Chapter Seventy-Five: An Eye-Opening
As we all know, more than 95% of the world's jadeite is produced in Miandian, according to the relevant public statistics, Miandian produces more than 20,000 tons of jadeite wool every year, about 10,000 tons of nearly 10,000 tons flow into China. Among them, more than 60% enter through the Mekong River.
At present, in the country's four major jewelry markets, the sales volume of Meijiang jadeite accounts for at least half of the country, and the Meijiang River has also won the reputation of "jade out of Yunnan, material from the Meijiang River".
Caiyun Province in early spring, full of flowers, gentle wind and drizzle, there is no cold in the north, but a little more comfortable and comfortable, but the dialect spoken by people here is really not understood by a few people, but fortunately, there are still many people here who can speak Mandarin with Caiyun Province, so that you don't have to worry about not understanding.
Several people got off the plane, there were already people waiting here, it turned out that Suo Wencheng actually had a branch here, the company's employees drove a Buick business car to pick them up, and then without delay, all the way at high speed, to more than five o'clock in the afternoon to the destination of the gambling stone - the Meijiang River.
Although looking at the map to know that the latitude of the Mekong River is very low, but when I really arrived here, I found that the temperature here is even higher, although it has reached about minus ten degrees when Yanjing came, but here it is as high as about 35 degrees, everyone had to take off their coats first, and when they arrived at the hotel they booked, they changed into summer clothes and felt a little cooler - fortunately, Suo Wencheng had the experience to book the hotel in advance, otherwise it would not be booked at all.
Boss Liu didn't book with them, he booked another room, and after getting off the car, he had already said goodbye, and asked them to sit together and have a meal, and several people agreed.
The next day, I will gamble on stones, because the scale here is much larger than the last time in Liu Million, and it is jointly organized by several large local gambling stone bosses, so I need to go to get the number in advance - yes, it is to get the number. It's the same as an auction, and you need to pay a deposit in advance, so that some people don't have money to make trouble.
Wang Chao and Xinyu both came for the first time, Suo Wencheng went to pay the deposit first, and the two of them went around here.
The two of them took a turn with great interest, the small city is not big, but there are red, yellow and other colors of flowers everywhere, green street trees are everything, and the greening rate is higher than that of the north.
When Suo Wencheng came back, the three of them had dinner together, and then went to bed early. Wait for tomorrow morning's gambling stones.
At nine o'clock the next day, the three people went straight to the destination of the gambling stone - Qujiang Mountain, and it turned out that several bosses jointly found an empty field on the mountainside to engage in gambling stones, and the stones were pulled back from Miandian.
After arriving, I not only secretly took a breath of cold air, what a big field, there are nearly ten acres of land here, and there is a huge wool stone in the place where the field is facing the door, more than one person is high, and there are five big characters engraved on it "Qujiangshan Gambling Stone", which is very eye-catching. However, this stone is not wool, it is just a gimmick made by the boss to attract everyone's attention.
The three of them took out the number plate they had booked yesterday and handed it to the security guard at the door, and then walked in. It was found that quite a few people had already picked up there.
It's like walking into a sea of stones. A small path is formed in the middle of the rows of stones, which is divided into the original wool area of Area A and the semi-material area of Area B, that is, it is divided into window and non-windowed, so I hope that the gambling stone will grasp the larger window area. Those who rely purely on luck and eyesight go to the raw wool area.
Of course, the starting price of open windows is different from those without windows.
Suo Wencheng and Wang Chao looked at them separately, so they could see it faster, otherwise these stones would not have to be looked at for a few days and nights.
Wang Chao and Xinyu all the way. Most of the others went to Area B, and the two of them went directly to Area A.
Nothing else, this is not much different from whether Wang Chao can open the window or not when he comes, he does not rely on experience and eyesight.
Walking into Area A, there are nearly 100,000 yuan here, filling the entire open space, but there are not many people, after all, no one really wants to rely on their eyesight to gamble on stones, most of them go to Area B, so the probability of success is greater.
Although there are not many, there are more than a dozen, walking in the huge field, each holding a magnifying glass, a small hammer ding dong dong and watching ringworm and percussion sound, Wang Chao is not only embarrassed, but he has never had this kind of equipment.
"What do you think? Which way do we look first? "Xinyu is also a little dumbfounded when he comes here, these stones are almost all the same in appearance, and he really can't see it.
"Don't worry, wait for me to stand on a high place and take a look," he said, finding a stone and looking at it.
Someone next to him almost fainted when he heard this, "I haven't heard of gambling stones gambling like this, you think you're picking watermelons, and you look at it", this person secretly felt sorry in his heart, and then stayed away from them, so as not to get angry.
Ascending to a high place, holding his breath and staring around to see through the past, in his world there are only two colors of gray and light, emitting light or dark emerald green, light green, pink, red and other kinds of light, but most of them are gray and dull, such as the stars in the sky, among which a little far away from him found a piece of emerald green light like a star, and on the other side found a piece of fiery red light, although there are various colors in other places, but they are either light in color or shallow in block, There are only these two pieces, each the size of a watermelon.
Jumping off the stone, the two of them followed the path first to the piece of wool that emitted an emerald green light, this stone showed an irregular shape, the size of a round table, Wang Chao looked through it again, and found that in the middle of the right position, there was a bright dark green the size of a watermelon, as if the light emitted in the deep sea, dark green and far away, lying quietly in this piece of wool, waiting to be taken away by the world.
Wang Chao took out a notebook from his pocket and wrote down the number of this piece of wool - because of the large amount of wool, in order to avoid gambling mistakes, each piece of wool was numbered, and this piece was A995.
Then the two of them came to another piece of wool that emitted a fiery red light, and saw that it was a little smaller, and it was like a flame in the middle of the stone. The number A11235 was also noted.
Immediately, Wang Chao marked all the colored stones he had just seen, but because of the auction system adopted here, it was impossible to take all of them away, and classified them according to the shade of color they emitted, which ones must be photographed, which ones can be auctioned or not, except for those two pieces, the others have been marked with the auction reserve price. Once it exceeds the bottom price in my heart, I will not hesitate to give up - try not to rob others, otherwise it will not be cost-effective.
As for those two pieces, they are bound to be obtained, according to Wang Chao's previous experience, the price of these two pieces is theoretically higher than the Luo Guo Green that he solved last time, but he didn't solve it, and he didn't dare to judge how much it was worth.
After all the registrations, Wang Chao calculated that there were more than 100 yuan of wool, and then added up the prices of these, which was more than 100 million yuan. Not only did he smack his tongue secretly, but he thought that there was indeed a lot more here than he had seen in Liu Million.
After looking at the time, although I didn't stop much, it was enough for 2 hours, not only shaking my head, Xinyu saw the stones in the process, and I was already a little dizzy, and at this time, more and more people came in inside, and the two of them walked out slowly.
It was almost noon. They didn't rush into Area B, so they called Suo Wencheng, who was listening to him talking to him, and it seemed that this guy had met an acquaintance here. It's inevitable. Suo Wencheng is engaged in jewelry, gambling stones is just his hobby, and he doesn't expect this, most of the time he still buys it from the winners of the gambling stone club. So I am familiar with many gambling stone merchants.
He asked Wang Chao to arrange it himself, and he didn't come back at noon, so he would simply eat here. Come back in the afternoon. Wang Chao thought about it and whispered a few words to Xinyu, and the two of them immediately asked the driver of Suo Wencheng's company to take it back to the hotel - anyway, the time is several days, and there is no hurry.
The two of them had lunch, hand in hand and walked around Meijiang City, although it is known as a city, but it is not big, it is only a prefecture-level city, smaller than similar cities in the mainland, and after shopping for more than an hour, I still came to Qujiang Mountain of gambling stones again.
There is a small episode in the middle, the car of Suo Wencheng's company that sent them back has returned to the mountain people again, and the two of them had to take a taxi, but the gambling stone meeting was held here for a few days, and they played for 20 minutes, and they didn't wait for the empty car, and finally forcibly stopped a car with only one person, and asked the other party to go to Qujiangshan, so everyone carpooled to go, and later the gambling stone merchant named Zhang Kunqiang also became friends with Wang Chao.
When they arrived at the mountain, the two of them went to Area B this time, that is, the wool yard with open windows, which is different from Area A, and there are a lot of people.
Wang Chao was still the same as in the morning, seeing that others were not paying attention, he first climbed on a piece of wool and looked around.
There are many more stones that glow than in Area A, and there are nearly seven or eight of the two stones seen in Area A in the morning, and there are even more stones that emit a strong color but are smaller, or the whole stone that emits a faint color.
"Sir, please come down for a moment, I want to see this piece" Wang Chao was immersed in his colorful world with great interest, when suddenly someone around him called him, and even someone held his hand.
When I came back to my senses, it was Xinyu who pulled his hand, and it turned out that there were already two or three people around him staring at the wool under his feet, and Xinyu was not embarrassed.
When Wang Chao came down, he found that the wool under his feet revealed a trace of green on the side of the open window, no wonder he didn't walk around even if he climbed on it.
First say sorry to the people next to you, and then the two of them left quickly, first registered the seven or eight pieces of wool, and then registered all the wool materials that could be seen to emit light, there were more than 200 pieces, and it took more than two hours to go down this circle.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the organizers announced that the day was over, and everyone left one after another, leaving with taxis parked on the side of the road and waiting quietly for these "gods".
"Mr. Wang, are you still with me" The enthusiastic Zhang Kunqiang found Wang Chao and asked.
"No need, let's go, you come with me this time, my friend has a car"
"yes, that's great," said this one, who was not polite, and stayed.
After a while, Suo Wencheng also walked out, and the four of them got into the Buick car, and slowly left Qujiangshan with the taxi team in front of them unhurriedly.
Zhang Kunqiang got out of the car halfway, and when he was leaving, he made an appointment with Wang Chao to have a light meal together tomorrow, and Wang Chao nodded and agreed.
After returning to the hotel, Suo Wencheng took a shower first, no way, he hadn't gone down the mountain for a day, the temperature here was more than 30 degrees during the day, and he didn't know how much sweat he had been exposed to.
Of course, the same is true for Zhang Xinyu, who loves cleanliness more.
An hour later, the three of them left the hotel and drove straight to the suburbs.
"Wang Chao, Xinyu, this time you have a rare trip to the Meijiang River, go, I will take you to a good place to eat, this is the real unique place of the Meijiang River, but the road is a little far"
"It's okay godfather, I'm not afraid of being far away, as long as there is something delicious, hehehehe"
Three people talked and laughed all the way, but the road was really not close, it turned out that the three people had left the city and came to the farmhouse of a county below, this farmhouse is close to the mountains and rivers, at the foot of a mountain, there are mountain people's streams converged into a small river, flowing around the farmhouse.
"The former Vermilion Bird, the rear Xuanwu, the treasure land of feng shui, the boss here can't make a fortune if he wants to" Suo Wencheng exclaimed.
"Godfather, you still know Feng Shui"
"Hehe, godfather knows a fart of feng shui, I've been here a lot of times, the boss here said"
"Godfather, you swear, I'll go back and tell my godmother"
"Hahaha, you girl, you don't know yet, your godfather was a man of the year in school, and your godmother was attracted by my youthful atmosphere at that time"
"Cut", Wang Chao and Zhang Xinyu both coincidentally commented on him at the same time.
Soon came to the gate of the farmhouse, and saw that several cars had been parked in the parking lot here, and even one of them had a sign of Yanjing, Wang Chao was secretly frightened: this is fortunate to be a BMW X5, if the general car drove from Yanjing, it is estimated that the new car should also be scrapped, too far, more than 3500 kilometers.
The three of them got out of the car, and a fat middle-aged man like Maitreya Buddha came over and hugged Suo Wencheng, "Lao Suo, you haven't been here for a long time, I saw you in Yanjing last time, and it's been almost half a year."
"No, brother, you're fatter, it seems that business is good"
"Brother Toso, your blessing is still passable. These two are ......," he asked, looking at Wang Chao and the others.
"These two are juniors, this is my goddaughter, this is her husband, this time I took advantage of the gambling stone to come over to have fun. Let me introduce to you, this is the chief of our Meijiang River, the Han name is Mao Yubin, hahaha his ancestor is the leader of a local tribe, although there is no such statement now, but he is the real head snake of the Meijiang River, many people in the Zhengfu are from their tribe, he is still the leader here" (to be continued......