Jin Yutong

Chapter 195 Gloomy Wood, Japanese Sword

Seeing such a pitch-black wooden box, Chen Ran couldn't help stretching out two fingers to pinch it lightly, and found that the material of the wooden box was very hard, but when he touched it, it gave people a very delicate and somewhat delicate feeling. The feeling of stroking the glass... Chen Ran looked down, but did not find the dark color on his fingers.

"It's charred wood in ebony."

Seeing Chen Ran's movements, Wang Zhiqing smiled dumbly. He almost recognized such a special wood at a glance, "ebony" means gloomy wood.

The gloomy wood, needless to say, has been used as a thing to ward off evil spirits in the past dynasties. The wooden swords used by some Maoshan Taoist priests are made of gloomy wood. Of course, not every Taoist priest can own a gloomy wooden sword. As for the finished wooden swords, ordinary Taoist priests use peach branch wooden swords, and wooden swords made of gloomy wood are relatively scarce.

Gloomy wood, also known as "Oriental sacred wood" and "plant mummy", was buried in low-lying places such as ancient river beds by earthquakes, floods and rockslides.Part of the trees buried in the silt, under the condition of hypoxia and high pressure, under the action of microorganisms such as bacteria, will form ebony after tens of thousands of years of carbonization process, so it is also called "carbonized wood".

Seeing that this wooden box was made of ebony, Wang Zhiqing didn't pay much attention to it, because there are countless types of ebony. The ebony is just average.

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

As for ancient knives, Chen Ran didn't do much research and didn't know much about them. He only knew that the value of swords and swords has risen very rapidly in recent years, and the speed of appreciation can almost rank among the top five in the antique industry. The number of people is increasing day by day, and the collection of ancient Chinese swords and swords has become a hot spot in the current collection market.

For beginners, the cheapest swords cost 6000 yuan, 3 yuan for the better ones, and more than 10 yuan for those with a collection level.

Of course, although Chen Ran doesn't know much about ancient knives, he can still tell what type of knives this knife is in front of him. This point can be seen by anyone who knows a little bit. According to his observation, this knife It should be a Japanese knife.

The Japanese sword was improved from the Chinese Tang sword. After the Tang sword was spread to Japan, the Japanese nobles at that time were proud of owning a Tang sword, and the Japanese samurai sword evolved from it.

The reason why Chen Ran was able to observe that this sword was a Japanese sword, not a Tang sword, was because his eyes were better, and he could clearly see the warrior figures, flowers, insects and birds carved on the scabbard at a glance, although these patterns had already disappeared. It's blurry, but I can still tell that it's a Japanese carving style.

There is another important difference between Tang sword and Japanese sword, that is, generally speaking, the blade of Japanese samurai sword has a certain curvature, while Tang sword adopts a straight shape. Of course, this is just a general way of distinguishing. In fact, Not absolutely.

Although there are many types of antiques, in fact, returning all methods to the ancestors is also feasible in this industry. If Chen Ran can tell the truth about this knife, he will definitely not be able to say it, but this is not the case. Not obstructing his vision, from his point of view, although the knife is a little rusty, it is still very exquisite in terms of shape and carving.

After Wang Zhiqing saw the knife, he took out the magnifying glass and observed the Japanese knife. After observing for a while, he straightened up and handed the magnifying glass to Chen Ran.

Although Chen Ran's eyes are easier to use than a magnifying glass, he still took it and looked at it pretendingly.

"Xiao Ran, what do you think?" When Chen Ran returned the magnifying glass to Wang Zhiqing, Wang Zhiqing asked Chen Ran for his opinion.

Wang Zhiqing didn't know much about Japanese antiques. If he knew, the old Japanese painting from last time might not be in Chen Ran's hands. However, among Japanese antiques, Japanese swords were an exception. Because of the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese ancient knives are very common in China, which is not much different from China's antique collections. Even among the people, there are too many to collect.

"Brother Wang, don't ask me. I don't know anything about swords. I only know that this sword is a Japanese sword. Apart from this, I don't know anything else."

Chen Ran's words are not considered modest, but they are considered modest.

It's not considered modest, that's because he really doesn't understand, but it's also considered modest, because although he doesn't understand, it's not too difficult for him to say a few words of evaluation. With energy aperture.

A person's energy is ultimately limited, if he is proficient in everything, it will undoubtedly be a little too 'showy'.

When Chen Ran was answering, he released an energy aperture to detect it, and the detected result was that the energy aperture was attached to the knife, which meant that the knife was at least 100 years old.

One energy aperture was not enough, so Chen Ran naturally released a second energy aperture.

As a result, the energy aperture was still adsorbed on the knife, which surprised Chen Ran. According to the situation of the energy aperture, two energy apertures were released but no results were detected, which means that the knife must be 300 years old. Either it is because the knife is forged extremely beautifully, no matter what the situation is, the knife in front of you is very valuable.

For a moment, Chen Ran suddenly became interested, and continuously released energy halos on the knife... "This knife was left to me by my great-grandfather, and it was the spoils of war he killed devils during the war of resistance."

Hearing Chen Ran's words, the originally cautious young man immediately answered, his expression also seemed extremely proud at this moment. From his eyes, it can be seen that he still loves this knife very much.

Wang Zhiqing, who was still observing Japanese knives, became interested for a while when he heard what he said. He raised his head and said with a smile: "Then your grandfather is still a revolutionary soldier..."

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

After the young man who looked at Wang Zhiqing asked this sentence, he seemed somewhat nervous.

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

Chen Ran stopped releasing energy circles, not because he had already detected the age of this Japanese sword, but because he had released 25 energy circles one after another since he released the first energy circles just now.

25 energy apertures were released, but the age of this Japanese sword was still not detected.

What does 25 energy apertures mean?

Although from Chen Ran's point of view, the shape and carving of this knife are more exquisite, but in fact it is only compared with ordinary ancient knives, that is to say, exquisite is exquisite, but this Japanese knife is actually a more An ordinary ancient knife is better than a better knife, and even if such a knife has a history of 500 years, how many energy apertures are needed to detect the results... This number will definitely not exceed twenty.

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

If you look at it according to the normal situation, it is enough to show that this Japanese sword has a history of at least 2000 years.

2000 years of history... Chen Ran was a little confused.

How long is the history of the Tang Dynasty?

Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty in AD 610, which is less than 500 years away from now. The Tang sword is naturally a sword forged in the Tang Dynasty, and the Japanese sword evolved from the Tang sword. That is to say, Calculated, the age of this Japanese sword is older than the age of the Tang Dynasty... This is undoubtedly impossible!

The Japanese sword evolved from the Tang sword, which only appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but the current Japanese sword is older than the Tang Dynasty. Isn’t this nonsense.

So, where must something be wrong?What is wrong?

Chen Ran frowned and meditated intently, but he was puzzled. He released the remaining two energy apertures, but the result was still the same, which immediately made him 'confuse'.