Lotte smiled, "You think too much, I said, just walk around the market to see business opportunities, I'm not stupid, it's not time to turn my face with the Bi family." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then did not continue the topic, and began to talk about the world.

Lotte is born as a thief swallow door, don't dare to say anything else, just rely on the calculation of the situation, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can understand, so to speak, the thief may be an impulsive crime, but the habitual offender must step on the point first, then if Lao Rong is not necessarily, plan, retreat, complete strategy is not formulated, no Lao Rong dares to do it, you must know that as long as there is a little clue, then you can put yourself in again.

But then again, if Lotte wants to go to Pingzhou, the largest place in Huaxia Gambling Stone, then he must first understand the market, walk, shop, listen, and understand all the information, and what he saw and heard also made Lotte have some ideas in his heart.

Gambling stones, as the name suggests, are gambling on stones, but this is not an ordinary stone, but a rough jade stone known as the 'king of jade'. There are two kinds of jadeite rough stones, which are divided into mountain materials and baby materials.

The mountain material is directly mined from the jadeite mine, there is no outer skin, the shape is irregular, there are many edges and cracks, the structure is rough and loose, and the quality is not very good.

The seed material is the jadeite mined in the riverbed, which is the jadeite rock rolled down the hillside after weathering and breaking, and was brought into the ravine or small river by the flood or river water to form, by the outer skin wrapped approximately round or oval gravel, the gravel is large and small, the large is thousands of tons, or even tens of thousands of tons, and the small is as small as the size of a thumb.

Because the surface of the seed material is covered by a layer of weathered shell, the internal situation cannot be seen, so people rely on their own experience to judge whether the inside of the seed material forms jadeite, or the quality of jadeite.

This makes it quite difficult to identify the quality of jadeite raw materials in the transaction of jadeite raw materials. Such a transaction is akin to gambling. Therefore, people call the raw materials of jadeite with skin as gambling stones, gambling materials, or rough stones, wool materials.

Gambling on stones is also a kind of commercial behavior, but this is a rather mysterious existence in the jewelry industry, and if you want to participate, you must have a familiar relationship and doorway.

The reason why gambling stones are called gambling is because even experienced experts can not have complete certainty, some people can buy a stone to get rich overnight, and some people spend a lot of money to buy a stone, and after cutting it, they find that it is all a piece of white flowers, so that they are bankrupt!

Often is the 'ten bets and nine losses' really test people's psychological quality, if a knife cut, out of the green, then called 'gambling up', if cut after all the white flowers of the stone, called 'gambling down'

High-grade jadeite is quite scarce, Myanmar produces about 300-600 tons of jadeite every year, of which high-grade jadeite is only 2~5% of the total output, the official government of Myanmar will also hold a gambling stone conference every year, invite the weight of jewelry tycoons to participate, in the 90s, the price of the best imperial green jadeite has reached two thousand dollars 1 carat! Even an ordinary 7 or 8 carat jadeite ring will cost tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of yuan, and the current price is even higher.

Therefore, even if you lose nine out of ten bets, there are countless people who go to the future, and if you are lucky, you can open a jade rough worth millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of yuan!

In addition to the city where the extra-large rough stone trading market is located in Pingzhou, there are many cities in the south like this, where gambling stones are extremely rare, and even if there is such a thing, it is all in the suburbs, or in a remote place, because gambling stones are completely another world, another circle!

And there is no too good wool, most of them belong to small stones, and most of the jadeite is ordinary color.

Although gambling on stones is not illegal and is a risky investment, most people have never heard of it in their lives.

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In order to wait for Boss Qian and others to come, Lotte and they were not in a hurry, they walked around several large markets nearby, and learned all the information, even Zhao Wenxuan, who was the least interested, knew a little bit of gambling stone knowledge.

Today there is nothing to do, everyone came to a small town around to stroll, a few people discussed, like first take a few hundred pieces of wool to try their hands, everyone is a rich family's children, and they don't care if they can cut the jade jade, just like try whose luck is good, who cut if there is something, please eat at night.

After everyone talked and laughed here, Yu Tao, who was listening, was almost worried, following the past few days, Yu Tao could see it, what is looking for business opportunities, is looking for excitement, what is new to try, and he is not afraid of spending money at all.

No, at noon, a few people came to the door of a shop on a street corner of Panshan Road, although I learned ignorant in the past few days, but I also probably know that the jadeite from the stone is more than bright green, and the official identification of three types, the first is imperial green, also known as emerald, pure, green is intense, the color is uniform and transparent, and other indicators are high, which is extremely rare.

The second kind of 'commercial grade', interspersed with translucent emerald veins and speckled emeralds, is ordinary high-grade jadeite.

The third kind is called 'ordinary grade', opaque jadeite, which is generally only made of jade jewelry, and stalls are everywhere for tens or hundreds of yuan.

The quality of jadeite is mainly divided into three points, one is the species, the second is the color, and the third is the water head.

"Species" refers to the texture of jadeite, "color" is the color of straight jadeite, "water head" refers to the transparency of jadeite, if the texture is smooth and delicate, the color is strong, and the transparency is high, then it is a good product, otherwise it is a defective product.

There are many kinds of jadeite, the best jadeite is the glass species, followed by the ice species, and the remaining egg green species (more turbid glass species), oil green species, hibiscus species, bean species, and golden silk species...... There are many types, and the names are not uniform in various places.

The layman looks at the color, the insider looks at the species, the glass jadeite is as transparent as glass, the quality is very fine, the crystalline particles are dense, and the glass texture is delicate, so it is fluorescent, called Ying.

Entering the shop, there were three middle-aged men inside, two of them were cutting stones on a slack stone machine, the boss saw a group of children coming in, he was not very interested, smoking a dry cigarette and continued to watch the slack stone machine cut stones.

After the 5 people came in, Zhao Wenxuan and Zhang Yunfang curiously leaned over to see the stones, and Zhang Qian and the two looked at the stacked wool on the ground, and they also picked them up.

"Boss, what's the price of this wool?" Zhang Yunlong shouted.

The shopkeeper frowned, and he looked down on the 5 children who entered the store a little, but if he opened the door to do business, he still had to give enough face, so he couldn't open the door and chase the customers with a cold face.

Giving up watching the stone cutting here, he walked to the wool pile and looked at it, pointed to the dry tobacco pole in his hand and said: "This piece of 500, these 800, this pile of 1200, no two prices." ”

The material of the gambling stone is not the same, in addition to the size of the wool, also determines the price, in these wool, the size is different, the quality is different and the price is naturally different, the old pit stone is better than the new pit stone, the skin is smooth and hard, this transparent is good, the hardness is called the old pit, the skin is thick and coarse, you can see the mineral granular structure called the new pit, this material transparency and hardness are low.

Zhang Qian and the two squatted down and pretended to look left, right touch, the boss saw at a glance that this should be a novice, connoisseurs will take a magnifying glass, flashlight to carefully study the epidermis, like these two people do not take anything, either the experience is too old, or it is a chick, at this age, how can it not be a Taoist!

The boss smoked a cigarette and wanted to go back to see the cut stones, but when he raised his eyes and saw Li Letian, he found that his eyes were like torches, and his eyes seemed to have a sense of acquaintance.

Of course, the boss didn't believe that Lotte was an expert, and walked in the direction of the stone cutter while smoking a cigarette, but his eyes kept falling on Lotte to see if he would see it.

Lotte didn't look at the wool on the ground, but walked to the counter, hunched over and carefully looked at the jade jadeite cut out, every store in the neighborhood has some carved jadeite, the quality is not too good, and the price ranges from tens of thousands.

Of course, good glass species and other jadeite are of course rare in such small places.

When the boss observed Lotte, the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became, what did this kid look at, whether he was an expert or not, no, he was too young, maybe he guessed wrong.

Just as the boss was about to retract his demeanor, Lotte pointed to a jade of the best quality on the counter and said:

"Boss, can you take this out for me to see?"

The boss walked over, smoked a dry cigarette and took out the jade carved jadeite inside, put it on the glass counter and said: "The best emerald in our store, don't look at it is only the size of a thumb, but the price is expensive." ”

Lotte took it in his hand and rubbed it, feeling the degree of sliding and moisturizing, the boss frowned, this technique is used by experts to distinguish between fake and fake, like some fake jadeite, there are some different sensations when the fingers rub on it, but it is true that only connoisseurs can see it.

Finding that Lotte rubbed the jade to feel the feel, the boss thought he was an expert, smoked a dry cigarette and said: "This store is not deceitful, I can't sell you fakes!" ”

Lotte smiled embarrassedly, he knows too much about the antique industry, but the jade industry has just come into contact, of course Lotte doesn't know how to distinguish the authenticity, he has only heard that he can feel the difference in the feel of rubbing, and he doesn't want to try it, he just wants to know how it feels in his hand.

That's right, it's by feeling.

People's sixth sense is very subtle in this aspect, Lotte is a person with a strong sixth sense, it is a bit mysterious, but it is true, for example, a person picks up a long-awaited thing, no matter what commodity it is, there will always be a feeling of agitation in the heart, this feeling is like a love can't put it down, or a pounding heart.

Lotte is a little exaggerated, as long as he picks up valuables, he will have this feeling in his heart, just by virtue of this, he is like a fish in water in the antique market, just like Song Huizong's calligraphy and painting, isn't it Lotte found with his sixth sense.

It's just that Lotte doesn't know if this feeling of his own is useful for gambling stones, if it is useful, it is simply like a tiger with wings, so Lotte wants to try a piece of real jade first to see if there is such a feeling in his heart.

It's just that I feel that there is, but it's very small, is this piece of jadeite too valuable? Forget it, as long as you feel this way! Gambling stones, let's try it first.

This book was first published in Reading Books