Li Yi silently read Cheng Sitian's name in his heart a few times, and suddenly couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud, Cheng Sitian? Hold on to death! How much does Nima have to eat this meal to make the sky die? If it were me, I wouldn't want to invite you!

As soon as this joke started, the distance between several people quickly narrowed, Zhang Jun said that he was addicted, and then told a joke,

"Lao Cheng, this is nothing, the most wronged is his brother. His brother is a year older than him, his name is Cheng Yiku, originally the name was nothing, but then there was an advertisement for Hailan House, which was terrible, and since then, there have been a group of friends chasing him every day to ask for clothes to wear. Do you think, Hailan House dares to claim to be a man's wardrobe, who is he? He's a ready-to-wear warehouse! ”

Li Yi's mouth opened into an O-shape, is this true or apocryphal?

Cheng Sitian looked at Zhang Jun who was dancing with his eyebrows, and patted his head helplessly, while Tan Moxuan shook his head with a wry smile, this Zhang Jun is still an appraiser, and he doesn't have a door to his mouth! But don't say it, their boss still eats his set!

After ordering the dish, Tan Moxuan motioned to Li Yi to take out the ambergris,

"Lao Cheng, Li Yi brought something today, I want you to help him palm his eyes, take a look, how is this thing?"

Cheng Si smiled sweetly, took the ambergris casually, and gently "huh" as soon as he started it, and then put the incense block under his nose and smelled it, and his complexion suddenly changed greatly!

"Xiao Li, I need to scrape off a little and taste it, no problem, right?"

Seeing Li Yi shaking his head and saying that there was no problem, Cheng Sitian scraped a little powder with his fingernails and put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and savored it for a long time, Fang shook his head and opened his eyes.

"The best, the best!"

Seeing that Cheng Sitian only cared about tasting the fragrance by himself, Zhang Jun was anxious, snatched the ambergris in his hand, smelled it, and suddenly said:

"Strange, why does this ambergris smell like agarwood?"

Li Yi was also surprised, he had smelled this thing many times. I've never smelled anything, and this Zhang Jun is not playing with incense, why did he smell it as soon as he smelled it? However, it is obvious that his level is not high, and the best ambergris actually smells of agarwood. It's also drunk to think about.

Unexpectedly, when Cheng Sitian heard this, he actually gave Zhang Jun a thumbs up,

"Amazing, you can actually smell the hint of Qi Nan fragrance in this piece of ambergris, you deserve to have a dog's nose!"

Agarwood is known as the "diamond of plants". And Qi Nan is the treasure of agarwood, the diamond of agarwood!

Li Yi remembers that at the second incense fair held in Shanghai, there was a piece of superb Qi Nan agarwood, weighing less than one kilogram, but the value was as high as more than 30 million yuan, more than 30,000 yuan per gram!

However, ambergris smells the smell of Qi Nan, isn't this a string of flavors?

What are spices most afraid of? Isn't the spice most afraid of the flavor string? However, since they are all crossed. Why does Cheng Sitian still say that it is the best?

Seeing that Li Yi and Tan Moxuan were a little confused, Cheng Sitian smiled:

"That's a long story. Let's first say that the use of incense, with incense, has been in ancient times, from the utensils can be traced, there were pottery and copper smokers in the pre-Qin period, and the incense used at that time was mostly vanilla. After the Qin Dynasty, the use of incense went through several stages such as the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Two Song Dynasties, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are a few key points that must be explained clearly, so that you will understand the preciousness of this piece of ambergris. ”

"Incense is our traditional saying. In the Tang Dynasty, our incense culture was transmitted to Japan. Little Japanese worship it as a religious ritual art and call it incense. In other words, the word incense is a word imported from Japan, and we have always said that it is the use of incense or incense culture. ”

Glancing at a few people who were listening intently, Cheng Sitian took a sip of chrysanthemum tea. And then he said:

"During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, although there were constant wars, the incense culture still achieved relatively great development, and the most important thing was the emergence of Hexiang. As the name suggests, Hexiang is to synthesize incense pills, incense cakes and other substances according to different recipes after various natural spices have been specially processed. Now we are familiar with incense sticks and incense sticks are all incense, but they will not appear until the Yuan Dynasty. ”

After that, Cheng Sitian picked up the piece of ambergris, looking incredible,

"Although this piece looks like ambergris, but because of some accidents, it has actually become a piece of incense, however, this piece of incense is not a fragrance in the ordinary sense, it is a piece of unique incense that is naturally formed without stirring powder! As far as I can remember, this kind of thing has never been seen in any literature. In other words, it is likely to be the first natural fragrance of a complete individual to be discovered! ”

Whether you understand it or not, there is at least one thing that three people understand, that is, this piece of ambergris is extremely precious!

"In the Ming Dynasty, because of the increase in foreign exchanges, the variety of spices was greatly enriched, and the concept of what we now call the four famous incense was formed during that period. You know the four famous incense, right? Agarwood, sandalwood, ambergris, musk, among them, the first of the four famous incense is agarwood, and among the agarwood, Qi Nan incense is the most precious. ”

He raised the ambergris in his hand and shook it,

"This piece of ambergris is mixed with the smell of Qi Nan incense, and it is deeply rooted, as if it is also a piece of agarwood!"

"I have a guess why. We all know that ambergris is a dry product of the intestinal secretions of sperm whales, the structure is relatively sparse, if you put it together for a long time with another object that exudes a strange fragrance all the time, it is entirely possible to be infected by that strange fragrance, this process is long and short, but if you want to achieve this ambergris now, I estimate that it will take at least two or three hundred years! ”

"According to the table of this piece of ambergris, I guess that it has either been placed in a closed environment with Qi Nan Xiang for a long time, or it is simply placed in a Qi Nan fragrant wood box, and this time is two or three hundred years!"

"There's another problem, and that's the color of ambergris. Ambergris that has just been discharged into the sea is generally light black, and gradually turns gray, light gray, and finally white under the action of seawater. This piece is obviously the best ambergris, but why is it black? My guess just now can also answer this question, that is, after being infected by Qi Nanxiang, it changed from white to black, and became more and more black, and finally became like this! ”

"Okay, the mystery is basically solved, that is to say, Li Yi's little brother, this ambergris, in fact, can no longer be called ambergris, we should see it as a new object formed after tomorrow, maybe it is more appropriate to call it Qi Nan ambergris."

Li Yi scratched his head, okay, after your big fuss, a good piece of the best ambergris suddenly found that it was going to be removed from the ambergris family from now on......

"Of course, this qiē is still speculation, and I still need to sample and test this piece of ambergris and consult some relevant information before I can give a final answer. However, I am confident that the accuracy of my inference is definitely above 90%! ”

Cheng Sitian stared at Li Yi with burning eyes,

"Brother Li Yi, give me this piece of ambergris, I will use it to study, and then write a detailed research report, which is likely to form a huge boost to the current incense culture, and even open up a new branch of incense culture! When the time comes, you can name the second author ......"

I'll go! Why does this sound so familiar? Brother Cheng Sitian, do you know the current situation of the first person who said such things to me? His old man is adrift for the Chinese New Year, and that place is still an extremely dangerous place!

Originally, this piece of ambergris was of little use to Li Yi, and if he met a buyer with a suitable bid, he would sell it without saying a word. But after Cheng Sitian's flickering, he suddenly found that this thing was likely to be a rare species with only one piece.

Cheng Sitian, whose eyes were shining, quickly realized his mistake, Nima only wanted to be happy for a while, and said that this thing is rarely in the sky and on the earth, and now you actually go to buy it, isn't this a slap in the face?

But having said all that, it was too late to regret it at this time, he thought about it for a while, and said:

"It's me Meng Lang, such a valuable thing, Brother Li Yi will definitely not take it lightly. I think...... Why don't you lend it to me, I'll do the research and make a report, and you also sign the second author, how about that? ”

Li Yi smiled bitterly, as expected, he really embarked on the old road of everyday! You've talked about it, what else can I do but say yes?

A big flicker made Tan and Zhang dizzy to hear, and at this moment, seeing that the two had reached an agreement, they couldn't help but raise their glasses together,

"Come, brother, drink one! First, to celebrate Li Yi's little brother to win another treasure, and secondly, to wish Brother Cheng a successful research, adding a strong touch to the thousands of years of Chinese incense culture! Dry! ”

After three rounds of wine, Cheng Sitian put down the wine glass and sighed,

"In ancient times, natural fragrances were used, but now, chemical flavors have replaced them and become the main raw materials for incense making. A lot of sandalwood and agarwood actually just use chemical flavors with sandalwood or agarwood! This horse is like using horse meat and duck meat dyed with mutton fat to pretend to be mutton! But the key is that people can't eat dead people, and this chemical flavor can be used for a long time, but it may kill people! ”

Seeing Cheng Sitian sighing with emotion, the three of them glanced at each other, Tan Moxuan raised his glass and said:

"Drink and drink, don't talk about this, it's annoying to talk about it! By the way, Lao Cheng, is there still a place for the Huaxia incense culture training class that you are going to start after the year? A child of mine of mine is interested in this and wants to learn from it. ”

"Yes, of course there is, even if there is none, you Lao Tan must have it! By the way, Li Yi, if you have time, you'd better come over to find out, in case you can't read the paper when the time comes, it will be troublesome. ”

Cheng Sitian drank all the wine in the cup, and was arrogant.

"As soon as this paper comes out, you will wait to see my tongue fight! Haha, Brother Li, thank you for giving me a chance to leave a name in the history of incense! (To be continued.) )