Chapter 469 Meeting an acquaintance
Although the little Loli was still smiling, Yan Xing could feel that she was in a depressed mood. When the taxi arrived at a street full of jade shops, he got out of the car and went straight to a snack bar to buy a bunch of them. Chuan Chuan, hoping that the delicious food will make her happy.
There was a little attendant who helped carry the delicacies. Le Yun grabbed a bunch of grilled fish fillets and ate them while walking. When she walked to a jade shop, she also ate them all. She gave the bamboo skewers to Handsome Yan, and ate a bunch of grilled potatoes. Step into the jade shop.
The jade shops in Tengshi are also small stone gambling places. Each store has some wool. The wider shop has more stones, and the narrower shop has less wool. Wherever there is a jade shop, you can gamble on stones.
The little loli's eyebrows curled up as she ate the snacks. She looked as cute as a little squirrel with a satisfied look. Yan Xing felt soft and helped her carry the snack bag, letting her play freely and happily.
There are so many jade shops, and there are also many tourists or buyers. The salespersons and shopkeepers are smiling and welcoming, but not overly enthusiastic. Most of the shopkeepers are very easy-going, and sometimes they can chat with customers and will invite customers to sit down and have tea.
The store owner probably met a close friend and a middle-aged man drinking tea. There were a few businessmen looking at the stones, and two customers were looking at the finished products at the counter. The atmosphere made people feel natural and comfortable.
Le Yun scanned it quickly and walked towards the place with the strongest aura. She was surprised to find that it was a semi-clear ingredient again, or a semi-clear ingredient locked in a glass cabinet. It was not her dish. She walked aside calmly and said I pretended to pick up a few rocks, looked at them, and slowly walked out of the store, changing my snack skewers again.
One store was empty, and then she went to another one. If it didn't work, she would change again. She kept changing, and she felt a little bad. As long as she could take a fancy to it, it was either semi-clear or reserved and locked in the counter waiting for the buyer. Come and pick up the goods, or the store owner keeps them for himself without selling them.
After repeatedly experiencing no more than ten times, Le Yun got angry and stopped shopping. She changed to another street, but she still hit the wall several times as before, suppressing her aggrieved mood that she was about to vomit blood. He left again, no longer visiting the jade shop, and went straight to the city's largest large-scale jade trading market.
The largest jadeite trading market in Teng City is also called the Jade Public Market. The woolen materials in the wool trading area are arranged like the stones on the Burmese public market. There is a canopy above. Many stall owners rent their stalls for a long time or for one or two. A temporary stall lasts for months, and there is no need to collect wool at night. When the market closes, they just cover it with a piece of cloth, and then they can do whatever they need to do.
As for whether the stones will be lost, each stall owner’s materials are recorded. There are high-definition cameras everywhere in each area, with 360-degree surveillance around the clock. Anyone caught stealing other people’s stones will be waiting for them. The punishment of losing everything, and the hell-like mental punishment of ruining his reputation and no longer having a place in the jade world.
The public market is also the most attractive. There are jade merchants from other places coming and going every day during the business period. Tourists also come and go, one after another, to experience the mood similar to that at the public market in Myanmar.
Yan Xing accompanies the little Lolita running around, feeling dumbfounded in her heart. The little Lolita visited many jade shops. She probably wanted to buy some materials, but she didn't get what she wanted due to various reasons. She puffed her cheeks and glared angrily, as if someone owed her money. She looked like a millionaire. When she slipped into the woolen market, she suddenly became lively again. She opened her beautiful almond-shaped eyes and looked around with interest.
To be honest, he still hasn't found any clues about the secret of the little Loli's selection of raw jade stones. He always feels that the little Loli just glanced at it casually, then ran to a certain place to pull out a certain stone and bought it. The reason was to look at it. It's very pleasing to the eye.
In this regard, Yan Xing deeply doubted her sincerity in what she said. Sometimes she would run to hug the rocks without even seeing her appearance. How could she say it was pleasing to the eye?
He didn't express his doubts without getting to the bottom of it. Anyway, the little Loli's goal was to stone, and his goal was to enjoy the fun of shopping with her and the precious opportunity to be alone.
Entering the stalls in the wool section of the Jade Public Market, Le Yun was in a much better mood. She walked on short legs and pretended to be an expert with a small flashlight. She walked around here and looked there, sifting through each other one by one. She saw that the aura was very bright. All the woolen materials on the stalls with thick texture, clear and semi-clear materials are eliminated, and the woolen materials with defects are also eliminated.
ExcludeExclude...
After sifting all the way, when a piece of aniseed weighing one ton was eliminated, she almost cried. Why was it that the raw stone was obviously of excellent texture, but there were big cracks and small strands in the meat? It’s not a big deal if cracks invade the fleshy layer inside the original stone, but the cracks in the wool are too big, and the damage to the jade exceeds the acceptable range.
I reluctantly gave up on my goal and continued shopping in a dull mood. I visited most of the stalls and bought a piece of wool that weighed more than 20 kilograms. I guessed it was waxy boxwood green. It cost 40,000 yuan.
When I walked to the last stall, I bought three pieces of materials one after another, all of which were less than 20 kilograms. Young Master Yan helped carry the stones, fearing that the backpack would not be able to bear the weight. He held the bottom of the bag with one hand behind his back and acted conscientiously as a porter.
It was past noon after visiting the stall area. After lunch, I went to the shop area. There were hundreds of shops in the market, all of them large in size. Some of the stones piled in the shops were not even unpacked. They were the latest products shipped from Myanmar. The goods come over or are shipped from Yingxian County to the store.
Le Xiao’s classmate didn’t shop everywhere. She only looked at the shops with strong aura and walked away from a few. When she entered the store for the seventh time and found the target, she silently wanted to cry again. The target she was interested in had not yet been unpacked.
The store didn't unpack it, but that didn't mean she would give up. She looked around and sneaked into the area where the target rough stone was, and kept looking at the stones. After looking at about ten stones, she expressed interest in the unpacked stones. He held it up to weigh it, weighed a few pieces to try on, and went to the store to negotiate the price while holding the sealed object.
The middle-aged and elderly shopkeeper smiled modestly and helped unpack it. The raw stone was yellow and white, with a very ordinary appearance. It only weighed a little more than eleven kilograms and cost 500 yuan/kg. After some bargaining, the price was settled at 400 yuan/kg.
After paying the money, Mr. Le Xiao stuffed the stone into the handsome boy's backpack and continued shopping happily. He walked to a certain store and found his target. He looked at it for a long time and was very confused. Buy it. It's a bit big. And it’s not top quality, so don’t buy it, it’s a pity.
After thinking about it, I decided to buy it. Although it is not a top-grade jadeite, as long as it is shipped back to the capital, I can sell it and still make money.
After thinking carefully, she hugged the stone and moved it out of the row with all her strength. It weighed four hundred and twenty kilograms. The weight of more than eight hundred kilograms was not a small weight for her. The little Loli was moving the stone, and Yan Xing knew that she had probably decided to get it, so he quickly went over to help and moved the dark black and gray large pieces of wool to a corner.
There are people betting on stones in the store, and Leyun is guarding her own stones while waiting for the store owner. The jade industry has its own rules. When strangers who are not your companions are also betting on stones, you should negotiate the price quietly with the store owner, and don’t leave it to others by talking loudly. Listen, otherwise if you negotiate the price, others will imitate your crazy bargaining, making it difficult for the boss to do business. Of course, if the store doesn't mind, that's another matter.
The shopkeeper saw the young customer who picked the big piece of material. He was busy. After finishing the business of a group of customers who came into the shop, he took the calculator to the young customer, looked at the stone mark, showed the price on the calculator, and the shopkeeper There are a lot of people there, so the bottom price needs to be kept secret.
Yan Xing took a look and said, "Hey, good guy, I want five million."
In the jade industry, making only one time profit is a fool, making three or four times the profit is a duty, and making more than ten times is a cunning businessman. Le Yun roughly guessed the store's bottom line from the bottom price, and counter-offered: "One-fifth of the total price." 2. ”
Two-fifths is two million. The shop owner shook his head: "I will take off one-fifth at most."
"What I can accept is two-fifths of the total price."
"Add some points, 60% of the price."
"No, two-fifths of the original price, this is my bottom line."
"...Deal."
After haggling several times, the young customer insisted that the bid amount remained unchanged. The storekeeper looked helpless and agreed to pay two million.
"Can you dissect stones for free?"
"Okay." The shopkeeper took the young guest to get the credit card machine.
Le Yun followed the shop owner to the checkout counter, took out her bank card, waited for the shop owner to bring the card swipe machine, inserted the card, entered the password, and then clicked to confirm the transaction.
The receipt is issued, signed, the buyer receives one, the seller receives a receipt, and the transaction is completed.
When a customer wanted to unblock the stone, the store owner called the master and the waiter to launch a hand forklift. With the help of the young guest and her companion, he laboriously moved the stone to the hand forklift and pushed it to unblock the stone.
The cutting machines in jade shops or woolen fabric stores have a good name called "wealth making machine", which fits the slang of "getting rich with one cut", which means making a fortune with one cut. Of course, it may also turn into a fortune machine with one cut.
The space in the store was limited, so I pushed the stone to the door of the store, then rolled out a cutting machine with a movable arm frame, then went to find a power strip to connect to the power supply, and picked up water and rags.
The tools were being prepared here, and the buyers who were betting on stones in the store also ran out to watch. Tourists passing by and people who were betting on stones in the neighboring store all ran to have a look. Before the stones were uncut, a dozen people gathered around to watch the fun.
When Ji Lao and his accompanying staff walked out of a shop, they heard a crisp voice speaking - "The stone is mine."
He suspected that he had poor hearing, but he felt that he had heard it right. He looked left and right, and found that there were people gathered outside a store two stores away. He said to the people around him, "I'll go and take a look." , and walked away.
"Mr. Ji, please slow down." A middle-aged man with a beer belly and two people accompanying Mr. Ji shouted as he ran, almost chasing after him with a belly full of shame.
The secretary and the salesman accompanying him on the business trip also ran with the boss. The three of them chased Mr. Ji through two stores to a small group of people surrounding him.
Running to the side of the crowd, Ji Lao squeezed into a position where he could see the shop. He looked around and immediately found the owner whose voice he thought was very familiar. The little girl was standing in front of the shop where the cutting machine was. On the side, the eyebrows are dancing and the expression is in high spirits.
He immediately bypassed seven or eight people, went to where the little girl was standing, said "borrow the light", squeezed in beside the little girl, and greeted her gently: "Little girl, what a coincidence, you are also playing with stones. ”
(End of chapter)