At 9:20 in the morning, Dong Xuebin took out a shoulder bag from the drawer under the closet and put the 110,000 yuan he had not had time to deposit in the bank last time when he sold rare ancient books into the bag, and then went downstairs to the east side of the road. Withdraw money from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, but this branch is relatively small. Transactions with cash withdrawals of more than 50,000 yuan must be made one day in advance. Dong Xuebin, who originally wanted to withdraw 100,000 yuan, was too lazy to go to the Qiaobei branch. 50,000 yuan would be 50,000 yuan. , a total of 160,000 was enough. He took the money and put it into his schoolbag. He tightened the collar of his jacket and braved the cold wind to take a taxi on the side road. He came to the Panjiayuan Flea Market on the South Third Ring Road and walked along the On the outside of the wall, families were looking for a place to sell woolen materials.
"Boss, do you have jade wool?"
"No, we only sell finished products here. You can go and ask elsewhere."
"Boss, please ask, can you gamble with stones and jade here?"
"Oh, no such thing."
"Boss, do you know where you can gamble on stones in this area?"
"Betting on stones, there don't seem to be many in Panjiayuan. If you really want to play, it's best to go to Chaoyang, Haidian. There are special auctions of wool every week. The price is right and the quality of the materials is high." Dong Xuebin also knows about Haidian. There is a place for auctioning wool materials in the antique city, but the process there is to first look at the materials, then bid and pay for the auction, and the last step is to open the materials. A lot of time is wasted in between. Just six minutes is far longer than the time it takes to raise a placard for the auction. It was far from enough, so Dong Xuebin focused on ordinary retail transactions from the beginning.
Walk and walk, search and search, ask and ask.
Suddenly, the squeaking sound of the cutting machine came from a distance.
Dong Xuebin's eyes lit up. He had seen others betting on stones before when he was working, so he knew the sound very well. When he looked up, he immediately walked over. But when he stood in front of the shop door, Dong Xuebin was slightly startled that the material the man was bending down to cut with the cutter was not jade wool. Looking at the color and shape, it seemed to be rough crystal stone, natural rough crystal stone. Betting on crystals? This is really uncommon. Dong Xuebin hesitated for a moment, then moved up to look at it curiously. Gambling on crystal, gambling on agate, gambling on turquoise, gambling on seed material, gambling on jade, these can be collectively referred to as gambling on stone, so Dong Xuebin does not necessarily have to choose jade wool or Hetian jade seed material, gambling on crystal can also be a small win. .
The sound of the cutting machine stopped, and a large window was opened on the side of the rough amethyst stone.
The sellers were a young couple. Upon seeing this, the girl asked: "Is this good? How much can it sell for?"
"The inside is of average quality." The somewhat chubby boss put down the cutting machine and picked up the rough stone to take a look, "It's probably worth 1,800 yuan."
"You only paid one thousand for five thousand?" When the girl heard this, she slapped her boyfriend angrily, "I told you don't buy it, don't buy it. Look, did you lose the bet?" Everyone said that gambling on stones Nine times out of ten you will lose. Betting on crystals is not as risky as betting on jade, but it is not much different. It is normal to start and fall. If you really spend 5,000 yuan, you can get one piece worth tens of thousands. That's a bit abnormal. In addition, the capital is not a place where professional stone betting occurs. Most of the rough stones shipped are "leftovers" left over from the production areas and major rough stone sales places, so the chance of an increase is even greater. It's extremely small.
Over there, the boy was a bit concerned about face. When he heard his girlfriend complaining, he immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Two more yuan for this and that."
The girl said angrily: "Don't buy it. What can you do with that money?"
The boy refused to listen and insisted on paying the fat boss to cut the stone.
"Okay, I just cut it like that." The fat boss held the cutting machine in his hand, turned on the switch and let the gear squeak, then held the rough stone steady with his hand, and rubbed the surface of the rough stone little by little with the gear. The hardness of crystal is not as good as that of jade, so cutting rough crystal is much faster than jade wool.
One knife...
Five knives…
Ten swords…
Squeak, squeak, after a while, two colorless crystal rough stones, one big and one small, came out. The big one had pores and bubbles and was basically wiped out. It wasn't worth a lot of money, but the small one was nothing. The big problem was that it was just in mediocre condition and not worth the price he paid for it.
Amidst the quarrel, the young couple hugged the original stone and left angrily.
Not long after, another old man came and spent 10,000 yuan to buy a large piece of citrine. As a result, there was an impurity in it the size of a small fingernail. The 10,000 yuan was wasted. . At eleven o'clock, another group of people who looked like tourists bought four or five pieces of natural crystal rough stones. The best piece was evenly matched, that is, the buying price was equal to the selling price, but the other three or four pieces were at a loss. All were lost.
This is gambling on stones. There are always far more losers than winners. Success or failure all depends on luck.
Dong Xuebin felt a little guilty. After watching for so long, he still hadn't seen anyone make money by opening up. Can he really do it
"Little brother, why don't you give it a try?" The fat boss looked at him while wiping his hands with a towel.
Dong Xuebin, who was standing at the door, was not ready to make a move. He shook his head and walked into the store to look at the crystal ornaments in the glass display racks. He pointed at some of them and inquired about the market situation, "How much does this pink crystal necklace cost?" Hundreds? What about amethyst Guanyin? What about hair crystal ornaments? "There are different colors, different sizes, different degrees of purity, and different prices. Also huge.
"The finished product is expensive." The fat boss said seductively, "How about gambling on stones? Once you get it done, you can get rich overnight."
Dong Xuebin smiled and said nothing. He said in his heart that if he didn't do it, he could lose his entire family.
After dinner at noon, Dong Xuebin returned to the crystal shop again. He spent an hour observing and studying, and gradually gained a general understanding of gambling crystals and the value of crystals. In simple terms, it is like this, natural amethyst is more Natural citrine is more expensive. Natural citrine is more expensive than natural colorless crystal. Darker colors are more expensive than lighter colors. Single colors are more expensive than mixed colors. High purity ones are more expensive than low purity ones. Heavy ones are more expensive than light ones. It is more expensive. The raw stone used to make a crystal ball is more expensive than the same color and weight. The one with hair inside is more expensive than the one without hair. The one with smooth hair is more expensive than the one with messy hair.
Knowing this, Dong Xuebin had an outline in his mind, and began to count the time required to unlock a rough crystal stone. It takes a long time to rub the stone from the edge bit by bit, ten minutes is the same, fifteen minutes is the same, but if you just cut off a large side of the original stone without taking into account the material loss and other circumstances, the time is still relatively fast, that is Tens of seconds, after all, the hardness is far less than that of jade wool.
Ten minutes later, everything was calculated.
Dong Xuebin took a deep breath, OK, let’s get started.
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