my deadly lover

Fang Sishao is very upset now, very upset, because Lin Zihan has never smiled at him since he met Lin Zihan, not even once!And after such a whole morning, this girl's smiling face almost turned into a chrysanthemum, that brilliant!

what is this?Wolf with goat's skin?Or is it possessed by Big Big Wolf?What the hell!

After lunch, Fang Sishao and others came to the Mandalay jewelry market, which is already a jadeite market.

As the only source of jewelry-grade jadeite mines, 90% of the rough jadeite produced in Myanmar is sold to China. The sale of rough jadeite is the fourth largest source of fiscal revenue for the Myanmar government, and it also has the highest profit margin in its revenue.

Perhaps because the opening date of the jadeite market is approaching, there are twice as many Chinese people shopping here than usual. Especially in recent years, the price of jadeite has skyrocketed like Chinese real estate, which has contributed to the hot jadeite market.

A well-known example in the world confirms this madness - the legend of the king of violet jade in 2010: At that time, a Burmese consignor won a piece of jade with a bet of 2008 US dollars in 20. Because the leather shell had many cracks, he was worried about the price If not, it was kept for two years. As a result, in the public market in November 2010, the jade material became the king of the Ming Bid with a transaction price of 11 euros, an average of about 19,899,999 million yuan per kilogram.

In the end, the new buyer "Zhaoyi Cuiwu" did not cut the ice-species violet jade material into rings and decorations for sale as usual, but carved it into a whole decoration "Zhaoyi Star" as the main store of the Beijing head office. precious.

The Biaowang Town Store made "Zhaoyi Jade House" more popular among outsiders, and in September 2011, it received a second round of investment of about 9 million yuan from Shenzhen Venture Capital.In addition, due to the effect of the king of violets, the price of purple jadeite in the wholesale market has also skyrocketed in a year, even if the price of mid-to-high-end purple rings above 1.87 yuan has nearly doubled.

Lin Zihan and the two little girls have never been here before. Looking at the legendary largest jewelry trading market in Myanmar, it is even simpler and dilapidated than the vegetable market in China. Rows of wooden houses, some with doors A house, some is a big shed.

The whole market is divided into several areas, including jadeite ring area, bracelet area, wool area, flake area, processing area and carving area.

What surprised them was that in this place that looked like a slum, it was not uncommon for transactions to cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of RMB.

There is a sign at the door, with English, Chinese, and Burmese markings on it: the entrance fee is US$[-].But after searching for a long time, they didn't find anyone collecting money, let alone tickets or anything like that.

Motorbikes were parked outside the market. Looking from a distance, it was full of human heads. Now it is just after lunch. There will be people trading or observing in front of almost every stall. People lament: Where there are Chinese people, there are many people!

Outside the market are mostly street stalls, one next to the other, some selling rough stones, some selling scraps, some selling bracelets, all piled up together like cabbage, of course, these are all low-end goods, come here to buy Most of them are Chinese jewelry merchants, so they are also sold in bunches and bundles when wholesale.

There are fixed recipients in the market, as well as wandering merchants.Generally, the receiver only sits behind the table, and the seller will hand over the goods for them to choose and bargain.

The whole market is also mixed with good and bad people, there are not only high-end ring noodles, but also B-grade, C-grade, and even coated jadeite, which can be distinguished entirely by eyesight.

There is no consumer association or anti-counterfeiting here. The price is determined by yourself. If you like the price, you can bargain, and if you are not sure, you can not buy it. But once the transaction is completed, you will feel that it is too expensive to come back and look for it. So here is a test of eyesight. The place.

Chinese tourists here are basically looking at the flowers on horseback. Without the company of experts, they are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in such a deep water.

The two little girls came here purely for sightseeing, taking photos here and there, Lin Zihan glanced at Fang Sishao from time to time, not knowing what he was doing here.

After a while, Fang Sishao's cell phone rang, and Fang Sishao answered, "Where are you? Oh, I saw you."

After hanging up the phone, everyone looked up and saw a dark-skinned middle-aged man in his 40s and [-]s waving his hands to this side, with a phone in his hand.

Everyone moved closer to the middle-aged man, who spoke Chinese very well. He called Fang Si Shao his host, and shook hands with Lin Zihan and others very friendly. Fang Si Shao gave a brief introduction, and everyone I know that this middle-aged uncle is from Burma, and his name is Kaidong.

Burmese surnames are constantly changing according to people’s identities. Lin Zihan didn’t understand, but the two little girls knew something. Fang Sishao directly told them to call him "Wu Kaidong", which means Uncle Kaidong, and "Wu" is not Burmese. A person's surname is just an article used by the Burmese to express respect for men. It is somewhat similar to the English mr., and Kaidong means "Sichen Chicken". It is a very interesting name that is rarely seen in Myanmar.

Fang Si Shao's love&love jewelry company is a nominal branch of Hong Kong Gems&Jewellery Hong Kong Gems Jewelry Corporation. The so-called name means that if Fang Si Shao's jewelry store is out of stock, you can buy some from the gems head office, but Fang Si Shao can only enjoy the profit. It is not related to the head office. Similarly, the profit and loss of the head office has no direct relationship with him.

If the gems head office is the property of Fang Sishao and his family, then Love is a jewelry store that Fang Sishao came out of alone.Wu Kaidong is an employee of gems company's headquarters in Mandalay, so Fang Sishao can be regarded as his employer.

The headquarter of gems jewelry company is in Mandalay, and the production department is in Pagan. A big jeweler like gems has its own rough stone mining area in Myanmar.

In previous years, after mining the stones in Pagan, they were screened and transported to Mandalay for rough processing, some remained at the company headquarters, and some were sent to the public bidding. The unsold stones were either shipped back or processed and sold in Yangon. .

But Wu Kaidong said that under the situation of the Myanmar government's "hunger marketing" offensive and the increase of competitors, many jewelers are facing the dilemma of lack of new raw materials. Even a company as big as theirs is starting to run out of high-end raw materials, eating up the inventory of previous years. Now, everyone is eyeing the good material of this year's public offering.

Myanmar's domestic processing level is very limited, so it is impossible to directly export exquisite finished products, or mainly sell rough stones.However, for jewelry such as bracelets and ring faces that do not require fine carving, Mandalay has obvious advantages in price and quality.

However, with the skyrocketing price of jadeite in recent years, the price advantage has gradually weakened. However, when there are too many monks and too little porridge, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Will be squeezed out by peers.

"Boss, are you sure you want to buy today? People here are rushing to buy like crazy. The price will definitely not be lowered. Why don't you take a look at the rough stone first?" Wu Kaidong said.

Fang Sishao nodded, and then Wu Kaidong brought everyone to a store. The store was not big, and the ground inside was covered with rough stones of various colors. , There are also rough stones that are thrown on the streets of China intact like stones and no one picks them up.

"Is this called stone gambling?" Lily asked.

"Yes, it is called open material when it is cut in that way to expose half of the surface, and it is called window opening by grinding a few windows or cutting off a corner in this way. It's all bets." Wu Kaidong said with a smile, pointing at a piece of stone that had been chipped off.

Lin Zihan and the two little girls had heard about it a little bit, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they felt that they were looking at flowers in the fog, and they couldn't tell the truth at all.

After Lily inquired, she took the half-betted stone in her hand, picked up the spotlight flashlight in a dignified manner, and shone inward, blurring the thick green color, and turned into an inconspicuous blue color after taking the spotlight flashlight away. .

"What kind of jade is this?" Lucy asked beside her.

"The color is light and the transparency is poor. If you look closely, the crystals inside look like mung beans called bean seeds. The color is turquoise, also called bean green seeds. It is a very common material and not worth much." Wu Kaidong patiently gave the two children The girl introduced.

"Oh~~" The two little girls nodded.

Lin Zihan had no interest in these at all, but watched Fang Sishao keep patrolling, and didn't know what he was picking.

After a while, a middle-aged uncle was negotiating the price with the shopkeeper. What the uncle held in his hand was a dark material, which was in the shape of a triangle. The short side was slightly higher than the family bucket, and the thickness was wider than a fist. Songhuahei's ringworm has obvious cracks and is not very gambling.

The two little girls looked over upon hearing the words, and opened their mouths wide when they heard the price, thinking they had heard it wrong.But in fact, they heard it right, a stone like this actually costs 50 US dollars!The equivalent of RMB is more than 300 million!

All the guests in the room listened to the conversation without any surprised expressions on their faces. It seemed that this was a very reasonable price, or their nerves had already been stimulated and numb, so it was no surprise at all.

The two little girls didn't understand why such a stone was so valuable, but they were too embarrassed to ask, so they said to Wu Kaidong: "What if you can't earn it back after cutting it?"

Wu Kaidong smiled and replied: "This is betting on stones. 'One knife is poor, one knife is rich, and one knife is wearing linen'. In the past, betting on stones was a business of "three sons"-one is to buy and sell for real, and it is a gentleman's business; the other is It’s a lunatic’s business to gamble when you see a stone, and it’s a lunatic’s business; the third is to confuse the fake with the real one, shoddy as the best, and it’s a swindler’s business. But now, it’s "a lunatic buys, a lunatic sells, and another lunatic is waiting." So you don’t have to Worry, even if this stone only needs to be opened to a green jadeite the size of a bracelet, as long as the material is good enough, it will be safe to make money."