golden eye

Chapter 124
Chapter 122
Fu Yihong proposed to go shopping for Hetian jade, and Mo Liming was naturally very happy. Betting on Hetian jade is one of the purposes of his trip. Since he is here, don't miss this opportunity. This is an opportunity to gamble on a piece of jade. If you can't ask for it, maybe you will be very lucky this time, and you will come across a piece of high-quality jade.

So the two of them turned around from Mr. Dao's house and walked away. Not long after, they hailed a taxi on the side of the road and went straight to the "Erdaoqiao Market" specially introduced by Fu Yihong.

The so-called "Erdaoqiao Market" is located at No. 37 Jiefang South Road, WLMQ City, with KS Hetian Jade Trading Center to the north, Ailemanyuan Hotel to the south, and WLMQ International Grand Bazaar to the east. It covers an area of ​​8818 square meters and is 135 meters long from east to west. meters, 40 meters wide from north to south, and a construction area of ​​35000 square meters.

The "Yindu Hotel" where Mo Liming and Fu Yihong lived was also in the city center, so they were not far away, and they arrived at their destination in about two to three ten minutes.

"Mo Liming, we've arrived, get out of the car." Fu Yihong greeted.

"Yes." Mo Liming replied.

Immediately after the two got out of the car, Mo Liming found that the place he was in was extremely lively. Looking around, he could see people of ethnic minorities wearing various ethnic costumes walking up and down the street in an endless stream. Plain or trendy Han.

This is Mo Liming's first time here, and every scene that catches his eyes is so fresh and full of fun.

"The Erdaoqiao Market, which has a strong Chinese architectural style, is a national key tourist attraction, attracting a large number of tourists for sightseeing and shopping every day, including people from other provinces and municipalities such as the eastern seaboard, as well as many foreign tourists. "I only heard Fu Yihong introduce with joy in my ear, "and many foreigners and foreigners come to this nationally famous Hetian jade market to buy and sell jade. I think there are large quantities of Hetian jade shipped out every day. The major jade markets across the country. I have only been here twice before, and I bought a few things, all of which are small pieces of jade made of mutton fat jade. The quality is not bad, and I like it very much. The interest in Hetian jade is growing."

"Manager Fu, you will definitely be able to find better Hetian jade in the future." Mo Liming said with a smile.

"I hope so." Fu Yihong asked, "Then where should we go now? Should we go to the comprehensive market building or the street market, or go to the nearby 'XJ International Grand Bazaar' and KS Hetian Jade Trading Center, and sell Hetian The place where jade stones go."

"Manager Fu, tell me. Don't you want to buy finished jade articles? Then go to 'Erdaoqiao Market' first." Mo Liming suggested.

"Okay." Fu Yihong agreed with a little joy.

After finishing speaking, the two walked towards the market building with a leisurely expression.

The so-called "Erdaoqiao Market" is located in Erdaoqiao and Shanxi Alley in the south of WLMQ City. This market has been a barter exchange center for ethnic minorities in northern and southern Xinjiang, as well as in West Asia and Central Asia since the late Qing Dynasty. .
For more than 100 years, the market here has been lined with pavements, and many Uyghur businessmen have gathered here. They set up stalls along the street, doing small businesses such as food and Uyghur handicrafts. However, time has changed, and it is also in this place. The market no longer exists, replaced by a seven-storey commercial building with a construction area of ​​10 square meters. It attracts many Chinese and foreign tourists with its strong ethnic characteristics and XJ regional customs. With modern facilities in place, merchants no longer have to suffer from hot summer and cold winter, wind and rain.

The first to third floors of "Erdaoqiao Market" are commercial areas. All ethnic minority businessmen use their unique enthusiasm and sincerity to attract tourists from all over the world with unique folk handicrafts from various countries and XJ's unique dried and fresh fruits. The fourth floor is WLMQ's largest comprehensive folk song and dance banquet hall.

Tempting hand-picked meat, fragrant baked buns, crispy roasted whole lamb, oily pilaf, strips full of sauce flavor and those snacks that cannot be named at all fill your eyes and draw you appetite.

When you are in the "Erdaoqiao Market", you will be surrounded by an exotic atmosphere, making you feel enthusiastic and relaxed, 365 days a day.

The fifth to sixth floors are office rooms, and the industrial and commercial, taxation, banks, and post offices are stationed in the market to facilitate service business operators.

The supporting facilities of the whole market are very complete, so that every tourist and businessman

Mo Liming followed Fu Yihong into the first floor of the market. They visited several jade shops, gold, silver and jade handicraft shops and related jewelry shops. During the process, Fu Yihong told Mo Liming, saying: "There are many rich and big bosses here, most of them made their fortunes in the jade business, and each of them has a lot of money."

She also told Mo Liming that the Hetian jade in the market is full of other inferior jade types, such as Qinghai jade and Russian jade.

Mo Liming could tell that Fu Yihong had a good eye for identifying Hetian jade, so she was also very picky. She visited several large jade shopping malls, but none of them were to her liking. Either the jade material was not good, or it was jade. Workmanship is flawed.

From these details of life, Mo Liming also gradually realized that Fu Yihong is a person who loves to pick and choose things carefully. The things she likes are all high-quality. One can imagine how high her taste in life is. up.

"Mo Liming, I can't tell you in detail in front of the boss just now, it's too much, he actually used 'Jing Baiyu' as Hetian mutton fat white jade, isn't that hurting people?!"

After resentfully walking out from the exit of the market, Fu Yihong blushed and said angrily that Mo Liming had never heard of "Jing Baiyu" before, and his appreciation of Hetian jade and its craftsmanship was only superficial knowledge Therefore, when Fu Yihong was choosing the Hetian jade pendant just now, he couldn't give any good advice.

"Do you know what 'Jingbaiyu' is?" Fu Yihong continued, "'Jingbaiyu' is a kind of very cheap and worthless material, which obviously has nothing to do with jade. These stones belong to marble. One, the radioactive elements in marble are extremely high, you should use this mineral as little as possible in home decoration, if you wear it on your body, it will cause great damage to your body."

"Oh, that's quite scary." Mo Liming frowned deeply after hearing this, and said, "It's really profiteering businessmen, but they can also deceive three-year-old children, and they can't be fooled anyway. Manager Fu, your eyes."

"Hey, forget it, I don't want to talk about them anymore! The current jade market is like this, full of smog, and all inferior jades are filled by them as Hetian jade. There are still ambiguities in the definition of concepts." Fu Yihong said with a helpless sigh, "For appraisal departments and merchants, the concepts of 'jade' and 'Hetian jade' are the same, blurring the distinction between 'jade' and 'Hetian jade'. In terms of origin, in the identification certificate or when we buy jade in the mall, the jade is collectively referred to as "Hetian jade", but for those who buy jade, this is subjectively a misleading sales behavior, and it is a misleading sales behavior for them. Irresponsible performance, the same piece of white jade, if one is suet jade and the other is ordinary white jade, then the price must be very different."

Mo Liming nodded in agreement and said: "So, to a certain extent, buying a finished jade article is also a gambling on jade. The quality of the jade article you buy depends on your own eyesight."

"Well, Mo Liming, you are quite right." Fu Yihong's sullen expression gradually softened after hearing Mo Liming's words, and said, "Let's go to other jade markets. Now go to the one in the north. How about 'KS Hetian Jade Trading Center'?"

"Okay." Mo Liming agreed without hesitation.

After that, the two walked side by side to the jade market.

When Mo Liming and Fu Yihong arrived, it was the peak time of the day's trading, and the WLMQ Erdaoqiao Jade Market was full of people, and there were jade and jade-seekers everywhere.

As the largest Hetian jade distribution center in WLMQ, people come here every day looking for opportunities to make a fortune. Needless to say, buyers from all over the world come here with one wish, that is, to find a legendary "stone", so that overnight Get rich.

In this wool-based jade distribution market, transactions are basically conducted in the form of "gambling stones".

"Stone gambling" is an ancient method that has been passed down for thousands of years in the jade industry and is still in use today. It is the first link in the Hetian jade trading chain. A stone that looks ordinary in appearance may make the owner get rich instantly if it is cut across the board. Potentially bankrupt the owner.

Betting on stones requires excellent jade discrimination, but no one can guarantee undefeated success, and so-called experts are no exception. More often, luck determines the fate of stone gamblers.

There are rules of betting on stones. After the buyer is optimistic about a stone according to his own judgment, both parties will cover their hands with a red cloth. The buyer and the seller will use gestures to complete the bargaining process under the red cloth. Outsiders cannot know the transaction price. Yes, both buyers and sellers are willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. After the transaction, the money and goods will be settled and they will never go back on their word.

The valuable stone in the bet is the luck of the buyer, and if you buy back a worthless stone, you won’t get grudges because of it. The buyer who misses it will just laugh at himself and mutter: "Look at the stone I bought, It’s a little bit worse, what a pity!”

But they will never go to the seller because of this, and there has never been any quarrel in the trading market.

At this moment, Mo Liming and Fu Yihong were visiting the surrounding stone gambling stalls. On the surface, Mo Liming looked calm, but in fact, his heart was full of turmoil, and he stared at every piece of Hetian on the stall with burning eyes. Jade material.

In an instant, he stood still in front of one of the stalls, and focused his eyes on a stone above it.

(End of this chapter)