Two people entered the Beimang Strange Stone Market.
What came into view were many small vendors. Some of them were stoners. They used their own eyesight to pick out some woolen materials to open the windows.
Once the stalls are of good quality and they feel profitable, they set up stalls on the spot.
There are also some that mainly sell finished products and take advantage of the crowds in the strange stone market to sell some fake goods or handicrafts, mainly for business.
Old Man Li put his hands behind his back and strolled around looking at the various strange stones on the stall, looking extremely interested.
Li Mu followed behind and looked at the old man's back with a smile, knowing that he had come to the right place this time. The old man liked these things very much.
Following the old man for a stroll, Li Mu was not in a hurry. The two of them walked around the entire strange stone market. Li Mu accompanied the old man and bought a few pieces of water gallstones, crystal caves, hair crystals and other small items that were handicrafts, smiling with a smile.
Paid the money.
Carrying these handicrafts, the two of them continued forward and finally arrived at the woolen fabric area.
This place is no different from the market. The surrounding telephone poles are all covered with cameras, mainly for prevention purposes.
In the distance, several workshops responsible for opening windows were crowded with people, and they seemed not to mind the harsh noise of water saws and cutting machines at all.
"Come on, Dad, I'll take you to choose some treasures."
Father Li looked at the piles of woolen materials. The prices were frighteningly high, and those with flaws and obvious cracks were priced at a thousand yuan. Those with good quality and special origins were tens of thousands or even tens of millions.
The so-called rough stone refers to the stone before any surgery, also called raw material.
There are many types of woolen fabrics, some are domestic and some are imported, and there are old pits and new pits.
Seeing Li Mu walking towards a pile of stones priced at hundreds of thousands, Lao Li was startled and quickly grabbed Li Mu and said:
"There's nothing good or bad about stones. Just play with the cheap ones. I think those ones that are over a thousand years old are pretty good."
Li Mu smiled slightly, stopped and said:
"Okay, Dad, you have the final say."
As he said that, he took Father Li and walked towards the one thousand yuan scrap area.
Most of the stones here have injuries, that is, cracks, which will affect the quality of the jade. In addition, after being screened by many stone appraisers, there are almost no good ones.
I led the old man to the piles of woolen materials, where there were many old men sitting with bright flashlights picking through the stones.
Most of these people are novices or poor buyers who like to pick up the pieces.
Stone gambling is a very charming thing. Its charm is that it can make you rich overnight, or it can make you bankrupt overnight. This kind of thing happens in every stone gambling place.
At this time, Li Mu strolled to the stockyard.
Stepping on a large pile of worthless stones, he began to glance back and forth among the stones.
After looking around for a long time, Li Mu secretly shook his head.
The quality of these stones is so poor that after looking at them for a long time, there was not even one worth picking up.
Some onlookers couldn't help but shook their heads when they saw that Li Mu was so young and didn't even hold a bright flashlight, feeling that Li Mu was completely unprofessional.
After walking around the thousand-yuan stone pile, Li Mu's eyes lit up. He lowered his head and picked up a piece of stone the size of a baby's head. Li Mu handed it to Father Li and said:
"Dad, let's take this piece and test the water. If it turns green, we'll sell it and make a book. Buy a few more pieces. What do you think?"
Seeing Li Mu's confidence, the old man couldn't help but look at the stone.
The surface of this stone is pitted, its color is dull, and there is an obvious big crack in the middle. At first glance, it is not a good stone.
He blew his beard and stared:
"Little prodigal son, I usually watch a lot of stone gambling programs. Yours is obviously a low-quality product. No one wants it at all. You are pawning it off."
Li Mu curled his lips and joked:
"How about we make a bet? If the jade material from the stone I choose is more than a hundred times the price of this stone, then you have to help me let a few sisters sleep with me tonight."
Father Li grabbed Li Mu's ears, stared and said:
"Hey, you have a big appetite, so what if you lose?"
Li Mu covered his ears and said with a smile:
"If I lose, I will accompany you to play chess for a month. What do you think?"
Father Li said cheerfully:
"Sure! Look at your brat's hype, I want to see if you are of any use."
The two people held the stone and paid the money, and then the old man and the young man walked towards the Jieshi District.
Unraveling stones is a very exciting thing, because you can intuitively see whether you have lost or gained.
Near the calcite area, the noisy water saws are extremely loud.
As the sound of the water saw suddenly stopped, there was a burst of exclamation from the crowd.
"Oh! This water head is really enough..."
"Making money, making money, hahaha." Among the crowd, a middle-aged man held a piece of emerald-green stone with no concealment of joy on his face.
Previously, people who spent a lot of money but failed to find a good jade beat their chests, shook their heads and said:
"I also had my eye on this stone before, but unfortunately I didn't buy it, alas."
To win in stone gambling, you not only need strong eyesight, but also luck. There are too many variables in this industry, and no one can say that you will definitely win.
Seeing that someone had just opened the skylight, Li Mu walked up with the old man and said to the master:
"Master, please help us cut the stone."
Seeing that the stone Li Mu brought out was a cheap material with obvious flaws, the master in charge of cutting didn't even raise his eyebrows:
"It costs 100 to open the window and 200 to grind the edge. Pay first."
He could tell that the lining in Li Mu's hand was the cheapest kind, so he naturally didn't think anything good could be cut out of it.
Calcite is divided into slicing and edging.
The so-called slicing means opening a window, which is the fastest way to see the quality inside the stone, but it is also the most likely to damage the value of the jadeite.
Therefore, most people will choose grindstones when interpreting stones. After all, no one knows whether there is jade inside.
Not paying attention to the stone interpreter's attitude, Li Mu directly swept 300 yuan over and said casually:
"One knife first."
The stone interpreter didn't waste any time, filled the water saw with water, then took the stone, drew a line with a pen and asked:
"Here, open a window, okay?"
Looking at the marked position, Li Mu nodded, indicating that there was no problem.
As the water saw started to work, a huge noise was mixed with stone chips impacted by the water flow flying everywhere.
Everyone watching the fun felt that it was nothing to do. Some shook their heads and laughed at Li Mu's youth, while others hugged their arms and looked like they were watching the fun.
As the skylight opened, the master with a strong flashlight in his hand took a random look and found that the surface was suddenly gray.
Many viewers laughed out loud, this was pretty much what they thought.
"Do you still want to cut it?"
"Let's change it to a grinder now." Li Mu said calmly.
"Young man, I'd like to advise you. The window is so wide open that it's not even green, and there's a big crack in the middle of your piece of material. I don't think you're wasting that money." The stone analyzer couldn't help but kindly reminded him.
In his opinion, this is just the cheapest piece of scrap. Continuing is expensive, time-consuming and unnecessary.