The rich people in Yuzhou City came one after another, and they begged for ways to make ice. Xia Qingyun politely declined, saying that the method of making ice is a family secret method and cannot be sold to others.

The secret recipe cannot be passed on, but ice can be sold, one or two silver and two large barrels. However, it is only available to VIP licensees, and it is only available in limited quantities, with only ten barrels per day per brand.

Five taels of silver a day can be exchanged for a full house of coolness, which is too attractive to the rich! Without blinking his eyes, he immediately took a picture of five hundred taels of silver to buy a VIP card, and paid one hundred taels of silver in advance, lest he be too late to buy it.

The shopkeeper Jiang's cashier received a soft hand and threw himself to Xia Qingyun's admiration. You must know that after spending five hundred taels of silver to buy a VIP card, it will never be used only to buy ice, and you will become a long-term customer of Qingyunxuan in the future. These people are all big families in the city, and they will spend hundreds of taels of silver in a year.

When you are used to drinking tea, you are not used to drinking tasteless white water. And when you are used to drinking good tea, ordinary tea is no longer difficult to eat. In addition, the teapots and tea sets designed by Xia Qingyun are all high-quality products, and they can also be used to play with tea, and the craze for collecting tea sets has gradually risen in the rich circle.

Taking this opportunity, Xia Qingyun pushed the root tea table out again.

A huge and incomparably large tea table carved with lotus leaves and rich flowers is placed in the small hall outside the private room on the second floor.

The warm golden yellow veins exude a faint fragrance of nanmu. In the corner of the tea table stands a red sandalwood tea vessel, in the middle is a blue and white porcelain tea set, and next to it is a small red clay pot with a unique shape.

Behind the tea table is a root chair with a phoenix spreading its wings, surrounded by six stake stools. Not far from it. A piano master burns incense and caresses the qin, and the distant sound of the piano pours out like flowing water under the fingertips of the pianist, adding a moving ancient charm to the golden silk nanmu tea table next to it.

There is no guest who goes to the private room to taste tea, and there is no one who is not attracted by this tea table. They have praised its ingeniousness, natural wildness, and elegance and chic. But the price of 20,000 taels of silver also made many people smack.

The price was set by Xia Qingyun based on the price sold by Huangfu's firm in the capital. The two are doing business in partnership, of course she can't tear down the Huangfu's platform.

In addition to this set of tea tables, she also brought several sets over. But it's all dizzying. Things are still precious. The less you have, the more you can sell for the price.

Sure enough, people who know the goods can see at a glance that this tea table is the same as that sold by the famous Huangfu firm in the capital! But in the capital, the tea table of the Huangfu firm is not something that can be bought with money. Only dignitaries can buy it. This thing actually appeared in Yuzhou. If you don't take the opportunity to buy it, you're a fool! Within three days. This set of sky-high tea tables was bought by the richest man in Yuzhou City.

The next situation can be imagined with your toes, put one set and sell another! Some big families even sent people to wait in the teahouse!

Three more sets were sold in a row, Xia Qingyun announced. Out of stock! If you want, you can pay a deposit of 1,000 taels, and only one set will be sold every month! This is good, only one day's work, the order for the tea table will be scheduled for the next year!

Jiang pulled Xia Qingyun's mother and called her obedient, she had never seen this formation, and she didn't even see the goods, so she rushed to give a thousand taels of silver!

The business of the Yuzhou teahouse is booming, and Yao Xili also sent a letter over there, saying that the teahouse in Zhili is also about to be completed, and she should rush over to arrange the opening.

Thinking that her mother took Hua Yun Qiuyun to Yuzhou with great difficulty, and she was about to leave after living for more than a month, Xia Qingyun was a little reluctant to go.

The mother smiled: "Silly girl, how can my family be so exquisite." Business is important, and since you have signed a contract with someone, you have to do your best. ”

Instead, she urged Xia Qingyun to set off earlier, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and the weather is hot, so don't rush too much on the road. Anyway, half of the summer is over, and it will be time to pick autumn tea in another month. There was only one father left in the family, and she couldn't rest assured, so she just set off with her.

Hearing that their mother was going back to their hometown, Hua Yun and Qiu Yun shouted that they didn't want to leave, and they also wanted to learn more things in the Guolin Farm. The family now has Wang Shi with the help of the soldiers of the Tunken, and has also trained a group of tea masters, and there is nothing that Hua Yun and Qiu Yun need to do. Xia Qingyun discussed with his mother and asked the two of them to stay.

The mother has always been open-minded, and she also hopes that her children will not always stay in a small place, see the world more, grow more knowledge, and help Xia Qingyun in the future, so she left the Huayun brothers and sisters and returned alone under the escort of Hua Dahua Er.

Before leaving, he received a letter from Governor Shen Jingguo, which revealed a news that shocked Jiang and others.

It turned out that the prefect Kong Xiaoqing and the master Duan Bukang reported the corruption and perversion of the law to the imperial court, and at this time there was finally a conclusion and the two were dismissed and investigated. Under the third trial, Kong Duan and the others spit out a lot of black things they had done before. Naturally, he also bought the shopkeeper of the tea house, Liu Hai, and secretly exchanged the tea.

Jiang and the others never expected that bangs, who looked like a good person on weekdays, would do this kind of betrayal of the owner behind their backs. Xia Qingyun only smiled slightly, she had long suspected bangs, but she couldn't do anything to him without real evidence. Now that the matter has been exposed, see how he denies it.

For the sake of Hua Sedum's face, she didn't send her bangs to the government for punishment, but the monthly money could not be given to him, and it was already cheap for him to let him roll up and leave. But the bangs are gone, there is no shopkeeper in the tea house, and the Jiang family is too busy to hold two positions. As soon as Xia Qingyun and his mother summed up, they found Chu Qi and asked him if he would like to take over.

Chu Qi hesitated for a while, nodded and said: "Miss can be trusted, I will be the shopkeeper, and I will live up to Miss's trust and run the tea house well!" ”

Jiang and Tian Zhenyu were not at ease, saying that Chu Qi was still young and had not experienced anything, lest something go wrong.

Xia Qingyun said: "There are only a few guys in the tea house, not as many people as in the tea house, and Chu Qi's ability is completely competent!" What's more, there is Chu You in the tea house every day, even if there is something to do, the two brothers and sisters can discuss it. No matter how bad it is, there are still you, in short, the business in Yuzhou will be entrusted to Uncle Tian and Aunt Tian, and I will be at ease when I go! ”

The mother also said bluntly that Chu Qi could deserve it, and let them take care of it more on weekdays, so Jiang and Tian Zhenyu nodded in response.

On the next day, Xia Qingyun and his mother said goodbye to everyone and set off together, just all the way to the south and all the way to the north.

Xia Qingyun only brought Zhiqiu alone, and in order to facilitate the journey, both of them changed into men's clothes. It is more than 3,000 miles from Yuzhou to Zhili, and a spacious carriage was specially prepared to go to the official road from the north of the city.

The road is also smooth, and after ten days, you will go to the territory of Jiangnan Province, which is famous for its wealth.

Jiangnan Province is located in the middle of Qi country, the middle and lower reaches of the Ruan River coastal plain, north of Xiyu Mountain, south of Jiangnan hills, low terrain, many lakes, a group of water town scenery. The climate here is mild, the products are abundant, and it is known as the land of fish and rice in Qi country.

Among them, Cangjia County and Dinghai County are famous for their outstanding people. Qionghai Town, the county seat of Dinghai County, is rich and rich, with many shops and wine shops, and it is not inferior to Yuzhou, the capital of southwest province.

With plenty of time, Xia Qingyun wanted to visit Qionghai Town, and by the way, investigate the customs and business opportunities here.

Zhiqiu Mountain has run to many places in the South China Sea, and Qionghai has been here a few times before. She led Xia Qingyun to the largest Yuelai Inn in the county and asked for two upper rooms to live in.

The handlebar type drove the carriages to the dealership, where the stables were larger than those in the inn, and there were craftsmen who helped to inspect and repair the carriages.

After washing their faces, the two of them changed into clean clothes, Zhiqiu was proficient in disguise techniques, and simply helped Xia Qingyun dress up, making the two look like students who had entered Beijing to take the exam.

Qionghai Town is more prosperous than Yuzhou, there is no obvious distinction between fang market and commercial street, and almost every street is full of shops, all kinds of shops, selling everything.

In addition to the shops, there are also many carts, carts, and loaders, loaded with all kinds of goods for sale on street corners.

Passing by a rice shop, Xia Qingyun found a basket of golden rice on the counter, and she was very curious. There were also several types of golden rice in previous lives. But none of them are spontaneous.

One is the granules that are crushed and crushed and produced by the guò recycling process, which are similar in shape to natural rice, and their essence is still corn.

There is also a scientific and technological product that is said to be developed by a certain country, which crushes and dissolves gold in water. This golden water is then sprinkled on the rice to grow rice containing the golden component.

Then there's the notorious genetically modified rice. Obviously, at this time, the Qi State could not use these methods to produce golden rice.

Seeing that she was interested, the guy at the rice shop came over and introduced: "This son, this is the golden rice sold exclusively by our shop." In the entire Qi country, there is only such a piece of land that can grow this kind of rice! Over the years, it is necessary to pay tribute to the imperial court! Ten taels of silver a pound, don't you buy some to taste? You look like you're going to Beijing to take the exam, right? Eat the porridge cooked by golden rice, and keep your gold list title! ”

Zhiqiu sneered beside him, "You talk so much, how can it be your turn to sell the tribute things at your house?" It must be a bluff! ”

The guy hurriedly said: "Childe, I didn't bluff you!" It has not been a few years since this golden rice was planted, and the tribute has also been paid in the past two years, so if you don't believe it, you can go and inquire. We don't usually have stock in our store, but we just got you to catch up. Hey, that's not the rice delivery guy to settle the bill, you can ask him. ”

As he spoke, a farmer dressed in coarse cloth walked in at the door, carrying the burden on his shoulders at the door, leaning on his shoulder and walking in.

The man pulled him over to testify for himself, and the farmer smiled honestly: "Two sons, this little brother is right, the golden rice produced in our village is indeed going to pay tribute to the emperor." It's just that this year's wind and rain are good, and the output is extraordinarily large, so there is surplus grain, and I want to sell it to the county at a good price! ”

"How! I didn't tell you, did I? The guy spread his hands and grabbed a handful of golden rice to show Xia Qingyun, only to see that the rice grains were golden and translucent, and they were indeed the best quality.

"Weigh me ten pounds!" Xia Qingyun happily took out a hundred taels of silver tickets.

Then she asked the farmer, if he had the seeds of gold and rice, could he sell her half a catty? She wanted to try to grow some in the Wishful Treasure Pavilion, so that her family could taste this rare golden rice in the future.

The farmer shook his head and said, "Childe, even if I buy you seeds, you won't be able to grow golden rice!" (To be continued......)