Chapter 47: Gambling on Stones (Three)

  "Please, Old Lian and Old Zhou!"

  Taihe Xing 3rd floor, in front of a room that looked like a warehouse, Wang Fengmang pushed open the big door and then smiled to invite two people inside.

  After entering, Zhou Ming Luo only discovered that the warehouse was not large, only about 30 or 40 square meters. The entire room had good ventilation and warm sunlight shone through the glass window, illuminating every detail of the room.

  On both sides of the room are two rows of shelves, on which are placed large and small stones of various shapes. The stones on the left shelf mostly have cutting or friction marks, revealing green blocks. The stones on the right shelf are basically intact.

  "This side is semi-finished wool, this side is fully finished wool. You two brothers take a look and speak up if you're interested. Zhou Lao Di, although it's your first time here, Ren Lao Di is an old acquaintance, so you should know that my place is fair and square, no cheating. Alright, Ren Lao Di, you go ahead and choose the raw stones here, I'll just go notify the other regular customers. If not for taking care of you, I would have notified them all together." Wang Fengmang smiled again, pointing to the shelves on both sides as he spoke, then walked out.

  What he said is that these woolen goods are all from a very legitimate source and will not have any counterfeit or inferior products.

  In today's world, even jade gambling has fakes. Some people make fake shells by gluing inferior materials or waste stones with high-quality jade shells. Others create fake mouths by cutting small openings on low-grade jade and sticking high-quality jade slices on them.

  At this point, Wang Fengmang can guarantee with certainty that he will never do such a despicable thing.

  And his words also made Ren Liheng nod repeatedly. Although he had lost a lot of money here before, he could still guarantee that the wool products here were genuine and reasonably priced.

  They changed the fake fur products, those black-hearted bosses didn't dare to put them under such strong sunlight for people to gamble on, and would often choose dimly lit areas instead.

  "Let's go take a look, Wang Ge is connected to Myanmar, these wool materials are probably directly transported from there, maybe we can find some good stuff and make a big profit."

  Ren Liheng patted Zhou Ming's shoulder and then walked towards a half-gambling woolen goods store with full of hope.

  High-quality jadeite on the market mostly comes from Myanmar, although not only Myanmar produces jadeite in the world. Other countries like Guatemala, Japan, the United States and Kazakhstan also produce jadeite, but those countries' jadeite rarely reaches gemstone level, most of which are just raw materials for carving. Therefore, more than 95% of commercial-grade jadeite on the market currently comes from Myanmar.

  Authentic Burmese wool products are more valuable.

  Moreover, Ren Liheng also knew that Wang Fengmang's wool goods were mostly from the top ten mines in Myanmar, and the better the mine, the higher the gamble.

  Of course, because it is a famous pit, the value of wool here is also very high.

  There were over a hundred pieces of woolen goods in the room, roughly half of which were semi-gambling and full-gambling. After calling out to Zhou Ming to come down, Ren Liheng took the lead in examining the first piece of semi-gambling woolen goods himself.

  Half-gambling rough jade refers to a complete raw stone that has been cut open or polished to reveal some of its surface, called "opening the window" or "wiping the stone". Through this method, the rough jade is made to show green, and as long as it shows green, it proves that there is jadeite inside the stone. Then, the buyer needs to gamble on the size and grade of the jadeite.

  The first piece of semi-finished wool on the shelf is about thirty centimeters high, more than thirty centimeters long and wide, and the cutting edge of this wool is at the upper right corner.

  It's clear that Ren Liheng understands jade, and he directly pointed at the woolen goods to Zhou Ming Luo, "This piece of woolen goods looks okay at first glance. Generally, the closer to the center of the jade, the better the color is. This piece of woolen goods has already turned green at the edge, it should be worth trying."

  Of course, his judgment is not just based on this point. "You see, the surface of this wool fabric has a pattern, and it also comes with pine flowers, and it's already turned green, so the possibility of rising is very high."

  Since Wang Fengmang has left, there are only two people left in the warehouse, so even if he likes a piece of fabric, he doesn't need to be cautious and explains it very straightforwardly to Zhou Mingluo.

  "Yin" is Burmese, meaning hidden things.

  Pine flower refers to the green accumulation that can analyze and judge the gambling stone.

  The surface of the jade rough has a pattern, under which high green may appear. If there is only a pattern without accompanying pine flowers, the green color under the skin will be light and not dense, even if it is jade, it is a lower grade. If the pattern is accompanied by pine flowers, it is not only possible to have jade but also high green, which is a pretty good grade of jade.

  Gambling on stones, although mostly dependent on luck, also requires some experience.

  To determine whether a piece of wool fabric is usable, it mainly depends on distinguishing its felting, pilling, mattedness, splitting and dryness.

  The "disease" refers to a blackish-blue substance of varying shape on the surface of the jadeite, which has an invasive effect on the green color of the jadeite. The "disease" has a layered structure on the surface of the shell, with directionality, or is distributed in patches, strips, or dots, and has a significant impact on the interior of the block.

  And "裂" refers to cracks, according to the saying, large ones are called "裂", small ones are called "绺". It can also be used to determine whether it has invaded the jade under the skin.

  When it comes to dryness, it looks like a piece of wood that has been burned, either gray or black or brown, mainly the impurities decomposed from green during the transition period. In the industry, there is also a saying that "where there is dryness, there is color". If a hair material appears dry, then its dyeing property will be very strong.

  At present, this piece of wool fabric has not only nap and fleece, but also has pilling and cracking.

  When De Ren Li Heng looked at the back with a hint of joy, he frowned on the spot. Because from the front, this wool fabric is quite gambled, but on its back, there are large pieces of eczema, and even a long crack about ten centimeters long, which goes straight in from the outside to the deep, almost occupying one-third of the width of the wool fabric.

  According to his judgment, even if there is really green in this wool and it's high green, it's probably been destroyed by now.

  "Never mind, let's take a look at the next one." With a somewhat disgruntled mutter, Ren Liheng walked towards the next half-finished woolen fabric.

  However, as Zhou Ming Luo stepped forward, he didn't immediately get up, but instead summoned a 【Mò Wén Fú】 that entered his body. He really wanted to see if his own 【Mò Wén Fú】 could penetrate the stone block. After an instant, when the 【Mò Wén Fú】 took effect, the piece of fabric in front of him suddenly became transparent and fell into his line of sight.

  This immediately delighted Zhou Ming, it really could, under his gaze, everything inside this piece of fabric that was half good and half bad was as clear as transparent glass.

  It was just a glance, and Zhou Mingluo discovered the jadeite in this piece of woolen fabric. Indeed, as Ren Liheng said, there was a green jadeite the size of a porcelain cup, but its green color was not very pure, let alone transparent.

  Zhou Mingluo didn't know much about jade, but he could roughly judge that the value of this piece of jade was very low and it was already a low-end variety.

  Anyone who really gambled would have lost miserably.

  "It seems that Ren Liheng has lost a lot, but he has also accumulated some experience in gambling stones. He can more or less judge the quality of the stones, no wonder he only brought me and dared to come and gamble."

  Gambling on stones relies on 30% skill and 70% luck, with a slightly greater proportion of luck.

  Of course, this is good luck for others, but it's not the case for him. With the "Wenfu symbol", he can roughly judge whether a piece of wool has jade and what grade it is at a glance, which is simply picking up money.