idle king

Chapter 74 Tea Making
"Xiaochan, go and inform all the servants in the house, and gather in the front yard immediately, the young master will announce an important news later." Ye Chu ordered.

After Xiaochan responded, she lifted her skirt and hurried away.

Just like later generations, bars and nightclubs are almost all affordable by the rich. Although the Qinhuai River today is far from the city that never sleeps in later generations, it is not affordable for ordinary people.

Therefore, although there is no curfew, most people have already got into bed early after dark, and started the human-making movement of up and down, left and right.

As for the servants in the general family mansion, except for those who are on duty that day, the rest are relatively free. Under normal circumstances, they only need to report to the porter in charge when they go out.

As for the Ye Mansion, because there were not many servants, the idle ones were dismissed long ago, so everyone has their own things to do.

Because of this, when these people came to gather, Ye Chu was shocked when he saw it.

Four women and seven men, plus Xiaochan, there are 12 people in total.This is not counting the two who served Aunt Zhao personally.

In other words, he has been here for so many days, and he really doesn't know how many servants there are in his house.

Standing on the frontmost step, Ye Chu's eyes swept over everyone present one by one, and wherever his eyes went, the people all lowered their heads involuntarily, showing awe.

If it were the young master in the past, they might have had some extravagant thoughts, but now they dare not even think about it.Over the past few days, they had heard a lot about their young master's glorious achievements.

Not only did Shen Yuan win the first prize in the Poetry Society and was appreciated by Mr. Shen, he also made friends with the prince and princess of Prince Ning's mansion and had a good relationship.Well, although this point has been criticized by many scholars, it is enough to make them envy and worship.

Of course, the most important point is that the Qin family, which has lost contact for many years, even sent someone to send an invitation.This incident all shows that the Ye family, which has been silent for many years, is about to rise again!And the reason for all this was brought by this one in front of me!

In this era where they are closely related to the Ye family and the family is respected for its prosperity and losses, they are naturally happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Seeing that everyone has arrived, Ye Chu cleared his throat first, and then said: "Now, my young master is going to announce an important news. However, before that, I want to ask you a question."

After a pause, Ye Chu glanced around the crowd again, and suddenly asked, "Tell the young master, do you want to make money, do you want to make a lot of money?"

Um?What the hell?Master, which song is this singing?
After hearing Ye Chu's words, everyone below was stupefied.

"Is this question difficult to answer?" Seeing that everyone was silent and looked at each other in blank dismay, Ye Chu asked rhetorically.

Alas, at a glance, you can tell that it is a group of people without dreams.

After a long time, a young servant finally replied in a low voice, "Master, I think so."

Seeing that Liu Wang took the lead, the others also expressed their thoughts intermittently.

"Louder, haven't you eaten yet?" Ye Yu shouted loudly.

"Think!" This time, the voice was both loud and orderly.

"Very good!" Ye Yu nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Then, if you do well what the young master wants to order, each of you will earn a lot of money. As you can imagine For a moment, it feels like sleeping on a pile of copper coins."

After hearing the young master's vivid description, a picture involuntarily appeared in everyone's minds, and everyone's eyes instantly became hot.

"We all obey your orders, young master. Even if we go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, we will never blink." One of the young servants with a bright mind said excitedly, and quickly expressed his loyalty first.

The rest of the people also reacted when they heard the words, and they all rushed to show their loyalty.

"Hehe, there is no need to go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire." Ye Chu waved his hand lightly, and said with a smile, "I think many people have seen the big bag of things that Wang Zai brought back."

Seeing many people nodding below, Ye Chu continued: "This is our mission for the past two days. Let Xiaochan explain your responsibilities to you in detail. Wangzai, come here, and I will tell you something later. thing."

Calling Liu Wang over alone, Ye Chu said: "From now on, you will be responsible for buying back all the tea leaves from all the pharmacies and medical centers in Jinling. Remember, just don't attract too much attention. You will go to your father later. There will be 20 taels of silver first."

"Okay. Don't worry, young master. Then I'll go now." Liu Wanghan smiled, turned and left.

And over there, Xiao Chan has already assigned the things everyone has to do.

Just do what you say, and following Ye Chu's order, everyone started to act.

Because those new teas must be dried naturally first, if they are directly dried with artificial fire, with today's technology, it is estimated that there will be too much smoke and fire, which will destroy the fragrance of the tea, so Ye Yu is only going to roast tonight Those are the dried parts, that is, the ones that were previously sold as herbs in the drawers of the medical hall.

These were to be given away as gifts, so Ye Chu strictly followed the tea-making process given in his mind, trying to restore the original taste of Longjing tea as much as possible.

The back hall of Ye Mansion.

Aunt Zhao could not help but feel bored when she heard the occasional movements in the front yard.

She lowered her head, carefully bandaged Ye Rong's wound, and said, "Master, what are you messing about again. I haven't seen him reading or writing these days, and he is either messing around outside or at home all day long." Nonsense, a dignified scholar, the master doesn't even talk about him."

"What do you know, you woman! I let my son study, which means I obeyed my father's last wish. As for obtaining fame, hmph, there were so many scholars in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and how many of them obtained their official positions through reading. The real money comes really. Just like my elder brother back then..."

Speaking of this, Ye Rong's closed eyes suddenly opened, and when he found that there was nothing unusual about his concubine, he heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly changed the subject: "You know, today, Zuixiaolou made money. How much did you pay?"

In fact, Ye Rong thought too much. Aunt Zhao has been in the house for ten years, and she has never heard of any relatives of her master. Just now, she just thought that the so-called elder brother in the master's mouth was his best friend now. So I didn't think too deeply.

"How much?" Aunt Zhao raised her head curiously, looked at Ye Rong and asked.

"98 taels!" You know, even he was taken aback when he heard Steward Liu's report before, thinking he had heard it wrong.

"Hiss... so many!" Hearing this, Aunt Zhao's eyes widened instantly, her face full of disbelief.

As the actual financial controller of Ye Mansion, she is naturally very clear about the income status of Zuixiaolou in the past.In the past, she was a little happy to have a profit of 50 taels in a month, but now, just one day is almost equivalent to the income of the past two months.

Thinking of this, the resentment in Aunt Zhao's heart became more and more serious.

Originally, this was all his own, but now he is taking advantage of that bastard.No, we must find a way to take Zuixiaolou back.

In the front yard, Ye Zu's tea making work is in full swing.

In the center of the courtyard, there was a row of iron pots placed on the pier, with three pots connected in total, namely the raw pot, the green pot, and the cooked pot.Under the iron pot, a raging fire was burning, and a person was adding firewood to it from time to time.

And in front of each pot, there were two people standing, and they kept squeezing and churning the tea leaves in the pot with their hands.

"Yes, that's it, Xiao Chan is really smart."

"Ah Wen, the fire must be well controlled. The fire here should be bigger."

"Be careful not to touch the bottom of the pot with your hands, just move the tea leaves."

"Hand open those big leaves as much as you can."

"You must never leave the tea in your hands, and never leave the tea pot."

Ye Yu had already demonstrated it to them before, and also handed over the operation formula to them.But after all, it was the first time, and I couldn't get the essentials at all. There was no way, Ye Chu could only keep guiding beside him.

(End of this chapter)