After sending Guo Jingjing off, Ding Hao prepared to focus on attacking Qiu Ya.
If he was not wrong, the special ability he had obtained this time could be used on stone gambling.
The so-called stone gambling was to use jade to gamble. The stone to gamble was not an ordinary stone, but an emerald stone.
Jade was wrapped in a layer of weathered matter before it was developed. Other than its shape and weight, no one could tell what was inside. Even after cutting it open, there would be a great change.
Hence, there was a saying in the stone gambling world: "It's difficult for an immortal to break an inch of jade." Only by cutting it out could there be a conclusion.
Stone gambling mainly depended on the experience, adventurous spirit, and luck of the gambler.
The value of raw jadeite stones ranged from hundreds of dollars to tens of millions of dollars, and the value of jadeite cut out ranged from tens to hundreds of millions.
The stone gambler relied on his own experience and based on the performance of the leather shell, he repeatedly guessed and judged to estimate the price. If they bought it, they might cut it open and find that it had a good color and was full of water, which would instantly be worth millions. It was also possible that there was no color or water inside and it would instantly become worthless. This was the risk of gambling on stones.
As the saying went," One knife is poor, one knife is rich " A stone could make a person bankrupt, but of course, it could also make a person rich overnight.
Although nine out of ten gambles would lose, there were still countless people who went forward for it.
In the original book, Ye Xuan had mastered a secret stone-gambling manual and used his stone-gambling skills to obtain Qiu Ya's grandfather's approval.
He even used stone gambling to quickly obtain a large amount of early development funds, which also provided convenience for money laundering in the gray area.
Now, he would use this skill to start his career.
However, the few large jade mines and stone gambling exchanges were mostly in the southern cities. The most famous one was the Ruili Trading Market at the border between Y City and M Nation.
Stone gambling was a very niche thing. A large portion of the stone gambling people were professional masters hired by jewelry shops to find the source of jade for them.
The local city was a northern city, so there were no jade mines or trading centers. Most of the raw stones were ordinary goods shipped from other places.
Ding Hao drove to Mount Yi, where Ye Xuan went to gamble for the first time in the original book.
As soon as he arrived at Mount Yi, he saw many shops filled with raw stones.
He casually walked into a shop at the intersection. There was someone cutting stones inside, and a group of people surrounded him to watch the show.
This was the first time Ding Hao had seen such a scene, so he was very curious. He also went forward to watch the show.
Two people were fiddling with a cutting machine-like machine. There were also flashlights, files, and iron brushes around.
One of them was wiping with a self-made metal brush.
After wiping it for a while, he picked it up and looked at it for a while. Finally, he placed the stone on the cutting machine and prepared to slice it.
The people who were watching the show quieted down and stared at the cutting master's hand, afraid that they would miss the moment when the green appeared.
The first slash was a vast expanse of white without any green.
He cut it again, but it was still white.
"I probably misjudged. This piece of material is going to be useless!”
The surrounding people discussed.
The stone-dissecting master stopped and looked at it again.
"Brother, you must be cutting stones!"
In the spirit of learning more, Ding Hao asked his friend who seemed to know something.
"This is your first time here, right? He was cutting a stone now. This raw material was small. After cutting it twice, there was still no green. It was probably a piece of waste.”
The brother glanced at Ding Hao and replied.
"Yeah, I'm just here to join in the fun. I'm Ding Hao. It's fate that we met. Let's be friends.”
Ding Hao extended his hand and said.
"I'm Chen Yu. My family is in this business. If you have anything you don't understand, you can ask me.”
Chen Yu smiled and shook Ding Hao's hand.
Chen Yu, this name seemed to ring a bell.
Oh right, in the original book, Chen Yu's company was also one of the top companies in the jewelry industry. The jade business was doing very well, but it was later suppressed by Ye Xuan's methods before it declined.
'Ye Xuan's enemy is my friend,' Ding Hao thought to himself.
"As expected of a piece of trash."
Ding Hao came back to his senses and realized that the raw material had already been cut.
"Young Master, let's go. We still have to pick raw materials!”
Only then did Ding Hao realize that there were two masters who looked to be in their forties standing beside Chen Yu.
"Ding Hao, it's your first time here. Why don't you follow us around and I'll tell you some knowledge about jade?”
Chen Yu looked at Ding Hao and asked.
"Of course, I'll follow you.”
Ding Hao followed Chen Yu and left the shop.
Along the way, Chen Yu explained to Ding Hao about the origins of stone gambling and some techniques for choosing raw materials.
Although he didn't understand everything, Ding Hao knew a little.
The raw materials were roughly divided into five types: kilogram material, blindfolded material, performance material, in-trade material, and high-grade material.
Among them, the kilogram material and the blindfold material were generally considered worthless by the master. Most of them were prepared for tourists and novices who came to play.
As for the performance material, it was ordinary material. Although it was valuable, it was easy to cut.
In the industry, high-quality and high-quality materials were played by people who knew the industry. It was easy to produce high-quality jade with good quality and high clarity.
The quality of jade mainly depended on three points: the type, the color, and the water.
The type referred to the texture of the jade, such as glass, ice, bean, and so on.
The color was just a color, and it depended on whether the color was green or not. Common ones were clear water, blue water, violet, and so on.
The water head referred to the jade's degree of clarity. The higher the degree of clarity, the better the water head.
If a piece of jade could meet all three requirements, it would be a high-grade jade.
The so-called layman looks at the color, the insider looks at the seed.
Ding Hao still had a lot to learn if he wanted to develop in this industry.
He followed Chen Yu into a shop.
As soon as they entered the shop, the boss came forward to greet them.
"Young Master Chen, I'm here to show you the goods! Here, these are the goods that just came in. I'll give you 500 yuan for the small pieces and 1,000 yuan for the big ones. You can choose.”
The middle-aged fat boss with a beer belly and a red face pointed at a pile of raw materials beside him and said.
"Alright, let's choose."
As he spoke, the two masters behind Chen Yu opened the toolbox that they had been holding in their hands.
"The selection of raw stones is the first step in stone gambling. First, you have to look at his outer skin. Different outer skins determined the inner texture of the jade. Through the outer skin, one could roughly estimate the color, thickness, and whether there were cracks inside the jade.”
Chen Yu picked up a raw material and said to Ding Hao.
"Fortunately, Brother Chen brought me to learn. Otherwise, I might have been cheated today.”
Ding Hao said with a smile.
"Not at all, but newbies still have to be careful. You can choose for yourself!”
Chen Yu replied with a smile.
It was time for him to check out his ability.
Ding Hao picked up a stone, holding it with his left hand and covering it with his right hand.
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