Lin Yuan saw Xiao Si leaving, so he drank to himself. I have to say that the tea provided by Cuihong Mansion is quite high-end, even if Lin Yuan doesn't know how to taste tea, he can drink it like a cow drinking water, and he can feel that his mouth is full of fragrance.

After a long day's journey, I had a fight with Qi Laosan, and I amused my mother-in-law for a while, I was tired of my body and mind, but with the entrance of three cups of fragrant tea, I was no longer so tired!

Not long after, a man came to the council hall of the West Courtyard, dressed as a man in his fifties, and saw that Lin Yuan was "tasting tea" without speaking, and walked to the main seat and sat down.

Even if the brothel industry is more formal and pays no taxes, the water in it is three points deeper than that of other industries, after all, it is a skin and meat business. The man in front of him is the owner of the largest brothel in Chiyang City, and his skills and abilities are far beyond ordinary people. As for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, he doesn't have to be personally received by the boss, just call a turtle or an old bustard to deal with it, but Boss Chen receives it in person every time!

Lin Yuan gently put down the teacup and said, "Chen Ye's face is full of red light, and the spring breeze is proud, is the business of Cuihong Mansion particularly prosperous, or has he met a new concubine?"

Boss Chen was very embarrassed to see his fifty or sixty-year-old man being ridiculed by the young man, and shook his head and said, "It's just a few drinks early in the morning." ”

Recalling the last time he said that he had a new concubine, he was slaughtered by Lin Yuan, and the two of them ate a meal of the highest specification in the Xinghualou opposite, and spent nearly a hundred amounts of silver! Although he made a lot of money from running a Qinglou, the money should not be spent like this! What's even more excessive is that last time, Boss Chen replied that the business was okay, and Lin Yuan stubbornly raised the price of Chunxiang by fifty percent. The competition in the Qinglou industry is fierce, and the spices are the exclusive supply of Lin Yuan, so Boss Chen would rather buy Chunxiang and throw it away than flow into other Qinglou. High-end repeat customers are the main income of Qinglou's operation, and the real reason why they have a steady stream of repeat customers is the exclusive supply of Chunxiang in Lin Yuan's hands. Therefore, Lin Yuan raised the price of Chunxiang, and Boss Lin also accepted it silently, so he could only say a few more words with a sad face, in fact, the business was not much better!

"Two glasses?" Lin Yuan squinted at Boss Chen, and continued, "Could it be the century-old flower carving of Xinghualou, since the last time Boss Chen made Dong in Xinghualou and drank their self-brewed century-old flower carving, my mouth, now I can't hold it, and other wines can't be eaten, or Boss Chen will make it again at noon, let me taste the century-old flower carving carefully?"

Boss Chen was like eating a fly, and he wanted to divert the topic so as not to break the bank. It's good now, this kid climbed the wall along the pole and asked him to have lunch, it's still the most expensive, and his heart is messy!

Since Lin Yuan opened his mouth, Boss Chen didn't intend to refuse anymore, but he felt distressed for spending a hundred taels of silver on a meal, so he said: "The dishes in Xinghualou are naturally full of color, flavor and flavor, but most of the food is some mountain treasures and exotic beasts, it doesn't matter if you eat more when you are young, now that I am older, my body and bones are getting weaker and weaker, and I am a little weak after eating last time, and it took more than half a month to recover after recuperation, so I can't go more." I heard that a batch of seafood came to the Fumanlou next door, yesterday I heard Qin Sanye's description, the fish Sanbao of the red-tailed yellow croaker is very delicious, I haven't had time to taste it, today's Thollin brother's blessing, how about trying it together?"

Lin Yuan just said casually, Boss Chen agreed to come down for lunch and he was the east, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he no longer insisted on going to Xinghualou, after all, Fumanlou couldn't get down without a dozen or twenty taels of silver. And Yang Danian, who was also about to go to the second child of Fumanlou, had something to communicate, so he said: "Boss Chen has a heart, I just said it casually, then I'm embarrassed to let Boss Chen break the bank." ”

"It should be, it should be. "Boss Chen was disgusted by Lin Yuan as if he had eaten another fly, let me please it, but don't get cheap and sell it well, this meal is eaten in Fumanlou for more than a dozen taels of silver, which is enough for an ordinary family of three for a month, and my heart is dripping blood!

Lin Yuan took another sip of tea and said, "Boss Chen, a few days ago, you asked someone to bring a letter to Uncle Hua saying that your spices were about to run out, and this time when you entered the city, my little nephew will help it bring it to you by the way." With that, he put the spices on the table.

"That's really a blessing, Brother Lin!" said Boss Chen, and reached out for the spices.

"Boss Chen, don't worry. Lin Yuan gently blocked Boss Chen's hand and continued, "Boss Chen, you also know that it is now a heavy snow closing the mountain, and the drug dealers in the city have forcibly raised the price of medicinal materials by thirty percent, my Uncle Hua is a thrifty man......

"Brother Lin, stop, stop, the price of medicinal materials has risen by 30%, and the price of spices has also risen by 30%, you have worked so hard to run, I will subsidize you with ten taels of tea money, what do you think?" Boss Lin directly interrupted Lin Yuan's words, because from the experience of dealing with this kid in the past, he would also describe how difficult it was to come to the medicinal materials, how much hardship Hua Ye had suffered in picking these medicinal materials, and finally prepared these spices, and finally raised the price. Instead of letting him finish his thoughts, it is better to interrupt his train of thought and directly say that it is more cost-effective to buy it at a price. The last transaction was a loss, and the inexplicable price was raised to fifty percent, and it was twenty taels of spices before, and it was only bought in the last thirty taels that it was bought in the end.

Lin Yuan was stunned for a while, he didn't expect Boss Chen to quote the price so directly, Xindao sold it to you for thirty taels last time, this time you actually want to buy it for twenty-six taels, you forget it, you open a brothel and you are only responsible for counting the money, you don't need to accompany the guests to let people play, the money comes so easily, Lao Tzu has to slaughter you today, so he said: "Boss Chen is really a generous person, sympathetic to the poor people who collect medicine and make incense." I'm still thinking about how to tell you that because the profit of incense making is thin and there is no future, Uncle Hua asked me not to learn incense making from him and change my career to become a tailor. I thought it would only be a little bit more, and I was satisfied, but I didn't expect Boss Chen to be willing to add three percent at once, you are really too generous!"

"Brother Lin, I understand your hardships, in the late autumn of last year, I noticed that the traders in the city began to hoard all kinds of medicinal materials, and now the snow is covering the mountains, these unscrupulous traders have come out to raise prices, they are really making black money, and they are extremely hateful. "Boss Chen said this, but what he thought in his heart was that you and the surnamed Hua were much more hateful than those medicinal herb merchants, relying on their own exclusive supply to set prices indiscriminately, and also put on a posture of loving to buy or not, you are extremely hateful, if Lao Tzu had beaten the two of you, he would have pressed your old and young guys to the ground and rubbed them! Lao Tzu's money is not very easy to come by, it is all earned by the kiln sisters at once!

"But it's not, Boss Chen, what you said is the hardship of us ordinary people, we ordinary people have to get sick in winter, and even taking medicine is three points more expensive than usual. For example, one of the medicinal herbs in the preparation of these spices, Huangjing, which is commonly planted, can be picked after three or five years of artificial cultivation, and it looks good, but the medicinal effect is extremely poor. Uncle Hua will not affect the medicinal effect of these spices. Perennial incense is made using wild yellow essence that has been wild for more than 20 years. Fortunately in summer, Uncle Hua can occasionally dig a few when he goes up the mountain. But in winter, the snow closed the mountain, and Uncle Hua and his old man had to buy a batch at a price double in summer to ensure the quality of this batch of spices, it is really not easy for the incense maker!" Lin Yuan pushed the heavenly incense in front of him to Boss Chen, and continued reluctantly with a crying voice, "You see this is the spice you want, a total of ten packs, calculated according to the price increase of thirty percent, thirty-nine taels and one pack, a total of three hundred and ninety taels, Boss Chen, please receive the goods!"