At first, Li Du laughed at Da Mao, but then he also got on the dirt plane. He flew off the motorcycle, and when he landed, he almost fainted!
"This f * cking rotten road!" he could not help but curse.
Liu Zi chuckled. "It's not bad, Master Li. If it were to rain, I'm telling you, with your motorcycle skills, you would definitely die on the road."
In an hour, they had traveled less than ten kilometers. Some sections of the road had to be pushed by the bike. The slope was too steep.
Some sections of the road were covered in dust. There was a lot of dust around all the fields. This was the inevitable result of mining and digging. The air was full of dust, and it accumulated over the years.
The scariest thing was that there were often stones hidden under the dust. When one fell off the motorcycle, it might seem like the dust on the ground would cushion the fall, but in fact, when one really landed on the ground, there was no telling where the stones would come from, and it could cause a lot of pain.
On the road, they met a convoy of Land Rovers. They looked shiny, but the cars could not move and were all stuck in the middle of the road.
When Li Du and his group appeared, someone stopped them and bowed ninety degrees. "Di li gu lu si da da, gu lu di li si da da …"
"Korean." Zhong Da Pao stopped the bike. "Does anyone speak Mandarin or Burmese?"
The person next to the man who bowed was the guide. He spoke Burmese and conversed with Zhong Da Pao.
Hearing his words, Zhong Da Pao laughed coldly. "He wants to buy our motorcycles? Let him dream on. Hmm, no, one hundred thousand dollars. If he is willing to buy, he will pay. "
The guide looked angry and said a few more words.
Zhong Da Pao laughed loudly. He turned to Li Du and said, "This b * stard is just trying to scare us. He doesn't know who Master Pao is."
Liu Zi lifted his shirt, and there was an Uzi submachine gun underneath.
The guide and the Korean man shuddered and quickly retreated to the side of the road.
This was a small incident on the road. They continued on their way, crossing mountains and rivers. After passing through several checkpoints, they finally saw Damakan, which looked like a mountain village.
Zhong Da Pao said that the market in Damakan did not have many good items. He brought Li Du directly to the mine to look at the small private market. There were good stones mined by the mine owners, and their value was generally higher.
Damakan was different from Longken, Old Hpakant, and other places. The markets here were more dispersed, and most of them were based on the market. That was one of the reasons why Zhong Da Pao wanted to bring Li Du to the market.
The first stop was called the Arukan Mines. These mines were the strongholds and villages that used to live here. After the jade vein was discovered, they became the mines.
After entering the field, they stopped the car and left a few people behind to look at the car and the equipment. The rest of them went through the security check and walked in.
"Arukan is an old mine. The stones here have basically all been mined out. People make a living by picking up the jade fragments left behind by the previous mining," Zhong Da Pao explained.
Li Du asked, "Then why are we here?"
Zhong Da Pao said, "Don't be anxious. There are very few complete jadeite stones here, but there are many good pieces. Take a look at these pieces. What do you think?"
There were many small buildings of different heights in the field. Other than teahouses, restaurants, and red-light houses, most of the houses had shelves in front of them. On the shelves were pieces of ore.
Li Du took a look and nodded. "These are pieces of ore? Why do they all have balls? Not bad, the color of the stone is very good. The base is bright. Not bad, not bad. "
Zhong Da Pao said, "Yes, these pieces of ore are like this. You can imagine, imagine how good the quality of this mine was in the past!"
He paused and said, "Let's see if we can pick up the leftovers. If not, I'll contact a few private mines. They have stones that were mined in the past. The quality is very good!"
Da Mao stood in front of a shelf and examined it carefully. Then, he raised a stone the size of a baby's fist and asked, "Boss, how much is this?"
"Fifty dollars," the boss, who was smoking a hookah, said calmly.
Da Mao was stunned. "That's very cheap. What unit is it?"
"US dollars. There are many foreigners in Damakan, so we use US dollars," Zhong Da Pao said.
Da Mao rubbed the stone and said, "Yes, it's definitely not a problem to buy this. At least it can be polished to produce a black jade ring surface. This kind of stone needs to be worth five hundred dollars in Ruili."
The stone he picked up was broken, revealing a light green color. This proved that there was definitely jade in the stone, but he did not know the thickness and quality of the jade.
In the jade ore, it was not necessarily the appearance of jade that was valuable. Otherwise, stone gambling would be too easy. Many stones had green on the outside, but after grinding, there was no jade inside.
There were also stones that had green on the outside, but when it was polished, it was also green. However, it was just a layer of green fog. It was not valuable at all.
Da Mao's material was not bad. There was jade inside, but the quality and thickness were average. However, the deeper it was, the two black jade ring surfaces could be seen. Da Mao's eyes were very sharp, and he was right.
Li Du said, "You buy it. You can pick any stone under a thousand dollars. I'll pay for it. If it's a loss, it's on me. If it's a gain, we'll split it."
This was a business without any cost. Da Mao was instantly overjoyed. He said gratefully, "Thank you, Young Master Li. Thank you, Young Master Li."
Li Du also picked a piece. This stone had been cut open, and the cut was waxy with blue flowers. It looked very beautiful.
He asked, "How much is this stone?"
The boss looked at it and said, "Four hundred dollars."
Liu Zi took a deep breath. "Hey, boss, we're talking about this one. This waxy stone with blue flowers. Four hundred dollars or four million?"
This stone was relatively large. Stones in Damakan were usually only a few kilograms. This one was more than ten kilograms.
When there was jade in stone gambling, the bigger the stone, the more valuable it was. This was because the bigger the stone, the higher the possibility of cutting out a large piece of jade. The price of jade was often related to the size. If the size doubled, the price would increase tenfold!
Da Mao came over to take a closer look. He took out a strong flashlight and shone it on the stone. Then, he sneered. "Ha, useless stone. It's just a bluff."
Zhong Da Pao said, "Such a good color. It's a useless stone?"
Da Mao rolled his eyes. "Master Pao, look at it. It's not transparent. What does that mean? It's not jade at the bottom, it's stone. The jade has been cut away from the other side. This is a piece of jade skin! "
Zhong Da Pao and Liu Zi looked at it, and then they said, "That's true."
Da Mao said confidently, "This stone is obviously not here for the first time. Why doesn't anyone buy it even though it's so cheap? Because everyone knows after seeing it that this stone can't even be ground into a ring. "
Li Du put down the stone casually and then gave Brother Wolf a look.
When no one was paying attention, Brother Wolf went to pay four hundred dollars and then kept the stone.
Da Mao was not wrong. It was just that he did not have X-ray vision. He was right. The waxy blue layer on the surface of the stone was the jade skin. However, there was a piece of waxy blue jade hidden inside. It was at least four to five hundred grams, and it was worth tens of millions!
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