From time to time, there would be cheers from people in the storage area. This kind of cheering would attract some treasure hunters to go over and see who had gotten what.
To the treasure hunters, this auction was a feast of harvest.
Of course, not every storage unit had good stuff. Some people had moved the items out of the storage units and classified them, only to find that they had made a loss.
Li Du opened a storage unit. The treasure hunters from Flagstaff gathered around and asked, "What is this storage unit?"
The storage unit was filled with things wrapped in old canvas. After Godzilla and Big Quinn tore it open, some brownish-yellow wooden boards were revealed.
"A pile of wooden boards," Big Quinn said.
Dickens was puzzled. "Wooden boards? Is this the precious Asian mahogany? Li, is this Asian mahogany? "
Li Du said, "No, they are not."
"Then what is this?" someone asked.
Li Du went over to pat the wooden boards and sniffed them. He smiled and said, "If I am not wrong, these are cork boards. These are all cork boards. And looking at the grain, they are used to make flooring."
"Cork boards? Wow, you have hit the jackpot this time, "Olly exclaimed.
Immediately, someone asked, "Cork boards? What is this? I have never heard of it. "
"So ignorant." Olly looked at the treasure hunter with disdain. "Cork flooring, the best flooring. Not only does it have the quality of solid wood, but it can also support a person's body when you step on it. The floor itself is slightly sunken, between soft and hard. It's like stepping on a foam mat …"
"Compared to floor mats, they are all natural products. They are safer. Babies can roll and run on them. They don't even have to worry about them licking the floor."
A group of treasure hunters stared at them and said enviously, "There are such high-end goods? I have never heard of it. "
Looking at the envious looks of the treasure hunters, Li Du laughed. He pushed Olly and said, "Stop, stop. Don't lie to them. They will take it seriously."
Carl asked blankly, "So it's not like that?"
Olly laughed and said, "You are so stupid. Of course it's not like that. Haven't you seen cork boards? Haven't you seen wine corks? Find a bottle of wine. You can squeeze the cork to know what it is. "
"Are these the same things?" Big Beard Carl asked, "Li, tell me. I don't believe Olly's words."
Li Du smiled and nodded. "Yes, cork flooring and cork corks are the same. They both come from cork oak or cork oak, which is the bark of oak trees."
Cork oak and cork oak were a relatively unique type of tree. As the saying goes, people are afraid of hurting the heart, trees are afraid of hurting the bark. The bark of this type of tree would have a layer of cork, which would not affect the growth of the tree at all.
Cork was made from this layer of cork. In the past, wine corks were more particular and were directly dug out from the bark of a tree.
However, the bark could not be peeled at will. It needed a growth cycle, at least 20 to 30 years before the tree could be harvested for the first time. After that, it had to be peeled every nine years. If it was too fast, the quality would not be good, and it would also harm the tree.
In this way, with the increasing production of wine, cork was not enough. Therefore, only high-end wine could be made with this kind of directly dug cork. Ordinary wine could only be made with broken bark glued together to make a composite cork.
An analogy would be that composite flooring was made by crushing wood with wood shavings and splinters, while cork and cork flooring were made by crushing the bark of trees.
Li Du had seen an introduction on National Geographic, which introduced this kind of tree and wine cork.
The most abundant cork on earth was in Portugal. After the cork was peeled, they first dug out the high-end wine cork directly from the bark, and then broke it to make other cork products.
Cork was also one of the popular wine culture in Europe and the United States. Rich people liked to collect red wine, and quite rich people liked to collect red wine bottles. Generally, rich people would collect red wine corks.
Most of the corks on the market were not worth collecting. Most would crack or drop sawdust as soon as they were drilled into the bottle opener. These were composite corks.
A real high-quality cork could be cut into pieces, just like a solid piece of wood.
Nowadays, this kind of cork was specially used for high-end red wine. To appraise the quality of red wine, one could also see through the cork. Red wine that could be made with real wood corks would not be too bad.
Since there were not enough wine corks, the value of cork floor was self-evident. It was certainly not low.
In the United States, ordinary, real cork floor cost two to three hundred dollars per square meter. Even a 100-square-meter house with cork floor would cost twenty to thirty thousand dollars.
And this was just ordinary cork floor. The flooring in the warehouse that Li Du had won the bid was a rare solid cork floor. In other words, it should have been directly cut out to make cork, but now it was made into flooring.
This kind of cork floor, because it was formed in one piece, had better waterproof functions, and had more beautiful natural patterns, so the price was very high.
In fact, the price difference between the two kinds of flooring was very big, ten or even twenty times.
Li Du had searched online. Especially high-quality cork floor could be sold for four to five thousand dollars per square meter. It was the first choice for rich people and celebrities to decorate their houses.
Most of this warehouse was made of natural cork floor, not composite cork floor. Each piece was one to two meters long and half a meter wide. There were more than a hundred of them. If a suitable buyer was found, they could be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars!
In addition to cork floor, there were other wooden boards in the warehouse, but these boards were very cheap.
The border agency probably did not know the value of this kind of cork floor. After seizing it, they mixed it with ordinary wooden boards. If they knew that the flooring was so valuable, they definitely would not keep it for treasure hunters.
For treasure hunters to make money from warehouses, they mainly had to rely on luck.
Of course, some luck could be missed.
For example, if Li Du did not have the ability to turn back time and see the origin and method of making these flooring, he would not know the value of these flooring, and would only dispose of them like ordinary flooring.
His good luck did not stop there. Later, he opened two more warehouses and found two boxes of silverware. Altogether, it was worth one to two hundred thousand dollars. He also found precious animal skins, such as leopard skin, otter skin, and crocodile skin, which were also very valuable.
The treasure hunters left enviously and began to tidy up their own warehouses.
When there were no more people, Li Du let Big Quinn and Godzilla tidy up a large warehouse. There were some abandoned cars in it, which he had won at the auction and had spent a hundred thousand dollars.
Originally, he thought he could easily get this warehouse. He did not expect George to participate in the bidding, which made him spend a lot more money.
But fortunately, he had gotten this warehouse.
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