Gambling on stones is not gambling.
But stone gambling is also the most likely business for gamblers to end up bankrupt.
The saying that one is poor and one is rich and one is clothed in sackcloth is not a joke.
However, Tang Songyuan had a clairvoyant vision that could see through everything. In front of him, a piece of jadeite wool was just like a beautiful woman without any clothes, and all the details were exposed.
He suddenly laughed and said: "Let's go to the beach in big waves. Let's give it a try tonight and turn the bicycle into a motorcycle!"
As he spoke, he opened his perspective and looked at each stall one by one with Li Yangqiu.
In an instant, within a radius of fifty meters, the woolen materials on each stall were displayed in front of him in all directions without blind spots.
But the result is exactly what Li Yangqiu said, 99% of the woolen materials are junk.
To put it bluntly, most of the ones that can enter the scene have jade inside.
But most jadeite is simply worthless, which means it cannot meet the requirements of gem quality.
Compared with the Stone Gambling Appreciation Meeting in the Magic City, it was more than one or two levels behind.
Moreover, there are no numbers on these stones. I don’t know if they are unworthy or if they are really not of high quality.
But it’s not without its benefits. The only advantage is that it’s a large quantity and a full tube.
"Many of the jade diggers here are from the lowest level in Myanmar," Li Yangqiu said while strolling around:
"They rummaged through some abandoned mines or slag to find wool that might contain jade, and then entered here through different ways,"
"Even if they sell one piece a day, it is an excellent income for them..."
This reminded Tang Songyuan of the Douyin video he had seen before,
In those mines, as the trucks pulling the ore fell down, people rushed over like wild horses, regardless of the danger, and picked up various tools.
Looking at the minimum standard here, it's 100 yuan per piece of wool and 3,000 yuan a month. Compared with the lower-class people in Myanmar, this income is considered very good.
What's more, looking at the constant flow of people at the scene, there is an endless stream of Taobao enthusiasts.
At the end of the night, it is unlikely that not a single piece of wool will be sold.
Although it was a big wave, there was enough jadeite material still on site.
After shopping for about ten minutes, Tang Songyuan found a 'good' jadeite rough.
"Let's go, look over there!"
Tang Songyuan pulled Li Yangqiu and pointed in a direction, and the two of them squeezed through the crowd.
The owner of this stall is a lady in her thirties, and there are three or four customers squatting in front of the stall. They are picking and choosing at the stall, looking at the raw stone wool with a small flashlight.
There are actually street lights on site, but the light of the street lights is not strong. Maybe this market does not need too bright lights.
Under dark light, it is easier to identify the quality of jade.
The two of them knelt down unceremoniously and each picked up a piece of wool to observe.
A minute later, Li Yangqiu threw away the piece of wool he just got and continued his 'research' on another piece, but soon shook his head and gave up.
"The performance is too poor, even 200 yuan is money!"
He looked at the sign displayed by the stall owner's sister, which was marked with 200 yuan a piece, and stood up with some disgust and said.
But Tang Songyuan was unmoved. He held the stone and asked the stall owner: "How much does it cost per piece?"
"For 200 pieces, you can cut the stone for free!" Although the eldest sister's Chinese is not very standard, she can still understand it.
"Bought!" Tang Songyuan said simply.
Li Yangqiu was startled for a moment, then he couldn't help but snatch the piece of wool from his hand and said, "What? You just bought it..."
Then, he looked at it with a flashlight in a serious manner.
This is a rough stone weighing more than two kilograms. It is gray-black in color. It is exactly the one that Tang, Song and Yuan saw before. It contains a piece of jade material with a waxy ice base.
Tang Songyuan twitched his lips but said nothing, as if waiting for his response.
Li Yangqiu looked back and forth for five minutes, and finally said:
"Well... I'm not sure about this stone. It only costs two hundred yuan anyway. You can figure it out."
That's it!
He is really a dabbler with poor academic skills.
Tang Songyuan paid the money and did not ask the boss to cut it for free. He planned to find an opportunity to go to Song Zhenguo's company and borrow the other party's cutting machine to cut it.
If Song Zhenguo is interested, he can also let him take it.
However, this was only a short-term expediency. If he wanted to gamble in stone circles in Ruili for a long time, Tang Songyuan felt that he should also buy some cutting equipment and hire some workers.
Or, like Song Zhenguo and others, open a company that collects stones and sells jade?
Putting the wool into the backpack, the two continued to wander around.
Going further inside, there are some fixed stalls, and the unit price of woolen materials is also higher, at least 500 yuan a piece, and there are also some 1,000 yuan a piece.
The quality of the jadeite wool at these stalls is slightly higher, but in Tang, Song and Yuan's opinion, even if it is high, it is not much higher.
During this period, Li Yangqiu fell in love with a black stone. The boss told him that it was black sand that can get stuck, and it is very likely to produce the best jadeite, even imperial green.
He also said: "Huika is a big market, and the raw jadeite and black leather there have increased a lot..."
He took a flashlight and switched to yellow light mode to look there.
"This water head is very abundant..."
Li Yangqiu approached Tang Songyuan with a stone and said.
Under the light, the area illuminated by a strong flashlight shows a jelly-like texture, which makes people want to touch it to see if it is elastic.
But Tang Songyuan's clairvoyant vision was always open, and he could see clearly what was inside the stone at a glance.
He nodded slightly and said: "Yes, that's good, but there seems to be a break here. Has the boss only cut it once?"
Li Yangqiu turned the stone over and took a look. There was indeed a small break on the side of the black stone, but it was not obvious, and the artificial traces were not heavy and generally difficult to detect.
The boss was a middle-aged man with somewhat dark skin. He immediately shook his head in denial and said:
"Little brother, don't talk nonsense. The cut is smooth. This gap was obviously dug by an excavator."
"Look here, you can see the fog layer. This is definitely a top-notch piece of material!"
If it was really good material, would you resist giving it a knife and let the thousand yuan leak out instead?
Li Yangqiu hesitated for a moment, then looked at Tang Songyuan with a questioning look in his eyes: "I think it's okay, how about... I buy it?"
Tang Songyuan turned his head to one side and said nonchalantly: "I'll do whatever you want!"
One thousand yuan, not ten million, just think of it as buying a lesson.
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