Chapter 1103: Tree Transformation Jade [3]
Suddenly, Liu Yuhao's eyes narrowed suddenly, his mouth opened slightly, and he stared at a piece of tree jade under William's buttocks.
"Liu, Mr. Liu?"
William also stared in surprise, raised his hand and shook it a few times in front of Liu Yuhao's eyes.
"I was telling a story to myself just now, why did this make people stupid?"
William shook his head slightly, he really couldn't understand what Liu Yuhao saw, and he shouted four or five times in a row without responding.
"Do you sell this piece of tree jade?"
Liu Yuhao finally came back to his senses and pointed to the piece of tree jade that William was sitting on just now, but the shock on his face did not disappear for a long time.
"I wanted to sell it"
William lifted his glasses, looked at Liu Yuhao, turned around and glanced at the piece of tree jade that Liu Yuhao said, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Since Mr. Liu, you said that their value has increased dozens of times, and now I don't want to sell them." ”
What an honest man!
held back a big breath, but it turned out to give Liu Yuhao a 180-degree turn, which made people cry and laugh.
Liu Yuhao sighed, and once again urged his ability to look inside the gray-white tree jade.
Myanmar is the kingdom of jadeite, and the custom of gambling on stones is very popular there.
Many people may not know that the process of gambling on tree jade is completely different from gambling on stones, and there will be no one like William to let Liu Yuhao stand by and watch, but in the way of gambling holes.
The risk of gambling holes is several times greater than that of gambling stones, or even tens or hundreds of times greater.
Burmese people use a thick steel bar to explore in the field, while rotating the steel bar while pouring water to soften the soil, when touching hard stones, there are bold people to gamble, but as for whether there is a tree in the ground only God knows, gambling hole people are completely by luck.
This gamble is riskier than a hole bet.
Gambling holes can be big and small, some Burmese people dig the tree jade at the mouth of the hole, waiting for the merchant to come to negotiate the price is called "gambling hole".
The small bet is to dig out most of the tree jade at the entrance of the field, half buried and half exposed in the pit, the buyer and seller began to bargain, and the general buyer will bid on the quality of the wool witnessed.
After the transaction, you can continue to dig within the scope of the market, and how much you can dig depends on your luck, so the risk of gambling is relatively small. It's not a heartbeat that gambles, it's a lot of money.
After the owner of the gambling market dug up a part of the jade tree at the entrance of the cave, the merchant came to negotiate the price, and the buyer basically bargained blindly according to the scope of the entrance, looking like a success.
Before bidding, the buyer will also turn around the entrance of the field, if there is already the old mouth in the excavation, the price will be pressed down, according to the "soil policy", in case there is a cross-border wool and the old mouth of the first dig, they will be blind to light the lamp in vain, digging to the old mouth also belongs to the old mouth.
After the negotiation, the handshake is closed, and the buyer organizes the manual digging. Such a market usually has a reserve price of tens of thousands of euros, and the high price is hundreds of thousands of euros.
Liu Yuhao has the ability of Bajin, and there is no "risk" in the gambling hole for him, but it is definitely not as convenient as it is now.
There is basically no such thing as a skin shell in tree jade.
The ability quickly penetrated a thin layer of weathered stone into the crystal clear Ice Seed Tree Jade, and immediately, a beautiful pattern composed of chicken blood red and blue suddenly jumped in front of him.
Generally speaking, tree jade is white, black, and coffee as the main colors, and if it is "peeled" to green, red, and yellow, it can be regarded as a high-end quality tree jade.
But what appeared in front of Liu Yuhao's eyes was not only an ordinary ice seed tree jade, but an extremely rare blue water tree jade glowing with bewitching colors in the red of chicken blood.
The peculiar blue water floating flowers are evenly distributed in the blood-red tree jade, forming a group of heart-pounding pictures, and the transparent and warm color stimulates Liu Yuhao's heart to suddenly contract.
"The best, the best!"
Liu Yuhao was full of admiration.
Probably because of habit, when Liu Yuhao sees a beautiful work of art, the first thought in his mind is how to make better use of its material and give full play to its maximum artistic effect.
The red and blue water floating flowers and trees under the perspective of different abilities aroused the passion for creation in Liu Yuhao's heart, and he couldn't control his performance for a while.
William was very expecting that his tree jade could be affirmed by Liu Yuhao, but he couldn't understand why Liu Yuhao didn't use any tools, but just looked at it with his eyes, and praised the "tree lump" that he seemed to be gray and tasteless.
"Could it be that the concept of Oriental appreciation of art is so surprising to Westerners?"
William scratched his head in confusion.
Just as Liu Yuhao was about to withdraw his ability, his eyes, which were originally full of appreciation, were suddenly stunned, and the scene in front of him almost didn't make people scream excitedly on the spot.
"Tree Jade Jade Insect!"
Liu Yuhao gasped, brushed Tiantian's dry lips, and tried his best to restrain his emotions, but even so, he could still see the shock in Liu Yuhao's heart from his casual nod.
The tree jade insect is a type of fossil type of symbiosis between animals and plants, and is a ship maggot in primitive ancient trees that is buried along with the trees. It is formed by siliconization with the trees and then jade together.
As a boneless mollusk, it is a miracle that it can be perfectly sealed beyond hundreds of millions of years. Most of the insects were corroded when buried, and only a few were fossilized and retained in the tree jade.
It is commonly said that the tree jade insect is attracted by the lignin emitted by the wood in the water, which causes the chemotaxis behavior of feeding, and the cluster erodes these woods.
Therefore, after the tree is buried, it must be stored underwater for a period of time before the maggots can multiply in the wooden structure. In the subsequent deep burial process, the maggots were silicified together, forming dense wormholes and insect fossils in the tree jade.
The metasomatism of ship maggots in dendritic jade has many forms, calcification, silicification, pyrite mineralization, and kaolin-filled mixed metasomatization. In contrast, the Burmese tree jade is mainly filled with silicification and kaolin.
The main component of pure silicified tree jade insects is opal, which is crystal clear, and retains the framework of the insect body to a certain extent.
The kaolin-filled arbose insects are mixed with a large amount of aluminum oxide, which is not transparent, blurry and turbid, and generally has a low value.
The tree jade itself is a fossil, and the insect tree jade has the identity of a double fossil, and the value of this type of tree jade is much higher than that of simple tree jade.
Of course, the value of the insect tree jade is related to the size, transparency, and integrity of the insect, and it also has a lot to do with the texture and color of the tree jade itself.
If it was an ordinary tree-transformed jade insect, indifference would not have made Liu Yuhao's face have such a strange expression.
Under the perspective of the ability, the last section of the tree jade is covered with dense jade insects, those jade insects are completely jade, delicate and clean, crystal clear, their colors red, white, yellow, and brown reflect each other, and the jade light is soft and moisturizing.
What surprised Liu Yuhao even more was that on the upper left side of the trunk, from the bottom to the top, there was a completely jade jade worm crawling, with light blue patterns on the half of the insect's body and semi-translucent white on the lower half.
According to Liu Yuhao's estimate, the jade insect with different colors is 30 centimeters long, and the jade insect is tightly attached to the body of the tree, as if it is sucking the sap of the tree, and it seems to be crawling, its form is free, fresh and realistic.
Such a big jade insect, not to mention that no one had seen it before, Liu Yuhao had never even heard of it.
"Mr. Liu, do you notice anything wrong?"
Although there was little communication between the two, William keenly noticed that Liu Yuhao's expression seemed to be wrong, and hurriedly asked.
"Wait a minute!"
Retracting the ability, Liu Yuhao waved his hand, he ignored William's confusion about his strange behavior, but hurriedly bypassed William, walked behind the piece of tree jade, and lifted the entire tree jade.
Liu Yuhao wanted to judge whether there were any traces of fraud in this piece of tree jade, and whether the giant was really a natural jade insect.
In Wacheng, Myanmar, where it originates, unscrupulous businessmen break up the inferior petrified wood that is riddled with holes to find a complete fossil of the insect body, and then find a piece of intact tree jade, groove the surface according to the extension line of the insect body, and use a transparent adhesive to bond the insect body to the surface of the tree jade, and a piece of delicate and almost perfect insect tree jade is artificially synthesized.
Incomplete insects can be drilled on the surface of the tree jade, directly inserted like flower arrangement, and finally faked in the same way as slotting and gluing.
As early as many years ago, Burmese jadeite merchants have understood that the insect-bearing tree jade has a very high value, with the depletion of the tree jade resources, those people realized that to be able to have a piece of jade with jade insects, there will definitely be a huge appreciation space in the future, and just so, the unscrupulous merchants in the market cheat.
Although William bought these tree jades more than ten years ago, because the other party is a "layman", Liu Yuhao does not dare to guarantee that there was no counterfeit businessman who deliberately got those jade insects more than ten years ago to fool William.
However, it is very funny that although the Burmese jadeite merchants know about the fraud, their methods are very simple and straightforward, they only know how to rudely and directly use the broken particles of the tree jade to paste on the surface of the tree jade, make it into an insect shape, and then polish and polish it, in an attempt to confuse the real with the fake!
Not to mention that there is a very large gap between the tree jade jade insects formed after the counterfeiting and the tree jade itself, even the most basic jade insect coomal structure is a mess, and it looks like a handful of messy fragments.
What made Liu Yuhao feel most incredible was that once he saw traces of glue between the fake tree jade and the jade insects in the fake tree jade specimen provided by Hong Kong Hao Yi Jewelry, and the adhesive part could be provoked with a sewing needle.