1498. Trees that money cannot measure
"Do you know what anoxic ice is? It's not actually an academic term, it's just a default term in the collecting world, referring to an ice-like crystal. Of course, this thing isn't actually an ice crystal, it just looks a lot like ice crystals, but it doesn't see oxygen, and if it comes into contact with air, it dissipates immediately......"
Little Blake began to babble on about the hypoxic ice, the origin of the name, and then the composition of the substance, and muttered for four or five minutes before he finished the introduction.
Qin Shiou was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't want to take the graduate school entrance examination, what kind of crystals and oxidation reactions were studied?
Impatient, he interrupted little Blake and said, "Stop, stop! Damn, I'm really losing to you, I'm asking you about this type of wood, what do you tell me how they react when they encounter oxygen? ”
Little Blake said in a disdainful tone, "Knowledge, man, knowledge is wealth!" Do you need to learn more to understand? You don't know such famous woods, but I knew them when I was five years old, when I was in the Cathedral of San Carcaro and my father taught me ......"
"Then you had a miserable childhood, and you had to study chemistry and physics for a week. Okay, don't change the subject and don't tease me, tell me, what the hell is this? Qin Shiou reacted, this guy has been hanging his appetite.
Sure enough, little Blake's laughter came from the microphone, and he said, "This is Holy Sandalwood, my fellow, where did you get this thing?" Did you find another shipwreck? ”
In view of the large number of shipwrecks that Qin Shiou has discovered from the sea in recent years, Little Black is no longer surprised by this.
Qin Shiou naturally wouldn't follow his words. "No, that's right," he explained, "I just bought a fishing farm. While cleaning up an abandoned warehouse, the wood was found inside. The wood has been carefully preserved, and I think they should be valuable, so I asked you, is this wood valuable? How much? ”
Little Blake said in a helpless tone: "Then why are you calling me?" Why don't you send me a picture? Come, let's open the video, let me see if these woods are holy sandalwood. If it really is. That's a lot of value! ”
Qin Shiou realized that he had dug a pit for himself, he definitely couldn't take pictures or videos, these timbers were sinking on the bottom of the sea.
So he had an idea. said: "Sorry man, the signal doesn't work, the video can't be opened, this is a deserted fishing ground." It's good that I can give you a call! ”
A hasty excuse was found. He then changed the subject: "What kind of holy sandalwood is very valuable?" What price now? ”
Little Blake didn't ask, he replied: "Yes, it's very valuable, it's hard to say the specific price, a gram can range from two or three dollars to twenty or thirty dollars......"
"Fake, sell by the gram?" Qin Shiou was pleasantly surprised, he had already seen it just now, the holy sandalwood in this boat was more than ten to twenty meters long. The thin ones are the thickness of an adult's thighs, and the diameter of the thick ones is nearly half a meter. There are more than 20 in total.
In addition, he used the sea god's consciousness to create waves to roll them up and try to weigh them, and the density was relatively large, at least denser than the sea water, because the waves rolled up these timbers and put them down, and they would immediately sink to the bottom of the ship.
In this way, for example, the coarsest piece of wood, with a diameter of nearly half a meter, is about a quarter of a square meter, multiplied by a height of twenty meters, that is five cubic meters. Add to that the fact that it is denser than water, which is at least five tons, five million grams!
There are more than 20 trees, and although the others are not as tall as this one and not as thick as this one, they can be converted into 20 cubes, right? How much is that? Twenty million, dollars!
And it's the most conservative of all calculations, based on $1 per gram, the density of wood and water, but that's more than that!
Qin Shiou's side quickly did mental arithmetic, and Little Blake was explaining: "Of course, according to the gram, this is holy sandalwood, and now there are very few of this kind of wood, and the surviving pieces are generally small pieces of wood, used to make statues, wooden combs, wooden hairpins and other small things, can it be expensive?" ”
Hearing this, Qin Shiou was overjoyed, and he asked tentatively: "If, I mean if, what if I have a complete holy sandalwood trunk here?" ”
"How complete?" Little Blake asked subconsciously.
Qin Shiou chose the largest one: "The diameter is about half a meter, and the height must be twenty meters." ”
The microphone of the mobile phone became silent, and Qin Shiou thought that Little Black was speechless in shock, so he laughed proudly.
As a result, he waited for a while and still had no sound, hey, hey, shouted a few times and still had no sound, and then took it down and looked, damn, that grandson hung up the phone!
I was about to search for information about Saint Sandalwood on the Internet, when an unfamiliar phone number called, and as soon as he connected, Little Blake's voice sounded again: "Schute, it's really unlucky, I threw my phone out in surprise just now, and now it's over!" ”
"Continuing with the topic just now, what did you say? That wood is twenty meters tall and eight meters in diameter? Fack! Did you go to God's backyard? Otherwise, how could you find such a big holy sandalwood?! ”
Qin Shiou asked, "How much can this be worth?" ”
Little Blake said: "Such holy sandalwood, it is no longer a matter of money, listen to me man, do you know what the greatest use of this tree is?" ”
Qin Shiou said: "Is your brain as big as a rooster's?" I don't even know what the hell this thing is, how do I know what it's for? ”
Little Blake didn't bother with him, and said, "I just reminded you that this wood was introduced to me by my father when I was a child in worship. ”
Qin Shiou thought for a while and asked tentatively, "Oh, I see, is it making something like a chair or table?" ”
The believers in the church sat in chairs and set up tables in front of them, and since little Blake met when he was in church with his father, he must have been in contact with this at that time.
Little Blake's hysterical voice rang out: "Fake squid! You damn idiot! It's a cross! It's a big cross made on the top of the church! How can you think of tables and chairs? It's the big cross! ”
"OK, OK, I got it, man, then you tell me, why can't it be measured in money? Does money insult your faith? Qin Shiou asked with a smile.
"Bullshit insult to faith! We all know that even God loves money! Well, to get back to the point, the crosses on the most famous cathedrals in the world are made of holy sandalwood, so if you make this holy sandalwood into a cross to raise donations to the Holy See, maybe you can change the archbishop to do it! Little Black said. (To be continued......)