Ah Fu, who was holding the money from selling stamps, was selecting rough stones. Sun Dahai asked Hu Cheng to pay the money first. After the two brothers bought the dzi beads and returned to the jade rough stone booth, Ah Fu and the others had not finished selecting.
There was a middle-aged fat man who went in to choose woolen fabrics before Ah Fu and the others. Now he had chosen two small pieces of quilting fabrics and was asking the boss for a price, planning to buy another piece of semi-plain fabrics that was on the table.
Semi-clear fabrics with open windows are much more expensive than masking fabrics. One piece of wool only weighs five or six kilograms. Because a trace of green is exposed through the small window that is opened, this piece of material was sold for three hundred yuan.
The fat man seemed to be quite wealthy. After choosing a half-made material, he also chose a large piece of quilted material on the ground.
This piece of material weighs more than 70 kilograms, and the stall owner is asking for it at 400 yuan, which is really not cheap.
The fat man bargained with the boss for a long time and finally reached a deal. The fat man invested 680 yuan to buy the semi-clear material and the large masking material he selected. The two small pieces of masking material he chose at the beginning cost no extra money and were considered a spread.
The Lord gave it to him.
The fat man wanted to go to the shop to cut the stone. The stall owner asked Ah Fu and found out that he also wanted to cut the stone, so he asked the fat man to wait for Ah Fu to make his choice. Then he asked the waiter to bring both groups of customers to the shop.
Go to the store to get the stone broken.
This booth is next to the safety exit. It is estimated that this location was specially chosen by the stall owner to make it easier to move in and out the rough stones. His flatbed truck was parked at the door, and the two guys worked together to load the woolen material that Fatty bought into the truck.
"I asked you, can you hurry up? Don't delay my fortune. The woolen material you chose is twenty or thirty yuan, just take it with your eyes closed. Anyway, it's just a gamble on luck."
After waiting for a few minutes, the fat man became impatient and began to urge Afu and the others.
"Why are you urging me? If we make the wrong choice, will you compensate us?" Zhang Yujie said with a straight face and spoke back the fat man's words.
Maybe it was because he saw that Zhang Yujie and Sun Yuanyuan were both little girls. If they really wanted to quarrel, he would have no face no matter whether he won or lost. The fat man didn't say anything more. He simply walked outside the emergency exit to smoke.
In fact, what the fat man said was rough and unreasonable. Sun Dahai and the others present didn't understand stone gambling. Don't look at Ah Fu and Zhang Yujie. Sun Yuanyuan looked inside carefully, but what could a few laymen see?
Come?
If it were Sun Dahai, he would only choose a few pieces at random. As for research and judgment, those are things that only experienced experts can do.
In the end, Ah Fu and the three of them each chose a piece of masking material, and asked the stall owner for some benefits, adding an extra piece of small masking material less than one kilogram, which cost a total of one hundred yuan.
Sun Yuanyuan was still very restrained. Like her brother Sun Dahe, she did not spend all the two hundred yuan that belonged to each of them, which made Sun Dahai very happy.
It was almost noon, and the stall owner left a waiter to guard the booth. He and another waiter pushed the flatbed cart and took Sun Dahai and the others to the store with Fatty.
In less than ten minutes, everyone arrived at a jade and jade processing shop. The stall owner said that this was originally a small factory run by the street and had been closed for many years. Now that the reform and opening up has begun, the factory has been contracted by him.
The store has a front and a factory in the back, and is quite large. There are several pendants in the store, as well as some rings and bracelets, all made by his family.
Across the yard, behind was his family's processing workshop and warehouse. The stall owner took Sun Dahai and the others to the workshop, and called his younger brother to be responsible for cutting stones for everyone.
This is a family workshop. The stall owner (Boss Li) is responsible for feeding materials and receiving customers, while his younger brother, Master Li, is responsible for the processing of stone, jade and jade. The inside and outside work together to complement each other.
Fatty and Sun Yuanyuan each had four rough stones to solve. Sun Dahai and the others did not argue with Fatty, so they let him solve them first. They happened to go to the snack bar next to them to have lunch first.
When they came back from dinner, they were uncutting Fatty's second piece of material in the workshop. The first two pieces were small pieces of head covering material he chose, and the first piece had already been cut.
It can be seen that the fat man must have played stone gambling many times before. Although his face is a bit ugly, it is still normal. Master Li is making the second cut, and the boy is cooperating with watering the incision.
"Plop", the knife was cut to the end, and another piece of the original stone was cut off. The fat man quickly came over and illuminated the cut with a flashlight.
"Master Li, do you think it's foggy here?" the fat man asked, pointing to the corner of the incision.
"You can't see clearly now. I suggest you wipe this area open first, what do you think?" Master Li wanted to seek the opinions of the owner of the goods before taking action.
"Okay, come and wipe it."
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Half an hour later, the second piece also collapsed.
The fat man took a few deep breaths, and then said: "Let's take off this big piece of head covering material. If it doesn't take three steps, I don't believe it can't be raised."
This time, he did not choose to cut as soon as he came up. Instead, he chose two positions and asked Master Li to rub the stone first. Because the rough stone was big enough, Master Li called a boy to come up and they worked together, which would make it faster.
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The stone was wiped very quickly, and one side was finished in a short while. After pouring water, the fat man took a flashlight and took a photo, and immediately shouted happily: "It's green."
Hearing his cry, Boss Li and Sun Dahai couldn't stand it anymore, and everyone came up to watch.
Sure enough, under the illumination of the flashlight, a layer of green mist was clearly visible from the wiped mouth. The fat man waited for everyone to finish reading, walked around the original stone a few times, and then took a pen to draw a line on the stone mountain.
"Cut from here." The fat man's eyes showed a kind of confidence.
"Would you like to rub it a little more?" Boss Li has seen a lot of Jie Shi, so he naturally knows the saying "It doesn't count as an increase if you rub it, but it counts as an increase if you cut it."
"Don't rub it anymore. It's useless to rub such a big piece of material. Just cut it." The fat man said decisively.
With the roar of the cutting machine, the circular blade cut directly along the line drawn by the fat man. Sun Yuanyuan and Zhang Yujie had blocked their ears for a long time, but even so, they felt it was too noisy.
However, the knife soon cut it all the way to the end. The fat man couldn't wait to go up to check, and Boss Li followed suit.
"It's up." The fat man shouted excitedly. On the smooth cut that had just appeared in the original stone, two obvious green bands appeared in front of everyone.
However, neither Master Li nor the brothers made a sound. They were carefully observing the crack that appeared between the two green bands.
It is very disturbing to see cracks in the original jade stone, because it is difficult for everyone to judge how much damage the cracks will cause to the jadeite inside the original stone.
Especially when there are no signs on the outside, but cracks appear inside the original stone. If there is jade in the original stone, the cracks will almost certainly cause greater damage to the jade inside.