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Chapter 89 I don't understand the world of the rich

Picking tea is a boring and light physical activity. It is difficult to teach these knights to identify the parts to pick, because Cecil himself does not know how to do it. There is no way, this industry is willing to recruit young and beautiful girls, and there are more gimmicks when selling tea. In fact, the real picks are uncles and aunts chatting with their parents.

Cecil felt that there was no difference between the knights picking tea and the uncles and aunts on the earth.

"Have you heard? The room next door was divided yesterday."

"Really? Oh, I really like that young man, I have to hurry up and find out."

"Come on, you, people won't like you just like you!"

"You think you have a chance? Be careful what I tell your boyfriend!"

"How dare you! Let me tell your boyfriend that you actually like big boobs the most!"

"roll!"

Cecil stood aside silently, wishing he could be deaf.

How do these homosexuals manage to be handsome and tall in appearance, obscene and lazy in behavior, and gossip in psychology?

With the passage of time, one day Cecil will become as ruthless as a woman, and no longer care about other people's looks. God is perfect from the inside out.

First pick a batch of tea, put it in a hardwood pot to dry, it should be fried tea, but Cecil has never done this business, so I don’t know what method to use, so make a small batch first to test the water.

So far, there is only one hardwood pot in Yuecheng that is in the shape of a frying pan, and the others are all iron buckets bought by Ebo. Soup making is an excellent frying pan. Ordinary people don't fry things, they mostly cook them. It's an old problem, it's too troublesome to keep the firepower.

With the destruction of Ebo, most of the metal raw materials are gone, and Cecil's idea of ​​reaping some usefulness is also shattered, so he has to order a large number of brass from Toto Port as raw materials for water pipes, which is more suitable for this era. The materials are gone, and he still wants to make cement out of the city's sewers, but let's solve the problem of the bathroom first. After all, the bathroom is a "golden egg" that has been making money.

As the temperature rose, the tea leaves gradually evaporated water, and the tea aroma Cecil imagined did not appear. The leaves slowly curled and shrank, and finally turned into those tea leaves that he had seen before.

He specially set up a huge fire, guaranteed to boil [-] degrees of boiling water, and poured the tea into the tea with great anticipation, but there was only a little taste of grass, which was very bland, and he felt something was wrong after taking a sip.

Cecil looked at the fresh tea leaves and pondered for a while, and found that there were some stains on them, so he washed the tea with water and put it back into the pot. After a while, he got a pot of tea soup.

"Is this how you drink your tea?" Langdon, who was watching from the sidelines, asked.

No!

Cecil shouted inwardly, and stared at the fresh tea leaves to use his brain: Why is it called "fried" tea?Is it necessary to have a "fry" action?

For the third time, Cecil washed and dried the leaves first, put them in a hardwood pot after making sure there was no water, and baked them on the low heat of the kang stove, and then kept stirring them. There was no spatula, and the temperature was not too high. It was a bit cold, so he boldly imitated the stir-frying movement with his hands, flying his hands up and down.

"What are you frying? Bugs? Can this be eaten too?" Russell and Oakes came in. After a new technology is invented, it is almost a custom that the leadership must first try it out, and the place is of course Cecil's room.

Cecil was a little nauseous for a moment, as if his hand had really been inserted into a pot of worms, and he said angrily: "Tea!"

"Oh, is this tea?" Russell stood by the pot for a while, "It doesn't taste like anything."

"What's the rush, it's not time to eat yet."

Cecil stopped when the water in the tea leaves was almost completely dry and looked similar to the tea leaves in his impression. He picked up a piece of tea and smelled it. It seemed that there was no tea fragrance. He twisted it inadvertently, and found that the tea fragrance was stronger After a while, try to gently twist this handful of fried tea leaves for a while, smell them while twisting, and use the aroma to determine the degree, and those that are over-twisted and broken directly, also keep them for brewing comparison later .

After the fried tea he made for the third time was cold, Sisi boiled another pot of boiling water and brought out a hard wooden tube to make tea. The tea soup appeared in an instant, and the familiar fresh tea smell wafted into his sense of smell, which almost made him cry.

Ah, the taste of Chinese civilization.

There is a thousand-year symbiotic relationship between Chinese civilization and tea. Even though they are separated by different worlds, Cecil can still feel the taste of going home from tea.

"Are you okay?" Russell asked.

"It's okay." Cecil blinked and sighed involuntarily, "I've been drinking it since childhood."

There is no need to specifically explain what this sentence means. Everyone understands that Cecil claimed that his civilization had a "serious accident". Although it is still preserved, it cannot go back.He didn't know if someone suspected the time travel, but the knights tacitly kept silent, let alone explaining to strangers, "don't ask where you came from" is a necessary etiquette in this world!

"Is this tea?" Oakes shook the tea in the hard wooden tube, took a sip after smelling it, and frowned, "I feel nothing."

There are no teacups, and each person only has a cylinder made of hardwood, so we can make do with it.

Cecil felt that this lacked a little artistic conception, and the white cup of green soup was the perfect picture in his memory, and he must find a way to burn porcelain out of it when he has the opportunity in the future.

"Taste carefully, don't swallow it in one gulp." Cecil said, "Tea must be tasted! Taste! Let your tongue feel it!"

Several big men tasted silently for a long time.

"It seems to have a little sweetness." Moyer first expressed his thoughts, "It smells like grass."

"That's called tea!" Cecil said angrily, "Grass doesn't taste sweet!"

This is true, the local grass is astringent and spicy, and it can induce vomiting after eating.

"It's a bit bitter, but it will return to sweetness after drinking it. It can really relieve the greasy feeling caused by meat." Langdon made the last comment, "However, this is a food after all."

"No, it's not just food. Tea can prevent vitamin deficiency, prevent sailors from septicemia, and make it possible to go to sea remotely." Cecil added before Oakes could speak, "Without using magic!"

Oakes closed his mouth resentfully.

"Tea can keep people from losing their teeth, regulate the stomach, improve eyesight and invigorate the spleen. In short, tea is something that can be passed on to the world. From now on, tea varieties must be treated as the top secret!" Cecil said seriously, " No one is allowed to take a live tea tree out, not even fresh tea! If you find tea elsewhere, you must find a way to bring it back or destroy it! If it is a tea tree that is different from ours, do everything you can to get it !"

Several other people looked at Langdon in unison, this action made Cecil a little discouraged, but fortunately, the male god always supported him: "Just do it like this, I believe dear Cecil."

Compared with flaked tea leaves, the taste of crushed tea is not so perfect. Not only is it more bitter and astringent in the mouth, the aftertaste is not obvious, but there is also an indescribable grassy taste-not tea taste!

Cecil is very satisfied that he has found the right channel. With the knights picking and frying tea day and night, the output of tea is very fast, and tea can be picked three seasons a year. It is a perfect economic crop, especially for meat-based food For many people, because of the underdevelopment of economic crops, ordinary people do not have so many fruit choices, and tea makes up for this problem very well.

"Let's go to Port Toto." Cecil said to Langdon, "talk to Mrs. Shanzi."

It was tea that Cecil was going to talk about.

The port of Toto in the beginning of spring is full of turmoil. Merchants are busy stocking up for the coming spring shopping wave. The transportation team is busy maintaining carriages and horses, including griffins who are also training newborn griffins. Everything is for making money .

Cecil is very comfortable with this kind of atmosphere. He doesn't need to think about the title of "promoting alien civilizations". Everyone is just ordinary people, no different from the earth.

Mrs. Xiangqi has a small building facing the port in Toto Port. The location is quite good. The first floor is her family’s grocery store. The backyard has a direct entrance to the second floor. It is her private residence. The layout is reasonable and the garden is also taken care of. Elegant and beautiful, in Cecil's opinion, if he could have such a house in a second-tier city before traveling, he would be able to live on rent for the rest of his life.

Mrs. Shanzi didn't seem to have much enthusiasm, and received Cecil and Langdon with a reserved attitude: "May the holy light shine on your way forward, Your Highness Langdon, Knight Commander Cecil, I am very pleased See you two distinguished guests again."

"May the magic love your descendants." Cecil also learned to reply in a decent omnipotent manner, "You seem a little troubled, can I help you?"

Mrs. Xiangqi sighed: "Today's waves are especially dull, full of Anonfutar's anger."

Cecil: "..."

Didn't this fucking kill the world all of a sudden?I don't know this trick at all!

At the critical moment, Langdon came to the rescue. The two chattered for a long time, and after talking to each other in a cloud of business, they could finally get to the point.

"It's like this, spring is here, we're trying to make some refreshing drinks, and I'll bring them here for you to taste." Cecil took out the tea leaves in the sack, there's no way, there's no way to pack them, "Do you have a white cup?"

"White? Is there any reason for this?" Mrs. Xiangqi asked while waving to the servants waiting beside her.

"There is a saying in my hometown that food should be full of color, fragrance, and taste." Cecil quickly started the sales mode, "Color, aroma, and taste are all indispensable. This tea is an elegant thing similar to piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. It can calm the mind and make the whole body comfortable, especially after eating too much meat, it can be used to relieve greasy, it can also relieve bad breath and clean the stomach, it is most suitable for cultural people."

Mrs. Xiangqi seemed dubious, but the servant quickly brought a small cup, which was shaped like a pot-bellied beer mug. It was very white, almost reaching the whiteness and smoothness of a few yuan in a supermarket in an industrial society.

Now Cecil was no longer foolish, and immediately asked, "Is this a magic cup?"

"Of course." Mrs. Xiang Qi said proudly, "I only use magic containers to store food to avoid getting sick."

"Very reasonable." Cecil echoed, secretly remembering the money-making point of Baici.

The white cup of green soup, under the sun, this scene really has some beautiful artistic conception. Mrs. Xiangqi seemed to be very surprised. As Cecil suggested, she first shook the teacup, smelled it, and then took a sip.

"Seems fine, some sweetness... that's all."

Cecil was already prepared to fail. After all, those who have never drunk tea are just like this. He talked about the benefits of tea, including vitamin supplements and the prevention of septicemia. However, Mrs. Xiangqi still chatted unhurriedly, and politely saw off the guests after a while.

Leaving some tea as a gift, Cecil and Langdon left the beautiful garden house and went straight to the metal raw material store to order a large number of copper ingots.

"Don't mind, tea needs to be done slowly." Langdon comforted gently.

"I'm not worried." Compared to before, Cecil seemed confident, "She will realize the benefits of tea."

Langdon raised his eyebrows: "It's rare that you are so optimistic this time."

"Of course." Cecil turned his head and wanted to smile at Langdon. Of course, he failed, but there was still joy in his voice, "Everything is always in the right direction. There is confidence in the matter, but the result is doomed long ago, there may be some twists and turns in the middle, but gold will always shine, because this incident has already happened in my hometown.”

Langdon stared at Cecil's eyebrows from a very close distance, and sighed: "The kingdom of a thousand years... is so wonderful, only this kind of civilization can raise people like you."

Cecil thought for a moment, then nodded seriously, making Langdon laugh.

A few days later, Mrs. Shanzi sent another extravagant griffin letter, asking Cecil and Langdon to bring tea and go to discuss.This time, her attitude was a little more enthusiastic, with a bit of unconscious femininity: "It's amazing. Although there is nothing special about the tea, I don't know why I just want to drink a cup every day. After drinking it, I really feel refreshed." One point, unforgettable."

Fuck, how did I forget that tea also has refreshing and addictive properties? !

Cecil scolded himself in his heart, and immediately hit the snake with the stick: "This is the advantage of tea."

After listening to Datong's eloquent boasting, Mrs. Xiangqi smiled and said: "It is indeed a magical drink. It would be great if it can be promoted. Is it still divided into high-quality and low-quality drinks this time?"

"No, we plan to divide it by season. Different seasons have different prices. Spring tea is the most expensive, followed by summer tea, and autumn is special. There is no tea in winter." When it comes to marketing, Cecil is a master good hand.

After listening to Mrs. Xiangqi, she praised a few words, slightly changed her sitting posture, and said, "So, this time, is it still divided according to the method of 'hot bath treatment'?"

Here comes the meat scene.

At the moment, the three of them were sneaking around... No, it should be said that they had a "harmonious and loving" discussion about the profit of tea, from the effort each person made and the contacts they knew to the expectations for the future. In the end, Mrs. Xiangqi Take 1.5% of the profit, and the Gay Knights get 8.5%.

The reason why the profit can be further squeezed is that Cecil said that the demand for tea will be astonishing, and the production will even increase year after year, and the volume and weight of tea are very small, which has obvious advantages over bulk transportation.

"One day in the future, tea will be called 'plant gold', and distant countries will be willing to pay a lot of money to obtain tea." Cecil spared no effort to promote, "Tea will become your major source of profit."

Mrs. Xiangqi said with a decent smile: "I have already experienced the charm of handsomeness. I have to say that 'hot bath therapy' and 'soap' have brought me great comfort this winter. It deserves your and my attention, and it is lucky that Toto Port is being watched by the Gay Knights and the Xiangqi Family, from now on, the whole world will know the name of Toto Port.”

Langdon and Cecil laughed in unison, and the small room was filled with joy.

After placing an order for the construction of the forging workshop in Toto Port, Cecil and Langdon set off for home. Along the way, they discussed only one topic: "Is there any way to get rid of Mrs. Shanzi and go it alone? The profit of soap It hurts my heart to be smoked so much by her, and I can't breathe when I think that the soap sold separately will be smoked by her in the future."

Langdon couldn't laugh or cry: "It's too early to dump our partners at this time, isn't it? The world doesn't know our name yet. Besides, the contract only stipulates that the people she introduces will be drawn for buying soap. The customers introduced by customers are not in this range, anyway, she has no way to find out who bought it."

Cecil was stunned for a moment, then said hesitantly: "But...she has a way to supervise it?"

"What way?" Langdon was a little surprised, "Can she still send employees to us? It doesn't exist. We are the Gay Knights, not a chamber of commerce. She should have considered it when she first talked with us. This factor is why the rake rate is so high. As time goes by, her rake rate will always be so much. This is because we are knights after all, so we must have a certain degree of credibility. If it is a church, directly Tell her that the profits must be paid as a worship tax, and there is nothing she can do about it.”

When Cecil heard this, he immediately felt a lot better. The big tree he was relying on was really cool. However, thinking of the profit for a period of time and Mrs. Xiangqi's beautiful house, he couldn't bear it. Can't stop complaining: "It's better to promote the Gay Knights, there should be more channels than Mrs. Xiangqi."

"It's true that there are many more than the Xiangqi family, but the Gay Knights will give you [-]/[-]." Langdon said.

"I am eight?"

"You two."

"..."

Too cruel!

However, thinking about the kings, queens, nobles, etc., the channels of the Gay Knights, it seems that they are not so ruthless, and they may be able to use magic coins for settlement at that time...

Cecil returned to Moon City with a beautiful fantasy about the future - which does not exist. After telling the fire goblins the news that the construction staff of the forge workshop was coming, the "Smurfs" who had been sluggish cheered instantly Woke up, quickly returned to the state of boredom and shrank into the boiler room.

The flame goblin would bow down to the boiler at regular intervals every day, with an extremely pious attitude, and some even took off their clothes and danced around the hot water pipe.It is said that a knight doing maintenance inadvertently broke in. The goblins screamed in fright and hit the hot water pipe with their toes. There are other fire goblins who express jealousy.

It really is a bunch of neuropathy!

Cecil sighed: "It's all here, and I can't retreat, just make do with it."

The flame goblins not only have to afford the renovation and completion of the bathroom, in fact, Moon City also needs them.Taking advantage of the warm spring and the flowers blooming and the grass growing and warblers flying, Cecil was going to start the drainage project of the whole city. After hearing Caroue describe the "terrible and happy rainy season", he has always had this idea.

The city that was built with great difficulty must not fall into a quagmire!

Besides, all the houses are made of mud. Although they have been magically used, these houses have no foundations. It’s okay when the ground is calm. Will it collapse?

The survivors of Ebo have said that ordinary hammers can also destroy the kang, what if it collapses?

Alas, let's get the brick kiln up early, or go nearby to see where there is suitable soil quality.

There is not enough time, and recently Cecil has this feeling every day when he opens his eyes. At this time, the visit from High Court especially surprised him.

Dali is a messenger. After fooling around in Moon City for a winter, he began to shed a lot of hair. The road he walked was covered with golden fluff. Everyone looked sideways. The only ones who understood him were the baby and the magic elk. Ladies and gentlemen, these goods are also losing hair all the way.

"This is the captain of our High Court purchasing team, Cowper Vincent. He has something to talk to you about tea." Dali seemed to be making an expression as he said this. Unfortunately, due to the long The hair has not been shaved off, and the hair on the whole head has a strange wriggling phenomenon, which makes it impossible to look directly at.

Cecil couldn't read Dali's thoughts from his expression at all, but Captain Vincent expressed his intentions straight to the point: "We want to purchase tea."

Wow, much better than Mrs. Shanzie.

"Of course." Cecil said enthusiastically, "How much are you going to buy?"

"We are willing to buy one hundred gold coins in a sack the size of an adult male's palm."

After hearing this answer, Cecil didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

Ahhh, the Highgarden elves are indeed rich!

Ahhh, what the hell is the measure of this world!

Cecil was silent for a while, and Vincent added, "If you have any objections, the price can be negotiated."

What a guest!

Cecil swallowed back tears of relief, and was about to agree, when seeing Dali shaking his hairy head, he suddenly remembered something Dali had mentioned to him: "Actually, I have a small request, that I can visit Gao The library of the garden elves?"

Vincent immediately looked at Dali, and Dali's reaction was more direct - he ran away.

Cecil: "..."

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