"Okay, Boss Qin, you are also my first business today."!
Although Li Yonghu didn't care much about the rough stones on the ground, he still cheered up and said: "Boss Qin, you can pick them first. I will give you a preferential price later."
This business of rough stones actually has many similarities with the business of antique stores. Although there are many rough stones placed under each shed, the really valuable ones have been placed elsewhere by the boss.
"Boss Li, please tell me the price first."
Qin Feng squatted down, picked up a flat stone the size of a baby's palm, put it on it with a strong flashlight and looked at it, then shook his head and said: "These things of yours are too bad, aren't they? They are so thin.
The stones are actually not transparent to light..."
"Yes, yes, but Boss Qin, you don't want it."
Li Yonghu was also full of grievances and said: "The rough stones on the ground cost one hundred and fifty yuan per catty. Boss Qin, this price is really not expensive. You know, these are all authentic Ma Meng old pits..."
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"One hundred and fifty yuan per catty? Okay, I'll buy some."
Qin Feng nodded, took a bamboo basket next to the table in his middle hand, and walked around under the shed as if he were buying vegetables at a vegetable market. When he saw a rough stone he liked, he put it in the basket.
"This...is this jadeite trading?"
Zhu Kai, who came to such a place for the first time, was dumbfounded. Originally, gambling on stones was a bit mysterious in his mind, but when the veil was lifted, he couldn't help but be disappointed.
"Kaizi, why don't you buy a few pieces to play with..."
Seeing the expression on Zhu Kai's face, Huang Bingyu couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's nothing to gamble for a while. If you're lucky, you might be able to earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan..."
Generally speaking, the larger the size of the jadeite with excellent stone skin, the higher the price. Just like the python-patterned rough stone, which weighs only more than 30 kilograms, Li Yonghu offered a price of 700,000 yuan, and it has already reached 20,000 yuan.
A pound of money.
But this does not mean that there are no good things in those small rough stones. If a fist-sized rough stone can be cut into high-quality jadeite, it is not impossible to earn hundreds of thousands at once.
"Okay, then I'll choose a few pieces too."
Zhu Kai was intrigued by what Huang Bingyu said, and he squatted down, but was kicked from behind by Qin Feng, and said: "You can just cut the stone later, I have chosen seven or eight yuan...
"
Li Yonghu's stall had a total of twenty or thirty rough stones, but Qin Feng's basket contained less than half of them. Thinking about it, Zhu Kai immediately followed Qin Feng to the scale in front of the table.
"Boss Qin, you have chosen eight rough stones, totaling twenty-one and a half kilograms..."
Li Yonghu operated the scale, pointed to the number on it, and said: "The one and a half kilograms should be regarded as the weight of the basket. I erased it. The total is twenty kilograms, which is three thousand yuan..."
"Just these eight broken stones are worth three thousand?"
Looking at the few jet black stones in the basket, Zhu Kai curled his lips. Now he even couldn't believe that jadeite was cut from such things.
"Young man, the buns have meat but not in the pleats..." After hearing Zhu Kai's words, Li Yonghu said to him: "Do you know why so many people like to gamble on stones?"
"You know, isn't it just for excitement?" Zhu Kai thinks so himself. People who like gambling certainly have more risk-taking factors in their genes.
"There is such a aspect, but it is not entirely..."
Li Yonghu shook his head and said: "As the saying goes, it is difficult for an immortal to break an inch of jade. At present, there is no technology, and any expert can completely determine the color and value of a rough stone..."
This unknown and uncertainty is the essential reason for the enduring popularity of the mysterious and exciting activity of stone gambling."
"Okay, Boss Li, don't stop developing and offline here."
Qin Feng smiled and counted out three thousand yuan and handed it to Li Yonghu. He said with a smile: "If you don't know, you might think you are doing a pyramid scheme. You have exposed so many pyramid schemes, so you can also develop into a stone bet...
"
"Boss Qin, aren't you trying to bully me?"
Li Yonghu took the stack of money and said: "Usually, the public security was very good, but it was all messed up by those who were involved in pyramid schemes. Now I don't dare to go out at night."
"The government must take control, otherwise it will have a great impact on the local economy..."
Qin Feng smiled, picked up the basket of rough stones from the scale, and said, "I'm going to unpack the stones. Do you want Boss Li to come and take a look?"
"Of course I have to read it." Li Yonghu laughed loudly: "Boss Qin, do you want me to help you solve it?"
Li Yonghu knew that basically all the jadeite in his stall came from Ma Meng Lao Pit, and the chances of jadeite being cut out of it were very high, so he didn't mind letting others see the stone-cutting process in order to promote his stall.
"Boss Li, I'll do it myself..." Qin Feng shook his head with a smile and said, "How can you do something as exciting as unraveling stones by someone else?"
Cutting stone can also be called cutting stone or rubbing stone.
All in all, whether cutting or polishing the stone, the stone skin of the original stone must be peeled off to expose the jadeite inside. It is just the action of cutting the stone! You can see the situation inside the original stone directly!
When rubbing stones, you rub them in bit by bit, and stop immediately when you see jadeite. This method of removing stones is generally used by experienced hands.
In the whole process of gambling on stones, unraveling the stones is undoubtedly the climax, so when Li Yonghu deliberately amplified his voice and said that he wanted to unravel the stones, he immediately attracted a lot of attention.
"Boss Li, aren't you afraid of losing the hundreds of thousands of rough stones?" Seeing Li Yonghu following him to the stone cutting machine, Qin Feng couldn't help but smile and joke.
"We can't throw it away, we are all our own people here.
Li Yonghu didn't even glance at his own piece of rough stone. The area enclosed by the fence was almost entirely filled with people from the village of Yangmei. And even if someone like Qin Feng brought it in as a guarantee, outsiders couldn't enter at all.
Come.
"Young man, do you want to cut stones?"
When Qin Feng and others arrived at the stone cutting machine, Uncle Li Liu, who was originally standing at the fence gate selling tickets, was already standing next to the stone cutting machine.
"Yes, stone cutting."
Qin Feng glanced at Uncle Six who was desperate for money, reluctantly took out fifty yuan and handed it over, saying: "Uncle Six, my stone is so small, it can't be worth one fifty yuan, then I will
I'll pay you to death."
"Don't worry, is Uncle Liu such a stingy person?" Uncle Liu looked at Qin Feng with a smile and said, "It's fifty fifty for one use. The more you buy, the more cost-effective it will be."
“The more you buy, the more you lose.”
Qin Feng whispered in his mouth, picked up a piece of black sand about the size of a fist and weighed about three or four kilograms, fixed it on the machine, and reached out to turn on the power of the cutting machine.
"Hey, Qin Feng, I don't have the ability to decipher rocks like you."
Seeing Qin Feng's actions, Li Yongqian, who had not spoken much since entering the trading place, quickly grabbed Qin Feng and said: "This stone is not big. You can use a grinder to wipe it from the side first. There is no need to rush. cut……"
"Yes, young man, please clean the stone first and then remove it. Don't make any mistake in the procedure."
"Boss Song is right. If you play stone gambling like you do, no matter how good the material is, it will be ruined."
When the alloy gears on the stone cutting machine rotated and made a harsh "click" sound, the surrounding local villagers in Yangmei and the jade merchants from other places were immediately attracted.
There are a few people who like to be teachers and have begun to criticize Qin Feng. It is because the attitude shown by Qin Feng is that he does not look like he is gambling on stones.
Generally speaking, cutting the stone directly with a knife only occurs in two situations. One is that the original jade stone is particularly large, so that it can be broken down first according to the performance of the original stone skin.
Another thing is that if there are cracks on the jadeite rough stone, you can cut it along the cracked place. If it is not the case, you will wipe the stone skin first.
People like Qin Feng who don't care about anything and just cut it as soon as they come up, there are some people in the jade public market, but they are just tourists who are watching the excitement and betting on luck, and they are not considered to be in the stone gambling circle at all.
"It's just a few hundred yuan worth of stuff. It can't be anything good, can it?"
Qin Feng had a suspicious look on his face, but his right hand holding the handle of the stone cutter did not stop, and he pressed it down. The sharp alloy gear immediately cut into the rough stone.
"Click... click..."
When the gears and stones intersected, there was a harsh sound accompanied by a piece of flying powder, and countless tiny stone chips splashed on Qin Feng's hands.
"Why was it cut off?"
"Yes, this young man is too impatient, isn't he?"
"It's just that he has a hairless mouth and is weak in his work. Is there anyone who gambles like that?"
Qin Feng's sudden move made everyone onlookers a little stunned. No matter how cheap the material is, it is still black sand from the Ma Meng Factory. If there is a glass seed in it, why shouldn't the owner cry to death?
The original stone was only the size of a fist, so Qin Feng basically cut it from the middle without any effort. When Qin Feng stopped the machine in his hand, several heads reached above the stone cutter at the same time.
One person took the faucet connected with a leather pipe on the ground, rinsed it on the stone, shook his head and said: "Nothing came out, it's just a piece of waste..."
"Fortunately, he didn't cut out good material, otherwise it would be really useless." For some reason, everyone in the venue breathed a sigh of relief after the man said his words.
"Old Zhao, is he really a disciple of Qi Gong?"
Outside the crowd, Dou Jianjun and others also saw this scene, but after watching Qin Feng explain the stone, Dou Jianjun showed a confused look on his face. Logically speaking, Qi Gong's apprentice should not be so reckless.
"Old Dou, maybe he has a relationship with Qi Gong at home, so he became his disciple."
A sinister smile appeared on Zhao Fengjian's face, and he lowered his voice and said: "It's better if you don't understand. If he is an expert, who are we going to fool?"
"That's right." Dou Jianjun and Zhao Fengjian looked at each other and laughed.
