Chapter 0047 – Rosewood

“Hehe, Zhuang old brother, it’s only been a day since I’ve seen you, you won’t be able to disown my brother, right!”

The man who walked out of the door laughed aloud, but this person is exactly the Song Jun who purchased Zhuang Rui’s manuscript of Wang Shizhen yesterday.

Zhuang Rui slightly stunned, his heart is also relieved, not to mention, on the identity of the shareholders of the Tiandu Hotel alone, in this own a villa, is also reasonable, not to mention that Song Jun this person, although the words close, but there is an air of anger and authority, there must be other identities that they do not know.

“Da Chuan brought me here and didn’t say I was here to see you, Brother Song, but we are bad guests at the door! Today’s dinner is on you.”

Zhuang Rui said jokingly, although he came from the Ping family, but due to his mother’s education from a young age, he had always treated people with no humility, perhaps this society has a class distinction, but this is in Zhuang Rui’s body, that is absolutely not reflected.

Song Jun sniffed and froze for a moment, as if no one has used this tone of voice to speak to himself for a long time, but it is a bit of a novelty, can not help but pat Zhuang Rui’s shoulder affectionately, embracing him to the villa, while walking said: “line, today we also go to Tiandu, abalone and lobster with you point, see yesterday to your little face are eating green, my brother let you spend yesterday and then ate back, this It’s okay, right?”

“Hey, brother Song, put your car to lend us on the line, dinner I please, you see into not …….”

Liu Chuan followed behind and said.

“You this brat, fart a little thing, and I grated for more than half a month, okay, today in the face of Zhuang old brother, that car to you with.MD, Laozi has not opened a few times it, you kid do not give me the whole loose ah! Also, if I’m not satisfied with the Tibetan Mastiff, I won’t give you a penny.”

Song Jun turned his head, looked at Liu Chuan said viciously, but a smile, apparently not really angry, Zhuang Rui also heard understand, the original Liu Chuan mouth of the old customer, actually is in front of this.

But this is also understandable, on the way over just now, I saw a few villas in the yard, are chained to a ferocious wolf dog, see the stranger into the appearance of that bared teeth is very daunting, I think those thieves see will be far away from avoiding.

In fact, Zhuang Rui does not know, in this kind of security tight villa area, raise these things is not entirely for anti-theft, more in order to reflect a kind of status symbol, in some big cities of private luxury villas, some people even keep some panthers and crocodiles this kind of large carnivores.

After entering the villa, Zhuang Rui can’t help but brighten up, not how luxurious the decoration inside, but very characteristic, directly opposite the door, there is a huge mahogany screen about two meters high, divided into twelve fans, above the carving of dragons and phoenixes, will be the room and the outside world is very well isolated.

Bypassing the screen, Zhuang Rui found that the area of the hall was about fifty to sixty square meters in size, and on the surrounding walls, all of them were encrusted with a kind of purple wood, and exuded a light fragrance, which made people’s moods quiet without them realizing it.

Hall furnishings are also very simple, are some of the old antique furniture, the reason why it is said to be antique, because these furniture looks like the lack of the kind of time precipitation down the breath, a closer look, you can see that it is the recent production of the entire hall without a trace of modern appliances, how to come in, Zhuang Rui actually produce a sense of space-time shift, seems to return to the ancient people’s residences hundreds of years ago. .

Zhuang Rui gazed to the side of a rosewood four square table to look at, sure enough, it did not contain the slightest aura, which also proves that these furniture, although the material is very precious, but it is a modern manufacturing.

“Older brother, how about my place, isn’t it even more ancient than that box in the tea room! I’ve spent a lot of effort for these rosewood furniture!”

Song Jun tone reveals a trace of pride, this villa he bought, probably spent more than 20 million yuan, but he just spends on decoration above the money, now has up to 30 million yuan, and the vast majority of the money, are spent on these rosewood, this is he personally went to Southeast Asia to buy to the top quality big leaf rosewood, these rosewood in many places have gone extinct, Song Jun can be a lot of effort. Quite a lot of thought, only high price from some people to buy the hoard, and then invited to the craftsmanship of carpentry artisans to build out.

“Brother Song is really a big spender! With a room like yours, I don’t think you’ll be able to find a second one in the country.”

Zhuang Rui’s compliments were from the heart, he estimated that only these zitan furniture, also to be worth a few million, only he did not know, he still underestimated the value of these objects.

Rosewood is a hundred years long an inch of hardwood, the world has been very few can see into the wood of the rosewood tree, a 18th century Qing Qianlong years of production of Chinese rosewood table, in 1994 the United States Sotheby’s auction house of an auction, was sold to more than thirty-five million U.S. dollars, the so-called “sandalwood inch of gold,” is not too much. Its value is far beyond Zhuang Rui’s imagination, even if it is not the Ming and Qing dynasties of antiques, the price is also expensive, not the average person can use up.

Rosewood wood is hard and heavy, into the water that is sunken, to the production of objects without paint will present a natural dark brown, coupled with the origin of remote, extremely difficult to become a timber, and therefore has been known for generations as “the king of the wood!” China in those dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, even for the royal family, there are only a very small number of small chess games, scrolls, song boards, small shelves, etc., with little material.

Until the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di ascended to the throne, in order to proclaim the national prestige of my dynasty, sent the eunuch Zheng He rate fleet of ships to the West, and loaded with ships full of tea, silk and other gifts, along the way to the country, and so on the way back, due to the goods emptied, the ship is light a lot of people for fear of not being able to stand up to the sea winds and waves, there will be a need for things to ballast the cabinets.

Zheng He found that some countries have purple wood is very solid and heavy, so it will be cut down this wood to ballast, after returning to the country, some royals and nobles began to use these “ballast wood” to do furniture, and later people found that this kind of wood is not only strong and hard, but also not afraid of water and anti-insects, so it is more and more popular, and then it began to be Large-scale logging.

In fact, in China’s two Guangzhou area is also the original rosewood, but because of the scarcity of the number of people, soon to be harvested, and then the emperor of the Ming dynasty sent people to the South Seas, according to the data recorded: “as of the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasty, the world’s production of the vast majority of the rosewood will be set to China, divided into storage in Guangzhou and Beijing. Ming Dynasty logging excess, the Qing Dynasty has not yet regenerated, the source of depletion.”

And to the middle of the Qing dynasty, Qianlong had also sent people to the South Seas to pick sandalwood, but most of the rosewood tree is not thick enough to hold, has not yet become a timber, had to give up. Therefore, the Qing dynasty royal production of furniture made of rosewood material, are the Ming dynasty royal stock, later, sandalwood scarcity to the point that must be purchased from private merchants at a high price, according to the unwritten rules at the time, regardless of which level of officials, as long as you see rosewood, never let go, buy all, up to the Royal Weaving Agency, from the private private collection of wood has also been scavenged clean, to the 60th birthday of Cixi and Guangxu Emperor’s wedding, the big inside! Reserves of wood has very little left, but finally was restored to the throne of Yuan Shikai all used up.

Before the Qing Dynasty, Europe and the United States have always been that rosewood is no big material, can only do small objects, and even the early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Western missionaries to China, see many rosewood after all the admiration of the big tools, and know that the elite rosewood in Beijing, so many buy, transported back to the country, due to the inconvenience of the exchange of the whole piece of difficult to transport, so only to buy the door of the cabinet, the box surface, etc., patterned parts, and other materials of the wooden frame for decoration, and now foreign Some collectors’ hands, more then some rosewood items.

And rosewood furniture production is quite time-consuming, want to make a high God show rosewood crafts, each piece of artifacts must be handmade, a large piece of furniture often need more than a dozen craftsmen to spend seven or eight years to complete, but the objects in the hall are not big, the production process is not particularly complex.

Rosewood production techniques on the “a chisel, two carve, seven polishing” said, only polishing occupies the entire production process of seven of ten time, and polishing tools used are also quite peculiar, first coated with wax, and then to section grass and fine gauze repeatedly rubbed until rubbed as bright as satin before it is considered a great success.

Zhuang Rui just entered the door, is to the old and new to judge the age of these rosewood, he did not know, well-maintained Ming and Qing dynasty rosewood furniture, compared to the newly built rosewood, from the appearance of the look is no less.

“Hahaha …… old brother, your words are lifting me up, compared to the rosewood king, I can’t hold these things.”

Song Jun was very happy to hear this, but he waved his hand repeatedly, not daring to be praised by Zhuang Rui, what he called “Zitan King!” That is the curator of the Chinese rosewood museum, worth more than five billion of China’s richest woman Chen Lihua Ms. Song Jun once had the honor to enter the Chen Lihua collection of rosewood warehouses, and saw the thousands of pieces of exquisite rosewood tables, beds, cases, a few, but also know that only their own objects, and Chen Lihua compared to the difference is very far.

Song Jun is to see Ms. Chen Li Huah collection of those rosewood, only moved to think of their own living room into this kind of appearance, because rosewood there is a kind of magical effect of nourishing people, contact for a long time, on the body is very beneficial, like Chen Li Huah year to build rosewood furniture, she invited some of the craftsmen’s yellow teeth have become particularly white, a seventy-year-old craftsmen actually white hair into black, a time will be rosewood! rendered with a hint of mystery.

“Wood, let me tell you, old man Lu, they have not come to this place, I said to Song yesterday that you want to come, he but a mouthful of promise, your kid’s face is not small ah!”

Although Liu Chuan is not very old, but people are quick, and Song Jun is also the temperament of the same, is to be able to enter into this villa, in the whole of Pengcheng, come to this villa of Song Jun’s people, absolutely no more than the number of ten people.

“Okay, are brothers, pull those for what, Liu Chuan you kid when in front of me rules ah!”

Song Jun waved his hand, interrupting Liu Chuan’s words, pulling Zhuang Rui to introduce the rosewood furniture in the room, not realizing that Zhuang Rui’s mind was completely out of it.

“Brother Song, I heard Elder Lu say that your favorite things are still paintings and calligraphy, I think you must have gotten a lot of fine art over the years! Can you let my little brother open his eyes?”

After more than half an hour, Zhuang Rui patiently listen to Song Jun explained a circle, only then opened his mouth to ask, here is obviously Song Jun’s residence in Pengcheng, Zhuang Rui naturally will not enter the treasure mountain and empty-handed back, in the just met Song Jun, he moved this thought.

Song Jun heard, but his face is a trace of difficult color, said: “Zhuang brother, I like calligraphy and painting antiques is not false, is also true that collected a lot of fine products in this area, just these objects in addition to your manuscript yesterday, now are not in Pengcheng, but in the capital my grandfather’s residence there, that old man but my collection of treasures are all robbed, the whole a The old man has robbed all the treasures from my collection, the whole old man is not cultivated ……”

Song Jun mentioned his grandfather, it seems that the gas does not hit a place, the tone of voice deeply through a resentment, next to Zhuang Rui naturally do not know, Song Jun mouth of the old man, when it was a bit of mighty sands and mighty old generals, even in the present, that is also stomping a foot can make the roots of the Imperial City shaking three figures.

“But brother Zhuang you don’t disappoint, when one day free to go to the capital, I will take you to the place where grandpa lives to see, those things at least have more than half of me, the old man this face will still give.”

Song Jun saw Zhuang Rui face surfaced disappointed look, quickly spoke out and said, just his own heart also has no bottom, that unreasonable grandfather will give himself this face, as the saying goes intergenerational pro, his own dad saw the old man is like a mouse to see a cat, and the old man to their own pro is pro, but also their own many years of collection of treasures are all for themselves.

“Cheng, with Brother Song this sentence, some other day I will definitely go to pay a visit to the door.”

What Zhuang Rui said was definitely not polite, for the sake of the aura in his eyes, he would also find a time when Song Jun was in the capital and pay a visit.

“Alright, you two don’t be sour, wood, yesterday said to give you a surprise, now take you to see.”

Liu Chuan sitting on this rosewood hardwood stool, feeling far less comfortable than the sofa sitting, the heart has long been impatient, this will see Song Jun to Liu Chuan introduced finished, hastily pulled Zhuang Rui to the door.