The morning light is faint, and the sun is rising in the east.

At the end of the month, Su Chengcheng left for the teahouse after breakfast, intending to see the profit of the month.

As soon as she arrived at the door of the teahouse, a feeling that something was wrong spread to her heart, the door looked too desolate, and the stalls on both sides of the street were not seen today.

She hadn't been to the teahouse for half a month, and when Su Tingcheng walked into the teahouse with doubts, Fluttershy greeted her as soon as possible.

"Princess, you're here." Fluttershy smiles grimacingly.

Su Chengcheng looked around, it was almost noon, there were only a handful of people in the teahouse, most of the people who came went to the VIP area, and the hall was empty.

"Why are there so few guests today?" Su Qingcheng frowned.

Fluttershy sighed, "Princess, this is this month's ledger, the first half of the month was normal, and the tea merchant who has been working with us for the second half of the month suddenly wants to increase the price, and it has risen by 50% all of a sudden." We don't understand, he said that during the rainy season, tea leaves are particularly difficult to pick. ”

"Fifty percent? He's crazy! Su Chengcheng looked through the ledger and slammed it shut.

She takes a quick look at the ledger, and it's similar to what Fluttershy said, who is not familiar with the capital market, and has to suffer a dumb loss when she meets a tea merchant who is sitting on the ground and raising prices.

Fluttershy continues, helplessly, "We've had to raise the price, but the sudden price increase is unacceptable to many customers, especially ordinary people, so there are fewer and fewer people, and this has been the case for seven days.

She was silent for a while and said, "I understand the increase in price, but why didn't anyone report to me when it suddenly increased so much?" ”

Fluttershy is the head of the teahouse, and the person in charge of the purchase and accounting is another woman named Ah Jin, who was rescued from the underground well.

"Ah Jin contracted a vicious illness half a month ago, and now it is her sister Ah Li who is in charge of the accounts."

Su Qingcheng frowned slightly, it stands to reason that the women in the underground well are all abandoned by their families, and there are very few people like Lou Minglan.

Fluttershy glanced at Su Chengcheng in embarrassment, "I came to the Imperial Palace, but I agreed to do so in your absence." ”

Su Tingcheng was stunned for a moment, seeing that Fluttershy was so haggard, she said softly, "Blame me for this, I've been too busy lately to do the teahouse." I'll go to the tea merchant myself later and ask what's going on. ”

Then she glanced at the guy in the teahouse: "Hasn't Ah Li come yet?" ”

"She has to take care of Ah Jin, and she usually comes after a while. I don't think it's good either, but ...... Alas. Fluttershy sighs.

Su Tingcheng always felt that things were not so simple, although tea would indeed be affected by the season, but fifty percent was too exaggerated.

And it's strange that the two sisters didn't discuss such an important matter with her.

"Let's restore the price today, this price is absolutely not good, a pot of dragon dance tea costs twenty yuan."

After she finishes speaking, Fluttershy immediately goes to carry it out, and Su Tingcheng takes Wuya to the tea merchant.

At the docks.

There is a lot of traffic, and there are businessmen from all over the world, and it is very lively. You can find all kinds of things here, and there are some of the biggest and best stores in the whole of Beijing.

Su Qingcheng walked into the tea merchant's shop with a veil, and the little second who guarded the shop immediately greeted him: "Is this boss here to buy or ship?" ”

"I'm a buddy from Yipin Xianming, and I'm here to find you shopkeeper Liu." Su Chengcheng Road.

Xiao Er heard that it was a first-class immortal tea, and his face changed for a moment, but he was still captured by Su Chengcheng.

"The boss doesn't know that the shopkeeper of our tea shop is no longer the shopkeeper Liu, but now the shopkeeper of the cow." As soon as Xiao Er's voice fell, a person opened the curtain and walked out.

I saw that the person who came was tall and thin, and a glimmer of light flashed under his eyes: "I just heard it in the back, the guy of Yipin Xianming, right, is there something wrong?" ”

Su Qingcheng narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Our princess checked the accounts today and found that the price of the tea you provided had risen by fifty percent, so she specially ordered me to ask the reason." ”

"I've already told your steward Fluttershy that the tea harvest isn't good during the rainy season." The cow shopkeeper's tone was impatient.

"I specifically asked other tea shops, but they only rose by 20%, is it that the rain in your tea mountain is heavier than that of others?" Su Qingcheng said coldly, there was no temperature in his eyebrows.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, realizing that the person in front of him was not as foolish as Fluttershy, so he immediately put away his attitude and said with a smile: "Ouch, this guy, let's talk about everything, since it is the person sent by the princess herself, everything is easy to discuss." ”

Su Tingcheng originally wanted to directly change to a tea shop to cooperate, but this shop has the most varieties of tea on the whole street, and many teas in Yipin Xianming are only available in his family.

Before Su Chengcheng found other tea merchants who could cooperate, he could only settle first.

She said coldly: "I'll give you up to thirty percent." ”

The cow shopkeeper's eyes slipped and he agreed.

Walking out of the tea shop, Su Qingcheng calmly said to Wu Ya behind him: "This cow shopkeeper looks like there is a problem, you should pay more attention." ”

Immediately, she turned around and walked into a shop called "Zhou Kee Pharmacy".

This is Fu Xingzhou's pharmacy.

Su Chengcheng needed to find out whether the drugs of Dongling Kingdom had flowed into the capital in large quantities.

Stepping into the pharmacy, the smell of medicine calms people's hearts.

Su Chengcheng walked directly to the doctor and whispered, "I want a medicine that can make people die without knowing it!" ”

Gritted his teeth, his eyes were full of anger.

The doctor was so frightened that he quickly got up and closed the door, trembling and trembling: "This young lady, you almost asked me to bury you!" How can you be so loud and afraid that others will not know that you want to kill? ”

Su Qingcheng pursed his lips and said angrily: "You just say if there is one!" ”

The doctor looked Su Chengcheng up and down, and his eyes were uncertain: "Why do you want this medicine?" ”

"Hmph, I'm going to kill that man, he deceived me from Liucheng, and as a result, he took all my dowry to gamble and drink, and when he got drunk, he came back and beat me, ransomed a Qinglou woman and said that he was going to divorce me and make her the wife of the main house!"

After hearing this, the doctor snorted coldly and said slowly: "Men are like this, you have to look away." We are a regular pharmacy, how can there be such a harmful thing. ”

Although this was made up casually by Su Tingcheng, what this doctor said made her feel unhappy.

She took out a whole bag of silver coins and put them on the table, and said, "Are these silver coins enough?" ”

The doctor's eyes lit up when he saw the whole bag of money, and there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes, and after a moment he still refused: "Our pharmacy really doesn't have one." ”

Su Qingcheng sighed and was about to leave, but the doctor suddenly stopped her: "This young lady, our family will have a batch of new goods in three days, you can come and see if there is anything you want." ”

The corners of her mouth hooked, and she turned to leave.