Chapter 362: 361. Redwood Pavilion (Monthly Pass 73+)

Mr. Steel Steve's name is Steve Tuchenberg, a rich young man living in the eastern city of Boston.

He chatted with Li Du for a while, and Li Du sensitively sensed that this young man must be in poor health, or his life was restrained and depressed.

When talking about birds and specimen collections, Steve can easily express his yearning for flying. He is not yearning for the 'flying ability', but yearning for the fact that birds can fly freely.

Therefore, Li Du speculated that either he was in poor health and could not move freely, or he had a special status and could not move freely.

The two parties left each other's addresses and hung up the phone. Li Du promised to send the specimens to him as soon as possible.

After hanging up the phone, he was about to tell Hans that he was going to Boston, but Hans said enthusiastically, "Did you hear what Big Kane said?"

Li Du said: "Huh?"

"Big Kane said that a warehouse in Holbrook City is about to hold an auction. Let's take a look. He seems to have a batch of mahogany furniture there." Hans said.

Mahogany furniture refers to furniture made of classical mahogany such as rosewood and rosewood. For Chinese people, it refers to the collective name for rare hardwood high-quality furniture since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

But don’t think that only Chinese people like this kind of high-quality hardwood furniture. East Asian countries like it very much, and it’s not only popular in Asia. After the Silk Road was opened, rich people all over the world also like mahogany furniture.

Especially in Europe after the 1920s, families with a little bit of class would use mahogany furniture for decoration.

Americans look down on Europe on the surface, but in fact learn from Europe in various ways in their lives secretly. This is how mahogany became popular in the United States.

However, Chinese are the ones who like mahogany furniture the most.

As soon as Li Du heard the news, he immediately became interested and asked, "Really? That's really great, but is the news reliable?"

Hans looked at Big Kane, who provided the news, and asked, "Dude, is the news reliable?"

Li Du couldn't help but kicked his chair. This bastard didn't even check the accuracy of the news, so he came to tell him, wasn't this teasing him?

He didn't believe the news that mahogany furniture appeared in the warehouse, because if the news was true, the other party had no reason to tell him, wouldn't it be better for him to take pictures quietly?

Big Kane swore with all kinds of curses, saying that the news must be true. He has friends who live in Holbrook, and he got the news.

His friend originally wanted him to make a fortune, but Big Kane was in the second-hand business. He was a treasure picker in the second-hand industry, and he was not good at storage auctions.

So when Hans asked for the news, he spoke it.

Hans is an expert in this area, and after getting the news from Big Kane, he searched the Internet with his computer in his arms.

After a while, he approached Li Du and whispered: "The news may be true, we have to go there."

"How to say?"

Hans put the computer on his lap and pointed to a piece of news for him.

This news was two years ago, and it said:

"Recently, I learned that due to the relocation of the head office, the Trang Mahogany Boutique Museum in Holbrook has hundreds of mahogany furniture sold out for auction!"

"According to the person in charge, in consideration of transportation and labor costs, and in order to give back to consumers, the inventory in the boutique hall will no longer be moved to the new location, but will be sold at a price lower than the ex-factory price through clearance auctions. Bring the discount to more owners who love mahogany."

"It is understood that the price of this clearance is not only lower than the market price, but may even fall below the ex-factory price!"

"Among them, there are 3 sets of big beds (rosewood) for the bedroom, 6 sets of sofas (rosewood) and glass cushions for the living room, 7 sets of elephant head dining table (rosewood) for the dining room, Glass and coffee table 5-piece set (hedgehog red sandalwood), induction cooker, a total of 21 sets of mahogany furniture combination only cost 50,000 yuan..."

Li Du looked at the news webpage, and the logo showed that the news was released by "Arizona Life Network". This website is very reliable, local housewives are its fans, and it is still very popular.

Hans added: "There is no problem with the news. Not only Life.com reported it, but it was also published in the newspaper at the time. Two years ago, there was indeed a redwood store that held a clearance auction."

After hearing this, Li Du nodded and said, "Then why hesitate? Go for it!"

If they can get mahogany furniture, they will definitely make a lot of money.

In the 21st century, the price of mahogany furniture began to soar around the world.

In 2001, the United Nations Wildlife Conservation Department issued the "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora", and the import and export of various mahogany raw materials began to be restricted.

In 2004, commercial international trade of Brazilian rosewood, Brazilian rosewood, Thai rosewood, Burmese rosewood, Laotian rosewood, and Vietnamese rosewood was clearly prohibited.

In this way, due to the shortage of raw materials and restrictions on import and export, the price of mahogany furniture keeps rising.

Before setting off, Li Du and Hans began to look forward to it. This time, if they can get high-end furniture made of Siamese rosewood and small-leaf rosewood, they can make a lot of money.

Even if you get new mahogany such as Indian sandalwood, Burmese rosewood, and Laotian rosewood, you can still make money.

The Iron Knight was driving on Route 66. Hans opened the window and stuck his head out and shouted, "Whoa, Holbrook City, the land of vendettas, here we come!"

An SUV drove past them, and a girl poked her head out and yelled, "Veni! Vidi! Vici!"

Hans asked strangely: "What is this beautiful girl talking about?"

Li Du said: "You don't know this? The famous words of Julius Caesar, these are three Latin words, translated as: I came, I saw, I conquered!"

Hans raised his head and shouted outside: "Hey, girl, do you want to conquer me? Welcome, I'm ready baby, come conquer me, haha!"

Just as he was shouting, the off-road vehicle next to him stopped, and three strong guys got out of the vehicle, looking at him sullenly, and said, "Get off, bitch!"

Seeing this scene, Hans smiled, and said relaxedly, "Someone came here looking for excitement?"

Li Du stopped him and said, "Don't, buddy, this matter is your verbal provocation first."

Hans said dissatisfiedly: "I'm provocative? I'm just joking, Li, can you be a man? Don't be so cowardly!"

Li Du said: "A man has to provoke and fight? This is a reckless man, a wise man would never do that!"

He and Hans were sitting together, Dao was in the driver's seat, Godzilla was in the passenger seat, and the two of them were in the back seat, so Hans's window was pulled down, and the three young men saw him.

He was persuading Hans, when a young man outside scolded: "There is an Asian chick in the car, Fake has it, get it off, smash his ass!"

Li Du was furious: "Go down and fuck them!"