"A taste of rain and flower dew, the tooth shells are fragrant with tea, it is really a good tea!" After tasting three cups in a row, King Xian exhaled comfortably.

"It is indeed a rare good tea, dare to ask Dong Gongzi, this tea should also be picked in spring, it can be kept until autumn without losing its fragrance, it is really the best in tea." An old man with gray hair put down his teacup and asked with a smile.

"What Old Minister Lu said is extremely true." Dong Ce nodded and said, "All green tea needs to be picked in the spring, and it is clear that the tea before the rain, the tea before the rain and the tea after the rain." ”

King Xian was stunned when he heard this, and immediately became very interested and said, "Hmm! I know this, before the Ming Dynasty must be before the Qingming Dynasty, and the tea at this time can be called the best in tea, but why, I didn't pay attention, I don't know if Dong Lang can explain? And what does this green tea say? ”

"Xianwang Shengming, the tea before the Ming Dynasty is picked before the Qingming Dynasty." Dong Ce said, and explained: "This green tea is a general term for turquoise tea, and the tea before the Ming Dynasty, its tea leaves are tender and juicy, the aroma is pleasant, and there are few insect pests, so the tea before the Ming Dynasty can be the top grade, followed by the tea before and after the rainy season, the former is different from the Ming Dynasty, only a little fragrant, but more resistant to brewing, and the tea after the rain, has a large leaf and bitter roots, but if carefully selected, the tea made is very suitable for the elderly who have regressed in taste. ”

"Huh!" Old Xianggong Lu suddenly smiled and said: "No wonder the old man has been drinking tea more and more tasteless in recent years, it seems that it is necessary to taste the taste of tea after the rain!" ”

"I can't imagine that there are so many exquisiteness in this tea section." The only woman in the room smiled.

"Alas, the concubine doesn't know anything." King Xian smiled and said, "Everyone in the world loves Zhen, like you women, don't you all like silk and silk and gold and jade jewelry." ”

The princess did not deny this, but looked at Dong Ce and said with a smile: "Since Dong Gongzi said that it is of the highest grade, is it still the best?" ”

Dong Ce smiled bitterly, looked at the wolf-like eyes around him, and said helplessly: "There is indeed the best!" This tea can be called the company's tea! ”

"Hehe, I know!" The princess pursed her lips and smiled, "After all, there is still tribute tea!" ”

King Xian naturally knew this, but he only thought it was Ming Qian tea, but he didn't think about it, at this time, listening to his wife's words, he couldn't help but glance at Dong Ce complainingly, secretly blaming this kid for daring to hide good things in front of him!

Dong Ce was helpless, and could only explain: "The tea before the Sheri can indeed be a tribute, but it was sent to the palace in a hurry, in fact, it is not much different from the tea before the Ming Dynasty, mainly relying on the art of making, otherwise once the season passes, it is not necessary to wait for a year." ”

King Xian didn't hold on to him, and said with a smile: "Listening to Dong Lang's words, I know what a tea ceremony is, by the way, Zhongqin said before that you can also do tricks, and the rumors are even more divine, what copper money turns into gold, the human body is divided, and the living person is changed, etc., just listening to the name feels very novel, it's itching." ”

Dong Ce nodded, flipped his palm and took out a copper coin, and opened it again, and suddenly, the copper coin turned into a certain amount of silver, and when he seemed to throw the silver up, everyone could see that the copper coin flew up, and the silver had disappeared.

"Shhh Many people were wide-eyed and amazed.

Dong Ce caught the copper coin and said with a smile: "This is just a small trick for me, and the real trick needs to be witnessed in Jinling Art Garden." ”

"Less!" The princess smiled and said, "How did I hear that the art garden is still under construction, and its owner is you!" ”

"You're here to avenge Cao Luorong." Dong Ce was really depressed, it wasn't that he didn't want to be famous, but what if these people insisted that he immediately stage a human body division and a big transformation into a living person, what would he do?

"In fact, the trick is just a trick, and you can't perform it without preparation." Cao An suddenly spoke out to relieve Dong Ce.

Dong Ce gave Cao An a thumbs up in his heart, immediately diverted the topic, and continued to talk about tea.

Everyone was drinking the tea made by Dong Ce, and listening to his explanation of the tea ceremony, it was also delicious.

I don't know how long it took, ten pots of tea had been brewed, and Huang Zhongqin, who had retreated before, appeared again, informing everyone that the people outside had arrived, and asked when King Xian would come forward?

King Xian didn't delay, and now he and everyone got up and walked outside, while Dong Ce waited for them all to walk out of the pavilion before slowly following.

When he just came out of the pavilion, Cao An, who was waiting on the side, whispered to him: "They all told me that they want a set of high-quality tea sets, the price is not a problem, but the time must be fast!" ”

Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "I will let people cook it as soon as possible and send it to Gusu in person." ”

"That's fine, there is also the issue of tea, I have explained to them, I can only wait for next spring, but they seem to want a huge amount, especially the old minister Lu, he wants a year of tea! Can you provide it? ”

"One year!" Dong Ce couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it, how much can this person drink in a year, if he doesn't love tea, a few taels is enough, but if he loves tea like his life, then hundreds of taels are not enough, and if he doesn't love tea, can he use it for a year? Even if you greet customers, you should buy it if you are missing.

Dong Ce's tea garden in Shizigang is not big, it used to be the old man who planted mulberry trees, and later he asked for a piece of Yuhua tea, at that time he just wanted to drink it for himself, and he didn't consider using it for business, so the scope of the tea garden is limited, and now, except for the small place in the tea garden, other mulberry forests have been sold by Dong Yuanchang to pay off debts, and now it is difficult to expand!

Moreover, the tea trees of this year are not available, the number is very limited, and it takes several years of careful cultivation before they can be put on track.

"Where's King Xian?" Dong Ce asked.

"King Xian didn't mention it, but it's better to be prepared." Cao An reminded.

"Well, now I can only take one step at a time." Dong Ce said depressedly.

Although it is rare and expensive, hundreds of taels of tea are enough to buy a good price, but this is not what Dong Ce needs, his plan is to sell only a few taels per person, so that more people are familiar with the new tea, and then it is convenient to raise the price, and slowly sell the inventory little by little.

But if the old minister Lu wants such a vague amount in a year, what if he doesn't get it right, he will cover it all?

Old Prime Minister Lu is the abdicated prime minister, although he has lost his former glory, who would not dare to give him three points of face? Besides, this old guy is the real helmsman of the Lu family, and he has a tea tree in his territory, isn't he a sheep in the mouth of a tiger?

"Huh?" Dong Ce was suddenly stunned, and even thought that this old guy seemed to have some problems with his sense of taste! In this way, I am afraid that things will not be so bad!

Just thinking about it, before he knew it, Dong Ce had already walked out of the wooden bridge with Cao An and came to the viewing platform.

At this moment, on the wide platform of viewing the lake, there are several rows of cases, and the seats are like scales, there are already hundreds of officials and rich businessmen, talented and beautiful women are sitting on the ground, and they are all looking at the virtuous king who is standing in front of the guardrail on the side of the stage, with his back to the lake.

Dong Ce and Cao An sat on the seat next to the crowd under the arrangement of the young man who led the way, and immediately attracted the attention of many people, including some acquaintances, such as Liu Su, Lu Xiaoxiao, and Ye Xize, who had met once, and the goose yellow shirt woman who was lying on the desk and seemed to be asleep, judging from her butterfly-like bun, who else could there be besides Cao Luorong?

Seeing his daughter's such a gift, Cao An's old face was ugly and helpless!

Dong Ce didn't care at all, but asked the young man who led the way to bring his little servant Liu Fu in.

At this time, in front of the stage, King Xian, like a teacher, stood alone in the wind, and talked endlessly about the recent situation in Jiangnan today.

"For the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, this king is deeply saddened, and once again told everyone that it is not the imperial court that does not provide disaster relief, but it is actually a war in northern Xinjiang for many years, and the imperial court's grain has long been empty, and this year's northern autumn harvest was immediately sent to the frontier, so it is really difficult to allocate a grain of grain!"

Speaking of this, King Xian sighed for a long time, and said: "In recent years, I have rarely planted rice in Jiangnan, mostly mulberry tea, which also led to the arrival of natural disasters, my people in Jiangnan can only wait for relief, but when this king visited the four prefectures of Hu, Chang, Yang and Xia in Jiangxing last month, he learned that there was abundant grain, so he discussed with the local grain merchants, and they also promised to sell grain to Jiangnan, but the price remained high, but this is also helpless, the cost of long-distance grain transportation is too expensive, but in order to relieve my Jiangnan Li people, I have been on the table of the imperial court to reduce and reduce Jiangnan taxes, I hope everyone will work together to overcome this difficulty! ”

As soon as King Xian finished speaking, everyone in the audience immediately echoed in unison, and many well-dressed and wealthy people immediately expressed how much they donated to help the victims.

Looking at the generous words of many wealthy businessmen, Dong Ce shook his head with a wry smile in his heart.

It is nothing more than waiting for the virtuous king to ask the court for tax reduction, but whether it can succeed or not, Dong Ce can only hehe!

A short figure bent his waist, trotted behind Dong Ce, and laughed in a low voice: "Master, what were you doing in the Drunken Immortal Pavilion just now?" ”

"Make tea." Dong Ce said casually.

"That's it?" Lu Xiaoxiao lost interest when she heard it.

At this time, King Xian suddenly said: "Hehe, everyone's kindness is in the eyes of this king, but in order to facilitate the rapid relief of the victims, I would like to ask all of you to come forward and inform you that you want to be responsible for and provide materials." With that, King Xian stepped aside and gave up his seat.

And the rich businessman in the banquet is you look at me, I look at you, and in the end, it was Lu Xiaoxiao's father Lu Jinyong who was elected by everyone.

Lu Jinyong explained very calmly the materials that their Lu family was going to donate, and was willing to take in 1,000 victims.

This is definitely a big deal, not to mention the materials for the time being, just a thousand families of victims, this number is as little as two or three thousand, as many as five or six thousand, and there may not be a thousand who can help their Lu family! And it's to take in, not to buy! That's what matters.

With Lu Jinyong at the beginning, suddenly, many wealthy businessmen stepped forward one by one and reported how many people they were going to take in or how much materials, money and food they were going to donate.

It wasn't until the forty or so wealthy businessmen finished speaking that the people in the government came forward to tell them how they could help the rich businessmen, how much manpower they had dispatched, and so on.

After all this was settled, it was noon, and immediately a group of maidservants came out with trays, cleaned up the fruits and refreshments on everyone's desks, and began to serve wine and food.

"Ahh Cao Luorong, who was separated by Dong Ce's three cases, suddenly stood up, grabbed the wine jug and threw the lid directly, and then poured it directly into her mouth, seeing that Cao An's old face was red and trembling.

"It's insulting, and it's angry with me!" Cao An shook his head and said.

Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and said, "Out of sight is pure." ”

"Poof!" When Cao An spoke before, Cao Luorong didn't seem to hear it, but as soon as Dong Ce spoke, the woman was choked in an instant, and quickly put down the wine jug and coughed more than a dozen times, then turned her head to look at Cao An's side, and at this glance, she really saw that in addition to her father, there was also the hateful Dong Ce!

"You haven't gone back yet, have you?" Cao Luorong smiled at Dong Ce unconsciously.

"Well, if there is a business coming to the door, it is natural to make some money." Dong Ce's words are true, he really doesn't have much money, and the way back is four or five hundred miles, and the carriage is only one hundred and eighty miles a day, and the horse will be tired to death soon, so it costs a lot of food and accommodation on the road.

"Hmph, as always, my mouth is full of copper stench." Cao Luorong pursed her lips, her face was disdainful, but her heart was inexplicably happy, she didn't know why, in short, as long as she talked to Dong Ce, she had a particularly peculiar sense of warmth, and her heart was even warmer.

However, this time, Dong Ce didn't want to quarrel with her, after all, Ye Xize was looking at them with a group of people!