"What are you stunned!" Just as Gu Qingzhu was looking around, Liang Mancang suddenly passed through the dense fog and appeared in front of her.

"Ahh Brother Mancang! Gu Qingzhu had a false alarm, and his eyebrows and eyes relaxed.

"The fog is really big today, looking at a vague figure from afar, it is estimated that it is you, are you going to Nancang County to sell tea cakes?" Liang Mancang asked as he glanced at the tightly wrapped back basket wrapped in oilcloth behind her.

"Well, are you going to sell this pheasant to Cuiping Town, or Nancang County?" Gu Qingzhu heard the cooing of chickens in his back basket.

"In Cuiping, a pheasant is sold for twenty Wen Dingtian, and I want to try my luck in Nancang County today." Liang Mancang strode in front of her.

He helped the eldest girl's family sell tea in the past two days, and occasionally sold game by the way, and he understood the price very clearly, but the weather was bad today, and the eldest girl's family couldn't pick tea, so he came out to sell game alone, and just happened to meet Gu Qingzhu.

"If you go to the vegetable market in Nancang County, the price there is not much higher, why don't I take you to a familiar restaurant to have a look, maybe the shopkeeper can take a fancy to it, and the price will be much better." Gu Qingzhu used to sell bamboo shoots and knew a few shopkeepers, and he could just help him today.

"With Lao Qingzhu, that's great." When Liang Mancang heard this, he turned his head and smiled.

The two talked all the way, and soon went out of the mountain and entered the city, Liang Mancang insisted that Gu Qingzhu sell the tea first, and then said, the two entered the Sansheng Tea Store together, and saw the signboard in front of the door, Liang Mancang was a little surprised, he deliberately took a few more looks, and it was really exactly the same as the one in Cuiping Town.

"Shopkeeper Han!" Gu Qingzhu shouted at the people who were busy in front of the shelves with their backs on their backs at the counter.

"Ah, girl, you're here, my second master is still talking about your tea this morning, Ming'er is Qingming, if you don't come again, you'll miss the festival." Han Shouyi turned around and saw that it was her, and he didn't care about the shelves, so he recruited a guy to come and speak for him, and walked over to speak.

"I remember, it's just that there is no one at home, and it's far away, no, I saved a lot to sell it at a time." Gu Qingzhu opened the oilcloth on the bamboo basket and pointed out the one-color tea cake to him.

"Thanks to your arrival today, you can still catch up with the last wave of tea before Ming." Han Shouyi opened the small door of the counter and came out to inspect.

Gu Qingzhu has always been careful in his work, each tea cake is almost exactly the same, Han Shouyi is very satisfied, he counted, a total of forty-two, weighed, it happened to be eight and a half catties, almost a very standard regulation of two taels of tea cakes.

"Your tea cakes before the Ming Dynasty, if they were in previous years, they could be sold for one hundred and fifty wen a catty, but this year's tea market is sluggish, and the highest price I can give is only one hundred and twenty wen a catty, do you want to rest assured, why don't you go to the East Market tea market to compare prices first?" Han Shouyi did not accept the tea directly, but patiently explained to Gu Qingzhu.

This price was really a little short of Gu Qingzhu's expectations, and she was inevitably a little disappointed in her heart, but the big market was like this, and she couldn't tolerate any objections from a small tea farmer like her.

"Don't ask, just according to the price of the shopkeeper Han, I believe you." Gu Qingzhu shook his head.

Her tea is the best, and the shopkeeper Han is not stupid, how can she push a profitable business out the door? Rather than wasting time comparing prices in the East Market, she should make this deal with him happily, and cooperate for a long time in the future.

"Okay, okay, I'll settle the bill for the girl." Han Shouyi was very happy, turned around and returned to the counter, clicked the abacus beads twice, and said with a smile, "No more, no less, just one thousand and twenty wen." ”

"Shopkeeper Han, can you please give me a whole tael of silver?" Gu Qingzhu crouched on the counter and asked in a low voice.

The bundle of Qingsong School is five taels of silver a year, and if you get this today, it will only be four taels.

"Girl, is this going to save a dowry?" Han Shouyi rummaged through the money box, really found a tael of broken silver, took another twenty wen, and handed it to her with a smile.

"No, no, it's for my brother to go to school." As soon as Gu Qingzhu was said by him, he shook his hand again and again, and his face turned red.

"It's not easy to be young, it's much better than my kid." Han Shouyi praised it from the bottom of his heart, and then remembered and said, "In the future, Guyu tea should be on a large scale, you should hurry up and sell it, don't save too much, because this year's price is very unstable, and the price will drop at any time, and good tea can't be sold at a good price, it's a pity in vain." ”

"Okay, I see, thank you." Gu Qingzhu packed up the bamboo basket and bent down to thank him.

Gu Qingzhu and Liang Mancang were about to step out of the threshold, but they saw a man in Tsing Yi rushing in, and when they saw that they were about to bump into Gu Qingzhu, Liang Mancang stretched out his hand to block and push, and the man suddenly kicked outward and fell out half a foot away, and fell directly to the ground, his buttocks hurt so much that he was almost blooming, and he couldn't help but scream.

"You stinky boy, can't you be calm? The ass is like a fire, running so crazy, this is a self-falling, you deserve it, if you hit someone, see if I don't beat you! Han Shouyi heard the voice, came out to take a look, and scolded angrily.

"Dad, you're unreasonable, aren't I in a hurry to tell you the latest market?" The man in Tsing Yi was just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, he seemed to be very aggrieved, and looked up at Han Shouyi.

"Hey, why are you?" Gu Qingzhu recognized the young man in front of him, he was the guy who was called Qiusheng in the Sansheng Grain Row.

Qiusheng also recognized her, he got up from the ground, patted the ashes on his body, and muttered: "You used to grow tea, this big brother is so powerful, I flew out directly as if I hit a copper wall." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Since they knew each other, Liang Mancang clasped his fists and saluted with some guilt.

"You're welcome, it's also appropriate to let him learn a long lesson, so as not to be careless every day!" Han Shouyi glanced at his son out of the corner of his eye, and when he saw that he walked freely, he was no longer worried, but he said cruel words in his mouth.

"Dad, don't teach me a lesson, the second master asked me to tell you that the Ming Qian tea in the East Market has dropped another thirty Wen, so when you collect the tea, be careful." Han Qiusheng rubbed his ass and said anxiously.

"Before the Ming Dynasty, the tea cake was ninety wen a catty, this ...... How is this possible? When Han Shouyi heard this, his face suddenly changed.

Gu Qingzhu was also taken aback when she heard this, she learned to make tea last year, just in time for the last hard piece of tea, and the price at that time was still fifty wen a catty, and this year's tea market is really not optimistic.

"Didn't the second master say any reason?" Han Shouyi woke up from the shock at the beginning, and then asked.

"Say yes...... Say yes...... What is the new way of making tea in the south......" Han Qiusheng stumbled, and seemed to have forgotten about it, he stammered and couldn't say clearly.

"You fool, keep watch here, I'll take a look." Han Shouyi stomped his feet, lifted his robe and left.

He walked to the door, turned back to Gu Qingzhu and said: "Since you have heard the news, you have to hurry up when you go back, although it is common for the price of tea to fluctuate, but tea before the Ming Dynasty is generally mostly when it rises, and it is difficult to say what the price of tea will be after the rain." ”

"Shopkeeper Xie Han mentions something, I'll hurry up." Gu Qingzhu was suffocated in his heart, this year is really not a good year for tea farmers.

Liang Mancang and Gu Qingzhu left Sansheng Tea Shop, they were dull and speechless along the way, the price of tea cakes plummeted like this, and the price of fresh tea was naturally not optimistic.

"Qingzhu, I sold pheasants, I will go to the East Market with you to take a look, the price decline may only be temporary, and it may be able to rise in the future." Liang Mancang glanced at her gloomy face and said softly.

"Okay." Gu Qingzhu lowered his head and agreed absentmindedly.

The shopkeeper Han is a veteran in the tea shop, and he is not allowed to market this year, which shows that in the tea-making skills, something great must have happened.

Gu Qingzhu took Liang Mancang to a familiar restaurant, this is the peak season for tea collection, there are many merchants, the business of eating and lodging is booming, the shopkeeper saw that the pheasants were fat, so they all accepted them, because Gu Qingzhu brought them, and paid more attention, the three pheasants gave one hundred and twenty wen, and also instructed that next time there is game, you can send it to him first.

The price of this sale is already double in Cuiping Town, Liang Mancang insisted on inviting Gu Qingzhu to lunch, Gu Qingzhu took him to Dingjia Noodle Restaurant, where it was cheap and affordable, the two of them each ate a bowl of three fresh noodles, Liang Mancang had a large amount of rice, and asked for five additional steamed buns.

The noodle shop is not far from the East Market, Gu Qingzhu led Liang Mancang through the streets and alleys, and arrived after a while, here is different from the shops in the West Market, there are temporary big tents on both sides of the road, the tea sellers walk from the middle of the road, and the guys who collect tea on both sides shout loudly for quotations, the entire East Market, there are more than a dozen large channels connected in this way.

If the tea seller thinks that the price is agreeable, he can go to the tent to discuss in detail, there is a steward in charge of the tea rating, of course, you can also bargain, satisfied with the cash on the spot, and if you are not happy, you only need to change another one, the whole East Market is like a pot boiling dumplings, the voices of people are boiling, the horses are neighing and the donkeys are barking, and the noise is lively.

Of course, in addition to the tea collectors from other places, the locals have fixed warehouses, and they also set up tents in the East Market to collect tea, but the people in charge are all in their own warehouses, and the price of tea in the East Market fluctuates a little, and they can't escape the eyes of the guys they scatter, so every time the tea market, the guys in the tea shop have to run around carefully.

Liang Mancang and Gu Qingzhu had just set foot in the West Market, and before they could listen carefully to the price of tea, they were seen by someone with a heart.

Qian Tang sat on the Taishi chair in the warehouse wing of the East Market, slightly closed his eyes, humming a small song leisurely, a few plates of dim sum were placed on the table, and a maid was cooking tea for the first time, with light smoke curling and the fragrance of tea.

"Uncle!" A man in black panicked and didn't even have time to knock on the door before he broke in.

"Bastard, you still don't understand the rules, get out!" was swept Yaxing's money rose, slammed the table, and roared.

"It's not...... No, that kid from Cuiping Town came to Dongshi last time! The man in black swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and said hurriedly.

"Oh? He came alone? Qian Chang stroked his beard with interest.

"And a girl, but not the previous one, this one is tall and thin." The man in black gestured with his hands.

"Huh! This kid is not shallow, since he has broken into my territory, there is no reason why he should not be entertained, you go and tell the steward, and the idea is to get him to me! The corners of Qian Shang's mouth were crooked, and he smiled evilly.