His words were intended to test the waters; he wanted to see how much Bai Mushan desired this dragon bone.
Bai Mushan said, "Xiaoxu, that price is impossible. If you truly want to sell, the most I can offer is two hundred thousand."
Xu Chunliang said, "Then forget it."
Liang Baxian chimed in, "According to the current market trends, a regular oracle bone script at most goes for ten thousand."
Xu Chunliang said, "I'm not an expert, but I've heard, in July 2014, Hu Hai Garden Restaurant auctioned off twenty oracle bone scripts, eventually fetching a price of 52.8 million. Judging by that, asking two million for mine isn't too much."
Bai Mushan said, "That's true, indeed it happened, but the auctioned scripts then came from Yinxu, were in excellent condition, unearthed in 1899, all were ox scapulae, classified as first-grade cultural relics." Emphasizing they were first-grade cultural relics was to let Xu Chunliang know that his oracle bone script couldn't compare.
