Chapter 18: Visiting Ruili

At around 8 o'clock the next morning, Huang Dao came to Ruili Jewelry Street. Ruili Jewelry Street and Sister Sue Yucheng, these two business areas are actually connected by Renmin Road, and local jewelers are accustomed to the market trading mode of coming to Yucheng in the morning and turning to Jewelry Street in the afternoon. And every day, the professional operators of jade, gemstones, amber, agate and other professional operators in the major jewelry cities are also under the trend of this model, according to the established time. In the morning, these practitioners from all over the world will pack up a piece of semi-finished products and finished products early in the morning and bring them to Sister Yucheng for sale, turning the professional market around Sister Gu into the most popular and most popular place in Ruili. Therefore, when the zodiac came to Jewelry Street at this point in time, he found that there were many fewer people here than Sister Sue Yucheng.

Ruili Jewelry Street has an advantage over Sister Sue Yucheng in that it is the first honest jewelry market in China. In the jadeite and jade industry, fakes have always been a major problem that plagues the development of the market. In Ruili Jewelry Street, all jewelry sold in fixed shops has its own "ID card" - number, name, image, shape, quality, density, color, refractive index, phototic characteristics, absorption spectrum and other physical and chemical indicators, as well as whether it is "A goods" (pure natural jade varieties) or "B goods, C goods" (inferior goods that have been processed by chemicals, such as anti-crack plastic coatings, and fakes). This is a gem and jade jewelry testing certificate and test card issued by Ruili Jewelry Testing Station, which aims to help consumers identify the authenticity of jade.

In order to regulate the jewelry market in Ruili, in the process of building a market and managing the market, the Ruili Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce has explored a set of effective measures, including the establishment of jade identity, requiring all shops to only sell A goods, and not B goods and C goods. On today's Jewelry Street, there is a 12315 report and complaint sign at the door of every store, and anyone who sells counterfeits and deceives consumers in the market will be punished by the industrial and commercial department, and even "invited" out of the jewelry street.

The depth of water in the jewelry industry is an open secret, and the zodiac has been in Ruili for more than a day, and he has deeply felt that most of the merchants' prices are unreliable. Especially when the store knows that the customers who come in are ordinary tourists rather than connoisseurs, they tend to increase the price of the items on sale by 5 to 10 times. Even in some shopping malls with standardized management, a pendant of several thousand yuan will be priced to 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan first. Although compared with the antique city in the mainland, there are relatively few merchants selling B and C goods here, but the seller's "integrity index" still poses a huge challenge to Taoyou. If you don't understand, you'll be fooled anytime, anywhere.

Before Huang Dao came to Ruili, I saw an expert on a professional forum reminding: "No matter who you know in Ruili or on the Internet, it is still very necessary to shop around." "Even if you are a professional jeweler who comes to Ruili for the first time, you will be shocked and messed by the large number of professional markets here. No matter what kind of scene you encounter here, you must see more and buy less, before deciding to buy a piece of jewelry, you must "ask the price first, do not counteroffer", until at least shop around, after countless times to test the bottom line of different merchants, and have a more full understanding of its actual price, you can start bargaining. Don't believe those "nonsense" such as "after this village, there will be no temple", "if you miss it, you will definitely regret it".

In Ruili's jewelry market, whether it is in Ruili Jewelry Street or in Sister Yucheng, sellers will offer different prices in the face of different customers: when they meet peers, they know each other's quality and circulation value of the goods, and the starting point of the bargaining will naturally not deviate too far from the purchase cost and the normal profit margin. It's a different story when you meet a tourist who doesn't know anything about it, especially when it comes to someone who can't even tell the difference between jade and chalcedony, like a chef seeing the meat on a chopping board. Here, in the trading of connoisseurs and non-connoisseurs, it is a fool to make 1 times the profit, and it is honest to make 2 times the profit, and the person who can make 10 times the profit is always considered smart. Therefore, whether you are a connoisseur or not, bring a jewelry professional flashlight, and if you don't understand, you have to pretend to come out, so that the seller can see that you dare not treat it as an ordinary tourist, and the price will naturally be greatly reduced.

However, the zodiac has a lot of money and doesn't care much about the false price offered by the merchant. Anyway, under the scanning of the telekinesis, the value of the wool he picked out was still very profitable compared to the sellers of the merchants.

Huang Dao walked around Ruili Jewelry Street for a while, but he was too lazy to shop, and there were few people and few open shops. He only bought 5 pieces of wool containing first-grade jade jade, a total of about 60 or so, and after looking for a merchant to take a sack and put it up, he easily carried it in his hand and took a taxi to the warehouse on the edge of Sister Yucheng.

After entering the warehouse, Huang Dao spent a while cutting out the jade inside and putting it into his own space. After cutting, the waste rock was not lost in the warehouse, but was also placed in the space, ready to be thrown into the sea to make a small contribution to the land reclamation project after returning to the big falling island.

After being busy, Huang Dao went to the nearby Internet café to check some information, and found that some people on the Internet said that more than seventy percent of Myanmar's high-end wool materials have gone to Jieyang, Guangdong, therefore, Jieyang jade market is a market dominated by high-end finished products, as long as you get to that place, you can see hundreds of thousands of yuan, or even millions of yuan of goods everywhere. Although Ruili is close to the origin of jadeite raw materials, there are high, medium and low-end things circulating in the market, and the product structure is also very complete, but on the whole, the things that are put out in the trade market are mainly low-end.

So, Huang Dao decided to wait for a trip to Myanmar and go directly to Jieyang, Guangdong after returning to China. The zodiac went to Myanmar, not to go to the jade mining area of Myanmar to secretly excavate wool with his mental power, but mainly to excavate some earth and stone to replace the soil of Dashen Island. Huang Dao did not want to excavate earthwork in China, after all, he was going to excavate at least 1 cubic kilometer of earthwork, which was relatively easy to be found in China.

Huang Dao left the Internet café and came to the door of the warehouse again. However, he didn't enter the warehouse, just stood at the door of the warehouse, looked around and no one was paying attention, and secretly used his mental power to put the key of the warehouse along the crack in the door below and on the ground to the right of the door. There were six days left in the lease of the warehouse, and Huang Dao decided to spend five days secretly excavating earth and stone in Myanmar, and before the last day of the lease expired, he would call the owner and tell him where to put the warehouse key, so that he would not have to meet again to hand it over.

After putting the key, Zodiac looked at the time, and it was less than ten o'clock. When I came to Ruili, I haven't really played it yet, and I patronized it to buy wool. So, Huang Dao decided to really visit Ruili during the day today.

Huang Dao decided to go to Wan Town Bridge first, which is 12 kilometers away from the city, there is no shuttle bus, and you can only sit on the side of the road, ten yuan a person, but the driver is allowed to pick up passengers on the way. Huang Dao didn't want to carpool with other people, so he told the driver to charter a car. When asked about the price, the driver offered 300 yuan, and Huang Dao directly bargained in half, saying: "It's 150 yuan, if you love to go, if you don't go, I'll find other cars." The driver thought about it for a moment and hurriedly agreed. When Huang Dao saw that the driver agreed, he knew in his heart that the driver still had to make money, but he didn't care anymore.

During the drive, the driver introduced some scenic spots in Ruili to the zodiac, and there are many wonders along the line of Wan Town, such as Moli Waterfall, Shwedagon Pagoda of Sister Le, and a forest of single trees.

When you arrive at Wan Town, you can see the country. The Chinese customs are so majestic that they are not even allowed to take pictures outside, but the zodiac did not bring a camera, and the mobile phone did not look good, so they did not take pictures, and the ruins of the Wan Town Bridge could be taken closely. The Watamachi Bridge is about 50 meters long, separated by iron chains, and the river under the bridge has been polluted, and the driver said that the shallows a little farther away can be smuggled into Myanmar, but even if you get to the Myanmar border, you can't go to the big cities, because these border towns and big cities are separated by mountains, and the road is difficult and difficult to get to the sky. Now there is a new bridge built at the pass, and the colorful Burmese cars shuttle across the border, and there are no towns on the opposite side of the Burmese border, only to see the dusty Yunnan-Burma highway that has fallen into disrepair for a long time.

It's almost noon, Huang Dao invited the driver to have a meal at the roadside food stall, eating Dai style dishes, the Dai boss's attitude still doesn't dare to compliment, and the dishes are colorless and fragrant, but Huang Dao saw here that he has seen the most beautiful Dai girl he has seen so far, working as a waiter here, with delicate facial features and fair skin, which is very different from other Dai girls, but the mouth is still a light beard, and the overall feeling is a bit like Jolin Tsai's type.

The next stop on the return trip, Mori Rainforest, is 5 kilometers away from a fork in the highway, along the coast is the Ruili River, the river is as its name, gentle and beautiful, the wooden plank bridge on the river is the scenic spot of the Huitong Bridge in the play of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the driver will let the zodiac stop and visit, but the zodiac still sees many bridges on the road claiming to be the filming location of Huitong Bridge, a bridge is famous and many bridges compete for merit, which is very in line with the mentality of Chinese society.

The ticket to enter the Mori Rainforest costs 50 yuan, and the place to buy the ticket is still 1 km from the parking lot, there is no shuttle bus to get here, unless you have enough trekking perseverance, you can only charter a car or hitchhike. The Mori rainforest is not big, the victory is that there are few people, the scenery is general, the end of the developed scenic spot is a waterfall, the waterfall is good, it is not magnificent, but it is soft and beautiful like a light yarn, and the zodiac took nearly two hours to complete.

The driver waited for Huang Dao in the parking lot, and Huang Dao promised him that he could go to other businesses during his absence, but he waited for two hours and could not wait for a single customer. In the car, he sighed and said, "Business is really bad today."

Back to the highway, the next stop to reach the single tree into a forest, the ticket is 10 yuan, you can skip the ticket, the scenic spot is very small, look at the forest formed by five big trees, these five huge big trees have only one root, so it is named a single tree into a forest. There is an inscription outside the forest that reads "Ruili", and Guo Moruo has an inscription. At this time, there are many tourists, rushing to take a commemorative photo in front of the monument. The zodiac walked around here a little, and then rushed to the next stop, the Legin Pagoda, which is also located on the fork in the road, but it is very close, and it can be seen on the road, which is a typical Theravada Buddhist Shwedagon Pagoda, Burmese style, sixteen small pagodas surround the central Shwedagon Pagoda, which looks very magnificent against the blue sky. Buy a ticket at the ticket office at the door, the ticket price is five yuan, go around the tower around the ecliptic, look at it, and feel not very good. However, before leaving, I folded my hands and bowed.

At the end of the trip, the zodiac asked the driver to drop him off at the hotel where he was staying. The driver looked at a loss, but he didn't ask him for more. It is estimated that the driver will not suffer a loss, but he will earn less.