Chapter 683 So much strength, so much luck!

  Three jeeps drove out of Hotan County and headed eastward in zigzags.

  It was already the second day after Liu Qingshan arrived here. When Liu Qingshan proposed to go to Yulong KS River, the old man Alimu readily accompanied him.

  This is within the scope of Hotan Oasis, so the vegetation is still very lush, and there are a few Populus euphratica forests along the way.

  When everyone came down and stopped to watch, Li Likun sang a few lines of Populus euphratica by KS Geer in a showy manner, which attracted the accompanying Niaz and others to nod their heads in praise.

  The car ran for more than three hours, and in the oasis ahead, I saw a meandering river.

  The river runs in a north-south direction, silently nourishing this oasis for thousands of years.

  In fact, in the frontier, a place with countless magnificent natural landscapes, this river is too ordinary.

  But it is famous for Hetian jade, as the saying goes: if the mountain is not high, there will be immortals; if the water is not deep, there will be jade.

  The old Alimu introduced to Liu Qingshan with great interest:

   "We call this river the Baiyu River, which is the Yulong KS River; there is also a Moyu River called the Kara KS River, which mainly produces jasper."

  Liu Qingshan now finally knows that the old Alimu is very prestigious in the local area, and his family's ancestors have been jade pickers for generations, and they have a deep research on Hetian jade.

  A few years ago, everyone thought that the mineral veins on the mountain were exhausted, and that their livelihood was cut off.

   It was the old man who put forward a theory: the veins of Hetian jade are distributed in melon and vines.

  So according to the old man's theory, everyone found a new ore vein.

  The old man obviously valued Liu Qingshan very much, so he even personally accompanied him to the Yulong KS River.

  A person who dares to pay a lot of money to buy a stone like Jinsiyu without knowing the value of it, can't help the old Alimu not paying attention.

   Everyone got out of the car and came to the edge of the main river. The ground was full of large and small stones, most of which were washed smooth by the water.

  The big stones cannot be held by one person; the small ones are the size of ordinary pebbles.

  At this moment, the river is not deep, but also extremely clear. The water and grass on both sides of the river are lush, and there are cattle and sheep hidden in it.

   "Clear water, blue sky, green grass, cattle and sheep, really nice."

  Liu Qingshan could not help but sigh with emotion, because he saw the introduction of Yulong KS River decades later, the scene was devastated as if it had just been plowed by a bomb.

  All kinds of large excavators dig directly into the river channel to a depth of more than ten meters, so that the Yulong KS River, which is hundreds of kilometers long, is full of holes.

   Not only this river, but also the surrounding ancient river channels, which have now dried up and been buried in the sand, and they have not been let go.

  Human nature is greedy, and money touches people's hearts.

  Of course, the old Alimu doesn’t know what will happen decades later. At this moment, he is still full of enthusiasm:

   "The best sheep fat jade among Hetian jades is only produced in the Baiyu River, and only those who are destined can pick it up."

  As soon as the words fell, Li Likun, Cao Xiaofei, and Lu Fang, a large group of them, had already rushed towards the river beach.

  Liu Qingshan smiled and shook his head unconsciously: "I don't know how many times people have picked up the river beach here?"

  Niazi took up the conversation: "It's okay, every year in the rainy season, flash floods will wash down a new batch of stones. There was a heavy rain just a few days ago. Maybe you can really pick up jade."

   So it turned out to be like this. The layers of pebbles in the river are several meters thick, so it must have come from this way.

  Liu Qingshan nodded, and then saw dozens of figures swaying on the river beach in the distance, probably all of them were jade pickers.

  He pointed over there: "We haven't seen Caiyu yet, can we go and have a look?"

   This is of course no problem, and a group of people walked slowly there.

   "Boss, I picked up a piece, can you see if it is jade?"

   Li Likun ran back excitedly, holding a stone the size of an egg in his hand.

   "You ask me, I'm also a layman."

  Liu Qingshan smiled, it was Master Lu who took the stone and looked at it, then twisted it with his fingers:

   "This is an ordinary stone. You thought Hetian jade was as easy to find as gold silk jade."

  Li Likun couldn't help being a little disappointed, and lowered his head again, and went to the river to touch it.

   After Liu Qingshan and the others approached the group of jade pickers, they couldn't help but stare in a daze.

  I saw more than 20 local people standing in the waist-deep river, dancing with their hands and dancing their own ethnic dances.

  They are very close to each other, put their shoulders on each other, pull into a horizontal row, and move forward slowly.

   "What are these people doing?" Liu Qingshan really couldn't understand.

  Old man Alimu replied with a smile: "Of course it is picking jade."

   "How to pick?"

   "Stamp with your feet."

   Liu Qingshan seems to understand a little bit. It is estimated that these people have been engaged in this kind of work for a long time, and their toes can tell the difference between jade and ordinary pebbles.

   Sure enough, one of the jade pickers shouted, and the team stopped immediately.

  I saw the man just bent down and submerged his whole body into the river. When he showed his head again, a stone the size of a palm appeared in his hand.

  The group ran to the shore, one by one, began to wipe their bodies, and then wrapped themselves in robes and overcoats.

  All of them had bruises on their faces, and they were obviously very cold.

  Although it is summer now, the water in Yulong KS River is still very cold.

  Because these rivers are gathered after the ice and snow on the mountains melt, even if they flow here, they are still very cold.

  When the group of jade pickers saw Ali Mu, they rushed over immediately, and they all bowed and saluted, showing great respect.

   He also handed the jade he picked up just now to the old man Alimu to check.

  Liu Qingshan naturally went to check it out, and it was the first time he had seen the seed material of Hetian jade.

  Hetian jade is roughly divided into mountain materials, mountain water materials and seed materials.

The raw stones in the veins are called mountain materials. When the mountain materials are broken and washed into the river, they are called mountain water materials; only those jade stones that have been washed away for thousands of years in the Yulong KS River are called seed materials. .

  After thousands of years of scouring and friction, there is usually a thin layer of stone skin on the outside of the seed material.

  The seed material of this piece of Hetian jade is very smooth, most of which are covered with a layer of khaki-yellow skin, and only a small area reveals the jade flesh, which looks very moist.

   "It's not bad. If you get it from the jade raw stone collection exchange, you should be able to get a second-grade white jade, worth two or three hundred yuan." The old man Ali Mu gave the answer with a smile.

  The group of people immediately cheered, with this piece of jade as a foundation, their work today is not in vain.

  The most important thing is that with the words of the old man Alimu, the salespersons of the exchange will not blindly order them.

  Liu Qingshan was a little dazed, what is the jade rough exchange?

  He asked the old man Alimu to know: the jade found by the jade pickers cannot be sold casually, and must be sold to the jade exchange.

  That is an organization established by the local Light Industry Office, which specializes in purchasing jade raw materials.

  The staff will rank the jade materials, such as second-grade white jade, the price is 50 yuan per kilogram.

  As for the ordinary jade that cannot be imported, it costs three to five yuan per kilogram.

  Liu Qingshan blinked his eyes when he heard it: This is really the price of cabbage, how can this be white jade, isn’t this cabbage?

  Looking at those jade farmers again, Liu Qingshan couldn't help sighing in his heart: These jade pickers are really not easy,

  Compared with the hard work of the jade pickers, this price is really too low!

  And what he saw was only a small corner, and the hardships and dangers faced by those jade pickers who went up the mountain in this season can be imagined.

  The jade pickers who went ashore warmed up for a while, jumped into the water again, and continued to move forward in the water.

   Don't know when their next harvest will appear.

  Even for these experienced jade farmers, it is not bad to have a harvest a day.

  Liu Qingshan couldn't help smacking his lips: "Perhaps, the price of buying jade can be increased."

  Old man Alimu looked at the river quietly: "The Jade Raw Stone Exchange is a state-run unit. We pick jade and they set prices."

  Liu Qingshan couldn't help asking: "But, how did those jade dealers get the jade? Their asking price is ridiculously high."

  Old man Alimu shook his head slightly: "Of course it is also from the jade raw stone collection exchange."

  Liu Qingshan understood a little bit, obviously there is a chain of interests in it.

  He randomly found a huge stone and sat on it: "Old man, I don't understand. Shouldn't you take the initiative to control the source of goods?"

  The old man Alimu bent down to pick up a stone, and then threw it into the river, causing a wave, but soon, the river returned to its original state.

  The old man smiled and clapped his hands: "Look, it's still very difficult to change."

   "We have no way to transport jade outside, unless the jade we quarry is no longer sold outside."

  Liu Qingshan stood up and pushed hard the boulder he was sitting on just now. The stone weighed at least three or four hundred catties, like a lying cow.

  Liu Qingshan turned over the boulder abruptly, and he also patted the sand on his hands: "If the stone is big enough, it can even cut off the river."

  Old man Alimu stared at Liu Qingshan with deep eyes. He knew that the young man in front of him was very ambitious, but he didn't know if he had the corresponding strength.

  Liu Qingshan patted the huge boulder just now: "At least, I can try it, hey, it seems that there is jade in it?"

  The other side of the boulder was still wet, but amidst the mottled spots, there seemed to be a touch of milky white jade flesh.

  Liu Qingshan hastily wiped the sand on the surface with his sleeve, yes, the jade color was indeed revealed.

   "Oh, you are such a lucky child!" Elder Ali Mu also praised loudly. He carefully circled around the boulder a few times to check the distribution and direction of the jade meat.

  Other people also gathered around one after another, and they were all amazed and praised Liu Qingshan's good luck.

  The jade here is unowned. The rule that has been believed in for thousands of years is: whoever finds it will be his.

  Even those jade pickers in the water went ashore again to warm up, and then they all surrounded them.

  One of the men said with annoyed face: "I said yesterday that this big rock should be turned over to have a look, but unfortunately we didn't turn it over."

  Everyone remembered it now, and they all looked at Liu Qingshan in astonishment: such great strength, and also, such great luck!

   In this situation, even Liu Qingshan was a little surprised, maybe this is fate.

   "The jade meat inside should be high-quality white jade, at least tens of kilograms. Unfortunately, there is a crack here. I don't know how deep the crack will go, and how much jade meat will be destroyed."

   After looking at it, the old man Alimu gave a relatively conservative estimate.

  You must know that the larger the jade, the higher the value, and it can be carved into jade hills or other decorations.

  However, such a huge boulder would be a hassle to transport back, and it would definitely not fit in the jeep.

  Fortunately, the old man Alimu had prestige in the local area. He sent someone to find a carriage, and asked several young men under his command to help transport it back to the city.

  With the speed of the carriage, it is estimated that it will be good to transport it back tomorrow.

  On the way back, the old man Alimu and Liu Qingshan were in the same car. When the jeep was about to reach Hotan, the old man suddenly said:

   “I like to work with lucky people.”

  Liu Qingshan nodded: "Old man, I also like to cooperate with friends."

  Although a verbal agreement has been reached, it is not an easy task to break the monopoly of the original jade dealers.

  From what happened to Uncle Lu, you can tell that that group of people is quite dark, and they all increase their prices by several times or ten times.

   If their interests are touched, that group of people will definitely unite to protect their own cake.

   It was not until the next morning that the giant jade that Liu Qingshan found was brought back and sent directly to the processing factory of the old man Alimu.

  There are equipment for grinding jade, and there are also machines for breaking down jade.

  The jade collected by the jade farmers will be roughly processed here before being sold on the exchange.

  It took a master in his forties more than a day to completely remove the piece of jade.

  After the jade material was weighed, it was 62 kilograms, showing an irregular spherical shape, and the jade was white and delicate, which was very gratifying.

  Even the crack that the old man Alimu was worried about didn't penetrate much.

  Liu Qingshan reckoned that even according to the standards set later, this piece of jade could reach the collection level. Even if you can't reach the special level, you can still reach the first level.

  Old man Alimu also seemed very excited. They may not be able to produce such a good piece of jade with such a large size in a year.

  As for the value, the old man estimated it. This piece should be more than first-class white jade, between first-class and special-class.

   It is two hundred yuan per kilogram, so the value is more than ten thousand yuan.

  The people around were also exclaimed: This will directly become a million-dollar household.

   Immediately, many people came to Liu Qingshan to congratulate him, and some people insisted on holding Liu Qingshan's hand to borrow his good luck.

  Liu Qingshan was also a little dumbfounded, he was not screwed by these people, but by the price.

   Just this piece of Hetian jade, after several decades, it will be worth hundreds of millions. You tell me that it is only worth 10,000 yuan now, what a joke.

   It is estimated that even if it is in the hands of those jade dealers, it will cost you at least hundreds of thousands of yuan.

  Hetian is not a big place now, so the news of the ten thousand yuan white jade spread quickly.

   One after another, some jade farmers came to see the strange things. They worked hard to pick jade for a year, and some could earn a hundred and eighty yuan, so they all wanted to come and see the jade worth ten thousand yuan.

   Not long after, a jeep drove into the processing plant, and four or five people got out of the car.

  One of the middle-aged men pointed to Liu Qingshan's piece of jade, and said carelessly: "I want this material, five thousand yuan."

  (end of this chapter)