1. Pick up the leaky sandalwood

"It's worth four hundred? Are you not afraid to flash your tongue when you speak? ”

"It's okay if you don't buy it, but please speak with self-respect!"

At this moment, at Wang Tian's antique stall, it was a young couple who valued a small independent carving of an almond golden rooster, but when they asked how much the carving was, Wang Tian said it was 400, and they were sneered at by the man in it.

"I'll tell you again, I'm hand-carved, just carving this golden rooster, it took me almost a week, of course, it can't be compared with other stalls carved out in a few minutes, if you think the machine carving is cost-effective, you can go over there, twenty yuan can buy three, fifty yuan can give you ten, it's different."

"Hmph, what's the difference, isn't it all this thing? Isn't it because I fell in love with your little carving that you opened your mouth? I think you're poor and crazy and want to cheat the big guys, right? Lili, let's go, go to another house! As soon as the boy hugged the girl's slender willow waist, he was about to leave the stall, but the girl snorted, "No, no, no, after seeing so many houses, I like this, family chicken, will you buy me this!" ”

The man glanced at Wang Tian again, already full of anger, but his girlfriend Lili liked this, and the man was helpless. "Four hundred! Get! I admit it too! Isn't it just 400 yuan, wrap it up for me! I'll give you four hundred! ”

Wang Tian sighed secretly, if it weren't for the fact that this year's tuition had not been paid, even if the other party gave him four thousand, Wang Tian would not have sold it to him.

But right now, the tuition fee of the university is still 5,000 yuan, Wang Tian still took the golden rooster carving and wrapped it for the other party.

"Here you go, take it!"

"No, four hundred!" The boy threw the money into the stall in a dashing manner, carrying the packaging box handed over by Wang Tian and carrying the girl's arm, and the two merged into the flow of people.

Wang Tian reluctantly picked up the four hundred yuan on the stall and shook his head.

In the same college, Wang Tian didn't want to go shopping as chic as this pair of young people, and in the face of this kind of hawker, he gave full play to his own Wang Ba's spirit, saying that Lao Tzu would give you five hundred, no need to look for it.

But the fact is: he has no leisure time at all, except for classes, the rest of Wang Tian is either carving in the small house he rents, or setting up a stall. Why is this so? It's not about making money yet!

Because his parents divorced very early, Wang Tian has lived with his grandparents since he was a child, and his grandparents run a bonsai business and rarely take care of themselves, so Wang Tian began to live a self-reliant life at a very young age. Three years ago, his grandparents both died of illness, and his aunt and uncle robbed most of his grandparents' property and family business. Until this year, Wang Tian will graduate in his senior year, and his studies will end after paying this most difficult tuition, and his life may be better? But then, the pressure of employment came back to the front.

Wang Tian is wondering whether he should find a stable job these days, or continue to do carving.

Yes, Wang Tian has no other skills, that is, some grass and wood plots, he learned first-hand carving from his grandfather, and his craftsmanship is not exquisite, but he can barely get it. Set up a stall to sell some small carvings, and life is okay. When it's good, it sells for thousands of dollars a week, and when it's bad, it's not uncommon to have no income for two or three weeks in a row.

But speaking of which, Wang Tian still wants to do this after graduation. In fact, this line still has a prospect, in recent years, hand-carved has risen, stained with the word "pure handmade", the price will be doubled, and the handmade products are much more precious than the machine-made products, so Wang Tian sees hope.

When it was about to get dark, Wang Tian had already sold more than a thousand yuan, cleaned up his stall, and was about to go home, when a small man suddenly came over and blocked in front of Wang Tian.

"Hey buddy, I've got a good thing to see, do you want to see it?"

The man had a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, Wang Tian was stunned for a moment, and then remembered the little gangsters in the antique shop who specialized in cheating people out of money, and the night was getting dark, so he shook his head,

"I don't want it!" The body rushed forward,

"Dude, don't be in a hurry to go, alas, how can I say it," in a hurry, the man stopped Wang Tian and took out a piece of black wood from his arms,

"Dude, rosewood, do you want it? I know that you are playing with carving, and you must need this kind of fine material! ”

Wang Tian was indeed happy, the red sandalwood was a high-quality wood, and it was used to carve high-quality. But Wang Tian was still very calm, "I don't want it, how can you have red sandalwood!" ”

"Really, really, absolutely genuine! Believe it or not! ”

The little man said as he handed the rosewood to Wang Tian.

This wood is black-brown, trapezoidal shape, fifteen cubic centimeters in size, it does look like red sandalwood, after taking this piece of wood, Wang Tiancai noticed that this piece of wood suspected of red sandalwood is very heavy, heavier than all the wood he has ever seen.

I looked down and sniffed, with a faint fragrance, and if I looked closely, I could faintly see some cow hair lines, which were similar to red sandalwood.

To be honest, Wang Tian has never seen real red sandalwood, but after all, he plays with wood, and he knows more about red sandalwood. To say that this is real rosewood, Wang Tian is 10,000 don't believe it, because just such a small piece of wood is about 100,000 on the market, and it is impossible for this person to sell it to himself. The most likely is African black red sandalwood or blood sandalwood, don't look at it with a sandalwood word, but the price is much worse. But even if it's not a real red sandalwood, this small piece will cost almost 10,000 yuan on the market, and it's still okay to accept it.

Wang Tian glanced at the buddy, shook his head and said, "Dude, this is not the real red sandalwood, the real red sandalwood is worth about one million cubic meters, and this piece is also worth 100,000?" ”

"Isn't this rosewood? No way! … Brother, this is really red sandalwood, and I don't want you to pay 180,000 yuan, just 10,000 yuan, how about it? ”

Wang Tian probably figured it out, and regardless of whether this was red sandalwood or not, Wang Tian could basically conclude that the wood was coming from the wrong way, and it was most likely that this person heard that red sandalwood was expensive, and he found the scraps from some mahogany furniture factories.

With this discovery, Wang Tian was excited, "10,000 yuan is not worth it, why should I buy such a fake red sandalwood for 10,000 yuan?" I don't want it! This is not rosewood! ”

"This, this ......" is also said to be true, not to mention that the real red sandalwood is expensive, and it is very rare, and ordinary people absolutely do not know it, even some experts are easy to confuse, let alone a layman like him.

The little man couldn't say why, and when he saw that Wang Tian didn't want 10,000, he quickly changed his words: "Little brother, let's not say more, eight thousand, I only need eight thousand." ”

Wang Tian smiled secretly in his heart, "Dude, if you really want to sell it, just eight hundred yuan, pay the money with one hand and deliver it with the other." ”

"Eight hundred is too little!"

Wang Tian thought for a while, "That's it, a thousand yuan, a thousand at most, if you want, let's trade it, otherwise we don't have to talk about it." ”

"One more..."

"It's just a thousand, if you don't sell it, I'll leave."

Wang Tian took out the renminbi and shook it, the little man looked at the red banknote in Wang Tian's hand, his eyes were red, it seemed that he was really anxious to ask for money, and he reached out and grabbed it and said, "Okay, a thousand is a thousand." ”

"Don't rush to get the money just yet." Wang Tian pushed away the man's hand, "Now, write a receipt, write down where your counterfeit red sandalwood came from, when you traded it, how much money you traded, and then press your handprint!" ”

"What is this for...," the man obviously didn't understand this, and really thought that Wang Tian wanted him to write out the true origin.

If he really wrote that it was stolen, Wang Tian really didn't dare to ask for it, "Hurry up, it doesn't matter if you say that you are a family heirloom or picked up, the name of this wood is ebony, and then press your handprint, then the money is yours." ”

The little man suddenly realized, and hurriedly wrote it, and pressed his handprint after the last stroke.

So such a transaction, this is also Wang Tianchang's vigilance in the antique street. After all, this sandalwood seems to be coming from the wrong way, if this little man is caught and identifies Wang Tian, Wang Tian will have a head to say, just say that he doesn't know, otherwise Wang Tian is afraid that he will also have to suffer a lawsuit.

Now that there is a receipt, and the name on the receipt is ebony, no one can say anything at that time. Ebony counterfeit sandalwood is not a secret in the industry, many furniture stores are using ordinary mahogany, ebony coloring to gain weight instead of sandalwood.

Seeing the little man leaving happily with his thousand yuan, Wang Tian also hurriedly pedaled the tricycle home.

Wang Tian's rented house is located in an urban village next to the city, not too far from the city center, and the transportation is convenient. Wang Tian has been in this city for seven or eight years, from the time he came to study in junior high school to the time Wang Tian was admitted to Binhai College, Wang Tian can almost be regarded as watching the city slowly develop from a small coastal city to a metropolis.

The moonlight is cold, the night ink is like a mountain, it is already more than seven o'clock when I return to the rental house, turn on the computer, Wang Tian took out this piece of sandalwood and looked at it carefully, compared the pictures on the Internet, Wang Tian finally decided that this was African sandalwood. Speaking of which, although this African sandalwood is not as valuable as the real red sandalwood, it is also worth a lot of money, almost 1/5 of the red sandalwood, that is to say, the price of this small piece of sandalwood is also 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan. Then, Wang Tian picked up a small leak this time. -------------------------------------------------PS: The new book is uploaded, I ask the brothers for a recommendation ticket, a collection, and the three crazy thank you!