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When I walked into Yufengzhai, I realized that this place is really different from other stores. Although it also sells gold, silver and jewelry, the main thing is jade. There are various kinds of jade and jade wares in different sizes. They don’t look like gold and silver at all. The dazzling, but a kind of pleasing to the eye.

Li Weidong said: "Xia... Ruobing, are your parents here? Can I show them my jade?"

Unexpectedly, Xia Ruobing's face turned serious all of a sudden, and said coldly: "I told you that this store is mine, didn't you hear? Don't mention my parents, tell me if you have something to do, if you don't believe me , what are you still doing here?"

Li Weidong was startled, and then he was very upset.Although you are a pretty girl, you don't have to speak so aggressively?I didn't ask you at all, you pulled me in, okay?Xia Ruobing probably also felt that she had lost her composure, so she smiled apologetically, and said, "This store is really under my name, and my second uncle usually manages it for me. Forget it, let's go, I'll take you to see the second uncle , in the jade circle in Ninggang, if my second uncle ranks second, no one would dare to rank first!"

After speaking, he took Li Weidong's arm and ran upstairs through the business hall.Li Weidong couldn't help sweating, this little girl is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but it feels like the clouds in the sky, unpredictable.To say that she is like a young lady, she was so deep just now but seemed extremely mature; if she was to say mature, her bouncing and bouncing appearance was full of childishness.Oh, what kind of girl is this?

The layout on the upper floor is very simple, with only a few ink landscapes hanging on the four walls.Opposite is a book table, a 60-year-old man is sitting in front of the table reading a book, holding a thread-bound book.Seeing Xia Ruobing coming up, she stood up with a smile and said, "Bingbing, don't you want to go out to play? Hehe, who is this young man?"

The old man is hale and hearty, with an amiable smile. He is neither fat, nor thin, nor tall, nor short. He is wearing a Tang suit, and looks very graceful. However, his tone towards Xia Ruobing is kind, and there seems to be a kind of respect in his expression. .Li Weidong secretly felt strange, so he heard Xia Ruobing say: "Second Uncle, this is my friend Li Weidong, he has a piece of jade, and he wants someone to drill his eyes, please help him see it."

The second uncle smiled heartily, and said: "Bingbing's friend, of course there is no problem, as long as you can trust my old man."

Li Weidong quickly took out the tears of the holy beast and handed it over. The second uncle took it in his hand, first weighed it, then took a photo of it in the sun, and said to Li Weidong with a smile: "Young man, have you been deceived? This is an imitation Ah, although the workmanship is not bad, it should not be worth much."

Li Weidong became very angry when he heard the word imitation now. *** It’s all right to say that this thing is worthless, but he dared to bet [-]%, seeing that it fell out of the wolf god’s eyes, why did he say it was an imitation?Immediately smiled and said: "Mr., it doesn't matter whether this jade is worth money or not. It doesn't matter if it's a piece of scrap. But what I can assure you is that this is [-]% real jade, which was handed down from my ancestors. Why? Will it be an imitation?"

"Ancestry? Haha!" The second uncle sat back on the chair with a smile, and said with a pleasant face: "I'm just talking about things, don't be unhappy, kid. I guess you're not the first to come to me. On this street You should have been to other jewelry stores, right?"

Li Weidong secretly marveled that the old man was a little older, but he really had bright eyes.He nodded and said, "Yes, I have been to Yongxin and Wansheng."

The second uncle held the tears of the sacred beast and said with a smile: "I guess they are older than them, and they all think it's a fake, right?"

Li Weidong rolled his eyes and said, "Master Yu from Yongxin offered me 3 yuan, but I didn't sell it."

"Oh? 3 yuan? Hahahaha!"

Second Uncle laughed out loud, Xia Ruobing couldn't help but said, "Second Uncle, what are you laughing at?"

The second uncle stretched out a finger, knocked on the table and said slowly: "Little friend, I have always been outspoken. If I am wrong, don't be unhappy: Master Yu from Yongxin said to give you 3 yuan. This is true, then either he wants something from you, or he is afraid of you, how about it, is the old man right?"

As far as this is concerned, Li Weidong couldn't make up anything. He just said, "You... how do you know?"

"Ah, how dare you lie to my second uncle! The whole text is small, in .wen."

Xia Ruobing stared, and the second uncle smiled and waved at her, and said, "Master Yu from Yongxin is one of the best jade experts in Ninggang. How could he not see such an imitation? If According to the market price, this thing can be worth three to five hundred yuan at most, but even if it is three to five hundred, people in this industry will not accept it."

Li Weidong couldn't help calling out, and said, "I don't accept three or five hundred, why? Even if it's a handicraft, it's more than that?"

The second uncle shook his head and said, "Little friend, you don't understand. There are rules in each industry. Anyone who plays with jade can be eyeballed, dead jade, rotten jade, or even lose money. You can't accept imitations, it's a taboo. Yongxin Laoyu has a very mean temper, so if he doesn't call the police, you are lucky."

Li Weidong sweated for a while, and said: "Mr., I will tell you the truth. Master Yu did say that this is a fake, and he also said that he would send me to the Public Security Bureau. I don't know how to explain it to you, but I just don't know what to do. I can’t figure it out, why did you insist that it’s a fake after just looking at it twice?”

The second uncle laughed and said: "Young man, you still feel that my old man didn't look carefully, right? Well, then I'll tell you why we only took a second look and insisted that this is a fake. In fact, it's very simple to put it bluntly. , the workmanship of this thing, even if it is one in a million, even if it is fake, it can't be hidden from the eyes of experts, because what it imitates is not jade at all, but emerald!"

"Emerald?" Li Weidong was taken aback again, and said, "I've heard of emerald. It seems to be similar to emerald and agate. Isn't it also a kind of jade?"

"No, no, no, it's not jade, it's a gem!" The second uncle solemnly picked up the tear of the holy beast and said, "The four major gems in the world are diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Ordinary jade is very different. Even what we often call jade, there is a kind of emerald jade, which refers to the color of emerald, and does not mean that jade is equal to emerald. Jade is just jade, different from gems. It is completely different from gem emerald. Oh, yes, in modern scientific terms, gem refers to a single mineral crystal, while jade refers to a mineral aggregate or rock, and this is the most essential difference.”

Li Weidong seemed to understand something vaguely, but he was not sure, so he hesitated and said, "But what does this have to do with me?"

"Why doesn't it matter? Do you know the current price of emeralds on the market?" The second uncle smiled slightly and said slowly, "One carat of pure emeralds can be sold for 3 to 10 yuan, while three carats can be sold for 200 to [-] yuan. A ten-carat emerald sold for [-] yuan can be sold for a price of about [-] million yuan. That is to say, the larger the weight, the more it will appreciate in value. This price is roughly a quarter of that of a diamond. .Hehe, young man, I think you are a smart person, now, you should understand?"

"You mean... Is my emerald too... too big?"

"Exactly." The second uncle nodded slightly, and said slowly, "Pure emeralds, pay attention, I'm not talking about rough emerald mines, a pure emerald gemstone over 80 carats is already very rare. And the price is astonishingly high. Even the largest emerald in the world, the Andean Star currently in the London Museum, is only [-] carats. And yours is at least [-] carats. [-] carats, almost weighs a catty, hehe, you said this is not an imitation, what is it?"