"Hehe, Brother Zhuang, I haven't seen you for a day, so I won't recognize my brother. ”

The man who walked out of the door laughed loudly, but this person was Song Jun who bought Zhuang Rui's manuscript of Wang Shizhen yesterday.

Zhuang Rui was slightly relieved, and his heart was relieved, not to mention anything else, just the identity of the shareholder of Tiandu Hotel, it is reasonable to have a villa here, not to mention that although Song Jun is close in words, he has a momentum that is not angry and powerful, and there must be other identities that he does not know.

"Dachuan brought me here, and he didn't say that he came to see Brother Song, but we are evil guests, and I want you to invite you to dinner today......"

Zhuang Rui jokingly said that although he was born in a flat family, due to his mother's education since childhood, he has always been neither humble nor arrogant to people, maybe this society is divided into classes, but this point is absolutely not reflected in Zhuang Rui.

Song Jun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, as if no one had spoken to him in this tone for a long time, but he felt a little novel, and couldn't help patting Zhuang Rui's shoulder affectionately, hugging him and walking towards the villa, and said as he walked: "Okay, let's go to Tiandu today, abalone and lobster are as you order, look at your little face yesterday is green, my brother asked you to eat back what you spent yesterday, it's okay." ”

"Hehe, Brother Song, just lend us your car, I'll invite you to dinner, you don't think it's ......."

Liu Chuan followed behind him and said with a stitch.

"You stinky boy, it's a big fart, I've been inking for more than half a month, okay, for the sake of Brother Zhuang's face today, the car is for you, MD, Lao Tzu hasn't driven it a few times, don't break up for me, and if I don't like the Tibetan mastiff I found, I won't give you a penny......"

Song Jun turned his head and looked at Liu Chuan and said viciously, but with a smile on his face, obviously he was not really angry, Zhuang Rui also understood, it turned out that the old customer in Liu Chuan's mouth was actually the one in front of him.

It's easy to understand if you don't give it, on the way just now, I saw that there were several villas in the yard, all tethered to a fierce wolf dog, when I saw the living people walking in, the look of the cracked teeth was very daunting, presumably those thieves would be far away from it.

In fact, Zhuang Rui didn't know that in this kind of well-guarded villa area, these things are not entirely for anti-theft, but more to reflect a status symbol, in some private luxury villas in big cities, some people even raise some large carnivores such as black panthers and crocodiles.

After entering the villa, Zhuang Rui's eyes couldn't help but shine, not how luxurious the decoration is, but very distinctive, facing the door, there is a huge mahogany screen about two meters high, divided into twelve fans, carved dragons and phoenixes, the room is well isolated from the outside world.

Bypassing the screen, Zhuang Rui found that the area of the hall was about fifty or sixty square meters, and the surrounding walls were inlaid with a kind of purple wood, and emitted a light fragrance, which made people feel quiet unconsciously.

The furnishings in the hall are also very simple, they are some old-fashioned antique furniture, so it is said to be antique, because these furniture seem to lack the breath of time precipitation, take a closer look, you can see that it is newly made, there is no trace of modern electrical appliances in the whole hall, how to come in, Zhuang Rui actually has a sense of time and space change, it seems to return to the residence of the ancients hundreds of years ago.

Zhuang Rui looked intently at a red sandalwood square table beside him, and sure enough, there was no use in it, which also proved that although the materials used in these furniture were very precious, they were made in modern times.

"Brother, how am I here, is it more ancient than the box in the tea room, I have spent a lot of thought for these rosewood furniture. ”

Song Jun's tone revealed a hint of pride, when he bought this villa, it probably cost more than 20 million RMB, but he only spent money on decoration, and now it is as high as 30 million RMB, and most of the money is spent on these red sandalwood, which he personally went to Southeast Asia to buy the high-grade large-leaf red sandalwood, these red sandalwood has been extinct in many places, Song Jun has spent a lot of effort to buy the hoarding goods from some people at a high price, and then invited skilled wood craftsmen to create it。

"Brother Song is really generous, there must be no second room in the whole country for a room like yours. ”

Zhuang Rui's compliment came from the heart, he estimated that only these rosewood furniture were worth millions, but he didn't know that he still underestimated the value of these objects.

Rosewood is a kind of hardwood that is one inch long for a hundred years, it is rare to see the mature rosewood tree in the world, a Chinese rosewood table made during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century, in 1994 at an auction of Southby Auction House in the United States, it was sold to a sky-high price of more than 35 million US dollars, the so-called "inch sandalwood inch gold", it is not an exaggeration, its value is far beyond Zhuang Rui's imagination, even if it is not an old antique in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the price is extremely expensive, not ordinary people can use it.

Rosewood is hard and heavy, sinking when entering the water, and the utensils made from it do not need to be painted to show a natural dark brown color, coupled with the remoteness of the production area, it is extremely difficult to make wood, so it is known as the "king of wood" in the past dynasties, China in those dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, even if it is royal, there are only a few small chess games, painting scrolls, song boards, small frames, etc.

Until Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ascended the throne, in order to promote the national prestige of our Celestial Empire, sent the eunuch Zheng He to lead the fleet to the Western Ocean, and loaded a ship full of tea, silk and other gifts, along the way to the country to be presented, and when the return trip, due to the cargo emptying, the hull is much lighter, for fear of not being able to withstand the wind and waves at sea, it is necessary to have a ballast cabinet.

After returning to China, some royal nobles began to use these "ballast wood" to make furniture, and later people found that this wood was strong and hard, not afraid of water and insect resistance, so it became more and more popular, and then large-scale logging began.

In fact, there was originally red sandalwood in the Liangguang region of our country, but because of the scarcity of quantity, it was quickly lightened, and then the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent people to Nanyang to procure, according to the data: "As of the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the vast majority of the world's red sandalwood will be collected in China, stored in Guangzhou and Beijing. The Ming Dynasty had excessive logging, and the Qing Dynasty had not yet recovered, and the source was exhausted. ”

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong also sent people to Nanyang to purchase sandalwood, but most of the rosewood trees were not thick and had not yet become mature, so they had to give up. Therefore, the red sandalwood used in the royal production of furniture in the Qing Dynasty is the inventory of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, later, the sandalwood is in short supply to the point where it must be purchased at a high price from the private traders, according to the unwritten rules at that time, no matter what level of officials, as long as they see the red sandalwood, they must not let go, buy them all, hand over to the royal weaving institutions, since then the private collection of wood has also been scavenged, to the 60th birthday of Cixi and the marriage of Emperor Guangxu, the wood reserves of the Great Inner have been left little, and finally Yuan Shikai who restored the throne all used up.

Before the Qing Dynasty, people in Europe and the United States have always believed that the red sandalwood has no big material, can only be made of small utensils, and even in the early Qing Dynasty, Western missionaries came to China in large numbers, and they were all amazed after seeing many red sandalwood vessels, and they knew that the red sandalwood elite Beijing, so they bought it in many ways, transported back to China, due to the inconvenience of communication, the whole piece is difficult to transport, so only buy cabinet doors, box surfaces and other components with patterns, and install wooden frames of other materials for decoration, and now some foreign collectors have more red sandalwood items at that time.

And the red sandalwood furniture is quite time-consuming to make, want to make a particularly high and beautiful red sandalwood handicrafts, each piece of utensils must be handmade, a large piece of furniture often takes more than a dozen craftsmen to spend seven or eight years to complete, but like the objects in this hall are not large, the production process is not particularly complicated.

The red sandalwood production technique has the saying of "one chisel, two carvings, seven polishing", only the polishing occupies seven-tenths of the time of the entire production process, and the tools used in the polishing are also quite peculiar, first coated with wax, and then rubbed repeatedly with knotweed and fine gauze, until it is polished as bright as brocade.

When Zhuang Rui first entered the door, he judged the age of these red sandalwood by the old and new, but he didn't know that the well-maintained red sandalwood furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties was not much better than the newly built red sandalwood.

"Hahaha...... Brother, what you said is to lift me up, compared to the King of Rosewood, I can't handle these things. ”

Song Jun was very happy to hear this, but he waved his hand again and again, and did not dare to be Zhuang Rui so praised, he said "King of Rosewood", that is the director of the China Rosewood Museum, the richest woman in China Ms. Chen Lihua, who is worth more than 5 billion, Song Jun once had the honor to enter the Rosewood warehouse collected by Chen Lihua, and saw with his own eyes the thousands of exquisite Rosewood tables, beds, desks, and few, and also knew that only with his own objects, compared with Chen Lihua, it was far from it.

Song Jun also saw Ms. Chen Lihua's collection of those red sandalwood, only then did he think about his living room to make it look like this, because red sandalwood also has a kind of magical effect of nourishing people, contact for a long time, it is very beneficial to the body, like Chen Lihua when she built red sandalwood furniture, the yellow teeth of some craftsmen she invited became particularly white, and an old craftsman in his 70s actually turned black with white hair, and for a time the red sandalwood was rendered with a hint of mystery.

"Mu, let me tell you, Old Man Lu, they have never been to this place, I told Brother Song yesterday that you were coming, but he agreed in one bite, your kid's face is not small......"

Although Liu Chuan is not very old, he is a cheerful person, and he has a similar temper with Song Jun, so he can enter this villa, and in the entire Pengcheng, there are definitely no more than ten people who have come to Song Jun's villa.

"Okay, it's all my own brothers, what are you doing with that, Liu Chuan, when did you behave in front of me. ”

Song Jun waved his hand, interrupted Liu Chuan's words, and pulled Zhuang Rui to introduce the rosewood furniture in the room, but he didn't know that Zhuang Rui's mind was not here at all.

"Brother Song, I heard Old Man Lu say, your favorite is calligraphy and painting, I guess you have got a lot of fine products over the years, can you open your eyes......

After more than half an hour, Zhuang Rui patiently listened to Song Jun's explanation, and then asked, this is obviously Song Jun's residence in Pengcheng, Zhuang Rui naturally will not enter Baoshan and return empty-handed, when he first saw Song Jun, he moved this thought.

After Song Jun heard this, his face showed a trace of embarrassment, and said: "Brother Zhuang, it's true that I like calligraphy and painting antiques, and I have indeed collected a lot of fine products in this regard, but these objects are not in Pengcheng now, but in the capital where my grandfather lived, and the old man robbed all the treasures in my collection, and the whole old man did not repair ......."

When Song Jun mentioned his grandfather, he seemed to be angry, and there was a deep resentment in his tone, Zhuang Rui next to him naturally didn't know that the old disrespect in Song Jun's mouth was a majestic old general on the battlefield back then, even now, it was a character who could make the imperial city shake three times by stomping his feet.

"But Brother Zhuang, don't be disappointed, when you have time to go to the capital one day, I will take you to your grandfather's place to see, those things are more than half of mine, and the old man will still give this face." ”

Song Jun saw a disappointed look on Zhuang Rui's face, and hurriedly said, but he didn't know the bottom of his own heart, whether the unreasonable grandfather would give him this face, as the saying goes, his father is like a mouse seeing a cat when he sees the old man, and the old man is close to himself, but he also has the treasures he has collected for many years.

"Cheng, with Brother Song's words, I must visit the door another day......"

What Zhuang Rui said was definitely not kind words, for the sake of the aura in his eyes, he would also find a time when Song Jun was in the capital and go to visit.

"Okay, don't be sour, wood, I said I surprised you yesterday, and I'll take you to see it now. ”

Liu Chuan sat on this rosewood hardwood stool, feeling far less comfortable than sitting on the sofa, and he was already impatient in his heart, and he saw that Song Jun had finished introducing Liu Chuan, and hurriedly pulled Zhuang Rui out of the door.