Harvey York's Rise to Power novel Chapter 328

The old man with the name of Charles Zarate, was the president of the Niumhi Antique Dealers’ Association, the young woman behind him was none other than Rosalie Naiswell while the young man was his student, Luis Zarate.

Harvey York wasn’t surprised to see his arrival given how reputable he was in the antique industry, it’s only natural for him to attend this antique fair today. As a side note, his relationship with Shane Naiswell seemed to be very close.

While the student Luis was obviously chasing after Rosalie as his sight never left her since the moment he entered the room.

However, Rosalie’s facial expressions changed just slightly as she rested her gaze on Harvey. This immediately made Luis stunned and cautious.

Rosalie was a true icy beauty who seemed to be cold to anyone she met, but her eyes soften up evidently when she’s face to face to this stranger who’s from god knows where.

Even without introducing themselves to each other, Luis had already seen Harvey as his competition.

Shane stood up to shake Charles’s hand and greeted him, “Old buddy, you’re finally here, I thought you won’t come this time for me.”

Charles laughed. “I heard that you found some goodies in our Niumhi city, so of course I’d be here to check them out, I’ll be excited and happy if your judging skills turned out to be wrong!”

“Better not be! Although I’m old and all but my eyesight is still good,” Shane shot back.

Harvey understood right away how close both of the old men must be with each other, or else the two esteemed professionals in the same field wouldn’t be talking to each other this way.

“So you’re the young man who’s looked highly upon by Naiswell, rumours had it that you appraised the painting of ‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains’ successfully, is that true?” Charles stated with a smile after observing Harvey carefully as he approached him.

To him, Harvey looked like an ordinary young guy with no special talents, he didn’t see why Shane would admire him.

Harvey stood up instantly out of respect for someone as distinguished as Charles, even if he ignored Charles’s status he would still show respect as a courtesy toward the elders.

“Nice to meet you President Zarate, you’re thinking too highly of me, I was just lucky that day,” Harvey replied humbly.

“It’s good to see how humble you young people are, but being overly humble would make one seemed like a sham,” Charles continued looking at Harvey with an observant gaze, still not convinced of how good this young man might be.

He still hadn’t seen any specialty in Harvey but those days Shane had been praising him so much that he’s wondering whether his own ears had a problem.

“How about you young people exchange your skills and knowledge with each other through a small competition?” Charles turned his head and glanced at Luis and Rosalie.

Charles had always been trying to get Luis and Rosalie closer as Luis was his student and someone from the same family, if they could build a relationship between the two it’ll be good for the Zarate family as well.

But Rosalie was too intelligent and talented to be even approached, and Charles could tell how Shane had already treated Harvey as though he was his grand son-in-law.

So for Luis and also to test how good this young man was, he wanted to test out Harvey’s skills.

“President Zarate, you have thought too highly of me, how would I dare to showcase those basic skills of mine in front of you?” Harvey rejected humbly with a smile, he’s not that stupid to not guess what was in Charles’s head.

However, he has already rejected Shane’s invitation to be their live-in son-in-law, he obviously wouldn’t want to show his talents in front of them again so it’s only clear for him to refuse the challenge.

“Young man, you’re not looking down on the treasures and goods I could find and bring here to you, are you?” This time, Charles sat right in front of Harvey and said with a friendly smile.

Harvey didn’t know what to do, it would be disrespectful if he rejected Charles again.

Plus, Charles seemed to be more curious of Harvey’s talent rather than hating him, any smart person wouldn’t refuse again to not trigger him.

Although Harvey wasn’t at all afraid of Luis, the problem was making a friend is way better than having another enemy.

With that in mind, Harvey thought about it and replied, “President Zarate, the fair is about to start, why don’t we enjoy the exhibition first and only then I’ll privately ask you to teach me a few things on antiques?”

Charles looked down at his watch and said, “There’s 20 minutes left, it’s still an ample amount of time.”

Finally, Luis who had been quiet all this time spoke up with a snigger, “Mr, if you actually don’t know how to appraise treasuries you should say so, why all the bullshits and excuses?”