The Black Card

The man walked over to the back of the counter and took a string from the inside and gently placed it in front of Shi Lei.

“This is one of the cheapest things I have here, take it and look at it.”

Shi Lei said that after picking up, I only felt that the fragrance of the hand was uploaded, and the aroma of the store itself was slightly different, but it seemed to be the same source.

See Shi Lei’s nose twitching, the man said: “Smell it?”

Shi Lei nodded and said, “What kind of wood is this? It is so fragrant, it is similar to the taste in your store, but it is not exactly the same.”

The man was slightly surprised and said with great interest: “Oh? Then what do you say about the difference?”

Shi Lei put his hands on the nose and smelled it. He found that when it was close, the taste was a lot weaker, and it didn’t smell from a distance.

“I don’t think it’s good. I didn’t seem to smell a similar aroma before. Only the aroma of this string seems to be subtle, relatively low, like nothing, with a little milky. The aroma in your store is very arrogant, with a little bit of spicy feeling. But after getting used to it, the spicy feeling turned into a sweet taste, even the spit in my mouth, now it seems to be a little sweet. ”

The man looked at Shi Lei up and down, and he laughed. “The little brother is interesting. The first time I contacted the agarwood, it was not easy to say so many words.” Hehe, when you come in, you have a chance, and time is coming to close. If you are interested, sit down and have a cup of tea. I will tell you about this agarwood? ”

Shi Lei smiled and said, “That’s good, but the price of your stuff is high, I don’t necessarily afford it.”

“I am not selling you, know why you let me sit down?” The man took back the string, but he did not rush into the counter. Instead, he took it to the back of the big table and reached out to invite Shi Lei to sit down.

“I just said that if you come in, you have a chance. Generally speaking, in this street of ours, there will be very few visitors coming in after 4 pm, and basically there are some old customers who often change objects here. Today , I have a friend who sent me a box of good tea. I made tea. I felt that the good tea must have a good fragrance, so I burned my private collection. Just click, you come in, this is what I said. “

Shi Lei hurriedly waved his hand and said, “I just happened to pass by, I was bored and wanted to come in and see…”

“If you have no intention to come, you will come if you have a purpose. It is not a fate.”

Shi Lei watched the man make a pot of tea, poured two cups, put a cup in front of him with a bamboo clip, and made a gesture of asking for tea.

Taking a sip of tea, even if Shi Lei didn’t know anything about tea, I felt that this cup of tea had a fragrant cheek and was very good.

“How about tea?” The man asked as if he had inadvertently, with a smile in his eyes and looking at Shi Lei.

Shi Lei put down the teacup and thought for a long time. He couldn’t find the right words to describe the tea taste, so he said: “Good tea.”

Nothing

Shi Lei was a bit stunned. Sorry, he said, “I don’t know how to drink tea or tea. I just wanted to find a word to describe it. I found that there was nothing to say but I could only say a good tea. “

“Haha, this is the highest realm of tea, there is no word of beauty, only the simple word of good tea. As for the word” good tea “, there is also an allusion. I don’t want to get an axe . If the little brother is interested, you can Baidu, and it is related to the tea Saint Lu Yu. ”

Shi Lei nodded and asked, “You haven’t told me how you know that I came for the first time, and I don’t know anything about antiques!”

The man gave Shi Lei full of tea, and he said, “In fact, you said that you came for the first time because I saw that you are literary, um, that is what you said.” Because if you are not the first time to come, you have at least a very shallow understanding of the wenwan, and it will not be so surprising to see that the price here is quite high. As long as you have a little bit of understanding of wenwan, you will definitely know what agarwood is. There is a saying in the ancient biography that is called the four great incense, which is the four best spices in ancient times. The four spices, the first one is agarwood, the other three are ambergris, musk and sandalwood. Even if you don’t know anything about wenwan, I believe you should have heard of at least musk and sandalwood? ”

Shi Lei nodded and said, “There is a kind of rheumatism and painkiller. There is a component of musk. My impression of sandalwood is only a sandalwood fan when I was a child.”

The man nodded and said: “What you said is not really musk and sandalwood. The former is artificial musk. I really want to use natural musk to take medicine. That painkiller is afraid that few people can afford it. The latter, it is a handicraft, with the smell of sandalwood spice, if it is a real sandalwood fan, it is worth a lot. ”

“Oh, I really don’t understand anything. Ambergris seems to have been heard in TV series, but Aquilaria has not heard much.”

“That is because Shen Xiangyuan is much rarer than any kind of spice, and it is much more expensive. You can see it from the price in my store. The string that I have just seen you can only be said to be reluctant to call it agarwood. The oiliness is very low. It is artificially used to promote the secretion of oil. Agarwood, strictly speaking, is not the string of wood in my hand. This kind of wood is called white wood. It does not have any fragrance . The wood is extremely loose. It should be regarded as one of the lowest density wood in nature. Plants grow in the wild, and inevitably, they will be hit by insect bites and even floods, which will leave scars on the white wood. Once the white wood is injured, it will secrete a kind of oil to repair its own scars. Over time, for a few decades, and for hundreds of years, it formed the agarwood in my hand. ”

Shi Lei seems to understand, said: “The fact that agarwood is the oil contained in this wood, the more oil, the more agarwood, so the price is more expensive.”

The man smiled and took a sip of tea before he said, “Yes, that’s the truth. Of course, in the process of formation of agarwood, there are many other situations. The price that just made you exclaimed is the best in agarwood. According to the way of its formation, agarwood is roughly divided into water sink, soil sinking and ant sinking, and water sinking and sinking can be called inverted agarwood. The so-called inverted frame refers to the fact that after the death of white wood , some are soaked in the water, some are buried in the soil. After a long period of time, some of the fat without decay is corrupted, and the part that has condensed the oil remains. The water is sinking in the water, and the nature in the soil is the sinking. As for the ant sinking, it is caused by insect bites, collectively known as ant sinking. ”

Shi Lei only feels that his eyes are wide open, and this knowledge may be found online, but it is not as clear and simple as this man tells.

“Now the natural agarwood is basically inverted, and those objects that have been sunk have long been bought out. However, since agarwood is a rare spice, since ancient times, people have been specializing in Shannon, using a knife to cut down the contusion , so that the white wood is injured and secreted to form aloes. However, because the means are relatively simple, the agarwood thus formed is basically only a thin layer on the surface. It is possible as a spice or as a powder of incense, but it is unrealistic to make it into a string of wenwan. With the development of science and technology, some people use a bottle to inject bacteria into the white wood, so that they can continue to secrete oil, and slowly, there is now a more prosperous agarwood market. ”