tea girl Mingxiang

Chapter 4 Mingxiang in Distress


"I don't know what kind of tea this is. My father and mother brought back a kind of leaves that were dried and used to make water for drinking. I named it stone tea."

Speaking of which, Mingxiang put on a bitter face, "Actually, my family is so poor that I can't open the pot, so I wondered if I could take the dried leaves and see if I could exchange some money and buy some rice to go back. Before this, I have gone to many tea shops in the town and asked if they would accept my tea, but..."

Before the conversation was over, Mingxiang burst into tears, which aroused everyone's sympathy for her. Several people had already expressed their willingness to buy the tea leaves in her hand.

The shopkeeper managed to squeeze in front of Mingxiang, and he was willing to buy the tea.

He runs a tea house, and he knows the tea fragrance is not simple as soon as he smells it, so he is naturally very curious about the tea that Ming Xiang brought over.

"Girl, why don't you do this? I won't charge you for the tea you ordered at my house today, and I'll give you ten coppers in addition. Just sell the tea in your hand to me."

"What? Ten copper coins? I said that you, the shopkeeper, are too good at business. No matter what, this tea is worth more than these few copper coins!" A customer next to him mocked.

Old Cui saw that Mingxiang was really pitiful, and he was willing to pay more, "Girl, I'll buy your tea with one tael of silver." Hold it down.

One tael of silver to buy this small bag of tea in Mingxiang's hand is indeed a bit expensive for most people in this town. This town is not a very wealthy town, and the number of rich households can be counted on one hand. come over.

The shopkeeper knew very well that the tea brought by Mingxiang was really good tea, so he made up his mind and gritted his teeth.

"Girl, let's do this. I'll pay you a tael of silver and add half a penny. Besides, if you still have this kind of tea in the future, I'll buy as much as you have, and you will never lose money." He stabilized the supply first.

Mingxiang's goal has been achieved. Selling tea to teahouses is the most profitable and stable sales channel, and it is also the fastest way to make a name for herself.

She is very clear that once the stone tea comes out, the popularity will only rise but not fall.

When the stone tea is introduced to Shangjing, she can use it to return to Shangjing and 'greeting' to those people in the past.

But what we need to do now is to produce more tea leaves. Once autumn comes, the stone tea leaves will be gone.

After receiving the first sum of money she earned, Mingxiang returned to the stall selling some girls' gadgets that she had just looked at twice, and she chose a plain-colored headscarf to buy.

Qu's turban is so old that it can be torn off with a little force.

Things went much smoother than what Mingxiang thought, and the pace of going home was much lighter.

From afar, he saw Liu Gui standing at the entrance of the village looking in her direction, so he couldn't help but quicken his pace.

"Father, why are you here?" Ming Xiang looked at her father, clearly worried about her.

Liu Gui said with a simple smile, "I see that you went out early in the morning and haven't come back after noon. Your mother thought you went up to the mountain to pick tea leaves again. I was afraid that she would worry, so I came out to pick you up. That's right. , you went to town, does anyone want that thing?"

Seeing his daughter came back, his hanging heart naturally fell to the ground, and of course he couldn't wait to know the result.

"Father, let's talk on the way."

Ming Xiang took Liu Gui's hand kindly, and the two went home while talking, but they didn't notice a pair of greedy eyes looking at Ming Xiang.

If I saw it, I'm afraid that disgusting goosebumps would come out.

Eighteen changes in the female college, Ming Xiang has been growing her body in the past two years, her face is getting longer and wider, and her figure is also graceful, if you look closely, there is a bit of beauty.

In the past few days, Wang Dezi's family has been a little crazy because his precious son is arguing to marry Liu Xiang every day.

Wang Dezi is rich, and he thought Liu Gui's family was poor, so this marriage should be accepted.Unexpectedly, they refused without even thinking about it. They must have disliked his son's confusion. How could he swallow this tone?

If it hadn't been for Wang Ergou to persuade him, saying that there is a nobleman behind the old Liu's family, he, the biggest landlord in Ganquan Village, would have to get Liu Xiang for his son no matter what.

It's just that his son has been making troubles every day these days, and Wang Fulai is the only child in their family, and his grandmother is in severe pain, and she follows Wang Fulai to make troubles in front of him all day long.

Wang Dezi really had no choice but to think of a way, not only not to offend any nobleman, but also to marry Liu Xiang from their family.

The strategy of "cooking raw rice into mature rice" came to Wang Dezi's mind.

Mingxiang returned home and gave Qu the money from selling tea today, and even helped Qu change her turban herself.

"The stone tea leaves are really wanted by someone? There is such a good thing?" After all, Qu is a rural woman who has never seen the world. When she saw the broken piece of silver, she picked it up and bit it in her mouth. I have lived for more than thirty years, and I have never seen broken silver.

"Mother, it's true, and the boss who collects tea said he wants as much as I have, so start picking tea with me on the stone mountain tomorrow!"

Ming Xiang said confidently, she planned that she would pick tea leaves with Qu Shi in the future, and her father would bring back mountain spring water.

For dinner, Mrs. Qu killed a chicken, which was originally intended to be saved for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but now it doesn't matter if it is eaten, after all, their family has a full tael of silver now!

For the next ten and a half months, Ming Xiang went to the town to exchange tea leaves for four or five taels of silver the next day.

The family is rich, and meat dishes are gradually being seen on the dinner table every day.

Unexpectedly, the smell of meat from their house floated to the next door, which aroused Wang Lanhua's suspicion.

I observed several times overtly and secretly, and found that Liu Xiang would go out every day, but there was nothing special about it.

It wasn't until yesterday that she followed Liu Xiang to the stone mountain that she discovered the trick.

Of course, Wang Lanhua would not let the old Liu family make money in silence. On the second day, she also started to pick tea leaves on the mountain.

Liu Gui and Qu Shi were naturally very anxious, but Ming Xiang didn't take it to heart at all.If everyone can make this stone tea, then there would be no value of stone tea in the previous life.

Wang Lanhua came back from picking the tea leaves, dried them in the sun, and sold them in the teahouses that Liu Xiang had been to.

Unexpectedly, when the boss picked up her tea and smelled it, he rejected it.

Wang Lanhua went back and tried several ways of frying and drying tea leaves, but the boss refused to accept them every time.

Seeing the Liu family getting richer and richer, Wang Lanhua was so jealous that she couldn't sleep all day long.

"The old Liu's family next door has made a lot of money, and you can still sleep!" Wang Lanhua saw that the head of the family ignored her completely, and was so angry that she twisted the ear of the village head, "Hurry up and think of a way!"

"What can I do? Isn't it enough to toss the tea with you these few days? Can you make people sleep well! Tomorrow I will go door-to-door to collect rent!"

That's right, the Liu family rented four acres of land from her house!

On the second day, the mayor came to Liu Gui's house with the land deed.

"Old Liu, it's time to pay the rent."

Seeing that the other party came to collect the rent, Liu Gui went directly to get the money.

The mayor found a stool and sat down, and said, "Wait a minute, this year's rent is double that of previous years, and you have to give me four taels of silver."

"What? Four taels of silver!" This year's crop harvest is less than four taels of silver, which is simply a lion's mouth.

The mayor said, "It's four taels of silver. If you can't get it out, I'll have to take the field back."

Ming Xiang heard the village chief's words from behind and couldn't help being angry, "Then you take it back, our family will not rent your land anymore."

Liu Gui and Qu Shi thought, the township chief came here today to ask for so much rent, just because he was jealous of the money they got from selling tea, so it is true that this field is not rented.

Even if his family can come up with four taels of silver, it can't be cheap for the village chief's family.

The mayor was speechless, and he had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't expect this result.

Originally, he wanted to use this to force them to hand over the recipe for making tea, but unexpectedly, the other party would not rent his family's land.

The mayor of the township meeting for a while really couldn't think of any way to do it, so he could only walk away.

In order to avoid Wang Lanhua for the past few days, Ming Xiang has been stocking up on tea leaves, and she managed to stockpile two catties, which can be exchanged for a full 20 taels!

Afraid that Mingxiang, a little girl, would be in danger if she came back with so much money, Liu Gui and Mingxiang went to the town together.

Every time the boss sees Mingxiang, it’s like seeing a cash cow. Stone tea sells very well in his teahouse, and he sells it not cheap. Of course, the boss hopes that Mingxiang will sell him as much as he can.

On the way back, Ming Xiang and Liu Gui parted ways at the entrance of the village.

Now that he didn't rent the field from the village head's family, Liu Gui went to bundle the straw from the field and bring it back to avoid trouble in the future.

This straw can be fed to cows, burned, and can be used to weave straw mats, which is very useful.

His family has a little money now, so they can stop taking care of the farm affairs, but they can't be complacent, and they can't lose their duty because of the immediate benefits.

Ming Xiang was very familiar with the road from the entrance of the village to her home when she was a child, but walking on this loess road now, she always felt that someone was staring at her, which made people panic.

Ming Xiang subconsciously quickened her pace, quickly looked around, but found nothing.

But she didn't take it lightly, with 20 taels on her body, if she ran into a robber, it would be too bad luck!

There was a family not far ahead, and Mingxiang had to turn around the corner of that house, and then pass the village head's house, and then she could reach her own house.

"It's okay, it's okay." Mingxiang cheered herself up silently.

At this moment, footsteps came from behind Mingxiang.

On a scorching summer day, a gust of wind blew by, her body was chilly, and she shivered.

In broad daylight, Mingxiang hoped that she was scaring herself.

But the footsteps were getting closer and closer, she tried her best to keep calm, and finally she was so scared that she ran straight away.

Someone was right behind her, and when she ran, that person followed.

"what!"

After a scream, Ming Xiang was covered from behind, and was forcibly dragged into the house at the corner in front.

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