The years when I was reborn as a giant in the antique world

"Young man, do you want to sell this piece of wool? I will offer 20 yuan."

"I'll pay 25 million."

"28."

"30 million!"

……

Before the piece of wool was fully untied, several people competed to make an offer. They were the purchasers of various jewelry companies, and they would come to Yushi Street every now and then to see if there was any good material.

Judging by the size of the cut surface, this piece of hibiscus seedling green jadeite can at least take out a pair of bracelets and three or four pendants. If the green can be eaten by four or five centimeters, at least two or three pairs of bracelets can be taken out.

This is already very good. Now that the glass and ice species are less and less, a pair of hibiscus light green bracelets is also a small boutique.

Just after Hong Hai's excitement was over, he heard various bids, and the highest bid was 40!

Fuck, he obviously only spent 1500 yuan for this piece of scrap.No wonder so many people want to gamble with stones, the profits are terribly high!

He usually has a lot of pocket money, and there are hundreds of thousands in his bank card, but this is a total of 40. It feels like... he picked it up with no effort.

Hong Hai felt that his head was a little dizzy, and he had a very unreal feeling.

"Young man, do you want to continue to clean it?" Master Jieshi asked with a smile. Today, a piece of jadeite has been lifted from his hand, and the business will definitely be easy.

Someone persuaded: "I advise you not to explain it. If the green is only eaten by one or two centimeters, there will be no such price. It is better to sell it to these buyers."

Some people retorted: "That's not what you said. If you eat all the green, then this piece of wool is worth at least 80 million!"

"Hey, do you understand it or not? Give me an accurate answer."

……

Hong Hai shook his heart, and said to Master Xie Shi, "Master, continue to explain."

"Are you sure you want to solve it? If the green is really not eaten, the value will be reduced by at least half." Master Jieshi reminded that he has seen this kind of situation a lot, and sometimes people really can't be too greedy.

"Excuse me, I also want to know how big this emerald is." Perhaps it was the betting price just now that gave him confidence, and Hong Hai felt inexplicably that it could still go up.

Yun Zhou and Xue Yifan stood aside without saying a word, neither of them were professional, since Hong Hai had already made a decision, it was the best choice to support him.

"Okay. Then I'll wipe the bottom for about two centimeters, and if it doesn't turn green, I'll cut in again."

Master Jieshi carefully observed the cut surface, and quickly made a judgment based on more than 20 years of experience in Shijie.This will neither hurt the jade meat inside nor waste time.

"Ok."

Hong Hai took a deep breath, and watched helplessly as the stone-cleaning master put the wool into the stone-cleaning machine.

Master Jieshi fixed the wool and manipulated the machine to replace it with a small grinding wheel.

The sound of '唰唰唰' sounded, and the outer shell of the wool was slowly wiped off, leaving a lot of debris on the ground.

After 3 long minutes, the sound of the grinding wheel finally stopped, and Hong Hai's heart rose to his throat.He kept taking deep breaths, his mind was full of scenes of friction, and his palms were full of sweat.

Master Jie Shi turned on the machine, took out the wool that had been wiped off the leather shell, and frowned, "No green."

I saw the white surface at the bottom, and there was no green color showing through. It seemed that at least the two or three centimeters nearby would not be green.

"Huh? Didn't come out green?"

Hong Hai seemed to have been hit on the back of the head with a stick suddenly. At that moment, he felt an indescribable sense of dizziness. The whole person seemed to have fallen from heaven to hell. His face turned pale suddenly, and his mood sank to the bottom of the valley.

"Let me just say, just take it when you see it. It's really not worth the candle to get a pair of bracelets with this thickness."

"It's really a pity."

Seeing this situation, several other purchasers stopped quoting. The current situation is not optimistic. What if the wool is made of skin green, it is not impossible.

Yun Zhou walked over and patted Hong Hai on the shoulder, comforting him softly: "Brother Hai, relax. The scrap we bought for 1500 yuan is a profit no matter what, it's just a matter of earning more or less.

Even if it all collapses, so what, if you feel distressed, Yifan and I will pay 750 each, and we will treat you to dinner. "

Xue Yifan also nodded in agreement.

"...Cut, you, Brother Hai, I don't feel sorry for 1500 yuan!"

Hong Hai snorted twice, rolled his eyes exaggeratedly, Yun Zhou's words made him slightly relieved from the feeling of falling into hell.

That's right, he shouldn't have thought this way. He obviously just wanted to try the feeling of betting on stones at the beginning.

But even if he comforted himself like this, he was still very disappointed in his heart.

This feeling of getting and losing is far more terrifying than never getting it.Even though he knew from his heart that this acquisition was false, it was only a momentary illusion, but he couldn't let it go at all in his heart.

"Do you want to continue cutting?" Master Xie Shi asked.

"Let's cut it." Hong Hai looked around and found that everyone around him was waiting and watching, and no one called for a price. The scene of bidding just now seemed to be his illusion.

Anyway, no one wants it now, so what else can he do, he can only continue cutting.

"Okay." Master Xie Shi was not in a good mood either, after all this was also related to his business, and he was very hopeful in his heart.

He moved the wool material out about three centimeters and fixed it. It would be dangerous if the green could not be cut this time.

The noise of the metal gears seemed to hit Hong Hai's heart. He stared at the cover of the rock-dissolving machine tightly, sweat dripped from his forehead, and the wind blew it cool, just like his current mood. .

"Okay." Master Jie Shi turned off the machine, took out the wool cut in half, and smiled on his face, "Congratulations, the cut is up."

I saw a fingernail-sized green color in the second half of the sliced ​​surface, indicating that some of the green color was eaten.

"call--"

Hong Hai let out a long sigh of relief, feeling that a big rock in his heart had finally fallen to the ground.

In just ten minutes, his mood flew up and down like a roller coaster, and now he suddenly relaxed, and suddenly felt a burst of collapse.

He felt as if he had died once, and then was reborn again. His heart was a little convulsed by the two ups and downs. If his heart was not good, he might really faint.

Hong Hai couldn't help thinking to himself, it's really not for ordinary people to bet on stones, what if he didn't gamble up?

Thinking of the decadent and vicissitudes of the middle-aged man's back, he shuddered suddenly, and the sense of joy faded a lot, leaving only a sense of emptiness and exhaustion.

Or maybe he has no joy in his heart at all, because he could sell it at a higher price before.

Master Jieshi wiped off all the excess gravel near the cut surface, and the wool in Hong Hai's hands is now clear material.

However, due to the thickness, it is impossible to take out a complete pair of bracelets, and at most it can only be made into jewelry such as beads and pendants.

In the end, this piece of hibiscus seedling green jadeite was photographed by the buyer of Fengyuan Jewelry at a price of [-] yuan.

This piece of material can process about four or five pendants and earrings, and the total cost is only 10,000+, plus the cost of engraving and store rent, it seems that there is not much profit.

This is the status quo of the jade industry.

Not only is there a shortage of raw materials, but the competition is extremely fierce. If you don’t pay a high price, other jewelers will naturally buy it. This has also led to an increase in the price of jadeite jewelry by about 30% every year.

Hong Hai soon received a transfer of 8 yuan.

However, after experiencing so many things, there is a sense of excitement, but more of a kind of fear and regret.

中年男人30万的毛料转眼间变成了只值1500块的废料，又在短短10分钟之内涨了200多倍、价格直冲40万，而最后5分钟之后紧接着变为了8万。

One sword in heaven, one sword in hell is nothing more than that.

Hong Hai touched the heart of the left chest with his hands, and he can still feel the feeling of being so nervous that he is about to vomit and so excited that he is almost convulsed.

Gambling stones is really exciting, no, it's too exciting. He doesn't want to experience it again in a short time, and he feels like he will collapse.

"Green emeralds from hibiscus seedlings are soaring—go and set off firecrackers!"

Seeing that the betting has risen, the shop owner yelled loudly for the shop assistant to set off firecrackers at the door. There was a crackling sound, and the flow of people on Yushi Street poured in this direction like a river converging. After a while, the courtyard was full of people.

The shop owner was so happy that he couldn't help but walk over to Yunzhou and the others, "Haha, young man is lucky today. If you return the stone in a while, you won't be charged for the stone. Pick a few more pieces of wool, maybe you can solve more." Here comes the good stuff."

The shopkeeper knew in his heart that this discount was nothing compared to the business he brought.

Moreover, these young people are all classmates brought over by Young Master Xu, and their family background is not bad in terms of their clothes.Young people like excitement the most, and it may bring him a lot of business.

"Thank you boss." Yunzhou and Xue Yifan responded with a smile, while Hong Hai was uncharacteristically silent.

**

Xu Ze was currently picking out half-baked wool on the shelf.

The relative risk of half-gambling on wool will be smaller because of the "window".

What Xu Ze is currently looking at is a piece of wool made of white salt sand leather. It is off-white overall, about the size of a basketball, and square. When you touch the leather shell with your hands, there are obvious grains of sand. The feeling of sand removal is very strong. It looks It should be the material of Laochangkou.

Jadeite shells are roughly divided into three categories: sandy leather, fine leather and rough leather.

As the name implies, there are obvious weathered sand grains on the leather shell. According to different colors, the common ones are yellow sand skin, white sand skin, water-turned sand skin, bayberry sand skin, iron sand skin, de-sand skin, black black sand, etc. .

The quality of sand leather varies greatly, but there are also good materials among them, which are highly speculative.

Fine leather refers to fine and smooth wool. The more common ones are old elephant skin, pineapple skin, potato skin, bamboo shoot leaf skin, bacon skin, Danika skin, frog skin, etc.

This type of wool has a relatively compact structure, fine texture, high hardness and good transparency. If there is jade in it, it is generally of the top grade. ①

Coarse leather refers to the material with thick skin and thick texture, loose structure and low transparency.

The white salt sand leather wool that Xu Ze chose is a kind of sand leather. It belongs to the top-grade white sand leather. It has a strong sense of sand removal and is obviously an old material.

The middle part of the wool is surrounded by a gray-green python belt, and there are clusters of pine flowers around the python belt, extending to the upper half of the wool.

Both the python belt and the pine flower are the characteristics of judging the presence of green in jadeite.

Python bands refer to the thin strips or lumps that appear on the surface of stones, like patterns; pine flowers refer to the green accumulations on the surface of wool. ②

If there are python-banded pine flowers on the leather shell at the same time, it is more likely to be green.

There is a three-finger-wide window at the top left of this piece of wool, and a bright turquoise is revealed from the window. The texture is as clear as ice, with high transparency, and as crystal clear as boiled glutinous rice. Ice waxy apple green.

Xu Ze shines a white flashlight along the window inwards. The light transmission is good, and the green should have been eaten.He moved inch by inch along the cut surface, and the green light emitted was very uniform, which seemed to him to be a rare piece of good material.

I looked at the other few and a half pieces of wool, but none of them were as good as this piece of white salt sand skin wool.

At this time, the shop owner came with a smile on his face, and Yun Zhou and the others followed.

"Young master, I just gambled a piece of wool."

Hong Hai sat down on the bamboo chair next to him, and sighed rarely, "I really admire you now. People who can gamble with stones have iron hearts. I can't stand it."

Up to now, he still can't let it go, and he keeps thinking about the scene just now in his mind, regretting why he didn't sell it when the jade buyer asked for 40 yuan.

Xu Ze glanced at him when he heard the words, and concern flashed in his usually indifferent eyes, "Take a deep breath, don't think too much, lower your expectations and prepare for the worst before the results come out, so you won't feel too uncomfortable."

"That's right." Hong Hai stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, "At the beginning, I also thought that it would only be 1500 yuan. If you lose money, you will lose money.

As a result, after the first cut, it was suddenly called 40. Damn, it really scared me.It's a pity that it came down again in the end, I shouldn't be greedy, it would have been better if I sold it earlier—"

"You can't think like this." Xu Ze looked at him seriously, "Gambling with stones is uncontrollable, if your bet goes up later, you will regret selling it early.

The only thing we can do is to stabilize our mentality and look forward to everything. "

Xue Yifan and Yun Zhou also went up to comfort him and said, "Brother Hai, think about it, we still earned more than 7 yuan. It's not a loss. It's enough to eat dozens of big meals. Don't think so much."

"...Yes, you are right, I am treating you tonight!"

Hong Hai hammered the ground hard, felt the enthusiasm and care of his brothers, and his mood eased from the state just now.

When he and his father went out to collect antiques, they would still pay tuition by paying attention. Some things are in the past, so they can't think about it.

Hong Hai proposed to go to a nearby store to see if there were any good bracelets for sale, and if the price was right, he would bring a pair back to his mother, mainly to go out to relax.

Xue Yifan also wanted to go out for a stroll, so he followed, so only Xu Ze and Yunzhou were left in the shop.

Yun Zhou smiled at Xu Ze, and said tentatively, "Young Master, I want to try gambling with stones, is that okay? Don't worry, I'm sensible, and I won't buy expensive woolen materials."

Xu Ze's gaze paused for a moment at the two small dimples on the boy's cheeks, and he quickly shifted his gaze, "...Well, go if you want, and show me if you are not sure."

He felt that he was completely unprincipled when he was facing the boy.

"Thank you young master, I will."

Yun Zhou replied with a smile, and touched the little Yulong on his wrist who raised his body high and couldn't wait.

Seeing the other party go to the area where the price of wool is relatively cheap, Xu Ze looked away and asked the price of the white salt sand leather.

The shopkeeper gave him a thumbs up: "My young master has good eyesight, this is the most expensive piece of material in the shop.

Authentic Burmese old material from Nachangkou, the first-class product in white sand skin, there are plenty of old materials.Master Jieshi wiped a window on the outer skin to reveal the ice waxy apple green, and it is very likely that ice seeds or even glass seeds will appear inside.

If someone else comes to buy it and it is less than 800 million yuan, I will not sell it. Since you are an old customer, the buy-it-yourself price is 700 million yuan. "

Xu Ze let out an 'hmm', and the price was within his expectation.

He likes this piece of material because he thinks that the old white salt sand skin has a higher probability of producing ice seeds, and the most lacking in the store now are ice seeds and glass green emeralds.

For general jadeite rough, the closer to the center, the better the color of the jadeite.

There are a lot of wool materials that are only light green in water near the edge of the skin, but in the middle there may be ice, high ice, and even glass high green emerald.

Of course, this is not absolute.

It is also possible that there is green at the mouth of the rubbing, but the inside is full of white stones, or there is only a thin layer of green, which is skin-based green.

Betting on stones is all about uncertainty.

"I want this piece of wool." Xu Ze quickly made a decision, "Put it here with you first, and pay the bill together after I finish picking the others."

"No problem." The shopkeeper smiled so hard that his teeth could not see. This Young Master Xu is always so forthright, he is worthy of being the young master of a rich family.

**

Yun Zhou walked to the pile of wool leftovers at the innermost wall of the courtyard.

The shopkeeper gave them a brief introduction just now. This part is the wool with the lowest price. The unit price is about a few hundred yuan.

The pile next to it has a price tag of 1000-3000 yuan, which is relatively cheap among wool materials. Yunzhou plans to start with these two piles first.

There are not many people here, only a few young people come to try their luck. Everyone knows that the leftovers are leftovers, and the possibility of getting green is very low.

However, there is an old saying that goes, “Green comes out of shit.” Sometimes the garbage with rough particles and dark brown color has a [-] in [-] possibility of being green in glass. It depends on who is lucky. up.

Yun Zhou knelt down and looked at the pile of wool one by one.

Judging from the leather shell, most of them are made of rough leather or nothing at all, no different from the stones picked up by the roadside, with rough texture and loose structure, not to mention loose python belts, there is not even a little external performance.

After looking at more than a dozen yuan in a row, the boy shook his head. There is really nothing to choose from for this part of wool.It is estimated that after being unable to sell for several months, it was put here by the shopkeeper, and it has been searched many times.

Xiao Yulong curled up on his wrist and opened his mouth to yawn a little, also showing a lack of interest.

Just as he was about to leave for another place, he suddenly found five or six pieces of black lacquered wool in the corner, which was very different from other rough stones with gray and white surfaces.

These few pieces of wool are round, almost without edges and corners, the surface is as black as charcoal, and the size is only a little bigger than the first head, and it looks oily and shiny under the sunlight.

The boy walked over curiously, picked up one of them and looked at it. It looked small and heavy, but when he put it down, he touched his hand black, which was very obvious on his white palm.

Yun Zhou: "..."

?The color of this wool is quite serious.

The shop owner saw this scene when he passed by, and he couldn't help laughing, "You just took the authentic black Usha at the mouth of the old Pagan field. Its appearance is as black as coal, and the skin is covered with a layer of black wax shell. Highly weathered performance.

see it?It is the shell with a shiny surface, which shows that it is the material of Laochangkou.Don't look at it as inconspicuous, there is a certain probability that it can solve the glass species sun green or even emperor green emerald. "

Of course, this probability is very low, similar to the probability of winning a lottery ticket, otherwise it would not be included in the leftovers of several hundred yuan.

Yun Zhou nodded receptively, looked at the other pieces of black wool, and touched the faded ones all over his body with his hands, and both palms were dyed black.

Well, maybe that's what characterizes Black Usha.

However, now he needs to wash his hands before continuing.

However, just when he was about to stand up, the little jade dragon on his wrist suddenly became energetic, raised his head and shook the shiny silver scales, fixed his eyes on a piece of black black sand wool, curled his tail Yun Zhou's wrist desperately pulled in that direction.

The boy had no choice but to pick up the lacquer-black woolen material again, and looked carefully and found a few green pine flowers underneath. Because the woolen material is very black, it is completely invisible, unless you look very carefully.

Could it be that the high green of the glass species can really come out here?

Yun Zhou felt a little unbelievable.

The little jade dragon gave him a 'owwow' in a milky voice, with two jade-white little dragon horns protruding, and opened its mouth to the wool and spit out a stream of spiritual energy.

The aura penetrated into the wool in an instant, intertwining with the aura inside the emerald.

Yun Zhou only felt the aura surging in the place touched by his palm, and the aura gathered inside the wool to form raging waves, which kept churning inside, and the high waves slapped the outer wall, as if trying to break free from the shackles of the outer shell.

This is the first time he felt this strong feeling. Does the emerald actually contain such a strong aura?

Soon, as the aura was completely submerged in the emerald, this feeling completely disappeared, as if it had never happened before.

Yun Zhou's heartbeat quickened a bit, and he put this piece of wool and another piece of black Usa into the trolley. This time, even though his wrists were all black, he didn't complain.

The boy's clear eyes were curved into beautiful arcs. If it is really a glass-like emerald with a high green color, then he is really lucky!

Of course, the most important thing is to have the help of Xiao Yulong.

He gently touched the smooth scales of Little Yulong with his fingertips, but he forgot that his hands were black, and the shiny silver scales were instantly stained with gray.

The boy immediately withdrew his fingers, but Xiao Yulong didn't notice it at all, still holding his head up and coquettishly wanting to kiss, his voice was soft.

In the end, one person and one dragon had to go to the bathroom to wash in vain.

After being cleaned, the little Yulong shook off the water on his body, and completely recovered the state of being as white as jade. It coiled around Yunzhou's wrist, and watched him come to another pile of wool.

The price of this part of wool is between 1000-3000. These wools are mainly made of sand leather, and the surface does not have a strong sense of sanding. They should be wool from Xinchangkou, which is relatively tender.

Yun Zhou came over with a learning attitude, and found that some woolen leather shells had pine flowers on them, but they were gathered together in large groups. It seemed that there were a lot of green, but in fact they were not outstanding.

As the saying goes: "It is better to buy a line than a slice."

That is to say, if there is a large area of ​​green on the surface, but there is no emerald inside, it is better to choose pine flowers with a linear or clustered skin, which is easier to produce green.

He looked at several pieces of wool with pine flowers in a row, but Xiao Yulong didn't respond until he came to a piece of wool that was nearly half a person's height.

This is a piece of yellow sand skin wool, the surface is uneven, weathered badly, with a lot of sand in the crevices, it looks dirty.The size is relatively large among the surrounding woolen materials, roughly estimated to be more than 100 kilograms.

There are two off-white python bands at the bottom of the wool, the color is very light, and a few gray-green dot-shaped pine flowers are scattered around it.This kind of intermittent pine flower distribution generally does not knot well inside the wool, the possibility of greening is not high, and the betability is poor.

But even so, such a large piece of wool will not be placed in the 1000-3000 area. This piece of wool is so large, and any part of it that can be extracted from the emerald is easy to gamble.

The most important reason is that a large crack in the wool runs through from the top to near the bottom. The crack is very deep, and there are various impurities such as sand and moss in it-this is called a bad lock.

The evil locks of jadeite are open-shaped large cracks, which are already large cracks on the surface of the original stone, and these cracks will spread and penetrate deeply into the jadeite, causing various impurities to appear inside the jadeite. Great damage to emerald.

With such a large evil lock, this piece of wool is basically no one cares about.

However, at this time, the little Yulong raised his body high when Yun Zhou stretched out his hand, his obsidian-like eyes kept staring at the piece of wool, and then he yelled at the young boy, 'Aww~( A lot of aura~). '