After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 183 Ambergris

"Excuse me, excuse me, what would you like to drink? Coffee, tea, or Coke?" The beautiful stewardess serving the first-class cabin came over and asked.

Li Zhuo smiled at her:
"Just pure water."

This Indonesian stewardess has a pair of dimples when she smiles, she looks cute.

Li Zhuo was bored, and thought the flight attendant was quite funny, so he asked with a smile:

"What's your name? Beauty."

"miumiu, this is my name."

"Well, miumiu, Miu Miu, nice name, I guess you are 170cm?"

The stewardess was affected by his smile, and was reluctant to leave for a while, squatting next to his seat, chatting with him with a smile on her face:
"It's not bad, the real height is 169..."

"Did you know? Your boyfriend must be the happiest person in the world." Li Zhuo laughed.

The stewardess trembled with laughter:

"But he doesn't necessarily think so. He wishes I could fly often so that he can go to bars every day..."

Really have a boyfriend, that's boring, after all, this stewardess looks much worse than Chiyoko.

Li Zhuo put down the backrest, lay down on the back, and said with a smile:

"Bars are boring, horses and chickens are interesting, water, I'm thirsty..."

The stewardess hurried to fetch water for him, not to mention, because she had a few words with her, and she was taken care of along the way.

More than three hours later, the plane landed at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.

After nodding goodbye to the stewardess, Li Zhuo pulled the suitcase and followed the crowd out of the station.

He had called Zheng Kun in advance, and when he arrived at the exit, he saw Zheng Kun waving at him.

Li Zhuo walked over and said with a smile:

"Excuse me, run over to pick up the plane."

Zheng Kun pulled the luggage for him and said:
"It's nothing. I'm idle anyway. I happened to come over here. I'm still driving your new car."

The Porsche Panamera had been attached to the company before, so it was very convenient to drive here.

The two got into this Pam, and Zheng Kun drove him directly to the traffic bureau when he was free.

Li Zhuo himself has a domestic driver's license, and Zheng Kun managed to get the Thai translation done. After being notarized by the notary office, he went to the Thai consulate for certification, and went to the traffic bureau to watch the video of the traffic regulations for an hour, and then Obtained a local driver's license in Thailand.

The payment is not high, 9000 baht is enough.

This method can directly obtain the certificate without taking the local examination in Thailand, but one prerequisite is that there must be some relationship. If Zheng Kun takes him directly to the consulate for certification, if it’s okay, he will directly reject it and ask you to make an appointment first. .

After getting the certificate, Li Zhuo can drive in Thailand at any time.

The cars here are all right-hand drive cars, which are different from those in China.

Li Zhuo adjusted carefully for a while, and felt that he was getting used to it, so he kicked the accelerator and went back to his Mandarin Oriental apartment near Siam Square.

Back to his flat on the 42nd floor, Li Zhuo went into the bedroom with his suitcase.

Zheng Kun also followed, and he went to the refrigerator to take a bottle of pure water and drank a couple of sips.

After a while, Li Zhuo came out with the off-white "stone" weighing three to four kilograms, put it on the dining table and said:

"I got this from the coast of Indonesia. Do you think it's worth it?"

Zheng Kun went over to touch the stone, twirled his fingers, then lowered his head and sniffed the breath on hand, and said with a smile:
"This is probably a good quality ambergris."

After speaking, he went to the bathroom, filled the washbasin with water, and then put the stone into the water.

It was strange, after this gray-white stone was put into the basin, a lot of water overflowed, but Li Zhuo could see clearly that the stone did not sink, but floated on the surface of the water.

Li Zhuo was a little dazed, he didn't expect this thing to float on the water.

Zheng Kun obviously knows more about ambergris, he said with a smile:

"Yes, this should be ambergris. It feels waxy to the touch. If it smells, it has some aroma, but it is more of an over-smelling smell, and it floats on the water. These characteristics are all ambergris. The unique characteristics of incense."

Li Zhuo habitually went to touch the phone again, Zheng Kun continued:

"Amberx, in ancient times, was one of the four major incenses, because it can emit a long-lasting aroma when it is ignited after drying, and it is the kind of incense that is full of fragrance. Both incense and musk are much more fragrant."

"Because it is precious and rare, it was a treasure that only emperors could afford in ancient times. It is usually used as spices and sometimes as medicinal materials."

"The ancient people couldn't figure out what it was. Some alchemists explained that it was the treasure that was slowly solidified by the saliva that the dragon in the sea drools while sleeping, so the name Ambergris came about."

"But in fact, this thing is produced by sperm whales. Sperm whales like to eat king squid and octopus, but they all have tough horny jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, which cannot be digested. If they eat too much, these jaws and teeth accumulate in the stomach and intestines , stimulates the gut, secretes a special waxy substance that coats it, forms a coagulation, and then the sperm whale either vomits or excretes, which will excrete it."

"This condensate is initially black. Because it is light, it floats on the water surface. Under the long-term washing of sea water, it will gradually turn gray, light gray, off-white, and finally white."

"It is generally believed that the quality of white ambergris is the best, because it takes hundreds of years to float out all the impurities in ambergris, and it takes the longest time, while black or gray is of lower value, because it may only be in the Drifting in the sea for several years..."

Zheng Kun explained its origin one by one, and Li Zhuo asked:
"Is this ambergris worth much?"

"Well, it's very valuable," Zheng Kun said with a smile, "The incense you took back is off-white. At least it has been floating in the sea for decades. It is quite a top-grade ambergris."

"Cosmetic companies like to buy it, because after it is ground into powder and then dissolved in alcohol to dilute, the ambrox released by it can be used as a fixative when formulating perfume."

Li Zhuo looked at him, apparently not understanding what a fixative was.

Zheng Kun explained:
"The so-called fixative is actually a thing that keeps the aroma of the essence for a long time. A good fixative can also make the aroma of the essence softer and more mature, and it can also make the aroma of the perfume more lively and milder. All high-end perfumes use natural fixatives.”

"Fixatives are generally divided into animal and vegetable. Animal fixatives are better. Of these, musk, ambergris, civet, and castore are considered top-notch..., but you know, In order to protect these incense-producing animals, legislation has banned the use of these four types of incense."

Li Zhuo spread his hands and asked:

"So..., we can't sell it?"

Zheng Kun shook his head:

"That's really not true. Because many of the ambergris are picked up by the sea, as long as it doesn't harm the sperm whale itself, it can be bought and sold. There are many examples on the auction, and all of them are worth a lot."

He added:
"The international market of ambergris is basically monopolized by France, a big perfume country, because the resources of ambergris are getting less and less, and now the price has risen very high. Even so, I heard that the annual trade volume of ambergris No more than 100 kilograms."

Li Zhuo smiled and said:

"Listen to you, can this thing be equivalent to gold?"

"More than that, I don't dare to say anything else, but the piece you brought, brother Zhuo, is of high quality at first glance, and it must be more expensive than gold."

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(End of this chapter)