The Incense Monopoly Order

Chapter 82 Shouting it off as good
"Third sister, look at this Tianmu tea." Shang Zishu was like a fish in water, swimming happily. In the blink of an eye, she jumped from one teahouse to another. She stopped at a teahouse, reached out and picked up a handful of tea leaves, and waved to Shang Mingshu.

Shang Mingshu walked a few steps to Shang Zishu's side. The tea looked to be of high quality. Shang Mingshu felt something strange in her hand, but she couldn't tell what was strange about it.

"This tea has been fumigated." Shang Zishu covered her eyes with a round fan and whispered in Shang Mingshu's ear.

Shang Mingshu lowered her head and sniffed. The fragrance was difficult to distinguish with her ability, but with Shang Zishu's reminder, Shang Mingshu could feel that the fragrance was not pure enough.

Shang Mingshu looked up to see whose teahouse it was, and saw the words "Lingfengfang".

Lingfengfang is Chen’s Tea House!
"Would you two ladies like to buy some Tianmu tea?" The tea seller saw Shang Mingshu and the other girl who had been standing there for a long time, and came up to them with a smile.

"How much is this tea?" Shang Mingshu asked.

They were dressed like the daughters of wealthy families, and the tea seller was particularly attentive: "You two ladies have good taste. This is the best Tianmu tea from our Lingfengfang. It costs one jin."

Shang Zishu suddenly raised her eyes and stared at Xiaolang with sharp eyes.

The best Tianmu tea is the tea before the Qingming Festival, which is only sold for 400 coins per catty in Huizhou. This young man not only sells inferior products as good ones, but also dares to ask for an exorbitant price.

"you……"

"It's a bit expensive." Shang Mingshu stopped Shang Zishu from getting angry and answered with a smile.

"Madam, we at Lingfengfang are honest and trustworthy. Who in Hangzhou doesn't know our reputation? Lingfengfang's tea is worth the price. If you think it's too expensive, we have Yuqian tea here, which is 600 coins per catty. We also have ordinary coarse tea next to it, which is 400 coins per catty."

The lowest quality Tianmu tea is sold at the price of Mingqian tea from Huizhou Prefecture.

Shang Mingshu didn't know for a moment whether this young man had heard their foreign accents and lied on purpose, or whether Lingfengfang was really so reckless in doing things?

"Brothers, this is my family's Tianmu tea, the best Mingqian tea." When Shang Mingshu was thinking, a clear voice sounded behind him.

The young man immediately greeted him with a flattering smile: "Big Brother, Big Brother, why are you here?"

"I met several good friends who came from far away to buy Tianmu tea."

Shang Mingshu and Shang Zishu turned around and saw an extremely sweet-looking young man with a sunny smile walking towards them with a few tall men dressed in very exotic styles.

Shang Mingshu had seen handsome men before, such as Yao Zongsi, who was difficult to tell whether he was male or female. If he wore women's clothes, he would probably be more beautiful than most women.

The one in front of me has another kind of beauty. His beauty has a kind of innocence that is ignorant of the world, like a clear spring in the deep mountains and old forests, so clean that you can see the bottom at a glance, and the smile on his lips is so sincere that it is not stained by dust.

"You also want to buy Tianmu tea?" The young man saw Shang Zishu and her sister, "How much do you want to buy? You go first, you buy first, but can you leave some more for my brothers? It's not easy for them to come here from outside the border..." "We won't buy it." Shang Zishu would not buy inferior things. She heard that the person in front of her was the young master of Lingfengfang, which belonged to the Chen family in Hangzhou. The person in front of her was undoubtedly Chen Jin's younger brother - Chen Che.

The name is consistent with the appearance of the person. He looks like a clean young man, but his heart is evil!

Chen Che didn't hear the sneer in the dry tone at all. Instead, he said happily, "Thank you, ladies, for letting us have some." He turned to the merchants outside the customs and said, "Here are the remaining ones from our family. 400 coins per catty."

When Shang Zishu and Shang Mingshu heard this, their eyes all fell on the salesman's face. The salesman's face was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. He opened his mouth several times to speak, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to keep his head down and pretend to be a quail.

How could Shang Zishu let him go? She hated being cheated the most: "Chen Dalang, your salesman just told us that this tea costs one jin."

"What?" Chen Che's face darkened, and he asked coldly, "Chen Qian, did you really ask for one coin from this woman just now?"

"I...she..." The salesman named Chen Qian hesitated and finally fell to the ground and cried, "Master, I didn't mean it. My mother is seriously ill at home and I have no money for a doctor. Seeing that you two ladies are dressed richly, I wanted to quote a price and wait for you to bargain. Wuwuwuwuwu... Isn't bargaining necessary in business? I'll wait for you to bargain. As long as it's not less than 400 coins, I will sell it to you..."

"Get up, why are you crying, you grown man?" Chen Che was at a loss as to what to do. He was very angry and knew that Chen Qian was wrong to do this, but Chen Qian was crying so hard that he had no choice but to turn around and apologize to Shang Mingshu and her sister in person. "Please forgive me, my family didn't hire the right person carefully, and he deceived you. I am here to apologize to you on his behalf. If you want Tianmu tea, I have a jar of this rare treasure in my collection. I will send someone to bring it to you as an apology."

The direction of the incident left Shang Zishu and Shang Mingshu dumbfounded. This Chen Dalang...

The two sisters looked at each other and saw the indescribable expressions in each other's eyes.

"Chen Dalang, we have no losses and no compensation is required." Shang Zishu stopped Chen Che.

"Although the two ladies have not suffered any losses, they must be dissatisfied with Lingfengfang. I hope the two ladies can give Lingfengfang another chance. The tea they use is all fine tea. We will never have another servant like Chen Qian again. I will report to my mother and punish him severely." Chen Che stubbornly sent his personal servant to fetch tea. He also refused to let Shang Mingshu and the other two leave. He invited them in and called the young man out to entertain them, offering them both fine tea and cakes...

"Third sister, why doesn't this Chen Dalang look like the one Mr. Cheng described?" Shang Zishu, who couldn't leave, sat on the second floor and watched Chen Che personally negotiate business with several merchants from outside the Great Wall. No matter how she looked at him, he didn't look like the one she had imagined in her mind.

"Perhaps it's not Mr. Cheng's description that's wrong, but rather you and I are mistaken?" Shang Mingshu pondered for a moment. "He said he was bringing a friend, and Chen Qian was obviously surprised to see him, which means he rarely comes here."

"But at least he knows how to maintain the reputation of his own tea company." Shang Zishu frowned.

"If you don't protect it when you see it, it's not that you are not interested in the family business, but that you are not interested." Shang Mingshu lowered her head and took a sip of tea, the best Yangxian tea.

Shang Zishu didn't say anything else. She watched Chen Che carefully and patiently introduce tea to several merchants from outside the Great Wall, and even brewed tea for them to taste personally. Several merchants from outside the Great Wall who knew nothing about tea nodded frequently.

Just as the deal was about to go through, Chen Che's servant brought a can of tea and, at Chen Che's instruction, placed it in front of Shang Zishu. Shang Zishu opened it and could tell at a glance that it was indeed a rare treasure.

She suddenly stood up and walked over to Chen Che, pulling him aside and saying, "The tea you're trying to sell to others is inferior quality."

(End of this chapter)