The Book of Appreciation

When his mother woke up, Wu Di was still circling the stone. He took a magnifying glass and looked at it inch by inch several times, but couldn't find any cracks from all sides, and couldn't help feeling extremely distressed.Keeping good things but not being able to get a glimpse of the real face is also a kind of suffering in itself.

Mom asked suspiciously, "

"This kid, you've been looking at this thing? Didn't you take a nap?"

"Hehe, I don't understand. This is obviously a thing from the Ming Dynasty, but who is so boring, putting such a big stone for so many years?"

"You've only been studying for a few days? You spend money recklessly. I don't think any of the three brothers is good. There may be something rotten hidden here."

Wu Di couldn't help secretly praising her mother's amazing intuition, how did she know there was something hidden here?But it's not a bad thing, it's a shocking good thing!

Wu Di was about to wrap things in sheets when his mother stopped him.His mother asked him to pick up the stone, take the sheet away, and throw it into the trash can, and then took an old sheet from the cabinet, and motioned Wu Di to use it.

Wu Di smiled wryly and turned the jade back into the room. Although he couldn’t feel the exact weight after a few dozen catties, Wu Di felt that this thing was definitely not 38 kilograms. Bar.

At night, my father and my sister studied the big guy for a while, but they couldn't say anything good, so no one cared about it.Wu Di secretly confessed to his mother that no one will show this thing to anyone who asks for it, and no one will give it to anyone who asks for it.Mom got nervous all of a sudden:

"You said, this is a good thing?"

"It's weird anyway, wait until I bring it back to the capital."

After a while, guests came to the house, wave after wave, all of whom were neighbors from the old factory, and a few of my mother's poker friends.Several aunties sat down and began to ask about Wu Di's situation in the capital, which was more careful than the police who checked the household registration.After a while, Wu Di couldn't stand it any longer, and fled with the phone in hand, looking for Pang Kuan and Zhu Ziming to press the road.

The next day, I went back to my hometown with my mother and sister, worshiped the graves of my grandparents and grandparents, and went to my uncle's house again. Wu Di had finished his homework.

On Wednesday, Wu Di took Wu Dan to visit the jade market.

Dushan Jade is the origin of Dushan Jade, which is known as the four famous jades in China. Its hardness is almost comparable to that of jadeite, so it is called "Jade Capital of Jade".Dushan jade is the best in color, high transparency, fine texture and no impurities or cracks.Among them, hibiscus stone, permeable white jade and green jade are of higher value.In addition, because of the variety of colors, different colors of jade blocks are often used to imitate nature to make pretty jade carvings.

There are two main jade streets in Yudu, the one under Wollongang is the mixed one, and the Qiyi Road where the Yudu Jade Factory is located also has a market with a slightly higher grade.

Wu Di first visited Wollongong.Wollongong was built in the middle of the mountain, and he came here when he was in elementary school on a spring outing. A few years ago, he fought with Fancheng for that cottage.

The street opposite the gate of Wollongong is full of jade shops, and there are many agate crystals.But Wu Di saw that it was burnt or dyed. If the natural agate was so pure, how much would it cost?This pair of bracelets is only 50 yuan, and if it is not glass, it is considered conscientious.

Along the way, jadeite, topaz, Afghan jade, Russian jade, white jade, Xiuyu... are simply a hodgepodge of all kinds of jade, the most important of which is of course Dushan jade.

Duyu ornaments are mainly divided into two types.Brown, green, white and other mixed-color landscapes, flower-and-bird themes, and black and white animal stone carvings are not expensive, and the price is 3000 yuan.

The colors of bracelets and pendants are mainly mixed colors, occasionally green, and the prices are relatively high, but there are few things that cost thousands.The base of jade is relatively dry, the workmanship is rough, and the traces left by waxing are obvious.

After shopping around, Wu Di didn't like any of them, but Wu Dan bought a few small pendants, including Buddha and Guanyin, and the most expensive one didn't exceed fifty.

Wu Di shook his head, there may be good things in these stores, but most people can't see them.Wu Di didn't plan to use heavenly scriptures in these places, and he didn't trust his own eyesight, so he just walked around and felt the prosperity of the market.

Yudu Jade Ware Factory is in a good mood again. Several exhibition halls are dominated by jadeite, mainly Dushan jade is suitable for decoration, and the jadeite jewelry placed in the glass counter is attractive.Wu Di took a fancy to a pair of violet bracelets, which were opaque but pink and purple all over, and the discount was only more than 3000 yuan.Thinking about the few stones I had unearthed in the capital, I shook my head and put them down again. If this is really a piece of shit, wouldn't this kind of full-color bracelet cost hundreds of thousands?

Wu Di also saw a Laughing Buddha made of colorless glass, worth 18 yuan, with a few pieces of white cotton floating inside.This is a block of ice, not even high ice, it seems that this is all to fool those tourists who come here for the name.

Going to the pyrography factory, Wu Di decided to buy a few packs of pyrography chopsticks to replace the godmother's chopsticks.The Pyrography Factory also has a jade counter, but the standard is slightly lower than that of the Jade Factory.When Wu Di was lamenting that he didn't have any good things, a middle-aged man who looked like an idler stopped him, opened his collar, and showed Wu Di how his jade was.

It is a transparent Guanyin, with a clear water base, and more than a dozen green filaments with a length of one millimeter are evenly distributed on it, which is very beautiful.Wu Di asked how much he paid for it, and the man replied:

"I bought a stone for 500 million, and it became such a thing. How much do you think this thing is worth?"

Wu Di noticed that the pendant was thinner than normal, and most of it was unwrapped from the skin-green stone.Because it is thin, it is transparent, and even the seed water has been upgraded to a level.After the man left, the waiter said he was the director of the factory.This factory manager is unreliable, so don't look at it and change places.

Next to it is the big world of jade carving, necklaces, bracelets, Buddhist beads, bracelets, pendants, and all kinds of gadgets are piled up on the counter, which makes Wu Di not interested in looking at them. Some of them are pure glass. On the sale of shovels (in local dialect, shovels are iron shovels for digging the ground).

After turning around, Wu Di found a good thing, agate chess.The imitation mahogany box opens to a gilded chessboard. The red agate chess pieces look very crystal clear and are not expensive. A pair costs 200 yuan, which is good as a small gift.I bought a few sets and thought of Go again. Is it better to use this thing than those plastic ones?

I asked, and it really does.The shopkeeper took out several bags for Wu Di to choose, and Wu Di chose two pairs and asked:

"Boss, is there anything better?"

The boss smiled Mimi, looking at Wu Di like a big gray wolf seeing the beaming,

"Yes, there is another pair of natural agate, but the price is old."

"Hey, so these are not natural agate? Could it be glass?"

"Brother, you are a sensible person. How can you buy anything real for a few hundred dollars? But this is definitely natural agate, which is burnt."

Agate is a subspecies of chalcedony, with a loose structure and a large number of micropores inside. This structure determines certain properties of agate, such as micro-transparency, good toughness, and good penetration, etc. Color processing creates conditions.

There are also some agates that have been heated, but they are still natural and will not fade because no other non-natural ingredients are added in the identification.The boss is obviously playing the trick of avoiding the important and taking the light.

"Then how much is your natural pair?"

"Little brother, take a look at the goods first."

The boss took out a pair of chess pieces from under the counter, and Wu Di held them in his hands and watched them carefully.Chess pieces are full, round and shiny.The transparency is relatively poor, especially Baizi, and the sundries in it can be vaguely seen.Wu Di grabbed a handful to try the feel, and then put it down again. He felt that this thing was still deceiving.

He pushed the chess box to the boss, the boss smiled, grabbed a handful of chess pieces and let them fall into the chess box one by one, and said with a smile:

"Good stuff, little brother don't look at it anymore?"

"I can't see it, let's forget it."

Good thing you can play falling objects?Wu Di turned his head to look at other gadgets, suddenly he felt something strange from the corner of his eye, patina?It seems that there is a sunspot with patina?He pretended not to care and asked:

"Then how much is the boss going to sell for this set of Go?"

"One hundred thousand, this is the real natural agate from Fuxin."

"Hehe, even natural ones are not so expensive. One thousand."

"Little brother, buy it if you are not sincere, and give me another price. If it suits me, I will bring you a pair."

"Those two pairs were only 900 yuan, but this one is [-] yuan, which is already very high."

"If the price is not right, I can't even come."

"They're all from Yudu. They say that it's worth one thousand and two. If it works, I'll pay and leave. If it doesn't work, I'll take these two pictures."

Wu Di also switched to Yudu dialect.

"Let's not talk about it, three pictures and three thousand, what do you think?"

"Two thousand and four, I'll take whatever I can."

"Two thousand and eight, one point is not a lot!"

"Two thousand and six, count the money. Find me a strong bag."

The boss poured out the chess pieces, put them into two bags, and said:

"Boxes are not for sale."

Wu Di smiled, originally he wanted a big plastic bag, but the boss was clever and saved a few dollars.He didn't care about it either, the two plastic rattan boxes couldn't be used in the first place, and the packaging of this gift is a skill.

Wu Di roughly counted it, and found a few chess pieces that seemed to be coated with pulp. He was afraid that the boss would find out, so he hurriedly paid the money and left.

I put the things in the car, went shopping for a while, found a store, bought a few emerald pendants worth tens of dollars, and prepared to give them to Li Qinglong and the others when I returned to the capital.Then I took Wu Dan and returned with a full reward.