Quietly looking at the scenery outside the window in a daze, the car also remained silent, and several people tacitly did not disturb Li Le, they understood that he needed to be quiet at this moment.

It takes about two days to drive from Kyoto to Xinjiang at night, and the whole journey is more than 3,000 kilometers. After entering Xinjiang, there is still more than 1,400 kilometers to reach the destination Hotan area.

About half an hour later, the car went from Madian Bridge to the highway in Badaling.

At this time, Li Le's mood also slowly adjusted, although he was reluctant, he still had to do what he had to do.

Ran Hongling also made up for his knowledge of jade during this time, and Hu Shu was basically a blank sheet of paper in this regard, so while he was free in the car, Li Le also recharged him.

The rough stone of Hetian jade is mainly divided into three types: seed material, mountain material and mountain flowing water according to the origin area.

Seed refers to the jade that has been washed away by the erosion of primary ore and carried into the river. Because it has been washed, transported and sorted by the water flow for a long time, and then its dross is removed, leaving the essence behind. Such jade is mostly distributed on the river beaches on both sides of the riverbed, either exposed on the surface or buried underground.

Because the seed material is naturally formed by the river erosion, its surface texture is very smooth and warm, mostly egg-shaped, and the texture is also very good.

In the river water, the first seed material is generally collected, and most of the seed material produced in the river beach and under the ground is skin-colored.

Some good skin colors are often sought after by jade collectors, such as jujube red skin, black skin, autumn pear yellow, yellow wax skin, sprinkled golden yellow, tiger skin and so on.

As for the mountain material, it is easier to understand, it refers to the primary ore on the mountain, also known as mountain jade or treasure cover jade. Because it is a primary mine, the mountain materials are generally of different sizes, uneven, and angular. Because it has not been baptized by nature, the mountain material is also the worst of the three in terms of quality, strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as jade, but not jade.

The last mountain flowing water is a kind of stone between the mountain material and the seed material, and its name is named by the jade artist. The mountain water is formed by the collapse of the mountain material and the impact of the river to the middle and upper streams. Compared to the seed material, it is relatively large and angular. However, it is smoother than mountain material, and the place where it is located is generally close to the primary mine.

Li Le's trip to Xinjiang to hoard rough stones this time is mainly based on top-quality seeds, which is also the raw material with the largest increase in the next ten years.

At the same time, he will also operate for general seeds, mountain materials and mountain water, mainly carving ornaments, hanging ornaments, and things to play with on his hands. After all, there are only so many funds, and if he uses all of them to hoard seeds, he will only be unable to make ends meet, and he needs to operate jade to operate.

The lunch was eaten in the service area on the highway, and it was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon that Li Le let Xu Changqing get off the highway and enter Wuhai, Inner Mongolia.

After nearly seven hours of driving, everyone felt that their bodies were a little stiff. Ran Hongling proposed to stay in Wuhai for a day, and by the way, also sightseeing the scenery here.

Seeing that Hu Shu seemed to be a little tired, Li Le nodded and agreed, this trip itself has the intention of sightseeing along the way. It doesn't matter if you go to Xinjiang a day earlier or a day later.

After entering Wuhai, Li Le and the others found a hotel to stay in.

After some tidying up, the time also reached more than 5 o'clock. Then the group began to look for a place to eat and came to Wuhai. Naturally, it is necessary to follow the local customs and choose a special place to eat.

After walking around for nearly half an hour, several people finally settled on a restaurant called "Inner Mongolia Flavor Specialty Food".

Once seated, Le began to look at the food on the menu. After selecting for a while, he selected a few special dishes, such as golden knife roast lamb back, oil cow pot three treasures, oxtail soup, Mongolian mutton sausage, plus a mutton porridge, almost all of which are local specialties, and they are also a few dishes that Li Le has eaten in his previous life and think they are not bad.

Then Li Le ordered another bottle of wine, grapes are also a major feature of Wuhai, naturally there are wineries.

Everyone felt that this meal was particularly sweet, the sweetness of the wine, and the characteristic taste of the local dishes were all untried by several people.

Because they were going to go shopping in Wuhai for a day, after eating, several people began to discuss the place to travel.

Finally, the Golden Beach, Huyang Island, Table Mountain Rock Paintings, Sihemu Conservation Area, Manbala Temple and finally Wuhai Strange Stone Street were finalized.

Places like Golden Beach, Poplar Island, Table Hill petroglyphs, and many more are finalized by others, while the Monk Temple and Strange Stone Street are the choices of Le Le. The choice of the monk temple is because the last time he was in Kyoto, the yellow note became an intractable mystery in Li Le's heart, so he seemed to be in the monk temple to see if he could encounter the same situation last time, intending to solve the confusion in his heart.

The choice of Strange Stone Street is purely a profession. Wuhai is crossed by the Yellow River, and the Gobi Desert is bordered, and there is the largest silica fossil in the country.

This special landform also provides it with abundant strange stone resources, mainly based on the pebbles of the Yellow River, ancient fossils and Gobi stones.

The last trip to Wuhan is still fresh in Li Le's memory, and the strange stones of Wuhai are so distinctive, how can they not attract Li Le.

Early the next morning, everyone began to set off towards the Sihemu Reserve. The morning sun shines through the towering quadrangle trees in the forest, like golden specks imprinted on the ground, which is unusually beautiful.

Accustomed to seeing the cement and steel bars in the city, he suddenly entered such a primitive ecological place, which made everyone's breathing unconsciously become happy.

Later, the Table Mountain petroglyphs let everyone appreciate the cultural precipitation of thousands of years and the rough and simple style to the extreme.

As for the trip to the monk's temple, Li Le was slightly regretful, and there was nothing special as he thought in his heart. In the end, I just admired the architecture of the temple and the atmosphere of Buddhist culture.

In the afternoon, I first visited Poplar Island, and then went to Golden Beach. The golden sand beach under the sunset, spread down by the orange-red light, is like a natural carpet, with brilliant colors and soft sand, giving people a special enjoyment.

The last stop is Qishi Street, which is what Li Le is looking forward to the most, as a carver. Natural carvings are what they are fascinated by, and strange stones are exactly such a category.

After a circle, not only Ran Hongling and Hu Shu's knowledge has increased a lot, but also Li Le also encountered a few more desirable stones, and finally selected two smaller ones to buy, one is the Yellow River pebble, and the other is an ancient fossil.

The other pieces of Li Le actually wanted to buy, but because they were too big and inconvenient to transport, they gave up.

On the road again, the speed is much slower. At the request of Ran Hongling and Hu Shu, they stayed for a period of time when passing through Lanzhou and Yinchuan, and this journey really became a self-driving tour.

In the past few days, Li Le has basically called Liu Yunyao on time at night. Maybe it's the longing caused by distance, compared to when the two of them are together, Liu Yunyao always seems to have endless words, and every phone call has really become a phone porridge, and it basically can't be put down for two hours.

When I entered Urumqi, Xinjiang, it was already the fourth day, and it was in the afternoon.

Looking at the excitement of Hu Shu and Ran Hongling in the car, Li Le couldn't help but smile and said, "How is it?" If you haven't had enough, we'll stay in Urumqi for another day, so that you can get familiar with the customs here. ”

"Good! All right! As soon as Li Le finished speaking, Ran Hongling began to applaud.

And Hu Shu's appearance was obviously very moved, so Li Le said directly: "That's okay, I'll stay in Urumqi for a day, but after playing, we will go directly to Hetian, and we're about the same, so it's time to get down to business." ”

If you set off from Urumqi to Hotan at this time, it will take about a day or so. Hetian is also famous for its abundance of Hetian jade, which is named after the place of origin.

In ancient times, Hotan was known as "Khotan", and in Tibetan it was the place where jade was produced. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, "Khotan" was changed to "Khotan", and it was not until 1959 that it should be "Khotan" again.

Hotan is adjacent to the Kunlun Mountains in the south and is connected to Tibet, and Hetian jade is distributed in the Kunlun Mountains. It starts from the Anda Tag and Alaz Mountains in the east of Tashkurgan in Kashgar in the west, passes through Sangzhutag, Tiekriktag and Liushtag in the south of Hotan in the middle, and reaches Sulamuningtag in the south of Jimo in the east, and the tag means a mountain range.

This continuous mountain range is nearly 1,100 kilometers in total, and there are primary deposits and mining sites of Hetian jade, and many rivers also produce seed jade.

Kunlun Mountain is the symbol of the sacred mountain in ancient mythology, the residence of the Yellow Emperor, and the location of Yao Chi. In the hearts of Xinjiang people, it has always been the ancestor of all mountains, and it is greatly worshiped because of its majestic and tall momentum and its abundance of beautiful jade. And the existence of Hetian jade makes it even more famous.

In this long mountain range, with the development of modern geological work, one by one Hetian jade deposits have been discovered and mined.

Li Le knew that in the next few years, the mining of Hetian jade would reach a crazy level, and it was not too much to describe it as digging three feet into the ground. The non-renewable, coupled with the excellent texture of Hetian jade, makes these miners almost crazy.

As they continue to mine, the output of Hetian jade will gradually decrease, and the price will rise step by step, and in the end it will basically become a state where jade is hard to find.

This trend is the result of a hype and a development of a non-renewable precious resource in its own right. Not only Hetian jade, but also jadeite, bloodstone, yellow dragon jade, southern red agate, etc., which one is not hyped, and which one is not because of non-renewable and its own preciousness has become a prohibitive sky-high luxury.

Li Le did not have that kind of lofty thinking, and this development of events was not something he could reverse. Since he chose to take a piece of the pie, he had to do his best with his foresight, and all else he could do was to better spread and continue the beauty of Hetian jade and the culture of Hetian jade as a carver.

For a day in Urumqi, food is indispensable, and special melons and fruits cannot be missed. The closer you get to your destination, the more you can feel the differences in cultural customs and living habits.

This kind of life will only feel new two times a day, but their purpose is to develop and take root here, and in a few years, it will definitely change from novelty to unadaptability, and finally gradually become a habit.

And at this time, Li Le will not disturb their interest, but just hope that they can quickly shorten the period of discomfort in their future lives.

After leaving Urumqi, there was no delay on the road, and all the way to Hotan, a place known as the "Jade Capital" in modern times.

There is a county-level city of Hotan under the Hotan area, and seven other counties, namely Hotan, Pishan, Yutian, Moyu, Luopu, Celle, and Minfeng. And the place where Li Le and the others are going is Hotan, the only county-level city.

When the car drove into the destination, Ran Hongling and Hu Shu were also attracted by the strange style outside the window.

Rows of melon and fruit shops, silk shops, carpets, ejiao shops, jade shops and other dazzling special products make their eyes can't help but follow all the way.

"Brother Xu, let's find a hotel to stay in first!"

After Li Le's words, the car also picked up speed, and then stopped in front of a good-looking hotel.

After tidying up, Li Le took a few people to walk around the street, and the time gradually entered the evening.

For dinner, I ate Xinjiang's special dishes, and the staple food was Hotan's most distinctive thin naan. This is baked with flour, shaped like a dustpan, thin like a fan, crispy and crispy in the mouth, and then smeared with rose sauce, on the medicinal tea, it is really enjoyable.

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