The teahouse's tea storage warehouse is on the far left side of the building at the back, inside the stairs where Sha Lenghai comes down. There are two warehouses on the first floor and one warehouse on the second floor. The boiling room is on the far right, the kitchen is on the far right, and the living room is on the far right.
Then there are other warehouses and a rest dormitory, followed by two tea warehouses.
The water boiling room and kitchen are arranged on the other side, probably to avoid affecting the tea. The living room is where the boss and staff gather for daily meals and temporary rest. Other warehouses are used to store salt, sugar, rice and noodles and other dry goods, vegetables, sauces and vinegar.
Others are directly stored in the kitchen, while the temporary dormitories are Datongbu rooms used by store clerks who live outside for temporary rest or duty.
As soon as he followed Lin Mo into the warehouse, what Zeng Wenchong saw in front of him were six or seven rows of large containers that were as high as the floor. There were six or seven floors one above the other. There were bamboo boxes on them, and most of the shelves were full.
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With the cooperation of Zeng Wenchong and his team members, Lin Mo opened some boxes to check. In fact, the quality of tea can be roughly judged through the boxes.
On the second floor below the container, the bamboo boxes are relatively crudely woven, and inside are mostly loose tea packed with several layers of oil paper, while above are more dense and compact bamboo boxes, and the boxes are mostly packed into packages.
Box of tea leaves.
"There are many types of tea in the library. Although they can only be classified as ordinary tea, the quality is relatively good. Even the loose tea on the second floor is of excellent quality. The average price of these loose tea is estimated to be two or three.
Ten yuan per load.
There are four boxes of tea in each box here. The weight of a single box is twenty or thirty kilograms. Each box is roughly estimated to be one load. The large cabinet has six layers. The single row of large cabinets is divided equally into three. Thirty-six equals eighteen tea boxes, a total of eighteen
Loads, seven rows of containers total one stone and twenty-six loads.
The quality on the third floor and above is obviously higher. The overall rough estimate is 30 yuan per load, so the value of the tea in this warehouse is more than 3,700 yuan, and the calculated value is even higher."
Hearing this figure, Zeng Wenchong's eyes widened and he couldn't help but said: "I don't usually realize how expensive tea is? I didn't expect that the tea in this room is worth thousands of oceans."
"Of course I don't feel much. A pound of tea only costs a few cents. We don't usually drink tea. If we buy this kind of tea for one yuan a year, we can probably still win. The cost is small, so it's natural to have tea."
How valuable is the illusion? It’s hard to realize the total price when you come in and see this house of tea.”
"Indeed..." Zeng Wen nodded quickly and replied: "Although I was mentally prepared before coming in, when I saw the loose tea, I estimated its value at a few hundred yuan, but they have so much tea in stock.
What are you doing? There are two warehouses here!"
"It should be used by the teahouse throughout the year. For such a large teahouse, when the business is booming, it is not surprising that several boxes of tea are used every day, and most of the tea is spring tea. Currently, spring tea has just passed.
Season, so the tea in the warehouse has not been consumed much."
While they were talking, their team members had already finished recording, and the two of them entered another warehouse through the door next to the stairs. This warehouse was smaller than the previous one, with only four rows of large cabinets, one on each side of the wall, and two back to back in the middle.
The goods are stored in the same way as the one just now, but the bottom layer is not placed.
Looking through the boxes, you can also see that they are on a higher level than the ones in the previous warehouse. The bamboo box strips are fine and tight. Some boxes are also made with color-difference strips to weave some simple patterns, and the strips have a layer of oily sheen. Obviously
It has undergone some special processing.
As expected, the inside is full of finely packaged good tea. The paper tea boxes are made of fine materials, and some are even packaged directly in porcelain cans. Although the tea category is not very expensive, it is still a good tea that deserves the name, and
The origins come from many production areas in East and Central China, and it can be said that there are a wide range of varieties.
After some inventory and records, it was found that although the warehouse was one size smaller and the packaging separation reduced the pure weight of a single box of amaranth leaves, the value was much higher than that in the larger warehouse. Tea is something that can be named by name.
They are much more expensive than ordinary tea.
The warehouse upstairs is opposite the small warehouse downstairs. The large warehouse is opposite the teahouse boss's bedroom and study room. The room beyond is the living room, reception room and office. Of course, the reception and office here refer to the host.
During espionage activities, that is, when Sha Ruhai broke into the room, you can still see the blood dripping from the removed body outside the door.
Entering the warehouse on the second floor, it is the same as the small warehouse downstairs. There are still four large tall cabinets arranged in the same way, but there are only five floors. However, the bottom floor is stored without worrying about the moisture near the ground, so the overall volume is the same as the floor.
The lower warehouse is the same.
In the two rows of the entrance, Lin Mo checked the boxes one by one. Sure enough, as Lin Mo expected, the teas stored upstairs were all the best tea in the teahouse. The famous ones include West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Baihao Junshan Silver Needle, Maofeng Maojian Houkui, etc.
Lin Mo had seen all the fine products and treasures, each of which was packaged and stored in several boxes.
Of course, these famous teas are also of good quality and good quality. Most of them are of medium to high quality, not many are of excellent quality, and some are old teas from previous years. But gathering so many types must have taken a lot of effort.
The last two rows had just opened and checked a few boxes, and Lin Mo couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He ordered the team members to continue opening the boxes and took out the tea leaves to smell and check.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with these teas?" Seeing Lin Mo's appearance, Zeng Wenchong came over and asked in a low voice.
"The tea is okay..." Lin Mo shook his head and explained: "But I'm a little surprised to be here. These tea bricks and tea cakes are all Pu'er, and they are of top quality.
Pu'er is produced in Yunnan. In recent years, the situation in the southwest has been chaotic, which has blocked trade routes. This tea is rare here. Although the price is not necessarily high, it is more difficult to collect than the previous two cabinets. Unexpectedly, there are six or seven of them.
box."
While talking, Lin Mo took out another pack of tea from the opened box, opened the package and checked it, and a moment later took out another pack from another box and checked it.
"This should be Sichuan tea, the 'Snow Ya' produced in the Emei Mountain area. The other one should also be Sichuan tea. I can't tell which one it is, but it is also a good quality tea."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Lin Mo checked several more types one after another without saying anything, until he checked another one, Lin Mo took a piece of tea and tasted it.
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"It tastes fresh and refreshing, has a tight, round and smooth appearance, is green in color, and is as white as jade. It should be called 'Jade Green'. It comes from the Enshi area of Hubei Province. Enshi is located to the west of the Three Gorges and is a mountainous area in the southwestern province."
After a while, he checked another one, and then said: "This tea has a tightly knotted, slender and curly appearance, with hair hanging over it, and a green color. It should be the sparrow tongue from southern Guizhou."
After checking all the tea leaves, Lin Mo clapped his hands and said: "Although most of the tea leaves stored in these two rows are unrecognizable, it is estimated that they all come from remote areas in the southwest or near the southwest.
The more unified feature is that the tea is of high quality and difficult to find in the local market, especially with so many varieties, which requires a lot of effort."
Hearing this, Zeng Wenchong wondered: "Why do they put so much effort into collecting? Are they really just focusing on running the teahouse?"
Lin Mo listened and said with a smile: "Running a teahouse is not the purpose, it is just a means to achieve the purpose. But because running the teahouse is not the purpose, that's why I put this thought into it."
"Uh..." Zeng Wenchong looked confused and said, "This is too convoluted. I don't seem to understand?"
Lin Mo explained with a smile: "If the purpose of running a teahouse is to pursue profits, these rare and hard-to-find teas can attract some preferential or curious customers, but because the tea is rare and hard to find, it takes a lot of time.
Efforts and even money are spent on searching, and the profit is much thinner than other easy-to-find teas.
Take the tea in this warehouse as an example. Although the tea in the two rows in front is expensive, you can basically buy it from a big tea merchant. Even if you can't get together with one family, you can just find a few more, and the supply is generally relatively stable.
, once you find a tea supplier, you don’t have to worry about it anymore.
But these teas are different. Due to the chaotic local situation, it is difficult to form a stable supply. If the supply is unstable, it is difficult to form a stable sales channel. This means that more costs are spent in the purchasing and selling process, thus diluting profits, because unstable profits are still difficult to form.
Not high, many big tea merchants are not willing to do this business.
Although some small and medium-sized tea merchants are willing to work if they can make money, it is more difficult for them to form stable channels. Small-scale businesses have a small scope of business. For this type of tea, if a single small and medium-sized tea merchant can only have one or two kinds, it is considered a mistake.
And more often than not, it may happen this year or next year, or even just by accident, a batch of such goods will be sold out. Therefore, searching for this kind of rare and hard-to-find tea is time-consuming and labor-intensive, plus the thin profits.
Do you think that a tea house that aims to pursue profits would be so thankless?
But this teahouse is based on snooping and obtaining information from customers, and people who are thoughtful and curious are mostly people with money and leisure. Such people generally have a certain status, and the mission goal of the teahouse is
Most of them are this kind of people, so they spend these thoughts."
"Hmm..." Lin Mo pondered for a moment, then said: "You can mark this situation and check the source of the tea and the causes and consequences of collecting these teas to see if there is anything fishy. Some unusual behaviors may often have some special reasons.
It’s caused!”
Zeng Wenchong didn't quite understand what he said and wanted to ask, but seeing that Lin Mo was carefully looking at the cabinet on the far left, he didn't ask and just asked his subordinates to mark it.
"Second cousin, your search was a little too detailed! There should be a secret room behind this wall, right?"
"Secret room?" Lin Mo opened his mouth, which confused Zeng Wenchong again, and said, "This small warehouse is the same size as the one downstairs!"
After saying that, Zeng Wenchong ran to the door, looked outside, then took it back to look inside, then looked inside again... He repeated this three times...
"The inner and outer walls are the same. If the whole house is divided into a secret room, what about the stairs? The stairs are connected to the wall! To separate the secret room, the stairs must be dismantled and rebuilt. This staircase is obviously very old and has no trace of reconstruction.
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Lin Mo heard this and replied: "I didn't say that this secret room was newly built. I guess it was built at the same time as the house. If you want to know the layout of this tea house, you obviously went to the big house when it was built.
I went there for a big sale in the store. I guess this secret room was used by the owner to store valuables when he was building it.
There is a secret compartment inside. I am sure of this. The back door I came through just now is the dividing wall between this and the big room next to it. I know how long it is. This small warehouse must be at least one wider.
Only half a meter is enough. I realized something was wrong when I was downstairs, but I still haven't found the entrance yet."
The back door of the teahouse, or to be more precise, the side door, is located in the building next to the warehouse, on the far side of the small private room on the first floor. Go up the L-shaped staircase on the second floor. The upper half is against the wall. Go through the staircase.
At the bottom is the small side entrance of the teahouse.
"You haven't found the entrance yet?" Zeng Wenchong was stunned when he heard that. He walked to the high cabinet and looked around. He checked carefully and found no trace of the entrance.
"I paid attention upstairs and downstairs. This big cabinet is close to the wall. It is filled with tea leaves. There are no wheels on the cabinet legs. It is difficult to move. It should not be in these two warehouses, but I already have a little
Got an idea.”
Hearing this, Zeng Wenchong said: "If it's not in the warehouse, how could it be outside? That's not right! If you are outside, you lose the concealment of the secret room, and you may not be able to hide it from other people in the store. I guess it has been revealed long ago. Is it possible?
underground?"
"What underground? You can't stop and think about it?" Lin Mo laughed and pointed to his head.
Zeng Wenchong was puzzled for a moment, then he patted his forehead and suddenly realized: "Attic, hey... I really didn't expect this..."
Zeng Wenchong immediately arranged for people to go to the two nearby rooms and search the ceiling inch by inch. After a while, he found two small secret doors, one in each room.
Many flashlights were found in the teahouse. After asking someone to get them, Lin Mo found a strange-shaped coat rod in the room, which could be easily removed from the base.
Lin Mo used this thing to carefully push open the secret door cover. After turning it 90 degrees, the flip plate got stuck. When he shined a light with his flashlight, he could see a bamboo ladder hanging from the beam, with the bottom touching the side of the secret door.
Lin Mo looked at the thing in his hand, reached up and hooked the cross step of the bamboo ladder, and gently hooked it inward. The bamboo ladder fell into the secret door and jumped up and down a few times.
Lin Mo continued to hook and pull down, and sure enough, he was able to pull it. When he almost reached the end, he found that there were two pieces of rubber rope tied to it. Lin Mo held on to the bamboo ladder and climbed up to the first step. Then he took out the gun sight and pressed it against the cross step.
Loading is done in one go.
Carefully walking up the ladder, he signaled to the people below to hold down the bamboo ladder. Lin Mo squatted down and pushed hard on his legs. He jumped and rolled twice on the attic. He held a flashlight in his left hand and a gun in his right hand to quickly check the situation on the attic.
Fortunately, nothing happened. Lin Mo knocked on the floor twice, and the two members of the third team who were already on the bamboo ladder immediately filed up. They were vigilant and checked the surrounding situation more carefully, eliminated dangers, and covered the members of the third team to climb to the attic.
"Old Zeng, look at the bamboo ladder and secret door in the room on the other side, and look at the traces on the floor in the middle of the attic. It's obvious that people have been walking for a long time, and there are probably quite a lot of them.
I think there may be more trouble in the attic than expected. I think we will lead separate teams and explore both sides. Be careful and let the third team come first."
After saying that, Lin Mo went to the nearest side, that is, the side of the warehouse. Zeng Wenchong looked a little helpless, but turned around and found that a member of the third team also went to the other side.
Those who understand are speaking directly to their subordinates.