Most jade traders in Myanmar believe that jadeite is the embodiment of fairy spirits.

It is said that the Jade Fairy was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine in Dali, Yunnan Province, and was born beautiful and willing to give to others. By chance, the Burmese prince was fascinated by her beautiful appearance, so he married the jade fairy with a lot of money.

Since the Jade Fairy married the Burmese prince and became the "Jade Lady", she has done a lot of good things for the poor working people of Myanmar, exorcism, healing, contact with pain, and often teaching the poor to sing and dance.

However, what the "Jade Lady" did violated the royal etiquette of Myanmar at that time. Enraged, the king relegated the "Jade Lady" to the mountains of Myitkyina, northern Burma. The footprints of the "Jade Lady" have almost traveled all over the mountains and rivers there, and wherever she goes, she will ask for medical treatment for the poor wherever she goes.

Later, the "Jade Lady" died of illness in Myitkyina. All the mountains and rivers that the "Jade Niangniang" visited before her death have left beautiful jade gems. After the spirit of the "Jade Lady" turned into a beautiful jadeite, it attracted batch after batch of marauders.

In order to punish the wicked, one night, a large jade weighing hundreds of tons flew from a straight mountain peak between Hpakant and Myitkyina. People from hundreds of miles come to worship, including some poor people who are suffering from various diseases.

However, the evil treasure hunters wanted to take it for themselves, and they climbed up with thick climbing ropes and sharp axes in their hands. As they approached the jade, a huge serpent burst out of the jade, and the looter swung his axe and cut the snake in two. However, the looters also fell from the mountain peak and fell to pieces.

It turns out that the poisonous snake is the rope used by treasure raiders to climb. This is how the Emerald Elves punish the wicked. However, although the elf of the "Jade Lady" punished the evil with her unique method, she was blamed by heaven for killing too many people and was struck by lightning.

Since then, her appearance has become a black, thick leather shell, but her crystal clear and delicate and beautiful body is hidden in the thick leather shell. This mysterious treasure jade is called "gambling stone" by later generations.

Gambling stone has become a form of jade trading, which has emerged and prospered on the border between China and Myanmar in the past decade.

An unopened window of the rough stone, in addition to the shape and weight of no one can tell what is inside, only cutting open to have a real conclusion, gambling stone people with their own experience, according to the performance of the shell, repeatedly guess and judge, estimate the price.

If you buy it back, you may cut open the inside with a knife and the color is good, and it is worth millions of dollars, or it may be colorless and waterless inside, and it will become worthless in an instant, which is the risk of gambling stones. A single stone can make a person rich or bankrupt overnight.

In fact, measuring the quality of a piece of jadeite is also very simple. The first is its hardness and density, the hardness of jadeite is very high, generally reaching 7 degrees on the Mohs scale, and the jargon of the jade world is called "species". "Species" is good, that is, high hardness.

In Myanmar, it is common to see jadeite sellers experimenting with a piece of glass and scratching their jadeite rubble around the glass, leaving deep scratches on the glass, while the jadeite rubble is not damaged at all. Good jadeite is about the same hardness as diamond.

The second is transparency, which is called "water head" in the jargon, and the higher the transparency, the higher the quality. The best jadeite is like glass, the jade world calls it a glass species, if the skin is not green at all, only see the green at the opening, then its price should be lower than the actual price.

This is the general basis and principle of the valuation of high-grade jadeite raw materials, and there will be no large deviation in the valuation of jadeite raw materials according to this method.

The quality of jadeite raw materials is fickle, there is no fixed judgment mode, it is a piece of flawless jadeite with a full peel, and there may be great changes after cutting, so the valuation of jadeite raw materials is very practical.

It is not only today that you can get the jadeite rough you want in the form of auction, and it is also the only way to obtain the gambling stone in the form of bidding.

Those who are not the highest price cannot get it!

It is not the first time that Liu Yuhao has participated in the gambling stone auction, and he is naturally familiar with the bidding rules.

And it is precisely on this particular occasion that the most greedy, shameless, deceitful, and competitive side of human nature is particularly prominent at this time.

Back in the auction hall again, Liu Yuhao had an extra baseball cap on his head that could almost cover his entire face, and correspondingly, Dali also found a corner that was not very noticeable and sat down and waited quietly.

"What's going on now?"

After Liu Yuhao sat down, he quickly glanced around, and made sure that no one noticed his arrival, so he lowered his voice and looked for a strong force to understand the situation.

Dali didn't make any superfluous movements such as turning around and turning his head, and forcibly laughed at Liu Yuhao's strange impulse, and said: "At present, the asking price has been stopped at 44 million, and this price has not floated again for half an hour." ”

Liu Yuhao didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

Looking around, Liu Yuhao found that there would be a few more people than when he arrived just now, but what made him feel slightly disappointed was that there were not many people in the industry who came to participate in the auction today.

It seems that everyone still has a certain degree of skepticism about the giant black black sand, otherwise there would not be such a "cold field" situation, but this situation is not bad news for Liu Yuhao, at least, one less professional gambling talent, he will have one less competitor.

"Brother Liu, since the bidding didn't float in half an hour, why hasn't the auction ended yet?" Shi Bao was a little stunned.

Liu Yuhao smiled and said: "The gambling stone auction is different from the underground antique transaction, the underground antique transaction uses the instant auction form, everyone you chase me for fear of missing the opportunity, but the gambling stone auction will wait until the end of the initial trading time to know who the jade rough will finally fall to." ”

The emperor's daughter doesn't have to worry about getting married!

This is also a unique feature of the gambling stone industry.

Gambling stones are always associated with the legend of wealth and various ups and downs.

With the increasing shortage of jadeite rough, the "crazy stone" has attracted a large amount of money to enter, and the soaring speed of the rough transaction price is jaw-dropping.

Otherwise, there would not be the slang that "the madman sells, the madman buys, and the madman waits" that has been sung to this day.

"Boss, don't you think the name of the Jade Holy Hand is not good, and you also want to compete for the name of the gambling stone king, right?"

Dali is no longer as restrained when talking to Liu Yuhao as he was two years ago, and even dares to take Liu Yuhao in front of everyone from time to time to "make fun".

Tengyue Qiluo Li Benren, in the spring of the fourth year of the Republic of China, dug out a huge jade gambling stone from the hole of him and Liu Baochen, weighing about 8,000 kilograms, known as "elephant jade", because of the yellow protection of sand skin, it is difficult to guess the content. At that time, there was a Cantonese who was willing to pay 6,000 oceans to buy this jade gambling stone.

Because Dayu was extremely difficult to solve, the guys advised him to get rid of it as soon as possible. With many years of experience in the field of Bao Gang Xiangyu, Li is a rare treasure, despite public opinion, insisting on self-care, after dissection, crystal clear, uniform texture, beautiful color, is a rare treasure.

This stone was later transported to Beijing, by the famous jade carver Li Hanchen led more than 100 craftsmen, according to its shape, with ten years to carve into a 1.2 meters high jade pagoda and 49.2 centimeters high jade archway. These two handicrafts, without the slightest deviation, inclination, majestic and magnificent, are the atmospheric works in the history of jade carving. It was sent to the Paris World Exposition for exhibition, which was a sensation and won glory for the motherland. Li Benren became famous and was known as the "King of Jade Gambling Stones".

As the heir of the old man Qi, Liu Yuhao has observed the knife technique of the two jade carving works many times, and is naturally familiar with the name of the king of the gambling stone. ”

Everyone can hear that the king in Liu Yuhao's mouth is naturally not the king he said vigorously, and he immediately laughed heartily, attracting a sideways look, and Liu Yuhao was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his hat by three points.

"Forty-five million."

Finally, someone once again raised the sign in his hand and lazily raised the price of Big Mac wool by one million.

It is not that the Jieyang Jade Trading Center does not have the strong economic strength of the public market to equip each bidder with a bidder, but it is because there are too few people who are bullish on the black black sand wool in this auction, and the association believes that there is no need to waste time and effort to engage in those fancy shelves, so it adopts the traditional bidding mode of raising cards.

Glancing vigorously at the person who raised the price just now, the corners of his mouth flashed with a hint of disdain, and he said lightly: "The buyer of the Shanxi coal boss, when it will be our turn to make a move, there will be no play for him." ”

"Damn, can you also hire a buyer for the gambling stone now?"

Young Master Zhou was stunned, and immediately shouted wronged, he knew that this was the case, and he also spent a little money to hire someone to come over, why bother to work and suffer in this shed on a hot day.

He smiled vigorously: "Zhou Shao, those buyers don't have much money to call the shots, and when they really start bidding, they can basically disappear, and they can't do it really." That obviously means to tell Zhou Xi that the buyers invited by the coal boss are not serious, and many times they will lose the opportunity to make a fortune because of these people.

The identity of Young Master Zhou is not something that Shi Bao can compare, for this kind of gentleness, he still maintains as much "respect" as possible, neither alienating nor offending, and answering all questions.

"But these funds are really powerful, not only wealthy, but also very strong technical force, in order to reduce risks, they hired a lot of experienced buyers at a high price, there used to be only one buyer to see a stone, now there are two or three helpers, and there are actuaries on the side as staff officers."

Chen Heng, who is Lao Tzu, is much calmer than his son, and immediately made additions on the side.