Chapter 574: The ugliness has reached a new level (Second Geng:
Myanmar is not as prosperous as Great China, and vehicles are not as easy to find as in the border town of Yinnan Province. Le Yun rented a small truck for freight transportation and did not go to Kachin Instead, we went to Mina, the capital of the state, and went to Mengong, which is only 50 kilometers away from Mina. Calculated
by distance, the border crossing between Mengong and Y Province is more than 100 kilometers, and the vehicle speed is 80 kilometers per hour. In terms of speed, it only takes one or two hours, and the roads in Myanmar are not very good in some places. The speed of trucks is maintained at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour. There are many checkpoints on the road, station wagons
or vehicles with license plates from Ynan Province. They all had to go through inspections. The student Le Xiao was riding a local minivan and did not need to be inspected, so he had to travel leisurely. The journey
of more than 100 kilometers took nearly two and a half minutes, 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 Great China, which is roughly equivalent to about 7:30 pm in the capital of Great China. No matter how you look at it,
Meng Gong is a self-sufficient free-development city with residential buildings. The construction of the streets seemed very random. It was after five o'clock, and the sun had not yet set, but the atmosphere of dusk had already invaded the town. People could be seen on the road leading to the city, and people setting up stalls and doing business on the streets of the town were 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 the entire Myanmar. Most of the jadeite rough produced from various fields had to pass through Meng Gong and Mina before flowing to other places. A few years ago, jade 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 went to the jade stone.
There were 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 of it in advance. Month's accommodation money, after completing the formalities, I happily picked up my suitcase and went upstairs to check in.
After placing my luggage properly, I went downstairs to find a place to eat, then returned to the hotel, checked every place, and found no cameras. I went back to the space to finish my work. , take a shower and wash clothes, then read a book until 11 o'clock and go to bed.
The next day is June 14th.
When the sky over Europe was dawning, Earl Ryan headed to the airport with his personal bodyguard Abner. At the same time, Miao Miaodan also canceled his planned trip to visit a certain Earl in another state and left for home at short notice.
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 staff which street she could gamble on. Jadeite rough.
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. The tropical style was revealed here, and it also had 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 bag, dragged a suitcase, and went shopping happily.
She took a detour from the boss and ran to Meng Gong. Naturally, she already had a good idea of her plan. Based on the information she got from the hotel waiter, she went straight to Beishi Street.
As the largest jade market in Myanmar, Meng Gong may not be as prosperous as the border port cities in Ynan Province. However, the number of raw jade stones is absolutely amazing. Jade is a high-end luxury product in the big cities of China. In Mengong, the treatment is even lower than at the border of Yinnan Province. They are all 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. from elephants, tigers, leopards and other animals. As for whether it is true or false, it all depends on everyone's perspective, just like gambling on stones.
It's better for pedestrians to walk early, and even more so for early pedestrians. She's early, and others are not too late. Many merchants looking for jade are wandering the streets, and some are pure tourists who also wander to the streets to join in the fun.
In order to grab business, Myanmar businessmen, who originally lived a slow 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. Vendors with open-air stalls delayed their stalls due to the morning rain and waited until the rain stopped. After that, the stalls started to appear one after another. Whenever items were put out, the owner would spread out a tarp and sit or stand, eating without breakfast.
Meng Gong's jade market is equivalent to the second-hand market for jade. The first-hand market is naturally the site where raw jadeite is produced, which is also the most primitive first-hand market. However, the businessmen who actually go to the site are the owners or Large businessmen who are long-term business partners with the market operators. Generally speaking, not all jade merchants will go to the site of production. After all, jade sites are located in remote mountains and ridges. It is quite risky for outsiders to go to the jade sites. value.
The size of Meng Gong is less than that of a town, roughly equivalent to the location of the township government of a small village. Because it was the first city before the jadeite was exported, even though it is small, the streets are 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 does not live up to the name of the "Jade Market". Jadeite stones can be seen everywhere on the pavements and stalls, as well as red Jade, 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 believe that jade jewelry is everywhere. Scenes are commonplace. Similarly, if you go to the towns near the origin of jade, 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 It's the stones on the roadside by the river.
The open-air stalls are mobile. Some of the sellers of raw jadeite are dug by the miners themselves, some are dumped by the miners, and some are sold by hired help. Sometimes there are also sellers of fruits and trinkets mixed in between the stalls. Vegetable sellers, etc., are more interesting in life than just selling stone streets.
Dragging her suitcase onto the street, Le Yun excitedly rushed to a grocery street with the largest number of jadeite stones. First, she 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, only about a hundred meters, and then turn, branch, and then branch out into many small streets and alleys. In the larger streets, stalls can be set up, and there are no urban management officials wandering around the streets.
In recent jadeite markets, the gold content of raw jadeite is higher than that seen in the border town of Yinnan Province. After all, some of the stones in the border town of Yinnan Province were also searched by mengongjing people, so the quality can be clearly judged. Naturally, the good materials entered the pockets of professional jade dealers first.
When she first arrived, Le Yun was not familiar with the bargaining method. She would not discuss the business first, but secretly scouted the "enemy situation" and inferred the price that the merchants might be able to bear from other people's transaction prices, and used this as the bottom line for bargaining.
There are a lot of rough jade stones on Menggong Street, but they are not equivalent to cabbage prices. Whether it is a vendor or a businessman who specializes in stone business, they also know what it means to adapt to the society. Because there are many buyers, the prices are not low, but relatively speaking they are not. It is a price that ordinary people can accept, because the 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 taxes, 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, excluding those with slightly poor water quality or good water quality, but with too many cracks.
Just over 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 a stone weighing more than thirty kilograms in a shop, and at the same time I bought a stone. The tree turned into jade, a piece of ivory bone sculpture, and a tiger claw were smashed out of a total of 210,000 oceans.
It didn’t cost much to buy the stones. The main reason was that the tree-turned jade alone cost nearly 40,000 yuan, and the tiger claws and ivory totaled 20,000 yuan. In fact, the owner of the goods couldn’t tell whether they were real or fake, so he sold them as half-true and half-fake.
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 harvest, either one or two pieces of jadeite that I liked. I found the tusks, claws, and 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.
Golden camphor, also called mountain balm, is a deciduous tree that grows in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. It takes fifty years to mature. It has high hardness, is resistant to wear and tear, is not easily deformed, is acid and alkali resistant, moisture-proof and corrosion-resistant.
Originally, the golden camphor wood was polished and oxidized by photosynthesis to a golden color, and became more noble and dignified as time went by. However, probably because the basin had been in the owner's hands for too long, and was soaked in water and smoke all year round. Blisters, the surface becomes dull and gray, and there are a few small dents and chips, very old.
The stall owner sold home-grown strawberries in gold camphor wood 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 the pots. They looked similar to The story of buying a casket and returning a pearl is somewhat similar.
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 the basin owner has passed down, and it has been completely changed beyond recognition.
After finding something ancient, Le Yun felt so beautiful that the sky was clear. She was 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, and ran to what was originally a residential area. Wandering around the street corner, I didn't know if I could find the spiritual objects hidden in my house. I didn't know if I could find them, but I picked up everything I could. I also went to the garbage dump in the district and picked up a few daily items that had been thrown away as scrap metal. Broken parts of daily necessities and scrap rocks.
She circled east and west, visiting all 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 continued to play with her bag and luggage again.
Taking to the streets for the second time, Le Xiaoxiao's classmate once again walked around the streets. When the sun set, he walked out of 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 and slipped back into space. I watched the little fox and little Huihui take care of the crops while they were busy doing their personal chores, finding things, and putting on makeup for themselves.
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 several times to turn him into wood. He just I can hold a towel on my head and feel sad silently.
After tapping the acupuncture points of Little Fox and Little Huihui so that they could not move, Le Yun quickly took off her clothes and sat in a bucket filled with water to take a bath. The soak lasted for about an hour. After taking a bath, her white and tender skin became smoother. It has to be very close to the skin of Southeast Asians, but much whiter and softer, like the skin of a pampered person who never basks in the sun.
After the skin is changed, put on clothes, apply skin-changing lotion on the face, neck, ears and other places again, and wash the hair to make the scalp, face and ears consistent with the skin on the body.
When the skin changes to the ideal look, put a wig with waist length on the top of the head, use special glue to stick the edges, and stick it firmly. Not to mention that it can't be shaken off, even if someone pulls and grabs her hair. Can't pull the wig off either.
Having disguised herself so well, 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 about the little human girl for being so unreasonable. When he saw a completely changed girl in front of him, his golden pupils widened: "Little girl, are you crazy? "Why did you make yourself so ugly?"
Little Huihui rolled his eyes. When he heard the fussing cry of the little fox, he quickly looked towards the owner and saw an unfamiliar face, screaming "Zhi" He jumped back a step with a sound, his eyes full of fear.
"You say 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 look at the fruits of her labor.
The face of a young woman was printed in the mirror, with long soft black hair shawl, eyebrows covering her forehead, big eyes, relatively white skin, no eyebrows or lipstick, but she definitely looked ugly. Not relevant.
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 very big, they don't have any aura at all." No, it’s gray like a half-dead fish’s eyes. Look at her white skin, which is very white, but it’s not moist and smooth at all. Her hair looks black and shiny but actually doesn’t have any life at all. She’s such a pretty little girl. The beauty was forced to look like a lifeless rag doll, it's so irritating to the eyes."
"Hmph, I'm happy, what's the matter?" Le Yun raised her chin, and when the little fox said 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 If he goes, she won't hit 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 other people's eyes look bad." "I will
go out when it's time to go out. I'm sure not many people will recognize me like this. It's me." Le Yun raised her eyes proudly, hmm, the way a manly woman has grown long and fluttering hair is quite interesting. There must be someone who wants to track her, even if the two of them face to face, they won't recognize who she is.
"To be honest, if I weren't someone who spends my time with you, I wouldn't recognize you at all with your ugly face. After you changed your make-up, you became a new level of ugliness. Of course, I can recognize you, but your smell hasn't changed much. My voice has not changed."
"I will take voice-changing pills later and change my voice slightly. As for the smell, I don't want to take random pills." She has medicine that can make the smell of sweat smell bad or sour, but She didn't want to eat, there was no need.
"Little girl, what do you want to do to look like this? Is there anything big enough for you to make yourself ugly?" "
I want to make a fortune, and I don't want people to remember my face, so I have to make myself look like this. Stranger."
"Little girl, don't you want to rob someone's house?" The little fox exaggeratedly said, "Oh my God, 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 the merits of spiritual practice." With her
paws stretched out, Le Yun grabbed the little fox on her shoulder and threw it away: "What the hell, a dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth, so think of me. It's so bad, where can you go to cool off?"
After being thrown away, the little fox rolled in the air, landed nimbly, then jumped up again, jumped up and down to the little human girl, and grabbed the little monkey, rising and falling several times He jumped under the dragon blood tree, climbed up into the tree nest and played in the tree hole, wagging his tail.
Xiao Huihui fell 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 at the end. She also curled her eyelashes upwards. After a long time, she couldn't find any flaws. Take a pill, eat 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 at night.
The night in Mengong 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 the road alone with her short legs, swaying and swaying from one direction of the town to the completely opposite direction. On a road in the direction, I found a suitable hiding place and climbed back into the 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 bulging luggage bag. , walking slowly along the road into the city towards Mengong Town.
In the early morning, Meng Gong looks like a peaceful girl, 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 newly transformed Le Xiao student 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.
Fairies, happy Lantern Festival, please remember to eat more glutinous rice balls!
(Because it’s the Tangyuan Festival, so a certain product is on the rise, and everything is on the rise~)
(End of this chapter)