Ma Yuxi gave people a rather tall and straight feeling, about 1.75 meters tall, and his facial features gave people a feeling of being honest and reliable, which was indeed the case.
Although Ma Yuxi was depressed, he had seen a lot of the world after years of hard work. He had been rich and powerful, and he had also been poor and destitute, so when he saw Ziqing sitting at the front, his depressed face still showed a hint of smile, "Miss, what can I do for you?"
"Hello, Mr. Ma, to be honest, I am somewhat interested in gambling on stones, but I don't know where to get in. I heard that you are an expert, so I took the liberty to bother you, please forgive me." Ziqing said with a smile.
Seeing Ziqing's sincere tone, looking young but speaking generously and appropriately, and talking about gambling on jade again, Ma Yuxi slightly put away his contempt, sighed and smiled bitterly, "How can I be considered an expert! As the saying goes, there is no expert in jade, I used to think I was an expert! But after experiencing so many ups and downs, I can see through it. Learning never ends! But it's better not to touch gambling on jade!"
"Learning never ends, Boss Ma is very energetic, but I think you still need courage and spirit. Has Boss Ma's spirit in his early years been worn out?" Ziqing smiled.
"Haha, spirit? You little girl, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. Courage and courage are important, but if you think that you can make a name for yourself in the gambling on jade industry with courage and spirit, you are wrong! If you want to try, I'll take you there later." Ma Yuxi said disapprovingly.
"Thank you, Boss Ma." Ziqing saw that her goal was achieved, and she didn't take Ma Yuxi's words as an offense, smiling.
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At noon, Ziqing followed Ma Yuxi to the door of a shop on a corner of Panshan Road. Along the way, Ma Yuxi gave Ai Ziqing a general explanation of the source of gambling stones and the quality of jadeite. She was confused, but she also knew that the more jadeite is cut from the stone, the more it is respected. There are three official categories. The first is the imperial green, also known as the emerald, which is pure, rich green, uniform color, and high transparency. It is extremely rare.
The second type is the "commercial grade", which is interspersed with translucent emerald green veins and speckled jade. It is ordinary high-end jadeite.
The third type is called "ordinary grade", which is opaque jadeite. Generally, it is only used to make jade jewelry. There are dozens or hundreds of yuan in street stalls.
The quality of jadeite is mainly divided into three points: one is the type, the second is the color, and the third is the water head.
"Type" refers to the texture of jadeite, "color" is the color of jadeite, and "water head" refers to the transparency of jadeite. If the texture is smooth and delicate, the color is rich, and the transparency is high, then it is a good product. Otherwise, it is inferior. For example, the dead jadeite that Ma Yuxi cut out in Myanmar has poor water head, is opaque, and has a dry texture.
There are many types of jadeite. The top-quality jadeite is glass-type, followed by ice-type. The remaining types are egg-green [relatively turbid glass-type], oil-green, hibiscus, bean-type, gold-wire type... There are many types, and the names are not uniform in different places.
"Outsiders look at the color, insiders look at the type. Glass-type jadeite is as transparent as glass, with very fine quality, dense crystal particles, and fine glass texture, so it has fluorescence and is called Ying. The piece of jade that made me rich was glass-type emerald green. Although it is not as good as emerald, it is also very rare." Ma Yuxi recalled.
Entering the shop, there were three middle-aged men inside. Two of them were cutting stones on a stone-cutting machine. Ma Yuxi walked straight to another middle-aged man with a big belly and a round face who was smoking a big pipe. "Boss Sun, are you here for business?" He looked at the two men cutting stones.
"Yes, old customer, this is Mr. Wang from Longfengxiang, come and try your luck." Boss Sun said to Ma Yuxi with a smile, and turned to introduce to Boss Wang, "Boss Wang, this is Ma Yuxi, Boss Ma, he was also a jade expert in the past!"
Boss Sun emphasized that he was a jade expert in the past, implying that he is no longer a big shot now and is not worth making friends with. Both of them shook hands as if they didn't understand.
"Is that so, Old Sun, Miss Ai is my friend, and she is very interested in gambling on jade. I brought her to try her luck." Ma Yuxi said.
"Okay, Miss Ai is interested in gambling on jade? I just got new goods here last night, all of which are good goods from old pits! Miss Ai can take a look, 400 yuan a piece, no bargaining." Boss Sun said to Ziqing with a smile, and then pointed to the pile of raw materials piled up on the ground in the store.
Old pit stones are better than new pit stones. The surface is smooth and hard, this kind of transparency is good, and the hardness is called old pit.
Thick skin and rough texture, you can see the mineral granular structure called new pit, this kind of material has low transparency and hardness.
Ziqing looked at Ma Yuxi and saw him nod gently, then walked over. She was a little nervous because she didn't know whether her ability could see through the surface of the raw material that no high technology could see through. If it really could...
With sweaty palms, Ziqing walked to the surface of these randomly piled skins and squatted down. Basically, they were all dry sand skins. She pretended to look left and right. Boss Sun saw at a glance that this should be a novice. Experts would use magnifying glasses and flashlights to carefully study the surface. People like Ziqing who didn't take anything were either too experienced or just a novice. At this age, there is no way she can be an experienced person!
Ziqing picked up a piece of light brown sand skin, a fist-sized raw material, and seemed to be flipping through it. In fact, she was trying to concentrate her mind and use her ability to see through it. Sure enough, in less than a minute, the scene inside the stone slowly emerged in front of Ziqing's eyes. Although there was only a bunch of white stones, she was not discouraged, but extremely excited! This means that I can enter the gambling stone business, and if I want, I can win every battle!
Ziqing put down the stone, looked up and stared at the reader with a sneer, "If you don't give me money to collect it! I will see through you! Show you everything!"