When he was a child, he heard his mother and second aunt quarrel a few times. He didn't understand it at the time, but he probably understands it now.
"Are they all working together to lower the price of our tea?" You Miao asked, "Let the second uncle sell it if he can."
"Your second uncle Yumu's head." Qiao Jue said angrily: "If it makes sense, it is not the current situation. Talking to him a few more words is like hurting him."
You Miao was happy and said, "Where's my cousin?"
Qiao Jue said: "It's still the same, quarreling with that woman every day, and can't get married. When your mother goes, no one will hold down the tea house, and your second aunt is getting more and more slap in the face, so give me some money every month. , like sending a beggar."
You Miao said, "Either you come to live with me, and I think you don't leave either."
Qiao Jue didn't answer, took the cup and looked at it with a smile, "These two cups are interesting."
You Miao joked: "I bought it in the capital, it's called a Tai Chi pot, it's a street stall, and it costs two taels of silver."
The Tai Chi cup was filled with tea, and You Miao took a sip. Although there was nothing special at first, after the entrance, it was quietly aftertaste, slowly returning to the sweetness, and there was a mellow feeling, like a thick landscape with a smart ink fragrance. , spread out layer by layer on the tongue.
"Good tea." You Miao said.
"Yes." Qiao Jue said, "I told your second uncle several times that we don't make this tea at home, we have to grow green tea."
You Miao smiled and said, "Don't people here like green tea? If you want to do oolong tea business, you have to go to Huguang, the capital, and the middle of Shu to sell it."
Qiao Jue said, "I heard that those officials in the north really like to eat oolong tea."
You Miao said, "Do you have any tea seedlings there?"
Qiao Jue said: "There are many tea seedlings, but there is no place to grow them."
You Miao said, "Don't go home and get angry with that girl, collect the tea seedlings, bring me here to plant them, listen to me, uncle, I want to kill you!"
Qiao Jue sighed, You Miao was thinking of going to Shaoyuan Tea House in a few days to visit the door and get some tea seedlings to plant. The green tea market in Jiangnan would definitely not be able to compete with his father. Send it to Beijing to sell.
"I'll go home and take a look." Qiao Jue said.
You Miao knew that this matter could not escape Qiao Jue. Even if others didn't come, the tea seedlings had to be brought over. She didn't worry at all. After drinking three rounds of tea, she took Qiao Jue out to see the villa. You Miao proudly talked about Miao's affairs in Beijing. Said that the third prince Zhao Chao liked him and wanted to recruit him as a companion, and also talked about family affairs.
Qiao Jue is a well-known and beautiful man in Yangzhou. At the stop with You Miaochao, the uncle and nephew each had their own good looks. They rode horses that day and took a leisurely look at the entire villa. You Miao entertained Qiao Jue in the evening. After eating a farm meal, Li Zhifeng cooked and made a steamed fish. The daughter-in-law of Li Zhuang’s family and Zhu Tang’s family came to the villa to help with the work and simmered a can of chicken soup. Fried bacon, sliced blood sausage, stir-fried rice cake, seasonal vegetables and steamed egg custard.
You Miao couldn't help pouring wine for Qiao Jue, and said, "I just stayed here. There is nothing unusual about what to eat and drink. You can eat whatever you want."
"Might as well." Qiao Jue drank his face flushed and said, "In our tea house, that's just how we eat."
When You Miao heard this, she was surprised at first, and then she felt very pitiful. Her mother's uncle's house was once very ostentatious, how could it be reduced to this situation
"Can't the money be transferred?" You Miao finally felt that something was wrong.
"It's not just that you can't turn around?" Qiao Jue said, "The tail can't be lost. It's this kind of family business. It was done 20 years ago. Okay, yes, now it's impossible to go the same way. When I was there, I still had eight or nine hundred taels of silver in my account a year. In the past few years, your second uncle demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, and you don’t know how much money you owe. I saw that there was no payment for the goods. Your aunt I also support a bunch of relatives from my mother’s family, and every now and then, I have money in the account, alas, it’s difficult.”
You Miao knew that Qiao Jue used to manage accounts and manage all the money in and out of Shaoyuan Tea House. If you lose money and make money, you can't hide it from his eyes. If you say that, most of the business will not be able to go on.
"You come and sit." You Miao pulled Li Zhifeng.
Li Zhifeng waved his hand quickly and said, "I'm eating outside."
"I'll let you sit down." Qiao Jue smiled and said, "My nephew also said that you are his best brother..."
You Miao's face immediately turned red, and he said hurriedly, "It's alright, alright."
Qiao Jue sighed again and said, "I heard about you, my uncle wanted to go to the door to find him..."
You Miao smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's all about life."
Qiao Jue picked up the wine bowl, touched You Miao, and said, "In all these years, Shaoyuan Tea House has relied on your father to help you, and my sister-in-law is still trying to please people. You Dechuan... My uncle is also angry when he hears it."
You Miao said: "My father has never been a thing. He will ignore you when you come to the door. If you don't say anything, don't worry about it."
The two touched the wine bowls and took a sip of wine each. Qiao Jue said, "It's not like that! I cried a lot when I heard about it that day. Thanks to the third sister who bought this villa, I still have it, otherwise my uncle would think about it. You will be looked down upon by the wicked woman, and you won't even be able to sleep at night."
You Miao said with a smile: "It's useless to be angry with them, live your own life, eat and drink well, she wants me to be aggrieved, but I don't, I have to behave myself, which is the best for them. revenge."
Qiao Jue smiled and said: "That's what you said, you are much smarter than me, and so am I. I can't see the shit at home, and I don't want to make myself angry." Then he noticed that Li Zhifeng returned Standing aside, he tapped the wine bowl with his chopsticks, and said with a smile, "Li Zhifeng, come and sit down, I treat you as my family, and you also treat me as my family, don't you?"
Li Zhifeng nodded and sat down at the table. The three of them had a meal together. When Ye Youmiao didn't let Qiao Jue go back, they both fell asleep on the couch, hugging his waist as if they were back in childhood. There is always something to say.
Qiao Jue was brought up by Qiao Ke'er, and she has learned all the skills of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, calligraphy and etiquette. You Miao admired her uncle very much when she was a child. When he woke up, he said, You Miao told him that he was going to be a waterwheel, and Qiao Jue said that he still had several hundred taels of savings over the years, and he would go back in a few days to get it and use it for him.
The two stumbled together, and slept with each other until the third day of the third day, when Qiao Jue got up and had lunch and said that she was going back. You Miao still wanted to stay, but Qiao Jue said that he would drop by the way to see the tea farm, and prepare to have people pick spring buds early next year. Only then did You Miao reluctantly bid him farewell.