God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1085 Jade Rigidity
Xu Jingxing pondered for a long time, and chose one of the gifts he could offer in return, and that was a piece or a set of valuable jade carvings.

Although he has not yet mastered the jade carving technique, he believes that as long as he is given two months to study the relevant techniques, he will be able to master it. After all, jade carving is only one item in the carving technique. There is no difference, the biggest difficulty is that the tools used in jade carving are completely different from conventional carving.

To carve ordinary materials, it is enough to use an ordinary carving knife. Even for stone carving, you only use a big tool like a steel chisel, but the hardness of jade is much stronger than ordinary stone. A chisel may not be able to chisel.

Moreover, the texture of jade is relatively brittle. If you use a carving knife to carve hard and fiercely, it will only make the jade crack and shatter, and it will not be shaped at all.

Therefore, grinding heads must be used for jade carving. The ancients used manual grinding heads, but now electric grinding heads are used.

But no matter what kind of grinding head, as long as you master the basic way of use, jade carving techniques will no longer be a problem.

Therefore, he planned to carve two pieces of jade for the two old people before he recognized their relatives. The value of jade itself is relatively high, plus his fairly good carver, and the special nourishing effect he bestowed on the carvings, it is most suitable as a gift in return. But no more.

With a plan in mind, he stopped hesitating. After getting up the next day, he went straight to the Hetian Jade Wholesale Market over Fuxingmen.

Let’s just say, if you really want to buy jade, especially rough stones, the place of origin is the first choice, because not only the price may be relatively cheap in the place of origin, but also the supply is relatively abundant, and the probability of finding good materials is relatively high.But if there is no other way, you can only go to the local wholesale market to pick up goods. It is not that there are no good goods in this large-scale wholesale market, but the proportion is definitely not high, because these goods do not know how to be picked. How many times, even if there is a good product, the price is very high.

However, Xu Jingxing really couldn't go to Hotan now, so he first went to the wholesale market to try his luck.

Fortunately, this is the capital and the center of this continent. There are still similar rough stone wholesale markets, and there are several. If it is an island city, then maybe, there must be, but the scale is definitely not large. Large, not many, not to mention the source of goods.

After he arrived at the wholesale market, his first impression was chaos, and his second impression was that there were really good things here, because he could sense all kinds of extraordinary objects and auras.

Although he has never been to this kind of place, he also knows a little about Hetian jade, and even, he may memorize more relevant theoretical knowledge than some so-called experts, and he even got it when he was in Quancheng. A pile of good quality Hetian jade seeds, those seeds and those dzi beads are still stored in his warehouse in Daocheng.

Those seeds are of relatively high quality and not suitable for practicing hands, so he has no plans to use them yet.

As for those dzi beads, they are of better quality, but it is not appropriate to give them to Gu Anren and the two elderly people, because dzi beads have a strong religious meaning...

That's why he appeared in the wholesale market.

There are indeed a lot of vendors in the market, and many of them really have good materials in their hands, but the asking price is very high, and the ones with slightly better quality are sold by gram, and the price can easily be hundreds of thousands or millions. In Xu Jingxing's eyes, there is no such thing as It's a scam.

It's not that he can't afford those materials, but that he doesn't think it's worth it, and he doesn't plan to spend a lot of money on those that look expensive, but wants to buy some leather materials.

What is leather?That is, the legendary gambling material, that is, the rough stone is covered with a thick layer of leather, and the quality of the jade cannot be seen at all when the leather is intact. After you buy it, you need to cut off the outer skin yourself. If it is better, it means that the bet is won. If the quality of jade is poor, it is natural that the bet is lost. This is the legendary bet on jade or bet on stone.

He also saw this situation from the Internet, but based on the information on the Internet, it can be known that in the Hetian jade industry, gambling on jade is relatively rare, far less than in the jadeite industry, because Hetian jade is completely wrapped in a leather shell. It is relatively rare, but the rough jadeite is different. Before the rough jadeite is mined, it is basically wrapped in a leather shell.

The reason for this is that the formation principle and structure of Hetian jade are different from those of jadeite. Hetian jade, also known as nephrite, can be divided into mountain materials, mountain water materials and seed materials because of different formation reasons. The material is the kind of jade directly mined from the mountains. The mountain water material is the jade material that was washed by the rain to the upper reaches of the river after the mountain material collapsed. As for the seed material, it has been processed for thousands of years or even longer. The jade material formed after soaking in the river water of time.

The three different forms of jade materials have their own characteristics. The biggest feature of the mountain materials is that they are relatively large, and they are relatively complete after mining. The quality appears to be dry and astringent, relatively speaking, the quality is low.

The seed material is different. This kind of jade material is formed after the mountain material fell off naturally and fell into the Yulong River. It was washed and soaked by the river water for an unknown period of time. It looks like, if it exceeds one kilogram, it is not small, and if it can reach five kilograms, it is considered a big man.Although the size of the seed material is small, the quality is extremely high. The jade is oily, crystal clear, delicate and smooth, and the shape is round. The feel and appearance are very good. A thin oxide layer is formed, which is very closely combined with the jade, almost integrated, and the color is colorful and very beautiful. A good skin layer can double the value of an ordinary seed material.

As for the mountain water material, it is in the form between the mountain material and the seed material. It collapsed from the jade mine and fell into the river water. It is slightly better than the mountain material but not as good as the seed material. It is larger than the seed material but not as good as the mountain material.

However, as long as it is genuine Hetian jade material, whether it is mountain material, seed material or mountain water material, the price is relatively low, because the output of Hetian jade is not high, and the mine stock is not large, as long as the quality of the material is not too bad , basically can be sold at a good price.

And compared with buying real Hetian jade at a high price, those who buy fake Hetian jade at a high price are miserable.

You know, in today's jade market, any beginner should know how high the water content is. To put it bluntly, in so many Hetian jade wholesale markets in the north and south of the river, real Hetian jade may only account for [-]% Around, maybe even less than [-]% of them, the rest are all faked with Russian jade, Duyu, Xiushan jade, Qinghai jade or even similar ores.

When Xu Jingxing browsed the relevant information on the Internet, he had seen too many examples, and also read many posts and articles on the difference between real and fake Hetian jade.

Therefore, after entering the market, he did not rush to make a move. Instead, he strolled around the market first. He looked like an ordinary young man who came out to gain knowledge, not like a buyer with a huge sum of money.

But even so, he still keenly noticed that someone was staring at him, and not one or two, but several, just like the hungry wolf that smelled meat.

Naturally, he didn't panic, and continued to wander around the stalls and shops one by one.

In the process of wandering around, he had a general understanding of the jade materials on these stalls, and then he started to sell, but he picked the kind of leather with a relatively high risk, and even many of them were stiff.

The stiffness in Hetian jade is of the same nature as the moss in jadeite. It is a substance that is naturally generated during the formation of jade. This substance is very destructive to the jade flesh. As long as the jade flesh contains Stiffness or moss, this piece of jade is basically useless.

However, the main constituent elements of stiffness are calcium and magnesium, which are the main elements absorbed by the seed material when soaked in river water. Generally, jade will become oily, smooth and shiny when it absorbs elements such as calcium and magnesium, but if it absorbs too much, It will automatically precipitate and condense into a piece of rigidity that is tightly combined with the jade meat.In layman's terms, stiffness is the excess elements eliminated during the growth process of Hetian jade seed materials.

Because stiffness and jade are born as one, there are often situations where there is jade in the stiffness, and there is stiffness in the jade, which is what the saying goes.

It is precisely because of the uncertainty of stiffness that the seed material with stiffness can also be gambled. It is to bet whether the stiffness on the surface has eroded the jade next to it. If it erodes, then the bet is lost. .

Don't look at the high risk of stiff seed material, but it is still relatively popular, because there is a saying in the industry that "fine meat comes out of the stiff side", which means that the quality of jade next to the stiff side is generally more delicate. This is because jade A compact structure is naturally formed when elements such as calcium and magnesium are precipitated. If the structure of jade is not compact enough, it is impossible to squeeze out elements such as calcium and magnesium. Similarly, if the structure of jade is not compact enough, stiffness will also erode. Into the jade meat.

Therefore, as long as the jade meat with stiff edges is not corroded, there is a high probability of high-quality jade meat.

In this way, people who gamble on jade will naturally look favorably on stiff materials, anyway, the price of gambling materials will definitely not be too expensive.

And betting on stones, how can it be called betting on stones without any risk?
Xu Jingxing had seen a lot of similar posts on the Internet. Although he had no practical experience, such a simple thing could be understood after just looking at it. It was not difficult.On the contrary, how to pick out the real good ingredients made him a little embarrassed.

He can sense the aura in jade, but the problem is that generally the aura content in jade is basically the same, especially when the size of the jade is small, the aura content is almost so small, even he can't tell it apart, unless it is That kind of high-quality jade, the content of aura in it will be significantly higher.

However, such jade itself is relatively rare, and the probability of appearing in gambling materials is even lower.

(End of this chapter)