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Chapter 415 Pearl life is not long, people are old and pearls are yellow

Things that can solidify from a liquid state, soaked in water, may be useful.

And this box also has a layer of black paint inside, not afraid of blisters, you can try it.

There was ready-made pure water in the room, Yu Yao first dipped a little bit of it with his hands and wiped it on the surface of the bead, the feel was similar to that of ordinary glass.

"Pour water on it, if it doesn't work, then there can be no damage; if it works, we will observe and deal with it at any time!" Lin Fengcao said.

Yu Yao nodded and poured water.Then he lit a cigarette and observed from the side.

This kind of wrapping looks almost transparent, but it's hard to say what color or very fine texture it has, and you can only see it when you take out the beads.

Although when I used a carving knife before, the situation was not very good.But after soaking in water, the situation was much more optimistic than they thought.

After about ten minutes, the naked eye can clearly see that the surface of the bead seems to have softened.

Yu Yao lightly touched it with a toothpick, and it felt piercing, but it couldn't be pierced. He followed the trend and moved it underneath, and the beads seemed to shake slightly.

Lin Fengcao took a look, "Pour out the water and try!"

Yu Yao poured the water in the box into a cup, but the bead was still attached to the groove at the bottom of the box.

Then, Yu Yao simply used a toothpick to poke around the edge, feeling that the adhesion is still there, but it is not inseparable.

Yu Yao and Lin Fengcao exchanged tools, tried several times, and finally got the beads out of the groove, and "transferred" them into an empty cup first.

At this time, on the surface of the bead, the transparent coating looked a little soft and trembling, and the surface also felt sticky to a certain extent, but it still did not separate from the bead.

"Since this is to protect the beads, it shouldn't be corrosive!" Lin Fengcao said, reaching into the cup and trying to knead it.

After kneading, the surface of the beads is slightly deformed, but it feels that this layer of wrapping is still relatively tough and cannot be broken or peeled off.

Lin Fengcao let go and smelled her fingers, but there was no obvious smell.

Yu Yao picked up the pure water bottle, "Since the water can separate the surface, how about continuing to bubble?"

"Okay!" Lin Fengcao nodded.

Yu Yao then poured water into the cup and continued to soak the bead.

At this time, Lin Fengcao cleaned the bottom of the box conveniently.There is no black paint in the semi-circular groove exposed at the bottom of the box. Judging from the bottom, it should be made of nanmu.

Most of the lacquered woods are relatively cheap woods that are not easy to deform; because mahogany is more expensive, and lacquering is superfluous; cheap woods are all in the softwood category, and Chinese fir is relatively the most used.Pine wood is not good, because it is easy to oil.

As for Nanmu, it is also a soft wood. The wood is not as dense as mahogany, it is not easy to deform, and it does not like oil. From these aspects, it can be painted.However, nanmu is almost the most expensive wood other than mahogany wood, and very few of them are painted to make things.

The body of this black lacquered wooden box is actually made of nanmu, which shows that no expense was spared, and the highlight is a skill.

When the box was dry, it was in perfect condition.And this bead gradually changed in the clear water in the cup.

The covering on the surface seems to be decomposing more forcefully, and the originally relatively smooth covering has a rough feeling, a bit like peeled grapes.The "roughness" refers to the surface. The texture of the wrapping itself is still very delicate.

This time, Yu Yao and Lin Fengcao didn't act in a hurry. After waiting for half an hour, the beads finally became out of round and became random "paste-hanging" shapes, and the glass of pure water also changed color. .

Turned into a beer-like yellow.

Lin Fengcao sniffed it closely, but there was still no obvious smell.

"I think it's okay." Yu Yao said, stretching out his hand.Lin Fengcao nodded.

When Yu Yao tried this, it felt like lime paste to the touch. After rubbing it in the water a few times, the covering fell apart!
"It's done!" Yu Yao was overwhelmed with surprise, and then took out the beads, Lin Fengcao immediately poured pure water into a transparent cup and asked Yu Yao to put it in first.

And after Yu Yao took out the beads, the inclusions in the beer-colored glass of water also changed further, and finally turned into a glass of suspension.This shows that there are water-soluble substances and water-insoluble substances in the wrapping.

Neither Yu Yao nor Lin Fengcao had time to pay attention to this, but stared at the beads in the pure water.

Looking at it this way, it is completely different from looking through the wrapping!

It is very clear.

The diameter of this bead should be about 1.8 cm, and the surface is black, gray and purple in color, not yellow.The yellow color feeling I saw before should be caused by the wrapping.

"Pearl!" Lin Fengcao blurted out.

"Black Pearl!" Yu Yao added, "Such a big black pearl is still perfectly round, it's unheard of!"

Judging from the current market situation, the size of black pearls is mostly about one centimeter in diameter, and most of them will not exceed 1.1 centimeters.Black pearls larger than 1.5 centimeters and perfectly round have never been seen on the market before, and their value is hard to estimate for a while.

"It's a big hit now! I didn't expect that the inlaid one was a black pearl!" Lin Fengcao tapped the wall of the cup lightly with her finger, "If there is no such encrustation, the pearls of the Ming Dynasty would have been turned into powder long ago!"

Many people like pearls, but one of the biggest problems is that they cannot be preserved for a long time, and their lifespan is similar to that of humans.Even with care, the longest shelf life is about a hundred years.

As the so-called old pearls are yellow, because of the material, after decades of storage, pearls will generally turn yellow and dull when they are old; after a hundred years, they will basically dry up and pulverize.

However, some pearls of extraordinary quality have been specially maintained, and their lifespan may reach 300 to [-] years. For example, there are also Qing Dynasty Dongzhu and Chaozhu that can be preserved in some museums or on the market.

But any further up, that's unlikely.If someone took a string of pearls and told you that it was from the early Qing Dynasty or even the Ming Dynasty, would you not believe it?Still don't believe it?

Of course, this black pearl is beyond the scope of maintenance, but sealing!That's why we can "frozen age".

The wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated.However, now that technology is advanced, it is not difficult to use special materials to seal a pearl and store it for a long time; the problem is that it is impossible to wear and enjoy it.

If this black pearl hadn't been taken out and wrapped inside, it wouldn't even be possible to tell what material it was made of.

Lin Fengcao rubbed his hands, "By the way, you said there might be crafts? Looking at it this way, you can't tell it at all!"

Yu Yao nodded, carefully took out the black pearl in the cup, wiped it dry, put it on the soft cloth on the table, observed the surface, and said: "I was even fanciful just now, it couldn't be a 'Nine Curved Pearl', right? Now it seems impossible, there are no eyes on it!"

(End of this chapter)