Mingmen Family

Chapter 19 Rescue
Tuan tea is spiced, so it is extremely expensive, and it is also something that wealthy people can afford. It is known as a symbol of wealth, which is why it is so sought after by the upper class.

The Ye family has managed tea for generations, relying on tea-making skills.Yejiatuan tea is famous even in the capital.

The reason why Meng Chengwei focused on the Ye family instead of going directly to the sales department to buy tea was also because the sales department came out with raw tea.These crude teas also need to be refined and made into other teas before they can be sold at a good price.Meng Chengwei took a fancy to the Ye family's tea-making skills.

But Ye Yaming, who always drinks pure tea in modern times, is really insensitive to this spiced Tuancha.

As the manager of a tea company, she also knows how to make Tuancha.Many modern tea researchers have copied and studied Song Dynasty Tuancha.On the carriage back today, she also questioned Ye Hongsheng in detail. Although she didn't have time to visit the tea house, she had a good understanding of the making of group tea.

She felt that because Tuancha is made by pressing it into tea juice, if Meng Chengwei directly mixes moldy tea into the tea to make a dough, then the whole tea dough will have a musty smell.Not to mention those regular customers who bought tea, even Ye Hongrong would not be fooled.

Although Ye Hongrong was a prodigal, he came from a tea family after all. He was forced by Ye Chongming to practice in tea factories and tea houses since he was a teenager. He could tell the difference between good and bad tea, otherwise Ye Chongming would not have dared to He put him in the tea house to take care of things.

Furthermore, the general tuancha has a hole in the middle, just like a copper coin. The hole in the middle is either square or round, which is easy to carry.Moreover, the group tea is generally relatively small, and one group is the amount at one time.

However, Meng Chengwei's batch of tea is solid in the middle and slightly raised, and the tea balls are larger than ordinary tea balls.When the seller gave it to Ye Hongrong, the seller explained that it was to take care of the beautiful mold.Because this batch of tuan tea is pressed into the shape of a peony, the raised part in the middle is the stamen, which looks very beautiful.

People in this era drink Tuancha by roasting the tea on the fire first, then putting it in a paper bag, crushing the tea with a small hammer through the paper bag, then putting it in a mill to grind it into powder, sieving it, and putting it in the tea bag. Whisk into foam and drink.

Therefore, even if there is only a small moldy ball in the middle of this ball of tea, it will be completely fused together when drinking, and it will only smell musty when drinking it.

Thinking of this, Ye Yaming took a knife and planned to pry open the tea to see what's inside.

It's just that Tuancha uses glutinous rice paste or licorice paste as a binder, which is very hard and solid.Ye Yaming called a strong maid, and it took a lot of effort to pry the tea open.

As soon as the tea ball was pried open, a small black tea ball was revealed.

This tea ball has obviously been made a long time ago, a hard cake, and then made into new tea with other tea juice, so it is distinct from the tea outside.Ye Yaming checked the tea connected to it, and found that the tea in that place did not smell musty.

She put the separated tea into a paper bag, let the servant girl dry it, crush it and beat it, and taste it carefully.

Because this ball of tea has spices in it, the smell of spices is quite strong, covering up the musty smell. In short, she didn't drink any musty smell.

Ye Yaming asked the maid to call Ye Hongsheng over and show Ye Hongsheng the tea she separated.

As soon as Ye Hongsheng touched tea, he seemed to be a different person, even his temperament was different.Looking at the separated tea, his expression was focused, and the elegant temperament of a researcher was even more prominent.

It was about five o'clock at this time, but in mid-autumn, the sky was already dark.

He asked the servant girl to light two lamps, fiddled with the tea little by little, and found that the tea leaves had no mildew at all, nor did they smell any peculiar smell.

After brewing it for a while and drinking it, he found that the taste of the tea was also good, he said happily: "This tea can be processed and sold as powdered tea."

Ye Yaming nodded: "Yes, it is also good to reduce the loss a little."

The end tea in this era is tea powder, which is made of tea balls that fail due to shapelessness or other reasons, and are finally dried and crushed and sold in boxes.The price is naturally much lower than Tuancha.

Tuancha is not a modern tea cake. It can be saved by steaming and pressing into molds, but the taste is not as good as before.There is really no way to reproduce such a hard thing, so it can only be dealt with in this way.

"Come on, bring these teas, let's find your grandfather." Ye Hongsheng stood up and said, "Tell him the good news earlier, so that he won't be able to sleep at night."

The Ye family suffered heavy losses today.If something happened to Ye Hongchang and he couldn't get back the tea silver, even if the Ye family wasn't doomed, next year's business would be greatly affected.It is also a comfort to Ye Chongming to recover a little loss now.

The father and daughter went to the main courtyard together with tea.

Ye Chongming pays attention to health preservation, and he will walk around the house after eating every day.There was a major incident at home today, and after returning, he went to hit Ye Hongrong more than a dozen boards. After returning, he had an argument with Mrs. Ye. He was feeling a little uncomfortable, so he planned to go to the study in the front yard to rest.

He met Ye Hongsheng and his daughter on the way to the front yard.

"Let's go, go to the study." Ye Chongming really didn't want to see Mrs. Ye.

When the three of them arrived in the study, Ye Hongsheng explained the matter, and showed Ye Chongming the tea leaves.

As long as the tea is approved by his second son, Ye Chongming knows it is good without looking or tasting it.

He nodded and said: "Okay, then do as Ming'er said." He turned to Ye Hongsheng, "Tomorrow you send this batch of tea to the tea factory, and let the tea workers handle them all."

Now the tea mountain has entered the season of not picking tea, and the tea workers in the tea factory are also idle.Now I have time to process this batch of tea.

Seeing that Ye Chongming's frown didn't relax much, Ye Yaming asked, "Grandfather, don't we run out of good tea to sell in our tea house and teahouse?"

Although Ye Hongrong's mistakes were made up for, the Ye family spent a lot of money to buy silk to compensate.If that batch of tea didn't have the moldy lump, it could be said to be of high quality and cheap, and Ye Hongrong bought a lot of it.

Although there are not many tea customers who buy tea, those who can buy this tea are greedy for petty gains. Those who buy a lot have stockpiled dozens or even hundreds of boxes, and they may be planning to resell them.

Because of this, the money that the Ye family compensated was not a small sum.Because business people don't have a lot of spare money in their hands, they usually buy fields, shops or tea gardens for investment. Ye Yaming estimates that the Ye family may have spent almost all their savings this time. up.

If Ye Hongchang failed to get back the tea silver, then the Ye family's loss would be even greater.

(End of this chapter)