Shen He followed the shopkeeper into the store in confusion, and saw that there was indeed a person sitting inside, drinking tea soup, and when he saw Shen He coming in, he raised his head and looked at Shen He. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Shen He was also looking at him.

I saw that this person was about 20 years old, with a white face, his hair tied with jade pipes on his head, his facial features were delicate, and his eyes were clear when he looked at people, which made people feel good about it; Looking at the clothes again, he was dressed in an azure robe, with an indigo blue belt around his waist, and an auspicious cloud pattern tasseled jade pendant hanging on his waist.

When the man saw Shen He looking at him, he smiled at Shen He, and Shen He also returned the salute.

At this time, the shopkeeper came over and introduced Shen He: "Miss Shen, this son also wants to lease the storefront, I have already told him that Master Su helped Miss Shen pre-set, but he insisted on waiting here, now, the two of you will discuss it and see what to do."

After hearing this, Shen He looked at that person, only to see him stand up and say to Shen He, "Miss Shen, fortunately." In the next surname Cheng, I have been waiting for the girl here for a long time! ”

Shen He said: "Cheng Gongzi, I don't know why I have to rent this place?" ”

This Cheng Gongzi invited Shen He to sit down with the shopkeeper, and then told the cause and effect.

It turned out that he was a tea merchant in Shudi, and he heard that the people in the capital were good at tea art, so he decided to open a tea shop in the capital.

Shen He also heard Song Wu's sister-in-law mention these things, it is said that many officials in the capital now come to be officials, and they often do not have a house to live in. Since the price of land in the capital is now expensive, some officials not only do not have houses, but even the rented houses are old houses in the broken alleys, and the environment is very bad.

It is said that Youwei officials also made a poem "Buju", saying: "Twenty springs in Kyoto, there is nowhere to be poor in poverty. The envy snail still has a house, and it is better to hide the mouse. But he begged to stand on the ground, so as not to be like a drifting puppeteer. But with my heart, I dare to speak of the narrowness and hustle and bustle. ”

There is also an official who has no house, and he holds a happy event for his son in the capital, and he rents a friend's idle house, and he writes a poem: "My hair is half white, and there are no rafters in the four seas." "I don't have a house for a long time, and the sons think it's a word." It means: My hair is half gray and has not yet mixed with the house, and my sons always beat me with this.

Somehow, these poems reached the ears of the emperor, and he felt that if he couldn't even solve the problem of where the officials lived, how could he make them serve the country and be loyal to the court?

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of housing for officials, the imperial court recently came up with a solution, which is to find a special lot to build a cheap rental residence for these people.

And this lot is Langfang Street, where Cheng Gongzi's tea shop is located, and now all the merchants on Langfang Street have to move out, so his tea shop has to be closed.

Now the new tea leaves in his shop have become a problem, because the storage time is short, the cost is high, and a lot of tea is transported from Shudi, which is not easy to preserve, so he wants to lease a new shop as soon as possible.

The winter solstice is coming, many shops are just trying to make a lot of money on the occasion of the holiday, he has been looking for a long time and has not found a suitable place, today came to the front of this store, he was overjoyed to see the transfer here.

However, when he heard that the shopkeeper had been predetermined to come to the meeting today, he decided to wait here to see if there was any room for a turnaround, and he had been waiting here for two hours since the morning.

After saying this, this Cheng Gongzi bowed to Shen He and said: "Girl, I know that it is difficult for the girl to admit that there are some strong people here, but I really have no choice, if I don't open again in the next few days, the tea leaves I have saved this year will not only make the tea lose its original tea flavor, but also be more prone to spoilage." Therefore, I had no choice but to make this request to the girl, and I asked the girl to cut her love! ”

Shen He listened to his words and was also a little embarrassed.

She also wanted to take advantage of the solar terms of the winter solstice to celebrate, so that her ready-to-wear shop could attract more customers, but now seeing that he is sincere, and the tea really can't be stored for too long, but she still needs to understand the situation clearly.

Thinking of this, she said to this Cheng Gongzi: "I want to ask first, I don't know how many catties of tea were stored by Gongzi?" What are the types? ”

Cheng Gongzi secretly praised Shen He after hearing this, and he was a person who understood tea when he heard it.

Because different teas have different storage methods and storage times, Shen He asked this way, which means that he has an understanding of tea art.

Then he said: "There are more Pu'er, Tieguanyin and Wuyi rock tea in my shop, each of which has hundreds of catties, West Lake Longjing, Da Hong Pao, Biluochun and Baizhen Yinqu each have sixty or seventy catties, and there are some other flower teas of about ten catties each. ”

He didn't know that there happened to be a copy of "The Book of Tea" in Shen He's family's collection, and she had also worked as a helper in a tea shop in her previous life, and she liked to make her own tea to drink some time ago, so she also knew a little about the types of tea and how to store it.

Shen He knew that the method of preserving tea leaves by wealthy families and tea merchants in the capital was generally to put tea leaves into bottles first, with ten catties as the amount; Then a large amount of straw is burned into ash every year, filled into a barrel, and the tea bottle is placed in the barrel, and the surrounding area is covered with grass ash and landfilled; When drinking, open the bottle with ashes, take a little tea, and then leave it in its original state.

In general, the preservation effect of this method is not bad, but if it is some precious tea, even this method cannot guarantee a long storage time.

Now, hearing the amount of tea stored in Cheng Gongzi's tea shop, Shen He also feels that it is a problem.

With so many teas, if you only use the usual method to store them, a lot of tea will deteriorate before next spring, especially precious teas such as Longjing and Dahongpao, which are particularly important.

Thinking of this, she was also a little worried, but now it is definitely too late for her to find a new store, and there is no such suitable one, what should she do?

He wanted to sell the tea, she wanted to open a garment shop, and suddenly, she had a vague idea in her mind, could she run the garment shop and the tea shop together?

Now all the shops are operated independently, the garment shop is to make clothes, the tea shop is to sell tea, if the guests can be in the measurement of clothes, when buying the style can open up a special place to drink tea, those clothes style into a picture scroll, so that guests can drink tea while patiently choosing, is it possible to distinguish it from other garment shops?

A slightly clearer outline slowly appeared in Shen He's mind, but the specific implementation needed to be well planned.

At this time, Cheng Gongzi saw that she had been thinking about it, and thought that she was too embarrassed, so he said, "Miss Shen, do you think it's too difficult?" Or I'll think of something else."

After hearing this, Shen He came back to his senses: "Cheng Gongzi misunderstood, I just thought of a plan to get the best of both worlds, which can not only allow your tea to be sold as soon as possible, but also run my ready-to-wear shop, but the specific details need to be worked out again."

Cheng Gongzi's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said: "There is really such a good way, I have never heard of such a shop, why don't we discuss it with the two of us?" (To be continued.) )