The first floor of Shiji is the door of the hall, and after Guan Yingying and Wang Zhuo explained their intentions, a salesman took the two of them to the backyard.

This is a courtyard of nearly 200 square meters, surrounded by many unknown lathe machines, and in the center are several rows of double-layer shelves more than one meter high, on which are placed stones, stones, stones......

Of course, this is not an ordinary stone, but a wool rough stone with jadeite inside, maybe there is a piece of superb jadeite hidden in it, which is priceless or not, and it is definitely more than enough to make people rich overnight.

Since Wang Zhuo and Guan Yingying were in contact with gambling stones for the first time, a salesman warmly entertained them and explained the knowledge of jadeite.

Guan Yingying listened for a while, then she was a little eager to try, and walked to the shelf to look at the rough stone.

Wang Zhuo was concerned about what kind of jadeite was the most expensive, and there happened to be two middle-aged masters cutting stones on a cutting machine, which is the "calcite stone" in the jargon, so he walked over and looked at the doorway.

Calving stone is a meticulous work, a solution is called opening the window, that is, cutting a small area on the rough stone, if the jadeite in good condition is exposed, it is called "cutting up", at this time you can increase the price and sell it, or you can continue to solve the stone.

Another solution is to completely decompose the jadeite rough, so that the true form of the jadeite can be seen at a glance, and the gamble is made to the end. Of course, this solution is not something that can be cut indiscriminately, and cutting good and bad will affect the value of jadeite.

Taking advantage of the time when the two calcite masters were fiddling with the rough stone, Wang Zhuo took a look at it first, which made him somewhat regretful, the density of the jade rough was very large, and he was a little unsure of the color inside, as if there was a small layer of mist.

This is a rough stone the size of a sea bowl, the skin is brownish-yellow, and most of the places that Wang Zhuo sees through are some white flowers, occasionally a little light green. There is only a small patch of thicker green in the most core place, which seems to be a little biased, and Wang Zhuo can't be sure.

Calving stone is a very exciting thing, there is a jargon called "a knife is poor, a knife is rich", which is a true portrayal of calcite. In front of the cutting machine, in addition to Wang Zhuo, there were several people around, both men and women, and like Wang Zhuo, they were also waiting to see the results of this rough stone.

Calculate the knife position, place the rough stone, the cutting machine roars and rotates, and the knife goes down, stops, observes, sets the knife position again, cuts again, and observes again.

After five consecutive knives, the cut out is still a white flowered stone, occasionally some green is also light and worthless, the onlookers shook their heads again and again, thinking that this stone is probably more auspicious than less.

Wang Zhuo watched attentively, and when the two stone solvers placed the rough stone again, he already knew that this knife was about to cut out that small piece of green.

Sparks flew, and after a roar, another piece of rough was cut off, revealing a green the size of a fingernail.

"It's up! The bet has gone up! ”

"Cut out the green, this time it looks like it's going to be earned."

The audience whispered, and the two masters of the calcite also showed joy, and hurriedly stopped, turned off the machine, and took the rough stone to a desk to take a closer look.

With half a bottle of mineral water, the dust on the green was wiped off, revealing the color below, and an audience member said happily: "It's boxwood green, it seems to be glutinous." ”

A calcite master took a strong flashlight and shone it to the green position, so that he could see some of the situation inside, and after looking at it for a long time, he nodded with a smile and said: "Ice glutinous seed, there is no crack, but the volume is a little smaller." ”

The onlookers were talking again, Wang Zhuo listened to it ignorantly, and probably understood that the ice glutinous species is better than the glutinous species, and the boxwood green is also a high-grade color in the jadeite, and no crack means that the jadeite has no cracks, which is also a key factor affecting the final value.

The two masters continued to dissolve the stone, this time switching to a portable angle grinder, and each time they cut, they had to wash the cut surface with water and shine it with a flashlight, so as to avoid cutting off the green part.

Twenty minutes later, the process of calcing the stone was finally over, and the boxwood green was completely stripped out, about the size of an egg, in an irregular shape, waiting to be further designed and carved.

The jadeite was cut out, but it was not put away immediately, but was taken by the audience to take turns to appreciate it, it seems that this is also a feature of jadeite culture, Wang Zhuo also saw a share, learned from others, walked up, and carefully observed it with a magnifying glass.

The audience was discussing, saying some terms that Wang Zhuo didn't understand, such as "water foot", "floating flowers", "crazy spots" and the like, Wang Zhuo memorized them one by one, and kept them for later certification slowly.

"If you earn it, this rough stone can be worth at least 20,000 yuan." A tall, thin old man commented.

One of the stone solving masters nodded and smiled: "Almost, design it well, you can carve a big flower piece." ”

"Is this piece of material for sale?" A charming young woman asked.

Ming material is a thorough display of the value of the jadeite raw material, is the final product of the gambling stone, this piece of boxwood green now belongs to the clear material, in addition to the polished jade raw material on this basis is also called the clear material.

Master Calving Stone smiled and said, "You have to ask the shopkeeper for this, we are only calculating stones, and we can't be the master." ”

A short and fat man who looked like a businessman next to him smiled and said, "Master Zhao, how much has this piece of material risen?" There's another bonus today, right? ”

Another master of the stone solution nodded and said, "The wool is a little more than three thousand, and it has indeed risen several times." ”

That's more than 10,000 yuan? Wang Zhuo was moved and began to act, no longer listening to their chat, and turned around and walked to the shelves where the rough stones were placed.

Each rough stone is numbered in oil paint, and most of the rough stones are individual stones, but some have been cut open to reveal the texture inside, either stone, jade, and occasionally green.

Wang Zhuo knows, the stone of the silk is called "full gambling wool", the greatest risk, the cheapest price, the stone that has opened the window is called "half gambling wool", often more expensive than the full gambling wool, but the window is exposed is a white flowered stone, it is "cut down", depreciation, but it may be cheaper than the full gambling wool, and the corresponding is "cut up", is the meaning of appreciation, just now the boxwood green is cut up.

With the ability to see through the eye, Wang Zhuo of course tries to maximize the benefits, so he saw that the half-gambling wool that opened the window was directly skipped, and he picked the perspective of the whole gamble, and occasionally saw through a few pieces of half-gambling wool that had been cut down, but he soon found that almost all the cut wool had collapsed to the house, and the best one was only a cotton wool-like white and green jadeite, he didn't understand the value of this jadeite, so he refused to make a rash move.

After turning around, Wang Zhuo finally selected two rough stones, one was the size of two fists and had a black surface, and the other was brown and yellow, a little bigger, and both were full gambling wool.

When he asked the salesman to inquire, Wang Zhuo was a little hesitant, the two pieces of wool added up to 3,600 yuan, and he only had 300 on him, and Guan Yingying definitely didn't have so much money in his wallet.

However, Guan Yingying saw Wang Zhuo talking to the young man who sold goods, and immediately walked over and said with a smile: "How about Wang Zhuo, which stone do you like, do you want to gamble?" ”

Wang Zhuo smiled and nodded: "I took a good look at the two stones, but unfortunately I didn't bring any money." ”

Guan Yingying waved her hand generously: "I'll get the money, what about the stones, take it to settle the bill." ”

"How embarrassing is that?" Wang Zhuo said politely.

"What's this, you saved my dad 400,000 yuan." Guan Yingying asked the salesman about the numbers of Wang Zhuo's two stones, and said as she walked: "I'll go and pay by card, and cut them together in a while!" ”

Wang Zhuo sighed in his heart, he earned three months' living expenses by breaking a wine cup, and he was really rich and dangerous.

After a while, Guan Meinu came back, she originally chose two stones, both of which were about the size of steamed buns, one side and one round, Wang Zhuo glanced at it curiously, there was a small piece of dark green in the square one, and the round one was not a little green, a white flower, a pure stone!