After becoming a big farmer

"Zhou's Chuting Red" quietly appeared in people's lives in late autumn. All the tea merchants who cooperated with the Zhou family launched related tea drinks one after another. Some tea merchants only sold ten pots of Chutinghong tea a day. And for the first month, it only costs [-] Wen per pot.

Naturally, the people at the lower level couldn’t afford it, but those people who still had a little surplus were naturally curious about the new tea, and asked the shopkeeper of the teahouse: “Didn’t you sell tea by the bowl in the past? Why do you use the pot? There are only a few bowls in the pot, and it costs about ten yuan a bowl, why is it so expensive?"

The shopkeeper laughed and said, "This Chutinghong is a new tea. It is different from the previous teas. Its tea soup is red and has a unique taste. It is unique in the world! Now it is only fifty cents a pot, how expensive is it?"

He also said: "A pot is naturally counted by the pot. That is to say, after the first pot is finished, you can also heat water for re-soaking. This way you can drink many bowls! Of course, if you want to heat the water, you need to add it once. You have to give me a penny."

After a rough calculation, if five people came to drink tea together, ordering a pot of tea and then pouring dozens of bowls, it seemed to be a good deal.

In their opinion, it is a good deal, but the shopkeeper bought this Chu Ting Hong at a huge price, so how could they make a loss-making business?Although a pot of tea can be filled with unlimited water, the taste will gradually fade after brewing several times.And if he charges a penny for adding hot water, he can't lose money.

The reason why the limit of ten pots per day is also to attract the curiosity of the people, so that it will be convenient for him to increase the price when the demand is greater in the future, and he can earn more by then!

On the first day that black tea was sold in various teahouses, when many people were still holding a wait-and-see attitude, Li Hao Teahouse in the east of the city sold out the first pot very quickly.

The people who bought the tea were a middle-aged couple. When Li Yuanwai entertained them, he could tell from their accent that they were from Linchuan, Fuzhou, and judging from their clothes and entourage, although they were not very wealthy, But the family conditions are definitely not bad, and the fifty Wen is definitely affordable.

"The two of you are from Linchuan?" Although Li Yuanwai has a little status in Xinzhou, the people around him will treat him a little bit, but he is never proud of it, and treats the people at the bottom with a neither humble nor overbearing appearance.

"Yes." The middle-aged gentleman in the blue shirt with his head wrapped around his head nodded.

Li Yuanwai didn't ask what they were doing here, and recommended with a smile: "It's a coincidence that those two came, our teahouse officially sells Chuting black tea today, a pot of tea is fifty yuan, and you can add hot water for one yuan at a time. "

The gentleman raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: "Is the name of the tea called Chu Tinghong, or is it black tea?"

"The name is Chutinghong, which is also black tea. The tea soup is red and bright, and it is a new tea variety!"

"Then let's have a pot." The gentleman said very cheerfully.

Li Yuanwai saw that he didn't feel sorry for such an expensive money from the beginning to the end, so he immediately decided that this person's family must be very good, so he hurriedly sent someone to make tea.

The dignified woman beside Mr. Lang frowned and said, "This tea is too expensive, and how much can the two of us drink!"

That man smiled and said: "Lady, I haven't drunk black tea yet! I want to try it, how does it taste like!"

The woman was a little helpless, but she didn't stop him after all.

The hot tea was served quickly, and the spout was steaming white. The man lifted the lid of the pot, and the steam rushed to his face.And with the heat blowing towards the face, a strong tea fragrance overflowed everywhere, and the people sitting next to it could smell it.

"This tea—" The gentleman was startled, and then a smile appeared on his face, "It smells so good!"

He put the lid back on the pot and poured out two more bowls.The neighbors who were originally affected by the aroma also moved their eyes to them curiously, and saw a pour of clear red tea soup poured from the spout into the bowl, and there was also a tea stem and broken tea. tea.

"It's really black tea!" The man said with a smile.

"Huh?" The woman looked at him, "Could it be that Erlang saw it again?"

Li Yuanwai has been paying attention to the situation here, because he is confident that this is just the beginning for the guests, and more people will accept black tea in the future and are willing to spend money for it!

Hearing the woman's words, Li Yuanwai thought about it, wondering if this is new tea?Already have it elsewhere?

Soon, the gentleman replied: "No, this is the first time I see you in this life."

The woman didn't ask any further questions, and the couple waited for the tea soup to cool down a little before taking a sip.After the first sip, there will naturally be a second sip. When the bowl is almost bottomed out, the woman said in surprise: "This tea soup tastes really good. I don't want to say anything about the sweetness. After drinking it, I feel like I'm exhausted." Gone."

Some people were discussing at the side, perhaps because they didn't want others to praise the tea, so they asked Li Yuanwai sarcastically: "Couldn't this be a babysitter invited by your teahouse?"

Li Yuanwai was immediately displeased and said: "This official must have looked down upon Li too much. Li is doing business, why does he need a babysitter?"

Li Yuanwai's character is known to regular customers, so they agree with him.

I thought that the man was just showing his power, but he said insistently: "It's hard to say, it is said that Li Yuanwai offended many tea merchants because he was more willing to buy tea from the Zhou family, so that other famous teas became more and more popular. There are fewer and fewer, but the Zhou family’s tea is getting more and more. Maybe this is a joint venture between you and the Zhou family! Who wants to buy a pot of tea for fifty renminbi?!”

Li Yuanwai saw that this was a deliberate attempt to provoke trouble.On the first day the black tea was sold, there were troubles. It is conceivable that this was not an accident, but someone specially arranged to make trouble, and also wanted to blacken the name of black tea.

He sneered: "You can slander someone like Li, but what do you want to do with innocent guests and the Zhou family?"

After questioning, he quickly apologized to the couple.

Na Langjun waved his hand and said: "It seems that the shopkeeper has offended someone. We are new here, and we don't know your grievances, and we have no intention of intervening. As for being slandered as a babysitter, it doesn't affect me. If the shopkeeper needs us to testify , we can honestly say that before we came here, we didn’t know there was black tea.”

But the woman asked: "The Zhou family, is that the Zhou family that sells Chuting Guliang tea?"

Li Yuanwai was taken aback, and said: "Exactly, you two also know Guliangcha?"

The instigator seemed to have caught something, and yelled: "Show off your feet! If it weren't for Tonger, how would the newcomers in Linchuan know about Guliangcha?!"

When some people heard it, they felt that this was indeed the case, and they all showed suspicious eyes.

Li Yuanwai was about to defend himself, but the woman smiled and said, "Although we are newcomers, Linchuan also sells Guliang tea. Besides, when we come to Xinzhou to do some business, we also want to bring some ancient teas with us. Liangcha went back to honor the elderly. How can this be used as evidence that we are babysitters? You are slandering people empty-handed, my husband is generous and doesn’t care about you, but it doesn’t mean that I will condone you to continue to be presumptuous!”

Even though he was smiling, he was not angry or prestige, which invisibly gave people a kind of coercion.

Because of her attitude and bearing, Li Yuanwai felt that their identities were not simple, and with their testimony, his confidence was much stronger.

"I don't care who sent you here to pick things up. Go back and tell the people behind you that good tea is good tea. No matter how much you slander and splash dirty water, you can't deny that tea is good! Get out!"

That man was going to act foolishly, but the gentleman who was sitting quietly just watched with cold eyes, and then asked his attendants to pour a few bowls of tea for the neighbors, saying: "I invite you all, if you don't feel good after drinking it, then I will Then he recognized me as Tuo!"

With free tea, who doesn't?

The instigator thought that he would also ask for a bowl of tea, and then he would say that the tea was not good, and they would have to admit that they were trustees no matter what!

Li Yuanwai didn't give him a drink, the gentleman said: "It's okay, let him drink!"

Everyone received the tea and drank it impatiently. It was slightly bitter in the mouth, but soon the sweet and fresh tea taste replaced the bitter and astringent taste, and the tea fragrance lingered for a long time.

After the first sip, they want a second sip.However, the instigator clutched his conscience and yelled loudly: "This tea is so bitter, it's not black tea, it's bitter tea!"

"You are talking nonsense, this tea is obviously good!" Someone retorted.

There was obviously someone behind the man, and he glared at the person who said good things: "Who said this is good tea? You let me remember your appearance!"

He was clearly threatening, remember the appearance of a person who speaks good words, then he will be able to take revenge, won't he?And he looks like a local ruffian, ordinary people can't hide in time, so how dare he provoke him?

So everyone was silent.

The man looked proudly at Yuanwai Li, who felt cold in his heart, and said, "How about it, I should admit that you have asked for help!"

Li Yuanwai was a little anxious, and also a little angry that the gentleman had made his own decisions, and now he is in trouble, do you really want to admit it?

But the gentleman didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, instead he calmly said: "In that case, I admit that I am the invited babysitter."

Li Yuanwai looked at him suddenly, thinking that he might have encountered a fairy dance, right? !

The person who provoked the trouble was also a little surprised that he really kept what he said, he was stunned for a moment, and then he became more and more proud.However, before he was too proud, a subordinate official pushed away the people who were watching at the entrance of the teahouse, and shouted loudly, "Get out of the way!"

Although the subordinate officials were not officials, they were not to be provoked by the common people. Seeing them now, they retreated one after another.

Li Yuanwai seemed to have seen a life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "All the officials came at the right time!"

One of the subordinate officials came out, and Li Yuanwai recognized that the other person was a member of the state government's yamen who joined the army, and his status was higher than that of ordinary subordinate officials.

The subordinate said to Li Yuanwai: "Li Yuanwai, if you have something to do, you might as well talk about it later, I have something important to do."

Li Yuanwai and the onlookers were a little confused. Didn't the subordinates come here after someone reported to the officials?Depending on the situation, these subordinates came here for something else?

When they were curious, they saw that the subordinate staff who used to be arrogant in Xinzhou City went straight to the middle-aged couple, lowered their heads, bowed their heads, and whispered: "Zhang Chengyi, big lady, The little one is late, please forgive me!"

"What is there to blame? We didn't want to make a big splash when we came here, and we didn't intentionally inform the Yamen. Under such circumstances, it's very good that you can come in such a timely manner." The gentleman said.

The subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, and keenly noticed that the commotion just now seemed to be related to Zhang Chengyilang in front of them, so they looked around and asked, "Chengyilang is in trouble?"

What is "Cheng Yi Lang"? Anyone with a little knowledge knows it. It's different from what they usually call others "XX Lang". The official ranks are divided into seven grades according to their grades.

Although I don't know if he has other official positions, but just the official rank of this loose official means that his status and status are all drawn a huge boundary with ordinary people.

Zhang Chengyilang wrote lightly: "It's nothing, it's just that my wife and I just arrived in Xinzhou City. We were tired and thirsty, so we went to this teahouse to have tea. However, someone gave me a job, saying that I was this I was invited by the teahouse. I think it’s interesting, since the other party insists on me admitting that I did, I’ll take it as a favor today and recommend this black tea.”

Although he was very calm when he spoke, every word he said made the troublemaker tremble with fear.

It took Li Yuanwai a while to recover from his ignorance. Although he didn't know who Cheng Yilang was, even the people in the state government government treated him very politely. He could definitely take this opportunity to make friends with him. other side.With the support of the other party, are you still worried that you won't be able to find out the person behind the trouble? !

He rushed forward and said: "It's because I wasn't decisive enough to deal with things, and Zhang Chengyilang got hurt."

After hearing what he had said about the cause of the incident, the subordinate staff asked people to arrest the instigator, and announced to everyone: "This is Zhang Qingan and Zhang Chengyilang from Fuzhou. Who has never heard of his name?" ?! How could he lower himself to be a trustee!"

The people suddenly became excited. This is Zhang He Zhang Qing'an who planted Qing'an rice, made outstanding contributions to the cultivation of red sweet potatoes and potatoes, and introduced peanuts to the east and west of the south of the Yangtze River for cultivation? !That's a big celebrity in the east and west of the south of the Yangtze River!

Nowadays, every household has eaten peanut oil squeezed from peanuts, and the appearance of peanut oil has reduced the price of the originally expensive oil, so that the people at the bottom can eat the oil.Based on this alone, Zhang He is worthy of admiration in the hearts of the people in the city.

Indeed, how could a man as famous as Zhang He be bought by small teahouses and tea merchants as a trustee!

The instigator knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly begged for mercy.

Zhang He smiled gently and said: "I really didn't come here as a benefactor, but after drinking this tea, I am willing to be a benefactor today! This black tea is indeed very novel and tastes good. I don't know where the Zhou family is. Where? When I finish my business, I want to buy some and bring them back to Linchuan."

"Why do you have to let Cheng Yilang go there in person? I'll let someone go to Zhou's house and let him send it." The subordinate official said.

Zhang He didn't refuse, but seeing that the time was almost up, he left the teahouse with his wife.The instigator was also brought back to the yamen for interrogation. Li Yuanwai only felt a turbid breath coming out, and he felt at ease physically and mentally.

And just now Zhang He personally endorsed Chuting black tea, the name of this black tea spread quickly, and many onlookers poured into the teahouse, ordering a pot of black tea.

Of course, Li Yuanwai did not forget the rules he set. He only sells ten pots a day. Zhang He ordered one pot just now, so there are only nine pots left.

Everyone clamored that Li Yuanwai was too stingy, and some people ran to other teahouses when they heard that other teahouses also had Chu Tinghong, and more people gathered together in twos and threes to form a table, and then asked for a pot, and paid for it. shall be borne separately.

Now that they sat down to drink tea together, they also started chatting, very curious about what Zhang He came here for.Some people speculated that it was because Zhang He, as a celebrity in the government, was often invited by officials from neighboring states to give advice on their farming. Now he came to Xinzhou, presumably for this reason.

Regardless of what Zhang He came to Xinzhou for, what happened today quickly spread throughout Xinzhou City.

In addition to Li Yuan, the Zhou family was also involved, so after Li Yuanwai dealt with the matter in the teahouse, he hurried to Zhou's house and told Zhou Shu about it, asking her to take this opportunity to promote Chuting black tea.