Chapter 280: Ebony
Coconut Grove City is not a city full of coconut trees, it is located on the edge of Yunnan, more than half of it is mountainous, and there are mudslides in some places, and most of the places still live in some small number of ethnic groups, so the economy here is also the most backward city in Yunnan. It is also one of the most resource-poor cities in Yunnan Province. The only thing that can be developed here now is that the scenery here is still good.
Fang Qi came here for no other reason, it was because his father-in-law, Wang Bo, was now working here.
Coconut Grove City is actually not as barren as Fang Qi imagined, and there are dilapidated houses and temples everywhere. Entering the city, although it is not as prosperous as S City and B City, it is also full of high-rise buildings. And the urban greenery here is outstanding, the air in the city is incomparable to other cities, and most importantly, there are few cars here, and they don't have any traffic jams in taxis.
Fang Qi and Wang Xiaoya came to Wang Bo's home, where the layout of the community is similar to that of the luxury residential area in City B, with rockeries and green waters, and beautiful scenery. But you can buy a house of more than 100 square meters for only a few hundred thousand yuan, but you can't buy half of the house in the city center in this B city.
"Mom!" Seeing that Fang Qi and Wang Xiaoya came here in person, the Queen Mother, who had left work early because of them, suddenly showed a smile.
She was originally dissatisfied with Fang Qi, and even hated Fang Qi, but after digging deeper, she found out the pity behind Fang Qi's glory, especially since Fang Qi has not graduated from college yet, and he has already achieved such an achievement, which is simply a mythical existence.
Of course, the most satisfying thing is Fang Qi's filial piety. In addition to the gloomy rosewood that Fang Qi promised that day, Fang Qi also sent them all kinds of things, such as the best tea, as well as all kinds of top-notch modern furniture and equipment. And most importantly, because of Fang Qi's invitation. Nowadays, many businessmen have begun to visit here.
Moreover, Fang Qi's Tianyuan Group is preparing to build a five-star hotel-level mountain villa here, after all, the scenery here is good, mainly because the equipment conditions here are too poor, as long as the equipment conditions are excellent, the development of tourism is an easy thing.
Moreover, there are many ethnic minorities here, and the special scenic spots here are arranged. Specialty snacks, and even special tourism, as long as a year or two, can establish a complete tourism route and development.
In addition, Fang Qi's jewelry company has bought a large piece of land in the city center, ready to combine the culture of the ethnic minorities here, and some gold and silver treasures to make some special jewelry souvenirs. There are business opportunities everywhere, but if no one comes, no one invests. It is still a poor city in the past.
After they had dinner in the evening, Wang Xiaoya and the Queen Mother lived together, while Wang Bo slept in the bedroom originally prepared for them, and Fang Qi himself slept on the sofa in the living room.
The next day, the Queen Mother and Wang Bo had planned to take Fang Qi out to see it together. But Wang Bo had an important meeting to hold, after all, it had just finished the New Year, and many things in the city needed him to deal with, so Fang Qi naturally expressed his understanding. And the queen mother is also a cadre in the city. I can't take any leave these days.
"This is a rare Han village in the mountains, Liumu Village. Sir, Miss, look at the big trees here, this is a 300-year-old willow tree, which is also the origin of the name of this mountain village, and many of the buildings here still continue the ancient style. And it is built on the mountain, and the architecture is very distinctive. ”
This was introduced to them by the tour guide invited by Fang Qi. Because Wang Xiaoya was pregnant, Fang Qi and the others did not go to those remote mountainous areas that were too far away, and only came to a nearby mountain village with a relatively gentle mountain road.
Entering this mountain village is first and foremost a platform. Here you can overlook the scenery of the entire mountain, the misty valley, the lush and secluded dense forest, all of which are full of infinite beauty, and this is definitely a good place for sightseeing.
"What is this?" Suddenly, Fang Qi was stunned by the wood in the middle of the platform, this was an overall black wood, with a length of more than ten meters and a diameter of seventy centimeters, as if it was specifically for stopping some ignorant children or preventing some things from falling.
And there are many similar woods around, but most of them are dead wood, and some even dry wood grows new branches in spring. Only this one does not have the slightest feeling of 'withering', nor the slightest green shoot, but it is too dark, but I know whether the road is dirty, or the original color.
"I didn't expect to have such a harvest when I came to play, Mr. guide, is the village chief here?" Now Fang Qi finally believed that there was some treasure in the people, he didn't expect to get thirty-five gold-like golden silk nanmu from an unknown ancient temple in S City last time, and he didn't expect to encounter a top-level gloomy wood here.
"This black wood is also a treasure?" After following Fang Qi for a long time, Wang Xiaoya also knew that what Fang Qi could see was definitely a good thing. And she also knows that some things are not measured by appearances.
"It's ebony, and you've been here for a long time, and you've been here for a long time. And the black on the top of this wood is not all dirty, it should be ebony. Fang Qi ignored the dirt on it, slapped it twice, and then brushed the dirt off it, revealing a dark brown color, and there was some shine on it.
"Sister Xiaoya, you smell it, this thing is still a little fragrant, if you touch it with your hands, you can also feel its warmth, delicacy, and silkiness, which is completely different from these dead trees." Hearing Fang Qi's words, Wang Xiaoya was curious, but she didn't touch it, because this thing looked too dirty. But according to what Fang Qi said, she sniffed it next to it, and she really smelled a faint fragrance.
"This is ebony, it's amazing, how about this thing and the golden silk nanmu in our house?" Hearing the joke, Fang Qi couldn't help but be stunned.
"Ebony, also known as gloomy wood, is an earthquake, flood, debris flow to bury all the plants and organisms on the ground into the ancient riverbed and other low-lying places, buried in the silt of some trees, in the state of lack of oxygen, high pressure, after thousands of years of carbonization process to form ebony, so it is also called 'carbonized wood'.
There are many types of trees that can form ebony, including hemp willow, green oka, camphor tree, nanmu, red almond, yew, masang, yellow willow, cork, locust wood, sandalwood, etc. Therefore, its value is also different, in previous years it ranged from 2,000 to 100,000 per ton, and now the minimum is 100,000. And the golden silk nanmu at home is all high-quality golden silk wood, and now it is at least one million or more per ton. ”
Hearing Fang Qi's words, a trace of surprise flashed in Wang Xiaoya's eyes. According to Fang Qi, this piece of wood is so big that it is only a million. But she always mentally felt that Fang Qi had something else to say.
"This gentleman, are you looking for me, an old man?" Seeing an old man dressed in simple clothes coming over, Fang Qi knew that he was the village chief. Looking at Fang Qi, the old village chief also looked at Fang Qi's pair of golden boys and girls with a curious expression. Nowadays, although there are often people who visit here, there are very few people with the same temperament as these two people.
"Old man, that's the case, I value the wood you have here, it's this one, I want to buy it, what does the old man think?" Hearing Fang Qi's words, the old man immediately looked at Fang Qi in disbelief, he didn't expect that Fang Qi actually valued the wood in their village, this was the first time he had encountered it.
"Sir, you're not kidding, this wood is extremely heavy, and it will be a lot of trouble to transport it, I'm afraid it's even higher than the price of this wood?" Hearing the old man's words, Fang Qi couldn't help but show a smile, the old man's meaning, I'm afraid he didn't know that this was ebony.
"Old man, this is ebony, worth a million, and the freight is also paid by ourselves?" At this time, Wang Xiaoya couldn't help but say in advance. At the same time, Wang Xiaoya couldn't help whispering to the other party
"Give our future children some credit, this is a mountain village, not a city, don't you check here, people here still need money for their children to go to school?"
She was afraid that Fang Qi would buy this ebony back at a low price, after all, many of Fang Qi's things were bought at a low price. It's like the golden silk nanmu at home, Fang Qi spent more than 10 million at the beginning, but Uncle Fang's evaluation that these things add up to at least 100 million.
And when he and Fang Qi first met, she looked at those few things that were only worth millions, but when Fang Qi changed hands, a Xuande furnace was hundreds of millions. A piece of Li Mo, in the blink of an eye, is more than 10 million and is not sold. There is also the Yongle white porcelain of that time. She knew that this was a leak detection in the industry, and it was all up to her eyesight to see things.
"Ebony? Is the gentleman really willing to pay a million? Hearing the old man's words, Fang Qi suddenly smiled and said.
"Of course, not only will I donate 1 million, but I am even willing to donate 1 million to build a school here." Hearing Fang Qi's words, the old man couldn't help but be overjoyed, even Wang Xiaoya looked at Fang Qi with a foreign face, but he didn't expect Fang Qi to take out another million to build a school here.
In ancient times, there was a saying that "a box of treasure is not as good as half a square of ebony". Ebony is not only a non-renewable resource, the amount of development is getting smaller and smaller, and some natural shape of ebony art has a certain collection value. And ebony also has medicinal value, long-term breathing of his smell, can have the main detoxification, cure cholera vomiting effect, take the wood chips as the end, warm wine wash, can dispel wind and dampness.
Fang Qi made a phone call and began to introduce the ebony to the guide and the old man here. The old man and the tour guide on the side were shocked to look at the wood under Fang Qi's hand, the old man lived here all the year round, for although he grew older, he was also a wise man, but after all, his knowledge was limited, especially these luxuries.
But the tour guide often explained some historical things, including some furniture made of ebony, so he also knew the preciousness of ebony. But I didn't expect that a piece of ebony could be worth millions, so I hurriedly started shooting with my mobile phone.
"Is this ebony really such magical?" The old man didn't believe that the wood he had seen all his life was such a treasure, and looked at Fang Qi with a little disbelief in his eyes.
"Hehe, actually, old man, your wood should have been here for decades, but look at the wood around it has rotted, but what has happened to this ebony?" Hearing Fang Qi's words, the old man suddenly showed a hint of surprise, he had seen this wood when he was a child, all along, this wood had not changed in the slightest, it was indeed different from other wood. (To be continued......)