"Fang Ming, what are you going to do now?"

"I informed Dazhu that he will come over in the afternoon after completing the resignation procedures today, and I plan to wait for him at the store. ”

Hua Borong nodded, but Hua Ming couldn't stay any longer, he grew up in this antique city since he was a child, and the antique objects that were attractive to others didn't arouse much interest at all.

Seeing Hua Mingming's listlessness, Fang Ming smiled and said, "Uncle Hua still remembers what I said earlier, why I agreed to the price offered by Boss Song without making a counteroffer." ”

"Of course I remember, Fang Ming, what do you mean?"

"Let's go, go up to the second floor, I'm not really sure, but I don't think it will disappoint me. ”

Fang Ming walked towards the second floor with a mysterious smile on his face, which made Hua Ming pouted a little unhappy, and muttered: "What kind of mystery is it showing, just say it directly." ”

"If you're impatient, go back to the store!"

Hua Borong glared at his son, Hua Mingming's neck shrank and he hurriedly shut up, letting him go back to the store It would only be more boring, there were originally a few beautiful shopping guides in the store, but in the end they were all dismissed by their old man because he was not proficient in business, if he could, he didn't want to stay in the store at all.

On the second floor, Fang Ming stood in front of the piece of ebony that he was looking at at at the beginning, Hua Borong also looked at this piece of ebony closely, and only said after half a sound: "It is indeed Nanmu, and it is also the best in ebony, but although the value in the market is not low, it is not very high." ”

Hua Borong is mainly engaged in the jewelry and jade business, but he has been operating in an antique shop for a long time, and he also knows a little about other things, and he also knows the price of ebony.

"Uncle Hua, do you know another name for ebony?" Fang Ming asked with a smile.

"Another name?" Hua Borong shook his head, indicating that he had not heard of it.

"For ordinary people, ebony is just ebony, the most collectible value, but for people in our circle, ebony is a good thing, because ebony is also called spirit wood, and it is the first of the three spirit trees. ”

"Lingmu?" Hua Borong and Hua Ming both looked at Fang Ming with puzzled expressions, waiting for Fang Ming's explanation.

"In the past, there were very popular ghost catching and zombie movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the Taoist priests in the movie generally used a sword to catch ghosts, but this sword is not made of any material, if it is made of wood, it must be made of spirit wood. ”

Fang Ming was very patient, and explained little by little: "The three major spirit trees are ebony, peach wood and thunder wood, there is a proverb that says: peach wood is easy to find, ebony wood is difficult to find, and thunderwood is heavenly. ”

"There are a lot of rumors about peach wood, it is rumored that when Kuafu chased the sun before he died, he threw out the wooden staff in his hand and turned it into a peach forest, so the peach wood has the yang energy of the scorching sun to suppress the yin and evil, which is why many Taoist priests have to carve a peach wood sword. ”

"As for the ebony, because the sedimentary river water has not rotted for thousands of years, the absorption of the earth's qi itself has been psychic, and it is the best choice to restrain the evil things, and the effect should be above the peach wood. ”

In fact, there is no specific type of thunderwood in the end, and the thunderwood as the name suggests refers to the trees that have been split by the thunder. The heavenly thunder is the nemesis of all yin spirits, and this tree is chopped by the heavenly thunder to retain the power of the heavenly thunder, which can subdue all yin spirit spirits. ”

Fang Ming looked at Hua Borong's father and son, who were listening quietly, and continued: "Of course, the reason for saying that the thunder wood is heavenly is also here, only the trees that have been split by the heavenly thunder and have not died can be counted as thunder wood, but they can not be found. ”

"If you want to say that, then we ordinary people can use peach wood or ebony to make a sword to catch ghosts and subdue demons?" Hua Ming asked in a strange way on the side, because he didn't believe in ghosts at all, even if the scene of warding off evil spirits before did make him feel a little pimple in his heart.

"Ordinary peach wood and ebony have a little effect, but there is still a gap between making a sword, and the minimum that can be made into a sword must be a jiazi, that is, more than sixty years of peach, and as for ebony, it will take more than a thousand years. ”

Fang Ming glanced at Hua Mingming, he knew Hua Mingming's thoughts, and teased: "But this alone is not enough, even if a child is holding a sharp sword, do you think he can hurt an adult adult?"

Hua Borong on the side showed a thoughtful look and said at this time: "Fang Ming, you mean to use this thousand-year-old ebony to carve into a sword. ”

"I don't need this for the time being, but Uncle Hua, this is not a thousand-year-old ebony, if I guess correctly, this ebony is at least tens of thousands of years old. ”

"Ten thousand years of ebony!"

Hua Borong's expression was slightly shocked, the thousand-year-old ebony is indeed quite valuable but it also has a price, but if it is a 10,000-year-old ebony, the price gap between the two is definitely not as simple as the difference in the year.

If it is only a thousand-year-old ebony, although it is the best Nanmu among them, it is estimated that the price of such a section in the market is only about 200,000 yuan, but if it is a 10,000-year-old ebony, the price will definitely increase more than ten times, even if it is four or five million, someone will rush to use it.

"Fang Ming, you are really addicted to picking up leaks, you have nothing to say about picking up leaks to ward off evil spirits, but that old Song is not a fool, he must have done carbonization technology appraisal when he bought this ebony, if the ebony can still be placed here?"

Hua Mingming's words were like a basin of cold water, which made Hua Borong's excited mood also cold, and he looked at Fang Ming with some concern and said: "What the bastard said this time still has some truth, Song Xiong must have done a vintage appraisal." ”

"Vintage appraisal, what kind of appraisal method?" Fang Ming asked with a smile.

"The easiest way is to get a piece or a little sawdust from this to do carbon 14C technical identification, because now the level of counterfeiting is very high, and some experts in the store can not see the objects we will also take to do technical identification, as long as the identification is ancient or modern will be immediately clear, and the error is very small. ”

Carbon 14C technical identification is known to many antique shops, but in fact, few antique shops will do it, one is because the cost is not low, and the other is because it requires the provision of materials, which need to be taken from the antique objects, destroying the complete condition of the objects.

But wood is different, digging up some sawdust or cutting a piece of wood does not affect its value at all, and it is normal for Song Xiong, who costs two or three hundred thousand yuan, to do technical appraisal.

"Yes, Boss Song took the veneer or sawdust to do the carbonization identification, but what if there is something in the wood. ”

Fang Ming smiled slightly, then his gaze wandered on the second floor, and finally walked to the table on the side, where there were some carving tools and a firewood knife.

Picking up the firewood knife, Hua Ming looked at Fang Ming walking towards him and hurriedly said, "Fang Ming, don't be annoyed and angry when I tell the truth, hurry up and put down your weapons, we can still talk well." ”

Fang Ming glanced at Hua Mingming, he chose to ignore this living treasure, and walked directly to the ebony with a firewood knife, and then in the exclamation of Hua Borong and Hua Mingming, he directly raised it high and slashed towards the ebony.