At 9:20 in the morning, Dong Xuebin took out a shoulder bag from the drawer under the wardrobe and put the 110,000 yuan that he had not had time to deposit in the bank last time he sold rare ancient books into the bag, and then went downstairs to the east side of the road.
Withdraw money from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, but this branch is relatively small. For cash withdrawals of more than 50,000 yuan, you must make an appointment one day in advance. Dong Xuebin, who wanted to withdraw 100,000 yuan, was too lazy to go to the Qiaobei branch. 50,000 yuan would be 50,000 yuan.
, a total of 160,000 was enough. He took the money and put it in his schoolbag. He fisted the collar of his jacket and braved the cold wind to take a taxi on the side road. He came to the Panjiayuan Flea Market on the South Third Ring Road and walked along the
On the outside of the wall, families were looking for a place to sell woolen materials.
"Boss, do you have jade wool?"
"No, we only sell finished products here. You can go and ask elsewhere."
"Boss, please ask, can you gamble with stones and jade here?"
"Oh, no such thing."
"Boss, do you know where you can gamble on stones in this area?"
"Betting on stones, there don't seem to be many in Panjiayuan. If you really want to play, it's best to go to Chaoyang, Haidian. There are special auctions of wool every week. The price is right and the quality of the materials is high." Dong Xuebin also knows about Haidian.
There is a place for auctioning wool materials in the antique city, but the process there is to first look at the materials, then bid and pay for the auction, and the last step is to open the materials. A lot of time is wasted in the middle. Just six minutes is far longer than the time it takes to raise a placard for the auction.
It was far from enough, so Dong Xuebin focused on ordinary retail transactions from the beginning.
Walk and walk, search and search, ask and ask.
Suddenly, the squeaking sound of the cutting machine came from a distance.
Dong Xuebin's eyes lit up. He had seen people betting on stones before when he was working, so he knew the sound very well. He looked up and walked over immediately. But when he stood in front of the shop door, Dong Xuebin was slightly startled.
The thing is that the material that the man was bending down to cut with the cutter was not jade wool. Judging from the color and shape, it seemed to be rough crystal stone, natural rough crystal stone. Betting on crystal? This is really not common. Dong Xuebin hesitated for a moment and said
He stepped forward and looked curiously. Crystal, agate, turquoise, seed, and jade can all be collectively referred to as stone, so Dong Xuebin does not necessarily have to choose jade wool or Hetian jade seed material.
Betting on crystals can also be a small win for a big one.
The sound of the cutting machine stopped, and a large window was opened on the side of the rough amethyst stone.
The sellers were a young couple. Upon seeing this, the girl asked: "Is this good? How much can it sell for?"
"The inside is of average quality." The slightly plump boss put down the cutting machine and picked up the rough stone to take a look, "It's probably worth 1,800 yuan."
"You only paid one thousand for five thousand?" When the girl heard this, she slapped her boyfriend angrily, "I told you don't buy it, don't buy it. Look, you lost the bet, right?" Everyone said that betting on stones
Nine times out of ten you lose. Betting on crystals is not as risky as betting on jade, but it’s not much different. It’s normal to start and fall. If you really spend 5,000 yuan, you can get one piece worth tens of thousands.
That's a bit abnormal. In addition, Beijing is not a place where professional stone betting occurs. Most of the rough stones shipped are "leftovers" left over from the production areas and major rough stone sales places, so the chance of an increase is even greater.
It's extremely small.
Over there, the boy was a little concerned about face. When he heard his girlfriend complaining, he immediately gritted his teeth and said, "This and that! Two more yuan!"
The girl said angrily: "Don't buy it! What can you do with that money!"
The boy refused to listen and insisted on paying the fat boss to cut the stone.
"Okay, I just cut it like that." The fat boss held the cutting machine in his hand, turned on the switch and let the gear rotate. He then held down the rough stone with a steady hand and rubbed the surface of the rough stone bit by bit with the gear. The hardness of crystal is not as hard as jade.
, so the raw crystal stone is relatively faster to cut than the jadeite wool.
One knife...
Five swords...
Ten swords...
Squeak, squeak, after a while, two colorless crystal rough stones, one big and one small, came out. The big one had pores and bubbles and was basically wiped out. It was not worth a lot of money. The small one was nothing.
The big problem was that it was just in mediocre condition and not worth the price he paid for it.
Amidst the quarrel, the young couple hugged the original stone and left angrily.
Not long after, an old man came and spent 10,000 yuan to buy a large piece of citrine. As a result, there was an impurity in it as big as a small fingernail. The 10,000 yuan was wasted.
At eleven o'clock, another group of people who looked like tourists bought four or five pieces of natural crystal rough stones. The best piece was evenly matched, that is, the buying price was equal to the selling price, but the other three or four pieces were at a loss.
Anything less will be lost.
This is gambling. There are always far more losers than winners. Success or failure all depends on luck.
Dong Xuebin felt a little guilty. After watching for so long, he still hadn't seen anyone make money by opening up. Can he really do it?
"Little brother, come and try your hand?" The fat boss looked at him while wiping his hands with a towel.
Standing at the door, Dong Xuebin was not ready to make a move. He shook his head and walked into the store first to look at the crystal ornaments in the glass display racks. He pointed at some of them and asked about the market situation, "How much does this pink crystal necklace cost? Eight."
Hundreds? What about the amethyst Guanyin? Twenty thousand? What about the hair crystal ornaments? One hundred and thirty thousand?" They range from a dozen to hundreds of thousands, with different colors, different sizes, different degrees of brightness, different degrees of purity, and price differences.
Also huge.
"The finished product is expensive." The fat boss said seductively, "How about gambling on stones? Once you get it done, you can get rich overnight!"
Dong Xuebin smiled and said nothing, thinking that if he didn't say it, he could even lose his fortune!
After dinner at noon, Dong Xuebin returned to the crystal shop again. He spent an hour observing and studying, and gradually gained a general understanding of gambling crystals and the value of crystals. In simple terms, it is like this, natural amethyst is more
Natural citrine is more expensive. Natural citrine is more expensive than natural colorless crystal. Darker colors are more expensive than lighter colors. Single colors are more expensive than mixed colors. High purity ones are more expensive than low purity ones. Heavy ones are more expensive than light ones.
It's more expensive. The rough stone that can be used to make a crystal ball is more expensive than the rough crystal stone of the same color and weight, the one with hair inside is more expensive than the one without hair, and the one with smooth hair is more expensive than the one with messy hair.
Knowing this, Dong Xuebin had an outline in his mind, and began to count the time required to crack a rough crystal stone. It would take a long time to rub the stone from the edge, ten minutes would be the same, and fifteen minutes would be the same, but
If you just cut off a large side of the rough stone with one knife without taking into account material loss and other conditions, the time will be relatively fast, just tens of seconds. After all, the hardness is far less than that of jadeite wool.