"Brother Feng, why are we back again?"

After wandering around the antique city on Hongqi Street for a long time, Xie Xuan found that Qin Feng took him back to the White Buddha Street he had come to yesterday, which made him feel a little inexplicable even more.

"Just follow me, watch more and ask less!"

Qin Feng waved his hand, but this time after he entered the antique street, it was different from yesterday when he was wandering around, and walked directly to a jade shop at the entrance of the street.

The façade of this antique shop called "Qishi Zhai" is not small, the main hall is open to three shops, and there is a small courtyard at the back, but it is a place where the host entertains friends to drink tea and chat, but guests cannot enter.

"Strange Stone Zhai", as the name suggests, in addition to dealing in jade, there are also a variety of strange stones of different shapes, from a few kilograms to hundreds of kilograms of stones, set up a big stall in front of the store.

"Hey, kids, you two are here again?"

Seeing Qin Feng come in, an old man in his sixties stood up and said with a smile: "Come, come, how about you take a look at my piece of material?" Authentic Hetian jade seeds, such a large size is rare. ”

The old man is the boss of this "Qi Shi Zhai", his surname is Ge, and his single name is a handsome character, but the appearance of the rat-eyed roe deer head does not match the name, even if he is thirty years younger, it has nothing to do with the word handsome.

Although the person is not very good-looking, Ge Jun has a good reputation in the antique jade shop in the stone market, and his shop is also a relatively early jade shop in the stone market, in comparison, the Nie family is just a rising star in the industry.

After being greeted by Ge Jun, Qin Feng was not polite, picked up the piece of jade he put on the board and looked at it, and after a while, he said: "Old man, this seed material is white all over, the color is smooth, and the most rare thing is that it is the size of a fist, it is rare, it is a rare thing." ”

Yesterday, when I came to visit White Buddha Street, Qin Feng stayed in this store for more than two hours, and he had a very good time talking with this old man Ge.

"Who did you learn this from?"

Ge Jun took the Hetian jade seed material in Qin Feng's hand, carefully put it into the cabinet, turned around and said, "Xiao Qin, are you still in school?" Do you also play with stones at home? ”

"Old man, my family is from Yangzhou, and I have been learning carving from my elders since I was a child, so I also know a little about stones."

Qin Feng pointed at Xie Xuan with a smile and said, "There is an aunt who lives in Shishi, didn't she come to see her, she likes this thing, so let my cousin take me around." ”

Qin Feng's expression was very natural when he spoke, and he also had a little Jiangnan accent in his words, almost all of those who were in the jade business were connected to the factories in Yangzhou, and Ge Jun had already heard it.

"The world's carvers are out of the state, no wonder, it turns out to be a family ......"

Hearing Qin Feng's explanation, Ge Jun was immediately relieved, yesterday he was still muttering in his heart, where did such a villain as Qin Feng come out and be so proficient in jade craftsmanship and quality?

Jade is divided into southern and northern crafts, and each carving has its own characteristics, such as the northern school, the Shanghai school, and the Su school...... Or atmospheric, or KitKat.

In today's market, southern workers account for 80% of the market, while northern workers account for less than 20%, and Yangzhou, as the base camp of southern craftsmanship, has countless famous jade masters.

Although Ge Jun has dealt with jade for most of his life, he may not know all the famous Yang-Zhou jade masters, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure out which one was surnamed Qin, so he could only give up.

"Xiao Qin, come to me today, don't you want to chat with the old man again?" Ge Jun took out a pair of tea sets from under the cabinet and said with a smile: "You guys are particular about drinking tea over there, and the old man will make you a pot of this year's Longjing new tea." ”

"Old man, don't be busy, I'll leave."

Seeing this, Qin Feng hurriedly stopped Ge Jun, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Grandpa Ge, you know, I have been learning jade carving since I was a child, but this time I came out in a hurry, I didn't bring materials, and my hands were a little itchy......"

"Oh? Are you ready to carve jade? ”

Hearing Qin Feng's words, Ge Jun immediately understood that his feelings came from here to find the original stone, which made Ge Jun slightly shocked in his heart.

Because there are a lot of attention to jade, not the earlier the more haode, when you are young, your hands are unstable, and it is easy to get injured, and you will also practice your hands to be wasted.

In the past, apprentices had to learn painting for at least three years, and after they had a certain level of art skills, they would practice with radishes or some softer stones.

Generally speaking, apprentices have to wait until they are eighteen or nineteen years old before they can officially start carving utensils with jade, and by the time the results are made, they are usually already in their thirties and forties.

A child like Qin Feng, who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, actually began to practice with jade, and Ge Jun really hadn't seen a few, because no matter how cheap jade was, it was also money.

"Well, Grandpa Ge, I'...... I didn't use much money, do you think I can give a stone? ”

Qin Feng took out his right hand from his pocket, took out a handful of tickets for two yuan, and said with an embarrassed expression: "Grandpa Ge, I'll give me twenty yuan, can you give me a piece of material?" ”

"You're going to buy ingredients for twenty dollars?"

Ge Jun smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Xiao Qin, it's not that Grandpa Ge is stingy, I have a rough stone here, but a piece will cost at least a thousand yuan, you say...... Can I sell it to you? ”

The business is like Ge Jun, simply buying from the jade carving factory can no longer meet the needs of the market, he buys the rough stones in Xinzhuang, and then sends them to the jade factory for processing.

Therefore, there is no shortage of rough stones in Ge Jun's shop, but even if a stone of inferior quality, even if it is carved by a machine, it can be sold for ten yuan or eight yuan, and Qin Feng's twenty yuan is not enough at all.

"Grandpa Ge, are those stones that expensive?"

Qin Feng's eyes rolled, he pointed to a pile of stones piled up at the door, and said, "Why don't I seem to have seen these jades?" Isn't it also valuable? ”

Where Qin Feng pointed his finger, there were almost seven or eight stones piled up, the big ones were thirty or fifty catties, and the small ones were only the size of a fist.

However, unlike Hetian jade, the skin of these stones is not visible at all, it is very ugly black, and it is very rough to the touch.

"Hey, don't you say I forgot about it."

Ge Jun patted his head, walked out of the counter, and said with a smile: "Xiao Qin, it seems that you only make nephrite jade at home, this is a jadeite rough, which belongs to jadeite in jade, and there was not much market in the past, and it has only flourished in the past few years......"

The difference between nephrite and jadeite is in the hardness, the hardness of nephrite is generally 6 to 6.5, such as white jade (mutton fat jade), green and white jade, green jade, jasper, black jade and many other varieties, all of which are classified into nephrite.

Jadeite, on the other hand, is above 7, and jadeite is represented by jadeite, which has a wide range of colors, including green, lavender, white, pink, brown, red, blue, black, orange and yellow.

In China, nephrite jade has a long history dating back 8,000 years, and has always been a favorite accessory for dignitaries from ancient times to the present.

And jadeite because the origin is in Myanmar, in ancient times, only when worshipping the Celestial Empire, it would occasionally offer some to the imperial court, and the folk were not common, so it did not become popular.

But in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi was fond of jadeite, and she collected the best jadeite in the world during her lifetime, which also brought a wave of jadeite craze, which was the first time that the world learned about jadeite.

When the Qing Dynasty fell, the third lady of the Song family, the mother of the country, was also a person who loved jade, and her taste also made the price of jadeite rise sharply, and there was a tendency to resist the court of Hetian jade.

But after the liberation, due to the inconvenience of mining and transportation, jadeite disappeared in the country, and it was not until the late eighties that it gradually appeared in the market, but its recognition and value are far from being comparable with Hetian jade.

However, because the jadeite is colorful and very beautiful, it has entered the late nineties and has begun to be recognized by consumers, so Ge Jun also caught up with the trend and went to the southern city to buy some rough stones.

Different from nephrite purchases, the purchase of jadeite rough focuses on the word "gambling", that is, the gambling stone that has become popular in the circle in recent years, of course, the history of gambling stone is far less than this, and has existed for decades in some cities on the southern border.

Before the jadeite rough is cut, neither the buyer nor the seller can be sure whether there is jadeite inside, because the thin layer of stone skin can isolate the prying eyes of any instrument on the shijie.

Therefore, in the jadeite rough market, there is an extremely special way to buy gambling stones, and buyers can judge whether there is jadeite in the rough according to their own analysis, so as to bid for it.

Since it is gambling, there are ups and downs, some people become multimillionaires because of this, and some people die because of gambling.

Of course, not everyone is so gambling, and there are also some jade merchants who specialize in buying gambling jade meat, such as Ge Jun.

Ge Jun is not very familiar with gambling stones, so this time he went to the south to buy some jadeite raw materials, out of curiosity, he also bought a few pieces of full-gambling materials to cut and play, and only spent a few hundred yuan in total.

But Boss Ge's luck is really not very good, the seven or eight pieces of jadeite rough he bought have not cut out any good materials, the most haode piece is green and black, the structure is rough, and the light transmittance is extremely poor, which is commonly known as the shit ground.

With such materials, the things made are similar to stones, Ge Jun didn't bother to pull them to the jade factory for processing, and piled them up at the door of the store to find a time to throw them away, if Qin Feng hadn't pointed it out, he really couldn't have thought of it.

"Grandpa Ge, jadeite is hard, it's better to practice knife work......"

Qin Feng listened to Ge Jun's introduction to the history of jadeite, and after the old man had fun, he licked his face and smiled: "Look, just give me those stones?" I'll give you all the twenty dollars, are you enough? ”

"Hey, isn't it to slap your grandfather Ge in the face, just that fertilizer, I can still charge you money?"

Ge Jun laughed amused by Qin Feng's appearance, waved his hand and said, "These materials are worthless, you can take them if you want, I don't have to find someone to throw them away!" ”

"Grandpa Xiexie, that'...... You're welcome. ”

Qin Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly ran to the pile of stones to pick them up, but Ge Jun didn't see it, and when Qin Feng turned around, a sly smile appeared on his face.

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