Chapter 1594 Coffee and Diamonds
In the villa next to the swimming pool. .
The colors of walls, sofas and suspended ceilings are mainly beige, and gray is used extensively as the color matching. The brown-black floor and furniture are uniform in color, full of modern simplicity and technology.
Nowadays, similar decoration styles have begun to become popular in Western countries. Han Xuan’s villa with whale sharks is located in Shiqiliwan, which is almost decorated like this.
You can see the beach and the sea in the east, and the accommodation environment is worth the high price of 2,000 US dollars a night. At least he doesn't feel that spending money is in vain, just staying comfortably.
David and Randall have left and didn't sleep well last night. The whole family is very tired.
Han Xuan didn't plan to take a break and found that there was a coffee machine in the kitchen. He bought the coffee on the train in the morning and couldn't drink it after just a sip. Now he urgently needs to be refreshed. If a cigarette comes, he may be beaten to death by his mother on the spot, so he is ready to make a cup of coffee by himself.
He walked out of the kitchen and asked, "Mom, Dad, do you drink coffee?"
"Give me a cup and soak it in a thicker way."
Mr. Han found a local travel guide and lay on the sofa, looking at the food part, and speaking very much, he never treated his son politely.
Fat Ding also meowed. It didn't think it was Han Xuan's pet from the bottom of his heart. It was just a shoveler at best. It felt like he was more like his little brother, taking care of himself...
Secretary Dawson, who heard their conversation, consciously opened the suitcase full of daily necessities and found a small antique-grade silver jar. When he picked it up, he heard a sound, filled with coffee beans produced from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Just like eating coffee and praising red wine, it is also a very elegant thing for European and American residents. In the lives of Westerners, coffee has a much higher status than red wine.
Starbucks, a company controlled by Han Xuan, had a net profit of more than $170 million last year. Coffee is the world's second largest commodity, second only to crude oil. Humans around the world drink more than 1.8 billion cups of coffee every year. As life pressure increases, this number is still increasing.
The quality of Starbucks coffee beans can only be considered average. They can only make do with it. They are more convenient to buy. Consumers think it is too troublesome to soak at home. They like to buy a cup before work. The price is mostly between two to four dollars. After excluding operating costs, the profit margin is not high.
Blue Mountain Coffee is ranked second most expensive in the world, second only to Cat Shit Coffee. It naturally has its own unique place, which is located in the coffee belt (near the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer) and has fertile volcanic soil.
In addition, the air is fresh, pollution-free, the climate is humid, and it is foggy and rainy all year round. This climate has created the world-renowned top coffee beans, sweet, sour and bitter taste, which are perfectly matched and are regarded as treasures by people.
Blue Mountain Coffee mainly relies on its own taste and has become famous over time, rather than like Cat Shit Coffee, which is famous because of its strange and disgusting method.
Under the publicity of his Animal Charity Foundation, many celebrities have issued statements on Weibo to boycott Cat Shit Coffee, and treating civets as a coffee bean production machine is really inhumane. In comparison, Xiangshit Coffee is slightly better.
But the Thai elephant taming people treat elephants really make people unable to bear to look at them. They are very smart animals, but they are not as smart as they listen to humans well and have a very proud personality.
The reason why I am willing to draw, carry people, and perform is actually because I have been tortured and trained since I was a child, and I will beat and scold you if I don’t listen.
People in this era have not had a strong idea of protecting animals. Most of the expenses of the charitable foundation in Han Xuan were invested in publicity. Rescue alone cannot be done, so the entire society must take action.
Huaxia is a severely affected area that gives him a headache. When residents in many places see wild animals, their first thought is to eat it. They stew it in a pot and destroy the corpse. Anyway, they enter the stomach, who knows what level of protected animals it is.
Before October 1996, China had not fully implemented gun bans. In the past few decades, people went out to hunt and play without any trouble. The animals near the human settlements were almost wiped out, so that later, children in the city were surprised to see a rabbit in the wild.
In Australia, I didn’t crush a few rabbits to death while driving for a long time. I was embarrassed to say that I had gone out and it was almost a disaster again...
All the tools for making coffee are complete. After weighing enough coffee beans, pour them into the machine and grind them into powder, then place them under the coffee machine, and ask Secretary Dawson to help set the time.
Soon after, it was cooked by high-pressure steam, and the concentrated liquid was dripped into the glass pot, and the coffee was ready. The weather was a little hot, so Han Xuan added some ice cubes at will, and the drinking method was completely unpredictable.
If you get used to this taste, you will not like other coffees. It is difficult for ordinary people to buy authentic Blue Mountain coffee beans. This is not a big deal for Han Xuan. The coffee beans he bought are all high-quality and full.
After drinking a cup in big mouthfuls, I basically didn't taste it, and there was a sour taste in my mouth.
He then took his luggage, went upstairs to find a room facing the sea, placed his suitcase casually in the corner of the wall, and jumped onto the bed for a while.
The sand on the Gold Coast is not as delicate as the Maldives, nor the Maldives’ beauty. The scenery is the same. However, the fun of travel is more out of unknowns. It will feel great to arrive at a place you have never set foot in before...
After a simple rest, it was already noon. Mr. Randall sent a waiter to the door and told him that the lunch was ready and invited them to enjoy it.
Han Xuan went to call Anya and Mengmeng, and found that they were not in the room. He went downstairs to the living room and saw Pang Ding and Obama swimming through the window. There were guests swimming with them. My mother and others stood by the pool and chatted.
After looking for flip-flops, I went out and shouted, "Let's go to the beach to play in the afternoon, and wait for the temperature to drop slightly.
I saw someone riding a motorboat, and I should be able to rent it for money. I have ridden in Shiqiliwan before and haven't played it for a long time."
"Okay, I want to buy sunscreen first. I really envy Anya's skin, it won't be tanned no matter how sunlight." My mother hugged her and touched her face. Maybe she felt so good, so she pinched it casually.
Anya is born with sun protection attributes. She was so white when she was a child, but still white when she grew up. If she wears a crown, she is even more princess than a princess.
Her coming-of-age ceremony will be held in March. Han Xuan collected a large number of pink diamonds for this purpose and asked Tiffany to help her customize a crown. Because there are few suitable pink diamonds, she even dismantled the ring and necklace just to get the diamonds.
The news has been circulating and was published in the newspaper by the Wall Street Journal. Some say that he was willing to pay attention to the beauty and some say that he was crazy, slandering and ruining a batch of precious antique jewelry. What's even more terrifying is that he didn't even let go of the "Eye of Light"!
The world's largest pink diamond called "Eye of Light" has a finished diamond weighing 60 carats.
More than 40 years ago, when Iranian king Pahlavi got married, this world-famous diamond was inlaid in the center of his crown.
Han Xuan personally confirmed one thing: as long as the money is in place, the crown can be sold!
Now that the Pahlavi Dynasty has been destroyed, the crown is of great significance and he has used a lot of connections to get it.
Of course, it cannot be said to be sold, but "gifted". In exchange, Han Xuan privately gave the Iranian president a check with 20 million numbers written on it. He doesn't plan to take care of where the money goes in the end, just get the diamonds.
In order to give Anya an unprecedented grand coming-of-age gift, he started preparing half a year in advance
Chapter completed!