"Hulu?"

Su Yuan said with a smile: "You don't raise insects when you're old, the gourd is not as interesting as the walnut, even the Qianlong Lord played walnuts back then, or ......."

"Who said I don't play with insects?" Ling Junsheng said with a smile: "I used to play, but I have always been running around to see a doctor in the past few years, and I have no heart to raise it." Now that I have Hexiang to take care of my body, I just bought a few and went back to listen to the sound. ”

After speaking, he pulled Su Yuan and began to look at the gourd, there are many people who sell it, and this thing is also cheap, and you can take it away for a dozen yuan.

Ling Junsheng looked at a few of them, and came to a stall with dozens of gourds in a big basket, which you could choose from, all by your eyesight.

"A good gourd must first be dry, good and positive. The heavier the hand, the higher the density, so the growth period of the gourd should be long. ”

Su Yuan really didn't pay attention to the gourd, if he wanted to say that he knew a little bit about walnuts, he humbly listened to the old man's introduction: "There should be a round and smooth feel when you pinch it, after all, if you want to make a plate in your hand, the feel is very important." As the old saying goes, the lining should be bran, thick, elastic like a sponge pad, and the jargon is called porcelain bran. ”

Ling Junsheng picked up a gourd plate and played: The skin color of the top grade should be clean, it must be flawless, it must be as clean as water, and the jargon is called a pool of water. Those gourds with pale skin must not be wanted, they must have been soaked in potion, and you will have a flower skin when you go back, and the plate will not be brilliant for a lifetime!"

Ling Junsheng put down the gourd in his hand, not very satisfied, continued to flip, and suddenly said in surprise: "Grass in gold!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up a small gourd, Su Yuan looked at it curiously, and saw that the special small gourd was held in the palm of his hand, and it was estimated that it was no more than three centimeters at most, which was delicate and cute.

"Haha, this is what the player said about grass gold, the smaller the hand twisted gourd, the rarer it is, about 2 centimeters is the most precious, if the shape is Zhouzheng, it can also be matched with the right, there is no one in a hundred miles. ”

The old man couldn't put it down and said: "Look at this dragon head, thick and elegant, full of energy, like a pre-flight momentum......"

"And the mouth, the middle is straight...... Waist, evenly slender...... The rarest thing is the umbilicus, that is, the circle part at the bottom of the gourd, which is upright, round and smooth, no rotten umbilicus fried umbilicus, and the top grade!"

The old man hurriedly found the stall owner, took sixty yuan, and was satisfied.

Further ahead is the stall where you buy songworms, all kinds of insect chirpings are endless, crisp and pleasant, and refreshing.

"Boss, how can this worm be sold?" the two came to the stall, and Ling Junsheng casually picked up one and asked for the price.

The stall owner said enthusiastically: "That kind of thirty, fresh, energetic and loud, you can get more and cheaper." ”

Ling Junsheng looked at it and picked up another one, and the stall owner hurriedly said: "You really have eyesight, this one is a good insect at a glance, the price is a little expensive, three hundred." ”

"So expensive?" Su Yuan was a little surprised, the songworm was actually worth hundreds, puzzled: "It looks similar, why can it be ten times the price?"

Ling Junsheng laughed, it was rare to meet Su Yuan when he didn't understand, and said with a smile: "Songworms are divided into autumn insects and winter insects, autumn insects refer to songworms caught from nature after the beginning of autumn, in addition to crickets, there are other species such as sandflies. Winter insects are songworms that are artificially raised in winter and carry to listen to their calls. ”

"Songworms can be divided into two categories from entomology, namely crickets: such as crickets, golden bells, oil hyacinths, bangzitou and various southern frickets; ”

The old man picked up two gnats, put them together, and began to compare: "The types and distributions of gnats are also different, such as black grasshoppers and green grasshoppers. Most of the black grasshoppers are distributed in the Yanshan Mountains in northern Beijing, such as Miyun, Fangshan, and Pinggu are the source of black grasshoppers. ”

"There is a five-character mantra for choosing a grasshopper, high, strict, wide, thick, and long! Wide, that is, the width of the wings of the grasshopper; high, now everyone is playing with the barrel of the shoulder, so it is necessary to choose the high shoulder; strict, the so-called strict is the degree of fit of the wing, which is relatively moderate. ”

"Deep is to look at the depth of the bar, the bar is directly related to the large friction area between the shoulder and the shoulder when the insect chirps, so that the sound of the insect is not the same, this is the difference between the bright cry and the hearty!"

Ling Junsheng looked at the worm in his hand carefully, and bargained with the stall owner: "Anzi is a little dark, it's not far from a hundred days, right?"

The stall owner gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "You are an expert, you can take this back for at least two months, rest assured." ”

Ling Junsheng nodded, and finally bargained for one hundred and fifteen takes, the gourd didn't need to be bought, there was a ready-made one in his hand, he left the stall, pointed to the songworm and explained: "This kind of worm has a short lifespan, and it generally doesn't exceed 100 days, so it is also called a whooping insect." When choosing, it depends on the position of the head and shoulders, and the jargon is called Anzi. ”

"The whiter and brighter Anzi is, the younger the insect is, and when it turns gray-white, the time is coming soon, and the life span is not long. ”

"If you choose a grasshopper, you must take it out of the jar or gourd and listen, if the stall owner doesn't let it out, don't even buy it, the so-called real gold is not afraid of fire. ”

"The new gnats should be raised separately from the open grasshoppers, they can't be whiskered, and the basic tone will be set in about half a month, and the new toad should pick the toad sound as well, there can be no noise, and you can't only listen to the front sound of the wings, and you must listen to the clear sound of the back sound. ”

The old man put the worm into the gourd he sent and put it in his arms, and after a while, the insect chirped loudly, melodious and clear, with the grass in his hand, and couldn't help laughing: "People don't live just to play with words, a total of less than two hundred, happy!"

The two of them walked forward again, there were more and more stalls, it was worthy of being a large collection of mahogany in the capital, Su Yuan squatted down from time to time, picked up some small materials, and went back to the car beads, it was just right to give them away.

"Huh, this is ......."

Suddenly, his nose moved slightly, and he picked up a piece of wood, the surface was mottled, dark and light, and it was very inconspicuous. Taking advantage of the stall owner's inattention, he took it at a low price and turned to leave.

"Hehe, it's another small leak, black-fleshed old sandalwood!"

Su Yuan explained: "Sandalwood, mainly produced in India, also known as old sandalwood, has a yellow-brown to dark brown heartwood with a fine material with strong luster, a strong aroma, and a straight or wavy texture. Over the years, it has been favored by dignitaries and nobles, literati and scholars, and has been highly qualified with fragrant materials. ”

"Strictly speaking, the top old sandalwood, at least 80 years old, and after at least 20 years of aging after cutting, the wood really reaches a mellow state, its taste is pure and soft, warm and sweet, with a slight rose fragrance, ointment and animal fragrance, the aroma is pure, deep and long-lasting. ”

"In my experience, there are three types of sandalwood, yellow meat, red meat, and black flesh according to the color, and sandalwood changes from yellow-brown to dark brown and reddish-brown with age, and black meat is the rarest. ”

"The older the sandalwood, the more oily it is, with the growth of age, from unsinkable to sinking, the head sinking tail floating is an intermediate state, and the sinking is inevitably greater than the unsinking oiliness. Of course, those non-artificial submersion, artificially adding 502 or lead filling and the like are not counted, so whether or not submerged can basically be used as a basic quality indicator. ”

Ling Junsheng picked up the old sandalwood with black meat and submerged water, the feel was relatively light, far inferior to the red sandalwood of the piano material, but the aroma was far away, stronger than the sea yellow, and more elegant than the sweet fragrance of the red sandalwood.

Su Yuan said with a smile: "This piece should be the top old sandalwood, with uniform color and delicate material, and the naturally weathered old wood produced in the deep mountains, the pulp is crystal clear, with the texture of rhinoceros horn, and the aroma is more delicate and intoxicating." ”