Chapter 657: Who is Princess Sissi?
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Nan put away two sets of precious jewelry, and rummaged through other pockets and small boxes to bring back the jewelry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Very good!
Diamonds, ruby sapphires, emeralds and everything, especially in one of the boxes, there were seventy or eighty top sapphires weighing between 10 and 200 carats.
It's not Sri Lankan sapphires, nor is it Myanmar goods, because Zhang Nan can be sure that these sapphires are basically cornflower sapphires!
There are not many sapphire sources in the world, mainly in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, and China...... However, in terms of gemstone quality, the best quality sapphires from Kashmir are the best, while the famous Sri Lankan sapphires are just more common in the market.
Among the sapphires from Kashmir, the "cornflower" sapphire has long been hailed as the best of sapphires, showing a hazy purple hue of intense blue that gives it a velvety appearance.
It is a pity that Kashmir cornflower sapphire was mined from 1861 and officially stopped production in 1887, during which it was only mined for more than 20 years.
Less is expensive, and the price is outrageously high: Zhang Nan saw a cornflower sapphire in Joshua's studio, which was just over 4 carats and sold for more than $250,000.
Mr. Designer also said that in '85, he designed a ring for a 11.82-carat Kashmiri cornflower sapphire commissioned by a client, and the loose stone was bought by the client from the auction house for $1.42 million!
More than $120,000 per carat.
Even a cow can compare with the actual value of Charlize Theron's "Rising Star", and surpass the "Rising Star" in terms of single carat value!
It is so rare that as long as the Kashmir sapphire is more than 4 carats and can be called cornflower blue, there are at most three or four of them every year in all the auction houses in the world combined.
As for the jewelry shop?
I'm sorry, it's long gone, and there's no way there's anything in the store!
Zhang Nan used to prefer red gemstones, but since seeing the Kashmir cornflower sapphire, he has also really liked this top gemstone that will fascinate people.
Unfortunately, two or three of them had been found in the caves of Berchtesgaden before, and they were still small - it was not that there were no top-quality sapphires in the Nazi treasures, but that they were not from Kashmir.
Joshua taught himself how to distinguish this kind of top-grade sapphire, which Zhang Nan took out the 30x magnifying glass in his pocket, looked at the light, and saw the ribbon and snowflake-like inclusions in the sapphire, which is evidence of great origin significance.
Ruby sapphires have a lot of contents, which is different from the cleanliness standards of diamonds, and it is amazing that these snowflake inclusions and milky bands reduce the transparency of the sapphire, but they create a unique "velvety" effect of Kashmir sapphires!
Germans love sapphires, especially the Kashmiri cornflower Lambal: Germany's national flower is the blue cornflower, a color that Germans seem to have been born with.
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After putting away my things, I saw that there was a car outside and arrived downstairs at the hotel, and it was Jin Wenbo, Lin Man and Zach who came back.
As for Zhang Nan's report: One of the two helicopters has been returned, and one is still in reserve, and the two guys of the "joint forces" are guarding the "helicopter base."
As for Paul and Chamilia, they will both drive hundreds of kilometers, presumably on a certain stretch of highway to Hamburg.
"Hard, you guys have a good rest, I'll go out. Zhang Nan cared about his three loyal bodyguards, and then said to Guan Laodao, who came in together: "Since the matter is settled, let's go out for dinner today." ”
"Where are you going?"
"Not far away, about 20 kilometres, we go to Fuscher Castle on Lake Fuscher. ”
On this kind of trivial issue, Zhang Nan said whatever he wanted, drove five cars, and left Jin Wenbo and the two "joint forces" men at the hotel, and the group set off for Fuscher Lake, which is more than 20 kilometers northwest of the town of St. Wolfgang.
The scenic scenery along the way was beautiful, and the convoy arrived at the lakeside Fuscher on the lake in half an hour, but did not stop at this beautiful tourist town, the convoy continued to the northwest, and Fujiel Castle was on the other side of the lake.
At 664 meters above sea level, 4.1 kilometers long, about 0.9 kilometers wide, and 2.7 square kilometers in area, Lake Fuschl was the holiday destination of the Austro-Hungarian royal family a hundred years ago.
The castle is located on a small peninsula jutting out of the lake, which will be turned into an open hotel, and is a U-shaped building, with the main building being two floors and the huge tower on the southeast side being four storeys with a spire.
The castle is not very special and majestic, or more like a high-class farmstead, there are many castles with similar structures in the mountains of western Austria, but it is good that you can't stop the scenery.
Boss Guan got out of the car, looked at the environment, and said, "Not bad!"
He said the scenery, and I feel that this Anan is really good at picking places.
Zhang Nan heard it, and said with a smile after getting out of the car: "It is said that the trout in the terrace restaurant on the second floor above is very good, and I will try it later." ”
Boss Guan glanced at Zhang Nan, and without saying it, he could read what he meant: How do you know?
Too lazy to explain.
I called to order a meal just now, although it was not yet dinner time, Zach still planned to go to the front desk to contact first, but was stopped by Zhang Nan.
The guys are all here, Zhang Nan seemed to be a group of guys standing in accordance with the defense formation, so he asked: "Do any of you look familiar here?"
The crowd didn't react.
"Isn't that special?"
In addition to the good scenery, every bodyguard really thinks there is something special.
Well, a group of Americans and the bodyguards from Huaxia who have been following him for more than a year and have barely returned to China, Zhang Nan is a little speechless about this, and feels that he seems to have asked the wrong person: Alyosha They can recognize what place here there are ghosts!
Zhang Nan looked at Randy and Zack, "Have you seen "Princess Sissi?"
When Randy heard this, he glanced at the castle building a few more times, "Boss, I saw it when I was a child, and you really feel familiar with this." ”
Zhang Nan shook his head, walked to the entrance of the castle, and said as he walked: "This is one of the filming locations of the movie "Princess Sissi", and the main building of this castle is the home of Princess Sissi in the movie. ”
Randy and Zach suddenly realized, but Karimi and Liu Wendong, including Guan Lao, still had a big hello in their brains!
Or Alyosha was really asking Zack, "Who is Princess Sissi?"
is not only curious about this princess, but also curious about the actress in that movie.
The movie was only released in Huaxia last year, and they didn't have a chance to watch it, and these people still don't feel that Princess Sissi is strange?
I don't know who she is, but it was not surprising in Huaxia in the eighties: if it weren't for those three movies, there would be a few Chinese people who would know who Princess Sissi was.
As for Zach and Randy, the movies were both shot in the mid-fifties, and Randy was not born when they were released in the United States, and they were later seen on TV.
Unlike Chinese people's senses for this type of movie, it is estimated that there are not many Americans who are impressed, so it is not surprising that Randy has no feelings at first.
At the beginning of June, at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the outdoor temperature was not even 20 degrees. Zhang Nan didn't talk to the waiter staff at all, and after Zack 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, and the oil paintings on the wall Zhang Nan feel that there should be three or four hundred years!
The old brick and stone structure is well preserved, and the wooden structure of the house is basically finished if so many years have passed.
The terrace restaurant on the second floor faces east, with a view of most of Fuscher Lake, which is perfect for sitting on the open-air dining chairs.
After not sitting for a while, Zhang Nan felt hungry and forgot to eat lunch.
Regardless of what time it was, he said to the waiter who was asking everyone what drink and tea they wanted: "Give me a trout meal of yours, and there must be no vinegar and cream in all the side dishes." ”
After finishing speaking, he ignored people again and continued to look at the scenery in a daze.
The waiter was a little speechless, such a group of uncles, except for a strange Oriental boss, all looked like bodyguards.
No, people don't care what kind of meal time you have, because the waiter understands one thing: some rich customers only admit one truth - what can be solved with money is not a thing!
The hotel's restaurant is not open right now?
Tips are generous, and chefs will cook naturally as long as they are human.
With a movie plot in mind that seemed to come from another world, and looking at the beautiful scenery of the lake and distant mountains in a daze, the waiter served dinner, the main trout meal of the castle hotel.
I don't know if it was to take care of Zhang Nan, an Oriental, or if it was originally like this, the staple food is rice and bread with sauce, and the trout meat on the plate is said to be produced in the lake at your feet.
The ingredients are fresh, but this practice made Zhang Nan shake his head: the chef probably uses the technique of frying first and then grilling, and the large pieces of fish have a dough texture, but fortunately they are not hard.
The fish did not go through any pickling process, and the umami overshadowed the saltiness, which was too light for Zhang Nan.
Pepper, minced chives, and spices are also on point, but they are still too light.
The side dishes are okay, celery, cucumbers, and small tomatoes that Zhang Nan hates.
Guan Xingquan and Alyosha also ate in advance and asked for two beers.
Zhang Nan forgot to get himself some drinks just now, so he took a drink from Boss Guan.
Looking at the wine is very light, it is refreshing and cool in one sip, and it is very different from the German beer dozens of kilometers away!
Zhang Nan took another big sip, "Yes, the German guy's dark beer can drink the taste of soju, it's still so cool!"
I couldn't help but praise it.
Alyosha drank a whole bunch, and he still didn't feel like it, but he didn't ask for it again: the boss went out, and it was the default privilege of Guan Boss and him to drink at will, which should be conscious.
"Brother Guan, what do you say about buying this castle?"
After eating and drinking, Zhang Nan said casually.
"To open a restaurant, someone else has to be able to sell it. ”
Directly a bucket of cold water.