Chapter 1621: The Treasure of the Temple
The biggest advantage of the dialect is that outsiders can't understand it, not only the two of Xiang Weirong, but also the Varma family and several of the original high-ranking retainers who were invited to dine together, will occasionally have a few words in Malayalam.
In India, English and Hindi are both official languages, but there are at least 1,652 languages and dialects in the country, 33 of which are spoken by more than one million people, and 18 of which are listed as federal official languages by the Constitution.
It is the English language that connects the country of India, otherwise Indians would not be able to communicate with each other in language, not even understand the written words.
The Varmar family's mother tongue is Malayalam, spoken by more than 20 million people, with English as a second language and Hindi as a third language. In a relaxed environment, it is natural to communicate with each other in their native language.
The conversation between Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan here was not loud, except for Zhang Nan who noticed it, and the Davenral Walma couple who accompanied him on the other side did not pay attention.
Even if you notice it, you can't understand it, and there are very few Indians who know Chinese, let alone the Tianshu Yanxian dialect.
In fact, there is a hodgepodge of food in India called curry hot pot, which is to cook all kinds of ingredients and add them to the curry soup and cook them again, and then put the dishes out and eat them after the curry tastes.
In fact, this "curry hot pot" cannot be called hot pot, it is not heated by fire all the time, but in the eyes of Indians, they eat hot pot, and when they eat it, they wait until the dish is no longer hot before eating it with their hands.
Many upper-class Indians also eat British-style hot pots, using a spoon to scoop out the cooked ingredients and put them on a plate, and then grasp them with their hands to eat.
But is this still hot pot?
Not only Indians, but also people from other countries will have to scratch blind when they encounter hot pot unless they learn to use chopsticks.
The wonderful sword and shield performance was followed by a dance, but this time the performers were different from the previous ones, the scene was grand, and even the music was played by the band live.
Old Walma said that this was the personnel of a song and dance troupe that their family had invested in Thiruvananthapuram, and that the song and dance troupe had gone to the Middle East to perform when Zhang Nan came last time, so it did not appear.
At this time, the staple food also came up, fried rice made of Indian rice with super long grains, in order to take care of the taste of the guests, in addition to a very small amount of chili powder and pepper, only salt and eggs were added to it.
The taste is a little dry, but at least it can still be eaten, and the host's meal still took a lot of thought.
However, if he lets himself eat like this every day, Zhang Nan will still be unbearable and afraid of getting angry, so tomorrow's Chinese food will be in charge of the chef of Valma's family, but tomorrow's dinner will be the chef team brought by Zhang Nan to show his skills.
As for tiger hunting, it was a sport that only started after the last day – it was a sport, and the Varmar family treated tiger hunting as a traditional sport, not as entertainment.
This trip to Zhang Nan's chef team is led by Daniel, and the chef has already contacted the housekeeper in charge of purchasing at the manor, and tomorrow will deliver a feast to everyone.
Considering the status of the Varma family as a Hindu, the taboo ingredients are not brought, except for the seasonings, most of the ingredients will be in charge of the daily food procurement housekeepers of the Varma family.
Just one or two requirements: fresh and clean!
Even the seafood used today is sent directly to the manor by the ice cube refrigerated truck waiting at the fishing wharf in the morning, and the ice used is more than three times that of others.
Goats and pigeons are slaughtered in the afternoon, and the hygienic conditions are comparable to those of most five-star hotels in India.
The meal was almost finished, and the few scenes of singing and dancing were over, and the old Valma waved away all the performers and performers, and this will still be in the banquet hall except for the people of the Varma family, it is Zhang Nan and these guests.
At this time, old Valma said to Zhang Nan: "In the past two years, the financial situation in Delhi has been very bad, and the country's foreign exchange reserves have almost dried up.
Blasphemy, this is naked blasphemy!
In June this year, after consulting with the high priests, we opened the two secret chambers of the Padmanaba Swami Temple, which had not been opened for more than 100 years, and transported a large number of treasures that our ancestors had offered to Lord Shiva.
Some of the well-documented treasures were temporarily taken home by my original subjects for worship, and a small part was given to Brahmins, whose families were not particularly well-off.
We also plan to expand the temple, and some of the diamonds and gemstones will be sold to fund a very large amount, and some of them will be invested in infrastructure construction. These gem trades will be conducted on a small scale and will not be made public, lest the obnoxious blasphemers from Delhi intervene.
As a friend, Mr. Allen, you and our good friend Jia Yin family will be the most important trading partners, I heard that you have always been interested in precious stones?"
When Zhang Nan heard this, he said, "Yes, Mr. Varma." I love diamonds, good quality and big ones, and quite a few of my family members are interested in ruby sapphires.
Of course, if it's a normal grade of diamonds and gemstones, my jewelry group is in great demand, but I'm afraid our friends will have an opinion, haha..."
Who has an opinion?
Jia Yin's family, of course, this is just a joke, Xingchen's nationality takes the mid-to-high-end route, and Jia Yin's family wants everything.
Old Valma smiled and said, "Then you and your family will definitely get what you want, the number of rubies we found is not much, but they should all be of the highest quality imported from Burma at least a century ago."
As for sapphires, there are top colors from Sri Lanka, and even some Kashmir blue from the north..."
Old Varma didn't say anything about gold, he knew that Zhang Nan had a large gold mine in his hands, and gold was valuable, so he just wanted to buy it in the international market.
What's more: the expansion of the temple will use a lot of gold, not to mention tens or hundreds of kilograms, tens or hundreds of tons can become part of the temple.
Once it became part of the temple, Delhi was completely out of order – the Indians called their capital Delhi instead of New Delhi, which was said to be the name of the colony.
Old Varma smiled and said, "When our friend Mr. Manu Jain arrives, you and he can talk about this slowly."
After the temple is expanded, the golden elephant and the golden crown like the one mentioned last time will be enshrined directly in the temple, and some of the gold will be cast into the god statue, which will stop the dirty thoughts of those blasphemers!"
When Zhang Nan heard this, he knew that some of the words he had said before played a role in it, otherwise when the treasure of the temple was discovered by outsiders, the Valma family would be very passive, and the treasure would eventually be taken by the Indian government.
.。 Writing Chinese Network M.