Mrs. Li only felt that Grandma Cui Er had glanced at her.

Cui's second grandmother Yao is in her teens, but there is a sharp aura in her eyes, which looks casual, but people can't help but tremble in their hearts.

When she wanted to take a closer look, Grandma Cui Er showed a smile and instructed her subordinates, "Hurry up and prepare refreshments," and then said to Mrs. Cui, "Mother, let the guests go and sit down in the flower hall!" ”

Mrs. Choi's jaw.

A few people sat down in the flower hall, and the person in charge of the door came to tell Wanning, "A few businessmen came from Fujian, saying that they had made an appointment with the second grandmother and wanted to sell tea to the second grandmother." ”

The ladies in the flower hall listened with their ears open, and although the voice of the steward was low, it also made everyone listen to it.

Wan Ning saluted Mrs. Cui, "Mother, daughter-in-law will go out to arrange the banquet first." ”

Looking at the figure of Cui's second grandmother leaving, Zhao coughed and looked at Mrs. Cui with a smile, "Wanning is in an orderly manner, with such a daughter-in-law to help her, you just wait to be your rich idler!" ”

If Mrs. Cui would inevitably laugh along in the past, but now that Cui Yiting is outside, Mrs. Cui can't help but worry.

"I don't know what's going on, those old ministers trusted by the first emperor are old and have a very stubborn temper, the weather has been hot for the past two days, don't really have an accident, it's ......."

That's not going to end well.

Mrs. Cui frowned as she listened to Mrs. Li's words.

Mrs. Li said: "These days, you should be careful at home, and the imperial historians are staring at your home." ”

Mrs. Li looked out of the house, cleared her throat and said, "Is your daughter-in-law still in the tea business?" ”

Mrs. Choi disagreed. "That's a serious business, and the tea guide issued by the imperial court is naturally to collect tea and sell tea. Although there was gossip outside, I knew that Wanning asked people to go to Fujian to collect tea last year, and even the relatives of the Yao family's side branch followed her to set up a tea garden in Fujian. ”

As soon as Mrs. Cui's words fell, she saw the steward hurriedly running into the door.

Several of the ladies in the house also came in to tell them.

Mrs. Cui turned her head sideways and listened, and the steward had already said: "There are a lot of people from Fujian, and the second grandmother went to Baoxia to see them." Doesn't look right. ”

Something isn't quite right.

Mrs. Choi frowned.

Mrs. Li had obviously heard about it, and hurriedly said, "Don't make a noise yet, let someone ask what is going on." ”

……

Wan Ning just sat down behind the screen. The businessman who came to the door brought the paperwork, "Second Grandma Cui, Shopkeeper Jiao is the steward of your family, and Shopkeeper Jiao told us in the past." No matter how much new tea there is. will accept it, and blame me at the time...... Thinking it was a new businessman, he didn't dare to sign the paperwork. ”

"Second grandma, in addition to compensating you this time, we also sent you the paperwork."

"In the past, we refused to sign the paperwork, that is, we did not know Mount Tai, but now we know that you have more than a dozen shops in Beijing, and your family is a famous salt merchant."

"It's all our fault. It's all our fault, and we don't dare to ask for more tea prices now. It's a drop from what you said before. ”

"If one percent doesn't work, it will be reduced by two percent."

Shang Jia said this, already with a bitter face.

"If you don't reprice, just ...... Give us a way to live, and we'll ...... It's all sold. ”

Several businessmen talked nonsense, and took the paperwork from their sleeves, "Look, our tea is the best tea." ”

"Our family also has a tea garden in Zhejiang...... Second grandma, not to mention anything else, there are dozens of tea gardens around large and small, who doesn't know that our tea is the best, and we can pay as much as you want. ”

Shang Jia smiled, "It's not easy to have a tea garden, there are dozens of people in the garden to feed, the second grandmother is in this part, the adults don't remember the villains, accept our tea!" ”

There was a commotion in the room.

Wan Ning said: "There are so many tea merchants in Fujian, why do you want to sell them to me." ”

Shang Jia arched his hands, "You don't know, the biggest tea merchant in Fujian is you, we don't sell tea to you, who can we sell it to, and now when it comes to Grandma Cui, everyone in Fujian knows it." ”

Wan Ning flicked her sleeves, "But I have already collected a lot of tea, and I can't collect it anymore." ”

As soon as the words fell, the businessmen below knelt down, "Second grandma, you just accept our tea, if you don't buy it, no one will come to buy it." ”

Wan Ning said: "How much tea do you want to sell me?" ”

After Wanning finished speaking, Shang Jia immediately submitted the paperwork, "I have a total of 200 acres of tea gardens in my family, and the amount of tea that can be produced is 4,000 catties, which can be regarded as a big household in Fujian." ”

Wan Ning looked at the merchant with a smile, and raised her hand to the abacus brought by Tong's mother.

Wan Ning received it and shook it lightly, and the abacus beads made a crisp impact sound.

"Fujian Kangjia, is in Chong'an County, there are 500 acres of tea plantations at home," Wanning's index finger snapped the abacus beads, "plant about 1,000 to 2,000 tea trees per acre, plant three tea trees in a cluster, three or four years of tea trees, each tree can pick about 200 buds every year, this year's Fujian rain is abundant, more than in previous years, I see your tea garden, at least 15,000 catties of dry tea, this is still the best tea, bulk tea is more than this number." ”

Hearing Wanning's words, Shang Jia was surprised at first, then cold sweat trickled down his forehead, and finally his face became extremely pale when he heard it.

Wan Ning dialed the abacus beads and shook them gently with her hand, "You only sold me four thousand catties of wool tea, even if you gave me all the business, but if I am a new businessman, that's all, for these four thousand catties of wool tea, it is a little worthless to come all the way from Fujian to the capital." ”

"So I can't sign this paperwork, and I can't ask for your tea, unless you sell me all the tea leaves produced in the five hundred acres of tea plantations," Wan Ning said and stood up and ordered his subordinates, "Send people out." ”

The merchant surnamed Kang immediately looked at the people around him.

The man had no idea.

Cui Er's grandmother just glanced at the paperwork and knew how many acres of tea gardens the Kang family had in Chong'an County.

Why, exactly?

Wan Ning said: "If there are businessmen coming to the door later, they are not allowed to bring them in." ”

"Let's go out," said the steward, "and I don't want to see who our second grandmother is, and I want to coax ...... when I open my mouth."

The businessman's face is like ashes.

Before coming to the capital, he was told to sign the paperwork with Grandma Cui, and more businessmen will come to the door next, if he doesn't take this step well, what will the people behind do?

"Second grandma, I do have 500 acres of tea plantations in my home, ...... You...... It's amazing...... I'm willing to sell you all the tea, this paperwork...... I signed. ”

Wan Ning instructed Tong's mother, "Call Shopkeeper Jiao to sign the paperwork with him." ”

Mother Tong answered, and Wanning turned around and walked out.

Out of Baoxia, just stepped into the Sanjin Courtyard, Sister Ruan and two people were already waiting there, seeing Wanning, the woman standing next to her immediately knelt on the ground, "Second grandma, you are a living Bodhisattva, the surname Kang swallowed our entire Xu family's tea garden, the tea garden is gone, it is not over, we have to pay tea tax every year, my father-in-law and men are forced to death by them, only we women and children are left, now it is not easy to live, I never thought that I could take back the ancestral property." ”

The woman touched her tears, and the children around her didn't know what to do, but just stared at her mother, holding her waist with both hands and refusing to let go.

The woman continued: "Five hundred acres of tea plantations, they only pay a tea tax of dozens of acres of land, and they also hide the amount of tea produced each year, such things abound in Fujian and Zhejiang, and when the tea is made, the government will let the local rich families collect it, and hand it over to the ship overnight, and when the big ship leaves, it is taken to the sea, who can know." ”

"We people originally had a tea garden, but now we have been killed and displaced, not to mention, we have to work on the tea garden, even if we still have a few acres of land at home, we have no time to cultivate, and we can't afford to pay the field endowment sent by the court, so we don't dare to say anything, otherwise we will be arrested by the court...... Children will also be taken away and sold. ”

The child in the woman's arms had a dusty face, big eyes full of fear, the whole face was so thin that you could see the outline of the bones, a skin-wrapped bone peeking out of the tattered clothes, and the knuckles were clenched so tightly that the knuckles were clenched white.

It makes people feel sour and depressed when they look at it.

"I haven't eaten since I came from Fujian, have you?"

The woman bowed her head in disbelief and was embarrassed to pick up the child beside her, but the child swallowed without concealment.

"The people around the second grandmother have already taken care of our mother and son along the way, if it weren't for this, our mother and son would have starved to death."

The little one listened to his mother's choked voice and frowned tightly.

Wan Ning looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but want to reach out and smooth the child's brow.

Sister Ruan said: "Listening to Sanniang, this kind of thing is not strange in Fujian, even if we knew something about it in the past, they didn't dare to say it when we inquired about it." ”

After Sister Ruan finished speaking, she turned her head to look not far away, and immediately pursed her mouth.

Wan Ning turned her head and saw Cui Shitu standing there.

"Daddy." Wan Ning stepped forward and saluted.

Cui Shitu frowned, "Are those words true?" ”

Wan Ning said: "The daughter-in-law has been carefully checked, the businessman surnamed He is just for people, the tea garden is only recorded in his name, and it is not his, in Fujian and Zhejiang, six or seven percent of the tea gardens are like this." ”

Cui Shitu thought for a while, "Those businessmen who came to the door ......"

"It's what the daughter-in-law and the second master have expected a long time ago."

Yes, they had expected it a long time ago, and they had been preparing in Beijing for so long, and they had been waiting for this day.

Cui Shitu said: "Seeing that there will be a lot of businessmen coming to the door one after another, what are you going to do?" ”

Wan Ning looked at Cui Shitu, the good thing about her father-in-law's personality is that he doesn't care about many things with his daughters, if Cui Yiting is here, the father and son will inevitably quarrel when they meet.

Wan Ning smiled, "Dad, it's better to leave this matter to his daughter-in-law." ”

Those guests, those merchants, will go wherever they have to go.

No one can see the jokes of the Cui family.

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Modified a little, it does not affect the reading. (To be continued......)