First, you need to observe the color of the stone, whether it is rich and full in color, whether it is fine in quality, and whether there are any cracks. If possible, you will use a knife to scrape a small opening, called a window. Then use a light to illuminate it and check the internal texture.
Of course, this is stone gambling, and what you buy is luck, so scratching the stone is not allowed.
The second is to knock and knock to hear whether the sound of the stone is crisp. The sound of real jade is crisp, clear and long, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
The third is to taste its taste. This is a skill that only experienced people can master. Everyone can understand it by looking at its color and hearing its sound. But tasting its taste, for most people, they don’t know why.
But this is what Chen Luo feels the most. Every piece of jade is unique, with its own jade soul oozing out of the surface every moment. People with sensitive tastes can lick the jade from the surface.
You can roughly tell the quality inside by the taste.
In addition, the density of jade itself is significantly higher than that of ordinary stones. Experienced people can judge the accuracy of it by just weighing it.
After Chen Luo practiced the Five Aggregates method, his feelings in this regard became more obvious. For Chen Luo, he basically didn't need to get too close, he could absorb the jade soul from a distance.
So Chen Luo, Aunt Ayi and the others walked into the jade formation.
"Brother Chen Luo, let's see how this one looks like!" Xiao Yu'er jumped up and picked up a piece of jadeite and handed it to Chen Luo. Chen Luo put it under his nose and smelled it, and a strange smell assaulted his nostrils.
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So Chen Luo shook his head. This stone was not very authentic. It did not have the pure jade soul at all. Instead, it smelled of a sour and turbid air. This stone must not have been buried underground. After hundreds of millions of years,
It is formed by extrusion reaction, but it is more like being processed later.
Chen Luo tried to smell a few more stones. The stones in the entire jade array either had this strange smell, or the smell was quite authentic, but the smell was very light. Although this kind of woolen material looks good in appearance, the color is not good.
It looks good, but the inside should be slag, or even hollow, leaving very little space for processing the jade later, so it should be considered a low-quality jade.
These stones are not worthy of the price at all. This stall owner is doing an unscrupulous business, Chen Luo thought to himself.
The stall owner didn't know what means he used to get a bunch of gold and jade stones with crumbs inside, and let everyone bet on the stones. It looked like a prosperous grand ceremony, but in fact it was full of tricks.
"Is there anyone you like? Xiaoluo." Ayi couldn't help but ask after seeing that Chen failed to pick a piece after a long time.
Chen Luo shook his head, "None of these stones is good."
"Little brother, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. These stones are all authentic and fake." The middle-aged businessman's face changed after hearing this.
"Yeah, if you don't have the money to buy it, why are you pretending?" Someone next to me helped.
Chen Luo looked at them for a moment, ignored them, and stood up to evacuate. The middle-aged man in the scene gave up and jumped down from the rock, blocking Chen Luo's way.
"Little brother, I see that you are not very old, and you don't look like locals, but if you don't explain things clearly today, you won't be able to leave so easily!"
"What do you want?" Chen Luo stared at the middle-aged businessman and said word by word.
"How's it going? Today you can either explain the matter clearly and apologize in front of everyone, or~~~" The middle-aged man clapped his hands as he spoke, and the four guys behind him gathered around him.
Chen Luo smiled.
"I said that the stones you have here are not very good. They are still far from the standard of jade, let alone used to participate in competitions." Chen Luo said loudly.
"Nonsense, all the stones here are of high quality. Do you dare to take a gamble?"
"How to bet?" Chen Lu asked.
"Let's find a controversial stone and cut it open on the spot. If you lose, you must buy it at double the price!" the middle-aged businessman said fiercely.
"Then what if you lose?" Chen Luo asked.
"How could I lose!" The middle-aged man said confidently, "If I lose, I will give you the stone for free!"
"What's the point of asking for a broken stone?" Chen Luo said, "If I win, it means your stone is a poor quality. I won't even give it to you for free!"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Let's do this," Chen Luo said, "I won't take advantage of you. If I win, I can just take any of the stones here."
“It’s a deal!”
"Everyone, please bear witness!"
The middle-aged man turned around and walked into the jade formation, and took out a round jade stone from inside. The stone was round in shape, and it looked like seed jade picked up from the river valley. It was about the size of a watermelon, and was wrapped with a layer of jade.
Autumn pear skin color, fine texture, hardness, and transparency are quite good. When you rub it with your hands, you can feel the oil overflowing.
"How about we gamble with this piece?" Everyone was in an uproar. A fool could tell that this piece of rough stone was a piece of fine mutton-fat jade seed jade. He turned it over and looked at the price. He wrote 500 in red pen.
Such a stone is worth 500 taels of silver.
Chen Luo took the stone, looked at it, put it under his nose and inhaled, feeling reassured.
"Just this one. I think this piece of jade, strong on the outside but dry on the inside, is an embroidered pillow! If you don't believe it, let's take a bet!" Chen Luo said, begging for a thousand taels of silver notes from Ayi, and waved
Liao Hua said, if I lose, this banknote will be yours.
Hahahaha~~
The stall owner laughed wildly, "That's what you said, don't go back on it!" It's hard to say anything else. At least this piece of jade, the stall owner asked Master Jia, an expert in jade, to see it. The master's appraisal conclusion is that it is undoubtedly a top-notch piece of jade.
Fat jade.
The stall owner places bets on the Shilongmen Formation here just to make some money. After the competition starts, the stall owner is preparing to take this piece of jade to win a good ranking.
The world is bustling, and everyone is going there for the benefit of others.
How could a naive young man like Chen Luo compete with Master Jia? It seems that he has achieved both fame and fortune today.
You can not only make a lot of money, but also see how good this jade is.
The stall owner bowed his hands to everyone, moved the black stone under his feet, and placed Ziyu on top.
"Here, bring the tools!" The stall owner waved his hand, and someone from behind brought up a scroll saw. I saw that the saw blade was inlaid with saw teeth one by one. The teeth were made of fine quartz mixed with fine steel and stone.
Made of jade, it is harder than ordinary jade and can be used to cut stones quickly and with less effort.
Instead of cutting it in two, the stall owner drew a line on the outer layer of the stone as the cutting site and started cutting.
Two people hold the wire saw and add water to cool it while pulling it to prevent the jade from exploding due to excessive temperature.
It is just a thin layer of skin, which is equivalent to opening a larger skylight for the seed jade.
When the jade skin is slowly untied, a stream of pure white stone flesh spurts out, and the jade is condensed with fat. From the part exposed through the window, it can be seen that this is a rare piece of Kunlun goat fat jade.
The stall owner spread his hands towards Chen Luo and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, little brother, you lose!"