During the three days of their stay in Wuyi, Yinzhen, Luo An, Song Xiangnan and others either stayed in the study room to discuss matters regarding the tea garden, or went to the site to investigate the site for the establishment of the tea garden.
Jinxi took Qiwu, Shanyue, Xizhu, and Lungcui, and with the generous help of local tea farmers, went up the mountain to dig for black truffles.
Fortunately, the tea farmers all have hunting dogs with sensitive noses, plus the little breeding sow who accidentally became a tour guide. Within half a day, Jinxi successfully dug up a large bamboo basket wrapped in fresh mud.
Truffles are hard and full-bodied with fine texture. In future generations, they will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars... It's a pity that now I can only look at the treasure and sigh... Jinxi rubbed her chin and sighed secretly.
However, there is another way to make use of the value of black truffles. That is to dry fresh black truffles and soak them in wine. It is called "black truffle wine" for short, and it is delicious when you hear it. When the time comes, it will be shipped out of the country and sold to Europe.
Make a fortune.
Therefore, Jinxi asked Qiwu and others to transport five large baskets of fresh black truffles wrapped in raw mud that they had excavated in the past two days to the inn, covered them with linoleum, and hid them in the backyard of the inn, intending to take them back to Hangzhou.
In fact, Jin Xi’s worries were purely unfounded. The reason why the local tea farmers let Jin Xi take their hunting dogs and small-breed sows all over the hillside to look for black truffles and let them transport them down the mountain without any interference was because they did not
I don’t like the weird musk-like smell of black truffles. I don’t think this kind of thing can be eaten. It’s much more unpalatable than ordinary mushrooms and tea tree mushrooms.
Even if Jinxi exposed these black truffles to the world, they would only look at them curiously for a few times, and then avoid them with their breath held. The metaphor of "black truffles are black diamonds on the dining table" remained until the Qing Dynasty.
Just a joke.
However, Jinxi didn’t think so. If the “black truffle wine” produced by “Huaguo Winery” becomes very popular in the future, and even sets off an unprecedented “black truffle fever” in the Qing Dynasty, those who have seen this weird fungus will
The people would take notice. It would be difficult for her to come here to look for black truffles without telling the public, so it would be safer to stay hidden.
Considering the transportation problem of black truffles, Yinzhen decided to return by sea. Fortunately, before they separated, he ordered Liu Qing to park the ship in Ningde Port and wait for news about them. If the Wuyi incident delayed their planned itinerary, then choose
Go to Ningde and take a big boat back to Ningbo. After all, the sea route is smoother and more stable than the land route.
March 16th, spring is bright and beautiful.
After Luo An, representing Ying Xi Trading Company, negotiated the details of cooperation with Song Tea Industry, represented by Song Xiangnan, they formally signed a friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation agreement under the witness of Yinzhen and several senior officials of the Song family.
When putting down the seal, the sharp-eyed Jinxi saw the large tourmaline seal that Luo An took out, and when he typed out the words "Ying Xi Trading Company", he couldn't help but glance at Yinzhen, and met Yinzhen's smile.
The look he came over made his cheeks blush.
This person... actually adopted this name quietly... Ying Xi... did she mean what she thought?
Thinking of this, the roots of Jinxi's ears became hotter and hotter. She lowered her head to avoid Yinzhen's smiling gaze, and her little woman-like expression suddenly appeared.
After the contract was signed, the two parties had lunch at the largest restaurant in Wuyi. After a while, Song Xiangnan and Luo An, who have similar personalities, actually became brothers of the opposite sex through the power of wine, which further consolidated the stability of their tea garden business.
cooperative relationship.
Since then, the "Xi Tea Garden" established by Ying Xi Trading Company in Wuyi has developed and grown year by year with the joint efforts of Song Xiangnan and Luo An.
Until more than ten years later, when Yinzhen took Jinxi to Europe for inspection, there were more than ten "Xi Tea Gardens" in Hangzhou, Wuyi, Dongting, southern Yunnan and other places in the south, almost monopolizing 99% of the Qing aristocratic circle.
Tea supply.
Now, the group is preparing to board the ship and return to Ningbo. Another important reason why they chose to land at Ningbo Port is that Jinxi is thinking about all kinds of seafood in Ningbo Port. Thinking about the delicious and nutritious fresh fish and shrimps from the Deep East Sea
Crab, where can I buy it in Beijing?
She asked sister-in-law of the Liu family to make dry goods for those she had purchased before. For snacks, there were dried shrimps, dried squids, dried fish... and for cooking, there were various kinds of fish. However, Xizhu, who was born in the northern inland,
The girl who rarely encountered seafood was very happy. So, after playing around the inland area of Fujian, she almost ate all the finished products. After arriving in Wuyi, she left some for Song Xiangnan's family to taste.
There is not much left.
So I thought about going to Ningbo Port to buy some before I left, and asked Mrs. Liu to make some dry goods and bring them back to Beijing. They could be used as souvenirs or given to my parents’ family to taste. Even if it didn’t work out, Xi Teng Tea House could also sell a few plates of seafood.
Snacks are very versatile.
Just like this, we kept going around until we arrived at Ningbo Port, where we collected seafood, dried them in the sun, and visited the scenic spots near Ningbo. We also brought large and small bags of dry goods, pickled products, and a few jars of green sweet potato seedlings.
When the big basket of fresh black truffles returned to Hangzhou, it was already the end of March.
There is still one month left before the vacation left by Kangxi for the two of them. No, Yinzhen still has to go to Jinling, firstly to inspect the construction of the headquarters, and secondly to inspect the water conservancy projects in Jinling area.
The first time he went there, Yinzhen took Jinxi with him. They also visited the tourist attractions near Jinling and inspected the third tea garden base to be built in the future, namely Jinling's Yuhua Tea.
On the fourth day of April, Wu Qi Bing said that the villa in Hangzhou has been settled well and can be moved in at any time. Jinxi went back to Hangzhou first, cultivated precious sweet potato seedlings in the separate plantation of the villa, and tried to brew them.
Several jars of grain wine steeped in black truffles came out.
The young couple were so busy in Jinling and Hangzhou respectively that they left early and came back late, without even touching the ground.
By the end of early April, the two finally finished their respective affairs. In the remaining few days of leisure time, they had the rare opportunity to climb tea mountains, view tea gardens, taste a few cups of Mingqian Premium Longjing produced in their own tea gardens, and catch a few tails.
Enjoy the grilled fish swimming freely in the Chashan creek.
Then, on the auspicious day of April 16, the group was ready to return to the capital. Qi Si and Jiang Rui, who had been loaned out, also returned. Shan Yue returned to Luo An, while Long Cui stayed in Xizi Villa.
Sure enough, after returning this time, the relationship between Qi Si and Jiang Rui has changed slightly. Jin Xi is naturally happy to hear about it. Next, we will see Xizhu and Qi Wu.
This time, Yinzhen decided to set off directly from Hangzhou and arrive in Beijing by water along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The boat he took was not another boat, but a large cruise ship sent to them by Weng Zhaorong, the leader of the Cao Gang.
Of course, this cruise ship is different from the previous wedding gift boat. Not only is it specially built, it can also brave rapids and has strong power. The loading volume is not small. In addition to four neat rest cabins, there are also
Two large cargo compartments were separated, which can accommodate about ten tons of cargo. The local specialties and home-brewed wines that Jinxi collected along the way were neatly stacked.
The water route is faster than the land route. It mainly saves them the time to stay overnight. The four boatmen sent by Weng Zhaorong, two of them during the day and two of them at night, work on the boat. The cruise ship glides on the canal like woven cloth.
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Even if they visit a famous tourist destination that is both familiar and unfamiliar in their memory, such as Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Baoying, Huai'an, Tongtai'an, Jining... they will go ashore to spend some time and buy some local snacks.
Give some to the hard-working boatmen to taste, and the whole trip will not necessarily be delayed.
Fortunately, Jin Xi knew how to use formations. Whenever night fell, she would take out her homemade mist formations and set them up on both sides of the ship to hide the movement within the area where the cruise ship was located, so as to avoid being coveted by some water thieves.
Speaking of the skills she and Yinzhen practiced, her Object Control Technique has reached the third level, and her ability to sense various animals and plants has become clearer. It is estimated that the aura emanating from her body has a strong influence on the fish, shrimps and crabs in the river and sea.
, is particularly attractive. No, along the way, they sat on the boat and fished out a few obedient little fish from the window into the canal... To their delight, several boatmen who took their turn to rest went into the water to fish for fish.
In the evening, they stewed soup for meals.
As for Yinzhen's Dragon Roar Sutra, he has also practiced it to the level of "Dragon Traveling the World". The sword blade passes like a giant dragon carefree, playing in Kyushu. Today's Yinzhen, not to mention praying for the eagle, even if all the secret guards of the praying generation are at the same time
He was able to deal with him easily without any panic. It was obvious that the skills inherited from the martial arts were so incredible. Jin Xi sighed more than once. He always felt that his luck was too good to be true.
If possible, she wanted to set up a school to teach martial arts secrets. However, as soon as this idea came to her mind, she was the first to reject it. Unless Kangxi or the prince and others wanted to kill Yinzhen and kill him
The foundation they worked so hard to create in the Qing Dynasty, otherwise, she would never use the martial arts skills and formations in the martial arts inheritance for commercial profit or revenge. I believe Yinzhen thinks the same way.
On April 29, they successfully docked at Tongzhou Port in Beijing. Qi Jiu and others, who had received the news about Qi Wu a few days ago, had been waiting to meet them at Tongzhou Pier.
Seeing no less than two bamboo baskets, linen bags, large clay pots and other utensils filled with southern specialties being transported out of the cruise ship, I pulled into the sixteen horse-drawn wagons that Qiwu specially asked Qijiu to prepare.
The secret guards, who usually had no expression on their faces, also kept twitching at the corners of their mouths.
This is not the scene of my master returning from a trip. It is simply a grand scene for Jiangnan salesmen returning to Beijing.
With the help of Yinzhen, Jinxi jumped onto the shore and said with a smile to Qijiu and others: "Don't stare, we will all be there for you later."
Qi Jiu twitched the corner of his mouth, blinked and glanced sadly at Yinzhen, and said, "Thank you, Mistress, for the reward."
In fact, he really doesn't want these specialties. Look at the dark things in the bamboo basket. What are they? I think he is in the secret guard, but he is famous for being a "germophobic"! Think about it
These are so dirty that they make your whole body itchy!
Jin Xi snickered in her heart, how could she not know Qi Jiu's temperament? As early as the wedding day, she had clearly remembered the habits of several leaders of the secret guard from Yinzhen. (To be completed.