Chapter 136: The Temptation of Tobacco
For the next period of time, people would send different quantities of tobacco to Luya every day, and it lasted for about half a month, probably because the surrounding tobacco was emptied, and no new tobacco was delivered. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past half a month, all the collected tobacco was piled up in more than a dozen sacks, but after Luya found some women to help sort them, only three or four sacks of the slightly passable tobacco leaves remained, and the rest were moldy or rotten, and could not be made into cigars.
The main reason why it is not a cigarette but a cigar is that Ruya can't find the kind of tissue paper suitable for cigarettes, and the paper that Luya can buy is too thick to be used as cigarette paper, so he can only produce this most primitive and flavorful cigar.
In just half a day, Ruya taught the women how to make simple cigars, which are both simple and complex. The simplicity is due to the fact that a few layers of tobacco leaves are lit with a little care, and the complexity is due to the fact that the final product is completely different depending on the rolling method and process.
A good cigar is composed of four parts: the cap, the wrapper, the binder, and the filler, and the production method and materials of each part are very rigorous and elegant, but of course Luya doesn't understand this, he just rolls several layers of tobacco leaves together, so he also knows that his method of making cigars is too clumsy, so he just lets those women learn from it, they can play freely, and can smoke cigars at will, as long as they can make good cigars, it doesn't matter how much is wasted.
He now has a lot of tobacco seeds, and when the weather warms up, he will definitely be able to harvest more tobacco next year, there are so many tobaccos to experiment, he believes that he will get pure cigars, as for the harm of smoking, well~~ Just talk about it, and he will only smoke cigars at that time, even if the cigarettes are made later, he will not smoke them, compared to the cigarettes that are directly wasted, this kind of cigars that are only filtered in the mouth are much less harmful to the body.
In this way, the entire Blackstone tribe and the people working on the new site gradually discovered that Lu Ya did not know when he had started, and he always habitually held a gray-brown stick the thickness of a thumb in his mouth, and from time to time he also highlighted a puff of smoke with a very special taste.
At the beginning, some people who didn't know what was going on thought that Lu Ya had practiced some magical exercises and something like that, and it was not until later that they heard that the 'stick' in Lu Ya's mouth was a consumable called cigar, according to those who were fortunate enough to stay with Lu Ya and smelled the cigar smoke up close, the smoke after the cigar burned made people feel refreshed when they smelled it, and the whole person felt a little fluttering, and the whole person felt very energetic after smelling it.
As a result, the legends about cigars became more and more frequent, and later intensified, until in the end, whenever Rua arrived somewhere, he would be surrounded by other people, intentionally or unintentionally, in order to be able to smell the legendary taste.
At first, this situation was a little inexplicable, but when she found out the reason, she was a little crying and laughing, and he took out a batch of cigars from the women who were in charge of rolling the cigars, which he thought were of average quality, and handed them to Xiao Qi, and told Xiao Qi that he could freely distribute them to those who worked harder or contributed.
Of course, he also instructed Xiao Qi and told him that minors are prohibited from smoking, which is a hard rule. Xiao Qi didn't have any opinion on Lu Ya's words, and all chose to implement them unconditionally. She handed out a dozen cigars that day, and when these cigars were finally in their hands by those who had been waiting for them for a long time, the mystery of cigars was dispelled, and they also discovered that not all people are suitable for cigars and like the taste, but even so, there are still countless people who want to own such a cigar. The refreshing effect of cigars has been recognized by everyone. Of course, the main reason is that the image of Ruya smoking cigars makes them have a blind obedience mentality.
In addition to those ordinary people, Berry, Rip, and Iron Old Man have also tried to smoke cigars after seeing Luya smoke cigars, but not surprisingly, none of these old men can resist the temptation of cigars, and since then, the Blackstone tribe has several more smoking guns, and there are several more people who compete with Luya for cigars.
Lu Ya also told them that smoking will be harmful to health, but with little effect, at least these people are trainee wrestlers, especially Bai Lifu or rock wrestlers, according to Bai Lifu, who can see his own physical condition, even if a person of his strength smokes hundreds of big cigars a day, it will not have any effect on the body, even if it is a trainee wrestler, smoking a hundred or so a day is not a problem.
What else could Lu Ya say about this, he could only secretly tell the women who were in charge of rolling cigars, asking them to secretly keep all the fine cigars for themselves, not to those old men.
As a regular visitor to the Blackstone tribe, House often drives to Luya for three days to chat and fart, although every time it is a beautiful name to discuss cooperation matters, in fact, the ultimate goal is to drag racing and find Lua to 'get gas'.
Of course, inevitably, House also discovered the existence of cigars, although Ruya tried his best to hide them, and did not smoke them when House came, but the presence of cigars was discovered by the sharp-eyed House.
In line with the concept that Ruya's products must be high-quality, House naturally tried the taste of the cigars, and as for the results, looking at Luya's face covering action, you can know that some of his few cigars will inevitably leave him.
"Brother, you're so inauthentic, you have such a good thing to hide from me, oops, no, my little heart hurts" House looked like he was going to die.
Ruya sat next to him and didn't speak, he knew what House was going to say next, and sure enough, House continued.
"To make amends for the damage you did to me, 100," House said, licking his face.
"You killed me directly," Lu Ya turned his head and looked loveless.
"80," House continued, gritting his teeth.
Ruya continued not to look at him.
"70 can't be less," House looked like if you didn't give it to me, I'd really kill you.
"50 roots, the amount of January, love or not"
Ruya finally said his bottom line.
"Okay, deal," House looked regretful.
"You've only smoked half a cigarette, and you're so addicted?"
"Addictive? Not really, but don't you think it's going to smoke..."
"Cigar," Luya reminded.
"Oh yes, smoking cigars, don't you think that when you smoke cigars, my brother is particularly manly, and I feel that I am not smoking a cigar, but ..."
"It's loneliness, isn't it" Ruya rolled his eyes wide, speechless at House.
"Yes, it's lonely, haha, brother, what a confidant"
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After the two laughed for a long time, Haus thought for a moment and then said to Ruya.
"Brother, this cigar is definitely a good thing, and it will definitely not make less money than 'relieving worries'"
After listening to House's words, Luya first admired House's keen business sense, and then he thought of the lucrative tobacco industry before the crossing, when the annual tobacco tax was at its highest, it could account for more than 10% of the national tax revenue, and he knew how terrifying the profits were when he thought about it.
However, the situation here in the other world is different from that situation, tobacco will definitely not be able to form a monopoly in the hands of Luya, so Luya can only rely on the opportunity and technology accumulation to profit from it.
"I also just discovered tobacco, which is only enough for our own consumption, and has not yet been mass-produced, but there should be a large number of cigars ready to be produced next year," Luya explained the current situation to House truthfully.
"That means anyone can get this tobacco," House asked suddenly.
"That's right," Ruya smiled wryly.
"Well, well, but we at least have a head start, and we can grab a part of the market in advance," House understood.
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It has been more than a month in winter, and there have been two small snowfalls during this period, but fortunately, the rain is not too big, so it did not cause too much trouble to the transportation of cement and bricks, but due to the weather, according to Xiao Qi, the new site that should have been basically completed in a few days is likely to be pushed to the next ten days.
Lu Ya didn't have much to do about it, and later he could only tell Xiao Qi to let everyone pay attention to keeping warm, thinking of keeping warm, Lu Ya suddenly remembered Bart who hadn't visited him for several days.
These days, Lu Ya usually feels a little bald head when he is in the new location, and that feeling is like a phone call between the two sides, but the signal is not good, and the connection is often disconnected.
Lu Ya knew that this was the result of Bart's training, and the telepathy between him and Bald Head Qiang was increasing every day, and in the past, the sensing distance between them was only a few miles, but now they can sense it in about half a day's distance, which is definitely a rapid progress.
Although he didn't know how Bart trained Bald Strong, from Bald Strong's intermittent thoughts, Lu Ya could still feel the mixed feelings of pain and happiness in his heart.
When Lu Ya, who had nothing to do, felt the subtle connection between him and the bald head Qiang, his heart moved, and he asked people to drive him to a mysterious waterhole. At that time, when it was just winter, Luya was afraid that Bart would be frozen in the water all the time, so he sent him a set of breath-holding and wanted to build him a simple house by the waterhole. As a result, Bart scolded him for ruining this holy waterhole and environment, so he didn't have much to do.
As a result, as the weather cooled, Luya occasionally came to visit Bart only to find that the waterhole had maintained that temperature all year round, and there was no need to worry about people freezing in it.
The driver took Ruya to the edge of the circular mound, and after getting out of the car, Luya took two long wooden boxes from the car and walked towards the central waterhole, and when he was almost close to the waterhole, Luya already smelled a familiar mixture in the air.