The second child was not very interested in stamps and coins, so after selling the stamps, they went to the collection area to prepare to meet Zhang Yujie and Liang Jingjing.
By the way, the two of them also bought a favorite gadget each in the collection area and completed the summer social practice project assigned by the teacher.
Sun Dahai and Hu Cheng were following behind them. Anyway, I had already made an agreement with them when they came in and wanted them to play freely today.
Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe wanted to come to see their brother several times, but they held back. They also knew that Sun Dahai was doing this for their own good.
It won't be long before their age reaches double digits. So now they have to start to exercise their independence and can't always rely on their brother.
Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.
With the deepening of reform and opening up, people's living standards in China have been greatly improved. The term "ten thousand yuan household" with a specific historical background has also begun to appear frequently in official media in recent years.
At the same time, the collectibles industry is also quietly developing. Stamps, coins, furniture, utensils, and even antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jewelry and jade are all beginning to show their unique charm.
The trade fair held in Yangcheng this time can be regarded as testing the development prospects of the domestic collectibles market.
In many years, Guangdong Province will form a collectibles market centered on Guangzhou and the Special Economic Zone. Its biggest feature is that collectibles returning from overseas are dominated.
Sun Yuanyuan and the others have already joined Zhang Yujie. Now they all gather together and look at each booth in order. If they see someone they like, they can ask the stall owner a few words.
Anyway, this is a trade fair. It doesn’t have as many rules as regular antique shops or ghost markets. As long as buyers don’t touch it, anything goes.
This place is very different from the collectibles trading place that Sun Dahai visited in his previous life.
In the 1980s, the collectibles market in Yangcheng had just begun to develop. The collectibles booths at this fair seemed a bit disorganized and amateurish.
Sun Dahai walked around half a circle and found that at least one-third of the booths here were displaying and selling jewelry made with modern craftsmanship. It was quite suspected of selling sheep's meat to dogs.
Sun Dahai even saw a booth selling raw jadeite. Half of it had a skylight, which was considered a semi-gambling material. The other half was a complete jadeite raw stone, whose scientific name is "head-covering material", which is a complete gambling material.
Fortunately, cutting machines are not allowed in the exhibition hall, otherwise all other booths here would be closed.
Sun Dahai was actually walking at the end of the team. Sun Yuanyuan, who was leading the group, had already stopped in front of the rough stone stall and was talking to Ah Fu.
"Brother Afu, you call this gambling on stones? Can gambling be allowed in Yangcheng?" Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe looked curious.
"Gambling on stones is not gambling. Although it carries the word 'gamble', gambling on stones is just a traditional way of buying jadeite wool. It relies on the buyer's vision, experience and a certain amount of luck." Ah Fu was telling Er Xiao
Popular science.
"Then if you don't choose well, won't your money be wasted?" Sun Dahe asked.
"Yes, there are three forms of jade raw materials: one is open material, which is a whole piece of jade that has been cut out. Experts will know how much it is worth at a glance.
The price of this kind of open material is high, but there is no risk, but the profit is not too high. It depends on the craftsmanship of the carver and the sales channels.
The second type of material is called semi-clear material. You see, woolen materials with windows like this are a type of semi-clear material. There are also some semi-clear materials that have been cut several times, but they are not completely opened.
These semi-exposed materials can allow buyers to understand some of the conditions inside the wool, so they can no longer be blind. However, because the wool is not really unraveled, there is still a certain risk.
However, the price of semi-surface materials is much cheaper than that of surface materials. The less the interior of the wool material is exposed, the stronger the gambling value of the material and the lower its price.
Semi-clear jade raw stones are the main force in the jadeite raw material market. Whether experienced stone gamblers or large-scale jade jewelers, they will spend most of their energy on semi-clear raw materials to reduce purchase costs and
Obtain high-end jade raw materials.
Finally, there is another kind, which are the completely untouched rough stones over there. This kind of rough stone material is called head covering material, which is the most gambling-friendly. It is countless times more difficult than the size of the bet in gambling. I don’t know how many masters have discounted it.
It's up here.
As for beginners who play head-dressing, it depends purely on luck. One hundred people bet on head-making, and it is unlikely that even one person will be able to win.”
"Brother Afu, you know so clearly, you must have participated in stone gambling before, right?" asked Zhang Yujie, who was also illiterate at the side.
Ah Fu replied with a wry smile: "I used to have a friend who worked in this industry, so I know these things. In those years, before I joined the company, I was still working hard for three meals a day. How could I
You can afford to play with these things."
Sun Dahai listened from behind, with a smile on his face unconsciously. When he saw Ah Fu for the first time, he was accompanying Ah Shan and talking to Zhao Jun.
In order to make money, Ah Fu actually came up with the trick of raising dogs and breeding them, which can be regarded as a geek. As the backbone of the club, it is quite enough for them to be like bears.
Ever since Sun Dahai decided to develop Lan Kwai Fong, the lives of Ah Fu and others were completely changed. Because of his outstanding performance, flexible mind, and eloquence, Ah Fu was asked to leave by Old William and started his career at the newly established No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant.
career.
Five years later, Ah Fu has been promoted to deputy general manager and is currently in charge of all branches in mainland China. Five years ago, he would never have dreamed that he could achieve such results.
Sun Dahai was sighing with emotion, but Ah Fu was about to cry. Sun Yuanyuan had just learned that those beautiful jadeite came from these inconspicuous stones, and she was a little eager to try it.
After Sun Weihong's daughter Qian Hui was born, Chef Cao and Zheng Ziyun gave the child a jade pendant.
This is the first time Sun Yuanyuan has seen jade jewelry up close, and she likes it very much. However, Sun Yuanyuan is very sensible, and she will not ask her family or brother for such a thing.
However, when she heard Ah Fu say that jadeite came from these stones, Sun Yuanyuan's thoughts began to change. She thought that since she wanted to complete the social practice of buying things, she might as well buy a few of these stones, just in case.
Which stone can have beautiful jade inside it?
Ah Fu feels very uncomfortable now. Regarding jade and gambling on stones, he is just a purely theoretical person and has no practical experience at all. Even what he knows has been told to everyone now.
But if Sun Yuanyuan wanted to gamble on stones, he really couldn't help him. He could only look back at Sun Dahai.
