Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

In the southeast of Hangzhou, the north and south Tumen outside the Zhichong Xinmen and the Bazi Bridge outside the Dongqingmen were the tea markets eight hundred years ago in the Song Dynasty.Wu Chaqing rented a house near Wangxian Bridge, Houchao Gate, Houchao Road nearby, hired people, set up a team, and waited for the arrival of Qingming, when he sent mountain guests to welcome the water guests. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that Uncle Cha Qing just moved a part of the front shop and back field of Wangyou Tea House outside.In the past, tea growers sent tea directly to the backyard of Wangyou Tea House, where Bo Chaqing purchased the tea according to grades, or went into the mountains to purchase it.This year, it was sent to Wangyou Tea Shop. After a detour, it was sent to the tea house. In fact, the tea house opened up another world.

Lin Ouchu sighed, and said to Wu Chaqing, "Why bother? It's a family!" Wu Chaqing twirled his mustache and said, "Let's save a little trouble." "Unexpectedly, I became your trouble." Lin Ouchu sat on the grand master's chair without moving, and there was sorrow and resentment in his eyes. Wu Chaqing picked up the Gaiwan tea, put it down again, stared at the woman, straightened up, and said, "You don't know how powerful men are." "How amazing?" "What a man wants is what he wants." "Is there anything I don't want you to want here? After decades, you are not the one who is making decisions for us?" Mrs. Hang said.

"Who said I want to be the master for your Hang family?" Cha Qing said, "What if I want to be the master for myself? The shop is mine, the tea house is mine, and the whole family is mine, you!" Cha Qing pointed at the woman, "You are mine, Tianzui is mine. The surname of Wangyou Tea House is not Hang, but Wu, do you agree?" Mrs. Hang lowered her head, raised it after a while, her eyes sparkled, "Why didn't you say that to me ten years ago?" "Before Jiu Zhai died, he once told me that one day in the future when I, Wu Chaqing, returned to the west, ten people would carry the coffin and send it out from the front gate of the tea house."

The woman couldn't understand, and looked at the tea in puzzlement. "Jiuzhai wants me to die in Wangyou Tea House." Wu Chaqing said, and smiled softly. "We just died together in Wangyou Tea House, so what!" Lin Ouchu became excited, "It's not like you don't know what I'm thinking. Are you the man sent to me by the heavenly master? Don't be afraid of Jiu Zhai. The dead ghost listened to curse me in the ground, without you for decades, what fun do I have with him, this family fortune is nothing more than you and I earned in his name." Wu Chaqing heaved a long sigh: "I'm not going out this time because I had a contest with Yun Zhongdiao. It's something I've been thinking about for a long time. I've stayed here for a long time, and I'm doing things in the name of the Hang family. Then other thoughts came into being. The human heart is so dissatisfied. If you are drunk today, you will start a family and start a business. If things go on like this, I am afraid that if the two of us confront each other, you will be in a dilemma, and you will lose your life's hard work. Think about it, is this the truth? ?"

Lin Ouchu listened, but was dumbfounded, then took out her handkerchief, and began to cry softly. Wu Chaqing stood beside the woman for a while, and said, "Your surname is Lin, not Hang, for whom are you crying?" When a woman is old, she is crying. The woman said: "I cry for the man named Wu." The old man surnamed Wu bent down.The thumbs and index fingers of both hands rubbed back and forth vigorously, coughing loudly.The woman was crying and crying, and when she saw the other party coughing a lot, she raised her head and was stunned. Wu Chaqing's cold eyes were steaming with mist.

Wu Chaqing has always been well-known in the tea industry, but his behavior has become an example for people to follow.Since he moved here, there have been more and more tea shops in Hangzhou.Zhuangyuanrun in Ningbo, Qiantaichang in Hangzhou, Yuanji and Longxingji of Shishi in Haining, Gongshun and Baotai were established one after another.At the intersection of Houchao, the tea market flourished for a while. Since then, tea merchants have gathered in Hangzhou in spring and summer.In the northeast, there are Dongfahe in Harbin, and Yuanshunde in Dalian; in Tianjin Wei, there are Quanxiang, Zhengxingde, Yuanfenghe, Yixingtai, and Jingji; in Beijing, there is Hongji; in Jinan, there is Hongxiang; and in Qingdao, there is Ruifen ; Weixian has Fujuxiang; Kaifeng has Wang Dachang; Yantai has Xie Maode and Fu Zengchun; Fuzhou has He Tongtai.

There are more people from all over the world, and the schools are separated.For a while, there were Tianjin Gang, Jizhou Gang, Shandong Gang, Zhangqiu Gang, Liaodong Gang and Fujian Gang. Nearby, the tea merchants in Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou in the south of the Yangtze River went straight to Houchao Road in Hangzhou before they had finished purchasing Hangzhou Renchun tea. . These out-of-province tea merchants, who mainly purchase tea, have a special name in the tea industry, called "Shui Ke". Where there are water guests, there are mountain guests.Shui Ke is the buyer, and Shan Ke is the seller.But they are all sold through the tea shop.

Where did the mountain guest come from? Those in this province include Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Taizhou, Lishui, and Wenzhou; those in other provinces include Xinxian, Jixi, Qimen, Xiuning, Taiping, and Ningguo in southern Anhui; Yixing in Jiangsu; Yichang in Hubei; and northern Fujian , Tea drinkers in eastern Gansu. For a while, Nanxing Bridge and Haiyue Bridge were crowded with thousands of merchants, and sailing boats were flying like shuttles on the banks of Qiantang River.The tea industry was really at its peak in Hangzhou at the beginning of this century. Since Qingming, Wu Chaqing has not had an Ansheng meal.In the past at Wangyou Tea House, everyone up and down worked smoothly, unlike here, everything is difficult at the beginning.Fortunately, a new hand has been added recently.It is Hong Shan'er who is going up and down in the row to arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation.It was inappropriate to let her, a girl who runs on the pier in the rivers and lakes, do such worrying things, and Hang Tianzui was absolutely unwilling.Wu Chaqing asked: "Who has the final say here?"

Hang Tianzui thought about it, too, Uncle Cha Qing has the final say here, so he had to say to Hong Shan'er: "You stay here first, and I'll settle you down after I've been busy for a while." Hong Shan'er was a little afraid of the goatee and didn't dare to say anything. Wu Chaqing asked, "Can you cook?" "meeting." "Remember, no ginger, garlic, raw onions are allowed when cooking, and salted fish is not allowed." Wu Chaqing saw that Hong Shan'er didn't understand the meaning, so he explained: "When eating tea rice, the first thing is to be refreshing. , the person is refreshing, and the taste is refreshing. The smell is so bad that the tea leaves are stained with fishy smell. How can this business be done? If you don’t believe me, try it. Put a bag of tea in the kitchen, and within three days, a smell of oil Smoke."

Hong Shaner understood and nodded vigorously. "Also, your name was used when you ran the pier, but it's not good to use it now. What other name do you have?" Hongshaner said: "I have never had a name since I was a child. My parents didn't give me a name when they threw me away. Later, when I ran to the pier, I was called Hongshaner. In the temple, the master said he would give me a name." A dharma name, I haven't had time yet." Wu Chaqing said to Hang Tianzui: "Just give her a name, the one you brought." "The Book of Songs says: A woman is like a tea. Tea is like tea, so let's call her Xiaocha. The ancients said: The tea maker is charming and beautiful. The ancients called a cute girl Chacha, Xiaocha. She is in the tea shop again, you How do you see it?"

"The name is refreshing." Uncle Cha Qing nodded. Wu Chaqing said to Tianzui again: "Go slowly, I'll meet someone for you." While speaking, a young man about twenty years old came out of the warehouse. This person was Wu Chaqing's young man from Anhui The little fellow Wu Sheng. Wu Sheng did look like a man.The young man is not tall, his eyes are not small, and his eyebrows are pleasing to the eye.When I met the boss and shareholders, I kept bowing to say hello, and my face turned red to the neck. Cha Qing said: "Tianzui, from now on the tea shop will go to the bank to withdraw money, and report to the tea house will be his business. The tea shop and the tea house will come and go, and Wu Sheng will run errands. You remember him, It will be easy to use in the future." Wu Sheng bowed his waist and said, "Just order, just order." He was wearing a earth blue shirt, his hair was coiled on the top of his head, and he had a square face.Thick lips, a row of dense black mustaches on the lips, sweating, and dark skin.I'm working, and my face is shiny.As soon as he opened his mouth, his white teeth were shining brightly, like a simple mountain man, but his eyes were slick, as if he had no place to look, and his hands and feet were the same, constantly moving, with a look of helplessness and fidgeting. look. Tianzui looked him up and down, and said, "We are old acquaintances." He recalled things from a long time ago. Before Wu Sheng was called over by Cha Qing, he was negotiating the price of a batch of tea with a few tourists from other places.He is following Cha Qing Xue as a letter, that is, learning how to evaluate tea, prepare soup, look at samples, ask prices, and list transactions.Shui Ke also bullies him, what's the use of his ambition and innate scheming?Take your time. Wu Sheng is very optimistic, willing to endure hardships, and is not afraid of being ridiculed.Hands and feet are diligent, but the mouth is not as diligent as when he was Dr. Cha.He is determined to bear hardships and stand hard work, and one day, he will create a world like Cha Qingbo.Lofty ideals even made his heart pure. However, he had to admit that he was a bit abnormal that day.It wasn't because the comprador Li Da brought a big-nosed British foreigner to lower the price, the boss was in charge of this matter, and he wasn't afraid; nor was it because he was stage-frightened when he met the big shareholder Hang Tianzui.Hang Tianzui is about the same age as him, but his family is rich, which is not uncommon, as it was left by his ancestors.He had stage fright because he met Xiaocha.The boss asked him to put Xiaocha in the room upstairs and at the bottom, and then take her to the kitchen.In other words, Xiaocha, like him, is currently a servant.He recognized Xiaocha almost immediately.Red shirt is just red shirt, what else is it called Xiaocha, he thought.When he met his childhood acquaintance, he was both flustered and excited. He would not remember how he pushed and beat the girl, but only remembered the series of red somersaults.He almost wanted to cheer and jump, and stepped forward to get closer, but as soon as he raised his head, he saw Hang Tianzui's distinctive, misty eyes, and his heart choked, he couldn't get up and down. Shelved. Besides, Hang Tianzui put his hand on Xiaocha's shoulder affectionately again, and said, "Go, be good, and be careful when you work. I'll come to see you when I'm free." Wu Sheng thought that this was an important evidence that Hang Tianzui ignored his existence, he dared to put on the shoulders of a maid, he couldn't bear to witness it. Perhaps just to make some troubles for major shareholders on the spot, he lowered his head and said in an anxious tone: "Boss, Li Da who came here just now brought a Westerner and said that the price you estimated for Jiuqu Hongmei is too high. up to the first level." As soon as the words fell, Hang Tianzui put his face down and said, "Hey, let that foreign servant Li Da go out. What Dongyou, he also knows what to do. He can judge tea, so why do you need tea Qingbo?" " Cha Qing stopped Tian Zui, waved his hand, and let Wu Sheng and Xiao Cha go away, and then said to Tian Zui: "It's not surprising to say that this matter, you first look at the nine-curved red plum, what is it? Not classy." After finishing speaking, Cha Qing took out a pinch of tea samples from a tin box and put them on a piece of white paper on the table of the Eight Immortals.The shape of this tea is also strange, curved and tight, like fishhooks, hooked to each other, the color is black and covered with golden fluff.Rinse it with boiling water, the color is bright and red, just like red plum blossoms, it is really beautiful.Although Tianzui came from a tea shop owner, he has never drunk Jiuqu Hongmei since he grew up.Come to think of it, today I used the product with my heart and soul, and I smelled a high fragrance. "A very fragrant tea with a refreshing taste. There is fragrance in the taste, sweetness in the fragrance, and the tea is clear. Look at the bright red color of this soup. It can't be worse than Qimen black tea." Tianzui said. "These two sentences are jargon." Chaqing twitched his beard and said, "I think the price is what I see. If you eat tea and rice for decades, will it be as good as Li Da, a church servant?" It turned out that it was also in Australia recently, and a few tea merchants from the West and the East came, accompanied by a few people like Li Da.There were also a group of regular customers of the tea shop who saw someone lowering the price, so they also watched from the sidelines.How did the owner of the tea shop know that such an imperial calendar would be found this year, and he bought a full amount of spring tea from Shan Ke at the beginning, and he only waited for the water guest to arrive, and the delivery would be ready.If this pressure is delayed, it will be miserable, and the tea leaves are piled up like a mountain in the tea shop.Besides, the treasure of tea is the most unbearable to delay, the longer it goes on, the less valuable it is.Naturally, it is the tea farmers who suffer the most.The tea shops dare not accept the goods from the mountain customers, and the mountain customers dare not ask for the tea from the tea farmers. If they are pressed down layer by layer, it will bring disaster to the mountain people who have worked hard for a year. Of all the tea shops in this area, only Cha Qing Bo was the only one who went his own way and was still buying high-grade tea.His colleague was puzzled, so he sneered and said, "If you want to eat, the people who grow tea will not eat. If they are forced to have no food, how can you eat? Foreigners took their big cigarettes and exchanged our tea for them to eat." If it’s not enough, you need to exchange for copper and steel. For this little steel and steel, are you going to be a slave?” The owner of the tea store heard this, and his waist stiffened a little.The sky is falling, and Uncle Cha Qing, the eldest son, is holding it up!The two sides were so stiff, seeing the warehouse full of tea storage, to see who surrendered. Only then did Hang Tianzui know that there was such a big news in the tea industry.Naturally, he supported Wu Chaqing unconditionally, saying: "Uncle Chaqing, you just have to accept the good tea leaves with conscience, if they don't sell them, we will take over all of them from Wangyou Tea House." Hearing this, Cha Qing's heart moved.After a while, I replied: "It's hard for you, I just took over." "Uncle Cha Qing, let's see where you're going. A gentleman loves money, so get it in a proper way." Tianzui's heart moved, and he suddenly found that Uncle Cha Qing's eyes were very familiar.After thinking about it, it was his own eyes, and his heart skipped a beat. Just as he was talking, Wu Sheng came in to report again, saying that the foreigners were getting impatient waiting outside.Just as he was talking, the comprador named Li Da came in. He was a fat man. When he saw Wu Chaqing and Hang Tianzui, he gave a polite salute and said, "My humble John Li is Mr. Lawrence, an English tea merchant. As an agent, you need to meet with the boss for an interview." "Isn't this Li Da who lives in Jesus Church Lane, Tianshui Bridge? He used to work as a handyman in Jesus Church, when did he change his foreign name and eat foreign food?" Hang Tianzui almost said "I fart foreign farts", After all, he is still a scholar, so he swallowed this sentence. When Li Da saw Hang Tianzui, he didn't know who, a newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and dared to contradict a foreigner, when he was about to ask, he heard the other party say: "I resist Yi." Li Da was startled and thought: No wonder there are rumors in the market that the boss of Wangyou Tea House is very powerful, and he is really arrogant.Li Da is smooth, he was born as a handyman, he talks to everyone, he talks nonsense.Seeing the old and the young, he knew there was nothing to talk about, so he wanted to find a way to get off the stage, but his master, Mr. Lawrence, had a stick in his hand. Into the living room. That Lawrence, in the past few days, has also come to the tea shop every day to grind the batch of Jiuqu Hongmei.Cha Qing didn't understand his language, and it all depended on Li Da's half-baked English translation of foreign classics and Hong, who knew what the hell he was up to.Only listen to the two masters and servants, one N. , N. , N. , a Yes, Yes, Yes, Cha Qing got impatient and entangled with them.He has made an agreement with regular customers in the towns and cities in southern Jiangsu that they will come to pick up the goods in a few days.However, Cha Qing was a few years older, so he could still be neither arrogant nor humble, unlike Hang Tianzui, who immediately let go of a tented face. "Long admiration, long admiration," but Mr. Lawrence made a Chinese bow to the two of them, and said, "Mr. Hang, Mr. Wu, good man!" These two sentences are spoken in Chinese.But Hang Tianzui was in the school, and he saw a lot of foreigners. Although his English was not fluent, he was better than Li Da.So he didn't exchange pleasantries, and asked straight to the point: "What do you two think, just tell me directly." When Lawrence saw that the young man could speak English, he looked happy and said, "Jiuqu Hongmei is originally Zhejiang Maocha. Why did you pay the price of Keemun black tea? We, the subjects of the British Empire, don't like Keemun black tea so much." The unique apple aroma is very familiar. I thought that only the black tea of ​​Darjeeling from India can compete with it, and other black teas are far behind. Isn’t it too regrettable that Mr. Zhang used the familiar situation to fool us?” When Hang Tianzui heard this, he immediately lost his mind.He didn't know anything about the common sense in this area, but he refused to admit defeat, so he bit the bullet and translated it for Uncle Cha Qing.Upon hearing this, Wu Chaqing took a sip of the tea to moisten his throat, and began to speak: "Sir, I don't know that the brand of Jiuqu Hongmei is only produced in Dawu Mountain, Hubu, on the outskirts of Hangzhou. This Dawu Mountain is only thirty or forty feet high, but there is a basin on the top of the mountain. The soil is thick and fertile, and there are mountains around it. Surrounded by Yangya and Yinlin, there is Qiantang River next to it, the river is steaming, surrounded by clouds and fog, it is a good place to grow tea. "During the period of the Kingdom of Heaven, the number of residents here was reduced by half after several wars. Therefore, farmers from Fujian, Wenzhou, Pingyang, Shaoxing, and Tiantai moved here. Those who brought them brought the craftsmanship of Kung Fu black tea from Wuyi Mountain in the south. "Jiuqu Hongmei is divided into genuine products from Dawu Mountain, the second class is Hubu products, and the next class is Sanqiao products. What you see now, sir, is the genuine products. Tea people in other provinces have always been able to buy them." This kind of tea is something to be proud of, and it is only used to embellish the color of the tea." That Li Dali John actually asked: "How do we know this is genuine? The tongue has no bones, and we can't verify it." Wu Chaqing said: "Those who eat tea and rice don't know about tea, unless they are dead. To tell you the truth, the real product of Dawu Mountain is only picked around the Grain Rain, and it only weighs a few hundred catties a year. Just give us tea. Whether you want it or not is one thing, and whether we sell it or not is another matter." This was said with alacrity, and Hang Tianzui translated it happily.He had just finished translating, when he saw Lawrence's face change. He was in Hangzhou, and he probably hadn't learned a few Chinese with backbone. Today, he fought a round, but he was speechless. out. Seeing them leaving, Hang Tianzui proudly said to Uncle Cha Qing: "Uncle Cha Qing, why are you working so hard to tell them those things, he ffJ knows nothing!" Wu Chaqing took a look at Hang Tianzui and said, "I don't have the heart to tell them this." Only then did Hang Tianzui suddenly realize, and his face turned red.It turned out that Cha Qing was afraid that these words were all told to him. Xiaocha has a soft personality and great forgetfulness, but she has completely forgotten about Wu Sheng's bullying in the past, and she is not even familiar with her.It's just that from the first day I met Wu Sheng, I felt that this person was very strange. The first time Wu Sheng ran to the kitchen, scooped raw water from the tank to drink, and looked at the small tea in panic.Xiaocha was choosing dishes, so she said: "There is herbal tea on the table, and my stomach hurts from drinking raw water." He blushed, took a sip of tea, put the bowl on the table, suddenly approached Xiaocha, and said, "I know you, you used to swing on the lake." After speaking, he dropped the bowl and ran away.Xiaocha was stunned by what he said, and after standing for a while, the circles of her eyes turned red. In the afternoon he came to drink water again.Xiaocha was shoveling the ashes, feeling a little nervous, wondering what tricks this strange Anhui guy would come up with. Sure enough, he started to get angry again, he said: "Boss Xiaohang has gone to Yixing, do you know?" Xiaocha shook her head, thinking, why did the young master go to Yixing? "They said they were going to order a batch of purple clay teapots for opening a teahouse." He looked at Xiaocha, both fingernails were full of tea leaves.Xiaocha reluctantly smiled at him, she didn't dare to offend him.Last time when he sent her to settle down, he told her that he was Uncle Cha Qing's confidant. "Foreigners are not so scary, are they?" He asked Xiaocha. "Has no one come to buy tea yet?" "The prices of other tea shops have dropped, and they are all selling." "Then what shall we do?" "The little boss has gone to Yixing, what do you say?" "Afraid that Chaqing won't lower the price?" "Little Boss is so young." "Are you young?" Xiaocha got a little angry, and replied sullenly.Wu Sheng smiled, showing his white teeth: "You and the little boss, I know." "Go away!" Xiaocha dropped the tool in her hand. "Don't tell him, I don't have a job." He returned to his worried and pitiful look. "I won't tell him, and you shouldn't say those things either." Xiaocha said. "When I met you, you were doing somersaults at Longxing Teahouse, but now it's called Wangyou Teahouse." "How do you know me?" Xiaocha was surprised. Wu Sheng was very angry: "I pushed yours." Xiaocha thought for a moment, then said, "I forgot." Wu Sheng blushed brightly, stomped his feet, and ran away. The next morning, while eating rice, Xiaocha thought it was strange that a salted duck egg was buried in her rice bowl.She looked around in panic, Wu Sheng was eating breakfast in a somewhat pretentious manner, with a hooting voice, as if to cover up something.Xiaocha thought, the salted duck eggs belonged to him. Two days passed safely like this, and that night, Cha Qing and Wu Sheng came back from outside very late.At this time, Xiaocha was washing her feet in a corner outside the kitchen. She thought no one was coming, but Wu Sheng broke in and said excitedly, "I saw the little proprietress, her feet are so big!" Make gestures to measure out a large space. /J\Cha was so frightened that the tub fell over and covered her feet. Cha Qing took Wu Sheng back to Wangyou Tea House this time to discuss with Mrs. Hang how to deal with the business turmoil.Lin Ouchu shed tears the first time he saw him, gritted his teeth and scolded: "It's so heartbreaking that I sold you out at a critical moment." "You can't say that. They all came to me for advice, and I didn't let go." "That can't leave you alone, they will cut the price by themselves. If they want to bite, everyone will bite together. You are not human! How much benefit we have had in the past!" "Don't be angry. This kind of thing will come sooner or later." "Chaqing, come up with an idea, what should we do? We'll eat all of them here, because we don't have that much capital, and when will we sell the other one? I'm afraid we won't be able to sell it all by this time next year." The daughter-in-law said: "Didn't the shareholders want to talk about tea with Uncle Chaqing? But Tianzui is not here. I think he will say, maybe they can be persuaded, and they will work together to resist the foreigners for a while. Just fight with us, we just don’t lower the price, what can they do? They still can’t do without tea. My brother Lucun wrote from Youyang, saying that the British are so poor that they pawn their suits. It's still about drinking tea." "Where do they have such a vision? Eating tea is fake, but drawing shares is real." Lin Ouchu said angrily, "After decades of tea business, I have never encountered such a thing. Eating tea, I actually ate it on the head of the tea seller." "Businessmen, don't these people keep their eyes on Gang Gang, they didn't take the shares in a vicious way, and they used the tea as an escalator to get down the stairs. It's already selling the face of Wangyou Tea Shop. What do you want from them?" "Then what do you do? Selling at a lower price outside, and drawing shares inside, this kind of internal and external attack is not intended to kill us." "I can't die," Cha Qing smiled, fixed his eyes on his daughter-in-law, "Lv Ai, last time I heard you said that many shops in Shandong and Tianjin took a fancy to my products, but they just changed hands a few times, and the price was a little higher. Such a thing?" Lu Ai's eyes lit up, and she said: "That's right, that's right, my father wrote to tell me, and said that if someone transported it directly, he would tie the knot. But how to transport it? I don't know when Tianzui will come back." ?" It was also a coincidence that Hang Tianzui came early or late, but at this time, he came back from Yixing in a hurry.With those subordinates, he carefully carried the boxes of purple sand tea sets into the warehouse, and he was so excited that he couldn't speak: "This trip is an eye-opener, this trip is an eye-opener. I ordered a batch Huang Yuxian's goods include Duoqiu, Yuhualong, Gongchun, Shao Youting, and Chen Huanluo; this trip is worth the effort, but it's a pity that the silver dollar is missing "Otherwise this store will be sold out for you, so go buy your fancy pots." Lin Ouchu said angrily. Seeing their appearance, Hang Tianzui said, "What the hell is messing with you again?" Shen Lv'ai sighed: "We were just saying that the north wants my tea, but here the water customers want us to lower the price, worrying." "Haven't moved yet!" Hang Tianzui's long eyes became round, and only then did he realize that those few foreign words between him and the foreigner were false and useless in the end. "Uncle Cha Qing, what should we do?" Hang Tianzui sat down on the grand teacher's chair, feeling worried.He's only been boss for a few months, and it's unbearable that he's in such trouble. "There are two ways," Wu Chaqing said unhurriedly, "One is to lower the price and sell it immediately." "You can't be suppressed, you can't be suppressed," Hang Tianzui resolutely objected, "Scholars can be killed but not humiliated, even if they go bankrupt, they will never bow to foreigners." "Actually, you don't have to take it so seriously. Since you have come out of the university and inherited the food of your ancestors, you are no longer a scholar, but a merchant. Now that you are a merchant, you will not be humiliated if you advance or retreat. What do you think?" His wife said deliberately. Hang Tianzui waved his hands again and again, and said: "A man can bend and stretch, it depends on whom he bends and stretches. To foreigners, you can't let go. Besides, Uncle Cha Qing and I have already fought against them, and we won first, so we are proud. This time Kneel at their heels, do you want to do business in the future?" Shen Lvai then said: "Just now we came up with an idea to transport the tea to the north, where my father has a lot of friends who own tea houses, and they want my tea." "That's great. Let's get lucky!" "It's a pity that there is no escort." After saying this, everyone stared at Hang Tianzui, and Hang Tianzui suddenly realized that after walking around for a long time, he was asked to do this job.His first reaction was no, absolutely not!Then, Yuhualong, Chuquan Tingqintu, teahouse, Hupaoquan, Longfenggan, my heart suddenly lit up—Xiaocha, a lot of things came to my heart.Without thinking about it, he swayed: "What are you doing so hard for? Wholesale postal parcels, just send them over." After hearing this, everyone was silent, and Hang Tianzui felt so ashamed that he couldn't even raise his head.He thought, the boss really wasn't made by him.When he wants to run out, they will lock him at home; if he wants to stay at home, they will drive him out again. He brushed the dust off his body, pretended to be stagnant, and said, "I haven't taken a shower yet. Please sit down for a while, Uncle Cha Qing, take a break." Uncle Cha Qing stood up and said, "No, I'm going to arrange the postage." "I really want to mail it." Hang Tianzui said, "No one has ever done tea mailing business before!" "No one has ever done it, so we can do it. This road is good, but a large amount of tea in the tea shop has to be transferred to the tea house. Tianzui, do you take this risk?" "What risk is not risk?" Hang Tian Zui Tanqian sprinkled down the steps, "with Uncle Cha Qing here, what risk is there?" "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case." "Just in case, I still have Yuhualong from Huang Yuyu here. If there is no food to eat, just sell one, it will be enough for a month." As he spoke, he was about to go straight to those precious purple clay pots of his, but was drunk by Uncle Cha Qing, who said, "Tianzui, I will talk about tea tomorrow, and I will eat it at Wangyou Tea House." "What about tea?" Hang Tianzui was a little confused, "Tomorrow the teahouse will open, and I invited Qian Shuntang to talk about "Legend of the White Snake"." "Tell him clearly that Ming Dynasty asked him to deal with them. After reading a lot of books, he had no choice but to fight the lawsuit." Wu Chaqing pointed at Hang Tianzui and said to the two women.After speaking, he turned around and left. The so-called eating and talking about tea was originally a way for the Han people to resolve civil disputes in the old days, and it was popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.Whenever there are civil disputes over housing, land, water conservancy, forests, marriage, etc. in the countryside or in the neighborhood, both parties think that it is not worth going to the yamen to file a lawsuit, so they agree to go to the teahouse to discuss and resolve it together at a time, which is called "drinking tea". There are also customary rules for drinking tea. First, according to the number of people present in the teahouse, no matter whether they know each other or not, they will each be given a bowl of tea, and the tea will be served separately by both parties.Then the two parties respectively state the causes and consequences of the dispute to the tea guests, express their respective attitudes, and let the tea guests comment.In the end, the fair person sitting at the horse head table (the table near the door)—generally a person with seniority and fairness, will make a judgment on who is right and who is wrong based on the comments of the tea guests.In conclusion, if everyone agrees, let it be done.At this time, the party who loses the lawsuit because of its wrongdoing has to pay off all the tea expenses of the tea guests present on the spot, and no one can violate it. The shareholders of Wangyou Tea Co., Ltd. chose to mediate business disputes by eating tea, which is really unprecedented.Originally, if they really wanted to draw shares, they would do so according to the terms of the contract.However, this time the incident was not trivial. Firstly, it was because foreigners forced the prices down; secondly, Wu Cha was highly respected;A businessman also has the principles of being a businessman. It is so difficult to have the best of both worlds if you want to make money without ruining your reputation! So the leader came up with the idea of ​​having tea.On the one hand, he still wanted to persuade Wu Chaqing to follow the general trend and quickly throw out the tea that was pressed in the warehouse, and on the other hand, he couldn't persuade him to buy shares again. In response to Dr. Zhao Qihuang's words, sure enough, on the first day Wangyou Teahouse opened, Mr. Zhao sat at the Matou table and asked him to be fair. This is also an unprecedented event. There are more than 500 teahouses in Hangzhou, and it has never been heard that they eat tea on the first day of opening.It turned out that after the tea was finished, there was no one who did not move his mouth and hands. After arguing with his father and mother, the hired thugs went into battle. The slogan of "Talking about tea" is to be quiet. Hang Tianzui hung up the couplets at the door.Opening Zhang Zhixi was supposed to set off firecrackers.Because drinking tea today is a serious event, so it is avoided.But the couplets must be hung up. It took a whole day of thinking to pick and choose yesterday, and it was not decided at night. I picked a few couplets and was thinking about it.There is a pair called "Busy for fame, busy for profit, take a break from the busyness, and drink a few cups of tea; work hard, work hard, have fun, and then pour a bowl of wine." A bit vulgar, but true.The other pair of "poems describe plum blossoms and moons, and tea is fried in valleys and rainy springs" is good, but it is borrowed from Longjing, which is inappropriate and inappropriate.After thinking about it, Shen Lvai came over and said: "What are you trying to do? Can it be compared to the past? Why don't you just use whoever said that tea is bitter, and it can be nourished if it is sweet." Hang Tianzui thought, isn't that the "Gu Feng" in "J$ Wind"?Just right!Just right!Too bad it's not couplets.Shen Lvai said: "The rules in the world are all determined by people. People can be right if they say it is right, but they can be right if they say it is wrong. It all depends on people's choice. How can there be any certainty?" Tian Zui patted his legs after hearing this, and said: "Isn't this impossible? The lady is Jifeng Jinchan!" He raised his head to thank the lady, but the lady had already lazily walked away. Now, this "Who says tea is bitter, its sweetness is like nourishment" has been made into a pair of wooden couplets, with copper-colored base and grass-green characters, hanging on both sides of the gate of the teahouse, which immediately attracted a group of onlookers.A child read: "Who says tea is bitter, it's sweet..." Then Tianzui interrupted him and said: "It's tea, not tea. But tea can be called tea in the past, and it was also called Ben. Du Yu wrote " "Ben Fu" - Juesheng flowers and plants, Migu was ridged -... "The Book of Tea: The Source of One" said: its name, one is tea, the other is image, the third is difference, the fourth is Ming, and the fifth is Ben. ..." Zhao Qihuang tapped his fingers through the carved glass window frame, urging Tianzui: "It's started, it's started, everyone has already started talking." Wangyou Tea House is divided into upstairs and downstairs, each with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters.Upstairs there is a small stage, and there are platforms, tables, chairs, and stools, all made of rosewood, and the Eight Immortals table is also inlaid with marble tops.Windows are opened on three sides, facing the West Lake when opened, and calligraphy and paintings of celebrities are hung on the walls, using one-color blue and white pots.Dr. Tea came and went with a brass pot with a big belly and a smile all over his face.A distant relative of Lin Ouchu named Lin Ruchang was the manager of the teahouse, and he was working his way up and down.Those small shareholders who made troubles gave way to me, and the first ones drank Hupao Shuilongjing tea and began to talk: "Everyone, it's bad luck to talk about tea to such an extent. Any businessman who doesn't want to raise the price now has to argue with the chairman for lowering the price. There is no reason to reason. It was only because the foreigners colluded with a group of water customers and insisted on a price drop before buying. No matter how many tea shops in Hangzhou city, they will listen to us. Cha Qing Bo is not willing to lower the price for the sake of the tea farmers in the mountains, but no one thinks about us shareholders. We They are all small business people, like fish and shrimp, unable to withstand the turbulence. Originally, he joined Wangyou Tea Company, because he only did business for Cha Qing Bo, and it would not make everyone suffer. Now Cha Qing Bo is for With a sigh of relief, he is hard-hearted and refuses to lower the price. Tea is a thing, you are not ignorant - the days are long, you get angry and change color, how can you sell it at a good price? I am afraid that if the price is lowered at this time, no one will pay attention. Therefore, today I would like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to comment on the truth and find a way out." The speaker sat down, and everyone became inexplicably restrained.Because of the tea table downstairs, there is an empty passage in the middle, a group of shareholders are sitting on one side, and only Cha Qingbo and Hang Tianzui are sitting on the other side, they are alone, as if they are condemning them.The expressions of those two people were both strange. The old one, with half-closed eyes, lowered his head, crossed his hands together, watching the ants crawling on the ground; Look.Everyone waited for a while, and seeing that neither of them answered, they had to wink at Doctor Zhao on the horse head table. Sixty percent, you have to listen to the opinion of the big shareholder. Tianzui, now that things are like this, do you agree to fall or not to fall?" "Of course not." Hang Tianzui rolled his eyes. 小股东们便七嘴八舌嚷嚷起来，都说："小杭老板你好不狠心！你赔得起我们赔不起，我们家钢儿缸灶朝天，莫不是统统到你家来吃大户？"等等等等，说个不休。杭天醉只问了一句："你们要干什么？" 有人便乘机说与其如此僵着，不如退股。 "退就退吧，明说不就行了，何必弄场吃讲茶的戏，耽误了钱顺堂的《白蛇传》，真正可惜。撮着，快快备车接了钱先生来，就说杭天醉在门口候着他呢。" 那一干人都愣了，大眼小眼，又都瞪着了赵妓黄。赵大夫一生大大小小吃过不少讲茶，像今日这样讲不起来的，他倒也是第一次领教，一时也不知如何是好，小心翼翼地问吴茶清："茶清，你看这件事情……" 吴茶清半闭的眼睛一亮，射了开去，人就弹了开来，一挥手，说："取钱去，一分也不少。" 人见吴茶清这样镇静，有几个便要打退堂鼓，说："要不再等几天……" 还是赵大夫了解茶清："等什么等？没听说人各有志不得勉强嘛，退了干净，省得我下趟再来坐马头桌。" "那，这茶叶铜钢……" "我请客我请客，"杭天醉作着揖，"各位走好，常来喝茶听戏，请，请，请……"他又拱手又谦让，巴不得他们快快走得一干二净。