Chapter 296: Luxury

"Brother Jiang, you are not authentic, no one has sued me before, you and Miss Tong are neighbors."

Xiao Qiang said to Jiang Tianyang with a smile while walking with Jiang Tianyang.

At this time, Feng Susu's voice sounded behind the two: "You know each other? ”

Jiang Tianyang turned around, and then saw a beautiful woman walking over, he said to Xiao Qiang in surprise, "Who is this?" ”

Xiao Qiang smiled: "This is Jian Suyan, who lives with me and is my friend." ”

As he spoke, he explained to Jiang Tianyang: "Su Yan is a writer and likes to travel around. ”

Jiang Tianyang glanced at Feng Susu and showed a meaningful smile: "It's okay, it's okay, since it's Brother Xiao's friend, that's my friend, Miss Jane, please come in, please come in." ”

A few people walked into Jiang Tianyang's villa, and as soon as they entered the door, Xiao Qiang was stunned, because what appeared in front of him was not a very luxurious and high-end house, if there was anything special about the whole house, it was very distinctive, yes, it was the word specialty.

When you open the door, you will be greeted by a huge twelve screens with landscape paintings, giving people a particularly atmospheric feeling.

After continuous evolution, the screen gradually has the use of windproof, partition and concealment, and plays the role of embellishing the environment and beautifying the space, so it has endured to this day, and derived a variety of forms of expression. Nowadays, the screen is mainly divided into the form of enclosure screen, seat screen, hanging screen, table screen, etc., among which the large screen can show that noble momentum. It is the first choice for living rooms, halls, meeting rooms, and offices. It can be freely placed and moved as needed, reflecting and complementing the indoor environment. Integrated, it becomes an inseparable whole of home decoration, and presents a harmonious beauty and quiet beauty. In the past, the screen mainly played the role of separating the space, but now more emphasis is placed on the decorative side of the screen, which not only needs to create the effect of "separation but not separation", but also emphasizes its own artistic effect. It integrates practicality and appreciation, and has practical value. It also gives the screen a new aesthetic connotation, which is definitely very national traditional characteristics.

"Hehe, Brother Xiao, do you like this screen too?"

I saw Xiao Qiang stop in front of the screen. Jiang Tianyang's slightly smug voice sounded behind Xiao Qiang.

Xiao Qiang smiled, but didn't say anything, but Feng Susu said: "The Xijing miscellaneous records of the Han Dynasty have 'Zhao Hede lived in the Zhaoyang Hall with a wooden painting screen'. The Book of Tang has 'Fang Xuanling's collection of ancient and modern family commandments on the screen'. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mushi said: "The silver candle autumn light is cold on the painting screen, and the light Luo small fan flutters fireflies." The night of Tianjie is as cool as water. Lie down and watch the morning glory Vega. 'Screens. We have had it since ancient times, and I didn't expect that Brother Jiang would be able to find this kind of twelve-leaf large screen, which is very rare. ”

Xiao Qiang smiled slightly: "On the ancients, only the knowledge is learned, the naturalist can pass through the heavens and the earth, and Brother Jiang is a real elegant person." ”

Being praised by the two of them one after another, Jiang Tianyang was also a little embarrassed, and waved his hand again and again: "It's over, it's over." Both of them are like-minded people, let's please. Inside please. ”

Originally, he just thought that this woman named Jian Suyan was very beautiful, and thought that she was Xiao Qiang's confidante, but now it seems that people also have some skills, at least in terms of antiques, they don't understand it at all.

After walking through the screen, the living room that appeared in front of Xiao Qiang and Feng Susu shocked them even more, the walls of the living room with an area of nearly 100 square meters were all wrapped in purple wood, and these woods exuded an intoxicating fragrance.

Not only that, but the furnishings of the whole living room are not particularly luxurious modern equipment, but some very old furniture. The reason why it is said to be very old is because although these furniture look a little old, if you look closely, you can still see that these things are not old objects.

"Interesting, Brother Jiang, you are similar to my grandfather's study here."

Feng Susu's words made Jiang Tianyang stunned.

"Miss Jane, I don't know what I have in common with Grandfather Ling's study?" Jiang Tianyang asked suspiciously.

Feng Suwan smiled: "His old man doesn't like modern electrical appliances, and there is not a single modern thing in the study, I think you are similar here, I don't know, I thought I was back a hundred years ago." ”

"Hahaha......" Jiang Tianyang laughed, looking very proud.

Xiao Qiang's divine sense looked at the surrounding furniture, and sure enough, he found that there was no heaven and earth aura in these furniture, it should not be antiques, but modern handicrafts that Jiang Tianyang asked someone to manufacture or acquire.

"How is it, Brother Xiao, the environment here is good, right? I spent a lot of money to buy so much rosewood furniture, hehe, brother, I've never let anyone see these treasures. Jiang Tianyang said proudly to Xiao Qiang.

These things are his beloved things, although they are not antiques, but they all have a lot of value, especially the red sandalwood, which is now almost extinct on the market, to be able to find so much red sandalwood, and to make furniture, he Jiang Tianyang also put his mind into it.

"Brother Jiang is really a real Yaren."

Xiao Qiang stretched out his thumb and said, people who can spend millions to decorate such a room are no longer ordinary people who like antiques, and this Jiang Tianyang is not obsessed with antiques.

It's just that Xiao Qiang really misestimated the value of this batch of rosewood, let alone millions, even if he added a zero, it would not be too much. Rosewood is mainly produced in India and the Malay Peninsula, and a small amount is also produced in the southeast coast of China. The material of rosewood is dense and hard, and it is heavy. The hue is purple-black, similar to the rhino role, slightly aromatic, deep and elegant, the heartwood is blood ochre, shiny and beautiful back lines and stripes, the annual ring pattern is stirred into a silk shape, and the brown eyes are extremely dense. No scars. With the wine bubble, it will be purple and stick to the bowl. Its resin or wood chipping and filing are used as medicine, which can cure sores and poison.

The diameter of rosewood is usually about 15 centimeters, the trunk is twisted and rarely straight, and there are many hollows, so it is known as "ten sandalwood and nine empty". Sapwood yellow-brown white heartwood orange-red-yellow with few black patterns, very fine cloth checkering, rich in orange-yellow pigment in wood, specific gravity of more than 1:1, fibrous structure S-shaped. The fine bend in the pipe hole is very similar to cow hair, so it is called "cow hair pattern red sandalwood".

More importantly, rosewood is a tropical plant, which cannot be grown for a hundred years, and a rosewood tree must grow for hundreds of years before it can be used. And between the hollow and the skin, that little place, that bit of meat can be used. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that every inch of gold is gold. Europeans and Americans have never seen red sandalwood at first, so they think that red sandalwood has no big material, and red sandalwood can only be used to make some small utensils. Legend has it that there was a five-inch-long model of a rosewood coffin in front of Napoleon's tomb, which surprised visitors and thought it was rare.

The ancient Chinese understanding and use of rosewood began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was recorded in Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes" of the Jin Dynasty, which was called "red sandalwood, out of Funan, purple in color, also known as red sandalwood." In the Ming Dynasty, this wood was valued by the royal family and began to be harvested on a large scale. Due to the scarcity of rosewood, the domestic sandalwood was soon brightened, and then officials were sent to Nanyang to procure, which has since become a rule and has continued to this day. Not all of the timber purchased is for immediate use, and many of it is stored for later use. This kind of procurement, in a certain way, has a predatory nature, so the good wood produced in the Nanyang Islands is almost completely harvested, especially the red sandalwood. All that could be made into articles were bound and carried away. What's more interesting is that the whole world produces red sandalwood, mainly in the Nanyang Islands, therefore, most of the world's red sandalwood is gathered in China, and because the red sandalwood grows slowly, it cannot be grown for hundreds of years, so there are really not many red sandalwood on the market today.

Like Jiang Tianyang collected so much rosewood, I am afraid that the value will be more than tens of millions.

Of course, Xiao Qiang didn't know about these things, he just simply felt that Jiang Tianyang must have spent a lot of effort and financial resources to collect so much rosewood, so he praised a few words.

"Brother Xiao, you are my confidant." Jiang Tianyang laughed and said to Xiao Qiang.

There is a reason why he said this, the process of making rosewood is extremely difficult, not only to go through two processes of chiseling and carving, but also to go through a longer period of polishing, which is not an ordinary polishing, it is to first coat the rosewood with wax, and then rub it repeatedly with knotweed and fine gauze, until the red sandalwood is rubbed like satin. Therefore, the general rosewood furniture cannot be seen from the appearance of how old it is.

"By the way, brother, why did you live here?"

Jiang Tianyang waited until Xiao Qiang and Feng Susu sat down as guests, and then asked Xiao Qiang strangely. When he sent Xiao Qiang to the hotel yesterday, he remembered that Xiao Qiang said that he had just arrived in Tianjing not long ago, and he had not yet settled down.

Xiao Qiang smiled slightly: "Su Yan wants to stay in Tianjing for a while, you know, I don't have any friends here, so I asked Miss Tong to help, it just so happened that she said that there is a villa here that is vacant, and the environment here is also good, so we will live here temporarily." ”

What he said was true or false, but it did not arouse Jiang Tianyang's suspicions, and he smiled and said: "That's great, we will be neighbors in the future, what is there to talk about." ”

Jiang Tianyang is a person with a bold personality who likes to make friends, not to mention that he thinks that Xiao Qiang is very temperamental to himself, so he is naturally very enthusiastic, and his words are not so outward.

Xiao Qiang laughed: "Since this is the case, then I won't be polite to my brother, and if I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely bother." (To be continued......)