Chapter 21 [Emerald Gambling Stone]
That night, I was so nervous that I was searching for gambling stone information online. Such books were rarely sold in the book market, so I could only hear from the Internet. I fell asleep in bed at midnight. After being woken up by the alarm bell in the early morning, I brushed my teeth and washed up, went to Qianmen Industrial and Commercial Bank to take out all the remaining funds, put them in the one-shoulder schoolbag I bought from the small commodity wholesale market last year, and took a car to the east of Panjiayuan Bridge.
It’s a long way to go, and the seal shop’s sign is vaguely visible, the aluminum alloy roller shutter door is closed and it is not open yet.
This street is located in a gap between two residential communities in the 1990s. Although it is not facing the street, the traffic is also very lively.
I didn't eat breakfast. I saw a few small vendors pushing carts on the side of the road selling fruits, so I went to buy a cantaloupe, washed it briefly with the automatic water spray head that was watering on the lawn, and put it into my mouth, and chewed it with the skin in big mouthfuls. Maybe I was a little excited. I ate the cantaloupe that was not very sweet and forgot to vomit the seeds.
Gambling stones is a very attractive business.
The so-called "grabbing a jade, getting rich overnight, and becoming a millionaire is not without a chance, but more of it is wiped out. The expensive raw stone wool material has completely become worthless waste stone.
Nine out of ten bets will lose, which is about the high risk of gambling stones.
Even with the development of technology today, there is still no high-tech instrument that can pass through thick weathered skin shells to see if there is jade inside the wool. Everyone can only observe and analyze the performance on the skin shells based on experience to increase the chance of wiping. However, as long as the wool is not cut open, everything is unknown. The word "gambling" will come from now on. I think that if I had not had a year more memory than others and inherited my father's conservative personality, I would never have entered the gambling circle in my life.
Hurry!
The silver roller shutter door was locked up.
Six or seven old men entered one after another, and jingling sounds came from the seal shop.
I looked in and saw two young men walking out with cutting machines. The people behind me were raising the stones one by one, some black, some yellow, and some gray. The appearance was no different from ordinary stones. This was probably jade wool, the large ones were dozens of kilograms and the small ones were as I inferred. Overall, the raw stones were not big in size.
After a while, the transparent glass window of the seal shop was filled with stones and calcite tools.
A few older northerners shouted at the streets and suddenly surrounded them to watch the fun.
"What are you doing?" An old man didn't understand.
"You have heard of jade gambling stones, that's it." The seller with a northern accent pointed to a pile of strange-shaped raw stones on the ground: "Look at this skin, it's absolutely a Myanmar old pit wool material. One fake one is fined ten. You can just watch it casually. It's not expensive, and you can also calcify it on the spot. If jade is released, we will buy it at the right price."
"So it was a gambling stone? It's the first time I saw you." Someone started calling relatives and friends. There were indeed few scenes of gambling stones.
The northern seller smiled and said, "This batch of wool was brought directly from Myanmar. I just arrived in Beijing last night, and the green yield is guaranteed to be high."
A person who knows how to do things next to me shook his head: "I'm so young after just getting it? I'm afraid someone else will pick the rest?"
"You don't know." The seller was not angry: "We have to consider the cost when doing small transactions. It is inconvenient to transport large items, so we picked up small pieces. Well, look at this piece and this piece..." He pointed to a few stones: "I don't need to say how the skin color is. If you wipe out a green glass type, let alone a car, you can earn back a house."
"How much does it cost?"
"Well, for example, this one." The seller bent down and picked up a piece of four pieces, weighing the amount of five pounds in his hand: "Five thousand."
"Tsk, it's okay to perform well in five thousand skin shells. You almost mean it, isn't it expensive?"
The seller smiled bitterly: "It's still a matter of cost. That's right. This stone is indeed not worth 5,000 from Myanmar or Yunnan. But have you calculated the transportation fee from one south and one north? We can basically not make money." Rare things are expensive. Since stone gambling businesses in Beijing are rare, the price of wool materials is not much cheaper.
I didn't say anything, but just squatted there and silently observing the dozens of jadeite rough stones.
A few people have already gone up to see the goods. There are prepared magnifying glasses on the ground. They look at them while looking, and they look quite professional.
Sizzling, Doukou shook.
I took out my cell phone and it was Jiang Yan's number, "Hey?"
"We are about to arrive at Panjiayuan, are you coming?" She said yesterday that she would organize university club activities today.
"Oh, I won't go."
"Come here to have fun, it's so lively together, where are you at home?"
As the saying goes, there is no airtight wall. If possible, I don’t plan to let too many people know that I’m playing and collecting it. Maybe it will be heard by my mom and dad. But when I think about it, although Pan’s home is big, it can’t be guaranteed to meet Jiang Yan and his group. What should I do if I meet her without hiding her?
"I'm also in Panjiayuan, where there is a place to bet on stones."
"What? Betting on stones?" Jiang Yan's voice was so excited: "Wait for me! Wait for me! Where is the specific location?"
"Five hundred meters east of the bridge, enter the fork in the southeast direction, and at the entrance of a seal shop." I knew she had to come.
"Okay, let's get there soon... Orange, get out of the car!"
When I hung up my phone, I suddenly found a middle-aged man paying for the seller, as if he had bought a piece of wool. My face turned pale and I patted my forehead in annoyance, and I secretly blamed myself for being distracted. My eyes quickly swept over the jadeite stone at his feet and exhaled. Fortunately, it was not the one I wanted to choose. The middle-aged man bought a larger piece of wool, which looked like a dozen pounds, with a black skin and gray, and the color was average.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd.
I touched my nose and felt a little moved. If history had not changed, a few days later, this man of unknown name would appear in the jade shop where I worked and briefly described the scene of the gambling stones to Boss Dou. Because it took too long, I could not guarantee that my memory was completely correct, but he said something that I was deeply impressed.
He said: "That man was really lucky. He didn't see green even if he had so many large pieces of wool. The smallest and most inconspicuous piece of material was painted with ice jade!"
In just one sentence, there are enough messages.
I don't know what he understood the most inconspicuous meaning, but the smallest wool material is obvious.
My eyes fell directly on a brown-yellow rough stone less than three kilograms, and walked over and held it in my hand, "Boss, how do you sell this?"
The boss turned his head and looked at it: "... Give it three thousand."
Chapter completed!