Chapter 75: Muddy the Water (Revised)
"Sister Shui drinks tea!" Xing'er gently poured a glass of water with a brand new bamboo cup.
"Thank you!" Shui Qingrou said thank you slightly and took the water cup, then took a sip, her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up and took another sip, and her beautiful cheeks slowly showed great surprise.
"Hehe, this is the latest herbal tea my brother has developed. It is sour, sweet and cool, and can relieve heat. It is the best to drink!" Xing'er smiled and began to show off again.
"What tea is so delicious? Sister Xing'er, pour a cup of uncle too!" Yu Wuya said with his eyes shining.
After he also drank the herbal tea handed over by Xing'er, the surprise on his face gradually turned into strangeness. He looked at Chen Xu straight and said, "My bet, how to make this tea, it is cool, sweet and sour, and has a faint herbal smell. It is extremely comfortable to all the internal organs after one sip. It is really the best thing to relieve heat and thirst in the hot summer. It can be called jade dew and nectar, and it is suitable for both young and old. If this tea is spread, it will definitely attract countless celebrities and scholars to follow it!"
"This tea is quite laborious to make. You can only make a little of it and drink it yourself. It is only suitable for summer cooling and is not easy to promote!" Chen Xu shook his head while drinking green tea.
This drink was developed when he was bored a few days ago.
Herbal tea has different recipes in rural areas in China according to the region, and the tastes are very different. When I was a child, my second grandfather would pull some flowers and plants around the ditches every day to make herbal tea. Common herbs include honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, licorice, summer dead grass, mint, mulberry leaves, tender bamboo leaves, etc. I can't remember which ones they are put together, but they are all common things in front of and behind the house. Because the harvesting of wheat in the past few days is so hot that he can't bear it, so he also made some to try it out.
He added honeysuckle, licorice, bamboo leaves and mint. In order to cover up the taste of licorice, he also added a little juice of honey and sour grass after cooking. After leaving it cool, it became the herbal tea I drink now.
The taste is pretty good, maybe because the plants of this era are more natural, so the herbal tea tastes better than those made in later generations.
But herbal tea is not green tea, it is much more complicated than green tea. It must be made and drunk immediately, and cannot be overnight. It is impossible to have this kind of taste just by brewing it with boiling water. In addition, honey is difficult to get. Before white vinegar or even fruit vinegar was invented, the sour and sweet taste that could be tasted everywhere in later generations was a complete luxury in this era.
"Sister Shui, my brother has also made a lot of fun things. I'll take you to see!" Xing'er pulled Shui gently into the house as she was ripe.
At this time, the sun had set and the afterglow had dispersed and the dusk was tranquil.
Although the sky gradually became dimmer, the air was still extremely hot, and beads of sweat rolling on their foreheads kept coming out. Chen Xu reached out and pulled out a folding bamboo fan from behind his waist. He opened it with a trembling hand, and then slapped it hard.
"Hey, what's this? Can you lend me a look?" Yu Wuya stared at the folding fan in Chen Xu's hand with his eyes lit up, and asked in surprise.
"Oh, this is called a folding fan. I took the time to do it a few days ago!" Chen Xu handed over the bamboo fan.
Yu Wuya took the bamboo fan made of rough-made bamboo yellow, looked over and over again, then put the fans together with one hand, then opened them again, and then put them together again. After repeated many times, he said excitedly: "Magic, it's so magical. This thing is extremely exquisitely made, small and exquisite, and much more convenient than a palm-leaf fan!"
"If you like it, I'll give it to you!" Chen Xu waved his hands generously and stood up. After a while, he took out a larger folding fan and opened it with a loud bang.
"By the way, you haven't said how many tubes of tea can be sold for more than 10,000 yuan? What happened?" Chen Xu sat down and asked.
"Oh, that's it..." Yu Wuya played with the folding fan and roughly talked about the fairy-snacked tea party, then took out a piece of exquisite mutton fat jade from his pocket and handed it over and said: "There is a little lady from Xianyang. Because she didn't bring any coins, she exchanged this jade pendant for a tube of tea. I saw that the jade pendant was of great value, so she decided to exchange it with her without authorization!"
Chen Xu took the jade pendant and watched it, his face turned a little dark.
This jade pendant is indeed very exquisitely crafted, and the quality of jade is very high, warm as fat, snow-white and delicate. If it were placed in the hot days of jade cultural relics more than two thousand years later, this jade pendant would definitely not be able to be taken down without dozens or millions. But the problem is that in this era when food is the most important thing for the people, jade can only show its identity, but cannot be turned into money.
In other words, this thing is like a pawnshop, and it is not as refreshing as five hundred dollars for him now.
"My benefactor, don't underestimate this piece of jade. It has a craftsman's inscription on it. I asked. It was indeed made by a jade craftsman master in Xianyang. I heard that many of the jade artifacts in the palace were from him. When I arrived in Xianyang, this jade pendant would be valuable!" Yu Wuya looked at Chen Xu and seemed to have a bad face, so he quickly explained.
Chen Xu began to bow his head and ponder.
He absolutely did not expect Yu Wuya to make such a big noise in Wancheng.
This matter was somewhat beyond his initial expectations.
As the barefoot man said, Chen Xu named the tea Ziyun Xian Tea with impure motives at the beginning, and what he wanted was to let this tea spread slowly and finally fall into the ears of some people who are interested.
But this process may be slow, but Yu Wuya was so powerful. He went there for more than ten days and exploded Wancheng.
Wancheng is not as good as Chi County. It is the county town of Nanyang County. It is equivalent to the provincial capital city in later generations. It has a dense population and a large flow of people. It has a lot of wealthy merchants, famous people and scholars. Although it is not as good as Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Empire, its geographical location is now an absolute center in China.
In other words, news about Ziyun Xian Tea will soon expand to a nationwide scale.
He hasn't even been to the county town yet, and the county magistrate hasn't seen it yet, and he hasn't accumulated any confidence at all. If he is targeted by someone who is interested at this time, the consequences will be somewhat unpredictable.
The only way to make the tea pond muddy as soon as possible so that everyone can’t find the goal and origin.
"Brother Yu, besides your senior brother and sister, does anyone know that it was my work on the tea? " Chen Xu asked with a serious expression.
"Mr. Don't worry, Wuya did this matter more concealedly and there will be no trace of it. I came here this time to take away more tea, and the sales matters were also left to Junior Sister Shui. I believe that in the near future, my grandson's plan to make money will be successful!" Yu Wuya said quickly.
"You are already familiar with the method of making tea!" Chen Xu thought for a while and said.
Yu Wuya nodded.
"Would there be any problems if I wanted to open a workshop specializing in selling tea in Wancheng?"
Chapter completed!