Chapter 140: Blood Willow Cigarette Holder (Text)
Big Tooth has also been used for a while, but his image is not good, and then he has a cigarette holder in his mouth and swaggers through the market, and he is a traitor! And this thing, it is quite effective, but it is really troublesome to clean up, three or five cigarettes have to be cleaned up, and they have to be soaked in alcohol to decompose the adsorbed tar and nicotine.
Such a troublesome thing, in the hands of Big Tooth, there is basically no one who can die properly, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the cigarette holder to let Big Tooth throw it.
Huang Xiaolin doesn't understand any of this, she doesn't care about cigarette holders or pipes, but she has seen old people use them since she was a child, and I heard that the effect is very good, and the workmanship of these cigarette holders is also very beautiful...... The colors are gorgeous, the light is bizarre, and it makes people love it when they look at it!
"Boss, take some and take a look, you want the best one." Huang Xiaolin looked at it for a while, looked up and saw the boss standing behind the counter, smiled stupidly, and said to him.
"Done!" The boss answered, he saw that this girl was dressed and temperamental, and he didn't bother to take this kind of thing in the glass cabinet, so he turned around and took out a few delicate small boxes from the drawer in the back and put them on top of the glass cabinet, "This is the best blood willow!" Not much, just a few, all here! ”
"What is Blood Willow?" Huang Xiaolin's eyes flashed, like a curious baby, and she depressed the proud boss, daring to love these two people who are not the masters of the goods.
He saw that Huang Xiaolin was dressed and talked well, so he took out the housekeeping baby, just to sell it at a good price, in this kind of small county, there are not many people who can spend a lot of money to buy this kind of top goods, but I didn't expect the other party to know the goods at all.
There was no way, the shopkeeper had to patiently explain to her that good things are also divided into grades, and this sea willow is divided into many varieties such as red willow, black willow, red willow, stone willow, black willow, etc., among which blood willow is the most precious. This type of sea willow with slender branches, peculiar shapes, flexible textures, bright colors, and red and crimson patterns on the surface is extremely rare.
After listening to this, Huang Xiaolin didn't expect that there would be so much attention to it, so she stuck out her tongue at Wu Chen embarrassedly, "Why don't you pick and choose?" ”
In addition to the material, the production of the seawillow cigarette holder and the production of the root carving have the same magic, a formed sea willow cigarette holder has to go through a series of processes such as cutting, planing, grinding, filing and drilling.
These cigarette holders, in terms of craftsmanship, are exquisite, as for the material, it is a little incomprehensible, and they all look similar. Wu Chen was also noncommittal, and asked Huang Xiaolin to choose what he liked, and he used his ability to cheat, and carefully distinguished the difference between these cigarette holders.
Huang Xiaolin was full of interest, picked out two cigarette holders in the shape of a big faucet, and prepared to give one to his father and one to Wu Chen's father.
I picked another one for Wu Chen, but it was twisted and twisted, and there were a few pimples on it, which looked a little weird.
Do I have such crooked melons and cracked dates? Wu Chen knew at a glance that the last one must have been given to himself, and while full of resentment, he picked up the three cigarette holders and played carefully with them in his hand.
It didn't look like it was any different, but he saw through a little bit with his ability and saw the problem. Among them, there is a large faucet cigarette holder, the structure is not the same as the others, although the outside is also a layer of golden skin, the silk is smooth, the lines are clear, very beautiful, but under the perspective, between the skin and the meat inside, there is a trace of inconspicuous gap.
"Boss, isn't that right?" Wu Chen smiled, sure enough, he is a know-it-all, a know-it-all, isn't this the same as cheating in the cortex of a gambling stone! However, he didn't say it directly, everyone understands people, and it is his style to be a man and leave a line.
"How so! You look at the pattern, and then look at the texture, beautiful! Of course, the boss knew what Wu Chen was talking about, and hurriedly denied it, the top material of golden silk willow or blood willow is indeed quite rare, and now it is nearly two hundred yuan per gram, which is almost catching up with gold! Where there are huge profits, there is fraud, and yellow and gold patterns are pasted on the surface of the black willow and sold as blood willows, which is also a common thing!
"If you say that, then you can't do business." Wu Chen said lightly, he didn't bother to talk to the boss, anyway, he didn't care about this thing very much, if it wasn't for the name of buying it for the old man, he really didn't want it. You still have to smoke with the butt of your cigarette in your mouth!
Seeing that Wu Chen was serious, the boss shouted in his heart, we are a well-known time-honored brand here, and this posterity probably thought that he was bullying their young faces, so he wanted to fool them. In fact, these big cigarette holders, which he spent a lot of money to hoard, wanted to make a big deal today, and he wanted to meet such a difficult little guy!
In desperation, he took the problematic cigarette holder aside and said, "Pick again, give you a discount!" ”
When Huang Xiaolin saw him say this, she also felt that there was something wrong with the cigarette holder, and the shopkeeper was showing goodwill, so as not to let the guests go out and ruin their reputation, which is also a common thing.
However, in this store, there are only these cigarette holders of Blood Willow, and no matter how much you pick, you can't pick out the satisfactory ones, and then there are those with the right shape and size, but they are lower-grade.
Wu Chen didn't want it in the first place, because Huang Xiaolin wanted to give it to him, so he had to accompany him to choose. Now that I saw such a good opportunity, I took the opportunity to say, or just buy these two in my hand, and one for the old people on both sides, just right!
Huang Xiaolin pouted, she also grew up in the Chaoshan area, which of her parents didn't smoke, she didn't have much opinion on this, but smoking was not good after all, so she thought that Wu Chen would also use these cigarette holders, and it would be good to be less harmful, so she was unwilling to look for it again, but she didn't find a satisfactory one, so she had to nod her head.
The boss looked at their behavior in his eyes, just like watching the little couple celebrate the New Year's Day and buy gifts for both parents, he was funny in his heart, who doesn't have a young time, young is good!
Stroking the blood willow in his hand, smooth and textured, and listening to his hands, Wu Chen suddenly remembered that this sea willow still has a "living" willow and a "dead" willow, that is, these creatures are dead or alive when they come out of the water.
This difference is still quite big, because the live willow is wetter, so the effect is better, and the price is also high, just like seafood, the taste of life is much better than frozen!
Thinking of this, Wu Chen didn't care that he didn't understand anything, pretended to be an expert, looked at it again, looked back and judged that this is also a dead willow, is it normal logic, bargaining is naturally worse, even if it is alive, it must be said that it is dead!
The boss was choked very lightly, he didn't expect this young man to be so difficult, he wanted to shout that he couldn't do business! This is a serious live willow from the eighth, and he entered the goods when he came out of the water, and verified it on the spot! Helplessly, now I can't figure it out, so I can only insist on it, and if I bet on the heavens and the earth, I almost brought the ancestors out!
When the boss was weighing, Wu Chen saw that the "big faucet" that they thought was fake was still on the counter, and he didn't have anything to do anyway, so he picked it up again to see the fake process, now people are really terrible, they can fake anything, and they do it so naturally, they can't see it from the outside!
Wait, something seems to be there? Just when he secretly sighed and thought about putting it back, a strange light suddenly flashed in his eyes, because it was so faint, he almost ignored it.
"What's that?" Wu Chen looked down carefully, but it was a piece of porcelain tiles, "embedded" in the small gap between the two layers of sea willows, the reason why it was said to be like it was because it was too thin and too small, only the glaze layer, the thickness of two toothpicks, and I don't know where the road peeled off from, and was "wrapped" in this blood willow.
But just such a little thing, it actually has a faint luster, it looks like it should be an object from the Song and Yuan dynasties! His heart moved, and he remembered that the boss had cursed just now that he was at the scene when this thing came out of the water, and it was definitely a live willow, so he asked the boss where he got it from?
From the mouth of their county to the sea, soon into the South China Sea near the bay, to the northeast is the Taiwan Strait, to the southwest is the South China Sea Islands, the local fishermen have been fishing in the South China Sea since ancient times, this batch of sea willows is caught in the offshore waters. None of them knew much about the azimuth coordinates on the sea, so they could only recall that according to the boss's recollection, it should be roughly near the Leizhou Peninsula.
This is still a bit of a spectrum, Wu Chen nodded secretly, this area has always been a sea passage to the Western Ocean, there should be a lot of shipwrecks, and some broken porcelain pieces should be normal.
He waited for the boss to weigh the two cigarette holders and put them in the box, so he bought the one in his hand by the way, which made Huang Xiaolin and the shopkeeper a little inexplicable, which one is this guy playing?
"Hehe, it's really expensive! Sure enough, it is worthy of blood willow, which is really bleeding! Out of the store, Wu Chen sighed that the two cigarette holders cost tens of thousands, even the most stubborn one, and he also cut half a sky-high price, and the half-ride cost him almost 10,000. Hehe, I don't know how my dad will feel when he smokes with this!
"It's good for your health that's the most important thing!" Huang Xiaolin didn't feel anything, but because of the success of the plan, she was a little proud in her heart! If she knew that the wood next to her was bought because of that porcelain piece, she would definitely want to bite him viciously.
"It's been a long time since I've been to the countryside, so why don't you get some fresh air!" Huang Xiaolin stroked her hair, pretending to be very interested and said, in fact, this is what she has thought about for a long time, and today she is going to torture this wood! Who told him to keep in touch with him for so long, and this flood also worried him a lot.
"Okay, do you want to go to your hometown?" Wu Chen readily agreed, today is to accompany the sin, the attitude must be sincere, and the action must be positive! What's more, shopping with Huang Xiaolin is not as painful as imagined, but there is a sweetness in my heart!
Huang Xiaolin's hometown is on the other side of the town, and she is one of the two sides of the village fight. Before, Wu Chen had already told Huang Xiaolin about the village fight in the town on the phone, but it seemed that after the flood came down, the fight had ended.
This kind of thing is always like this, no one knows the beginning of the day of the road, nor the end of the day of the road, inexplicably it started at the end of Qingping, caused a storm, and inexplicably disappeared invisibly.