The man walked to the back of the counter, took out a bracelet from inside, and gently placed it in front of Shi Lei. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"This is one of the cheapest items I have here, you pick it up and take a look. ”

Shi Lei said according to his words, and after picking it up, he only felt that there was a burst of fragrance coming from his hand, which was slightly different from the fragrance of the store itself, but it seemed to come from the same source.

Seeing Shi Lei's nose twitching, the man said, "Smell it?"

Shi Lei nodded and said, "What kind of wood is this, it's so fragrant, it tastes a little similar to the one in your store, but it's not exactly the same." ”

The man was a little surprised, and said with great interest, "Oh?

Shi Lei put the bracelet to his nose and sniffed it, he found that when he got closer, the smell was much lighter, and it didn't smell refreshing from a distance.

"It's not good, I don't seem to have smelled a similar aroma before. It's just that the aroma of this bracelet seems to be more subtle, relatively low, it seems to be there or not, and it has a little milky fragrance. And the aroma in your store is very unrestrained, mixed with a little spicy feeling. But after getting used to it, the spicy sensation turned into a sweet taste again, and even the saliva in my mouth now seemed to be a little sweet. ”

The man looked Shi Lei up and down, and laughed: "Little brother is interesting, the first time you come into contact with agarwood, you can say so many ways, it's not easy." Hehe, it's fate to come in, and the time is about to close, if you're interested, sit down and have a cup of tea, and I'll tell you about this agarwood?"

Shi Lei smiled and hurriedly said, "That's good, but the price of your things here is relatively high, and I may not be able to afford it." ”

"I didn't sell it to you, do you know why you were asked to sit down?" The man took back the bracelet, but he was not in a hurry to put it on the counter, but took it in his hand and walked to the back of the big table, stretched out his hand to invite Shi Lei to sit down opposite.

"As I said earlier, you came in because of fate. Generally speaking, in our street, there are very few fresh customers after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and most of the people who come are some old customers who often shop here for things. Today, a friend gave me a box of good tea, and I brewed the tea, and on a whim I felt that good tea must have a good fragrance, so I burned a pot of incense that I treasured privately. As soon as you clicked, you came in, and that's what I mean by fate. ”

Shi Lei hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I just happened to be passing by, and I was bored and wanted to come in and have a look......"

"If you come with a purpose, it's not fate. ”

Shi Lei watched the man make a pot of tea, poured two cups, put a cup in front of him with a bamboo clip, and made a gesture to ask for tea.

took a sip of tea, even if Shi Lei didn't know any tea art at all, he felt that this cup of tea was fragrant and delicious.

"How's the tea?" the man asked as if casually, looking at Shi Lei with a smile in his eyes.

Shi Lei put down the teacup and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't find the right words to describe the taste of this tea, so he said, "Good tea." ”

"Gone?"

Shi Lei was a little surprised, and lowered his head embarrassedly and said: "I don't know how to drink tea, and I don't understand tea, I really wanted to find words to describe it just now, but I found that there were no words, so I could only say good tea." ”

"Haha, this is the highest level of tea tasting, there is no beautiful words, only the word simple and good tea. About the word good tea, there is an allusion, I won't get an axe, if the little brother is interested, you can Baidu it, it is related to the tea saint Lu Yu. ”

Shi Lei nodded and asked, "You haven't told me yet, how did you know that I came for the first time and didn't know anything about antiques!"

The man poured Shi Lei tea again, and then said: "Actually, the first time you came, it was because I saw that you didn't know anything about Wenyu, well, just what you said." Because if it's not your first time, you have at least a very superficial understanding of cultural games, and you won't be so surprised to see that the price here is quite high. As long as you have even a little understanding of cultural toys, you will definitely know what agarwood is. There is a saying in ancient legends, called the four great fragrances, which are the four best spices in ancient times. Of these four spices, the first is agarwood, and the other three are ambergris, musk and sandalwood. Even if you don't know much about cultural toys, I'm sure you've at least heard of musk and sandalwood, right?"

Shi Lei nodded and said: "There is a kind of rheumatism analgesic ointment, which has the ingredient of musk, and my impression of sandalwood is only the sandalwood fan when I was a child." ”

The man also nodded, and said: "What you said, in fact, it is not real musk and sandalwood, the former is artificial musk, if you really want to use natural musk in medicine, I am afraid that few people can afford the painkiller cream." The latter, on the other hand, is a handicraft, with a bit of sandalwood spices smoked to taste, if it is a real sandalwood fan, it is worth a lot. ”

"Hehe, I really don't understand anything. Ambergris seems to have been heard in TV dramas, but agarwood has not been heard of much. ”

"That's because agarwood is far rarer and more expensive than any kind of spice, as you can tell from the price in my store. The string I just showed you can only be said to be barely called agarwood, which is very oily and is produced by artificial means to promote its secretion of oil. As for the agarwood, strictly speaking, it is not the string of wood in my hand, this kind of wood is called white wood, it does not have any fragrance, the wood is extremely loose, and it should be regarded as one of the lowest density woods in nature. Plants that grow in the wild will inevitably be touched by insects and beasts, and even flooded by lightning strikes, which will leave scars on the white wood. Once Shiraki is injured, it secretes an oil to repair its own wounds. Over time, it was as short as a few decades or as long as hundreds of years, and the agarwood in my hands was formed. ”

Shi Lei seemed to understand, and said: "Then in fact, agarwood is the grease contained in this wood, the more grease, the more agarwood, so the more expensive it is." ”

The man smiled, took a sip of tea, and then said, "That's right, that's the truth." Of course, in the process of agarwood, there are many other conditions, and the price that just made you exclaim is the best in agarwood. According to the way it is formed, agarwood is roughly divided into water sinking, soil sinking and ant sinking, and water sinking earth sinking can be called inverted agarwood. The so-called inversion refers to the fact that after the death of Shiraki, some of them were soaked in water, some of them were buried in the soil, and after many years, the parts without grease rotted and decayed, while the parts that had condensed grease remained. What is in the water is the water sinks, and what is in the soil is the earth that sinks. As for ant sinking, it is caused by insect bites, which are collectively referred to as ant sinking. ”

Shi Lei only felt that his eyes and ears were open, this knowledge may be searchable on the Internet, but it is by no means as clear and simple as what this man said.

"Nowadays, the natural agarwood is basically upside down, and those ant sinking objects have long been bought out. However, because agarwood is a rare spice, from ancient times to the present, there are people who specialize in Shannon, and use a knife to cut and contusion, so that the white wood is injured and secretes oil to form agarwood. However, due to the relatively single means, the agarwood formed in this way is basically only a thin layer on the surface, which can be used as a spice or as a powder for incense, but it is unrealistic to make a bracelet to play these. However, with the development of science and technology, some people use hanging bottles to inject germs into the white wood, so that it can continue to secrete oil, and slowly, there is a relatively prosperous agarwood market. ”