Chapter 2: Gambling Stones
Since you have decided to gamble on stones, you must first find a workshop for cutting stones, and you don't have the ability to cut stones.
Because he had been thinking about things in his heart, Bu Chengqi lowered his head and arrived in a trance to a remote alley with few people.
When I came to my senses, I looked up and realized that I didn't know where I had been.
Just as Buchengqi turned around to leave the alley, Yu Guang just swept a somewhat familiar object.
A swarthy barrel of the thickness of a man was about the height of an adult's chest.
Isn't this the kind of big grinder used to cut stones?
At present, there are a variety of stone cutting methods among the people, the most important of which are these three, the wire cutting method, the knife cutting method and the grinding method.
The wire cutting method mainly uses the silk produced by the golden-tailed silkworm as a saw blade, pulling the silk back and forth to cut the stone, and slowly the material can be cut into two complete pieces.
This cutting method is often used for fine stone cutting, with high controllability, and the silk cutting line is cut quickly or slowly, so as to overcome rigidity with softness, and the time consumption is medium.
The knife cutting method mainly uses the roller knife designed by the skillful craftsman, the masonry cutter or the foot pedal or the hand pushes the hub handle, the roller knife rotates quickly, and the blade rotates to cut the stone.
This method of cutting stones takes the shortest time, and has the feeling of opening and closing, but the technique is slightly rough.
It is rumored that some secret power cultivators can use their bare hands to cut through stones, which is not amazing.
The camel grinding method is also a grinding tool that needs to be designed by a skilled craftsman.
Grinding machines are divided into large grinding machines and small grinding machines.
A large grinder, which is a slightly larger barrel-shaped container.
After putting the stone into the container, a small round stone the size of a finger's belly is put into the barrel, and the masonry cutter pushes the hub handle on the outside, driving the barrel to rotate and rub, and slowly fade the outer shell of the stone.
However, because the size of the large grinder is limited after all, some huge stones cannot be put into the large grinder.
So the small grinder came into being.
The small grinder has only a fist-sized round stone, and the other end of the round stone is connected to a pivot handle, through which the stonecutter rotates the round stone to polish the huge stone, and finally gradually grinds away the skin.
The grinding machine is the most time-consuming method of cutting stones, but it can better preserve the original appearance of the Emerald.
The large grinder found in the stepper was in a slightly dilapidated store.
The already narrow faΓ§ade is also equipped with large grinders, leaving only a narrow road that can only accommodate one person, and there is not even a plaque in the store.
Most of these small shops without plaques are run by individuals, and there are countless in the city.
Bu Chengqi thought to himself, he had to cut stones anyway, and he could save a few emerald crystals by finding a small shop, so he walked in without much hesitation.
After walking in, I found that the store was not as small as I imagined, and the inside was quite spacious.
The stepper looked around and found that there were all the tools needed to cut stones, but they were placed in an unusually messy manner, and even a little unsightly.
A large man with a naked body was facing away from the step, and his shoulders were unusually broad and strong.
The hands are pulling back and forth from side to side, and it seems that they are cutting stones with the wire cutting method, and they seem to be completely ignorant of the step of the stepping device.
Seeing that Dahan was so engaged, Bu Chengqi didn't bother, just stood quietly behind and observed carefully, thinking that it was just a good opportunity to see Dahan's level.
It doesn't matter if you look at it, in an instant, you will know that you have met an expert.
Because of the talent of never forgetting and revisiting details, the observation of details is beyond ordinary people.
The big man's whole body was firmly nailed to the ground like an iron pier, and only his hands pulled left and right at an extremely steady rhythm.
is so fast, and the whole body is surprisingly stable, it can only be said that this person's attainment in cutting stones has long been integrated into the bloodline.
Before the step machine could come to its senses, the step machine heard a bang, which was the sound of the cut line and stone made of silk popping up at the moment it was completed.
"A piece of jade that is not in the grade, this stone is probably cut down. The big man said as he picked up the cut stone and glanced at it, his voice low and deep.
Then he didn't turn around and continued, "Cut stones?"
The room was empty, and it was clear that this sentence was said by Bu Chengqi.
Buchengqi is a sensible child, but he usually picks at the door a little, of course, it's just......
Seeing the exquisite skill of Dahan in cutting stones, I couldn't help but feel a little admiration.
So he hugged his fist forward and said respectfully: "This master, there are a few stones under the city that I want to cut, I don't know how much the master will cut the stones here?"
At the same time, he muttered in his heart: "Don't be too expensive......"
Dahan first sorted out the work in his hand, then turned around and said heartily: "Let's look at the stone first." β
What caught the eye of the step master was a stout bearded man.
In great contrast to the figure, there are easy-going eyebrows and eyes, and there is a slight kind smile on the face.
Therefore, the man feels very approachable to the stepper.
Buchengqi hurriedly took out three egg-sized stones: "Oh, it's all here." β
Then I was afraid that the big man would think that the stones were small and few, and added: "I am a small business, usually a small miner, where did I dare to gamble on the stones in the past, this is not to catch up with the urgent use of Cuijing, try your luck." β
Then he was afraid that the big man would ask for a price and added: "Give a real price." β
Unconsciously, Buchengqi put away the contempt for wanting to pick up a bargain in this small shop at the beginning.
Dahan didn't have any dissatisfaction, but picked up the stone and checked it first.
Then he picked up a transparent stone lamp on the stone table next to him and looked at them one by one: "The stone is not bad, sell it to the rough stone recycling shop, how much does it cost?"
"Only a hundred low-level emerald ...... came out"
Dahan seemed stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Are these shops all thinking about robbing now?"
Bu Chengqi spread out and said, "The familiar steward happened to be absent, and he was replaced by a fierce and evil person, no, forcing me to gamble." β
"It's okay to gamble, not to mention the quality. β
Then he continued: "Each piece of rough stone originally collected ten low-grade emerald crystals for you, and three pieces for twenty-five low-grade emerald crystals for you, how about it?"
When I heard the price, it was really fair, and it was a lot cheaper than those big shops.
However, the stepper, who was accustomed to bargaining, still said: "I am a small miner, and it has already cost a fortune to mine in the mining area. β
"Gambling stones is still an uncertain deal, and it may be lost all at once, so you can give it cheaper. β
......
After some haggling, the price was finally set at twenty low-grade emeralds.
After talking, Dahan walked up to the roller knife and picked a piece of rough stone and stuck it on the card slot.
Then hold the pivot handle at the other end of the roller cutter with one hand, and I don't see how the big man makes force, the hub handle rotates along a circular trajectory, and then, the roller cutter also rotates rapidly.
All I heard was the sound of clanging, and then a string of sparks splashed.
After a while, the rough stone was all in two.
Because the cut rough stone was too hot, it was thrown into the basin of water prepared in advance by the big man, and with a bang, a white gas rose.
The ups and downs were at this moment, and the first time the step machine gambled on the stone, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Buchengqi carefully picked up two pieces of cut stone, the stone was still a little warm, and what caught the eye was a faint bean green, in which the spirit patterns were arranged regularly like beans.
The spirit pattern turned out to be the spirit pattern!
This is the embodiment of the value of the Emerald!
Because, the spirit pattern represents the product!
Even if the lowest-level bean seed is a product, the value will exceed the imagination of the stepper, and perhaps only this piece can make up for the remaining assessment costs of the stepper.
Of course, it's just maybe......
In the past five years as a miner in Buchengqi, most of the ores in his hands are non-quality bean seeds, that is to say, there are no spirit patterns.
Only two years ago, the steward of the Ying Stone Pavilion quietly revealed once that there was a piece of rough stone provided by the step instrument that had been opened out of the jade jade, which was also the reason why the steward of the king took good care of him.
"Won't it?"
"Did you really take the legendary shit luck?"
"Green, wood-attributed bean seed Emerald?"
It's unbelievable, the first time I gambled on the stone, I gambled on the Fei Lingcui, and I couldn't help but be a little in a trance, could I be the one favored by God?
However, before he could laugh, a soft pop interrupted his thoughts.