Chapter 0256 – Stone Lodge (II)

“What’s the difference?”

Zhuang Rui stopped walking. Turning his head to look at the girl with slight doubt, since he had already said that he would not be processing on behalf of his customers, what was the point of looking at his raw materials?

“Ah! It’s like this, if your materials are good, maybe I’ll ask my grandfather for you, most of the high-grade jade jewelry in this store was carved by my grandfather’s hand.”

Wu Jia was a little embarrassed by Zhuang Rui’s question, and in her heart, she secretly blamed herself for being nosy, and could only bring out her grandfather to say something.

However, Wu Jia had already made up her mind, no matter how good or bad Zhuang Rui’s material was, she would say that the material was average, because grandpa had gotten older in recent years, especially in the past two years, his hands were shaking so much that he had seldom gone to carve any other finer objects other than polishing some bangles.

“Oh? This store is owned by your family?”

Zhuang Rui sniffed and turned to walk over, this stone fast in Pengcheng is very famous, but did not expect actually is this girl’s family opened.

Remember when Zhuang Rui in junior high school, there is a family very rich classmates, once in the class to show off. Said his dad in the stone fast please a Guanyin, sent to the temple to ask the master to open the light, visible stone fast in Pengcheng’s fame of the loud.

Zhuang Rui that will only be able to and Liu Chuan nothing when the pocket with a few dollars to come in and stroll, as for the things here, they can not afford to buy, when this layer of memory, but also Zhuang Rui chose to stone Zhai to ask the main reason.

“This name was created by my grandfather, I just work here part-time.”

Wu Jia didn’t know why she answered this man’s question, perhaps Zhuang Rui gave off a very cordial feeling! Like he was chatting with a friend, he just blurted it out.

“Well, you guys have opened this store for many years, when I was a kid I came to play, I just couldn’t afford the things in here.” Zhuang Rui remembered that year and Liu Chuan two small hairs in the store wandering around, can not help but some feelings.

“Hey, aren’t you going to process it? Take out the jade materials! I’ll take a look first.”

Wu Jia was a bit puzzled by Zhuang Rui’s words, I am not very familiar with you, why are you talking to me about this, so her tone was a bit unkind, and the word “you” when addressing Zhuang Rui also became the word “you”.

Zhuang Rui did not pay attention to the changes in the tone of the girl, he just looked very carefully at the carving of several types of pendants, carving is very fine, the facial expressions of the characters or animals, carving lifelike, more than his neck to wear that Qin Xuan Bing gave him a pendant carving is also some good.

Zhuang Rui through the observation of these objects, the girl’s grandfather’s craft has a few understanding, so reached out to the egg-sized piece of imperial green jadeite material out of his pocket, carefully handed over to Wu Jia.

When Wu Jia saw Zhuang Rui’s careful appearance, her mouth muttered in a very low voice: “What material ah! It’s still so mysterious.”

After receiving it in her hand, she first felt her right hand slam downwards, and after fixing her eyes on it, the first thought that came to Wu Jia’s mind was: this thing is a colored plexiglass.

Do not be surprised that the girl will produce this idea, because now a lot of unscrupulous businessmen, is to take some colorful plexiglass and resin and other synthetics, to imitation jade jewelry, and these people have formed a chain of production and marketing, and once there are people door to door to Wu Jia site sales it!

But Wu Jia then dismissed their own this idea, because after entering the hand she felt that the hands of this piece of jade material, the edge of the silk fog-like crystals are a little tricky, and does not seem to use glue to paste up, indicating that this is not an imitation of emerald.

Originally still a little careless Wu Jia, this time nervous, just now she was the emerald in the heart of the hand to see. Now hastily took an empty jewelry box from the counter, the jadeite in the jewelry box cavity, put on the counter above, will be for the guests to select the emerald need to turn on the bright lights, took out a magnifying glass, to the emerald carefully observed up.

The more you look at Wu Jia is more shocked, she grew up with her grandfather behind his grandfather carving jade, whether it is hard jadeite class, or soft jade sheep fat jade and other materials, she almost on the hand can distinguish the true from the false, and a variety of superb jade, but also seen a lot of jade, just in front of this piece of jadeite, but she was shocked at the same time, deeply addicted to it.

Nearly transparent jade, deep as the sea-like green, like a lover’s eyes, make people intoxicated, Wu Jia since the identification of a lot of superb jade, but compared to this jade in front of us, those are garbage goods, between the two one for the emperor, one for the grass, there is not the slightest comparability.

“This …… this …… this is the glass seed of the emperor green jadeite?”

Wu Jia has forgotten his original intention, words even if she thought up, but also dare not say that this piece of emerald material is general, glass seed emperor green material or general words, then these goods in her store, should be thrown on the street.

“This jade material is okay, right?” Zhuang Rui asked. He could see the change in the girl’s attitude before and after, and intended to make a joke.

“line, not line, is very …… good, sir, you wait, I’ll call grandpa to go, oh …… sorry, this piece of emerald is too precious, or you keep it yourself! ”

Wu Jia did not appreciate Zhuang Rui’s humor, but some panic, the speech also became incoherent, not to mention that she has never seen, even if it is her grandfather, but also only in his youth has seen a piece of glass seed emperor green emerald material, but that will be his seniority is still shallow, that piece of material was not given to him to carve, Wu Jia knows that his grandfather has always been proud of regret.

That’s why she was so anxious to notify her grandfather, but after running out a few steps towards the store’s phone, she realized that the jadeite was in her own hands, and then handed it back to Zhuang Rui with some embarrassment.

In fact, Zhuang Rui for the jadeite cognition, or some shallow, although he can estimate the price of this piece of imperial green material. But he did not know this piece of jade in the jade circle status.

The so-called glass seed emperor green, that is on behalf of the unique, the name reveals a kind of only my unique, give me the hegemony of others.

Not all with green jadeite can be called emperor green, like those green and this piece of jadeite, because the water is not enough to glass seed, people are generally called Yang green high green or full green, only glass seed full green and no flaws in the jadeite, can be called the emperor green, which represents the dignity, is the king of all the jadeite meaning.

Not to mention the regular people. Is that many jewelers, a lifetime are rare to see pure emperor green jadeite, with this material carved out of the object, several years or even ten years are rare, once into the market, but also immediately after the people will be bought and treasured.

“Sir, please take a seat, please drink water, may I ask your name ah? How to call?”

“My surname is Zhuang, just call me Zhuang Rui.”

Zhuang Rui saw that after the girl put down the phone, she ran back with gusto, in the store with sufficient cold air, the tip of her nose was actually sweating, obviously due to excitement, just by her this word please Zhuang Rui was also a little dizzy.

“Well, Mr. Zhuang you wait a bit, my grandfather will be able to come over in a moment.”

As the actual proprietor of this jade store, Wu Jia this will have already secretly thought in her heart, whether she can buy a bit of material from Zhuang Rui, no need to much, there is so small nail size, polished a ring face to, can be used as the store’s treasure of the store.

“Just call me Zhuang Rui, it’s not customary to call me sir.”

Zhuang Rui corrected Wu Jia’s shouting, it’s not that he is close to this girl, it’s just that with a mouthful of Mr., he does sound uncomfortable, due to the graduate school exam, recently read too much ancient literature, Mr. in there is the meaning of teacher, Zhuang Rui doesn’t have the idea of being a teacher for others.

“That’s good, my name is Wu Jia, let’s sort of get to know each other now!”

Wu Jia while talking to Zhuang Rui stretched out his hand, she was thinking about how to get close to Zhuang Rui, this glass seed emperor green jadeite is rare, if you can buy so little, will certainly make the stone Zhai reputation.

Zhuang Rui and Wu Jia shook hands. Surrounded by a survey, spoke out and asked: “By the way, Wu Jia, I remember before coming to you here, there is a middle-aged man in ah, is not the elders put the baton to you la?”

Not Zhuang Rui gossip, mainly like jewelry and antiques line of work, is the most likely to be looking for fault counting after (counting) account, some people buy objects back, after a palm eye feel the loss, will come to the door to return, generally such stores, there will be an old man sitting in the hall, which Wu Jia does not seem to be able to hold the scene of the people.

When Wu Jia heard Zhuang Rui’s words, she froze for a moment, a sad look appeared on her face, and only after a while did she say softly, “My mom and dad had a car accident last year when they went out on a trip, and this store is grandpa’s lifelong endeavor, so I can’t watch it go down, so I’m just here.”

Although Wu Jia grew up with jade ears and eyes, but earlier did not have the idea of inheriting the family business, only after her parents died in a car accident, her grandfather was doubly devastated, and had no time to manage the store, which is why she resigned from her original job and returned to the stone fastness.

And Wu Jia’s grandfather, but also after enduring the pain of the white hair to send black hair, coupled with age, the body collapsed all of a sudden, and now a lot of objects in the store, are grandfather with the apprentice carving, the old man is now rarely to the store.

Zhuang Rui looked at the front of the tears in the eyes of Wu Jia, do not know how to be good, did not expect to casually ask, actually mentioned someone else’s sadness, the next of kin to die this kind of thing, with the language to comfort the words, too much pale, so Zhuang Rui is quite a bit at a loss.

“Xiao Jia, where is that imperial green jadeite you mentioned? Show it to grandpa.”

Just when Zhuang Rui was a bit embarrassed, an old voice came from the entrance of the store, turning his face to look, an old man with a head full of white hair and a bit of melancholy between his eyebrows, walked into the store with a cane.

“Grandpa, slow down, the jade is here!”

Seeing her grandfather come in, Wu Jia hurriedly wiped her eyes and greeted the old man, she didn’t dare to reveal her longing for her parents in front of her grandfather, because that would make the old man sad for days again.

After sitting down on a chair in front of the counter, the old man wore a pair of presbyopia glasses, and only then took the jadeite Wu Jia handed over, and carefully examined it against the bright light that had already been turned on.

Just when the old man picked up the emerald, the kind of concentrated look, so that it seems to be violently young dozens of years in general, just Zhuang Rui away from the close, see the old man holding the emerald’s right hand, slightly some trembling.

“The color is like a mountain bamboo, bright as a stream in a river, without a single flaw, good jade …… good jade, rare good jade ah!”

After half a day, the old man fondly put down the hands of the jade, even said three good words, he played a lifetime of jade, this is only the second time to see the glass seed of the emperor green jade, the heart can not help but be a little stirred.

“Young man, this piece of jadeite is yours, right? Luck is really good, like my old man, I’ve never been able to own such a tiny piece of imperial green jadeite in my life!”

After the old man put down the emerald, measured Zhuang Rui for a while, his eyesight and experience, but than the granddaughter is much stronger, just now in the observation of this emerald, rubbed his hand on it a few times, from the polished surface and the feeling after touching, the old man knew that this piece of emerald has just been solved from the stone not long ago.

Just look at Zhuang Rui’s dress, but does not look like a rich man, so the old man bluntly Zhuang Rui good luck.

To say that Zhuang Rui this person, buy a car to buy a house to invest a repudiation of a thousand gold is very generous, but from childhood habits, so that he is on those so-called brand-name clothing and specifically for successful people to build clothes, and is not very cold.

In Zhonghai, Qin Xuanbing once bought him a few very high-class clothes, just Zhuang Rui feel awkward to wear on the body, so now wear is just a general store tens of dollars a piece of clothing, that pair of shoes is even from Shaanxi back to wear sneakers, covered with dust.

Zhuang Rui smiled, did not deny the words of the old man, opened his mouth and said, “Oh, it’s good luck, old man, do you think this piece of jadeite can carve out a few pendants ah?”

“Pendant? Young man, you want to make pendants? This is a bit of a waste!”

The old man smelled a change in color, glass species of emerald green jadeite, the first push to make bracelets, and then is the ring, even if it is a small object such as earrings, its value is also higher than the pendant so a little bit, not that emerald green jadeite to do the pendant is not good, mainly because the pendant is to be worn inside the clothing, used as a peace talisman more than the value of those who are exposed to the outside of the ornaments, relatively low on some.

“Elderly, do pendant, this thing I do not intend to sell, is done to the family to wear.”

Zhuang Rui’s tone is very firm, although this thing is worth a lot of money, but Zhuang Rui now does not lack of money, and this kind of encountered but can not be asked for the object, sell a bit of a pity.

“Young man, come inside and say it! Alas, if it were two years in the morning, I would have carved this thing for you, just now ……”

After the old man heard that Zhuang Rui insisted on making a pendant, his face was a bit forlorn, he stood up and greeted Zhuang Rui to go to the compartment inside the store to talk.