Chapter 226: Amazing Collection

"Uncle Long, why do you think of me like this?" Noticing the old man's strange eyes, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile and said.

"Alas!" Uncle Long shook his head, "I really don't understand you lately, I haven't seen you drink so much before!" It's almost twenty bottles of two pots, and you don't have anything to do! ”

In the end, the old man looked at Liu Dong with a look of surprise on his face like a monster. At the beginning, he still remembered how Liu Dong was drunk at Li Lao's, and he drank much less at that time than now. At that time, Liu Dong was drunk and messy, or he asked Mu Gang to carry it back. But now ......, thinking of this, the old man secretly shook his head in his heart, it was really a strange thing.

"Hehe, it's really weird today, I don't know what's wrong with me, I don't seem to be drunk anyway!" Liu Dong hurriedly explained. Of course, Liu Dong will not say the real situation.

"Hmmm! Let them sleep here, just as I'll show you around and get you acquainted with it! The old man stood up.

Took Liu Dong and walked outside.

However, after walking a few steps, Uncle Long paused, turned around, and instructed the fifty or sixty half-grown children who were eating next to him: "After you finish eating, you all go to class obediently, and I will check later, do you know?" ”

"Got it, Master!" The teenagers, most of whom were between the ages of ten and fifteen or sixteen, answered loudly.

"Hmm!" smiled and nodded, and then walked out with Liu Dong.

"Uncle Long, ...... they?" After walking out of the cafeteria, Liu Dong was surprised.

"Alas. They are all orphans! The old man sighed.

"Orphans?"

"Hmm. All these years I adopted! ”

Hear here. Liu Dong had a look of shock on his face, he never knew that Uncle Long had adopted so many orphans.

"These are poor children who have no father or mother, and in the orphanage, they generally drop out of middle school, and they have no skills in society, and they all learn badly. So, I adopted them so that they could go to school and study well. If you can get into college, you will go to college. If the rest are not good, let them learn the craft from my apprentices. In this way, there will be a way out for their future. Moreover, the craftsmanship handed down by my ancestors can also be passed on to them. Kill two birds with one stone! Uncle Long said with a smile.

After listening, Liu Dong nodded. I have more respect for the old man in my heart.

"Come, come in!" Pushing open the door, Uncle Long beckoned Liu Dong into the furniture factory workshop next to him.

As soon as he entered the door, Liu Dong saw six rosewood trees with a diameter at breast height of 40 centimeters and a length of nearly 10 meters stacked on the left side of the door against the wall. Rather, it is the Andaman red sandalwood of the rosewood family in the three genera and six categories of the legume family.

Wood carving is a basic skill to identify all kinds of wood, especially precious mahogany. Liu Dong knows almost all of them, and he remembers their characteristics by heart.

Noticing Liu Dong's eyes, Uncle Long smiled, "These mahogany materials are leftover from making furniture for Zhou Bin's kid some time ago." ”

"Let's go, take you forward!"

Nodding, Liu Dong followed behind Uncle Long.

Not far ahead, there are three rows of eighteen electric cutters. Almost every cutter has a lot of disdain next to it. This means that these machines are all commonly used.

"Although we make handmade antique furniture, not all of them are handmade, which is too troublesome!"

Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded, whether it is manual or machine, the most important thing is the quality of the furniture. The time it takes to untie the wood with a machine is good, so there is no need to waste labor.

Walking through the cutting machine, there are nearly forty stations, each station has a small cutting machine next to it, and there are some planers, hand saws, ink fountains and other furniture tools, and even a lot, on the stations have been exposed to the rudimentary circle chair, Taishi chair, eight immortal table, Luohan bed, shelf bed, incense table, etc.

And then after walking through the rudimentary furniture, and then the half-finished furniture in the back, that's where the real focus is.

"How? This carving is not bad! Uncle Long pointed to a half-carved shelf bed and asked Liu Dong.

Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded, a shelf bed with a door enclosure in front of him, walking in from the door, is a space of five or six square meters, and then the bed is inside, like this kind of shelf bed with a door enclosure is relatively wide, and it is almost an independent decorative world inside, from the top of the bed to the foot of the bed, from the front door cover to the back railing, railing, almost the beauty of decoration.

There are two square door enclosures in the front, and there are also long enclosures on the back, left and right sides, and the frieze board on the fence is carved with exquisite patterns on the bed teeth all around. Although there are many carvings, there is no sense of cumbersomeness, but it is more icing on the cake.

However, at the moment, this shelf bed with a door enclosure is only carved with openwork, round carving and semi-circle, carved with some fancy patterns, and has not yet been painted.

However, despite this, Liu Dong still felt from these carvings that the Beijing-style furniture has the decorative characteristics of straight lines, curved and appropriate, and strive to be concise, simple and bright.

Moreover, the carving man is not worse than himself in wood carving.

"Uncle Long, who made this shelf bed?"

"Hehe, Dongquan did it!"

"Cheng Dongquan?" Liu Dong had a slightly thin and somewhat taciturn middle-aged man in his mind, and Liu Dong remembered that he was the ninth apprentice of the old man.

"Let's go, let's move on!"

Next, Uncle Long took Liu Dong to evaluate some other ancient furniture that had not yet been completed, and then came out of the back door.

"Let's go, I'll take you to another place!" As he spoke, the old man took Liu Dong and walked through a vacant factory building on the cement road next to him, then walked to the penultimate row, then took out the key from his waist, pushed the door and walked in.

After Liu Dong also entered the door, the old man closed the door again, and then turned on the light switch next to it, and then the whole space became bright.

And everything in this vast space appeared in Liu Dong's eyes.

"Uncle Long, ...... these?" Seeing the wood near the door, supported by a steel frame, purple and black, about five to seven meters long, about twenty centimeters in diameter at breast height, and covered with cow hair patterns, Liu Dong's face showed excitement.

The wood that could be collected so much by Uncle Long, and then seeing their characteristics, Liu Dong had a guess in his heart that he couldn't believe.

"Hehe, that's right, these are Indian small-leaved red sandalwood! It took me more than 10 years to collect these more than 30 roots! Saying this, Uncle Long's face showed pride.

Small-leaved red sandalwood, also known as sandalwood red sandalwood, is a fine product in red sandalwood, with large density and small brown eyes is its significant feature, and the wood is very stable, not easy to deform and crack.

Sandalwood rosewood is mostly produced in tropical and subtropical primeval forests, and the best is the red sandalwood produced in the state of Mysore, India. The texture of red sandalwood is hard, the color varies from dark black to reddish brown, and the texture is fine.

There are many kinds of red sandalwood, red sandalwood grows slowly, 5 years is only a year, it takes more than 800 years to become a wood, the hardness is the first of the wood, it is called "the wood of the emperor"!

The small-leaved red sandalwood in Chinese mainland was cut down as early as the Ming Dynasty, and then by the Qing Dynasty, the small-leaved red sandalwood in Southeast Asia and other places had also been cut down. In modern times, only the small-leaved red sandalwood in Myersorbon, India, still exists.

And Uncle Long's rosewood should also come from here.

Seeing Liu Dong surrounding these rosewood trees and checking them, the old man stood next to him and didn't bother.

It wasn't until ten minutes later that Liu Dong's excited mood gradually calmed down, just like he likes the top jade when he does jade carving, and he naturally has a heart for the top wood when he does wood carving. And the small-leaved red sandalwood is the most precious and top-quality wood.

And what makes Liu Dong even more excited is that these thirty-seven and small leaf red sandalwood can be called big materials, the diameter at breast height is basically about 20 cm, of which eight are close to 30 cm, two are about 35 cm, and the best one is 40 cm. It is not worse than the treasure of the town hall with a height of 3.8 meters and a diameter of 38~40 cm at breast height in the Dongyang Rosewood Museum, and it can also become the 'King of Rosewood', a priceless treasure.

"Hehe, this material is the best of all my small-leaved rosewood, five years ago, Zhao Defa wanted to buy them from me for 10 million, but I didn't sell them to him!"

Uncle Long walked to Liu Dong's side, stretched out his hand to caress the slightly rough body of the rosewood, the expression on his face was very soft, and he was as focused and meticulous as stroking his lover.

"Five years ago, ten million! It is estimated that it is now 30 million, and Brother Zhao is willing to buy him immediately! Liu Dong said secretly in his heart.

Not to mention Zhao Defa, Liu Dong himself is not very excited.

"Let's keep looking!"

Hearing the old man's words, Liu Dong's heart became infinitely anticipated.

"This is Huanghuali?"

After walking through the place where the small leaf red sandalwood is placed, next to it is the yellow rosewood, as a precious wood second only to the red sandalwood, the wood of the yellow rosewood is extremely stable, regardless of the cold and heat is not deformed, not cracked, not bent, has a certain toughness, suitable for all kinds of special-shaped furniture. Because of this, rosewood has been heavily cut down in modern times.

Up to now, the most precious Hainan Huanghuali heartwood has few large materials with a diameter of more than 10mm. Most of the Vietnamese huanghua pears circulating in the market are slightly inferior in value, but compared with 'sea yellow', 'Yue Huang' has a big difference in beauty and value.

However, Uncle Long's collection of these rosewoods made Liu Dong's heart become excited.

Compared with the scarce small-leaved rosewood just now, the number of huanghuali is also relatively more, Liu Dong simply counted, there are about 120. (To be continued......)