"That's possible." Lan Feiyan nodded in approval immediately: "Hermes's popular models for the middle-aged and young people cost hundreds of thousands to several million yuan each, which is very expensive. Of course, the materials and craftsmanship they use , and worth the price.”

Wang Zhongcang smiled: "Then I didn't pay attention, I was only focused on buying things for my parents that day. Let's not talk about this, since you are playing incense, I will go to enjoy incense with you today!"

"Yes, I'll call and make an appointment now." Mei Henian said enthusiastically, "I believe the boss would be very willing to make an elegant friend like you! But, you don't plan to buy anything else?"

Wang Zhongcang looked at his watch: "Give me half an hour, it should be enough!"

He quickly picked out several styles of clothes at Armani's counter according to his preferences, and after trying them out one by one, he found that they were not bad, so he asked the clerk to wrap them all up, and happily swiped the infinite black card, ignoring it. The bank's rebate receipt reminder asked the clerks to send someone to No. [-] mansion later, and then looked at Mei Henian: "It should be no problem to enjoy the incense at night, right?"

Mei Henian quickly gave a thumbs up: "Wang Dong really enjoys doing things! Then let's go!"

……

To Wang Zhongcang's surprise, Mei Henian brought him to a place not too far from the Happy Coast, just three streets away.

It's just that the flow of people here is relatively less, and they are all antique-style houses, with nine bends and eighteen bends connected together, quite a kind of quiet mood in the midst of hustle and bustle.

"I really don't come to this area very often." The cars were parked in the parking lot outside. Wang Zhongcang and Lan Feiyan got out of the car and said while strolling, "I didn't expect there to be such an elegant antique street."

"It has been built here for several years, and the flow of people has not increased. It cannot be compared with Happy Coast." Lan Feiyan has been here a few times: "But it is very comfortable to take a walk at night."

Mei Henian smiled at her: "There are a lot of houses in this area, but there are only four owners in total. One of them is the one I mentioned. He just bought a large one because he wanted a quiet place. Most of the other shops also promote traditional culture, so their popularity is relatively weak.”

While speaking, he led Wang Zhongcang and his wife to a relatively middle position, and stopped in front of a shop called Shen Xinguan: "This is it!"

Wang Zhongcang looked at the shop curiously.

In the elegant glass windows on the left and in the middle, there are many agarwood bracelets and other unusual stone decorations and wood carvings, but the prices are not indicated.

There is a small door on the right leading to the backyard. Mei Henian smiled and nodded at the clerk guarding the counter, asked if the boss was inside, and then led Wang Zhongcang and his wife directly inside: "The ones displayed outside are all regular products. If you want it, you can ask the boss for the good stuff he hid."

Wang Zhongcang suddenly smiled and nodded.

Inside is an elegant corridor, and the air has a little more faint fragrance than before. It is not strong, but it is very refreshing, which makes Wang Zhongcang look forward to it immediately.

After walking tens of meters in a detour, Wang Zhongcang suddenly heard a few faint sounds of Guzheng.

Mei Henian laughed immediately: "You still have face, Mr. Wang. The boss knew you were coming, so he even put out the guzheng. It's really elegant and interesting to taste the incense and listen to the zither later."

Soon, Wang Zhongcang followed him into a concealed wooden house.

This room is very spacious, more than 50 square meters, rectangular, with an antique zither in the middle, and a woman with long hair in Tang suit kneels in front of the zither.

On the opposite side are four long low wooden tables, all of which are placed with similar incense-smelling utensils, all of which are quite delicate and of a certain grade.

A gentle and elegant middle-aged man in Tang suit sat leisurely about one meter away from the guzheng, with a low wooden table in front of him as well.

Seeing Mei Henian bring Wang Zhongcang in, the middle-aged man nodded with a smile: "The distinguished guest is here. I have heard about Wang Dong Qingya for a long time, she is indeed a good-looking talent!"

Wang Zhongcang smiled slightly: "I'm just an ordinary person, and I can't be called elegant."

Mei Henian salivated: "Uncle Zhong is really saving face, he is willing to call Junhua out."

Uncle Zhong glanced at him: "With such distinguished guests as Wang Dong and Mrs. Wang visiting, Junhua is naturally willing to make friends with him."

He smiled again and introduced to Wang Zhongcang: "Junhua is the little girl."

Wang Zhongcang nodded politely: "My cousin also learned Guzheng, but she is not as fluent as Miss Junhua."

Following Mei Henian's prompt, he and Lan Feiyan each occupied a table, sat down on a small table, and listened intently until the end of the song.

"Wang Dong, Mrs. Wang, hello, I'm Zhong Junhua." The girl playing the zither stopped, and smiled elegantly, "I'm afraid some small skills may make my ears dirty, please forgive me."

Wang Zhongcang smiled again, looked at Lan Feiyan, who understood, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhong has played very well."

Uncle Zhong raised his hand at this moment: "I don't know if Director Wang has played incense before?"

"When I was an intern at Puhua, I followed my intern teacher to visit a customer who liked to play incense. At that time, I listened in and remembered a little bit, but I didn't really play incense." Wang Zhongcang said with a smile: "So, today I happened to meet Brother He Nian and learned that he is an expert in this field, so I wanted to try it."

"He Nian's father is my classmate. However, I have different interests from him. On the contrary, we have formed a friendship with He Nian." Uncle Zhong said with a smile: "I bought this string of aloes for him as a reference. Yes, although it is not the top grade of agarwood, it is quite suitable for him."

"However, if you want to play fragrance, Mr. Wang, I would recommend another one. Well, let's smell its fragrance first. If Mr. Wang likes it, it's not too late to buy it."

Wang Zhongcang immediately responded happily: "Okay, I listen to you!"

……

Soon, Zhong Junhua took out a plate of incense boxes from the inner room with a smile, opened it, and put three small pieces of agarwood with different colors and shapes in it, each piece was about the thickness of a finger, about half an inch to an inch long.

Under her signal, Lan Feiyan picked them up one by one with a wooden clip, put them up to her nose and sniffed, and then chose the scent she liked. Wang Zhongcang followed the same pattern and chose his favorite scent. that piece.

"Why don't you give your wife priority?" Zhong Junhua blinked his warm eyes and suggested with a smile. Seeing Wang Zhongcang nodding, he took the incense block Lan Feiyan had chosen and scraped off the edge with a thin and hard wood carving knife. Take a small bit of it, and give it to Lan Feiyan, motioning her to carefully put it into the incense burner in front of her, and lightly bury it with the previous incense ash.

Not long after, a strange fragrance began to fill the air.

Wang Zhongcang couldn't describe this fragrance, but he felt that the acupoints all over his body seemed to move slightly with the spread of this fragrance, as if they were alive and opened.

No wonder so many literati like to play incense!

Wang Zhongcang instantly fell in love with this feeling of blending with heaven and earth.

The impetuosity of the afternoon and the anticipation of the evening quickly disappeared under this strange fragrance, leaving only joy and peace.

He couldn't help squinting his eyes, until the scent gradually faded and finally disappeared, and then he opened his eyes in a sense of loss.

"It seems that Dong Wang also likes this kind of fragrance. Sure enough, he is not a family, and he does not enter a family." Uncle Zhong laughed softly: "This incense is a floating incense that is more than 50 years old."

Wang Zhongcang looked at him: "Is there still a lot of agarwood more than 50 years old?"

"There aren't many circulating in the market, but it's not guaranteed that there will be some in the deep mountains and old forests." Uncle Zhong laughed, and stretched out his hand to signal: "Wang Dong can take a rest first, and try your smell again after readjusting your sense of smell." This one was chosen before."

"No, I won't try this one." Wang Zhongcang shook his head: "It's enough to enjoy it once a day. However, if there are similar agarwood bracelets, I would like to collect one or two."

Uncle Zhong immediately laughed happily: "Wang Dong really acts happily."

He looked at Zhong Junhua: "Go and get the bracelets of these two fragrances!"

"Yes!" Zhong Junhua readily agreed and walked out of the room.

Only then did Mei Henian ask again: "Uncle Zhong, what good things have you bought these days?"

Uncle Zhong sighed regretfully: "We have bought some goods, but they are all ordinary. It is becoming more and more difficult to find high-quality agarwood now."

He looked at Wang Zhongcang again: "Presumably Wang Dong can also understand. This agarwood grows on old trees, and it will take many years to develop a good fragrance. But now there are few old trees, so picking agarwood There are more and more, and as time goes by, it will be hard to see a good agarwood!"

Lan Feiyan blinked her beautiful eyes and asked: "Appreciation of incense has existed since ancient times, presumably there must be someone who specially planted this high-quality incense tree to accumulate agarwood?"

"There are, but very few. Moreover, property rights in modern society are chaotic, and after the deforestation in that special era, there are very few good fragrant forests that can be preserved." There is a look of regret in Uncle Zhong's eyes: "We Zhong The family used to own a large fragrant forest, but it was a pity that after it was nationalized, it was all cut down by those ignorant people, and the painstaking efforts of several generations were all wasted!"

"Although we bought forests and replanted forests later, the time was too short, and the fragrant wood itself was not qualified to cultivate agarwood."

"So, if you use one of the good incense in this world, you will lose one!" Wang Zhongcang also nodded with some regret: "So, even if we want to enjoy the incense now, we must count the time carefully, so as not to lose the good incense all at once. After using it all, I can only remember it in the future.”

"Actually, we often buy agarwood from underdeveloped regions in foreign countries. The quality of the fragrance may be slightly inferior, but at least we can enjoy it often. Although the fragrance is not as good as the top grade, it is there after all." Mei Henian immediately said: " Of course, Uncle Zhong's delivery here is of better quality than most of the other incense shops."

"Nowadays, many incense shops not only sell agarwood, but also wood sandalwood beads and ordinary dzi beads, mainly to satisfy the curiosity of some ordinary tourists. I thought that agarwood, red sandalwood, and dzi beads are not expensive, and there are a lot of them. In fact, this is an illusion. There are also some profiteers who shoddy the good and fake the real, which disrupted the market and disgusted some foreign fragrant wood suppliers. We export relatively less." Uncle Zhong felt a little helpless: "I deliberately set up such a store on this site, just to keep such a pure land in the world of mortals, so that people who really understand and love fragrance can Enjoy the beauty of incense longer and longer."

"If it's hard to find a good fragrance, then the transaction volume must not be high. I'm afraid Mr. Zhong's store is not very profitable?" Wang Zhongcang asked calmly.

Mei Henian hurriedly explained from the side: "My dad sometimes brings some friends over and asks Uncle Zhong to light a stick of incense and enjoy it. The one-time charge depends on the quality of the incense they choose. There are tens of thousands of yuan."

At this time, Zhong Junhua brought two long and narrow mahogany boxes into the room, put them down in front of Wang Zhongcang, opened the lid, and motioned him to appreciate them.

Wang Zhongcang first picked up the thick bracelet on the left, which was obviously more suitable for men, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it. It was the scent of the one he had chosen before, and then put it on his hand again.

"It's a little bigger. Can you reduce one or two?" Wang Zhongcang asked Zhong Junhua after a little comparison.

"Yes, as long as you are sure!" Zhong Junhua smiled slightly: "Our public price for this string is 356 million yuan, but you are a distinguished guest brought by Mr. Mei, so I can give you a [-]% discount."

Wang Zhongcang nodded clearly, and picked up another bunch of smaller ones: "Is this the incense you ordered earlier?"

"Yes!" Zhong Junhua said with certainty: "It has men's and women's styles, and this one is for women."

"how much is it?"

"The beads are slightly smaller, but the quality is similar, 334 million yuan."

"Give me another men's model from the same source!" Wang Zhongcang said indifferently: "Calculate it together. If there is no discount, you can report how much it will cost."

"Wang Dong, you are really generous." Zhong Junhua looked at him in surprise: "I am really happy to be your wife!"

Wang Zhongcang smiled gently at Lan Feiyan who was not far away: "I am also very happy to be her husband."

Soon, he swiped 1100 million yuan on the credit card machine brought by Zhong Junhua, and then asked Zhong Junhua to untie the men's agarwood bracelet for him, take off the two beads, re-string them, put them on, and then asked the clock again Uncle: "I also want to buy a pair of agarwood bracelets for my parents and parents-in-law. Can Boss Zhong introduce them?"

"Okay!" Uncle Zhong smiled warmly: "Wang Dong is indeed filial. Junhua, go and get some incense that the old man likes!"

When Zhong Junhua left in response, Uncle Zhong looked at Wang Zhongcang again: "Since Chairman Wang also likes incense, why not partner with He Nian, invest in buying a certain range of fragrant wood forests, and cultivate them manually? With your financial resources, you must buy them in our province. There is absolutely no problem in going to the next mountain forest!"

"Where is there a large-scale artificially planted fragrant wood forest?" Wang Zhongcang asked in a deep voice without any surprise.

Uncle Zhong smiled slightly: "Don't be anxious, Mr. Wang. Self-cultivation like this requires absolute patience and absolute perseverance. You can't be half-hearted. So, see if you have time, take a couple of days, and I can take you with New Year's Eve." Go look at the top of the mountain, and you can even inquire with some professors of botany in agronomy colleges, and then it is not too late for you to make a decision."

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