After a while, Jiang Qiuyun said: "Cheng, I'm free now and want to go out for a walk. Where do you think I should go?"
As a writer, she can't stay at home all the time. Staying at home means working behind closed doors.
She needs to go out and collect news.
What the ancients called "collecting folk songs" meant collecting folk songs. "Wind" refers to poetry, which is taken from the "national style" in "The Book of Songs", my country's first collection of poems. "Caifeng" means "collecting the national style", which has been around for a long time. Yuan Jie's "Chunling Xing": "Who picks up the national style, I want to dedicate this poem." Liu Kezhuang's "Sages": "If you see three hundred poems about the national style, why would you blame me for picking it up?" Dai Shulun's "Send Cui Shiyi Cave" "Jiangdong Visiting Books": "Nine gates want to give advice, thousands of miles collect rumors."
However, for Jiang Qiuyun, she has opened a heavenly orifice. Everywhere she goes, she can sense the vitality of heaven and earth, communicate with ghosts and gods, and gain inspiration.
Lu Cheng originally wanted to go to the "Three Rivers Source", but then he thought about it. There would be unexpected dangers when approaching those two large tombs, so he should wait until he became a spiritual warrior.
He said: "Go to Yunnan, see XSBN, Yuanyang Rice Terraces, Cangshan Erhai Lake... I also want to collect a batch of jadeite."
Jiang Qiuyun nodded in agreement. Then she booked a flight.
In the afternoon of the next day, the two arrived in Kunming.
They stayed here for 4 days.
During the day, Lu Cheng accompanied Jiang Qiuyun to visit Dianchi Lake, Stone Forest, Jiuxiang and Ethnic Village.
Dianchi Lake is the largest Danshui Lake in YN Province and is known as the Pearl of the Plateau. Haigeng is a long embankment inserted into Dianchi Lake from east to west. The embankment is about four and a half kilometers long. It is like a jade belt floating in the sea, dividing Dianchi Lake into two parts: the main part of Dianchi Lake is in the south, surrounded by mountains on three sides and a lake. Xiushui; in the north is the "Hai Cao" that reaches directly to the edge of Kunming City. Painted pavilions, stone boats, sea view corridors, lush green lawns, gorgeous cherry blossom forests, luxury yachts, and seaside leisure squares combine movement and stillness, creating a harmonious and romantic atmosphere between man and nature.
The Stone Forest Scenic Area consists of eight tourist areas: Stone Forest, Naigu Stone Forest, Zhiyun Cave, Changhu Lake, Dadieshui, Guishan National Forest Park, Yuehu Lake, and Qifeng Cave. It is characterized by majestic, strange, dangerous, beautiful, secluded, and Famous for Ao and Kuang.
"Look at the Stone Forest on the ground and Jiuxiang underground." Jiuxiang and Stone Forest are both karst three-dimensional landscapes, but the beauty lies not in the peak forest but in the caves. The scenic area has hundreds of large and small caves, which are large in scale and numerous in number. They are known as the "Cave Museum" and are one of the must-visit attractions around Kunming.
In the evening, Jiang Qiuyun stayed in the hotel to come up with new ideas, while Lu Cheng activated the disguise talisman and went to major jade shops.
He spent three nights sweeping away all the good jade in Kunming! A total of 42 pieces of jade were obtained, each weighing more than 30 kilograms.
He took the jade stones back to the hotel, took out the golden dagger and slashed them, and the jade stones were cut! This is much more convenient than using a jade cutting machine!
He waved the golden dagger and peeled off the jade skin, fully exposing the jade flesh.
He put away two pieces of top-grade jade, and on the afternoon of the fourth day, he invited Huo Mingcheng, general manager of Colorful Yunnan Jade Company.
Huo Mingcheng looked at the peeled jade. He was shocked, but also happy: "Great! Good jade is getting harder and harder to find these days. It's really unimaginable that you can collect so much!"
Lu Cheng asked: "Mr. Huo, I am short of money now. Look at these beautiful jade, how much can I eat?"
"Mr. Lu, you are young and rich, and you are a well-known rich man in the country. If you are still short of money, we will not be able to live."
"Haha, all my money has been spent on stocks! You can neither eat nor drink stocks! As a major shareholder, I am not free to even reduce my holdings. I have so little cash on hand that it is difficult to even eat."
"Mr. Lu, how much do you plan to charge for these jade stones?"
"Mr. Huo, give it to me! I'm not very clear about the price of jade. But if you give it too low, I won't invite you alone next time. I will give the jade to the auction house and invite more people. Bid.”
Huo Mingcheng looked around and spent an hour bargaining with Lu Cheng.
Finally, Lu Cheng agreed to the other party's quotation, and all the jade stones were packaged and sold for a price of 2.8 billion!
Is 2.8 billion expensive? This depends on the quality of the jade.
If it is a green bracelet made of glass, the auction price of one bracelet can reach hundreds of millions. The problem is that two pieces of top-quality jadeite have been put away by Lu Cheng in advance. Although the remaining 40 pieces of jadeite are also of glass type, and at worst ice type or high-ice type, Huo Mingcheng is only willing to pay this price.
Even so, Huo Mingcheng can only pay 1 billion yuan in advance and wait three months to pay 1.8 billion yuan.
Huo Mingcheng then called a few people to pack the jade and move it away.
In the evening, Lu Cheng and Jiang Qiuyun went to Shiping Guild Hall for dinner.
This restaurant is said to have a history of 200 years, and its specialties include Shiping tofu, Shiping grilled fish, rolled ear cubes, etc.
In the next two days, they went to see Yuanyang Rice Terraces.
Yuanyang Rice Terraces is the core area of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces. The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces are spread across the four counties of Yuanyang, Honghe, Jinping and Lüchun in HH Prefecture, Yunnan, with a total area of about 1 million acres. There are 170,000 acres of terraces in Yuanyang County alone.
The Yuanyang Rice Terraces are pastoral landscape paintings that the Hani people have carved endlessly for more than 1,300 years. On June 22, 2013, at the 37th World Heritage Conference, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces were successfully included in the World Heritage List, becoming China's 45th World Heritage Site. This is a spectacle of agricultural civilization, large in scale and majestic.
Next, the two went to XSBN.
"Xishuang" means twelve in Dai language, and "Banna" means a thousand acres. One Banna is a unit for collecting taxes and levies, and XSBN means twelve Bannas. This comes from the fact that in the fourth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanwei Division divided its jurisdiction into twelve "Banna".
There are a wide variety of animal and plant resources here, which is called the "Tropical Animal Kingdom". Many of the rare, ancient, peculiar and endangered animals and plants are unique to XSBN. The landscape is dominated by rich and charming tropical and subtropical rainforests, tropical monsoon forests, valley rainforest scenery, rare animals and colorful national culture and customs.
After leaving XSBN, they went to the border city of Tengchong, a jade city.
Lu Cheng spent a day here scanning the goods and got another 18 pieces of high-quality jade.
He asked Jiang Qiuyun: "Are you interested in traveling to Myanmar?"
Jiang Qiuyun shook her head: "I don't want to go. We didn't even bring our passports."
Lu Cheng said: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a passport, I have an invisibility charm!"
"Where are you going and what are you doing?"
"I want to see if there are any undeveloped jade veins!"
"You go alone. I want to go to Dali and see Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. I'll wait for you there for 7 days. Is that enough?"
"enough."
Both of them are innate masters, so there is nothing to worry about.
Lu Cheng activated the invisibility charm and slipped out of the border.
The origin of Myanmar jade is in the Myitkyina region in northern Myanmar, mainly located in the upper reaches of the Wulong River in the northwest of Mengong. It is about 250 kilometers long, 15 kilometers wide, and covers an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers.
This is a long and narrow strip, only 15 kilometers wide. Lu Cheng walked through the middle and looked left and right. He could see the entire area. He could tell if there was any good jade at a glance.
He first went to the old field area, then to the new field area, Houjiang field area, Leida field area and small field area. Wherever he passed, many places had been dug up, and they were riddled with holes and bruises!
Some areas are open to the public, and many people flock in and dig like headless flies.
It was impossible for Lu Cheng to hang out with those people. He wanted to see if there were any new mineral veins that had not yet been discovered.
He spent three days visiting all the jade fields and nearby surrounding areas, and found that there were no large veins, but there were still several small veins.
Where the Wulong River forks, there is a large redwood forest.
Lu Cheng walked deep into the redwood forest, activated the Earth Escape Talisman, and plunged into the ground!
The soil here is very soft, and it is only 25 meters deep into the ground that you encounter hard rocks. Some of these hard stones are mixed with jade.
He took out the golden dagger and put the higher quality jade into his storage belt while digging.
After half a day, he found the core of this small mineral vein, where there was a huge jade stone with a diameter of 3 meters! It appears as an ice species on the outside, but there are some high ice species on the inside. He took away the huge jade, and then swept away all the small jade within 30 meters. In the end, he dug up about 25 tons. The huge jade alone weighed 13 tons! It's a pity that there are not many top-quality jadeite, but there are quite a few ice and high-ice types.
"That's enough. With these mid-to-high-end jadeite, your trip is not in vain."
Lu Cheng is not too greedy, otherwise he could spend a few years to catch all the jadeite in one go.
He soon left Myanmar and arrived at a residential house on the Erhai Lake, where he met Jiang Qiuyun.
Jiang Qiuyun asked: "Is there anything gained?"
Lu Cheng nodded: "Of course there are harvests, but they are just average. Not too surprising, all the good jadeite has been dug up!"
"There is no way. After all, it has been developed for too long and it is difficult to generate. If it is not replenished for millions of years, it will only become less and less."
"Is your new idea ready?"
"Well, I want to write 'Flowers, Snow and Moon'."
Lu Cheng was surprised: "Huh? Why did you think of writing this? There are too many people who write about romance!"
Jiang Qiuyun said with a smile: "Dali's natural scenery is famous all over the world for its four wonders of "wind, flowers, snow and moon". The wind in Xiaguan, the flowers in Shangguan, the snow in Cangshan Mountain, and the moon in Erhai Lake. I was inspired by this and prepared to write "Wind" , Flower, Snow and Moon' four-part series, each with 8 million words, totaling 32 million words."
"It will be a huge work. How many days will it take you to write it?"
"150,000 words a day, it won't take a year. Cheng, help me find some runes related to 'Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon'. After I master the runes, it will be easier to communicate with the way of heaven. When I was writing the book, I was immersed in the Tao Realm can not only improve your skills, but also help write good books."
"Okay, let me sum it up for you." Lu Cheng has mastered almost 50,000 runes, and there are still many runes related to "Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon".
He spent several days sorting out more than 300 runes and taught them to Jiang Qiuyun bit by bit.
These runes were all electronic versions created by Lu Cheng's handwriting input into the computer.
Every time Jiang Qiuyun learned a rune, she closed her eyes and meditated. While she was meditating, she put her hands on the keyboard and tapped her fingers randomly, typing out a lot of words. When she opened her eyes and read it, she found that these randomly typed words often contained some kind of divine intention and were worthy of further consideration and study.
She likens this approach to "supporting the Qi".
The so-called Fu Ji is often considered to be a folk superstitious activity. It is also called Fu Ji, Li Ji, Fuluan, Wai Luan, Jiang Bi, Qing Xian, Bu Zi Gu, Jia Ji, etc.
A wooden tray with fine sand should be prepared for the support. If there is no fine sand, you can use dust instead. The pen is inserted into a bamboo basket. While supporting the ji, the ji people kept writing on the sand table with a ji pen, saying in their mouths that a certain deity has descended upon the body. The warlock made a T-shaped wooden frame with a hanging cone hanging from the top of the straight end. The wooden frame is placed on the sand table, and the hanging part of the wooden frame is painted with words on the sand as a revelation from God.
Jiang Qiuyun was typing on the keyboard randomly, using a computer instead of a sandbox, and the keyboard instead of a pen, and the revelation she got was also very mysterious. She was not superstitious about those revelations. After careful analysis, she wrote down the useful parts and eliminated the useless ones.
The so-called writers are experts in weaving dreams with words. The saying "Articles are made by nature" reveals the origin of this creative thinking.
