Myanmar is not as prosperous as Great China, and vehicles are not as easy to find in the border towns of Yinnan Province. Leyun rented a small freight truck to travel. She did not go to Mina, the capital of Kachin State, but Went to Mengong, which is only 50 kilometers away from Mina.
In terms of distance, the border crossing between Meng Gong and Y Province is more than 100 kilometers long. It only takes one or two hours based on the vehicle speed of 80 kilometers per hour. However, Myanmar’s highways Some places are not so good, and the speed of trucks is maintained at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
There are many checkpoints on the road, and station wagons or vehicles with Y-Nan province license plates are subject to inspection. The student from Le Xiao was riding a local minivan and did not need to be inspected, so he could run away leisurely.
It took nearly two and a half minutes to travel more than 100 kilometers, and it was already after 5:30 local time when we arrived in Mengong. There is a nearly two-hour time difference between Myanmar and the capital of Greater China, which is roughly equivalent to around 7:30 pm in the capital of Greater China.
No matter how you look at it, Meng Gong is a free-development city that thrives on its own. The construction of residential buildings and streets seems very haphazard. At more than five o'clock, the sun has not yet set, but the atmosphere of dusk has invaded the town. , people can be seen on the road leading to the city. People setting up stalls and doing business on the streets of the town are also preparing to close their stalls. The pace of life is slow and calm.
Meng Gong was once the largest jade market in Kachin State and even in Myanmar as a whole. Most of the raw jadeite produced from various sites had to pass through Meng Gong and Mina before flowing to other places. A few years ago, the jade market was The city moved to Wacheng, the second largest city in Myanmar. Meng Gongcai is no longer the largest jade market in the country, but its location is still important. In comparison, its floating population is very large, and the number of businessmen traveling there is also Almost all of them go to the original jadeite.
There are not many hotels. The truck driver sent Le Xiao to the door of the second best hotel in the city. After paying the fare, she went into the hotel to go through the accommodation procedures. She paid half a month's worth of rent in advance in one go. After paying for the accommodation, completing the formalities, I happily picked up my suitcase and went upstairs to check in.
Place your luggage properly, then go downstairs to find a place to eat, and then go back to the hotel. After checking every place, no camera was found, go back to the space to finish your work, take a shower and wash clothes, and then read a book until eleven o'clock to go to bed.
The second day is June 14th.
When the sky in Europe was dawning, Earl Ryan went to the airport with his personal bodyguard Abner. At the same time, Miao Miaodan also canceled his original plan to visit a certain Earl in another state. Itinerary, temporary departure to return home.
Myanmar is in the rainy season in June, and it often rains. On the morning of the 14th, it started to rain. The pattering raindrops made the sky a bit hazy.
Le Yun got up very early, at five o'clock local time. She found that it was raining outside and was not in a hurry to go out. She meditated and practiced until about seven o'clock and left the hotel to have breakfast. When she came back, she specifically asked the hotel waiters. I asked about which street I could bet on rough jade stones.
It rained until eight o'clock and then slowly stopped. The air when the rain stopped was fresh and cool, and the mountains in the distance were misty, allowing the tropical atmosphere to be revealed.Once you get out of the corner, there is also a sense of mystery.
After the rain, vendors gradually set out their stalls, and the water-stained street slowly became lively.
When the sky became brighter, Leyun put on her backpack, dragged a suitcase, and went shopping happily.
She took a detour from the boss and came to Meng Gong. Naturally, she had a good idea of her plan. She went straight to Beishi Street based on the information she got from the hotel waiter.
As the largest jade market in Myanmar, Meng Gong may not be as prosperous as the border port cities in Yinnan Province. However, the number of raw jade stones is absolutely amazing. The jade has reached the big cities of China. It is a high-end luxury product. In Mengong, the treatment is even lower than at the border of Yinnan Province. They are placed on both sides of the street like cabbage.
In addition to raw jadeite and semi-processed jadeite, there are also rubies, amber, etc., as well as tusks, horns, palms, etc. of animals such as elephants, tigers, and leopards. As for whether it is true or false, it is as complete as gambling on stones. Depends on everyone's perspective.
Join in the fun.
In order to grab business, Myanmar businessmen who originally had a slow pace of life also survived by the fittest. In response to the call to plan their day in the morning, some stores opened their doors very early, while the vendors at the open-air stalls were delayed by the morning rain. During the stall opening time, stalls are opened one after another after the rain has stopped. Whenever items are put out, the owner spreads a tarp and sits, or stands, eating without breakfast.
Meng Gong’s jade market is equivalent to the second-hand market for jade. The first-hand market is naturally the market where jade raw ore is produced. It is also the most primitive first-hand market. However, it is really difficult to go to the market. The merchants are all market owners or big businessmen who have long-term business partners with the market operators. Generally speaking, not all jade dealers will go to the production sites. After all, the jade markets are all located in remote mountains and mountains. Outsiders go to the jadeite market. There is a considerable risk value in the market.
The scale of Meng Gong is less than that of a town, roughly equivalent to the location of the township government of a small township, because it was the first city before the jadeite was flowing out. Even if it is small, the streets are full of people. Very lively.
The streets are very simple, with asphalt roads, and the residential buildings are low and have their own style. Fortunately, the infrastructure is average, but it lives up to the name of the "Jade Market". Shops and stalls are everywhere. You can see raw jadeite, ruby, amber, etc.
It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. The words of the ancients are true. If you don’t go to a certain place, you will never know the customs and environment there. People who have never been to the border cities of Yinnan Province will definitely not know. I believe that it is common to see jade jewelry all over the floor. Similarly, if you go to the towns near the jade origin, you will never be able to imagine the treatment of raw jade stones. They are just scattered on the paper. At first glance, , people who are not familiar with them think they are stones on the roadside by the river.
The open-air stalls are mobile. Some of the jadeite sellers are dug by the miners themselves, some are dumped jadeite, and some are sold by the miners.Some are hired to sell, and the stalls are sometimes mixed with fruit sellers, trinket sellers, vegetable sellers, etc., which makes life more interesting than just selling stones on the street.
Le Yun dragged her suitcase onto the street and rushed excitedly to a grocery street with the largest number of jadeite stones. She first took a rough look at the whole street from a distance and then took a closer look, hunting for treasures from stalls to stalls. .
The place is small, and the streets are not long. They are only about a hundred meters long. Then they turn, branch, and then branch out into many small streets and alleys. In the larger streets and alleys, stalls can be set up, and there are no Urban management officers roaming the streets.
In the recent jadeite market, the gold content of jadeite raw stones is higher than that seen in the border towns of Yinnan Province. After all, some of the stones in the border towns of Yinnan Province were also searched for by Mengong Jingren. , it is relatively obvious that good materials that can judge the quality will naturally enter the pockets of professional jade dealers first.
For the first time here, Le Yun is not familiar with the bargaining method. She will not discuss the business first, but secretly investigates the "enemy situation", and infers the price that the vendors may be able to bear from other people's transaction prices, and uses this as a basis. Bargain bottom line.
There are many raw jade stones on Menggong Street, but they are not equivalent to cabbage prices. Whether it is a vendor or a businessman who specializes in the stone business, they also know what it means to adapt to society. Because there are many buyers, the prices are also low. Not low, but relatively speaking, it is a price acceptable to ordinary people. Because stones near the place of origin are not listed on the public market and are pre-tax goods, the price in the market is naturally lower. Buyers who take the stones out of the country have to pay tax. , but also transportation and other expenses.
Le Yun figured out the unspoken rules of street trading before deciding to take action. She still only picked the rough stones with the brightest auras to start with. Those materials had slightly poor water quality or good water quality, but had too many cracks. are excluded.
Only a hundred meters away, I bought a total of 20 pieces of materials from the stalls. The pieces were relatively small, and the largest one only weighed more than ten kilograms. I could only buy more than 30 yuan for one piece in a shop. At the same time, he also bought a piece of tree jade, an ivory bone carving, and a tiger claw, and smashed out a total of 210,000 yuan.
It didn’t cost much to buy the stones. The main reason was that the tree jade alone cost nearly 40,000 yuan, and the tiger claws and ivory totaled 20,000 yuan. The owner of the goods actually couldn’t tell whether it was true or false, and it was half true and half false. Just sell them.
After sweeping a section of the street, I found an excuse to go to the toilet, moved some of the things in the box into the space, and continued shopping. Every time I visited a street, I gained a small gain, not just one or two dollars. The eye-catching raw jade stones are the teeth, claws, horns of rare animals, as well as carvings carved from precious trees.
The happiest thing was a pot I picked up at a fruit stall. The pot was made of golden camphor tree.
Cinnamomum camphora, also called mountain balm, is a deciduous tree that grows in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. It takes fifty years to become useful. It has high hardness, is resistant to wear and tear, is not easily deformed, and is acid and alkali resistant, moisture-proof and corrosion-resistant.
Originally, the golden camphor wood was polished and oxidized by photosynthesis to turn golden, and it became more noble and dignified as time went by. However, it may have been because the basin had been in the hands of the owner for too long., it has been soaked in water for many years, and has been blistered by smoke. The surface has become dull and gray, with a few small dents and gaps, and is very old.
The stall owner sold home-grown strawberries in golden camphorwood pots. Le Yun did not like the strawberries but the pots, so she spent 20 yuan on the strawberries, and then spent 500 yuan on them. The story of buying a pot with money seems somewhat similar to the story of buying a casket for a pearl.
After finding an old wooden basin, in order to prevent the owner of the goods from regretting it, she carried the things and quietly walked away, sneaking to another alley to have fun alone.
If you are not afraid of comparing goods, you are afraid of not knowing the goods.
The material of the basin is more than 500 years old, which means it is made of gold camphor that is more than 500 years old. It is unknown how many generations it has been passed down in the basin owner's family until it is completely changed beyond recognition.
After finding an ancient piece of art, Le Yun was in a beautiful mood, as happy as a little pony. She happily shuttled through the streets and alleys, looking for stones and small items in the shops and stalls. I wandered around the street corner in what was originally a residential area. I didn't know if I could find the spiritual objects that were hidden in my house. I didn't know if I could find anything that could be found. I also went to the garbage dump in the area and picked up a few items that were tampered with by others. Broken parts of daily necessities and scrap rocks discarded from scrap metal.
She walked around all around, visiting all the districts in Mengong. She finished her work in the middle of the afternoon, dragged her suitcase back to the hotel, packed it up quickly, and carried her bag again. Pick up your luggage and continue playing.
On the second trip to the streets, Le Xiaoxiao walked around the streets again. When the sun set, he walked around the town and walked along a road leading to a village outside the town. When he reached the foot of the uninhabited mountain, he immediately hid in the woods. Sneaking back to the space, he took the little fox and little Huihui to take care of the crops first, and then he finished his personal chores, found things, and put on makeup for himself.
The little fox didn’t understand what the little human girl wanted to play, and wanted to sit and watch. However, the little human girl said she wanted to take a bath, so she covered his and the little black monkey’s eyes with a cloth, and poked them a few times. He turned into wood, and he could only hold a towel on his head, feeling silently sad.
After clicking on the acupuncture points of Little Fox and Little Huihui to make them unable to move, Leyun quickly took off her clothes, sat in a bucket filled with water and took a bath. She took a bath for about an hour before finishing. After taking a bath, the white and tender skin becomes very close to the skin of Southeast Asians, but much whiter and tenderer, like the skin of a pampered person who never basks in the sun.
Transform the skin, put on clothes, apply skin-improving lotion on the face, neck, ears and other places again, and wash the hair to make the scalp, face, ears and other places consistent with the skin on the body.
When the skin changes to the desired look, put a waist-length wig on the top of your head and stick the edges with special glue. No one could pull off the wig by grabbing her hair.
After disguising herself to some extent, Leyun happily loosened the blindfolds on Little Fox and Little Huihui, unblocked their acupuncture points, and then tried to apply eye pupils on herself.
Finally freed from being a wooden head, the little fox stretched and was about to complain that the little human girl was too unreasonable. When he saw a completely changed girl in front of him, his eyes widened.Colorful pupils: "Little girl, are you crazy? Why have you made yourself so ugly?"
Little Huihui rolled his eyes, and when he heard the little fox making a fuss, he quickly looked over. When the owner saw an unfamiliar face, he screamed and jumped back a step, his eyes full of fear.
“You said I’m ugly?” Le Yun almost wanted to slap the little fox to death. She neatly closed her eyes and stretched out her paws to grab the mirror aside to see the fruits of her labor.
The face of a young woman was printed in the mirror, with long soft black hair shawl, eyebrows covered by eyebrows, big eyes, relatively white skin, no eyebrows or lipstick. , but it looks absolutely nothing to do with being ugly.
The little human girl was looking in the mirror. The little fox jumped on her shoulder, stretched out a little paw and pointed at the mirror, "This look in the mirror is so ugly. Look, although these eyes have become It is very big, has no aura at all, and is gray like the eyes of a half-dead fish. Look at the white skin, which is very white, but it is not moisturizing at all, and the hair looks black and shiny, but actually has no life at all. A pretty little beauty is forced to look like a lifeless rag doll, it's so annoying."
"Humph, I'm happy with it." Le Yun raised her chin. When the little fox said that she looked like a dead fish, she originally wanted to slap him to death, but because the little fox meant that she looked good-looking, she stopped hitting him.
“I can’t bear to look at it.” The little fox covered his eyes. “Little girl, you’d better go out early and make others look bad.”
“I will go out when it’s time to go out. "Looking like this, I believe not many people will recognize me." Le Yun raised her eyes proudly, "Yeah, the look of a woman with long hair is quite interesting. There must be someone who wants to follow her, even if it's two people." No one would recognize her face to face.
“To be honest, if I weren’t someone who gets along with you day and night, I wouldn’t be able to recognize you by looking at your ugly appearance. After you changed your make-up, your ugliness reached a new level. Of course, I would recognize you. Who could I recognize you? Your smell hasn't changed much, and your voice hasn't changed much either."
"I will take voice-changing pills later and change my voice slightly. As for the smell, I don't want to take any messy pills." She said. There are medicines that can make sweat smell bad or sour, but she doesn't want to take it, so there's no need.
"Little girl, what do you want to do to look like this? Is there anything so big that you are worthy of making yourself ugly?"
"I want to make a fortune, and I don't want to let People don’t remember my face, so they have to make me become a stranger.”
“Little girl, don’t you want to rob the house?” The little fox said in an exaggerated way: “Oh my god. Ah, little girl, you are a beauty after all. Don't go astray. Robbing homes, killing people and setting fires are against morality and will damage your spiritual merits."
Le Yun stretched out her claws and grabbed her. He picked up the little fox on his shoulder and threw it away, "Damn it, a dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth. You think so badly of me, why don't you cool off?"
BeingThrowing it away, the little fox tumbled in the air, landed deftly, then jumped up again, jumped on the little human girl and grabbed the little monkey. After a few ups and downs, he jumped under the dragon blood tree and climbed up. Lying down and wagging its tail in the tree hole.
Little Huihui landed from the little fox's paw and patted her chest. The fox fairy always pinched her at every turn, which was so scary.
Le Yun put aside the little fox and drew her own eyebrows. She used special paint to make her eyebrows a suitable shade and slender. She also curled her eyelashes upwards. Since I couldn't find any flaws, I took a pill, some fruit for dinner, and then read a book.
When it’s about nine o’clock in the evening, I sneak out of the space and walk at night with a flashlight.
Myanmar is a tropical rainforest area with a high altitude and sufficient sunshine during the day. Due to the high forest coverage, it is not particularly hot, and the temperature is not too hot or cool at night.
The night in Meng Gong is very quiet, and the city is even more peaceful. Night trains are rare, there are no cars, and there are no pedestrians. Le Yun walks on her short legs, walking alone on the road, shaking and shaking, from this direction of the town Wander to a road in the completely opposite direction, find a suitable hiding place, and crawl back into space to sleep.
The next day, Mr. Le Xiao woke up very early. He got up before dawn, packed up, ate some fruit to fill his stomach, found a space, dragged a luggage trailer with a large password box tied to it, and carried a bag on his back. The big bulging luggage bag swayed slowly along the road into the city towards Mengong Town.
Meng Gong looks like a peaceful girl in the early morning, quiet and beautiful. Residents doing breakfast business get up early. The smell of food is already on the street, and smoke is also coming from some residents' homes.
The reformed Le Xiao classmate dragged his luggage into the town, found a breakfast shop for breakfast, and calmly went to a parking lot specializing in sports cars to charter a car.
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Little fairies, happy Lantern Festival, everyone remember to eat more glutinous rice balls
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