Travel back to ancient times to be a beautician
Chapter 142 Chapter 142
Sunan walked among the squares and markets, talking and behaving as if he was a businessman who had just arrived here.After a delay of about half a day, all the formalities were completed. After the completion, he did not stay in the town, planning to see the properties he had purchased.
The horse-drawn carriage was driving among the flat mountain roads. The mountain roads were opened up by special personnel, and the journey went smoothly. The group of people did not delay on the road for too long. They just bypassed a mountain. After driving for about an hour, they saw a Zhuangzi sitting in the distance. Among the green hills.
The gatekeeper of Biezhuang is an old man in his 50s with a gray beard. He watched the carriage approaching from a distance, and came out as usual to ask the identity of the visitor.It was the first time for Sunan to come to this tea garden villa. The servant handed over the house deed and title deed with the official seal. Only then did he realize that this was his future master. His original casual attitude changed a lot. He really couldn't hide the look of joy: "Master, please wait here for a while, I will go and ask the steward to come here immediately." As he said that, he ran into the manor to invite the steward.
The author has something to say: Sunan refused to wait outside, so he stepped into the yard by himself first, and looked around here with Lin Jun.This villa is just an ordinary courtyard with bluestone bricks and tiles, but when you enter it, you find that it has a large space, but the decoration is average, a little more refined than the small farmyard.
Sunan and Lin Jun did not continue to walk in. He glanced around and thought that this place was just an ordinary house. He had just seen the greenery on the mountain in the distance, which was man-made and regular. It should be a tea field , the other courtyard here only occupies a very small part.
Looking at this other courtyard, a surge of joy secretly rose in my heart.He felt as if he was a rich man who came to collect rent. Thinking about it, he went out and waved his arms, and he could proudly say: "This mountain is covered by me." Thinking about it, he felt a little excited.
He nodded with a smile, and he couldn't hide the joy in his eyebrows. He chatted with Lin Jun while he was in charge of the future.But after a cup of tea, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps in the courtyard, and the two stopped talking immediately, watching a middle-aged man in a dark blue gown rushing out from the corridor, seeing the two of Sunan, My eyes suddenly brightened.
The middle-aged man quickly stepped forward and saluted Sunan: "Zhong Yongchun has seen the head of the house, and the young one is the manager of the tea garden." After raising his head, Zhong Yongchun began to pay attention to the person he will serve in the future.
The new head of the house was younger than he expected, with a handsome face, but he looked kind, and he was dressed in a green dress, and his gestures were refined.Sunan's face has always been very deceitful. When outsiders see him at first sight, they will often mistake him for a Pianpian scholar who has not touched the sun with his hands and has no deep experience in the world. No one would think that his serious career is a profiteer.
Seeing this, Zhong Yongchun was slightly disappointed in his heart. From the appearance, Sunan was far from his ideal.He guessed in his heart that Sunan might be the young master of a family who bought property for him, and he probably didn't know anything about it.Although he made such a judgment in his heart, his face was still respectful.
In fact, when Sunan set off, he had already sent someone back to Shiwai Pavilion to inform Mr. Zhao, and he would be there in a few days.Sunan guessed that Mr. Zhao would be asked to help take over the affairs of this place first, and he would return here to take care of the property after everything was closed.
According to his original plan, the camellia oil here is a major feature of the local area.Sunan has been looking forward to incorporating tea oil into Shiwai Pavilion's cosmetics, but according to the current situation, the plan has to be postponed.
"It's okay, Mr. Zhong. The few of us will stay here temporarily for a few days. Please help me clean up a few guest rooms, and then take me to get acquainted with the property." Sunan smiled and said, looking kindly .
In fact, Zhong Yongchun had a good impression of Sunan. Although the boss seemed to know nothing about the tea garden business, he was easy to get along with, unlike the previous owner of the tea garden.That is a prodigal son who is proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, otherwise, he would not have ruined all the good properties.
"You wait in the front hall, the dormitory has already been ordered." Zhong Yongchun raised his hand and brushed his beard, and enthusiastically led Sunan and his party to the garden.This courtyard is located halfway up the mountain. The houses are built according to the routine, not exquisite, but there are quite a lot of things that should be added.
"The former head of the house didn't come to this tea garden very often..." Zhong Yongchun was half a body behind Sunan, while detailing the situation in the other courtyard.The former prodigal son knew nothing about business, and he only came over a month or two before the Chinese New Year, and a period of time before the camellia oil harvest, and the time he stayed was not too long.
After settling down a group of people, Sunan and Zhong Yongchun came to the study room. He had just taken over such a large business and needed to digest some of it in the short term. His work was not insignificant.
Pushing the door open and entering the study, the sunlight follows his movements and outlines the outline on the stone floor.The interior decoration of the study is very conventional. There are several bookcases on one side, and a lot of books and files are stacked on them.On the other side of the study room are placed tables and chairs. Behind the table is a cabinet for decorations. Several pots of bonsai and other decorations are placed on it. It adds a bit of popularity to the study.
"I usually work in this study, and the accounts and supply lists of previous years are on the bookshelf." Zhong Yongchun pointed to the bookshelf on the other side and said, and took some heavy-looking account books from it, and handed them to Sunan.
In fact, he was also very concerned about how the tea garden's business was doing, so he sat down behind the desk and flipped through one side of the ledger.Sunan looked very slowly, slowly turning over a page of the ledger. As time went by, the excitement at first became completely calm later, replaced by frowns that gradually twisted together.
I'll go, although he had expected before coming that not many would be able to sell his own properties, and the operating conditions of the tea garden were by no means good, but at any rate such a large garden, with a total of two mountains, tens of thousands of acres Not only did the tea farms have no surplus on the books, but they also had a lot of accounts on credit.
Even with the wages of the workers in the tea garden today, they can barely cope with this month, and it's hard to say next month.Sunan started to have a headache. He hadn't started making money yet, and he had to spend a considerable amount of money to fill the bill.
Zhong Yongchun observed the words and expressions, and immediately noticed the displeasure on the face of the new head, knowing that it must be because of the account book, his face was stained with a smirk, and said with a wry smile: "Master Su, to tell you the truth, this tea garden was not too bad for me to take over. But I can't resist the wanton squandering of the former head of the family."
The former head of the family was also somewhat similar to the personality he set for Sunan today. He took over the property from a big family, but he didn't know how to cherish it, and finally gradually declined.He also told Sunan that the area of tea gardens used to be wider than today, but due to insufficient manpower and lack of care, some tea fields were abandoned.
Sunan fell into deep thought. He asked Zhong Yongchun to take out all the account books of the last one or two years, and quickly selected a few important pages to read, then put them aside, took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to settle the accounts.
In fact, when I think about it carefully, the current situation of this tea garden is not at the point of desperation. The tea garden still owes more than five thousand taels of silver on credit. Now I have just harvested a batch of tea fruits, and two-thirds of them have been sold. One of them is mostly of low quality, and the selling price is not high, but in a few months, another batch of late-ripening tea fruits can be harvested, which can offset part of the debt.
In general, if the net income is calculated, if the weather is good and the harvest is good, it is not a problem to get 1 taels of silver.
Why do you still owe so much silver, you ask?I went because of the hole my predecessor dug and owed a lot of money on the tea plantation, and I didn't know what kind of dandy my predecessor was to be able to do this.
After a lot of checking the accounts, the sun was setting outside the house, and the servant knocked on the door, inviting the two of them to the living room for dinner.
Sunan suddenly realized that such a long time had passed, he made an agreement with Zhong Yongchun, and decided to wait until tomorrow to see the situation of the tea fields, the sky is big, and food is important, so he can't starve himself.
A new visitor came to the other courtyard today, and it was rare to get rid of the bleak atmosphere before. The sunset in the sky disappeared, and the dark blue night had already appeared in the sky. Candles were lit in the courtyard. Taking advantage of the bright lights in the house, the whole courtyard became lively.Zhong Yongchun ordered the cooks below to carefully prepare the dinner. Even so, it was nothing more than the usual home-cooked dishes, which were not very delicate, but for everyone who had been on the road and worked hard all day, it was considered a meal. Rarely relaxed.
Sunan relaxed and swept away the worries in his heart. During the banquet, several jars of good wine were opened, and everyone drank lively.Zhong Yongchun led his subordinates to meet the new leader before, and the people in the other courtyard saw Sunan with trepidation. These leaders seem to be easy to talk to, but Lin Jun sitting next to him is amazing, and his uprightness is astonishing. The guards behind him stood up straight, like sharp swords out of their sheaths.Where have the countrymen seen this battle?Immediately, they were too frightened to speak out, and after seeing the head of the family, they left one after another, discussing behind their backs.
Zhong Yongchun seems to be very interested in the few friends Sunan brought over. He has traveled through many lands in the past, and he still has vision.Whether it's this imposing and extraordinary man or the unremarkable old man and young man next to him, he vaguely feels that they are not like ordinary people.Looking at their looks and demeanor, these people should all have martial arts, but their own status as the head of the family is the most ordinary.
It's a pity that Sunan was kind on the surface, but he didn't want to reveal their identities. Sunan deliberately didn't say anything, and he didn't force him to ask. Instead, he diverted the topic to other places.
In the past, Zhong Yongchun used to work with a traveling businessman. He traveled all over the world and had both knowledge and experience. Later, he settled down in Chaguan Town and became a manager of a tea garden, married a wife and had children. He interacts with people on the Internet and knows a lot about things around him.
At the beginning of the meeting, he underestimated Sunan, looking at his appearance as a scholar, he thought that buying this tea garden was just an addition to his family property, but after getting in touch with him, he found that Sunan was really a businessman, and his speech and behavior were all good.
Zhong Yongchun was puzzled, for a person like Sunan, the first choice would be to choose an official career.Scholars, farmers, businessmen, although the status of businessmen has been improved, compared with official careers, they are still lacking a lot.He didn't ask rashly, it was not an act of etiquette, he just felt that Sunan was covered with a veil of mystery.
Maybe this head Su could really bring the tea garden back to life.Thinking of this, Zhong Yongchun's face was full of spring breeze, and the atmosphere on the wine table became more active.Half chatting, half explaining, Zhong Yongchun told Sunan a lot of Jiangnan stories, from Jianghu affairs to officialdom, or to business, he seemed to be able to mention one or two things, which made Sunan listen with gusto. He now lacks such well-informed locals.
After drinking for three rounds, the table was in full swing, Zhong Yongchun's eyes were full of drunkenness, and he began to chatter: "Speaking of the famous rich merchants in Yangzhou, the one who has been in the limelight recently is Jiang Chunrong Jiangye, tsk tsk, just this thousand taels of gold , is enough to make people jump, but it's just a gimmick." Zhong Yongchun's eyes drifted, as if drunk.
Although Sunan and Lin Jun also drank wine, the former has a special physique, while the latter has superb internal strength, which is still clear on the table. When he heard the name of a familiar person, he became interested for a while. Sunan was curious: "How can I say it's a gimmick?" ?”
"Mrs. Jiang's wife has evil marks on her face. It hasn't been a day or two. At first, she recruited famous doctors. After seeing it, she shook her head and said that the possibility of being cured is extremely low." Zhong Yongchun shook his head. .
"Oh? Have you seen it with your own eyes?" He raised his voice and asked with interest.
"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I have heard that Mrs. Jiang is beautiful, but unfortunately there is a scar the size of a duck egg on the right cheek, which takes up almost half of her face. I heard that the scar was made worse by the lack of treatment. It's too deep. Master Jiang has been helping his wife seek medical treatment for these years, but she still hasn't recovered."
Sunan thought to himself, although there were many famous doctors who could rejuvenate the burn scars the size of duck eggs in ancient times, if they can't be cured after such a long time, maybe the hope is really slim.
In fact, there are ways to deal with this type of Sunan, but he had already known that Chu Qixun was coming this trip, and after thinking about it, he didn't want to join in the fun.
Pecking one cup after another, he nodded and smiled while listening to Zhong Yongchun.
"Boss Su, if you want to go to Yangzhou in a while, remember to be careful. I heard that going to Bailiu Town in Yangzhou via Chaguan Town has not been very peaceful recently." Zhong Yongchun shuddered when he remembered something. , The wine is also half awake.
"Oh? Why is it unfair?" Zhong Yongchun's words aroused Sunan's interest. He leaned forward slightly, his ears moved slightly, and listened carefully.
Zhong Yongchun came closer and lowered his voice: "I don't know, there are monsters or ghosts in that town." There was a hint of fear in the voice, Sunan saw that his pupils constricted and his heartbeat increased, so it was obvious that he was not lying. It's really frightening.
Since Sunan asked, Zhong Yongchun told him what he knew.
It wasn't too long ago, about a month or two ago, when he happened to be going out to discuss a business, he happened to pass by Bailiu Town, and stayed there for one night.
He is a regular guest, and before that stay, the innkeeper carefully asked him to go to bed early at night and not to walk around casually outside.At first he thought it was a strict curfew investigation, but later found that it was not the case.
It turned out that several very strange murders had occurred in Bailiu Town since a month ago.Every few days, on the street or in the river, a dead body can always be found, whether male or female, middle-aged or young. These corpses have one thing in common, that is, they have no face.
With a sound of "slap", there was a crisp sound on the wine table, and everyone turned their eyes to it, only to find that it was Su Yang who knocked over the glass casually with a pale face.Seeing everyone turn their gazes over, their throat moved slightly, they swallowed their saliva, and showed an awkward smile: "Slippery, slippery."
After being interrupted like this, the weird atmosphere on the wine table dissipated a lot and became a lot more relaxed.
"No face, the identity of this corpse is really difficult to confirm. It took a lot of work for the police to identify a few of them. It turned out that these corpses came from different counties two or three hundred miles away. The missing person in the town People died for no reason, and the corpses were still found in Bailiu Town, a hundred miles away, do you think this is scary?"
Zhong Yongchun shuddered at what he said, and immediately picked up the wine glass, took a sip of wine to warm his body and sink his heart.
Xie Hongyi was so drunk that he was dizzy, his eyelids were closed, his head was leaning on the table, as if he had fallen asleep, and at this moment he suddenly said: "What's so scary about this, isn't it just killing someone and then peeling off his face?" Come down?" There are all kinds of perverted killing methods in the Jianghu, and it's not like he hasn't seen someone who strips people's skin, or someone who strips people's whole body.
But Zhong Yongchun said with lingering fear: "I'm afraid Mr. Xie doesn't know that there are places where the skin was lost on the discovered corpse. It's very scary. The police haven't found out who committed the crime until now. The people all say that there is an evil spirit who flays people lurking in the town."
Lin Jun sat in his seat and listened to the narration quietly. He frowned and retorted after hearing what he said: "There are no evil spirits, they are just evil people who do evil." Just listening to his description, the ability of this evil person is not enough. Shangqiang, but he was still at ease for so many days without being caught, either because the local yamen servant was incompetent, or that person possessed a special ability to hide.
Xie Hongyi was so drunk that he couldn't distinguish anything, and shook his head in agreement, there are no evil spirits in this world, no matter how evil they are, they can't be more evil than humans.This matter was so determined by a few people that it was a villain who hurt people, without the integration of elements such as gods and ghosts. Looking at it calmly, this is an ordinary case.
It's fine for Sunan to hear about it, but he never thought that this matter would have a lot to do with him in the future.
The guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, the moon was shining on their heads, the banquet was over, Sunan didn't drink much wine, but lying on the bed after washing, for some reason, he remembered what Zhong Yongchun said, smiled to himself, and soon fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, Sunan planned to go to the warehouse to check the remaining inventory according to the plan. During breakfast, he discussed with Lin Jun: "According to our plan, it won't take long here, just take a look today. The condition of this tea garden is even worse than I imagined, and it may take a few more days to stay."
Lin Jun was considerate and told him not to rush on his way: "I already know that we have met for seventy years, and he and Mr. Zhao will be here in a few days. Don't be in a hurry. It won't be too late to start after you finish the handover."
Sunan smiled and didn't shirk it. In this case, he can use this time to think of a way to save his miserable tea garden.
After breakfast, Sunan and Zhong Yongchun set off from the other courtyard to the warehouse and oil mill.The warehouse is not near the other courtyard, but on another hill.The scenery along the way is beautiful. After walking for a while, there are lush tea fields on both sides of the road, and the growth is gratifying.The tea fields are neatly planted, and occasionally one or two long-term workers can be seen tending the tea trees in the fields.
The closer to the destination, the nasal cavity is filled with a strong aroma of oil, which has a hint of burnt smell, just like the aroma of high-quality oil after frying, pungent but not unpleasant.
Sunan understood that there should be an oil press nearby.The oil mill is one of the industries of the tea garden.From the perspective of tea garden operation, the tea fruit produced in this tea garden does not make money. The tea seeds are separated from the harvested tea fruit, and the tea oil can only be obtained after oil extraction. The processed tea oil has different prices depending on the quality.Half of the income of the tea garden comes from this.
Sure enough, after not walking far, Sunan saw the oil mill. The oil mill was not big, and it was located by the river. The turbulent water flowed from top to bottom, fell on the waterwheel and kept running, and a little white smoke came from the chimney of the oil mill. Soaring up, I vaguely heard the slogan of a worker: "Hey ha, hey ha..."
The oil workshop was more impressive than imagined. After Sunan entered the door, his eyes went through the initial light and dark transition. When he opened it again, he could have a panoramic view of everything in the house.
A huge thing resembling a grinding wheel is "buzzing" and the workers inside are shirtless and sweating profusely pushing a wooden stake into a groove, and drops of tea oil slowly come down along the groove up.
The laborers looked at Sunan who was out of tune with this place, and were stunned for a moment. After Zhong Yongchun introduced Sunan's identity, they ran over to meet the new head.
Sunan nodded slightly to them, and did not delay their work. After a brief pause, the workshop became busy again.
This oil press seems to be quite large. In terms of technology alone, it is not completely manual oil extraction, but uses waterwheels and other things to work together.
After seeing the oil workshop, Zhong Yongchun led Sunan to another warehouse.Because of the humidity in the mountain, the warehouse must choose a sunny and dry place. In addition to the harvested tea fruit and tea seeds, the pressed tea oil is also placed.
Just like tea seeds, the oil squeezed out of this tea seed is no exception. The criteria for judging tea oil are very simple. The brighter the color, the clearer the color, the higher the value of the tea oil.The worst first-grade camellia oil has a strong flavor and black color, while the highest-grade camellia oil is yellowish in color. Although the oil smell is heavy, it has a natural fragrance.
Sunan touched his chin. According to the current habits of the Zhou Dynasty, there is no habit of using vegetable oil. Vegetable oil is mostly used to make silk cloth, such as sesame oil. Although it can also be used for food, it is still less.The output is small, and the people who eat it are few, and it is also a relatively luxurious raw material today.
He casually walked to one of the barrels, opened the lid, touched his finger with his hand, and wanted to taste it, but was stopped by Zhong Yongchun: "You can't be in charge, if this tea oil is to be imported, it needs to be heated to remove impurities. OK."
After saying this, Sunan changed his hands and scooped out a ladle and put it in a small celadon bowl. The tea oil in his hand was brownish, which was considered medium.There is also good-quality camellia oil here, which is darker yellow, but the perspective is not good.
The filtration technology here is not advanced. Thinking of this, Sunan raised his eyes and saw dozens of jars piled up in the warehouse, and asked, "Is this all our leftover tea oil?"
Zhong Yongchun blushed when he said this: "Boss, these are not our camellia oils, they are just processed by outside merchants after they bought the tea seeds."
Sunan looked at Zhong Yongchun suspiciously, and only understood after the latter's explanation.The tea seeds harvested in the tea garden are generally directly processed into tea oil for sale. In addition, the oil mill often accepts some external orders in its spare time, which is to help people process tea oil.
In fact, if the tea garden is rich, the tea garden can also buy tea seeds and sell them after pressing the oil, and the profit will be higher, but judging from the current situation of the tea garden, I am afraid that there is no spare money to spend.
In fact, as Sunan expected, the tea garden's good-quality camellia oil has already been sold, and the remaining third is of lower quality and is slow to sell.
"Since you haven't sold it, you don't need to sell it, you just keep it." Sunan made a final decision.
"Huh?" Zhong Yongchun was interrupted by Sunan, dumbfounded: "Master, why keep this tea oil?"
Sunan smiled, and said confidently: "Don't worry, you still have to sell, but you have to change the way of selling."
As he spoke, he took Zhong Yongchun, who was confused by his mind, back to the other courtyard. After returning to the study, he sharpened his pen and wrote down a piece of paper. After drying the paper, he handed it to Zhong Yongchun: "These few things you Help me go to the town to prepare everything, and give me a few barrels of low-quality oil squeezed from the tea garden."
Zhong Yongchun took the paper suspiciously and looked at the things on it. Although it was strange, he still dutifully followed Sunan's instructions and went to the town to purchase the things on it.
Sunan has his own things to do, and Su Yang is not idle either.Although his property is limited to these two mountains, there are several continuous mountain forests behind the tea mountain, which are rich in products, such as wild rabbits and deer. Going inside, according to Zhong Yongchun, you can also see wild boars.With nothing to do, he begged Lin Jun to take him hunting. Lin Jun took a few guards and a few horses and marched into the mountains and forests.
Sunan let them go, not worried about the safety of the group at all, with Lin Jun's skills, even if he met a wild bear, he might not suffer a loss.
After Zhong Yongchun bought the things back, Sunan started to prepare.Aso was not around, so he had to do many things by himself. After a long meal, he prepared a set of refined utensils.
Yes, refined tea oil.Camellia oil was not popular in the Zhou Dynasty. On the one hand, it was because the planting area was too narrow and it was difficult to promote it across the country. Vegetable oils such as tea oil are healthier than animal oils. However, in ancient times, many people still preferred animal oils.
Sunan also took a fancy to the function of tea oil as a solvent for skin care products. If he had extra time, he could develop several products from tea oil.
However, the most important thing now is to refine the camellia oil.
In the past few days, Sunan found a spare yard to study behind closed doors, and Zhong Yongchun brought in three meals a day.
Occasionally, a few wisps of white smoke floated from the small yard, and there were some strange but not unpleasant smells. Zhong Yongchun once took a look at the yard when he entered the yard, and saw all kinds of strange utensils, and the viscous paste boiled and evaporated. , All kinds of seemingly weird scenes made Zhong Yongchun tremble a little.
The head of the family, could it be that he is practicing some evil skills?
When Lin Jun came back, when Zhong Yongchun euphemistically mentioned the strange behavior of the master to Lin Jun, Lin Jun smiled suddenly, and a smile was stained on his stern face: "Don't bother him, he has been doing well these few days. Have a meal."
Lin Jun knew Sunan well. Once he started to do something, he devoted himself to it. It was common for him to stay up late and forget to eat and drink.
"Yes, yes." Zhong Yongchun quickly responded, "I eat on time these few days."
"Okay," Lin Jun waved his hand casually, and said to him, "Give me the lunch, and I'll take it in."
Holding the plate, Lin Jun walked into Sunan's courtyard. The courtyard was filled with smoke. There was an empty table in the courtyard. thing.Sunan stood in front of the table, not knowing what he was doing.
"Why is there so much smoke?" Approaching Sunan, Lin Jun raised his eyebrows and asked, his deep voice sounded in his ears, seemingly dissatisfied.There are too many things on the table, and there is no place to put the dishes.But Sunan didn't care about it: "What I made is too crude, so I'll try it, and if I do well, I'll ask Aso to come over, and then it won't be so smokey."
"Don't worry, it's coming soon." Sunan casually rolled up her hair, and simply put on a piece of clothing on her body. She didn't even wear socks on her feet, and her feet were simply covered with cloth shoes, revealing her white ankles. It's incredible.
The blue shirt and white clothes outline a thin body, and the waist is tied up with a belt casually, which shows his waist that can be grasped.
Lin Jun sighed secretly, looked away from his waist, walked behind, and asked without hindering him as much as possible: "What will happen to this tea oil after refining?"
"The quality will get better." Sunan replied, but the movements of his hands were not necessarily slow, and he continued to operate in an orderly manner.
The reason why the remaining Camellia oleifera could not be sold was because of its poor quality. As long as he could extract out the impurities of the remaining inferior camellia oil, the quality would be improved by one or two.
Sunan led Lin Jun's wrist and led him into the room in the courtyard. The strength on his wrist was not strong, but Lin Jun followed this strength, feeling the softness of the skin between his wrists, and was obediently embraced. brought in.
"Look, this is the tea oil before refining, and this is the tea oil after refining, isn't there a big difference?" His eyes sparkled, and he looked at Lin Jun expectantly, as if he was asking for a compliment from his master Puppy average.
This appearance instantly hit Lin Jun's cute spot, and he breathed it into his stomach in an instant: "Well, it's very big." There was a smile that he didn't usually have at the corner of his mouth, and there was a hint of pampering in his voice.
He didn't lie to Sunan, he is very talented in this area, Lin Jun may have doubts for the first time, where did he get these wonderful skills, but after a lot of experience, he felt that these are really normal.
One jar contains the previous tea oil, which is turbid and dark brown, and the other jar contains the refined tea oil, which is really beautiful in color and has no impurities. The color is light brown, which is quite different from the former.
"Of course, don't look at who I am." Sunan was triumphant, his refining skills are really rare at present.In fact, he can refine the tea oil even more purely, but according to the current technique, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not cost-effective.
"After General Zhao takes over here, we can set off for Yangzhou." Sunan said.He asked Lin Jun to help deliver the letter to Shiwai Pavilion, and asked Aso to set off for the tea garden in a few days, and improve his set of refined tools. After being put into use, it must improve the quality of tea oil.
He tried to refine the so-called best-quality camellia oil. The camellia oil obtained has an orange color and a restrained aroma. It can be said to be the best raw material for his skin care products and cosmetics.
"Don't worry," Lin Jun told him, "Seventy and Mr. Zhao are still on the way. It is reasonable to say that they should arrive in a few days, but they seem to be delayed on the way, so they can't be on time." But read what the letter said , It's not something urgent and dangerous, otherwise I would have called for help long ago.
Sunan nodded, called Zhong Yongchun in, and told him the plan, saying that someone would come from the capital in a few days to take over the business of the tea garden on his behalf, and told him what he had done in the past few days.
At first, Zhong Yongchun did not believe that Sunan could refine the inferior tea oil. In the end, when he saw it with his own eyes, what he admired for Sunan was his five-body cast. He was very excited about it: "If we follow the master's method, we can collect as many tea oils as possible in the market. Inferior-quality camellia oil can be sold backhand after refining, which can make a lot of money.”
Different qualities of camellia oil have huge price gaps. The remaining low-quality camellia oil is sold in the market, at best, it costs five taels of silver a catty.However, the quality of the tea oil refined according to Sunan's method can reach the upper-middle level, and it can be sold for nearly 30 taels a catty. Excluding the cost of the equipment, the net profit is at least more than [-] taels, and the profit is quite considerable.
"Yes." Sunan entrusted Zhong Yongchun, now Mr. Zhao is in charge of most of the business of Shiwai Pavilion, and Mr. Zhao will directly deal with him in the future.
Doing business is too much brain work. Don't be so happy when you are only responsible for the regular research and development of cosmetics, and you can just sit back and wait for the money.
Mr. Zhao and Chu Qixun arrived at the tea garden two days later than expected.When they arrived, Sunan was still enjoying the shade in the yard, and just got up to the familiar voice outside.I haven't seen him for many days, Mr. Zhao looked energetic in a dark suit, with gray temples, and walked up to Sunan in front of Sunan, clapping his hands and saluting.
"Get up, get up." Sunan hurriedly helped Mr. Zhao up, even acquaintances didn't need it, then blinked his eyes lightly, and asked impatiently: "Mr. Zhao, do you have anything to bring?"
The horse-drawn carriage was driving among the flat mountain roads. The mountain roads were opened up by special personnel, and the journey went smoothly. The group of people did not delay on the road for too long. They just bypassed a mountain. After driving for about an hour, they saw a Zhuangzi sitting in the distance. Among the green hills.
The gatekeeper of Biezhuang is an old man in his 50s with a gray beard. He watched the carriage approaching from a distance, and came out as usual to ask the identity of the visitor.It was the first time for Sunan to come to this tea garden villa. The servant handed over the house deed and title deed with the official seal. Only then did he realize that this was his future master. His original casual attitude changed a lot. He really couldn't hide the look of joy: "Master, please wait here for a while, I will go and ask the steward to come here immediately." As he said that, he ran into the manor to invite the steward.
The author has something to say: Sunan refused to wait outside, so he stepped into the yard by himself first, and looked around here with Lin Jun.This villa is just an ordinary courtyard with bluestone bricks and tiles, but when you enter it, you find that it has a large space, but the decoration is average, a little more refined than the small farmyard.
Sunan and Lin Jun did not continue to walk in. He glanced around and thought that this place was just an ordinary house. He had just seen the greenery on the mountain in the distance, which was man-made and regular. It should be a tea field , the other courtyard here only occupies a very small part.
Looking at this other courtyard, a surge of joy secretly rose in my heart.He felt as if he was a rich man who came to collect rent. Thinking about it, he went out and waved his arms, and he could proudly say: "This mountain is covered by me." Thinking about it, he felt a little excited.
He nodded with a smile, and he couldn't hide the joy in his eyebrows. He chatted with Lin Jun while he was in charge of the future.But after a cup of tea, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps in the courtyard, and the two stopped talking immediately, watching a middle-aged man in a dark blue gown rushing out from the corridor, seeing the two of Sunan, My eyes suddenly brightened.
The middle-aged man quickly stepped forward and saluted Sunan: "Zhong Yongchun has seen the head of the house, and the young one is the manager of the tea garden." After raising his head, Zhong Yongchun began to pay attention to the person he will serve in the future.
The new head of the house was younger than he expected, with a handsome face, but he looked kind, and he was dressed in a green dress, and his gestures were refined.Sunan's face has always been very deceitful. When outsiders see him at first sight, they will often mistake him for a Pianpian scholar who has not touched the sun with his hands and has no deep experience in the world. No one would think that his serious career is a profiteer.
Seeing this, Zhong Yongchun was slightly disappointed in his heart. From the appearance, Sunan was far from his ideal.He guessed in his heart that Sunan might be the young master of a family who bought property for him, and he probably didn't know anything about it.Although he made such a judgment in his heart, his face was still respectful.
In fact, when Sunan set off, he had already sent someone back to Shiwai Pavilion to inform Mr. Zhao, and he would be there in a few days.Sunan guessed that Mr. Zhao would be asked to help take over the affairs of this place first, and he would return here to take care of the property after everything was closed.
According to his original plan, the camellia oil here is a major feature of the local area.Sunan has been looking forward to incorporating tea oil into Shiwai Pavilion's cosmetics, but according to the current situation, the plan has to be postponed.
"It's okay, Mr. Zhong. The few of us will stay here temporarily for a few days. Please help me clean up a few guest rooms, and then take me to get acquainted with the property." Sunan smiled and said, looking kindly .
In fact, Zhong Yongchun had a good impression of Sunan. Although the boss seemed to know nothing about the tea garden business, he was easy to get along with, unlike the previous owner of the tea garden.That is a prodigal son who is proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, otherwise, he would not have ruined all the good properties.
"You wait in the front hall, the dormitory has already been ordered." Zhong Yongchun raised his hand and brushed his beard, and enthusiastically led Sunan and his party to the garden.This courtyard is located halfway up the mountain. The houses are built according to the routine, not exquisite, but there are quite a lot of things that should be added.
"The former head of the house didn't come to this tea garden very often..." Zhong Yongchun was half a body behind Sunan, while detailing the situation in the other courtyard.The former prodigal son knew nothing about business, and he only came over a month or two before the Chinese New Year, and a period of time before the camellia oil harvest, and the time he stayed was not too long.
After settling down a group of people, Sunan and Zhong Yongchun came to the study room. He had just taken over such a large business and needed to digest some of it in the short term. His work was not insignificant.
Pushing the door open and entering the study, the sunlight follows his movements and outlines the outline on the stone floor.The interior decoration of the study is very conventional. There are several bookcases on one side, and a lot of books and files are stacked on them.On the other side of the study room are placed tables and chairs. Behind the table is a cabinet for decorations. Several pots of bonsai and other decorations are placed on it. It adds a bit of popularity to the study.
"I usually work in this study, and the accounts and supply lists of previous years are on the bookshelf." Zhong Yongchun pointed to the bookshelf on the other side and said, and took some heavy-looking account books from it, and handed them to Sunan.
In fact, he was also very concerned about how the tea garden's business was doing, so he sat down behind the desk and flipped through one side of the ledger.Sunan looked very slowly, slowly turning over a page of the ledger. As time went by, the excitement at first became completely calm later, replaced by frowns that gradually twisted together.
I'll go, although he had expected before coming that not many would be able to sell his own properties, and the operating conditions of the tea garden were by no means good, but at any rate such a large garden, with a total of two mountains, tens of thousands of acres Not only did the tea farms have no surplus on the books, but they also had a lot of accounts on credit.
Even with the wages of the workers in the tea garden today, they can barely cope with this month, and it's hard to say next month.Sunan started to have a headache. He hadn't started making money yet, and he had to spend a considerable amount of money to fill the bill.
Zhong Yongchun observed the words and expressions, and immediately noticed the displeasure on the face of the new head, knowing that it must be because of the account book, his face was stained with a smirk, and said with a wry smile: "Master Su, to tell you the truth, this tea garden was not too bad for me to take over. But I can't resist the wanton squandering of the former head of the family."
The former head of the family was also somewhat similar to the personality he set for Sunan today. He took over the property from a big family, but he didn't know how to cherish it, and finally gradually declined.He also told Sunan that the area of tea gardens used to be wider than today, but due to insufficient manpower and lack of care, some tea fields were abandoned.
Sunan fell into deep thought. He asked Zhong Yongchun to take out all the account books of the last one or two years, and quickly selected a few important pages to read, then put them aside, took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to settle the accounts.
In fact, when I think about it carefully, the current situation of this tea garden is not at the point of desperation. The tea garden still owes more than five thousand taels of silver on credit. Now I have just harvested a batch of tea fruits, and two-thirds of them have been sold. One of them is mostly of low quality, and the selling price is not high, but in a few months, another batch of late-ripening tea fruits can be harvested, which can offset part of the debt.
In general, if the net income is calculated, if the weather is good and the harvest is good, it is not a problem to get 1 taels of silver.
Why do you still owe so much silver, you ask?I went because of the hole my predecessor dug and owed a lot of money on the tea plantation, and I didn't know what kind of dandy my predecessor was to be able to do this.
After a lot of checking the accounts, the sun was setting outside the house, and the servant knocked on the door, inviting the two of them to the living room for dinner.
Sunan suddenly realized that such a long time had passed, he made an agreement with Zhong Yongchun, and decided to wait until tomorrow to see the situation of the tea fields, the sky is big, and food is important, so he can't starve himself.
A new visitor came to the other courtyard today, and it was rare to get rid of the bleak atmosphere before. The sunset in the sky disappeared, and the dark blue night had already appeared in the sky. Candles were lit in the courtyard. Taking advantage of the bright lights in the house, the whole courtyard became lively.Zhong Yongchun ordered the cooks below to carefully prepare the dinner. Even so, it was nothing more than the usual home-cooked dishes, which were not very delicate, but for everyone who had been on the road and worked hard all day, it was considered a meal. Rarely relaxed.
Sunan relaxed and swept away the worries in his heart. During the banquet, several jars of good wine were opened, and everyone drank lively.Zhong Yongchun led his subordinates to meet the new leader before, and the people in the other courtyard saw Sunan with trepidation. These leaders seem to be easy to talk to, but Lin Jun sitting next to him is amazing, and his uprightness is astonishing. The guards behind him stood up straight, like sharp swords out of their sheaths.Where have the countrymen seen this battle?Immediately, they were too frightened to speak out, and after seeing the head of the family, they left one after another, discussing behind their backs.
Zhong Yongchun seems to be very interested in the few friends Sunan brought over. He has traveled through many lands in the past, and he still has vision.Whether it's this imposing and extraordinary man or the unremarkable old man and young man next to him, he vaguely feels that they are not like ordinary people.Looking at their looks and demeanor, these people should all have martial arts, but their own status as the head of the family is the most ordinary.
It's a pity that Sunan was kind on the surface, but he didn't want to reveal their identities. Sunan deliberately didn't say anything, and he didn't force him to ask. Instead, he diverted the topic to other places.
In the past, Zhong Yongchun used to work with a traveling businessman. He traveled all over the world and had both knowledge and experience. Later, he settled down in Chaguan Town and became a manager of a tea garden, married a wife and had children. He interacts with people on the Internet and knows a lot about things around him.
At the beginning of the meeting, he underestimated Sunan, looking at his appearance as a scholar, he thought that buying this tea garden was just an addition to his family property, but after getting in touch with him, he found that Sunan was really a businessman, and his speech and behavior were all good.
Zhong Yongchun was puzzled, for a person like Sunan, the first choice would be to choose an official career.Scholars, farmers, businessmen, although the status of businessmen has been improved, compared with official careers, they are still lacking a lot.He didn't ask rashly, it was not an act of etiquette, he just felt that Sunan was covered with a veil of mystery.
Maybe this head Su could really bring the tea garden back to life.Thinking of this, Zhong Yongchun's face was full of spring breeze, and the atmosphere on the wine table became more active.Half chatting, half explaining, Zhong Yongchun told Sunan a lot of Jiangnan stories, from Jianghu affairs to officialdom, or to business, he seemed to be able to mention one or two things, which made Sunan listen with gusto. He now lacks such well-informed locals.
After drinking for three rounds, the table was in full swing, Zhong Yongchun's eyes were full of drunkenness, and he began to chatter: "Speaking of the famous rich merchants in Yangzhou, the one who has been in the limelight recently is Jiang Chunrong Jiangye, tsk tsk, just this thousand taels of gold , is enough to make people jump, but it's just a gimmick." Zhong Yongchun's eyes drifted, as if drunk.
Although Sunan and Lin Jun also drank wine, the former has a special physique, while the latter has superb internal strength, which is still clear on the table. When he heard the name of a familiar person, he became interested for a while. Sunan was curious: "How can I say it's a gimmick?" ?”
"Mrs. Jiang's wife has evil marks on her face. It hasn't been a day or two. At first, she recruited famous doctors. After seeing it, she shook her head and said that the possibility of being cured is extremely low." Zhong Yongchun shook his head. .
"Oh? Have you seen it with your own eyes?" He raised his voice and asked with interest.
"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I have heard that Mrs. Jiang is beautiful, but unfortunately there is a scar the size of a duck egg on the right cheek, which takes up almost half of her face. I heard that the scar was made worse by the lack of treatment. It's too deep. Master Jiang has been helping his wife seek medical treatment for these years, but she still hasn't recovered."
Sunan thought to himself, although there were many famous doctors who could rejuvenate the burn scars the size of duck eggs in ancient times, if they can't be cured after such a long time, maybe the hope is really slim.
In fact, there are ways to deal with this type of Sunan, but he had already known that Chu Qixun was coming this trip, and after thinking about it, he didn't want to join in the fun.
Pecking one cup after another, he nodded and smiled while listening to Zhong Yongchun.
"Boss Su, if you want to go to Yangzhou in a while, remember to be careful. I heard that going to Bailiu Town in Yangzhou via Chaguan Town has not been very peaceful recently." Zhong Yongchun shuddered when he remembered something. , The wine is also half awake.
"Oh? Why is it unfair?" Zhong Yongchun's words aroused Sunan's interest. He leaned forward slightly, his ears moved slightly, and listened carefully.
Zhong Yongchun came closer and lowered his voice: "I don't know, there are monsters or ghosts in that town." There was a hint of fear in the voice, Sunan saw that his pupils constricted and his heartbeat increased, so it was obvious that he was not lying. It's really frightening.
Since Sunan asked, Zhong Yongchun told him what he knew.
It wasn't too long ago, about a month or two ago, when he happened to be going out to discuss a business, he happened to pass by Bailiu Town, and stayed there for one night.
He is a regular guest, and before that stay, the innkeeper carefully asked him to go to bed early at night and not to walk around casually outside.At first he thought it was a strict curfew investigation, but later found that it was not the case.
It turned out that several very strange murders had occurred in Bailiu Town since a month ago.Every few days, on the street or in the river, a dead body can always be found, whether male or female, middle-aged or young. These corpses have one thing in common, that is, they have no face.
With a sound of "slap", there was a crisp sound on the wine table, and everyone turned their eyes to it, only to find that it was Su Yang who knocked over the glass casually with a pale face.Seeing everyone turn their gazes over, their throat moved slightly, they swallowed their saliva, and showed an awkward smile: "Slippery, slippery."
After being interrupted like this, the weird atmosphere on the wine table dissipated a lot and became a lot more relaxed.
"No face, the identity of this corpse is really difficult to confirm. It took a lot of work for the police to identify a few of them. It turned out that these corpses came from different counties two or three hundred miles away. The missing person in the town People died for no reason, and the corpses were still found in Bailiu Town, a hundred miles away, do you think this is scary?"
Zhong Yongchun shuddered at what he said, and immediately picked up the wine glass, took a sip of wine to warm his body and sink his heart.
Xie Hongyi was so drunk that he was dizzy, his eyelids were closed, his head was leaning on the table, as if he had fallen asleep, and at this moment he suddenly said: "What's so scary about this, isn't it just killing someone and then peeling off his face?" Come down?" There are all kinds of perverted killing methods in the Jianghu, and it's not like he hasn't seen someone who strips people's skin, or someone who strips people's whole body.
But Zhong Yongchun said with lingering fear: "I'm afraid Mr. Xie doesn't know that there are places where the skin was lost on the discovered corpse. It's very scary. The police haven't found out who committed the crime until now. The people all say that there is an evil spirit who flays people lurking in the town."
Lin Jun sat in his seat and listened to the narration quietly. He frowned and retorted after hearing what he said: "There are no evil spirits, they are just evil people who do evil." Just listening to his description, the ability of this evil person is not enough. Shangqiang, but he was still at ease for so many days without being caught, either because the local yamen servant was incompetent, or that person possessed a special ability to hide.
Xie Hongyi was so drunk that he couldn't distinguish anything, and shook his head in agreement, there are no evil spirits in this world, no matter how evil they are, they can't be more evil than humans.This matter was so determined by a few people that it was a villain who hurt people, without the integration of elements such as gods and ghosts. Looking at it calmly, this is an ordinary case.
It's fine for Sunan to hear about it, but he never thought that this matter would have a lot to do with him in the future.
The guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, the moon was shining on their heads, the banquet was over, Sunan didn't drink much wine, but lying on the bed after washing, for some reason, he remembered what Zhong Yongchun said, smiled to himself, and soon fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, Sunan planned to go to the warehouse to check the remaining inventory according to the plan. During breakfast, he discussed with Lin Jun: "According to our plan, it won't take long here, just take a look today. The condition of this tea garden is even worse than I imagined, and it may take a few more days to stay."
Lin Jun was considerate and told him not to rush on his way: "I already know that we have met for seventy years, and he and Mr. Zhao will be here in a few days. Don't be in a hurry. It won't be too late to start after you finish the handover."
Sunan smiled and didn't shirk it. In this case, he can use this time to think of a way to save his miserable tea garden.
After breakfast, Sunan and Zhong Yongchun set off from the other courtyard to the warehouse and oil mill.The warehouse is not near the other courtyard, but on another hill.The scenery along the way is beautiful. After walking for a while, there are lush tea fields on both sides of the road, and the growth is gratifying.The tea fields are neatly planted, and occasionally one or two long-term workers can be seen tending the tea trees in the fields.
The closer to the destination, the nasal cavity is filled with a strong aroma of oil, which has a hint of burnt smell, just like the aroma of high-quality oil after frying, pungent but not unpleasant.
Sunan understood that there should be an oil press nearby.The oil mill is one of the industries of the tea garden.From the perspective of tea garden operation, the tea fruit produced in this tea garden does not make money. The tea seeds are separated from the harvested tea fruit, and the tea oil can only be obtained after oil extraction. The processed tea oil has different prices depending on the quality.Half of the income of the tea garden comes from this.
Sure enough, after not walking far, Sunan saw the oil mill. The oil mill was not big, and it was located by the river. The turbulent water flowed from top to bottom, fell on the waterwheel and kept running, and a little white smoke came from the chimney of the oil mill. Soaring up, I vaguely heard the slogan of a worker: "Hey ha, hey ha..."
The oil workshop was more impressive than imagined. After Sunan entered the door, his eyes went through the initial light and dark transition. When he opened it again, he could have a panoramic view of everything in the house.
A huge thing resembling a grinding wheel is "buzzing" and the workers inside are shirtless and sweating profusely pushing a wooden stake into a groove, and drops of tea oil slowly come down along the groove up.
The laborers looked at Sunan who was out of tune with this place, and were stunned for a moment. After Zhong Yongchun introduced Sunan's identity, they ran over to meet the new head.
Sunan nodded slightly to them, and did not delay their work. After a brief pause, the workshop became busy again.
This oil press seems to be quite large. In terms of technology alone, it is not completely manual oil extraction, but uses waterwheels and other things to work together.
After seeing the oil workshop, Zhong Yongchun led Sunan to another warehouse.Because of the humidity in the mountain, the warehouse must choose a sunny and dry place. In addition to the harvested tea fruit and tea seeds, the pressed tea oil is also placed.
Just like tea seeds, the oil squeezed out of this tea seed is no exception. The criteria for judging tea oil are very simple. The brighter the color, the clearer the color, the higher the value of the tea oil.The worst first-grade camellia oil has a strong flavor and black color, while the highest-grade camellia oil is yellowish in color. Although the oil smell is heavy, it has a natural fragrance.
Sunan touched his chin. According to the current habits of the Zhou Dynasty, there is no habit of using vegetable oil. Vegetable oil is mostly used to make silk cloth, such as sesame oil. Although it can also be used for food, it is still less.The output is small, and the people who eat it are few, and it is also a relatively luxurious raw material today.
He casually walked to one of the barrels, opened the lid, touched his finger with his hand, and wanted to taste it, but was stopped by Zhong Yongchun: "You can't be in charge, if this tea oil is to be imported, it needs to be heated to remove impurities. OK."
After saying this, Sunan changed his hands and scooped out a ladle and put it in a small celadon bowl. The tea oil in his hand was brownish, which was considered medium.There is also good-quality camellia oil here, which is darker yellow, but the perspective is not good.
The filtration technology here is not advanced. Thinking of this, Sunan raised his eyes and saw dozens of jars piled up in the warehouse, and asked, "Is this all our leftover tea oil?"
Zhong Yongchun blushed when he said this: "Boss, these are not our camellia oils, they are just processed by outside merchants after they bought the tea seeds."
Sunan looked at Zhong Yongchun suspiciously, and only understood after the latter's explanation.The tea seeds harvested in the tea garden are generally directly processed into tea oil for sale. In addition, the oil mill often accepts some external orders in its spare time, which is to help people process tea oil.
In fact, if the tea garden is rich, the tea garden can also buy tea seeds and sell them after pressing the oil, and the profit will be higher, but judging from the current situation of the tea garden, I am afraid that there is no spare money to spend.
In fact, as Sunan expected, the tea garden's good-quality camellia oil has already been sold, and the remaining third is of lower quality and is slow to sell.
"Since you haven't sold it, you don't need to sell it, you just keep it." Sunan made a final decision.
"Huh?" Zhong Yongchun was interrupted by Sunan, dumbfounded: "Master, why keep this tea oil?"
Sunan smiled, and said confidently: "Don't worry, you still have to sell, but you have to change the way of selling."
As he spoke, he took Zhong Yongchun, who was confused by his mind, back to the other courtyard. After returning to the study, he sharpened his pen and wrote down a piece of paper. After drying the paper, he handed it to Zhong Yongchun: "These few things you Help me go to the town to prepare everything, and give me a few barrels of low-quality oil squeezed from the tea garden."
Zhong Yongchun took the paper suspiciously and looked at the things on it. Although it was strange, he still dutifully followed Sunan's instructions and went to the town to purchase the things on it.
Sunan has his own things to do, and Su Yang is not idle either.Although his property is limited to these two mountains, there are several continuous mountain forests behind the tea mountain, which are rich in products, such as wild rabbits and deer. Going inside, according to Zhong Yongchun, you can also see wild boars.With nothing to do, he begged Lin Jun to take him hunting. Lin Jun took a few guards and a few horses and marched into the mountains and forests.
Sunan let them go, not worried about the safety of the group at all, with Lin Jun's skills, even if he met a wild bear, he might not suffer a loss.
After Zhong Yongchun bought the things back, Sunan started to prepare.Aso was not around, so he had to do many things by himself. After a long meal, he prepared a set of refined utensils.
Yes, refined tea oil.Camellia oil was not popular in the Zhou Dynasty. On the one hand, it was because the planting area was too narrow and it was difficult to promote it across the country. Vegetable oils such as tea oil are healthier than animal oils. However, in ancient times, many people still preferred animal oils.
Sunan also took a fancy to the function of tea oil as a solvent for skin care products. If he had extra time, he could develop several products from tea oil.
However, the most important thing now is to refine the camellia oil.
In the past few days, Sunan found a spare yard to study behind closed doors, and Zhong Yongchun brought in three meals a day.
Occasionally, a few wisps of white smoke floated from the small yard, and there were some strange but not unpleasant smells. Zhong Yongchun once took a look at the yard when he entered the yard, and saw all kinds of strange utensils, and the viscous paste boiled and evaporated. , All kinds of seemingly weird scenes made Zhong Yongchun tremble a little.
The head of the family, could it be that he is practicing some evil skills?
When Lin Jun came back, when Zhong Yongchun euphemistically mentioned the strange behavior of the master to Lin Jun, Lin Jun smiled suddenly, and a smile was stained on his stern face: "Don't bother him, he has been doing well these few days. Have a meal."
Lin Jun knew Sunan well. Once he started to do something, he devoted himself to it. It was common for him to stay up late and forget to eat and drink.
"Yes, yes." Zhong Yongchun quickly responded, "I eat on time these few days."
"Okay," Lin Jun waved his hand casually, and said to him, "Give me the lunch, and I'll take it in."
Holding the plate, Lin Jun walked into Sunan's courtyard. The courtyard was filled with smoke. There was an empty table in the courtyard. thing.Sunan stood in front of the table, not knowing what he was doing.
"Why is there so much smoke?" Approaching Sunan, Lin Jun raised his eyebrows and asked, his deep voice sounded in his ears, seemingly dissatisfied.There are too many things on the table, and there is no place to put the dishes.But Sunan didn't care about it: "What I made is too crude, so I'll try it, and if I do well, I'll ask Aso to come over, and then it won't be so smokey."
"Don't worry, it's coming soon." Sunan casually rolled up her hair, and simply put on a piece of clothing on her body. She didn't even wear socks on her feet, and her feet were simply covered with cloth shoes, revealing her white ankles. It's incredible.
The blue shirt and white clothes outline a thin body, and the waist is tied up with a belt casually, which shows his waist that can be grasped.
Lin Jun sighed secretly, looked away from his waist, walked behind, and asked without hindering him as much as possible: "What will happen to this tea oil after refining?"
"The quality will get better." Sunan replied, but the movements of his hands were not necessarily slow, and he continued to operate in an orderly manner.
The reason why the remaining Camellia oleifera could not be sold was because of its poor quality. As long as he could extract out the impurities of the remaining inferior camellia oil, the quality would be improved by one or two.
Sunan led Lin Jun's wrist and led him into the room in the courtyard. The strength on his wrist was not strong, but Lin Jun followed this strength, feeling the softness of the skin between his wrists, and was obediently embraced. brought in.
"Look, this is the tea oil before refining, and this is the tea oil after refining, isn't there a big difference?" His eyes sparkled, and he looked at Lin Jun expectantly, as if he was asking for a compliment from his master Puppy average.
This appearance instantly hit Lin Jun's cute spot, and he breathed it into his stomach in an instant: "Well, it's very big." There was a smile that he didn't usually have at the corner of his mouth, and there was a hint of pampering in his voice.
He didn't lie to Sunan, he is very talented in this area, Lin Jun may have doubts for the first time, where did he get these wonderful skills, but after a lot of experience, he felt that these are really normal.
One jar contains the previous tea oil, which is turbid and dark brown, and the other jar contains the refined tea oil, which is really beautiful in color and has no impurities. The color is light brown, which is quite different from the former.
"Of course, don't look at who I am." Sunan was triumphant, his refining skills are really rare at present.In fact, he can refine the tea oil even more purely, but according to the current technique, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not cost-effective.
"After General Zhao takes over here, we can set off for Yangzhou." Sunan said.He asked Lin Jun to help deliver the letter to Shiwai Pavilion, and asked Aso to set off for the tea garden in a few days, and improve his set of refined tools. After being put into use, it must improve the quality of tea oil.
He tried to refine the so-called best-quality camellia oil. The camellia oil obtained has an orange color and a restrained aroma. It can be said to be the best raw material for his skin care products and cosmetics.
"Don't worry," Lin Jun told him, "Seventy and Mr. Zhao are still on the way. It is reasonable to say that they should arrive in a few days, but they seem to be delayed on the way, so they can't be on time." But read what the letter said , It's not something urgent and dangerous, otherwise I would have called for help long ago.
Sunan nodded, called Zhong Yongchun in, and told him the plan, saying that someone would come from the capital in a few days to take over the business of the tea garden on his behalf, and told him what he had done in the past few days.
At first, Zhong Yongchun did not believe that Sunan could refine the inferior tea oil. In the end, when he saw it with his own eyes, what he admired for Sunan was his five-body cast. He was very excited about it: "If we follow the master's method, we can collect as many tea oils as possible in the market. Inferior-quality camellia oil can be sold backhand after refining, which can make a lot of money.”
Different qualities of camellia oil have huge price gaps. The remaining low-quality camellia oil is sold in the market, at best, it costs five taels of silver a catty.However, the quality of the tea oil refined according to Sunan's method can reach the upper-middle level, and it can be sold for nearly 30 taels a catty. Excluding the cost of the equipment, the net profit is at least more than [-] taels, and the profit is quite considerable.
"Yes." Sunan entrusted Zhong Yongchun, now Mr. Zhao is in charge of most of the business of Shiwai Pavilion, and Mr. Zhao will directly deal with him in the future.
Doing business is too much brain work. Don't be so happy when you are only responsible for the regular research and development of cosmetics, and you can just sit back and wait for the money.
Mr. Zhao and Chu Qixun arrived at the tea garden two days later than expected.When they arrived, Sunan was still enjoying the shade in the yard, and just got up to the familiar voice outside.I haven't seen him for many days, Mr. Zhao looked energetic in a dark suit, with gray temples, and walked up to Sunan in front of Sunan, clapping his hands and saluting.
"Get up, get up." Sunan hurriedly helped Mr. Zhao up, even acquaintances didn't need it, then blinked his eyes lightly, and asked impatiently: "Mr. Zhao, do you have anything to bring?"
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