Young man buys a tree stump for 800 yuan, his wife has a huge fight over it, and some time later it turns out to be worth 10,000 yuan

A young man bought a tree stump for 800 yuan, and his wife had a huge fight with him over it, but some time later it turned out to be worth 10,000 yuan!

In rural areas like ours, apart from the relatively backward economic conditions and transportation, there really are quite a lot of tree stumps. But for ordinary honest folks who do not know about such things, they have no idea of the value of some tree stumps. In the eyes of others, they are valuable treasures, yet here, they can easily end up as firewood for farmers.

That is exactly what happened to Zhang Sheng, a young man working in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. In April this year he came home to visit his parents and saw a tree stump like this beside the house of the uncle next door. The young man thought it over, then went to the uncle to explain the situation and spent 800 yuan to buy the tree. The uncle was very happy, since a stump like this had not borne fruit for several years and was also blocking the sunlight, so he might as well sell it for some pocket money.

This made Zhang Sheng's wife, who knew about the situation, extremely angry. As soon as he got home, his wife had a huge fight with him. His wife said in a furious rage, what are you going to do with a rotten stump like this? It does not bear fruit and it is not even nice to look at. Are you planning to use it as firewood? Or do you have so much money that you cannot find anywhere to spend it? You will not even buy your own child a little food or clothing, yet with something like this you do not hesitate for a moment. You might as well just live with the tree stump.

But that was not the case at all. In Zhang Sheng's eyes, this really was a fine treasure. Because in Zhejiang he specialized in making root carvings for others, and at a glance he recognized that this treasure was a Huanghuali (rosewood) tree stump, hard in texture, an excellent raw material for making bookcases, teapots and other playthings, and it fetched a very good price. It had great prospects.

So the young man cut down the tree stump and dried it in the shade, then made the branches and trunk into all kinds of exquisite small furniture and plaything beads, while the stump he dug up and took home for bonsai. Under his careful management, several months passed and the stump sent out new shoots. He also sold the small furniture made from the Huanghuali online, and unexpectedly, it was all bought up in less than three days. When he did the accounts, the small items made from the trunk alone had sold for more than 13,000 yuan. Some friends even came from far away to see the Huanghuali stump bonsai he had cultivated, and were prepared to pay 10,000 yuan to buy it. But for someone who knows the trade like him, 10,000 was not enough to move his heart; he would rather cultivate it well first and then sell it.

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