Pick up bargains in Chinatown and make 10,000 times the profit at the beginning

Chapter 69 Wenge

Passing the fur stalls, you will see various styles of shoes and clothes.

Among them, the most eye-catching thing is a pair of severely damaged and unrecognizable shoes in the middle of the stall. There is also a small card next to it, saying that they are 90% new.

When the camera in Lin Yuan's live studio flashed by, some people were shocked: "90% new? Am I dazzled or is it wrong?"
Some viewers recognized it: You are not mistaken, and they did not mark it wrong, that pair of shoes is designed like this.

What? Who would buy shoes like this?
Give it to me? I'm afraid I'll get athlete's foot!

Just looking at the tattered appearance and smelling a sour odor, I would believe it if someone said it was picked up from the garbage dump.

……

A kind fan pointed out: This is a luxury dirty shoe, which is intended to break tradition and show the fashion attitude and personality of the new era. The price is expensive! Especially the limited edition, which costs nearly $2000.

People who don’t know about dirty little shoes are confused!
In their opinion, dirty little shoes give people a feeling of not paying attention to personal hygiene and looking dirty.

However, dirty little shoes are quite popular among celebrities.

It became popular due to the hit Korean drama "Descendants of the Sun". Song Joong-ki wore it to flirt with Song Hye Kyo in the drama, and then it caused a trend.

The reason why the dirty little shoes became popular is because of the Korean drama "Descendants of the Sun". The male lead Song Zhongji wore them to flirt with Song Mei in the drama. With the popularity of the Korean drama, it caused a trend.

Wearing a pair of dirty shoes on your feet seems to have become a symbol of keeping up with the trend of the times.

Therefore, it is common to see many celebrities wearing dirty shoes both on screen and in private.

This is actually a common fashion "trick", just like there is a term called "heroin fashion".

At the end of the 20th century, there were many designs in the fashion industry that "pretended to be avant-garde" to attract the public to buy. In order to attract attention, they chose a stance that was completely opposite to traditional aesthetics and used dirtiness to cover up charm.

For example, everyone is familiar with ripped jeans. It is a typical "pretending to be avant-garde" design. Young people like to wear ripped jeans and think it is fashionable, while the elders find it difficult to understand this way of dressing.

Seeing the mixed opinions in the live broadcast room, Henry couldn't help but complain: "I really can't appreciate this kind of shoes. They seem to be similar to the pair of torn Converse that my mother asked me to throw away when I was in high school."

Because Henry's family was not well-off when he was in high school, he had been looking forward to buying that pair of Converse shoes for a long time, and he was reluctant to throw them away even after they were worn out.

Henry's mother felt ashamed that he always wore tattered Converse and asked him to throw them away.

Lin Yuan also has no feelings about the dirty shoes, especially since the brand has forcibly given this design environmental protection significance: he said that at a time when fast-moving consumer goods and overconsumption are affecting the earth, the concept of "wearing shoes for a lifetime" is very important.

Without stopping, keep moving forward.

My uncle walked into a stall selling musical instruments.

He just picked up a musical instrument and played it a few times, and suddenly a pleasant sound came out.

"What is that uncle holding in his hand? The sound it makes is quite nice." Paul asked.

Lin Yuan: "Huqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument."

Huqin is a type of qin. Because it originated from the northern ethnic minorities, the ancient Han people called the northern ethnic minorities "Hu". The qin that was introduced from the north got its name.

The poem "The central army set up wine to entertain the returning guests, with huqin, pipa and Qiang flute" by the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen shows that the huqin had begun to spread in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, huqin-type stringed instruments improved and developed with the rise of drama and folk art, and their performance forms also became more diverse.

In the Qing Dynasty, the huqin was used in the palace's Valka music and Qinglong music, and the former required four huqins to be played.

What surprised Lin Yuan was that his uncle actually had this skill.

"Brother Lin, what piece of music did my uncle play?" Huo Qingtong asked. Lin Yuan: "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon." If I remember correctly, there is a text called Two Springs Reflecting the Moon in the fifth grade textbook."

"Brother Lin, you're so amazing! You remember the elementary school textbooks so clearly." Li Qiu Shui blinked.

Lin Yuan remained silent. There was a reason why he could remember it so clearly.

However, it is better not to talk about such embarrassing things.

After the uncle had been pulling for a while, the stall owner gave him a thumbs up and said, "You pull well!"

The uncle said modestly: "I haven't played for a long time, my hands are a little rusty."

The stall owner said: "Pull it a few more times and you will get the feel for it. Just buy it back. 100 dollars is not expensive."

100 dollars is indeed a small amount of money for my uncle now, but the key point is that he didn't want to buy it! He just wanted to buy it.

"No, no." My uncle waved his hand.

If you want to listen to music now, why do you need to do it yourself?

Lin Yuan unexpectedly discovered that the huqin in his uncle's hand was a treasure.

"Uncle, I haven't heard you play a song for a long time. You always said that you couldn't play it because you didn't have a huqin. It's rare to see a huqin for sale now, why don't you buy it?" Lin Yuan advised.

My uncle was stunned for a moment, then realized that this should be a treasure.

"Okay, let's buy it." My uncle took out the money and handed it to the stall owner.

After leaving, the uncle took a closer look and said, "Xiao Yuan, is this huqin valuable? Are you sure?"

Lin Yuan: "This is made of wenge wood."

Chicken wing wood is distributed in subtropical areas around the world, mainly in Southeast Asia and South America. It is named because of its texture similar to "chicken wings". The texture is staggered and clear, the color is abrupt, and it is a relatively beautiful wood among redwoods. It has a slight fragrance and its growth rings are not obvious.

Lin Yuan added: "It's still old chicken wing wood."

As far as he knows, chicken wing wood is divided into old chicken wings and new chicken wings.

Generally speaking, the wenge wood from the early Qing Dynasty and before is classified as old wenge wood, while the wenge wood from the middle and late Qing Dynasty onwards is classified as new wenge wood.

The color of new wenge is slightly heavier, brown, and the color of the texture is slightly yellow; the weight is heavier and can be distinguished from the old wenge by weight; the texture is obvious, and the new wenge is more beautiful than the old wenge in the eyes of ordinary people. The fiber of new wenge is coarse, the toughness is good, and it is not easy to carve, so all carvings made of new wenge appear rough.

It is not difficult to distinguish old wenge. First of all, it is the weight. Old wenge is light, the lightest in the hardwood family, and even lighter than some "firewood", such as beech. You can tell whether a piece of wenge furniture is old wenge by weighing it.

The second is the color. The old rosewood is gray, especially after it loses its wax over the years, its color becomes earthy gray and extremely ugly.

"Is wenge valuable?" Henry asked.

He had heard of red sandalwood, huanghuali, and golden nanmu, but this was the first time he heard of wenge.

Lin Yuan: "It is one of the most precious woods, and is mostly used to make furniture. Besides, apart from the material, this huqin is an item from the Ming and Qing dynasties."

"How much is it worth?" asked my uncle.

"About thirty or fifty thousand dollars!"

(End of this chapter)