Jianbao life

Chapter 65 See also the glass species ([-])
Hou Yuanming's emerald jewelry store is not far from Baxian Temple.

At the beginning, Father Hou was also very courageous. During the reform and opening up, he was in his 40s and decided to go to the south to start a jadeite business. After gaining some experience and channels, he returned to Xijing in the early 90s to open this jadeite jewelry store. shop.

Hou Yuanming served as a soldier for several years, and later changed his job to return home. He was a civil servant for a few years at the beginning, and found it boring. At that time, Hou's father wanted to come back to open a store, so the father and son worked together to open this store.

With Hou's father's experience and channels, as well as Hou Yuanming's shrewd mind, the two complement each other well. Over the past few years, their business has grown bigger and bigger. At the beginning of this year, they opened a branch in the city center.

Hou Yuanming's jewelry store is called Cuiyuzhai. The exterior and interior decoration of the store follow the same style as Baxian Temple, which looks very simple and elegant.Since this store has been around for nearly ten years, although the space in the store looked quite large back then, it is only medium in terms of current perspective.

Walking into the store, in the middle circle, there are simple glass cabinets, most of which are jadeite jewelry, and some are white jade.The left and right sides and the front side are exquisite ancient wall cabinets, which contain various exquisite jadeite or white jade statues and ornaments.

Cuiyuzhai should be quite famous in Xijing. Even at noon, there are still several customers choosing jewelry or decorations there.After Chu Chen and the others came in, Hou Yuanming exchanged a few words with the waiter, and then led them directly to the backyard, where Cuiyuzhai gambled.

The area of ​​the backyard of Cuiyuzhai is about two-fifths smaller than that of Juyuan Pavilion, and the wool material is also less than that of Juyuan Pavilion.

According to Hou Yuanming, the lowest price of wool here is 100 yuan a piece, and the highest price is more than [-] million. There are no better ones. After all, there are not many people betting on stones in Xijing now. If it cannot be sold, it will take up a lot of funds, which is not cost-effective.

There are three lithographs in the courtyard, one large, one small, one small. Although there are not many stone-cleaners at noon, there are three people standing next to the medium-sized stone-cleaner, and one of them is only about 20 A young man wearing glasses is cutting wool there.But don't underestimate this young man, but Xie Shi's movements are extremely proficient.

"Up!"

The voice immediately attracted the attention of Chu Chen and the others, and Wen Yuting pulled Chu Yulan and ran there quickly.

When Chu Chen and the others walked to the stone-breaking machine, they happened to see the window where the piece of wool was cut.Looking at it this way, Chu Chen didn't seem so excited anymore.

Although there is green in the cut surface, that green should be regarded as bean green, and it looks almost waxy. The value depends on how many jadeites can be produced, but the chances of a big increase are really slim.

Sure enough, with the next cut, the value of the emerald has almost come out.Chu Chen reckoned that the jadeite he offered could make a few pairs of bracelets at most, with some rings and pendants, but the total value was only fifteen or sixteen.It is definitely incomparable to Chu Chen's more than 1000 yuan and more than 100 million kinds of glass.

Although to Chu Chen, this was nothing, but to the owner of the woolen material, a middle-aged man among the previous three, he was already very happy.

After learning the result, the man was very excited. When Chu Chen inquired, he found out that he bought the woolen material at a price of 15. Being able to sell [-] jadeite is considered a good increase.

Next, the young man who explained the stone discussed with the few people who were standing before him, asking them how they wanted to cut it, and after a few people discussed it, they decided to remove some of the leftovers first, and then wiped it for comparison. Insurance, which can also guarantee the integrity of the jadeite.

And the final result, as expected by Chu Chen, the value of the emerald that was solved was about 15.

Seeing this, the old man in his 60s standing beside him smiled and said, "Boss Song, you have fulfilled your dream this time. You can sell this piece of material to me for 15 yuan. What do you think?"

With a somewhat excited expression, Boss Song said nonchalantly: "Boss Hou, there is no problem at all. Young man, take a rest first, and I will trouble you later to untie the remaining piece of wool."

According to Hou Yuanming's introduction, Boss Song is also a boss with at least tens of millions of dollars. He plays stone gambling just to feel the fun of gambling, and he is not addicted to it himself, so he pretends not to care.And that old man is Hou Yuanming's father.

During the break, Hou Yuanming introduced Chu Chen and the others to each other.

"Dad, don't look at Xiao Chu's young age. Not only is he good at identifying antiques, but he's also a master of stone gambling." Hou Yuanming said with a smile.

Hou's father nodded with a smile and said, "That's good, the waves behind the Yangtze River drive the waves ahead, Xiao Chu will show her skills today."

Chu Chen quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare, Mr. Hou, I'm just lucky, and I can't compare to your rich experience."

Father Hou laughed and said: "Luck is also a kind of strength, and I think luck is the most important thing in our industry. Isn't the old saying that immortals can't break an inch of jade, so good luck is also your capital. Well, Xiao Chu, you go to see the wool first, I won't waste your time."

Seeing that it was time to go to see the wool, Wen Yuting acted like a wild horse because of the atmosphere of betting up just now, she was very excited, she pulled Chu Yulan and rushed towards the emerald wool, watching Chu Chen and others People shook their heads and laughed.

"Brother Li, why don't you go and look at your girlfriend, don't buy blindly and cry when you lose the bet." Chu Chen laughed.

Seeing this, Li Guodong could only shake his head, sighed, and followed. There was no way, who told him to have such a girlfriend.

Zhou Wenping also smiled and said, "Xiao Chen, I'll follow him to have a look. Guodong probably doesn't have the ability to fix the Sea God's Needle."

Chu Chen thought so too, Li Guodong would always look suffocated in front of Wen Yuting, Zhou Wenping went over to take a look.

Seeing that Zhou Wenping and the others had all gone to see the woolen materials, Hou Yuanming said, "Xiao Chu, then I won't bother you to look at the woolen materials. You can call me when something happens."

"Wait, Brother Hou, most of the woolen materials you put here are some new field materials. To be honest, I'm really not very interested in this kind of woolen materials."

Seeing that Hou Yuanming was about to leave, Chu Chen stopped him.When he came in just now, Chu Chen took a rough scan and found that many of the piles in the open air were made of wool from Xinchangkou. This kind of wool is okay for newcomers, but his words are a little bit lacking in interest. .

After hearing the words, Hou Yuanming slapped his forehead and said, "Hey, I thought you would be a little interested in the new materials. I forgot that you are a master stone gambler. Let's go, I will take you there now."

Although Hou Yuanming heard from Li Guodong and others that Chu Chen is a master stone gambler, after all, Chu Chen is really young, and the experience of stone betting depends on the accumulation of time, so it is impossible for him to believe it completely, so he did not From the very beginning, he took Chu Chen to see the woolen materials at Laochangkou.

Hou Yuanming took Chu Chen to a room with relatively good security measures. This room was about 40 square meters, and most of the materials in it were old materials. Of course, there were some new materials that were particularly conspicuous material.

The woolen materials here are divided into three piles, one pile for the old field materials and one pile for the new field materials, and a pile of woolen materials for the windows, but there are not many woolen materials for the windows, but this is just learning, Hou Yuanming's family originally It is in the jadeite business. If the window opening is good, it is likely to be untied by itself.

Hou Yuanming said with some complacency: "Xiao Chu, the wool fabrics here should be enough for you to choose. I believe that even in the whole of Xijing, there are not a few wool fabrics that perform as well as mine."

Chu Chen also somewhat agrees with this point, the woolen materials here are indeed very good, and the woolen materials at the same price are not inferior to Lu Changshun's Juyuan Pavilion.So he nodded and said:
"Brother Hou, your wool is really good. It seems that I have to spend some time to choose carefully, otherwise I will be sorry for the opportunity you gave me."

"Okay, you can pick it, but there is a piece of wool in it that you can only look at, not buy."

Hou Yuanming pointed to a piece of wool that weighed more than 50 kilograms with a hint of apology, and said: "This piece of wool was bought last year in southern Yunnan at a cost of more than 200 million yuan. It is my father's favorite piece of wool, but he keeps buying it." Don’t make up your mind to solve it.”

Chu Chen took a rough look at the piece of wool, and it was indeed good, but since the owner said it couldn't be sold, he didn't care, so he said with a smile: "Brother Hou, I can understand this, but since Mr. Hou is like this I like it, then I must study it carefully.”

After signaling to Hou Yuanming, Chu Chen began to carefully select the raw materials.But it was Baojue who surprised him first.

It turned out that he did not expect that after the upgrade of the ability, Baojue could also affect the jade wool. Although the distance is shorter than that of the antique, it takes [-] centimeters away from the wool to sense it, but it is already a very big problem for him. surprise.When choosing jadeite for a while, it can save him a lot of time.

The wool material that Chu Chen looked at first was the piece that Hou Yuanming had instructed before.After carefully looking at this piece of wool, he secretly praised it in his heart. This piece of wool not only has a python, but also has relatively rare spring pine flowers on the belt python.

You must know that the pine flowers in spring are very rare violets. Adding this kind of pine flowers on the python is really a rare performance of gambling.

To be honest, Chu Chen was really moved when he saw such a performance, but it was a pity that the master didn't sell it, so there was nothing he could do. However, after he used the supernatural power, he was a little disappointed by the unexpected result.

(End of this chapter)