To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

The Water-Splashing Festival is a traditional festival of the Dai people and is also the Dai New Year.

At this time, the whole village is on holiday for seven days. Unmarried girls and boys put on their best clothes and prepare flower bags, which they throw to the ones they like. They also carry buckets of water and splash water on each other. The more water a person is splashed with, the more blessings they will receive.

Each village and town will also hold a fair, which is a large-scale market where villagers who have been busy for a year can sell the fruits of their labor.

Dao Yulan took Li Yongqiang to Grandpa Lan's house, where Grandpa Lan was basking in the sun, smoking a water pipe. "Young Master Dao, what's the matter with Grandpa Lan?"

Dao Yulan looked at Grandpa Lan's sharp eyes and said, "Grandpa Lan, this is my Mao Duoli. He wants to buy some material from you."

Grandpa Lan looked at Li Yongqiang and said: "Little kids, don't touch the stones. Don't learn from Yulan Yibu. There are new materials in the granary in the backyard. Go and pick them."

Dao Yulan brought Li Yongqiang to Lan Ye's warehouse, where hundreds of rough stones were scattered in a disorderly manner. They were all gambling stones that had never been opened.

Dao Yulan jumped towards the pile of stones and touched the jadeite raw stone like a child. A layman uses a flashlight to buy goods, but a real expert only needs to take a look at the skin to know the fineness of the sand at the site and judge the quality of the jade.

The Burmese are even more terrifying. Just by looking at it and touching it, they can tell whether a jadeite rough is a top-notch product or one that should be thrown into the trash can. So don't daydream about gambling on jadeite and finding a bargain. There's no such thing as a free lunch. That's like the smoke rising from your ancestral grave. Even if it's not, even the smoke isn't enough. Only when the raindrops are as big as steamed buns can you become rich overnight by gambling on jadeite and finding a bargain.

The knowledge of the mining area is even greater. Myanmar has been mining jade for hundreds of years, and the veins are gradually becoming exhausted. The Laopagang mining area has dug layer after layer, and now the raw materials are becoming increasingly scarce. Many people in Myanmar use stones from the bright mining area to pass them off as black Wusha. However, the stones that look good are mostly gray when cut open, and the finished products are not good-looking.

A novice gambling on jade can easily lose everything. They only see the thief eating meat, but never see the thief being beaten. You only think about getting rich, so why are you the God of Wealth's darling? Does the God of Wealth look at you with such rare and precious bones? In the jade market, if you don't understand the goods, you can be ripped off.

Li Yongqiang was also picking out raw materials. He would cheat and only look at stones with spiritual energy. To be honest, there were only a few spiritual stones in such a room full of raw stones.

Li Yongqiang spotted a gray wax-shelled stone from the Houjiang mining area, only half the size of a watermelon. Its spiritual energy was rich, its skin prickly and oily, and some of the skin had already shed some sand. It looked like a good find, but Li Yongqiang couldn't help but smile bitterly as he probed with his spiritual sense. The stone's color and water quality were top-notch, a refreshingly green. But the cracks inside were appalling, so shattered it was like popping candy, impossible to pick up. If I hadn't used a cheat, I'd have lost everything I had.

Li Yongqiang looked around but couldn't find a suitable one. Either the water content was too dry or the cracks were too severe.

At this time, Li Yongqiang discovered that the door of the warehouse was covered with a piece of Moshisha black stone, which was only the size of a football and shaped like an upside-down straw sandal sole.

Li Yongqiang looked at the skin first. Don't say that the skins from the Moshisha field at this time were all selected well. The beautiful elephant skin was very oily and had no python or pine flowers on the whole body. Only the skin was surprisingly good.

Li Yongqiang used his mental power to investigate. The skin was really thick, about a finger thick, and there was a pool of rich demon purple underneath, and a palm-wide Yang green color ran through it. What was rare was that nine out of ten purple trees had a generally poor quality of purple, but this demon purple had actually reached the ice quality and was still so rich, and the palm-wide Yang green had actually reached the high ice quality. What a beautiful spring color.

Li Yongqiang quickly changed the stone for Lan Ye's door. This was too extravagant. Such a fine jade door was a waste of natural resources. Li Yongqiang carefully moved the jade rough material outside. At this time, Dao Yulan had also chosen a fist-sized piece of Houjiang water stone.

Before Li Yongqiang could say anything, Dao Yulan ran to Grandpa Lan and acted coquettishly: "Grandpa Lan, how much do you want for these two pieces of raw materials?"

Grandpa Lan took a puff of his water pipe and blew out a puff of smoke rings: "Yulan, you are a traitor. These two pieces of raw material are the best ones I have. Please give them 48,000 yuan for your grandfather's sake."

Dao Yulan: "Grandpa Lan, please take a look at this material. The one I have in my hand is so small that I can't make a bracelet, only a pendant. And the one I chose, Mao Duoli, has a better shape, finer sand, and a python belt with pine flowers. How can it be worth so much money? Grandpa Lan, please give me a fair price. I have never seen raw material before, so I want to buy it to see it."

Grandpa Lan rolled his eyes and said, "You're being dishonest, girl. This Houjiang water stone in your hand is the best of this batch. Look at the skin. This is a good material for producing green. At least there are a few fine glutinous and sunny green brands. This price I'm giving you is a conscience price."

Dao Yulan stomped her feet and said, "Grandpa Lan, can you please tell me a price? Does Xiao Qian have a chance?"

Lan Ye glared at him and said, "Little girl, you and your Yibu are no match for each other. Your bargaining skills are exactly the same. Little girl, are you an old man? Give me a good price, or I will hit you with my pipe."

Dao Yulan: "Grandpa Lan, please give me a fair price."

Grandpa Lan smacked his lips and said, "Twelve thousand is not less for such good material."

Dao Yulan: "Grandpa Lan is a straightforward man. We have already used up all our savings for 1500."

Lan Ye raised his eyebrows angrily: "Little girl, you're a bit far off. Someone has offered this price before."

Dao Yulan gritted her teeth and said, "Grandpa Lan, I'll add 1600 to the bill. Is that okay with you?"

Then the two sides started to negotiate to the limit and finally settled on 1650 yuan. Lan Ye found two newspapers to wrap the rough stone and put it in a cloth bag. Li Yongqiang carried the cloth bag back home.

After Li Yongqiang and the others left Lan Ye's house, he took a puff from his pipe and couldn't help but sigh. Dao Yulan was a good girl, but how could someone as shrewd as Yi Bu raise such a foolish son? With Dao Yulan's talent for jade, she would have made a fortune in the future. How could he be so foolish as to sell his daughter for 300 yuan? It's true that wealth cannot last for more than three generations.

Dao Yulan skipped back to the bamboo house and pointed at the bag: "Brother, put it away quickly. When we go to the county to buy some tools one day, I will make you a Wu Shi Pai. I feel that the water quality of this Houjiang water stone can reach glutinous ice.

Li Yongqiang was extremely surprised. "Wife, how many surprises do you have that I don't know? You can even carve jade?"

Dao Yulan spun around gracefully. "What's so difficult about this? Almost everyone in our village knew how to do it before." The Burmese jade craftsmanship is truly terrible. The best materials used to be shipped to the capital. I believe the craftsmanship of the Imperial Household Department is truly exceptional. Let's just make some basic plain pieces.