Chapter 411: Agarwood
Not to mention millions, even if you smash into millions, you can solve the feng shui difficulties of the ancestral house, and Zeng Lao thinks it's worth it!
What's more, the cost is so much now, and it is not even a percent of the budget, which is really too affordable.
Maybe it's because the agarwood bamboo sticks are not easy to sell, and the boss tossed around the shelves for about ten minutes before finding a bundle of bamboo sticks from a corner.
"Well, it smells of agarwood!"
Zeng always plays antiques, and he is no stranger to agarwood. Agarwood has been listed as the first of all incense since ancient times because of its unique fragrance, elegant fragrance and very rare. For Buddhism, agarwood is one of the important incense products offered to the Buddha, and it is known for being the only fragrance that can pass through the Three Realms. He is regarded as the king of incense. Agarwood is one of the main spices of "bathing Buddha", agarwood carved prayer beads, Buddha statues, etc. are extremely precious Buddha tools, and the incense made of agarwood is not only used to worship Buddha, but also the best incense products for meditation.
Taoism burns agarwood in the ritual of subduing demons and exorcizing evil spirits, and holds agarwood in copper containers, which is lit all day long, symbolizing the harmony between heaven and earth, called "mist and swirling", and is a necessary treasure for enlightenment and holy Tao in practice.
Agarwood is an alcoholization formed after the injury of the agarwood species of the family Ruixiangaceae, and the oil secreted from the wound is infected by the fungus, this process is called "incense". The agarwood produced has a good effect of repelling insects and antiseptic, which shows its unique spirituality. No matter how high the quality of agarwood is, it contains wood, but the combination of wood and oil, whether it is under the wind and sun, or sunken in the silt swamp, as long as its fragrance is still there, the wood will not rot, and insects, ants and beasts will not eat.
The texture of agarwood looks like a hard, dark stone, and it sinks when it enters the water. In recent years, agarwood antiques have repeatedly hit sky-high prices in the auction market, and you can often see some well-made small pieces of agarwood, all kinds of stationery utensils, fine craftsmanship, and rhino horn products. Because the agarwood is precious and the rotten wood is finely dried, it is carved with little big wood, and even Zeng Lao has only seen it in the home of a Tibetan friend, but he has not been able to have an agarwood antique collection.
As the saying goes, "what you can't get is always in turmoil", and it is precisely because of the thirst for agarwood that Zeng Lao remembered the taste of agarwood.
So when the boss took out the bundle of bamboo sticks, the fragrance wafting from the wind made Zeng Lao determine for the first time that this was indeed agarwood, but not the agarwood in antiques, but the agarwood containing resin was cut, and this agarwood could also be used in medicine.
With Zeng Lao's words, Tang Chen had already believed seven or eight points.
When he used the "Qi Lookout Technique" to take a look, this bamboo stick incense mixed with agarwood had the same aura as the bamboo stick incense mixed with sandalwood, and Tang Chen had a bottom in his heart. This is indeed handmade bamboo stick incense, which is almost exactly the same as the Soviet-style incense in the "Sanheju...... Of course, the materials used in these two incense are not the same, Tang Chen said the same, but said that these two incense are handmade.
"How do you sell these bamboo sticks?"
Tang Chen was not stunned, and he wouldn't say all at once, "I want all these bamboo sticks." It sounds domineering, but this is equivalent to putting yourself on the chopping board and letting others "slaughter".
"It's all the goods at the bottom of the box, so I'll get back the cost price. One hundred, three hundred. ”
The boss thought about it and offered a price.
Tang Chen did the math, it didn't seem to be expensive.
You must know that the incense found in Panzhou also costs two yuan a branch. The bamboo stick incense here is three yuan a branch, although it is expensive for one dollar, but in the eyes of Zeng Lao, this is just some "change".
"How many agarwoods and sandalwood do you have here? Wrap them all up for me, I want them all!"
Zeng Lao is worthy of being a big boss, doing big business, and full of courage. Three yuan a stick of incense is already cheaper than this handmade bamboo stick incense. In these days, everything is made by machines, and although it can be produced in large quantities, it has lost its inner charm.
It's like Zeng Lao himself built a set of mahogany furniture, although they are all mahogany furniture, but Zeng Lao made it worth more than one million, and the machine made can only be sold for tens of thousands, at most because of the good material and sold for hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands......
In this year when machines replace human labor, handmade products can often be sold at a good price. In particular, the ingenious works have transcended the boundaries of the product and risen to the level of a work of art. Of course, this kind of bamboo stick incense only accounts for the light of handmade, in fact, its formula and materials are not top-notch. It's just that Tang Chen knows that even this is enough.
No matter how good the tools are, if people can't do it, it's useless. If you want to crack the evil feng shui bureau left by that person, you have to look at Tang Chen's play. These ritual instruments, yellow paper, bamboo sticks and incense are all to increase the success rate.
Sometimes, the difference is a thousand miles, and success or failure is often the slightest difference. Don't underestimate this 0. The success rate of 01% may be a little bit worse, and it will have to fail in the end.
After Zeng Lao paid the money happily, both parties were very satisfied.
Out of this feng shui ritual shop, Zeng Lao sighed: "I didn't expect things to go so smoothly! By the way, Master Tang, what is the difference between this bamboo stick incense and Hehe incense?"
"In fact, Hehe incense is a line of incense, that is, there is no bamboo stick in the middle, but it is only used in the north. Later, the integration of the north and the south was not divided into categories. Bamboo stick incense and incense sticks were introduced in large numbers at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Bamboo stick incense is similar to incense stick incense in appearance, but the bamboo stick incense has a bamboo wood core. In terms of use, bamboo stick incense and incense sticks are very different: bamboo stick incense was mainly used in the south in the late Tang Dynasty, because the south has a lot of rain and humid air, which is not convenient for the use of incense. In recent years, some people in the north have also used bamboo sticks to incense, which is strictly speaking out of line with the ancient system. Because a good incense stick is burned after being put into a bamboo stick, the smoke produced by the bamboo stick destroys the aroma and function of the whole incense, so in ancient times, the palace and practitioners never used bamboo stick incense. From another point of view, the ancients said: the south water is shallow and the soil is thin, and people are good at wandering, so the south incense has feet; the north has deep water and thick soil, and the human nature is thick, and they like to pass on the ancestral line to leave incense, so they do not bring bamboo feet to make incense in the northern region. ”
After listening to Tang Chen's explanation, Zeng Lao suddenly realized: "I see!"
Tang Chen smiled: "I also listened to what my grandfather said. ”
As soon as the words fell, he suddenly discovered a situation and couldn't help but say "Huh".
Zeng Lao asked suspiciously, "What's the matter, Master Tang?"
Tang Chen said in surprise: "Elder Zeng, I just said that it feels a little wrong, it turns out that the feng shui of this shop is not trivial!"
Zeng Lao was stunned for a moment, and then looked back, but he couldn't see anything: "Master Tang, how do you say this?"
(End of chapter)