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Chapter 3: Grave Grass

The drizzle, drizzle, the breeze blows, and the grass on my mother's grave flutters. I am reluctant to pull out that little grass. My mother is very lonely and I can't stay with her anytime. I remember that my mother likes flowers when she was a child, and I vaguely remember saying that she wanted to buy many beautiful flowers for her mother.

But I have never bought it before, and now I can't afford it. I will protect this grass and let it accompany my mother until the day when I have the ability to deliver flowers to my mother every day...

"Mom, tell me that men should not cry, men should hold on to the sky, but I really can't hold on to the sky."

"Mom, I understand a truth today. If a man wants to be rich, he must have money. With money, everyone will respect us."

"Mom, I'm sorry, I'm going to become a person like my father. I decided to go betting on stones. If I lose, I will come to accompany you. I miss you so much to hold me like I did when I was a child."

I burned the last piece of dark paper and left my mother's cemetery. I was going to bet on stones. This was just a decision for ordinary people to bet on or not, but for me it was a huge decision.

Actually, I was quite happy when I was a child. I remember when I was three or four years old, my father didn’t bet on stones, and he treated my mother well. I remember that he had a few friends that day and took him to bet on stones. He made his first money. Since then, he fell into crazy and gave up his job. He thought about getting rich overnight every day. He studied stones every day and didn’t care about me. Even talking to me became a waste of time.

He never won money again. Since then, our family has been changed. My father has become a cruel beast. I know that gambling stones have changed him. I don’t want to become like him. I know that once I embark on the road of gambling stones, I will change, but I swear that no matter how I change, I will stand tall.

Ruili sells raw stones in many markets, and there are also many markets for finished jade. Although a small stall is not big, there are at least millions of goods on it. This is the world of jade.

I took the bus to Yunyu Gambling Stone City. This street is the most prosperous and richest street in Ruili. Every day, countless people come here to gambling stones. Every day, people get rich here, and people become penniless here.

"One knife is poor, one knife is rich, one knife is worn through a linen."

This sentence is performed every day.

The bus door opened. When I walked out of this door, I would enter another door. There were temptations everywhere and fierce beasts everywhere. They were staring at me with fear. If I was not careful, I would be swallowed by them.

I got out of the car resolutely and walked into the gate.

It was raining today, and there were not many people in Gambling Stone City. I walked into the first store. There were very few people in this store, and there were a century-old store Wan Ruixiang hanging on it.

“Buzz!”

The sound of grinding wheel rubbing jade was very harsh. On the cutting workbench, an elderly master was cutting a piece of "blindness", which was a mud egg, without any prompts.

"Open directly."

The person who speaks is a stone gambling person. He is very generous. He wears a big gold ring on his hand and a gold chain hanging around his neck. He bites cigarettes in his mouth when he speaks. I know he is nervous. Everyone seems to be calm here, but his heart is extremely nervous.

The stone was cut open, and the master put the stone in water to wash off the mud on it, and a pity came.

"Damn it, I'm the tenth one, why haven't you?"

"There is a rotten grass flower inside!"

Rotten grass flowers mean that there is jade inside, but it is not good. The patterns inside are like water plants in the water, with many impurities and are not worth the money. At most, you can make a ornament!

The stone is very big, it must be about ten pounds, and it costs at least more than 30,000 yuan. However, it is a small field and it is impossible to produce large items, so when you come here to bet on big stones, you will make money.

The master who taught me to cut stones before told me that if I don’t understand the slightest, I will not bet on stones. Jade has been found for 300 years. Its slightest mouth is as numerous as cow hairs. It has developed to date with hundreds of names and names. As for the small ones that are difficult to name, it is even more numerous.

According to the type of stone and the order of mining time, the entire jadeite production area can usually be divided into six major fields: old field area, big makan field area, small field area, Houjiang field area, Leida field area and new field area.

There are many famous courts in each factory area, and the jade materials we bet on stones are from these courts.

Yunyu Gambling Stone City is a newly opened gambling place. The materials are all from the new factory area. Most of the products are small and there are many water and stones. It is difficult to make money.

The boss wearing gold chain came to choose the materials again. He chose a few large materials from me, all weighing more than ten pounds. After choosing four, I really wanted to tell him not to play with big ones. Playing with big ones here is to give money. Three of these four materials are mud. I don’t see very clearly one. I guess there is something in it, but it is definitely not a good product.

But I won’t say it, because there are rules in gambling stones, spectators can only watch but not talk, because it is difficult for gods to break the jade. If you talk too much, let others buy the stone you mentioned, it’s okay if it’s a good product. If it’s a bad product, you have to worry about it.

I pulled the materials around and there were a lot of materials here, including jadeite raw stones, agate raw stones, Warring States red raw stones, and southern red raw stones. Generally, people who come to gambling stones will bet on jadeite raw stones because the materials are easy to sell, and if you want to make a profit, it will definitely be hundreds of times more. However, my master told me that there are fewer jadeite raw stones now, and there are many fake jadeite raw stones on the market, so I don’t bet on jadeite.

I chose Nanhong material in the Nanhong raw stone area. Now Nanhong is very valuable. As long as the material is good, there is no crack or blame, and the quality is better, the price is not much different than jade.

"It's boring to play with big guys, and it won't be much more expensive if you cut it open and have it."

I looked up at the person who was talking. He was big and thick and had a buzz cut and had a scar on his face. He looked very fierce. He should be the boss. The man who bet on stones had a bad temper. I ignored him and continued to choose small materials.

Small materials are cheap, and there are fifty-one hundred yuan. I only have one hundred yuan. If I win, I will live. If I don’t win, I will go with my mother.

I was particularly scared after my mother died.

I kept holding on, and I wanted to see how God could kill me.

I am so tired, I live so tired, without my relatives and lovers, I am like a lonely ghost.

No one can lose his temper, no one can act coquettishly, and he can do nothing but hide in bed and cry.

Seeing the children of my peers still crying and acting cute in front of my parents, but I was going to come to the gambling stadium to trade tomorrow. I really felt so tired.

I pulled out a stone, which was a yellow sand skin. I fumbled with my hands and felt that the gravel on the sand skin was standing up. I took it under the light and kept rubbing it. The sand skin of this stone looked like lychee skin, so I chose this one.

I put the stone in the frame, with only one piece, and came to check out next to me.

There is a beautiful woman in front of her checkout and putting it on a box on the table. There are stacks of cash in the box, which cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. This is very common. People often bring a box of money to gambling stones. Such people have bosses who specialize in jade business who want to choose the right materials for gambling stones, while others are bosses who make a fortune by gambling stones.

The girl in front was very beautiful. She had a meatball on her head, a strand of hair hanging down on her face, she had light makeup, her eyes were big, and she was wearing a black skirt, but she couldn't hide her slender figure and a thin waist, which was comparable to the popular A4 waist now. Her red lips were plump and she looked very elegant. She should be a secretary accountant, or the boss's person before.

I dare not look at it too much, I am afraid that she will misunderstand what I think of her. It’s not that I don’t have it, but that I have it, so I am afraid that she will see it. I feel very inferior. I don’t dare to look at it more when I see beautiful girls, because I will think a lot, fantasize, fantasize about falling in love, fantasize about beautiful things, but every time I fantasize about the best time, I will be destroyed by my own reality, and I will cruelly destroy my fantasy, and I will hate myself more and more.

The materials in front were 120,000 yuan, and 30,000 yuan a stone, which was very generous.

"Just one piece? fifty."

The person who checked out weighed the stone inside the box. The stone was very small, only the size of an egg. Few people who came here to gambling stones only chose one piece of material, so the person who checked out was surprised.

I put a hundred yuan on the table, and it was rubbed so hard that it was wrinkled. I saw him constantly checking it on the banknote detector, and there was a sense of contempt in his eyes and muttering constantly. I knew he didn't want to sell me this piece of material.

After paying the bill, I took the box and lined up. The boss was in front of me. Three stones had been cut and all were thrown on the ground. As expected, as I thought, there was mud inside.

The last one was cut open, and the master glanced at him and said, "This is jade, there is crystal inside. The material is wasted. Can you pick beads and make a small bracelet? Do you want it?"

"Master, can I give a little bracelet to give the goddess a birthday gift? I'll throw you away."

The boss is very angry, but he dare not get angry with the master, because whether the stone is good or not depends on the master's skills. If you make him angry, even if it is good material, he can cut it for you, so that you can't see it.

"Damn it, a good stone has not been opened for 500,000 yuan. I would have known that I would have bought the finished product."

I heard the boss complaining and knew that he had lost a lot of money. There was also a saying in the industry: Buy a crazy person, buy a crazy person, and there was a crazy person waiting. Sometimes when you buy finished stones, it would be much cheaper than betting on raw stones, but even if there is such a crazy person, he would rather bet than buy finished stones.

The master picked up my material, the master glanced at me and asked me, "Expert?"

I said, "Just play."

There are rules in the industry: I don’t play with stones, and I don’t play with stones, so I can’t tell him that I’ve learned this industry.

The master didn't say much, and wanted to cut horizontally, so I hurriedly said, "Master polishes the skin."

Grinding skin is a very time-consuming and physically consuming method. It is to grind off the skin on the stone on the grinding wheel, which tests the strength and still has time to do, so most masters don’t want to grind skin.

The master didn't say much, first cut a small mouthful, then took a look. The mouthful was red, but it was very light. The master said, "There is no chance, cut it in the middle. If there is material, you can make a pendant."

When I heard that there was no chance, my heart skipped a beat. The teacher who cut the stone would look at it. He took the material into his hand and opened his mouth, and knew if there was any goods inside. When he said that, ninety percent of it would be no chance.

But I wanted to take a gamble, and I said, "Master, just help me polish my skin."

"A stone as big as an egg still needs to be worn down? It's useless to have my kung fu."

The master was complaining, but the stone was still polishing on the cutting machine. The "buzzing" sound was lingering in my mind. I was very nervous. My breathing was a little unsmooth, and my heartbeat was thumping. This was my first time betting on stones. If I lost the bet, I would have nothing. I really wanted to accompany my mother, but my first gambling in my life, I didn't want to lose.

I watched the grinding wheel polish the sand on the stone less and less, just like the bunkers that I disguised in my heart were being broken layer by layer.

Although I carefully selected a stone, is there any?
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