The wood knife fell, and the ebony bark detached, but the knife was only less than an inch deep into the wood.

Ebony, because of the sedimentation of underwater and soil, can be preserved without decay is already seriously carbonized, and it is generally really difficult to cut it with a knife, not to mention that this piece of ebony has a diameter of one foot.

However, it was enough for Fang Ming, because he wasn't here to cut this ebony in the first place.

After using a firewood knife to clean up the sawdust at the knife edge and opening a hole of almost ten centimeters, Fang Ming squatted down and began to inspect the knife edge.

"Fang Ming?"

Hua Borong on the side watched Fang Ming staring at the knife edge for more than a minute and didn't take his eyes off it, and couldn't help but shout.

"Uncle Hua, can you go and get me a plate of water. Fang Ming looked up at Hua Borong and said.

"Yes. ”

Hua Borong nodded, and then the old man glared at Hua Mingming, who was still standing on the side, Hua Mingming rolled his eyes, but he knew his old man's temper, so he had to find a basin and walk towards the bathroom.

"Give. ”

Taking the basin from Hua Mingming's reluctant face, Fang Ming didn't care about Hua Mingming's attitude, he didn't have time to care about these now, because his attention was all attracted by the mystery of the ebony that was about to be revealed.

Slowly poured the clear water into the knife edge, and a scene that shocked Hua Borong and Hua Mingming appeared, not a drop of this clear water fell to the ground, and it was absorbed almost instantaneously when the ebony wood came into contact.

Everyone knows that wood has the function of absorbing water, but the speed at which wood absorbs water is not fast, and it is even relatively slow, so the scene in front of you is clearly contrary to common sense.

"Sure enough, it was exactly what I guessed. ”

However, Fang Ming's eyes flashed with brilliance after seeing this scene, this scene proved that his original judgment was not wrong, this was indeed a 10,000-year-old ebony, and it was also an extremely rare kind of 10,000-year-old ebony.

"Fang Ming, what have you guessed, could it be that this ebony can really be a 10,000-year-old ebony? But even a 10,000-year-old ebony shouldn't be so absorbent?"

Wannian ebony has not been unearthed, so Hua Borong still knows a little, Wannian ebony is a little older, but he has never seen the water absorption of Wannian ebony from the report.

"Uncle Hua, ordinary 10,000-year-old ebony is naturally not capable, even if it is the best of the ebony, Jinsi Nanmu, but there is also a magical tree in this nature, which is called the mother and son tree. Fang Ming looked at Hua Borong and explained.

The Mother and Son Tree was not told to him by his master, but from the wizard inheritance he obtained, and there is an article called the Grass and Trees List in the wizard inheritance, which records a hundred kinds of magical plants and trees, and the Mother and Son Tree happens to be one of them.

"Mother and Son Tree?"

Hua Borong shook his head with a question mark on his face, he had never heard of the existence of such a tree when he was so old.

Fang Ming didn't continue to explain, but began to use a firewood knife to start cutting down the edge of the knife, little by little, it took almost an hour to finally remove all the outermost ten centimeters of the ebony skin.

The outer layer of the dark tree was removed, and when the true face of the inside was revealed, Hua Borong and Hua Mingming, father and son, were almost stunned, because the trees inside were completely different from the outside, the outside was dark, but the inside was milky white wood.

Many trees are generally white when the bark is peeled off because of the protection of the bark, but that white is completely different from the white in front of you, which is a pure milky white.

If you just take a partial photo of this tree and show it to others, I am afraid that no one will believe that it is a piece of wood, and many more people will even think that it is some kind of white jade photo.

Fang Ming put his finger on it and swiped it gently, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, this Zimu tree was a little unexpectedly good.

"There is a tree in the north of the sea, whose roots are in the water, and one mother is outside, and one son is inside, and the mother withers and the son comes out, and the roots are coiled for generations. ”

Fang Ming lightly read the description of the Zimu Tree in his mouth, Hua Borong fortunately had some skills to understand a rough idea, as for Hua Mingming, he didn't understand a word like listening to a book.

"Fang Ming, you mean that there is a kind of tree that grows on the sea, because it is surrounded by sea water, so the way this tree spreads its species is different from ordinary trees, the seeds of this tree grow in the body of the tree, I understand it this way. ”

Hua Borong looked at Fang Ming, but Fang Ming nodded, because Hua Borong understood correctly.

According to legend, the mother tree lives in the ocean, so the seeds have nowhere to scatter and can only grow inside, and the nutrients that the new tree can absorb also come from the mother tree, when one day the new tree absorbs all the nutrients of the old tree, it is when the old tree withers, and then the old bark will fall off and be completely replaced by the new tree. ”

Fang Ming said very slowly, but Hua Ming laughed after hearing it, "Fang Ming, where did you hear the rumor, the sapling of a tree grows in the body of an old tree, then this tree is not a hollow tree according to what you say, and the sea is so deep, how can a tree grow without photosynthesis, don't tell me that this tree is hundreds of thousands of meters high." ”

"Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean you haven't, and even if you don't have it now, it doesn't mean you didn't have it before, after all, this tree has a history of tens of thousands of years. ”

Fang Ming shook his head and smiled, for young people like Hua Mingming, they didn't believe this kind of rumor, because it was different from what they had come into contact with and learned about the world.

"I haven't heard of the mother tree, but there are some special animals and plants in this nature, such as hermaphroditic flowers and plants, and it is possible that the mother tree may exist if this is the case. Hua Borong interjected on the side.

"Yes, there are many strange things in the world, many special animals and plants have been extinct, but there are still some that have been preserved, and the mother tree is just one of the representatives. ”

Hua Ming could only pout his lips after seeing his old man and Fang Ming singing and harmonizing, because he knew that as long as the old man made a statement, he would not argue anymore, and he would have to eat the old man's melon seeds.

"Fang Ming, your luck is indeed good, the pair at the door made you earn money, and now a 10,000-year-old ebony has been found here, and the cost of this shop is back, it is estimated that Lao Song will vomit blood if he knows the truth. ”

Hua Mingming is indeed envious of Fang Ming's luck, this is simply as magical as the leakage stories circulated in the antique city, the difference is that Hua Mingming knows that those leakage stories contain the cattiness, many of them are false stories of merchants walking out, and some are even directly made by those merchants.

The reason is simple, this is the only way to attract people who want to take advantage of the situation and feel that they are the lucky ones who will pick up the big leaks.

It's just that what they buy is not good enough to sell, and these people don't want to think that if they leak so well, they will lose so much if they pick up these stores.

It is precisely because of this that when he saw that Fang Ming was just a store, it was tantamount to picking up millions of income for nothing, and even he felt red when he saw it.

"No matter what the origin of this mother tree is, but it must be ten thousand years of ebony can't run, plus this shape, if you take it out and sell it, I estimate that there is no problem in selling it for more than one million. ”

Hua Borong also gave an estimate, 10,000 years of ebony is indeed very valuable, but it is also calculated by volume, the volume of this piece of ebony in front of him is not large, and it can be worth millions because of the added value brought by the special color and condition.

"A million?"

Fang Ming smiled slightly, if it was only one million, it wouldn't surprise him so much, Uncle Hua would offer such a price because he didn't know what the Mother and Child Tree meant.

"Uncle Hua, I plan to sell this mother tree, but I don't sell it in the form of wood, isn't this a cultural shop, I will carve it and then take it out and sell it." ”

Fang Ming replied with a smile, as for what the selling price would be at that time, he didn't tell Hua Borong because he was afraid of scaring the other party.