Brother Beggar refuses to beg

The New Year's Eve usually ends from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival. The market opens on the eighth day of the lunar new year, and many merchants start to do business. Yin Su looks for buyers for other goods he brings.

Going out early and returning late every day for more than ten days, I finally sold all the goods.

Business in ancient times was easy to do. As long as you find the corresponding merchant and speak for the quality and value of the goods, the other party can sell them according to their needs.

After being delayed in Dongjing City for several years, they set off for the return flight. They first went to the Jiangnan area to buy the tea needed for Tengyun Tea House, and then saw if they could bring some back to sell.

This time they did not bring much goods, but fortunately there are large regional differences, and there is also a large price gap.The principal plus the profit obtained, after the goods were sold, there were nearly 40 taels, more than doubled.Food, lodging, transportation and buying seeds along the way cost five taels, leaving one or two taels of silver with me, and the rest was ready to buy tea to take home.

Due to the popularity of tea in the south of the Yangtze River in recent years, Yin Su and the others believed that Jinling City was unlikely to buy tea at a low price, and there must be a lot of money in the city, so the two of them stopped at a town on the day before arriving in Jinling. Choose to disembark.

They found an inn in the town, rested temporarily, and first inquired about the current market situation of tea.

The waiter in the inn welcomes and sends them off all day long, and he is indeed one of the most well-informed people.There was a clever waiter in the inn where they were resting, and after collecting a few copper coins from Yin Su, he told all the news he knew.

"In the past two years, there have been a lot of merchants collecting tea in the south of the Yangtze River. Even in small towns like ours, there are merchants who come from afar. I heard from the owner that the Yuqian Longjing in Jinling City is exclusively for the royal family, and now the whole city does not sell it. In other places, the price of other teas has also increased.” The waiter said with a sigh, “A few days ago, during the Chinese New Year, I went to my mother-in-law’s house to bring some tea to show off, but after seeing the price, I gave up and just drank Forget it at the end of high school."

Gaomo is the tea powder that is sifted out when tea shops sieve tea. Most ordinary people drink this kind of tea.If the family is better, they usually prepare some cheaper tea for entertaining guests.

This town is at the riverside wharf, and all the tea that could be purchased was taken away. The waiter pointed out two nearby tea-producing towns, and Yin Su was going to try his luck with Xie Chen.

But when they arrived in these two towns, they realized that the situation was the same here. The tea farmers had already sold out of tea. If they wanted tea, they had to go to the local tea farms to buy it. The price had doubled.

As a last resort, the two could only continue to the next tea producing area.

They went further and further away, looking for remote small villages that few people went to, looking for fish that had slipped through the net that had not been set foot by the merchants.

In the end, when Yin Su was almost discouraged and planned to go to the tea house to buy high-priced tea for business, they accidentally found a tea garden in a mountain.

At that time, Yin Su and Xie Chen were instructed by the local mountain people to take a shortcut and go to Yuhang City for further planning, but they lost their way in the old forest deep in the mountains.Yin Su thought that no one would see the wilderness anyway, so he used his great lightness kung fu to go to the sky to explore the way, but the blind cat bumped into a dead mouse, and he saw a foliage planted on a mountain not far away. tea tree.

Immediately, he was very excited, turned around and went to pick up his wife, and went to the top of the tea mountain using two lightness kung fu.Going down the mountain road, I came to a small village hidden in the mountains.

This village is not big, and there are about twenty families living here and there. They are all houses made of trees, bamboo, and thatch. There are no brick houses in the whole village.

Yin Su found the nearest family at the foot of the tea mountain, and knocked on the crooked courtyard door, and soon a slightly old voice came from the unclosed door: "Who is it! Why are you knocking on the door if you don't come in?" , toss my old man..."

The gate of the courtyard was opened from the inside, and the chattering old man looked at the two unfamiliar faces outside, and stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

"Where do you come from?" The old man was surprised. There are less than a hundred people in the village, and everyone is familiar with them. These two people have never met, and they are not relatives of anyone.

Look at their attire. They are dressed in clean cotton gowns, coats, cloaks, and cloaks, and they have soft and comfortable boots on their feet.The aura on his body was even more daunting, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like someone who would come to this remote place.

Facing the shy and fearful look of the old man, Yin Su tried his best to show a friendly smile, and asked, "don't panic, old man. I'm a merchant from outside. I saw a tea mountain here, and I want to talk about business with the owner of the tea mountain. Could you Do you know whose family this tea mountain belongs to?"

Hearing that they came to discuss business, the old man was even more surprised, and there was a little joy in his astonishment, "Do you want this tea?"

"Not bad." Yin Su nodded.

"Oh, that's great, come with me." The old man smiled instantly, showing a missing front tooth, and greeted as he walked out, "This tea mountain belongs to our village. You all go home!"

Seeing the enthusiastic attitude of the old man, Yin Su felt that there was something to be said for this matter!He happily glanced at Xie Chen who was standing beside him, grabbed his hand, and followed closely the old man who was walking like flying.

Xie Chen was half a shoulder behind him, lowered his eyes to glance at the palms that were tightly intertwined with his fingers, and then looked away as if nothing had happened.

Lizheng's house is located in the center of the village. It is also a thatched house, but there are two more than the old man's house.

The old man slammed on the door of Lizheng's house and shouted, "Wu family boy, come out!"

His nimble legs and feet and full of breath were completely different from the cowering look just now, and he quickly called out the people in the room.

"Third Uncle, I'm almost forty, and I'm still a villager, can you stop calling me like that?" With helpless words, a middle-sized, robust man opened the door.

He was taken aback when he saw two more strangers outside, until Yin and Su explained their purpose, he let them into the house with some restraint, and asked his wife to pick up the best tea in the house and bring it to him .

"Wu Lizheng, my wife and I came to your place this time to buy some tea. How much tea do you have here? What kind of tea? Old tea or new tea?" Yin Su went straight to the point as soon as he sat down. These days, He was exhausted looking for it, and seeing that there might be hope here, he couldn't help being a little anxious.

Wu Lizheng rubbed his hands, and replied: "We have a small number of tea hills here, and there are not many people in the village. We still have some after collecting them. The tea hills grow Longjing tea, and there are a few wild tea trees, old tea and There are new teas."

The village is built in the mountains, and there are no proper roads to walk, only narrow paths made by the villagers. It takes a lot of effort to go out.They do not make a living by growing tea. Every household grows food and lives a relatively isolated life. It is good to be self-sufficient.

Because there is no safe way to the outside world, and there is little tea produced, outsiders basically do not come to the village, and people in the village rarely go out. Only when needed, they will carry out tea and some mountain products. , in exchange for some oil and salt sauce tea and needles and threads.

Finally, an outsider came, and Wu Lizheng chatted with Yin Su excitedly, and gave an overview of the situation in the village.

During the conversation, Li Zheng's wife brought tea to the guests.After walking for a long time, Xie Chen happened to be a little thirsty, thanked him, and took it to drink.

The tea has a lingering umami taste and a high aroma. After drinking, the fragrance will remain on the lips and teeth, and the aftertaste is sweet and full of body fluid.Xie Chen's eyes lit up, and he looked intently into the tea bowl, only to see a few needle-shaped tea leaves floating in it, with his knowledge and experience, he couldn't recognize what kind of tea it was.

He looked up at Yin Su, only to find that he also paid attention to the tea, frowning and staring at the tea bowl carefully, his face full of confusion.

"Wu Lizheng, may I ask what kind of tea is this?" Xie Chen asked the doubts in his heart.

With a simple and honest smile, Wu Lizheng said a little embarrassedly: "This is the tea picked and fried from a few wild tea trees on the tea mountain. There is not much tea. I keep it for my own drinking. I think it is quite fragrant. It is really rude. , I want to invite you to try a better Longjing, but she will be wrong."

"It's okay." Yin Su looked at the tea leaves thoughtfully, and said to Lizheng, "Please take us to see the tea trees on the mountain. If there is no problem, I would like to buy a batch of Longjing tea from your village."

"This..." Wu Lizheng was a little embarrassed.

It stands to reason that if someone came to buy something, it would be a good thing for their village, but he was a little worried, so he hesitated.

The old man who brought Yin and Su two people saw that good things were coming, but he was still hesitating here, so his face collapsed immediately, and he said anxiously: "Boy of the Wu family, you are still doing this and that, what are you thinking! Take these two young masters with you quickly!" Lord, go and see the tea tree!"

"Third Uncle, don't you know why the tea in our village is not sold outside?" Wu Lizheng frowned, "It's not that I don't want to do business, but it's not easy to transport this tea, and it can't be sold For the price, who in the village has that kind of spare time."

Yin Su and Xie Chen looked at each other with a look of surprise in their eyes. Now that Jiangnan tea is being stir-fried in the tea market, the purchase price is not low. Why do they say that?

"The price is negotiable. You can talk about what price you want. If it's unreasonable, we'll just sit on the ground and pay back the money." Xie Chen said unhurriedly.

Wu Lizheng looked at the two people who came from afar, and hesitantly quoted a price, which was five cents more per tael than when they went out to sell tea.When quoting the price, he felt guilty in his heart and didn't dare to look Xie Chen in the eyes.

After quoting the price, Yin Su and Xie Chen were silent for a moment.Wu Lizheng was a little flustered, afraid that he would be self-defeating and lose the rare buyer, so he quickly added: "The price is not negotiable, but it is too difficult to transport the tea from the mountains. We still have to cultivate the land to support our family..."

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Yin Su: What did I find? !This tea looks so familiar!

Beggar's pre-determined road to getting rich has arrived~