Huaxia Supreme Patron Saint

"You mean, let us take a look with you?" Long Ao asked.

"Yes." Wu Xuan said.

"Okay, let's go together. I've heard my dad talk about stone gambling before, but I haven't seen it before. This time, I just saw it." Xing Hu said happily.

Zhu Zihong also looked eager to try. Zhu Zihong had also heard of stone gambling, so he also wanted to experience it.

The site of the rough jadeite auction was arranged like an indoor ecological park. In the huge exhibition hall of hundreds of square meters, six rough jadeite stones of various sizes worth 700 yuan were placed in an orderly manner.

These raw jade stones are as big as a wheel, and the smallest ones are only the size of a fist. They are divided into two categories in terms of quality. On the left side of the exhibition hall, which occupies almost three quarters of the entire hall, there are only more than 100 rough jade stones placed in some On the shelf that was erected temporarily, it was placed very sparsely, and some flower baskets and bonsai were dotted between the gaps where the original stones were placed.In a very narrow corner on the right side of the exhibition hall, there are 600 yuan of jade rough stones. There is no difference between the freshly mined stones in the quarry inside.

The rough stones placed on the shelf are all in good condition on the outside, and the skin has been wiped, the skylight has been opened, and some have even been cut with a knife. Most of them have already revealed a pleasant green color.Of course... the green mentioned here does not mean emeralds, but the mottled colors mixed in the stone, but the hope that the stones with this performance will be able to produce emeralds is greatly increased, such as these... are It's a half-gamble.

In order to gamble on stones, everyone has already acquired a little knowledge of betting on stones in the dormitory. I know that rough jadeite merchants generally do not gamble on stones. Most of them just buy rough jadeite from Myanmar and transport them back to the mainland. , Then call all major jewelers, or private stone gamblers to hold auctions like this, and sell the stones directly.As for whether there is emerald in the stone, they don't care, what they earn is the price difference.

However, generally experienced jadeite rough merchants will first conduct this preliminary analysis on some jadeite roughs with better performance before auctioning them.The so-called initial solution is to simply rub a little skin on the stone, open a skylight, or cut a thin knife.

The same piece of rough jadeite, if it is sold in its entirety, may have a base price of 50 million at most. At that time, the starting price of this rough stone would have to rise to at least 500 million.

This up and down, but at least ten times worse!Even if the rubbing really reveals the jadeite flesh inside, and the quality looks good... then it is not impossible for the starting price of this rough stone to directly rise to 2000 million.

Therefore, although the jadeite rough merchants themselves do not gamble with stones, they often use this method of preliminary understanding to maximize their own interests.Often, as long as a few pieces of good material appear in the initial solution, the cost of the entire batch of rough stones may be fully recovered from these few pieces of material.

Of course... This initial solution also has to bear certain risks. After all, if you wipe out green, the reserve price of this rough stone will skyrocket, but if you can't wipe out anything, it may also make this rough stone plummeted in value.Therefore, the initial interpretation of this rough stone is a difficult job that requires experience and skills, and ordinary people can't do it at all.Otherwise... Wouldn't it be possible for you to be a merchant of rough jadeite?

As soon as Long Ao and the others walked into the rough jadeite auction hall, they immediately looked at everything around them impatiently.Just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

Long Ao also tried to infiltrate his spiritual power into those stones.

Thank goodness, although there is not even a single hair in this rough jadeite, Long Ao is relieved that his spiritual power can indeed penetrate into the rough jadeite.In this way, if he gambled with stones, it would be absolutely sure that he would make a profit without losing money!Although Long Ao didn't care about the money, who would want to lose if he could win.

Xing Hu knew that Zhu Zihong was in contact with stone gambling for the first time, so he accompanied Zhu Zihong, explaining to him some knowledge about stone gambling, as well as some rules and taboos in the stone gambling business.

There are people from more than 50 jewelry companies across the country participating in the jewelry exchange meeting this time. After the exchange meeting, almost all of these people came here to look at the rough jadeite. Stone gambling enthusiasts also ran to join in the fun.So although the auction hall is not big, there are 300 people squeezed into it.

After Zhu Zihong saw these 300 people entered the auction hall, almost without exception, they all crowded to the left half of the place where more than 100 semi-gold rough stones were placed. At least there was no one on the right side of the auction hall. Asked about it, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Why didn't these people go to see the whole gambling material?"

Xing Hu shook his head and said: "Rough emerald stone merchants nowadays are very shrewd. After these rough stones from Burma pass through their hands, almost all stones that have the possibility of producing emeralds should be unraveled for the first time. It is almost impossible for the rest of the gambling materials to be able to solve the jade. Think about it, if you buy 1 yuan of rough stones, you may not be able to solve a piece of jade. How can you gamble! Not to mention the problem of losing money, but how much time and energy would it take to unlock the 1 yuan rough stone! Therefore, although the full-blown wool is much cheaper than the half-gambled wool, it is still Few people will ask about it.”

But Zhu Zihong said doubtfully: "Since no one cares about it, why do they put these stones out?"

"People from jewelry companies will not buy this kind of full-blown wool that has no chance of being green, but those idle stone lovers will buy it..." Xing Hu explained: "After all, the price of half-gambled wool is very expensive for ordinary people. It is ridiculously high. The money saved by ordinary working-class people working all their lives is probably not enough to buy a fist. Most of them are gambling wool, but there are many people who have dreams of getting rich overnight, even though they know that they are all gambling wool. The possibility of getting jadeite is very small, but some people will try to buy a few pieces and cut it open for a look. It’s all like buying a lottery ticket. Naturally, if the bet goes up, you will be able to step into the ranks of the rich all at once, even if you have everything If you can’t cut it out, you won’t lose your fortune. It’s just that these stone gambling enthusiasts are like enthusiasts, full of curiosity and desire for rough jadeite. Even if they can’t afford it, they have to feast their eyes first, or It is based on the experience gained by the experts, so when the auction starts, most of them will not immediately buy the whole wool. It is estimated that when the auction of the half wool here is about the same, someone will pay to cut the whole Let’s take a look at the raw materials. However, there are so many raw materials, and today’s auction is short, so it’s estimated that they won’t be able to sell a few pieces. Just keep it for yourself. Anyway, as long as more than half of those semi-gambling materials are sold, their batch of rough stones will definitely be able to recover the cost, and it doesn’t matter if the rest of the rubbish can be cut out of jade.”

Zhu Zihong has almost understood the truth after hearing the words. It seems that among the batch of rough stones that may produce emeralds, all of them are concentrated on the one hundred or so pieces, and it is basically impossible to produce emeralds from the remaining five or six hundred yuan. .In this case, let's start with the 600 yuan and a half betting wool. Anyway, no one is looking at the whole betting wool.

Long Ao and everyone walked into the crowd, while pretending to look at the color and pattern of the pieces of emeralds, but at the same time, they had already released their mental power to see through the jadeites placed on the shelves one by one rough stone.

I looked through six or seven yuan in a row, but I didn't see even the slightest bit of green. I could see some green patterns in the place where the window was opened, but once it penetrated into the stone, it was gray and white. It's just a piece of ordinary stone.

Look at the base price marked next to these stones... Good guy, the base price of the cheapest stone is 80, and the one with the size of a watermelon is actually marked at a high price of 360 million.

This time, Long Ao has seen what it means to bet out of ten and lose nine times. Others don't have the ability to see through like him. Once he spends 360 million to take pictures of this rough stone, he will lose everything immediately!

When he was sighing, someone really took a fancy to the watermelon-sized rough stone, and immediately called the staff to help carry it to the auction platform in front.

Although the rough jadeite merchants will mark a reserve price on each piece and a half of wool, if you fancy this piece of wool, it doesn't mean that you can buy it with a reserve price, nor does it mean that whoever takes a fancy first, this piece Whoever owns the wool.According to the rules, if someone takes a fancy to it, he has to take it to the front to bid.The first person to take a fancy is naturally equivalent to the reserve price. If there is no one else to follow suit, then you can directly buy this piece of wool according to the reserve price marked above.However, if other people are interested in it at the same time, they can follow suit, and whoever bids the highest price will naturally own the raw material.

The person who took a fancy to that stone was a jewelry company owner surnamed Zhong. Someone introduced that this boss runs six chain jewelry stores. Although the scale is not very large, he has always followed the middle-to-high-end route. , so the demand for rough jadeite is also great.Moreover, Boss Zhong can be regarded as a well-known stone gambling expert in the industry. It is said that this person bet a piece of rare glass emperor green wool in Tengchong, and made more than 4000 million yuan per stone. He started a jewelry store and formally entered the industry.

In the past two years, Boss Zhong has had good luck. He gambled several times and won several high-quality rough jadeites. He can be regarded as a well-known victorious general in the stone gambling world. , The seasoned way of experience has always been highly praised.

Hearing what others said, Long Ao could only sigh secretly.I thought to myself... It seems that most of the stone bettors are lucky. Boss Zhong, no matter how experienced you are, no matter how accurate your vision is, don't you still have mistakes?At least this time, Long Ao knew that Boss Zhong had really gone astray. If Boss Zhong took this stone in the end, no matter how much it cost, it would be a waste of time!

Seeing that someone sent the rough stone to the auction platform, a large group of people immediately surrounded it.

There is a lot of knowledge about stone gambling. Most newcomers don’t know how to distinguish the quality of raw stone and wool. However, it takes three to five years for a person to master the advanced knowledge. of.But they also have their own way of ghosts. It doesn't matter if they don't know how to judge the quality of rough stones, but they can follow the bids of those who can.Anyway, since someone would choose this rough stone to take a photo, it is natural for someone to see that there may be emeralds in this rough stone.We have no vision to be afraid of, as long as we have money, we will succeed!

Of course... these people are not completely blindly following, they will also first see who chooses the raw stone, for example, Boss Zhong, who is proficient in stone gambling and is known as the general victorious, chooses the wool, then follow the auction There will naturally be more people.But if this rough stone was selected by an unknown boy, then these stone gamblers who don't understand stones at all will naturally have to treat them with caution.

Sure enough, as soon as the person in charge of the auction announced the start of bidding, several people who were optimistic about Boss Zhong immediately called for the bid.In a short while, this rough jadeite with a base price of 360 million was called all the way to a sky-high price of over 500 million.As for Boss Zhong, who initially fell in love with this rough stone, he just called the price twice, and when it was over 400 million, he gave up decisively. Then those few latecomers fought fiercely with each other, and finally a middle-aged A Hong Kong businessman bought this watermelon-sized broken stone at a price of 520 million in [-].

This time, Long Ao and the others really improved their knowledge greatly. In such a short time, a piece of rotten stone was bought for more than 500 million yuan.Seeing that the Hong Kong businessman still looks smug and virtuous, I don’t know if he will jump off the building in anger when he sees that he has spent more than 500 million to buy such a pure stone after he turns around and cuts it open!

Long Ao looked back at Boss Zhong again, and when he saw that he was still calm and breezy, he couldn't help secretly admiring him, thinking that it was really true that this person could make such a name in the stone gambling world. Unfortunately.Seeing how he just gave up after calling the price symbolically twice just now, Long Ao even wondered if this buddy had already realized that it was impossible to get jade from that piece of rough stone, so he deliberately took it to the stage to bid .

After all, with his name in the stone gambling world, it would be a very disturbing thing if there were so many people asking for the price of a rough stone every time he met him. Booing, it may cost two or three million yuan, but it may not be able to win it.So maybe he would deliberately set up a trick, let those who make a fuss drill, and deliberately pick a broken stone for them to fight for.For example, this time, if the Hong Kong businessman who took the photo of this stone untied the stone on the spot and let the people present see that he spent more than 100 million to grab such a broken stone, then next time Boss Zhong chooses a rough stone , there must not be so many hot-headed people booing!

It’s just that Hong Kong businessmen are generally superstitious. If you spend so much money to buy a stone, you will definitely not untie it on the spot. Most of them have to take it home, fast and bathe for a few days, and then choose an auspicious day. , will be unlocked.Therefore, if Boss Zhong did it on purpose, then this time he would only cheat the Hong Kong businessman alone, but it would be difficult to achieve the effect of killing chickens and respecting monkeys.

After seeing a live auction, Long Ao stopped paying attention to others, and began to release his mental power again, seeing through the half-made woolen materials placed on the shelf one by one.

After seeing seven or eight rough jadeites that were completely stones, Long Ao finally saw the real jadeite in a stone the size of a football...

As soon as he saw the emerald in the original stone, Long Ao suddenly regained his spirits, and then used his mental power to scan the inside of the stone carefully, and found that it turned out to be a piece of yellow emerald.

Generally speaking, the most common type of jadeite is green, but there are also red, yellow, purple, and even colorless jadeites.Among the variegated jadeite, relatively speaking, the value of yellow jadeite is not high.Moreover, the seed water of the yellow jadeite in this rough stone is not very good. The worst thing is that there are some granular impurities in it, which will greatly reduce the value of this piece of jadeite.Judging from Yang Hongtao's experience of inheriting the experience of the jade carver, the value of the yellow fei in this rough stone will probably be around 200 million.

Long Ao looked at the base price of this rough stone again, and it was not very expensive. This rough stone was only marked at 120 million, at least much better than the broken stone with a price of 360 million.

Long Ao pondered for a while, if no one bids with him for this rough stone, just take it at the reserve price, so that after unlocking the rough stone, he should be able to earn a million or so.

The only problem is that although the Huang Fei in this rough stone is theoretically worth more than 200 million, Huang Fei has never been valued very much in the jewelry industry, and ordinary consumers do not recognize the ornaments made of Huang Fei. After the rough stone is unlocked, it is hard to say whether anyone is willing to spend more than 200 million yuan to buy this semi-finished jadeite.

So, after a little hesitation, Long Ao decided to temporarily abandon the rough stone, and continued to look down.Although Long Ao has money, he doesn't spend it recklessly, he always has to calculate.

During this time, a few more pieces of woolen cloth were selected and moved to the auction platform for auction.Whenever a piece of rough stone was placed on the bidding platform, Long Ao would take the time to get close and scan it with mental power.

Not to mention, when the fourth piece was sent to the auction stage, Long Ao swept it away with the power of his soul, and found that there was a bowl-sized piece of ice-type high-green jadeite inside the rough stone.

Among the raw materials of jadeite, those whose seed water (also refers to the transparency) can reach the level of ice seed can be regarded as high-quality goods. As for the best glass seed, it may not be possible to produce a piece after several years, so many merchants use ice seed jade as a fake If the glass is sold, ordinary consumers will naturally not be able to see the difference. As for experts... Anyway, everyone does this, so naturally no one will make irresponsible remarks.

Therefore, judging from the current market situation, this piece of high-green ice material is considered a very rare and good material in the market. If Long Ao is asked to set a price for the jadeite meat in this rough stone , it must be worth at least 500 million to 3000 million.Of course... this price is only for the raw materials of uncut semi-finished products. If a jewelry company buys this raw material, then let the jade carving master take out a few pairs of bracelets, and then take out the remaining corners The remaining material is made into various pendants, rings and so on. The value of the finished product carved out of this piece of jade is at least 5000 million or more.

In the blink of an eye, the price of this rough stone was raised to 500 million. Although Long Aoming knew that even if this rough stone was sold at a sky-high price of 2000 million, it would be a huge profit, but he is not ready to sell it now. thinking, so I acted as a spectator by the side.

Afterwards, Long Ao discovered that Boss Zhong was fancying this piece of wool again, and this time, Boss Zhong didn't just call the price twice and give up just like the boss did, but went all the way and finally settled for 650. Wan's high price took this piece of jadeite rough.

As a result, Long Ao admired this Boss Zhong even more.What is a master... This is a master!Give up when it's time to give up, and shoot when it's time to shoot!He started a jewelry company by himself, so he would get the most value when he bought this rough stone back. Oh, this stone will make a net profit of at least 4000 million!

Long Ao almost doubted whether this buddy had the same special ability to see through the stone as himself?Otherwise...how could he be so accurate!

Long Ao didn't bother to take a closer look at the remaining dozens and a half yuan of wool, so he quickened his pace immediately, as if he was watching flowers on a horse, using the released mental power to sweep across the half wool passing by. I also saw a few rough jadeite stones in them, and the quality was okay, but the price was not low.

As they walked, they came to Quanga wool, where there is absolutely no chance of emeralds coming out of Quan be wool.

"Brothers, you keep picking a stone for fun?" At this time, Xing Hu said.

"Since I've come here, I have to give it a try. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a bit regrettable, third child, if I like that stone, I'll pick it myself. I'll treat you." Long Aonan said boldly, he knew Zhu Zihong's family conditions, the stones here are tens of millions, he can't pay the bill at all, so Long Ao said so.

"No need, I'll just take a look." Zhu Zihong refused.

"We are brothers, so don't be polite. Since we're all here, don't be polite. Just pick a piece and return the money to me if you make a profit. Even if you lose, it's fine. Just spend money for fun." Long Ao said politely.

"Third brother, you can just pick one piece. The fourth child is not short of this money. Besides, with our relationship, do you need to be polite?" Xing Hu also persuaded from the side.

"Okay!" Zhu Zihong agreed. In fact, he also wanted to play, but he was too shy. Now that Long Ao has said so, he also knows that Long Ao does not lack this little money, so he will definitely pick one. .

When Long Ao hurriedly walked from the beginning to the end, and finally looked through all the more than 100 and a half yuan beanbags, when he was about to turn around and look at the whole beanbags over there, his body suddenly shook slightly.

In the last piece of woolen material the size of a washbasin that he saw, he actually used his mental power to scan a trace of transparent green... God bless... This... This is the sun green jadeite of the glass variety!