After the Dongli Military Academy's mixed martial arts competition, the school specially gave the freshmen some rest time. Many people who lived close to the house went home. Pang Xiaonan chose to stay in Huahai City and handle many chores because he lived far away and had many things not implemented.

Because of the competition for several consecutive days, Pang Xiaonan's practice has been greatly reduced, especially when he thought of a way to increase the practice effect, he had no time to implement it. The day after the competition, he came to the old city of Huahai City and found a blacksmith shop.

This blacksmith shop is located at the entrance of a dilapidated community. Pang Xiaonan spent a lot of time asking many people before finding this place.

There was only one old man in the blacksmith shop, tinging on a piece of red iron piece. The old man's beard and hair were gray, but looking at his hammer, it seemed to be strong and powerful. Pang Xiaonan looked carefully. The old man was shirtless and had a leather stained apron on his body. His arms were very strong, and a trace of muscles covered his entire arm.

"Old man, I want to make something." Pang Xiaonan said politely.

The old man looked up at Pang Xiaonan, without stopping his work, and said, "You wait a moment, I will finish this iron. There is a stool over there, you can sit."

Pang Xiaonan walked to the door of the blacksmith shop, where a chair was standing alone. Pang Xiaonan sat down and looked around at the dilapidated shop.

This shop has been around for a while, and there are iron parts everywhere. Many of them are rusty and look defective. The light on the shop is dim, and only the fire is bright, just like a red sun, which raises the temperature in the shop by several degrees. There is no fan in the shop, and even Pang Xiaonan, who is sitting at the door, is sweating profusely.

The jingling sound of the old man making a blacksmith in Pang Xiaonan's ears came from the old man's iron. The sound was very rhythmic, like a symphony. If you close your eyes and feel it, it would really be a bit like a natural sound.

Finally, the ding-kong sound gradually became smaller. The old man stopped the hammer and put the still red iron piece into the bucket next to him. The iron piece came into contact with cold water, making a squeaking sound, and a fog rose.

The old man walked to Pang Xiaonan, took a dry cigarette tube from the wall, pulled a small stool and sat down, took out a small handful of tobacco from the bag hanging in the dry cigarette tube, put it on the cigarette mouth and lit it with a match, and then started smoking.

Pang Xiaonan asked curiously: "Old man, you are so old and still wiping iron?"

The old man whispered two cigarettes and said, "There is no choice, no one will follow you. Now, who is willing to do such hard work?"

Pang Xiaonan looked at the old man's gray hair and said with some distress: "Then why don't you retire? Can your body still bear it?"

The old man shook his head: "Hmph, young man, what you mean by retirement is only available when the government and enterprises work. We craftsmen like us have no such thing as retirement? Besides, I am idle when I retire, and I feel panicked if I don't do anything every day. And my old customers, if I retire, where will they go to find blacksmiths?"

The old man knocked the tobacco from his mouth to ashes on the ground, and replaced it with new tobacco. "Although my body is getting worse every day, I can still bear this little effort. Tell me, what are you going to hit?"

The old man Pang Xiaonan Chao approached in front of him and said, "I want to hit a big iron ball, hollow, filled with mercury. Can I hit it?"

The old man sniffed a few puffs of cigarettes and looked at Pang Xiaonan and said, "You can beat me, but what's the use of hitting this thing? This is not cheap."

Pang Xiaonan was in a state of interest, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Don't worry about what I'm useful, you don't have to worry about the cost. I can afford to pay, I can give a deposit."

The old man nodded. It wasn't that he looked down on Pang Xiaonan. In fact, Pang Xiaonan was wearing clothes like a poor student. He explained to Pang Xiaonan: "Because your thing is not a standard piece, you have to tell me the size, and then I want to make molds. If you want to make molds, it will be expensive. Do you understand?"

Pang Xiaonan said: "I understand, old man, I understand everything you said. As long as you can make it, money is not a problem. How long will it take to make it?"

The old man looked at the iron stuffed in the store. His business was good and many businesses were lined up. He asked Pang Xiaonan: "Are you anxious?"

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said, "It's quite urgent."

The old man picked up the cigarette pole and pointed at the iron stuff piled on the ground and said, "You have also seen it. There are many unfinished items here, and you have to wait half a month at the earliest. If you can't wait, then you can find someone else to fight."

Pang Xiaonan's eyes turned around and thought for a moment. This blacksmith shop was easy to find. There were no other blacksmith shops that he could find. This was probably the only shop in Huahai City. "Old man, can you join a team? I'll pay more!"

The old man shook his head and said, "This is not a matter of money. I am always an old customer here. If I ask you to go to the line for money, I will let them down their trust in me all the time. You should go and fight somewhere else." After that, the old man was about to get up.

Pang Xiaonan quickly grabbed the old man's hand and said, "Old man, I'll wait, but I really ask you to hurry up. I'll wait for it to practice."

The old man said in surprise: "Practice? The first time I heard that someone practices latte balls, and there is still mercury inside! But young man, I have practiced qigong too, otherwise what do you think I can still swing a big hammer at such an old age?"

Pang Xiaonan laughed and said, "I have seen it a long time ago. It turns out that we are fellow fellows, so please take care of us in the future."

The old man took the cigarette pot and knocked Pang Xiaonan's head. He didn't knock it down. He smiled cheerfully and said, "Okay, since you and I are both practicing martial arts, I will work overtime to drive you out. You can leave a size and a phone number, and I will notify you when I finish it."

"Thank you, old man." Pang Xiaonan left the information the old man wanted and walked out of the blacksmith shop.

Picking up his cell phone, Pang Xiaonan called, "Lao Wang, is it cooking at home? Okay, I'll sign up for a meal and wait for me to come back to have dinner." Pang Xiaonan looked up at the sky. The dark clouds covered the sun, and the weather was very stuffy and it seemed to be raining. Pang Xiaonan quickly walked to the parking space, opened the shepherd's door and got in, and then started the car and drove towards Hailong Community.

These days, Pang Xiaonan has been delivering medicine to Mr. Wang. He learned from Mr. Wang that tonight is a stone gambling conference on the black market. The two agreed to go to the stone gambling conference tonight and try their luck, so Pang Xiaonan is preparing to go to Mr. Wang's house for free. The surplus grain from the landlord's house is more abundant than the big meal outside.

Back at Hailong Community, Pang Xiaonan drove directly to Mr. Wang's house and rang the doorbell. It was Su Xiaomei's door, Mr. Wang's housekeeper.

"Oh, Xiaonan is here, please come in quickly." Su Xiaomei greeted Pang Xiaonan enthusiastically. Since she learned that Congressman Wang's life was saved by Pang Xiaonan, she has treated Pang Xiaonan differently.

Pang Xiaonan smiled and entered the house, saying, "Aunt Mei, I smelled the fragrance of the food outside. What's the delicious food today?"

Su Xiaomei smiled and brought Pang Xiaonan a glass of frozen juice and said, "Mr. Wang said you were coming, so I told me that I had made two more dishes in the kitchen, which were all your favorites. Oh no, you must love them. Look at my memory, I don't know what you like to eat. Anyway, I have prepared a few more nutritious dishes. You are still in school, so you have to replenish your brain."

Pang Xiaonan leaned on the solid wood sofa, drank frozen juice and said, "As long as it is prepared by Aunt Mei, there is nothing I don't like to eat!"

As he walked around Wang Zhengman Wang's house, Pang Xiaonan and Su Xiaomei became familiar with each other quickly. No wonder Wang Zhengman wanted to find Su Xiaomei as the butler. Su Xiaomei was not only charming, but also had a good attitude towards people. She was also very good at dealing with everyone. She only came a few times and treated Pang Xiaonan as a junior.

Pang Xiaonan is naturally not polite. Aunt Mei is so arrogant that she is so intimate. In fact, Su Xiaomei is about the same age as her mother, but in terms of appearance, she looks like the other in the sky and the other in the ground. Pang Xiaonan couldn't help but sigh that the people in the city can take care of themselves.

"Where is Member of Congress Wang?" Pang Xiaonan asked Su Xiaomei.

"At the upper floor, I should be drinking tea." Su Xiaomei looked at the second floor, "Anyway, it's almost time to eat, so I'll call him down."

"No, no, no," Pang Xiaonan waved his hand and stood up, "I'll call him."

Pang Xiaonan went up the second floor and came to the tea room of Mr. Wang's house. Sure enough, Mr. Wang was drinking tea. He turned his back to the door and looked at the vast sea. The room was filled with antique music, which made people feel refreshed.

This tea room and study room are connected, with a screen that can move freely in the middle. On the side of the tea room facing the sea are large floor-to-ceiling windows. The invincible sea view makes people feel open-minded. The sea is not so boundless, and you can also look at the cityscape of Huahai City from afar. At night, the starlights of thousands of lights make people feel very comfortable.

"Lao Wang, you are so elegant." Pang Xiaonan walked straight to the side of the tea table, found a seat and sat down.

"You are here." Member Wang reached out and took a small teacup and put it in front of Pang Xiaonan. Then he grabbed the electric kettle and poured some boiling water to scald the cup. Then he picked up the purple clay pot and poured half a cup of tea into Pang Xiaonan's cup.

"Well, good tea." Pang Xiaonan picked up the teacup and sniffed it deeply. It was the best Tieguanyin.

"Are you sure you go gambling with stones tonight?" Congressman Wang asked Pang Xiaonan with a smile. He knew that Pang Xiaonan proposed to go to the stone gambling conference. It was definitely not just a stroll. He would not have to get up early without profit, and he must have a plan.

Pang Xiaonan raised his mouth and said, "I have made up for my knowledge of jade these days. I must have grasped the essence of jadeite quality," Pang Xiaonan clenched his fist and made a cheerful gesture, "We will definitely not come back empty-handed tonight."

"Oh?" Congressman Wang took a sip of tea with great interest, "Then tell me, why do you call me a good jade?"

Pang Xiaonan waved his finger and said, "Don't think I have no idea about jade. Jade is a kind of jade, also known as the king of jade. So gambling on stones is actually gambling on whether there is good jade in the raw stones."

"The Mo's hardness of jadeite is 6.5~7, so it is the only one among all jadeites, so it is called the king of jade. Jade is the most difficult to evaluate gemstones. The contingency in the composition process leads to the different characteristics of each piece of jadeite. Even on the same raw stone, the color of each part is different. The difference in the quality of jadeite leads to a very large price difference, ranging from a few hundred yuan to a few million or even more expensive ones. Therefore, the evaluation of its value mainly depends on the quality and water."

"The type refers to the texture of jade. It is the life of jade and the foundation of jade. To put it simply, if a piece of jade does not have a type, it is an ordinary stone. There are many theories about the classification of jade types. In detail, from high to low are: glass type, high ice type, jelly type, ice type, glutinous ice type, hibiscus type, glutinous type, glutinous type, fine glutinous type and glutinous type."

"Glass type: As the name suggests, it is as transparent as glass, with extremely fine flesh and no impurities. It fluoresces from the inside out, and it has a glass luster after polishing. Generally, glass types are non-colored. If they are colored, they look more bright and transparent. At this time, they can be called glass bottom."

"High ice: Unlike glass types, high ice has high transparency, but it has a little more impurities and a little cotton, fluorescent from the inside out, and has a glass luster after polishing."

"Jelly species: The appearance looks very similar to the jelly, and it is crystal clear. Unlike the first two, it does not reflect fluorescence. It is characterized by a very gluey feeling, no cotton can be seen with the naked eye, and it has a glass luster."

"Ice type: Ice type jade gives people the most intuitive visual experience like a piece of ice, so it is said that "three parts warm and seven parts cold". It has high transparency and full of ice feel, and it also has a glass luster after polishing."

"Glutinous ice type: Just like the cooked glutinous rice soup is put into the refrigerator and it forms ice. The transparency is second to the ice type, with a slight turbidity and still has an ice-like feeling."

"Hidden lotus species: It has a hazy feeling of beauty coming out of the bath, most of which have a slightly lotus leaf-like background color, and the cotton cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is integrated and has low transparency, and can also be called high glutinous."

"Glutinous type: The cotton inside the jade begins to melt, and the particles cannot be seen with the naked eye. The transparency is second only to the hibiscus type. The one with the best melting can be called the hibiscus type."

"Fine glutinous type: The cotton and particles inside the jade are about to melt, but they are not melted, and the particles inside the jade cannot be seen with the naked eye, and the transparency is low."

"Glutinous type: gives people an intuitive feeling like cooked glutinous rice grains, crystal clear and delicate, with lower transparency. There is also a bean type under the glutinous type, but the meat inside the bean type jade is rough, and the crystal particles can be seen with the naked eye. It has a low value, so we will not classify it as a type of jade."

Mr. Wang nodded and said, "I did a lot of homework, but your knowledge is only the most basic way to distinguish jade. It is known to anyone who plays jade. People who don't have to play jade, and ordinary people know it."

Pang Xiaonan picked up the teacup and drank it, poured it on himself, and said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished it yet."

"The type of jade and water of jade are two concepts. The type refers to the structure and structure of jade. Water is the brightness and reflection of the appearance of jade. In fact, water is the external manifestation of the species. The type is the source of the connotation of water. The two are causal and effect connections, and can also be understood as a unity. Jade with good water has a strict structure, high brightness, strong appearance, and looks spiritual. Jade with poor water has a crystal structure but is not fine enough, and the mineral particles composed of them are not delicate enough. Some of them can even be seen with the naked eye. The quality of water is an important factor in the evaluation of jade value."

"People distinguish many types of jade from red based on the characteristics of jadeite. The year of the composition is used as the parameters to distinguish them as new species and old bells. New species and old species are relatively common. Since there are no quantitative specifications, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Although there are 9 types of jadeite, the common ones are mainly 4 categories: glass species, ice species, glutinous species, and bean species."

"The different types of water in each part of the jadeite rough stone may also reflect several different types of water, such as glutinous ice and ice types, both exist on the same jadeite rough stone. However, the whole body is the same or close, and the differences between different types of water are relatively subtle. For example, glass types may symbiotically with ice types, or symbiotically with glutinous types, but unlikely to symbiotically with bean types."

"Glass type, based on the literal meaning, is as bright as glass. Jade is a collection of multiple mineral deposits and cannot be 100% pure. Glass type is just an analogy, which means its brightness is the same as glass. Some jades contain a few impurities, which are completely clear and can also be included in the field of glass type. The purest and brightest glass type jade is set at 100 points, so those with a score of 90 or more can be considered glass type."

"Glass jade has very little content, and among all jade products, it is simply one in a million. Glass jade is particularly rare and has high value. In the jade auction records over the years, the price of glass jade has always been very high. If it is a glass-based type, it is considered a priceless treasure."

"Common glass types are divided into colorless glass types and colored glass types. Colorless glass types are relatively simple, and can be distinguished from purity and reflection. Those with typical glass characteristics can be summarized as glass types. Colored glass types, such as full green jade, are more difficult to distinguish. For this type of jade, it is also different from purity and reflection strength, but if you look closely, it is difficult to tell whether it belongs to glass types at a glance."

"Colorless glass jade is one of the types of jade with the largest price increase in recent years. It can be said that its value doubles. The normal-scale colorless glass bracelet has increased from tens of thousands of yuan to tens of millions of yuan now; the large colorless glass ring face has increased from tens of thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan now."

"The common colors of glass jade are green and blue flowers, and the rarer ones are yellow, red, purple and black. Colored glass jade has always been very expensive, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, and some are better to reach tens of millions of yuan. The price difference of colored glass is mainly reflected in the color tone type and the texture of the glass itself. The best is the bright and even colored jade with a fine texture."

"Ice jade is a jade as bright as ice cubes. Ice cubes are bright, and its brightness is slightly worse than that of glass. It is not necessarily pure, and there are more or less structures inside. Ice jade also has some structures inside, which can be called "cotton" or "ice residue". Ice jade has a very good brightness, which is attributed to high-end jade, and its value is second only to glass."

"The span of ice jade is relatively large, from ice waves close to glass, high ice types, to ice glutinous types close to glutinous types. Due to the differences in internal impurities, the price of ice jade ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, or even millions of yuan, and is one of the most common high-end jades."

"Glass jade is simply free of impurities, so it is very simple to identify. It is not difficult to identify ice jade. Just need to be as bright as ice. Even if the interior has a structure, it is considered ice jade. If it is colored ice jade, you should carefully observe the reflection of the jade's appearance. It is similar to the luster of ice cubes and has a weak mirror effect, but it is weaker than the glass luster of glass jade."

"Ice jade has a large span and no quantitative specifications. Some merchants call ice glutinous rice high ice type to misleading consumers. There are no detailed characteristics and data, which can measure the degree of ice type to which jade reaches and how much it is worth. In most cases, it can only distinguish the quality of ice type by experience."

"Ice jade has many types of colors, and basically all the colors of jade are included. In addition to the common colorless and green, there are also yellow jade, red jade, black jade and violet. Ice jade is relatively rare among them. If the purple is elegant, it is also classified as high-end jade, which is of great collection value."

"The brightness of glutinous jade is second only to the ice type, and it belongs to the semi-bright state, which seems transparent but not to be transparent. Like a very thinly cooked porridge, perhaps the rice water is slightly turbid, and it is difficult for the naked eye to see the particles in the structure. Glutinous jade is more common, and it is classified as mid-grade jade, but some of it has a very delicate texture and has the effect of glue, so it belongs to high-end jade."

"The characteristics of glutinous jade can be summarized in four words: uniform but not transparent. If it is uneven, particles can be seen, and glutinous jade cannot be achieved; if it is uniform but transparent, it will be classified as ice glutinous jade."

"The impermeability is related to the thickness. The glutinous type of 3mm thick is even more transparent than the 9mm thick ice type. If the glutinous type of jade is cut very thin, it will become very transparent, similar to the ice type, so we can only use jade with the same thickness as the reference object to judge the quality of jade."

"The appearance of glutinous jade has a softer reflection and does not have the mirror effect of glass and ice. As long as the marginal blurred spots are blurred, the internal particles of different glutinous jade are different. If it is an old glutinous jade, it has a fine internal particles and a fine structure, it may play a glue effect."

"The value of jade is closely related to the quality and water. In most cases, if the color and technology are similar, ice type will be more expensive than glutinous types, but it is not certainly so. Some glutinous types of jade have a uniform and delicate roots, and compared with the ice type jade, there is more cotton wool inside, which is better than glutinous types of jade, and the price may be higher than ice type jade."

"Bean type is the most common jade. There is a jargon that nine out of ten beans means that 90% of jade are bean types. The crystal particles are coarse and have no brightness. The stone properties are relatively heavy. It can usually be seen with the naked eye. Most bean type jade has low quality and the overall price is not high, but there are also high-end products, such as bean green and white-backed green."

"Bean-type jadeite also has the best and bad water. According to the composition of the jadeite, it is divided into coarse bean type and fine bean type. The particles of fine bean type are relatively delicate, and the water is better than coarse bean type. Another measurement standard is color. Some bean type jadeites with green color are also classified as high-quality jadeites. The best colored bean green is its value even close to colorless glass type. In addition to this type of high-value bean green, the background color of colorless bean type has a great impact on the price. Some are very white, some are gray or even black. The two values ​​are also very different."

"Bean-type jade is generally used to make medium- and low-end jade pendants. The jewelry-grade jade that is commonly seen a few hundred yuan a day is generally made of colorless beans. Bean-type jade is cheap and has a simple and obscured bean-green background, so there are still many consumers in the market. Some bean-type jade is used to make ornaments, and most of the jade ornaments are made of bean-type jade, and there are also high-quality products among them. The best-colored bean-type jade is used to make bracelets and jade collars, which can be said to be the most amiable green jade."

Member Wang smiled, gave a thumbs up, and said, "We have studied very deeply, but we are going to bet on stones. We can't see the jade inside the raw stones. How do you go to bet on?" Although Member Wang knew that Pang Xiaonan must have his own way, he was still very curious about Pang Xiaonan's way.

"Hehe," Pang Xiaonan pointed to the heart of Mr. Wang, "Have you forgotten how I cured you? I could even sense the structure inside the human body. How could a stone stump me?"

"Haha," said Mr. Wang, slapped his hands happily and rubbed them. "Look at my memory, it seems that we have gained a lot tonight!"

Pang Xiaonan practiced near his villa these days, and continuously instilled the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into his body. Although his martial arts level has not improved much, his sensitivity has increased greatly. Sometimes he can sense it from the air. In other words, he can sense complex information such as the material and structure of the object without touching the object.

"Let's go, go for dinner, let's go early!" Pang Xiaonan drank the cup of tea and stood up to call Member Wang downstairs.

The food at Mr. Wang's house was indeed very rich. There was a steamed sea bass, a plate of garlic and vegetables, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried carrots, a pot of snails, and a large bowl of fish head tofu soup. However, only Mr. Wang, Su Xiaomei, Pang Xiaonan and Peng Yuyan had dinner.

Member Wang sat in the main seat and waved his hand and greeted: "Come on, Xiao Nan, eat. There are not many dishes. I don't like to waste, so I prepared these dishes. I don't know if they suit your taste."

Pang Xiaonan picked up a green vegetable with chopsticks and chewed it in his mouth. The vegetable was crispy, mixed with the taste of nature and light soy sauce. "It's delicious!" Pang Xiaonan licked his lips, "I'm not picky about food, nor do I like to waste. This dish is good. Come on, don't be idle, eat..."

After eating and drinking, Peng Yuyan drove Pang Xiaonan and Mr. Wang towards the black market. Peng Yuyan's car drove quickly and steadily, and soon arrived at the edge of the city. However, although the buildings were getting dilapidated, the traffic on the road was quite large. Mr. Wang said to Pang Xiaonan: "Most of these cars are from the night market. Tonight can be said to be a big carnival night."
Chapter completed!