After Lin Xiao saw Han Ya, the two prepared some ingredients, and then went directly to the top of the farther West Mountain, found a relatively high mountain, and set up camp.

The area on the top of the hill is quite large, with ups and downs around it, and there are about 1,000 square meters of flat place in the middle, and there are sparse trees around, which can shelter from the wind and rain.

Lin Xiao tidied up the surrounding space a little, and then made a relatively large place, and then stepped on the grass and trees a little, and took away the rocks and other things.

"The weather is still nice tonight, and you should be able to see a good meteor shower." Lin Xiao sighed with emotion.

He took two automatic tents out of his ring storage, set them up, stepped the nails into the ground, fixed them, and set up a table to take out the ingredients and place them on the table.

Han Ya helped sort out the various foods, and then watched Lin Xiao take out the barbecue grill and solid alcohol or something, and start to light a fire.

"We're building a fire on the top of the mountain, so no one can see it, right?" Han Ya suddenly remembered this question, so she asked Lin Xiaodao.

It's winter fire season, and if they're seen barbecuing here, they'll probably think someone is setting a fire on the mountain.

"It's okay, it's just a little bigger, basically not much of an open flame is exposed, and after the charcoal burns later, there won't be any problems." Lin Xiao replied.

Solid alcohol actually acts as a fuel for combustion, but when the charcoal ignites, the temperature rises very quickly.

Lin Xiao even got a diesel generator out and directly pulled it on and connected it to the power supply, and the camp lights in the tent were suddenly lit up, reflecting the surrounding lights.

The surround sound was also pulled by him, and there were a lot of goblets and red wine on the table.

"You're really well prepared......" Han Ya saw it, and didn't know what to say about him.

"If you can live a little better, there is naturally no reason to live worse." Lin Xiao said to Han Ya with a smile while fiddling with meat skewers on the barbecue.

Han Ya nodded, that is, Lin Xiao has this convenient condition, he can carry a lot of things with him, he naturally has a reason to enjoy life everywhere, as a cultivator, as long as he is on the earth, there is really no place that is inconvenient to go.

In fact, just like tonight, if he had the idea, he could go directly to the South Pacific islands thousands of miles away and go there to see the meteor shower, there would be no problem, after all, the air quality over there is much better than here.

Lin Xiao flipped through the meat skewers and vegetable rolls on the barbecue grill, and from time to time used a brush to smear some oil or sauce on them, and after a while, some of them were already baked.

"Come on, let's eat some first, it feels pretty good." Lin Xiao put the baked food on the plate and handed it to Han Ya on the side.

The two of them baked some food together, sat down on their chairs, and began to eat and drink red wine.

"I didn't see a single meteor, but my stomach was okay." Finally, Han Ya said to Lin Xiao.

"It's still early, I said it would be until the second half of the night." Lin Xiao replied.

Meteor showers or something, generally speaking, there will always be a specific period of time before they appear, this time, according to the forecast of the observatory, from 1 a.m. to about 4 a.m., there will be more than 20 meteors in each hour, which means that a meteor can be seen passing by in almost three or five minutes.

Such a high-probability event is not encountered very often, so everyone chooses this time to go outside to see the meteor shower in a place with a good view.

Fortunately, the weather is beautiful, not only the weather is sunny, but also yesterday there was a strong wind, and the surrounding haze or something was blown away, and now it is really called a clear sky, the blue sky is like washing, and you can see it clearly.

After eating, Lin Xiao sat in the tent with Han Ya, opened the skylight above, and opened the electric blanket inside, which was very comfortable, but he didn't feel bored.

Lin Xiao took out an inflatable sofa and quickly filled it up, and then the two of them lay down on the sofa, covered with a layer of duvets, and huddled together to watch the stars.

"Do you want to stop drinking something, tea or coffee?" Lin Xiao asked Han Ya.

"Tea bar, coffee or something, I still don't like to drink it a little." Han Ya nodded and said.

"That's right, Chinese people should drink tea, this is our advantage, coffee or something, in fact, is our economic and cultural aggression, not worth advocating, and even fundamentally speaking, it should be resisted." Lin Xiao nodded, and then took out the entire set of tea sets.

"How is this involved in economic and cultural aggression?" Hearing this, Han Ya couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Tea, or coffee, the most obvious representation is us and the Americans." Lin Xiao said, "In fact, many people are puzzled by such a question, why do Americans start drinking tea so early, and have basically developed the national eating habit of drinking tea, and eventually give up tea and choose coffee?" Or you can also ask in another way, why do Americans drink coffee instead of tea? ”

"yes, why?" Han Ya asked.

"There are countless answers to this question, but unfortunately most of the answers are floating on the surface, seemingly reasonable, but in fact, they do not understand the essence of the United States becoming a coffee empire." Lin Xiao replied, "Many people who work in tea are reluctant to study coffee, the biggest competitor of tea. However, if you don't even know the past and present lives of your opponents, how can you understand the development of mild addictive drinks? So, before unraveling the truth about this history, we need to take a quick look back at the history of coffee. ”

"You, you're really interesting......" Han Ya felt that Lin Xiao's tone of speech was a bit like the host of the treasure exploration or secret reveal column, which made people feel a little unbearable.

"Do you know the history of coffee?" Lin Xiao asked.

It seems that there was a shepherd named Kardi who was herding sheep in Ethiopia when he accidentally noticed that the sheep were very excited after eating a red fruit. After trying a few of them himself, he was full of energy and vitality, and this fruit is what coffee beans are today. Han Ya replied, "This is the coffee legend that is still talked about today - The Shepherd's Story, and this story can only become a legend like the discovery of tea by the Chinese Shennong clan, because it is no longer verifiable." ”

"Not bad, not bad." Lin Xiao said with a smile.

In fact, coffee cultivation began as far back as the sixth century A.D. in the Arab region.

By the 15th century, coffee was already popular in the Arab world and the South Asian subcontinent.

In the early seventeenth century, Venetian merchants introduced coffee from Istanbul in Turkey to Italy, and Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Europe, an event of extraordinary significance in the history of coffee diffusion.

The Portuguese introduced coffee to Brazil in the mid-18th century, and to this day, Brazil remains the world's largest coffee producer.

At that time, none of the European powers wanted to be dominated by the delicious taste of Turkey, and coffee cultivation was widely introduced in colonies such as Asia and the Americas.

"First, tea entered the North American colonies of New England at least twenty years before coffee; Secondly, in the United States alone. Before the war, tea and coffee had always been juxtaposed with cultural and dietary consumption elements, and even the Boston Tea Party, who did not resist tea itself, did not have a special preference for coffee. "At that time, coffee was widely cultivated at the doorstep of the United States, and they could easily and quickly obtain coffee, while tea could only come from distant China, and before it could only be supplied by Britain or smuggled by other countries." ”

"You mean to say that the fact that tea lost out to coffee in the U.S. was because of transportation problems?" Han Ya asked.

"The current textbook answer to this question is: because of the need to resist the harsh rule of the British royal family, the opposition to the dumping of tea by the British East India Company in the North American colonies, the capitalist consciousness represented by the slogan of no representation and no tax, and the consideration of tea transportation and quality, etc., made the Americans resolutely abandon tea and build a coffee empire." Lin Xiao replied, "Today, the United States is the world's largest coffee consumer, and Americans drink one-third of the world's coffee production every year. ”

Seeing that Han Ya didn't seem to be very satisfied with this answer, Lin Xiao added, "If you go a little deeper, it can be considered as a political and economic reason." From the historical information we have learned so far, we can see that in New York in 1800, the average salary at that time was $16 per week. Tea is sold for 1. $5 per pound, while coffee costs 0. $35 per pound. According to the British newspaper "World Commerce" in 1907, the price of tea in the United States was 1 shilling and 1 pence per pound in 1840, and in 1850 it was reduced to 7 pence. Even after the American Civil War, when the price of tea had fallen so dramatically, the price of coffee was still much lower than that of tea. ”

The price of coffee was cheaper than the price of tea, which was monopolized by the Chinese, which was almost the same in every corner of the world in the nineteenth century and before, when the most expensive mocha coffee was not comparable to the price of the most common so-called Wuyi tea.

"So from the United States alone. Before the war, tea had been deliberately boycotted by the Americans, except for choosing some substitutes with a taste similar to tea, coffee had become the only choice for most people at that time, and was labeled patriotic. "Considering the economic environment and people's income level in the United States at that time, and then comparing tea and coffee from an economic point of view, the principle of cheap, fast and safe access, Americans finally chose coffee." ”

"I see, there are such in-depth issues involved." When Han Ya heard this, she couldn't help but nod secretly.

"Yes, struggles are everywhere, and now coffee has begun to occupy the Chinese market in turn, which can only be said to be thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi." Lin Xiao also said with emotion.