Chapter 576: Ugly to a new level (Second update
Myanmar is not as prosperous as Great China, and vehicles are not as easy to find in the border towns of Yinnan Province. Leyun rented a small freight truck to travel. She did not go to Mina, the capital of Kachin State, but went to Mina, a distance away. Mina is only 50 kilometers away from Mengong.
Calculated by distance, the border crossing between Mengong and Y Province is over 100 kilometers long, and it only takes one or two hours at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. However, Myanmar’s roads are not very good in some places. The speed of the truck is maintained at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
There are many checkpoints on the road, and station wagons or vehicles with Yinnan provincial license plates are subject to inspection. Le Xiao's classmate took a local minivan and did not need to be inspected, so he could run away leisurely.
It took nearly two and a half minutes to travel more than 100 kilometers, and it was already after 5:30 local time when we arrived in Mengong.
There is a nearly two-hour time difference between Myanmar and the capital of Greater China, which is roughly equivalent to around 7:30 pm in the capital of Greater China.
No matter how you look at it, Meng Gong is a self-sustaining and free-development city, and the construction of residential buildings and streets seems very random.
It's past five o'clock, the sun hasn't set yet, but the atmosphere of dusk has invaded the town. People can be seen on the road leading to the city, and people setting up stalls and doing business on the streets of the town are also preparing to close their stalls. The pace of life is slow and calm.
Meng Gong was once the largest jade market in Kachin State and even in Myanmar as a whole. Most of the raw jade stones produced from various fields had to pass through Meng Gong and Mina before flowing to other places.
A few years ago, the jade market moved to Wacheng, the second largest city in Myanmar, and Meng Gongcai was no longer the largest jade market in the country.
However, its location is still important. In comparison, its floating population is very large, and almost all the businessmen coming and going are here for the jadeite.
There were not many hotels. Le Xiao was taken to the door of the second best local hotel by a truck driver. After paying the fare, she went into the hotel to go through the accommodation procedures. She paid half a month's accommodation fee in one go. After completing the procedures, she was very happy. I happily picked up my suitcase and went upstairs to check in.
I put my luggage in place and went downstairs to find a place to eat. Then I went back to the hotel. I checked every place and found no cameras. I went back to the space to finish my work, take a shower and wash clothes, and then read a book until eleven o'clock to go to bed.
The second day is June 14th.
When the sky over Europe was dawning, Count Ryan headed to the airport with his personal bodyguard Abner.
At the same time, Miao Miaodan also canceled her planned trip to visit a certain earl in another state and set off to return home at short notice.
Myanmar is in the rainy season in June, and it often rains. On the morning of the 14th, it started to rain. The pattering raindrops made the sky a bit hazy.
Le Yun got up very early, at five o'clock local time. She found it was raining outside and was not in a hurry to go out. She meditated and practiced until about seven o'clock and left the hotel to have breakfast. When she came back, she specifically asked the hotel waiters which streets where she could bet on jade. rough stone.
It rained until eight o'clock and then slowly stopped. The air when the rain stopped was fresh and cool, and the mountains in the distance were misty. The tropical style was revealed here, and it also had a sense of mystery.
After the rain, vendors gradually set out their stalls, and the water-stained streets slowly became lively.
When the sky became brighter, Leyun put on her bag, dragged a suitcase, and went shopping happily.
She took a detour from the boss and ran to Meng Gong. Naturally, she already had a good idea of her plan. Based on the information she got from the hotel waiter, she went straight to Beishi Street.
As the largest jade market in Myanmar, Meng Gong may not be as prosperous as the border port cities in Ynan Province. However, the number of raw jade stones is absolutely amazing. Jade is a high-end luxury product in the big cities of China. In Mengong, the treatment is even lower than at the border of Yinnan Province. They are all placed on both sides of the street like cabbage.
In addition to raw jadeite and semi-processed jadeite, there are also rubies, amber, etc., as well as tusks, horns, palms, etc. from elephants, tigers, leopards and other animals. As for whether it is true or false, it all depends on everyone's perspective, just like gambling on stones.
Most of the people are early, especially those who are early. She is early, and others are not too late. Many merchants looking for jade are wandering the streets, and some are pure tourists who also wander to the streets to join in the fun.
In order to grab business, Myanmar businessmen, who originally lived a slow life, also survived by the fittest. In response to the call to plan their day in the morning, some stores opened their doors very early. Vendors with open-air stalls delayed their stalls due to the morning rain and waited until the rain stopped. After that, the stalls started to appear one after another. Whenever items were put out, the owner would spread out a tarpaulin and sit or stand, eating without breakfast.
Meng Gong's jade market is equivalent to the second-hand market for jade. The first-hand market is naturally the site where raw jadeite is produced, which is also the most primitive first-hand market. However, the businessmen who actually go to the site are the owners or A big businessman who is a long-term business partner with the market operators.
Generally speaking, not all jade dealers will go to the production areas. After all, jadeite sites are located in remote mountains and ridges. There is a considerable risk for outsiders to go to the jadeite sites.
The size of Meng Gong is less than that of a town, roughly equivalent to the location of the township government of a small town, because it was the first city before the jadeite was exported. Even though it is small, the streets are very lively.
The streets are very simple, with asphalt roads, and the residential buildings are low and have their own style. Fortunately, the infrastructure is average, but it does not live up to the name of the "Jade Market". Jadeite stones can be seen everywhere on the pavements and stalls, as well as red Jade, amber, etc.
Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. The words of the ancients are true. If you don't go to a certain place, you will never know the customs and environment there.
People who have never been to the border cities of Yinnan Province will definitely not believe that the scene of jade jewelry scattered all over the floor is a common sight.
In the same way, if you don’t visit the towns near the origin of jade, you will never be able to imagine the treatment of raw jade stones. They are just scattered on the paper. At first glance, unfamiliar people think that they are just beside the river and roadside. of stones.
The open-air stalls are mobile. Some of the sellers of raw jadeite are dug by the miners themselves, some are dumped by the miners, and some are sold by hired help. Sometimes there are also sellers of fruits and trinkets mixed in between the stalls. Vegetable sellers, etc., are more interesting in life than just selling stone streets.
Dragging her suitcase onto the street, Le Yun excitedly rushed to a grocery street with the largest number of jadeite stones. First, she took a rough look at the whole street from a distance and then took a closer look, hunting for treasures from stalls to stalls.
The place is small, and the streets are not long, only about a hundred meters, and then turn, branch, and then branch out into many small streets and alleys. In the larger streets, stalls can be set up, and there are no urban management officials wandering around the streets.
In recent jadeite markets, the gold content of raw jadeite is higher than that seen in the border town of Yinnan Province. After all, some of the stones in the border town of Yinnan Province were also searched by mengongjing people, so the quality can be clearly judged. Naturally, the good materials entered the pockets of professional jade merchants first.
When she first arrived, Le Yun was not familiar with the bargaining method. She would not discuss the business first, but secretly scouted the "enemy situation" and inferred the price that the vendors could probably afford from other people's transaction prices, and used this as the bottom line for bargaining.
There are a lot of rough jade stones on Menggong Street, but they are not equivalent to cabbage prices. Whether it is a vendor or a businessman who specializes in stone business, they also know what it means to adapt to the society. Because there are many buyers, the prices are not low, but relatively speaking they are not. It is a price acceptable to ordinary people.
Because stones near the place of origin are not listed on the public market and are pre-tax goods, the price in the market is naturally a step lower. Buyers who take the stones out of the country have to pay taxes, transportation and other expenses.
Le Yun figured out the unspoken rules of street trading before deciding to take action. She still only picked the rough stones with the brightest auras to start with, excluding those with slightly poor water quality or good water quality, but with too many cracks.
Just over a hundred meters away, I bought a total of 20 pieces of materials from the stalls. The pieces were relatively small, and the largest one only weighed more than ten kilograms. I could only buy a stone weighing more than thirty kilograms in a shop, and at the same time I bought a stone. The tree turned into jade, a piece of ivory bone sculpture, and a tiger claw were smashed out of a total of 210,000 oceans.
It didn't cost much to buy the stones. The tree-turned-jade alone cost nearly 40,000 yuan, and the tiger claws and ivory totaled 20,000 yuan. The owner of the goods actually couldn't tell whether they were genuine or not, so he sold them as half-true and half-false.
After sweeping a section of the street, I found an excuse to go to the toilet, moved some of the things in the box into the space, and continued shopping.
Every time you visit the streets, there are small gains. Either you get one or two pieces of eye-catching jadeite, or you pick up the teeth, claws, horns of rare animals, as well as carvings carved from precious trees.
The happiest thing was when I picked up a pot at a fruit stall. The pot was made of golden camphor tree.
Golden camphor, also called mountain balm, is a deciduous tree that grows in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. It takes fifty years to mature. It has high hardness, is resistant to wear and tear, is not easily deformed, is acid and alkali resistant, moisture-proof and corrosion-resistant.
The original golden camphor wood was polished and oxidized by photosynthesis to become golden, and it became more noble and dignified as time went by.
However, probably because the basin has been in the owner's hands for too long, and has been soaked in water all year round, and has been blistered by smoke, the surface has become dull and gray, with a few small dents and chips, and is very old.
The stall owner sold home-grown strawberries in gold camphor wood pots. Le Yun didn't like the strawberries but the pots, so she spent 20 yuan to buy the strawberries and then spent 500 yuan to buy the pots. Zhu’s story is somewhat similar. After finding an old wooden basin, in order to prevent the owner of the goods from regretting it, she carried the things and quietly walked away, sneaking to another alley to have fun alone.
If you are not afraid of comparing goods, you are afraid of not knowing the goods.
The material of the basin is more than 500 years old, which means that it is made of gold camphor that is more than 500 years old. It is unknown how many generations the basin owner has passed down, and it has been completely changed beyond recognition.
After finding an antique, Le Yun felt as beautiful as a clear sky. She was as happy as a little pony, happily walking through the streets and alleys, looking for stones and small items in the shops and stalls.
I also went to wander around the street corners that were originally residential areas. I didn't know if I could find the spiritual objects that were hidden at home, but I didn't know if I could find them.
He also went to the garbage dump in the efficiency area and picked up a few broken parts and waste rocks of daily necessities that had been thrown away as scrap metal.
She circled east and west, visiting all districts in Mengong. She finished her work in the middle of the afternoon, dragged her suitcase back to the hotel, packed it up quickly, and continued to play with her bag and luggage again.
Taking to the streets for the second time, Le Xiao’s classmate once again walked around the streets. When the sun set, he walked out of the town and walked along a road leading to a village outside the town. When he reached the foot of the uninhabited mountain, he immediately hid in the woods and slipped back to space. Watching the little fox and little Huihui take care of the crops, they are busy doing personal chores, finding things, and putting on makeup for themselves.
The little fox didn't understand what the little human girl wanted to play, and wanted to sit and watch. However, the little human girl said she wanted to take a bath, so she covered his and the little black monkey's eyes with a cloth, and poked them several times to turn him into wood. All he could do was Holding a towel, silently sad.
After tapping the acupuncture points of Little Fox and Little Huihui so that they could not move, Le Yun quickly took off her clothes and sat in a bucket filled with water to take a bath, which lasted for about an hour.
After taking a shower, my white and tender skin becomes very close to the skin of Southeast Asians, but much whiter and tenderer, like the skin of a pampered person who never basks in the sun.
After the skin is changed, put on clothes, apply skin-changing lotion on the face, neck, ears and other places again, and wash the hair to make the scalp, face and ears consistent with the skin on the body.
When the skin changes to the ideal look, put a wig with waist length on the top of the head, use special glue to stick the edges, and stick it firmly. Not to mention that it can't be shaken off, even if someone pulls and grabs her hair. Can't pull the wig off either.
Having disguised herself to the best of her ability, Le Yun happily loosened the blindfolds on Little Fox and Little Huihui, unblocked their acupuncture points, and then tried to apply eye pupils on herself.
Finally freed from being a wooden head, the little fox stretched and was about to complain about the little human girl for being so unreasonable. When he saw a completely changed girl in front of him, his golden pupils widened: "Little girl, are you crazy? How did you make yourself so ugly?”
When Xiao Huihui heard the little fox's fussy cries, he quickly looked at the owner. When he saw an unfamiliar face, he jumped back with a squeak, his eyes filled with fear.
"You say I'm ugly?"
Le Yun almost wanted to slap the little fox to death. She neatly closed her eyes and stretched out her paws to grab the mirror aside to see the fruits of her labor.
The face of a young woman was printed in the mirror, with long soft black hair shawl, eyebrows covering her forehead, big eyes, relatively white skin, no eyebrows or lipstick, but she definitely looked ugly. Not relevant.
The little human girl was looking in the mirror. The little fox jumped on her shoulder, stretched out a little paw and pointed at the mirror: "This look in the mirror is so ugly. Look, although these eyes have become very big, they don't have any aura at all." No, it's gray like the eyes of a half-dead fish
Look at this skin. It's very white, but it's not moisturizing or smooth at all.
Also, the hair looks black and shiny but actually has no life at all.
What a pretty little beauty, she was forced to look like a lifeless rag doll, it's so irritating to the eyes. ”
"Hmph, I'm happy, what?"
Leyun's little chin was high. When the little fox said that she looked like a dead fish, she originally wanted to slap him to death, but because the little fox meant that she looked good-looking, she stopped slapping him.
"I can't bear to look at it." The little fox covered his eyes: "Little girl, you'd better go out early and hurt other people's eyes."
"I will go out when it's time to go out. In this way, I believe few people will recognize me."
Le Yun raised the corners of her eyes proudly, "Hmm," the way a man with long hair is quite attractive. There must be someone who wants to track her, even if the two of them face to face, they won't be able to recognize who she is.
"To be honest, if I weren't someone who spends my time with you, I wouldn't recognize you at all with your ugly face. After you changed your makeup, you became a new level of ugliness. Of course, I can recognize you, but your smell hasn't changed much. The voice hasn’t changed either.”
"I'll take voice-changing pills later and change my voice a little bit. As for the smell, I don't want to take any messy pills." She has pills that can make the smell of sweat smell bad or sour, but she doesn't want to take it. She doesn't have that. necessary.
"Little girl, what do you want to do to look like this? Is there anything so big that you are worthy of making yourself ugly?"
"I want to make a fortune, and I don't want people to remember my face, so I have to make myself a stranger."
"Little girl, don't you want to rob someone's house?"
The little fox exaggeratedly said: "Oh my God, little girl, you are a little beauty after all. Don't go astray. Robbing homes, killing people and setting fires are against morality and will damage the merits of cultivation." ”
Stretching out her paws, Le Yun grabbed the little fox on her shoulder and threw it away: "Damn it, a dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth, and you think so badly of me, you can go where you want to cool off."
After being thrown away, the little fox rolled in the air, landed nimbly, jumped up again, jumped on the shoulder of the little human girl, grabbed the little monkey, and after a few ups and downs, he jumped to the foot of the dragon blood tree and crawled up. Go up to the tree nest and play in the hole of the tree, wagging its tail.
Xiao Huihui fell from the little fox's paw and patted her chest. The fox fairy always pinched her at every turn, which was so scary.
Le Yun put aside the little fox and painted her own eyebrows. She used special paint to make her eyebrows a suitable shade and slender. She also curled her eyelashes upwards. After a long time, she couldn't find any flaws. She took a pill. Meatballs, fruit for dinner, and then reading.
When it's about nine o'clock in the evening, I sneak out of the space and walk at night with a flashlight.
Myanmar is a tropical rainforest area with a high altitude and ample sunshine during the day. Due to the high forest coverage, it is not particularly hot, and the temperature is neither hot nor cool at night.
The nights in Mengong are very quiet, and the suburbs are even quieter. Night trains are rare, there are no cars, and there are no pedestrians. Leyun walks on the road alone with her short legs, swaying and swaying from one direction of the town to the completely opposite direction. On a road, I found a suitable hiding place and climbed back into the space to sleep.
The next day, Mr. Le Xiao woke up very early. He got up before dawn, packed up, ate some fruit to fill his stomach, found a space, dragged a luggage trailer with a large password box tied to it, and carried a bulging luggage bag. , walking slowly along the road into the city towards Mengong Town.
In the early morning, Meng Gong is like a peaceful girl, quiet and beautiful. Residents doing breakfast business get up early. The smell of food is already on the streets, and smoke is also coming from some residents' homes.
The newly transformed Le Xiao student dragged his luggage into the town, found a breakfast shop for breakfast, and calmly went to a parking lot specializing in sports cars to charter a car.
Fairies, happy Lantern Festival, everyone remember to eat more glutinous rice balls!
(Because it is the Tangyuan Festival, so a certain product is on the rise, and everything is on the rise~)
(End of chapter)