"I informed Dazhu that he will complete the resignation procedures today and will come here in the afternoon. I plan to wait for him to come at the store."
Hua Borong nodded, but Hua Mingming couldn't stand it anymore. He grew up in this antique city, and antique objects that were attractive to others didn't interest him much at all.
Seeing Hua Mingming's listlessness, Fang Ming smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Hua, remember what I said before about why I agreed to the price offered by Boss Song without counter-offering."
"Of course I remember, Fang Ming, what do you mean?"
"Let's go up to the second floor. Actually, I'm not particularly sure, but I think I won't be disappointed."
Fang Ming walked towards the second floor with a mysterious smile on his face. This made Hua Mingming curl his lips and muttered, "Why are you showing off your mystery? Just say it."
"If you get impatient, go back to the store!"
Hua Borong glared at his son. Hua Mingming shrank his neck and shut up quickly. It would be more boring to let him go back to the store. There were originally several beautiful shopping guide girls in the store, but in the end, they were all dismissed by his old man as not proficient.
He quit his job, and if he could help it, he wouldn't want to stay in the store at all.
On the second floor, Fang Ming stood in front of the piece of ebony he was looking at. When Hua Borong saw this, he also looked closely at the piece of ebony. After a while, he said: "It is indeed nanmu, and it can be regarded as the best among ebony, but
The value in the market is not low but not very high either.”
Hua Borong is mainly engaged in the jewelry and jade business, but he has been operating in an antique store for a long time and has some knowledge about other things. He also knows the price of ebony.
"Uncle Hua, do you know another name for ebony?" Fang Ming asked with a smile.
"Another name?" Hua Borong shook his head and said he had never heard of it.
"For ordinary people, ebony is just ebony, which has the most collection value. But for people in our circle, ebony is a good thing, because ebony is also called spiritual wood, and it is the first of the three spiritual trees."
"Spirit wood?" Hua Borong and Hua Mingming both looked at Fang Ming with puzzled faces, waiting for Fang Ming's explanation.
"In the past, Hong Kong and Taiwan had popular domestic movies about catching ghosts and zombies. The Taoist priests in the movies usually used a sword to catch ghosts, but this sword cannot be made of just any material. If it is made of wood,
As for the material, it must be spiritual wood."
Fang Ming was very patient and explained bit by bit: "The three major spiritual trees are ebony, peach and thunderwood. There is a proverb that goes like this: Peachwood is easy to find, ebony is hard to find, and thunderwood is a gift from heaven."
"There are many rumors about peach trees. It is said that Kuafu Zhui Ri threw the wooden stick in his hand before his death and turned it into a peach forest. Therefore, the peach trees have the yang energy of the scorching sun and can suppress the evil spirits. This is why many Taoist priests have to carve
The reason for a mahogany sword."
"As for ebony, it has been deposited in river water for thousands of years and has not decayed. It absorbs the energy of the earth and has become spiritual. It is the best choice to restrain evil spirits. The effect is better than that of peach wood."
"The thunderwood mentioned in the end actually has no specific type. As the name suggests, thunderwood refers to trees that have been struck by thunder. Heavenly thunder is the nemesis of all Yin spirits, and these trees struck by thunder retain the sky.
The power of thunder can subdue all evil spirits and monsters."
Fang Ming looked at Hua Borong and his son who were listening quietly, and continued: "Of course, this is also the reason why thunderwood is a godsend. Only trees that have been struck by thunder and are not dead can be counted as thunderwood.
But you can’t ask for it.”
"If that's the case, then we ordinary people can use peach wood or ebony to make a sword to catch ghosts and subjugate demons?" Hua Mingming asked angrily from the side, because he didn't believe in ghosts at all, even if he had previously warded off evil spirits.
This scene really made him feel a little bit upset.
"Ordinary peach wood and ebony are both effective, but there is still a gap between making a sword. To make a sword, the peach wood must be at least sixty years old. As for ebony, it takes more than a thousand years."
Fang Ming glanced at Hua Mingming. He knew what Hua Mingming was thinking, and teased: "But this alone is not enough. Even if a child holds a sharp sword, do you think he can hurt an adult?"
Hua Borong on the side looked thoughtful and said at this time: "Fang Ming, you want to use this piece of thousand-year-old ebony to carve it into a sword."
"I don't need this yet, but Uncle Hua, this is not a thousand-year-old ebony. If I guess correctly, this ebony has a history of at least tens of thousands of years."
"Ten Thousand Years Ebony!"
Hua Borong's expression was slightly shocked. Thousand-year-old ebony is indeed quite valuable, but it also has a price. But if it is ten-thousand-year-old ebony, the price difference between the two is definitely not as simple as the difference in years.
If it is just thousand-year-old ebony, although it is the best nanmu among them, the price on the market is estimated to be around 200,000 yuan. But if it is ten-thousand-year-old ebony, the price will definitely increase more than ten times, even if it is four to five million, it will
Some people are rushing to use it.
"Fang Ming, you are really addicted to picking up leaks. You can't say anything about picking up leaks to ward off evil spirits, but Old Song is not a fool. The ebony he bought must have been carbonized for technical appraisal. If the ebony is ten thousand years old, can it still be kept here?"
Hua Mingming's words were like a basin of cold water, which made Hua Borong's excited mood cool down. He looked at Fang Ming with some worry and said, "What the bastard said this time makes some sense. Song Xiong must have done a dating appraisal."
of."
"How to identify the year?" Fang Ming asked with a smile.
"The easiest way is to get a piece or some sawdust from it and use it for technical appraisal of carbon 14C. Because the level of counterfeiting is very high now, we will also use it for technical appraisal of some items in the store that experts are not sure about. As long as they are appraised,
It is immediately clear whether it is ancient or modern, and the error is extremely small."
Carbon 14C technical appraisal is known to many antique shops, but in fact few antique shops will do it. Firstly, because the cost is not low, and secondly, because it requires the provision of materials, which need to be removed from the antique objects and destroyed.
The complete condition of the object.
But wood is different. Digging out some sawdust or cutting a piece of wood does not affect its value at all. It is normal for the ebony Song Xiong, which costs 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, to be used for technical appraisal.
"Yes, Boss Song took the wood bark or sawdust to do the carbonization appraisal, but what if there is something inside this wood?"
Fang Ming smiled slightly, then his eyes wandered around the second floor and finally walked to the table on the side, where there were some carving tools and a hatchet.
Picking up the hatchet, Hua Mingming watched Fang Ming walking towards him and said quickly: "Fang Ming, don't get angry when I tell you the truth. Hurry up and put down your weapon so that we can talk properly."
Fang Ming glanced at Hua Mingming. He chose to ignore this living treasure and walked directly to the ebony with a hatchet. Then, amid the exclamations of Hua Borong and Hua Mingming, he raised it high and struck at the ebony.