Chapter 295 Jewelry
In the afternoon, An Songyu returned home and saw her younger sister busy sitting on the sofa on the first floor.
Her eyes lit up the moment she saw An Songyu enter the house:
"Sis, did you take the documents to Ziyu and the others?"
What did they say?
An Songyu did not answer immediately.
He first took the warm water that An Songxiang had poured for him with unusual obsequiousness and drank half a cup before asking, rather speechlessly:
"What can I say?"
"We just found out about it, and we just got our hands on the information."
"Even if they are geniuses, can they make a decision over a lunch?"
All right……
An Songxiang obediently retreated to her original position.
He stopped urging his sister and instead remembered something else:
"By the way, sister, my friend from Tian brought you a lot of jade this time. I've put the items in your room, along with a price list. Remember to pay for them."
Speaking of this, An Songxiang also had a lot to say:
"Sis, why do you always like things like jade?"
"Do you want both the raw materials and the finished product?"
"If Mom didn't know how to buy jewelry herself, I wouldn't know how to explain it to her!"
"What do you need to explain?" An Songyu asked casually.
"What can you explain? Do you know that the price of raw materials from Hotan alone is as high as two thousand yuan per kilogram, which is equivalent to the price of a square meter of a house in a good location?"
“Then the seed jade is even more frightening. A first-grade Hetian white jade seed can cost tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram, and that’s only because I was able to find a channel in Hetian.”
"This price would be even higher in other places."
"Your channels aren't all for me to use!" An Songyu replied with a laugh.
Back then, if she hadn't wanted to buy Hetian jade, would An Songxiang have bothered to contact someone like that?
As a result, the channel was opened up by Ansongxiang.
But the real beneficiaries were An Songxiang and her clients.
However, An Songyu didn't suffer any loss; she always got the best picks first.
The price is just too high, so she doesn't dare to buy too much each time.
But consider the future price of Hetian jade.
Let alone twenty years from now, even ten years from now, the price will be in the millions per kilogram.
The trading market doesn't even dare to calculate by weight, but instead directly by blocks.
An Songyu felt that, let alone now, it was 11,000 grams.
That's 10,000 grams...
Okay, if it really costs 10,000 yuan per gram, she really has a hard time deciding how much to buy.
"Forget it, forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you anymore!" An Songxiang waved her hand, looking rather guilty.
After all, the channels she originally found for her sister have become more than just her current business.
Even the women in their family have started collecting quite a few.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the hobbies of the women in their family.
As a girl full of girlish charm, Ansongxiang's preferences are mainly based on color.
From relatively common and readily available rose quartz, pink tourmaline, pink morganite, and pink sapphire, to rarer items like padparadscha, mahenge spinel, pink diamonds, and conch beads.
Even some pinkish-purple jadeite that isn't predominantly pink, and other niche pink jewelry, are among her favorites.
And An Songyu, who was only a few years older than her.
That preference was something that An Songxiang didn't quite understand.
Her favorite things are all kinds of jade, whether it's Hetian jade or jadeite, she loves them all.
Moreover, she's picky about what she buys; she doesn't like the bad ones, and the good ones are too expensive, so she doesn't like to buy them.
But she likes to buy some niche colors.
In addition, she also likes pure gold jewelry.
And what they value most is weight, not style.
To this day, some of the gold jewelry that An Songxiang specially bought for her sister is considered by her mother to be too bulky and clumsy.
But this is perfect, as it aligns remarkably well with some of her grandmother's and aunt's hobbies.
Bi Lizhu's preferences do overlap to some extent with those of her second daughter.
But as she said, it's not surprising that someone her age would like pearls, jade, or even exquisite gold jewelry.
What's strange is that An Songyu, at such a young age, has such... old-fashioned tastes.
Of course, An Songxiang doesn't think there's anything wrong with liking aging.
The problem is... her sister's hobby is really expensive!
Seeing that An Songxiang was busy, An Songyu did not stay downstairs any longer.
As An Songyu came up from downstairs, she saw the things on her desk.
Besides boxes specifically for storing jewelry.
There was also a large box, about half the width of a box, that An Songxiang had brought back yesterday.
The box is about one-third thicker than a regular jewelry box.
Upon seeing the item, An Songyu couldn't help but raise an eyebrow slightly.
An Songxiang had helped her bring back Hetian jade ornaments and jade materials before, but this was the first time she had used a box like this to package them!
She walked over, examined the box for a while, and found that it had two layers.
First, pull out the bottom drawer, and you'll see that it contains small pieces of material weighing ten or twenty grams.
Some were carved, while others remained uncarved.
However, uncarved materials are clearly better than many carved materials.
After collecting for a period of time, An Songyu still couldn't completely distinguish the differences between Hetian jade materials.
At least we now know whether these jade materials are of the quality that would make her pay 10,000 yuan per kilogram for top-grade Hetian jade.
Once you open the top layer, the difference is obvious.
This floor also has both finished products and raw jade materials.
However, it is clear that jade material accounts for the vast majority.
Moreover, compared to the jade material in the lower layer, the jade material and jade artifacts in the upper layer are significantly heavier.
An Songyu casually picked out a carved piece.
The jade is a first-grade seed jade with no flaws, and a dragon on it is faintly visible as it takes flight.
This piece is clearly a small pendant, weighing only about fifty grams each.
In the layer above, it is neither the largest nor the smallest.
However, there are not many that can achieve such perfection.
After all, jade pebbles roll down from the mountain and are then washed and battered by flowing water.
It's practically impossible to achieve complete flawlessness.
"Sister, my friend said that those carvings were done because the jade material was actually quite good, but there were some obvious flaws," An Songxiang, who had arrived some time ago, explained.
"Therefore, jade carvers will make use of the jade itself to create completely different works."
"However, the jade carvings here are not the work of any master carver."
“But he is a local from Hotan and knows the craftsmanship of those jade carvers very well.”
"Although there are no masterpieces, all of them are made with craftsmanship that meets or exceeds the standard."
"I acquired these for you at a uniform price."
"How was it? I did a pretty good job, right?"
“Of course!” An Songyu nodded in satisfaction.
Don't underestimate this box; including the ones next to it, An Songyu spent nearly 100,000 yuan this time!
No wonder Ansongxiang complained that her hobby was expensive.
After all, with current market prices, a little over 100,000 can buy a lot of good stuff.
For example, a one-carat ring with excellent cut, clarity, and color only costs two or three thousand dollars.
This is the price that Anson Shojin learned from his frequent trips to Hong Kong Island.
Not to mention with current housing prices.
All that she has is enough to buy several apartments in the Happiness Garden area.
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