai and Ye Su happened to have them, he might as well give them away as a favor and not earn that little bit of commission.

Both father and son believed that favors given out would sooner or later return to them.

After a moment of daze, Ye Su was a beat slow in understanding Wan Yuanliang's approach.

It seemed he had the intention of making friends with him, unlike before, where both sides were more of a buyer-seller interest relationship.

Naturally, Ye Su didn't mind gaining Wan Yuanliang's friendship.

"No, you're the one running an antique shop, yet you're the one saying others are hiding good things, right?"

Li Mengyao was also a bit surprised to hear that Ye Su happened to have two bottles of vintage Moutai.

Having them as soon as she asked, isn't that too coincidental?

Could it be that hearing Wan Yuanliang ask that, he just agreed along with it, wanting to set a trap for her?

But looking at Ye Su, he didn't seem like the type of person who would do such a thing.

"Mr. Ye, then thank you for being willing to part with them; you've helped me a great deal again."

"Miss Li, you're too polite. I'm not a drinker; those two bottles of Moutai were just a whim, something I collected for fun. Since you need them, I'll just transfer them to you, which saves me the trouble of having to keep worrying about storing them."

Ye Su was now quite adept at saying polite pleasantries, one after another, as if they were genuine.

"I wonder how much you plan to ask for the two bottles of vintage Moutai, Mr. Ye?"

"Thirty thousand, I suppose."

"Oh, thirty-eight thousand."

Li Mengyao had some idea about the resale price of thirty-year-old Moutai; she had bought it before to give as a gift and knew it was normally around fifteen thousand.

However, Wan Yuanliang had already warned her in person, saying that if she needed them urgently, there would be some price premium.

Li Mengyao's initial mental price point was a premium of two thousand yuan per bottle.

Now that it was four thousand more per bottle, if she could bargain, of course she would still want to bargain.

Being rich is one thing, but that doesn't mean she wants to be a sucker.

"Uh..."

Before Li Mengyao could open her mouth to bargain, Ye Su awkwardly scratched his head: "I meant, thirty thousand..."

Fearing another misunderstanding, Ye Su even made an [OK] gesture.

How did she hear thirty-eight thousand? I thought I didn't have an accent?

"Haha."

Having made a blunder in person, Wan Yuanliang, as a bystander, was the first to laugh out loud.

Li Mengyao also covered her mouth and chuckled: "Thirty thousand is acceptable. I wonder when it would be convenient for you to bring the wine over, or you can give me an address, and I can go pick it up in the next two days."

"You give me an address, and let's see when it's convenient tomorrow; I'll bring it over for you."

"Okay, then let's add each other on WeChat, and I'll transfer the money for the golden pearl to you while I'm at it."

Ye Su first turned his head and apologized to Wan Yuanliang: "Sorry, Brother Liang, I stole your business."

Wan Yuanliang shrugged indifferently: "I don't have any vintage Moutai here, and you happen to have it, so it's perfectly reasonable for you to do the business. What's there to be sorry about?"

"Haha."

Ye Su was just saying polite words; his phone was already in his hand, and after opening the scan feature, he added Li Mengyao as a friend.

"Come to think of it, you two really have a destiny for doing business together." As the two added each other, Wan Yuanliang sighed without rhyme or reason:

"After I posted ASu's golden pearl, you were the first to confirm after asking about the price.

You said you wanted to come here to pick up the goods and pick out a birthday gift for your father this year, and it turned out you happened to choose the interlayer painting that ASu opened up.

Now you say you need two bottles of vintage Moutai, and I'm out of stock, and it happens that ASu has two bottles of vintage Moutai on hand. You tell me, isn't that a coincidence?"

"Oh?"

Hearing Wan Yuanliang say this, Li Mengyao was also very surprised: "So even these two paintings were sold to Boss Wan by you?"

Li Mengyao didn't have much research on calligraphy and painting; she chose these two paintings purely because Wan Yuanliang explained to her that the small painting had just been opened from the interlayer of the large painting.

There were quite a few calligraphy and painting collections at home, but none that carried stories like this.

That was why Li Mengyao thought of choosing these two paintings, along with the story behind them, as a birthday gift; it could be considered a little clever idea of hers.

She didn't expect that the paintings she chose actually came from Ye Su's hands.

"How did you see that there was another 'hundred butterflies through flowers painting' sandwiched under this 'golden beak holding pearl painting'?" Li Mengyao's eyes were full of curiosity:

"I heard from Boss Wan that interlayer paintings are very difficult to see; generally, they are only discovered when they are being remounted."

"I didn't really see it either; I just wanted to take a gamble. Anyway, the 'golden beak holding pearl painting' on top is authentic, so even if there wasn't a second painting inside, at most I would only lose the cost of remounting."

"So that's how it is." Li Mengyao still gave Ye Su a thumbs up: "But being able to guess that there was another painting under the 'golden beak holding pearl painting', Mr. Ye's eye for antiques is still admirable."

"Miss Li, please stop praising me; if you keep praising me, I'll be embarrassed."

Ye Su knew clearly that he didn't have any eye for antiques; it was all thanks to the intelligence helping him to [see through] the trick of the 'golden beak holding pearl painting'.

On the contrary, it was Li Mengyao who could directly identify that natural South Sea golden pearl, which made Ye Su feel admiration.

She and Wan Yuanliang were the ones who truly had real skills.

But Ye Su's words, falling into Wan Yuanliang's ears, somewhat had an element of showing off.

You couldn't see it?

How long have we known each other, and how many times have you already found a bargain?

You tell me yourself, have you ever failed?

With such a sharp eye, Wan Yuanliang wouldn't believe it if he were beaten to death that he just guessed blindly on the 'golden beak holding pearl painting'.

The three chatted for a few sentences, and the contracts were signed. After Li Mengyao accepted the friend request, she transferred forty thousand yuan to Ye Su.

The two had only met for the first time, and obviously, they weren't familiar enough yet for Li Mengyao to transfer the money for the Moutai to Ye Su as well.

After deducting the two thousand commission for the golden pearl, Wan Yuanliang also transferred ten thousand yuan to Ye Su.