Chapter 642 A Combination of Good and Bad Luck

Since they arrived a little late, when Wei Qing and Shi Lei entered, someone had already picked away two trees.

Although it is not a formal auction, it is not much different from an auction. The highest bidder wins.

However, not many people came, only twelve or three in total, and everyone knew each other well. Under normal circumstances, they would not deliberately raise the price, and would give up when they were close. After all, it was not a one-time deal. There are still opportunities after buying.

"Wei Shao is late. I have already picked two trees." A slightly fat man came over and greeted Wei Qing with a smile.

Wei Qing waved his hand and said: "I hope you can bet on the increase, but as promised, I want to build a set of furniture for our old man this time, and I will definitely need the best materials. If you can find good materials soon, you can tell me Price, give it to me.”

The man smiled and said, "That's easy to say. If you really want to make a rough cut, the main materials will be yours, and I will keep the auxiliary materials to make some stuff."

Wei Qing smiled and shook hands with him.

The man asked again: "Who is this...?" He blinked and seemed to be quite interested in Shi Lei. After all, there was a respectable second generation in Wu Dongcheng. Even if he didn't know him, he had at least heard about it, but Shi Lei was undoubtedly brand new. face.

"He is Shi Lei." Wei Qing did not say much. He knew that Shi Lei would not dare to be mentioned in other places. In the Yangtze River Delta, there are many people who have never seen him, but they have never heard of his name. There are probably only a handful of second generations.

When the man heard this, he nodded immediately and took the initiative to reach out to Shi Lei: "It turns out to be Mr. Shi. Thank you for meeting me. My name is Lu Xiaoming."

In fact, Shi Lei didn't know who Lu Xiaoming was at all, but the other party didn't tell him about his background, and it was hard for him to ask, so he had to smile, shake hands with him, and said, "I've heard of Brother Lu for a long time. I'm glad to meet you. "

Wei Qing looked at the others milling around the few remaining trees and felt a little anxious, so he said, "We'll chat later. I'll go look at the wood first."

Shi Lei smiled apologetically at Lu Xiaoming, and joined the crowd looking at the wood with Wei Qing.

Most of those people were squatting on the ground, looking at the cross-sections of huanghuali logs sawn from the root. Without exception, they all had grids. The difference was that the grids in the middle were thicker and thinner, and there were not many patterns visible.

This is a semi-bet, because it is almost guaranteed that every log is qualified, and a complete gamble will almost never happen, but there is always a bet on the ups and downs.

Generally speaking, the root is the thickest part of the huanghuali grid, so whether it can be used as a material for furniture can be judged from the cross section. But whether it can be made into furniture after cutting it depends on the overall structure of the log. Some huanghuali trees have extremely thin lattices at the tips, so thin that they cannot even be used to make beads. They gradually enlarge all the way down, and the cross section of the roots looks rough, which means they may not really be able to produce good core materials.

But the grid at the root can at least predict the best level of this log. It is impossible to bet on a big rise.

Wei Qing squatted down as soon as he walked over. He looked anxiously at the cross-section of the logs, but Shi Lei stood behind those people and scanned each log condescendingly.

On each log, there is a plastic nameplate with several parameters simply written on it, including the length of the entire log, the approximate age of growth, the environment, the special diameter of the bottom, and the specific diameter of each log. the weight of.

Shi Lei counted and found that there were a total of thirteen logs on the ground. Two logs had been erected next to them, and their heads were wrapped with red cloth. They were obviously the two logs that Lu Xiaoming had taken first.

There were only a few things in total, so Shi Lei took out his mobile phone, turned his back and clicked on the identification card app, and chose to use it.

Then, it was as if a passage to another world had opened in his mind, his eyes became introverted, and in Shi Lei's eyes, everything in the warehouse was cast with a faint light.

Look at the thirteen logs stacked on the ground.

The nameplate of the first one states that it is one hundred and fifty years old. The cross-section of the root is more than ten centimeters long. It looks like a pretty good huanghuali tree.

But Shi Lei discovered that the color on the surface of this log was only a hundred years old at most, because it was wood from the Republic of China period, and it was not the color that represented the Qing Dynasty at all.

Of course, some differences in the age of the trees are normal, and this does not prevent the owners of these logs from deliberately exaggerating the age of the trees.

The light on this log was not dense, and became lighter as it reached the treetops. Shi Lei was sure that this log would probably only have a line-like grid when it reached the treetops. If he bought it, he planned to make some ornaments. Stringing is okay, but trying to hit furniture is a fantasy.

The nameplate of the second tree stated that it was one hundred and seventy years old. Based on the color of the light, Shi Lei's age was more than one hundred and thirty years old. It was still a slight exaggeration, but it was much better than the first tree. not enough.

The brilliance is pretty average, but unfortunately it's not too dense, and the value shouldn't be high.

Shi Lei quickly judged the thirteen logs. Among them, the fifth and ninth logs were both excellent wood. The grids inside were extremely balanced from top to bottom, and the brilliance hardly changed from top to bottom. The most important thing is that the radiance concentration is very good. Shi Lei feels that if Wei Qing wants to build furniture for his father, these two are more suitable. The others don't seem to be very good.

Only a few minutes passed before Shi Lei turned his attention to the two logs that were raised up and wrapped in red cloth to indicate that they had been sold.

Suddenly, Shi Lei's eyes were attracted. The two logs were like a contrast between day and night. There is still some light at the bottom of one of them, and it seems to be very rich, but less than twenty centimeters up, the light almost disappears, indicating that the grid of this log is broken twenty centimeters up from the root. The upper part is completely white core, so this piece of wood is completely ruined.

This situation was also relatively rare, and Shi Lei could only lament that Lu Xiaoming was so unlucky.

But the other one made Shi Lei feel that Lu Xiaoming was very lucky.

Because the grid at the root of the wood was only about ten centimeters in diameter, but after walking up less than a hand's length, the light suddenly became so intense that it overshadowed the entire warehouse.

Shi Lei frowned and took a closer look, only to find that this huanghuali log had a particularly large tumor about a palm's length above the root. This may be because the tumor blocked the thick grid from extending downward. This makes the grid in this log in a spindle shape.

Wei Qing also selected a log while chatting with the people around him.

When Shi Lei saw that Wei Qing had chosen the fifth log that had a good quality, he did not say anything, but watched Wei Qing quote a price from a distance. The price quoted by Wei Qing directly doubled the base price marked on the nameplate on the logs. This price was basically in place, and the owner of the goods was quite satisfied. Moreover, Wei Qing had said hello to everyone else at the beginning, so naturally no one Fight him and let Wei Qing take the log for 1.2 million.

A piece of yellow cloth was tied up, and the log Wei Qing selected was also erected to indicate that it had been sold.

Of course, this was not enough. Wei Qing continued to select among the remaining logs, and Shi Lei wandered around the warehouse again.

He suddenly saw lights of different shades flashing in the corner of the warehouse. When he walked over and took a look, he saw that it was a batch of fragmented wood that was basically more than one meter long.

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