Stone Gambling with Crystal!

At 9:20 in the morning, Dong Xuebin rummaged through a shoulder bag from the bottom drawer of his wardrobe, packed the 110,000 yuan he hadn't had time to deposit in the bank from selling ancient books last time, and went downstairs to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the east side of the road to withdraw money. However, this sub-branch was relatively small, and transactions of more than 50,000 yuan in cash required a reservation one day in advance. Dong Xuebin, who originally wanted to withdraw 100,000 yuan, was too lazy to run to the branch north of the bridge, so 50,000 yuan would have to do. A total of 160,000 yuan was enough. After taking the money and putting it in his bag, he tightened his jacket collar, braved the cold wind, hailed a taxi on the auxiliary road, and came to Panjiayuan Antique Market on the South Third Ring Road, looking for places selling raw materials along the outside of the wall.

"Boss, do you have jadeite raw materials?"

"No, we only sell finished products here. Go ask other stores."

"Boss, excuse me, can you gamble on stones and jade here?"

"Yo, we don't have that."

"Boss, do you know where I can gamble on stones around here?"

"Gamble on stones? I don't think there are many in Panjiayuan. If you really want to play, it's best to go to Haidian or Chaoyang. There are special auctions of raw materials every week, where the prices are right and the quality of the materials is high." Dong Xuebin also knew that there were places in the antique city in Haidian where raw materials were auctioned, but the process there was to look at the materials first, then bid and pay, and finally cut the materials. The intermediate time was extremely wasteful. Six minutes was far from enough time to even raise a sign to bid, so Dong Xuebin initially focused on ordinary retail transactions.

Walking, searching, asking.

Suddenly, the sound of a cutting machine whirring came from a distance.

Dong Xuebin's eyes lit up. He had seen others gamble on stones when he was working before, so he couldn't be more familiar with the sound. He looked up and immediately walked over. But when he stood in front of that shop, what made Dong Xuebin slightly stunned was that the material the person was bending over and cutting with the cutter was not jadeite raw material. Looking at the color and shape, it seemed to be crystal raw stone, natural crystal raw stone. Gamble on crystal? This was really rare. Dong Xuebin hesitated slightly and stepped forward curiously to watch. Gambling on crystal, gambling on agate, gambling on turquoise, gambling on seed material, gambling on jadeite, these can all be collectively referred to as stone gambling, so Dong Xuebin didn't necessarily have to choose jadeite raw material or Hetian jade seed material. Gambling on crystal could also make a big profit with a small investment.

The sound of the cutting machine stopped, and a large window was opened on the side of the amethyst raw stone.

The seller was a young couple. Seeing this, the girl asked, "Is this good? How much can it sell for?"

"The color inside is average." The slightly fat boss put down the cutting machine and picked up the raw stone to take a look. "It's worth about one or two thousand yuan."

"Five thousand yuan bought only yields one thousand yuan?" The girl slapped her boyfriend angrily when she heard this. "I told you not to buy it, look, you lost the gamble, right?" It is said that nine out of ten stone gambles are lost. Although gambling on crystal is not as risky as gambling on jadeite, it is not much different. It is very normal to open and fall. It would be a little abnormal if you could open a raw stone worth tens of thousands of yuan with five thousand yuan. In addition, Jingcheng is not a professional place for stone gambling, and the raw stones transported here are mostly the "leftovers" that have been picked over from the place of origin and the main raw stone sales area, so the chance of opening up is even smaller.

Over there, the boy wanted to save face. Hearing his girlfriend's complaint, he gritted his teeth and said, "Cut this one and that one again."

The girl said angrily, "Don't buy it. What can't you do with that money?"

The boy didn't listen and insisted on giving the money to the fat boss to cut the stone.

"Okay, still cut it like just now." The fat boss held the cutting machine, turned on the switch to make the gears squeak, and then steadily held the raw stone, using the gears to rub the surface of the raw stone little by little. The hardness of crystal is not as good as that of jadeite, so cutting crystal raw stone is much faster than cutting jadeite raw material.

One cut...

Five cuts...

Ten cuts...

Whirr, after a while, two colorless crystal raw stones, one large and one small, were cut out. The large one had air holes and bubbles, and was basically wiped out, not worth much money. The small one didn't have any major problems, but the color was mediocre, and it wasn't worth the price he bought it for.

Amid the quarrel, the young couple left angrily holding the raw stone.

Not long after, an elderly old man came and spent 10,000 yuan to buy a large citrine, but there was an impurity the size of a fingernail inside, and the 10,000 yuan was wasted. At eleven o'clock, another group of people who looked like tourists bought four or five natural crystal raw stones. The best one was opened flat, which meant that the purchase price was equal to the selling price, but the other three or four all lost more or less.

This is stone gambling. The number of losers is always far greater than the number of winners. Success or failure depends entirely on luck.

Dong Xuebin looked a little guilty. He had been watching for so long and hadn't seen anyone make money. Could he really do it?

"Little brother, want to try your hand?" The fat boss wiped his hands with a towel and looked at him.

Dong Xuebin, who was standing at the door, was not ready to start yet. He shook his head and first stepped into the store to look at the crystal ornaments in the glass display case, pointing to a few of them and inquiring about the market prices. "How much is this rose quartz necklace? Eight hundred? What about that amethyst Guanyin? Twenty thousand? What about that rutilated quartz ornament? One hundred and thirty thousand?" There were items ranging from a dozen yuan to hundreds of thousands, with huge price differences depending on the color, size, brightness, and purity.

"Finished products are expensive." The fat boss tempted, "Why not try gambling on stones? If you do it well, you can get rich overnight."

Dong Xuebin smiled and didn't say anything. He thought to himself that if you don't do it well, you can go bankrupt.

After lunch, Dong Xuebin returned to the Crystal shop again, spending an hour observing and learning. Gradually, he gained a rough understanding of Stone Gambling and the value of Crystal. Simply put, natural Amethyst is more expensive than natural Citrine, natural Citrine is more expensive than natural colorless Crystal, a rich color is more expensive than a light color, a uniform color is more expensive than a mixed color, high purity is more expensive than low purity, a large weight is more expensive than a small weight, a raw stone that can be made into a Crystal ball is more expensive than a Crystal raw stone of the same color and weight, and Rutilated Quartz is more expensive than non-Rutilated Quartz, and neat Rutilated Quartz is more expensive than messy Rutilated Quartz.

Having learned these things, Dong Xuebin had a general idea in his mind, and he began to time how long it would take to cut open a Crystal raw stone. It would take a long time to rub the stone little by little from the edge, ten minutes or fifteen minutes. But if he didn't care about material loss and other situations and directly cut off a large side of the raw stone with one knife, it would be faster, only a few tens of seconds, after all, the hardness was far less than that of Jadeite rough.

Ten minutes later, all calculations were ready.

Dong Xuebin took a deep breath, Okay, let's start!

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