Chapter 77: Imperial Green Jade
After explaining to her colleagues, Elena drove a police car and took Li Tianbao into an old street in "Naypyidaw". Although the architecture here is a little poor, but the overall feeling reminds Li Tianbao of Panjiayuan in Beijing, the police car stopped at the door of a store recruited as "Huacuifang", Li Tianbao got out of the car and looked at the signboard and said: "This is a store opened by Chinese, right?" ”
"That's right, just look at the sign." Li Tianbao muttered to himself, and then strode into the store.
The interior of the store is as old as the outside, and there is only an old man sitting at the counter, who is dressed plainly, but with a very Chinese taste.
"Hello!" Li Tianbao said.
After listening to Li Tianbao's words, the old man also raised his head excitedly, obviously with some excitement in his eyes.
"Gentleman, are you from Beijing?"
The old man's strong Beijing accent made Li Tianbao particularly kind.
"Hey, your accent is better than me, and now in the Northern Beijing, it is rare to hear such an authentic Northern Beijing accent of yours?" Li Tianbao said with some emotion.
"Hey! This is all Mandarin on TV, quickly sit down and tell me about the changes in Beijing, there are a lot of Chinese here but I haven't been to the 'old family' for a long time, I am happy to see the masters of Beijing. ”
As he spoke, the old man moved a wooden chair and walked out of the counter, put it in front of Li Tianbao, and the old man took out a particularly delicate purple clay pot, poured it full of water and handed it to Li Tianbao.
"Tieguanyin, try it, I dragged someone from China to bring it here."
"Thank you, old man, you can do it too, my name is Li Tianbao, your surname?" After Li Tianbao asked the old man to sit down, the two chatted for a long time, and Elena listened with great pleasure, of course, the most excited was the old man who did not want to be named.
Hearing the emotion, the old man couldn't help but shed two lines of old tears.
"It's great, whether the country is strong or not, I still like Bei_ Beijing, I really want to go home and see it."
Li Tianbao saw that the old man was so excited why he listened to it, and took out a handkerchief brought from China and handed it to the old man, which Li Tianbao bought for five yuan from the stall in Panjiayuan, of course, Li Tianbao also fell in love with the embroidery on the handkerchief.
After the old man looked at a flying dragon embroidered on the handkerchief, he was reluctant to use it to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and finally the old man wiped the tears from his eyes with his hands, and then said to Li Tianbao with a smile: "This is our dragon, I am reluctant to use it to wipe my tears." ”
After the old man finished speaking, he said: "Okay, my old man has delayed you for so long, tell me what you are doing here, if it is carving, then I promise to make it for you one day." ”
"Hey, thank you so much, I really want you to carve me a few things." After Li Tianbao finished speaking, he took out the jade and jade the size of a pigeon's egg from his bag.
The old man's eyes lit up at a glance, and he was surprised: "Good thing, really good thing, I haven't seen such authentic material in many years, this is an imperial jade!" ”
The old man's words really surprised Li Tianbao, although he didn't know what "Imperial Green Jadeite" was, it must be an extremely rare jadeite variety.
"What's the matter with the Imperial Green Emerald?" Li Tianbao asked.
"Wait a minute, I'll give you a simple drop of light and you'll know, it's hard to see the result of this thing without polishing, and I dare to make a bold guess because I've been dealing with jadeite all my life."
After the old man finished speaking, he took Li Tianbao's piece of jadeite that had not been polished, and came to the polishing machine on the counter. ”
The old man said and turned back to Li Tianbao and said: "The so-called 'imperial green jadeite' is also known as emerald jadeite, which means that the green hue of jadeite is very pure and bright to the same level as emerald gemstones, its hue is closest to the green in the spectrum, intense, unique, it is the most pure color in green, there is a feeling that the green is about to drip out, and it feels that the green is slightly turned out of blue, but it is not biased, giving people a dignified and noble beauty." Under the gaze, it appears a deep lake green, close to lake blue at first glance, and emerald green under strong light. In nature, there are many kinds of green jadeite, but jadeite that can reach imperial green is very rare, and the jadeite industry has always believed that imperial green is the best color in jadeite, so imperial green jadeite has become the best jadeite in the undisputed.
After Li Tianbao heard this, he suddenly opened his mouth and thought, "It turns out that there is such a superb jadeite in the jadeite." ”
Obviously, Li Tianbao paid more attention to the price of things, so he asked straight to the point: "Old man, what about the price of imperial green jadeite?" ”
"In traditional Chinese jade culture, jadeite is honored as green, and this green pure emerald is considered to be the last color in jadeite, and there is no one. It is as noble and cherished as the emperor, so people call this level of jadeite "imperial green jadeite".
Because imperial green jadeite is commonly found in glass jadeite, of course, ice jadeite and waxy jadeite also have imperial green jadeite, in the market, we can see the imperial green jadeite is generally the imperial green jadeite ring face, imperial green jadeite bracelet, and other small flowers, each piece of imperial green jadeite is the best in jadeite, are loved and respected by consumers, but therefore the price of imperial green jadeite is scary, sometimes a glass type of imperial green jadeite cross-section can be fried to hundreds of thousands, or even higher. ”
A ring face can be sold for at least hundreds of thousands, then my piece of thing is not sold for hundreds of millions of yuan, Li Tianbao's mind suddenly became bigger, and he couldn't help muttering: "Master, I didn't spend a penny, but I became a billionaire." ”
When the old man heard Li Tianbao's words, he immediately asked in surprise, "What?" You didn't spend a penny, so where did you get such a top-notch thing? ”
"Hehe...... Li Tianbao smiled first, and then said: "Don't tell you the truth, I got this thing from a girl who gambled on stones." Li Tianbao told the old man what had happened.
After hearing this, the old man couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's really a creation and a trick, young man, your patriotism in exchange for a net worth of hundreds of millions, but I think it's worth it, this thing should be obtained by a man like you." ”
After the old man finished speaking, he said to Li Tianbao: "Gentlemen, it's not my old man who picks the door, this thing is yours, it is said that I shouldn't say this, but if this thing is bought like this, it is estimated that it can be sold for tens of millions, do you still want to make something and give it away?" ”
Li Tianbao listened to the old man's words, first smiled, and then said: "Old man, it seems that you are also a stubborn master, and you will see my use at once, but you don't want to reveal your name, then I will call you the old stubborn master!" ”
"Hey, you're not lazy, if I hadn't been a kid when I was young, I wouldn't have come to Myanmar to live."
"Then you should know the surname of the stubborn master, let's just do things for fun, how can the things promised to others not count, six safety buckles, and the remaining ten cross-sections, you can do it for me slowly."
"Good boy, no problem, put the thing here, you come to get three safety buckles at night, that thing is easy to do, the section is not small but it is a fine job, so you have to allow me three days to do the other three safety buckles and ten sections."
"Okay, then I'll pick it up at night."
After Li Tianbao finished speaking, he turned around and left, and the old stubborn lord hurriedly said: "Your handkerchief"
"Let's make a commemoration for your old man, by the way, one of the six peace buckles is you, which is a gift from me, the little stubborn lord of the northern capital, to give you this old stubborn master, but I won't give you a processing fee."
The old man looked at Li Tianbao's figure and couldn't help blurting out: "Such a bold young man is the same as this imperial green jade, it is rare to see in a hundred years, and he will definitely be a promising young man." ”
Li Tianbao said to Yelena in the car: "Is there any special food in Myanmar, take me to eat, I invite you." ”
"Yes, yes, but I want to ask you something, do you really want to give me one of those things?"
"Of course, why do you ask?" Li Tianbao asked rhetorically.
"I heard the old man say just now, that thing is too expensive, I can't ask for it!"
"Hey, you heroic policewoman, why are you so mother-in-law, I'm really hungry, take me to dinner." Li Tianbao clutched his rumbling stomach and urged.
The two came to a more high-end restaurant, and then Elena began to introduce Myanmar cuisine, "Myanmar is an ancient country with a long history and culture, relatively poor and backward, and once invaded by foreign countries, so Myanmar's food has also been affected to a certain extent.
There are many ethnic descendants in Myanmar, the most obvious of which are the Indians. In Mandalay, Indians make up a large proportion, so Burmese-style Indian snacks are also a highlight, such as curry rice, pilaf, and tama.
Myanmar's snacks are a collection of many countries' diets, including China, India, Western Europe, etc., so the Burmese people are a very food-loving people, whether it is rich or poor, all eat more and eat less, so Burmese cuisine is more sour, spicy, salty, so that it is easy to eat.
Even in the morning, we prefer to eat instead of pasta, because we are not used to it, and we feel that we are not full without eating. ”
"Haha, that's not the same as us southerners in China, but it doesn't seem that you can eat any authentic 'Burmese food' in this kind of place, because I have a common sense, that is, the better the restaurant, the more you can't eat authentic local dishes."
"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be a 'foodie', fortunately I haven't ordered yet, otherwise I will take you to my house and ask my mother to cook you a few authentic Burmese dishes, but my home is very simple and I am afraid that you will not be used to it." "Haha, it's simple, and my basement can be even more shabby." After Li Tianbao finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the hotel.
Elena drove the car, and soon came to a relatively simple house, which seemed to be simple enough, because when she came, she had seen some better houses, which were obviously much better than Yelena's house.
As soon as Elena took Li Tianbao into the door, she saw a woman wearing traditional Burmese clothes, and Li Tianbao was busy greeting: "Hello Aunt Burma." ”