Chapter 5 Stone Gambling
At 6:30 in the morning, the bus stopped at the bus stop in Tengchong County.
After getting off the bus, Hu Chunxiang stretched and said a little depressedly: "I'm really tired. I know I'm going to take the bus for so long, so I won't be traveling to Tengchong."
Zhang Jiancheng looked at Hu Chunxiang's stretching appearance and was stunned for a moment. He felt that the other person had a unique charm of a mature young woman. He couldn't help but secretly glance at him, then looked at Guo Aijia, and compared him silently. Although Guo Aijia was very youthful and beautiful, young women like Hu Chunxiang could easily fascinate lustful adult men.
"Aunt Hu, when you see beautiful and affordable jade jewelry, you will feel that it is worth it to come to Tengchong. At that time, you will only complain about why you are not a rich woman."
Professor Fang smiled and said, "What Jiancheng said makes sense. The price of jade in Tengchong is far lower than that of Yinhai. When you are lucky, you can buy jade bracelets worth 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in Yinhai. Here you can only buy three or four thousand yuan."
"No way?" Hu Chunxiang said in surprise.
"Buying jade depends on fate!" Professor Fang smiled slightly, "Let's go, I'll take you to find a hotel to stay. After breakfast, everyone will have some sleep and come out to have an activity in the afternoon."
Professor Fang and Teacher Qin, two elderly people, who are over 110 years old, have not looked very bad after a night of hard work on the boat and their faces are not very bad, which has a lot to do with their usual attention to exercise.
There are several shops operating in the jade business near the hotel that Professor Fang found. Before entering the hotel, Professor Fang smiled and said, "I know a few bosses who run the jade business here. In the afternoon, I will take everyone around."
After settling down, we had breakfast together.
Although Zhang Jiancheng slept on the bus for a long time last night, he still went to bed and took a nap. After more than an hour of sleep, he woke up and no longer felt sleepy.
Zhang Jiancheng did not wake up his mother, so he secretly walked out of the guest room and saw Guo Aijia who had just come out of the guest room at the door.
"Ai Jia, are you awake too?" Zhang Jiancheng greeted with a smile.
"Yes!" Guo Aijia said, "I left a note for my mother and let's go around nearby."
"Okay. Wait for me for a while, and I will leave a note for my mother." Zhang Jiancheng looked at the electronic watch on his hand, "It's almost nine o'clock, we'll go out to play for an hour and a half, and we'll rush back before 10:30..."
"Okay, that's the decision!"
Zhang Jiancheng took out the key, opened the door of the guest room, wrote a note, posted it behind the door, and followed Guo Aijia out of the hotel with his backpack and went shopping nearby.
At this time, Zhang Jiancheng was carrying 2,380 yuan, which were the New Year's money and pocket money he had saved since he was a child.
When he entered a store that operates jade jewelry, Guo Aijia was a little dazzled and exclaimed: "The jade is so beautiful!"
A young woman in her thirties smiled and said to Guo Aijia: "Miss, what kind of jade jewelry do you like? You can try it on!"
"No, no, I'll take a look!" Guo Aijia hurriedly refused.
Zhang Jiancheng glanced and found that most of the jewelry in this jade jewelry store was B-quality, and the quantity of A-quality products was very limited. He took Guo Aijia's little hand and said, "Let's go around first..."
After walking out of the store, Zhang Jiancheng found that Guo Aijia blushed. At this time, he noticed that he was holding the other party's hand. He smiled awkwardly, quickly let go of his hand and explained: "Most of the jade you looked at just now are fake."
"What, is there any difference between authenticity and falseness in jade?"
"Yes!" Zhang Jiancheng nodded and explained: "Jewelers divide jade into A-grade, B-grade and C-grade. A-grade jade is pure natural jade, which is only carved and polished without any artificial chemical treatment; b-grade jade means that during the process of jade processing, some unscrupulous merchants make the jade look good through pickling, bleaching and glue filling; c-grade jade means that the color of jade is changed through artificial dyeing... Simply put, b-grade and c-grade jade has no collection value at all. Illegal vendors like to sell b-grade and c-grade goods as a-grade goods..."
"Wow, jade has so much knowledge!" Guo Aijia exclaimed, thinking that Zhang Jiancheng is very powerful.
Zhang Jiancheng smiled faintly and said, "Actually, I don't know much. I just read a few books, and Grandpa Fang also told me about jade. We walked around and waited for the afternoon, and went with Grandpa Fang and the others to see if we could buy some cheaper jade."
After visiting several stores, an hour passed. Zhang Jiancheng and Guo Aijia came to a store selling jade wool materials.
There were many customers in the shop, but few people actually bought it. As soon as they entered this shop, Zhang Jiancheng was flashed by a dazzling green light. He looked at the green light and saw a piece of scraps of light, but the light quickly disappeared.
"Is there a high-quality jade in that stone?" Zhang Jiancheng suddenly had this idea in his mind. After pondering for a moment, he decided to buy the scraps.
Zhang Jiancheng did not rush to discuss with the store owner about buying scraps, but instead came to the customers and listened to their comments on a few pieces of jadeite wool that had opened the window.
"Boss Zhou, just give me a price. I'll sell this piece of 1.3 million yuan!" The middle-aged man in Cantonese Mandarin said to the shop owner at a piece of jade wool that had opened the window.
"Boss Huang, I said that this piece of wool is less than 1.5 million yuan, and I won't sell it." The store owner smiled and said. He knew that his jade wool is good and he would definitely be able to sell it at this price, so he insisted on the bottom line.
The middle-aged man named Huang stared at the jade hair material and looked at it for a few times, shook his head, not planning to pay for it.
Zhang Jiancheng came to the store owner and smiled and said, "Boss Zhou, you have a lot of goods here."
"Yes." Boss Zhou responded, looked at Zhang Jiancheng, and smiled: "Little brother, you're very handsome."
"Follow your home to Tengchong to play." Zhang Jiancheng pointed to the scraps in the corner and asked, "Boss Zhou, how do you sell these stones?"
"If you like it, take a stone and play with it, treat it as I gave it to you." Boss Zhou said generously, and those scraps cannot be sold for money.
"That won't work. You open the door to do business."
Zhang Jiancheng walked to that corner and picked up two stones that were more than twice as big as his fist. Both stones had large cuts, which were cut from the whole piece of material. One of the stones had yellow outer skin, and a dozen square centimeters of bean jade could be seen on the cut. The other stone had a reddish-brown outer skin, and there was no jade at all on the cut. There was only white crystal stone, which was this stone that had no expression at all, which attracted Zhang Jiancheng.
"Boss Zhou, I want to buy these two stones."
Boss Zhou glanced at him and said, "Little brother, I won't lie to you. These two stones are worthless at all. When I have time, I will throw them away and give them to you for free."
Zhang Jiancheng put down the two stones in his hand, took out 88 yuan from his wallet, and said with a smile: "Boss Zhou, I will buy these two stones with 88 yuan. Although the money is not much, I will make a lucky choice."
"Okay, okay, it's not open yet, so I'll use your 88 yuan to open it." Boss Zhou smiled heartily, and after taking the money, he put it directly in his pocket.
"Boss Zhou, can you borrow your machine and cut it twice?"
Boss Zhou was slightly stunned. The two stones he sold to Zhang Jiancheng just now were placed in the eyes of the jade merchant, and he had no right to put them on the cutting machine and cut them. However, he did not refuse Zhang Jiancheng's request, after all, the other party was his own customer.
"Okay, just cut two pieces... Where do you want to cut? I'll cut it for you myself."
Chapter completed!