Pick up bargains in Chinatown and make 10,000 times the profit at the beginning

Chapter 63 Landscape Painting on Stone

"Look, do those things in front look like meteorites?" Paul asked, pointing at the stall in front.

All the stones on the stall in front of me were black, some of them were shiny black, and at first glance, they really looked like burned meteorites.

Everyone: "..."

Are you stunned?
Everything looks like a meteorite.

"That's obsidian." Henry rolled his eyes at him.

Paul always hits his friends hard, and said bluntly: "You know what I mean?"

Henry laughed and scolded: "Are you blind? Didn't you see that it says obsidian?"

Paul then took a closer look and saw a piece of cardboard next to him. On the cardboard was written "Obsidian, $8 a piece, pick whatever you want." Seeing this, he was slightly embarrassed and smiled awkwardly.

"8 dollars a piece, is it worth it? I have heard of this kind of stone in China. It is said that wearing it for a long time is good for the body." Qiao Yufan asked.

He had really heard of this kind of stone. When he was in high school in China, some of his classmates wore it. Of course, they only wore it after class, because the school did not allow them to wear these things.

Obsidian, the name sounds full of mystery.

"It depends on the quality! But at $8 a piece, it's hard to say whether it's worth it or not," said Lin Yuan.

It's only $8, what more do you want?

As far as Lin Yuan knew, obsidian was a gemstone that came from volcanoes. When a volcano erupted, the magma quickly cooled and formed this unique igneous rock.

It is mainly composed of silicon dioxide, often mixed with minerals such as aluminum oxide and iron oxide, which makes it appear deep black or gray and has a glass-like luster.

Ordinary obsidian is pure black in color, without much luster or special structure, and is relatively affordable, usually ranging from a few dozen to a hundred yuan.

Qiao Yufan nodded after hearing this: "That's true, it's okay to pick two pieces, but it's hard to find someone to carve them abroad."

There are very few talented carvers abroad, and they are almost impossible to find.

After saying that, Qiao Yufan squatted down and started to choose.

Now that I'm here, if I've encountered it, I might as well do one or two!
"The fourth one on the right side of your hand, yes! It's the good one." Lin Yuan pointed out from the side.

Qiao Yufan immediately took it in his hand, took a closer look, and said in surprise: "It seems to have other colors and colorful lights."

Lin Yuan told him that it was colored obsidian, or rainbow obsidian, which looked black at first glance under everyday light, but would show colorful reflections under strong light.

These colorful reflections can appear in a variety of colors such as purple, green, blue, rainbow, yellow, gray and white. Among them, green and purple rainbow eyes are more common and pleasing to the eye.

The shapes of colored eyes are various, including arc and circle, among which arc is relatively rare.

"Especially the one in your hand, it is a very rare ghost fairy blue-eyed obsidian, which is quite valuable."

When everyone heard this, they felt it was very impressive.

"Ghost Fairy Blue Eyed Obsidian", this name sounds very cool.

In fact, the proportion of Ghost Fairy Red-Eyed Obsidian is only 0.3%, and the proportion of Ghost Fairy Blue-Eyed Obsidian is only 0.5%, both of which are rare species.

"Brother Lin, how much is this?" Qiao Yufan liked it more and more the more he looked at it.

"You won't get a high price just by selling it like this. If you hire someone to carve beads into it and make it into a bracelet or something, there will definitely be someone willing to buy it for tens of thousands of yuan," Lin Yuan told him.

For the Chinese, everything can be made into beads.

If you have a material and don't know what to do with it, then make beads. The law will come. Qiao Yufan smiled and said, "OK! When we return to China, I will find someone to make beads for us."

Anyway, it was only $8 a piece, so except for Lin Yuan, everyone else including my uncle picked one or two. As my uncle said, I could take it back to use as table legs.

Afterwards, Lin Yuan also took a fancy to a stone.

In the eyes of foreigners, the stone was ordinary and not a rare stone. It was just used to make up the numbers. Therefore, Lin Yuan bought it without any effort and spent only 5 dollars.

"If you're looking for strange stones, you should look for this kind." Lin Yuan said to everyone.

It can be considered as a piece of advice!

"What's special?" Paul asked.

He was the only one who couldn't understand the stone. Even Henry, who had studied in China and seen traditional Chinese landscape paintings, immediately understood why Lin Yuan wanted this stone.

That's right! The surface of the stone is a landscape painting.

Most of the landscapes presented on the surface of the strange stones are due to the infiltration of minerals into the stones for millions of years, thus forming colorful pictures. A small part of them are formed by the erosion of water flow, which makes the internal stripes of the strange stones reveal, thus forming unique landscape pictures. In short, the pictures are imaginative and unconventional.

The stone in front of us has been washed away by the years, and a strange picture has been washed out on its surface. In the picture, the mountains are undulating, the rivers are vast, and there are fishing villages, wild markets, waterside pavilions, thatched huts, water mills and long bridges scattered in between.

Although it's a bit blurry, it seems to be true when you look closely.

Not to mention the people at the scene, even the audience in the live broadcast room exclaimed: Absolutely amazing!
The wonders of nature's creations are far beyond our imagination.

"This kind of stone with pictures on it must be precious!"

"Need I ask? This kind of stone must be one in a million."

……

Lin Yuan told them: "There are actually quite a lot of picture stones, and they are relatively easy to form..."

As long as the stone contains other colors and impurities, after a long period of transportation by nature and being "polished" by the river flowing day and night, it can usually become a picture stone if it becomes flat, round, or pebbled.

However, whether those images can be appreciated by everyone is another matter.

Just like the piece that Lin Yuan got, it has exquisite landscape paintings on it, which is easy for people to appreciate, at least it is easy for Chinese people to appreciate.

The threshold for picture stone is relatively low and it is easy to form, so the quantity is large and the price is low. In order to avoid risks, ordinary stone enthusiasts tend to choose picture stone, so the picture stone market has more advantages.

"This kind of thing, which resembles a landscape painting, is naturally more precious. It is not impossible for it to be worth millions," Lin Yuan added.

Huo Qingtong nodded: "I don't understand strange stones, but I also like this stone."

It not only has beautiful scenery like a landscape painting, but also has gorgeous, eye-catching and naturally transitional colors, which is unmatched by other picture stones.

Faced with such beautiful scenery of high and far, near and far, faced with such pretty, elegant, bright and open colors, no matter you like stones or not, you will be fascinated and indulged in it.

At this time, someone in the live broadcast room sent rockets again, and he sent 10 rockets in one go, with a value of 1 yuan.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to express his gratitude, he saw his friend who was sending rockets send a message on the screen: Brother Lin, is this stone for 50?
Everyone was dumbfounded.

Do you have to act so quickly?

Lin Yuan asked with a smile: "Brother, do you recognize this painting on the stone?"

The brother didn't answer, but continued to raise the price: 100 million is okay?
There were only two words left in Qiao Yufan and the others' minds: Damn it!
(End of this chapter)