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Hotan is surrounded by high mountains (Tianshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Pamir Plateau), and there are three rivers in the territory: the Yulong Kashgar River, the Karakash River and the Hotan River. Among them, the Yulong Kashgar River is rich in white jade, green jade and black jade, and has been the main river for producing Hetian jade since ancient times. The Karakash River produces mostly green jade, green and white jade, blue and white jade, and black jade, and the texture and price of its jade are far inferior to the white jade produced by the Yulong Kashgar River.

Hetian jade is generally divided into mountain material, mountain water and seed material, among which the seed material has the best texture.

However, the seed material is only produced in the Yulong Kashgar River, and the 325-kilometer-long Yulong Kashgar River can only be picked up on the 70-kilometer-long riverbed from 200 to 270 kilometers.

In ancient times, it was difficult to reach here because of transportation problems, so it was a very dangerous activity to go into the mountains to collect jade, and some good seeds were even more difficult to find.

Now, none of this is a problem, and people have even transported sand miners to the riverbed!

Although this behavior has been stopped, the seeds that have been deposited on the riverbed for many years are almost all dried, so now, good seeds are even more precious, and the value of the top varieties is even more than that of the top glass jadeites of the same weight.

In the current market, the unit price of 3A collectible seeds weighing between 20 grams and 200 grams is more than 30,000 yuan per gram, which is invaluable!

After Li Yi dealt with some trivial matters, he flew to Hotan with Gu Feng, and at this time, there were still two full days before the time he and He Chong agreed to go into the mountains to pick jade.

"Li Yi, this way!"

As soon as he walked out of the airport, Li Yi saw He Chong, who kept waving at him.

"This is my eldest brother, He Meng."

He Meng is not tall and thin, but he looks very powerful.

"Hehe, this is all practiced by carrying jade. Brother, it's very hard to go into the mountains to pick jade, you have to be mentally prepared. ”

Several people laughed and got into a Toyota's off-road vehicle, and then He Meng began to introduce his arrangements this time.

"He Chong should have told you that this side of the Yulong Kashgar River has basically been dug by sand miners, although every flood will also bring some new seeds, but there are too many jade miners, so there is basically no good production in recent years."

"Oh? What does Brother Meng mean is that in addition to this, there are other places that also produce seeds? ”

He Meng nodded,

"Well, the current jade mining season, we are generally divided into three stages. At the beginning and at the end of the day, we were also on the side of the Yulong Kashgar River, but in fact, everyone's focus was on the Agjugai Valley in Montenegro, where there is a tributary of the Yulong Kashgar River, which also produces seeds and some good mountain water. ”

"However, the valley is still in an undeveloped state, the environment is relatively treacherous, and it can only be reached on foot, but because of this, there are relatively few people who go there, and if you are lucky, you should be able to gain something."

"Then let's go to the Agjugai Valley!"

He Chong's face showed an expression that was really like this,

"Li Yi, it's good to change the valley of Agjugai, but it is a primitive mountainous area, and the danger factor is much higher than that of the Yulong Kashgar River, and we are not professionals......

"Hehe, it's okay, isn't there a fierce brother here? Besides, since Brother Meng said this place, he must have been prepared, what is there to be afraid of? ”

He Meng smiled bitterly,

"It's not that I'm prepared, but in a year, only this short week can pass, and if I miss it, I have to wait another year......

"Haha, then you should go, okay Brother Meng, you make a list for me when you want to prepare something, we will never hold you back."

"You can't drag it even if you want to! My brother can only take us into the valley, as for whether we can find the seeds after we go in, and what kind of seeds we can find, these are all up to everyone's luck, and others can't help if they want to! ”

He Chong shook his head with a smile,

"Actually, I didn't plan to let you go to the Agjugai Valley at all, but my brother said that with this arrangement, even if we don't have any gains on the Agjugai Valley, we can go back to the Yulong Kashgar River to try our luck, so ......"

"So I'm lucky."

Li Yi spread his hands and patted He Chong's shoulder vigorously,

"Don't worry, I'm a person, there's nothing else, it's just super lucky, so I won't go home empty-handed!"

He Chong sent Li Yi and the others to the hotel, and after putting down their things, several people came to the hotel restaurant.

"Your main task these days is to rest and get used to the climate here. The things to prepare are very simple, I have already bought them, and I will bring them to you when the time comes. Li Yi, you must not take it lightly, the altitude on the side of the Agjugai Valley is close to 5,000 meters, and we will have to stay there for at least 5 days before someone will come to pick us up, so maintaining physical strength is the most important thing. ”

Li Yi nodded, indicating that he understood.

"By the way, Brother Chong, where is the Hetian jade market here? I'm going to check it out when I have time. ”

"The shops that operate Hetian jade here are mainly concentrated in Yanjing West Road and Square Road, and there is also a Hetian jade trading market on the side of the old bridge of the Yulong Kashgar River, so that you can rest first after eating, and I will take you around tomorrow."

After eating, the two He Chong brothers said goodbye and left, Li Yi looked at the time, although it was already 7 o'clock in the evening, but the sun had not yet set, he walked out of the hotel with Gu Feng, he wanted to go to the two places He Chong said first.

The hotel He Chong booked for them was on Yanjing West Road, so after walking not far, Li Yi saw a shop that operated Hetian Yu.

This shop is not big, and the things it deals in are mainly jade bracelets and pendants, and there are also some large ornaments, but the jade quality is very poor.

After a brief understanding of the price, Li Yi shook his head, the asking price of this house is actually more expensive than Pan Jiayuan, is this not clear that it is a bully?

After looking at several in a row, this is almost the case, and he can't help but be a little disappointed. Just as he was about to go back, Gu Feng suddenly pointed to the opposite side of the road and said:

"Brother Yi, there's a big store over there."

Li Yi turned his head to look, and sure enough, there was a big store about a few dozen meters away in front of him, looking at the façade, it was at least equivalent to the sum of the few shops they had just visited, and he couldn't help but be a little interested again,

"Let's go, let's go!"

This is indeed a big store, not only with an area of more than 300 square meters, but also with a very large name, called Hetian Jade City.

In the store, the things that are operated are not the same as those ones, not only there are ornaments and ornaments, but also Hetian jade rough stones that can be used to gamble stones.

In Hetian jade, both seed and mountain materials can be gambled, but the biggest gambling is mountain material, because most of the mountain materials are large blocks, with many types such as sledgehammer materials, expansion materials, cannon materials, car push materials and mountain water materials.

When an individual is large, there is a great change. Bet on this kind of stone, good eyesight, a few kilograms can cut out several pairs of bracelets, poor eyesight, it looks like it is all beautiful jade material cut, it is likely that even a brand can not come out!

There are generally three types of Hetian jade that need to be gambled. One is stone-wrapped jade, as the name suggests, the outside of this material is wrapped in a layer of stone skin, and the jade inside cannot be directly seen from the outer skin, which can be divided into two types: open windows and full gambling.

The second is jade-wrapped stone, which has a jade appearance, but the content is different, it may be a stone inside, or it may be a deterioration. Hetian jade of this material is relatively rare, and there is more jadeite, but it does not mean that Hetian jade does not have it.

The third kind is called jade mixed stone, this kind of material from the appearance, often show two textures of jade and stone at the same time, there are clear boundaries, and there are mixed together, but it is not cut, no one dares to guarantee what the specific situation will be inside the stone.

The stone part of this material is generally called "stone stiff", so this kind of material is also called stiff stone jade.

Li Yi had also gambled on Hetian jade in Panjiayuan before, but most of the bets were seeds, all of them were stone-wrapped jade, and he also gambled on a piece of superb five-color jade, but it was the first time he had seen this kind of jade-wrapped stone and jade-mixed stone.

There are a lot of gambling stones in this house, including seeds and mountain materials, but basically all of them are more than 30 kilograms of material.

Li Yi walked around the gambling stone area, and fell in love with the biggest piece of gambling material.

This is a piece of gray-white stone skin of the whole gambling stone wrapped jade, from the smoothness of the stone skin wrapped on the outside, it should be a piece of seed material.

The height of this piece of material is almost up to Li Yi's waist, the thickest place, the circumference is close to three feet, the weight given by the store is 328 kilograms, and the price is 2 million.

"Brother Yi, this is also seed material?"

Gu Feng saw that the jade sign said that this was a piece of seed material, and couldn't help but be a little confused, such a big one, can it also be called seed material?

"Hehe, it seems that you don't understand what seed material is. The definition of seed material refers to a kind of "goose egg" shaped jade material formed by the weathering and detaching of jade from Kunlun Mountain in ancient times, and by the perennial erosion and abrasion of river water. However, the goose eggs here are just a description, and the most important thing is that the weathering and shedding and the perennial erosion of the river water, as long as they meet these two points, they can be called seeds. ”

Li Yi gently patted this piece of oversized seed.

"It's true that the seeds are usually small, but do you know how big the biggest seeds have been found so far?"

Gu Feng shook his head.

"16 tons, the largest piece of seed on record, weighs more than 16 tons! It's a piece of Hetian jasper, which is priceless! ”

Gu Feng gasped, Nima, 16 tons, can actually be called seeds, this completely subverts his perception of seeds, okay?

Smiling and shaking his head, Li Yi began to carefully examine the seed.

The gambling stone of Hetian jade is not the same as jadeite, especially the seed material, which generally looks at the shape first, and then looks at the oiliness and moistness of the stone skin.

According to the friction principle of water flushing, the stone parts with relatively poor quality and density and moistness will be smoothed and rounded first, and the jade parts with relatively large moisture, density and hardness will be smoothed later, so the common seed jade is generally drop-shaped, melon-shaped and oval-shaped, and large materials are no exception.

Relatively speaking, the risk of melon seed shape and teardrop shape is slightly greater, because the force of water flushing is uniform, the more uneven the shape of the material, the greater the possibility of containing "stone stiffness", while the oval shape can at least prove that the material is relatively homogeneous, even if it is all stones, at least it is uniform.

Although this piece of material is not very regular, the whole is almost oval, and judging from the oiliness of the stone skin, it should be material.

However, Li Yi can only see this step, as for what color material is in it, what is the grade of the material, no one teaches him, and he can't tell.

After checking again and finding that no features were missing, Li Yi directly opened the spirit identification card.

The scene in front of him changed, he directly saw the inside of the material, and then, he grinned, this piece does have material, but the quality of the material is too poor, not even the worst ordinary processing material!

The grades of seed materials are generally divided into three types: collection grade, high-quality processed materials and ordinary processed materials.

Among them, the collection level is divided into three types: top, special and high-quality, and the logos are respectively collection 3A, collection 2A and 1A.

The most expensive unit price per gram of this kind of collectible is more than 30,000 yuan, but those that can be sold at this price are small ingredients under 200 grams, and the most expensive one gram is only about 2,000 grams for more than 10 kilograms.

Similarly, high-quality processed materials are also divided into three types: top, special and high-quality, and the logos are high-quality 3A, 2A and 1A, and the most expensive material is about 6,000 per gram.

Ordinary processed materials are different, although there are also three grades, but they can only be called ordinary first, ordinary second, third, and even more directly called the outer grade!

This kind of material, the most expensive gram is not more than 500 yuan, or the kind of small material below 200 grams, and the other level, there is no guide price at all!

This piece of super-large seed material is a piece of other foreign-grade processed material, and depending on the color, Li Yi estimates that after cutting it, it will not even be sold for 1 million, that is to say, if you don't gamble on this piece of material, you will collapse.

Shaking his head, he shifted his gaze to a piece of material next to him.

This is also a large piece of material, weighing more than 100 kilograms, but it is a piece of mountain water material, judging from the exposed part of the jade, it should be a piece of jade mixed stone.

At present, in addition to the clear classification of seed jade, the grading standards for mountain materials and mountain water materials are still being formulated. Therefore, the evaluation of the quality of these two materials in the market is partly based on the indicators such as moistness, clarity and fineness, and in addition, some people learn from the grading of seed materials, and Li Yi uses the latter.

After careful study for a while, he determined that the color of the jasper in this piece of mountain water was close to the level of ordinary first-class processed material in the seed material, that is, the material was still so-so.

It's just that from the outside, the part of the jasper is less than one-third, and the distribution is relatively scattered, and the largest piece of it is less than one-fifth of the surface area, so it should be nothing.

But no matter whether he has a head or not, he will use the spirit card to cover the bottom, not to mention, like this kind of jade exposed, how much can he absorb a little coolness, how could he let it go?

When the spirit card was opened, a cool air that was not too cold instantly poured into the body, and immediately, the corners of Li Yi's mouth provoked a smile, this kind of material, pit dead people! (To be continued.) )