Pixiu Rearing Guide

At 3 o'clock in the morning, there were very few vehicles on National Highway 320, and a bright yellow Jeep was particularly eye-catching. What was even more astonishing was the speed of this car on fire.

"Young Master Du, if you persist, it will be less than a hundred kilometers!" The eldest brother who was driving spoke with a local accent, turned his face and smiled flatteringly at the man in the back seat.

"..." Du Ziyu, the man called "Young Master Du", raised his eyelids wearily, his dark eyes lacked the slightest expression, he opened his mouth to say something, when his chest suddenly rose and fell, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, His brows were furrowed, and sweat immediately dripped from the corners of his forehead, sliding down his pale side face to the tip of his chin.

"I said, Young Master Du, can you still do it? I don't think you seem to be motion sick! Does it mean you have terminal cancer?" The person who spoke was Li Wu, Du Ziyu's brother-in-law.He is tall and big, with a fleshy body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looks upright, but his mouth is not serious.He helped Du Ziyu stroke his back, and his face was full of jokes: "If your sister sees you, put it aside if you don't feel bad, I will be peeled off by her anyway!"

"Okay, she won't know." Du Ziyu gave Li Wu a white look, and was furious.

The blue guidepost flashed by outside the car window.Ruili, 56KM.

Du Ziyu heaved a sigh of relief, and lightly stroked a jade wrench on the thumb of his left hand. The fine suet white jade was as moist as cream, and the blood-red blood-red veins covered the jade surface, exuding a coquettish charm.

Ruili, Yunnan, a small city on the border between China and Myanmar, is the largest circulation place for Burmese jadeite in China, and it is the destination of their trip.

"When we get to the place in a while, don't you complain that we came out too early! Look! The whole street will be full of goods, pick whatever you want!" The driver's dark face wrinkled with a smile, he kicked the accelerator, and the speed Straight to 150.

It better be so.

Du Ziyu pressed the center of his eyebrows, and he didn't have much longing for the "China-Myanmar Emerald Street" that the driver said.

Speaking of their Du family, they are not really a Wenwan family. The family is engaged in import and export business. From the generation of grandpa to the present, his father took over the business of grandpa and has been doing well.

It was his third sister's intention to come back to Yunnan.The third sister runs an auction house, and said that the jadeite market has been good in recent years, and it is bullish every year, so she asked her brother-in-law to come here to check out the spots.As for his Young Master Du, he grew up with his third sister, and he has been fascinated by his love for jade and jadeite. He also opened a small antique shop. If there is something good this time, he can just restock it.

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The car drove for another two hours, and finally arrived at Ruili Dai Village at five o'clock when the sky was turning pale.Du Ziyu stumbled out of the car with Li Wu's support, the driver made a phone call, and someone came over to answer him immediately - the emerald industry is very deep, without local snakes to guide the way, experts will inevitably miss it.

"Brother Li, Young Master Du, this gentleman's surname is Mao, just call him A Mao! Burmese nationality, with Chinese blood!" The driver brother blinked and introduced him to them: "Jade is an expert, he is better than me. It's several ranks higher!"

Li Wu nodded, exchanged greetings with A Mao, and the few of them filed towards China-Myanmar Street. The long and narrow street winds and goes endlessly, and all you can see are scaled stalls, a piece of cloth, etc. On the ground, there are a lot of emeralds scattered. Besides the local ethnic minorities and Han Chinese, there are also many Burmese, Bangladeshis, Indians, Pakistanis... Dai, Mandarin, Burmese... Bargaining from the south to the north The sound came and went.

"Han people don't suffer." Amao smiled and waved at Li Wu and the others: "Next time, come early and grab the goods!"

The so-called head of goods is the highest quality goods in this batch, and they will be picked up late.Following the flow of people, Du Ziyu carefully looked at the goods on the booth. Most of them were simple jewelry such as bracelets, safety buckles, and ring faces, as well as many uncut raw wool stones or wool jade with only one corner cut.A Mao took them to a small shop and spoke a few words in Burmese to the boss, who immediately took out a paper bag from his bag, which was full of emerald green bracelets.

"Old pit, ice glutinous seeds, full of green." A Mao pointed at the goods, and laughed with his mouth open.With the current market, a bracelet of this quality, if it is genuine, would cost at least a million.

Since it was just to step on the spot, Li Wu didn't plan to buy more, he just nodded, picked up the bracelet and played with it carefully for a while: "What price?"

The boss made a five-point comparison, Li Wu raised his eyebrows, and took out a bright flashlight to illuminate the impurities in the emerald.Du Ziyu glanced at the booth next to him. The owner of the stall was Chinese, and it was rare to see a few carved pendants.

The stall owner saw that he was well-dressed, with an extraordinary bearing, and he was wearing a fine blood jade wrench on his thumb. He immediately got up and introduced enthusiastically: "The boss has a good eye! The one you are holding is called Bawang Pixiu, which is a unique sculpture in Yunnan. Fa, you can see that its head is at right angles to its body, its head is horizontal and its body is upright, its head is horizontal and it is called "no one can get rich without windfall". , make sure you have a lot of money!" The stall owner said, taking out a bright flashlight to take care of him: "And you can see that the base material is also a good material, look at the transparency, the water head..."

Du Ziyu played with the emerald Pixiu, the jadeite, the color first, and then the water. This material is indeed moist and clear, but there is only a trace of green floating on the top of the Pixiu, which is not good enough.And...Du Ziyu laughed, it was very unlucky!

The stall owner saw Du Ziyu shaking his head, and then took out a few more pendants from the big bag for him to choose. This time, besides Pixiu, there were Guanyin, Maitreya Buddha, Ruyi, gourd...

"You are still a novelty, the Overlord Pixiu, so let's forget about it." Du Ziyu still shook his head.

"Little boss, don't worry, look at this!" The stall owner grabbed Du Ziyu and found another piece from his pocket. This piece was made of black material. Although it was also carved with Pixiu, the color was weird: "Little boss, This is a rare item, it all depends on whether you know it or not!"

For jade, green is green, red and yellow are jade, the greener the better, the more emerald the color is, the more expensive it is, but pure black jade and pure white jade are not very expensive.Du Ziyu took a closer look, not to mention the material, but the carving of this Pixiu is quite exquisite--the head is horizontal, the head is big and the buttocks are round, the forehead is full, the face is fierce, a pair of yin and yang eyes, a pair of sharp canine teeth, and the back is also delicate. Carved a string of nine-star beads, a wishful one on the buttocks, and copper coins on the soles of the feet... It makes people like it more and more.

"What are you looking at?" Li Wu leaned over at this moment, glanced at the things in Du Ziyu's hand, and said with a pursed mouth, "Black Jadeite?"

"No." Du Ziyu narrowed his eyes slightly, and hit Pixiu with a strong flashlight. The originally black area turned dark green through the light, and everyone was stunned.

This is black jadeite, the black and green jadeite that can only be dug out when the mine is drilled to a low level and the jadeite is exhausted.

"Hey! Young Master Du, if you like Mo Cui, ask A Mao to find some more for us to choose!" The driver brother pulled Du Ziyu and whispered to him: "This newcomer doesn't know the basics, so it's not easy to do business."

Du Ziyu looked at the Pixiu in his hand. Under the strong light, the material was clear and clean, with almost no impurities, and the green color was very even.Turn off the flashlight, under the natural light, it is shiny black again, moist as hair.

The choice of things is also based on the eye, Du Ziyu was also born in the capital of antiques, there are many good things, but there are not many things that he can really catch his eye at a glance.But this Mo Cui Pixiu actually looks more and more lovable.

"Make an offer." Du Ziyu sighed.

"It's coming?" Li Wu couldn't help being taken aback, and grabbed Du Ziyu's arm: "Little Grandpa, don't make a mistake and go home and cry with your sister!"

"No." Du Ziyu hooked the corners of his mouth, but he was very confident. He glanced at the stall owner and spread his hands towards him.

This is the rule of bidding in the northern antique market. The buyer holds the seller's finger, and the seller gesticulates the number in the buyer's palm, without asking the price.

The stall owner smiled and compared a two in the palm of his hand, and then compared two zeros, and the asking price was 200 million.Du Ziyu remained calm, and suddenly spread his hands, chuckling: "Are you playing with me?"

"Boss, you know how to do it!" The stall owner was not angry, he raised his thumb to Du Ziyu, and then stretched out his hand, allowing Du Ziyu to hold it again.This time, the bid was cut in half, and the lion opened his mouth just now, not to sell the goods sincerely, but to test whether you know how to do it.

The two took turns gesticulating several times, and the stall owner became more and more embarrassed. After Du Ziyu made the last bid, he waved his hand, indicating that he had nothing to say.

"My price is already very polite." Du Ziyu looked at the stall owner coldly: "Don't take all the mainlanders as a fool, you know how much your material is worth, and the high price I give is out of respect for the sculptor, indeed. It's a good craftsmanship!" Du Ziyu said, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up: "But when it comes to craftsmanship, there are many jade carvers in the mainland of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and you are not top-notch. It's just that I like it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Said Forget it, he looked at Li Wu: "Brother-in-law, how is your choice?"

Li Wu nodded, immediately understood Du Ziyu's meaning, and patted the stall owner on the shoulder: "It's almost done! Let's go get the money and settle with this."

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I went out before dawn, and when I got the goods back to the car, it was already noon.

"Hurry up and find a place to eat, I won't be out in the afternoon!" Li Wu told the driver to turn on the air conditioner as soon as he got in the car. He wiped off his sweat, turned his head and saw Du Ziyu still touching the Pixiu, and laughed loudly: "You Just study it, maybe it can cure motion sickness!"

Du Ziyu rolled his eyes at him, leaned on the back of the chair, and moved his lips: "I don't know if it can really attract money..." Turning his eyes, he smiled at Li Wu: "After dinner, play mahjong .”

When I came here, three were missing and one was missing, but now there is a Burmese Chinese in the co-pilot, which just happens to make up a table.