I am Qin Sheng, now is the turn of the century in 2000, I just turned 30 years old in Yunnan Ruili gambling stone trading market laid a world, I have been interested in gambling stones since childhood, and naturally inherited the mantle of the old father Qin Shihai when I grew up, it can be said that the blue is better than the blue.

The father was alone in the first half of his life, and he finally had hope of marrying a wife and having children in his thirties, and his wife died of an accident the next year, two years ago, he just passed his 60th birthday and suffered from sudden death from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and when he was sent to the hospital, he was out of breath. He was a single father for half his life, working day and night, and left me only a "work notebook", which described in detail the lifelong knowledge taught to him by Chen Yaohua, a gambling stone expert, and also left me with the mystery of Hongfei.

In the first two years of unrest in Myanmar and frequent incidents of "organ resale", I was not able to go to the Hpakant mine to see the big scene of workers collecting and transporting rough stones, and I felt regretful in my heart, so I got an opportunity in the first half of this year and decided to go to Myanmar with my friends.

The road is bumpy and difficult, the car is bumpy, my friend Qi Pengyu and I glanced at each other, both looked embarrassed, the green mountains and fields below the slope seem to be close at hand, and there are low houses where the miners live in the jagged and scattered in between, it is now the beginning of May, there is still some time before the rainy season begins, and then the entire mining area will stop working, and it will be able to resume work after September.

"Hey, can you take a leave of absence over there?" I turned my head to look at Qi Pengyu, who was sitting in the back seat, and asked.

"Of course, I'm also half a boss, and I just want to see the customs of this place this time." Qi Pengyu blinked and smiled slyly.

"You talk less." I glanced at the driver in the driver's seat and was relieved to see that he looked as usual.

The driver is a taciturn Burmese who runs business on the China-Myanmar border all year round and can speak a few words of commonly used Chinese, "Two bosses, this trip is to Taobaobei, right?"

"Sort of, see if there are any good things, and take them if you have them." I looked at the driver with a smile, the Burmese man with a fleshy face, a huge body crammed into a small seat, how uncoordinated it looked, but he spoke slowly and unhurriedly.

The driver also laughed twice and said, "Then I wish the two bosses a lot of fortune first."

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when I entered the mining area, and I and Qi Pengyu walked only half a kilometer before we saw the first mine, the workers were busy transporting rough stones, Ruili's jewelry merchants often bought goods from northern Myanmar, this is the mining area that Qin Shihai had long-term cooperation with before his death, the person in charge is Chinese, called He Da, and when he saw me, he smiled, "You are Shihai's son?" Oops, the bearing is really different from ordinary people. ”

"Hello Uncle Da, my friends and I came over to play around, and I will trouble you to lead the way today." I said politely.

"No problem, no problem, there are a lot of people here, and you guys are also smart." He Da walked in front with his hands behind his back, and pointed to the abandoned mine pit a hundred meters away, which was crowded with people of different colors and clothes, "See? The ownerless mines, they all come from all over the world to pick up jade ore, waiting for the trucks to dump the waste rock every day, these people have no sense of morality, and they go fast wave after wave. ”

People who take risks to mine are basically to get rich overnight, as long as they find the priceless jade, the previous bitter and painful history of blood and tears is not enough to mention, but more people can't find the stone that can change their fate in their lives, and finally regret the long end, and the next generation will follow, just like that, generations can not get rid of the curse of mineral jade hanging over the head of the family.

"The jadeite skin of Hpakant is thin and delicate, and the rough stones are embedded in cemented rock formations, which are extremely hard and difficult to excavate." He Da took out a thumb-sized piece of jadeite from his pocket and showed it to the two of us, "You should know better than me, Ling Zun received a lot of top-quality jadeite back then, and some people have never seen it in their lives." ”

I didn't answer, and my mind jumped out of the whole wall of jade in the house, and I remember that the one that my father loved the most was a red jade.

"Uncle Da, have you ever seen a red jadeite?"

"Red?" He Da replied, "Of course I've seen it, mid-to-low-grade red fei is very common on the market, earthy brown, yellow-red, everywhere." ”

"No, I mean blood-red."

He Da stopped when he heard this, his body paused, and he looked at me with a surprised expression, "Ice Seed Red Fei? What, you've seen it?"

Qi Pengyu nodded vigorously before I spoke, and said, "My brother's house has a big piece, it's called a beautiful one!"