On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Huang Li went to the capital with her parents, and Qin Xiaoying also went back on the same plane, and several people said goodbye at the airport. After sending them on the plane, he parked his Audi in the parking lot of the airport and flew to the southwest by himself. In the central south, the sky was gloomy, but when it arrived, the sun was shining brightly, and spring was full of joy. The depressed mood at the time of parting was suddenly brightened.

Call Battalion Commander Tan, who asked him to go to the long-distance bus station now and take the bus to the city where the unit is located. When he arrives at the bus station, someone will be sent to pick him up on time. I took a taxi to the long-distance bus station, and on the way I called Boss Chen in Myanmar, but I couldn't get through. I called several more times on the long-distance bus, but I couldn't get through.

When I arrived at my destination, it was already more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The one who came to pick him up was a lieutenant driving a military jeep, and when Wuyang approached, the other party guessed that it was him. "It's Boss Li, my surname is Mao, and I am a company commander in Battalion Commander Tan's troops, and I was ordered to assist you in your work this time."

Wuyang smiled, "Brother Mao, you can call me Xiao Li." Thank you for helping me. This time I received an invitation to bring two people over, do you have any of you? ”

Company Commander Mao smiled, "You have a bit of our soldier's style, and you talk straightforwardly." When I got to the border, my brother would go with me. Shall we spend the night in a geothermal volcanic hot spring tonight and rush to the border tomorrow morning? ”

"By the way? We'll go by the way, and we'll not go on a detour. Wuyang said.

"It's not a good road, but it's better." Company Commander Mao said.

"Forget it, let's go to the border." After Wuyang finished speaking, Company Commander Mao started the car and set off.

Wuyang took out his phone again. I want to try Boss Chen's phone again. This time it got through. "Hello Boss Chen. I am Xiao Li, this time I went to your country to participate in the Jade Gongpan, and I am going to pass by this road, and now I am rushing to the border. ”

Boss Chen said: "I am in a jade mine in the mountains of northern Myanmar. When you arrive at the border, go to find a person named Mao Dashan, who knows the route on our side, and if you still have a place to bring someone over, it is best to let him come with him. You cross the border and then call. ”

"Boss Chen. Your phone is always unreachable, so you won't miss a mistake when the time comes, right? ”

"No, it's out of power today, I don't care."

After hanging up the phone, Wuyang asked Company Commander Mao: "Brother Mao, do you know a person named Mao Dashan?" ”

"Is the Boss Chen you just called a jade merchant from Myanmar? Recently, I went to Pingzhou to sell wool. Mao Dashan is my brother. Now it's okay, save some tongues. Company Commander Mao said.

The vehicle went out of the city, there was no highway anymore, the road was getting worse and worse, and it arrived in Laifengshan District. It's even harder to go. Although Wuyang has been here, he is also mentally prepared. But Company Commander Mao's car was driving too fast. Grasping the handrail, it was still bumped and my stomach turned upside down. Fortunately, my stomach was empty, and the little food I ate on the plane had long since disappeared. I just ran my true qi and started to walk Da Zhoutian, and after walking a few times, my body was much more comfortable, but I was hungry and uncomfortable, and I was embarrassed to say. You are such a big boss, you are reluctant to eat, who is to blame?

The car passed through the county, and the commander of the Mao company did not stop, and Wuyang saw a restaurant on the side of the road, so he said: "Brother Mao, let's eat and then leave." ”

Company Commander Mao said: "My brother is waiting for me at the monkey bridge in front, it has been arranged there, let's rush over." ”

I finally arrived at the Monkey Bridge, it was getting dark, and Wuyang took out his mobile phone to see that it was almost 8 o'clock. Although this side belongs to the same 8th time zone as Zhongnan, the sun goes down much later, and with the sun shining, it gets dark even later.

When I came to a restaurant, I was greeted by a man in his 30s who was about the same height as Mao Lian. "Xiaoshan, this is Boss Li. It's the road, let's go eat. ”

"Brother Mao, I'm going to trouble you this time." Wuyang said.

After entering the restaurant, Mao Dashan sat down at the table, and the waiter began to serve the food. Mao Dashan poured beer and said, "Boss Li, it's not troublesome, that's what I rely on to eat." ”

"What does Brother Mao rely on to eat?"

"It is to take guests to Myanmar to buy wool and gamble stones to make money to live."

"Then Brother Mao must have made a lot of money, right?"

"All I brought with me were jade merchants who didn't have invitations. They generally can't enter the public market, and they mainly buy wool from the Burmese boss in the mine. Boss Li, you also know that gambling on stones is a loss of nine out of ten bets. Most of the bosses I brought over lost only the money for the road, and there was definitely not much money left for me. There are also a few gambling stones that have risen in gambling, but their own pockets are empty, and the conscientious boss will send me 30,000 or 50,000 yuan after returning to the event. ”

While Mao Dashan was speaking, Wuyang picked up a bowl of rice, and his stomach was much more comfortable.

"Brother Mao, how many years have you been here?"

"I've been here since I was a child, and not only others, but even myself, can't tell whether it's Chinese or Burmese. I am familiar with several major dialects from northern Myanmar to Yangon, and I am also familiar with the roads, including the Gaoligong Mountain. ”

"Then you must have a lot of acquaintances here?"

"I know all the big and small jade merchants, the generals of the military, and most of the tribal leaders. But I've never had any advantage knowing them. I have good things, and they often force them to go. ”

Wuyang smiled, "Shall we leave after a full meal or will we leave tomorrow?" ”

"It stands to reason that you are a businessman with an invitation letter, and you can leave during the day tomorrow, but I am used to leaving at night. We are villains first and then gentlemen, you take care of the oil money and food money along the way, Xiaoshan is responsible for the safety of the whole process, I am responsible for dealing with Burmese businessmen, and I will give you any reward after the matter is completed. ”

"Brother Mao, as long as our personal safety is guaranteed, it will definitely be no problem to make a small fortune. Maybe this trip will be worth your previous total income. ”

"I hope so, I'm going crazy thinking about money now." Mao Dashan said.

"What's going on?"

Company Commander Mao said: "My brother has taken a fancy to the daughter of a tribal leader in Myanmar, but the tribal leader asks for a bride price of 500,000 euros or 200 kilograms of gold. My eldest brother is nearly 30 years old, and it is impossible to wait long. So it's a bit of a hurry. ”

"Two big brothers. It's easy to do. We just need to complete this procurement plan. I gave my eldest brother 200 kilograms of gold and another 500,000 yuan for settling-in. If I have additional income, the remuneration will be additional. ”

"Okay, I believe that Boss Li will not break his promise, so we will make up our minds. Let's go now. ”

Wuyang went to settle the meal money and saw Mao Dashan driving a tattered American jeep over. After getting into the car, Company Commander Mao explained: "Don't look at the tattered appearance of this car, the engine inside is the engine of a new Humvee." If the appearance is too good. It will definitely be taken away by the people of the Myanmar military. "After eating just now, Company Commander Mao has changed into civilian clothes, almost the same as his brother, just a little whiter.

After an hour of walking in the car, Company Commander Mao saw that Wuyang wanted to sleep, and said, "Xiao Li, give me your passport and invitation letter, and you can sleep in peace." ”

After Wuyang handed him something, he used his backpack as a pillow and slept in the back seat. He had 100,000 euros, 50,000 US dollars and 50,000 RMB in his pillow. The bank card is in the pocket of the jeans.

When I woke up, the vehicle was parked in front of the large shed. Boss Chen, whom I met in Pingzhou, came over. was greeting Mao Dashan, and Wuyang hurriedly got out of the car.

Boss Chen smiled and said, "Boss Li, I'm sorry, this is our production area, and the conditions are too poor." You eat first, and then we'll go to see the wool. ”

Mao Dashan said: "Boss Li, if you fancy the wool here, the price of buying it is much lower than buying it on the public market." Because everything you buy there will be forced by the military government to charge a high share, so you don't want it here. ”

Wuyang smiled, "As long as it can be shipped back, it will be the same wherever you buy it." ”

After a Burmese-style breakfast, a few people set off again. This time I was heading deep into the mountains, the road was full of potholes, and Wuyang sat in the back row, and there was no place for armrests, so I had to hold the chairs in the front row tightly with both hands.

After more than two hours of bumping, I saw the mountain where a lot of rocks had been dug up, and Company Commander Mao told: "There used to be a jadeite mining area, but now there is no jadeite, and the mining area is mined deep in the mountains." ”

After walking more than 10 kilometers and seeing the mine ruins in a row, Wuyang became curious. "Brother Mao, stop, I want to see where the jadeite is mined."

"Okay, let's take a break." Mao Dashan stopped the car and said: "You want to see where the jadeite is mined, and you can only see it here, this is the old pit that the insiders say, and the jadeite has been mined." The mining area where people are mining, because there are many people and machinery, sometimes they have to fire guns, and they generally don't let people see it. Go ahead, we're waiting for you here. ”

It doesn't look far, but it's far away. Wuyang ran along a road overgrown with weeds, and it took 5 or 6 minutes to reach the goaf, which is about 4 kilometers long and about 1 kilometer wide. Ran to the middle of the goaf, ran really qi to look at the ground, it was full of gray stones, and looked at the high rock in front of me, there was a faint difference from the stone, so I quickly ran over.

At a depth of several meters from the surface of the rock, there are three layers of jadeite distributed over a length of 1 kilometer. Although it is intermittent and uneven, it has been extending for 1 kilometer, and the depth of extending into the rock should be more than 20 meters.

The top layer of 3 layers of jadeite is not very delicate, it should be bean green, but the thickness is higher; The middle layer is more delicate, it should be ice, and the thickness of the jadeite is thinner than the upper layer; The number of jadeite in the lower layer is even less, and there are quite a lot of stones in the middle of the jadeite, but the water species is much higher, almost all of them are very delicate, and the glass species seen before are almost the same, which is amazing.

Now money has no real meaning for Wuyang, but curiosity and human greed made him decide to mine this jade mining area. called Company Commander Mao and asked him to ask Brother Mao if he was going to the depths of the mountains from here, and if he was going by himself. After a while, Company Commander Mao said that there was an old mine ahead, and the road from there to the rocks above was very gentle, and it would be good for a few people to walk back together when they came back.

It was delayed for half an hour. After getting on the bus. It took more than 10 minutes to get to the mine. Wool is piled up everywhere outside the mining area. Large and small can be in the thousands.

Boss Chen said: "This is the real old pit wool, which has not been selected by anyone, and has been mined in the past half a month. In the past, the wool was basically required by the government to be sent to Yangon to participate in the public market, but now the mine quickly mined it and sold it when the relevant government departments had no energy to manage it. ”

Wuyang asked: "What is the price of these wool materials Boss Chen?" ”

"If we load the car and you don't pick it yourself, it's 3,000 euros, if you pick it yourself. It is 5,000 euros a piece, and the wool is not divided into sizes, and the shipping cost is calculated separately. Still transported by us to Ping Chau, you go to pick up the goods yourself. Boss Chen said.

"When will I be paid? What if I pay and I don't receive the goods by then? Wuyang asked.

"Pay now, and pay when you pick up the freight. If the goods are lost, we will be responsible for compensation. We can pick the same number of pieces of wool in Pingzhou, and we will sign a contract. Boss Chen said.

"Boss Chen, how many pieces of wool do you have here?" Wuyang asked.

"I haven't counted it carefully, it's about 1,800 yuan."

"Can we discuss?"

"What's the way to negotiate it?" Boss Chen asked.

"That's right. I'm a person who believes in luck and likes to do things by feeling. So I'm not at ease if I don't pick at all. But I don't know how to choose, I just want to mark which piece I like based on my feelings. If I feel good, I may buy all your 1,800 pieces of wool, and if I feel bad, I may not buy a single piece. ”

"With so much wool, when are you going to pick it?" Boss Chen asked.

"I only glance at each piece of wool, for a maximum of 5 seconds, and the time for marking it does not exceed 10 seconds, which is called by feeling. If so, can the price be settled at 3,000 euros a piece? ”

"Boss Li, we are gambling on stones now, are we going to gamble again. The 10 seconds you just talked about picking a piece is 360 pieces in an hour. There are 1,800 pieces of wool here, and I will give you 5 hours to choose them all, and you can't skip or choose. Eating and peeing are all counted as your own time. So that for every 10 minutes in advance, the price of each piece of wool is reduced by 100 euros, all the way down to 3,000 euros per piece, okay? ”

"Can you lower it by another 500 euros, you're still so high, I can't make a lot of money after I work so hard? Nothing interesting. ”

"Okay, 2,800 euros minimum, you prepare now, I'll have paint and brushes brought in." Boss Chen said.

Wuyang peed, took out the chocolate that Qin Xiaoying bought for him, peeled the paper, put it in the left trouser pocket, drank a few more sips of water, and carefully planned the walking route. At this time, the paint and brushes happened to be delivered, and Wuyang asked Mao Dashan to time the time with Boss Chen, and he was really angry and ready to act according to the order at any time.

As Boss Chen said "start", Wuyang acted quickly. When I saw which piece of wool had jadeite in it, I didn't care about the size and grade, so I didn't hesitate to draw a horizontal. Boss Chen and one of his staff members counted the numbers in the back, and were thrown away by Wuyang. Company Commander Mao also took out a pen and paper to count the numbers so that the two sides could check them.

When Wuyang finished painting the last piece of wool, Mao Dashan and Boss Chen shouted at the same time: It's over. It took 79 minutes. Just let the price of wool be put at 2,800 euros a piece.

Wuyang rested for a while, and the statistical results came out, and the results of the two were two pieces apart, the result of the Mao Company Commander was 879, and the result of the staff was 881. Boss Chen said: "It's calculated according to the middle amount, 880 yuan." Boss Li, let's go back now, after swiping the card, I will arrange transportation. Our shipping costs are low, around 25 euros per piece, loaded tonight, and will arrive within 5 days from tomorrow. ”

"Okay, we'll leave right away. Boss Chen, I would like to ask a question, that is, why do your abandoned jadeite mines not be mined to a certain extent? Wuyang said.

"You may not know it, but when we mine jadeite wool, we generally find veins and mine them. After a vein has been mined for a certain period of time, the jadeite resource will be depleted. Like those old pits, which have been mined for about two hundred years, after not cutting out the jadeite, they basically blew up about 50 to 100 meters of rock mass, and there is no jadeite, so they can only give up. Re-searching for sources. ”

"Who owns those mountains now?"

"It stands to reason that it should be owned by the tribal leader, but now that there is no jadeite, no one will care, and if the jadeite is found, then the tribal leader and the local military government will take care of it. Everybody has to take money. ”

"Zhilu said, Xie Luxie. Let's go back. Wuyang asked about the situation clearly, so he didn't want to tell Boss Chen more, he had to let Mao Dashan find someone to find someone about this matter, and it was not too late to go up the mountain to see what was going on after the negotiation was completed. If you act too early, you will definitely be startled.

When I returned to Boss Chen's shed, I quickly swiped the card to pay. At this time, Wuyang pulled Mao Dashan aside and said: "Brother Mao, our transaction is complete, as long as I can go home safely, you can go with me to get the gold, and I can give you the cash as soon as I arrive in China, you can rest assured." ”

"Boss Li, it's that simple? I'm not dreaming, am I? Mao Dashan said.

"You're not dreaming, you're doing real things. I want to ask you a question now, do you want to make a fortune? ”

Mao Dashan smiled and said, "Why don't you want to?" I dreamed of it. ”

"Okay, I'll give you a chance to make a fortune now, whether you are willing to do it or not, and how well you can do it, it's up to you." (To be continued......)