Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 232 Another Investment

Yuan Xiuzhu is an old gourmet, he is very particular about his appetite.After eating the stewed duck brought by Du Jinning, he was full of praise: "This food is delicious. The cooking skills of your family are really good."

As he spoke, he asked again: "I heard that you bought a tea garden with the money from the academy for making tea recipes?"

Du Jinning nodded: "Yes."

"In your tea garden, you don't use tea seeds for planting, but the cutting method you mentioned?" Yuan Xiuzhu asked again.

"Yes." Du Jinning nodded again.

Yuan Xiuzhu frowned, as if he was thinking about something.

Qi Bokun is also a sponsor of the academy, and he knows that the academy intends to buy Du Jinning's tea making recipes, and that Du Jinning proposed the method of cutting tea seedlings.Seeing his old friend's expression at this time, he understood Yuan Xiuzhu's plan, and hurriedly asked Du Jinning, "Tea seedlings are better planted by cuttings than by tea seeds. Where did you know this saying?"

"The person who taught me how to make tea said that. Using tea seeds to grow tea, the tea tree will change with the soil and climate. The tea from the mother plant tastes good, but it doesn't mean that the tea grown from its tea seeds is also good. But Cuttings are different, it can maintain the traits and characteristics of the mother plant."

Du Jinning said the same thing to Guan Lehe once, but those people in the academy didn't believe it.

After she said this, Yuan Xiuzhu finally made up his mind: "You tell me how to cut. I plan to send someone to the place where Gu Zhu's purple bamboo shoots are grown to get some branches back and put the cuttings in my tea garden."

"It's so far away, wouldn't it be dead if you transport it back?" Qi Bokun thought it was a bad idea.

"It's not impossible. You can completely ask someone to cut the cuttings there, and then transport them back, and water them all the way to take care of them. The weather is right now, and the branches after the cuttings are not so easy to die." Du Jinning said, and put the What kind of branches to choose for cuttings, and how to cut them, I told Yuan Xiuzhu one by one.

Yuan Xiuzhu was afraid that he would not be able to remember, so he asked the servant to take a pen and paper and write down what Du Jinning said.

"How to make tea at that time, I'll trouble you." He said again.

Du Jinning smiled: "That's no problem."

After everyone had eaten, they moved to the flower hall to drink tea.

Yuan Xiuzhu sighed: "After drinking the tea made by you, the tribute tea I bought at a high price has no taste."

Speaking of this, Du Jinning suddenly thought of something, and said to Yuan Xiuzhu: "If you always want to drink good tea, you have to discuss it with Uncle Dong, the head of our village. The two trees on the mountain have always been the source of tea for Uncle Dong every year. , I won’t be able to grab tea with him before tomorrow, after all, there is a first-come-first-served way. When you ask me for tea, I don’t have it. It’s hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, isn’t it?”

Those two tea trees can catch Du Jinning's eyes, and the taste is actually really good.But probably because of the distant fragrance and near stink, not only the people in the academy are waiting, but even Yuan Xiuzhu looks down on the two tea trees on the mountain behind the academy.

Yuan Xiuzhu rubbed his chin, stood up, and went into the room.When he came out, he took a few silver tickets in his hand and handed them to Du Jinning: "We agreed that if you use your method of making tea, I will give you 700 taels of silver. You teach me the method of making tea, and I will give you [-] taels of silver. Ask people to go to other places to buy some green tea, and use your method to make some tea. If you don’t sell it, let’s drink it ourselves.”

"This..." Du Jinning hurriedly stood up and waved his hands, "You don't need to give it when you are old."

Yuan Xiuzhu was kind to her, she was really embarrassed to accept the banknote in Yuan Xiuzhu's hand.Not only Yuan Xiuzhu, but also Guan Le and there she was too embarrassed to accept money.

"Hey." Yuan Xiuzhu's face darkened, "I am your husband, and Yan Songtao is also your husband. I don't charge for mine, so don't you accept his? If this is the case, wouldn't you be paid for a penny?" No? If I plan to make a batch of Mingqian tea and Yuqian tea in another place, and then sell these tea leaves, I will earn more than 700 taels? My tea garden produces tea, and I still make money every year .I'm an old man with a big family, can I still take advantage of your child? Take it!"

"Take it." Qi Bokun said, "You will have to accept my share at that time. Don't be embarrassed, you deserve it."

Only then did Du Jinning accept the banknote.

She is going to Fucheng to open a teahouse and bookstore, and because of lack of money, she plans to rent the shop.Now that you have silver, you can buy it if you have a suitable shop.

Yuan Xiuzhu's words reminded Qi Bokun.

He has nothing to do now, and is bored at home.Although the family is not short of money, but if they have more money and don't burn their hands, they can make a fortune by making tea now.

He said to Yuan Xiuzhu, "Why don't we just go to Jiangnan to buy a tea garden?"

Not only Yuan Xiuzhu said this, but Du Jinning was also very moved.

In the past few months, she has already used the Library Pavilion of the academy to get a general idea of ​​the situation in Song Dynasty. She knows that this is just a historical change, but the geographical location is still the same.

She said: "The south of the Yangtze River is rich and the land price is too high. It's better to go to Huizhou to buy tea gardens."

In her time and space, Huizhou in the Ming Dynasty was famous for its Songluo tea.What kind of tea is pineapple tea?That is the originator of fried green tea.

Huizhou has many mountains and little land, so it is very suitable for growing tea. Many famous teas in previous lives came from Huizhou.The land price in that place must be much cheaper than that in Jiangnan, and it is also close to here.

Yuan Xiuzhu was very moved when he heard Qi Bokun's words.Hearing Du Jinning's suggestion, his eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "This is a good idea."

He looked at Du Jinning: "Could it be that you also plan to buy tea gardens there?"

Du Jinning also calmed down at this time.

She wanted to buy a tea garden in Huizhou, but no one took care of it, so maybe the tea garden was bought for someone else in the end.

She did not hide from the two of them, and shared her concerns.

Yuan Xiuzhu waved his hand: "It's easy to handle, you use the money to invest in the shares, why don't we buy tea gardens together?"

Du Jinning's eyes lit up, it was a good idea.

She handed the bank note back to Yuan Xiuzhu: "I have no manpower, I only have these 700 taels, you can decide how many shares to give."

Yuan Xiuzhu waved his hand: "I don't know what's going on over there, we'll figure it out after I buy the tea garden back."

Came for dinner today, and got another good deal with money. Du Jinning was very happy, stood up and toasted the two old people with sweet wine.

After toasting, Yuan Xiuzhu and Qi Bokun began to discuss about buying tea gardens.It is now February, and Mingqian tea will be harvested soon, and the time is extremely tight, so the two decided to send a steward to buy the tea garden tomorrow.

But when it came to making tea, the two got stuck, looking at Du Jinning with a troubled face.

Du Jinning naturally knew what their scruples were, and said to Yuan Xiuzhu: "Mr. Yuan, can you ask for a period of leave for me? I will go to Huizhou with the stewards of your two families. In this way, I can directly teach them how to make tea there. There is no tea here." Qing, I can’t teach even if I want to.”

(End of this chapter)