Chapter 577 Selective Picking up

The next day, that is, the 15th, when the sun first rose, the streets of Pagang became hot. Those merchants who opened their stalls in the morning and closed their stalls after noon The miners selling rough jade stones took to the streets to set up stalls, and those selling fruits and vegetables made the market town truly look like a city.

Myanmar is a tropical rainforest country with distinct rainy and dry seasons. During the rainy season every year, due to too much rain, landslides or mudslides are prone to occur. It is too dangerous to dig jade, and the jade production areas have also stopped for rest, so there is only partial safety. Extremely high small openings are occasionally open for construction.

Since jade mines cannot be mined during the rainy season, the miners who make a living by mining are idle. Some people will find other ways to make a living, some grow crops, and some people have nothing to do.

There are also many miners making a living on the streets of Pagang. If they can’t find anything to do, they will gather at the end of the street to play cards and gamble. If you walk around the street, you can see people wearing long sleeves and flip-flops everywhere. of men and women.

Yesterday, some shops were closed in the evening, so Le Yun didn’t go around all of them. After breakfast, she went shopping again to look for materials. She bought some that were not of the highest quality and were cheap.

After wandering for more than an hour, it started to rain again. People on the streets of the market town could not be more calm. Those setting up stalls and walking on the street were all prepared. Some held umbrellas, and some Wearing raincloths, some idle people stood under the eaves of other people's houses or under big umbrellas to take shelter from the rain.

Standing under a big umbrella outside a store to take shelter from the rain, Le Yun listened to others chatting and continued shopping after the shower. She stopped work at almost noon and moved the jade stones she found back to the van. .

Before lunch, Driver Atu was entrusted by his employer to hire a local miner to serve as an informant to lead the way to find materials. He was very happy to help his employer run errands, and he would get a hundred for helping find a guide. Hard work fee.

Miners have their own news channels, and they spread news quickly. Which miners have dug up good materials and which mines have stones are almost all heard by miners. There are some old miners. He is more knowledgeable than mine owners or jade dealers and knows how to judge the quality of jadeite by looking at its shell.

The miner hired by Atu’s driver is in his forties and less than fifty. He is the right age group, has plenty of experience, knows how to play with mobile phones, and has a fast flow of information.

The employed miners had dinner with their employers, and in the afternoon they dutifully took their employers to wander around the miners' residential areas. Driver Atu cleverly helped his employer drag his luggage and followed him to learn more.

The sellers recommended by the middle-aged miners all have goods in hand, some with three to five yuan, some with more than ten yuan, and two of them are small business owners who purchase and wholesale rough stones to earn the price difference.

The place where the miners live is very simple. Most of the houses are simple iron houses. Some of them have a few tree stumps to support the roof and a fence around the outside. They are outside when negotiating deals. The owner shows others the stones and trades. talkIf it doesn’t work, take the stone back.

Most of the jadeite rough stones in the jadeite field area are in the hands of the owner or jade company. Most of the jadeite stones with good quality and relatively large size are sent to Wa City or to the capital to prepare for the August fair. Plate, mostly small woolen materials stranded in the field area.

The stones dug by the miners are usually sold to the owners at low prices. The miners who have the stones in their hands are mostly middle or upper-level miners who can survive financially and are not in a hurry to spend money. Therefore, they temporarily accumulate stones and wait to sell them at a high price when the time is right. Some miners are under pressure in life, so they will sell the stones at a low price to exchange for money.

Middle-aged miners take their employers to look for materials. Sometimes they contact their peers to exchange information and select better sources of goods.

Le Yun has a very discerning eye and is very picky, so seven or eight out of ten companies cannot negotiate business. The first few companies she went to did not like the stone, until she made an acquisition in one company and then changed hands to make a profit. The miner with the price difference only bought three pieces of materials from him, and he kept his word and gave the middle-aged miner an additional reward of fifty yuan to show that he was satisfied with the source of goods he recommended.

I don’t know if it’s because of the extra rewards, but the quality of the supplies recommended by the middle-aged miners is obviously better, and Le Xiao’s classmates also started to buy a few small pieces one after another.

When it was mid-afternoon, the middle-aged cargo owner finally recommended a source of goods that he packed at the bottom of the box: a jewelry company specializing in jadeite rough stones at the stock point in Pagang, although most of the goods were already sold out. Send away, the inventory is generally more than other places.

The place where the inventory is kept is a private house. The place where the jade is kept is surrounded by a wall and covered with asbestos tiles as a roof. Don’t think that it is simple and easy to steal. The manager has a gun in his hand and is still upright. A legal gun owner who dares to steal and be beaten to death will die in vain.

When a businessman came to see the goods, the owner of the house who was responsible for the management did not push back. He opened the door readily, turned on the light, and showed the people openly.

There is not a lot of inventory, all medium and small woolen materials. There are a lot of small woolen materials, stacked in piles like stones by the river, at least more than a ton; medium woolen materials are smaller, Those weighing a dozen to several dozen kilograms cost several hundred yuan, while those weighing hundreds of kilograms cost less than ten yuan.

The lights were dim and the room felt a bit cramped.

Before entering the residential building, Le Yun observed the situation. There was someone watching on the second floor of the residential building, the one with a gun. The person was monitoring the place where the wool was kept downstairs from the window. You could also say that there were people. It’s looking at the goods under someone else’s gun.

The light was not bright enough, so she took out the flashlight and walked towards the pile of wool. She studied and admired it in a corner of the small material area for ten minutes. She selected two pieces of wool as big as a palm and looked here and there. , picked out a total of eleven small pieces of material, put them in a corner, and then looked at the medium-sized woolen material.

The wool materials are piled in different places.The prices also vary, some are sold by the piece and some are sold by the kilogram.

I am very experienced in the stone gambling method. I removed the selected materials and then picked other ones. It took me nearly forty minutes to pick out more than ten pieces. The largest piece weighs 160 kilograms.

The middle-aged miner who was the informant looked shocked. He was a big customer.

The manager held the computer, waiting for the businesswoman to finish selecting the materials, and negotiated the price. Two medium-sized stones cost 3,000 yuan, and four medium-large stones cost 300 yuan. One pound costs five to four hundred yuan per pound; small ingredients cost fifty yuan per pound.

In line with the principle of saving money, Le Yun bargained in a friendly manner and negotiated the price of the two kinds of stones to 250 yuan per catty. The two parties reached an agreement, and the total price of all the raw materials was 221,000 yuan. One hundred yuan, and finally one hundred and ten cents were cut off, making it two hundred and twenty thousand yuan.

After the sale was concluded, the owner of the house who was responsible for the management also helped pack the stones. The large and small stones were packed in woven bags respectively, and then they were taken out of the warehouse and traded at the door of the house.

Transactions in the jade market are all cash transactions. Unless it is a large-scale transaction between companies, only checks or transfers are accepted. For small transactions, all transactions are delivered in one hand and paid in one hand. After the money is paid, everyone will clear it.

The bag containing the rough stones is tied to a luggage trailer, which weighs several hundred kilograms. Le Yun carries a backpack containing nearly a hundred kilograms of small stones in one hand and trailers it with the other hand, making it easy and stress-free.

The long-haired businesswoman was short in stature but surprisingly strong. The middle-aged miner and driver A Tu were dumbfounded and at the same time fearful. They roughly understood why she dared to go deep into the jade field alone. Come to the district to find materials.

There were a lot of stones and it was inconvenient to go down the alley. Xiao Le went back to the parking place and loaded the stones into the car, leaving the driver to guard the car while she and the middle-aged miner went shopping for goods. .

Because he was afraid of businesswomen, the middle-aged miner did not dare to have any restless thoughts. He conscientiously recommended the sources of goods he knew and took the businesswomen around the miners' residential areas.

Even in the jade field area, good materials are limited. Le Yun only found seven pieces of the materials she liked on her second trip. She finished the work at sunset, returned to the van, and put the stones on the van. , locked the car, and the three of them went to eat.

It was previously agreed to hire an informant as a salary of 200 yuan, and he paid 100 yuan in advance. After the meal, Mr. Le Xiao paid the other half to the middle-aged miner, and also gave him another 500 yuan as hard work fee.

A middle-aged miner earns more in one day than he normally earns in a month. He also eats two free meals and goes home happily with his salary. When he leaves, he makes a special statement saying that if he needs to go there again tomorrow Look for him wherever you go.

After the middle-aged miner left, Le Xiaoxiao gave the driver A Tu three pink Mao Zedong cards. The informant he helped find was good, andHelp guard the car and give him some hard work to avoid letting him feel cold.

Driver Atu’s extra income was four hundred a day. He grinned excitedly. When his employer went to take a shower, he willingly drove the caboose and then went to a hotel to rest.

After a day and a half, several hundred kilograms of stones were accumulated. Considering the limited carrying capacity of the van, Le Yun transferred all the stones into the space in the middle of the night.

The next day, when he was about to leave after breakfast, Ah Tu climbed into the car. He felt something was wrong but couldn’t think of anything wrong. After driving for a while, he finally noticed something. He turned around and looked behind him, only to find that it was empty. He was so frightened that he stepped on the brakes, and the car came to a sudden stop. His forehead was covered with sweat: "Nama, all your rocks are gone!"

He didn't know the full name of his employer. I only know that the name has the character Na. According to local customs, it is called Nama.

Le Yun, who was almost hit by the glass when she braked suddenly, just sat up and wanted to ask what happened when she heard the driver scream and pressed her temples: "Wu Shan, I forgot to tell you, my family sent someone to follow me. Yes, because there are a lot of raw jade stones and it is inconvenient to carry them, I informed my family members to come and take them away last night.”

The name of the driver Atu in Chinese is Tushan, and he can be called Atu or Atu. Ah Shan, and Wu, is not his surname. Burmese people do not have surnames. Wu is an honorific title, which is equivalent to "Mr." and is suitable for men. The honorific title for ladies is "Du", and "Ma" is the honorific title for young women. It means "sister", which is almost the meaning of girl in Chinese.

"Take... away?" Ah Tu murmured before he could recover from the shock.

"Yes, because it is inconvenient for my family to show up, that's why I bet on the stone. They don't want people to see their faces, so they won't show up with me. They came here at midnight last night. Pick up the goods. This situation will probably happen more often in the future. I hope it will not trouble Wu Shan. If Wu Shan feels troubled, I will pay the fare for you and I can rent another car."

" Ah, ah, no, I’m not worried, it’s nothing. I just thought your stone was stolen while we were eating, and I was shocked.” Hearing that young Nama wanted to rent another car, Ah Tu came to his senses with a jolt, and the employer was very surprised. He was generous, and the car rental also included food, accommodation, and tips. He was a hundred times more talkative than his previous employer who chartered the car. He didn't want to lose such a good opportunity to make money.

"I generally can't throw away my things. Whoever steals my things will not end well. My family will not pursue it."

"Oh oh , It’s okay if it’s not stolen, Nama, let’s keep walking.” There was some cold sweat on Ah Tu’s back, he hurriedly started the car and continued to rush to the next venue.

In the rainy season, sometimes it rains several times a day, and sometimes there is no rain at all. The weather is fine in the morning, but after nine o'clock, it rains heavily again, and it still rains all the time.The sun is shining on one side.

Originally, based on the distance, it would take driver Atu’s van more than an hour to reach the miners’ settlement at another site. Due to the rain, there was a place on the road that was washed out by mountains and rivers. Looking for It took some time to get through after filling up the rocks, and it took more than two hours to get there.

Not every farm entrance is like a town like Pagang. The miners’ residential areas at some farm entrances are very scattered, like small villages, and not lively.

The second Changkou area that Mr. Le Xiao went to was quite large, like a larger natural village.

After arriving at the field, Driver Atu showed his cleverness and ran to find a clever miner to be an informant to lead the way to find goods. He also stayed at the miner's house that night, just like staying in a hotel for one night. Sixty dollars a person.

She stayed at Changkou for one night, and the next day she set off to another famous Changkou to shop for goods. She didn’t ask for more, just good quality, so she was the first to shop at Jade Changkou. I didn’t find many goods at the hand market. The total goods at the two markets were not as much as those at Pagang alone.

The goods are small and not moved. They are all stored in the car.

Le Xiao’s classmates go shopping for treasures from market to market. In fact, jade is not everywhere in the origin of jade, nor can you find jade with just a few digs. Jade is hidden in rocks and soil. of.

There are advantages and disadvantages. The local area is rich in jade, which promotes related economic development and earns countless tax revenue for the country. However, the places where jade is produced have been dug bare, causing great damage to the environment. The rivers are also turbid.

Because we don’t have much time and no place to spend it, Mr. Le doesn’t have time to visit the production site in person to see what the production site looks like. There is no mining during the rainy season, and there are military guards at the site to prevent people from entering the site. steal.

The drivers are happy to make money when their employers go around. It usually takes one day to drive their employers from here to there, and some of them only stay for most of the day. When they leave Pagang, they visit the third The four venues are also on June 19th.

On the 20th, classmate Le left the old field and went straight to the small field. On the way, he passed the new field and took a trip to the two fields.

The small field area, also called the Nanchang area, is far away from the old field area. It covers an area three times the size of the Houjiang field area, but there are not many field entrances.

The small field area is to the south of the old field area, with a long distance in between. Leave the old field area, go out of the mountains along the road, and then go to the highway before turning to the small field area.

The van left the old field area and stayed in a city for one night. Le Xiao’s classmate only set out for the small field area on the morning of the 21st and arrived at the small field area before noon.

The jadeite mine in Xiaochang area is a primary mineral deposit and is an indispensable part of Myanmar’s jadeite mining area.

The Atu driver took the employeeLord, I went to the famous Nanqi Changkou for half a day, and the next day I went to the most famous one called "Moliu".