Chapter 152

The old man seemed to see Zhang Qianxiu's doubts, or maybe the wood was not sold. He said with a smile, "boss, this wood is from our family. I'll show it to you."

The old man said, and found a piece of wood that had just been sawn: "you see."

Zhang Qianxiu took a look at the wood. It was really strange. On the outside, it was the light yellow of ordinary trees, but on the inside, it was dark red.

Zhang Qianxiu remembers saying in an article that Pterocarpus microphylla seems to be a kind of medicinal material, which smells fragrant.

I tried to smell it. There was no smell.

"Old man, don't you think red sandalwood has fragrance?" Zhang Qianxiu asked if he didn't understand. It's nothing.

The old man was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained, "little boss, this is only available when sawing. This time is too long. It must be gone."

Zhang Qianxiu didn't know whether it was true or not. He tried to ask, "how can I sell this wood?"

"For this wood, it costs ten yuan. For this log, it costs eight yuan." When the old people talk, there are still some people who have no confidence.

In fact, the price is already higher than that of pine. Most pine trees cost about five yuan a piece, which is equivalent to more than one day's salary of a worker.

Zhang Qianxiu was stunned. He even suspected that the two old people were deliberately pretending to be deceptive.

Can see two people's heart beating posture, also don't seem to be pretending, when the old man speaks, his eyes are very careful.

Zhang Qianxiu doesn't think he is very good at judging people, but he believes that many people are a little accurate.

When the old man saw that Zhang Qianxiu was silent, he thought his price was too high. He quickly said, "little boss, if you think the price is too high, we can discuss the price."

Zhang Qianxiu responded that he didn't think the price was too high, but that it was a bit too low.

Later on, the price of red sandalwood is millions of tons, the lowest can be sold to tens of thousands of tons, now you can buy one for ten or eight yuan, which is incredible.

Zhang Qianxiu tried to move it. It's much more expensive than the pine of the same quality. This one has been put for a long time. The pine is basically cut down from the mountain and will be lighter after drying.

Zhang Qianxiu said truthfully: "old man, I just heard of red sandalwood. In fact, I can't distinguish it."

As soon as the old man heard this, he immediately made a "popular science" for Zhang Qianxiu, explaining: "little boss, this little leaf red sandalwood is known as the king's wood. It was put in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was used by the emperor. The real value of little leaf red sandalwood is the middle circle of wood core, but the outer circle has no value, and the growth ring of little leaf red sandalwood is not very obvious, so it is difficult to observe, If you look at our wood, it's hard to see the outline of the circle above the other trees. "

Zhang Qianxiu looked at it carefully. He could see it vaguely, but it was not obvious. He nodded and said, "I can't see it very well."

The old man continued to explain: "in addition, the wood of small leaf red sandalwood is oily, which means it looks a little shiny. After sawing, it can be seen that it is very smooth. If it is polished without painting, it is also very bright. Furniture made of small leaf red sandalwood is usually only painted with varnish or polished, which looks as beautiful as those treated furniture."

According to the old man's observation, Zhang Qianxiu said that it was really oily, but now there is no way to polish it.

Seeing that Zhang Qianxiu didn't say a word, the old man continued: "besides, when the wood was cut, it smelled of sandalwood. I don't have a knife or a saw. Shall I borrow one and cut it for you?"

In fact, Zhang Qianxiu already had some faith. The most important thing is that the price is really not expensive, and the wood looks really good. It's twice as expensive as ordinary wood, and there's no problem for Zhang Qianxiu.

Zhang Qianxiu shook his head with a smile: "no, old man."

"Then you can smell a little when you scratch hard on the wood with a stone." The old man tried to prove that his wood was red sandalwood.

Zhang Qianxiu didn't object to this. He picked up a stone with high hardness on the ground, rubbed it on a piece of wood, and then smelled it. He could really smell a smell of sandalwood.

Zhang Qianxiu had never seen red sandalwood in his last life, but he had smelled the fragrance of sandalwood! Many spices or sachets have the smell of sandalwood.

The fragrance is a little different from that bought in the last life. It smells lighter and more natural.

"Old man, do you have anything else? It's too little. I guess I can make a table. If there are too many, I think the whole furniture will use it. " Zhang Qianxiu asked.

When the old man saw that Zhang Qianxiu wanted to buy it, he was immediately overjoyed and nodded: "yes, there are still many at home, too many, we can't move here."

Zhang Qianxiu wanted to speak. A middle-aged man who sold pine to Zhang Qianxiu reminded him in a low voice: "boss, they have sold this wood for nearly a month. At first, the wood dealers asked. Their prices fell again and again. Once they all dropped to five yuan. The wood dealers gave two yuan, but they didn't sell it."

"We haven't seen this red sandalwood before. It's wood, isn't it? It's not gold. Don't be fooled. "

Zhang Qianxiu looked back at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man thought that Zhang Qianxiu was not happy. He quickly explained, "boss, I don't mean anything else. I just want to remind you that it doesn't matter if you don't want my tree. After all, everyone's money doesn't come from the wind."

In fact, Zhang Qianxiu appreciated the middle-aged man very much. No matter what, he was kind-hearted.

There are many people in the market. At this time, many people are watching.

When the middle-aged people began to talk, other people also said, "yes! Little boss, their wood is just a little bit big, and it's so expensive. It's several times more expensive than ordinary wood. "

"Don't buy it, young man. Their price changes every day. At the beginning, I asked for 12 pieces of wood. If I want 12 pieces of wood, I can buy two or three big pine trees. How big is it? It's still ten meters long. "

"They've been here for half a month, no one asked."

"Yes! So many timber traders are collecting timber here. If it's really good timber, it would have been taken away long ago. "

The two old people were so embarrassed by these words that they wanted to find a crack in the ground and stand on the edge with their heads down. Their wrinkled faces were not the slightest color of blood. The old woman even burst into tears.

Most of the timber sold by these two old people are sawn. There are five or six of them, big or small. The largest one is about 30 cm in diameter, but it is only about one meter long. It looks like a wooden pier. The outer ring is the color of ordinary wood, and the middle one is dark color.

The others are all dark. It should be that the outer layer has been stripped, leaving only the wooden core inside. The biggest one is only thick at the mouth of the bowl, and the small one is only thick at the wrist.

But without exception, these are old trees piled up for many years.

Zhang Qianxiu was still thinking about whether to buy it or not. Seeing that the situation had become like this, he did not sell the wood himself. He thought that the two old men would be embarrassed to come in the future.

Two old people have been here for a month in a row, which shows that they still want to sell some money. Maybe they are in urgent need?

Even if there was no urgent need, the wood would be only tens of yuan in total, and Zhang Qianxiu didn't care if he lost it.

"Everyone, thank you for your kindness. I'm very fond of this wood. I'm going to buy it back for a try." Zhang Qianxiu said with a smile, "thank you for your kindness."

Everyone didn't expect that Zhang Qianxiu would buy it even though so many people were breaking it.

Some people also think that Zhang Qianxiu doesn't know a good person's heart. He mutters in a low voice: "it's really a black sheep. It's not money to take his father's money!"

"There are not enough idiots these days! Even if it's really what they say about red sandalwood, isn't it just a piece of wood? A piece of wood of three meters costs ten yuan and eight yuan, while a big pine tree of seven or eight meters is only three or five yuan. If you divide the wood, it will cost several times. "

"That's to say, if you buy ten yuan pine, you'll get at least seven or eight times as much wood as this one."

Zhang Qianxiu doesn't care about the comments of the people around him. He purposely picked up the leak, but he didn't see red sandalwood in his last life and couldn't analyze it accurately. But he also purposely did good deeds. It's not a big problem for him to pay tens of yuan. Even if it's not red sandalwood, it doesn't matter.

"Old man, how much are these? I'll give you the money, so you don't have to help send them. I'll find someone to carry them back." Zhang Qianxiu said with a smile.

The old man's eyes filled with tears, grabbed Zhang Qianxiu's wrist, choked and said: "little boss, i... I'm really red sandalwood. I didn't cheat you. Our ancestors, Guan zhishangshu, when I was young, there were hundreds of acres of fertile land at home. This is really red sandalwood. I didn't cheat you. It's small leaf red sandalwood."

The old man tried to prove that his wood was red sandalwood, and he was not a liar.

Zhang Qianxiu could feel that the old man's hands were full of strength. At this moment, he felt that what the old man wanted was his own innocence, not to sell the wood.

At this moment, Zhang Qianxiu seems to feel that the old man has an ancient scholar's "pedantic" atmosphere and character. This character is that I would rather die innocent than live humiliating.

This kind of moral character, in the eyes of pragmatists, is stupid.

Zhang Qianxiu held the old man's hand in his backhand and said with a smile, "I believe you. I know this kind of small leaf red sandalwood is not available in China. It's all imported. If you bring it back from abroad, it's worth your price."

The old man didn't expect Zhang Qianxiu to know this. He nodded excitedly: "yes, it's from Java."

Java is the name for ah San in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Zhang Qianxiu nodded: "well, I know. I'll take the wood. Please calculate the price. Where do you live? I'll see with you later. If there's something suitable, I'll buy some more. I'll make furniture. "

At this time, the old man didn't mean to ask for ten or eight yuan. He said, "little boss, I'll give you five yuan. Here are six yuan and thirty yuan in total."

Without saying a word, Zhang Qianxiu took out 30 yuan and handed it to the old man: "old man, you can count it, 30 yuan."

Three pieces of ten, the old man took it and nodded gratefully: "yes, yes."

"Would you like to come with me and I'll wait for you to have a look?" Zhang Qianxiu asked.

Now that he's ready to buy it, why don't he just make it all out of this wood? Zhang Qianxiu thinks that most of the wood is small leaf red sandalwood. Even if it's not, it looks good. Anyway, it's not bad for a little money.

"Good, good." The old man answered again and again.

Zhang Qianxiu immediately found several people who specialized in carrying goods in the market and asked them to help him. He took two old people with him to lead the way.

You can't return the wood you bought in front of you, you can only take it back.

The people in the wood market looked at Zhang Qianxiu's back as they left and began to discuss again: "this is stupid people and a lot of money!"

"It makes me want to find some unusual wood to fish. That's 30 yuan! I think it's good that the wood is worth five or six yuan. "

"Do you think people are stupid? People with a lot of money have it every day? Those two old people have been waiting for a month, but you can't make that 30 yuan a month? "

"So it is