Chapter 93: Gambling

Yu Yao nodded, "There is a great possibility of the Qing Dynasty. I actually said in the store that the curtain of the Buddhist shrine is very suitable. ”

Pu Jie patted his head, "Yes, I also said, this size is quite strange! According to you, hanging on the Buddhist shrine, it is really suitable to be a curtain! Maybe, it is used by Xi Guifei!"

Yu Yao was speechless.

Pu Jie continued to explain, "I'm not talking about when she was a concubine, it's that after his son became the emperor, she had nothing to do except burn incense and worship the Buddha;

"Alright. Yu Yao waved his hand, "This can't be elegant, let's wait for a professional to wash it out." The strangest thing to me is, how can such a fine piece of silk be dusted and so dirty?"

From the imperial palace in the capital to the old peasants in the porcelain capital, there is a difference of 108,000 miles. As long as you can identify it as genuine, that's fine!" Pu Jie grinned, "Now I'm more interested in the fact that it's tentatively from the Qing Dynasty, how much can it be worth?"

Yu Yao sighed, "It depends on the degree of washing, if you can't wash it out, it will be a little troublesome." ”

"Now that the technology in all walks of life is so developed, you must be able to find professionals! You just say how much can it be worth when it is washed out and bleached beautifully?"

"I can't say that specifically. The large-size silk works of the three generations of the Qing Dynasty have tens of millions, and I have not seen the auction records of the small ones. And this wash, the price will definitely be affected. If you want to really know the market price, you can only see it when you send it to the big auction house. If you have to estimate, I can only say that one million is no problem, and as for how high it can go, I don't have a score. ”

"There are two million-dollar weapons in one store, Boss Jin should cry. ”

"Crying? He's smiling now! With his eyesight, he's already making a lot of money!"

Pu Jie shook his neck, "This trip to the porcelain capital is really not in vain! I stumbled into it by mistake and picked up a Jingkang ingot! I see, we have to go out often." For example, Yanjing, maybe it will stay for the last month and pick up more leaks. ”

"In addition to eyesight, luck is very important. For example, today, that Uncle Zhang, a few minutes late, this silk work will pass by!" Yu Yao was not carried away by the victory, "Yanjing? ”

"You like to talk badly. Let's go, keep shopping. ”

Luck is really hard to say. Sometimes you go to the market for a day, you go in empty-handed, and you come out empty-handed. Sometimes it's just a succession of good things.

In fact, these days, not to mention picking up leaks, it is not easy to meet good things at the right price and what you like.

The two of them walked around a small half of the shops on the third floor of the Antique Art City, but they didn't find anything good.

When he got off the elevator, Pu Jie said on a whim that since the second floor is mainly mahogany furniture, let's stop by and take a look.

"It's all modern furniture, what's so nice about it? And wood is so expensive now. Yu Yao didn't want to see it.

"You also have a bit of a foundation now, buy a house in the future, buy furniture, don't you come to a little high-end, just take a look!" Pu Jie said as he walked towards the store area.

What he said was still a bit reliable, and besides, Pu Jie passed first, and Yu Yao followed, and it didn't take much time to take a casual look.

According to the current international mahogany standard, there are more than 30 kinds, and the so-called mahogany furniture in the antique city is the meaning of this collective term. However, people in the industry still like to use the old saying, mahogany only refers to red sour branches, and the others belong to mahogany, each with its own name.

The shops on the second floor are all large stores, and there are not many stores in the area where furniture is placed.

Most of the furniture in the store is antique, but Yu Yao has a headache because many details are not in place.

The two of them took a turn, and these storefronts were relatively deserted. Finally, I walked to an inconspicuous location on a corner, only to find that there were many people around the door of a storefront.

Don't look at the location is not conspicuous, the name of the store is quite high-grade: Tanli Pavilion.

People are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the wood has pear and red sandalwood.

Small-leaved red sandalwood and HN huanghuali, from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the present, are first-class high-grade wood, the dragon and phoenix in the wood. These two names are commonly known, and the small-leaved red sandalwood should be officially called sandalwood red sandalwood, and it is best to produce it in India. HN Huanghuali, referred to as Haihuang, the name brings the origin, and the scientific name is Sandalwood.

Yu Yao and Pu Jie walked over to take a look, and it turned out that there were so many people around because a machine was pulled out at the door of the store and was about to open the material.

The material to be opened is a sea yellow wood about one and a half meters long and more than ten centimeters in diameter.

This wood is white on the outside, but the two ends of the section reveal a yellow-brown heartwood. Judging from the exposed heartwood, it should be seven or eight centimeters in diameter.

It's already pretty good.

Sea yellow wood, the white leather on the outside, that is, the sapwood, that is not usable. Only the heartwood is the real sea yellow material.

"Here we go! This piece of material is ready to be made into beads, first come to the middle of a knife, whether you lose or earn this knife, you can almost see it! Open the material, Buddha beads and bracelets accept reservations!" A flat-headed man in his forties said to the crowd.

It seems that the owner of this shop is not furniture, but small things. Nowadays, red sandalwood and sea yellow are hard to find, that is, boxes, ornaments, Buddhist beads, bracelets, and so on.

"I went, I only heard about gambling before, and they all came to live trees, but I didn't expect to see log cutting in the porcelain capital antique city today!" Pu Jie said with a smile.

The jadeite rough cutting material is called the gambling stone, and the sea yellow cutting material is called the gambling grid.

Because Haihuang can only use heartwood, the local people call the heartwood "grid", so it is called gambling grid. There are avocados and bran pears in sea yellow, and the locals also call them oil and bran grids.

If you are betting on a living tree, it is much more difficult than betting on stones. When a tree grows in the ground, all you can see is the bark and leaves, and who knows what the heartwood looks like? Haihuang grows slowly, and the main stem bowl mouth is thick, so it can be called an old tree, and it is not impossible for such a trunk to open "chopsticks" or even "toothpicks".

Now the owner of the Tanpear Pavilion is betting on the logs that have become roots, and the cross-sections at both ends can be exposed.

In this case, the risk is smaller, but there is still a gambling nature. This is because the growth of the lattice is not necessarily uniform, it may be coarse and sometimes thin, and even hollow.

This one, the diameter of the log is more than ten centimeters, and the diameter of the two ends of the grid is seven or eight centimeters, which looks very good, but after cutting, whether the middle is still like this is really necessary to cut it to see.

Gambling on the grid is generally very careful. This one, according to the boss, has been decided to make beads. Otherwise, the break will not be willing to come to the middle of the first "one knife and two cuts", will be very careful to start from both ends.

A rustling chainsaw sounded.