Seeing that they were no different from ordinary people, and their appearance was similar to that of his own family, Qiu Yun suddenly felt a little cordial, and couldn't help but step forward and touch the boss's hair.

"Sister Qiuyun!" The boss smiled sweetly, "Six-six and seven-seven like you the most, you often sleep on them!" ”

Liuliu is a petite and cute girl with two small dimples when she laughs. But Qiqi was a young man with red lips and white teeth, remembering that he had once fallen asleep on his back, she was so ashamed that her face was red, and she hid behind her mother and was embarrassed to come out.

After a while, Dad and Hua Yun also let go of their courage and pulled a few people to look left and right, which was rare.

Xue'er lay on the side very unhappily, flicking her tail in boredom, secretly suspecting that these snake spirits had stolen her limelight.

Xia Qingyun smiled and beckoned to them: "Come, I'll give you a new name, two, two, three, three are awkward." ”

"From now on, you will be called green plum, green orchid, green bamboo, green chrysanthemum, green lotus, green lotus, green leaf, green vine, and green fruit. Also, if you want to call a mother, not a mother. ”

The mother whispered to her father: "These babies are really handsome, they look like they are coincidental, and they can teach them to pick tea in the future."

Qingguo's ears were tipped, and when she heard her mother's words, she patted her chest and said, "Mother, we have already seen tea picking!" Lo and behold! ”

His body shook, like a whirlwind blowing into the tea garden, and in a blink of an eye, he picked a basket of buds and leaves and put them in front of his father.

"Good boy! How fast! The mother rubbed her eyes and looked at the buds and leaves in the bamboo basket, which were tender and green. There is not a single stalk or leaf breaking.

Qinghe said: "Not only picking tea, we will also make tea!" ”

Xia Qingyun said: "You don't often see me making tea, how can you learn it?" ”

"I can't think of this either," Qinghe tapped his finger on the door of his head, "Anyway, this is the place to know"

"Why don't you wait in the tea room, let's pick some buds and leaves to try!"

From tea picking to tea making, it took less than an hour for nine people, including Qingmei, to put nine new teas on the table.

Genting nectar, golden cinnamon, Tieguanyin, Jin Jun Mei, Yin Jun Mei, small black tea, alpine clouds, snow mountain silver needle, phoenix narcissus. After brewing one by one. Xia Qingyun looked up to the sky and sighed, heaven! Are you trying to force me to make a fortune!

The construction of Tunpu was preliminarily completed, and the Qingyun Tea Garden began to expand at an unprecedented speed, and the mountain was the same day by day. It's time for the end of the year. All the green tea seedlings have been planted.

The mother took the girls and daughters-in-law of the village to make winter clothes for the soldiers. The old lady and her sister-in-law Xia Yinglan sat together. Chattering while taking the soles of the shoes.

"Mother, I heard that General Zhenyuan won another battle in the southwest, and the soldiers have been more energetic than one in the past two days!"

"Alas. It's not easy, if you're away from home, your parents at home should be more worried! I don't know where your two brothers are, and if you have winter clothes."

The old lady wiped her tears and said, "Can you talk to that girl in Qingyun and let the general put them back?" It's time for these days to change. If they hadn't married those two stupid mothers-in-law, they wouldn't have become like that! ”

Xia Yinglan sighed and touched her bulging belly, "Mother, Qingyun has been busy for the past two days, she can't even see a figure every day, and she can't take care of eating, when she is busy for a while, I will find my sister-in-law to talk to her together." ”

Xia Yinglan was sitting in the study at the moment, drawing complex graphics on paper. Since she had Qingmei, she no longer worries about the problem of making tea, and concentrates on researching a major matter.

A few months ago, she screened out six soldiers who had been blacksmiths from the list handed over by the captain of the guard, Wang Shi, and after some understanding, she found that there was a famous blacksmith master in the Qi country, who would use the steel filling method to create all kinds of delicate iron tools and extremely sharp weapons.

She sent a letter to General Zhenyuan, asking him to find this blacksmith master, and invited him to Tunpu for a large amount of money, and designed and built a refining workshop in Tunpu. Under Xia Qingyun's construction, the blacksmith improved the smelting method and successfully smelted a furnace of steel using a closed graphite clay furnace.

Xia Qingyun began to collect and buy iron, charcoal, coal, and refined oil from all over the world. However, except for charcoal, several other things belong to war materials in the Qi State and are strictly controlled.

She asked General Zhenyuan for help again. The general supported her unconditionally, and did not inquire about the reason at all, and secretly sent the people of the shadow door to buy a large amount of money from the black market in private.

Of course, all the money was made by Xia Qingyun. The price of the black market was extremely high, and the nearly 200,000 taels of silver saved were spent like flowing water.

I don't know why, in the past six months, the orders of the Huangfu family have not increased, and the thousands of catties of tea hoarded in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion cannot be sold. This made Xia Qingyun very angry, and she decided to wait for the spring tea to be harvested, and then she would go out to have a look and find other ways to make money.

On this day, she was sitting in the study in a daze at the pile of drawing papers in front of her, and she couldn't remember an important part of it. Suddenly, the girl came to report that someone from the Huangfu family had come.

She hurriedly put the drawings on the desk into the treasure pavilion, straightened her clothes and went out.

Outside the house, three large carriages were parked against the wall, and the emperor was standing beside the carriage with a young son.

Xia Qingyun stepped out of the door with a smile on his face, and bowed deeply to Huangfu, "Uncle Zheng, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come here to be harmed?" ”

"Oh, Miss Xia! Don't come unharmed, don't come unharmed! Uncle Zheng returned the salute and introduced Xia Qingyun: "This is the third prince Huangfu who went south and specially came from the capital to visit Miss Xia!" ”

Looking up, Huangfu Xiangnan has a dark complexion, and his eyebrows are seven points similar to that of his eldest brother Huangfu to the east, although it is a little less elegant, but it is three points more masculine.

She smiled, and Ying Ying saluted: "The prince of the emperor is here, the little woman is not welcome, and please don't blame the prince." ”

Huangfu hurriedly returned the salute to the south, and said with a smile: "Miss Xia is polite, I have admired the girl's name for a long time, and when I saw it today, I really looked brilliant!" You and I are of the same age, if the girl doesn't dislike it, just call me south. ”

Xia Qingyun smiled generously: "Xiangnan, Zhengbo, please talk inside!" ”

came to the living room and sat down, and after greetings, Zhengbo said: "Xiangdong Gongzi is studying hard day and night, preparing for this year's palace exam, and he can't spare time, so he asked me to bring you a letter." ”

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Xia Qingyun. And said: "I haven't been here for more than half a year, and the changes here are not small, but those mountains are planted with tea trees?" ”

Xia Qingyun bowed his head and said: "Zhengbo's eyesight is still so good!" Recently, I have planted a lot of new tea trees, and I have also got a lot of new tea, why don't you invite to the tea room, how about we chat while tasting tea? ”

Huangfu stroked his palm to the south, "I have long heard that Miss Xia's tea art is unparalleled in the world, and today I am finally fortunate to see it with my own eyes!" ”

So a few people moved to the tea room and sat around a tea table with golden silk nanmu roots.

Zheng Bo touched the bright table and quipped: "Miss Xia has sent so many tea tables to the capital, I don't think anything is better than this one in your house, the best things are always left first!" ”

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "Uncle Zheng is joking, but its size is just right for this room, where is it the best." ”

As she spoke, she took a set of hand-painted blue and white kung fu tea sets, and made several new teas, and used an iron kettle to hold some water and boil them on the red clay stove.

Huangfu was attracted by the tea cup on the table at a glance to the south, and took it in his hand to enjoy it.

The outer wall of the tea cup is painted with different flowers and plants, not the common plum orchid chrysanthemum lotus, but painted with begonia, narcissus, magnolia, peony, rhododendron, etc., and on the cover bowl is a blooming blue and white peony, which is both graceful and elegant.

He couldn't help but praise: "Don't say that the shape of this table is like flowing water, elegant and elegant, just these small tea cups, delicate and elegant, beautiful and refined, people can't put it down." The workmanship of the tea cup is also extraordinary, the fetal quality is delicate, the wall is as thin as paper, and hard as jade, I don't know what kind of porcelain? ”

Xia Qingyun smiled lightly, "I didn't expect Childe to have such a unique vision!" This is the bone china specially fired by me for Qingyun Tea Garden, it is as thin as paper, transparent as a mirror, sound like a chime, white as jade, light and hard, not easy to break when washing, it is best to use to taste tea. ”

Huangfu Xiangnan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "I have always heard of white porcelain, celadon, etc., bone china is the first time I have heard of it, I don't know how expensive it is, how easy it is to fire?" ”

"Why, Childe is also interested in porcelain?" Xia Qingyun asked rhetorically.

Zheng Bo interjected on the side: "Xiangnan has been trading with the Huangfu merchant ships all the year round, porcelain is one of the largest goods, and those overseas countries are very fond of the porcelain of our Qi country!" ”

Huangfu Xiangnan said excitedly: "That's right! Outside or clay as a vessel, or metal as a vessel, not as good as our porcelain color, but can depict a variety of characters and flowers, flowers and birds, so porcelain is very popular abroad. However, the sea is stormy, the ship is bumpy, and the porcelain is easily damaged, and there are always one or two percent of the broken products when it is shipped abroad. If, as Miss Xia said, this kind of bone china is hard, then it is very suitable for overseas trade! ”

No wonder he has a dark complexion, which is the reason why he often goes to sea. Xia Qingyun's mind was a thousand times, but he remained silent on the surface, and said with a smile: "Although this bone china is good, it is difficult to fire, and only about forty percent of the finished products can be produced in a kiln." If it is sold overseas, the price is extremely high! ”

"Miss Xia doesn't know." Huangfu explained to the south: "When our merchant ships arrived in the outer world, they did not want gold and silver, but bartered their goods in exchange for their common spices and precious stones, which are quite rare in our Qi country, and sold back to China for great profits!" ”

Xia Qingyun wanted to know the details of overseas trade, so he followed his words and asked: "I don't know which countries the prince has been to, and what are the strange worlds, you might as well tell me about it, so that the little girl can have a long insight?" ”

Huangfu has a cheerful personality to the south, and he is very good at chatting with people, and he does not shirk at the moment, so he narrates: "Starting from the East China Sea, three hundred miles to the southeast, there are many island countries, where people are short in stature, nostrils are facing the sky, and when it rains, they have to hold a banana leaf to block it, so as not to choke on the rain." (To be continued......)