Hou Yuanming's jade jewelry store is not far from the Eight Immortals.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, when he was in his forties, he resolutely decided to go to the south to start a jade and jade business, and later had a certain experience and channels, and returned to Xijing in the early nineties to open this jade jewelry store.

Hou Yuanming was a soldier for a few years, and then transferred home, and just started to be a civil servant for a few years, and felt that it was not interesting, just at that time, Hou's father intended to come back to open a store, so the father and son worked together to set up this store.

With Hou's father's experience and channels, as well as Hou Yuanming's shrewd mind, the two also complement each other, and in the past few years, their business has become bigger and bigger, and they also opened a branch in the city center at the beginning of this year.

Hou Yuanming's jewelry store, called Cuiyuzhai, the exterior and interior decoration of the store are adhering to the same style of the Eight Immortals, which looks very simple and elegant. It's been nearly a decade since this shop, and although the space in the store looked quite large back then, it's only medium in terms of today's eyes.

Walking into the store, in the middle of the circle, there are quaint glass cabinets, most of which are jadeite jewelry, and some are white jade. On the left and right sides and on the front side, there is a delicate antique wall cabinet, which contains a variety of exquisite jade or white jade statues and ornaments.

Cuiyuzhai should be quite famous in Xijing, even at noon, there are several customers there to choose jewelry or ornaments. After Chu Chen and the others came in, Hou Yuanming exchanged a few words with the waiter, and then directly led everyone to the backyard, where Cuiyuzhai gambled on stones.

The area of the backyard of Cuiyuzhai is about two-fifths smaller than that of Juyuan Pavilion, and the wool is also less than that of Juyuan Pavilion.

According to Hou Yuanming, the bottom of the wool here is a hundred yuan a piece, the highest has more than one million, and then there is no haode, after all, there are not many people in Xijing who gamble on stones, if the price is too high, in case it cannot be sold, it will also occupy a lot of funds, not cost-effective.

There are also three stone dissolving machines in the courtyard, one each large, medium and small, although there are not many people who dissolve stones at noon, but next to the medium-sized stone dissolving machine, there are three people, and a young man who is only in his twenties is wearing glasses and cutting wool there. But don't underestimate this person's age, but the movement of the stone is unusually skilled.

"It's up!"

This voice immediately attracted the attention of Chu Chen and the others, and Wen Yuting even pulled Chu Yulan and ran there quickly.

When Chu Chen and the others walked to the stone dissolving machine, they happened to see the window where the wool had been cut. At this glance, Chu Chen didn't seem so excited.

Although there is green on the cut surface, the green should be regarded as bean green, and it looks almost glutinous, and the value depends on how much jadeite can be produced at the bottom, but if you want to rise sharply, the probability is really a little slim.

Sure enough, with the next cut, the value of the jadeite has almost come out. Chu Chen estimated that the jadeite that was opened could be made into a few pairs of bracelets at most, with some rings and ornaments, but the total value was only fifteen or sixteen. Compared with Chu Chen's more than 1,000 yuan before, it must be incomparable to the glass type of more than 1 million yuan.

Although for Chu Chen, this is nothing, but for the owner of the wool, a middle-aged man among the three before, he is already very happy.

After learning the result, the man was very excited, and when Chu Chen inquired, he learned that he had bought the wool at a price of 18,000, and it was already a good trend to be able to open 150,000 jadeite.

Next, the young man who was calcifying the stone discussed with a few people who were standing before and asked them how they wanted to cut it, and after discussing it, Zuihou and a few people discussed it, and decided to remove some of the trimmings first, and then wipe it to be safer, so as to ensure the integrity of the jadeite.

And the final result, as Chu Chen expected, solved the jadeite, which was worth about 150,000.

Seeing this, the old man in his sixties who was standing on the side smiled and said, "Boss Song, this time you have fulfilled your dream, and this piece of material will be sold to me for 150,000 yuan, what do you think?" ”

Boss Song looked a little excited, and said nonchalantly: "Boss Hou, it's no problem at all." Young man, you take a rest first, and I'll trouble you later, and untie the rest of the wool. ”

Listening to Hou Yuanming's introduction, this Boss Song is also a boss of at least 10 million, he only plays gambling stones to feel the fun of gambling, and he is not addicted to it, so he puts on a look of not caring. And that old man is Hou Yuanming's father.

When they were resting, Hou Yuanming introduced Chu Chen and them to each other.

"Dad, don't look at Xiao Chu's age, not only does he have a set of antique identification, but he is also a master of gambling stones." Hou Yuanming said with a smile.

Father Hou nodded with a smile and said, "That's good, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and Xiao Chu wants to show his hand today." ”

Chu Chen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare, Old Hou, I'm just lucky, but I can't compare to your old experience." ”

Father Hou smiled: "Luck is also a kind of strength, and I think that the most important thing in our industry is luck, the old saying is not that it is difficult for immortals to break an inch of jade, so good luck is also your capital." Okay, Xiao Chu, you go to see the wool first, I won't delay your time. ”

Seeing that she was going to see the wool, Wen Yuting was like a wild horse on the loose because of the gambling atmosphere just now, and she was very excited, pulling Chu Yulan and rushing towards the jade wool, and Chu Chen and the others who were watching shook their heads and laughed.

"Brother Li, don't you look at your girlfriend yet, don't buy blindly for a while, cry your nose when you lose the bet." Chu Chen said with a smile.

Seeing this, Li Guodong could only shake his head, sighed, and followed, no way, who told him to have such a girlfriend.

Zhou Wenping also smiled: "Xiaochen, I'll also take a look with you, Guo Dong doesn't have the ability to fix the sea god needle." ”

Chu Chen thought about it, Li Guodong was always suffocated in front of Wen Yuting, and it was good for Zhou Wenping to take a look.

Seeing that Zhou Wenping and the others had all gone to see the wool, Hou Yuanming said: "Xiao Chu, then I won't bother you to look at the wool, and you will call me again when something happens." ”

"Wait, Brother Hou, most of the wool you have here is some new field material, to be honest, I'm really not interested in this kind of wool."

Seeing that Hou Yuanming was about to leave, Chu Chen called out to him. When he came in just now, Chu Chen took a cursory scan, and found that many of these stacked in the open air were some wool from Xinchangkou, which was okay for newcomers, but his words were a little lacking in interest.

Hou Yuanming patted his head after hearing this, and said: "Hey, I thought you would be a little interested in the new field material, forget that you are a master of gambling stones, go, I'll take you over now." ”

Although Hou Yuanming heard Li Guodong and others say that Chu Chen is a master of gambling stones, after all, Chu Chen is really a little young, and the experience of gambling stones depends on the accumulation of time, so it is impossible for him to believe it completely, so he did not take Chu Chen to see the wool at the old gate from the beginning.

Hou Yuanming took Chu Chen to a room with relatively high security measures, this room is almost more than forty square meters, and most of the materials in it are old changkou, of course, there are some new changkou materials that are particularly conspicuous.

The wool here is divided into three piles, a pile of old materials and new materials, as well as a pile of wool materials for opening windows, but there are not many wool materials for opening windows, but this is also learning, Hou Yuanming's family was originally engaged in the jade business, if the windows are haode, it is likely that they will be unlocked.

Hou Yuanming said a little smugly: "Xiao Chu, the wool here should be enough for you to choose, I believe that even in the whole of Xijing, there are not a few companies that perform haode wool as much as mine." ”

Chu Chenzhi also somewhat agreed with this, the wool here is indeed very good, and the wool at the same price is not inferior to Lu Changshun's Juyuan Pavilion. So he nodded:

"Brother Hou, your wool is really good, it seems that I have to spend some time and pick carefully, otherwise I'm sorry Brother Hou for the opportunity you gave."

"Okay, you can pick it, but there is a piece of wool in it that you can only look at, not buy."

Hou Yuanming pointed to a piece of wool that was almost more than 50 kilograms with a hint of apology, and said: "This piece of wool was bought last year for more than 2 million yuan in southern Yunnan, and it is my father's favorite piece of wool, but he has not been able to make up his mind to untie it." ”

Chu Chen took a cursory look at the piece of wool, and the performance was really good, but since the master said that he couldn't sell it, he wouldn't care, so he said with a smile: "Brother Hou, I can definitely understand this, but since Hou Lao likes it so much, then I must study it carefully." ”

After signaling to Hou Yuanming, Chu Chen began to carefully select the first wool. But the first thing that surprised him was Baojue.

It turned out that he didn't expect that after the ability was upgraded, Baojue could also affect the jade wool, although the distance was shorter than that of the antique, and it was only 30 centimeters away from the wool that it could be sensed, but it was already a very big surprise for him. When choosing jadeite, it can save him a lot of time.

The wool that Chu Chen looked at first was the one that Hou Yuanming had instructed before. After carefully looking at this piece of wool, he secretly praised in his heart, this piece of wool not only has a python, but also has a relatively rare spring pine flower on the python.

You must know that the spring pine flower is a very rare violet, and the pine flower with the python is really a rare gambling stone performance.

To be honest, Chu Chen was indeed very moved when he saw such a performance, but it was a pity that the master didn't sell it, so there was no way, but after he used the ability, he didn't expect the result to make him feel a little disappointed.