Chapter 198 gloomy wood, Japanese knife[]

Seeing such a black carbon-like wooden box, Chen Ran couldn't help stretching out two fingers and gently pinching it. He found that the material of the wooden box was very hard, but when he touched it, it gave people a very delicate feeling, quite touching the glass...

Chen Ran looked down and did not find the dark color on his fingers.

"This is carbonized wood in ebony."

When Wang Zhiqing saw Chen Ran's movements, he smiled dumbly. He almost recognized such a special wood at a glance, and "ebony" is also gloomy wood.

gloomy wood, needless to say, gloomy wood has been used as a ward off evil object in all generations. The wooden sword used by some Maoshan Taoists is made of gloomy wood. Of course, not every Taoist priest can have a wooden sword made of gloomy wood. Ordinary Taoist priests use a peach branch wood sword, and the wooden sword made of gloomy wood is compared with It is a scarce one.

The gloomy wood, also known as the "Oriental Divine Wood" and "Plant Mummy", is buried by earthquakes, floods and mudslides to bury all the plants and organisms on the ground into low-lying areas such as ancient riverbeds. Some trees buried in the silt form ebony after thousands of years of carbonization under the action of bacteria and other microorganisms under the state of hypoxia and high pressure, so it is also known as "carbonized wood".

Seeing that this wooden box is made of ebony, Wang Zhiqing doesn't care much about it, because the variety of ebony is countless. If there are many types, there are naturally high and low. The ebony used in front of the wooden box is just ordinary.

After the young man opened the black cloth wrapped in the wooden box, there was no need for the young man to do it. Wang Zhiqing opened the wooden box himself, which contained a rusty ancient knife.

Chen Ran has not studied much about ancient knives and doesn't know much about them. He only knows that in recent years, the appreciation of swords has been very fast, and the speed of appreciation can almost rank among the top five in the antiques. With the increasing number of Chinese ancient weapons enthusiasts at home and abroad, the collection of Chinese ancient swords has now become a major collection market at present. Hot.

For the first-time collection, the cheapest sword costs 5,000 or 6,000 yuan, the slightly better is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and the collection level is more than 100,000 yuan.

Of course, although Chen Ran doesn't know much about the ancient knife, he can also distinguish what type of knife the knife is in front of him. Basically, he can see it. According to his observation, this knife should be a Japanese knife.

Japanese knives were improved by Chinese Tang knives. After the Tang knives spread to Japan, the Japanese nobles at that time were proud to have a Tang knife, and the Japanese * evolved from it.

Chen Ran can observe that this knife is a Japanese knife, not a Tang knife, but because his eyes are better. He can see the samurai characters and flowers, insects and birds carved on the scabbard at a glance. Although these patterns have been blurred, they can also distinguish that it is a Japanese carving style.

There is another important difference between Tang Dao and Japanese Dao, that is, generally speaking, the Japanese * knife body has a certain curvature, while Tang Dao mostly adopts a straight body shape. Of course, this is only a general discrimination method, in fact, it is not absolute.

Although there are many kinds of antiques, in fact, Wanfa Guizong is also workable in this industry. He must not be able to say anything about this knife, but this does not hinder his vision. From his perspective, although this knife is a little rusty, whether it is shape or carving. The engraving is still very exquisite.

After seeing the knife, Wang Zhiqing took out a magnifying glass to observe the Japanese knife. After observing for a long time, he straightened up and handed the magnifying glass to Chen Ran.

Although Chen Ran's eyes are better than magnifying glass, he still took it over and pretended to look at it.

"Xiaoran, what do you think?" When Chen Ran returned the magnifying glass to Wang Zhiqing, Wang Zhiqing asked Chen Ran's opinion.

Wang Zhiqing doesn't know much about Japanese antiques. If he knows how to speak, I'm afraid that the last Japanese ancient painting will not fall into Chen Ran's hands. However, among Japanese antiques, Japanese knives are an exception. This is because due to the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese ancient knives are very common in China and ancient Chinese. Dong's collection is not much different, even among the people.

"Brother Wang, don't ask me. I don't know anything about swords. I only know that this knife is a Japanese knife. I don't know anything except this."

Chen Ran's words are not modest, but also modest.

is not modest, because he really doesn't understand and is modest, but because although he doesn't understand, it's not difficult for him to say two comments. Besides, he still has an energy aperture.

A person's energy is always limited. If everything seems to be proficient, there is no doubt that it is too sharp.

When Chen Ran answered, he released an energy aperture to detect it, but the result of detection was that the energy aperture was attached to the knife, which shows that the knife is at least 100 years old.

One energy aperture is not enough, and Chen Ran naturally releases a second energy aperture.

As a result, this energy aperture is still attached to the knife, which surprised Chen Ran. According to the situation of the energy aperture, two energy apertures released have not been detected, which means that either this knife has a history of 300 years, or this knife is extremely exquisitely forged, whether it is In any case, the knife in front of us is valuable.

For a moment, Chen Ran suddenly became interested and kept releasing energy aperture on the knife...

"This knife was left to me by my grandfather, and it was the trophy of his killing the devils during the war of resistance."

Hearing Chen Ran's words, the young man, who was still a little restrained, immediately answered, and his expression was also extremely proud at this moment. From his eyes, it could be seen that he still loved this knife very much.

Wang Zhiqing, who was still observing the Japanese knife, heard what he said, but he was interested for a moment. He looked up and said with a smile, "Then your grandpa is still a revolutionary warrior..."

"Of course." The young man nodded affirmatively, looked up at Wang Zhiqing and asked, "Is my knife antique?"

After looking at Wang Zhiqing's young man asking this sentence, he seemed a little nervous.

And when this sentence was asked by the young man, Chen Ran finally stopped releasing the energy aperture.

Chen Ran stopped releasing energy aperture, not because he had detected the age of this Japanese knife, but since he just released the first energy aperture, he has continuously released 25 energy apertures.

released 25 energy apertures, but still did not detect the age of this Japanese knife.

What does 25 energy apertures mean?

Although from Chen Ran's point of view, the shape and carving of this knife are relatively exquisite, it is actually only for ordinary ancient knives, that is to say, exquisite, but this Japanese knife is actually a knife that is better than an ordinary ancient knife, and even if it has a history of 1,500 years, How many energy apertures can be detected...

This number will never exceed 20.

But now, Chen Ran's 25 energy apertures have been absorbed on the knife.

According to normal circumstances, it is enough to show that this Japanese knife has a history of at least 2,000 years.

Two thousand years of history...

Chen Ran was a little confused.

How long is the history of the Tang Dynasty?

Li Yuan founded the Tang Dynasty in 118 A.D., which is less than 1,500 years away. Naturally, the Tang knife is also a knife forged in the Tang Dynasty, and the Japanese knife evolved from the Tang knife. That is to say, in this way, this Japanese knife is older than the Tang Dynasty...

This is undoubtedly impossible!

Japanese knives evolved from the Tang sword. Tang knives are knives that appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but now this Japanese knife is older than the Tang Dynasty. Isn't this nonsense?

So, where must there be a problem? What's wrong?

Chen Ran frowned and meditated, but was puzzled. He released the few remaining two energy apertures, but it was still the same result, which suddenly made him confused...