Rebirth of the Nine-Three Era

Yin Yuan decided to drive to Shanya. Although he took the ferry, it would be much easier to drive because he had to visit several timber purchase points.

He called Dong Huajun: "Hello, Manager Dong, I'm going to Shanya tomorrow. Have those receiving points received the wood?"

Dong Huajun said: "It has been collecting for a few days. There should be several tons of goods. Please note it down. I will tell you the phone numbers of the persons in charge of the two receiving points. You go and contact them."

Yin Yuan saw that one number was for Anding County and the other was for Dongfang City.

What he knew was that the wood growing in the eastern part of the island is called sugar pear. Due to the open terrain, abundant rain, and sufficient sunshine, it grows relatively quickly, so the material is relatively loose, with large patterns, light color, and thick pores.

The ones that grow in the western region are called avocados. Due to the high terrain, there are mostly dense woods. The woods compete with each other for nutrients, so they grow slowly. Therefore, the material is fine, oily and dense. Most of them are submerged in water. The patterns are extremely rich and delicate. , black and bright color, hard and tough wood.

At this time, rosewood was relatively abundant on the entire island. Ten or eight years later, wherever there was rosewood, no matter in the east or the west, people would dig out every three feet of the ground.

Of course, this is the time to choose the best material, huanghuali wood.

He called Dong Huajun and told him about it.

"Manager Dong, can you try to choose oil pear wood from the western region? Because the sugar pear wood from the eastern region is looser and not as hard as the material from the western region. It doesn't matter if it's a little more expensive..."

Dong Huajun smiled and said: "It seems that Mr. Yin is quite familiar with the huanghuali on the island, but the distance to the western area is longer, and the transportation cost increases accordingly. The wood is also slightly more expensive than the eastern area, and the mountains are high and the forests are dense. , it is more difficult to cut down the raft, and it may take a lot more time.”

Yin Yuan said: "It doesn't matter, I can wait. Just notify the point in Dongfang City, or the nearby points in Changjiang and Ledong, and ask them to collect ten tons of goods for me."

Dong Huajun also told him the phone numbers of the people in charge of Changjiang and Ledong.

Yin Yuan called Lu Benwei in Dongfang City.

"Hello, Boss Lu, I am Yin Yuan, a client of Mr. Dong of Yangcheng Foreign Trade Company."

Lu Benwei knew who he was as soon as he heard it.

"Hello, Mr. Yin, I have received three cubic meters of wood here, about two cubic meters of trees over a hundred years old. If I collect five cubic meters, I will ask a truck to take it to Haikou, and there will be five cubic meters of goods there."

Yin Yuan said: "I told Mr. Dong that we want all the oil pear wood from the West District, not the sugar pears from the East District. He has notified Changjiang and Ledong to work with you to get ten tons of goods."

Lu Benwei said: "That's okay. I don't know if they have any inventory at the two locations."

Yin Yuan said: "I'll ask them."

He contacted Wang Shijie in Changjiang.

Wang Shijie said: "I have more than two cubic meters of goods at my purchase point. They are all old materials and are over a hundred years old. Does Mr. Yin want them?"

Yin Yuan said: "Yes, why not? The older the tree, the better."

Wang Shijie said: "There are still many old trees on the mountain. Just ask the villagers to cut them down. Three or four cubic meters can be collected in a few days."

Li Ruisheng from Ledong City said the same thing.

This time there are three people from Guangdong Province participating in the Sanya Young and Middle-aged Painters Exchange Meeting. They are Yin Yuan, who won the first prize in the last art exhibition, and Chen Dongsheng and Yang Zhiguang, who won the second prize.

Chen Dongsheng is good at comics, and Yang Zhiguang is good at Chinese painting. Both of them are middle-aged famous painters in their 40s.

Yin Yuan is their apprentice before them. These painters have been in the painting world for many years and have formed their own unique painting style. Unlike Yin Yuan who is young, he can accept a little bit of anyone's painting skills.

Some painters will have some opinions about him, and will discuss in private who he learned his painting skills from.

During the last art exhibition, he also tried his best to avoid discussing painting issues with these painters.

In a way, they were very unconvinced that Yin Yuan was able to achieve No. 1 in the last exhibition.

At such a young age, he managed to reach the position of vice president of the Artists Association. Why?

In terms of seniority, there is no way he is just a young boy.

Secretary Yu Yangguang specifically told him: "There are three of us going, and you should be considered the leader. All expenses for the three of you can be reimbursed. Can we discuss whether to go by plane or by shuttle bus?"

Yin Yuan said: "I plan to drive there by myself. I will contact the two painters. If they take my car, I will pick them up."

Yu Yangguang said: "If you drive there, you will be reimbursed for gas and other expenses."

Yin Yuan contacted the two painters Chen and Yang based on the number provided by Secretary Yu, and they said that they would fly directly to Sanya Airport.

Yin Yuan agreed with them to meet at the Sanya Hotel tomorrow.

The next day he took Huo Buqiang and set off.

Yin Yuan's car was equipped with a navigation system. Even so, he took the wrong route once in the opposite Guangdong Province before the Qiongzhou Strait.

I thought the road pointed by the navigation would be easier and more direct. However, I followed the navigation and ended up directly on a township-level highway, which required an extra turn of more than 20 kilometers.

Later, I asked a grocery store owner on the roadside and found out that I was returning to the national highway.

After crossing the ferry, I found a bookstore and bought a national highway map, and turned to the page of the Hainan highway map.

After finding a restaurant for lunch, the two of them studied the walking route.

The nearest distance is more than 300 kilometers, and it takes four or five hours to drive. It is a provincial road. Of course, in some places the road is steep and winding, and the county-level road is full of potholes and difficult to navigate.

Simply turn off the annoying GPS navigation, first mark each city and city you travel through on the road map, and find the walking directions of counties and counties in the same urban area.

Huo Buqiang is responsible for watching roadside signs and judging the next place name in time.

Finally arrived at Shanya Hotel at [-]pm.

Yin Yuan opened a room for Huo Buqiang, then filled in his name at the sign-in desk, and received the meeting agenda and the list of participants from all over the country.

There were three people from each province, and more than 70 people attended the meeting.

Free time will be arranged tomorrow morning.

Because some participants from distant provinces will not be able to arrive until tomorrow morning.

He thought he could go to a few receiving points tomorrow to check the quality of the wood.

I found two painters, Chen and Yang, who had just arrived.

The dinner organizer arranged a buffet, and Huo Buqiang could also eat at the buffet after purchasing a meal ticket.

Yin Yuan met Feng Tianqing in the restaurant.

"Hello Teacher Feng, I didn't expect to meet you here today."

When Feng Tianqing saw Yin Yuan, he said enthusiastically: "I knew I would definitely meet you at this symposium. You are the most popular young painter in Guangdong Province right now."

Chen Dongsheng and Yang Zhiguang, who were behind Yin Yuan, both curled their lips.

"You might as well say that he is the most famous painter in Guangdong Province."

Yin Yuan said modestly: "Compared with many old painters, my painting skills are still far behind."

After Feng Tianqing took the food, he sat at the same dining table with Yin Yuan.

After dinner, Feng Tianqing went to the room to chat with Yin Yuan. The Guizhou painter who lived in the same room told him that Yin Yuan had gone out with a young man.

At this time, Yin Yuan and Huo Buqiang were visiting the night market and bought some coconut powder, Kuding tea and Lan Guiren.

I drank coconut milk and ate barbecue at a late night snack stall.

I think the various Hainan huanghuali bead strings on the street handicraft stalls are quite cheap.

So he spent money and bought a dozen strings of beads.

Four or five jewelry boxes.

A set of Hainan huanghuali wood bowl and plate ornaments, a pair of Go boxes, a carved ornament, a Pixiu pen made of old pear material, the same fortune, wealth, longevity and wealth ornaments, and a set of Eighteen Arhat ornaments...

Huo Buqiang was stunned.

"Mr. Yin, do you want to open a wood carving handicraft shop? Do you want to buy whatever you like?"

Yin Yuan said: "These things are handicrafts, but the value of these old materials will increase sharply in the future. Now that you encounter them, just treat them as missing."

Would you believe it if I told you that huanghuali wood, which is more than a hundred years old, will cost 9000 yuan per kilogram?

Coupled with these craftsmanship, the price will increase hundreds of times in a few decades.

Of course Huo Buqiang couldn't understand what he meant by picking up leaks. His attention was attracted by the occasional local woman or two wearing distinctive skirts on the street.

Yin Yuan warned him: I don't care what you do in Jiangming, but you must keep yourself clean when you go out and don't cause trouble.

In the car, Yin Yuan asked him and Huang Qiuyue how far they had developed now.

Huo Buqiang said to him: "Don't mention it. Fortunately, I didn't pay attention to her. Last time I went to Dongxin Port with you to pick up the goods, and asked my boy to come over and help with the work. When I returned, I found that the two of them were together. .”

Yin Yuan was also surprised: "That Huo Quanhai, doesn't he know that Huang Qiuyue has always liked you?"

"It's not that she likes me, she just thinks that by having a relationship with me, she can have someone to rely on temporarily. When the conditions are good, she will pick the bad ones at any time."

"When Huo Quanhai came here, he asked me if Huang Qiuyue was my girlfriend? I said no. He probably heard what I said and then boldly pursued her. It's good, it's like I've thrown away a burden."

Yin Yuan thought: Your fate in the previous life has finally changed.

When I returned to the hotel, I threw all the huanghuali crafts I bought into the trunk of the car.

Huo Buqiang lived on another floor and couldn't sleep in the hotel, so he ran outside for a walk in the middle of the night.

Yin Yuan called his wife: "I bought a set of huanghuali wood dishes and tableware for Xiaobao to use when eating. There are small cups, wooden chopsticks and small spoons."

Wanting said: "I broke a bowl for him this morning. Tonight, my parents and I went to the supermarket and bought him an iron rice bowl, but he refused to use it."

She asked him: "Is Sanya fun? Is the scenery good?"

He said: "I didn't arrive at the hotel until almost five o'clock. The road from Haikou to Sanya was full of potholes in many places and it was difficult to walk. Although the mountain road was rugged and difficult, the scenery along the way was beautiful. I drove, but I asked Huo Buqiang to help me take many photos. For the photos, you can look at them after you go back and develop the film."

Tell her that she will still have free time tomorrow morning and plan to go to Dongfang City, Changjiang City and Ledong City.

Lin Wanting told him to be careful when driving in the mountains, especially on mountain roads, and not to drive so fast.

The next day I got up and went downstairs to call Huo Buqiang. The guy looked sleepy and hurriedly got up, brushed his teeth and washed his face.

After breakfast, we drove past a gas station and refueled.

After looking at the road map, I decided to go to Dongfang City first, then to Chang City, and then to Ledong.

We have to go to three places and try to get back to the hotel in the afternoon.

Huo Buqiang was asked to bring his personal clothes. If necessary, he should stay at the receiving point to identify the age of the wood.

After refueling, start heading towards the mountain road on the right.

It's a two-lane road with lots of curves.

Always be aware of large trucks coming from above.

On the road, he encountered several large trucks pulling wood. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and drove skillfully, driving past them close to the wheels.

After finally climbing up a hill, it was a winding downhill road.

After driving on the mountainside for more than half an hour, there was no one around. The mountains were covered with dense trees and bottomless canyons.

Dongfang City is not that big, with only a few main streets, a relatively small population, and few high-rise buildings.

At the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of the city, we found Lu Benwei's timber purchasing point.

I saw hundreds of huanghuali logs with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters piled in an open space.

A sturdy young man walked towards them.

"Are you Mr. Yin? I am Lu Benwei..."

Yin Yuan asked him: "Hello, Mr. Lu, is this pile of huanghuali wood?"

Lu Benwei said: "Yes, a piece of wood is usually cut into a piece of three meters. The tail is three meters thicker and more than 30 centimeters. The top of the tree is cut into a piece with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters."

He pointed to the roots and top of the tree in the wood and explained to Yin and Yuan: "Every tree has a head and a tail."

"The huanghuali here in the West District is made of oil pear wood. Compared with the East District, it is tighter and heavier. One root weighs 80 to 100 kilograms. One cubic meter has between 20 and 25 roots..."

Yin Yuan observed the age of the trees in the cross section and saw that many trees were over a hundred years old.

Lu Benwei told him: "In the past, the huanghuali trees that were decades old on the mountain were almost chopped down, because some medicinal companies would specially come to collect the tender medicines of these young trees, because these are easy to process, while the wood of older trees is not good. It's processed, hard, and has a lot of scars, so they don't want it. Sometimes we have to find ways to secretly stuff these old materials into the car..."

After careful identification, Yin Yuan found that the pile of wood was all huanghuali and had a certain degree of dryness.

"There are about three tons of wood here. I contacted Lao Wang and Lao Li, and they also have about three cubic meters. In that case, another ton of old materials will be enough."

Yin Yuan filled out the appraisal form for him on the spot.

He drove Huo Buqiang to Changjiang City again. Fortunately, the road was easier and wider, and he found Wang Shijie's delivery point more than an hour later.

Just like Lu Benwei's place, there are more than 60 pieces of wood and three cubic meters of material.

The trees are over a hundred years old.

Li Ruisheng called and asked: "I have three cubic meters of a century-old tree here, but there are dozens of old materials that are at least 300 years old. Do you want these old materials? If they are old, they can be loaded onto the truck tomorrow?"

Yin Yuan said happily: "The older, the better."

After appraising the tree materials in Changjiang, he rushed to Ledong City with Huo Buqiang.

Indeed, as Li Ruisheng said, there are 35 huanghuali logs that are more than [-] to [-] years old and have been stored for several years. Their dryness is higher than that of ordinary wood.

Yin Yuan left Huo Buqiang in Li Ruisheng's place in Ledong City. He waited for the truck to be loaded here, and then followed the truck back to Jiangming. After unloading, he paid the foreign trade company's finance.

Yin Yuan drove back to Sanya.