The three Zhang family waited in Tzu Chi Hall for a long time, and watched the people queuing up to buy their tea drinks happily with the notes in their hands. Some people even gulped them on the spot and took a sip of them.
Sighing, it was as refreshing as dry plants that had been drought and raining for a long time.
Ruyi couldn't help swallowing her saliva, pulled Luzhu and whispered: "Sister Luzhu, do you think this herbal tea drink is really so delicious?"
"I haven't drunk it either. If we wait until the end of the month, we will have a luxury, too?" Luzhu felt her mouth sore, and she couldn't help swallowing the secreted saliva with the rhythm of those people drinking tea.
Ruyi pinched her index finger with her right hand, pursed her lips and thought for a while, and decided that she would not be greedy. She still wanted to save money as a dowry. When she saved enough money, she would ask her wife to find a suitable person for herself.
When they got married, the family continued to live an ordinary and stable life in the Zhang family.
When the people at the entrance of Tzu Chi Hall had dispersed, the 100 cups of 20-month herbal tea drinks sold were sold out, and the sun was hanging in the sky to release the noon calories, and the three Zhang family members saw the tea drinks they booked appeared.
Xiaoniao and Xiaozhao pushed the small cart to deliver the tea drinks reserved by the guests to the front hall.
The small board truck is specially made, with four wooden wheels installed under the half-meter square wooden board. The wooden wheels are tightly wrapped by elastic pig skin, effectively reducing the tremor caused by the small board truck. The handlebars are installed on the board truck
The back end is only to the waist height of two beans, which is convenient for them to grasp and implement.
The two cooperated tacitly. The cart arrived at the designated cabinet for the tea drinks. Xiao Niu was responsible for holding the handle to fix the cart and no longer moved. Xiao Zhao was responsible for lined up the bamboo cups in a row to facilitate Xiao Ruo to pack teas later.
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The cup is also specially customized, with the three words Tzu Chi Hall printed on the sides of the bamboo cup. At first, Xiao Ruo wanted to use a ceramic cup, but the ceramic cup was expensive and the production period was long. She thought of the bamboo forests that could be seen everywhere nearby.
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Bamboo cups are easy to make. You only need to divide the bamboo according to the bamboo joints, polish the edges of the cup, and then use them after drying and drying. Using bamboo cups can also bring a unique bamboo fragrance to herbal tea drinks. The most important thing is that they are cheaper.
The division and polishing were done in the backyard, and she controlled the temperature and dried the water. The only place that required money to spend money during the whole process was to buy bamboo.
Xiao Ruo packs the tea drinks reserved by the guests according to the registration book. If you need to take out, put the bamboo cup in a woven straw rope bag. If you need to deliver the goods to your door, call the porter and explain the delivery address and quantity.
After paying the porter's wages, you can send it away.
"Five cups of clear heat tea, five cups of six white tea, the tea you want is ready, take it and walk slowly." Xiao Ruo handed the ten packed herbal tea drinks to the Zhang family's wet nurse.
The straw rope-woven bag fits the bamboo cup, and you can easily pick it up with just carrying the bag with your hand. The mouth of the bamboo cup is covered with straw paper and tied tightly with cotton thread on the edges. This way, you don’t have to worry about pouring out the tea drink when carrying the bag.
The Zhang family’s wet nurse looked into the cup through the thin and visible lid of the straw paper, and could vaguely see a few transparent ice cubes floating on the tea. She gently shaking the cup, and she could also hear the ding sound of the ice cubes colliding with each other.
"Okay, okay! This is tea money." She took out half a tael of silver from her pocket, and ten cups of five hundred folks were exactly half a tael.
After paying the money, the nurse of Zhang's family hurried back to the Zhang Mansion with Luzhu Ruyi. She had to deliver it to her wife before the ice had not melted. She turned back in such a hurry that she didn't even hear Xiao Ruo shouting "Thank you" from behind.
Come again next time”.
The insulation effect of the bamboo cup with a cover of the straw paper is quite good. When Mrs. Zhang got the Liubai Tea, the ice did not melt much. She held the wall of the cup with her hands in her hands, and could feel the coolness in the cup in her palm.
After drinking the cup, the cool and sweet feeling spread down the tongue and throat, soothing the internal organs that were whipped by the heat. The whole person seemed to be gently put into the stream with rippling water, and was washed away by the coolness from head to toe.
Mrs. Zhang drank a cup of six white tea in a few sips and breathed comfortably. The depression in her chest that had been depressed for many days was wiped out. The tea in the bamboo cup was gone, and the ice had not yet melted. She used a small silver spoon to pluck her.
A piece of broken ice fell into the mouth and chewed slowly. The ice cubes creaked between the teeth, like sugar cubes being chewed.
She relieved her depression and became clear-headed. When she came back, she stood by and waited for Luzhu, who had been waiting for her to serve, said: "Go and send three cups to the young master." She suddenly changed her words: "Qinghuo Tea and
Six white teas each gave the young master two cups to the yard. The master went there to see if he was in the mansion. If he was there, he would come to me this time.”
The maids took the orders and went there. Mrs. Zhang asked everyone who served them to retreat, leaving only the wet nurse on her side.
"Wuhan, tell me about the process of buying this tea."
The nurse of Zhang's family explained the process from asking the people in line to paying back home in detail to the lady, and did not even miss the number of cups set by the Li family and Ruan family in the reservation registration book.
"You mean that you are queuing up to get the number and booking the delivery idea was all the girl named Xiao Ruo who came up with it?"
“According to the people who bought tea, that’s true.”
"Then this girl is really smart and clever. I thought she was not an ordinary person before..."
Mrs. Zhang lowered her head and chewed it out again. After thinking for a while, she asked again: "Did you see the process of making herbal tea drinks? Or did you see how Tzu Chi Tang made these ice cubes?"
"They all made tea buckets and packed ice in the backyard, and let the two little babies push them out with carts. I stretched my neck and looked at it for a long time but couldn't tell where the ice came from." The wet nurse saw the lady in her hand.
After finishing all the bamboo cups and ice cubes, I took out another cup of new six white tea and handed it over.
"Miss, do you think they bought the ice cube?"
"Impossible. In order to get ice cubes this year, several major stores have already said hello. If there is ice cube sale, we must be close to our house first. How could a small clinic pass through our Zhang family?"
The two of them discussed the origin of the Tzu Chi Hall ice cube, and a middle-aged man in high-end clothes hurriedly stepped into the door, which was Zhang Fengling, the master of the Zhang family.
When Zhang Fengling heard the maid say that his wife asked him to come over, he thought that his wife was suffering from Ku Xia again, so he came to attack him. He did not dare to delay for a moment, so he hurriedly got up and rushed to the courtyard where his wife was.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his wife looking calm, holding a bamboo cup and drinking tea while talking to the wet nurse. Her brows, which had always been frowning in the past, also were unfolding. He was very surprised.
"Madam, I wonder what to call me?"
Mrs. Zhang was not in a hurry to reply, waved her hand to signal Zhang Fengling to sit down, and pushed the uncovered bamboo cup on the table at him.
When Zhang Fengling's hand touched the bamboo cup, he felt a sensation of coldness. Small water droplets had begun to condense outside the bamboo cup. He quickly opened the lid of the cup, and the coolness became even worse, and it turned out to be ice.
"This? Where did this ice cube come from?" He picked up the bamboo cup and looked carefully. He saw the three words Tzu Chi Hall burned out from the side of the bamboo cup. "Tzu Chi Hall?"
Mrs. Zhang smiled and looked surprised. On weekdays, Zhang Fengling spent most of her time checking the account books of the shops at home and dealing with the bank bank. When she didn't make a account, she looked at the past when she was studying in the study.
I rarely go out for a walk, so it is not surprising that I don’t know that there is ice in Tzu Chi Hall.
"By the master, this is the herbal tea drink that the lady sent me to buy. There are broken smoothies in a cup of twenty cents, and there are ice in a cup of fifty cents." The wet nurse replied.
Zhang Fengling felt it was incredible. He opened all the four unopened bamboo cups left on the table, and sure enough, there were ice cubes floating in each cup.
"There is ice in this Tzu Chi Hall? Madam, I really greet every business with the North Shopping Line. There is absolutely no omission!" Zhang Fengling quickly assured his wife that he just raised his hand and swore.
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He was originally from an ordinary family and it was already very difficult to support his schooling. Later, on the way to the third provincial examination, he met Miss Zhang, who was named the Boudoir. The two fell in love with each other for life at first sight.
After getting married, he knew that he did not have the talent to be able to do high school in the temple, so he simply relied on Mrs. Zhang's parents to start a business. Unexpectedly, he had no talent in studying, and was very favored by the God of Wealth to do business. He made money in just a few years.
He made a fortune and became the most famous rich family.
Even though he was rich, he did not forget how he made a fortune. He was wholeheartedly devoted to Mrs. Zhang and was in line with the case. Even if Mrs. Zhang was weak and had only one son, he never thought of taking a concubine to spread his branches and leaves.
Mrs. Zhang is so sad about it every year that he spends a lot of money to buy ice cubes to cool her down.