Chapter 50: Rare and Rare
The flying car flew silently in the air, Guan Nantian set the destination, adjusted the flying car to "automatic flight", then opened the mini wine cabinet on the car, poured two glasses of "forget worries", handed a glass to Zhou Kai, and sat down opposite Zhou Kai.
"I know you have a lot of questions, and I'll tell you all about them later. Now, let's raise a glass and celebrate your successful completion of the training course. As he spoke, he raised the wine glass he was holding at Zhou Kaiyao.
Zhou Kai also raised his glass in response, and then the two of them raised their heads and killed the worries in the glass at the same time.
"There are a lot of things in this world that you can't get by hard work, and opportunities and talent are just as important. I can give you the opportunity, talent is born with you, so you just need to work hard to be able to succeed. I said the same thing to others, but he failed. You know why? Guan Nantian picked up the wine bottle and added wine to Zhou Kai and himself.
Zhou Kai shook his head.
Guan Nantian raised his wine glass, looking at the emerald green forgetfulness in the glass, he was a little distracted, as if he was recalling something.
After a while, he continued: "Because he can't bear loneliness, he can't withstand temptation. If you want to excel and be a top character, you must be able to endure loneliness and cold. When you climb any peak, you'll find that there aren't too many people in your sight, and almost all of them are your opponents. In a sense, these opponents are your friends, but even there are only a handful of them. ”
Zhou Kai didn't speak, he was savoring Guan Nantian's words while tasting his worries.
Guan Nantian took a sip of the forgotten worries in the cup, and then said: "You still can't realize that when you really emerge, you will see all kinds of temptations, money, beauty, and status are just the most basic three. If you can't stand loneliness, you will never be able to resist the temptation. Sometimes it's really 'success is it, failure is also it!' 'Ahh ”
Zhou Kai couldn't understand why Guan Nantian would tell him this, but from Guan Nantian's tone, Zhou Kai could feel that he was feeling, could it be that he saw someone's shadow from himself?
Along the way, Guan Nantian didn't speak again, he just quietly drank the worries in the cup. This kind of liquor extracted and brewed from the fruit of forgetting worries does have a feeling that can make people forget their worries.
It wasn't until the speeding car slowly landed that Guan Nan retracted his thoughts and returned to his usual expression. He smiled and took Zhou Kai's hand and walked off the flying car together.
Stepping through the pavilion built by the water, passing through the quaint shape of the "Rain Viewing Pavilion", passing through the promenade that bends and bends, leaning and curved, a group of Chinese classical buildings appear in front of Zhou Kai.
The green tile and red columns, the green eaves and red columns, and the cornices and corners constitute a beautiful painting of classical style with the previous boat, pavilion and corridor. The two dragons on the eaves on the left and right of the pavilion in front of Zhou Kai, the golden scales and golden armor, are vivid, as if they want to fly into the air, and the plaque in the middle of the pavilion reads the three words "Tengyuan Pavilion" ----- "Tengyuan Pavilion".
Next to the gate under the plaque, there are two tall beauties wearing classical Chinese cheongsam, and their snow-white slender thighs appear from time to time.
They saw Guan Nantian and Zhou Kai, and hurriedly stepped forward, one of the beauties was about to speak, Guan Nantian raised his hand to stop her, Guan Nantian said: "I just came to invite friends to dinner today, you ask Lu Peng to prepare, or in my old position, go!" After speaking, he took Zhou Kai's hand and walked into the door together.
When Zhou Kai passed by the two beauties, from their respectful eyes towards Guan Nantian, he found that Guan Nantian was by no means just a frequent visitor here.
Walking into the door, he heard the sound of the flute coming from you, the ethereal and distant sound of the flute, like a fairy dream, Zhou Kai felt like a misty Penglai fairyland. Surrounded by Zhubi Gallery, antique, flowers and trees are sparse, magnificent.
From everything he saw and heard in front of him, Zhou Kai knew that this "Tengyuan Pavilion" would definitely not be just an ordinary place to eat.
Led by a waiter, they walked through the winding corridor and up to the fourth floor. The entire fourth floor has an area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and there is only one house, a house within a house built on the top floor of the "Tengyuan Pavilion".
After changing into soft shoes, Guan Nantian called off the waiter who helped them make tea, he sat in a quaint small-leaf rosewood chair, looked at Zhou Kai, who was already completely stunned, with a smile, and asked, "What do you think of here?" ”
Now Zhou Kai has completely lost his sense of hearing, all his energy is focused on vision, and he simply can't believe what he sees now.
Because Zhou Kai likes history, he is very interested in many things in ancient times, and there was a time when he fell in love with the study of ancient architecture, including the main building materials ---- trees in ancient times. He has checked a lot of information and has a deep understanding of carpentry, especially the selection and appreciation of materials. It was because of this that he was shocked by what he was seeing now.
From the moment he stepped onto the fourth floor, from the first time he saw it, he was completely stunned. Because he saw a house made of pure wood, it was not the wooden house that made him stay, but the material from which it was built----- cypress.
Red cypress and cypress are collectively called cypress, cypress is only seen in Alishan District, Taiwan in China, in Taiwan, cypress is known as a sacred tree. It is one of the world's top ancient treasures along with ginkgo biloba, metasequoia and so on. The cypress tree also has the reputation of "100 years of ruler", a hundred years of cypress trees, the diameter of the tree body, up to one foot, every 100 years, increase one foot. The diameter of the tree is three feet, it is already a precious wood, the four feet is a rare thing, and the five feet is naturally a treasure.
And there is no wood cut down here that is less than four feet. How could this not surprise Zhou Kai?
But what he saw next made Zhou Kai feel that he was completely suffocated!
He gasped as he took off his leather shoes and replaced them with soft ones, and walked on the spotless, smooth floor.
The floor of the whole room was actually paved with iron birch. Iron birch itself is the hardness champion of wood, and previous bullets hit this wood as if it were on a thick steel plate, and it is three times harder than oak and twice as hard as ordinary steel, making it the hardest wood in the world. Use this precious wood to lay the floor, let alone walk, even if you change into roller skates and roll on them, don't try to spoil it.
In the hall of the wooden house, there were several chairs made of rosewood, and Guan Nantian sat on one of them.
Rosewood is one of the most precious timber in the world, and it is recorded in Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes" of the Jin Dynasty, when it was called "Rosewood, out of Funan, purple in color, also known as red sandalwood." "Rosewood can not be grown for thousands of years, and as the saying goes, "ten sandalwood and nine emptily", the largest diameter of rosewood is only about 20 centimeters, and its preciousness can be imagined.
And the small-leaved red sandalwood is the best in the red sandalwood, its wood grain is not obvious, the color is orange red at the beginning, and the dark purple is like lacquer for a long time, and the annual ring pattern can hardly be seen. In addition, it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that red sandalwood can stop bleeding, relieve pain, and regulate qi and blood.
Therefore, it is not too much to call small-leaved rosewood "every inch of wood".
In front of the chair is a piece of boxwood root carved tea table with a root circumference of nearly five meters, and the huge root carved tea table is egg yellow, and the surface is delicate and shiny.
The growth of boxwood is very slow, and Li Yu's "Idle Love Couple" has a record: "The boxwood grows one inch per year, does not overflow, and shrinks one inch in leap years, which is the limit of the wood." So the boxwood root carving in front of Zhou Kai is at least a thousand years old from the root circumference.
At this point, Zhou Kai was completely numb, he never thought that these rare treasures that he had only seen in ancient books would actually be placed in front of him, and even some of them were still legends.
Just as he was about to sit down with his violently beating heart, he saw something again, and despite his previous experience, even though he was fully mentally prepared, he couldn't help but cry out.