Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

Large planes are flying at an altitude of eleven thousand feet.Morning light gradually appeared in the east.Passengers were all asleep in daybeds with their backs down.There was only one passenger in the front seat, reading a Spanish newspaper with a reading light on. The air in an airplane is comfortable.All the way to fly smoothly.Now entering the air current, there is a slight up and down vibration. The eastern morning is brighter.Below you can see a large area of ​​still gray jungle.The aroma of coffee wafts from the small kitchen behind the machine. Passengers began to move. The stewardess brought coffee and hot rolls.The passenger on my right smiled politely at me.It tastes good, doesn't it?he asks.

He's a tall, big-boned, tanned, fat-free guy.I reckon he's in his early fifties because of the friendly, deep lines around his eyes.When the plane got off in the evening, I heard him speak Spanish as fluently as the local aborigines. It's even more delicious when you're hungry.I answered him. The aircraft has been studied by experts.He said: A person's lowest mood is always the moment before the morning.When the sun came out, people's moods rose, so the pretty lady came with coffee.There's a difference between an overnight on a plane and an overnight on a bus.People have their own excitement about height and speed.You look down at the jungle, near the mountains, and everything looks gray at the moment, but when the sun comes out, in the light, it will be as fresh as dew on the petals of a rose.

Listen to you, you are like a poet.I told him. He replied solemnly: that's because after living in Colombia for a long time, people will know how to praise beautiful things. Do you live in Colombia? North, Mae Seyan, yes. For a long time? He smiled and said: Thirty-five years. What kind of place is that? Beautiful, everything is beautiful.Andis Mountain is evergreen and always fresh.The mountains there are neither rough nor undulating; for what reason are they like, they are like jewels.There are also fertile valleys over there, and the climate is surprisingly good.When it comes to climate, you don't know how good it is.

How good is it?I asked. Perfect in every way.The altitude is almost a mile high, and the heat from the jungle is close to the equator, but because of the altitude, you don't feel cold or hot, and it's like spring all year round. Orchids grow in tens of thousands, and people don't need air conditioning.Shanshui is clean and sweet, inexhaustible.God, I look like the president of the Tourism Association.I really like that place.i miss her.I have been away for two months to go to China for official business. You must know quite a few people who frequent Mae Seyan.I said. Almost everyone is at least everyone worth knowing.

There are also many Americans, right?I asked. North American.He corrected me: Colombians are also Americans.All South Americans are American.That's right, there are many from North America.I am really dissatisfied with some of the types of people they send down.These guys like to hang out in small groups.People from the United States should enhance international friendship and mutual benefit.But can they get along with the local people?Learn their language?Are local customs respected?Is there a sincere communication?Fuck them, all day long gangs gather in their own small environment.After waiting for three or five years, I haven't seen any beautiful things outside, and I haven't even touched the people of the country.Turns me off.

Once, at a dinner party, I met a Mr. Mai, and I said: I believe he has some mining rights there. mellobo? I believe his name is Rob. I haven't seen him for a long time.At one point I saw him a lot.He often comes down to look at his mines.He is the trustee of the two heirs of Hou Shanhu's estate. Yes, I remember him saying so.He is a man who is very passionate about this country. That's right, a good guy.He said. There is another person who is also a trustee, I said, frowning: I forgot his last name.It seems to be a building named Xia? In the summer of summer, the man said: He rarely comes down twice or three times a year.

What industry do they care about?mine? Most of them are mines, I'm not very familiar with them, your name, sir? rely.I said. My surname is Park, Park Qiaojin.Where are you going? Can't say yet.I said: I am looking for an investment opportunity.Possibly look across the country from east to west.Maybe a day or two in each place. What do you do? I said: I am a guerrilla fighter.I have some money in my hands, and I will do it if it is profitable. Where do you look first? Haven't decided yet, since you mentioned Mae Seyan, I'm interested to see her first. Well, you won't be disappointed.You will be happy with the people there.Of course, it is not easy for you to enter the local older generation with status, and you don't have to be disappointed, but they will observe you without you knowing.When they are satisfied with you, they will accept you at any time. Treating you as a friend is equivalent to treating you as their family.

How can we satisfy them?I asked. I don't know, maybe we can't put the word "Lee" first, like all Americans who come to South America do.Take it easy, these guys make friendship a priority.Business is of course to be done, but the purpose of doing business is to enjoy the pleasure of socializing for a long time. banquet?I asked. Not as we imagined.They sat around, drank some good wine, and chatted with each other.No one is really drunk.One thing people here don't do is get drunk in public.You can get drunk to your advantage, but not really drunk.It's hard to describe, and I can't put it into words, you have to experience it yourself, it's very subtle.

These people pay more to live than we do.They give friendship.They enjoy the presence of others.They are educated, consider others, and have more respect for others.I don't know why I'm so garrulous, but I know you're interested, and I hope you're taking the first step in the right direction.I also welcome you to try Masai Yan.Whether you can make money depends on how you do it yourself.People with capital can make money by coming to this place, but the local people don't want you to exploit the labor here. So it seems that the guy named Mai is doing well here? I don't know, the one named Mai should have made money.Nice guy with a tight mouth.

I also met a Mrs. Ge.I said: She also came from somewhere over there.Do you know her? He shook his head. A Guzheng, she is a late miner's wife. Oh, I know who you're talking about.He said: "I don't know her myself.I've heard people mention her.There was a time when she had money herself, or else someone thought she had money or something, but then she didn't.In Colombia, she lived like a lady.When she ran out of money, she went to the United States and found a big family to work as a maid.They say she spends nothing and saves everything.Work like a dog.Then she buys some clothes and goes back to Maesaiyan.She doesn't do some work here, just open her mouth.

Someone told you?I asked. yes. You are right?I asked: Could it be that she worked hard in Mae Seyan and went to the United States to become a noble lady? How could this be.When she was here, she was a normal lady.She knows how to make arrangements, earn money from the United States, and bring US dollars to spend here, and it has always been good.It’s not working recently. You must know that currency swaps and inflation are different now. It may not be beneficial for the United States to make money and spend it here. I was thinking hard.The sun came up and streamed in through the plane window.The golden sunlight brought into the temperature-fixed cabin, and the warmth rose from the heart.The jungle below had not yet reached the sun.Still gray.The sun rises a little more, and the mountainside is inlaid with golden yellow, and rises a little more, gradually drying through the jungle. We then go up and over a few mountains.Park Qiaojin said: You will see a big and beautiful lake, surrounded by many houses built along the lake, the scenery is surprisingly beautiful.Now we're in the coffee belt, they make great coffee, you should try Colombian coffee.You have probably never tasted this good coffee in your life.No matter how thick or dark you are, there will be no bitterness at all.Just a very nice fragrant drink. I pondered and said: Colombia, isn't a lot of emerald produced there? Yes. Can it be bought there cheaply? He shook his head. Maybe it would be cheaper to buy the rough and get it cut somewhere else?As far as I know, the tax price of uncut rough stone is not high.I asked. He smiled again and shook his head. Are there a lot of emerald mines over there? He looks at me carefully. I waited for him to answer me. I don't know much about this.He said: There are a lot of gold mines over there.That's great if you want to invest in some gold mines.There are many mines, which would be very good if developed with water power.There are many water sources, and it is easy to mine with high-pressure hydraulic power. Is there any emerald mine to invest in? No. What is there to do there?I asked: I mean what do you do outside of work? These things tell you that you don't understand.People over there love each other.Gathering friends in the United States is either bridge or stud.Everyone here enjoys gathering together.You have to experience it yourself to understand it. I said.Let me tell you, this country has become very lovely.Do you know a Mr. Holup? Huo?He frowned, what is he doing? I have no idea.I said: I think he has a bit of a business in Colombia.Otherwise, what income does he have. What industry? I have no idea.I just heard some vaguely. Pu Qiaojin shook his head. We no longer talk.After a while, the scenery below greatly attracted my attention.We passed a large lake, which was so still that a little breeze blew without ripples.After a few turbulent miles, the plane turned abruptly and descended towards the Republic of Guatemala. When the plane took off from Guatemala and headed south, Park Qiaojin was relatively conservative, and he only responded obediently to my questions without saying a word.Evidently he was also brooding.Two or three times he threw his head back in a sleepy state.But I saw from some intuition that he was not fully relaxed, nor was his mind resting. We flew over several mountains and over an active volcano.The plane flies high.We could see the Pacific Ocean on one side of the plane and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I see we are almost in Panama.I said tentatively. Soon. After a long silence, Pu Qiaojin suddenly said: Brother, if I give you some advice, you won't be offended. Appreciate further details. Don't go for emeralds. I made my face look strange and unclear.Why?What's wrong with emerald? You keep telling everyone you meet what you just said to me, and he grinned grinningly and said: It won't be long before you know what I mean. I don't understand. He said: Emerald is a thing exclusively sold by the Government Public Sale Bureau.Do you understand now? I still do not get it. Around the world, emeralds are big business. I can imagine it. The Colombian government is very careful about this matter. What's the meaning? I mean the Colombian government controls the amount of emeralds that flow into the market each year.The price of jadeite in the international market is also controlled by them.Obviously, if too much jadeite enters the market, the price will drop.Not even the big jewelers will know about the Colombian government's decision. so what? Think about it when you have time, if you were a government and you had the right to control the price of something in the international market, what would you do? I vaguely understood. Well, he said: You will let you understand vaguely, and gradually become a sudden understanding, and then become a enlightenment.Do you understand now? I am gradually getting through. Well, think about it slowly, I won't bother you for the time being, let's stop talking for now.We're almost in Panama.When you get there, someone will ask you, if someone thinks that you are interested in jade, and the interest is for business, you will not be able to get on the plane the next day, and you will not be able to reach Colombia. You say they won't accept my US passport? oh!Definitely not that rude.He said: Wherever you go, diplomacy is a work of art.No one is rude to foreign passports.You will find that in your particular case, due to some oversight, you have some small problem with the formalities, and suddenly, you have to go back and think about it. I will, I tell him. Look at yourself, if you don't object to the accusation I gave you, it doesn't look like a real tourist to go there.I don't know your real purpose for going there, but you must have your real goal.See you later. After saying this, he closed his eyes stubbornly, leaned his head on the back of the chair, and ignored me completely, as if he had already disembarked.