Shangjing, the Xu Family's courtyard house living room.
When Ye Yuan saw the cigar in Xu Hang's hand,
he immediately perked up.
It was not that Ye Yuan had never seen the world.
It was because he knew all too well how precious this cigar was.
This cigar was called Gurkha Bck Dragon.
Its Chinese name was Gurkha Black Dragon.
It was produced in Honduras.
Gurkha Bck Dragon was extraordinarily rare
and had a unique flavor, making it one of the hardest cigars to find today.
It had once been named the 2008 Cigar of the Year.
Gurkha's Bck Dragon was a premium blend of ultra-high-quality tobacco.
It was designed specifically for the most discerning cigar enthusiasts.
The Black Dragon cigar used an exquisite Connecticut broadleaf Maduro wrapper.
Its filler was Dominican long-filler tobacco, while its binder was aged Cameroonian tobacco.
These premium cigars came twenty to a box, packed in frosted glass tubes with velvet display cases.
The medium-to-full-bodied Black Dragon produced a leathery smoke with buttery notes and a hint of spice, unlike the smoke of any other cigar.
Despite its short length, this cigar had an astonishing burn time and could last forty-five minutes.
Complex sour and sweet notes alternated throughout the entire length of the cigar.
After smoking a Black Dragon, an intense buttery taste would linger in your mouth for hours.
Although Ye Yuan had never smoked this kind of cigar,
he had long been familiar with its great reputation.
He had never expected to see such a rare treasure at Old Xu's home.
Although Gurkha's Bck Dragon cost only 1,150 dollars per cigar,
it seemed incomparable to those collectible cigars that cost tens of thousands of euros apiece.
But this thing was rare!
Unlike those cigars, which might be famous but could still be