When the two of them took a taxi back to their room, it was already dark, and the lights of the island were flickering outside the window at night. Meng Yao closed the evening curtain, spread out the map on the bed, and studied it carefully.

On the island, it is not so easy to find a place to trade the sea yellow wood, because now the country has introduced relevant laws, and it is illegal to illegally log the sea yellow wood, so even if there is sea yellow wood growing on the mountain, you can't trade it blatantly.

However, there are also formal channels for collecting Haihuang, such as the antique and cultural market, these second-class dealers have the resources of Haihuang in their hands, and they know the big bosses who specialize in buying Haihuang and engaging in Haihuang furniture business.

But if you find these people, there is another problem: that is, the second-class dealers are often very "violent", they are in the antique circle, that is, they are abducted and abducted, and they use Vietnamese huanghuali as sea yellow, these two kinds of wood are dozens of times different, and the risk of taking goods from them is naturally much higher.

Meng Yao pointed to two places on the map and said, "Big brother, I think we will go to these two places tomorrow, one is the furniture and building materials city, and the other is the island's antique and cultural street, wood?" There must be a boss in the furniture and building materials city, and besides, the antique vendors are a large group engaged in the sea yellow trade. ”

Xi Qing felt that Xiao Meng Yao was very smart at this moment: "What you said makes sense, then we will go to these two places tomorrow to have a look." ”

"Yes. We're going to leave early tomorrow, so let's take a shower and go to bed. ”

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At the beginning of the sun,

Huafa Building, Datong Road,

Island Antique City.

Rows of shops, endless streams of tourists, many tourists from other places like Xi Qing and Meng Yao come here to see the style of Haihuang.

Speaking of which, the antique shops on the island are not quite the same as other shops in China, and on the island, there are many foreign tourists, especially foreign tourists, and the management of antique shops is more standardized. The Antique Management Association will evaluate and compare the information provided by tourists or the operation of antique shops through various channels to select shops of the first to fourth grades.

After these shops are graded, it is also convenient for foreign tourists to enter and buy according to their grades.

Xi Qing and Meng Yao walked around, and there are five first-class shops here, Hengyuan Pavilion, Island Tao, Yuxiang Pavilion, Yifan Wood, and Jinyuan Xuan. After going to these five stores, they all have sea yellow wood, but they are all finished products of sea yellow wood, and several of them say that they do not sell the wood.

It is no wonder that the sea yellow wood is now so rare, and the barren status quo who has the sea yellow wood in his hand will be processed and sold.

After hitting a wall, the two continued to wander the street boredly, but their confidence had already been frustrated, and when they reached the end of the road, they were accosted by a young man of his twenties.

This young man was standing in front of an antique shop called Dumu Pavilion, which looked to have just opened, and there were firecrackers and firecracker paper in front of the door, and the young man must be a guy in the shop, soliciting customers.

This store is a fourth-level store, and it has just opened, so it must be credibility or something from scratch.

The young man said, "What are you looking for?" Do you want to see our sea yellow? ”

"Sea Yellow?" Meng Yao was excited, and asked casually: "Your Haihuang is a finished product, are there any raw materials?" ”

The young man smiled, "Yes." ”

"Yes?"

Meng Yao felt that he had discovered a new world: "Sell?" “

The young man said, "Sell it." Let's not talk about it out there, come in, come in and talk. ”

Meng Yao seemed very happy, but Xi Qing did not relax his vigilance at all, he was not in the antique circle, but because of his perennial carving, he was very familiar with some vendors in Binjiang, he knew that these people's black hearts, shoddy, fake and real, this is their usual trick. I don't know so much about Hai Huangmu, in case I am deceived by the other party with Vietnamese Huanghuali, I really lose a lot.

Coming in on guard, the lad brought out from behind a few pieces of wood that at first glance looked good.

Most of these woods are dark brown and dark yellow, with complex textures and a very smooth surface.

"How about it, these pieces are all fine sea yellow wood, how many do you want? That's not enough, and we have it later. ”

Meng Yao said: "Your wood is definitely Haihuang, why don't I look like it." ”

The young man said, "Girl, you are small, you may not understand." The sea yellow to see, mainly look at three points, one is to look at the color, the color of the sea yellow is dark, is this dark yellow, dark brown alternate, which is also more convenient to reconcile the color matching, make zuò furniture. The second is to look at the lines, you look at the lines of the sea yellow, which are more intertwined and complex, and there are many forms, which ordinary people can't see. Third, the size of the sea yellow wood, the sea yellow wood only bears the heartwood in 15 years, and the heartwood is only 2-5cm in 20 years, and it takes 300-500 years to make it into a large piece of furniture, and you see that my log has 2.5-3cm, so the three points are in line with the characteristics of the sea yellow wood. ”

The young man was right, but unfortunately Meng Yao didn't understand.

Meng Yao would pick up the wood and stroke it carefully, admiring it, but she couldn't find any clues that were not Hai Huang.

"Big brother, what do you think?"

Xi Qing has done a lot of carving, and his understanding of wood is naturally deeper, and he doesn't think that the young man's three-point appreciation is very accurate.

At least, Xi Qing knows that the brown eyes of Haihuang wood are relatively small (fine texture) and have fewer pores, which also makes Haihuang difficult to carve; However, the brown eyes of these woods are larger, and although they look smooth and greasy, they may be the result of some kind of polish wax.

Xi Qing was careful to prevent taking medicine: "I think it's better to take another look." ”

The young man said: "Brother, don't look any further, this antique street except for our family to sell Haihuang logs, there is no second one, you should know that Haihuang is now more expensive than gold, extremely rare, I Haihuang you have no store after this village." ”

Meng Yao asked, "Then how much is your Haihuang?" ”

The young man said, "Five pieces per gram." ”

"What, on gram selling? Five pieces a gram? Too expensive, right? ”

"Little girl, this is still expensive, Haihuang is gold in the wood, a gram of gold costs three or four hundred, Haihuang we have the lowest price on the whole island."

Xi Qing asked: "Big brother, in fact, we have just come here, do we always have to shop around, you see that we are still students, we can't buy it all at once, in case we are deceived." Of course, we're not saying that yours will be scammed. You see, you said that you are the cheapest, then I want to ask, where is there still a sale of sea yellow wood? ”

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