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"Young man, it's your first time in Beijing, right?"

After Zhuang Rui bought some gifts, he took a taxi and told the driver the address, the middle-aged driver in his forties was quite talkative, and chatted with Zhuang Rui in a Beijing accent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Yes, I've come to visit the elders. ”

"Most people really don't know your address, it's almost demolished, but the courtyard house that remains is worth a lot of money. ”

The middle-aged driver said with envy that in the early years, Beijingers' housing was very tight, and there were five or six families crowded into a courtyard, and the per capita housing area was only a few square meters.

In recent years, after being preserved as a cultural heritage, the price has risen by leaps and bounds, and the price of more than a dozen buildings may not be worth a quadrangle.

Some of the more savvy travel companies have launched a special Hutong tour, all of which are rickshaw drivers wearing yellow vests, wearing vests with "Beijing Hutong Tour" written on the front, the name of the car dealer written on the back, and the phone number. The rickshaws and the hutong tours they serve are very local, and the mighty yellow bunker convoys shuttle through the streets and alleys of Beijing.

During the tour, every time I walked to an alley, those rickshaw drivers would also introduce what kind of alley it was, who lived here, and which open courtyard house to see, which one of the courtyards had become a tourist attraction in Beijing.

The old man Gu lived outside the Xuanwu Gate, not very far from the hotel where Zhuang Rui lived, and it didn't take too long for the driver to park the car at the mouth of an alley, but it was impossible to drive in here.

After paying the fare and getting out of the car with his things, Zhuang Rui walked towards the alley, on both sides of the narrow alley, there are high blue brick walls, which look a little dilapidated, and there is a sign at the mouth of the alley, which reads: Non-open units, please do not visit.

Zhuang Rui came a little early, it was not yet nine o'clock, people came in and out of the alley from time to time, looking at Zhuang Rui who was carrying things in his hands, his eyes couldn't help but be a little strange, fortunately, there was a house number in front of each house, Zhuang Rui sped up his pace, and after walking through three or four courtyard gates, he finally found the residence of the old man.

Zhuang Rui pressed the doorbell, and after a little more than a minute, the heavy door opened, and a middle-aged woman in her forties poked her head out, glanced at the things in Zhuang Rui's hand, and said, "Who are you looking for?"

"Is this Zhuang Rui, come in......"

Before Zhuang Rui could reply, the old man's hearty and powerful voice sounded in the courtyard, and the middle-aged woman opened half of the door and let Zhuang Rui in.

Entering the gate, Zhuang Rui's eyes suddenly lit up, the inside of this yard is completely different from the slightly gloomy alley outside, the sunlight shines through the leaves of a big locust tree in the yard, sprinkled on the ground like gold, and there is a flower garden in the yard, planted with lilacs and begonias, and bursts of floral fragrance enter Zhuang Rui's nose.

On the high branches of the locust tree, there were also three or four bird cages, and several birds were chirping in them.

Zhuang Rui looked at the rooms around him, and found that this is a small quadrangle courtyard with two east and west wings and three rooms in the south room, lying bricks to the top, ridged tile houses, paving bricks and roads in the courtyard, connecting the doors of various places, flower beds are interspersed on both sides of the road, there are steps in front of each house, two doors, black lacquer and oil decoration, there is a pair of brass door cymbals on the door, and the two are pasted with couplets.

In the outside of each room, there are pomegranate trees, narcissus, oleander, golden cinnamon, silver cinnamon, rhododendron and other potted flowers and trees.

The old man was sitting on a recliner under the tree, holding a book in his hand, and an octagonal table was placed in front of him, with a set of tea sets on the table, and a few snacks.

"Xiao Zhang, bring a chair to Xiao Zhuang. Seeing that it was really Zhuang Rui, the old man stood up happily.

"No, no, I'll ...... it myself" Zhuang Rui handed the gift in his hand to the middle-aged woman, and moved a chair next to the flowerbed to the ancient table.

"Uncle Gu, I'm really sorry to disturb your purity again. Zhuang Rui did not sit down, but bowed slightly to the old man.

"What are you talking about, I'm living by myself, I'm usually too clean, don't stand, sit down. ”

The old man put down the book in his hand and poured tea for Zhuang Rui.

"That's ......"

"Oh, Xiao Zhang is the nanny I hired, and the children are all older, and no one wants to stay in this courtyard. ”

In fact, it's not like the old man said, his children are still very filial, it's just that the old man likes to be clean and drives out the younger generations to live, but every weekend, the children will still come back to get together.

"It's very nice here, I think it's much more comfortable than living in a building. ”

Zhuang Rui said what he said from his heart, because he lived in the depths of the alley, the traffic outside was not heard at all, and the detached family was very quiet, although it was not as big as the courtyard of his villa in Pengcheng, but it was a different artistic conception.

"Alright, don't say anything nice, take out the jade and I'll take a look. ”

Yesterday, I heard that Zhuang Rui solved a piece of imperial green material, the old man was waiting for the eyes to wear it, this kind of superb jade has always been available but not sought, he has been immersed in the jade circle for decades, and the number of times he has seen it is only a handful.

Zhuang Rui took out a jewelry box from his handbag and handed it to Gu, this box was from Wu Jia's store.

Gu Gu opened the box, held the jadeite in the palm of his hand, picked up the reading glasses on the table and put them on, observed them carefully, and after five or six minutes, put the jadeite back into the box.

"The color is not evil, the water is like a clear stream, there is no flaw, it is really the material of glass imperial green, not bad, really good, Xiaozhuang, you are ...... lucky"

The old man sighed, and when he was about to praise Zhuang Rui a few words, he couldn't find the words, his nephew's luck in this life was not ordinarily good, and after thinking about it for a long time, the old man didn't find the words to describe his good luck.

"Hehe, uncle, that's also a good teaching from you, and I learned all the knowledge of jade identification from you. ”

Zhuang Rui is now a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and after he is familiar with the gambling stone circle, he knows that not only he has this luck, but every year there will be some lucky people on the Myanmar jade market.

"If you kid can calm down, I can teach you the craft of jade, and you can also eat more skills, right...... With your current net worth, you don't need to rely on this line of work to eat. "Gu knew that Zhuang Rui's understanding was very high, but he wanted to teach him his unique skills of jade cutting.

"Okay, uncle, I'm going to study at Beijing University next year, and I'll come to learn from you when the time comes. Zhuang Rui knew that Yiduo was not pressing, and immediately agreed.

"Tell me, what do you want to carve into?" The old man hadn't carved jade for a while, and now when he saw this superb jadeite, he began to itch in his hands.

"Uncle Shi, can you cut out three pendants, and then set aside two pairs of earrings and a ring face?" Zhuang Rui agreed to Wu Jia's grandfather, naturally it was not easy to regret it.

Gu Wenyan picked up the jade for a while, and asked, "Is the pendant worn by a man or a woman?"

"To my mom and my niece, their ......"

"Oh, the man wears the Guanyin and the woman wears the Buddha, there is no problem with the three pendants, but the material of the earrings and the ring face, the province can be saved, but it will not be very big, are you sure?"

According to the old man's habit of carving, this piece of jadeite is cut into three pendants, and it will not be wasted at all, if it is according to Zhuang Rui's requirements, the volume of the pendant will be smaller.

"Uncle Shi, I don't dare to hide it from you, this matter ......"

Zhuang Rui hesitated for a moment, and said that Grandpa Wu Jia was going to leave a ring, if he didn't say it, it would reach the ears of the old man in the future, and it would definitely make the old man unhappy.

After listening to Zhuang Rui's words, Gu Gu did not get angry, but said with some emotion: "It's Brother Wu, alas, a few years ago, I heard that after his son and daughter-in-law had a car accident, his body collapsed, but I didn't expect that he couldn't use the knife, and our generation is getting older and fewer." ”

"Okay, I'll take this job, but not so soon, I'm going out tomorrow, it's estimated that it will take three or five days to come back, and it will be half a month after I finish this job, by the way, you wait, I have something else to tell you." ”

Gu stood up and walked into the main room, and it didn't take long for him to come out with a red-faced notebook in his hand.

"Well, this thing is for you, see for yourself......"

Zhuang Rui took the red-faced notebook and found that this was a letter of appointment, wrapped in red silk, but after opening it, Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded, pointed to the words on it, and stammered: "Old man, you ...... You...... You're not kidding me, are you?"

The words "Mr. Zhuang Rui is hereby hired as the director of the association......" written on the letter of appointment made Zhuang Rui suspect that he was in a dream, and then looked at the steel seal and the signature below, but it was the seal of the Jade Association and the words Gu Tianfeng.

"Uncle Gu, I don't dare to be this, in case someone says that you are pretending to be a public servant, it is all mine. ”

Zhuang Rui took a closer look at the letter of appointment, yes, it was for himself, and hurriedly excused himself, he asked himself that in addition to betting on a few pieces of jade, nothing else had anything to do with jade, how could the old man think of giving him such a name, which made Zhuang Rui a little frightened.

"What are you excited about, the director is not the chairman, just a name, there are more than 30 directors in the association, Song Jun's kid can get a director, what are you afraid of?" The old man saw Zhuang Ruicheng's frightened expression and laughed on the side.

"What? More than 30 directors? Brother Song is also ......"

Zhuang Rui was stunned, he originally thought that a big pie fell from the sky and hit him, but this also made him feel at ease, he was still young and couldn't bear too much of a burden.

"Don't take this seriously, tell you that although the Jade Association is a non-governmental organization, the subordinate jade testing center is still very authoritative for the identification of jade.

And after you have this identity, you don't need a special invitation to participate in various jade bidding meetings in China in the future, even if it is a few jade-rich countries, this thing is also somewhat useful......"

The old man Gu gave Zhuang Ruian such an identity, just to make it easier for him to enter and exit those gambling stone places in the future, and besides, he is not young, and I am afraid that he will have to resign from his position in the Jade Association after this year, which can be regarded as taking care of Zhuang Rui before retiring.

"Uncle Shi, thank you......"

Zhuang Rui heard the old man's words, and he understood what he meant, with this thing, it is indeed much more convenient to gamble on stones in the future, and even if he goes to Myanmar, he also has a name: academic exchanges.

The old man waved his hand, this matter was nothing to him, just a name.

"By the way, are you in a hurry to get this object? Do you want to go back to Pengcheng first, or wait in Beijing?" The old man will go out for several days, so he is asking Zhuang Rui.

Zhuang Rui was also a little hesitant, tossing back and forth on this hot day, it was really not very comfortable, but if he stayed in Beijing, he was too lazy to go out to visit those places of interest in the sun, and he was a little uncertain for a while.

Gu saw Zhuang Rui's appearance and said: "In this way, if you have time, go out with me, you can come back in three or five days, and you can also gain some knowledge." ”

"Uncle Shi, where are you going this time?"

Zhuang Rui asked a little curiously, running out on this hot day, even young people like him can't stand it, let alone the old man Gu.

"Go to Xinjiang, Hotan ......"

As long as this name is Chinese, you may have heard of it, and Zhuang Rui is no exception, and he has been yearning for the birthplace of mutton fat jade for a long time.

"Okay, uncle, I'll go with you, I've long wanted to see nephrite......" Zhuang Rui agreed, being able to follow the old man's side, the objects he saw were naturally good things.

"Well, you stayed in a hotel yesterday, right? Go and clean up, stay here at night, let's fly early tomorrow, by the way, I'm going to have someone book a ticket for you." Gu explained a few words to Zhuang Rui, went into the house to call, his ticket was booked a few days earlier, and it was just a whim to take Zhuang Rui, I don't know if there is a ticket.

Zhuang Rui also took out his mobile phone and called home, telling his mother to play for a few days and go back.

As soon as he hung up the phone, the mobile phone rang immediately, Zhuang Rui took a look, the number was very unfamiliar, and he didn't think much about it, and pressed the answer button.

"Hey, you're Zhuang Rui, right? I'm Ouyang Jun......"

"Ouyang Jun?"

The voice on the phone was very unfamiliar, and Zhuang Rui was sure that he didn't know such a man named Ouyang Jun.