I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 44
The tea and wine department, as the name suggests, is a non-governmental organization that provides tea and wine services.General weddings and funerals require the participation of the tea and wine department.On weekdays, they also do the leasing business of wine vessels and tea cups.

Among the guests welcomed and sent off by the tea and wine department, there are princes and high officials, as well as wealthy businessmen, no one will be surprised to see no matter how prominent they are.But the guest who came today made the shopkeeper's mother Cao a little confused.

Mother Cao is a middle-aged woman with a slightly bloated figure.She has a round face, a wide waist, and a very conspicuous mole at the corner of her mouth.

She walked towards Mo Yunxiao with a smile, and said, "Isn't this the eldest girl from the Mo family in Minglou? Why do you have time to come to me?"

"Mother Cao." Mo Yunxiao said lightly, "Who doesn't know that Mama Cao is the most fair business in Bureau [-]. I'm here to take care of your business."

"Yo!" Cao's mother gave a dry laugh and said, "Minglou is a big business, and the best Ru kiln tea cups are piles of piles. What good things can we have here that you, Miss Mo, can admire of?"

Mo Yunxiao knew she was trying to be sarcastic.It is well known that Minglou's house was ransacked, and Madam Cao also knew about it.But Mo Yunxiao was not angry, just smiled and said: "We are all in business. No matter how big or small, the people who open the door are always customers. I have a sum of money that I don't want to spend. Doesn't Mama Cao want to ask? "

After hearing this, Mother Cao's eyes really lit up.But she also thought that this Mo Yunxiao was the daughter of a sinner, and she was afraid of getting burned if she did business with her, so she laughed and said, "Miss Mo, you were born in a rich family, and we are just ordinary people." As he spoke, he showed his little finger on his right hand, expressing his humble status. "Even if you have a huge deal, we shouldn't be jealous."

Mo Yunxiao was taken aback for a moment, then laughed too. "Mother Cao is indeed an old senior, she knows how to protect herself wisely."

Mama Cao sneered, shook the rag in her hand, and said, "Young girl reads a lot. We don't know what it means to be wise and protect yourself. We just know that the money that should be earned is earned, and the money that should not be earned is just delivered to your door." Can't make money."

"That's fine, Mama Cao doesn't want to reward me with noodles, so I have to find someone else." Mo Yunxiao stood up and said, "If Mama Cao is free someday, you can come to our teahouse for a sit down. Xiao My sister must be a good host."

Mama Cao glanced at her eyes and said sarcastically, "Take a leaf from the incense cup of the Minglou, and Mother Wang will exchange it for Pan Yuan. Hehe, the Minglou is a big show. I'm just afraid that if the show is big, there will be more right and wrong, and there will be more right and wrong." , will inevitably be hated by others, and finally end up with the tree falling and the monkeys scattered."

Mo Yunxiao was still not annoyed, and said slowly: "That's right. Our tree did fall down, but the hozen didn't disperse after all. Mama Cao should know that our tea house can gain a foothold in this Tokyo city, not because of the magnificent gatehouse and Expensive tea utensils. We have our own tea medicine prescriptions, which are called intellectual property rights."

Mother Cao's heart moved, and she asked again: "What? Does Miss Mo still want to make a comeback?"

"The Ru kiln tea cups in our family have been broken by the officers and soldiers, why don't you rent some." Mo Yunxiao caught up with a few steps, and said, "If Mama Cao is willing to do my business, the signboard of the Minglou will be restored in the future. Stand up, my little sister will never forget your kindness in sending charcoal in the snow."

Mama Cao hesitated, but she still looked embarrassed: "But you..."

"Since I can come out, the guilt has been cleared away." Mo Yunxiao looked around again, leaned into Cao's mother's ear, and whispered: "Our business can not go public, Cao's mother makes money silently, God doesn't know Unknowingly!"

"This..." Mother Cao frowned and thought about it, and then said, "If the tea house opens in the future, you can give me some tea tickets."

The so-called "cha Yin" is the evidence to buy tea.Because of the great popularity of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty, the value of "Cha Yin" also doubled.Mother Cao asked for "tea Yin" not to convert it into tea, but to wait for the opportunity to sell it at a high price so as to make a fortune.This logic is similar to modern stocks.

Mo Yunxiao chuckled, and agreed straight away: "Okay! Let's make a deal."

Mama Cao was also very straightforward, and immediately signed the paperwork with Mo Yunxiao and pressed her fingerprints.Mama Cao was overjoyed, and felt that she was taking advantage of the fire and taking advantage of it, so she took out the few sets of celadon in the department.

But Mo Yunxiao shook her head again and again, and said, "I don't want such expensive tea utensils, but the most common ones that even day laborers can afford."

Mother Cao was taken aback for a moment, and then readily agreed.Mo Yunxiao paid the money, but did not take the tea utensils away immediately, but temporarily stored them with Mother Cao, and then left alone.

She wanted to find a suitable place to stay, one that could set up a home and open the door to do business.She wandered around Tokyo, walking from Majie to Zhouqiao, crossing West Avenue, entering the Old Song Gate, and came to Maxing Street.

Wearing a veiled hat, she looked around as she walked, and saw that the street was full of noisy people, bustling scenes of Taiping carts, mule carts, and horse-drawn carts intertwined with each other.She was walking, but intentionally or unintentionally, she returned to the door of Minglou.

She stopped and took a look, and at this moment, the Minglou was already lonely and desolate.The door was closed tightly, with a seal on it.The huge plaque hanging above the gate was also thrown in the corner, full of cracks.Thinking about the prosperity here, a sense of sadness rose in Mo Yunxiao's heart.She couldn't bear to look more, so she could only speed up her pace and leave in a hurry.

And at the end of this street, there is a crossroad, where people from all directions intertwine with each other.Going to the left, you will come to the main road of Tokyo City - Sky Street.

At this intersection, she saw a tea shop but the door was closed.It's noon at this time, and it's the time when people eat and drink tea, but why doesn't this tea shop open?

Mo Yunxiao was curious, so she went up and patted the door, and asked, "Is the master here? Is the master here?"

"Who is it?" An old man's voice came from inside.

"Old man, I'm passing by and want to ask for a bowl of water." Mo Yunxiao said so.

The old man inside was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "But the eldest girl of the Mo family?"

"Exactly!" Mo Yunxiao was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked: "The old man can recognize me by my voice, so he must be very familiar!"

"Oh! How can you not be familiar with it!" The old man's footsteps gradually approached, and the door panel was also removed.He opened the door and saw Mo Yunxiao just in time.

Mo Yunxiao was a little confused, and couldn't remember who he was for a moment.But the old man immediately knelt down in front of Mo Yunxiao.

"Old man, what are you doing?" She was taken aback, and hurriedly reached out to help.

But the old man grabbed her arm and said in a choked voice, "Miss, do you still remember me? You went to Jinming Pond on the Lantern Festival, and you even visited the tea stand of the old and the young."

"Oh?" Mo Yunxiao thought about it, but her memory was blank.At that time, she hadn't traveled here, so she didn't know the old man.

The old man choked up and said: "It's rare that the girl is kind enough to let the little old man go to the Minglou to learn art. I can't forget this kindness!"

"Oh, so that's the case, let's talk inside." Mo Yunxiao helped him up, and entered the shop with him.

This is a small shop, almost the same size as a firewood room in the former Minglou.But Mo Yunxiao looked left and right, and seeing that the tables and chairs here are complete, he secretly rejoiced: "The location is good, and the environment of the store is also good. It's a good place."

The old man wiped the dust off the stool with his sleeve, asked Mo Yunxiao to sit down, and continued: "After I went to Minglou to learn art, I took over Jinmingchi's stall. I wanted to learn crafts in Minglou for three years." Come out and do it again. It's a pity... Alas, God has no eyes, so he sent the bad luck to the Minglou. I was going to be sold with the guys in the Minglou, but I was an apprentice and not in the shop. Food and lodging, I was lucky enough to escape the catastrophe. I think this shop is okay, and I just spent all my savings to buy it. I haven’t prepared the leaves, teacups, etc., and the girl just happened to come. It’s really a savior!" The more he talked, the more excited he became, and at the end he was sobbing and couldn't help himself.

Mo Yunxiao hurriedly comforted him, saying, "Don't be too sad, old man."

"I'm not sorry for myself, but for the girl." The old man wiped away his tears and said, "Minglou was the painstaking effort of the Mo family for decades, so it just fell down."

"The Minglou can't fall down." Mo Yunxiao said, "It just so happened that we met, why don't we put up the signboard of the Minglou together."

Startled, the old man quickly raised his head and said, "Miss, are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious." Mo Yunxiao said, "I've already rented tea cups and utensils from the tea and wine department, and now I'm here to find a shop. I was still worrying that I didn't have enough cash in my hand. Fortunately, I met you Sir, I want to sell this store, but I am afraid that the money in this store..."

"Oh!" The old man hurriedly got up, bowed to Mo Yunxiao, and said, "How dare I take money. This shop belongs to the girl."

Mo Yunxiao was overwhelmed with emotion, and stood up and said, "This is absolutely impossible. We can only borrow it. If the old man does not give up, please also be our tea doctor!"

The old man was inexplicably surprised, and said: "I have only studied for less than a month, how can I become a doctor of tea in Minglou?"

"Now, you are the only one who can be the doctor of tea in the tea house." Mo Yunxiao shook her head and smiled bitterly, then asked again: "It's just our family, how can we live there?"

"This is easy." The old man brought Mo Yunxiao to the backyard.This backyard is not big, there is only one old tree and a room that is not too spacious.There was a table, a cot, and nothing else in the room.

This house is not new, there are spider webs everywhere, and the dust flying in the air is also very choking.

Mo Yunxiao frowned, and said, "Is this the only room?"

The old man was a little embarrassed, so he had to say: "Yes, there is only one room, I'm afraid I've wronged the girls."

Mo Yunxiao counted silently with her fingers: "Yunxiang, Yunxi, Second Grandma, Third Grandma, I, um, a squeeze is enough. Shiyu...but I live in Taixue." Then she asked : "What about you, sir?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" The old man said with a smile: "The tables outside are put together, enough for the old man to sleep."

"That would have wronged you, sir." Mo Yunxiao turned around and walked back, saying, "Speaking of which, this shop belongs to you, and we are called Jiu Zhan Magpie's Nest. I'm really sorry."

"What's the girl talking about?" The old man followed behind her and said, "The old man must repay the girl's kindness."

Mo Yunxiao walked to the door, turned around and asked, "Old man, I don't know your name yet."

"The little old man's surname is Zhou, and he is the fourth child. People call me the fourth child Zhou." He scratched his head and said with a smile, "My parents haven't studied, so they can't come up with any nice names."

"Well, then I will be called Mr. Mo Yunxiao said: "Mr. Zhou, I will definitely repay your kindness in the future. Now, I am going to pick up my sister and aunt."

So that afternoon, Mo Yunxiao's family moved to this small shop.The two mother and daughter were shocked when they saw this house, and Yunxi backed away again and again, saying, "I don't want to live here, I don't want to live here..."

"Yunxi!" Mo Yunxiao went up to meet her, and said to her, "You have to live here too. Not only you, but I also have to live here."

"He Lu, I didn't mean you." Zhang Yun'er came over, pointed and said, "Look, this is not a place where people live."

Mo Yunxiao stared and said, "Isn't Mr. Zhou a human being? If he can live, why can't we?"

"Oh, we are different from him." Yun Xiang glared at Zhou Lao Si who was standing by the old tree, and said, "No, I want to go back to Privy Zeng!"

Mo Yunxi sneered, "You want to go back? They have to take you in too. The eldest daughter and Mrs. Wei are good friends, so what does it have to do with you?"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Zhang Yuner tried to persuade them: "Okay, don't quarrel. Let's find another way to live. Anyway, our mother and daughter will never live here."

"That's right, we can't live here." Yun Xiang also said.

"It doesn't matter if you don't live here, I live with my mother and my elder brother. I don't need to be crowded with you!" Mo Yunxi said.

Mo Yunxiao folded her arms around her chest and stood leaning against the door, watching them quarreling quietly. Then she turned her head to look at Li Xianye who was looking around the room, and said, "Third Grandma, what do you say?"

"Here is better than prison." Li Xian'e turned around and said, "He Lu, just live here."

"Hmph! Slow down! No!" Yunxi made a face at Zhang Yuner's mother and daughter, and then went into the house.

"Mother! Look at her!" Mo Yunxiang pulled her mother and wanted to act like a baby, but Zhang Yuner was already blushing half of her face, so she could only shake her hand heavily, and reprimanded: "You still think it's too late?" You are not embarrassing enough, are you!" After speaking, he walked in resentfully.Mo Yunxiang was bored, so he had no choice but to follow in.

Li Xian'e came over to Mo Yunxiao and said, "He Lu, it's all thanks to you that our family was able to be reborn this time. Without you, we... well, I'm so ashamed. I always wanted to team up to punish you, but now..."

"Third Grandma, don't mention the old things." Mo Yunxiao interrupted her and said, "We have to look forward, life will always get better day by day."

Li Xian'e nodded with tears in her eyes, and said, "Yes, life will always get better day by day."

(End of this chapter)