Chapter 226: Mammoth Woolly Rhino

As soon as Lin Fengcao squatted down, Yu Yao and Yang Rui couldn't help but stop.

The stall's knick-knacks are varied in shape, including strings of beads, rings, signs, pendants, ornaments, and so on, but the materials are mainly mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horns.

Ivory and rhino horn are now forbidden to be bought and sold in the market.

To protect wildlife, there is no buying and selling, there is no talk of killing.

What is forbidden by law may not be eliminated in the market, but at least ivory and rhino horn are not sold in such a grand manner.

The reason why this stall can be sold like this is because mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn are relatively special, and the buying and selling of these two animal products can go through the formalities and are legal.

Mammoths, also known as mammoths, are now extinct, but the mammoth ivory on the market today is not fossils, but frozen frozen in permafrost.

During the extinction of the last batch of mammoths, less than 10,000 years ago, the ivory was sealed by the permafrost, so it is not very different from modern living ivory.

And mammoth ivory was slightly denser and harder than modern living ivory.

Because it is used after mining, there is no problem of killing wild animals, so it can be operated legally through procedures.

The woolly rhinoceros is similar to the mammoth and has become extinct, and it became extinct a little earlier than the mammoth, about 10,000 years ago.

It is called the woolly rhinoceros because of its long, thick fur that allows it to live in cold regions, and in the Paleolithic period, it was hunted by humans. The woolly rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhinoceros in the present-day Southeast Asia region can be related to close relatives.

Also because of the freezing, the horn of the woolly rhinoceros has been preserved intact, can be mined and used, and can also be operated legally.

Today is Saturday, the weather is good, and there are a lot of things on this stall, and most of them are gadgets, so the goods are relatively fast. Guarding the stall were a pair of middle-aged men and women and a young man who looked less than twenty years old, all three of whom were quite skilled and busy.

What Lin Fengcao picked up was a small ornament, three "small hills", one high and two short, connected below, with an oval bottom, which looked like it was made of rhino horn raw materials.

This ornament should be a small pen holder, and there is a boxwood base underneath. On this base, although there is no ornamentation, the lines are smooth and the wood is good.

Lin Fengcao picked it up along with the base, "Boss, is this 'thousand-year-old' base sold alone?"

The middle-aged man was closest to Lin Fengcao, and when he heard it, he was stunned for a moment, "What?"

Lin Fengcao was smooth-mouthed, and reacted as soon as the words came out, and after the boss spoke, he immediately said, "I mean this boxwood base is sold alone?"

Millennial dwarf is another name for boxwood, because it generally does not grow tall or large. Boxwood is a kind of wood, of course, it does not belong to the category of jade mahogany, nor is it a precious wood, and it is widely distributed, but it is particularly delicate and the color is beautiful, so it is often used for carving.

"You bought the base, what about the rhino horn pen holder on my head? This is a set!" the boss replied, "You like woodware, there are boxwood in the market." ”

The boss didn't understand, but Yu Yao understood it as soon as he heard it.

Lin Fengcao deliberately pointed to the east and west, and what he fancied could not be this boxwood base.

Lin Fengcao is good at bamboo and wood tooth horns, and he must be able to recognize that this boxwood base is just a modern handicraft, and it is not completely consistent with the rhino horn pen holder on it, and it is likely to be temporarily used together.

Lin Fengcao likes the rhino horn pen holder above.

Yu Yao didn't pay much attention to this rhino horn pen holder at first, and when Lin Fengcao and the man asked and answered, he couldn't help but bend down and take a closer look.

Well?

This rack seems to be old!

It doesn't seem to be a hairy rhino horn!

However, it is not the old rhino horn of ancient times.

It ······ The material doesn't seem to be rhino horn!

Although it seems that the surface also has dense lines, a bit like the caviar pattern of rhino horns, but there is still a difference when you look closely, the surface of this frame should be polished not fine grain lines, and then it is long-term touched to form a pulp, black and shiny, and it will be similar to the woolly rhino horn thrown by the highlight.

No wonder Lin Fengcao wants to play a hand, he is exploring the way to see if the stall owner has counted.

After a look, the man leaked, this sentence is in Lin Fengcao's arms, the boss is indeed sold as rhino horn, and since he said that he will not dismantle it, then "no way" to buy it together.

"Don't dismantle it, then I'll buy it together, alas, I haven't played with rhino horn yet, how can I sell it?"

As soon as he heard that he wanted to buy it together, the man grinned, "What together? If you want to buy rhino horn, I will give you the base." ”

"How do you sell rhino horn?"

"Today's big reward, three hundred and one grams!" the man stretched out his hand, "I'll weigh you if you want." ”

Lin Fengcao nodded, "Okay, you can weigh it first." ”

This small pen holder is no more than seven or eight centimeters wide, three small "hills", the highest is only five or six centimeters, according to the specific gravity of the rhino horn, there should be more than 100 grams.

The man put it on the electronic scale, and Lin Fengcao suddenly said, "How do I think this rhino horn has pulp, it won't be old, right?"

The man was looking at the gram weight at this time, 82 grams, and his face suddenly changed.

In his experience, a pen holder of this size should be at least one hundred and twenty or thirty grams.

But Lin Fengcao asked at this time, and he responded, "Don't worry, I have legal procedures here." ”

Lin Fengcao also saw the number displayed on the electronic scale, and hurriedly said, "Boss, why is it so heavy?

The boss was stunned for a moment, and his heart couldn't help but turn. This person only wants a boxwood base, and it seems that he doesn't know anything about rhino horns! This is obviously on the light side, how can it be too heavy? He listened to the price of grams, of course, he thought that the lighter the better!

"I don't understand, right? For rhino horn, this is on the light side, not on the heavy side! Because this is old material, when I bought it, I took it from a large merchant in Northeast China, this pen holder, he has been playing with it for more than ten years, and it is dry, so it is light. You're making a bargain!" The boss approached Lin Fengcao and said in a low voice.

When the man saw that Lin Fengcao didn't understand, he began to fool around, how could there be anything "dry"?

However, he did take it from a big merchant in the Northeast, and he didn't know where the big dealer got it from, anyway, he put it on the shelf with a batch of ornaments with woolly rhino horns, and he took it away.

This boxwood base is a shopkeeper who deals in woodware in the market, took a few rhino horn beads, and used some woodware to deliver the goods, with a base and a box, which he just used to sell.

There are too many goods, he has not been too concerned about this pen holder, the best selling bead bracelet and pendant, brand, he has already weighed the gram weight, put it in the sealed bag and put it on the label. This pen holder, he didn't say that he hadn't weighed it, and he hadn't even looked at it carefully.

But this name is found to be so light.