Chapter 13 Changes in the first two months

That winter, I fell asleep on a green leather train.This train runs from north to south, passing through most of China.Like a stripper, I sat in the car and took off my clothes continuously. When I arrived in the southern city where I worked, I was left with only a single piece of clothing. I still came to the village at the junction of urban and rural areas, and saw Chi Dao, but not Zhong Feng.Chi Dao told me that Zhong Feng's life has changed a lot since he didn't see him in just two months. Zhong Feng is doing a business called "Stone Gambling".He changed from betting on cultural relics to betting on stones, and still did not change the high-risk gambling characteristics.

While I was traveling with Uncle Gousheng in the cold wind and the wilderness in the north, Zhong Feng met a boss who was in the jade business.This old man with a mustache has turned from a millionaire household to a multi-millionaire in just a few years.He often travels between Xinjiang and this southern city, busy like a fly. That is, in just a few years, the value of a kind of jade called Hetian jade has increased ten thousand times. This kind of crazy speed has made everyone stunned and shocked.Hetian jade has also become a symbol of the status of the wealthy upstarts. Being able to own a piece of high-quality Hetian jade will make them feel "very face".As a result, countless southern businessmen flocked to the Kunlun Mountains of Xinjiang to purchase Hetian jade.The local farmers, on the other hand, dug over and over again the places where there might be jade. People used ancient treasure hunting techniques to find this legendary crazy stone.

However, this kind of jade is extremely mysterious. It is covered with a layer of stone, which prevents people from seeing its true face.Merchants in the south bought a stone that might be jade from a local farmer at a cost of 100,000 yuan, and then brought it back to a hidden corner in the south for cutting. After the stone was cut open, it might be a large piece of Hetian jade , worth millions or even tens of millions; or it may just be a worthless stone.It is precisely because of the mystery of jade that the business of betting on stones came into being. Just before Zhong Feng met the old man with the mustache, the old man with the mustache who had been walking the rivers and lakes for many years just fell down. He bought a piece of blood silk jade from the jade market in Xinjiang at a high price, and the blood silk jade was even more famous among Hetian jades. of the best.After he carefully brought the bloodshot jade back to the south, a Southeast Asian businessman said that it was just an ordinary white stone, and the so-called bloodshot jade on it was artificially made.The jade dealer cut open the hind leg of the ram, put a white stone the size of a seal into it, and then sewed up the wound.Three years later, the jade dealer cut the leg of the lamb and took out the stone. At this time, there were blood streaks on the stone, which looked like blood streak jade.

Zhong Feng, who has also been on the rivers and lakes for many years, said that in fact, every industry has some means of counterfeiting, and these counterfeit products can completely confuse the real ones.Some dealers in cultural relics buried the finished bronze wares in the excrement of the latrine, and when they were taken out three years later, a layer of green patina formed on the bronze wares, which looked exactly like antique bronze wares that had passed through thousands of years. .The buyer placed this vessel among the glass vessels in the hall or bedroom as a treasure.But they didn't know that it took three years of soaking in feces and urine to cultivate into this appearance.There are also fortune tellers who inquired about a rich family with a lamb mad (epilepsy) child, they secretly dug a deep pit outside the back wall of the family and buried a sheep's head. Three years later, the fortune teller He came to the door and said that the reason why the child had lamb madness was because a sheep's head was buried in the back of the yard. When the sheep's head was dug out, the child recovered from the disease.When the owner came to the yard, he saw that the grass was luxuriant. He dug down and found the sheep's head.As a result, the fortune teller received a large bounty.

The rivers and lakes are dangerous, Zhong Feng once told me so. People are drifting in the rivers and lakes, who can not be knifed?Zhong Feng once said this to me. Zhong Feng, a cultural relic purchaser, likes to read books on gold and stone, and he also has a lot of research on jade. Once, Zhong Feng followed an old man with a mustache to Xinjiang to buy jade. They drove to the river valley, but the car was stuck by a stone.The old man with the mustache and Zhong Feng got out of the car and moved the stone away. Just as they were about to get on the car, Zhong Feng looked back at the stone and felt strange. He told the boss that the stone might be in stock.However, the boss stubbornly thought it was just a stone.They drove away.That night, Zhong Feng told the boss again that the stone was really unusual.At dawn, they came again to the place where the stone appeared, but they could not find it anymore.Three days later, they saw the stone at the jade market, where it was bought by a Zhejiang owner for 3 million yuan.The old man with the moustache had regrets all over his intestines.

The first stone that Zhong Feng bought for the boss made the boss earn more than one million yuan.In a farmer's home in Xinjiang, Zhong Feng fell in love with a stone and asked his boss to buy it. The boss hesitated, and the fake blood-stained jade left him with lingering fears.In the end, Zhong Feng had no choice but to leave the boss's phone number to the farmer.After returning to the south, perhaps because they were waiting for the money to be used, the farmer called and Zhong Feng once again persuaded the boss to buy it quickly.The price negotiated over the phone was 500,000 yuan.A few days later, two farmers from Xinjiang brought the stone by train. After cutting it open, there was high-quality sheep fat jade inside, which was made into a mountain tiger and sold for nearly 2 million yuan.And the remaining leftovers can be made into small pendants, which can sell for at least one or two hundred thousand.

After a few business transactions, Zhong Feng became rich. He moved away from the urban-rural fringe area, bought a house with a down payment in the city center, and moved in with his wife. Chi Dao, a middle school Chinese teacher, lives in the urban-rural fringe as always. He doesn't take Zhong Feng's sudden wealth seriously, and he still believes in the old saying that hard work gets rich.He believes that wealth is accumulated penny by penny, and wealth buildings like Old Man with Mustache and Zhong Feng are built on sand dunes and will collapse one day. However, there are too many myths about getting rich overnight in life.Some people rely on bribes, some rely on contracting projects, some rely on illegal financing, some rely on monopoly operations, and some rely on collusion with gangsters... Chi Dao is deeply puzzled by these wealth myths, he does not understand Why do those wealthy upstarts carry bloody original sins.

Chi Dao, who came from a small and distant county, could not imagine that these wealthy upstarts quickly accumulated huge wealth by relying on various unimaginable methods. City life is a kaleidoscope, he makes countless Chi Dao dizzy.