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Chapter 156 Investing in Coffee

 Chapter 152 Investing in Coffee

"Gao, Gao! What happened? Is it someone from the 'company'?"

Sucre rushed into Gao Bin's room while crawling, while Mary Cruz held her stomach and leaned against the wall. It was a blind spot for shooting and was very safe.

"It should be, man, don't be nervous, our firepower is enough to block this attack."

Sucre stroked his bald head:

"Damn it, I thought the people from the 'company' wouldn't be back in a short time. How come it's so fast? How did they find them?"

"Okay, go stay with Mary Cruz and take care of her and the baby in her belly. Leave this place to me."

"Okay, okay."

At this time, Maikou and Lincoln also rushed in, and came to Gao Bin's side with a sliding shovel.

Bang bang bang~

Gao Bin's few shots just caught the opponent's attention. His position has become the main attack point, and he doesn't dare to show his head at all.

"Gao, what should we do?"

"Don't do anything, stay still, there are not many opponents, we can definitely stop them."

"Something has to be done?" McQueen shouted.

"Trust me, it's no problem."

Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the corner of the second floor of the wooden house. It was the sound that can only be made by a sniper rifle.

The sniper opened fire.

Gao Bin quickly picked up the gun and looked for Ross through the scope. If he was shot in the head by a sniper, it would be like shooting himself in the foot.

"Where, where, where are you?" Gao Bin was anxious, but he did not stop pulling the trigger.

Ross mobilized all the people he could mobilize, more than 20 of them, but now there are less than 10 people left. The Vulture Team is definitely not a vegetarian.

Especially after the sniper sounds the death knell, no one can resist the harvest of the sniper rifle at such a close distance.

Bullets don't have eyes, especially the kind of aimless shooting, like the scythe of death. All you can do is pray, pray that God will stand by your side, otherwise...

The Vulture Team suffered heavy casualties. In addition to the unlucky guy who was exploded at the beginning, two more people died one after another, one was seriously injured, and the other two were slightly injured.

Ross came well prepared and attacked suddenly. Wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't take a few lives?

Gao Bin is still looking for someone. Logically speaking, he should have found Rose long ago, but so far he hasn't found her. Where has she gone?

From left to right, from right to left, Gao Bin looked for it several times. Finally, he found the figure behind a beach motorcycle.

If nothing else, it should be Rose.

Gao Bin fired, and a bullet accurately hit the seat of the motorcycle. He fired a single burst. He was reminding Rose that he had found her and could prepare to die.

The next second, Ross carefully leaned out and deliberately messed up his hair to let Gao Bin confirm his identity.

Gao Bin fired another burst, hitting the hole in the seat.

"e on baby." Gao Bin muttered in a low voice.

A few seconds later, Ross stood up with a gun. Gao Bin seized the opportunity and fired decisively.

Bang, Ross fell down.

At the moment he fell, Gao Bin began ruthlessly harvesting lives.

Just make sure that one person returns alive to report the news, and the rest can be left here as fertilizer.

He and the sniper who was also on the second floor used their sharpshooter abilities to the extreme. Anyone who dared to show their head would be dead.

If they had been hiding, there was really nothing they could do to them for a while, but now that their mentality has collapsed and they turned around and ran away, what are they waiting for? They are dead!

Seeing the last person running away, Gao Bin quickly said:

"Okay, stop fighting and go down and take a look."

Put the safety on the gun, Gao Bin told Lincoln and the others:

"Don't go down yet, I'll go down and take a look."

He took out a pistol from his waist and loaded it just in case. If anyone really survived, just shoot him again and send him to the West. That's a good thing.

As soon as he arrived downstairs, Gao Bin smelled the strong smell of gunpowder and the faint smell of blood.

The vulture looked ugly. Although death was common, this mission had just begun with three brothers missing and a seriously injured person. It was a bad start.

"How's it going?" Gao Bin went over and looked concerned.

After hearing Vulture's report, Gao Bin nodded, it was pretty much what he expected.

"My condolences to our deceased brothers, a pension of 40,000 yuan per person is our little thought."

40,000, is it a lot? It’s definitely not much, but he is the employer and there is no need to pay him a pension. He is paid out of love, and he can’t be blamed for not paying it.

Not only did Gao Bin get paid, but it was also 40,000 U.S. dollars, which is not a small amount. These low-level mercenaries may not be able to save 40,000 U.S. dollars after working for a year.

The vulture nodded helplessly and said thank you to Gao Bin:

"I'll have someone contact the doctor to come over and treat the injured brother first. I'll go out and see what's going on outside."

After saying that, he walked out of the house alone with a gun. When he saw someone he didn't recognize lying on the ground, he shot him again to make him dead, and then he felt at ease.

I wandered over to the beach motorcycle and saw Ross lying in a pool of blood.

But Gao Bin is not worried at all. Those are all the lessons learned in the blood bag. She must be fine. At most, she will have a bruise on her chest.

Gao Bin squatted next to Rose and reached out to touch her face:

"My dear, congratulations, you are safe, but you still have to pretend for a while."

Ross closed his eyes and slowly raised the corners of his mouth.

Gao Bin didn't want Vulture to see that this was a trap. It would be fine if no one died. Now that more than one person has died, he was feeling uncomfortable. It would be strange if he knew that this was a trap he had set for Niu, and he would not be able to fight against him.<

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So, he bent down and picked up Rose in a princess hug, returned to the cabin, and went straight to his room on the second floor:

"Maikou, go get a doctor quickly and help the Vulture team members heal their injuries."

"Okay, who is this person?" Maikou responded.

"She is still alive. She must have been stunned by the bullet."

"Okay, then be careful."

Gao Bin said to Mary Cruz:

"Can you please help me find a suit of clothes that suits her?"

"Ah? Oh, okay, wait for me."

Lincoln watched for a while and left the room without saying a word. Only Gao Bin and Ross were left in the room.

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Ross couldn't hold it back and quietly opened one eye, meeting Gao Bin's teasing eyes.

"What are you laughing at?" Rose patted him.

"Laughing, you act very similar. Okay, don't worry, it's completely safe now."

"Well, but can this really be hidden from the 'company'?"

"Of course we can't hide it completely, but it's enough to give them a reason. Don't forget our plan."

Next, he plans to grab Syclla. As long as Syclla is obtained and no one needs to deal with it, they will be done with it.

...

For the next week, Rose didn't leave the house. She ate, drank, and had sex in Gao Bin's room. She was happy to enjoy it, but Gao Bin was exhausted. He was busy serving tea and water every day, which was very enjoyable.
A few very nervous people didn't find anything. Only Mike and Mary Cruz saw the clues.

Maikou is because of her online IQ, and Mary is purely because of women’s delicate intuition.

Of course, they didn't say much. Gao Bin must have his own plans.

Ross's injury has long since healed. The reason why he didn't go downstairs was simply because he expected the vultures to think.

Gao Bin also infiltrated little by little, saying that Rose was taken down by him, and he would be one of his own from now on, and hoped that he would not be resentful. After all, Rose almost didn't fire a shot that night, and the Vulture's brother did not die in her hands.

This is the key. If he really died in her hands, I would not forgive him at all.

But staying at home all the time is not the case. Gao Bin is going to take her out for a walk, firstly to relax, and secondly to find an investment channel for their 5 million dollars.

You can’t just sit back and have nothing.

They didn't go far either, and went to Panama City on a yacht.

This is the pearl of Central America. This is Gao Bin’s first time here. When the yacht approaches the port, the clouds droop, and the sea and sky turn into a dreamlike blue and green color. The mountains in the distance serve as a backdrop, and the urban civilization is like a bright pearl.

It's like jumping right in front of your eyes.

Panama City in history was not a peaceful, prosperous and prosperous place. Today, there are still ruins of the castle from the Spanish colonial rule in the city.

The old city walls tell the story of the brutal history, and the dilapidated scene reminds people of the hard-won peace.

While walking through the old town, I happened to see a few graffiti.

After some inquiries, I learned that these graffiti depicted a bloody "revolution" carried out by the Kuna people in Panama's San Blas Island in 1925 to resist tyranny.

Finally, under the mediation of the Chou Kingdom, the Kuna people achieved regional autonomy, and this history of their struggle for freedom was permanently recorded by the bright colors on the wall.

After landing, they first went to a small hotel on the top of the mountain to put down their luggage. From here, they can overlook the Panama Canal channel and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Gatun Lake in the distance.

The hotel is very small, with only about a dozen rooms, and the rooms are cramped. However, the tree branches outside the window are green and green. When you look up, you can see colorful birds jumping and croaking in the gaps between the branches. I heard that there are also owls at night.

Come knock on the door.

However, Gao Bin did not come here to watch the birds. Traveling was one thing, and he wanted to try the authentic Panamanian Geisha coffee.

If the taste meets his expectations, be prepared to invest in it.

The density of cafes in Panama is as high as that of the devil. Almost every road is lined with cafes or restaurants and bars that serve coffee.

In fact, coffee shops are the places that are most in line with the petty bourgeoisie. Gao Bin remembers that he once entered a century-old coffee shop in Rome. It was full of antique style from the outside to the inside, but the strange thing is that the toilets in the coffee shop are charged separately.

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To the left of the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysées in Paris, there is a time-honored cafe frequented by talent scouts. No wonder it is filled with handsome men and beautiful women, well-dressed and with rich body language.

In Shanghai, the more authentic cafes, regardless of their size, are all very sophisticated and each has its own style.

When Gao Bin was in Shanghai, a cafe he frequented was opened in an office building. It was decorated in silver-white, so-called "cold" style, so as to match the color of the office building.

One side of the bar sells various types of coffee in paper cups and Western snacks such as sandwiches, while the other half has baristas making hand-brewed coffee.

There he had tasted Yirgacheffe from Ethiopia, which had a mellow and rich taste; Pacalama from El Salvador, which was fragrant and sweet; and Geisha from Panama, which was full of floral and fruity aroma.

However, Gao Bin is not sure whether that Geisha is authentic. Now that he has arrived at the place of origin, he will know through comparison.

Gao Bin and Ross were like a couple in love, appearing hand in hand in various cafes in Panama City.

Find a restaurant at random and order a cup of hand-brewed coffee. You can first sit at the bar and watch the barista brewing the coffee, chat with the boss casually, and then take it to your seat and slowly taste it.

The equipment for serving hand-brewed coffee in this restaurant is very unique. There is a sign on the wooden tray with the type of drink, indicating the place of origin, taste, etc., and there are three square glasses.

The tall one holds the coffee brewed by the barista, the two short ones hold ice cubes, and the other is for you to pour some from the tall cup for your own consumption.

In the evening, they appeared in another coffee shop. This shop seemed to be converted from a car shop, with only a dozen seats, which was quite cramped.

But this coffee shop only sells hand-brewed coffee, stocking more than thirty kinds of coffee beans from famous origins around the world. The owner is a small book, and he was very excited when he saw Gao Bin, an oriental face, and enthusiastically recommended him.

Home of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

Blue Mountain was hyped up because of the small book, and Gao Bin had already had enough.

However, seeing how enthusiastic the little old man was, he still ordered a cup. Without tasting it, just by smelling the aroma of the coffee beans, he knew it was authentic coffee from the Yunwu Mountains of Jamaica.

I saw him pouring freshly ground coffee powder into a filter cup with folded filter paper, using a stainless steel long-spout hand-pour pot to continuously rush outward in concentric circles from the center, and then let the wet coffee powder steam for a while

, then do it a second and third time.

Hand punching was not invented by Xiao Ben, but they are obsessed with it and are good at it.

Gao Bin also knows that Xiao Benzi likes dark roasted coffee beans, so the water temperature for brewing coffee powder is controlled at about 85 degrees. Coffee brewed at too high a temperature will be too bitter.

After the coffee juice flows into the sharing pot, the capacity of a small porcelain cup is just poured out.

At this time, the little book also mentioned that there are subtle differences in the taste of coffee brewed by male and female baristas. One of the differences lies in the difference in wrist strength when brewing by hand.

Gao Bin suddenly felt uncomfortable. He picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. He felt sour at first and then bitter, with a clear sense of hierarchy.

The blue sea seemed to appear in front of me, reflecting on the mountain peaks under the direct sunlight, emitting a bright blue light.

Then there was a scene from Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn". It was dark at night, and the heroine met a group of pirates in the seaside inn owned by her aunt.

In fact, the inn in the movie is not in Jamaica, but on the coast of England.

At this time, the taste returned to sweetness, and he came back to his senses to take a second bite.

For Blue Mountain coffee, the combination of sweet, sour and bitter flavors is perfect.

There were not many people in the store at this time, only Gao Bin and Ross. Under the warm lights, soul singer Percy Sledge sang "When a Man Falls in Love with a Woman", full of tenderness and vicissitudes.

After drinking Blue Mountain, Gao Bin felt that it was not enough, so he asked the little book if there was any Gesha.

Of course there is. Opening a cafe in Panama without Gesha is just a joke.

Boquete, the Geisha coffee producing area, is located in the northern part of Chiriquí, a western province in Panama, covering an area of ​​about 500 square kilometers.

It is located among the mountains in the Central Mountains of Panama. Its northern area is over 800 meters above sea level, and there are many peaks over 2,000 meters above sea level.

Among them, Mount Baru is more than 3,400 meters above sea level, making it the highest peak in Panama.

It has undulating mountains, beautiful scenery, clear rivers and spring-like weather all year round. It is a famous tourist attraction in Panama. It has also become an important agricultural production area in the country because of its fertile soil and suitable climate.

Panama’s famous Geisha coffee went to the world from here.

Of course, there is more than just one variety of Geisha in this production area, but it is indeed the most famous variety.

The first introduction of Gesha, a coffee variety native to Ethiopia in Africa, to Panama dates back to the 1960s.

At that time, someone bought a kilogram of seeds for trial planting to see if the coffee could resist two prevalent local diseases and insect pests.

This move was doubted by many people in the industry at the time, because the root system of this variety was not developed enough, it was easy to die, and the yield was not high.

Geisha coffee belongs to the Arabica species, and its taste is somewhat different from traditional coffee. It has a special taste of tropical fruits and is a very high-quality coffee.

Although its root system is relatively weak, it can be overcome with more cultivation and maintenance during the planting period.

Facts have proved that through careful cultivation by agricultural technicians and more efforts in the post-processing of coffee beans, Geisha coffee has gradually adapted to the water, soil and environment of Panama, and its quality has been maximized in the Boquete region.<

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After 40 years of planting and harvesting, Panama Geisha coffee is also world-famous.

But if we want to truly open up the international market, Asia is a territory that Geisha has to conquer. Gao Bin also saw this opportunity and was ready to take a gamble.

If I remember correctly, the price of Geisha coffee has been rising all the way during this period, and later it became the darling of the high-end coffee market.

The price of Geisha coffee per pound now fluctuates around US$150. In a few years, the price will return to around US$400. In 10 years, it will double again to around US$800.

However, there are not many areas suitable for the growth of Gesha. Its planting area is only more than 1,000 hectares, and its annual output is only 10,000 to 12,000 bags (one bag is about 46 kilograms).

Of course, in addition to Gesha, other varieties of coffee are also of good quality. The total coffee production in Panama can reach 200,000 bags, which is enough for Gao Binna to get a share of 5 million.

After drinking coffee all afternoon, Gao Bin felt extremely energetic, as if he had taken stimulants.

It’s normal, it doesn’t matter who consumes so much caffeine at once.

It's just that Ross is going to suffer tonight.

But before she suffered disaster, Gao Bin got to know this little book formally. His name was Yamashita Taro.

The name of Xiaobenzi is easy to understand, he is the eldest son of the Yamashita family.

After the introduction, I learned that the Yamashita family first lived in Hawaii. They were originally a coffee family. However, due to certain wishes, the ancestral coffee garden was not saved. Yamashita's father passed away in depression.

Therefore, Yamashita Taro took on the responsibility of raising his family and personally traveled to Central America in order to revive the family's glory. As a result, he stayed in Panama for 10 years.

During these 10 years, he worked hard to hone his coffee skills, but he never found his own path in business.

He is a talented person with ingenuity and lacks business thinking. However, such a person is exactly what Gao Bin needs!


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