Chapter 2 The Ma Family Annex
In the early morning of the second day, when the sky was just dawning, a carriage set off from Bihua Pavilion and headed for the tea mountain, which was farther away from the city. The carriage jolted all the way until the sun rose halfway up the mountain, and then it reached the front of an annex. A young man in his twenties who got out of the car, it was Wang San, who came back yesterday, walked to the door and buckled the door, and an old man with gray hair came out. Wang San replied, "Steward Lin, is Uncle Ma up?" ”
"Get up early, please inside, our host has been waiting for you for a long time."
Wang San followed Steward Lin into the courtyard, and saw a middle-aged man sitting on the Taishi chair resting, with a wet towel on his forehead, and his dark and strong body was a little abnormally weak at this time. I heard footsteps shouting, "Uncle Lin, who is it?" Steward Lin replied, "It's the owner of Bihua Pavilion." ”
The middle-aged man got up, "It's the third nephew of the king, I'm sick and can't pick you up." Wang San walked quickly to the front of the middle-aged man and helped, "Uncle Ma is outside, just take care of your illness, say anything and can't take it, I will come myself." ”
After the middle-aged man continued to lie on the Taishi chair, he held his forehead and said, "Uncle Lin, go to the cellar and get some tea." Steward Nalin answered and went out of the courtyard.
"Uncle Ma, everything is done." The Uncle Ma in Wang San's mouth is none other than Ma Bin, the father of the tearful young Ma Pinyuan yesterday, who has been raised in the courtyard of Chashan recently when he occasionally feels the cold, so everything in the family falls on the eighteen-year-old Ma Pinyuan.
"I've always believed in you, but this body is getting worse and worse, if you hadn't solved the siege for Pinyuan yesterday, I don't know when the trouble will be! I really have to thank you for that. ”
"It's okay, this is my business, and it's an honor to help Uncle Ma solve problems."
Ma Bin waved his hand, "I know you are thinking of love, yesterday came back in the dust, the stool at home has not been sat for a while and ran to Pinyuan non-stop, I am really fortunate to you, not to mention anything else, just to say that this heart is also worth it." It's just that my brothers are usually used to being domineering, but they don't have bad intentions in their hearts, don't take their words to heart, you know that since that incident ten years ago, I have always treated you as my own. ”
"Uncle Ma, I know."
"It's good to know, let's talk about those two tea merchants." Ma Bin put the towel on his forehead aside with his hand, and let his whole body be exposed to the sun, which was to sweat more.
"One is the Lu family in Zhangcheng, according to the news I got outside, in addition to our rock tea in Baidi City, other teas are slightly involved, Zhuyeqing in Mincheng, Longjing in Jiangcheng, I went to visit the tea households in these two places, and they all said that although their family is a little calculating, the price is fair, and the money is also refreshing. I went directly to his house, but their big owner couldn't come this year, and the second owner came. ”
"It's good that the second owner can come, and the other one who is in the city."
"I looked a little strange about the owner of Tongcheng, but because he didn't know where to get the information, I invited him over."
"What's wrong with it?"
"I didn't go to him at first, but he took the initiative to come to Zhangcheng to find me, and reported the number of doors, I don't want to talk to him, but he said that he sincerely came to buy Ma's tea. I wondered that in a place far away in Zhangcheng, except for the Lu family, no one should know what I was here for, and I didn't know when I exposed myself, and I saw that he sincerely wanted to buy tea, and his reputation in Tongcheng was good, so I invited him over. ”
"It's not in the way, sometimes it happens by chance."
"It's just..." Wang San suddenly thought of something and hesitated.
Ma Bin said with a smile on his face, "If you have anything, you don't have to say anything." ”
"Yesterday I heard that the Xia family, is their business really not done?"
There was a silence, a flash of helplessness and hatred flashed on Ma Bin's face that was still smiling just now, and he said slowly after a long time, "I won't hide it from you, the way I look now is indeed to meet the needs of the Xia family." ”
"Our Ma family and the Xia family are friends in the world, and they have been doing business for decades, if it weren't for a piece of rotten meat that would kill him, I wouldn't bear to cut him. You know that the year I took over the business from my father, it was just in time for the heavy rain and landslide in the mountains, and there were tea farmers on the tea mountain who were killed, and almost lost the entire tea mountain.
It's just that this Xia Zhongda is too conceited, and he has made a bargain with us, but he is all thanks to the jade business, if it is only like this, of course, at most he is just resentful, they are different from us who grow tea, and it is normal to do a few more businesses. It's just that he shouldn't have beaten our tea idea in order to make up for the jade shortage, half of last year's tea is still in the cellar, and it can't be sold until now, and my Ma family can withstand their consumption several times. ”
"Then what if Old Lady Xia comes with sincerity?"
Ma Bin hesitated a little and shook his head, "This can only be said then, but my Ma family will never do business with Xia Zhongda again, he can come to eat and drink, they are all old friendships, but there is no need to talk about business." ”
"Then I'll count it again in my heart, the two owners should be here in the next two days, Uncle Ma, will I let them come and see you?"
Ma Bin waved his hand, "That's not necessary, sooner or later this business will be passed on to Pinyuan, you can take him to see and see, if there are any problems, you can still carry him more, like yesterday, but let him say more." ”
Wang San was about to reply, but Steward Lin had already brought the brewed tea, so he had to take it, put it on the stone table next to him, and sat on the stone bench to taste it.
He said, "Uncle Ma, your tea will no longer be unsold." ”
Ma Bin squinted his eyes and smiled, "Borrow your auspicious words." He took another sip of the tea on the side, hoping that he would not experience last year's nightmare again.
It was almost noon, the tea was already in good time, and Wang San quit Ma Bin and returned to Bihua Pavilion. I met Wang Ma baking meat with tea, so I ate more, although it was not yet summer, this warm weather was also hypnotic. There was nothing else to do, so he instructed Ah Wu and went back to his room to sleep.
Wang San's room was originally located in a corner of Bihua Pavilion, connected by a path, so it was rarely disturbed by the noisy sounds in Bihua Pavilion. Less than an hour after Wang San slept down, someone shouted outside, "Boss, get up." Hearing Ah Wu's voice, he opened the door and said, "What disturbs my dreams?" ”
Ah Wuxi and Wang San quarreled, and said with a smile, "There are people on the dock again." ”
"Don't sell it."
"It's the tea merchant who came, and it's inconvenient to sign up outside, but fortunately I ran into it, otherwise these two people would have to eat a lot today."
Wang San stretched out his hand to hit Ah Wu, "It's getting more and more difficult, are you invited to come over?" ”
"On the way."
As he was talking, Pinyuan had already come, "Third brother, thank you so much yesterday, I don't know what to do without you." It's just that yesterday's silver ticket was really the deposit they gave first? It seems that the young man in front of him is also a forgetful person, yesterday he was still sad and aggrieved, and he wanted to cry, but today he is smiling and happy.
"I bluff them, we go to ask for the door, how can there be a reason for others to give money first."