Chapter 60

Shopkeeper Xu was very interested at this moment, and when he heard Lin Baozhu say this, he didn't lose his face. [Full text reading. 】

He is used to doing business, and he knows that there is no such thing as pie in the world, and since he has negotiated with someone and has a contract document, he should act according to the paperwork. Besides, most of the silver is out, so why bother raising the price again.

So at that moment, he responded with a smile, and said happily: "This matter should be mentioned, although the white rooster comb you sent a few days ago is not better than the price of spring tea during the Qingming Dynasty, it is also sold for a full five taels of silver a catty." Saying that, he shook his head with a little pity, "At that time, I only knew that the tea was a good tea, but I didn't know that it could be difficult to find. ”

Shopkeeper Xu was talking about the new spring tea made by Lin Baozhu when she first started making tea, when she and Zhang Manchu were in a hurry to pick it day and night, and they only made sixteen catties of new tea. However, at that time, she didn't expect that the shopkeeper Xu would be able to send that kind of little-known tea to the noble people passing by, and she didn't expect that the nobles who loved tea were not just ordinary vassals and elegant people, but also people who could really taste tea and understand tea.

So after such a coincidence, the white cockscomb new tea was liked by many rich and noble families. It's just that it's past the spring tea season now, and they don't have inventory on hand, but it's a pity that the market is so good.

However, compared to the regret of the shopkeeper Xu, Lin Baozhu could think about it, she smiled: "Don't be sorry for the shopkeeper, this is not a bad thing, after all, there are many people asking for tea now, but there are no other sellers on the market." Wait until next spring, are you afraid that there will be no better market? ”

Not to mention that the white cockscomb that was fried outside has not been discovered, even if it is discovered, Lin Baozhu is confident in his own tea-making skills. After all, she has tasted the tea of this era, compared with the tea made, there are many fewer processes, although it can be regarded as maintaining the tea aroma and original taste, but the quality of the tea is much worse.

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Xu quickly calculated in his heart, and after a little pondering, he understood the meaning of Lin Baozhu's words. At that moment, he happily slapped his forehead on the armrest and laughed twice, saying yes again and again.

With such a show, and the shopkeeper Xu is not a person with a mouse's eye, so this time he sent the old tea white chicken comb, and he was very happy to accept the price of three taels and five dollars of silver that Lin Baozhu said.

Of course, this price was not rashly proposed by Lin Baozhu, but when Shopkeeper Xu mentioned the price, she quickly had a plan in her heart.

Now the white rooster comb at home is considered an old tea, and there is no additional cost except for the luck and hardship of making tea by yourself and the firewood used. But if you build roads and put tea plantations and hire people to pick and make tea, it will be different.

After getting the price of tea, she had a bottom in her heart, and after some calculation, she got the approximate price. She asked the good Tieguanyin tea on the counter before, and it was only five or six taels, in addition to the cost of the tea shop's turnover and horses, as well as the wages of the guys on the counter, and then two percent of the profits, she estimated the cost almost. Therefore, Lin Baozhu is very confident in the price of three or five dollars he raised.

After setting the price and signing the contract again, Lin Baozhu exchanged glances with his man again. Seeing her man's supportive look, she was very happy.

After talking about the white cockscomb tea, Lin Baozhu took out the newly made eagle tea. Compared with the fragrant white cockscomb tea, the taste of this smoked eagle tea is much stronger, but as soon as the mouth of the bamboo tube is opened, a mellow and sweet and bitter tea fragrance comes to the nose, and even makes the nose of the shopkeeper Xu who is close to it itch.

For this taste, Xu's shopkeeper is no stranger, and the tea shop has this kind of strong tea. Although this tea is not widely sold, there are still many people who need it in the summer. Not to mention that it has a heavy taste and great tea strength, it is said that when you drink herbal tea in the hot summer, it will quench your thirst. In particular, some scholars who plan to participate in the autumn scientific examination like to use this tea to refresh themselves.

However, he didn't expect that Zhang Manchu and Lin Baozhu would actually send this kind of worthless tea. Originally, he thought that the two of them would only make good tea like the white cockscomb.

Seeing the surprise on the face of the shopkeeper Xu, Lin Baozhu smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, this is my newly made eagle tea, I won't say much about it, I hope the shopkeeper will taste it, if you think it's okay, we can also offer this kind of coarse tea in the future." ”

Shopkeeper Xu frowned slightly, feeling a little embarrassed. Nowadays, there are tea merchants in the tea shop who regularly serve eagle tea, and sometimes even the proprietor will go to the countryside to find some tea farmers to pick eagle tea to concoct. Because of the low cost of this tea, it is also considered a coarse tea, so even if the sales are good, there is not much profit in the end.

He can't let the interests of his tea shop be damaged for Lin Baozhu's sake.

Lin Baozhu saw that the shopkeeper Xu was embarrassed, and guessed his worries, so he simply didn't urge, only smiled slightly and said generously: "Even if we can't talk, it won't affect our other friendships." The so-called trading is not in benevolence, not to mention that we still have to rely on the help of the shopkeeper to sell the white cockscomb tea. ”

It's embarrassing to change Xu's shopkeeper now, but seeing Zhang Manchu looking like he is sitting firmly on Mount Tai, and Lin Baozhu is smiling but there is no trace of flattery and flattery, it seems that he is just a few words of truth-seeking elaboration. But the more he looked at the two of them, the more admiring he became.

looks at the seemingly inconspicuous country man and the ignorant village woman, but he speaks and does things calmly, and he is also smart and calm, and he will not be embarrassed by his embarrassment, let alone threaten him with white cockscomb tea. On the contrary, inadvertently, people can find no mistakes, but it is difficult to refuse.

Such a character, why can't he make it happen?

However, this is just the shopkeeper Xu thinking about it in his own heart, and the left and right are just drinking tea, but it is not in the way. He raised his voice and beckoned the guy to bring a clean tea bowl and water, which guy who was busy in the backyard couldn't make tea? So there is no need for the shopkeeper to say, just wash the tea and make tea.

The tea leaves swirled twice in the water, but in an instant the water in the bowl turned a clear but fragrant amber color. Shopkeeper Xu, who was a little disappreciative just now, sat up straight in an instant when he smelled the fragrance of tea, and his eyes lingered on the tea bowl for a long time.

He can sit from a tea farmer to the shopkeeper of the first tea shop in Anping, and naturally has his own ability, but compared with the means of doing business, his ability to recognize tea and taste tea is even more top-notch. So just by smelling this, he found that the eagle tea sent by Lin Baozhu was very different from the existing one in the tea shop.

The amount of this tea is not only small, but the soup color is very strong, and the taste also has an indescribable peculiar fragrance. Thinking of the white rooster comb that he had never encountered last time, and then looking at the bowl of eagle tea in front of him, Xu didn't dare to handle it, so he hurriedly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

The aftertaste is full of fragrance, which makes people try it unforgettable. This eagle tea is different from the previous sales, although it is also sweet and bitter, it can be sweetened very quickly, and it will not be dispersed for a long time. The entrance is relished, about that.

"What does the shopkeeper think?"

After tasting it carefully, Shopkeeper Xu looked at the tea leaves stretched out in the tea bowl again, there was no doubt that it was really eagle tea, and it was not mixed with other tea leaves. It's just that such a sweet and refreshing tea is rare, although it is a coarse tea, it is also quite high-quality, and it is very rare.

"Dare to ask my brother and sister, where did this tea come from? As far as I know, there doesn't seem to be such a fragrant eagle tea in our Northern Qizhou and even Junzhou, and even if there is, it is very strong. Shopkeeper Xu was curious, he didn't have any other bad intentions, and he didn't want to find out where the tea came from to cut off Lin Baozhu's wealth. It's just that I've been making tea for a long time, and it's inevitable to be curious when I encounter it.

Lin Baozhu naturally saw that he did not have the intention of cutting off people's wealth, and while looking at herself with encouragement, she was naturally very down-to-earth. With this sentence, she can basically confirm that there is a door to this transaction.

"It's from our own tea mountain, if the shopkeeper thinks it's okay, we can talk about it in detail." After a pause, she said again, "Since the shopkeeper tastes the difference in the subtleties of this tea, you should know that in addition to the tea-making technology, the tea itself is of better quality than the side, so the tea sand"

The so-called tea sand is actually another special existence of Eagle Tea. If you talk about it, you have to start with the origin of Eagle Tea.

It is said that eagle tea is only birds like eagles can fly to the tea tree to peck at food, but also because of the unique heat-relieving effect of eagle tea, so eagles like to feed on it, so it is called eagle tea.

And tea sand is when the old leaves of tea are stored, they are eaten by an insect that likes to eat the leaves of this kind of tea, and then excrete insect feces. This kind of fine particle-like insect feces is black in color and looks extremely similar to silkworm sand. And because this insect poop is produced by non-toxic and harmless insects, it is not polluted. At the same time, the seemingly inconspicuous tea sand is more refreshing than the eagle tea leaves.

However, even though this is the case, because the tea leaves have not undergone the same refining process as Lin Baozhu when they are stored, they are very easy to deteriorate, so the tea sand is naturally unavoidable, and even its value is far higher than the eagle tea itself.

Shopkeeper Xu didn't want to have Chasha, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Lin Baozhu with burning eyes. And Zhang Manchu also had a sense of pride in his heart because of his daughter-in-law's extremely confident words, and the feeling of bulging was indescribable, but it made him happy.

The strange heat flow flowed in his heart, this man who was silent but trusted his daughter-in-law immensely, at this time, he felt that his daughter-in-law was really good, but the dazzling made him can't help but like it more and more.

Lin Baozhu took the time to glance at his master, and saw that the expression on his face remained unchanged, but the burning in his eyes was not concealed at all, and he felt a little embarrassed at the moment, and his face couldn't help but be rosy.