Chapter 70: Gambling Jade

The antique street in the county, also known as the collectibles market, is a small street located in the north of the city. Although this small street is not wide, it is quite long and is only two kilometers away. Both sides are covered with antique doors, which are often open.

A big collection is a collection exchange meeting spontaneously organized by collectors in the collection market. It is entertainment. After all, such a big collection is only one day in the week. On this day, collectors from this county and neighboring counties will set up stalls to sell their collections in the market. In the neighboring counties, the big collections are all staggered, and some collectors who make a living by making antiques are all gone one after another.

The big market in Yungu County is scheduled for Monday. Yang Ming is lucky and just happened to catch up with the big market in the collection market today.

In the large collection of collectibles markets, there is no less crowd than in the farmers' markets. In the farmers' markets, people buy and sell daily necessities, and the consumer group is the common people in nearby villages and towns.

The collection of the collection market sells antiques, and the consumer groups come from all over the world, including Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and everywhere, and occasionally there are a few foreigners.

Yang Ming was a little dazzled when he walked into an antique street. On both sides of the street, there were wooden goods, bronze goods, porcelain goods, lacquer goods, jade goods, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, four treasures of the study, and old clothes... All kinds of collections were full of real and fake, some were new and old, which would test the eyes of collectors. If you get a look, some would lose millions, some would get a bargain, and some would make tens of millions of dollars without a profit, and some would make tens of millions of dollars in one hand. This is the charm of collecting, which is similar to gambling.

Countless collectors walked along the streets, hoping to find good things. Yang Ming was also among the crowd, and he mainly looked at jade.

"Yaya, can you tell the authenticity of jade?" When Yang Ming was stunned by the exquisite jade artifacts, he finally knew that he was too simple to think and not everyone could do it for collection. There are so many things in it, real and fake, which is too challenging for people's psychology.

"No, Yaya can only scan objects with life characteristics." Yaya said.

"Then, I want to buy jade, how can I tell whether it is true or false?" Yang Ming said.

"If the master knows the composition of jade, he can buy a 'fertilizer processing machine', which has a material component analysis system." Yaya said.

"How big is the fertilizer processing machine you mentioned?" Yang Ming asked.

"There are any sizes of a toothpick, and the size of a large one is as big as a flashlight." Yaya said.

"The fertilizer processing machine is so small?" Yang Ming said in surprise.

"Of course, the fertilizer processing machine just releases microwaves and shakes the ore and microorganisms into inorganic fertilizers and organic fertilizers that can be absorbed by crops, and does not require too much volume." Yaya said.

"How many gold coins are there?" Yang Ming asked.

"Due to the amount of functions, the price ranges from 10 to 100 gold coins." Yaya said.

"Buy one with the most complete functions and put it in my pocket later." Yang Ming ordered.

"Okay master." Yaya quickly responded, then opened the sales system to purchase.

Suddenly, Yang Ming felt the bulging in his pocket. He touched it with his hand and felt a cylinder the size of a flashlight. He took it out of his pocket and looked in front of him. He saw that the cylinder was 15 cm long and 4 cm in diameter. It looked like a flashlight. In the middle of the cylinder, there was a long LCD screen showing the state. There were two buttons at one end, one green with the words "On" and the other was red with the words "Off" on it, which was the switch of this machine.

On the other end, there are more buttons, one black with the words "test", which is used to detect the composition of substances. The one facing the black button is a small black bulb; the one blue with the words "fin" is used to decompose inorganic substances. The one facing the blue button is a small blue bulb; the one purple with the words "fermentation" is used to catalyze the fermentation of organic matters. The one facing the purple button is a small purple bulb. These three small bulbs are evenly distributed at the edges of this end, forming a regular triangle between each other.

In addition, there are 10 buttons representing strength, with ten Arabic numerals from 0 to 9 respectively. Next to 0, there is a word "weak" and next to 9, there is a word "strong".

When Yang Ming got this treasure, he pressed the green button and saw that on the LCD screen, it was like a mobile phone was turned on. A ray of light flashed, and then the status was displayed, which was in the on state.

Yang Ming walked to a stall selling jade, took a milky white jade pendant from it, took a fertilizer processing machine, and lit it with a small black bulb. He saw a set of long chemical formulas immediately displayed on the LCD screen.

"It seems that the chemical composition of jade jade is silicate, right? Then this one that is so long is not real..." Yang Ming thought, put down this jade pendant. He still knew the chemical formula of silicate. This jade pendant was obviously artificially synthesized.

Yang Ming checked the jadeware on this jadeware one by one, but he had no choice but to check that although there were many jadeware on this small stall, none of them were real, and they were all long list of chemical formulas.

"I said, young man, what do you want?" The person who looked at the stall was a middle-aged woman with a scarf wrapped around her head. When she saw Yang Ming picking up the jadeware she had spread one by one, she was a little unhappy.

"Sister, do you have real jade here?" Yang Ming asked straightforwardly.

"Aren't this all true?" The middle-aged woman was even more unhappy.

"Sister, we are all old acquaintances. Why are you fooling children? You are all made of materials, but who is real?" A middle-aged man wearing a jacket came up and said.

"I said you are a person who is not moral, whether you are incompetent or not? You are showing you everywhere? You should do whatever you should do..." The middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows and cursed at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man left embarrassedly, and the middle-aged woman said to Yang Ming again: "Do you want it? If you don't want it, don't turn it around, don't stand in front of my stall, I still have to do business..."

Yang Ming shook his head, got up and left, and walked towards another stall. With the tip of his ears, he could still hear the middle-aged woman's curse: "What's the matter? If you don't know, pretend to understand, why are you a rich man?"

"In this world, there are really everyone. They use fakes to deceive people, and they are exposed, and they are scolded for being unethical. They are not fooled. This is another statement..." Yang Ming secretly despised him.

"Hey! Brother, why are you all stones here?" Yang Ming saw that there were big stones on a small stall, and he couldn't help but come up curiously and asked.

"Young brother don't understand it now, right? This is a rough jade, and it is also called wool. They all come from Hotan." The person who was watching the stall was a man in his thirties, with a pair of smiling eyes, which made everyone who saw him think he was laughing. Therefore, the friends in the circle gave him a nickname, Brother Xiao.

"On the other side of Hotan? Is there jade inside?" Yang Ming still knew about Hotan Meiyu.

"This is not sure. Otherwise, why is it called gambling stones? If you are lucky, you might be able to really dig one out." Xiao Ge said.

In fact, these stones are left over from others. Otherwise, they would not have been able to run from the northwest to the antique street in North China. The reason why they were not cut open is that these stones are intact and can be sold for a price due to uncertainty. If they are cut open, they will be more lucky and will be able to touch jade materials the size of fingernails. If they are not lucky, they will be thrown into the trash can.

Modern detection instruments have achieved 60% or 70% accuracy in whether there is jade in the stone. In addition, there are very few stones with jade, so the remaining stones these people have basically all empty stones.

"How did you sell this uncensored jade?" Yang Ming asked.

"No matter how big or small it is, it is not a dilute amount." Brother Xiao stretched out a finger and said.

"Can I choose?" Yang Ming asked.

"Seeing what you said, this is a gambling jade, of course I'll be selected." Brother Xiao smiled.

"Then I'm not polite." Yang Ming smiled and started testing one by one with the 'fertilizer processing machine'. Not to mention, Yang Ming really picked up the leak. After this test, he found five pieces of material.

"I just want these five yuan." Yang Ming handed over five thousand yuan.

"Little brother, do you want to cut it open?" Brother Xiao looked at Yang Ming holding a flashlight and shining it there, and then selected five pieces. It felt really mysterious. Can you pick it out like this?

"Can you still cut the stone here?" Yang Ming asked in surprise.

"Of course, we are selling stones here, and we have one-stop service for stone cutting..." Brother Xiao pointed to the small cutting machine that was placed aside.

"Can you process it?" Yang Ming asked.

"That won't work..." Brother Xiao smiled embarrassedly.

"Do you want me to cut the stones, will you charge the processing fee?" Yang Ming asked again.

"Of course I won't charge this anymore, the processing fee is calculated as the price." Brother Xiao said.

"Since that's the case, then just cut it..." Yang Ming nodded.

So Brother Xiao started his car, and then the engine drove the motor on the car, and the motor drove the cutting machine again. A buzzing sound rang out, and the cutting machine quickly rotated. Cutting stones was a new thing. Many collectors around him surrounded him and looked at him curiously.

"Swish..." A sharp friction sound rang out, and the first stone was slowly cut open by one corner at a time. Suddenly, a white jade with a nail-sized luster appeared in the cut. The jade was warm and delicate, just like the oil of a sheep.

"Wow..." This discovery immediately made the onlookers exclaim.

"Little brother, I'm lucky. There is jade inside, or mutton fat jade..." Brother Xiao looked at it and then cut it more carefully and polished it slowly. After polishing all the stones wrapped in the outer skin, everyone collectively lost their voice. This was actually a piece of jade material the size of an adult fist.

Brother Xiao’s eyes were red. I don’t know if it was jealous or excited. He handed it to Yang Ming with a heavy jade material and patted Yang Ming’s shoulder hard: “Little brother, you sent it. This piece of jade is worth at least one million. This is the top Hotan mutton fat jade.”

"Haha," Yang Ming just smiled. The million-dollar fund really couldn't make him excited. "Brother is good at craftsmanship, let's continue to open..." I found a black plastic bag from somewhere and put the jade in it.

"Okay!" Brother Xiao nodded, and then went to cut jade again.

Slowly, all four pieces of jade were cut open, and the people around him almost forgot to breathe. They were jealous, extremely jealous, jealous, endless jealousy, five pieces of fist-sized Hotan mutton fat jade were all put into Yang Ming's waist bag, and the small jade material was even pulled out about ten pieces.

Brother Xiao's hands were trembling, and he said in a slight cry or laughter: "Little brother, I'll take care of my brother's business next time." The scattered jade materials were nothing, but the five top-quality jades with a minimum value of 5 million made him jealous. These five jades were originally his, but he sold them for 5,000 yuan. He was now feeling heartbroken.

"Haha, it must be certain. My brother will enter Xinshi in the future. Remember to notify my brother, what is the phone number?" Yang Ming took out his cell phone.

Brother Xiao said a number. After Yang Ming dialed, he turned around and crawled out of the crowd with his jade. He got into the crowd in just a few seconds and disappeared. Every man was innocent and was guilty of possessing a treasure. Now Yang Ming has five jade pieces that can be made into a jade in his arms. It would be troublesome to be targeted by someone. It would be better to disappear from everyone's sight as soon as possible.

"If these five pieces of jadeites are made of jade pendants, they can make almost thirty, and even more than a dozen fragmented jades can be made. I don't know where to process jade in the county?" Yang Ming murmured in his heart, holding the heavy jade.

Finally, after thinking about it, she still asked Mrs. Liu to help her advise after she went back, whether to ask for jade bi, jade pendant, jade pendant or something. She thought it was simple at the beginning, but there were more in it... Yang Ming, who had basically achieved his goal, immediately left the collection market and met Lao Yang who was waiting outside, then quickly left the county town and went home.

Yang Ming had just left, and four or five people ran out of the antique street. He looked around and couldn't help but sigh. It's such a pity that this man ran too fast, and he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

When we got home, it was just 11 o'clock. On the roof, a pair of pigeons were jumping on it. The little pigeons were almost growing, and the old pigeons were also preparing to hatch a second nest, holding grass, building a new nest, and chasing eggs, without delaying at all.

In the yard, the puppies were lazily sleeping under the trees, at the corners of the walls, under the roots of the fences, two or three chicks were digging food under the roots of the fences, and their big claws were digging out large pits under the roots of the fences.

In this harmonious atmosphere, Wei Qingqing and Liu Nannan were picking chestnuts under the chestnut tree together. The chestnuts were almost tipped in a big bumper basket at their feet. Wangcai and his wife, with their front paws, sniffing hard in the bumper basket with their little noses.

"You're back? Have you bought it?" Wei Qingqing saw the transport truck parked outside the door and came up to meet her.

"I bought it, but it's not a jade pendant, but a jade material. I have to process it. I'm not familiar with the county. I don't know where to process it or what it is. I just brought the jade material back and asked Mrs. Liu to give me some advice first, and then we will take it for processing." Yang Ming got out of the car and handed Wei Qingqing the black plastic bag directly, then went into the house to drink water. It was already this morning, and he didn't drink a sip of water, and his throat was dry and hot.

"What?" Liu Nannan also came up curiously.

Wei Qingqing opened the plastic bag and the two of them came up to watch it. They saw five pieces of fist-sized mutton fat jade lying quietly in the bag, with sporadic gravel stubble on it. The scattered jade pale in comparison and was subconsciously ignored by the two women.

"Is this... jade? It seems to be of good quality..." Liu Nannan was a little obsessed with his eyes lingering on the five beautiful jades.

By the way, Chinese people have a special plot for jade. What kind of gentleman is like jade and beauties are like jade, which can reflect people's praise for jade.

"So beautiful..." Wei Qingqing whispered softly, and was also fascinated.

At this time, Yang Ming came out with a big peach and ate it while saying, "I don't know where there is jade processing in the county. Why don't we go back to the city to find a jewelry store, which usually has jade processing in jewelry stores."

"Processing jade?" Liu Nannan muttered softly, and his eyes suddenly lit up and he said loudly: "I know where there is it, it is in our Liujia Village. My Grandpa Liu is a man who is engaged in jade processing. His grandson also opened a house in the county to process jade. He has been working for decades of old skills."

"Is that right?" Yang Ming smiled, "that's thankful to Nannan. If your Grandpa Liu's craftsmanship is so good, I will give you a jade pendant when it is done."

The value of jade is half in craftsmanship and half in materials. A good craftsman can turn the value of a piece of jade into several pieces, or even become a priceless treasure.

"No, no, I would like to remind you first, Grandpa Liu's asking price is very expensive... but the craftsmanship is definitely the best. When I was a child, Grandpa Liu used stones to carve some small animals for us, just like living." Liu Nannan blushed a little.

"Don't worry about jade... You forgot to bring your cell phone when you left in the morning. Not long after you left, my mother called me and said that it was the thing we mentioned yesterday. They considered it and thought it was OK, so they asked if we were serious." Wei Qingqing came back from her obsession with jade and said.

"What's the matter?" Yang Ming was a little puzzled.

"Why are you like this? You forgot about the wedding you mentioned yesterday?" Wei Qingqing was a little dissatisfied.

"Oh! Are you talking about the wedding in the evening? What did mom say?" Yang Ming suddenly remembered.
To be continued...