Unparalleled Treasures

The old man still had some guesses in his heart that Zhang Can might be a descendant of a carpenter family. He was familiar with wood, so he could recognize so many woods. Extinct, or extremely precious wood, this young man is unlikely to recognize it!

And the two small pieces of wood he took out are basically impossible to find on the market, and they are extremely precious. Because of their preciousness, he has never carved them into works, but just treasured them. Now Taking it out is naturally a challenge to Zhang Can, to see if he has real talents, or if he only recognizes him after seeing a lot in the family environment. At this time, the old man just wants to try Zhang Can to see if he recognizes him. I can recognize it. As for his stone, it is natural to cut it for him.As soon as Zhang Can took the two small pieces of wood into his hands, although the pieces were small, he felt heavy in his hands. These two small pieces of wood were extremely heavy.

As soon as the old man took it out, there was a faint scent in the store. Zhang Can smiled, raised one of them, and said to the old man: "This piece is light red and brown, and it looks slightly shiny. , the texture is black and white, interlaced in depth, the structure is smooth and well-proportioned, and the weight is hard and heavy. This is a piece of Indian ebony."

The old man couldn't close his mouth when he opened his mouth. Although he knew that Zhang Can might be difficult, he didn't expect Zhang Can to recognize the wood easily, but the last piece was left, which was also the old man's bottom of the box. Things, I don’t know if Zhang Can can still recognize them.

Seeing that the old man was really surprised, Zhang Can didn't say a word. He immediately brought another piece of wood in front of him, looked at it, and then sniffed it. He smelled the faint fragrance, and said, "This piece of wood looks good on the surface. Come on, the pores are not very thin, and the color is a little dark yellow. Well, this thin scent is 'drilled' into my nose. Looking at the shape of this material, it looks like it has been oiled. , but after I touched it with my hand, there was no oil mark left on my hand, so I can be sure that it is a piece of Hainan agarwood."

The old man was speechless with his mouth open, "Ahh...", if this kind of thing is really recognized, it can't be said to be a simple matter. With that vision technology, such a young man, where did he get that vision?

Before the old man came back to his senses, Zhang Can said again: "Master, but your piece of agarwood is dark yellow in color and not very fine in grain, so it can't be regarded as the best agarwood. It’s a second grade, but it’s still rare!”

The old man was stunned for a while, and he couldn't help asking: "Little...Little brother, how can you recognize these things of mine? What do you do?"

Zhang Can smiled and said: "Master, I am an antique appraiser. I used to be in Jincheng. I just came to the capital. I am not familiar with the capital. This is the first time I have come here on this street. I made the master laugh!"

"No, no, your eyesight skills are very high, I didn't tell you that..." The old man quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm just curious, how can a young man like you know so much? Antiques Appraisal of this line, the technology is very difficult to learn well!"

Of course Zhang Can knows what the old man is thinking. In the antique business, young people cannot learn or have the patience to learn experience and skills. Moreover, experience is especially important in appraising antiques. That experience cannot be learned from books. Besides, Yes, learning from books is only on paper in the end.

He smiled and said: "Master, I only know a thing or two, I can't be considered a master, and..." He raised the piece of black wood in his hand and said: "Actually, agarwood is called agarwood. Wood, that is somewhat misleading. Agarwood is not a kind of wood. It is different from sandalwood. Sandalwood is real wood, but agarwood is a special mixture of resinous and woody components in the fragrant tree. In fact, this kind of incense tree has no special fragrance in itself, and the wood is relatively soft, such as Malay agarwood, Guanxiang tree, and Indian agarwood tree, which can form agarwood. These trees The more gelatin produced, the greater the density, the better the quality of the formation. People in ancient times did not have modern scientific instruments to identify, so they divided agarwood into different grades according to whether they could sink into water. , that is the best grade of agarwood, which was called "Shenshuixiang" in ancient times, and the half-floating and half-sinking one was called "Stack incense". "Huang Shuxiang", the piece of the old master's will definitely sink into the water, it is "Agarwood", but it can't be regarded as the best of the agarwood, but the value is also incredible, at least worth hundreds of thousands, and that one Indian black sandalwood is only worth ten thousand yuan!"

What Zhang Can said clearly explained the value of the old man's treasures. The old man was more surprised.

The old man was stunned, and quickly invited Zhang Can to sit down inside, and then said: "Little brother, hehehe, my old man always thinks that his eyesight is good, but I didn't expect to fall into a big somersault today!"

After the old man finished speaking, he put the two pieces of wood back into the cabinet and locked them, then picked up his mobile phone and made a call, and when the call was connected, he said loudly: "Madam proprietress, fry me a portion of sauerkraut sauerkraut with enough fat sauerkraut, and the side dishes are also served I have enough, um... Hurry up, Old Wutou's seal stand, don't send the wrong one..."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Can smiled and said, "Master, will I disturb your meal time?"

Old Wutou waved his hand and said with a smile: "What are you talking about? I am a person who doesn't care about anything when I meet a close friend. For many years, my old Wutou has never met a person who likes me. You are such an eye-catching person, let alone someone as young as you, it is really rare, rare, today I will eat fat intestines and drink rice wine with you, and have a good talk about antiques..."

Only then did Zhang Can know that Old Wu's fat intestines were going to entertain him, and he said immediately, "Master, how can you be so kind? I'm just...just..."

"You don't need anything, but you don't need to worry about your stone. I will cut it for you as you want!" Old Wutou responded with a smile, reassuring Zhang Can, and then cut Zhang Can. Taking the stone that Chan gave him, he took a look in his hand, and then asked strangely: "Little brother, with your eyesight skills, you shouldn't be able to pick up worthless things. What's so weird about this stone?"

At this time, Old Wu felt that the stone brought by Zhang Can was not so simple, because the trick Zhang Can just revealed was too powerful. If it was Old Wu himself, if these things were not his What he worked so hard to get, he may not be able to recognize it completely, that is to say, his knowledge is not as good as Zhang Can, but you must understand that he has been dealing with wood and stone all his life, and Zhang Can said It's an antique appraiser, and an antique appraiser should be best at antiques. It's really amazing to be able to learn such advanced skills with wood!

So, old Wutou felt that although the stone that Zhang Can held looked like an ordinary stone, there must be something mysterious about it.

Zhang Can thought about it, and felt that if he had to hide and pretend at this time, he would definitely not be able to hide it. He simply admitted it generously, but if he pushed this to his own skills, Old Wu would not think of other places, he would only admire him His skills are amazing.

"Hehe, master, this stone looks like an ordinary stone, but I think it is a little different. This stone has skin, especially from the two white textures in the middle, the skin is blue and white. The texture is fine and dense, and the texture is from the outside to the inside, I think there may be jade in this stone!"

"Is there jade?" Old Wu was stunned. He knew that Zhang Can would not find an ordinary stone to cut for no reason, but he didn't believe it when he was told that there was jade in it. He had been dealing with wood and stone all his life. , is old now, and is not well-known in the capital area, but decades ago, he was a well-known figure in the Jiangnan area. Eye skills, a deep understanding of jade, especially domestic nephrite, the fist-sized stone that Zhang Can gave him in front of him, but no matter what method he used, he couldn't tell that there was jade in it.

Of course, Old Wu did not dare to be 100% sure that Zhang Can's stone was really just an ordinary stone.

After looking at it for a while, Old Wu looked at the quartz clock on the wall, and immediately said: "I'll cut this stone first, and it won't take much time with a few knives. It will take half a day to deliver the food I ordered." In an hour, it is better to cut first, hehehe, come, come, come and watch me cut."

Zhang Can didn't refuse, and went over to look at it immediately. The cutters here at Old Wutou are far from comparable to those at Jieyu Factory. After all, Old Wutou is not a professional jade carver. He is good at and likes domestic nephrite jade. , especially Tian Huangshi, who is known as the "King of Sealing Stones". It's been too long, and we have traveled far to the north. Nowadays, few people still recognize Wu Guan, the "North and South Sculpture King" back then!

Old Wu head fixed the stone, aimed the small cutter at the line drawn on the stone, then turned on the power of the cutter, and cut slowly and steadily.

Stone chips overflowed from the edge of the fist-sized stone. Zhang Can was not in a hurry. Under his perspective, the jade inside would not be damaged.