After Mengzi heard Zhuang Rui's words, he scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I saw a fish in the river just now, so I wanted to pick it up with a basket. Who knew that I didn't stand firm and fell down?"
When I fell, my eyes happened to see this stone, so I fished it up..."
Mengzi's words made everyone look at each other, speechless. After searching for a long time, they couldn't find any jade as big as a thumb. Mengzi fell into the river and actually picked up a piece of jade. This luck made everyone feel a bit lucky.
Ashamed.
"Brother Zhuang, you haven't said yet whether this is jade material."
After Mengzi answered, he asked Zhuang Rui, he is an honest man, he only has a lot of strength, and basically knows nothing about identifying jade. If he hadn't happened to see the jade flesh exposed just now, he probably wouldn't have known this.
It's made of jade.
Mengzi was very practical and followed Tiezi and the others into the mountains. He knew that he could only help move some things and would not be of much use. So after finding this piece of jade, he was very excited and felt that he could also make some contribution to the team.
Already.
"It's jade. You see, the color of this jade is white, the texture is pure, delicate, and the luster is moist. It can be called a high-quality variety of Hetian jade. This piece is big enough to be worth at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan...
…”
Zhuang Rui pointed to the exposed jade flesh and explained it to Mengzi. He did not use his spiritual energy to see the inside, but made a judgment based on the external performance of the jade material.
"Ah! Really? Great, Brother Dazhi, Brother Tiezi, we have made money..."
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Mengzi jumped up like a child. When he wanted to go into the mountains a few years ago, some people always thought he was stubborn and were unwilling to take him, so this was his first time.
Shan, if you can find such a piece of wool, Mengzi has proven his worth.
"Mr. Zhuang is right. This piece of jade is of good quality. Although the jade meat is unlikely to penetrate too deep, with this piece of material, our trip to the mountain was not in vain..."
Tiezi also had a smile on his face. An experienced person could tell the quality of this piece of jade at a glance. His judgment was similar to that of Zhuang Rui. It was just that the sugar-coated material was used, and the jade meat was usually in the middle. This piece of skin
The jade meat appeared. I'm afraid the material is not very big. It is probably as big as what you see in front of you.
"It's not that we went into the mountain in vain, but everyone made a small fortune. According to my experience, at least fifteen centimeters can penetrate into this piece of jade meat, and the jade surface is twice as big as this."
As soon as Tiezi finished speaking, Zhuang Rui added that his so-called experience was naturally due to the aura in his eyes when Tiezi spoke just now.
Through the spiritual energy, Zhuang Rui saw that the exposed jade flesh extended four to five centimeters to the left and right sides, and penetrated downwards for more than ten centimeters. It could be regarded as a large piece of jade, but this piece of jade did not have the ability to
Like that piece of mutton-fat jade, it has the effect of nourishing the aura in the eyes.
According to the current market conditions of the nephrite jade, this piece of white jade should be worth around one million. One million can be divided into five parts. For Zhuang Rui, it seems that it can only be regarded as a small fortune.
"Brother Zhuang, how much is the small fortune you are talking about?"
Mengzi scratched his head. He basically didn't understand what Zhuang Rui said about the performance of jade materials, but he still knew what the word "get rich" meant.
"Brother Zhuang, you...you...are you telling the truth?"
Tiezi interrupted Mengzi's question. He who had always called Zhuang Rui "sir" now also called out the word "brother". His somewhat dark face actually glowed red, showing his excitement.
To a certain extent.
Tiezi is not as stupid as Mengzi. He has stayed in Xinjiang for almost twenty years and has been collecting jade in the mountains for more than ten years. He knows the prices of the jade market very well. He knows that if Zhuang Rui is right,
Then this piece of jade can be sold for a sky-high price.
Zhuang Rui's talk of making a small fortune is a sky-high price in the minds of Tiezi and others. This is also determined by their economic foundation. It's no wonder that Tiezi is so excited. Zhang Dazhi and Wang Fei,
There was also joy on his face, only Mengzi looked at Zhuang Rui in confusion, waiting for his answer.
"It shouldn't be wrong, Mengzi, please bring that grinder over."
Zhuang Rui nodded affirmatively. Before he entered the mountain, he asked Mr. Gu to help him find a pocket grinder with a compressed battery. Zhang Dazhi and others originally had some objections to him bringing this thing, but now it is just right
It came in handy.
"Brother Zhuang, are you sure?"
Seeing that the grinding wheel on the grinder was already turning, Tie Zi grabbed Zhuang Rui's arm. It wasn't that he couldn't trust Zhuang Rui this time, but that this piece of jade was too valuable for the few of them.
You must know that nephrite is much more fragile than jade. If you are not careful, the jade inside may be destroyed. As mentioned before, the story of jade and stone burning together, Tie Zi and the others are afraid that Zhuang Rui will destroy this piece of material.
Already.
Jade collectors attach great importance to the integrity of jade materials. In ancient times, after picking up relatively large jade materials from the mountains, in order to prevent the jade from being damaged, they had to kill a donkey and wrap the jade with donkey skin.
They were tied up with multiple ropes and then transported to the capital.
Since fresh donkey skin is used to wrap the jade, the blood stains on it will soak into the jade along the gaps in the jade. As long as the officials responsible for purchasing jade in the capital see the blood-soaked jade, they will assume that the jade is intact.
However, after that, many jade players often wrapped the jade in the skin of a slaughtered dog or donkey. Some also buried it in the ground for several years to let the blood soak into it better. This is also the fake blood jade.
origin.
"Don't worry, it's not wrong. If the jade inside is damaged, I will compensate everyone for how much this jade is worth."
Zhuang Rui smiled confidently. Are you kidding? He has unwrapped hundreds of millions of jadeite pieces. Needless to say, such a small piece of jade material, Zhuang Rui really didn't take it seriously in his heart.
Tiezi was a little embarrassed by Zhuang Rui's words, and quickly let go of his hand, and said with some embarrassment: "Okay, brother Zhuang, come on, don't say whether you will pay or not, I believe you..."
The gears on the pocket grinder were a little too small to cut the jade from the middle, so Zhuang Rui polished the sugar skin along the place where the jade flesh came out. The exposed white jade area on the left and right was exactly what Zhuang Rui said.
It was exactly right, Zhang Dazhi, Tie Zi and others all had happy faces on their faces.
After wiping it open horizontally, Zhuang Rui used a grinder to cut it in depth bit by bit. The piece of jade was not very big. After more than half an hour, a piece of white jade weighing about ten kilograms appeared in front of everyone.
This piece of jade is square in shape, with the same width at the top and bottom. The whole piece of jade has a lot of internal light. Even under the sunlight, it still gives people a thick and warm feeling. If the color was not slightly green, it could almost be called
It is considered to be the finest white jade.
"Brother Zhuang, I am convinced..."
Seeing that Zhuang Rui had taken out the jade material so completely, and that the volume, weight and fineness of the jade material were all the same as what Zhuang Rui had said before, Tiezi also gave Zhuang Rui a thumbs up.
Although this piece of jade can be untied when you bring it back, it is completely different to bring a piece of jade that weighs ten kilograms and a piece of wool that weighs forty or fifty kilograms. Now this piece of jade can be carried by one person. If
If it is not untied, two people will be needed to carry it away.
"Mengzi, stop looking for jade, put this piece of material in your backpack, and just watch it from here."
Zhang Dazhi also had a little vibrato when he spoke, which was caused by excitement. If such a piece of jade was taken back and sold, no one would be able to get at least 200,000 yuan. For them, this was unimaginable before.
"Um!"
Mengzi nodded heavily, took out a blanket, tightly wrapped the jade material several times, put it in his backpack, held it firmly in his arms, and was unwilling to let go for a moment.
Zhang Dazhi and others all stood up and prepared to look for Yu again, but Tiezi suddenly said to Zhuang Rui: "Brother Zhuang, don't go looking for Yu, sit here and chat with Mengzi."
Zhang Dazhi and Wang Fei also nodded. Zhuang Rui's role had been confirmed just now, and his previous performance was indeed that he was not very good at picking jade, so Tie Zi said something to let Zhuang Rui rest.
"Okay, if you see a rock you're not sure about, just call me."
Zhuang Rui thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. The reflection by the river during the day was too strong, and he could not use his spiritual energy to identify whether there was jade in the stones. It would be better to take a rest and wait until night to slowly search for it.
With the episode of Mengzi picking jade, Tiezi and others became very relaxed. This piece of jade can make a huge change in their future lives, so they no longer have the same worry about gains and losses as before coming here. Very soon
He was happily sifting jade stones by the river, and Wang Fei sang a few Xinjiang folk songs from time to time.
It's just that the luck of the three of them was obviously not as good as that of Mengzi. After working for three or four hours, the baskets behind them were still empty. Only Tiezi held a fist-sized piece of sapphire in his hand. The quality of the jade was very average.
It's worth a thousand or eight hundred yuan at most.
Both Zhang Dazhi and Wang Fei have had several jade-picking experiences, and they have long been mentally prepared for this situation. In addition, with the piece of jade that Mengzi picked, there is no expression of depression, and Wang Fei is even more so.
Showing off his skills with marksmanship, he shot a wild goat, skinned and cleaned it, lit a bonfire, and ate a delicious roasted whole goat.
If you spend the night in this canyon, the bonfire will not go out. After dinner, the sky has completely darkened. It is already the end of June. Although the night is very good, the crescent moon in the sky is like a thin hook.
The visibility in the canyon is not very high.
"Dazhi, what are you doing?"
Zhuang Rui picked up the basket and hiking poles and was about to go to the river, but he found that Zhang Dazhi and others were also fully armed, looking like they were going to pick jade.
Seeing Zhuang Rui's strange expression, Zhang Dazhi smiled and said: "Brother Zhuang, when the jade is illuminated by the moon at night, it will have a faint light. Let's try our luck..."
In Xinjiang, many people go to pick jade before dawn or after dusk. This is also a custom passed down for thousands of years. As for whether anyone picks jade at night, I don't know.
The few of them were more than a hundred meters apart, without turning on the flashlight. They stepped on the warm stones by the river under the moonlight, staring at the ground. However, this method has been used many times by predecessors.
, I walked three or four kilometers without finding a single piece of jade.
Zhuang Rui was walking at the front. He spread out the spiritual energy in his eyes, covering the places he could see. Although he also found a few shimmering jade stones, the quality of these jade stones was too poor. Zhuang Rui
No one is interested in picking it up.
"Brother Zhuang, let's stop here today. Let's go back."
Picking jade is a very boring thing, and for Zhuang Rui, it is even more boring to have a cheating device but no cheating materials. When Zhang Dazhi's shout came to his ears, Zhuang Rui was on the way home.
Simply let the spiritual energy escape into the ground and look deeper.
"Huh?"
Zhuang Rui's unintentional move immediately surprised him, because he found that under a big stone on the ground, there was actually a colorful light shining, and the aura emanating from it showed that the quality of this jade stone should be good.
Zhuang Rui was well-informed about jade. He had never heard of the seven-color jade. He walked to the big stone and estimated it. He felt that he could move it, so he did not call Zhang Dazhi and others.
He pushed the boulder away with force.
The stone that appeared in front of Zhuang Rui was the size of a football. Even without the aura in his eyes, a faint fluorescence could be seen in the night. Zhuang Rui picked it up and found that there was a thin layer of colored skin on the outside of the stone.
, What makes Zhuang Rui feel weird the most is that the colors of these skins are very mixed, just like what he saw before, there are various colors.
Zhang Dazhi was greeting Zhuang Rui again in the front. Without looking carefully, Zhuang Rui put the piece of jade into the basket and continued to walk forward. This time he has gained experience. Whenever he uses spiritual energy again, he will look underground.
A few meters deep, and sure enough, he found a few pieces of jade that were not buried deep, all of good quality.
When Zhuang Rui returned to the campfire, there were thirteen more pieces of jade in the basket behind him, two of which were the size of footballs, and the basket was already full.
"Brother Zhuang, this...you picked this all up?"
When Zhuang Rui poured the basket of jade materials on the ground, Tie Zi and others were shocked. They worked for a long time and failed to pick up a piece of jade material, but they did not expect Zhuang Rui's silent move.
Find so many jade.
"Yes, I first found this jade under a stone. Then I opened the stone to look for it, and found so much. Let's take a look. The quality of these jade is pretty good..."
In fact, there are far more than these ten pieces of jade underground, but some are buried too deep, Zhuang Rui cannot take them out, and some are of poor quality. Zhuang Rui picks them up lazily. Now, these more than ten pieces are all of good quality.
Yes, it is certainly not as good as the one from Mengzi, but if you add up more than ten yuan, it can be worth five to six million yuan.
"Oh, we are so stupid, why don't we want to dig up some rocks to find them?" After listening to Zhuang Rui's words, Tie Zi patted himself on the head hard.
As an old jade miner, Tiezi knew that rivers like this at the mountain pass have been washed by mountains and rivers for thousands of years. There are countless stones washed down from the mountains accumulated below, and on both sides of the river, there are naturally
The same is true. The jade on the surface may have been picked up by someone, but there may be some good stuff underneath.
"Dazhi, Wang Fei, let's go back..."
After figuring out this joint, Tie Zi jumped up from the ground, grabbed the basket, and ran towards the river. Unexpectedly, they were not willing to waste a moment. Zhang Dazhi and Wang Fei looked at each other, stood up and followed Tie Zi.
Go behind the bus and walk towards the river.
In fact, these three people were a little embarrassed. There were five people entering the mountain this time. Needless to say, Mengzi would definitely not have brought him with them if they had not carried too many supplies. Zhuang Rui is an expert in jade appraisal, and
They don't know how to pick jade, but these two amateurs have collected jade worth nearly two million.
This also made Tie Zi, Zhang Dazhi and others who claimed to be veteran jade collectors feel a little disgraceful. As a result, the three of them were the ones getting money for nothing without working.
Zhuang Rui saw what these people were thinking and didn't say much. He didn't care much about the million. He also wanted to experience the fun of picking jade when he went into the mountains. Zhuang Rui had already seen what he saw along the way.
It feels very worthwhile.
With nothing else going on, Zhuang Rui picked up the colorful jade that he had not looked at carefully and observed it carefully. The outer skin of this piece of jade was very thin, only a few millimeters thick, and it was entirely filled with jade flesh.
The quality of the jade meat is quite good, and the spiritual energy contained in it is only a little worse than the mutton-fat white jade Zhuang Rui saw. However, these jade meats are of different colors and shades, and they are also entangled and intertwined, making it difficult to separate them.
Break it down.
However, this was the first piece of jade that Zhuang Rui had picked up with his own hands. He wanted to keep it by himself and show the old man what ornaments he could carve out. However, they all went to pick jade at this time. Zhuang Rui
Rui had to wait for them to come back and discuss it before making a decision. After all, they had agreed before that all the jade they collected would be divided equally.
Looking at Mengzi who was sleeping soundly next to the bonfire, Zhuang Rui was not sleepy at all. He felt a little cold while sitting on the ground. Zhuang Rui simply stood up and walked towards the entrance of the river.
The river water formed by the melted snow on the mountain had already become very fast when it rushed down the mountain. It seemed that a sharp ax had been used to cut both sides of the river into a ravine seven or eight meters wide, and the water rushed down.
, splashing droplets of water mist like pearls.
Zhuang Rui stood at the mouth of the river and used his spiritual energy to find a few more jade stones, but found nothing.
Inadvertently looking at the rock wall that looked like a mountain gate, Zhuang Rui was stunned because he saw that five or six meters deep on the rock wall, there were several rocks wrapped in magma-like rocks.
