Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 213, Sandalwood

Life in the courtyard has been stable during this period, with little change. Only Mr. Kong has recently developed a new hobby.

Maybe it’s because he’s getting older and now it’s a bit chaotic outside, so he doesn’t want to go out.

Mainly because of his identity, he was basically trapped in this courtyard, just like Zheng Lan was some time ago.

So he found something to do, which was perfume making.

He learned all this knowledge from the pseudo-emperor. Now, in addition to taking care of the Wang family's affairs every day, he studies incense making.

The inspiration for him to make incense dates back to that day in 66. Kong Jiye collected some wood from a purchasing station. While sorting it out, he found that the wood had a special smell.

At this time, Wang Li happened to pass by and also smelled this special fragrance. He picked up one of the pieces of wood, pinched it with his fingers, put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and asked: Is this what you just received?

Kong Jiye replied: Yes, this was sold by a group of young people just now.

Wang Li nodded and said nothing, but began to pick out similar wood from the pile of wood.

With the efforts of Wang Li and Kong Jiye, they soon picked out all the special wood. After finishing the work, Wang Li told him that it was sandalwood.

Wang Li estimated that the wood weighed about 200 kilograms, which is a very exaggerated number.

You should know that in modern times, the price of sandalwood is very high. Especially the sandalwood oil distilled from the heart of the sandalwood tree is more valuable than gold. Even the waste of the tree after distillation can be made into sandalwood, and the price is also very high. Therefore, Wang Li attaches great importance to these things.

At this time, Mr. Kong happened to come over. When he saw the sandalwoods, his eyes became very hot.

He also checked the wood, nodded and said: These are all good things! Did you collect them just now?
Kong Jiye nodded to his father and said: Yes.

When Wang Li saw Mr. Kong’s expression, he immediately asked: What’s wrong, Mr. Kong, do you understand these things?

Mr. Kong nodded and said: When I was following the little emperor, I had nothing to do, so I learned some skills of making incense.

If you believe me, let me handle these things. I think these woods were used by wealthy families or temples to build houses, and they must have been there for many years.

The fragrance is almost purified, which can be regarded as top-grade sandalwood. The sandalwood made from this kind of wood has a mellower fragrance and is more rare than new sandalwood.

Wang Li said: "Of course I trust Mr. Kong. If you have time, make some sandalwood. Pick out as much as you need. I will store the rest in the underground warehouse. You can take it yourself if you need it."

After hearing this, Mr. Kong did not bother to be polite with Wang Li and immediately started to pick out the woods. He picked out the smaller pieces of wood, which were easier to handle. Secondly, the larger pieces could be used to make ornaments or for other purposes. It would be a waste to use them to make sandalwood.

After a lot of picking and choosing, Mr. Kong picked out the small, irregular pieces of sandalwood. He took away about half of them, and the rest was collected by Wang Li and placed in a corner of the underground warehouse at the entrance to the courtyard to continue aging.

He can also use them when he wants to make a small object or do some carpentry work.

Placed together with these sandalwoods are some remaining golden nanmu and other precious woods, as well as some fangs obtained from the giant snake's mouth, which were also placed here.

It was from this day that Mr. Kong began to develop sandalwood, and Wang Li's family could often smell the refreshing fragrance. Even the newborn baby slept more sweetly than before.

Dan Jin warriors like Wang Li’s father, because they mainly cultivate their mental strength, can enter a state of meditation more easily with the help of sandalwood, and the effect of their cultivation is also better.

After discovering this function of sandalwood, Wang Li began to consciously collect special precious woods, and as a result, he actually had a lot of unexpected gains.

For example, when he went to the district recycling station, he encountered the dark wood of golden nanmu and small-leaf red sandalwood several times, as well as the sandalwood used to make sandalwood, and he even found a lot of small pieces of agarwood.

As for precious red woods such as rosewood, there are even more.

This made Wang Li very upset and he also felt a little guilty. After all, as a carpenter's successor and a collector, he actually did not pay attention to the collection of these rare and precious woods. This was really wrong.

From then on, Wang Li collected more wood, and the underground warehouse at the entrance of the courtyard was fully utilized.

After all, the great famine has passed, and there is no longer so much grain and meat stored here.

A large space had been cleared, and Wang Li also took the remaining gold bricks (floor tiles), as well as the gold scraps left over from refining gold and the bricks used to make them, and stored them in the underground warehouse as soon as he entered the courtyard.

After all, they can all be considered as building materials, and the preservation requirements are not that high. They just need to be avoided from moisture and being too dry.

What’s interesting is that Wang Li’s collection of so much wood didn’t actually cost him much money.

Because apart from the wood that was sold to their purchasing station by others, most of the other wood was bought by him.

That is to say, most of them were stolen by him using space in the district recycling bin or other recycling bins.

As for some wood that was too big to fit into the space, he would buy it in the name of building a house and bring it back on a flatbed truck.

Therefore, he was considered a thief, but he comforted himself like this, if it weren't for me, these precious things would have been burned by those prodigals! I was also protecting Dragon Country's things and making effective use of precious resources.

Thank you for your support! At the same time, I also hope that everyone will wait 5 minutes before reading the new chapter when it is released, because the author needs to proofread it again on Qidian Audiobook.

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