The next day, that is, the 15th, when the sun first rose, the streets of Pagang became hot. Individual merchants who opened their stalls in the morning and closed their stalls after noon were open for business. Miners selling jadeite rough stones went to the streets to set up stalls. Those selling fruits,
The vegetable sellers and the market town really look like a city.
Myanmar is a tropical rainforest country with distinct rainy and dry seasons. During the rainy season every year, due to too much rain, landslides or mudslides are prone to occur. It is too dangerous to dig jade. The jade producing areas have also stopped working for rest. Only some small sites with extremely high safety can occasionally open operations.
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Jade mines cannot be mined during the rainy season, so the miners who make a living by mining are idle. Some people will find other ways to make a living, some grow crops, and some people have nothing to do.
There are also many miners working for a living on the streets of Pagang. If they can't find anything to do, they will gather at the end of the street to play cards and gamble. If you walk around the streets, you can see men and women wearing cages and flip-flops everywhere.
Yesterday, some shops were closed in the evening, so Le Yun didn't go around all of them. After breakfast, she went shopping to look for materials. When she encountered materials that were not top-notch, she bought them at cheap prices.
After wandering for more than an hour, it started to rain again. People on the streets of the market town could not be more calm. Those setting up stalls and strolling on the street were all prepared. Some were holding umbrellas, some were wearing ponchos, and some were wandering around without anything to do.
People stand on other people's eaves or under big umbrellas to take shelter from the rain.
Standing under a big umbrella outside a store to take shelter from the rain, Le Yun listened to other people's chats and continued shopping after the shower. She stopped shopping around noon and moved the jade stones she found back to the van.
Before lunch, Driver Atu was entrusted by his employer to hire a local miner to serve as an informant to lead the way to find materials. He was very happy to help the employer run errands, and he would get 100 hard-earned fees for finding a guide.
Miners have their own news channels, and they spread news very quickly. Almost all miners have heard about which miners have dug up good materials and which mines have stones. There are some old miners who know more about it than the mine owners or jade dealers.
More experts know how to determine the quality of jadeite by looking at its shell.
The miner hired by Atu's driver is in his forties and under fifty. He is of the right age group, has plenty of experience, knows how to play with mobile phones, and has fast information flow.
The hired miners had dinner with their employers, and in the afternoon they dutifully took their employers to wander around the miners' settlements. Driver Atu cleverly helped his employer drag his luggage and followed him to learn more.
The sellers recommended by the middle-aged miners all have goods in hand, some with three to five yuan, some with more than ten yuan, and two of them are small business owners who purchase and wholesale rough stones to make a profit on the price difference.
The place where the miners live is very simple. Most of the houses are simple iron houses. Some of them have a few tree stumps to support the roof and a fence around the outside. They sit outside when negotiating deals. The owner shows the stone to others. If the deal cannot be negotiated, the stone is taken back.
Most of the jade rough stones in the jade field area are in the hands of field owners or jade companies. Most of the jadeite stones that are of good quality and relatively large are sent to Wa City or to the capital to prepare for the public sale in August. Most of the jadeite stones that are stranded in the field area are
Small wool.
The stones dug by the miners are usually sold to the owners at low prices. Most of the miners who have stones in their hands are middle or upper-level miners. They can afford the money and are not in a hurry to spend money, so they temporarily accumulate the stones and wait for them.
It is important to sell them at a high price when the time is right; some miners are under pressure in life, so they will sell them at a low price when they dig up stones to make money to live.
Middle-aged miners take their employers to hunt for materials, and sometimes contact their colleagues to exchange news and select better sources of goods.
Le Yun was very discerning and picky, so she couldn't negotiate business with seven or eight out of ten companies. The first few companies she bought didn't like the stones, but she only bought three from a miner who was engaged in acquisitions and then resold them to make a profit.
He kept his word and gave the middle-aged miner an additional reward of fifty yuan to show that he was satisfied with the source of goods he recommended.
I don’t know if it was because of the extra rewards, but the grade of goods recommended by the middle-aged miners was obviously better, and Le Xiao’s classmate also bought a few pieces of small materials one after another.
After arriving in the middle of the afternoon, the middle-aged cargo owner finally recommended a source of goods that he packed at the bottom of the box: a jewelry company specializing in jadeite rough stones at the stock point in Pagang. Although most of the goods had been sent away, the inventory was generally low.
More than other places.
The place where the inventory is kept is a private house. The place where the jade is kept is surrounded by a wall and covered with asbestos tiles as a roof. Don't think that it is simple and easy to steal. The manager has a gun in his hand and is an upright and legal gun owner. Who dares to steal?
Being beaten to death is equivalent to dying in vain.
When a businessman came to see the goods, the owner of the house who was responsible for the management did not push back. He opened the door readily, turned on the light, and showed the people openly.
There is not a lot of inventory, all medium and small-sized woolen materials. There are a lot of small-sized woolen materials, stacked in piles like stones by the river, at least more than a ton; medium-sized woolen materials are relatively small, weighing more than ten kilograms to dozens of kilograms.
There are also several hundred yuan, and those weighing hundreds of kilograms are less than ten yuan.
The lights were dim and the room felt a bit cramped.
Before entering the residential building, Le Yun observed the situation. There was someone watching on the second floor of the residential building, the kind with a gun. The person was monitoring the place where the wool was kept downstairs from the window. It can also be said that the person was watching the goods under someone else's gun.
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The light was not bright enough, so she took out a flashlight and walked towards the pile of wool. She studied and admired it in a corner of the small material area for ten minutes. She selected two pieces of palm-sized wool. She looked here and there, and picked out a total of eleven small pieces.
material, put it in a corner, and then look at the medium-sized woolen material.
Depending on where the wool is piled, the prices vary. Some are sold by pieces, while others are sold by kilograms.
Le Yun, who is very experienced in the method of gambling on stones, removed the selected materials and then picked other ones. It took nearly forty minutes to pick out more than ten pieces of medium-sized materials, and the largest one had a size of
One hundred and sixty kilograms.
The middle-aged miner who was the informant looked shocked. He was a big customer.
The manager is holding the computer, waiting for the businesswoman to finish selecting the materials, and negotiating the price with others. Two medium-sized stones cost 3,000 yuan a pound, four medium-sized stones cost 300 yuan a pound, and five stones cost 400 yuan a pound.
One yuan per catty; small ingredients are fifty yuan per piece.
In line with the principle of saving money, Le Yun bargained in a friendly manner, and the two kinds of stones were unified to 250 yuan per catty. The two parties reached an agreement, and the total amount of the raw materials was 221,100 yuan. In the end, they also cut off one
One hundred and ten cents, two hundred and twenty thousand.
After the sale was concluded, the owner of the house who was responsible for the management also helped pack the stones. The large and small stones were packed in woven bags respectively, and then the goods were taken out of the warehouse and traded at the door of the house.
All transactions in the jade market are cash transactions. Unless it is a large-scale transaction between companies, checks or transfers are accepted. For small transactions, all transactions are delivered in one hand and paid in one hand. After the money is paid, everyone will clear it.
The bag containing the rough stones was tied to a luggage trailer, which weighed several hundred kilograms. Leyun carried a backpack containing nearly a hundred kilograms of small stones in one hand and trailered it with the other hand, making it easy and stress-free.
The long-haired businesswoman was short in stature but surprisingly strong. The middle-aged miner and driver A Tu were dumbfounded and at the same time fearful. They roughly understood why she dared to go deep into the jade field alone to look for materials.
There were a lot of stones and it was inconvenient to go down the alley. Xiao Le went back to the parking place and loaded the stones into the car, leaving the driver to guard the car while she and the middle-aged miner went shopping for goods.
Because he was afraid of the businesswoman, the middle-aged miner did not dare to feel any restlessness. He conscientiously recommended the sources of goods he knew and took the businesswoman around the miners' residential area.
Even in the jade field area, good materials are limited. Le Yun set out for the second time and only found seven pieces of the materials she liked. She finished the work at sunset, returned to the van, put the stones on the van, locked the van, and the three of them went.
Have a meal.
We had previously agreed to hire an informant as a salary of 200 yuan, and paid 100 yuan in advance. After the meal, Mr. Le Xiao paid the other half to the middle-aged miner, and at the same time gave him another 500 yuan as hard work fee.
The middle-aged miner earned more in one day than in a normal month, and even had two free meals. He went home happily with his salary. When he left, he specifically told him where to find him if he needed to go hunting for goods tomorrow.
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After the middle-aged miner left, Le Xiaoxiao gave the driver A Tu three pink Mao Zedong cards. He had found a good informant, guarded the car, and gave him some hard-earned money to avoid letting him feel cold.
Driver Atu's extra income was four hundred a day. He grinned excitedly. When his employer went to take a shower, he willingly drove the caboose and then went to a hotel to rest.
In a day and a half, several hundred kilograms of stones were accumulated. Considering the limited carrying capacity of the van, Leyun waited until midnight to transfer all the stones into the space.
The next day, when he was about to leave after breakfast, Atu climbed into the car. He felt something was wrong but couldn't figure out what was wrong. After driving for a while, he finally noticed something. He turned around and looked behind him, only to find that it was empty. He was so frightened that he stepped on the brakes.
He stopped suddenly and his forehead was covered with sweat: "Nama, all your stones are gone!"
He did not know the full name of his employer, but he only knew that the name contained the character Na. According to local custom, he was called Nama.
Le Yun, who was almost hit by the glass when she braked suddenly, just sat up and wanted to ask what happened when she heard the driver scream and pressed her temples: "Wu Shan, I forgot to tell you, my family sent someone to follow me because there are too many jadeite stones.
It was inconvenient to carry it, so I informed my family members to come and take it away last night."
The name of the driver A Tu in Chinese is Tu Shan. He can be called A Tu or A Shan. Wu is not his surname. Burmese people do not have surnames. Wu is an honorific, equivalent to "Mr.", which is suitable for men and for women.
The honorific title is "Du", and "Ma" is the honorific title for the young woman, which means "sister", which almost means girl in Chinese.
"Take... away?" Ah Tu murmured before he could recover from the shock.
"Yes, because it is inconvenient for my family members to show up, that's why I came to bet on the stone. They didn't want people to see their faces, so they wouldn't show up with me. They only came here to pick up the goods at midnight last night. This will probably happen in the future.
It happens often, and I hope it won’t bother Wu Shan. If Wu Shan feels bothered, I’ll pay the fare for you, and I can rent another car.”
"Ah ah ah, no, I'm not worried, it's nothing. I just thought your stone was stolen while we were eating, and I was shocked." Hearing that young Nama wanted to rent another car, Ah Tu came to his senses with a jolt, and the employer
He was very generous. The car rental also included food, accommodation, and tips. He was a hundred times more talkative than his previous employer who chartered the car. He didn't want to lose such a good opportunity to make money.
"I generally can't throw away my things. Anyone who steals my things will not end up well. My family will not hold them accountable."
"Oh, it's okay if it's not stolen, Nama, let's keep walking." A Tu's back broke into a cold sweat, he hurriedly started the car and continued to the next entrance.
During the rainy season, sometimes it rains several times a day, and sometimes there is no rain at all. The weather is fine in the morning, but then it rains heavily after nine o'clock, and it still rains and the sun shines at the same time.
Originally, based on the distance, it would take driver Atu's van more than an hour to reach the miners' settlement at the entrance of the other site. Due to the rain, there was a hole on the road that was washed out by mountains and rivers. It took a lot of time to fill it with rocks.
It took me some time to get there, and it took me more than two minutes to get there.
Not every farm entrance forms a town like Pagang. The miners' residential areas at some farm entrances are scattered, like small villages, and not lively.
The second entrance area that Mr. Le Xiao went to was quite large, like a larger natural village.
After arriving at the field, Driver Atu showed his cleverness and ran to find a clever miner to act as an informant to lead the way to find goods. He also stayed at the miner's house that night, just like staying in a hotel, and it cost sixty yuan per person per night.
She stayed one night at Changkou, and the next day she set off to another famous Changkou shopping mall. She didn’t ask for more, just good quality, so she didn’t find much at the first-hand market at Jade Changkou.
The goods at the two warehouses combined are not as much as those at Pagang alone.
The goods are small and not moved, all are stored in the car.
Le Xiao’s classmate Taobao goes from market to market. In fact, jade is not everywhere in the jade producing areas, nor can you find jade in just a few digs. Jade is hidden in rocks and soil.
There are advantages and disadvantages. The local area is rich in jade, which promotes related economic development and earns countless tax revenue for the country. However, the places where jade is produced have been dug bare, causing great damage to the environment. The rivers near the entrance of the field are also turbid.
Because we don’t have much time and no place to spend, Le doesn’t have time to go to the site to see what the production site looks like. There is no mining during the rainy season, and there are military guards at the site to prevent people from stealing.
The employer goes to various places, and the driver is happy to make money. He drives the employer from here to there. It usually takes a day to visit the famous market entrance, and some sites only stay for most of the day. When he leaves Pagang and visits the fourth market entrance, he also arrives.
June 19th.
On the 20th, classmate Le left the old field and went straight to the small field. On the way, he passed the new field and took a tour of the two fields.
The small field area, also called the Nanchang area, is far away from the old field area. It covers an area three times the size of the Houjiang field area, but there are not many field entrances.
The small field area is to the south of the old field area, with a long distance in between. After leaving the old field area, follow the road out of the mountains, and then onto the highway before turning to the small field area.
The van left Laochang District and stayed in a city for one night. Le Xiao’s classmate only set out for Xiaochang District on the morning of the 21st and arrived at Xiaochang District before noon.
The jadeite mine in the Xiaochang area is a primary mineral deposit and is an indispensable part of the Myanmar jadeite mining area.
Driver A Tu took his employer to the famous Nanqi market for a long time, and the next day he went to the most famous market called "Moliu".
