To Rule in a Turbulent World

When he was a child, he heard his mother and second aunt quarrel several times. He didn't understand it at the time, but now he probably understands it.

"Are you all working together to lower the price of our tea?" You Miao asked, "Let the second uncle sell it if he can."

"Your second uncle has a dark head." Qiao Jue said angrily, "If it makes sense, it wouldn't be what it is now. Talking to him a few more times is like hurting him."

You Miao laughed and said, "Where's my cousin?"

Qiao Jue said: "It's still the same. I quarrel with that woman every day. I can't get married. Once your mother goes away, no one will press down on the tea house. Your second aunt is getting more and more arrogant. Give me some money every month." , like sending beggars away."

You Miao said: "Either you come and live with me, and I don't think you should leave."

Qiao Jue didn't answer, but held the cup to look at it, and said with a smile, "These two cups are interesting."

You Miao joked: "I bought it in the capital. It's called a Tai Chi pot. It's a street stall, and it costs two taels of silver."

The Tai Chi cup was filled with tea, and You Miao took a sip. Although there was nothing special at first, after the entrance, the aftertaste was quiet, the sweetness slowly returned, and there was a sense of mellowness, like a thick landscape with a lively ink fragrance , spreading layer by layer on the tongue.

"Good tea." You Miao said.

"That's right." Qiao Jue said, "I told your second uncle a few times that the family doesn't make this kind of tea, but must grow green tea."

You Miao said with a smile: "Don't people here just like to drink green tea? If you want to do oolong tea business, you have to go to Huguang two roads, and you can sell it in the capital and central Sichuan."

Qiao Jue said: "I heard that those officials in the north like to eat oolong tea."

You Miao said, "Do you have tea seedlings there?"

Qiao Jue said: "There are many tea seedlings, but there is no place to plant them."

You Miao said: "Don't go home and get angry with that woman. Collect the tea seedlings and bring me here to plant them. Listen to me, uncle, I want to kill you!"

Qiao Jue sighed, You Miao was thinking of visiting Shaoyuan Tea House in a few days, and planting some tea seedlings. The green tea market in the south of the Yangtze River would definitely not be able to compete with her father. It would be okay to plant some oolong tea. Send it to Beijing for sale.

"I'll go home and have a look," Qiao Jue said.

You Miao knew that Qiao Jue couldn't get away with this matter. Even if others didn't come, the tea seedlings had to be brought over. She didn't worry at all. After drinking three rounds of tea, she took Qiao Jue out to see the villa. You Miao proudly talked about Miao's stay in Beijing.Said that the third prince, Zhao Chao, liked him and wanted to recruit him to be a reading companion, and also talked about family affairs.

Qiao Jue is a well-known handsome man in Yangzhou. He and You Miao were standing there. The uncle and nephew each had their own handsome looks. The two of them rode horses that day and took a leisurely look at the entire villa. In the evening, You Miao entertained Qiao Jue. After a farm meal, Li Zhifeng cooked a piece of steamed fish, and the daughters-in-law of Li Zhuang's family and Zhu Tang's family came to help in the villa and simmered a pot of local chicken soup.A plate of fried bacon, sliced ​​blood sausage, stir-fried rice cakes, seasonal vegetables and steamed egg custard.

You Miao couldn't stop pouring wine for Qiao Jue, and said, "I've just settled down, and there's nothing special about eating and drinking, so you can eat whatever you want."

"It's okay." Qiao Jue blushed from drinking, and said, "In our tea house, that's the way we eat."

When You Miao heard this, she was surprised at first, and then felt very pitiful. The uncle's house was once a big scene, how did it fall into this situation?

"Can't the money be transferred?" You Miao finally felt something was wrong.

"It's not just that it can't be turned around?" Qiao Jue said: "The tail can't be lost. We are talking about this kind of family business. It was okay to do it 20 years ago. Now it is impossible to go the same way. Originally, the third sister was At that time, there was still 900 taels of silver in the account a year. In the past few years, your second uncle has demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the money owed has piled up. There is only a white note but no payment for the goods, and your aunt is still raising money. A group of relatives from my natal family come to pay money to the account from time to time, alas, it is difficult."

You Miao knew that Qiao Jue was in charge of the accounts and all the money in and out of the Shaoyuan Tea House, and that he couldn't hide the losses and gains from him. If he said that, it was probably because the business was about to fail.

"Come and sit." You Miao pulled Li Zhifeng.

Li Zhifeng quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm eating outside."

"If I tell you to sit, sit down." Qiao Jue said with a smile, "My nephew also said that you are his best brother..."

You Miao's face turned red immediately, and she hurriedly said, "Okay, okay."

Qiao Jue sighed again, and said, "I heard about you, my uncle wanted to come and look for him..."

You Miao smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's fate after all."

Qiao Jue picked up the wine bowl, touched You Miao, and said, "The Shaoyuan Tea House has been run by your father all these years, and my sister-in-law is always trying to curry favor with you. You Dechuan...my uncle is also very angry when he hears this."

You Miao said: "My father has never been a thing. He will ignore you when you come to the door. Don't worry about things you didn't say."

The two touched the wine bowls and each took a sip of wine. Qiao Jue said, "That's not the case! I cried a lot when I heard about it that day. Thanks to the villa that the third sister bought, I still keep it, otherwise my uncle would have thought You will be blinded by the wicked woman, and you won’t even be able to sleep at night.”

You Miao said with a smile: "It's useless to be angry with them, live your own life, eat and drink well, she wants me to be aggrieved, but I don't, I have to live like a person, which is the best for them Revenge."

Qiao Jue said with a smile: "That's what I said, you are much smarter than me, and I am too. I can't ignore the mess at home, and I can't help myself." As he spoke, he noticed that Li Zhifeng was still Standing aside, he tapped the wine bowl with his chopsticks, and said with a smile, "Li Zhifeng, come sit down, I treat you as my family, and you also treat me as my family, don't you?"

Li Zhifeng nodded, and sat down at the table. The three of them had dinner together, and Ye Youmiao refused to let Qiao Jue go back, so they fell asleep on the same couch, hugging his waist, as if they were back when they were young. There is always something to say.

Qiao Jue was brought up by Qiao Ke'er. She learned all the arts of playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, calligraphy and etiquette. You Miao admired her uncle very much when she was a child. The two of them talked late at night and fell asleep while talking. Waking up from time to time, You Miao told him that he was going to build a water truck, and Qiao Jue said that he still had a few hundred taels of savings over the years, so he would go back in a few days and pick it up for him to use.

The two mingled together in a daze, hugging and sleeping until the third day of the third day, when Qiao Jue got up and had lunch, she said she wanted to go back.You Miao wanted to stay again, but Qiao Jue said that she would drop by the tea plantation to have a look at the tea plantation, and was going to have people pick spring buds at the beginning of next year.Only then did You Miao reluctantly say goodbye to him.