Xia Qingyun mixed milk into the boiled tea soup, and added a little sugar and salt respectively to make sweet and salty milk tea.

Zhengbo tasted the product and said that the sweetness was delicious, but Huangfu Xiangnan liked salty.

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "This is called difficult to reconcile. However, there are many ways to drink black tea. For example, adding milk, sugar and cinnamon powder is for cinnamon milk tea; If you put only a few slices of lemon and sugar, it is a sweet and sour lemon tea. You can also add wine, honey or coffee that Childe has drunk, etc., in short, according to each person's taste. ”

Huangfu danced happily to the south, and he said: "After the New Year, the merchant ships will set off again in the first lunar month, how much black tea can Qingyun Tea Garden make?" ”

Xia Qingyun thought for a while and replied: "Black tea is also divided into high-grade and superb, the top-grade has 3,000 catties, and the superlative has 1,500 catties. Just press the top grade 20 taels of silver a catty, the best 30 taels of silver a catty, how? ”

"Very good!" Huangfu Xiangnan's mind was extremely fast, and he said: "A total of one hundred and five thousand taels of silver!" It would be better if there were matching bone china tea sets to sell together! ”

"I tried my best, but I can't guarantee it." Xia Qingyun muttered: "That's it, if it can be fired, the son will bring it with him when he comes to pick up the goods, and then talk about the price." ”

At prices ranging from 300 to 150 taels, Zhengbo purchased 200 catties of new tea such as Yunding manna and Tieguanyin, totaling 310,000 silver in two, and immediately set up the purchase and sale documents and paid a deposit of 100,000 silver tickets.

The two had lunch at Xia's house, leaving two carts of various gifts from the capital before leaving.

Xia Qingyun found Wang Shi. He was instructed to buy a large amount of saltpeter and sulfur in the name of buying fireworks for the New Year, carefully wrapping them in oilcloth, placing them in wooden barrels and sealing them, storing them in several caves dug in the mountains, and sending people to guard them day and night.

He also handed over a dozen of the drawings to the blacksmith and instructed him to use copper and steel respectively. The parts on the drawings were no longer than a few feet, and the small ones were like grains of rice, and the blacksmith couldn't figure out what these strange things were used for, but the military order was like a mountain. How dare he be sloppy. Immediately start to make according to the drawings.

In the next half month, Xia Qingyun concentrated on doing real things in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion. It's hard for Xue'er now, originally Daqing Mountain was its territory, but since Xia Qingyun came in this time. Every now and then, an earth-shattering explosion erupts from the mountain. It was terrified. Hiding in the house with his tail between his legs, he didn't dare to raise his head.

I can't remember how many times, Xia Qingyun, who was blown up to the ground, and even had his skin open, plunged into the Seven Star Lake. Thanks to the miraculous and rapid healing effect of the spring water, her life was saved.

Finally one day, she screamed, jumped and laughed like a demon, which attracted the attention of several Qingmei.

Xia Qingyun took the parts made by the blacksmith, assembled two muskets, one long and one short, and loaded the developed ammunition into them. After testing, the effective range of the short gun is about 15 zhang, and the long gun can reach a mile away!

It worked! She excitedly held the two guns in her arms and stood on the top of the big green mountain and looked out. With them, it doesn't matter what kind of steppe iron rider he is, what kind of Japanese barbarians, it's all a problem! If the soldiers of the Zhenyuan Army are equipped with muskets, they will be invincible!

However, reality ruthlessly gave her a blow to the head! With the power of the master blacksmith, it took ten days to make the parts of two muskets, and less than a hundred in a year without rest. If you want to equip the Zhenyuan army, why don't you wait until the Year of the Monkey?

She and the master blacksmith deliberated for a long time, and decided to select fifty sturdy soldiers from among the soldiers and learn to forge steel from the master, so that the master could free up time to concentrate on making parts, and the speed would be greatly increased, and one could be made in three days.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, more than a dozen carriages stopped outside the Tunpu, and Hua Linghuashu's uncle, aunt, uncle and aunt arrived with countless gifts. They not only sent New Year's gifts, but also accompanied the Hua family sisters and brothers to celebrate the New Year here!

At this moment, the Xia family can be lively, killing pigs and sheep, cutting window flowers, hanging lanterns, writing Spring Festival couplets, prosperous and jubilant.

Xia Qingyun gave the long-term workers a holiday, and each of them not only gave an extra two taels of silver for the festival, but also received 20 catties of rice noodles, 10 catties of pork, 5 catties of eggs, and white sugar and sesame oil and other rare things that are rare in mountain villages.

The soldiers in the fort put on brand new winter clothes, and their feet were fine cotton shoes with mille-feuille soles, and they all looked extraordinarily energetic!

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the mother quietly pulled Xia Qingyun into the room, "Qingyun, today your sister-in-law came to me and said that your grandmother wants to ask, when can you let your second uncle and third uncle come back?" ”

Xia Qingyun frowned and said, "I don't know about this either. Mother, as the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change, if they come back and start to make trouble"

"That being said, after all, they are the meat that fell from your, so they all feel distressed!" The mother sighed helplessly, "When you have the opportunity, you can ask, so that you can relax your heart." ”

"Okay, I made a note of it, and after the New Year, I will send someone to send a letter to the general to ask."

The old lady learned Xia Qingyun's reply from her sister-in-law, and she was a little relieved.

At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Xia Qingyun only sat at the dinner table at home for a moment, then got up and came to the soldiers of Tunbao.

The soldiers cheered and toasted her with their glasses. Xia Qingyun drank a few cups in a row, her pretty face flushed, and she looked even more charming and lovely.

The seven-star spring water can relieve hangover, so she did not refuse to come, and drank happily with the soldiers, and since then, the reputation of Miss Xia who is not drunk for a thousand cups has spread in the Zhenyuan army.

Thousands of miles away on the southwestern border, the tent of the Zhenyuan military camp is pitch black, and even on Chinese New Year's Eve, the curfew is strictly enforced here, and there can be no fire and noise.

General Zhenyuan, dressed in a black coat, stayed up all night, visiting various camp tents to send Chinese New Year's Eve blessings and care to the soldiers.

At dawn, he stood outside the military tent, looking at the northeast, silently thinking about the delicate and intelligent girl.

"For you, I will protect the Great Qi Kingdom from being invaded by foreign enemies and from the flames of war! It's a new year, and I don't know when and when I'll see you again. But what can I do when I see it?"

General Zhenyuan was saddened.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the relatives of the Hua family were about to turn around, and Xia Qingyun set up a banquet to see them off.

During the banquet, the eldest uncle Hua Sedum said: "The reputation of Qingyun Tea Garden is now loud, not only in the capital, but even in remote places like Yuzhou in the southwest province, it is proud to be able to drink white peonies!" ”

"Yes," the eldest aunt Zhang also said: "The southwest sun is strong, and people's complexion is dark, and those girls and daughters-in-law heard that washing their faces with tea water can make their skin fair and translucent, so they did everything possible to ask someone to buy it." I've tried it for a while, and it really works! Look, the wrinkles in the corners of my eyes are much lighter! ”

Xia Qingyun nodded with a smile. White tea has a high antioxidant capacity, and is rich in various nutrients and active enzymes, daily drinking detoxification and beauty, the remaining tea soup is used to wash hands and face, can make the skin smooth and white. What's more, what Xia Qingyun gave to his eldest uncle before was the best white peony grown in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, and the natural effect was even better.

"Qingyun girl, have you ever thought about opening a tea house by yourself?" The eldest uncle asked suddenly.

"I thought about it, but Qingyun Tea Garden has just been built, and the manpower, material resources, and energy can't be taken into account, so"

The eldest uncle put down the wine glass in his hand and said with great interest: "Since last autumn, there have been high-ranking officials from all provinces who have returned to their hometowns from the capital, and there are also many newly promoted scholars who have been appointed from the capital to serve in local positions, and the trend of drinking tea has also spread. The sales of Huangfu firms are mainly dominated by the powerful people in the capital, if you can open your own tea estates in the provinces, you will not compete with them, and you can make considerable profits! ”

Xia Qingyun said: "What my uncle said is reasonable, but I have never been out of this mountain, and I am not familiar with people everywhere, so I am a little embarrassed for a while!" ”

The eldest uncle smiled: "What's so difficult about this! You don't know each other, but we do. The Hua family is still well-known in Southwest Province and Central South Province, if you can trust it, I will help you touch the place when I go back, and I can also help you prepare for it, and you will soon be able to open the tea house! ”

"Then Uncle Lao will bother!" Xia Qingyun pushed the boat down the river and said: "Please also ask my uncle to find out if there is a place close to the downtown but not noisy, convenient transportation, elegant environment, such as a medium-sized restaurant." In addition, find another house, and you will have a place to stay in the future. ”

The eldest uncle remembered them one by one, and when he saw that Xia Qingyun wanted to get up to get up and take the silver ticket, he hurriedly said: "Qingyun girl, you are too outward!" The family can afford this money! If you don't mind, even if you give me 10% of the shares, what do you think? ”

At this time, the third uncle Yao Xili interjected: "Such a good thing, don't leave us behind!" Miss Qingyun, the Yao family also has business names in Zhili, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong around the capital, can you let us also participate in it? ”

The third aunt and the eldest aunt looked at each other and smiled: "When you talk about business, we can't even eat this meal properly!" Why don't you hurry up and run over to the study to discuss? ”

The eldest uncle and the third uncle laughed and picked up the chopsticks again. While eating, he said a lot of kind words to Xia Qingyun's father and mother, and told Hua Ling and others to listen to their godfather and godmother, practice seriously and not be lazy, etc.

After eating, because he wanted to discuss the matter of the tea house with Xia Qingyun, he postponed the departure date by another day.

In the study, the eldest uncle asked, "Qingyun girl, why are you still looking for a place to open a restaurant?" ”

Xia Qingyun said: "It's not about opening a restaurant, I'm going to open a tea room for people to drink tea and talk here." ”

She elaborated on her plans, how to choose a site, how to decorate, how to decorate, etc., and finally said: "In addition to these facilities, the tea room also needs to train some women to be tea masters to perform tea art for guests, and invite a few skilled pianists to play some music regularly, which is more elegant." ”

She said that the third uncle spread out the paper on the side, recorded it word for word, and transcribed it to the eldest uncle.

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "The third uncle is careful in his work! In this way, the tea house and the tea room are counted as the three of us as joint shares, and the younger generations dare to bargain for a bargain, accounting for forty percent, and how about you each accounting for three percent? (To be continued......)