Chapter 3 Immortals are hard to break
"It smells so good!"
As soon as Wen Yiming entered the door of the timber market, he instantly felt as if he was in a sea of fragrance! All kinds of woody fragrances came to his nose and drowned him like a tide.
Ordinary people who come here will also be attracted by the elegant scent of mahogany, not to mention the smell of the super-olfactory sense. The faint fragrance of red sandalwood, the natural freshness of huanghuali, and the more advanced agarwood make Wen Yiming can't help but take a few deep breaths.
"Let's go!"
Wen Yiming adjusted his breathing, and while walking, he carefully perceived the different sources of fragrance, and soon found that the original monotonous smell suddenly had layers and strengths!
He walked to a pile of wood, all red sandalwood, here are all big materials, at least the thickness of the bowl, many merchants like to bet on eyesight, the general material is two or three hundred and one kilograms, if you can bet on water ripples or fish scales, then the car into a bracelet at least twice as much!
If you are lucky enough to bet on Venus, you will definitely not be able to run away with five or six times the profit! There are more Venus, the material is fine enough, and a string of 2.0 can be thousands at will, and it is common to meet two or three thousand local tyrants.
Wen Yiming used to pick up finished bracelets in the stall, rarely directly bet on wood, in addition to the high price, more importantly, it is too difficult to bet on wood, there is an old saying in the line, the gods are difficult to break the wood!
In fact, gambling stones are the same, no one knows whether there is good jade in the stone skin, even if it is a master who has played for a lifetime, he can only rely on experience to judge, and gambling is commonplace, but the probability of success is higher than that of ordinary people.
This is especially true of wood, after all, jade is produced by tens of thousands of years of crustal movement, and the internal structure is relatively stable. And timber is born and nourished on rainwater land, who knows what changes will be in it?
Wen Yiming casually picked up a bowl of fifty or sixty centimeters thick red sandalwood material, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it hard, the unique fragrance of red sandalwood came to his nose, but the taste was not too strong, some pungent, and there was some moisture in it, which was definitely not an old material.
"Boss, what do you say?"
As soon as the boss raised his head, he looked at Wen Yiming, who looked like a student in front of him, and said casually: "Three hundred and five kilograms, absolutely old material, the chance of getting out of Venus is high!"
Wen Yiming frowned, put down what he was holding, and said secretly in his heart: "It's still an old material, even if you look at it with your eyes, you know that it's a new material, chicken blood is red, and at least one-fifth of a kilogram is the weight of water, and it's a loss!"
Of course, this can not be said explicitly, gambling wood depends on eyesight, the same as the antique shop, there is eyesight to make money, no eyesight to be fooled, the reason is very simple!
The boss didn't say anything when he heard it, and he didn't pay attention to it, in his opinion, the other party was not a big family, it was estimated that he was a student who came to open his eyes casually, and it was not worth taking the initiative to attack, so he picked up the teacup slowly and continued to drink tea and listen to music.
Wen Yiming smiled slightly, he was also happy to be idle, and just took the opportunity to try more to see how accurate his sense of smell was. Squatting down and picking up all kinds of wood, first with your eyes, based on experience, you have a rough judgment, and then you smell with your nose to see what level you are?
"No, there's no old stuff in a bunch!"
Wen Yiming stood up, turned around and left with some disappointment, this batch of materials are all new materials, they look old on the outside, but there is too much moisture inside, and they are obviously new materials that have been treated by high temperature and cooling. Buying it back not only suffers a loss in weight, but also fears that it will crack in the future, and once the material is expensive, the bracelet is not worth it!
Wen Yiming walked and looked, followed the smell everywhere to see the wood, slowly getting better, in his perception of the smell level is becoming more and more distinct, the market is generally the most, such as a calm lake, occasionally a trace of stunning appearance, or far away, or elegant, as if the fish out of the water, a burst of waves.
"Huh, there's a discovery!"
Just when Wen Yiming walked to the corner of the market, he suddenly looked shocked, sensitively caught a trace of abnormality, and quickly followed the smell to find it and came to a pile of wood.
"Boss, what's the price of this material?"
He picked up a piece of red sandalwood more than 30 centimeters, only the thickness of an adult's arm, and it was covered with mud.
"Which one?" A middle-aged woman came over and looked at it, and said casually: "Little brother really has eyesight, these are all real old materials that have just come in from India, chariot and horse materials, absolutely superior!"
"Carriage and horses?"
Smell a song and pout, the so-called chariot and horse material is jargon, red sandalwood is not scarce in India, and many locals use it to build houses and tools. Carriage and horse material is the wood used to make tools, because of the long time, the wood is relatively stable, and will not crack or have other problems.
"The car and horse material is not necessarily, right?
"I'll take a look!" When the woman heard that the other party was also an expert, she picked up the wood and weighed it, less than two kilograms, and said with a smile: "My brother is also an expert, today is an opening for me, and you can take it for a thousand!"
"One thousand is too expensive!" Wen Yiming shook his head and said, "Seven hundred!"
"Seven hundred is not good! at least nine hundred and five!"
"Seven hundred and five is the most, or I'll go around again!"
Wen Yiming turned around and was about to leave, but the middle-aged woman gritted her teeth and said loudly: "Okay, you take it!"
Wen Yiming didn't give the money on the spot, but looked at the other materials, and finally took out the money, picked up the wood and turned to leave.
"Haha, make a lot of money!"
Walking out of the old distance, Wen Yiming couldn't help but pick up the wood, sniffed it hard, and said excitedly: "Venus!
In his opinion, this piece of wood is not only far deeper and more distant than others, it is definitely an old material, especially in the middle, there are many other peculiar smells, dotted with dots, all over the whole material.
"At least half full of Venus, maybe there will be two strings full of Venus, that's a treasure of several thousand!"
The so-called Venus is the metal spots produced by absorbing other minerals in the soil in the wooden duct during the growth of red sandalwood, polished out like stars, very beautiful, as long as Venus appears, the price is at least doubled. If there are many Venus, more than half, or even all of them, it is definitely a rare boutique.
No wonder Wen Yiming was excited, you must know that the wood in his hand can produce at least six or seven strings of 2.0 bracelets, each string is at least 1,000 upwards, and the half full Venus is 3,000, if there is really a full Venus, don't even think about it without 8,000!
With less than eight hundred costs, changing hands is more than ten times the profit, who is not excited about it?
At this time, Wen Yiming was truly sure that he had magical abilities and embarked on a promising golden avenue! Who said that only the golden hand of the see-through eye could pick up the leaks? The nose spirit could still do it!
"Go on!"
Thinking of this, I was even more excited, and kept wandering around the piles of wood, and experienced the different tastes with my heart, most of the people here are red sandalwood, and there is an old saying in the wood industry, one yellow, two black, three red and four white!
Needless to say, Huanghuali, a wood is worth 10,000 gold, and it has been the favorite of literati and scholars since ancient times. In particular, Qiongzhou Huanghuali, after hundreds of years of mining has been basically extinct, the big material is rare, the market is generally small material, can only be used for the rider skewer, just like a string of authentic sea yellow bracelets, not counting the quality, but also one or two thousand. If there is a grimace or a tumor scar, the string of tens of thousands is also easy, more expensive than gold!
Erhei is red sandalwood, before the Ming Dynasty was not very important, with the Qing Dynasty switch shipping developed, more and more red sandalwood shipped to the country. And it is graceful and atmospheric, with delicate texture, especially the purple is full of wealth and wealth, and is deeply loved by the Qing Dynasty court.
Since the beginning of Shunzhi, all the emperors have done one thing for the whole three hundred years, and replaced all the furniture with red sandalwood! Now when you go to the Forbidden City, nine times out of ten are red sandalwood furniture, whether it is pulp or carving, beautiful, graceful and luxurious, incomparable!