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Chapter 227 Mammoth Wool Rhinoceros
As soon as Lin Fengcao squatted down, Yu Yao and Yang Rui couldn't help but stop.

The knickknacks in this booth are various in shape, including beads, rings, signs, pendants, ornaments, etc.; however, the materials are mainly mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn.

Ivory and rhino horn are now prohibited from being traded in the market.

To protect wild animals, there is no killing without buying and selling.

Things that are prohibited by law may not be eradicated in the market, but at least ivory and rhino horn will not be sold in public stalls in such a grand manner.

This stall can sell like this because mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn are special. The sale and purchase of these two animal products can be done legally.

Mammoths, also known as mammoths, are now extinct; however, the mammoth ivory on the market today is not fossils, but ice material sealed by permafrost.

When the last batch of mammoths became extinct, less than [-] years ago, the ivory was sealed by the permafrost, so it is not very different from modern live ivory.

Moreover, mammoth ivory is slightly denser and harder than modern living ivory.

Because it is used after mining, there is no problem of killing wild animals, so it can be operated legally.

The woolly rhinoceros is similar to the mammoth and has become extinct; the extinction time is slightly earlier than the mammoth, about ten thousand years ago.

The reason why it is called the woolly rhinoceros is because its fur is long and thick, and it can live in cold regions; in the Paleolithic Age, it was the object of hunting by humans.The woolly rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhinoceros in Southeast Asia today are close relatives.

Also because of freezing, the horns of the woolly rhinoceros have been preserved intact, can be mined and used, and can also be operated legally.

Today is Saturday, and the weather is fine. There are a lot of things on this booth, and most of them are gadgets, so the goods are sold out quickly.Guarding the booth was a middle-aged man and woman and a young man who looked less than 20 years old. The three of them were quite skilled and busy in an orderly manner.

What Lin Fengcao picked up was a small ornament, three "small hills", one tall and two short, connected at the bottom, with an oval bottom that looked like it was made of rhino horn.

This ornament should be a small pen holder with a boxwood base underneath.Although there is no decoration on this base, the lines are smooth and the wood is good.

Lin Fengcao picked it up together with the base, "Boss, is the 'Millennium Short' base sold separately?"

The middle-aged man was the closest to Lin Fengcao. When he heard this, he was stunned for a moment, "What?"

Lin Fengcao said it fluently, and he realized it as soon as he said it. After the boss uttered his voice, he immediately said, "I mean, is this boxwood base sold separately?"

Thousand-year dwarf is another name for boxwood, because it generally does not grow tall or large.Boxwood, of course, does not belong to the category of mahogany, and it is not considered a valuable wood. It is widely distributed; but it is very delicate and has a beautiful color, so it is often used for carving.

"You bought the base, what about the rhino horn pen holder on top of me? This is a set!" The boss replied, "You like woodware, there are boxwoods in the market that specialize in it."

The boss didn't understand it, but Yu Yao understood it as soon as he heard it.

Lin Fengcao was pointing at the east and the west on purpose. What he took a fancy to could not be the boxwood base.

Lin Fengcao is good at the horns of bamboo and wood, so he must be able to recognize that the boxwood base is just a modern handicraft, and it does not completely match the rhino horn pen holder on it, and it is probably used to match it temporarily.

What Lin Fengcao took a fancy to was the rhino horn pen holder on it.

Yu Yao didn't pay much attention to the rhinoceros horn pen holder at first, when Lin Fengcao and the man were asking and answering, he couldn't help but bent over and took a closer look.

Ok?
This pen holder seems to be old!

It doesn't seem to be wearing a woolly rhino horn!

However, it is not the old rhino horn in ancient times.

It... the material doesn't seem to be rhino horn!
Although it seems that the surface also has dense lines, a bit like the caviar lines of rhino horns, but there is still a difference when you look closely. The surface of this pen holder should be polished grainy lines, and then it has been touched for a long time to form patina, black and bright Moisturizing, it will be similar to the furry rhino horns thrown out by high gloss.

No wonder Lin Fengcao wanted to play, he was scouting the way to see if the stall owner had counted.

After a while, the man missed it. This sentence hit Lin Fengcao's heart. The boss was indeed selling it as a rhino horn, and since he said he would not dismantle it, he bought it together because there was no other way.

"Don't take it apart? Then I'll buy it together. Hey, I haven't played with rhino horns yet. How can I sell it?"

When he heard that he wanted to buy it together, the man grinned, "What together? If you want to buy a rhino horn, I will give you the base."

"How do you sell the rhino horn?"

"Today's big reward, three hundred and one grams!" The man stretched out his hand, "Either? If you want, I'll weigh it."

Lin Fengcao nodded, "Okay, you can weigh yourself first."

This small pen holder is no more than seven or eight centimeters wide, and has three small "mountains", the highest of which is no more than five or six centimeters. According to the specific gravity of the rhino horn, it should weigh more than 100 grams.

The man put it on the electronic scale, and Lin Fengcao suddenly said, "Why do I think this rhino horn is patinaed, it can't be old, right? Is this for sale?"

The man was looking at the gram weight, 82 grams, when his face suddenly changed.

Based on his experience, a pen holder of this size should weigh at least [-] to [-] grams.

But Lin Fengcao asked a question at this time, and he responded, "Don't worry, I have legal procedures here."

Lin Fengcao also saw the number displayed on the electronic scale, and hurriedly said, "Boss, why is it so heavy? Shouldn't the rhino horn be very light?"

The boss was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help but change his mind.This guy just wants a boxwood base, and he doesn't seem to know anything about rhino horns!This is obviously too light, how can it be too heavy?He listened to the price by gram, of course he thought the lighter the better!
"Don't you understand? For rhino horns, it's too light, not too heavy! Because it's an old material. When I bought it, I got it from a large merchant in the northeast. He played with this pen holder. It's been more than ten years, and it's completely dry, so be gentle. You're making a lot of money!" The boss approached Lin Fengcao and said in a low voice.

Seeing that Lin Fengcao didn't understand, the man started talking nonsense. How can there be such a thing as "dry"?
However, he did get it from a big merchant in the Northeast, and he didn't know where the big merchant bought it from. Anyway, he put it on the shelf together with a batch of ornaments with fur and rhino horns, and he dragged it away together.

This boxwood base is a woodware shop owner in the market. He took some rhino horn beads from him and exchanged some wooden utensils for the goods. There is a base and a box, and he just used it to sell it.

There are too many goods, and he has never paid much attention to this pen holder. He has already weighed the best-selling bead bracelets, pendants, and brands, and put them in sealed bags and labeled them.Not to mention that he never weighed this pen stand, he didn't even look at it carefully.

But this claim was found to be so light.

(End of this chapter)