Two days later, in the evening, we waited for the big boss, and we had already eaten, and the housekeeper called us, saying that the boss had invited us over. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info I was a little nervous when I came to the news suddenly.

What I didn't expect was that there was a special coffee house in this villa, which was built in the same way as a café, and when we went in, we found a man in his fifties mixing coffee at the bar, and we were not sure that this was the owner. We guessed right, and the housekeeper said that this was the owner of this villa, Mr. Jin.

Mr. Jin was so polite that he actually made us coffee, which was my first instinct, but in other people's homes, I could only listen to others. The middle-aged man made two cups of coffee, asked the butler to bring me and my uncle's table, and after a while brought us some small snacks.

Then Boss Jin asked the butler to continue to mix coffee on his bar, and he sat at a table with us, Boss Jin got straight to the point: "Two masters, let you wait for a long time, doing business is like this, although you can make a lot of money, but socializing is also a major trouble!" ”

We exchanged pleasantries with him. We thought he would bring up the matter of letting us see Feng Shui, but who would have thought that after asking us what kind of coffee we would like to drink, he kept talking about this coffee culture to us.

The boss asked, "Do you know where this coffee is from?" ”

We shook our heads, and he told us that Africa is the home of coffee. It is likely that the coffee tree was found in Kafa Province, Ethiopia. Later, slaves were sold from Africa to Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula, and coffee was brought to various places along the way. To be sure, coffee was cultivated in Yemen in the 15th century or earlier. Although Arabia had the most prosperous port city in the world at the time, Mocha, it banned the export of any seeds! This obstacle was eventually overcome by the Dutch, who in 1616 finally smuggled the living coffee trees and seeds to the Netherlands and began cultivating them in greenhouses.

This strange narration made my uncle and I not know how to take it, to be honest, we had never heard of this knowledge, but it would be better for him to popularize it, so we took the trouble to drink coffee and listen to him talk unhurriedly.

He even talked about cat feces coffee, he said that coffee beans are one of the civet cat food range, but coffee beans can not be completely digested by the digestive system Coffee beans are fermented in the civet cat's stomach and excreted through feces, and the local people take out the coffee beans in the civet feces and then do processing, which is the so-called "cat feces" coffee, this coffee has a unique taste and different tastes, resulting in a very limited production of this coffee, and people who can taste this coffee are quite lucky.

I thought to myself, this is not what we are drinking, and a feeling of wanting to vomit wells up in my heart. Fortunately, my thinking was interrupted by a burst of light music, which turned out to be the habit of the housekeeper Ying Jin's boss, and put on his favorite record plate.

Perhaps moved by the music again, Boss Jin spoke more and more energetically, and he continued to preach that coffee will bear fruit in about three to four years, and the yield will decrease after twenty to twenty-five years, but there are also some coffee trees that still bear fruit after more than 100 years of life. The branches of the coffee tree grow in opposites, horizontally or in drooping branches, while the leaves grow in opposite directions on short-diameter branches. The two main species, Arabica and Robasta. The leaves of Arabica are about 15 centimeters long. The leaves of the Robasta are long, soft-ovate or pointed, and bright green in color. Hearing this, I want to say, can you say something that we can understand? My uncle looked at me and smiled at me.

However, then Boss Jin told us a few stories about coffee, which was quite interesting. He told the story of a shepherd, which means that according to the account of a Roman linguist, about the sixth century A.D., an Arab shepherd drove his sheep to the Isobian steppe one day to graze, and saw that each goat seemed extremely excited, and he thought it was very strange, and then after careful observation found that these sheep were excited when they ate some kind of red fruit, and the shepherd tasted some of them curiously, and found that these fruits were very sweet and delicious, and he felt very refreshed after eating. From then on, he often drove his flock to eat this delicious fruit. Later, a Muslim passed by and took home some of this incredible red fruit and distributed it to other parishioners, so its miraculous effects spread.

Then he told a story about the patron saint of the Arabian Peninsula, Shek. Expelled by the clan for crimes. As a result, Shek was exiled to Assam in the country, where he stumbled upon the fruit of coffee. One day, as he walked through the mountains and forests hungry, he saw a bird with strange feathers on the branches pecking at the fruit of the tree, and then let out a very pleasant and gentle cry. He brought the fruit back and boiled it with water, but it gave off a rich and attractive aroma, and the original feeling of exhaustion after drinking it was also eliminated, and it was full of vitality. He gathered many of these miraculous fruits, and when he met people who were sick, he made a soup for them to drink, and after drinking them, they were refreshed. Because of his good deeds and the love of the believers, soon his sins were forgiven, and when he returned to Mocha, he was praised for discovering this fruit, and the people revered him as the Holy One. At that time, the miraculous cure was said to be coffee.

He also told a romantic story. It is said that a French naval officer serving in Martinique managed to get some coffee trees when he was about to leave Paris, and decided to bring them back to Martinique, where he had been carefully caring for the sapling, keeping it in a glass box on the deck to protect it from sea water and heat preservation. He was threatened by pirates during his travels, experienced storms, jealousy and sabotage with his fellow ships, and even saved his own drinking water to water the sapling when drinking water was scarce. His coffee trees finally took root in Martinique, and he had his first harvest that year, and it is said that he later had many coffee trees, which is also a saying.

In ancient China, Shennong's family tasted a hundred herbs, and recorded them one by one, so that future generations could have a systematic understanding of many plants. There is no such person as Shennong in the Western world, let alone any written records, so there are various legends about the origin of coffee. Among them, the most popular and popular is the story of the shepherd.

Boss Jin seemed to come back to his senses from a fairy tale and said, in fact, the Arabs in ancient times first dried and boiled coffee beans and drank the juice as stomach medicine, thinking that it could help digestion. Later, it was discovered that coffee also had a refreshing effect, and because Islam strictly forbade believers to drink alcohol, coffee was used instead of alcoholic beverages, and it was often drunk as a refreshing drink. After the 15th century, Muslims who made pilgrimages to the holy land of Mecca brought coffee back to their places of residence, and coffee gradually spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey. The arrival of coffee in Europe is attributed to the Ottoman Empire in Turkey at that time, because the coffee-loving Ottoman army conquered the continent and was stationed there for several years, leaving behind a large number of supplies, including coffee beans, when the army finally left, the people of Vienna and Paris were able to develop a European coffee culture with these coffee beans and the cooking experience gained from the Turks. Wars were meant to be conquered and destroyed, but they unexpectedly brought about cultural exchange and even integration, which the rulers did not expect.

Coffee is known in the West for 300 years, but in the East, coffee has been popularized as a beverage at all levels of society much earlier. The earliest and most definite date of coffee's appearance is in the 8th century B.C., but as early as Homer's writings and many ancient Arabic legends, a magical, dark, bitter drink with a strong stimulating power is described.

Around the 10th century AD, Avicenna used coffee as a medicine to treat diseases. In fact, although coffee was found in the Middle East, the coffee tree originated in a region of Africa that is now Ethiopia, from where coffee spread to Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt, and it was in Egypt that coffee developed rapidly and quickly became popular in people's daily lives. By the 16th century, early merchants were already selling coffee in Europe, introducing coffee as a new beverage to Western customs and lifestyle. The vast majority of coffee exported to the European market comes from Alexandria and Smyrna, but growing market demand, high tariffs imposed at import and export ports, and increased knowledge of the field of coffee cultivation have led distributors and scientists to experiment with transplanting coffee to other countries.

Coffee cultivation began in 1727 in Brazil, but the poor climatic conditions caused the crop to be cultivated in other regions, first in Rio de Janeiro and finally in São Paulo and Minas, where coffee found its ideal growing environment. Coffee cultivation grew here until it became the most important source of economy in Brazil. Although coffee was born in Africa, it is relatively recent to grow and consume at home. In fact, it was the Europeans who brought coffee back to its homeland and introduced it to their colonies, where coffee flourished thanks to favorable land and climatic conditions.

I interrupted Boss Jin when he was drinking coffee, not that I didn't want to hear it, I knew that he could tell us so much about coffee, it must be related to the matter itself, so I inspired him little by little, I asked him: "Boss Jin, this coffee can accompany you to spend a lot of comfortable time, right?" ”

He nodded, and continued, yes, wake up early in the morning and have a drink to refresh your mind, take a refreshing bite during the day at work, and have a cup of coffee, eat a few cakes, and chat with friends in your spare time. Coffee enriches my life and shortens the distance between me and everyone. After a good meal, make a cup of coffee, read a newspaper, or spend a warm and fun coffee time with lovers, friends and family.

However, he said that he prefers to make his own coffee, and through the blending method, in this era of speed and efficiency is paramount, people have created many new flavors, new ways to drink. For example, it has created coffee milk tea, chocolate coffee, milk coffee, vanilla coffee..... and other new flavors. In this era of "instant dissolution", coffee brings us not only a fragrant taste, but also a feeling, and we will be crazy to immerse ourselves in that feeling. Maybe it's just an inconspicuous façade on the corner of the street, maybe the coffee isn't so good, but we are obsessed with the air, the light, the sound, and we lose track of time and immerse ourselves there, in a group of people like ourselves, maybe continue to be alone, but everyone knows it. Male, female, cheerful, melancholy, coming in groups, sitting alone, smoking, drinking strong coffee, or not drinking coffee at all. We find each other by feeling, by the way we stare at the corner of the room or by the way we look at the coffee cup, even if you look out the window, you don't necessarily look at anything, I look at you, I know that I'm not like you, I'm different from everybody, realists come to the café, but they don't belong here, and they don't sit until it closes, and they put their chairs on the table before leaving. The café has nothing to do with the word "now", so all the whimsical people have found this place, the café, a place to relax the mind.

"So, would you rather have a cup of coffee when you're in a good mood or when you're in a bad mood?" Uncle finally found a question to ask.

Boss Jin said that everyone's answer is different, but because coffee is a drink to drink when you are in a good mood, you can only taste the mellow taste of coffee when you are in a good mood and want to see the blue sky and the gentle sun. When you're in a bad mood, you should go to a bar for a drink to relieve your boredom.

So all three of us laughed, and I even felt that the boss was a little close, like an old friend I hadn't seen in a long time.

Mr. Kim also said that lazy jazz, gripping opera, or soft piano playing in cafes are the most common pieces of music. Of course, this has to do with the taste of the café owner. You can chat with close friends or confidants, discuss the topics of interest, and as time goes on, you will find that the mood is gradually calmer, and even some touching, all the reasons are simple and casual. Have a cup of coffee when you feel like you're in a good mood today, and you'll find the best side of coffee.

I know that with someone as emotional as Boss Kim, we can't help but love the coffee he likes too, just like now.

I didn't want this Boss Jin to have any more troubles, so I rushed to his simple love for coffee, I thought he was a good person, so I asked him: "Boss Jin, listen to Mr. Yuan, you want to find someone to come and see the feng shui of this villa, how is this smooth?" ”

(To be continued)