Under the dim light, there were old Burmese people sitting together in twos and threes. Their clothes were dirty and stained with water. It looked like they had floated across the water pushing truck inner tubes.
The people sitting together are all the companions who have drifted across the river together.
These old Burmese do not have visas, and no one knows what their status is in northern Myanmar.
Because they were all carried on people's backs and shoulders, there were not many stones and they were not big in size. When I came to Jade City, there was no fixed stall, so I just found a corner, put the stones on the ground, and let people watch with lights on. Even when bargaining, I deliberately lowered my voice.
The entire rough stone market was like a gate to hell that had been opened. There were heads everywhere, flashlights flickering everywhere, no one was making a loud noise, and prices were negotiated in whispers.
The place with the brightest lights is not selling stones.
Instead, seeing this opportunity to make money, the little boss moved the stone cutting machine and stone polishing machine and waited for the stone gamblers to cut the stones.
Ye Qing walked in front, followed closely by An Mengxi and Liu Fang. Behind them were Liu Le and An Zhi. Wang Jian and Fan Tong followed suitcases slowly, as if they were two groups of people.
Every time he passed by a street stall, Ye Qing squeezed in and took a look, first at the old man and then at the stone, and then continued searching without saying a word.
Liu Fang and An Mengxi didn't ask, just followed him quietly.
Anzhi glanced at Liu Le: "What on earth are you looking at!"
Liu Le chuckled: "I just passed by six Lao Burmese street stalls, and the Lao Burmese stalls in two of the stalls were locals pretending to be Lao Burmese."
Anzhi was surprised: "How did you see that?"
"The suits they were wearing had been soaked in water and they pretended to have swum from the water. Moreover, the stones had also been soaked in water, and the water stains were obvious." Liu Le said disdainfully: "But the shoes they wore were dry. This big At night, you’re just fooling the devil!”
"I..." Anzhi was speechless. She was really not afraid of Liu Le if there was a fight, but this kind of meticulous observation was not her strong point: "But there are a few real ones!"
Liu Le whispered: "The person may be real, but Shitou must have tampered with it and is just waiting for someone to punch him in the eye and take medicine."
Liu Fang was a step behind, listening to the two of them talking, and couldn't help but said: "Ye Qing didn't even light up the flashlight in this dim light, how could he see it?"
Liu Le shook his head blankly: "I don't know about this, but Sixth Brother sometimes relies on intuition when looking at people and stones, and he has never looked past his eyes."
Liu Fang rolled her eyes at him. This guy seemed to be honest, but he was not a good person.
What is intuition? Intuition is the sixth sense, which is very magical and fantasy.
Everyone has a sixth sense, but there is a special pattern. Good ones do not work, but bad ones do.
And precisely Murphy's Law verifies this.
The so-called Murphy's Law is actually a psychological effect. Its most extreme expression is that if something has the possibility of going bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen and cause great damage. .
This psychological effect is also recorded in detail in the ancient Chinese "Qingming Yihua": All living things, including humans, are bound by various things in the world. This is a law of nature.
Just like time is a shackles to people, the body is the container of the soul, and it is also a shackles of the soul.
All creatures in this world, including humans, are bound by various shackles.
But there is a kind of shackles that is unique to human beings, and its energy is very strong and terrifying, that is, human language.
What you say cannot be taken back, nor can it be treated as if it was never said.
If you worry too much about one thing, you will talk to yourself, and the thing you worry about will definitely develop in a bad direction.
If Ye Qing relies on intuition to bet on stones, even if he has a gold mountain at home, it won't be enough for him to lose.
Ye Qing took An Mengxi to visit more than a dozen small stalls, squeezing into the crowd. After waiting for others to let go, he started to turn on the lights, but after taking a second look, he pulled An Mengxi and turned around and left.
An Mengxi stood in a corner with him, looking at the bustling crowd, all haggling in low voices, and said funnyly: "Young master, I don't even like a single stone."
Ye Qing was a little frustrated, shook his head and said: "The stones are all good, but they are not the stones I am looking for."
An Mengxi was surprised and looked around. Except for Liu Le and others, no one noticed the two of them. Then he laughed in a low voice and asked: "What does this mean?"
An Mengxi handed him the mineral water in his hand, and Ye Qing unscrewed the bottle cap and took two sips: "Although the jadeite stone I just looked at came from Laochangkou.
But it is Dumo Malong in Longkengchang area near Pagan. These stones have gray and white skin and yellow sand skin. Although they are well crystallized, they are also transparent.
However, the raw jadeite produced at these two sites is mainly produced from mid- to low-grade brick materials. The odds of winning a bet are high, but the odds of a big rise are extremely low.
An Mengxi does not necessarily want to cut out high-end jadeite, but enjoys the fun of gambling with Ye Qing. From a pile of stones, he finds jadeite worth millions or tens of millions. It is a kind of mouse that falls into rice. The feeling of joy in the tank.
"If you win the bet, won't it mean the price will rise!"
Ye Qing smiled slightly: "If you buy a stone worth 10,000 yuan and cut it into jadeite worth 12,000 yuan, you have won the bet. But for such quality jadeite, even Mr. Qin is unwilling to carve it, so he can only use a machine to grind it." As jewelry. Will you and Sister Liu Fang wear this kind of jade jewelry?"
An Mengxi felt warm in her heart. It turned out that he took his promise to her seriously. This feeling was really good. She said delicately, "It's not enough to embarrass me."
Ye Qing sweated: "This has nothing to do with me!"
"It doesn't matter!" An Mengxi said with a smile: "The little girl is going to meet people with the young master. The jade jewelry she carries is only worth 20,000 yuan. As long as the young master can embarrass someone, the little girl doesn't care."
"Forget it, let's keep looking!" Ye Qing was disappointed and didn't hold out much hope. He looked at a few street stalls under the street lights in the distance. However, these stalls were not only in poor locations, but also far away from the lights. .
There were people surrounding the other stalls, haggling quietly, but in these stalls, there were not even a single customer. There was only Lao Mian sitting behind the stall, smoking a cigarette lonely.
"Go over and have a look. If you can't find any stones that don't have an edge, just wait until I come back from Muse and try to find a way to get some good stones from Boss Qi."
"It's the boss Qi who invited me to Tengchong to gamble on stones!"
"Yeah!" Ye Qing nodded affirmatively: "The Audi A6 he lent me was burned, and I lost an Audi A8. Now Wang Liang is driving it, and I haven't sent it back to him yet."
An Mengxi pursed her lips and smiled: "A6 changes to a8, which is enough to make Boss Qi ecstatic."
Ye Qing was also amused: "I'm afraid it's not a surprise but a shock. Anyway, if he doesn't give me a good stone, I will leave a8 to him."
