Chapter 52: Elopement
"Ruoli!" Pei Mingyuan stood up excitedly when he heard the voice.
"Why haven't I seen you for the past few days? I was grounded by your father again?" Xue Ruoli knew that the Pei family was strict and banned his direct children, only that he was grounded.
My dad took me to Shencheng to talk about business. Tea Fair, do you know? It is tea merchants from all over the country who exchange and trade together, and foreigners come over!" Pei Mingyuan showed his heart and took out a glass bottle from his pocket.
"Look, it's a great French perfume. It was given to me by a Frenchman. I heard from foreigners that this is still for their French royal family. If you try it, you are also a French princess. ”
"No...... No need. Xue Ruoli resigned.
"Give it to you, you try. Pei Mingyuan couldn't help but say, and stuffed the perfume into Xue Ruoli's hand.
"Well, well. Xue Ruo couldn't stand Pei Mingyuan, so he had to pick up the perfume, spray it lightly on his wrist a few times, and rub it behind his ear.
"That's so fragrant! That foreigner really didn't lie to me. Pei Mingyuan raised his head and sniffed the fragrance in the air.
"Well, it's quite fragrant. Xue Ruoli also smiled lightly, she was a woman after all, and she still had no resistance to cosmetics, "Mingyuan, thank you." ”
"Thank you! Hurry up and eat the food. It's all your favorite dishes. Pei Mingyuan hurriedly beckoned Xue Ruoli to sit down.
"When I went out this time, my dad had already told me that the tea mountain, shops, and other family businesses at home would be handed over to me slowly in the future. From now on, I'll walk around Linzhou City more often, so I can come to see you often. Pei Mingyuan poured half a glass of wine and drank it himself.
"Then you have to learn to do business well, and don't let down your father's hard work. ”
"Early in the morning, drink less. I'll pour you tea. ”
After Xue Ruoli finished speaking, he looked at the fact that there was not even a teapot on the table, and frowned slightly: "Where's the tea?"
"Miss, here!" Gillian's voice came from downstairs, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.
"Miss, Pei Gongzi, tea is here. Gillian held a small purple clay pot on the tray, and next to it were four tea cups, and the fragrance of tea could be smelled from afar.
"Have you washed the tea?" Xue Ruoli asked as he took the teapot.
"I arranged it myself, I must have washed it, this smell can't be wrong. Pei Mingyuan replied for Gillian.
"Stand down. Xue Ruoli didn't say anything, waved his hand to signal Gillian to leave, poured good tea for Pei Mingyuan, and sent it to him with both hands. "Mingyuan, drink tea. ”
Pei Mingyuan took the tea, sniffed the fragrance of the tea first, revealing a satisfied look, then blew a breath, took a sip, held it in his mouth and savored it, and swallowed it after a few seconds before spitting out a mouthful of fragrance.
"Good tea!"
"The tea is all sent by you from Mingyuan, so it is naturally good tea. Xue Ruoli followed and praised.
"No, I'm not saying that this tea is good, I'm saying that the tea on my tea mountain is good. Pei Mingyuan's eyes showed a bit of fanaticism.
"What's the difference? Isn't my pot of tea picked from your tea mountain?"
"You know one thing, you don't know the other. "Pei Mingyuan deliberately sold Guanzi.
"You're so annoying, deliberately hanging people's appetites, I won't listen to it if you don't say it again!" Xue Ruoli deliberately said coquettishly.
"This time I went to Shencheng, I followed my dad to talk about business, and I saw what things were like in the mall. ”
"What does it look like?" Xue Ruoli heard him speak in a loud tone, and he was also a little curious.
"Naturally, it is not as good as our Linzhou tea. Pei Mingyuan snorted and continued: "Those merchants, when they saw our Linzhou tea merchants, they all looked respectful, and they handed us posts to invite us to dinner. ”
"Didn't you see that scene, my dad was on the stage, and told them seriously: 'Welcome to Shencheng, the friends who can come here are to give me Pei someone's face...... Tea is a treasure left by our ancestors, and now the world is uneasy, and we tea merchants must unite. Don't take the opportunity to raise the market price, don't use shoddy, don't adulterate and sell fakes...... 'That's enough to say ten prohibitions. Finally, he called on everyone to donate money and materials to support the Northern War. ”
"All donated?" Xue Ruoli said in surprise.
"Our Pei family took the lead in donating 100,000 oceans, which one dares not to donate? The tea merchants on Wuling's side jointly donated 50,000 yuan, and those in southern Yunnan made up 80,000 yuan. ”
"Oh, which foreigner also donated, what does it mean to represent the anti-*** alliance. You say, funny is not funny. France itself is anti-***. ”
Xue Ruoli also covered his mouth and laughed: "It's really interesting." ”
"But what kind of tea fair do you have, why do you still have to make those bans, is it so much about cheating?"
"You just don't know too much! Profiteers, profiteers! Why do you say that there are no businessmen and no traitors, they are all people who have an eye for money, if they can find a way to earn an extra piece of the ocean, they will never earn a piece less. Pei Mingyuan snorted.
"A few years ago, my dad went to Wuling to collect tea, and he said that it was a good red robe. The goods were inspected on the spot, bagged, and sealed, but the result was still transferred. ”
"Ah, how did this happen!" Xue Ruoli looked shocked.
"They arranged for people to be on the train early, and deliberately used boxes with defective products to change the good tea, but they didn't change much, only two boxes of ten boxes. In this way, the best seasonal tea becomes aged tea and moldy tea. ”
"But you can't use this to talk about things, otherwise they will bite back, saying that they have inspected the goods at the beginning, and eighty percent of them have not kept it properly and come to make money. It's disgusting. ”
"Phew!" Pei Mingyuan didn't hold back his spit.
"It's all over, isn't it good now?" Xue Ruoli comforted by pouring a bowl of tea.
"That's not my father's great reputation, now in the entire domestic tea business circle, who doesn't know that the Pei family in Linzhou is the boss of the tea industry!" Pei Mingyuan straightened his back when he talked about his own industry.
"Yes, Tea King Pei, no one knows, no one knows. Xue Ruoli muttered, his expression lowered.
Seeing the different expressions of the people in front of him, Pei Mingyuan immediately took her hand: "If you leave, I said that I will definitely carry a sedan chair to marry you into the door." Let you marry the Pei family in a beautiful way. ”
"Huh. Xue Ruoli withdrew his hand and shook his head, "The gate of your Pei family, I'm afraid that people like me can't climb it." Have you forgotten what your father said? If you dare to give me a letter of appointment, he will dare to drive you out of the Pei family. ”
"Uh...... Now, free love, he ......" Pei Mingyuan was so angry that he couldn't even say a complete word for a while.
"Qing people, what do you say about Linzhou celebrities, it's not that you have to listen to your aunt's words to entertain guests, it's just that there is less skin and meat business than those in the flower boat, and it is impossible for decent people to let the children of the clan marry me as a wife. ”
"Then I'll take you as a concubine!" Pei Mingyuan said excitedly, and even knocked over the teacup.
"Concubine......" Xue Ruoli looked out the window, sighed lightly, and hid a word without saying it: "If you are sincere, how can you talk about being a concubine." ”
Seeing that Xue Ruoli was still unhappy, Pei Mingyuan stood up: "Big deal, I'll elope with you, and when the time comes, learn from Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru, go to the village with beautiful mountains and rivers to plant tea, you pick tea, I fry tea, let's stay and live together." ”
Speak firmly, standing like a green pine.
"Really?" Xue Ruoli's voice was trembling.