Chapter 57: Selling Tea
Erya, they went to Chunlin Hall and gave the shopkeeper tea, just like in the embroidery village, and also asked the shopkeeper for help to take care of the child. The shopkeeper held back a smile and happily agreed.
A few people had eaten, and from the middle of the day, they walked into the first white old house.
Erya didn't let too many people follow, and only took Xiaohu into the door.
Xiao Er hurriedly beckoned into the door, "This lady and uncle, please sit inside!" ”
Er Ya followed inside, but did not go further. Just stood aside and asked Xiao Er in a low voice: "Little brother!" Excuse me, introduce the shopkeeper to the help. Let's just say that I have good tea here, please ask the shopkeeper to palm the eye! ”
Xiao Er didn't slack off, and asked the two of them to sit down on the preset guest chair next to them, and went to the counter to say hello and asked people to help find the shopkeeper.
Erya looked around the hall, there were not many tea seats, only seven or eight seats, and there were screens between the two seats. Each seat has four seats, and a variety of tea sets are placed on the table. At this time, although it is not the peak of tea drinking, it should not be so light.
Erya was frowning, puzzled, when the shopkeeper came.
The little couple hurriedly stood up and saluted each other with the shopkeeper, and then sat down separately.
The shopkeeper didn't wait for them to speak, so he asked, "I heard that you have good tea?" ”
"Yes!" Erya opened the package she was carrying, took out the tea leaves that had been opened, pulled out the stopper, and handed the bottle to the shopkeeper for him to smell for himself.
"Can the shopkeeper let the little girl make you a cup to taste?"
The shopkeeper smelled a different fragrance of tea, and he was already excited to make a cup and drink it. After listening to Erya's words, he nodded and stood up.
"Please go upstairs!"
The three of them went upstairs and entered the shopkeeper's special private room, which was equipped with tea sets.
The shopkeeper sipped the tea slowly, lowered his head again, and didn't know what he was thinking. Erya was not in a hurry, and slowly tasted tea. Only Xiaohu seemed to be a little unable to sit still, and he didn't dare to make any movements, and his body was extremely stiff and sat upright.
Seeing that he was so uncomfortable, Erya felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable, so she said to him gently: "If you are in a hurry, go down to find them." ”
Xiaohu shook his head, but still insisted on accompanying Erya.
At this time, the shopkeeper put down the cup in his hand and raised his head, and asked Erya: "Who made this tea?" Do you want me to give me a price, or do you want to sell it in our store? ”
Erya said in her heart, let your palm eyes just be a boo to see you!
However, Erya couldn't say it directly, so she had to answer the shopkeeper's words: "Uncle, this is a new variety of green tea that my family has wasted many years of hard work to make."
I gave it to a few uncles I knew well, and they all said that it was very good, and it was another new technology in addition to the original tea-making technology. I am also recommended to come over and taste it to you and a few other shopkeepers who have a considerable study of tea. As for what, exactly? I really hadn't thought about it before! ”
The shopkeeper didn't squeak for a long time, for a long time, so long that even Erya couldn't bear it. The shopkeeper said, "If your tea is sold by our store, what do you think?" ”
Erya frowned, but she didn't know what to do. At first, I just thought about selling the tea, but I really didn't think too far.
"Uncle! That's right, because it's always been in the real yàn, so the current tea production is not too high, so it's no problem for you to sell it exclusively. It's just that there will be tea after the rain, as well as summer tea, autumn tea, and next year, the amount of tea will be more, I guess you won't be able to eat it. This green tea is not like fermented tea, and it can be sold far away. So, please think about it! ”
The shopkeeper smiled, "Don't think too much about this little lady, just say whether you have the will to let the store specialize in consignment!" ”
Seeing that he was so persistent, Erya didn't think anything else, and just asked, "I don't know what kind of consignment method Uncle plans to do?" ”
"There are two kinds, one is fifty-fifty shares, and the tea is sold to make money. One is that you and I set a price and sell it directly to me. How much money you sell after that has nothing to do with you. ”
Erya is more inclined to the second type, the first kind of passivity is too strong, although the fifty-fifty score sounds very good, but one qiē is in the hands of others, whether it is flat or round is up to others.
"Uncle, have you figured out how much money to buy my tea?"
"Do you want to sell it directly to our store?" The shopkeeper didn't expect that Erya would choose the second one, but in fact, the first one is more profitable.
That's because the shopkeeper doesn't know that Erya has gone through the chaos of business in later generations, and has seen too many cheats, fake accounts, running away, and even directly occupying them.
Erya nodded.
The shopkeeper stretched out two fingers, Erya shook his head, and said sadly: "Uncle! You and I both know that we Central Plains people love to drink clear tea, which is the main reason why we in the Central Plains have been trying to find ways to make zuò green tea.
Even the fermented tea that we are not used to drinking can be bought for thousands of hundreds of taels of silver, and I can use it as a tribute tea for the imperial court Green tea, so you give such a point? You're hurting my pride! ”
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said with pain like cutting flesh: "In this way, I will add you another fifty taels, two hundred and fifty taels of silver, which is already the highest price I can give you!" ”
The second girl was dumbfounded, it turned out that the two fingers before were two hundred? I mistakenly thought it was twenty! Then it became clear that the hand-fried Longjing would cost more than 40,000 pounds in the 21st century when the best green tea was lined up! What is this?!
However, this price is much beyond Erya's imagination, so there is no need to hesitate to make a decision immediately.
"Uncle! Then it was decided. I don't have much tea this year, only seventeen or eighteen catties in total, and I gave some away, so I'll give you fifteen catties.
There are four boxes we brought today, one box is four bottles, one bottle is two taels and five dollars, and the four boxes are a total of two and a half catties. I'll send it the day after tomorrow, but if you're in a hurry, come with us to pick it up. ”
The shopkeeper seemed to be afraid that Erya would regret it, so he nodded busily and said, "That's good!" I'll bring someone with you to fetch it back, so I won't bother you to run again. ”
Erya smiled and didn't speak again. Go downstairs and go out, and call in the brothers who were already waiting outside, who were already impatient. Let them take out the tea leaves they each brought and hand them over to the shopkeeper of Bai Laoju.
The shopkeeper took out a bottle at random, opened it to look at it and smelled it, nodded, and went out.
After a while, he came back with a few silver tickets, and brought two burly men in with him.
The second few people are all people with martial arts, but there is nothing to be afraid of.
The shopkeeper handed the silver ticket to Xiaohu, accepted the tea and let the two people who followed him take it, and then took the second family downstairs.
Seeing that the shopkeeper was going to leave immediately, Erya hurriedly asked, "Uncle!" Are you planning to leave now? ”
The shopkeeper asked rhetorically, "You don't plan to go back today?" ”
Erya had a bitter face and wailed: "Uncle, we just arrived this morning. I also have to go to the cloth village to see if there is any cloth I want, I have to see where there are yarn sellers, I have to go to the blacksmith shop to make things, I have to find a workshop that specializes in needle making, and I have to find them to make the very special needles I want, and I have to go to the market to see if there are any rabbits raised by sellers, oops! I really have a lot going on. ”
The shopkeeper's face was embarrassed and said, "Ah! I'm so sorry! I didn't know you were so busy! In that case, don't run blindly, I'll arrange people and cars, pull you, and do all the things you have to do this afternoon. I'm going to go over early tomorrow morning to bring the rest of the tea, time waits for no one! ”
As soon as Erya heard what the shopkeeper said, he put the matter of tea in front and the others back!
"Since the uncle is in a hurry, then our affairs will not be concerned in a few days. Then we'll go back now! ”
The shopkeeper was very happy to see that Er Ya was going to treat him like this. Originally, I planned to go there empty-handed, but I turned around and ordered someone to order a lot of refreshments in the store to take away.
On the way, Erya and Xiaohu sat in a carriage with the shopkeeper and one of the bodyguards, and in the car, the shopkeeper remembered to ask Erya: "What is the surname of the little lady?" ”
"Expensive! The little girl's maiden name is Liu, and her husband's surname is Wang. Uncle's surname? But the surname is white? ”
The shopkeeper shook his head with a smile, "No! My surname is Chen, and the origin of Bai's old residence is because of that house, which was originally given the name of his house by an old man surnamed Bai, and later the ancestor thought that the name was very good, so he kept it. ”
"Oh! I see! Uncle Chen, the little woman has something she wants to ask, if it's inconvenient to answer, forget it! ”
Shopkeeper Chen nodded and said, "What's the matter, just ask!" ”
"Good! Does your tea estate have its own tea plantation? I think it's tea season, but your tea house is too deserted. ”
Shopkeeper Chen listened to Erya's question and took a hard breath. It took a long time to answer: "Don't hide it from the little lady, we will have our own tea garden." It's just that we don't have a good master at present, and the tea we produce every year is middle and low-grade.
Our tea house business is different from the tea merchants who sell tea alone, and if we want to do a good job, it is useless to hold on to one or two good teas. In previous years, you could still spend a lot of money to buy good tea from the south and come back.
It's just that because of the opening of shipping a few years ago, tea can be exported. Since the opening of overseas sales of tea, export sales have increased year by year in the past two years, and good tea has become more in demand since last year, and this year it has reached the point where money cannot buy it.
This year, the tea plantations in several provinces around us are not doing well. I don't know if there are any new products coming out, but my family can only rely on your tea to survive this year's business!
When I was in the store, I heard you say that you still have to go out of the valley after the rain tea, summer tea, and autumn tea, but? ”
"Yes! However, those teas are considered bad teas. The more you go back, the more you will tea! However, summer tea and autumn tea are suitable for grassland herders, and they need this kind of anti-greasy and easy-to-eat tea.
However, since you have a tea plantation, I guess you don't need it! ”
Shopkeeper Chen coughed anxiously, and his mouth was still struggling to speak: "Ahem! No, no, yes! All the tea leaves in your house, cough, cough, I want it, I want it! Ahem, ahem, ahem! ”