Chapter 574: Abandon gold and silver, take sandalwood

Yu Yao thought for a while, "You said 1.8 million, I also use this number, but it's only 1,080." ”

"What?" Zhang Yiming didn't seem to believe his ears.

"Eighteen hundred. Yu Yao repeated word by word.

"Brother!" Zhang Yiming suddenly changed his name, "Are you kidding?"

"Boss Zhang, you said it yourself, ask for the price all over the sky, and pay it back on the ground. Why is it that as soon as I return it, it will become a joke?"

"Okay, okay, count me busy. You must be very busy, so I won't stay!"

"It's not in vain. Yu Yao raised his hand and pointed to a wood carving on a shelf near the counter, "If you don't want to sell it, I still want to see this thing." ”

This wood carving is brownish-yellow in color, like a large seal. The height is 112 centimeters, and the side length is about 8 centimeters. The seal button part is carved more specially, not in the shape of a dragon and phoenix, but a three-dimensional landscape.

The mountains are undulating, undulating, and imposing, with rivers flowing in the valleys, and pavilions, woods, and waterholes on the mountainsides in the near view. Around the button, a circle of auspicious cloud patterns is also carved.

"Oh?" Zhang Yiming was slightly stunned, "Mr. Yu still has research on wood carving!"

"It looks like sandalwood, which kind of funny. It's still good to play. Yu Yao smiled slightly, "It seems that I am a little reluctant to bother Boss Zhang for so long and not send you some money." ”

"Hahahaha!" Zhang Yiming laughed, "It's indeed sandalwood, since Mr. Yu has taken a fancy to it, then I'll take it over for you to take a closer look." ”

Sandalwood, also called sandalwood, was not available in China at first, mainly from India, Indonesia, and Africa;

The biggest feature of sandalwood is incense. The fragrance of the wood is made into a string of beads, which can be clearly smelled when playing, and the incense of broken wood is also very good.

The so-called sandalwood dragon musk, agarwood, sandalwood, ambergris, musk, it is also one of the four famous spices.

Among the sandalwood, the most famous variety on the market today is the Indian old mountain sandalwood, the darker the flesh, the better the quality, players generally like to call it "black meat old material".

However, Yu Yao noticed that this sandalwood carving was not because of the material, but because it felt old enough.

Yu Yao took it in his hand and looked at it, it was indeed a seal!

Moreover, because the block is not small, the inscription is clear, and you can understand the inscription at a glance:

The treasure of the Daoguang Imperial Tour.

After reading this inscription, Yu Yao smiled and looked at Zhang Yiming at the same time.

Zhang Yiming couldn't see what it meant from Yu Yao's smile, and for this kind of thing, his level was far worse than that of bronze and gold and silver. This seal, he came with him when he received a batch of copper incense burners, and it looked very good, so he placed it next to a Panlongding stove on the shelf.

"Mr. Yu, is it grade enough?" Zhang Yiming snorted.

To tell the truth, he could tell that the seal was not new, but he couldn't see how old it was, and he couldn't tell whether it was twenty or two hundred years. The most important thing is that this is engraved with a "treasure of Daoguang Imperial Tour"!

He also checked, "Daoguang Imperial Treasure", isn't it jade?!

This kind of emperor's idle seal is not a formal seal, although the same seal, there may be many seals of different materials, but this sandalwood, it is indeed a little unreasonable, to say that the small leisure seal with the type is OK, this square big seal, with wood seems to be unreasonable. At the very least, it is easy to be damaged and not easy to store for a long time.

In the Qing Dynasty, it seems that only Cixi, an old lady, likes to use sandalwood seals.

Therefore, based on this alone, he felt that it was impossible for him to really be Emperor Daoguang's idle chapter.

Yu Yao didn't respond, he smiled at Zhang Yiming again, but he flipped it in his hand again, and shook the inscription on the erection of the seal towards Zhang Yiming.

On the erection of this sandalwood seal, the inscription is indeed engraved: The light of mountains and rivers is carried forward in the heart, and the momentum is carried away, and it is soft and rigid.

And there is a payment: determined.

The lettering is a line of calligraphy, carved very skillfully, with a knife on behalf of the pen, strong and elegant.

However, it was precisely because of the inscription that Zhang Yiming further determined that this could not be Emperor Daoguang's idle seal! The things used by the emperor, even if they were not official seals, had to be handled by the office, so how could it be possible for the craftsman to inscribe the inscription at will?

Moreover, this "determination" is unheard of, and the investigation has been fruitless.

After Yu Yao played haha in Zhang Yiming, he basically expected that Zhang Yiming couldn't understand this thing!

Therefore, he showed the inscription to Zhang Yiming again. If you can't understand it, this question can prove that this thing is very likely to be a fabricated handicraft!

Sure enough, Zhang Yiming saw Yu Yao like this, and waved his hand slightly, "Don't say anything else, if Mr. Yu wants it, then look at it and give a price!"

Yu Yao didn't hesitate for a moment this time, "This thing is quite interesting, and it has to be ten or twenty years old to look at." So, it's still a thousand eight, how?"

Zhang Yiming listened, "Mr. Yu, even if it is a handicraft that has just been made, it is more than one thousand eight for this piece of fine sandalwood and spice seeds, right? Let's take a look at the carver, and then talk about it alone, this carver alone is not one thousand eight can find someone to carve it!"

He was right.

This piece of sandalwood is of high quality, just buy a piece of wood about the same, how can you get thousands of pieces; at the same time, the carving work committee is really good, there is this kind of wood carving master, it is not an ordinary master, the labor cost should be more expensive than wood.

"Hmmm······" Yu Yao replied vaguely, noncommittal.

Yu Yao offered such a low price, and Zhang Yiming simply spread it, "Even if you grind this 'Daoguang Preview Treasure' away and treat it as a handicraft without a seal, you shouldn't open a thousand eight!"

Yu Yao put down the seal and got up, lit a cigarette, and paced two steps, as if hesitating. In fact, his heart has blossomed, and when he talks about it as a modern handicraft, it is a leak to talk about it!

"That's okay, Boss Zhang, you can offer the lowest price!" Yu Yao stood still.

Zhang Yiming groaned slightly, "If you want me to say, I'm afraid I have to add another zero, ten thousand eighteen!"

"It's high!" Yu Yao immediately waved his hand.

"Mr. Yu, I have a book for this thing. You have high eyesight, and you're a master of meat, so I can handle the soup too, right?"

The two of you came and went, and we talked for three to five minutes. In the end, Yu Yao took the seal in an integer of 10,000, and Zhang Yiming put it into a brocade box of suitable size.

After the business was done, Zhang Yiming's attitude was better, and he said that he would invite Yu Yao to have a light meal in the evening. Yu Yao didn't care whether he was sincere or fake, after directly refusing, he took the things and immediately left.