"Bao, you must be here every time..."

Seeing Abao, Lao Gu immediately laughed and said, "Last time on Lao Li's side, I lost to you. This time, let's see who has a better vision. I heard that Amin has found a total of six trees this time, so we can compare..."

Old Gu is about the age of 40 and is quite fat. When he smiles, his eyes are squinting and can hardly see them. After saying hello to Abao, he said with a smile: "Don't fight me, brothers, don't fight with me. I'll just bet on a rough gambling today..."

When huanghuali betting on trees, they bet on materials that can be used in the trunk. They are called grids in their populations. No matter how thick the huanghuali tree is, only the grids inside can be used to make furniture or make other things.

"I'm not betting today..."

Abao smiled and shook his head, gave Zhao Hongtao and others out, and said, "These are friends from Jinling, Su Province. Lao Gu, I am not fighting with you today. If you lose the bet, don't show your face to me..."

"Oh, there are friends here..."

Old Gu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but immediately laughed and said, "Bao, you don't know. I bet on trees just to play, and it doesn't matter whether I win or lose. Let's play a friendly match today. How about the winner going down the mountain to invite a meal? By the way, these people are not in the Huanghuali business. Even if the bet is out of order, the trees will be sold to you..."

Lao Gu introduced the friends who came with him to Abao. These people were not from Qiongsheng, but Lao Gu's business partners. They happened to have something to talk to Lao Gu. This time they came to see the legendary gambling tree with Lao Gu.

"Old Gu, it's okay to invite a meal, but I can't make the decision on betting?" Abao looked at Man Jun and others. As he said, he was helping Man Jun to receive Zhao Hongtao today and would not participate in the gambling tree.

Man Jun was also a scene person. He laughed and said, "Boss Gu is a cheerful person. Today, no matter who wins or loses in the gambling tree, I will treat you to the next person to go down the mountain..."

"Okay, I have a medicinal wine that I have been soaked for three years. Today, let some distinguished guests try it..." Hearing Man Jun's words, Old Gu also laughed, clapped his hands, and said, "Aming, take us to see the trees quickly, I can't wait..."

"Okay, please, the tree is in the backyard..."

Aming nodded, took the lead in walking in front, and when he came to the backyard, everyone found that the backyard Aming mentioned was actually a large hillside, but it was surrounded by a fence made of wood. It was a total of several acres, and some vegetables were planted in it.

"Aming, your backyard is simply the back mountain..." Man Jun said with some envy: "It's better to live in the mountains. The houses in the city are like pigeon cages. How can there be such a large area..."

"Boss Man, the mountains are actually pretty good, it's just a bit inconvenient..." Ah Ming smiled honestly, and walked to a thatched straw hut with everyone on his feet, and several yellow rosewood trees about six or seven meters long were now under the straw hut.

The branches and leaves on these trees have basically been cut off, but there is no damage from the roots to the trunk. There is no clue from the outside. No one knows how thick the material there is to use in these yellow rosewood trees.

"Amin, this time it's good. Did you find six trees?"

When Lao Gu saw the yellow rosewood trees under the straw hut, his eyes lit up. Although he wanted to rush over to check immediately, he turned around and said to Man Jun and Zhao Hongtao: "Boss Man, Boss Zhao, why don't you...you take a look first?"

"Boss Gu, as the saying goes, the lobbyist will follow the master's will. Today you are the master, of course you will see it first..."

Man Jun smiled and called out, "It's not something that anyone can bet on the gambling tree first, but it's better to bet on the odds than looking at it." In the end, it's more than looking at it. Moreover, there are six trees in total, so Lao Gu can't stand it alone, so it's better to sell it."

"Haha, Boss Man is open and bright. It seems that I have to take out the bottle of old wine that I have been soaked for eight years tonight..."

Lao Gu is a man who is obsessed with gambling trees. He felt itchy and uncomfortable at this moment. It was good to just give in. When he heard Man Jun ask him to see it first, he ran to a yellow flower tree and squatted down.

"This person is quite interesting. What kind of business does he do?" Seeing Lao Gu's appearance, Zhao Hongtao couldn't help laughing and asked Abao in a low voice.

"Old Gu is in the hardware and building materials business. He started doing it in the 1980s and opened several branches in Lucheng. He is considered the richest man in our town. Don't be careful about him being careless, he is actually very good..."

Although Abao shouted at Lao Gu, he respected Lao Gu very much because Abao was involved in the business of Huanghuali and specialty products in the mountains, so Lao Gu brought it into the industry.

In the early 1990s, Abao had just graduated from high school and had nothing to do, so he helped in Lao Gu's shop. Lao Gu saw that he was very smart and liked to take Abao with him when he went out. Since Lao Gu started playing with wood since then, Abao learned a lot about Huanghuali and agarwood with him.

However, in the early and mid-1990s, Huanghuali was not worth much, and there was no industrial chain like the current one, so naturally there was no gambling. So Lao Gu just had amateur play, but his hardware and building materials business was getting bigger and bigger, and he had to travel to other provinces all day, so he could only occasionally find some Huanghuali to make something to play in the mountains.

After working with Lao Gu for a few years, Abao went to a tourist attraction in Lucheng to work. When he was working at the scenic spot, Abao found that tourists from all over the world liked to buy some gadgets made of island specialties, such as coconut jewelry and yellow rosewood bracelets.

At that time, Abao, who had already studied Huanghuali, knew that the so-called Huanghuali bracelets sold at scenic spots were actually not made of Hainan Huanghuali wood. Merchants who are more particular would use Huanghuali instead, but some of them were not particular, and they just found some wood to make beads and sold as Huanghuali.

Abao is a smart man. After working in the scenic spot for only one year, he figured out how to sell these tourist souvenirs. So Abao resigned and returned to his hometown, and found Amin, who had just returned from working from another place.

Abao asked Aming to go up the mountain to help him find the real Haihuang. After finding it, Abao would pay for it and process it into beads by himself, or send it to Haikou to find someone to help him carve it into ornaments.

In the end, Abao used the relationship he formed when working in Lucheng to send these beads and crafts to the counters selling souvenirs in tourist attractions. Since Abao sold real sea yellow crafts, the price was very high, so he unexpectedly had a conflict with the local snakes.

At first, Abao's business was not very good, and he often couldn't sell one in a week. However, as people's quality of life improved, more and more people were aware of the industry. By the late 1990s, Abao's sea yellow handicrafts had occupied various tourist attractions in Lucheng.

As the saying goes, "Water and remember the source of water." Abao still respects Lao Gu who brought him into Huanghuali back then. However, Lao Gu's most obsessed with gambling tree is the industry that Abao brought him into. Now the two of them can't tell who is whose master.

"Abao, you will help me see these trees later..." While Man Jun and Abao were chatting, Zhao Hongtao also squatted far away from Lao Gu and looked at the yellow flower pear on the ground.

However, Zhao Hongtao discovered that these yellow rosewood trees with full bark and branches were completely different from the exquisite yellow rosewood crafts he had seen. If he didn't know, Zhao Hongtao could not have imagined that the crafts of the yellow rosewood were from these trees.

The knowledge about Huanghuali that Zhao Hongtao has mastered through his experience has no effect here. He said that he can't even see whether there is a pattern inside the tree bark, so how can he identify the authenticity of Huanghuali's skin patterns?

As for the so-called tricks of gambling trees that Huanghuali heard from others, it is useless after seeing these Huanghuali trees. In Zhao Hongtao's eyes, except for the different lengths and thicknesses of these trees, the rest seem to be completely different. (To be continued.)
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