"You are all gods! I'm just a mortal......"

These words are not flattering to me, but heartfelt emotion.

A few people still laughed, and then Liu Bowen turned to Sun Jingshui and said, "Little Sun! This little pot friend is very interesting, and it is not in vain that you have followed up all these years. ”

This remark once again made me confused: Sun Jingshui may have lived for thousands of years, and if a person who has lived for thousands of years is called "Little Sun", then his lifespan ...... I can't think about it.

This sentence is very informative, and it can be heard that within the organization of the Ink Scholar, Sun Jingshui's identity is not high.

"Children, don't worry, let's go with your doubts, and I'll explain them to you."

"Hmm-" I scratched my head and followed the four of them onto the boat with a stomach full of doubts.

At this time, I noticed that this was an extremely ordinary boat, the hull of the boat was wooden, but it was blood red, at first I thought it was painted with color, but after getting on the boat, after sitting down, I reached out and touched it, only to see that this was the original color of wood.

Blood-red wood?

Prompted by curiosity, I couldn't help but pick at it with my fingernails, and it was as hard as a stone.

Once again, proving that Sun Jingshui and the other ink masters knew a technique similar to mind reading, Nalan Xingde smiled and said to me, "Don't be too curious, this is gloomy wood. ”

"Gloomy wood?"

"Yes!"

"And it's the ancient gloomy wood of redwoods."

As an employee of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Station, even if I haven't seen gloomy wood with my own eyes, I must have heard of it.

Gloomy wood has a long history, with the change of the times, artificial mining, a large number of gloomy wood is known to people. At present, people have different names for gloomy wood, and the Tohoku region calls it "Langmu".

The Sichuan-Chongqing region calls it "ebony" and "oolong"; The Liangguang area is called "flooded wood".

There are also some areas where it is called "charred wood". In Western countries, it is called "Oriental Sacred Tree" and "Plant Giant Panda". But in strict definition, ebony, charred wood is very different from gloomy wood.

Gloomy wood is due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, debris flows and other natural disaster factors that make the ancient forest buried in the low-lying depths of the ancient riverbed or in the silt in the environment of hypoxia, high pressure and weak acid, microorganisms, after thousands of years of slow carbonization and formation, bright color, delicate and smooth, dense and corrosion-resistant, with special fragrance, compared with the same kind of modern wood, gloomy wood inclusions (such as gum, essential oil) content more, density, dimensional stability is better, rot resistance is stronger.

Among the broad-leaved trees, the gloomy wood species of the Shellaceae, Lauraceae and Magnoliaceae were more common, and the conifers were more common in the Cypress family and the cedaraceae gloomy wood species.

In China, gloomy wood is mainly distributed in the southwest, southeast and other places, the main reason is that these areas are rich in vegetation species, and there are a large number of tree species that are easy to form gloomy wood; Secondly, these areas are prone to form a series of geological disasters due to topography and water sources, which provide the necessary conditions for the formation of gloomy wood.

With the passage of time, these dead wood stumps are soaked and ground in the sediment at the bottom of the water, which changes the original physical properties: the fats and sugars inherent in the wood are dissolved in the water, removing the living space of borers and bacteria.

Some are corroded by the sediment at the bottom of the water, which strengthens the texture and beauty of the material; Some have become strong and upright, showing a majestic posture, forming a simple and dignified, copper-and-iron casting-like effect.

Its color is also very different, there are brown, gray, purple, black, there are also red on the outside and black on the inside, or black skin and yellow heart.

The ancient sunken wood for a long time is obviously "carbonized", showing a coal-like black, strange and wonderful. According to the detection of scientific research institutions, the ancient sunken wood was hidden deep in the ground for 3,000 to 12,000 years, and some even reached tens of thousands of years.

What's more commendable is that it is not deformed, heavy, high density, will not be eaten by insects, some ancient sunken wood can be comparable to red sandalwood, can be called the essence of the tree, the soul of the wood, so the world will be the ancient sunken wood as the treasure of the evil spirit, Nafu, the town house, there is "even if there is a full box of gold, it is not as good as the ebony side" said.

Ancient sunken wood is a treasure left by nature to human beings, and it is a scarce resource that cannot be renewed.

In Chinese folk, gloomy wood is charred wood, which is called ebony by the Shu people and "Oriental sacred wood" by Westerners.

The formation of gloomy wood is long, according to the data can be recorded: in ancient times, the precious ancient trees in the primeval forest for hundreds of years and thousands of years, due to the sudden major geographical and meteorological changes (such as earthquakes, mountain floods, lightning strikes, typhoons, etc.), some are buried deep in the ancient riverbed of rivers and lakes, under the sediment, and some are buried in the dark strata of lack of oxygen, the time is as long as thousands of years, even tens of thousands of years, they have been washed by torrents, crushed by mud and stones, fish pecked crabs, so that the shapes are different, and the postures are thousands.

After thousands of years of natural erosion and creation, the gloomy wood has both the quaintness of the wood and the charm of the stone, its texture is solid and heavy, the color is black and luxurious, the section is smooth and delicate, and the wood is oily, moisture-resistant, fragrant, immortal for 10,000 years, not afraid of insects, and it is natural. Ancient books record that individual tree species also have medicinal properties.

It combines the characteristics of "thinness, transparency, leakage, and wrinkles", and deserves the reputation of "Oriental Sacred Tree" and "Plant Mummy".

In short, this wood is very rare and very valuable.