For all the people of Baidi City, the end of the roasted tea conference is a happy day, the big tea farmers get the money to buy tea from the tea merchants, and then the money for the roasted tea master and the tea farmer in the early stage is settled, and the rest is enough to spend a comfortable summer.

Last summer was an unusual one. After the end of the roasted tea conference, the Wu family and the Zeng family, two old big customers, transported the tea and left, and waited for the Xia family to transport the tea, but they waited and waited, and they did not see the people of the Xia family until the agreed time passed for more than ten days, and they saw the Xia family send someone to load the tea.

Ma Bin loaded the tea into the car without hesitation and waited for the Xia family to pick it up. In the past, there were such times, businessmen were always busy, first ordered people to load the car, and when the silver car arrived and the goods were cleared, they would leave immediately, but Ma Bin was also a little hesitant, and always felt that something had changed.

Sure enough, when it was really waiting for that day, the Xia family first said that half of it would be delivered, and the other half would wait for it later, and asked someone to pull Ma Bin's tea and run, Ma Bin didn't chase it, and it wasn't if he didn't chase it, so he had to give up, and when he went to count the silver, it was only half.

Ma Bin had to put the remaining tea leaves and silver into the cellar together, and he tried to find a way everywhere, but how could he find a solution so easily, and he didn't know if the Xia family still wanted this returned tea.

Originally, after the roasted tea conference, the tea merchants who came from afar had either negotiated with the old tea merchants, or had found their favorite sellers, and it was difficult to sell such returned tea, even if some people still had money to spare, they would rarely buy the returned tea.

Spring tea is the biggest business in Baidi City, and with the roasted tea conference, even if there is a replenishment in summer and autumn, it is difficult to make up for the loss of spring, and Ma Bin certainly knows the stakes.

In previous years, there was no such return situation, so many years is the first time, Ma Bin like a headless fly running around, as soon as he heard that there are tea merchants staying somewhere, he brought his own tea to drink tea, after all, he still did not say that he had thousands of catties of spring tea stored in his library, afraid that people would see the clues, and he was stunned that even the gift was less than in previous years.

It's easy to pile up the tea leaves there, and I don't often go to the cellar, so I can't even get in the way, but the tea leaves that should have been turned into silver are still intact, and the silver naturally won't fall from the sky.

However, the silver given by other tea merchants went to buy new tea seedlings, and the family industry was large, and every few years it was inevitable that some plots of land would be replaced with new tea seedlings, and the output of the next year would be discounted, so as soon as I got the silver, I went to buy it, and it would be shipped back in a few days, which was another expense.

There are some doubts among the tea farmers, the silver should have arrived in the usual season, but this year it has not been issued, although the family can still get by, but it is inevitable to come and ask every once in a while, "The owner, today's silver can have a mile." ”

At first, the housekeeper of Yanglin went out and said, "Wait a minute, the account is still counting, and there will be no one missing." "Pretending to be true, but in private he went to urge Mr. Accounts to calculate how much this is worth and what price it is worth, and asked Wang San to transport these things out of the waterway and sell them far away, never to be seen again in this life.

The tea farmers became more and more uneasy, and began to suspect that it was really as rumored that the Xia family had withdrawn the order, and the Ma family had not received a penny, and now they were planning to sell the tea mountain, and some people said that the tea mountain was not necessarily sold, and the ancestral treasure could not be kept.

Ma Bin stomped his feet when he heard these rumors at home, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and the things that are indeed in the seller's house are good to plug this hole, but the boat that pulls the silver has not come back yet, and the cash at home is not enough to send all the money, and the difference of two percent of the silver can kill a person in a hurry.

In the end, the tea farmers couldn't stand the strings, so a large group of people came out of the house in a big way, with hats and baskets on their backs, for fear that the big proprietor would forget the hardships of his people who got up early and worked in the dark, and came to the Ma family's courtyard.

The one who was the leader was quite polite, and respectfully said to Steward Lin who came to open the door, "Steward Lin, be sure to invite the owner to meet us, everyone has heard the rumors outside, it's not that I don't believe the owner, but this really needs an explanation, so that everyone can rest assured." ”

Steward Lin couldn't persuade him again, and the words of the car a few days ago were said again, what the bookkeeper had miscalculated, what old man occasionally felt the cold, the tea farmers below didn't listen, the voice became louder and louder, and some of them wanted to rush straight to the house over Steward Lin.

Seeing the situation, Steward Lin had to go back and close the door, put down the wooden bolt behind the door, and called someone to resist it, but the outside still did not give up. But this is natural, from the end of the year to start picking tea, carrying tea, drying tea, which is not done by this group of fortunate tea farmers, it is natural to come to ask for silver.

Of course, Ma Bin knew the situation here at the gate, and without waiting for Steward Lin to report, he instructed the bookkeeper to prepare for the silver, this is not something that can be delayed any longer, rather than waiting until the paper can't hold the fire before acting, it is better to make a paper lantern around.

"But the owner, there is not enough silver in this cellar."

"I naturally know that there will always be time to delay, first carry out the silver in the cellar generously, and then ask everyone to count the silver, make a few wrong counts, and then punish a few counters in person, be sure to delay the matter until tomorrow afternoon, and don't treat those counters badly in the future."

The bookkeeper was sophisticated, and immediately called someone to carry the silver, and specially instructed him to come back from the gate, and he ran to the room to get the account book, and with a stroke of his pen, he changed the number to a lower one.

Sure enough, the tea farmer outside looked at the box carrying the silver and stopped making noise, only the voice like a mosquito muttered, Steward Lin had opened the door to calm people's hearts, and finally stabilized the situation, or as usual, he led people to the small courtyard on the side of the courtyard to settle the bill, as for some of the oolongs caused by it, I will not repeat it.

On the morning of the second day, Wang San took the silver car back from the back door of the remote road detour, and Ma Bin saw him and said, "It's still the eldest nephew who can do things." ”

Wang San didn't seem happy, he was used to doing this kind of thing, and he didn't blink an eye when he met someone who was a little miserable, and went back to rest when the silver car was handed over.

In the afternoon, the tea farmer's money was really settled, and they all went home, and a few tea farmers who read the old love went around to the main gate to thank Steward Lin, which was nothing more than saying that he did not participate in the troublemaking team, and knew that Master Ma would not forget his little money, but it was quite a bit of a self-confession.

Ma Bin listened, he was still happy, after decades of employment relationship, they didn't come to make trouble, and they were worthy of our family, and asked Steward Lin not to be careful about the belly of a gentleman.

Steward Lin was aggrieved, but he didn't say a word of speculation, this old man is afraid that he hasn't slept well in the past few days, and he is still talking in his dreams.

There is no dream talk, but it is a fact that he is sick, and after that, Ma Bin stayed in bed for a month before getting up. When he was half a month, he was almost well, but Ma Pinyuan came over and said that his mother's dowry was gone, and he wanted to ask his father for it, but Ma Bin didn't come up in one breath, and lay down for half a month.

Ma Pin was also afraid of this scene, and went to the ancestral hall to kneel until Ma Bin was good before getting up.

This matter is over, but Ma Bin occasionally recalls it, and he still has heart palpitations, this kind of thing is still the first time in his life.