Chapter 269 The Old Man Seeking Death
Fu Chenan looked at her eagerly. Since he was not allowed to touch her, she couldn't stay in a alone space for too long, as it would be easy for her to have evil thoughts.
"Are you done with your work here? Come with me to the capital to have a look?"
Xiao Yingchun felt the same way: the two of them were alone in the room, and the man would easily become aroused, so it would be better for him to go and make some money.
At the Chunshan Tea House in Tianwu Kingdom, the Crown Prince brought the chief owner to inspect the shop.
In the huge courtyard, there are pavilions, towers, rockery and flowing water. On the highest hillside in the middle, there is a square pavilion with flying eaves and upturned corners.
The pavilion was covered with light green gauze on all four sides, and a shadowy woman in the middle was playing the piano.
The sound of the piano is like running water in the mountains, which can be heard vaguely by the guests drinking tea in the surrounding rooms. It does not affect people's conversation, and if you listen carefully, you can feel the aftertaste.
Xiao Yingchun followed Fu Chenan into a separate tea room. A woman in purple came in and greeted the Prince and Xiao Yingchun by bowing.
Xiao Yingchun found that the woman was a little older than the average tea artist, and seemed to be in her thirties. She looked at her curiously for a few more seconds.
Fu Chenan took the initiative to introduce: "This is the earliest trained tea artist in the palace."
"She was the late emperor's tea attendant in the palace. All the tea artists here were trained by her."
The purple-robed woman also bowed respectfully: "I am the servant Ziyi, and I pay my respects to the great master."
Xiao Yingchun suddenly realized: It turns out that the person in front of him is the ancestor of tea artists of the Tianwu Dynasty!
"Come on, can you make us some tea?"
"Yes."
Fu Chenan and Xiao Yingchun sipped their tea slowly while listening to the music of the piano and enjoying the aroma of tea.
The two people didn't say anything, but the look in their eyes when they looked at each other was full of affection.
Zi Yi saw it all and understood in her heart: this big boss is truly the apple of the prince's eye.
Those who dream of currying favor with the rich and powerful are likely to fail.
After they finished a cup of Huangshan Maofeng, Ziyi changed the tea for them to Dahongpao.
Huangshan Maofeng is a green tea and is brewed in glass tea sets.
Da Hong Pao is an oolong tea and is brewed in a purple clay teapot.
Different tea sets and different tea soups will immediately give you a different flavor.
Xiao Yingchun asked Fu Chenan in a low voice: "Which kind of tea is the best-selling one at Chunshan Tea House now?"
Fu Chenan glanced at Ziyi, and Ziyi immediately pulled the small rope on the table, and a faint bell sound came from outside the door.
Soon, a pretty little maid came in. Ziyi glanced at her and said, "Go ask the president to come over with the account book."
Soon, the president of Chunshan Tea House came over with a stack of account books in his hand.
Xiao Yingchun looked at the eunuch who was in his forties.
The eunuch's hair was all gray, but fortunately his complexion was very good. Fu Chenan said that he used to be the tea eunuch beside the late emperor, and was a teammate of Zi Yi.
After stepping forward and paying his respects, the president talked about the recent business performance of Chunshan Tea House.
It turned out that since the Huangshan Maofeng tea was sold out, Uncle Liang also brought back all the Huangshan Maofeng tea from the nearby villages.
There are only a few thousand kilograms in total, and each branch in the provincial capital will get a penny, which will not last until the next spring tea comes.
Fearing that the tea house would run out of stock, Xiao Yingchun and Fu Chenan added black tea, oolong tea, Pu'er and other tea varieties.
To match this, different tea sets have also been added, such as porcelain tea sets and purple clay tea sets.
Tea is so precious that it must be stored with great care.
Various sealed tea cans that prevent tea from tainting the tea have also been put on the shelves...
The wealthy families in the capital now have one more thing to spend money on: buying tea leaves, buying tea sets, and training tea artists...
Chunshan Tea House is in great demand and many reservations have been booked until New Year's Eve.
"…Your Highness, the Crown Prince, and the boss, since the opening of the company, the Huangshan Maofeng tea from Chunshan Tea House has sold over 32,000 taels of gold."
"Da Hong Pao sold for more than 15,000 taels of gold."
"Zhenshan Xiaozhong and Pu'er are similar, both cost more than 10,000 taels of gold..."
"The tea sets, teapots and tea tables were sold for more than 50,000 taels of silver..."
After finishing the report, the president handed the account book to Xiao Yingchun respectfully.
Xiao Yingchun took it and put it aside. Fu Chenan: "Go down..."
The president of Chunshan Tea House left quietly.
She was shocked by the number!
Make money every day!
It really makes a fortune every day...
She looked at Fu Chenan with some doubt: "Are the noble families in the capital willing to spend so much money? Are they willing to spend so much money on tea?"
Fu Chenan chuckled and didn't shy away from Zi Yi: "If they were just drinking tea, they certainly wouldn't be able to spend so much gold and silver, but they are afraid of death."
Previously, the residence of the former Minister of Revenue was searched and a huge amount of gold, silver and jewelry was seized, which successfully shocked a group of court officials.
They had already become greedy and bloated, and when they saw that the Emperor did not punish them, they became worried.
I am afraid of having an attack, but I don’t know if I will have an attack.
It's like waiting for the boots to drop, I'm always trembling with fear and doing things more carefully than before.
The emperor openly promoted tea and tea sets, so even if they did not like drinking tea, they all wanted to buy some to take back.
I just hope that I can spend more money in state-owned stores and give honeysuckle to state-owned stores, so that the emperor can remember their kindness and not confiscate their property again.
Not only tea, they also bought a lot of soaps, plastic buckets, rouge and powder, pearl jewelry...
So "they are paying for their lives."
Because so many people bought them, some people even thought that the emperor was quite merciful: he could have directly confiscated their property, but he didn't.
The emperor even specially opened some shops so that people could give money and take something back... What a conscience!
After inspecting Chunshan Tea House, Xiao Yingchun and Fu Chenan were both satisfied. They left the shop and prepared to visit other places.
Unexpectedly, just after coming out of Chunshan Tea House, they met an elderly couple with gray hair, who knelt down in front of Xiao Yingchun.
"This is Miss Xiao, right?"
"Miss Xiao, please leave us a way to survive..."
"Don't leave us with no way out, make all the money and leave us with nowhere to go!"
"We are almost dying..."
As the old couple talked, they began to kowtow, their heads banging on the bluestone floor as if they were free. After just a few hits, blood appeared!
Xiao Yingchun was terrified and stepped back: "Who are you? What's going on?"
How can we deal with him just crying out for injustice and begging for mercy without saying what happened?
Some people nearby had already looked over, each with a look of surprise on their face.
Fu Chenan's face darkened. He asked two guards to come forward and pull the man up, and shouted, "If you have something to say, please say it. What are you doing?"
One of the guards also reprimanded the old couple: "If you really have any grievances, someone will naturally stand up for you. Why are you acting like this?"
The old couple looked at each other, a look of determination flashed in their eyes, and they suddenly broke free from the support of the guards and crashed into the wall of Chunshan Tea House.
Fear flashed across Xiao Yingchun's eyes: They want to commit suicide?!
Fu Chenan, however, took a sudden step forward and kicked the two old men aside with great skill. He then quickly stepped forward and chopped them on the back of their necks, knocking them unconscious.
"Go check it out!"
"What are their origins?"
"Why do you know that Miss Xiao and I are here?"
"Who ordered it?"
“Why are they willing to die?”
"I want to know!"
The prince was furious, his aura exploded, and he looked at the crowd of onlookers in the distance, with no concealment of warning and murderous intent in his eyes.
"Yes!" The guard ran away.
Xiao Yingchun no longer had the idea of going shopping, so she went back to the palace with Fu Chenan...
(End of this chapter)