The renovation of the villa purchased by the Lu family was completed, and it took another two weeks for the paint smell to dissipate before they started moving.
During this period, Lu Cheng received a bracelet, a ring, and two green jade necklaces from Linlang Pavilion. In addition, there were also some small accessories, including earrings, safety buckles, jade rings, and slightly peculiar handicrafts.
A delicate jade cicada and a small jade gourd.
The bracelets and rings are very beautiful, and the necklace is also very attractive. If they were put up for auction, each one would be worth a lot of money. The total value of all the jades is at least 50 million, and if it is finished, it can reach hundreds of millions.
The price of jade is closely related to the prosperity of the country. A rising tide lifts all boats. A dilapidated courtyard house in Beijing can be sold for hundreds of millions. The price of jade is also rising all the way. As the number of raw jade stones decreases, it gradually tends to sky-high prices.
As early as 2020, the top jade bracelets and necklaces sold by auction houses in Beijing and Hong Kong. Among the top 10, the lowest price was more than 30 million! By 2028, the auction prices of top bracelets and necklaces have reached hundreds of millions. Of course, it has to be glass, imperial green, full green, etc.
The rough stone that Lu Cheng bought was not considered to be of the highest quality. It was not of the glass type, nor was it fully green. It could only be considered a semi-green high-ice type, which was still a little short of the glass type. However, even so, it was still a rare treasure.
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For ordinary people, let alone a semi-green bracelet, if it can have a slight green tint and reach the texture of a waxy species, it is considered a good jadeite.
There were so many good jade in history, why are there becoming less and less? Because jade is not a gold or silverware, and it may break if you accidentally knock it.
The only source of jade that is considered to be of gem quality is Myanmar. It has been excavated since the Ming and Qing Dynasties and transported to China by mules and horses. After years of excavation, many mine pits have been dug out.
It takes tens of millions of years to produce jade. After the old mines were abandoned, the quality of the new mines was too low. As a result, rare jade gradually became a legend.
Lu Cheng opened his heavenly orifice and could sense the spiritual energy hidden in jade. As long as there was good jade in the raw stone, he could feel it. He made two consecutive purchases and failed to buy the glass type, imperial green, because there was no such kind of jade on the market.
Plant extremely high-quality rough stones! He will go to Jieyang, Ruili, and even Myanmar to touch more rough stones in order to get better jade.
To be honest, what Lu Cheng values most is not how much the jade can be sold for, but how to carve runes on the jade so that the jade can be transformed into a magic weapon, such as a storage magic weapon, a defensive magic weapon, an attack magic weapon, etc. In modern society, if there are no monsters, there will be no monster skins. If there are no monster skins, there will be no way to make talismans.
Previously, Lu Cheng had tried gold foil, silver foil, tin foil, etc. Although these things could write runes, they could not communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and could not activate the power of the runes.
In addition, he also cooperated with Luo Tao and Zhuo Muqing's laboratory, trying to integrate runes into computer chips. However, the results were good and bad, sometimes effective and sometimes ineffective. Luo Tao broke several motors.
, the final conclusion has not yet been reached.
After Lu Cheng moved to his new home, he built a workshop in the basement, put out a small CNC multifunctional jade carving machine and related jade carving tools, and started practicing with the cheapest Daishan jade.
There are several types of Daishan jade, including Daishan black jade, which has a fine texture, black and crystal clear color, and is opaque. It is mostly used for the processing of large-scale handicrafts; Daishan jasper, which has a crystal-clear and warm texture, a grease-to-glass luster, and appears green and dark green under natural light.
The light is as transparent as summer lotus, with grass green, dark green, dark green and other colors, especially green is the best; Daishan jade: also known as white cloud jade, the color is as clean as snow, with light green lines in between; Daishan rosewood jade, also known as red
Jade, triple jade, jade color red, purple, rare.
Since he was practicing, he started with inferior products and gradually moved on to black jade and jasper.
He cut the Daishan jade into thin pieces and carved runes on the jade slips.
"First Witch Thousand Words", "Little Witch Wen" and "Great Witch Chant" as well as the runes unearthed from the Wulian Tomb were all taken by him as photos and saved in the computer through image-text conversion software. As long as he called up the characters he wanted,
You can machine carve it through a CNC jade carving machine.
Not counting the runes unearthed from Wulian Tomb, Lu Cheng had a total of 9,000 runes in his hand. He divided these runes into multiple categories, and then tried little by little, first carving individual runes, and then arranging and combining them.
This process is very long and cannot be completed in a few months.
When I first started trying, the jade slips would often break halfway through carving the runes.
Lu Cheng analyzed carefully and felt that Daishan jade was not pure enough and had many black spots in it, so he tried Russian blue and white jade and Canadian Arctic jade. However, Arctic jade was not good either, just like Daishan jade. Russian blue and white jade was slightly better. p>
So, Lu Cheng placed an order online and bought some blue and white jade, cutting it into jade slips and using them to carve runes.
After many attempts, he finally made an amulet.
He hung the amulet on a tree, then hit the tree with his fist, and found that the amulet could be activated three times, with a protective range of about three feet and a protection strength of less than a thousand kilograms.
After hitting it three times, the jade talisman was broken.
Despite this, Lu Cheng was still happy and tried to carve new runes more diligently.
Then he made a "Wind Talisman", wore it on his body, and activated it, which doubled his running speed to about 4 seconds for 100 meters, and it could last for an hour, enough for him to finish a marathon! Lu Cheng became increasingly happy and in a great mood, and couldn't help but laugh "haha".
Rao Yuqiu walked into the basement, heard him laughing "haha", and laughed too: "Son, what's so funny about you hiding here alone?"
"I'm so happy! I feel like I've achieved a lot!"
"What have you accomplished?"
Lu Cheng couldn't tell the truth, so he took out the jade gift from Linlang Pavilion and said, "Mom, I got a lot of good jadeite. You choose a bracelet first, and then a necklace!"
Rao Yuqiu was surprised: "When did you get so many bracelets? They are so beautiful. Half of them are dazzling green, and the other half are ice-green flowers. Such bracelets are rare on the market. Let me count them.
,How many do you have here?"
"There are 18 in total. Mom, you can pick two and keep one for my little sister."
"To your sister? It's still early."
"A bracelet like this can be made into a family heirloom."
"Then I really made a choice?"
"There are so many, you can choose whatever you want."
Rao Yuqiu picked two bracelets and did not go for the necklace. In her opinion, the bracelets can be worn occasionally and hidden in the sleeves, while the necklaces are too luxurious and eye-catching and cannot be worn by ordinary people. p>
"Son, someone called me this afternoon and said it was Jin Dachang from Jindian Auction House. He asked you to attend the auction on the eve of the Spring Festival in Quancheng at 1 p.m. on Saturday."
"Oh, I got it."
"In addition, Jiang Qiuyun just called and said that she is going to have a winter vacation soon. Will she have a holiday for the Spring Festival?"
"I'll call you later. I'll also have a holiday during the Spring Festival, but it's only for two weeks."
The signal in the basement was not good, so Lu Cheng walked out and called Jiang Qiuyun.
Jiang Qiuyun said that she will be on vacation next week and can return to Daicheng this Friday night.
Lu Cheng said: "I'm going to Quancheng on Saturday. Can you wait one more night to accompany me to the auction and then come back together?"
Jiang Qiuyun smiled and said: "Okay, I happen to have some gifts that I want to take back. Please help me carry them."