Baolu Tianxing

"Is it weird? If you want to ask, just ask." The two of them went outside, seeing that it was already noon, and the sun was shining outside, so they didn't want to go out. They went upstairs to find a place to eat, and while the boss was serving During the spare time, Wu Chen saw Huang Xiaolin always looking at the root carving of birthday star on the table, hesitating to speak.

"Hehe, I won't ask, wait for you to take the initiative to explain." Huang Xiaolin blinked mischievously after she finished speaking, and she gradually realized that she still likes to "molest" Wu Chen very much. She was always bullied by him when she was a child, but now it seems to be the other way around. Now, my skin is much thicker than Wu Chen's. Seeing Wu Chen's face turn red from the electric shock again, I feel a sense of accomplishment in my heart. No wonder the ancients said that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years!

"What are you explaining! I didn't do anything bad!" Wu Chen felt guilty for a moment, he couldn't tell Huang Xiaolin what he saw.If you miss the point when you ask, it will be embarrassing when you meet again, maybe the other party thinks that he has seen her all too! "I just think there is something wrong with this root carving, so I want to buy it back and have a look."

"What's wrong? It looks good to me." Huang Xiaolin took the root carving in her hand. Except for a little heavy hand, the carving is still very good, especially the protruding head of Shou Xing, with smooth and natural lines. The boy is also lifelike, "Hey, do you think it will be Yangchun root carving?" Yangchun City is the hometown of root carving and elegant stone. Root carving culture has a long history and is a provincial intangible cultural heritage. Huang Xiaolin and her company put it in the hall. There are many large root carvings in Yangchun.

"Probably not." From the perspective of the carver, Wu Chen can't tell where the product is, but he knows that Yangchun root carvings only started to develop in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. It is very large-scale, thanks to the fact that he once saw the "Chaoshan Wood Sculpture Special Exhibition" in the museum, so he learned some relevant knowledge, "It looks a bit like the ones in our hometown, with a layer of paint on it. The lacquer, the color of camphor wood is not like this."

"Camphorwood?" Huang Xiaolin picked it up and smelled it suspiciously, but there was no smell at all.Wu Chen took it, and scratched it with his fingers a few times, revealing a shallow scratch. Huang Xiaolin smelled it again, and there was indeed a very faint camphor fragrance. "But why is it so heavy? I thought it was some kind of hardwood from Southeast Asia." Woolen cloth!"

"That's why it's weird. The reason why this thing doesn't smell like camphor wood is that it's painted on the outside, and it's old enough that the luster on the surface has sunk into the paint. It's not young!" Since Wu Chen made up his mind that he couldn't say what he really wanted, he could only search for reasons. Fortunately, everything in this world is like this. Knowing the results, he can find 1 reasons to draw conclusions , "The most important thing is that I doubt if there is something in it."

"You mean filling it with lead? Oh, I see! It may be to pretend to be red sandalwood, so I filled it with something to increase the weight!" Huang Xiaolin guessed excitedly.

"Well, it makes sense!" Wu Chen flattered first. If he hadn't been able to see inside, he would have guessed so, but he just looked inside. Although he didn't know what that dazzling yellow light was, it was definitely not lead or Mercury, "It's also possible that something was hidden and the weight was too heavy. In order to cover it up, it was painted with lacquer to pretend to be red sandalwood."

"Ha, I don't see that you have reverse thinking!" Huang Xiaolin thought about it for a while, and it made sense, and praised with a smile.

Wu Chen felt so ashamed, "What reverse thinking! I just often watch some collection programs, and I know there is a thing called 'wooden storage'."

Seeing Huang Xiaolin's bewildered look, I explained to her. Many people have never heard of the name 'Muzhuo Zang', but they should know a lot about it.To put it bluntly, it is to hide things in objects made of wood. It is a very ancient concealed object used to preserve treasures.Most of them are made of wood carvings, root carvings, and other wood.And the method of making it is not difficult, just split the wood, hollow out the middle part, then fill in some things that need to be preserved, and then fit them together in a special way. After the fit, carve out various shape, and then smear the whole body with wax, so that it looks more like a complete wood carving, and it is difficult for ordinary people to detect what is hidden in it.

Similar to this, there are things hidden in bronze statues, such as the last big Buddha in "Liancheng Jue", and there are also things hidden in weapons, such as "Yi Tian Sword" and "Dragon Slaying Knife".Although the principle is very simple, the difficulty lies in making it seamless so that no one can see any flaws. This technique is very difficult. For example, if you hide a book in a sword, this is basically impossible in today's eyes. Perhaps, when the sword was being forged, its own high temperature could melt the pages of the book within minutes.Most of these crafts have been lost now, and there are not many surviving finished products.

"Aren't the things inside here very precious! Could it be some martial arts cheats or treasure map?!" Huang Xiaolin was a little eager to try, and even forgot the food that had been served.

Wu Chen's head is full of black lines... These are still girls, Jin Yong in the middle is not light!In fact, he didn't know what was inside. The two of them groped the root carving for a while, but they couldn't see any gaps. The two heads were put together, and Wu Chen couldn't use his abilities to explore, so he had to put it aside first. , "Let's eat first, I'm starving!"

After lunch, there was no place to take a lunch break. Because of inertia, Wu Chen's biological clock hadn't adjusted, so he felt a little sleepy.Seeing that it was still very sunny outside, the two sat down where they were, ordered a cold drink each, and dozed off while drinking.

Wu Chen was in a daze, and heard the two sitting next to him talking, with excitement in their voices.

"Have you heard? Someone has gone up again today!"

"Yeah, I got rich all of a sudden, tsk, when will it be my turn?"

"You? Don't dream, gambling on stones is all played by big bosses, and your little wealth is not enough to put people's teeth in place!"

"..."

Betting on rocks? !Suddenly, as if a heavy hammer hit Wu Chen's heart, his ears slammed, his eyes lit up, and the drowsiness all over his body disappeared in an instant, only the beating sound of his heart was heard!How could I be so stupid to forget that there is such a thing!

"What's the matter?" Huang Xiaolin saw Wu Chen sitting up straight suddenly, refreshed, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, she was a little baffled, could it be that she saw some beautiful woman?Hmph, by the way, when I met myself again that day, it wasn't like this!

"It's nothing, I suddenly had a good dream, hehe." Wu Chen wiped the corner of his mouth, leaned his face closer, and said mysteriously, "Have you rested enough? I'll take you to a good place."

"Ah? Could it be some place?" Huang Xiaolin opened her eyes wide, pretending to be worried and scared, as if there was a strange sorghum in front of her, trying to trick little Lori into buying goldfish.

Wu Chen chuckled and didn't answer her for now.Although this area sells jade wares, he doesn't know where gambling stones are sold. He stood up and walked to the next seat. After inquiring with the two people who were talking, he realized that there was an underground shop on this jade wares street. The jade raw material market, take the elevator down from here, and the entrance is on the first floor of Fu.

Only when the two of them got down below did they realize what it means to have a hole in the sky!When you come out of the elevator, you will see a spacious square. The bright lights are as bright as the ground, and you can't tell that it's underground.

There are several shops around the square, and a trailer full of stones is placed at the door of a shop, and the shop assistants are moving those stones into the shop.Looking from the elevator, there is a large passage on the opposite side, with no end in sight. Both sides are covered with stalls supported by wooden boards, and all kinds of stones are placed on it.The flow of people here is not too big, and at some stalls, people can be seen gathering in twos and threes.

"What kind of place is this? It looks like we've arrived at the fruit market!" Huang Xiaolin asked curiously, could it be the stone market?But there is no plate, and it is unreasonable to put the stone market underground.

"This is the legendary gambling stone!" Wu Chen was eager to try it. It was the first time he saw this kind of rough stone, and he was very surprised. The only thing that worried him was that he didn't know if he could see through these bare stones!

"Rough jadeite?" Huang Xiaolin's eyes lit up immediately, and she had heard about betting on stones, "Is it the stones that can produce emeralds?"

Wu Chen nodded and said, "Well, but I think it's very mixed here. Apart from jadeite, there should be other jade or precious stones." He still knows that the so-called jadeite generally refers to jadeite, a type of pyroxene, which is dense in texture and has a vitreous luster. When the jade is held up to the light, it has a faint crystal structure.Because of its high hardness, which can reach more than 7, it is called jadeite, and its specific gravity is also relatively large. It feels heavy when held in the hand.

Nephrite jade belongs to the hornblende category, the highest hardness generally does not exceed 6-6, which is softer than hard jade, so it is called nephrite jade.There are many types of nephrite jade. Domestically produced jade, such as Xiuyu, Nanyang jade, Lantian jade, Hetian jade, agate, crystal, coral, turquoise, lapis lazuli, etc., all belong to the category of nephrite.However, since the jade produced in the Hotan area of ​​Xinjiang has gradually become the protagonist in the processing of palace, official and folk jade, nephrite has gradually evolved into a synonym for Hetian jade.

"So many kinds?" Huang Xiaolin was dumbfounded when she heard that, but she looked at Wu Chen differently, "I can't tell you are still a master!"

"What kind of master! Hehe, I'm also memorizing it by rote. I really have to look at the real thing. Unless it's particularly obvious, I can't tell the difference." Wu Chen hurriedly clarified, lest it will be revealed later. It doesn't matter, at most it's a misremembering, "But I heard that betting on stones is generally for jadeite, because nephrite is mostly exposed, even if there is a stone skin, it will not be completely round, and the stone skin of nephrite itself The value is not lower than that of jade meat."

The two talked and walked around, picking some clean stalls.Because I don’t know much, so I kept asking the stall owners, and gradually I was able to distinguish those rough jadeites, which were Hetian jade wool, and other rough stones such as chicken blood stones, but apart from the rough jadeite, other The amount is not large, and the two of them don't care too much.