Chapter Ninety-Eight: Playing Walnuts
Wang Di put the mobile phone back in his pocket, approached Zheng Zheng, who was picking things in front of a stall with Song Tang, and kicked Zheng Zheng inadvertently with his toes.
Zheng Zheng glanced back at Wang Di, Wang Di nodded slightly to him, but asked unintentionally, "What are you looking at?"
Although Zheng Zheng felt that there was nothing wrong with Song Tang, Wang Di couldn't fully believe her, he always felt that this woman, who had not shown any intentions until now, had deeper intentions, so Wang Di was also more careful when dealing with Song Tang.
"Walnuts. β
Zheng Zheng knew something about Wang Di's thoughts, but he also knew that Wang Di was cautious, so he didn't say much. He raised the thing in his hand and shook it at Wang Di, and said with a smile: "Wen plays walnut and Wu plays eagle, has Di Shao heard of this sentence?"
"I've heard the term eagle lackey," Wang Di said fascinatedly: "There is an eagle on his arm, and a big dog is slipping beside him, hey, this should be what a petty bourgeois young man like Di Shao should do, this is much more stylish than driving a Hummer or something." β
"You are a noble child, isn't it better to keep up with a few more evil slaves around you, follow you to run rampant and domineering in the fish and meat township, and tease a few good girls by the way?" Zheng Zheng said with disdain: "You rotten and hateful thoughts...... Where is it some kind of petty bourgeoisie. β
Wang Di waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "You can't stop my yearning for a better life...... Some time ago, I heard that there are really people who can boil eagles, so go back and get one, it will be too dignified. β
"Just like you?" Zheng Zheng glanced at Wang Di up and down, pouted, and said, "You can pretend to be a cultural person with two walnuts, this kind of thing is not suitable for you...... By the way, I really have to ask you for advice. Zheng Zheng rubbed his hands extremely hard, and said with a look of fascination: "You should have come into contact with the Humvee, right? What do you think? Is it the wild nature of an off-road vehicle, and the comfort of a modified RV?"
"Who said that......"
Wang Di glanced at Zheng Che with disdain, shook his head and said, "Do you believe this kind of nonsense? This is a rumor, a rumor." From the very beginning, the Hummer was built with the concept of being an off-road vehicle on difficult terrain, and it performed particularly well in mountains, hills, and so on. The coal boss may like to buy a Hummer to pretend to be an egg, but no one in Di Shao's circle buys a Hummer to run around the city, which is a bottomless pretend. β
"As for the comfort of the motorhome...... That's even more. Wang Di encountered the topic he was good at, and he had a sense of pride: "Hummer is an off-road vehicle, as a difficult terrain action vehicle with excellent off-road performance, Hummer inevitably sacrifices its comfort while ensuring its strong off-road ability and strong anti-manufacturing ability." It's not impossible to convert it into an RV, but then it's really pretending, why not just buy an RV?"
"Isn't there an elongated Hummer? I think that's pretty good, even if it's converted into an RV, it shouldn't be a hassle. Zheng Zheng is still fascinated.
Wang Di waved his hand and said with a righteous face: "I refuse to admit that the kind of elongated car that can't turn on the overpass is a Humvee, for a fundamentalist like me, it is heresy." β
"Got ......"
As a car blind who can't even recognize the car logo, Zheng Zheng wisely did not communicate too much with Wang Di on this topic, so as not to be hit by Wang Di's disdainful eyes. He looked back at Song Tang and asked with a smile, "How is it, is this walnut okay?"
Zheng Zheng and Wang Di were chatting when Song Tang was carefully looking at the two walnuts in his hand, and now Zheng Zheng asked her, she handed the walnuts in her hand to Zheng Zheng, shook her head slightly and said: "This walnut is not bad, it is a pair of 'lion heads', and the appearance is also decent." It's just this pulp...... Look. β
Walnut is a kind of cultural play, and it is also very particular. First of all, this walnut can't be the kind of walnut that you usually eat, it has to be a special kind of "hand-turned walnut", which is big and has a clear texture, which is very different from ordinary walnuts. Merchants who specialize in this industry will go to the production area to pick walnuts in season every year, and strive to find walnuts in good condition.
And this quality also has a saying, there is no insect moth, no skin damage, this is a necessary threshold, and then the shape of this walnut is divided into "lion head", "peach", "pointy beauty" and so on. The names may vary from place to place, but they basically mean the same thing.
After receiving the walnuts in good condition, it is necessary to carry out a series of processing, such as drying, water removal and other processes are necessary, and when all the processes are completed, the walnuts can be regarded as a cultural play, and they are eligible to be held in the hands of two by two.
And walnuts are played with for a long time, and their epidermis will change due to the temperature of the human body and the absorption of human sweat, which can form a pulp like jade. Walnuts that have been played for a long time will form a very moist pulp, and when you look at it, it looks like a layer of milk solidified on its surface texture, which looks very beautiful. Those collectors who play with walnuts will also carefully plate two walnuts in good condition, all in order to be able to plate this layer of pulp.
The quality is good and can dish out a thin layer of pulp walnuts, the price can easily break hundreds of thousands, if it is a pair, the size of the two walnuts is exactly the same, the price will roll up. If it is a first-class walnut with a heavy pulp, and it comes in pairs, the appearance is the same size, then the price cannot be said. It is also very common for the price to break 100,000 or 100,000.
This kind of walnut is very profitable, once you can find a walnut with good quality and heavy pulp, it is a million profits, so there are many active owners who have the idea of counterfeiting.
The more honest counterfeiters can spray oil on the walnuts over and over again, then polish them, spray them with a layer of latex, and repeat this step over and over again, and the walnuts will look like that, but if they are not kind, their method is much simpler: pour half a bucket of paint into a bucket of walnuts, mix them for a while, and then take them out to dry. After it is almost dry, use a carving knife to carve out the lines, and after a simple polish, a dozen waxes, and this is the end of the matter.
This kind of fake walnut, say it is a fake walnut, that is also counted, after all, that layer of pulp is fake, but if it is said that it is a real walnut, then this is also true, after all, the walnut used by people is also a "hand-turned walnut".
Therefore, this kind of thing is very embarrassing when distinguishing the real from the fake, and some sellers only say that it is "Wenzhu walnut", even if it is a fake made of sale, it is not a loss after he is debunked, so many merchants have the confidence to sell that kind of rapid prototyping walnut, which can be blindfolded by one, and is not afraid of being blinded.
Zheng Zheng took the two walnuts in his hand, and didn't rush to see them first, but turned the two walnuts around a few times in his hand.
This kind of walnut, the size is about the same in the hand, and the weight will be about the same, and it is nothing if it is a little lighter. But if it feels a little heavier and it doesn't feel like the weight of such a large walnut should have, then you have to weigh it carefully. You must know that although the walnut with normal pulp has a layer of pulp, it does not take up too much weight, and the weight made of paint or latex is heavier.
This method of weighing weight depends on experience, and it is difficult to feel the slight weight change if there are not many walnuts in your hand. Zheng Zheng had also handled a lot of walnuts when he was in Donglai Pavilion before, and he still had a spectrum in his heart about how big the walnuts should weigh and how much weight they should have.
After weighing the weight in his hand, Zheng Zheng had a bottom in his heart. He took the two "lion heads" in his hand and looked at the bottom of the walnut. The bottom of the walnut is the side that connected the branches when it was grown on the tree, and when the walnut is plucked, it leaves a mark about the size of a grain of rice. No matter how good the walnut is, no matter how long the plate is, this trace will not be dispensed out of the pulp, and it is a dead end.
Zheng Zheng took two walnuts and looked at them for a while, and secretly laughed in his heart: "This cheating kung fu is too inadequate...... Although the texture was carved along the original texture with a carving knife, the walnut bottom was not carefully treated, and even the dead corner that could not be discarded was covered with a layer of paint. This looks good, but it's not really a pulp that has been played with for some years at all, it's a fake out of ten. β
Zheng Zheng saw the details of the two walnuts, and he didn't bother with these walnuts, so he threw the two walnuts in his hand on the stall. He was a little careless, which made the stall owner look at him dissatisfied, and said, "You can handle it gently, if it is broken, it will not look good." β
"Hey, hey. β
Zheng Zheng smiled, and looked left and right that there was no one else next to the stall, so he didn't hide it. He threw a cigarette to the stall owner and said with a meaningful smile: "Brother, take out some dry goods to make me look long, this kind of 'noodle goods'...... Hey. While speaking, Zheng Zheng turned on the lighter and brought the lighter to the stall owner.
The stall owner was stunned by what he said. Seeing Zheng Zheng smiling and letting the fire come over, he hurriedly put the cigarette on and lit the fire that Zheng Zheng let him over. After taking two puffs of cigarette, the stall owner still didn't believe that Zheng Zheng saw the flaw, so he pretended to be puzzled: "Little brother, what do you mean by this?"
Zheng Zheng smiled and took back the lighter, and said with a smile: "I said that it was bright, wouldn't it be interesting if you didn't open the bright spots? We are all people who eat this bowl of rice, and it's not interesting to play with these clichΓ©s, right?"
The stall owner took a few more puffs of cigarettes, looked at Wang Di and Song Tang beside Zheng Zheng, and asked cautiously: "Are you supporting the boat or helming?