No matter his background, assaulting someone in the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion was an offense that couldn't be so easily overlooked. Otherwise, if word got out, the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion would lose face.
But Ye Xuan's background also made Steward He quite wary.
So he came up with a solution: treasure appraisal.
Hadn't the man come to auction something? If the item he produced was a genuine treasure, then everything was negotiable. If it was just trash, however, then he was sorry, but the previous incident would have to be settled.
Steward He felt this was a very reliable method, because a treasure was the best way to gauge a person's status.
An expert would never present a piece of junk, and a nobody would never possess a treasure worth noticing.
His words were also meant to test Ye Xuan.
