leaf shadow by the pool

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Two months flew by.In the past two months, Ye Ying was still busy with her business, and He Linyuan was busy with official duties.However, when He Linyuan knew that Ye Ying was going to Jiangnan, he came to visit him specially. Ye Ying thought that He Linyuan also wanted to ask him to bring something for He Linyuan in Jiangnan.

"Since Mr. Ye has spoken, please ask Mr. Ye to bring something for me. Anything is fine."

The words from a few days ago are still echoing in Ye Ying's ears.

Ye Ying came to Jiangnan from the imperial city by boat.Ye Ying and his party lived in the Xiangju Building in the south of the Yangtze River.Because Ye Ying bought a tea garden in the south of the Yangtze River, it was not easy to manage, so he opened a Xiangju building in the south of the Yangtze River, but this restaurant is not comparable to the one in the imperial city.Because the main task of this restaurant is to urge the workers to pick, roast and transport tea during the tea picking season.

After Ye Ying and his party stayed in the restaurant for a day, Ye Ying took Ye Chen to the Jiangnan tea garden to see the situation of this year's tea.

Ye Ying supervised the whole process, and didn't even take a bite of the busy meal. Ye Chen brought some food from Xiangju Building.

"Ye Chen, you're the best, I'm starving to death." Ye Ying started to eat after speaking.

"Wait a few days, you watch for me, I'll go see an old friend, and by the way, find a good embroiderer for my mother and sister-in-law."

"Ah."

After Ye Ying finished eating, Ye Chen packed up and left, Ye Ying continued to stare.Ye Ying didn't go back to her room to rest until late at night.

In the next few days, Ye Ying has been busy with the tea garden.On the other hand, Shen Xiao heard that Ye Ying had come to Jiangnan, so he wrote a letter early to express his condolences.Ye Ying also wrote back a letter, explaining that she really couldn't leave, and would visit if she had time.

Ye Ying finally finished his busy work, and the family was thinking about Ye Ying and sent Ye Ying a letter.

"Ye Chen, I'm pretty busy with work today, I'll leave it to you, I'm leaving." Ye Ying casually told Ye Chen, went back to the room to wash up, and left the Xiangju building.

The sky is fine today, the green poplars are inhabiting the hawks, people are coming and going on the street, and there are bursts of music from the bell, drum and music tower.

Ye Ying walked in the bustling streets and alleys, the crowds were bustling with people, Ye Ying was alone, Ye Ying couldn't help feeling a little sad.

"This is really a sneak in." Ye Ying walked into an embroidery workshop.

"Shopkeeper, I heard that your place is the best embroidery workshop?"

A delicate girl stepped forward, "Exactly, what do you need, my lord?"

"I have some patterns here. I need to use the best silk and satin, and use gold thread to weave. I wonder how many days it will take to embroider them?" Ye Ying finished speaking and took out the patterns that Ye's mother and sister-in-law had chosen.

The girl took the pattern and looked at it carefully, "Master, if you need to embroider this, it will be very fast, but if you use gold thread, it will take some time."

"Why?"

"This gold thread is really precious. It looks hard but is actually the easiest to break, and the pattern is really complicated." The shopkeeper of the embroidery workshop told the truth.

"How long will it take?"

"There are only ten embroiderers that I can call. If I am in a hurry, it should take more than half a month at the earliest."

"Then trouble the girl, money is not a problem, I just hope the embroidery is good."

"Okay, then please come and pick it up after half a month."

Ye Ying left the embroidery workshop after paying the deposit, and walked straight to the Qinhuai River in Huafang Lelou.

Ye Ying walked downstairs to Jiale, holding some snacks that she bought just now.Ye Ying straightened her clothes before lifting her feet to go in.

"Master, do you want to listen to a ditty or watch a song and dance?" A sharp-eyed maid came forward to greet Ye Ying.

"I'm here to look for someone. I wonder if Mr. Shen Xiao is there?" Ye Ying directly stated his intention.

"Mr. Shen, um...he should be with the guests now, but it should be over soon. Please come with me, Master." The maid took Ye Ying to Shen Xiao's bedroom.

"Thank you, miss." Ye Ying thanked with a smile.

"It's okay." The maid felt blushing when she saw Ye Ying smiling. "I'll tell Mr. Shen right now."

Ye Ying walked into the room and sat down at the table. Ye Ying looked around and found a piano on a low table by the window.

Ye Ying walked over, and Ye Ying stretched out his hand to brush the piano, the whole body of the piano was black, with only a few words engraved on the inconspicuous places.Ye Ying bent down to see the words on Qin's body.

At this time, someone opened the door and came in. Ye Ying looked back and saw Shen Xiao wearing a green dress and walking with a Xiao.

"Zian, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came here." Shen Xiao put down her Xiao and approached Ye Ying.

"I just came here just now, have you been told by the maid?" Ye Ying smiled at Shen Xiao.

Shen Xiao had nothing to do with Ye Ying, "Have you eaten yet?" Shen Xiao asked Ye Ying when she saw the snacks on the table.

"Not yet, isn't this waiting for you to eat together." Ye Ying looked at Qin and asked, "Who gave this Qin...?"

"A guest." Shen Xiao said lightly, and Ye Ying didn't ask again. "What do you want to eat?"

"It's all right. You wait for me for a while and I will change my clothes before leaving."

Ye Ying turned around silently, looking thoughtfully at the people coming and going outside the window.

"Okay." Shen Xiao interrupted Ye Ying's thoughts.

"Where are we going to eat?" Ye Ying and Shen Xiao went out, Ye Ying looked at Shen Xiao and asked.

"Well... I know a restaurant does a good job, let's go there to eat." Shen Xiao led Ye Ying to turn left and right to a restaurant.

Ye Ying looked up, "Zui Xianju? It sounds good."

"Well, I eat here sometimes." Shen Xiao took Ye Ying in with ease.After ordering a few signature dishes, Shen Xiao asked Ye Ying, "What else do you want to eat?"

Ye Ying tilted her head and thought for a while, "No more, that's all."

Ye Ying looked at Shen Xiao, "You don't go to my restaurant, but you come here every day."

"Uh, you said I went for free, and it's not like I haven't been there before. You don't know that when I went, I left after eating. At that time, a customer thought I was eating Bawang meal and insisted on pulling me away. Let's go, and then the shopkeeper will come out and explain."

"Then...forget it, I don't care about it." Ye Ying said after thinking for a while.

... Shen Xiao was speechless for a while.

"You often come alone?" Ye Ying took a bite of the dish.

"No, some customers often take me out to eat, and I get used to it over time."

"Oh..." Ye Ying knew about Shen Xiao's daily life, so she didn't ask any more questions.

After eating, the two strolled on the street, and the people who came and went looked back frequently.One is that these two people are really eye-catching, and the other is that Shen Xiao is known to many people in Jiangnan, so it is quite surprising to others that Shen Xiao is so close to others.The two of them didn't mind people looking at them.

The two walked and strolled, Ye Ying was stopping in front of a small stall, and a sedan chair fell beside him.

Ye Ying watched the people in the sedan chair lift the curtain, revealing a face.

"Xiao?" The voice was slightly low.

Shen Xiao turned around and looked at the people in the sedan chair, "Mr. Chen."

"Why are you here?" Chen Bai looked at Ye Ying, carefully examining him from head to toe.

"I'm here with my friends, where is Mr. Chen going?" Shen Xiao moved a little closer, covering part of Chen Bai's gaze towards Ye Ying.

"I'm going back home. I'll say hello when I see you here. In this case, I'll leave first."

"it is good."

The four bearers carried Chen Bai away, and Ye Yingcai turned to Shen Xiao and asked, "Who was that person just now?"

"A big local family." Shen Xiao replied to Ye Ying's words pretending not to care. "By the way, when are you going to leave this time?"

"I haven't left yet, you just want to drive me away."

"No, I'm just asking, where do you come from with so many ideas."

"Well, I really want to stay here for a month this time."

"Huh? It's been so long this time."

"Yeah. This year's tea production is good, so I need to spend more time." Shen Xiao didn't know Ye Ying's full identity. From Shen Xiao's point of view, Ye Ying was a tea businessman who often traveled between the imperial city and Jiangnan. .

"Well, let me know when you leave and I'll see you off."

"it is good."

After Ye Ying and Shen Xiao bid farewell to the Xiangju Building, Ye Chen told them that the price of tea had dropped by [-] cents this year.

Ye Ying was startled after hearing this, this tea is already a daily commodity, how could the price drop so much.Ye Ying hurried to the tea merchants' homes to inquire about the specific situation.

"Boss Ye, you're here."

"Long story short, what's going on?"

"Well, there was plenty of rain this year, and the production of tea has increased a lot. It is understandable that the price has dropped, but this is not normal."

"Why is it abnormal?" Ye Ying asked quickly.

"It stands to reason that the normal price drop is only about ten yuan, but this time... alas. I'm afraid I will lose everything."

Ye Ying thought for a while and asked, "Are there a large number of cargo ships docking recently?"

"This... I didn't pay attention to this. I will send someone to investigate."

"Boss Ye means..." Another tea merchant asked Ye Ying.

"The reason for such an unusual price drop must be because there are a lot of tea being sold, otherwise the price would not be so low."

"Boss Ye, what are we going to do now?"

"I don't know at the moment, let's wait for the news first." After saying this, the entire lobby fell silent, except for occasional sighs.

After waiting for a while, the news finally came, "Recently, there have indeed been many cargo ships from the south docking, and some people saw a lot of people moving a lot of tea from the ships."

As soon as the news came out, everyone couldn't bear it anymore, and started discussing in low voices.

Ye Ying sat in the hall, seeming to react for some reason, but in fact Ye Ying was already thinking about countermeasures.

"Everyone, be quiet, please listen to me." After Ye Ying finished speaking, the chaotic lobby became quiet, and Ye Ying saw that it was quiet, and then said, "It seems that someone wants to share a piece of Jiangnan Tea Industry. In this case, we cannot return it. The tea they get must be limited, and it must not be as much as we have. Moreover, they should only be sold in some tea shops, and they have not spread all over the town yet. Such local big tea The merchants will stay in the city, and the rest will quickly transport the tea to the small town, and sign contracts with those tea distributors at a lower price than usual so that they will only sell your tea in the next year or two."

After Ye Ying finished speaking, everyone said hello.So they left one after another, leaving only two or three larger local tea merchants.

"Boss Ye, what about us?"

"No hurry, let's stabilize first. We can't compete with them head-on, we have to go roundabout."

"What kind of detour?"

"In this way, we contacted our former regular customers and said that we can sell it at a lower price..."

Before Ye Ying finished speaking, someone interrupted, "No matter how low we are, we are not as low as them. If we want to be like them...wouldn't it be a loss of money."

"Well, we can't be lower than them." Ye Ying was not annoyed at being interrupted at all, "We can give some discounts to those old customers, and we will give them about [-]% of our customers as long as they continue to buy our tea for five years." Tea."