Chapter 108 Ivory Mat
When Lin Xiangdong heard this, he stood there in a daze.
What? !
Jiang Tang knew everything, so why did he still spend twenty yuan to buy this pile of garbage? It couldn't be because he felt sorry for Liu Heitan and was still short of twenty yuan for the betrothal gift.
Impossible! Even doing good deeds won’t lead to this.
There must be other reasons.
The table is not worth much...the table and chair are not a set...the chair...it's a chair!
Lin Xiangdong thought for a moment and immediately understood.
He asked in shock, "Comrade Jiang, what you really want is not a table, but a chair?!"
Jiang Tang looked at Lin Xiangdong with appreciation, "Xiangdong, you are right."
Lin Xiangdong became excited. When he heard Jiang Tang say that he wanted to buy a table, he just focused on looking at the table. The chairs were given as gifts, so he didn't think they were anything good.
Now he calmed down and focused his attention on the chair.
He reached out and touched it, and felt a handful of carbon ash.
Lin Xiangdong quickly took out a small knife from his pocket and scraped it with the knife... After the black carbon ash disappeared, the original color of the chair wood was revealed.
The wood is golden in color, with circles of delicate texture, and the wood seems to glow in the sun.
Lin Xiangdong had never seen wood of this texture, but he had read many books, and the books recorded that wood was more valuable than gold.
"Comrade Jiang, are these two chairs... made of... golden nanmu?"
Jiang Tang replied, "Yes, it's golden nanmu."
Lin Xiangdong was instantly excited. He circled around the chairs, muttering to himself, "This is actually golden nanmu... I've been in this business for so long, and this is the first time I've seen it... Comrade Jiang, you're amazing. How did you tell that... Twenty yuan... Twenty yuan for these two chairs. I'm making a killing! A huge profit!"
"Comrade Jiang, if we clean these two chairs and sell them in the city, we can get at least two hundred yuan! That's ten times the profit!"
"Two of the four chairs were burned by Liu Heitan's fire. What a pity... What a pity..."
Lin Xiangdong was amazed, and his biggest puzzlement was how Jiang Tang had such good eyesight that he could actually tell that the black chair was made of golden nanmu.
Jiang Tang made up a random excuse and got away with it.
Then they asked Lin Xiangdong to continue working. They had to walk through the entire village today. They didn't even take a break for lunch. They just had a quick bite of steamed buns, corn bread, and boiled water.
As for the treasure...
If you can encounter one thing in a day, it is already a great luck. It is impossible to say that you have bad luck everywhere.
Jiang Tang was in a good mood. After all, she had made a profit by having the golden nanmu chair today.
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. Jiang Tang had mentioned before that she had to return to the compound before three o'clock, and it would take a lot of time on the road. Now that the donkey cart was loaded with so many things, it would definitely go even slower. Lin Xiangdong didn't plan to delay any longer, so he packed up and prepared to end his business for the day.
Just as the two were about to go back, a figure quietly approached them and asked, "Hello, are you accepting this?"
Jiang Tang turned around and saw a man in his fifties wearing black-framed glasses.
He didn't look like a village farmer, but more like a gentle and elegant aristocrat. However, his clothes were tattered, his glasses were broken in the middle and tied together with tape, and he had an air of desolation about him.
Jiang Tang could feel that this person was not an ordinary person.
Then Lin Xiangdong called out, "Teacher Ouyang."
After Lin Xiangdong greeted him, he turned sideways and explained to Jiang Tang, "Comrade Jiang, this teacher Ouyang is the only teacher in the village. He...he went to the countryside ten years ago and has been in the village ever since."
Ten years ago, I was one of the first people to go to the countryside, and as a teacher...
Jiang Tang already understood everything that Lin Xiangdong was reluctant to say.
This teacher Ouyang must have come from an extraordinary family, but he was swept away by the tide of the times and stranded in this poor and remote area. He has already endured ten years of hardship and wasted his life.
At his current age, he may never be able to leave this small mountain village.
But in Teacher Ouyang, Jiang Tang could still see his inner persistence, such as his worn but clean clothes, his meticulous hair, and his politeness in speech.
Jiang Tang immediately asked, "Teacher Ouyang, what do you want to buy?"
Teacher Ouyang took out the bundle in his hand, which was rolled into a cylindrical shape. It looked quite large and a bit heavy.
He looked around and said, "Let's find a secluded place and I'll open it and show you."
"good."
Lin Xiangdong found a place behind a haystack where there was no one around. Teacher Ouyang finally opened the bundle in his hand, which was a rolled-up mat.
When it was first opened, the mat looked no different from an ordinary bamboo mat. The only difference was that the weaving technique of this mat looked a little more complicated.
In addition, this mat is 1.2 meters wide, which is the size for one person.
Moreover, there were signs of damage around the edges, and it was only barely fixed by sewing them up with pieces of cloth.
Jiang Tang and Lin Xiangdong thought that this mat would not fetch a good price and Teacher Ouyang would be disappointed.
At this moment, Teacher Ouyang said, "The mat is not made of bamboo, but of ivory."
When Jiang Tang heard this, he was completely surprised.
These woven strips that look like bamboo are actually ivory!
Ivory is now on the banned list and is no longer allowed to be made into handicrafts. Only products from earlier years are still circulating on the black market.
It is very simple to determine whether it is ivory. You can just touch it with your hand.
Jiang Tang stretched out his hand and placed it on the mat, his fingertips gently running across it. He felt a cool sensation and the touch was soft. It was indeed the finest ivory.
Why didn’t the Lingbao system remind me of such a good treasure?
Jiang Tang thought briefly and quickly came to a conclusion.
The Lingbao system had reminded people several times before about various hidden treasures that had not been discovered, but everyone could see that Teacher Ouyang’s ivory mat was there, so Jiang Tang didn’t need to bother looking for it, so the Lingbao system didn’t remind him.
It seems that this system is quite lazy.
Lin Xiangdong asked Jiang Tang cautiously, "Comrade Jiang, is it really ivory? If it were... it would be a treasure! I heard that people say that only the emperor could sleep on ivory mats in the past, and ordinary people didn't even have them."
Jiang Tang nodded. She could tell that Teacher Ouyang's family must have been very wealthy, but they were eventually reduced to living in a small mountain village. Because this mat was inconspicuous and looked no different from an ordinary mat at first glance, it was preserved and not confiscated.
This hiding lasted for ten years.
Now I suddenly took the baby out...
Jiang Tang didn't ask about the price first. Instead, he looked at Teacher Ouyang and asked, "Teacher Ouyang, what difficulties have you encountered?"
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