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"Adira, this is one of my juniors, take him to see the demeanor of the Jade King, Xiaozhuang, you can call him Tian Bo......" After the ancient and the visitor hugged, he pulled Zhuang Rui behind him and introduced the visitor. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zhuang Rui looked at the other party, this Tian Bo is not tall, a little thin, but full of black hair, his eyes are bright, if you don't look at the wrinkles on his face, at first glance, he looks like he is in his early fifties, but Zhuang Rui knows that he is two years older than the old man Gu.

After Zhuang Rui chatted with Tian Bo with the courtesy of a junior, everyone walked outside the airport.

Outside the airport, there were already a few cars parked waiting, Zhuang Rui and the old man Gu were two separate cars, he was arranged in an off-road vehicle behind, driving a Sichuan young man, named Zhang Dazhi, two years younger than Zhuang Rui, used to be a car soldier in Xinjiang, after leaving the army to stay in the local driving, people are very talkative, Zhuang Rui's words are answered.

In the car, Zhuang Rui learned that this old man from Xinjiang named Adira is a Uygur, 62 years old this year, this is his Uyghur identity, and he also has a Chinese name, called Tian Dajun.

In the Xinjiang jade world, Adira can be said to be a well-known legendary figure, and people in the industry respect him as the "Jade Prince", which shows his influence in the Xinjiang jade world.

In the early 80s, due to the fact that Xinjiang jade has experienced thousands of years of mining, the resources have shrunk extremely, and the jade mines on the first line of Kunlun Mountain have closed down.

At that time, with many years of experience in jade mining in Kunlun Mountain, Adila took the lead in putting forward the geological theory that "Hetian jade is distributed according to the shape of watermelon", which made the mining industry of Hetian jade turn around and survive, new ore sites continue to emerge, and the output rises year by year.

Adila is now the executive director of the National Jade Association as an "expert in Hetian gems and jades in China", which is much heavier than Zhuang Rui's director, and also serves as the deputy director of the Xinjiang Jade Professional Committee, and the company he leads has become the leader of the Xinjiang jade industry.

"That's why you call him the Jade Prince?"

According to Zhang Dazhi, it is more than an hour's drive from where Adira lives, and Zhuang Rui also wants to hear more about Adira's story.

"The old man is a man of God, and the locals say that he is a sharp-eyed ......"

"Sharp-eyed?!"

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and his face became a little strange, saying that this word was almost the same as being used on him.

"But no, the old man has more than a dozen mining teams, just last year, he was optimistic about a mining site, but the pit road dug into it for more than 60 meters, and there was no trace of jade, many people were anxious, saying that it was a waste mine, the old man overrode the public opinion, insisted on digging two meters deeper, hey, guess what?"

Zhang Dazhi mentioned the story of the Jade Prince, his eyebrows flew and danced, he asked himself, and he didn't wait for Zhuang Rui to answer, and then said: "At a distance of two meters, a miracle appeared, and four pieces of jade were mined, the largest of which weighed ten tons.

There is something more godly, before he saw the shadow of jade, the old man once predicted: This nest of mines can mine 60 tons of jade, and sure enough, after mining, a full 61 tons, Brother Zhuang, don't you say this is a golden eye?"

"Is there such a god?"

After listening to Zhang Dazhi's words, Zhuang Rui wondered in his heart, is this old man like himself, can see through the surface of the material and see the essence inside?

"Of course, our Jade Lord went to Kunlun Mountain to pick jade when he was more than ten years old, and in the past few decades, no one dares to say that he is more powerful than him in the territory of Xinjiang. ”

Zhang Dazhi admired his boss very much, and said: "In this place of Xinjiang, the prince is the authority in the identification of jade and jade. He can tell in one breath the authenticity, pros and cons of the jade he sees, the place of origin, and the price.

As long as the old man opens his mouth to quote, it is ironclad, and the seller is no longer "asking for the price", and the buyer is not "paying back the money on the spot".

This is the authority effect, the second is the degree of integrity, and the third is the personality charm. ”

Zhang Dazhi said this very smoothly, it seems that he has not only talked to Zhuang Rui alone, but when he spoke, his face was full of proud expressions, as if he could drive for the Jade Prince, which was also a face-saving thing.

"Then why did he invite the old man Gu to do it?" Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled, according to Zhang Dazhi, Adira's appreciation of nephrite jade would definitely not be worse than the ancient.

"I don't know, anyway, Gu Gu also came at this time last year, it should be that the prospecting team went up the mountain and specially invited Chairman Gu to come, right?" Zhang Dazhi's words are a little different from what Gu said, it seems that the purpose of coming this time is definitely not just to identify a piece of jade.

"Isn't it a jade mining team?"

"No, at this time of year, several teams will be organized to go up the mountain to look for ore veins, and after the ore veins are determined, a jade mining team will be dispatched, with a different division of labor, but there are also some jade miners who specialize in mining mountain water materials, which requires running all over the mountain, which is very hard. ”

Zhang Dazhi explained the difference between the two to Zhuang Rui, he has been in Xinjiang for many years, and sometimes he goes up the mountain with jade pickers to try his luck, you know, if you can find a good piece of jade, then you will not have to worry about eating and drinking in this life.

Comparatively speaking, it is more difficult to find veins and scattered jade miners, who have to brave the scorching sun and altitude sickness to search for jade deep in the mountains, sometimes going into the mountains for months before coming out of the mountains in winter.

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The car passed through Hotan City, drove to the suburbs, and drove in from a place that looked like a farm, Zhuang Rui found that there was a sentry next to the gate, and two young and strong young men stood by the door, and what surprised Zhuang Rui the most was that they were actually carrying a gun behind their backs.

"Dazhi, the two people at the door are also from the army?"

Zhuang Rui looked at the clothes passed on the two people, they were camouflage uniforms, but they didn't have epaulettes and military ranks, they just dared to hold guns in broad daylight, they should be from the state department, right?

"No, Brother Zhuang, those two are from the mine protection team, and they are both registered in the public security department and have gun ......licenses."

Zhang Dazhi said to Zhuang Rui that the environment near the Hetian jade mine is more complicated, not only the local people mining jade mines, but also gold diggers from all over the country.

Therefore, some big jade merchants will set up their own mine protection teams, and people like Adira don't know how many ill-intentioned people are worried about in their hearts, and Adira's trading place is generally where he lives, where valuable jade is placed, so an armed force is arranged to guard here, of course, this is reported to the local public security department and has been approved.

The car drove forward for more than 200 meters, and stopped in front of a three-story building, Zhuang Rui saw that stones of various sizes and shapes were placed on both sides of the road, and these stones were basically yellowish-white, and some of them could be seen from the surface.

After getting out of the car and entering the small building, on the dining table in the living room facing him, the wine and food had already begun to be placed on it, and after several Uygur women quickly arranged the meals, they retreated, and in the huge room, there were only old man Gu, Zhuang Rui, Adila and a middle-aged man in his forties.

The meal is very rich, Xinjiang's barbecue, large plates of chicken, and Xinjiang's Elite wine, Gu and Adila are very familiar, and from time to time they also use the Uygur language to say a few words to Adira, and the middle-aged man did not snub Zhuang Rui, and kept persuading him to drink, after a meal, Zhuang Rui was already four or five points drunk.

After eating, someone took Zhuang Rui and the old man to the room on the second floor to rest, Zhuang Rui, who was drunk, slept for four or five hours before waking up, out of the room, Zhuang Rui stood on the second floor and saw Gu and Adila sitting in the living room, on the ground in front of him, there was a stone weighing 100 catties.

"Xiaozhuang, get up, you haven't slept for a short time. Gu heard the sound from upstairs, looked up and saw Zhuang Rui, beckoned to him, and motioned for him to come down.

"Uncle Gu, I'm sorry, I overslept. Zhuang Rui walked downstairs and scratched his head a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, young man, it's normal to sleep a little deeper, old men like us, we can't sleep if we want to sleep for a while, come on...... How about this piece of material, lad?"

The old man of Adira was also a little curious about Zhuang Rui, and heard from his old friend that this young man had a very keen sense of jade, and he had gained a lot of money on the Pingzhou jade public plate some time ago.

"Uncle Tian, I still have a little experience with jadeite, but I don't know much about this nephrite, if you want me to say, it's just talking on paper......"

Although Zhuang Rui is sure to see the jade meat in this material, he really doesn't know much about the type and quality of Hetian jade.

"It's okay, I understand how much I say, what are you afraid of......" Gu said beside him, he brought Zhuang Rui here, it was to let him have a long experience, and this piece of material on the ground happened to give him a live teaching.

Zhuang Rui was not hypocritical after hearing this, and squatted down to look at the material of Hetian jade.

Friends all know that jadeite jadeite rough stones, all have an outer skin, and through the outer skin can be judged the direction and quantity and quality of the jadeite inside, it can be said that the outer skin is the key to the jadeite gambling stone.

And Hetian jade is naturally the representative of nephrite, different from jadeite, Hetian jade materials, not necessarily with the skin, a lot of Hetian jade jade, are exposed outside, in the past, many jade pickers, from the river directly can pick up high-quality Hetian jade.

Another point is different from jadeite, jadeite is from abroad, and Hetian jade has a long history in China, has a long history and unique meaning, throughout the ages, people have all the good things to jade metaphor.

Since ancient times, our country has the reputation of "the country of jade", the ancients regarded jade as a treasure, as a treasure to wear, the ancient medical book called "jade is the beauty of the stone, the taste is sweet and non-toxic", and said that jade is the most abundant substance for the human body to nourish vitality. It is believed that sucking jade, with the help of saliva and its synergy, so jade is not only used for jewelry, ornamentation, decoration, but also used for health and health.

Since ancient times, the emperors and concubines of all dynasties and generations have maintained their health without leaving jade, and Song Huizong has a jade addiction, and Yang Guifei has a jade to calm the summer.

In ancient China, jade was a social instrument that communicated heaven and earth, sacrificed to the ancestors of ghosts and gods, was a material expression of power and status, was a funeral tool for the deceased to protect the body and embalmed, and was a personality symbol for scholars and gentlemen to clean their bodies and clear their aspirations, flaunt themselves and pursue beautiful sentiments.

When the old man Gu and Zhuang Rui were together, they talked a lot about nephrite, but in fact, it was nephrite, so although Zhuang Rui didn't know much about it, theoretically speaking, he knew a lot about nephrite.

Nephrite jade is roughly divided into mountain materials, mountain flowing water and sub-jade, mountain materials are the primary mines produced in the mountains, such as white jade mountain materials, green and white jade mountain materials, etc., the jade prince they mined, mainly mountain materials.

Mountain water refers to those primary ores that have been weathered and collapsed, and transported by the river to the middle and upper reaches of the river large pieces of jade, the characteristics of the flowing water is close to the primary ore, the block degree is larger, and the edges and corners of the jade surface have been washed by the river for a long time, slightly rounded.

Ziyu, also known as Zi Kodyu and seed material, is distributed in the riverbed and terraces on both sides, the jade is bare on the surface or buried in the ground, Ziyu is characterized by a small block, often oval, smooth surface, because it has been washed and screened by the river for thousands of years, so the quality of Ziyu is generally the best.

In the lower reaches of the river, there are various colors, white jade seeds, green and white jade seeds, green jade seeds, black jade seeds, jasper seeds, topaz seeds, but no matter what color it is, as long as it is the best seed material, in the current jade market, one gram is as high as tens of thousands of yuan, which is many times more expensive than gold.

Before 2002, jade merchants in Xinjiang were carrying sacks of seeds to sell in the mainland, and they could choose at will, but now, only these people show up, and the jade merchants who come to the country are holding millions of dollars, and they can only buy a small box of materials.

The old man told Zhuang Rui one thing, when the jade merchants in Xinjiang arrived in Zhonghai, they basically stayed in the Tianshan Hotel, where they could often see several Jiangsu and Zhejiang bosses partnering, holding boxes of cash, and knocking on the doors in the corridors of the Tianshan Hotel.

The jade merchants in Xinjiang are famous for their unity, and the jade raw materials that Gu was able to cut off the Xu family jewelry and the Wang Roller family are also inseparable from his good relationship with Adira.

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The reason why Gu and Adira let Zhuang Rui see this piece of material is because some nephrite jade, like jadeite, also has an outer skin, Zhuang Rui knows that the outer skin of Hetian jade is generally divided into three types: color skin, sugar skin and stone skin.

Color skin refers to a layer of jade skin distributed on the surface of Khotanese jade, there are many colors, the jade world is named after these jade materials in various colors, such as black skin, deer skin, etc., the quality of Ziyu can be seen from the skin color, such as black skin, deer skin, etc., mostly for the best white jade materials.

The same quality of jade, such as with autumn pear and other skin color, the value is higher, the thickness of the color skin and jadeite is different, is very thin, generally less than 1 mm, and the shape of the color skin is also various, some into clouds, some for the veins, some into scattered.

The formation of color skin is due to the transformation of ferrous oxide in Hetian jade into iron trioxide under oxidation conditions, so it is secondary, experienced jade pickers, to the middle and lower reaches to find the color skin of the jade, and upstream, the chance of finding the color skin of the jade is very few.

The so-called sugar skin refers to a layer of yellow-brown and sauce-colored jade skin distributed on the surface of Hetian jade mountain material, because the color resembles brown sugar, so the sugar skin jade is called sugar jade. The thickness of the sugar skin of sugar jade is larger, from a few centimeters to twenty or thirty centimeters, and it is often surrounded by white jade or green jade, showing a transitional relationship, and sugar jade is produced near the cracks in the ore body.

The gambling nature of the sugar skin is a little bigger, because the jade quality inside is difficult to judge, it may be the best white jade, or it may be ordinary green jade, some jade pickers after picking the sugar skin of the jade, they often take it out to others to gamble, and they themselves do not unravel.

The last one is the stone skin, which refers to the surrounding rock surrounded by the surface of Hetian jade mountain material, at the time of mining, it is mined together with the jade, attached to the surface of the jade, the boundary between the stone and the jade of this kind of stone and jade is clear, and it is easy to separate it, and the stone skin is also the easiest to identify the quality of jade.

Now the piece of material in front of Zhuang Rui is a piece of sugar skin jade material with mountains and rivers, different from the skin of the jadeite rough, this piece of material is very smooth, and there is no tricky feeling to the touch, Zhuang Rui guessed that this should be because it was once washed by the river.

For Hetian jade, Zhuang Rui has no experience, after looking around this piece of material for a while, Zhuang Rui lowered his head, and the aura in his eyes suddenly infiltrated into the yellow-brown stone, revealing the stone layer by layer, and the situation in the jade material was suddenly revealed in front of Zhuang Rui.

The skin of this stone is not very thick, only four or five centimeters, in the middle of the stone, a whole piece of milky white jade flesh appeared in Zhuang Rui's field of vision, to Zhuang Rui's surprise, the aura that has not changed for a long time actually has a slight change when it comes into contact with the jade meat.

When he saw the soft white light in the middle of the jade, a warm breath fused with the aura in Zhuang Rui's eyes, although there was only a small trace of breath integrated into his eyes, but it still made Zhuang Rui feel very comfortable, like applying a hot towel to his eyes, the feeling of steaming made Zhuang Rui almost moan comfortably.

It's just that this huge piece of jade flesh can be absorbed by Zhuang Rui's spiritual energy very little, only a trace of hair, but this also makes Zhuang Rui overjoyed, at least he knows that the spiritual energy in his eyes can continue to increase, instead of stagnating like now.

After stabilizing his mind, Zhuang Rui raised his head and said: "Uncle Gu, Uncle Tian, this piece of jade is a mountain and flowing material, the volume is large, and the outside is wrapped with sugar skin, but it is often said that white jade is mostly small material, and the possibility of this jade material coming out of mutton fat jade is not very large, but this skin is wet and lubricated, and the performance is still good, if I have to say it, I guess it is green and white jade inside, but the quality should be good." ”

Zhuang Rui's words were decent, and he told the origin, skin and performance of the jade material, and with his age and knowledge, he was able to say this opinion, which also made the two old men nod again and again.

"That's right, it's similar to my idea, the possibility of producing green and white jade is relatively large, Adila, such a large piece of green and white jade is not lower than the price of ordinary sheep fat jade, are you still not satisfied?"

After Zhuang Rui finished speaking, the old man also gave his own evaluation, he had the same opinion as Zhuang Rui, this piece of jade is basically impossible to produce mutton fat white jade, if the best jade is so easy to see, and the family will not be passed down through the ages.

"Hehe, old brother, you also know, I didn't call you here to see this piece of material, Beijing summer is so hot, you can stay with me for a month, there are a lot of fresh cantaloupe and grapes this season." ”

Adila has long known this piece of jade, he called the old man Gu to come, old friends get together on the one hand, and the other is that the team looking for the vein will go up the mountain tomorrow, he wants to ask the old man to preside over the ceremony, for the jade pickers, this is the need for a respected senior in the industry to preside, Gu Tianfeng comes here every year, but also for this matter.

"Come on, I don't have a chance to live with you this year, I have to help this kid carve a piece of jade when I go back, and I'll talk about it when I have a chance later, and I'll go back to Beijing after presiding over the ceremony tomorrow." ”

The summer in Xinjiang is very cool, and Gu Tianfeng used to live here for a period of time every year, but this year he wanted to give Zhuang Rui a jade, but he couldn't live longer.

"Uncle Shi, my object is not in a hurry, you can live here for a while, besides, I also brought that piece of jade, no, you can carve it here......" Zhuang Rui was a little embarrassed, because of his own little matter, let the old man run on both sides.

"That's right, Xiao Zhuang is right, Brother Gu, I have all the tools here, you can stay, and we can talk if we have nothing to do." ”

Adira also persuaded that he and Gu Tianfeng have been old friends for decades, and they only meet once or twice a year, plus he has recently handed over the business to the juniors to take care of, and he also wants to have an old friend to chat with.

"It's not a problem where to carve it, but Xiaozhuang, can you bear to wait here?"

The old man was also a little moved when he heard this, but if these pendants were carved out and polished and other steps were completed, it would take ten days and a half months, and he was afraid that Zhuang Rui would not be able to wait.

"It's simple, let Xiao Zhuang follow the jade picking team up the mountain tomorrow......" Old man Adira gave an idea.

"Tian Bo, you just said that the team that went to the mountain in the sky is looking for ore veins, how can there be jade mining?"

Zhuang Rui asked puzzled, he was also a little curious about the mining of nephrite, he heard that most of the best mutton fat jade was picked up from the mountains or rivers, and few were dug out of the mines.

"Hehe, looking for ore veins and jade mining have to find a season to go up the mountain, if the weather is colder, there is no way to stay in the mountain for a long time, how about it, do you want to see it? By the way, the jade mined from the mountain belongs to you......" Seeing that Zhuang Rui wanted to go, Adila encouraged vigorously on the side.

"Okay, uncle, you can stay in peace, I'll follow the jade mining team up the mountain to have a look......"

In fact, Zhuang Rui doesn't care much about the ownership of jade, but he wants to see the legend of this jade miner, but it has been passed down for thousands of years.

Hearing this, a very strange expression appeared on the old man's face, and he asked Zhuang Rui, "Have you thought about going......?"

Zhuang Rui nodded and replied: "Well, I'll go and take a look, Tian Bo said, the jade I picked up is my own, I'm lucky, maybe I can pick up a piece of mutton fat jade." ”

In Zhuang Rui's heart, he regarded this trip into the mountains as a tour, a lot of things happened during this time, he felt that he needed to think about it in a quiet place, and his future career plan, he couldn't run around like this every day, right?

"Okay, young people have momentum, I'll have someone pack for you. Seeing that Zhuang Rui agreed, Adira stood up happily and walked out.

"Bags?" Zhuang Rui looked at the old man in confusion.

The old man looked at Zhuang Rui with a smile and said: "Boy, do you think jade mining is tourism? The environment in the mountain is very complicated, there were jade pickers who stayed in the mountain forever every year, and after the equipment was well equipped over the years, the danger was much smaller, but it was definitely not as comfortable as you thought, what's the matter, do you still want to go?"

The work of going into the mountains to find and jade ore veins and jade mining is very difficult and dangerous, and the requirements for the body, knowledge and survival quality of the entourage are very high.

"Go!"

Zhuang Rui nodded firmly, he has heard a lot of legends about Kunlun Mountain, and now he has the opportunity to go into the mountain to explore the secrets, if he doesn't go, he will definitely regret it in the future.

"Xiaozhuang, you will follow Dazhi into the mountain tomorrow, he has been there a few times, he is very experienced, you young people can also talk to ......"

While he was talking, the old man Adira pulled the driver who drove Zhuang Rui at noon, walked in, patted Zhang Dazhi on the shoulder, and said, "Xiao Zhuang is my honored guest, you must take care of it." ”

"Uncle Tian, I'm two years older than Dazhi. Zhuang Rui was made to laugh and cry by Adira's words.

"The mountains are not as good as the outside, based on experience, Xiaozhuang, after you enter the mountains, you must listen to this young man's opinions, don't make your own decisions about anything, otherwise, don't go." ”

The old man straightened his face and said to Zhuang Rui very seriously.