Mingmen Family

Chapter 139 Good Income
When Lu Yu was writing the book, before she traveled, she didn't know that she would meet a collaborator named Lu.It's all about what.

After finishing the book, Ye Hongchang had already forgotten what his pseudonym was and what was not his pseudonym just now, and his mind was full of the scene of the hot tea sets in the teahouse.

He planned to tell Qi Ji to make more tea sets when he met Lu Guanyi and Qi Ji next year.

With this book, those literati will buy a tea set or two no matter how reluctant they are.

This is all white money.

He said to Ye Chongming again: "Father, the reputation of loose tea is now due to tea seats and tea sets. Our high-quality loose tea has long been sold out, and people come to ask every day. Let's make more in spring, as much as we make. Can sell."

Ye Chongming had been thinking about this question for a long time. He asked, "What about Tuancha? Is it as good as before?"

"It's worse than before, but it's not much worse." Ye Hongchang said, "But that's because Concubine Fan went to give New Year's gifts to Master Zhizhi before Chinese New Year before he knew the benefits of tea seats, tea sets and loose tea. He set them up soon after he returned. For the banquet, his group of friends went to buy a lot of tea sets and loose tea on the second day. On that day, our teahouse earned tens of thousands of taels of silver."

Mrs. Ye sat by and listened, her eyes widened immediately.

Did she know that the teahouses in Lin'an cost about a hundred taels of silver every day.

Even if Ye Chongming was mentally prepared, he was also taken aback: "So many?"

"That's not it." Ye Hongchang said, "their group of people are not short of silver. When they see the tea sets they like, they only need one or two sets of 500 taels of silver. The other ones are 100 taels. It’s as if you don’t need money, you need seven sets or eight sets. Our loose tea is still sold in limited quantities, otherwise the income will only be higher.”

Ye Chongming looked at Ye Yaming.

He finally realized how insightful Ye Yaming's words of 'cooperating with others and making the business bigger will only make more money' was true.

Making tea sets requires cost. After deducting the cost, they and Lu Qi will share half and half, and they can get at least three or four thousand taels of silver, right?This is a day's income, or pure profit.

You must know that the running water of Lin'an teahouse is only so much for a month.

What's more, the cost included Ye Yaming's share of the five sets of tea sets, as well as the cost of purchasing tea set designs from her.All the money went to the Ye family, and the meat rotted in the pot.

Ye Hongchang continued: "There are a lot of banquets during the Chinese New Year, and those friends of Concubine Fan will definitely display their tea banquets among relatives and friends. I have a hunch that our loose tea will be popular next year. With the rise of group tea and tea banquets, Loose tea will gradually replace lump tea. So the direction of our tea making has to change accordingly.”

Ye Chongming nodded, agreeing with the eldest son's point of view.

The reason why tuan tea is expensive is because of the expensive raw materials, but it is more because of the pursuit of literati and refined scholars, who have pushed the price up.

And literati and scholars will have a leader, that is, people who have made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting, poetry and prose, who are of noble background and who are good at "playing".Concubine Fan is undoubtedly such a person.

He said that it is good to drink loose tea, he said that the tea table is elegant, and he said that tea sets that match the theme should be used to set up the tea table.

He looked at Ye Yaming: "Ming'er, do you think your uncle is right?"

Ye Yaming nodded and smiled, "Yes."

When Ye Hongchang saw his niece said such a word, he didn't have much to say, and he couldn't help but sighed: "Our Ye family used to have some status in the tea shop in Lin'an City, but who takes us seriously when we go out? But now we don't. It’s the same. If you know that it is the Ye family who wrote the "Tea Classic", made tea sets, and made sweet-scented osmanthus tea, the rich and powerful in the capital would not have their nostrils turned upside down when facing us."

He looked at Ye Hongsheng and said with a smile: "Second younger brother has gained the favor of Consort Fan and the others during this time. Concubine Fan even invited second younger brother to his house to discuss tea."

Ye Hongsheng had been silent just now, not in a high mood.Hearing the elder brother mentioning himself at this moment, he cheered up, nodded and said: "Yes."

"That's right." He looked at Ye Chongming, "Concubine Fan said that when the tea is made in spring, he wants to bring some friends to Lin'an to watch us make tea."

"Of course, he doesn't look at the key steps. He is just curious and wants to see how the tea leaves are picked from the tea trees to make tea."

"Haha, no problem. This is our Ye family's honor." Ye Chongming said happily.

This kind of character is not something that anyone can make friends with if they want to.

Although Master Zhizhi's status is higher than Consort Fan's, but he is an outsider, the friendship between the Ye family and him is not easy to publicize, and outsiders don't know about it.

Fan Yu was different.When they come, they need to visit the mansion, and they will also go to the Jixiang Building in Lin'an City.

Their identities are not simple, and Qi Zhifu and other dignitaries will be alarmed.When the time comes to know that he has come to the Ye family, who in Lin'an City would dare to underestimate the Ye family?
And all of this was brought by the third granddaughter.

Ye Yaming saw that her grandfather was looking at her very kindly, and seeing that she was "boasting" again, she quickly changed the subject and asked Ye Hongchang, "Uncle, how is the chrysanthemum tea selling in the capital?"

Ye Hongchang smiled and said, "Does that matter? After it's out of stock, people come to our place every day to ask if it's still available. Its only shortcoming is that the quantity is too small."

"There will be more next year." Ye Yaming said, "I bought a farm to grow chrysanthemums."

"Oh?" Ye Hongchang was very interested, and hurriedly asked about the specific situation.

Ye Chongming turned his head and glanced at his second son. Seeing that he had been depressed since he entered the door and didn't talk much, he knew that Ye Hongsheng must have heard about Song Yifeng when he went back to his room to wash up, and he was in a bad mood.

In order not to worry him, he put away all matters in the capital and ran home. After discussing with Ye Yaming, he didn't tell Ye Hongsheng about the divorce and Song Yifeng's imprisonment.When Ye Hongchang went to the capital, he also kept silent about this.

Now that Ye Hongsheng heard about it, how could he not be annoyed?He was not only angry with Song Yifeng's wolf-heartedness, but also angry that his family didn't tell him, right?

Ye Chongming sighed secretly, seeing that the conversation between Ye Yaming and Ye Hongchang had come to an end, he said, "Let's serve dinner."

The family reunited and had dinner.

After dinner, Ye Chongming and Mrs. Ye left the second-bedroom couple behind and told Ye Hongsheng about Song Yifeng in detail.

He said: "Don't blame your elder brother about Song Yifeng, I didn't let him tell you. He told you that you will not be able to stay in the capital and will come back. But we can't do much after we come back. Not talking about you, I didn't intervene. Instead, let Ming'er vent her anger."

"Song Yifeng's punishment came down a few days ago. His reputation will be removed forever and he will be exiled for three thousand miles. Because he is disrespectful to the emperor and the court, he is one of the most heinous crimes, so he will never be pardoned."

(End of this chapter)