Early the next morning, Li Yang took a taxi and looked for the address on his business card.
Cuiyuxuan is located in the ancient city of Mingyang in Suiyang District, Mingyang City. Mingyang is a famous historical city. The old ancient city is relatively well preserved. It is completely filled with antique buildings and is not a big place, but it is the most famous tourist attraction in Mingyang.
It was about seven or eight kilometers from the dormitory to the ancient city of Mingyang. It took Li Yang more than half an hour to reach the ancient city. If it weren't for the fact that he had to pass through the entire downtown area of Mingyang to get here from Li Yang's dormitory, it wouldn't have taken so long.
The taxi stopped outside the ancient city. The ancient city is a one-way street and taxis are not allowed to enter or leave.
The walls of the old city have a history of more than a thousand years and are still quite intact. Next to the old city is the famous Nanhu tourist area in Mingyang City. Although it is severe winter, there are not many people coming to Nanhu to visit the ancient city.
The area is even more crowded, and many roadside shops are busy and bustling.
Li Yang raised his head and glanced at the old city wall in front of him, then strode into the streets of the ancient city.
Li Yang has been here many times during his four years of college, and is no stranger to the ancient city. The interior of the ancient city looks like retro buildings, but in fact they are all imitations of later construction. The only truly historical things are those city walls.
The signboard of Cuiyuxuan is very big, and the store is also not small. Li Yang saw the big signboard before he walked far in the ancient city street. Although Cuiyuxuan is not as good as Anshi Jewelry, but their antique
The foundation is something that An’s jewelry does not possess.
"Hello sir, what do you need?"
As soon as Li Yang entered, a beautiful girl in cheongsam walked up and asked with a smile, "In terms of service alone, this place is no worse than An's Jewelry."
"Hello, my name is Li Yang, Mr. Zhang invited me here!" Li Yang smiled, looked around the store and saw no Zhang Wei, and then replied softly.
"Mr. Zhang is behind me. I'm going to send you a message. Please wait!"
The cheongsam girl glanced at Li Yang strangely, and then walked towards the back of the store. There was a small door at the back, but you couldn't tell it unless you looked carefully.
Taking advantage of the waiting time, Li Yang took a closer look at Cuiyuxuan. This place matched its name very well. The only products sold in the store were various jade stones.
From the outside, Cuiyuxuan looks simple and elegant, but when you are inside, it gives people a sense of grace and luxury. The space in the store is not large, but it is decorated very decently. The walls around
It is an exquisite ancient wall cabinet. The wall cabinets are not completely connected together, and the empty space in the middle is hung with very eye-catching ancient paintings.
On the wall cabinets, various jade articles of different sizes are placed in an orderly manner, including larger Buddha statues and smaller seat sculptures.
In front of the wall cabinet, there is a row of glass cabinets, which mostly contain bracelets, rings and pendants. Several young girls wearing cheongsam are standing in front of the glass cabinet, which is a unique sight.
Li Yang was watching. Zhang Wei, who had gone to An's Jewelry to find Li Yang yesterday, had come out from behind with a smile. He stepped forward and held Li Yang's hand enthusiastically: "I didn't expect Mr. Li to come so quickly. It just so happened that there was a meeting today.
Several friends from the association are coming over, let’s get to know each other!”
"Mr. Zhang, you are so polite. I want to learn from you!" Li Yang nodded. The purpose of coming to the Jade Association is to learn. He wants to learn anything related to jadeite gambling, so that he can know more like this
Of course he won't object to it.
"Let's discuss together, let's discuss together, Mr. Li, please come inside!" Zhang Wei shook his head with a smile, and walked inside with Li Yang as he spoke.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the back, several cheongsam girls in the store started talking to each other in surprise. This is the headquarters of the Mingyang Jade Association. There are usually many members of the Jade Association here. But those people are not in their thirties or forties.
Middle-aged people are those in their fifties or sixties. People as young as Li Yang are still the first. At first, they thought Li Yang was a descendant of Zhang Wei.
Through a short corridor through the back door, Li Yang followed Zhang Wei to a large courtyard. Li Yang did not expect that there was a courtyard twice as big as the front behind Cuiyu Pavilion in the ancient city.
The yard was very large, and there were some stones placed beside the wall. Li Yang was immediately stunned when he saw these stones, and then showed a hint of joy. These stones were obviously some stone gambling materials.
There is a pergola in the center of the yard, and under the pergola is a stone dissolving machine. Li Yang is no stranger to the stone dissolving machine. The size of this stone dissolving machine is similar to the one Li Yang encountered at the Qingdao Jewelry Exhibition.
There were already three people standing in front of the stone cutting machine. One of them, a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, was cutting a stone with glasses. After Zhang Wei and Li Yang came in, they both stood and watched. No one was watching.
say.
"Stuck!"
It took more than ten minutes for the stone to be cut. Everyone around them leaned their heads to look inside. Li Yang also followed them. At this time, Li Yang did not use his special ability to observe the stone being cut.
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"Pity!"
Next to Zhang Wei, an old man in his sixties shook his head regretfully. The middle-aged man who took off his glasses frowned and observed the piece of gambling stone that had been cut into two pieces. What he cut into was a half piece of gambling material.
, one side is already showing green, and the water head is pretty good, but it’s a pity that after cutting it open, there is nothing inside.
"Another piece has been crossed!" The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and shook his head. He took down the half-cut woolen material that was cut by the stone cutter, took out another smaller piece of half-finished woolen material from the box at his feet, and placed it again under the stonecutter.
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This gambling stone is slightly larger than a basketball. Judging from the cut-out skylight, it looks like an oily green with the highest water head. There is a little green on the cut surface, but it is not very good, it is a light melon skin green.
"This is Director Sima Lin of our Stone Association. He just came back from Pingzhou a few days ago and brought back three and a half pieces of gambling material. He has already solved one piece just now, and now he needs to solve the last piece!"
Zhang Wei leaned close to Li Yang's ear and introduced Li Yang in a low voice. Li Yang nodded lightly and rubbed his hands slowly.
Soon, a three-dimensional picture appeared in Li Yang's mind again. Several of them and the stones on the stone cutting machine all appeared in this three-dimensional picture.
Sima Lin had already cut, and Li Yang couldn't help but frowned. The piece of gambling stone that Sima Lin was cutting had a large piece of green in it. The place where Sima Lin cut was just a little bit in the middle, and the complete piece of green was cut.
Cut into two unequal pieces.
Li Yang estimated that if he took out all this green, he could make at least six or seven pairs of bracelets. However, because of Sima Lin's efforts, I am afraid that at least one or two pairs would have to be reduced. There would not be enough space left to make bracelets.
Make some small things like pendants and rings. The value should be reduced by at least 10% or 20%.
