The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The hotel room arranged is good. On the fifteenth floor, there is a majesty suite with two super large bedrooms and a servant's bedroom, as well as its own small meeting room and kitchen.

Luxury hotels in India like to engage in these "palace suites" and other gimmicks. The decoration and furnishings also carry a heavy Indian traditional style.

The flowers and fresh fruits placed indoors exude a faint fragrance, and there is no curry smell in the air, which is very good.

An old Valmar who took the elevator upstairs also lived on the same floor. The upper and lower three floors of 14, 15, and 16 were basically covered by the people brought by the two.

The room is quite satisfactory. For Zhang Nan personally, living conditions here are not as good as Mumbai, and it is not as good as the manor in the Valmar family in Kerala. The kitchen in the room is a must.

Except for the necessary formal banquets, Zhang Nan intends to let Danny cook, so that he can not eat anything outside.

Looking out of the window, in front of you is the largest green area in the city, which looks like a park, with several high-rise apartments in between. The tall buildings are so far away that they can't block the line of sight, and the huge city is right in front of him.

There are not many high-rise buildings over ten floors in the whole city. The west bank of the river where the hotel is located is the new city, and the opposite east bank belongs to the old city. However, apart from the few high-rise apartments belonging to high-end residential buildings, few places are not messy from afar. of.

"What are you looking at?"

As soon as Sawaguchi Jingzi went to the room to put down her small handbag, she returned to the lounge and saw Zhang Nan standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows looking at the scenery.

"Look at what cities in India look like. Mumbai is a special case. Kerala is not like India. I have been to Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan once before, and it tastes a bit different from here."

After hearing Zhang Nan's words, the beautiful woman who was still speaking English smiled and said, "It's the same everywhere. Anyway, it's 30 years ahead of China!"

"Ha ha..."

A first-level city with a capital of more than two million yuan, it feels like a super slum. Even a low-key woman like Zekou Jingzi uttered the "Thirty Years Classic Slogan"-not counting the scale, the number of new high-rise buildings is only one. In Xiangshang, even the small county town of his man's hometown has completely exploded this big city.

Not to mention the environment, except for some slums in South America, there are no places more messy and messy than Indian cities.

This is "Thirty Years Leading". I really don't know how the brains of the gang of gods in charge in New Delhi grew up.

There are still a few hours before today’s dinner party starts. Butler Tom said it’s eight o’clock in the evening, which is early. I didn't say anything. Chef Danny was busy taking an assistant into the kitchen. If he followed the schedule of the princes, Zhang Nan would be completely hungry.

Yesterday, a team of chefs arrived early. The ingredients prepared in the small kitchen were brought from Valmar’s house, except for the pickles that the owner liked to eat for breakfast.

Before actually understanding the food supply in Ahmedabad, Danny did not want any other ingredients to enter his territory except vegetables.

While Danny was busy in the kitchen, Zhang Nan was standing in the lounge to watch the scenery outside and chatting with Sawaguchi Yasushi, the old Valmar was with the Patriarch of Rajpipura Royal Family Pan Devin Singh, and the two were in Valmar. Chatting in the guest room of his suite, and presenting the present brought from the south to the host.

This is a habit in the old days when the princes visited each other. The number and variety of gifts were very large, and many of them were specialty products of Kerala. Most of the gifts will not appear in the reception room, and the butlers of both parties will accept them, but a small number of gifts will still be seen in person.

This is also a tradition. Rare objects are delivered in person, with face on both sides.

They are all good things, and some are even rarer here: Jack Daniels Gentleman's premium Tennessee whiskey and John Niwalker Blue Square Blue Brand Whiskey each have a box. These two imported spirits are now those Indians who love to drink. A favorite of the rich.

In particular, Johnnie Walker and Blue Square Blue Brand Whiskey, a 750ml bottle, sells for less than £50 in Scotland, where it is produced in Sichuan. It is a high-end wine in Western Europe. In India, a 200% spirits tax will be added before the customs clearance. After the local tax, which is more than double the price, a bottle will cost more than 300 pounds!

Old and expensive, so expensive that those middle-class people are intimidated, even many so-called rich people are absolutely expensive, as for the average company employee, a year’s salary is not enough to buy a bottle.

The princes may not care about the money, but this is Gujarat, where the Prohibition Act was promulgated in 1958. Only in a very small number of high-end hotels can you sell alcohol to foreigners, and you can only enjoy it in their respective rooms, inside the hotel. Drinking is not allowed in public places like restaurants.

The slapstick prohibition movement in the United States and the Soviet Union each illustrates one thing: since mankind has created such a good thing as "alcohol", it is difficult, difficult, and difficult to prohibit alcohol!

Beef-eating ethnic groups in the Middle East and India say that alcohol is forbidden, but there are still people who drink alcohol, and it is impossible to completely prohibit alcohol. Just like the largest country in the East in the universe, there is also a virtue of legal casinos in the country.

Ordinary Gujarat people want to drink, especially if they want to drink good wine, it is a bit difficult. It is a kind of adventure to even go to other people who can't help buying wine and bring it back.

You should know that inspections are not only carried out by planes, but even on trains there will be temporary inspections for prohibited items. As for roads, not to mention, taxes are imposed on goods transported between Indian states, and they will be encountered at interstate checkpoints at any time. examine.

Once he was found to be carrying alcohol, he would be fined a lot!

The princes of the Tubang have great magical powers, and it is not a big problem to want to drink, but these two kinds of high-quality, even some expensive whiskeys are not always available. They are definitely good things in Ahmedabad.

In addition to whiskey, the old Valmar also gave an old friend two bottles of noble rot sweet white wine from Château Lusalus. This wine is almost extinct in India, and few people have heard of this wine.

In recent years, it is extremely rare in India, because the Lusalus wine castle strictly controls sales and shipments, and who has changed it to a rich owner who is not short of money.

Even the high-end markets in Europe and the United States have become difficult to buy, let alone India, as far as Gujarat is absolutely impossible.

As for a certain period of time in the next few years, it will be even more rare, because last year the wine production of Château Lussalus was zero: the vintage was not very good. In order to ensure the quality and brand, the Château didn't make a drop of new wine last year!

By the time the new wine was supposed to be on the market in 1992, rich people who love expensive gin will be blinded. Therefore, since the decision of Château Lussary last year to suspend production for one year, the price of gin on the international market has skyrocketed. For the first time, enthusiasts are hoarding goods.

Zhang Nan doesn’t care about this. It’s a good thing to ensure the quality and brand value of the wine regardless of the cost. Anyway, he is not an alcoholic, and there will never be a shortage of wine to drink. The passive hunger marketing caused by the weather is also coming. good.

Two bottles of Lusalus Gin with a good vintage made His Royal Highness Rajpippla very happy. He had drunk this wine a few years ago, but because of the trouble of buying, he has not drunk it in these years.

Collection, good stuff.

Johnnie Walker whiskey was purchased by Old Valmar before his grandson in the UK. As for the expensive gin and Jack Daniels, Zhang Nan sent Valmar’s home before. The two former Tuan princes each had a glass of Tennessee. The whiskey is drunk.

Tubang kings, rich people, and people with access to wine can get wine. What about ordinary people in the countryside and cities?

India’s rural population has a large proportion, and the poor and drunkards in the big cities may have some way out. What about the rural areas?

The black market and private brewing are all roads, and fake wine is rampant. In India, if you drink fake wine, you won't kill hundreds of people, this is nothing!

Even: even if you know it's a fake wine, you can drink it to death... if you drink it, let's talk about it.

Hinduism does not approve of drinking, and the one that eats beef prohibits drinking, but Indians still like to drink.

In order to prohibit alcohol, some Hindu-dominant state governments have rigged their policies. At the beginning they tried to increase the price of alcohol through heavy taxes and setting thresholds for winemaking, thereby dispelling people's enthusiasm for alcohol.

Drinking is costly, not only difficult to buy and expensive, but also the life of Indian alcoholic beverage manufacturers is not easy. In India's special national system, various government departments and religious organizations will come to visit the winery at any time, but there is no reason. To demand a fine.

India is famous for its chaotic traffic order on the earth, but it is very diligent in checking drunk driving, but the effect is not good.

High taxes and large fines are driving up the price of Indian wines, and successfully making drinking in Indian restaurants one of the world's least cost-effective tourist behaviors.

But the side effect of the Indian government's doing this is even greater-the huge tax space for alcohol accounts for a quarter of the government's tax revenue in India, and it is impossible to abandon alcohol.

Just like Huaxia’s cigarettes, it calls for smoking ban every year, but this cigarette tax is China’s largest tax, and it will be surpassed by real estate in a few years. You really ban it!

Let's drink northwest wind!

Except for places like Gujarat where alcohol is already prohibited, in other Indian states, when people call for prohibition, the state government will further increase taxes under the name of religious-religious correctness. A single increase of 60% is a small meaning, but very Don't be really cruel and abstain from alcohol.

There are also distributors controlled by the local government to take over the right to operate the local alcoholic beverages and collect fees from them. This local government has joined the interest chain of alcohol. It is impossible for the country to stop drinking. The price of alcohol will rise.

As for the first prohibition in Gujarat, it was for, that was to commemorate Gandhi, the leader of the ascetic system.

However, Gujarat is also a coastal state with close ties with overseas, and alcohol smuggling has become a hot business.

There are also those poor people and talking animals, whose spirits are depressed, because the caste system has classified Indians spiritually out of three or sixty-nine classes from the beginning of their birth.

Being able to have a sip of wine in a bored, boring, impoverished life, for many lower-class Indians, is like finding a moment of peace in the world of bliss.

However, the prices of legal, smuggled, and even privately brewed alcoholic beverages are terribly high. The lower-level personnel cannot even drink safe, low-quality alcohol, so they can only buy alcohol from fake alcohol merchants.

The ethanol blending is not bad, at least it won't die, and many of them are even poisoned alcohol blended with industrial alcohol!

But for some drunkards, what if they know that it is fake wine, anyway, safe wine can't be drunk.

A bite of happiness is a bite, don’t die, it’s easy!

What if I die?

They are all dead, what else can I do, is it a corpse?

Dinner was opened at 8 o'clock in the evening, and at 7:50, Zhang Nan took Zekou Jingzi into the restaurant with Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan.

Today’s banquet is half-Indian and half-Western, with round tables and six people per table.

Those who can sit down are the masters. This is very strict. Not only the princes themselves, but even the bodyguards of Middle Eastern guests cannot sit down.

Neither Valmar nor his son brought his wife, so they voluntarily asked to sit with Zhang Nan. Six of them happened to fit together. It was also convenient to introduce Zhang Nan and the other princes.

Xiang Weirong is the brother-in-law of His Royal Highness Allen, and of course he has a seat.

As for Guan Xingquan, good fellow, as soon as he entered the palace-style decorated restaurant, many young men and women of the family brought by the princes even ran up to ask for a group photo!

One call after another.

This gang of princes and princes is basically no longer an antique, and such gatherings obviously also create opportunities for the newly grown-up nephews and princesses of each family to get to know each other.

Right now, there are not many prominent princes' families. It is getting harder and harder for young family members to find suitable objects. They can't find suitable ones. There is no way to marry or marry those upstarts in society.

Old Valmar has two grown-up grandchildren, but they have not come this time, and they are still studying abroad.

Everyone in Zhang Nan knows the doorway here at this gathering, so they don't disturb Guan Xingquan, who is constantly surrounded by men and women wearing gorgeous clothes, and they are polite with other guests under the introduction of Valmar and his son.

After a lap, he finally settled down. As for the cold Guan Xingquan, this club was still surrounded by young people and couldn't get away.

Xiang Weirong smiled and whispered: "Xingquan is really popular. If he weren't already married, he might marry a princess and go back."

Guan Xingquan is 35 years old, but not only did he not grow old in the past few years, he looked tender, plus exercise and sun exposure a lot, this complexion is extremely in line with the aesthetics of Indian Brahmins, he is less than 30 years old. Also plenary letter.

As for the eyes~www.wuxiaspot.com~ India’s Tubang princesses and celebrities like sharp-eyed men, otherwise Bollywood’s male stars would not be cool in nine out of ten.

Boss off, that's so cool!

Xiang Weirong’s voice was deliberately lowered, and it happened that the people at his table could hear clearly. This little Valmar smiled and said: “The world’s first space tourist, how can this reputation be so small? Catch up with many Bollywood superstars.

In fact, most of the young people in our circle look down on those celebrities, even if they are Brahmins, there are differences in identity.

Not to mention those ‘khan’, who are not all along, and if they dare to chase, they will use family law to punish them.

Mr. Guan is different. Even the children in our family have thought of going to space, but my father gave him a lesson on the phone.

It's not because of the cost. My father and I didn't have the courage, otherwise I would have come to you to find a way to find a way.

I really admire Mr. Guan, it's amazing! "