My nemesis is pregnant, the baby is mine
Chapter 24
"If it's an upset stomach, I'll get you a cup of hot water, if..." Shen Mo moved his gaze down and landed on Qi Yunshu's lower abdomen.
"I'll just drink water." Qi Yunshu's heart almost jumped out.
Shen Mo got up, went to the side and poured a glass of water.
When he came back, Qi Yunshu was already curled up on the bed, clutching his abdomen, although he tried hard to make himself look less uncomfortable, but his pale face and cold sweat on his forehead betrayed him.
When Qi Yunshu was on the stage just now, he couldn't even stand firmly, otherwise he wouldn't fall on Shen Mo with his character.
After stepping off the stage, Qi Yunshu forced himself to walk all the way. If Shen Mo hadn't picked him up when he entered the lounge, he would probably have fallen to the ground directly.
Shen Mo brought the water to Qi Yunshu and watched him drink it.
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Mo put down the cup. If Qi Yunshu really didn't feel this way because of her pregnancy, the abdominal pain was unbearable to his level, it must be a serious illness.
After what happened before, Shen Mo didn't want to continue to worry about whether Qi Yunshu was pregnant, but how could he not doubt it in such a situation?
"It's just a little overworked." Qi Yunshu's weak voice came.
Shen Mo didn't know what to do when he heard the words, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the butler who ran to get the medicine came in with a bowl of dark medicine.
"Master, drink this quickly." The butler came forward.
Qi Yunshu forced himself to sit up, frowning, raised his head, and drank the whole bowl of medicine.
After taking the medicine, Qi Yunshu's condition did not improve immediately, so he lay down to rest again.
Seeing that Qi Yunshu had taken the medicine, the butler didn't dare to stay longer after asking a few more questions, and hurried out to preside over the overall situation.
Qi Yunshu collapsed suddenly, but the appraisal meeting was not over yet, and someone still had to announce who was left behind after the first round of gambling.
As soon as the butler left, the room fell silent.
Qi Yunshu moved his body and changed his posture. During the movement, he realized that Shen Mo hadn't left yet, "Is there anything else?"
Shen Mo shook his head, and after hearing that the butler outside had found someone to announce the name of the winner of this bet on his behalf, he also left.
The appraisal will be held for a total of ten days, with a total of three competitions.The competition adopts an elimination system, and only those who win can continue to the next competition.
In this first competition, more than half of the people were eliminated. Including Shen Mo and Jia Lao, there were less than ten of the original twenty or thirty people.
The second match is three days later, which is the fifth day of the appraisal meeting.The person on stage who spoke on behalf of Qi Yunshu calmed down the crowd, and when he got off the stage, he was surrounded by a group of people.
Surrounded by businessmen and experts who came to this appraisal meeting, everyone asked about Qi Yunshu's situation, and businessmen were the most concerned. They were all worried that if Qi Yunshu fell, the Qi family would still be able Ships at normal speed.
Qi Yunshu is the head of the Qi family, and if he falls, the impact on the Qi family's business will be self-evident.
Qi Yunshu could hear those people outside scrambling to ask questions while lying on the low bed. He closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind, and also tried not to let himself pay attention to the throbbing pain coming from his abdomen.
He never knew that pregnancy would be such a hard and painful thing. He has been in the current situation almost since he realized that he was pregnant. Vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain, these one after another seemed to torture him to death.
Just now on the stage, he just got angry, and immediately there were bursts of throbbing pain in his stomach.
In the venue, Shen Mo didn't stay long after the appraisal meeting. He went home to settle his food and clothing and took a rest.
After noon, Shen Mo found Qi Yunshu in the courtyard of the Qi family after looking for the news that the people from the Qi family had told him. Qi Yunshu said yesterday that he would take him to meet some people.
Qi Yunshu fell down suddenly in the morning, Shen Mo thought he would cancel the arrangement, but when Shen Mo found the Qi family compound, Qi Yunshu got up and walked around as if nothing happened.
Qi Yunshu led Shen Mo towards the workshop next to the Qi family compound. At first, Shen Mo was still puzzled, but after entering the door, he understood.
This workshop has been vacant because all the craftsmen have been helping at the appraisal meeting in recent days, and Qi Yunshu should have lent it to others.
In the workshop, the wooden shelf workbenches that were originally placed in the house were piled aside, and now there is only an unpainted coffee table and a few chairs.
There were six people in the room, all of them were insiders without exception, and Shen Mo had never met them before, and they were not those who participated in the appraisal meeting.
Although these people can be seen to be carpenters, they are very different from others. Judging from the impression alone, if they don't have strong limbs and thin calluses on their hands, they don't look like carpenters at all.
Especially one of the middle-aged men with a round body. His outfit and the white jade wrench on his thumb are extremely inconsistent with a carpenter.
After Shen Mo entered the door, he greeted several people and introduced them. Hearing that he was Shen Mo, those people looked at him curiously and introduced themselves.
Several people reported only their names, and did not say where they came from.Although Shen Mo was a little curious, but seeing that the other party didn't want to mention him, he didn't ask any more questions.
After some opening greetings, the few people quickly brought the topic to Shen Mo's previous nonsense and the general case.Obviously, they have all researched thoroughly, but they still have some doubts.
In addition to these two things, everyone was also full of curiosity about the mortise and tenon joints that Shen Mo had mentioned. As for the trick box that Shen Mo gave to Qi Yunshu before, it had already made everyone's heart itchy.
To this, Shen Mo knew everything to answer, and the time quickly passed in the conversation of everyone.
When Shen Mo came back to his senses, the sky had already darkened.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi Yunshu, who had been listening quietly, ended the meeting. After saying goodbye to those people, the two walked out the door together.
After leaving the door, Shen Mo was about to ask Qi Yunshu about the origins of those people, when a figure suddenly appeared beside him.
Shen Mo knew that person, even so close that he gave him a headache when he saw him, because that person was Mr. Jia who had been haunting him for a while.
Mr. Jia was obviously planning to come here to try his luck to see if he could meet Shen Mo, but it was such a coincidence that he saw Shen Mo coming out of the workshop as soon as he arrived nearby.
"I happen to have something to look for you." Old Jia stopped Shen Mo.
"If it's about the trick box, this junior really can't help." Shen Mo couldn't laugh or cry, this old Jia really couldn't be messed with.
"Otherwise, I'll pay you to buy it? How much do you want?" Mr. Jia was not ready to give up.
"It's not about money, but that I can't do it now." Shen Mo was going to explain it clearly to him, even though he had tried it before.
"Why? Are you hurt?"
"I don't have any tools at hand, and I don't have any suitable wood, let alone time." Shen Mo reasoned, "It will be after the appraisal meeting when I'm free."
Old Jia frowned, "You don't even have tools?"
"Someone is already customizing it for me, but it seems that it may not be delivered now." Shen Mo was also a little depressed when talking about this matter. According to Qin Peng's shameless personality, they might not be able to fulfill the bet.
Jia always knew about the betting agreement between Shen Mo and Huang He, and he was present in most of these competitions.Now when Shen Mo said that he had no tools and the other party might not fulfill the bet, his eyes immediately widened.
Seeing this, Shen Mo knew that there was hope for evasion, and quickly said, "So we'll talk about this matter later."
Mr. Jia stood there frowning, his face full of dissatisfaction.
Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave, when he saw that Mr. Jia seemed to have thought of something and wanted to speak again, so scared that Shen Mo hurriedly pulled Qi Yunshu who was beside him, turned around and entered the alleyway beside him.
Shen Mo had lived here for some time anyway, and was very familiar with the nearby trails. He dragged Qi Yunshu inside and turned left and right, and soon got rid of Mr. Jia.
Back on the street again, Shen Mo craned his neck to look around, he was relieved when he didn't see Mr. Jia on the street, and walked forward side by side with Qi Yunshu.
Qi Yunshu was dragged and ran all the way, and when he returned to the street, he looked at Shen Mo with a smile in his eyes.
Shen Mo has always been confident and indifferent, as if nothing can move him. This is the first time Qi Yunshu has seen him in such a mess for a long time, and that appearance makes him feel a little cute.
"What are you going to do next?" Qi Yunshu asked.
"What?" Shen Mo pulled Qi Yunshu to escape together, and he was planning to ask him who those people were, but now that he was disturbed by this, he even forgot his original purpose.
"I'm asking you how you plan to go on, do you still want to work in a big workshop?" Qi Yunshu asked.He once promised Shen Mo that after the appraisal meeting, he would be transferred to work in the big workshop.
"Naturally." Shen Mo nodded.With nothing left, he wanted to make a name for himself, and the fastest way was to use the manpower, materials and resources of the Qi family.
The Qi family has a big business, and the resources and orders that the Qi family workshop can access are beyond the reach of ordinary workshops. Shen Mo chose to work at the Qi family because of this.
Just like the blind stool, if it wasn't for the spread of the stuff in the Qi family, I'm afraid it wouldn't have attracted so many people's attention, and his name wouldn't have been noticed so quickly.
Shen Mo's attitude was firm, but the smile on Qi Yunshu's face gradually faded and turned into calmness.Qi Yunshu is a smart person, so he naturally understood Shen Mo's intentions.
Shen Mo always knows what he wants and what to do.Qi Yunshu doesn't dislike people who have goals and are willing to put them into action. In fact, he quite appreciates Shen Mo's because he is such a person himself.
In his view, if you don't fight for what you want, why should others ask for it?After so many years, Qi Yunshu, who has suffered all the hardships of being a twin, has already understood that there is never such a good thing in the world.
Qi Yunshu walked side by side with Shen Mo, and the thought that he had once before unconsciously popped up again, if he and Shen Mo had not had the relationship they have now, maybe he would really take the initiative to make friends with Shen Mo.
"What?" Shen Mo asked back, is Qi Yunshu going to go back on his word?
"It's nothing, just to confirm." Qi Yunshu smiled, and it would be best for Shen Mo to go.After Shen Mo went to the big workshop, the chances of the two of them meeting again would be reduced, which would be good for everyone.
Qi Yunshu was relieved to confirm that Shen Mo's mind remained unchanged, but for some reason, he couldn't be happy at all.
The two of them walked along the avenue outside the town where the wood was pressed out to the end, and then they parted ways. Shen Mo returned home, and Qi Yunshu went to the venue.
In the next few days, Shen Mo still ran to the meeting place early in the morning every day. The appraisal meeting and some things that happened before made Shen Mo meet some people in the meeting place.
Shen Mo is happy to be in contact with these people, and sometimes he can learn a lot just by listening to these people chatting.
But there is one exception, and that is Old Jia.Ever since he took Qi Yunshu to escape that afternoon, Mr. Jia became more and more entangled, which made Shen Mo's headache so severe.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the second match went on as scheduled. The only difference from before was that Qi Yunshu did not come to this match.The explanation given by the Qi family was that Qi Yunshu was delayed by something, but Shen Mo immediately guessed that it was because of his strange abdominal pain.
Qi Yunshu didn't come, but the game had to continue.
This match is still a gamble, as before, with the Qi family's material and then the rest of the people for appraisal.
Because the number of participants has dropped sharply, logically speaking, the competition time will also be shortened, but because the rest of the people have become more cautious, this appraisal will take much longer than before.
Only Shen Mo was different, he was still the same as before, after he got on the stage, he touched, looked, sniffed, knocked, and then put down his things and left the stage after a set of movements.
Shen Mo spent much less time than the others, which naturally caused a commotion. After the game ended, the answer was announced, and after learning that Shen Mo had won the championship again, the name Shen Mo immediately became the topic of discussion. main topic.
In the second match, the Qi family gave a piece of iron birch that looked very much like elm wood. The material was still not big, and the color had darkened a little.
To identify, the most important key is that the fragrance of the two kinds of wood is different.Pestle elm is odorless, while iron birch is fragrant.
The other characteristics of this material are too vague, and the difficulty is several times more difficult than before, so when this appraisal session ends, there are only three people left.
Shen Mo, Jia Lao, and one of the two men who had sang and sang with another person in the lounge before and spoke ill of Shen Mo.
It was not surprising that Mr. Jia could keep Shen Mo, but Shen Mo couldn't help but look at him more because that person could stay.
At the end of the game, Shen Mo was surrounded by everyone to congratulate.
Outside the crowd, in Qi Yunshu's exclusive lounge, Qi Yunshu sat on a low bench and listened quietly to the movement outside.
Hearing those congratulations and compliments to Shen Mo, Qi Yunshu couldn't help showing a little smile.Shen Mo was proud of himself, but he didn't see any signs of complacency. He was still the same as before.
Although Qi Yunshu didn't see his face, he could already hear his voice.Imagining Shen Mo standing silently in plain clothes among the crowd, Qi Yunshu's expression became a little more gentle.
"Master, I have arranged for a carriage." When the butler came in, Qi Yunshu put away the smile on his face.
Qi Yunshu attached great importance to this appraisal meeting, and he had come here long ago to prepare, but last night he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his stomach and almost stayed up all night, and finally stayed up until morning, but the situation did not change at all.
As a last resort, Qi Yunshu could only choose the latter between fainting on stage and not on stage, because this would bring the least bad influence.
Qi Yunshu is a businessman, and a smart businessman, so he naturally knows how to maximize his profits.
Just like Shen Mo's matter, although Shen Mo came to Qi's family to seek employment in order to get Muchang back, but in Qi Yunshu's view, this was nothing, because Shen Mo also had something that he could use.Before Shen Mo really has the ability and ability to compete with him in Kiba, no one can say who will use whom more.
The things Shen Mo has brought out so far are eye-catching, and these have also benefited the Qi family a lot.
People like Mr. Jia agreed to participate in the appraisal meeting because of the stupid stool, which added a lot of color to the appraisal meeting and attracted more attention.The same is true of the three-legged stool in the academy before, and so far, the Qi family has been well received.
Qi Yunshu was looking forward to what Shen Mo would come up with next, and how many times he would be surprised.
Shen Mo's reputation has become huge, and he will attract attention wherever he goes in the next few days. This situation lasted until the final appraisal meeting began.
In the third match, Qi Yunshu stood on the stage again, his face was still a little pale, but he was in good spirits.
At the beginning of the appraisal, Qi Yunshu slapped his hands directly, and asked the people from the Qi family to carry up the finale he had prepared before.
It was a small piece of material that could be lifted by two people. Shen Mo had seen it from a distance before, but it was wrapped in white cloth at that time.
But this time it was different, Qi Yunshu asked someone to lift the things up and immediately lifted the white cloth on top, revealing the things below.
At first, Shen Mo thought that there would be a long piece of material like a tree trunk underneath, but after the fabric was lifted, he realized that he had miscalculated this time, and there was actually a box under the white cloth.
After the initial surprise, Shen Mo quickly understood that if it was really a precious material, it would be really hearty enough to wrap it in a white cloth like this, otherwise, if it was bumped and cracked, wouldn't it hurt people to death?
Shen Mo calmed down and continued to watch, the others had already widened their eyes, waiting for Qi Yunshu to open the box.
Qi Yunshu didn't hesitate, he took a piece of white cloth that looked like a handkerchief from the side and wrapped it around his hand, and then went to open the box.
As soon as the box was opened, the people below put their feet up to look around, as if they thought they could see what was in the box on the high platform, and even the group of experts who were invited couldn't stand it any longer. stand up.
Qi Yunshu reached into the box, and while everyone was staring with bated breath, he took out an object held by a small pedestal.
The thing was only the size of a palm, but it was packed in a box that could only be lifted by two people. This was beyond everyone's expectations, but after being surprised, there was a sound of gasping for air.
At that moment, even Shen Mo couldn't help showing surprise, because that thing turned out to be a piece of agarwood!
Agarwood, also known as agarwood or water agarwood, is formed after years of deposition of wood containing resin.The formation of agarwood is very complicated, and there are many types of fragrances. It is not only the raw material of very rare and top handicrafts, but also a precious traditional Chinese medicine.
The reason why everyone was so shocked and even gasped was because agarwood is very rare and very precious.
If we want to specifically say how precious it is, let’s put it this way, even if other woods are worth tens of thousands, they are sold by the square meter. Unlike agarwood, it is sold by the gram.
In Shen Mo's world, the price of raw agarwood even reached a terrifying level of tens of thousands per gram.
Those who were experts in recognizing that thing went crazy without exception, and even Shen Mo couldn't help but take a step forward.Although the outsiders who watched the excitement didn't know what it was, they all started talking and guessing when they saw Shen Mo and the others like this.
Qi Yunshu closed the box, and he put the agarwood and the small table on the box.
After finishing all this, Qi Yunshu looked at Shen Mo, Mr. Jia and the other person, "You three, please!"
While Qi Yunshu was talking, someone next to him brought up a table. On the table was also a piece of material covered with a white cloth, and this material was Shen Mo's final exam question.
The three of them went to the stage, but their eyes were still fixed on the agarwood.
Looking closer, Shen Mo's eyes were a little surprised and a little inquiring. Agarwood is extremely rare, and it is the second time Shen Mo has seen it.
Jia Lao's eyes were burning brightly, staring straight at the agarwood.And the other person's face was already flushed, and there was even a bit of fanaticism in his eyes.
"How many?" Qi Yunshu's voice broke the silence.
Shen Mo heard the reputation, and then realized that Qi Yunshu had lifted the white cloth on the other table at some point, revealing the material underneath.
It was a piece of material that was completely different from the previous ones. The material was crooked and ugly, and there were many uneven places on it, which looked dirty.
Seeing the material, the scarlet eyes of the last man among the three showed ecstasy instantly, and he recognized it almost instantly, because it was the material he was best at and had a lot of contact with.
Recognizing that thing, the man couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha...it seems that this agarwood must belong to me."
Mr. Jia glanced at him, his eyes darkened, obviously he had already seriously considered it, and he was bound to get this agarwood.
Shen Mo glanced at Chen Xiangmu next to him again. At this moment, he had gradually regained his composure, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, his eye bags were smiling calmly.
"Who will come first?" Qi Yunshu made a gesture of invitation.
Now that there are only three people left, there is no need to follow the order of the name posts as before.
"I'll come first!" The man, whose eyes were already red and about to bleed, immediately took a step forward.
It seemed that Mr. Jia was about to speak, but he preempted him, so he had to take back the foot he had just stepped on.
The people in the audience who were originally competing with Shen Mo and the others had already gone crazy at this moment, and they kept moaning. They were very surprised when they recognized this thing as agarwood.
Everyone looked like this, and the man who had taken the lead couldn't help showing a smile on his face. Fortunately, he won, otherwise he would definitely want to strangle himself to death like this group of people now.
"Please!" Qi Yunshu stepped back a little to make room.
Since Qi Yunshu took out the agarwood, he hadn't intentionally heated up the atmosphere, but even so, the atmosphere was still getting tense and boiling.
Many spectators in the audience already knew what the grand finale was, and those who knew the value of it were naturally no less calm than those who missed the opportunity. They all patted their chests and stomped their feet, wishing they hadn't become carpenters I only regret that I didn't go bankrupt and buy famous posts before.
On the stage, the man who took the lead took a deep breath, and stood in front of the strange-looking wood.
He was very serious about his appraisal, and used almost all the methods, even sticking out his tongue to lick and taste the taste. After repeating the action twice, he went to the side to write the answer step by step, and then stepped back. step aside.
After the person was identified, Qi Yunshu looked at Mr. Jia and Shen Mo again.
Jia always wanted to rush up to appraise it, but he also cared that Shen Mo hadn't made a mechanism box for him yet, so he looked at Shen Mo with a rather tangled face, making himself blushed.
Seeing him like this, Shen Mo just thought it was funny, he didn't compete with Mr. Jia, anyway, he didn't rush when he had a chance, so he gently made a gesture of please for Mr. Jia to go first.
Seeing this, Old Jia ran over quickly. After running over, he also started to use it, but Old Jia's speed was a bit slow.
He was very fast at the beginning, but after carefully inspecting the wood, he stopped slowly, and his brows were also furrowed, obviously in trouble.
Mr. Jia stopped for half a stick of incense, and when he walked to the side to write the answer, he still had an expression of uncertainty and hesitation.
Mr. Jia is already a top figure in the industry, and his experience and knowledge are also there. Seeing him so hesitant now, everyone watching the excitement in the audience also hesitated with anxiety.
If Mr. Jia can't confirm it, then what kind of material is this material?Could it be some extremely rare and rare material?But if this is the case, why did that person before seem so sure?
Everyone was full of doubts and extremely puzzled.
And at this moment, Shen Mo stepped forward.
Seeing Shen Mo approaching, the noisy crowd in the audience quieted down and looked at him one after another.
Shen Mo is still dressed in plain robes. Carpenter's work is very dusty, so most of his clothes are dark colors that don't look dirty, and most of them are styles that are convenient for movement.
What he was wearing today was a dark gray robe with tight sleeves. The simple and elegant style made him look extra energetic and made it easier for people to see the movements of his hands.
Shen Mo walked to the table, stopped, and looked down at the materials on the table.
Shen Mo's movements were not hurried or slow, which was in stark contrast to the previous two, which also made everyone's restless hearts calm down, watching him quietly, waiting for him to move.
Just when everyone in the audience thought that Shen Mo was going to show some real skills this time, and when they were going to put up 12 energies to make a careful appraisal, they saw Shen Mo stretch out his hand, and first touched the material as usual The fracture, and the uneven material surface.
After touching it, Shen Mo lifted the material up again, and then looked at it carefully from two angles.
Seeing Shen Mo's appearance, everyone in the audience who had been waiting quietly broke into a sweat, because they were so familiar with Shen Mo's movements, isn't this still Shen Mo's "touch, look, smell, knock, and knock" ?
Could it be that at this time, he is still going to go as before?What are you kidding?
The other person before Mr. Jia spent about two sticks of incense to make a decision from the beginning to the end, and this was considered fast, because Mr. Jia counted the time when he was standing next to him and tangling, it took him almost as fast as before and after. Three sticks of incense.
It's nothing, if it were the rest of them going up, they might not dare to let go of the four-pillar incense, after all, it is agarwood!
But it's all like this, yet Shen Mo is still his way.
Just when everyone in the audience was whispering, on the stage, Shen Mo had already put down the material, and he had finished reading it.
After reading it, Shen Mo leaned down and sniffed the fracture lightly. This action only lasted for a few blinks, and then Shen Mo straightened up and did not continue.
After sniffing, Shen Mo curled up his fingers under everyone's gaze, and tapped lightly on the material.
Because the material looked like a tree bump, Shen Mo knocked three times in three places with different thicknesses, and listened to three different sounds.
Seeing that Shen Mo had finished listening to the sound, everyone in the audience couldn't help leaning forward and breathing quickly. Shen Mo's standard routine of touching, watching, smelling, knocking, and knocking had already been done. Did he really end up like this?
Shen Mo put the material back in its original place, he turned around, and walked towards the table with pens and ink on it.
The moment Shen Mo turned around, there was a noise like a frying pan behind him.
Shen Mo actually ended like this, how long did it take?A stick of incense?No, half a stick of incense?Or just a cup of tea?
Shen Mo came to another table without looking back. He wrote down the answer without hesitation.
In the audience, everyone was really crazy this time.If it was said that everyone went crazy once when Qi Yunshu took out the agarwood, then everyone really lost their sanity this time.
In the past, everyone was crazy because of the rarity of agarwood, and because they missed this opportunity, but now, everyone was angry and anxious because they watched Shen Mo turn around like this!
But what if they are anxious, angry and restless?They are not even qualified to stand on stage.
Realizing this, everyone scratched their heads and felt more and more uncomfortable. They didn't even have the qualifications to be on stage, but Shen Mo just went through the motions like this and it's over?
Next to the high platform, those experts who had the opportunity to come to the stage really beat their chests one by one. This group of people had already flushed and their eyes were bleeding, and they all looked at Shen Mo with an indisputable hatred in their eyes.
With no other distractions, Shen Mo wrote down his answer, then walked aside and stood beside Mr. Jia and the others.
The moment Shen Mo approached the material, he understood why Mr. Jia acted like that before, because the material was indeed difficult to distinguish.
This kind of material like tree roots is actually unique in the carpenter's trade, because this kind of material is usually not used to make furniture, they are usually used to make handicrafts, such as carving or making bracelets.
This kind of material is mainly dominated by thuja. As the name suggests, thuja grows between cliffs. Because of its own characteristics, most of the trunk materials grown are twisted and bent.
It is precisely because of its characteristics that the texture and color of the inside are extraordinarily peculiar, which cannot be imitated by other materials.
The cliff is very distinctive, but it is also because it is so distinctive, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to identify.
You can't assume it's a thuja just because it looks strange, maybe it's just a lump of wood?
At the beginning, the head of the Shen family lost all their property in a gamble, and it was because of this cliff cypress that they lost. Apart from him, there are countless people who have been defeated by this throughout the ages.
Shen Mo stood still, while Qi Yunshu at the side withdrew his gaze, which had also been following Shen Mo. He walked aside to read the answers written by the three of them, and his hands were trembling the moment he reached out to open the answers written by Shen Mo.
After Qi Yunshu put away the bottom, he turned to look at the three of them, and then still made a gesture of please.
Qi Yunshu's meaning was clear at a glance, and the man who was the first to identify it among the three immediately stood up, and he announced the answer directly without waiting for the others to speak, "This is a piece of thuja! It's nearly a hundred years old in size, and it's about to get better in terms of its color and texture." material."
He was full of confidence, and his voice trembled with excitement, as if he had already won.
After finishing speaking, he immediately turned to look at Qi Yunshu.Qi Yunshu just smiled, and then looked at Mr. Jia who was beside him, "What do you say?"
Mr. Jia stood up. He still hesitated until now, but the answer had already been hesitant and meaningless, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I also think this is a piece of thuja, but this thuja should be Not a hundred years, but judging by the size and texture, it is at most 70 years."
Mr. Jia's answer was the same as that of the previous people, which made everyone in the audience start to discuss. The only difference between the two answers was the year, which also made everyone's hearts tugged.
Qi Yunshu still didn't find out the correct answer, he just looked at Shen Mo, with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face, he seemed to be presiding over the overall situation calmly, but his hand holding the bottom answer behind his back was trembling slightly.
Shen Mo smiled, and he stepped forward, his deep voice sounded, "This is not a thuja."
As soon as Shen Mo said this, everyone in the audience, including Mr. Jia and another person on the stage, turned their heads to look at him.
Qi Yunshu laughed, and he said, "Oh, what does Mr. Shen think?"
Shen Mo tilted his head slightly, took another look at the material, and after a pause, he said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a pear lump?"
There was a bit of uncertainty in Shen Mo's voice, but the uncertainty was almost negligible, because his uncertainty was not because he was uncertain about his answer, but because he didn't seem to believe that the Qi family would put a piece of pear lump on it. above.
The pear pimple is actually the root of buckthorn lobata. This kind of buckthorn root grows very slowly like thuja, and some roots have tumors, which will show a texture similar to that of thuja.
This is also a kind of material, but it is rarely used, and it is mostly used to make pipes, and this thing is very rare, and most people don't even know it.
"What? What did he say?"
"...What kind of wood is that, why haven't I heard of it?"
"pear?"
……
Everyone in the audience looked at me and at him, all of them looked blank, what did Shen Mo just say?
"Are you sure?" Qi Yunshu had a big smile on his face, the smile came from the heart, and the soft light in his eyes made his whole face more beautiful.
"Sure." Shen Mo nodded, facing everyone's doubts, he just smiled, calmly.
He is very confident in his answer, because he knows that he can't make a mistake, never.
"How could this be a pear bump?" The man who spoke first couldn't help but make a sound.
No matter how you look at it, this material is a piece of thuja, no matter in terms of texture or taste. Unlike others, he has been working with thuja for more than ten years, and he can never make a mistake.
"Why can't it be a pear bump?" Shen Mo asked back.
Old Jia looked at Shen Mo in astonishment. He obviously didn't expect Shen Mo's answer to be like this, but amidst the astonishment, his expression became a little weird.
At this moment, there was a crisp laughter from the side, and Qi Yunshu actually laughed on the stage, "Hahaha... I'm really curious, how did you recognize that this is a pear bump?"
Qi Yunshu looked at Shen Mo who was still calm and unhurried in front of him, and he felt that even he was going crazy.
How did Shen Mo see it?This thing even fooled Mr. Jia's eyes, and Shen Mo only saw it through the identification method that didn't take half a stick of incense time to add up?
Qi Yunshu couldn't understand, he couldn't figure it out at all, but everyone in the audience went crazy after hearing what he said. Seeing what Qi Yunshu meant, Shen Mo was the right one?
What's the meaning?Shen Mo won?
After a short period of surprise, there was a wave of louder voices in the venue, and everyone asked around, trying to figure out what happened, but after asking and asking, everyone didn't even know what the pear bump that Shen Mo mentioned before was. Haven't figured it out yet.
On the stage, the other man next to Mr. Jia also reacted, his face turned pale, and before he had time to put away the happy look on his face, he exclaimed, "Impossible, this is clearly a piece of thuja!"
He spoke out, but no one paid attention to it at all, and few people even heard him, because his voice was quickly overshadowed.
Seeing this, Mr. Jia let out a long breath. He smiled wryly, shook his head after taking a look at Shen Mo, and then stepped off the stage without saying a word.
Mr. Jia was hesitant before, but he actually found something wrong with this thuja cypress. He didn't recognize what it was.
"I'll just drink water." Qi Yunshu's heart almost jumped out.
Shen Mo got up, went to the side and poured a glass of water.
When he came back, Qi Yunshu was already curled up on the bed, clutching his abdomen, although he tried hard to make himself look less uncomfortable, but his pale face and cold sweat on his forehead betrayed him.
When Qi Yunshu was on the stage just now, he couldn't even stand firmly, otherwise he wouldn't fall on Shen Mo with his character.
After stepping off the stage, Qi Yunshu forced himself to walk all the way. If Shen Mo hadn't picked him up when he entered the lounge, he would probably have fallen to the ground directly.
Shen Mo brought the water to Qi Yunshu and watched him drink it.
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Mo put down the cup. If Qi Yunshu really didn't feel this way because of her pregnancy, the abdominal pain was unbearable to his level, it must be a serious illness.
After what happened before, Shen Mo didn't want to continue to worry about whether Qi Yunshu was pregnant, but how could he not doubt it in such a situation?
"It's just a little overworked." Qi Yunshu's weak voice came.
Shen Mo didn't know what to do when he heard the words, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the butler who ran to get the medicine came in with a bowl of dark medicine.
"Master, drink this quickly." The butler came forward.
Qi Yunshu forced himself to sit up, frowning, raised his head, and drank the whole bowl of medicine.
After taking the medicine, Qi Yunshu's condition did not improve immediately, so he lay down to rest again.
Seeing that Qi Yunshu had taken the medicine, the butler didn't dare to stay longer after asking a few more questions, and hurried out to preside over the overall situation.
Qi Yunshu collapsed suddenly, but the appraisal meeting was not over yet, and someone still had to announce who was left behind after the first round of gambling.
As soon as the butler left, the room fell silent.
Qi Yunshu moved his body and changed his posture. During the movement, he realized that Shen Mo hadn't left yet, "Is there anything else?"
Shen Mo shook his head, and after hearing that the butler outside had found someone to announce the name of the winner of this bet on his behalf, he also left.
The appraisal will be held for a total of ten days, with a total of three competitions.The competition adopts an elimination system, and only those who win can continue to the next competition.
In this first competition, more than half of the people were eliminated. Including Shen Mo and Jia Lao, there were less than ten of the original twenty or thirty people.
The second match is three days later, which is the fifth day of the appraisal meeting.The person on stage who spoke on behalf of Qi Yunshu calmed down the crowd, and when he got off the stage, he was surrounded by a group of people.
Surrounded by businessmen and experts who came to this appraisal meeting, everyone asked about Qi Yunshu's situation, and businessmen were the most concerned. They were all worried that if Qi Yunshu fell, the Qi family would still be able Ships at normal speed.
Qi Yunshu is the head of the Qi family, and if he falls, the impact on the Qi family's business will be self-evident.
Qi Yunshu could hear those people outside scrambling to ask questions while lying on the low bed. He closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind, and also tried not to let himself pay attention to the throbbing pain coming from his abdomen.
He never knew that pregnancy would be such a hard and painful thing. He has been in the current situation almost since he realized that he was pregnant. Vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain, these one after another seemed to torture him to death.
Just now on the stage, he just got angry, and immediately there were bursts of throbbing pain in his stomach.
In the venue, Shen Mo didn't stay long after the appraisal meeting. He went home to settle his food and clothing and took a rest.
After noon, Shen Mo found Qi Yunshu in the courtyard of the Qi family after looking for the news that the people from the Qi family had told him. Qi Yunshu said yesterday that he would take him to meet some people.
Qi Yunshu fell down suddenly in the morning, Shen Mo thought he would cancel the arrangement, but when Shen Mo found the Qi family compound, Qi Yunshu got up and walked around as if nothing happened.
Qi Yunshu led Shen Mo towards the workshop next to the Qi family compound. At first, Shen Mo was still puzzled, but after entering the door, he understood.
This workshop has been vacant because all the craftsmen have been helping at the appraisal meeting in recent days, and Qi Yunshu should have lent it to others.
In the workshop, the wooden shelf workbenches that were originally placed in the house were piled aside, and now there is only an unpainted coffee table and a few chairs.
There were six people in the room, all of them were insiders without exception, and Shen Mo had never met them before, and they were not those who participated in the appraisal meeting.
Although these people can be seen to be carpenters, they are very different from others. Judging from the impression alone, if they don't have strong limbs and thin calluses on their hands, they don't look like carpenters at all.
Especially one of the middle-aged men with a round body. His outfit and the white jade wrench on his thumb are extremely inconsistent with a carpenter.
After Shen Mo entered the door, he greeted several people and introduced them. Hearing that he was Shen Mo, those people looked at him curiously and introduced themselves.
Several people reported only their names, and did not say where they came from.Although Shen Mo was a little curious, but seeing that the other party didn't want to mention him, he didn't ask any more questions.
After some opening greetings, the few people quickly brought the topic to Shen Mo's previous nonsense and the general case.Obviously, they have all researched thoroughly, but they still have some doubts.
In addition to these two things, everyone was also full of curiosity about the mortise and tenon joints that Shen Mo had mentioned. As for the trick box that Shen Mo gave to Qi Yunshu before, it had already made everyone's heart itchy.
To this, Shen Mo knew everything to answer, and the time quickly passed in the conversation of everyone.
When Shen Mo came back to his senses, the sky had already darkened.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi Yunshu, who had been listening quietly, ended the meeting. After saying goodbye to those people, the two walked out the door together.
After leaving the door, Shen Mo was about to ask Qi Yunshu about the origins of those people, when a figure suddenly appeared beside him.
Shen Mo knew that person, even so close that he gave him a headache when he saw him, because that person was Mr. Jia who had been haunting him for a while.
Mr. Jia was obviously planning to come here to try his luck to see if he could meet Shen Mo, but it was such a coincidence that he saw Shen Mo coming out of the workshop as soon as he arrived nearby.
"I happen to have something to look for you." Old Jia stopped Shen Mo.
"If it's about the trick box, this junior really can't help." Shen Mo couldn't laugh or cry, this old Jia really couldn't be messed with.
"Otherwise, I'll pay you to buy it? How much do you want?" Mr. Jia was not ready to give up.
"It's not about money, but that I can't do it now." Shen Mo was going to explain it clearly to him, even though he had tried it before.
"Why? Are you hurt?"
"I don't have any tools at hand, and I don't have any suitable wood, let alone time." Shen Mo reasoned, "It will be after the appraisal meeting when I'm free."
Old Jia frowned, "You don't even have tools?"
"Someone is already customizing it for me, but it seems that it may not be delivered now." Shen Mo was also a little depressed when talking about this matter. According to Qin Peng's shameless personality, they might not be able to fulfill the bet.
Jia always knew about the betting agreement between Shen Mo and Huang He, and he was present in most of these competitions.Now when Shen Mo said that he had no tools and the other party might not fulfill the bet, his eyes immediately widened.
Seeing this, Shen Mo knew that there was hope for evasion, and quickly said, "So we'll talk about this matter later."
Mr. Jia stood there frowning, his face full of dissatisfaction.
Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave, when he saw that Mr. Jia seemed to have thought of something and wanted to speak again, so scared that Shen Mo hurriedly pulled Qi Yunshu who was beside him, turned around and entered the alleyway beside him.
Shen Mo had lived here for some time anyway, and was very familiar with the nearby trails. He dragged Qi Yunshu inside and turned left and right, and soon got rid of Mr. Jia.
Back on the street again, Shen Mo craned his neck to look around, he was relieved when he didn't see Mr. Jia on the street, and walked forward side by side with Qi Yunshu.
Qi Yunshu was dragged and ran all the way, and when he returned to the street, he looked at Shen Mo with a smile in his eyes.
Shen Mo has always been confident and indifferent, as if nothing can move him. This is the first time Qi Yunshu has seen him in such a mess for a long time, and that appearance makes him feel a little cute.
"What are you going to do next?" Qi Yunshu asked.
"What?" Shen Mo pulled Qi Yunshu to escape together, and he was planning to ask him who those people were, but now that he was disturbed by this, he even forgot his original purpose.
"I'm asking you how you plan to go on, do you still want to work in a big workshop?" Qi Yunshu asked.He once promised Shen Mo that after the appraisal meeting, he would be transferred to work in the big workshop.
"Naturally." Shen Mo nodded.With nothing left, he wanted to make a name for himself, and the fastest way was to use the manpower, materials and resources of the Qi family.
The Qi family has a big business, and the resources and orders that the Qi family workshop can access are beyond the reach of ordinary workshops. Shen Mo chose to work at the Qi family because of this.
Just like the blind stool, if it wasn't for the spread of the stuff in the Qi family, I'm afraid it wouldn't have attracted so many people's attention, and his name wouldn't have been noticed so quickly.
Shen Mo's attitude was firm, but the smile on Qi Yunshu's face gradually faded and turned into calmness.Qi Yunshu is a smart person, so he naturally understood Shen Mo's intentions.
Shen Mo always knows what he wants and what to do.Qi Yunshu doesn't dislike people who have goals and are willing to put them into action. In fact, he quite appreciates Shen Mo's because he is such a person himself.
In his view, if you don't fight for what you want, why should others ask for it?After so many years, Qi Yunshu, who has suffered all the hardships of being a twin, has already understood that there is never such a good thing in the world.
Qi Yunshu walked side by side with Shen Mo, and the thought that he had once before unconsciously popped up again, if he and Shen Mo had not had the relationship they have now, maybe he would really take the initiative to make friends with Shen Mo.
"What?" Shen Mo asked back, is Qi Yunshu going to go back on his word?
"It's nothing, just to confirm." Qi Yunshu smiled, and it would be best for Shen Mo to go.After Shen Mo went to the big workshop, the chances of the two of them meeting again would be reduced, which would be good for everyone.
Qi Yunshu was relieved to confirm that Shen Mo's mind remained unchanged, but for some reason, he couldn't be happy at all.
The two of them walked along the avenue outside the town where the wood was pressed out to the end, and then they parted ways. Shen Mo returned home, and Qi Yunshu went to the venue.
In the next few days, Shen Mo still ran to the meeting place early in the morning every day. The appraisal meeting and some things that happened before made Shen Mo meet some people in the meeting place.
Shen Mo is happy to be in contact with these people, and sometimes he can learn a lot just by listening to these people chatting.
But there is one exception, and that is Old Jia.Ever since he took Qi Yunshu to escape that afternoon, Mr. Jia became more and more entangled, which made Shen Mo's headache so severe.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the second match went on as scheduled. The only difference from before was that Qi Yunshu did not come to this match.The explanation given by the Qi family was that Qi Yunshu was delayed by something, but Shen Mo immediately guessed that it was because of his strange abdominal pain.
Qi Yunshu didn't come, but the game had to continue.
This match is still a gamble, as before, with the Qi family's material and then the rest of the people for appraisal.
Because the number of participants has dropped sharply, logically speaking, the competition time will also be shortened, but because the rest of the people have become more cautious, this appraisal will take much longer than before.
Only Shen Mo was different, he was still the same as before, after he got on the stage, he touched, looked, sniffed, knocked, and then put down his things and left the stage after a set of movements.
Shen Mo spent much less time than the others, which naturally caused a commotion. After the game ended, the answer was announced, and after learning that Shen Mo had won the championship again, the name Shen Mo immediately became the topic of discussion. main topic.
In the second match, the Qi family gave a piece of iron birch that looked very much like elm wood. The material was still not big, and the color had darkened a little.
To identify, the most important key is that the fragrance of the two kinds of wood is different.Pestle elm is odorless, while iron birch is fragrant.
The other characteristics of this material are too vague, and the difficulty is several times more difficult than before, so when this appraisal session ends, there are only three people left.
Shen Mo, Jia Lao, and one of the two men who had sang and sang with another person in the lounge before and spoke ill of Shen Mo.
It was not surprising that Mr. Jia could keep Shen Mo, but Shen Mo couldn't help but look at him more because that person could stay.
At the end of the game, Shen Mo was surrounded by everyone to congratulate.
Outside the crowd, in Qi Yunshu's exclusive lounge, Qi Yunshu sat on a low bench and listened quietly to the movement outside.
Hearing those congratulations and compliments to Shen Mo, Qi Yunshu couldn't help showing a little smile.Shen Mo was proud of himself, but he didn't see any signs of complacency. He was still the same as before.
Although Qi Yunshu didn't see his face, he could already hear his voice.Imagining Shen Mo standing silently in plain clothes among the crowd, Qi Yunshu's expression became a little more gentle.
"Master, I have arranged for a carriage." When the butler came in, Qi Yunshu put away the smile on his face.
Qi Yunshu attached great importance to this appraisal meeting, and he had come here long ago to prepare, but last night he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his stomach and almost stayed up all night, and finally stayed up until morning, but the situation did not change at all.
As a last resort, Qi Yunshu could only choose the latter between fainting on stage and not on stage, because this would bring the least bad influence.
Qi Yunshu is a businessman, and a smart businessman, so he naturally knows how to maximize his profits.
Just like Shen Mo's matter, although Shen Mo came to Qi's family to seek employment in order to get Muchang back, but in Qi Yunshu's view, this was nothing, because Shen Mo also had something that he could use.Before Shen Mo really has the ability and ability to compete with him in Kiba, no one can say who will use whom more.
The things Shen Mo has brought out so far are eye-catching, and these have also benefited the Qi family a lot.
People like Mr. Jia agreed to participate in the appraisal meeting because of the stupid stool, which added a lot of color to the appraisal meeting and attracted more attention.The same is true of the three-legged stool in the academy before, and so far, the Qi family has been well received.
Qi Yunshu was looking forward to what Shen Mo would come up with next, and how many times he would be surprised.
Shen Mo's reputation has become huge, and he will attract attention wherever he goes in the next few days. This situation lasted until the final appraisal meeting began.
In the third match, Qi Yunshu stood on the stage again, his face was still a little pale, but he was in good spirits.
At the beginning of the appraisal, Qi Yunshu slapped his hands directly, and asked the people from the Qi family to carry up the finale he had prepared before.
It was a small piece of material that could be lifted by two people. Shen Mo had seen it from a distance before, but it was wrapped in white cloth at that time.
But this time it was different, Qi Yunshu asked someone to lift the things up and immediately lifted the white cloth on top, revealing the things below.
At first, Shen Mo thought that there would be a long piece of material like a tree trunk underneath, but after the fabric was lifted, he realized that he had miscalculated this time, and there was actually a box under the white cloth.
After the initial surprise, Shen Mo quickly understood that if it was really a precious material, it would be really hearty enough to wrap it in a white cloth like this, otherwise, if it was bumped and cracked, wouldn't it hurt people to death?
Shen Mo calmed down and continued to watch, the others had already widened their eyes, waiting for Qi Yunshu to open the box.
Qi Yunshu didn't hesitate, he took a piece of white cloth that looked like a handkerchief from the side and wrapped it around his hand, and then went to open the box.
As soon as the box was opened, the people below put their feet up to look around, as if they thought they could see what was in the box on the high platform, and even the group of experts who were invited couldn't stand it any longer. stand up.
Qi Yunshu reached into the box, and while everyone was staring with bated breath, he took out an object held by a small pedestal.
The thing was only the size of a palm, but it was packed in a box that could only be lifted by two people. This was beyond everyone's expectations, but after being surprised, there was a sound of gasping for air.
At that moment, even Shen Mo couldn't help showing surprise, because that thing turned out to be a piece of agarwood!
Agarwood, also known as agarwood or water agarwood, is formed after years of deposition of wood containing resin.The formation of agarwood is very complicated, and there are many types of fragrances. It is not only the raw material of very rare and top handicrafts, but also a precious traditional Chinese medicine.
The reason why everyone was so shocked and even gasped was because agarwood is very rare and very precious.
If we want to specifically say how precious it is, let’s put it this way, even if other woods are worth tens of thousands, they are sold by the square meter. Unlike agarwood, it is sold by the gram.
In Shen Mo's world, the price of raw agarwood even reached a terrifying level of tens of thousands per gram.
Those who were experts in recognizing that thing went crazy without exception, and even Shen Mo couldn't help but take a step forward.Although the outsiders who watched the excitement didn't know what it was, they all started talking and guessing when they saw Shen Mo and the others like this.
Qi Yunshu closed the box, and he put the agarwood and the small table on the box.
After finishing all this, Qi Yunshu looked at Shen Mo, Mr. Jia and the other person, "You three, please!"
While Qi Yunshu was talking, someone next to him brought up a table. On the table was also a piece of material covered with a white cloth, and this material was Shen Mo's final exam question.
The three of them went to the stage, but their eyes were still fixed on the agarwood.
Looking closer, Shen Mo's eyes were a little surprised and a little inquiring. Agarwood is extremely rare, and it is the second time Shen Mo has seen it.
Jia Lao's eyes were burning brightly, staring straight at the agarwood.And the other person's face was already flushed, and there was even a bit of fanaticism in his eyes.
"How many?" Qi Yunshu's voice broke the silence.
Shen Mo heard the reputation, and then realized that Qi Yunshu had lifted the white cloth on the other table at some point, revealing the material underneath.
It was a piece of material that was completely different from the previous ones. The material was crooked and ugly, and there were many uneven places on it, which looked dirty.
Seeing the material, the scarlet eyes of the last man among the three showed ecstasy instantly, and he recognized it almost instantly, because it was the material he was best at and had a lot of contact with.
Recognizing that thing, the man couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha...it seems that this agarwood must belong to me."
Mr. Jia glanced at him, his eyes darkened, obviously he had already seriously considered it, and he was bound to get this agarwood.
Shen Mo glanced at Chen Xiangmu next to him again. At this moment, he had gradually regained his composure, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, his eye bags were smiling calmly.
"Who will come first?" Qi Yunshu made a gesture of invitation.
Now that there are only three people left, there is no need to follow the order of the name posts as before.
"I'll come first!" The man, whose eyes were already red and about to bleed, immediately took a step forward.
It seemed that Mr. Jia was about to speak, but he preempted him, so he had to take back the foot he had just stepped on.
The people in the audience who were originally competing with Shen Mo and the others had already gone crazy at this moment, and they kept moaning. They were very surprised when they recognized this thing as agarwood.
Everyone looked like this, and the man who had taken the lead couldn't help showing a smile on his face. Fortunately, he won, otherwise he would definitely want to strangle himself to death like this group of people now.
"Please!" Qi Yunshu stepped back a little to make room.
Since Qi Yunshu took out the agarwood, he hadn't intentionally heated up the atmosphere, but even so, the atmosphere was still getting tense and boiling.
Many spectators in the audience already knew what the grand finale was, and those who knew the value of it were naturally no less calm than those who missed the opportunity. They all patted their chests and stomped their feet, wishing they hadn't become carpenters I only regret that I didn't go bankrupt and buy famous posts before.
On the stage, the man who took the lead took a deep breath, and stood in front of the strange-looking wood.
He was very serious about his appraisal, and used almost all the methods, even sticking out his tongue to lick and taste the taste. After repeating the action twice, he went to the side to write the answer step by step, and then stepped back. step aside.
After the person was identified, Qi Yunshu looked at Mr. Jia and Shen Mo again.
Jia always wanted to rush up to appraise it, but he also cared that Shen Mo hadn't made a mechanism box for him yet, so he looked at Shen Mo with a rather tangled face, making himself blushed.
Seeing him like this, Shen Mo just thought it was funny, he didn't compete with Mr. Jia, anyway, he didn't rush when he had a chance, so he gently made a gesture of please for Mr. Jia to go first.
Seeing this, Old Jia ran over quickly. After running over, he also started to use it, but Old Jia's speed was a bit slow.
He was very fast at the beginning, but after carefully inspecting the wood, he stopped slowly, and his brows were also furrowed, obviously in trouble.
Mr. Jia stopped for half a stick of incense, and when he walked to the side to write the answer, he still had an expression of uncertainty and hesitation.
Mr. Jia is already a top figure in the industry, and his experience and knowledge are also there. Seeing him so hesitant now, everyone watching the excitement in the audience also hesitated with anxiety.
If Mr. Jia can't confirm it, then what kind of material is this material?Could it be some extremely rare and rare material?But if this is the case, why did that person before seem so sure?
Everyone was full of doubts and extremely puzzled.
And at this moment, Shen Mo stepped forward.
Seeing Shen Mo approaching, the noisy crowd in the audience quieted down and looked at him one after another.
Shen Mo is still dressed in plain robes. Carpenter's work is very dusty, so most of his clothes are dark colors that don't look dirty, and most of them are styles that are convenient for movement.
What he was wearing today was a dark gray robe with tight sleeves. The simple and elegant style made him look extra energetic and made it easier for people to see the movements of his hands.
Shen Mo walked to the table, stopped, and looked down at the materials on the table.
Shen Mo's movements were not hurried or slow, which was in stark contrast to the previous two, which also made everyone's restless hearts calm down, watching him quietly, waiting for him to move.
Just when everyone in the audience thought that Shen Mo was going to show some real skills this time, and when they were going to put up 12 energies to make a careful appraisal, they saw Shen Mo stretch out his hand, and first touched the material as usual The fracture, and the uneven material surface.
After touching it, Shen Mo lifted the material up again, and then looked at it carefully from two angles.
Seeing Shen Mo's appearance, everyone in the audience who had been waiting quietly broke into a sweat, because they were so familiar with Shen Mo's movements, isn't this still Shen Mo's "touch, look, smell, knock, and knock" ?
Could it be that at this time, he is still going to go as before?What are you kidding?
The other person before Mr. Jia spent about two sticks of incense to make a decision from the beginning to the end, and this was considered fast, because Mr. Jia counted the time when he was standing next to him and tangling, it took him almost as fast as before and after. Three sticks of incense.
It's nothing, if it were the rest of them going up, they might not dare to let go of the four-pillar incense, after all, it is agarwood!
But it's all like this, yet Shen Mo is still his way.
Just when everyone in the audience was whispering, on the stage, Shen Mo had already put down the material, and he had finished reading it.
After reading it, Shen Mo leaned down and sniffed the fracture lightly. This action only lasted for a few blinks, and then Shen Mo straightened up and did not continue.
After sniffing, Shen Mo curled up his fingers under everyone's gaze, and tapped lightly on the material.
Because the material looked like a tree bump, Shen Mo knocked three times in three places with different thicknesses, and listened to three different sounds.
Seeing that Shen Mo had finished listening to the sound, everyone in the audience couldn't help leaning forward and breathing quickly. Shen Mo's standard routine of touching, watching, smelling, knocking, and knocking had already been done. Did he really end up like this?
Shen Mo put the material back in its original place, he turned around, and walked towards the table with pens and ink on it.
The moment Shen Mo turned around, there was a noise like a frying pan behind him.
Shen Mo actually ended like this, how long did it take?A stick of incense?No, half a stick of incense?Or just a cup of tea?
Shen Mo came to another table without looking back. He wrote down the answer without hesitation.
In the audience, everyone was really crazy this time.If it was said that everyone went crazy once when Qi Yunshu took out the agarwood, then everyone really lost their sanity this time.
In the past, everyone was crazy because of the rarity of agarwood, and because they missed this opportunity, but now, everyone was angry and anxious because they watched Shen Mo turn around like this!
But what if they are anxious, angry and restless?They are not even qualified to stand on stage.
Realizing this, everyone scratched their heads and felt more and more uncomfortable. They didn't even have the qualifications to be on stage, but Shen Mo just went through the motions like this and it's over?
Next to the high platform, those experts who had the opportunity to come to the stage really beat their chests one by one. This group of people had already flushed and their eyes were bleeding, and they all looked at Shen Mo with an indisputable hatred in their eyes.
With no other distractions, Shen Mo wrote down his answer, then walked aside and stood beside Mr. Jia and the others.
The moment Shen Mo approached the material, he understood why Mr. Jia acted like that before, because the material was indeed difficult to distinguish.
This kind of material like tree roots is actually unique in the carpenter's trade, because this kind of material is usually not used to make furniture, they are usually used to make handicrafts, such as carving or making bracelets.
This kind of material is mainly dominated by thuja. As the name suggests, thuja grows between cliffs. Because of its own characteristics, most of the trunk materials grown are twisted and bent.
It is precisely because of its characteristics that the texture and color of the inside are extraordinarily peculiar, which cannot be imitated by other materials.
The cliff is very distinctive, but it is also because it is so distinctive, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to identify.
You can't assume it's a thuja just because it looks strange, maybe it's just a lump of wood?
At the beginning, the head of the Shen family lost all their property in a gamble, and it was because of this cliff cypress that they lost. Apart from him, there are countless people who have been defeated by this throughout the ages.
Shen Mo stood still, while Qi Yunshu at the side withdrew his gaze, which had also been following Shen Mo. He walked aside to read the answers written by the three of them, and his hands were trembling the moment he reached out to open the answers written by Shen Mo.
After Qi Yunshu put away the bottom, he turned to look at the three of them, and then still made a gesture of please.
Qi Yunshu's meaning was clear at a glance, and the man who was the first to identify it among the three immediately stood up, and he announced the answer directly without waiting for the others to speak, "This is a piece of thuja! It's nearly a hundred years old in size, and it's about to get better in terms of its color and texture." material."
He was full of confidence, and his voice trembled with excitement, as if he had already won.
After finishing speaking, he immediately turned to look at Qi Yunshu.Qi Yunshu just smiled, and then looked at Mr. Jia who was beside him, "What do you say?"
Mr. Jia stood up. He still hesitated until now, but the answer had already been hesitant and meaningless, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I also think this is a piece of thuja, but this thuja should be Not a hundred years, but judging by the size and texture, it is at most 70 years."
Mr. Jia's answer was the same as that of the previous people, which made everyone in the audience start to discuss. The only difference between the two answers was the year, which also made everyone's hearts tugged.
Qi Yunshu still didn't find out the correct answer, he just looked at Shen Mo, with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face, he seemed to be presiding over the overall situation calmly, but his hand holding the bottom answer behind his back was trembling slightly.
Shen Mo smiled, and he stepped forward, his deep voice sounded, "This is not a thuja."
As soon as Shen Mo said this, everyone in the audience, including Mr. Jia and another person on the stage, turned their heads to look at him.
Qi Yunshu laughed, and he said, "Oh, what does Mr. Shen think?"
Shen Mo tilted his head slightly, took another look at the material, and after a pause, he said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a pear lump?"
There was a bit of uncertainty in Shen Mo's voice, but the uncertainty was almost negligible, because his uncertainty was not because he was uncertain about his answer, but because he didn't seem to believe that the Qi family would put a piece of pear lump on it. above.
The pear pimple is actually the root of buckthorn lobata. This kind of buckthorn root grows very slowly like thuja, and some roots have tumors, which will show a texture similar to that of thuja.
This is also a kind of material, but it is rarely used, and it is mostly used to make pipes, and this thing is very rare, and most people don't even know it.
"What? What did he say?"
"...What kind of wood is that, why haven't I heard of it?"
"pear?"
……
Everyone in the audience looked at me and at him, all of them looked blank, what did Shen Mo just say?
"Are you sure?" Qi Yunshu had a big smile on his face, the smile came from the heart, and the soft light in his eyes made his whole face more beautiful.
"Sure." Shen Mo nodded, facing everyone's doubts, he just smiled, calmly.
He is very confident in his answer, because he knows that he can't make a mistake, never.
"How could this be a pear bump?" The man who spoke first couldn't help but make a sound.
No matter how you look at it, this material is a piece of thuja, no matter in terms of texture or taste. Unlike others, he has been working with thuja for more than ten years, and he can never make a mistake.
"Why can't it be a pear bump?" Shen Mo asked back.
Old Jia looked at Shen Mo in astonishment. He obviously didn't expect Shen Mo's answer to be like this, but amidst the astonishment, his expression became a little weird.
At this moment, there was a crisp laughter from the side, and Qi Yunshu actually laughed on the stage, "Hahaha... I'm really curious, how did you recognize that this is a pear bump?"
Qi Yunshu looked at Shen Mo who was still calm and unhurried in front of him, and he felt that even he was going crazy.
How did Shen Mo see it?This thing even fooled Mr. Jia's eyes, and Shen Mo only saw it through the identification method that didn't take half a stick of incense time to add up?
Qi Yunshu couldn't understand, he couldn't figure it out at all, but everyone in the audience went crazy after hearing what he said. Seeing what Qi Yunshu meant, Shen Mo was the right one?
What's the meaning?Shen Mo won?
After a short period of surprise, there was a wave of louder voices in the venue, and everyone asked around, trying to figure out what happened, but after asking and asking, everyone didn't even know what the pear bump that Shen Mo mentioned before was. Haven't figured it out yet.
On the stage, the other man next to Mr. Jia also reacted, his face turned pale, and before he had time to put away the happy look on his face, he exclaimed, "Impossible, this is clearly a piece of thuja!"
He spoke out, but no one paid attention to it at all, and few people even heard him, because his voice was quickly overshadowed.
Seeing this, Mr. Jia let out a long breath. He smiled wryly, shook his head after taking a look at Shen Mo, and then stepped off the stage without saying a word.
Mr. Jia was hesitant before, but he actually found something wrong with this thuja cypress. He didn't recognize what it was.
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