Chapter 159: The Tea Merchant
"But I didn't see your father yesterday?"
At the wedding banquet last night, Jiang Banxia saw that the bride's family did not have Huang Luoling's parents, they were all neighbors and relatives, and she thought that Huang Luoling would run away and the matter would be over.
"My father was caught by the Li Mansion, and he must have been locked up that day." Huang Luoling was quite aggrieved and said: "Who cares if he lives or dies." ”
When a woman is crying, it is touching if it falls well, but it is scary if it falls badly.
Jiang Banxia saw that Huang Luoling's sobbing face was flushed, she took out a handkerchief to help her wipe her tears and sighed lightly: "Which family did you just say that the food is delicious?" ”
"The city... Beef in the east of the city... The beef broth is delicious. Huang Luoling hiccuped and wiped her tears.
"Then I'll let you lead the way." Jiang Banxia rubbed Huang Luoling's little head, she was trying to comfort this little girl.
Under the bright lights of May in Hezhou City, there was a gentle young man, her eyes seemed to dissolve the moonlight, lukewarm but calm.
"Tut-tut." He Qiaoyi secretly slurred, no wonder the boss is so popular, look at how considerate this is.
The little girl's eyes were almost glued.
The place where Huang Luoling said sold beef soup was on a relatively remote street, and prayer flags hung on the eaves in front of the house, occasionally fluttering with the night breeze.
This is a Tibetan shop.
Daming people rarely eat beef, because cattle are the labor of cultivated land, basically eat only injured cattle and sick cattle, but in Hezhou is different, here is adjacent to the vast grassland, yaks are all over the ground, and eating yak meat has become a local specialty.
"Rajan! There you are. The woman who was busy in front of the stove pulled her long braids behind her and smiled heartily at Huang Luoling.
Lajan is the Tibetan name of Huang Luoling, and the people who can call her name are close to her.
"Friends?" The woman in a Tibetan robe pointed at Jiang Banxia in an unskilled official dialect and asked.
Huang Luoling nodded: "I'll take them to taste our beef soup." ”
"Wait a minute." With a smile on her face, the Tibetan woman took three bowls out, lifted the lid of the pot, and the thick aroma of stewed beef came out of the pot.
He Qiaoyi couldn't help but praise: "It's so fragrant!" ”
Sellers always like to hear others praise their craftsmanship, and He Qiaoyi's really fragrant praise made the Tibetan woman smile.
A large bowl of beef broth was served to the three of them, and the large pieces of beef in it were so sloppy that they fell off the bones with a light sip.
"Don't just drink the soup, it's fragrant with the pancakes." The Tibetan woman enthusiastically put a few pieces of freshly baked cooking cakes into a small bamboo basket and pushed them to them.
This flavor of Tang Jiang Banxia is the first time to drink it, and the taste is different from what she used to drink, and the spice is put in it, and it goes straight to her nose when she drinks it.
After two or three mouthfuls, water vapor began to emerge from her eyes, and Qing Lingling's eyes were hazy with a layer of water vapor, and the whole person seemed to soften.
"I'll go!" He Qiaoyi looked at Huang Luoling in shock: "How many spicy seeds did you put in." ”
The beef soup in front of Huang Luoling was red, and it felt spicy when he looked at it.
"It's delicious, this spicy." Huang Luoling recommended: "It's very comfortable to sweat. ”
"Don't... Or don't. He Qiao hurriedly refused.
He drank this soup with tears, how dare he put spicy seeds again!
When they were eating fragrantly, a strong man's shout suddenly sounded in their ears: "Boss, serve a bowl of soup to our brothers!" More cakes! ”
The Tibetan woman immediately responded.
The group of strong men, each burly, wore only gowns, revealing two strong arms, and sat down at the table very impressively.
The man saw that the Tibetan woman was cooking too slowly, so he took a knife to chop the green onions, and the kitchen knife, which was not too terrifying, was stabbed down by the man in his hand, and Jiang Banxia could even hear the sound of the cutting board breaking.
"Oops!" Obviously, the proprietress also heard the voice, and she said with pain on her face: "Brother Haizi, don't make a mess, I only changed this chopping board last month, and I haven't used it much." ”
The strong man called Haizi scratched his head embarrassedly, and he spoke in a northwest dialect: "I don't have a lot of weight here, I want to help cook, but I didn't expect to do bad things to you again, sister-in-law." ”
"You run the business hard, come here to settle down, just rest." The Tibetan woman took the kitchen knife and cut the green onion neatly.
Cutting green onions and scooping soup, a set of actions are done by a woman, and the aroma of beef soup makes the mouth reel.
Jiang Banxia looked at this group of men who were running merchants, wearing white cloth coats and homespun shoes on their feet, and it seemed that they should be the guys unloading and pulling goods in the caravan.
"And what do other little white faces look at?" The strong man named Haizi found that Jiang Banxia was looking at them, and vigilantly touched the machete on his waist.
Before Jiang Banxia could speak, the Tibetan woman hurriedly came out to play a round: "This is my guest, there is no malice." ”
"It turned out to be my sister-in-law's guest." Haizi immediately changed his face and became warm: "I thought it was a few prodigals." ”
'Prodigal sons' Jiang Banxia and He Qiaoyi were confused.
They look like prodigals?
"Poof." Huang Luoling, who was at the same table, laughed, and she said while laughing: "This big brother is so interesting. ”
Xu is Huang Luoling's laughter is contagious, driving the surrounding atmosphere to warm up.
The group of men who ran the business asked the proprietress to bring wine, and asked Jiang Banxia to drink two cups with them.
Friendships between men are strange, and maybe just two glasses of wine can put your heart at bay.
"Brother Haizi, where are you going to run a business?" Jiang Banxia asked, there are large and small businesses and merchants in Hezhou City, and they go everywhere.
"It's already here." Haizi smiled and said: "We came to Hezhou from Shu to sell tea, and today we are staked, and we are waiting for the owner to hand over the tea to the official family in a few days and sell it." ”
It turned out to be a tea merchant in Shudi, Jiang Banxia nodded thoughtfully.
Haizi drank the wine in the wine cup, and he sighed: "I don't know how much money I can make on this trip, and the market is getting worse and worse year by year." ”
"How?" Jiang Banxia asked, in the spring, she had heard the cabinet and the celebrant discuss the tea and horses in the Qianqing Palace.
At that time, it was only said that the difference was decreasing every year, and the reason was not mentioned, but now when she met the tea seller, she couldn't help but be a little curious.
"The people of the imperial court don't do personnel." Haizi threw the wine cup on the table: "We went all the way from Shu to Hezhou, and we walked four or five inspection centers alone, one inspection center cost two or three centimeters of silver, and three or four inspection offices came down as a sum of money!" ”
"That's not all." Haizi said angrily: "The people of the Tea Horse Division actually want to deduct half of the tea leaves!" How much can really be sold in this way! ”
What Haizi said is just the surface, which official under the Tea and Horse Division does not need to be dotted? Half of the deduction is already a good situation, and sometimes it is even necessary to pay the money backwards.
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