Chapter 409: The Talking South African Diamond
There was no need to go to the city, Zhang Nan met Brown's friend in a conference room at the airport hotel, and the other party had been waiting for half an hour. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yes, there is a diamond producing area nearby, because he learned the customer's requirements in advance, Zhang Nan got two very large rough stones, which can cut the two cushion-shaped diamonds he needs.
According to Brown's estimates, one cut will reach about 35 carats, and the other should have 28-9 carats.
Set on three sides separately, this weight is not a problem at all - you won't find two of the same diamonds in the world if they are more than 10 carats!
There are also a few good hair diamonds that can cut out "pigeon eggs", my brother is happy today, I bought them all, and I have a happy cooperation.
Hop on the plane again and arrive half an hour later in Petersburg, the northern city of South Africa that would be renamed Porokwani and the capital of Limpopo province many years later.
The change of regime and the change of place names seem to have become the norm.
Directly let the EOs go on vacation, and Zhang Nan and a group of people sat in the off-road team sent by Brown's friends.
Dean Kitt, in his forties, is a tall man with a large alluvial diamond mine. Brown had known him 20 years ago, when the family was still mining a small and medium-sized primary mine, and his father was in charge.
However, his father died in a traffic accident a few years ago, and the Kitt family's business has become more and more prosperous under Dean's operation in the past two years, turning to alluvial mining.
Most of the diamonds produced by Kit's diamond mine are high-quality, large-grained diamonds sold to De Beers, and small diamonds are packaged and sold to the Anderwerp exchange, which is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Dean Kitt was very enthusiastic about the arrival of old friends and big customers, and introduced the arrangements for the past few days in the car.
"Tomorrow we'll go to my mine, and then we'll go hunting in the eastern mountains. My friend has a 200,000-acre private hunting ground there, which is 1,500 square kilometers away from his cousin's hunting grounds.
There is a national park on the side, and the animals there are all wild, and the friend doesn't care about the income from hunting, but thinks of it as a garden to entertain his friend..."
Well, this time it's time to see another tycoon - why don't Mr. Kitt's friends care about at least a million dollars a year in hunting income?
Because the man also had his own diamond field, and it was a large primary mine east of the Drakensian Mountains in the east.
If you come to be a big customer, you will be able to play in this hunting ground for a few days, and the business will be easy to discuss.
Friends are friends, business is business, but Westerners also talk about friendship - receiving several batches of big customers a year, that little hunting income is actually a drop in the bucket.
Brown didn't know the man, but he knew the man's cousin, the owner of another connected hunting ground, who owned about a third of his cousin's primary diamond mine, as well as a small alluvial mine of his own.
In this area, the circle of the rich white is actually connected, the result of generations of unity and marriage.
Well, Keane has robbed his friend's cousin of his "business", and it is estimated that the hunting party will become very lively by then.
Mutual friends, we have to get together.
For Zhang Nan, it is necessary to open the purse and buy more.
Chinese people pay attention to feelings, and the host is polite, so you have to be conscious.
"Probably this guy has dealt with the Chinese, and this big row is waiting for me to set me up..."
Thinking maliciously, but thinking about it, I also smiled in my heart: people may be really polite or not, don't think of everyone in a bad way.
Dean Kitt's home is on a large farmstead more than 30 kilometers east of Petersburg, next to the Drakensberg Mountains, but his mine is about 50 kilometers west of Petersburg.
The guests came, and it was already afternoon, so they went to the manor to rest first.
In Mr. Kitt's opinion, Mr. Allen's visit to the diamond mines was just to satisfy a small curiosity - what was there to see about the dusty mines?
Buying diamonds is the real thing, and by the way, experience the wild excitement of Africa.
More than half an hour later, Zhang Nan saw Kit's estate, which looked spectacular, his family not only opened mines, but also farms—tens of thousands of acres of plantations, interspersed with a few small residences.
It seems、It seems to feel like I'm in the land of Walmar's house in India, and I'm depressed that I don't know the crops that are grown outside.
After a while, I realized that many of them were mangoes: the mango trees themselves did not recognize, but the green mangoes hanging on the branches were still recognized.
I'm embarrassed to ask what kind of trees I saw at first, and then I found a large number of tomato patches, very neat.
There are black laborers working in the fields: this is "white South Africa", but there will be a lot of black labor on the farms, which is cheap.
At this moment, Zhang Nan felt that if he was not riding a Ford business car, but riding a horse, he would feel like he was in "Gone with the Wind".
The main building of the manor in the distance is at the foot of a hilly mountain, which looks like the colonial architectural style, plus the black laborers working in the fields, it is too similar!
The car drove into the manor fence and settled down.
Dinner was about two hours later, and the host was to entertain friends from afar, and the diamonds had to be put back in the way.
The scene of black laborers in the white farm just now was very touching, and this Zhang Nan looked out from the terrace of the room on the second floor, and this feeling became even stronger, and after washing up, he wanted to go out for a walk.
As soon as he went out, he saw that Alyosha and Randy, two big guys, were also walking out of the room.
"Boss. ”
"Hmm. ”
Zhang Nan continued to move forward without commanding.
Seeing that the boss changed into very casual clothes and a pair of thin jogging shoes, Alyosha estimated that the boss was going for a walk.
Every time he goes to a new place, this Zhang Nan usually goes out for a walk, and Alyosha knows this rule very well.
And the environment here is beautiful, for newcomers have a bit of a paradise taste, the bodyguard knows that this boss must want to go for a walk.
Originally, Alyosha and Randy wanted to go to the vicinity to see the terrain, but now they happened to follow Zhang Nan very consciously.
There were white guards at the gate of the manor, and when the three of them went out, they said kindly: it is safe within the farm limits, and the security in this area is very good.
Some guests come to South Africa as if they are facing a great enemy, and it is also one of the responsibilities of security guards to give guests peace of mind.
As soon as he went out, he saw that there were many fruit trees with small green fruits on the edge of the manor, and Zhang Nan asked, "Randy, do you know what kind of tree this is?"
Randy Gordon shook his head, and Alyosha on the side looked even more confused.
Where mangoes can be grown, it is estimated that these will also be similar subtropical and tropical fruits, but the two big ones are Chicagoans and Russians in Western Xinjiang.
A little depressed.
Suddenly, a beautiful girl's voice came from the side, "That's avocado, a tropical fruit of the buttercup avocado family." ”
Zhang Nan turned his head and saw a very surprising scene: as the sun set, a tall blonde beauty walked out of the forest path five or six meters away, and the sun was shining on her.
Turning his head, he glared at his two bodyguards: If someone told him that these two guys didn't find anyone nearby, they wouldn't believe it!
I was ignored by this comfortable environment, and the bodyguards would not.
The boss was a little angry, and Alyosha had to smile awkwardly: he and Randy had already found out about the visitor, and they were just young and beautiful women, presumably the children of the master's family, so they didn't take it seriously.
The bodyguard needs to distinguish the danger level of the environment, and this woman or girl is in the least dangerous category, not to mention that she is still a little lame when she walks.
It wasn't the disability of the disability, but the injury was unhealed, and Alyosha and Randy recognized it at a glance - the man was supposed to be exercising himself when he walked, and the injured part was the knee nine times out of ten.
When Zhang Nan turned his head again, he had already put on a smiling face, without the influence of the backlight, he could see clearly that the person in front of him should still be a girl, at most fourteen or fifteen years old, but she was very tall, and she was not much different from Ni.
With blonde hair and a little green on her face, she belongs to the category of beauty in the eyes of both Eastern and Western people.
"Hello, I'm Zhang Nan, you can call me Allen. ”
Zhang Nan stretched out his hand, he didn't take advantage of other people's little girls, just out of politeness.
The girl had already limped slightly to a position more than a meter in front of Zhang Nan, shook her hand lightly, and said with a smile: "If you are the boss of these two uncles, then I have heard of you, Aunt Kelly said that there will be a guest of honor from New York today, it is a Chinese."
By the way, I'm Chariz Theron, and I'm a guest at Aunt Kelly's house. ”
As he spoke, he pointed to his right knee and knee, "Cultivation." ”
Alyosha and Randy looked helpless: This girl's mouth is really powerful!
Well, it looks a little familiar. I came to South Africa to buy diamonds and see diamond mines, and God sent me what is said to be the most beautiful diamond in South Africa.
As soon as he appeared, he also answered a difficult problem for himself, and by the way, he gave himself a small dismount.
It's not fourteen or fifteen years old, but 13 years old, it's not a little bit old, this will Zhang Nan really want to ask her what she grew up eating?!
A little mischievous thought suddenly flashed in his mind: even if he didn't blame Shu Xiao, there was still some way to deal with such a little rebellious little girl.
"Chariz, it's a pleasure to meet you. However, I personally feel that this old dyed hair is not good for the body, especially for a little girl who is not yet an adult. This is the experience of the uncles for many years, and there is absolutely no way to go wrong!"
The young Aunt Kelly that Chariz Theron mentioned just now is the lady of Dean Kitt, the hostess here, whom she has just met.
I don't know if this "aunt" is related by blood or just a good friend.
Looking at Chariz Cyron with a surprised face, I really feel that it is fun to tease others: the girl has natural blonde hair, but Zhang Nan knows that it is dyed.
She has brown hair.