Great Imperial Merchant

This thing sounds weird.

"How come, if there is cooperation every season, then they can't just break the agreement without saying a word." Yang Zhongyuan asked in surprise after hearing this.

Cheng Weizhe showed a somewhat helpless and bitter smile on his face: "I went to several tea gardens later, and because the day was late, most of them were out of stock, and in the end I only bought a small amount of Ronghua and Danlu. There is simply a lot of tea in the store, but it is not a problem if there is no new tea."

Danlu is the local green tea in Danluo. It tastes a bit heavier than Baiting, but not as light and pleasant as Baiting. It is most suitable for the climate of Los Angeles County, so it is the most common tea in several counties in the north of Daliang.

Most ordinary people drink it to quench their thirst.

But Cheng Weizhe opened the door to do business, if there were only a few reds and greens, it would be unreasonable.

Yang Zhongyuan thought that both families had bad things going on, and his face darkened a bit: "Did the Cheng family use tricks behind their backs?"

Seeing that he was anxious about his own affairs, Cheng Weizhe felt warm in his heart, he stretched out his hand to rub Yang Zhongyuan's hair, and said: "Maybe, those people who can't go left, they are very annoying with those messy things every day. "

In fact, he knew in his heart who was playing tricks. His father who didn't know anything was definitely too lazy to talk to him, and that noble and pure uncle already thought that he had no possibility of inheriting the family business. It's hard to guess what the second uncle was thinking, but he He already got what he wanted, and he would definitely not be distracted to play such dirty tricks with him.

The only thing left is Cheng Weishu whose marriage was not going well.

Cheng Weishu is rich and well-connected, but he is young after all. Although he is only two years behind Cheng Weizhe, he has never seen the ways of Shifang.

All he could do was send someone to wait to see which store Cheng Weizhe was going to, and he would run to that one to buy the tea first.

The Cheng family is in the rice business, but the small shops in the border town also have other businesses, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar tea, and rice tea are all seven things to open the door, so the Cheng family has more or less dabbled in it.

However, it was the first time for the Cheng family to spend such a large amount of money on tea. The owners of the tea gardens thought it was the Cheng family's young master, so they naturally left Cheng Weizhe aside. Doing business with the Cheng family is different from doing business with Cheng Weizhe himself.

After such a lot of tossing, Cheng Weizhe ran around Danluo for nearly ten days, and only brought back twenty catties of tea.

One must know that his shop can sell less than half a catty of green dandelion in a day, and this amount of purchase can barely last for a month and a half.

However, this tea shop is not that important to him.He was in this line of work at the time because he was too lazy to change his family. Over the years, he has learned a lot and gained a deeper understanding of the word tea.

But when he learned more and understood more, he realized a new truth.

He can't be stuck in this place forever.

Except for salt and iron, other tea, wine, rice and grain beams are not restricted to private enterprises. For Cheng Weizhe, this is not only an opportunity, but also a challenge.

Dan Luo has the obstacles of the Cheng family in front of him. If he wants to take root here, it is impossible.

He wanted to leave here a long time ago.

However, if he wants to leave, he has to think about it in every possible way.He has elders in the hall, and it is even more difficult to obtain the roster and household registration from the Cheng family alone.

But if he can't get his roster out of the Cheng family and get rid of the relationship completely, then all his struggles will be meaningless.

Thinking of this, Cheng Weizhe's face darkened. He didn't know how Yang Zhongyuan got out of the house, and he didn't know if he really wanted to return his and Zhou Quanxu's roster, but he didn't ask.

He knew that for Yang Zhongyuan, everything about the Yang family was never happy and warm.

This is so similar to him.

Seeing Cheng Weizhe's complexion, Yang Zhongyuan felt uneasy and anxious like beating a drum. He was used to seeing this young man smiling and cheerful. Seeing him so abnormal now, it must be very difficult.

Yang Zhongyuan hesitated for a long time, but still asked him: "Azhe, is the matter difficult? If you don't have enough tea in your shop, what should you do?"

Cheng Weizhe saw that his eyes were full of concern, and his heart boiled like water, churning up and down, and the smoke was lingering.

"It will probably last until September. Tomorrow, I will ask other grocery stores in the city, maybe there are other tea sources." Cheng Weizhe said.

As he said this, a smile slowly appeared on his face. Yang Zhongyuan was still worried, but he didn't mention it again.

While talking, Yang Zhongyuan finished the small river prawns in his hand. He got up and washed them quickly. Then he blew up the charcoal fire of the small iron stove and poured a little oil into the one-handed iron pan.

When the oil is hot, he puts the onion and ginger into the pan, stir-fries twice, and then directly pours the river prawns into the steaming bowl.Suddenly, the small shop began to overflow with delicious taste.

The river prawns were very fresh. Yang Zhongyuan didn't want to add too many seasonings to overwhelm the original taste, so he only put a little cooking wine, sugar and salt, and then began to stir fry vigorously.

The river prawns are not big, and they are very cooked. Almost instantly, the shells of the prawns turned from pink to red. Yang Zhongyuan shoveled out two of them with a shovel and put them in front of Cheng Weizhe: "Taste the saltiness."

In fact, there is no need to taste his cooking. He has learned cooking for so many years, and he has long been familiar with the control of seasoning.What he did this time was just because he couldn't bear to see Cheng Weizhe swallowing with hunger.

Sure enough, Cheng Weizhe didn't think it was too hot, so he directly grabbed it and threw it into his mouth. Yang Zhongyuan only heard him shout: "It's delicious! Oh, it's so hot, it's so delicious!"

Yang Zhongyuan saw that he was more energetic, so he couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, and put half of the pot of river prawns on the plate.

"I'll do it." Cheng Weizhe took the initiative to take the plate and put it on the dining table in the courtyard.

At this time, the sun had not yet fully set, and the red sunset from the sky illuminated the small courtyard. Cheng Weizhe nodded his greetings to Zhou Quanxu who was sitting in the courtyard helping his son mend his clothes, and then carefully covered the dishes with bamboo.

In the shop, Yang Zhongyuan washed the pot again, and started to stir-fry the green pepper water spinach again.

Vegetarian dishes are actually quite difficult to cook. The seemingly simple process is actually the most difficult to master.

Yang Zhongyuan has learned these green leafy vegetables longer than meat dishes. Vegetables must be fresh, refreshing, crisp and tender, and they must be fried well, which can be regarded as the first hurdle for an apprentice cook.

You only need to use garlic slices to cook this dish, then add a little salt and stir-fry, but Yang Zhongyuan's expression is more focused than before. I saw him holding the pan handle in his left hand, and quickly stir-frying with a shovel in his right. After a while, Cheng Weizhe smelled the water spinach Unique fragrance.

And the smell of green pepper was a bit pungent, Cheng Weizhe sniffled involuntarily as he ran in to serve the dishes.

Yang Zhongyuan saw that he looked funny, so he said: "This place tastes bad, you and dad can eat first, the vegetables will not taste good after a long time, I will make a slice of soup and come."

Cheng Weizhe shook his head, put the water spinach and rice on the table, but still walked around to watch him making a slice of soup.

He would not eat without waiting for Yang Zhongyuan, and I believe Zhou Quanxu would not.

Although the significance of this hardworking and conscientious young man is different to the two of them, they are undoubtedly the most important.

Seeing that he refused, Yang Zhongyuan had no choice but to give up. He turned around and beat two eggs into the bowl, then took a pair of chopsticks and handed it to him: "Will you break it?"

Cheng Weizhe often watched the white case chef in his shop cook, and he still knew the general technique, so he took the bowl and chopsticks with a little hesitation, and slowly swirled the chopsticks in the egg liquid.

This is almost the easiest thing in the kitchen, and Cheng Weizhe did it without doing it a few times, so he looked at Yang Zhongyuan excitedly and said, "How, am I doing well?"

Yang Zhongyuan watched him ask for credit with a funny face, while cutting up the cabbage and tomatoes neatly, he praised him perfunctorily: "Okay, you're so smart, eat more shrimp at night."

The noodle soup is actually very simple. After cooking with onion and ginger, stir-fry the tomatoes first, wait for the red oil to come out of the tomatoes, and then add water to beat the egg flower.When the water boils, put a little salt. If you like to eat pepper noodles, you can also add a little. Having a meal of this kind of sliced ​​soup in hot summer will help you sweat and get rid of dampness.

Then put in the noodles and cabbage, and the two will be cooked after a while. Sprinkle a handful of coriander and drop a drop of sesame oil when it comes out of the pot. The aroma of noodles, tomatoes, cabbage and even eggs in the whole soup will be stimulated. The taste is light and delicious. tasty.

This seems simple, but the requirements for the dough are relatively high.It is very rare to wake up noodles that are neither soft nor hard, and can be formed without collapsing.

But thanks to Yang Zhongyuan's noodle business, there weren't too many diners that day. Although he didn't wake up so many noodles beforehand, there was still a small piece left.

Originally, he was only bored with a meal for two, but since Cheng Weizhe came back, it was not wasted at all.

Yang Zhongyuan kneaded the small piece of dough repeatedly, then rolled it into a thin dough with a rolling pin, and cut it into pieces of the same shape and size with a knife.

When the pot of noodle soup came out, Cheng Weizhe couldn't help sighing: "This simple bowl of soup, why do you always feel so comfortable in your hands?"

Yang Zhongyuan couldn't laugh or cry at his praise, he walked to the courtyard with a soup bowl and called his father to eat.

Dinner this day was as sumptuous as ever.

The river prawns are delicious, the meat is tender and elastic, very delicious.The water spinach has a slightly spicy taste in it, but it goes well with rice.

Besides, the flat peach rice, because there are soft and rotten peaches in it, it smells so delicious from a distance, not to mention eating it in the mouth, it makes the rice taste sweet.

After eating a bowl of rice, drink a large bowl of warm noodle soup, the smoke and fire in summer seem to be dispelled, the pepper is damp, and the whole body is sweating, but I feel comfortable all over.

Because of the prawns, I didn't finish my meal until midday for three months, but everyone was very satisfied.

In the evening, as usual, Cheng Weizhe rushed to wash the pots and bowls. Yang Zhongyuan refused at first, but later Cheng Weizhe threatened him: "I come here every day for free, and if I don't do anything else, I won't have the nerve to eat it."

Yang Zhongyuan wanted to refute that he had done a lot of work during the day and helped a lot, but he had a firm gaze, so he had no choice but to swallow the words that came to his lips, and obediently gave Cheng Weizhe all the dishes.

There are three people in their family, and there are not many dishes, which is much less than the piles of dishes in the shop. Yang Zhongyuan thought about it, so he let him do the washing.

In the evening Cheng Weizhe went back to the tea shop to sleep, Yang Zhongyuan sent him to the door, and comforted him: "The matter in the shop will be resolved sooner or later, don't worry, take a good rest tonight, and worry about it tomorrow. If it doesn't work, I'll accompany you Go to Lincheng and try, there will always be a way."

Cheng Weizhe turned his head and saw Yang Zhongyuan looking at him seriously under the moonlight, and finally couldn't suppress his inner thoughts.

He stretched out his hands, hugged Yang Zhongyuan into his arms, lowered his head and took a deep breath between his neck: "I know, don't worry about it. The shop can last for a while, don't be busy at night, go early sleep, you know?"

Yang Zhongyuan was made a little awkward by him, but worried that he was in a bad mood, so he stretched out his hands stiffly, and patted him on the back symbolically: "I see, go back quickly."

Cheng Weizhe hugged it shamelessly for a while, and then let go with some resentment.

He walked a few steps towards the shop, suddenly Fu Ling's heart came to him, and when he looked back, Yang Zhongyuan was still standing in the distance, leaning on the door and looking up at him.

Cheng Weizhe was full of thoughts for a moment, and many words came to his lips, but finally he raised his hand and said, "Good night."

A few steps away, Yang Zhongyuan nodded and whispered back to him: "Good night."