Chapter 256: Stone Zhai (II)
"Does it make a difference?"
Zhuang Rui stopped, turned his head and looked at the girl with a little doubt, since he had already said that he would not process on behalf of customers, what did he have to do with his raw materials?
"Ah, that's right, if your materials are good, maybe I'll help you ask my grandfather, most of the high-end jade jewelry in this store is carved by my grandfather himself. ”
Wu Jia was a little embarrassed to be asked by Zhuang Rui, and secretly blamed herself in her heart for being troublesome, so she could only move her grandfather out to talk about it.
However, Wu Jia has already made up her mind, no matter whether Zhuang Rui's material is good or bad, she will say that the material is average, because her grandfather has been older in recent years, especially in the past two years, his hands are shaking badly, except for polishing some bracelets, he has rarely carved other finer objects.
"Oh, is this your shop?"
Zhuang Rui turned around and walked over when he heard this, this stone Zhai is very famous in Pengcheng, but he didn't expect it to be opened by this girl's family.
I remember when Zhuang Rui was in junior high school, there was a classmate who was very rich in the family, who once showed off in the class, saying that his father invited a Guanyin in Shizhai and sent it to the temple to invite the master to open the light, which shows that Shizhai is famous in Pengcheng.
Zhuang Rui could only come in with a few yuan in his pocket when he had nothing to do with Liu Chuan, as for the things here, they couldn't afford them, and this memory of the year was also the main reason why Zhuang Rui chose to come to Shizhai to ask.
"This name was created by my grandfather, and I just worked here......"
Wu Jia didn't know why she answered this man's question, maybe Zhuang Rui felt very kind, as if he was chatting with a friend, so he said it casually.
"Well, you've been open for many years, and I used to play here when I was a kid, but I couldn't afford to buy anything in it. Zhuang Rui remembered the situation when he and Liu Chuan were wandering around in the store, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"Hey, don't you want to process it, take out the jade material, I'll take a look at ...... first."
Wu Jia was a little inexplicable by Zhuang Rui's words, I am not very familiar with you, why are you talking to me about this, it is because the tone is a little unkind, and the word "you" when calling Zhuang Rui has also become the word "you".
Zhuang Rui didn't pay attention to the change in the girl's tone, he just looked at the carving of several pendants very carefully, the carving was very fine, and the facial expressions of the characters or animals were carved vividly, which was better than the pendant that Qin Xuanbing gave him on his neck.
Zhuang Rui already had a little understanding of the girl's grandfather's craftsmanship by observing these objects, so he reached out and took out the egg-sized piece of imperial green jade material from his pocket and carefully handed it to Wu Jia.
Wu Jia saw Zhuang Rui's cautious appearance, and muttered in a low voice: "What kind of material, it's still so mysterious." ”
After receiving it in his hand, he first felt his right hand fall down sharply, and when he looked at it, the first thought in Wu Jia's mind was: This thing is a colored plexiglass.
Don't be surprised that the girl will have this idea, because now many bad businessmen are taking some colored plexiglass and resin and other synthetic materials to imitate jade jewelry, and these people have formed a chain of production and marketing.
However, Wu Jia then dispelled this idea, because after starting it, she felt that the silk mist crystals at the edge of the jadeite material in her hand were a little tricky, and it didn't look like it was pasted with glue, indicating that this was not an imitation jadeite.
Wu Jia, who was still a little careless, was nervous now, just now she was holding the jade in the palm of her hand to see, and now she hurriedly took an empty jewelry box from the counter, placed the jade in the hole of the jewelry box, put it on the counter, turned on the strong light needed for the guests to select the jadeite, took out a magnifying glass, and carefully observed the jadeite.
The more she looks at Wu Jia, the more frightened she is, she has been following her grandfather since she was a child to watch her grandfather carve jade, whether it is jadeite jade, or nephrite mutton fat jade and other materials, she can almost tell the real from the fake, and all kinds of superb jade, I have also seen a lot, but the jade in front of her made her deeply addicted to it in shock.
Almost transparent jade, deep as the sea of green, like a lover's eyes, intoxicating, Wu Jia claims to have identified a lot of the best jade, but compared to the jade in front of him, those are all garbage goods, between the two one for the emperor, one for the grass people, there is no comparison at all.
"This ...... This...... This is the imperial green jadeite of the glass species???"
Wu Jia has forgotten her original intention, and even if she thinks about it, she doesn't dare to say that the material of this piece of jadeite is average, and the material of glass imperial green is still average, then these goods in her store should be thrown on the street.
"The material of this jadeite is okay, right?" Zhuang Rui asked, he could see the change in the girl's attitude before and after, and he intended to make a joke.
"Okay, it's not okay, it's very ...... Very well, sir, you wait, I'll call grandpa, oh...... I'm sorry, this piece of jadeite is too precious, so you should keep it yourself. ”
Wu Jia didn't understand Zhuang Rui's humor, but was a little flustered, and her speech became incoherent, not to mention that she had never seen it, even if it was her grandfather, she had only seen a piece of glass imperial green jade material when she was young, but he was still young, and the material was not handed over to him for carving, Wu Jia knew that her grandfather had always regretted it.
It was because she was so anxious to inform her grandfather, but after running a few steps to the phone in the store, she found that the jade was caught in her hand, so she handed it back to Zhuang Rui with some embarrassment.
In fact, Zhuang Rui's cognition of jadeite is still a little shallow, although he can estimate the price of this piece of imperial green material, but he does not know the status of this piece of jadeite in the jade circle.
The so-called glass imperial green, that represents uniqueness, the name reveals a kind of self-respecting, domineering who else is self-serving.
Not all jadeite with green can be called imperial green, like those green jadeite that is similar to this piece, because the water can not reach the glass species, people generally call it yang green high green or full green, only the glass is full of green and no flawed jadeite, can be called imperial green, which represents the dignity, is the meaning of the king of all jadeite.
Not to mention ordinary people, it is many jewelers, it is rare to see pure imperial green jadeite in their lives, and the objects carved out of this material are rare to see for several years or even more than ten years, and once they enter the market, they will be bought and treasured immediately.
"Sir, please sit down, please drink water, may I ask your surname, what is your name?"
"My surname is Zhuang, call me Zhuang Rui......"
After Zhuang Rui saw the girl put down the phone, he ran back in a hurry, and in the air-conditioned store, the tip of his nose actually sweated, obviously caused by excitement, but Zhuang Rui was also a little dizzy when she said this word.
"Well, Mr. Zhuang, wait a minute, my grandfather will be able to come over in a while. ”
As the actual operator of this jade shop, Wu Jia will already be secretly thinking about whether he can buy a little material from Zhuang Rui, not much, with such a small nail size, polishing a ring face, it can be regarded as the treasure of the town store in this store.
"It's good to call me Zhuang Rui, but I'm not used to calling Mr. ......"
Zhuang Rui corrected Wu Jia's shouting, it's not that he is close to this girl, it's just a mouthful of a gentleman, he is really uncomfortable to listen to, because he has to take the postgraduate examination, he has read too many ancient texts recently, and Mr. is the meaning of the teacher, Zhuang Rui has no idea of being a teacher.
"Okay, my name is Wu Jia, let's get to know each other now. ”
Wu Jia stretched out her hand to Zhuang Rui as she spoke, she was thinking about how to get close to Zhuang Rui, this glass imperial green jade is rare to see, if you can buy so little, it will definitely make Shizhai famous.
Zhuang Rui and Wu Jia shook hands, looked around, and asked, "By the way, Wu Jia, I remember that when I came to you before, there was a middle-aged man here, did the elders hand you the baton?"
It's not Zhuang Rui's gossip, mainly like jewelry and antique business, which is the easiest to be found to settle accounts, some people buy objects back, and people feel that they are losing money by a palm, and they will come to the door to return them.
Wu Jia was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhuang Rui's words, with a sad look on his face, and then said softly after a while: "When my parents went out to travel last year, they encountered a car accident, and this store is the work of my grandfather all his life, and I can't watch it fall, so I came here." ”
Although Wu Jia has been fascinated by jade since she was a child, she did not have the idea of inheriting the family business earlier, but after her parents died in a car accident, her grandfather was devastated and had no time to manage the store, so she quit her original job and returned to Shizhai.
And Wu Jia's grandfather, after also experiencing the pain of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man, plus he is also old, his body collapsed suddenly, and now many objects in the store are carved by the apprentices brought by the grandfather, and the old man rarely comes to the store now.
Zhuang Rui looked at Wu Jia with tears in his eyes in front of him, and he didn't know what to do, but he didn't expect to ask casually, and actually mentioned other people's sadness, the death of a loved one, and the words of comfort with words are too pale, so Zhuang Rui is quite at a loss.
"Xiao Jia, where is the imperial green jade you said? Show grandpa ......"
Just when Zhuang Rui was a little embarrassed, an old voice came from the door of the store, and when he turned his face, an old man with white hair and a little melancholy between his eyebrows walked into the store with a cane.
"Grandpa, slow down, Jade is here. ”
Seeing her grandfather come in, Wu Jia hurriedly wiped her eyes, went up and helped the old man, she didn't dare to show her thoughts about her parents in front of her grandfather, because that would make the old man sad for several days.
After sitting down on a chair in front of the counter, the old man wore a pair of reading glasses, and then took the jade handed over by Wu Jia and looked carefully at the bright light that had been turned on.
Just when the old man picked up the jadeite, that kind of focused look made him seem to be dozens of years younger suddenly, but Zhuang Rui was close, and when he saw the old man's right hand holding the jadeite, he trembled slightly.
"The color is like a green bamboo in the mountains, bright as a stream in a stream, without a trace of flaw, good jade...... Good jade, rare good jade. ”
After a long time, the old man reluctantly put down the jade in his hand, and said three good words in a row, he has played with jade all his life, and this is only the second time he has seen the imperial green jade of the glass species, and his heart can't help but be a little agitated.
"Young man, this piece of jadeite is yours, right? Luck is really good, like my old man, I have never been able to have such a small piece of imperial green jadeite in my life. ”
After the old man put down the jadeite, he looked at Zhuang Rui, his eyesight and experience, but much stronger than his granddaughter, just now when observing this jadeite, rubbed his hand on it a few times, from the feeling of polishing the surface and the tentacles, the old man knew that this jadeite had just been unraveled from the stone.
Just looking at Zhuang Rui's clothes, he doesn't look like a rich man, but the old man bluntly said that Zhuang Rui is lucky.
If you want to say Zhuang Rui, it is very generous to spend a lot of money on buying a car and buying a house, but the habits he has developed since childhood make him not very interested in those so-called brand-name clothes and clothes specially created for successful people.
When he was in Zhonghai, Qin Xuanbing once bought him a few very high-grade clothes, but Zhuang Rui felt awkward wearing them, so now he is wearing clothes that cost dozens of yuan a piece in ordinary stores, and those shoes are sneakers worn back from Shaanxi, which are full of dust.
Zhuang Rui smiled, did not deny the old man's words, and said: "Hehe, it's good luck, old man, do you think this piece of jade can carve out a few pendants?"
"Pendant, boy, you're going to make a pendant? ”
The old man's complexion changed when he heard this, the glass of imperial green jadeite, the first recommended bracelet, and then the ring face, even if it is a small object such as earrings, its value is a little higher than the pendant, not that the imperial green jadeite is not good to do pendants, mainly because the pendant is worn in the clothes, used for peace charms more, the value is lower than those exposed jewelry.
"Old man, just sit on the pendant, I don't plan to sell this thing, it's for the family to wear. ”
Zhuang Rui's tone was very firm, although this thing is worth a lot of money, but Zhuang Rui is not short of money now, and it is a pity to sell the unsupposed.
"Come inside, young man, alas, if it were two years in the morning, I would have carved this thing for you, but now ......"
After hearing Zhuang Rui's insistence on making a pendant, the old man felt a little lonely, stood up, and beckoned Zhuang Rui to go to the cubicle in the store to talk......