Chapter 69: A New Home

What happened to Jiang Rong's family, Xia Meizhen didn't know. She walks the streets and alleys every day, or buys some local snacks, or sits in a restaurant and teahouse for half a day, admiring and appreciating the characteristics of this era, in short, casual and comfortable.

On the sixth day when Jiang Yunxian went to the tea garden, she looked at the shop in the tooth shop and planned to open a teahouse by herself. Most of the teahouses in this era are places to listen to books, which is very different from Xia Meizhen's previous life, and Xia Meizhen herself is a tea artist, so if she doesn't use tea to make money, she will be sorry for herself.

The location of the teahouse is still on East Street, not far from Caifeng Building, Xia Meizhen chose the teahouse here, but also wanted to borrow the reason for the east wind of Caifeng Building.

Most of the ancient teahouses have a look, spacious lobby, there is a high platform in front of the storyteller, nothing exquisite, Xia Meizhen is also convenient to decorate, first asked someone to paint the wall, and then the four walls of the lobby are pulled with gorgeous color curtains, and the seats purchased from the Cheng family shop are placed in the lobby in a circle, and the open space in the middle is the position of the tea master.

From this, an upscale teahouse was formed. The special feature of this teahouse is that there is no storyteller.

After eight or nine days of busyness, on the day Jiang Yunxian came back, he hung up the card and named it: Chang Xinju.

Firecrackers crackled, leaving bright red clothes on the ground in the long queue of flower baskets, some children giggling and laughing around the flower baskets, and the crowd of onlookers looked curiously into the store.

The shopkeeper of this Chang Xinju was recommended to her by Feng Jianniang, named Du Fei, a slightly chubby man in his forties, with a baby face, very pleasing. Xia Meizhen pulled the red silk and went into the house, and Du Fei greeted her outside.

After Du Fei finished speaking, he saw a group of people coming from the street, Gu is a twenty-eight-year-old girl, they are wearing a green dress with a water, light gauze to cover their faces, one by one tall figure, from one end of the road to come over, the tea set in the hand one by one, purple sand tea set, white porcelain tea set, lacquer tea set and bamboo tea set and so on seven or eight kinds of tea sets, lined up in turn, including teapots, teacups, tea boats, tea saucers, tea lotus, etc.

And these things are just drawings drawn by Xia Meizhen when she has nothing to do in the past few years, and they have only recently been created. Originally, she still wanted to hide her clumsiness, and she didn't want to open a teahouse so quickly, but after Jiang Rong came to the door, she was afraid that this person would die and not stiffen and cause trouble for herself, so she simply came to the big scene, established her position in Xuanzhou Mansion, and indirectly eliminated hidden dangers.

Although Chang Xinju opened in a hurry, there were a lot of guests who should come, Cheng Mansion and Xiao Mansion of Lotus Fang, as well as the family of the well-known military doctor Li Huaile, as well as the marching Sima Zhang family, the Li family, the director of the Ministry of Works, etc., the number of Xuanzhou Mansions, half of the families sent flower baskets, because there were congratulations and nominations on the flower baskets, and they reminded the onlookers fiercely: This Chang Xinju, I am afraid that it is an upstart, and it is better for mortals not to offend.

As a result, the first guests of Chang Xinju were the upper-class people in Xuanzhou Mansion, as well as dozens of students that Xia Meizhen specially asked Liu Chang to call. This lineup fully shows that Chang Xinju only entertains literati and children of families.

Therefore, in front of these children of families or housekeeper students who have seen the world, Xia Meizhen's trick is novel, but because no one has ever seen such a teahouse style, they have a lot of doubts about it one by one, suspecting that Xia Meizhen is a big wind and a little rain, just a gimmick, it is a bit embarrassing.

So, these personalities did not pay attention to these women, but whispered about Xia Meizhen's craftsmanship.

The twelve girls entered the Changxin house in turn, and then saw a big monk walk to the futon in the middle of the teahouse and sit down, there was already a guy to move a white porcelain tea boat over, the big monk saw, and did not wait for whether the hall was full of customers, raised his hand and walked a tea, light green tea soup, in the white porcelain teacup, like a goddess, the aroma hit people.

Because the teahouse was newly opened and there was not enough manpower, Liu Ping recommended a few from the delivery staff he was in charge of to help, including Liu Chang and his two classmates. This is Feng Jianniang's face to Xia Meizhen, and she specially instructed Li Shihe to do it.

Seeing that the great monk had poured the tea, Liu Chang and three other people stepped forward to pick up the tea and handed it to all the guests present one by one. Such a novel method, coupled with such a service, really makes some tea lovers look at it differently.

Qin San, as a foodie, is also a tea lover, because he has a little face on East Street, he is naturally in this group of people. Of course, Qin San can't taste tea like those literati and scholars, he drinks tea, pure crushed to relieve greasy - the greasy taste after eating food.

At this time, he received the tea handed over by Liu Chang, he first sniffed it gently, and then took a sip, and the tip of the tongue was a little astringent and then sweet, which shocked him: this tea is lighter than the brick tea, and it is more fragrant than the loose tea.

In this era, the research on tea still stopped at sencha and tea, and the production still stopped at steaming, and fried green has not yet been developed. And Xia Meizhen asked the great monk to do this tea ceremony because the fried green tea was developed by the great monk.

Qin San was a little puzzled, he looked at the others with questions, so he saw the shocked expressions one by one, as well as the comments of good tea that popped up from time to time, and his heart was much more balanced.

In the wing room of the back hall, Xia Meizhen checked the expressions of the guests from the window, and said to Du Fei behind her: "In the future, our guests will be these nobles and students, and you will spend money to let those students write some articles about our tea when you go back." ”

Because of her age and identity, it was inconvenient to go to the front to greet the guests, so she had to call Du Fei to instruct.

Du Fei had heard about Xia Meizhen's deeds in Li Shihe, so he admired Xia Meizhen very much, and didn't care that she was young and a woman, and Xia Meizhen's thoughtful thoughts at this time also made his eyes shine, so he went out without saying a word.

The teahouse opened lively, Jiang Rong naturally heard the wind at home, especially when she heard her son say that those who helped in the teahouse in the academy all took a big dividend, not to mention, Changxinju received everyone in Xuanzhou Mansion, this is Jiang Rong's most angry place, so it is not so easy for her to calculate Jiang Yunxian's mother and daughter.

But Feng Jianniang's house was full of joy, she listened to Xiangqin's inquiry, smiled from ear to ear, and said: "This girl just pays more attention, look, what kind of thing she does is not to make money, but the rich people in our Xuanzhou Mansion still eat this set." ”

Xiangqin said with a smile, "I think Miss Xia has a good brain, if a stupid person like a slave maid gives money to Fangzi, she may not be as good at making money as she is." ”

Xiangqin is one of the few people who dares to talk to Feng Jianniang, so Feng Jianniang was not angry when she heard this, but her smiling face was a lot ruddy.

It just so happened that Cheng Jinke came in at this time, and saw that they were smiling happily, so he asked the reason, Xiangqin told him the matter, Feng Jianniang smiled and handed him this month's account book, and said: "Because of her spicy strips, our Caifeng Building has earned more than 1,000 taels this month." ”