Myanmar is not as prosperous as Great China, and vehicles are not as easy to find in the border towns of Yinnan Province. Leyun rented a small freight truck to travel. She did not go to Mina, the capital of Kachin State, but went to Mina, a distance away.
Mengong is only 50 kilometers away from Mina.
In terms of distance, the border crossing between Mengong and Y Province is over 100 kilometers long, and it only takes one or two hours at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. However, Myanmar’s roads are not very good in some places.
The speed of the truck is maintained at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
There are many checkpoints on the road, and station wagons or vehicles with Y-nan provincial license plates are subject to inspection. Le Xiao's classmate took a local minivan and did not need to be inspected, so he could run away leisurely.
It took nearly two and a half minutes to travel more than 100 kilometers, and it was already after 5:30 local time when we arrived at Meng Gong. There is a time difference of nearly two hours between Myanmar and the capital of Great China, which is roughly equivalent to the capital of Great China.
Around 7:30 pm.
No matter how you look at it, Meng Gong is a self-sustaining and free-development city. The construction of residential buildings and streets seems very random. At more than five o'clock, the sun has not yet set, but the atmosphere of dusk has invaded the town. The roads leading to the city
It can be seen that the people who set up stalls and do business on the streets of the city are also preparing to close their stalls, and the pace of life is slow and calm.
Meng Gong used to be the largest jade market in Kachin State, and even in Myanmar as a whole. Most of the raw jadeite produced from various sites had to go through Meng Gong and Mina before flowing to other places. A few years ago, the jade market moved to the second largest jade market in Myanmar.
The big city of Wacheng, Meng Gongcai is no longer the largest jade market in the country, but its location is still important. In comparison, its floating population is very large, and almost all the businessmen who come and go go to jadeite rough.
of.
There were not many hotels. Le Xiao was taken to the door of the second best hotel in the city by a truck driver. She paid the fare and entered the hotel to go through the accommodation procedures. She paid half a month's accommodation money in advance and completed the procedures.
I happily picked up my suitcase and went upstairs to check in.
I put my luggage properly, then went downstairs to find a place to eat, then returned to the hotel, checked every place, and found no cameras. I went back to the space to finish my work, take a shower and wash clothes, and then read a book until 11 o'clock to go to bed.
The next day is June 14th.
When the sky over Europe was dawning, Earl Ryan headed to the airport with his personal bodyguard Abner. At the same time, Miao Miaodan also canceled her planned trip to another state to visit a certain Earl and left for home at short notice.
Myanmar is in the rainy season in June, and it often rains. On the morning of the 14th, it started to rain. The pattering raindrops made the sky a bit hazy.
Le Yun got up very early, at five o'clock local time. She found that it was raining outside and was not in a hurry to go out. She meditated and practiced until about seven o'clock and left the hotel to have breakfast. When she came back, she specifically asked the hotel staff which street she could gamble on.
Jade raw stone.
It rained until eight o'clock and then slowly stopped. The air when the rain stopped was fresh and cool, and the mountains in the distance were misty. The tropical style was revealed here, and it also had a sense of mystery.
After the rain, vendors gradually set out their stalls, and the water-stained street slowly became lively.
When the sky became brighter, Leyun put on her bag, dragged a suitcase, and went shopping happily.
She took a detour from the boss and came to Meng Gong. Naturally, she already had a good idea of her plan. Based on the information she got from the hotel waiter, she headed straight to Beishi Street.
As the largest jade market in Myanmar, Meng Gong may not be as prosperous as the border port cities in Ynan Province. However, the number of raw jade stones is absolutely amazing. Jade is a high-end luxury product in the big cities of China.
In Mengong, the treatment is even lower than at the border of Yinnan Province. They are placed on both sides of the street like cabbage.
In addition to raw jadeite, semi-processed jadeite, ruby, amber, etc., there are also tusks, horns, palms, etc. from elephants, tigers, leopards and other animals. As for whether it is true or false, just like gambling on stones, it all depends on everyone's perspective.
It's better for pedestrians to travel early, and even more so for those who travel early. She's early, and others are not too late. Many merchants looking for jade are wandering the streets, and some are pure tourists who also wander to the streets to join in the fun.
In order to grab business, Myanmar businessmen, who originally lived a slow life, also survived by the fittest. In response to the call to plan their day in the morning, some stores opened their doors very early. Vendors with open-air stalls delayed their stalls due to the morning rain and waited until the rain stopped.
After that, the stalls started to appear one after another. Whenever items were put out, the owner would spread out a tarpaulin and sit or stand, eating without breakfast.
Meng Gong's jade market is equivalent to the second-hand market for jade. The first-hand market is naturally the site where raw jadeite is produced, which is also the most primitive first-hand market. However, the businessmen who actually go to the site are the owners or
Large businessmen who are long-term business partners with the market operators. Generally speaking, not all jade dealers will go to the site of production. After all, the jade sites are located in remote mountains. There is considerable risk for outsiders to go to the jade sites.
value.
The size of Menggong is less than that of a town, roughly equivalent to the location of the township government of a small town, because it was the first city before the jadeite was exported. Even though it is small, the streets are very lively.
The streets are very simple, with asphalt roads, and the residential buildings are low and have their own style of houses. Fortunately, the infrastructure is average, but it does not live up to the name of the "Jade Market". Jadeite stones can be seen everywhere on the pavements and stalls, as well as red
Jade, amber, etc.
Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. What the ancients said makes sense. If you don’t go to a certain place, you will never know the customs and environment there. People who have never been to the border cities of Yinnan Province will definitely not believe that jade jewelry is everywhere.
This scene is commonplace. Similarly, if you go to the towns near the jade producing area, you will never be able to imagine the treatment of raw jade stones. They are just scattered on the paper. At first glance, people who are not familiar with them think they are
It's the stones on the roadside by the river.
The open-air stalls are mobile. Some of the jadeite sellers are dug by the miners themselves, some are dumped by the miners, and some are sold by hired help. Sometimes there are also people selling fruits and trinkets among the stalls.
Vegetable sellers, etc., are more interesting in life than just selling stone streets.
Dragging her suitcase onto the street, Le Yun excitedly rushed to a grocery street with the largest number of jadeite stones. First, she took a rough look at the whole street from a distance, and then took a closer look, hunting for treasures from stalls to stalls.
The place is small, and the streets are not long, only about a hundred meters, and then turn, branch, and then branch out into many small streets and alleys. In the larger streets, stalls can be set up, and there are no urban management officials wandering around the streets.
In the recent jadeite market, the gold content of raw jadeite is higher than that seen in the border town of Yinnan Province. After all, some of the stones in the border town of Yinnan Province were also searched by people in Mengong, so the quality can be clearly judged.
Naturally, the good materials entered the pockets of professional jade dealers first.
When she first arrived, Le Yun was not familiar with the bargaining method. She would not discuss the business first, but secretly scouted the "enemy situation" and inferred the price that the merchants could probably afford from other people's sales and negotiation prices, and used this as the bottom line for bargaining.
There are a lot of rough jade stones on Meng Gong Street, but they are not all at bargain prices. Whether it is a vendor or a businessman who specializes in stone business, they all know what it means to adapt to society. Because there are many buyers, the prices are not low, but relatively speaking they are not.
It is a price acceptable to ordinary people, because the stones near the production area are not listed on the public market and are pre-tax goods. The price in the market is naturally lower. Buyers who take the stones out of the country have to pay taxes, transportation and other expenses.
Le Yun figured out the unspoken rules of street trading before deciding to take action. She still only picked the rough stones with the brightest auras to start with. Those with slightly poor water quality or good water quality were all good, but those with too many cracks were excluded.
Just over a hundred meters away, I bought a total of 20 pieces of materials from the stalls. The pieces were relatively small, and the largest one only weighed more than ten kilograms. I could only buy a stone weighing more than thirty kilograms in a shop, and at the same time I bought a stone.
The tree turned into jade, an ivory bone sculpture, a tiger claw, and a total of 210,000 oceans were thrown out.
It didn’t cost much to buy the stones. The main reason was that the tree-turned jade alone cost nearly 40,000 yuan, and the tiger claws and ivory totaled 20,000 yuan. In fact, the owner of the goods couldn’t tell whether they were real or fake, so he sold them as half-true and half-fake.
After sweeping a section of the street, I found an excuse to go to the toilet, moved some of the things in the box into the space, and continued shopping. Every time I visited a street, there was a small harvest, either one or two pieces of jadeite that I liked.
I picked up the tusks, claws, horns of rare animals, as well as carvings carved from precious trees.
The happiest thing was a pot I picked up at a fruit stall. The pot was made of golden camphor tree.
Golden camphor, also called mountain balm, is a deciduous tree that grows in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. It takes fifty years to mature. It has high hardness, is resistant to wear and tear, is not easily deformed, and is acid and alkali resistant, moisture-proof and corrosion-resistant.
Originally, the golden camphor wood was polished and oxidized by photosynthesis to a golden color, and became more noble and dignified as time went by. However, probably because the basin had been in the hands of the owner for too long, and was soaked in water and smoke all year round.
The surface of the blisters has become dull and gray, with a few small pits and chips, and is very old.
The stall owner sold home-grown strawberries in golden camphorwood pots. Le Yun didn't like the strawberries but the pots, so she spent 20 yuan on the strawberries, and then spent 500 yuan on the pots. They looked similar to
The story of buying a casket and returning a pearl is somewhat similar.
After finding an old wooden basin, in order to prevent the owner of the goods from regretting it, she carried the things and quietly walked away, sneaking to another alley to have fun alone.
If you are not afraid of comparing goods, you are afraid of not knowing the goods.
The material of the basin is more than 500 years old, which means it is made of gold camphor that is more than 500 years old. It is unknown how many generations the basin owner has passed down, and it has been completely changed beyond recognition.
After finding something ancient, Le Yun felt so beautiful that the sky was clear. She was as happy as a little pony. She happily shuttled through the streets and alleys, looking for stones and small items in the shops and stalls, and ran to what was originally a residential area.
Wandering around the street corner, I didn't know if I could find the spiritual objects hidden in my house. I didn't know if I could find them, but I picked up everything I could. I also went to the garbage dump in the district and picked up a few daily items that had been thrown away as scrap metal.
Broken parts of daily necessities and waste rocks.
She circled east and west, visiting all the districts in Mengong. She finished her work in the middle of the afternoon, dragged her suitcase back to the hotel, packed it up quickly, and continued to play with her bag and luggage again.
Taking to the streets for the second time, Le Xiaoxiao classmate once again walked around the streets. When the sun set, he walked out of the town and walked along a road leading to a village outside the town. When he reached the foot of the deserted mountain, he immediately hid in the woods and slipped back to space.
Watch the little fox and little Huihui take care of the crops, while they are busy doing personal chores, finding things, and putting on makeup for themselves.
The little fox didn't understand what the little human girl wanted to play, and wanted to sit and watch. However, the little human girl said she wanted to take a bath, so she covered his and the little black monkey's eyes with a cloth, and poked them several times to turn him into wood. He just
I can hold a towel on my head and feel sad silently.
After tapping the acupuncture points of Little Fox and Little Huihui so that they could not move, Le Yun quickly took off her clothes and sat in a bucket filled with water to take a bath. The soak lasted for about an hour. After taking a bath, her white and tender skin became smoother.
It has to be very close to the skin of Southeast Asians, but much whiter and softer, like the skin of a pampered person who never basks in the sun.
After changing the skin, put on clothes, apply the skin-changing lotion on the face, neck, ears and other places again, and wash the hair to make the scalp, face, ears and other places consistent with the skin on the body.
When the skin changes to the ideal look, put a wig with waist length on the top of the head, use special glue to stick the edges, and stick it firmly. Not to mention the hair can't be shaken off, just whoever pulls and grabs her hair
I can't even pull the wig off.
Having disguised herself to the best of her ability, Le Yun happily loosened the blindfolds on Little Fox and Little Huihui, removed their acupoints, and then tried to apply eye pupils on herself.
Finally freed from being a wooden head, the little fox stretched and was about to complain about the little human girl for being so unreasonable. When he saw a completely changed girl in front of him, his golden pupils widened: "Little girl, are you crazy?
,How did you make yourself so ugly?"
Little Huihui rolled his eyes. When he heard the fussing cry of the little fox, he quickly looked at the owner. When he saw an unfamiliar face, he jumped back and took a step back with a squeak. A pair of eyes filled with laughter.
Full of fear.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You said I'm ugly?" Le Yun almost wanted to slap her hand over and slap the little fox to death. She neatly closed her eyes and stretched out her paws to grab the mirror aside to look at it.
the fruits of one's own labor.
The face of a young woman was printed in the mirror, with long soft black hair shawl, eyebrows covering her forehead, big eyes, relatively white skin, no eyebrows or lipstick, but she definitely looked ugly.
Doesn't match up.
The little human girl was looking in the mirror. The little fox jumped on her shoulder, stretched out a little paw and pointed at the mirror: "This look in the mirror is so ugly. Look, although the eyes have become very big, they don't have any aura at all."
No, it's gray like a half-dead fish eye. Look at her white skin, which is very white, but it's not moisturizing at all. Her hair looks black and shiny, but it doesn't even have any life in it. She's such a pretty little girl.
The beauty was forced to look like a lifeless rag doll, it's so irritating to the eyes."
"Humph, I'm happy, what's the matter?" Le Yun raised her chin, and when the little fox said she looked like a dead fish, she originally wanted to slap him to death, but because the little fox meant that she looked good-looking
If he goes, she won't hit him.
"I can't bear to look at it." The little fox covered his eyes: "Little girl, you'd better go out early and make other people look bad."
"I will go out when it's time to go out. I believe not many people will recognize me like this." Le Yun raised her eyes proudly, hmm, the look of a female man with long hair and flowing hair is quite interesting, I guess.
If anyone wants to track her, they won't be able to recognize who she is even if they are face to face.
"To be honest, if I weren't someone who spends my time with you, I wouldn't recognize you at all with your ugly face. After you changed your makeup, you became a new level of ugliness. Of course, I can recognize you, but your smell hasn't changed much.
The voice hasn’t changed either.”
"I will take voice-changing pills later and change my voice a little bit. As for the smell, I don't want to take any messy pills." She has pills that can make the smell of sweat smell bad or sour, but she doesn't want to take it. She doesn't have that.
necessary.
"Little girl, what do you want to do by looking like this? Is there anything so big that you are worthy of making yourself look ugly?"
"I want to make a fortune, and I don't want people to remember my face, so I have to make myself a stranger."
"Little girl, don't you want to rob homes?" The little fox exaggeratedly said: "Oh my God, little girl, you are a little beauty after all. Don't go astray, rob homes, kill people and set fires.
What you do is contrary to morality and will damage the merits of your practice."
Stretching out her paws, Le Yun grabbed the little fox on her shoulder and threw it away: "Damn it, a dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth, and you think so badly of me, you can go wherever you want to cool off."
After being thrown away, the little fox rolled in the air, landed deftly, jumped up again, jumped on the little human girl and grabbed the little monkey. After a few ups and downs, he jumped to the foot of the dragon blood tree and crawled up.
Go up to the tree nest and play in the hollow of the tree, wagging its tail.
Little Huihui fell from the little fox's paw and patted her chest. The fox fairy always pinched her at every turn. It was so scary.
Le Yun put aside the little fox and drew her own eyebrows. She used special paint to make her eyebrows a suitable shade and slender at the end. She also curled her eyelashes upwards. After a long time, she couldn't find any flaws.
Take a pill, eat fruit for dinner, and then read a book.
When it's around nine o'clock in the evening, I sneak out of the space and walk at night with a flashlight.
Myanmar is a tropical rainforest area with a high altitude and ample sunshine during the day. Due to the high forest coverage, it is not particularly hot, and the temperature at night is neither hot nor cool.
The night in Mengong is very quiet, and the city is even more peaceful. Night trains are rare, there are no cars, and there are no pedestrians. Le Yun walks on the road alone with her short legs, swaying and swaying from one direction of the town to the completely opposite direction.
On a road in the direction, find a suitable hiding place, crawl back into the space and sleep.
The next day, Mr. Le Xiao woke up very early, got up before dawn, packed up, ate some fruit to fill his stomach, found a space, dragged a luggage trailer with a large password box attached, and carried a bulging luggage bag.
, wandering slowly along the road into the city towards Mengong Town.
In the early morning, Meng Gong is like a peaceful girl, quiet and beautiful. Residents doing breakfast business get up early, the smell of food is already on the street, and smoke is coming from some residents' homes.
The reformed Le Xiao classmate dragged his luggage into the town, found a breakfast shop for breakfast, and calmly went to a parking lot specializing in sports cars to rent a car.
