Antiques with golden eyes

In addition to its large size, this piece of wool is also characterized by its black color.

Black as lacquer can no longer be used to describe it. Its surface can be said to be black and oily. Under the bright light of the warehouse, the whole stone sparkles and is eye-catching.

Shen Yu lowered his body and reached out his hand to gently touch the surface of the stone. Just as he thought, there was indeed a slight layer of sand on it.

"Duofu, is this a large piece of black sand?"

Xu Duofu chuckled, "Okay, brother, you really have good eyesight. This is the piece of wool that grandpa invited Mr. Wu to look at."

Shen Yu measured it and found that the height of this piece of wool was about 60 centimeters and the width was about the same. Shen Yu estimated that it must weigh at least 300 kilograms less.

Such large black sand wool is really rare.

Black Wusha is a very famous jadeite rough stone.

Divide Heiwusha into three words: Hei, Wu, Sha. As the name suggests, it is a black stone with a sandy feel, no matter you look at it or touch it.

The so-called large pieces of black black sand wool on the market are actually ordinary black stones. The stones at the bottom of the jade mine are all black, so some people use them to pass them off as black black sand.

Taking the bright flashlight handed over by Xu Duofu, Shen Yu flicked the light on the surface of the rough stone and the effect was very good. The shell was very thin, no cracks and no cotton. What was actually a top-quality black sand jadeite rough stone.

As we all know, black sand produces high emeralds, and once green appears, it may turn out to be yang green, or even positive yang green, and the chance of top-grade jade like imperial green is not small.

But it also has a name: "The stone that cuts nine times out of ten".

This nine out of ten failures is a metaphor. In fact, nine out of ten failures are considered good.

Shen Yu met an old jade merchant in Bao Yuxuan who specialized in cutting black black sand. His highest record was cutting twenty-seven pieces of black black sand and all the money was lost. If he hadn't been rich, he would have had a heart attack.

It can be said that in the stone gambling world, black sand is not only the nightmare of jade merchants, but also the spiritual sustenance for them to get rich overnight.

So after buying this piece of wool, no wonder Mr. Xu was confused.

At this time, the three big guys had already walked over side by side. Shen Yu pulled Xu Duofu back to make way for the big guys. At the same time, Shen Yu also wanted to take this opportunity to see how Mr. Wu identified raw jade stones. of.

"Old Xu, you didn't buy a piece of fake wool, did you?" Xiao Zhongying walked around the wool twice with a look of surprise on his face.

Mr. Xu smiled, whisking his beard, "Old Xiao, you don't know how to gamble on stones. When it comes to appraising antiques, we are equally matched. As for appraising rough jade stones, hehe, you are still far behind.

"This piece of material has a thin skin and dense texture, with python belts, pine and flowers. It is the authentic black black sand grown in Pagan Laokeng. This is the best material that can produce high emerald green and top emerald green."

Xiao Zhongying showed no sign of weakness, "Old Xu, can you stop bragging a little? Thirty years ago, I brought back some pieces of wool from Chuzhou. You patted your chest and said there must be green inside, but after cutting it open, I lost two dollars."

More than ten thousand, twenty thousand at that time was worth more than one million now. If Old Wu tells you later that there is no green in this jade, won't you have to cry?"

Mr. Xu rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "Old Xiao, this is your fault. Why are you mentioning something that happened decades ago in front of juniors? Why didn't you mention that when I was in middle school, you had a big appetite every time?

Is it because I gave you half the meal?

"Although my eye for stone betting is not as good as that of Lao Wu, I can still see whether it is green or not. How about we make a bet. If this piece of wool does not come out green, I will give you my painting of Xu Wei that you particularly like.

An authentic freehand painting of flowers and birds is given to you."

Xiao Zhongying glanced sideways at Mr. Xu, "Just finish what you say, don't say half and half, you only said that there is no green to give me calligraphy and painting, what if there is green?"

Mr. Xu's face was full of solemnity, "Then give me the Yongzheng enamel three-gu thatched cottage pen holder that you just bought."

Xiao Zhongying was furious when he heard this, "Old Xu, are you too shady? You exchanged a questionable ancient painting for tens of millions of official kiln porcelain from me. How shameless do you have to be to say this?"

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"Old Xu, do you really value my opinion?" When Mr. Xu was bickering with Xiao Zhongying, Mr. Wu had already looked at this piece of black sand wool carefully.

Mr. Xu casually said: "Believe it, why don't you believe it? Your Dongjiang Wu family has been dealing with jade for six generations, so I definitely believe what you say!"

Mr. Wu waved his hand, "Don't say flattery. Even if the Emerald King reincarnates, he can't say that he can tell whether a piece of jadeite is jadeite or not, let alone me, Wu Ben.

"To be honest, the black sand is afraid of cracking. I noticed that there are cobweb cracks at the window opening of this woolen material, but I mean it can be cut, because the cracks on the outside of the jade meat do not mean the cracks on the inside.

"But one thing I must say is that Heiwusha will collapse nine times out of ten. If you choose to resell it and make a profit, it is a good choice.

Mr. Xu put away his smile and asked with a serious face: "Old Wu, what are the chances of it increasing?"

"Sixty percent!"

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"The spider web is broken and the window is opened."

Shen Yu, who was watching the two big guys bickering, was immediately startled. This is actually a piece of window material?

Shen Yu walked quickly to the stone and looked at it with a strong flashlight. Mr. Wu was right. The stone did have a window, but the window was relatively hidden and opened on the side. This made it difficult to tell without looking carefully.

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Aiming the light at the window opening, the green color of the jadeite jadeite is very strong, and the planting water has even reached the level of ice type. If the jadeite inside does not change, this will be a piece of ice type yellow sun green jadeite.

And there is no cotton around or inside the jadeite.

Cotton is also called white cotton. It is a flaw in jadeite. It is also one of the impurities that stone bettors least want to see. However, contrary to expectations, cotton is often found in some jadeites with better water quality.

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To put it bluntly, cotton is a white silk-like object inside jadeite. Because it looks like cotton, it is called "cotton".

As long as impurities like cotton appear, the jade will look very turbid, which will affect the transparency of the jade, make the jade lose its spirituality, and its value will naturally plummet.

It is a pity that this piece of material has avoided the cracks even though it has avoided the cotton. The palm-sized window opening is covered with cracks, one after another, like a spider web sealing it.

Spider web crack is the nightmare of all stone gamblers, and its other name is emperor crack.

This kind of crack is a spider web-like dense crack in the jade itself, which eventually turns a good jade into a waste product.

Yes, it is a waste product. Once there are cobweb cracks inside a piece of jadeite, nothing can be done except to make it a ring surface.

We can only make a small part of the precept noodles because the cracks are so severe that we can’t even make the precept noodles.

What Mr. Wu said about cobweb cracks on the outside may not necessarily be cracks on the inside, nor is it unreasonable.

Although there is a saying that it is difficult for gods to judge jade, people have come up with their own method of identifying jade after accumulating experience over time, month, and year.

In fact, it’s not too profound to say, it’s just experience.

People will judge whether there is jade inside the rough stone and what kind of jade there is based on the edge of the wool, the thickness of the shell, the color of the shell, etc., which is the so-called "observe its appearance and color".

Does this so-called experience of guessing the jadeite inside a stone from the outside work?

There are as many as possible.

But if everyone believes it, the consequences will be tragic.

For example, the middle-aged man Shen Yu saw when he came in when he went to Cuiyu Tower to analyze the stone is a good example.

The piece of wool he bought for 100,000 yuan looked very good on the outside and could be said to be perfect, but unexpectedly it cut out a cobweb and made him cry at the loss.

But the charm of stone gambling lies in this uncertainty. Even if the leather shell performs well, it is easy to have cracks or low-grade jade, or even no green.

Materials that do not perform well may turn out to be full of green when cut into pieces, making the buyer rich instantly.

There are also many people who gamble on cracks and pick out leaks. Shen Yu saw in the Dongjiang Jade Market that there are people who specifically pick up materials with cracked windows or half-spray webs to gamble. In the end, there are not a few who saw a huge increase.

In the Qing Dynasty, a famous person described gambling on stones like this: the rare ones unwrap and turn into white stones in an instant, while the cheap ones unwrap and turn into emeralds.

No one can predict when it comes to gambling on stones. Even an experienced jade craftsman with decades of experience cannot tell the difference. As the old saying goes: “It’s hard for an immortal to break an inch of jade.”

But one thing is that although Shen Yu is not a god, he can break jade!

Because he has golden eyes for detecting treasures!