Chapter 113 The Value of Jade

"Not yet, are there any cheaper cards that can be used temporarily?" Yang Ming asked: "We may not be here for many days!"

"Then buy the China Travel Volkswagen Card. It is unlicensed. If there is no Monthly Clan, you can use it if you recharge it!" The salesperson introduced: "Call two cents are called, answer the phone for free, and the long-distance additional dial of 12593 is Sanqian!"

"Okay, just do this." Yang Ming nodded, thinking it was very cost-effective.

"The card number fee is 30, the recharge card is 100, and the total is 130 yuan." The salesperson said: "This is the number list, you can choose the number! As long as the last number does not contain asterisks and triangles, it is OK. The symbols are auspicious numbers, and there is a bonus. However, if you use them temporarily, there is no need to do so!"

Yang Ming randomly chose a random one with a 3401 last name and Lan Ling's 3402. When opening a card in the China Travel Card, you don't have to wait. You can use it directly after evaluating the value. After testing, you can make a call. Yang Ming paid directly.

Because the mobile phone card does not involve any three-guarantee issues, you don’t need to issue an invoice and just give the money.

Yang Ming took out the warranty card and accessories and put them in Lan Ling's small bag, and threw away the packaging box directly. Although these things are available, it will be easier to sell when sold as second-hand in the future, Yang Ming does not expect to sell a mobile phone worth more than 200 yuan.

After leaving, Yang Ming called Zhang Bin.

"Hey? Who?" Zhang Bin asked strangely, looking at the number he didn't recognize.

"Hello, this is Hong Kong Dabin Group. Your mobile phone number won the second prize..." Yang Ming said seriously.

"Get out, I don't believe it! If you hit me again, call the police... Well? Yang Ming?" Zhang Bin suddenly felt that the other party's voice was so familiar: "Damn, why is it you!"

"Ha, I didn't expect you to react so much. Could it be that you were fooled?" Yang Ming said with a smile.

"A fool is fooled!" Zhang Bin said: "Since I have a cell phone, I have answered more than ten such harassing phone calls and harassing text messages!"

"This is my mobile phone number. I just bought it. Call me if you have something to do!" Yang Ming said.

"Okay, where are you?" Zhang Bin asked.

"I'm going to go to the bookstore!" Yang Ming said: "What, is there anything wrong?"

"No, you guys go for a walk. I'll have a sleep later. Don't call me if you're fine!" Zhang Bin ordered.

After hanging up the phone, Yang Ming asked Lan Ling: "Do you know where there is a bookstore nearby?"

"You want to buy books?" Lan Ling was slightly stunned. How could he go out to travel and buy books?

"Well, buy some books on jade knowledge." Yang Ming did not hide it from Lan Ling.

"So that's it!" Lan Ling nodded: "There is a Xinhua Bookstore on Nanmen Street, Wu Street. By the way, Yang Ming, you haven't told me what happened this morning! I just returned to the hotel and was just like you, and I forgot to ask!"

"Who told you to have unhealthy thoughts! Little lustful girl!" Yang Ming patted Lan Ling's little butt and said.

"I just think about it myself, if you don't want it, I can't do anything! If you are not strong, I can't do anything to you even if you are exhausted!" Lan Ling said in a low voice in Yang Ming's ear.

Damn! Isn’t this seducing people!

Lan Ling easily noticed Yang Ming’s inappropriateness and said angrily: “Look, I don’t know who is full of unhealthy minds. I just thought about it on the street!”

"Look at how I punish you tonight!" Yang Ming glared at Lan Ling fiercely.

"Welcome, warm welcome!" Lan Ling jumped like a child, with a very happy expression.

Yang Ming was helpless and had to change the topic: "What happened in the morning?"

"When you bet on stones in the morning, how do you know the quality of the jade inside the stone? It should be your first contact today, right?" Lan Ling asked strangely: "Do you have the same intuition as me?"

"That's not. I'm a lucky person!" Yang Ming hadn't decided whether to tell Lan Ling about his abilities. After all, this is not a trivial matter!

"I won't tell me!" Lan Ling flattened her mouth with an expression of not being very happy.

"It's not that I won't tell you, but my situation is quite special and not easy to describe!" Yang Ming made an excuse for himself. What happened to Yang Ming was indeed very strange, but it was not indescribable, but it was just a bit troublesome.

"Okay!" Lan Ling let Yang Ming go. However, she didn't take it seriously, and forgot about it again after a while.

Because of the special nature of Tengchong's geographical location and trade, Xinhua Bookstore has many books on jade. Jade is like a culture here. As a Tengchong native, if you don't know any jade at all, you'd be a little ashamed!

According to the sign at the door, Yang Ming and Lan Ling easily found a counter for jade books. Here, there were several readers, one of whom looked like a scholar, who was about fifty years old.

Looking at the dazzling array of books, Yang Ming had a headache. He felt this way when he bought lip language textbooks. Now people's living standards are too high and their spiritual culture is richer, but accordingly, there are more cultural products that are just filling in the gaps.

If it is prose, novels, comics, villains, etc., it doesn’t matter if you brag about it or talk about it, but if you make up academic books, it will be a little wrong!

Nowadays, there are quite a few such "professional" books. It doesn't matter if you just piece them together. If you can't learn them after reading them, you can't learn anything bad. I'm afraid that those who don't know how to pretend to be nonsense will be full of fallacies in the books you write. Isn't this misleading people's children!

Yang Ming was a little confused after reading a few books. It was really a person and one point of view. Each author has different understandings of jade. It can be said that it is very different. How can I read this book?

Lan Ling’s ability to know jade is entirely based on his feelings, and he also knows the ten or nine orifices of jade, but he doesn’t know anything.

"What's wrong, young man, look at your frowning look?" The old man who was learning this way suddenly asked.

"Old sir, I want to study jade's knowledge, but I don't know which book to read!" Yang Ming saw that he had been searching for books here for a long time, and asked with the idea of ​​giving it a try: "But I found that many books have different views, and I don't know what to do!"

"Haha! It turns out that it's because of this!" The old man smiled and said, "What's so worrying about this! Most of the books you are talking about are appreciation books. Many of these books are written by collectors. Personal interests, hobbies, and visions are different, so the views you write will naturally be different!"

"But, isn't the value of jade the ultimate right? " Yang Ming said in confusion.

"Not necessarily! To a certain extent, what they said can indeed be used as a reference for the value evaluation of a piece of jade, but it is not exactly the case!" As he said that, the old man took out a book "Hetian Jade Appreciation" from the bookshelf, turned on one of the pages, pointed to the photo above and said: "It's like these two jade bracelets! If you look closely, the materials used for these two bracelets are almost the same. Look here, there is a texture evaluation report!"

Yang Ming took a look and found that it was true. The textures of the two were almost exactly the same, but the price evaluated above was as much as 2 million!

"See it? I wonder why this connoisseur praised one bracelet but said it to the other?" asked the old man.

Yang Ming shook his head, how could he know this? If he knew, he would not be distressed!

"Haha, young man, the texture of jade is important, but the person who carves it is also important! The carving techniques of these two jade bracelets are different. If you look carefully, the one with the highest evaluation is very fine, while the other is very rough!" the old man explained.

"Ah! So that's it!" Yang Ming suddenly realized! He just paid attention to the difference in the quality of the jade, and ignored its carving process. "I said, why is the price difference between jade of the same texture so big!"

"Yes, the carving of this bracelet may be a novice. To put it bluntly, this piece of jade made him blind!" The old man shook his head with some regret.

"I understand!" Yang Ming nodded: "Well, what book do you think a beginner like me should read?"

"If you are interested in jade, you can start learning from the texture of jade. For example, this book is more suitable for you!" The old man took out a book with a not-so-beautiful cover from the corner of the bookshelf and handed it to Yang Ming.
Chapter completed!