Poor family mother and son

Chen Guanshi stood on the sidelines, watching people without saying a word.

Only he knew that the stones of poor quality were placed in more eye-catching positions, and some of them deliberately chiseled off a small piece of stone skin to expose the jade meat inside.

The real stones with a lot of jade and meat have no "windows" at all, and they are piled up in an inconspicuous manner.For example, in a pile of rocks, the good ones are buried at the bottom, and the bad ones are placed on top with a window.

Moreover, the "window opening" is very natural, as if a certain stone skin has been knocked off during mining, which makes it impossible to doubt.

It is said that buying is not as good as selling, Chen Guanshi thought, it would be interesting to see these rich people spending jade money to buy broken stones, at least it would be a relief.

However, Chen Guanshi's emotions were well hidden, and he didn't show the slightest bit of "taken advantage" eyes.

The jade mine in Voss mainly produces "white jade". In terms of color, gray white, blue white, and yellow white are all considered white jade, but in Daxuan, the purer the white and the finer the jade quality, the more valuable it is. high.

It is because the jade flesh is light in color, so these stones look similar, they are all off-white stones.

Even if some jade flesh is exposed, if you don't pour water or get close to strong light, you can't see it very well. Moreover, if you let a layman see, those stones look similar to the quartz stones used in porcelain workshops.

Not all the people who come here to gamble on stones are rich, some are old craftsmen who are good at processing jade, this time they are not here for the owner, but want to pick some good materials for themselves.

There are too few Worth jades on the market, and they are too expensive. These shopkeepers hope that through such channels, they can pick out one or two pieces of good jade.

I have craftsmanship, and I have been dealing with jade for many years, so I always have some experience.

If you can't choose, Quandang will join in the fun, open your eyes, and see what Yushi Guanpu means.

If you are selected, go back and carve it carefully, keep it as a family heirloom, or use it as the treasure of your own shop.

After all, these are all wool, and the price is lower than that of finely crafted finished products.

Among the people who come here to gamble on stones, there are some people with complicated backgrounds, such as a middle-aged man called Qin Erye.

This person is 36 and seven years old, with a horseshoe beard, neither thick nor thin, and looks like a gentle Confucian businessman.

It is said that the second master Qin has a complicated background because he is the younger brother of the second prince, mother and concubine, but he has no blood relationship at all.

The second prince's concubine, who used to be a court lady next to the empress dowager, was given to him by the emperor when he didn't even become a prince.

Now the second prince's mother and concubine were sent to the palace as a palace maid at a young age. Not long after entering the palace, her biological mother died of illness.

This continuation person is very kind. Although she has no heirs, she gets along well with the second prince's mother and concubine. It can be said that she is a relative. She earns money from embroidery to support herself, and saves food and money every month for the court lady. The stepdaughter sent some food.

Palace maids are paid a monthly salary, but this stepmother never asked her for money. After a long time, the stepdaughter also developed feelings for her, so she handed over the monthly salary to her.

But the stepmother saved all of it, saying that she would save it for her expenses after leaving the palace.

Later, the stepmother remarried to the Qin family and gave birth to two sons with her remarried husband. The second child was the second son of Qin, but even if the stepmother remarried, she still gave her food from time to time, for fear that she would be wronged in the palace.

But when the stepmother remarried, it meant that the second prince, mother and concubine completely lost their mother's family.

Later, after the second emperor and concubine were given to the current emperor and the former prince, their lives improved and their status improved, but the stepmother was afraid of dragging her down and stopped contacting her.

The second prince's concubine is also a person who misses old love. When she became the prince's concubine, her status was higher, and she contacted her stepmother again, hoping to give her something back.

But at that time, the stepmother was already seriously ill, and the second prince, mother and concubine couldn't do much other than give more money to help the doctor.

Before her stepmother passed away, she entrusted someone to send back the monthly salary and subsidies that the second prince, mother and concubine had given her over the years.

There is also a letter inside, roughly saying that although the two are not biological mother and daughter, they care about each other more than mother and daughter. However, there will be a time to get together and part, and the second prince, mother and concubine do not need to worry about it anymore, and do not have any contact with the Qin family.

The stepmother was worried that the emperor didn't like the harem being involved with the outside world. If no one could grasp the closeness between the Qin family and the second prince, mother and concubine after she left, it would cause trouble to the second prince, mother and concubine.

There are also some baby clothes in the baggage, saying that she hopes that she will give birth to an heir soon, and she will be able to stand firmly on her heels.

Since then, the second prince, mother and concubine seem to have lost the support of her natal family, but the emperor pity her even more.

But the second prince, mother and concubine always needed their natal family, so they secretly took care of the two sons born after the stepmother remarried.

These two brothers, who have neither father nor mother, have nothing to do with the royal family on the surface after their sons inherited their father's business, but they are the "eyes" of the second prince, mother and concubine in private.

The uncle of the Qin family needs to take care of the business, so the task of acting as the eyes and ears of the second prince's mother and concubine falls on Qin Erye, who has always been unnoticed.

Right now, Second Master Qin seemed to be pacing slowly, looking for a target, but actually he was paying attention to the transactions of these people who came to gamble on stones.

There are no parents who don't want their children to be good, and so is the Qin family.

The second prince's concubine was promoted from the concubine of the prince to the concubine of the prince, and then she had the second prince. She really hoped for the better, and it was more worth looking forward to.

Among the emperor's adult sons, the eldest son of the emperor is born of a concubine, and his health is not good; although the third prince is born of a concubine, his health is also not good.

In this way, the competitive relationship between the second prince and the fourth prince became obvious.

The mother clan of the fourth prince is from a merchant family, which seems to be much more powerful than the mother clan of the second prince who doesn't even have a natal family, but no one knows that the second prince is actually supported by a mother clan who has no blood relationship.

Now the fourth prince not only got a job to mine jade, but also brought back thirty carts of jade, and within a few days, he heard the rumor that there was a jade lock, how could the second prince not investigate it?

Qin Erye is a low-key person, no one in the business circle in the capital knows him, and at the moment he only thinks that he is some unknown businessman in Ji County, and no one pays attention to him.

Qin Erye didn't understand jade, let alone the quality of these stacked stones, but he knew how to read people.

What he was staring at now were those jade craftsmen.

Jade craftsmen are always in direct contact with jade. They are the creators of the whole process from raw material to clean material to finished product. They can always distinguish the quality of jade.

The several jade craftsmen were all elderly, and at first they looked at each other separately, but soon they gathered together, seeming to have some opinions on stone materials.

Qin Erye heard an old craftsman say to the others: "Why do I feel that there are not many good materials?"

The old craftsman said: "I have never touched a large and complete stone, so I can't say whether the material is good or not. Maybe it can't be seen on the surface, and the stone has to be broken."

The old craftsman shook his head three times: "I haven't seen it before. You have to buy it before you can untie the stone, which is quite difficult."

So the few of them wanted to wait to see others interpret the stone, so as to gain some experience from it.