Doucui

Chapter 261 Color Blindness
Finding nothing unusual, Xiao Chen followed Ning Xia into the jade shop.

At this time, Ning Xia had carefully appraised a piece of old elephant skin.

Generally speaking, the wool of old elephant skin is old and of good texture, and it is most likely to block the emerald of the glass ground.

"How is it? Are you optimistic about this piece of wool?" Xiao Chen walked over and asked Ningxia.

Ning Xia shook his head, sighed slightly, pointed to a similar crack on the rough jadeite and said, "There is a lock!"

Xiao Chen carefully observed the original stone, and he saw a lock.The locks that appear on the rough jadeite are actually cracks, also called cracks. Usually the big ones are called cracks, the small ones are called locks, and some are generally called large locks and small locks.Locks are very harmful to jade, directly affecting the material and appearance, so it is a performance that cannot be ignored.Experienced stone gamblers often say: Don't be afraid of big cracks and small locks; it is better to bet on color than locks.

There is a yellow rust color next to the lock. Such a lock is called a flame lock. If this kind of lock appears, it will eat the color and dry it up.

In fact, Ningxia has already seen through this piece of jadeite wool, it is absolutely glassy jadeite, extremely pure, but the color is too bad, so she shook her head and sighed.

Ningxia turned to look at a piece of rough jadeite next to her. This one was also her favorite. It had a reddish-yellow shell and was foggy. At first she thought it was wool from the Damukan factory, which would produce reddish-yellow jadeite.

However, Xiao Chen disagreed and told her, "The red and yellow jadeite produced by the Damukan factory is quite famous, but that doesn't mean that the rough jadeite at the entrance of the factory only produces red and yellow jadeite."

Ning Xia nodded, but her solid knowledge of betting on jadeite was still not enough, she felt that she definitely did not have as much experience in betting on stones as Xiao Chen, who grew up in Burma, so she didn't show off and used it without hesitation. Her cheating tool - green vine.

With the help of green vines, the inner shape of the rough jadeite slowly appeared in Ningxia's field of vision. Her eyes penetrated the shell, and there was a red and yellow jadeite skin. The one-centimeter fleshy skin was like a fruit peel, and the jade flesh wrapped inside turned out to be the violet color of ice seeds.

Ningxia was quite surprised, she always thought that there were more red and yellow jadeites in Damukan factory, but she didn't expect that there would be red and yellow jadeite violets here.So he turned to Xiao Chen and said, "Is it possible to produce violets from the rough jadeite in Damukan Factory?"

Xiao Chen nodded and said with a smile, "On the third floor of the Damukan factory, there are mostly yellow jade skins, orange-yellow jade skins, red-yellow jade skins, and weathered skins. There is often yellow mist under the skin, that is, yellow jadeite. There are yellow jadeites in yellow jadeite. The green ones are commonly known as "yellow clip green" with relatively thin skin. Smaller ones are more common, and there are also large ones. It often produces bean green or melon green, and there are also subcutaneous greens. Massive high emerald boxwood green and seedling green. There are relatively few cracks, and the variety varies greatly, ranging from bean to glass, mainly old field bean, waxy bean and waxy, medium and thick The quality of jade varies from fine to fine. The old ground is good, the skin of yellow jadeite and red-yellow jadeite, the flesh is mostly violet and white, the whole yellow jadeite is relatively rare, and the ice yellow jadeite with green is extremely rare, so it is gambling , especially the "head covering" of weathered leather is relatively risky."

It was only then that Ningxia suddenly realized that she had to say that her knowledge of the jadeite factory was still a bit lacking, and her experience in betting on stones was superficial.In the past, it was believed that the Damukan Factory produced red and yellow jadeite, the most famous of which were the rare blood jadeite and fire jadeite.

Seeing Xiao Chen's extensive knowledge, Ningxia felt like making fun of him, and said with a smile, "I was born in Burma, but I can't speak Burmese, but I am so proficient in gambling with jadeite, don't you like it more?" Meiyu, you don’t love people.”

Xiao Chen laughed loudly, then stared at Ning Xia with a bit of bad eyes, smiled without saying a word, Ning Xia felt guilty when he saw Xiao Chen's eyes, his face blushed involuntarily, and he hurriedly turned his head and shouted at the shop assistant, "I want this piece of wool."

The owner of the store and his buddy all came together. Finally, the boss of this shop didn’t understand Chinese, but the guy was an authentic Chinese, so communication was no problem.

Although the violets were from ice species, Ningxia was very happy because it was the first time she saw violets with red and yellow emerald skin.She is not the kind of person who always thinks of achieving it overnight. Everyone loves those who are gambling with the best jadeite, but she can't be lucky enough to meet them all.

"The emerald wool materials in this store are all from old pits, and they are very good." Xiao Chen also walked around the store, then came back and told Ning Xia to let her choose more wool materials here.

Naturally, Ningxia also knows it well. She has been in contact with more woolen materials, and her eyesight has become stronger. She is not as blind as she was when she first entered the industry. Basically, she can judge good woolen materials with a single glance.It's a bit like the feeling she had when she bought famous brands and street stalls. She has seen a lot, even if she doesn't buy it herself, she can see it at a glance when she sees a passerby carrying a brand-name bag or a cheap bag.

Ningxia soon fell in love with a rough gray-black jadeite of about [-] kilograms. The rough skin of this rough stone is quite thin, with a kind of dark green feeling.

When Ningxia shines on the rough stone with its own strong light, you can see the faint ink green.Ning Xia was overjoyed, she had bet many top-quality jadeites, all kinds, even rare emerald jadeites and blood jadeites, but she had never met Mo Cui.

Among jadeites, green is the most expensive, and emerald-colored jadeite is the most valuable. Orientals unanimously prefer green jadeite. Black or almost black jadeite has always been considered an evil or ominous color, so no one cares about it.However, after the era entered the 21st century, with the scarcity of jadeite raw materials, the influence of Chinese people's ideological and cultural changes, and because some famous jade carving masters loved ink Cui works, people gradually changed their value of ink jade, and the price of ink jade gradually increased. .

Mo Cui is a rare species of jadeite. It is a kind of two-color jadeite. The "mo" in Mo Cui means black as the name suggests, and "cui" refers to the green color of jadeite.The characteristic of mocui is that the surface looks black, but it shows a deep dark green or dark green under transmitted light.Ink jade is actually not black jade, but a very dark green, or in other words, ink jade is black in appearance due to excessive concentration of green.So Mo Cui is not equal to Black Jade.

Mo Cui also has a more romantic name, called the lover's shadow, because she is like the black and beautiful hair of the fairies in the sky recorded in the Buddhist scriptures. Under normal light, she has a black and glossy color, but under strong light Underneath it reveals a magical dark green, so this dreamy color is compared to a beautiful shadow that fills a man's heart—the shadow of a lover.

It also has another name, the shadow of a successful man, because it follows behind a man like a towering figure formed behind a man who has achieved a great career.

Since ancient times, China has black to ward off evil spirits, the theory of body protection, the theory of yin and yang and the five elements: "black belongs to water, and water can gather wealth." .It is precisely in this way that Mo Cui is more and more valued by people.

Xiao Chen saw that Ningxia was interested in this gray-black rough jadeite, and after carefully observing it, he said to Ningxia: "This piece of wool is not very good."

Ning Xia was slightly surprised, she just felt that Xiao Chen had a lot of experience in betting stones, why did he look like a novice who doesn't know how to bet on stones all of a sudden?The dark green was about to come out of the shell, didn't he even see it?
"Don't you think this is a piece of wool from Mo Cui?" Ning Xia asked Xiao Chen a little puzzled, she really didn't know why he didn't like this piece of wool.

"The skin is thick, and the texture is rough. Emerald green is not a good emerald, not to mention that this rough stone does not have the three major characteristics of betting stones." Xiao Chen continued to hold his objection.

Ning Xia froze for a moment, looked down at the piece of rough jadeite, and even more didn't understand where Xiao Chen's words came from. Obviously, this piece of fur shell was smooth and delicate, and it felt particularly good in the hand. How he said it seemed like a layman.

"No, I think this piece of wool is very delicate." Ning Xia looked up at Xiao Chen and said, she felt really strange right now.

"This piece of gray and white leather wool should be from the Long Sugar Factory. The plant is not old enough, and the water is not enough, so the possibility of growing green is extremely small." Xiao Chen still shook his head and said.

Ning Xia burst out laughing this time, burst out laughing, then looked at Xiao Chen with amusing eyes, looked at him carefully for a long time, Xiao Chen felt a little hairy, and looked him up and down , thought something was wrong with him, that's why Ning Xia looked at him so strangely.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Chen was really a little dizzy by Ning Xia, a little at a loss.

Ning Xia laughed even more happily, it was the first time she saw Xiao Chen in such a mess, it was because of her infinite embarrassment in front of him before.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Chen didn't find anything wrong with him, so he could only helplessly ask Ning Xia with a smile.

Ning Xia managed to stop laughing, and said, "I forgot that many men are somewhat colorblind."

"Color-blind?" Xiao Chen was obviously surprised, or he didn't realize that he was color-blind.

Ning Xia tilted his head and looked at him playfully, and asked, "Isn't it? It's obviously a piece of gray-black wool? How do you say it's gray-white?"

When Xiao Chen heard that Ning Xia was laughing for this reason, not only did he not face up to her question, but he looked at Ning Xia strangely and said, "You said this is a piece of gray-black wool?" Then he frowned again, as if he was serious After thinking about it, I said, "No way, even if you are color-blind, the most indistinguishable thing should be color, not black and white."

"Ha!" Ning Xia's eyes widened, she looked at Xiao Chen incredulously, she was getting more and more confused, obviously he was colorblind, how could he talk about her the other way around? "Obviously you are color-blind. You can't even see the gray-black wool, so it must be gray-white."

Xiao Chen was stunned, and after a long time, instead of arguing with Ning Xia, he directly called the translator they hired, and asked him, what color is that piece of wool?
"Off-white!" the translator said with great certainty.

Ningxia questioned it right away, including the translator as colorblind.

Xiao Chen saw that Ning Xia was still insisting on his own opinion, so he simply called the shop assistant over and asked him.

The guy said, "This is gray and white wool. We are all Chinese. When we meet fellow villagers in this foreign place, don't talk about fellow villagers meeting fellow villagers. I will tell you the truth. This piece of wool It’s been on the shelf for several years, but it still can’t be sold, if you want it, you can get a [-]% discount.”

Ning Xia was stunned for a moment.

(End of this chapter)