Chapter 49: I Want to Buy a Jade Turtle

Since the scale of the jewelry exhibition is worth looking forward to, there must be a lot of good things, Li Yi calculated the money in his pocket, less than 1.5 million, and it is likely that he will not even be able to afford a piece of wool at that time.

He started the idea of Guanyin wood carving, he planned to find out the weak point of the wood carving first, and then dig a small hole, it is best to take out the diamond, but if it is not good, then there is only further destruction. There is also the piece of wool that was transferred to Hu Laosonghua Shi Yanshun back at that time, which has been thrown in the car, and he is also ready to find an opportunity to cut a knife, there are jujubes and no jujubes to hit three poles, no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is also meat!

Thinking of it, Li Yi took out the Guanyin wood carving, took out the carving knife, and knocked on the wood carving with the handle for a long time, but he didn't hear where it was weak, so he had no choice but to choose to cut from the back.

The wood is very hard, but Li Yi has learned carving after all, he first drew a circle in the selected place, and then began to shovel away the wood layer by layer, when it felt almost the same, he changed to a pointed awl, as soon as he used force, the cone almost did not encounter any obstacles and fell into it!

Luck is really good, Li Yi sighed, expanded the hole, stretched out his fingers and dug it out, and sure enough, he touched a layer of flannel, and there were a few hard things in it.

He tore the flannel cloth wrapped in the diamonds with an awl and began to pour out the diamonds, one, two, three...... In the end, fifteen grains were poured out!

Five of the fifteen diamonds were noticeably larger than the others, and the two largest of them were almost identical, both of them were ocean blue, with at least forty or fifty facets, shining brightly in the sunlight that came through the window.

Li Yi judged that the two diamonds were likely to be more than fifteen carats, and the other three large diamonds were all white, and the size should be about ten carats.

The remaining diamonds vary in size, with two pink diamonds being the smallest, probably less than five carats. But pink diamonds are the rarest, and in the past two decades, only a small amount has been produced in the Argyle mines in Australia, and they are very small, so their value is also difficult to estimate.

Among the other diamonds is a blue diamond, almost seven or eight carats, but it is sky blue, pure and clear, very attractive.

Li Yi made a simple calculation, and then was frightened by the conclusion he had reached, the value of this batch of diamonds was definitely more than 100 million! And in this huge amount of 100 million yuan, those two ocean-blue diamonds should be able to contribute almost half of the output!

Li Yi also has his own speculation about the origin of the diamonds, judging from the age of the wood carving, the owner of this batch of diamonds should be a big jeweler at that time, in order to avoid the war and hide his biggest wealth in the wood carving, but he didn't expect it to be kept.

This information shouldn't be too difficult to find, but he doesn't have the heart to do so, so what if he finds it? He is ready to sell this batch of diamonds, and he is not ready to find the owner and return it to others!

Li Yi carefully wrapped the diamond in a flannel cloth, pondered for a long time, and decided to put it in the suitcase he brought back. After installing it, I stood up and looked at it, and the 200 million "Untitled" was still lying there quietly, and I couldn't help muttering:

"I'm afraid this is the most valuable suitcase in the world, I must not let my mother know, otherwise she will definitely not be able to sleep."

Next, Li Yi found a time, first went to Zhou Lao's place to get the painting back, and then found a place to cut the wool material from Hu Lao's place, unexpectedly, he actually solved a piece of coarse beans that was not small, and earned another 20,000 yuan.

On October 1, the jewelry exhibition opened on time. Liu Qiang rushed over early in the morning, and he was still thinking about going to the exhibition to sell his piece of jadeite.

Li Yi is not in a hurry, no matter how small the exhibition is, there must be an opening ceremony or something, not to mention that this is the first time that Yangnan has engaged in this kind of international exhibition? So there is basically no drama in the morning, and I am afraid of many people in the afternoon.

I couldn't resist my cousin, and at ten o'clock, they set off. After crossing most of the city, almost two kilometers away from the Li Ning Gymnasium where the exhibition was located, the car was already so congested that Li Yi had no choice but to find a place to park and walk over.

The Li Ning Gymnasium was built on the banks of the Baihe River, and the banks of the river are planted with willows with soft branches and weeping willows, swaying slowly with the breeze. The autumn sun near noon was no longer so roasting, which made him feel like a chilling willow breeze.

It's time to come to the White River to have fun, if you don't come, the weather will be cold. Li Yi saw that there were a lot of fishermen sitting on both sides of the Baihe River, and he couldn't help but think, he would come over to fish tomorrow, but this time the water of He Shou Wu must be diluted and diluted. But even then, it's enough for Dad to raise his eyebrows among the fishing enthusiasts, right?

When I walked to the Li Ning Gymnasium, the opening ceremony of the exhibition had just ended, and the crowd began to diverge, some of them dispersed, some stayed in Hall 1, and some poured into Hall 2 and Hall 3, which had just opened.

Liu Qiang was also dumbfounded when he saw this surging flow of people, selling things, who are you looking for to sell? All the merchants' booths were surrounded by crowds, and it was too late for people to sell things!

"Just take a look, I'll invite you to dinner later, you don't have to rush that thing, just come before closing."

After squeezing with the flow of people for a while, Li Yi couldn't stand it anymore, so he and Liu Qiang walked out of the exhibition hall and prepared to eat and go home to rest. I was thinking about where to eat, when I suddenly heard someone next to me talking, saying that there was still a part of the venue in the main gymnasium of the Agricultural Games that year, and there were very few people there.

The main stadium is a track and field stadium, not far from here, and Li Yi decided to check it out. When I arrived, I realized that this was a polished exhibition.

Why? Because the participants in this exhibition are some small businesses who are not qualified to enter the international jewelry exhibition, but this opportunity is too rare, Yangnan City opened the track and field stadium, and let these businesses enter, which is regarded as a plug-in. Of course, most of these merchants are local enterprises in Yangnan, after all, all the fertilizer and water cannot flow into other people's fields.

Compared to that side, there are indeed not many people here, and the track and field stadium is open-air, the air is not too affected by the flow of people, and I feel that the exhibition environment is better than the indoor competition venue like Li Ning Gymnasium, Li Yi is ready to take a good look here.

The exhibition is divided into two sections, one for jewelry and the other for jade. The jade is also dominated by Dushan jade, which must be the result of the intentional control of the relevant departments of Yangnan City.

After Li Yi came back, he never had the opportunity to go to the market of Dushan jade, and this time he took the opportunity to take a good look, and he still remembered the promise that he needed to help Bai Qianye bring a batch of Dushan jade.

The first one is a big booth, Li Yi saw that it was Yangnan Jade Factory, and sure enough, it was a local enterprise, and both exhibitions actually had locations. Opposite the Yangnan Jade Factory is the booth of the private Wolong Jade Factory, and the eye is two half-person-high black Dushan jade carved giant turtles, which are very eye-catching.

The color of Dushan jade is rich, unevenly distributed, and the same piece of jade often appears due to the combination of different minerals and the phenomenon of multiple colors coexisting, which is the main feature of Dushan jade.

The common colors of Dushan jade are white, green, purple, yellow, red, black and other colors, among which hibiscus stone, permeable white jade, green jade are of higher value, among them, the emerald green varieties of high-grade Dushan jade are similar to Burmese jadeite, and the value is also different. In addition, the use of different colors of jade blocks to imitate the natural production of zuò beautiful jade carving has other pure color jade incomparable advantages.

Seeing that there were more people at the booth of Wolong Jade Factory, Li Yi first browsed the booth of Yangnan Jade Factory. It may be that the main force is placed at the international jewelry exhibition, and the goods here are not satisfactory to Li Yi, so he just walked around for a few minutes and was ready to leave.

He didn't want to buy Dushan jade to bring to Yanjing at the exhibition this time, but mainly to observe it, grasp the current trend, and then go to the countryside to find some small workshops to buy goods.

Seeing that there were still people pouring in at the entrance of the stadium, Li Yi sighed lightly, this would not look at the fact that there would be more people for a while, so he took Liu Qiang and squeezed towards the booth of Wolong Jade Factory.

The two major stone turtles in the Wolong Jade Factory have brought them a lot of popularity, and there are people waiting in line next to each giant turtle to take pictures. When Li Yi passed by, he touched a jade turtle, which was purely a habitual action, but he was stunned for two seconds after touching it, and then quickly ran to the right, touched the jade turtle on the right, and then squeezed into the crowd regardless of it, found a man who looked like the person in charge and said:

"I want to buy a jade turtle!"