The locals should know, right? At that time, there were five or six people with Xinjiang accents at the door, holding a lot of white Hetian jade for sale. If you dare to ask these Xinjiang people how much it costs, they will chase you home and keep pestering you if you don’t buy it. With you.
The jade sold by people in Xinjiang is very white, as white as snow. Of course it is not the real thing, nor is it made of plastic resin. This kind of jade is made from white jade powder through a hydraulic press.
I fell in love with a white jade Pixiu and asked him how much it cost.
He immediately said: "Friend! My good friend! I am from Xinjiang! Authentic Hetian jade! Good friends like to give 20,000! Let's make good friends with 20,000!"
"Too expensive! Don't want it!"
"Good friend, tell me! How much do you say! The stuff is good! Hetian jade!" He had a large bunch of white jade bracelets on his hands, making a jingling sound.
"Twenty." I said directly.
He glared and immediately said in authentic Mandarin: "You damn thing, are you just looking for trouble? Get out of here, don't affect my business!"
I wasn't angry even after being scolded, so I smiled and said, "Brother, you are pressed with jade powder, and the purchase cost is only a dozen yuan. In this way, I will give you eighty, sell me one, and you can make sixty for free." ”
He stared at me for a few seconds, then suddenly grinned and whispered: "You pick one, don't make any noise, it's hard to touch fat pigs these days."
I bought the white jade Pixiu at 80, and then I went to the scrap station to find some rusty scrap iron. I asked the scrap station owner to borrow an angle grinder and started grinding the scrap iron.
What I wanted was "rust", and soon I collected a small bag.
The most advanced way to make old ancient jade is the "lamb leg method", which is to cut the mutton leg and stuff the jade inside, and then take it out every two years. The surface of this kind of jade is extremely warm and moist, and it will produce a strange "bloodshot" look. Even experts can't recognize the patina. My time is limited, so I resorted to the old-fashioned way of making it with rust.
Dig a bag of soil, any soil will do, add water and mix it into mud, then wrap the jade brave with mud, similar to the style of a beggar's chicken.
Then throw it into the fire and burn it. The fire should not be small and burn for one and a half hours. It must be wrapped in mud and burned. If the jade is burned directly, it will become blackened.
Pick it out from the fire and break open the surface mud. While it is still hot, use fine sandpaper to rub the jade surface vigorously. Remember to polish in one direction.
If you look at the ancient jade in this way under a magnifying glass, you will see tiny traces of wear and tear.
Take a bag of baking soda, half a bag of tea leaves, boil water and let it cool, then throw the polished jade into the water and soak it.
Then mix the mature vinegar and water in a ratio of 1:4, add raw rust, and heat it in the pot again.
Get a pot of boiling and bubbling black water, scoop it out with a spoon, and pour a spoonful onto the jade. At this time, the surface of the jade will generate black slurry and rust at a speed visible to the naked eye, much like the pitted unearthed state. .
The last step is to apply a little sewing machine oil and rub it back and forth with a dry towel for half an hour, and you're done.
This method is much more sophisticated than simply corroding with strong acid, soaking feces in water, boiling tea leaves, etc. Most people can't tell the difference between true and false.
I took a look at it myself and was very satisfied with my work. In this way, this fake piece bought for 80 yuan was transformed into a Ming Dynasty Hetian white jade Pixiu unearthed from Shengkeng.
Remember these words, in this industry as long as you are bold, have many tricks, and follow wild methods, you will definitely make money. How bold people are! How productive the land is. By the way, let me tell you a true story. In 2005, there was a young man in the West District who specialized in selling fake Ru kilns. He sold the goods to a foreign woman in a row within three days. It was sold for more than 1.9 million. Later, people from foreign embassies came to Panjiayuan to look for it, and the young people had already run away!
At 12:30, I was waiting for Xiaobai to arrive at the north gate of Panjiayuan, and I bought a box lunch with the last ten yuan I had.
A little after one o'clock, she came on time.
When I saw it, my eyes suddenly lit up.
It's a beauty!
It really goes with the old saying, if a woman can dress herself up, there is nothing ugly about her.
