The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Nan put away two sets of precious jewellery, and turned over the jewellery brought back in other pockets and small boxes.

not bad!

Diamonds, red sapphires, emeralds have everything, especially in one of the boxes I saw 70 or 80 top sapphires weighing between 10 carats and 200 carats.

It is not Sri Lankan sapphire, nor is it a Burmese product, because Zhang Nan can be sure that these sapphires are basically cornflower sapphires!

There are not many sapphires in the world, mainly Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, China... But in terms of gem quality, the quality of sapphires produced in Kashmir is the best. As for the famous Sri Lankan sapphires, they are more common in the market. That's it.

Among the sapphires produced in the Kashmir region, the "cornflower" sapphire has always been hailed as the best sapphire. It presents a hazy, purple-hued rich blue that can give people a velvety color. Exterior.

It is a pity that Kashmir cornflower sapphire was mined in 1861 and officially ceased production in 1887. During this period, it was only mined for more than 20 years. In addition, the extremely harsh environmental conditions of the production area and the difficult production and mining have resulted in extremely rare survival!

Little is expensive, and the price is too high: Zhang Nan saw a cornflower sapphire in Joshua’s studio, only 4 carats, and the price was more than 250,000 US dollars.

The designer also said that in 1985, he designed a ring for a top Kashmir cornflower sapphire weighing 82 carats commissioned by a client. The naked stone was bid by the client from the auction house. $1.42 million!

More than 120,000 US dollars per carat.

It is expensive to die, and it can be compared with the actual value of Charlize Theron's "Star of Tomorrow", and the value of a single carat surpasses the "Star of Tomorrow"!

It is too rare. As long as the Kashmir sapphire is more than 4 carats and the color can be called cornflower blue, there will be at most three or four in all auction houses in the world each year.

As for the jewelry store?

Sorry, it has been out of production a long time ago, it is impossible to have it in the store!

Zhang Nan used to prefer red gems, but since seeing the Kashmir Cornflower Sapphire that time, he really likes this top gem that will be fascinating.

It is a pity that I have found two or three in the mines of Berchtesgaden before. The small Nazi treasures are not without top sapphires, but those sapphires are not made in Kashmir.

Joshua taught herself how to distinguish such top sapphires. Zhang Nan would take out the 30x magnifying glass in his pocket and focus on the light. He saw ribbons and snow flake inclusions in the sapphire, which is of great origin. evidence of.

There are many ruby ​​sapphires, which are not the same as the cleanliness standards of diamonds. What is wonderful is that these snow-like inclusions and milky white bands reduce the transparency of sapphires, but they create the unique "velvet" of Kashmir sapphires. "Effect!

Germans like sapphires, especially the cornflower lanbao produced in Kashmir: Germany’s national flower is the blue cornflower, and Germans seem to like this color naturally.

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I gathered my things and saw a car arriving downstairs in the hotel. It was Clementine, Linman and Zach who came back.

To Zhang Nan's report: One of the two helicopters has been returned, and one is reserved for spare. The two guys of the "United Force" are guarding the "Helicopter Base".

As for Paul and Chamelie, they both drove hundreds of kilometers. It is estimated that they are running on a certain section of the highway leading to Hamburg.

"Thanks, you guys have a good rest, I'll go out." Zhang Nan cared about his three loyal bodyguards, and then said to Guan Lao Avenue who came in together: "Since things are settled, we will go out for dinner today."

"Where to go?"

"Not far, just 20 kilometers away, let's go to Fuschl Castle on Fuschl Lake."

Zhang Nan said what Zhang Nan said on this kind of small issue. When he drove 5 cars, he stayed at the hotel with two "United Forces" guys, and the group set off to the northwest of the town of St. Wolfgang. Fuschl Lake more than twenty kilometers away.

The scenery was beautiful along the way. The motorcade went to Fuschl by the lake in half an hour, but did not stop in this beautiful tourist town. The motorcade continued to the northwest, and the Fuschl Castle was on the other side of the lake.

Fuschl Lake is 664 meters above sea level, 1 km long, 9 km wide, and covers an area of ​​7 square kilometers. It was a resort of the Austro-Hungarian imperial family one hundred years ago. Starting from Fuschl by the lake, along the lakeside road It's almost 5 kilometers in the past.

The castle is on a small peninsula into the lake. This will be turned into a hotel open to the outside world. It is a U-shaped building. The main building has two floors, while the huge tower on the southeast side has four floors and a spire.

The castle is not a very special kind of majestic, or it is more like a high-end farmhouse. There are many castles with similar structures in the mountains of western Austria, but the scenery is really good.

Boss Guan got out of the car, looked at the environment, and said: "Not bad!"

He was talking about the scenery, and I felt that Anan would really pick a place.

Zhang Nan heard it and said with a smile after getting off the car: "It is said that the trout in the terrace restaurant on the second floor above is very good. I will try it later."

Boss Guan glanced at Zhang Nan and could read what he meant without saying: How did you know?

Too lazy to explain.

I called to order a meal just now. Although it was not time for dinner, Zach still planned to go to the front desk to contact him first, but was stopped by Zhang Nan.

The guys are all there. Zhang Nan seems to be standing in the defensive formation and asked a group of guys: "Do you have anyone familiar with this place?"

Everyone didn't respond.

"Is this special?"

In addition to the good scenery, there really is something special about every bodyguard.

Well, a bunch of Americans plus the bodyguards from China who have been with him for more than a year and have barely returned to China. Zhang Nan is a little bit helpless about this. He seems to be asking the wrong person: Alyosha can recognize this place. There are ghosts everywhere!

Zhang Nan looked at Randy and Zach, "Have you seen "Sissi"?"

When Randy heard it, he looked at the castle building a few more times, "Boss, I saw it when I was a kid, you're really familiar with that."

Zhang Nan shook his head and walked towards the entrance of the castle, saying, "This is one of the filming locations of the movie "Princess Sissi". The main building of this castle is the home of Princess Sissi in the movie."

Randy and Zach realized it suddenly, but Karimi and Liu Wendong, including Guan Lao, were all saying hello!

Or Alyosha actually asked Zach, "Who is Princess Sissi?"

Not only curious about the princess, but also curious about the actress in that movie.

The movie was only released in China last year, Boss Guan and the others had no chance to see it, and these few people still don’t know that Princess Sissi is weird?

I don’t know who she is. It’s not surprising that Huaxia in the 1980s: if it weren’t for those three movies, there would be a few Chinese people who knew who Princess Sissi was.

As for Zach and Randy, the movies were all shot in the mid-fifties. Randy was not born when it was released in the United States, and it was later seen on TV.

Unlike the Chinese people's sense of this kind of movie, it is estimated that not many Americans are impressed, so it is not surprising that Randy didn't feel it at first.

At the beginning of June, at three or four in the afternoon, the outdoor temperature was below 20 degrees. Zhang Nan didn't talk to the waiter at all. After Zach figured out the location of the balcony restaurant, Zhang Nan walked to the second floor.

The lobby is actually the large living room on the first floor of "Princess Sissi's House". Looking at the ancient furnishings, the oil painting on the wall Zhang Nan feels that it should be three to four hundred years old!

The old antiques of masonry structure are well preserved, and the wooden structure of the house will basically be ruined if so many years have passed.

The terrace restaurant on the second floor faces east, where you can see most of the Fuschl Lake, which is very suitable for sitting in a daze on the open-air dining chair.

After sitting for a while, Zhang Nan felt hungry and forgot to eat lunch.

Regardless of the time, he said to the waiter who was asking everyone what drinks and tea to order: "Give me a trout meal of yours. There must be no vinegar and cream in all the side dishes."

After speaking, he ignored people again, and continued to watch the scenery in a daze.

The waiter was a bit speechless, such a bunch of uncles, except for a strange oriental boss, everyone else looked like a bodyguard.

That’s right, people don’t care about your meal time regulations at all~www.readwn.com~ because the waiter understands something: Some wealthy customers only think that something that can be solved with money is not a problem!

The hotel restaurant is not open now?

If you give a lot of tips, the chef will cook as long as he is there.

Thinking of what seemed to be the plot of a movie from another world, looking at the beautiful scenery of the lake and distant mountains in a daze, the waiter served the trout meal that was the main dish of the castle hotel for dinner.

I don’t know if I took care of Zhang Nan, the Oriental, or the original. The staple food is rice and bread. The trout meat on the plate is said to be produced at the lake under my feet.

The ingredients are fresh, but this practice made Zhang Nan shook his head straight: The chef probably used a technique of frying and then roasting. The large pieces of fish have a good texture and are not hard.

The fish has not undergone any marinating process, and the umami taste overshadows the salty taste, which is too weak for Zhang Nan.

Pepper, chopped shallots, and spices are also on the order, which is still too light.

The side dishes are okay, celery, cucumber, and small tomatoes that Zhang Nan hates.

Guan Xingquan and Alyosha also ate in advance and ordered two beers.

Zhang Nan just forgot to get some drinks for herself, so she took the cup from the boss Guan.

Seeing that the liquor is very weak, it is refreshing and refreshing in one sip, which is far from the German beer dozens of kilometers away!

Zhang Nan took another big sip, "Yes, the German dark beer can taste soju, it's still cool!"

Can't help but compliment.

Alyosha drank a whole drink, still feeling uncomfortable, but didn't want it anymore: Boss Guan and his default privilege is the default privilege of Guan and him when the boss is out.

"Brother Guan, how about buying this castle?"

After eating and drinking, Zhang Nan said casually.

"Opening a restaurant? That would have to be sold by others."

Direct a bucket of cold water.