Chapter 24 Chapter 24 After sending Zhong Xiaomei back, Shen Xuan...
Shen Xuan returned home only after sending Zhong Xiaomei back.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Xue Fenglin already waiting at the door. Seeing him coming back from afar, he went up to him and said, "Why did you suddenly go out so late? I was a little worried."
Shen Xuan had just gone out suddenly, and Xue Fenglin was packing up inside, so he forgot to inform him.
Now that I was blamed by the other party, I felt a little shocked, and suddenly I was touched by the care of others.
He hurriedly took a few quick steps, but because it was too dark, he didn't see a big pothole on the road and missed a step.
Just as he was about to fall, someone grabbed him by the waist. Then Shen Xuan was bumped into a warm embrace, staggered two steps and finally stood firm.
The oil lamp in his hand had gone out at this time. Shen Xuan raised his head and saw the moonlight falling on Xue Fenglin's face. His handsome face looked even whiter and more beautiful under the moonlight.
His heart moved, and he intuitively felt the impact of Xue Fenglin's appearance.
The other person's hand on his waist was warm and strong, and Shen Xuan couldn't help but blush.
Fortunately, it’s dark now and no one can see it outside! Shen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, took a step back gently, and then stepped out of Xue Fenglin's arms.
"I'm sorry, Lin Ye. I was in a hurry to go out just now and forgot to tell you. I won't do it again next time." Shen Xuan apologized to Xue Fenglin.
His eyes sparkled in the darkness, and he looked very sincere. Xue Fenglin's heart softened when he saw this, and he smiled as he relaxed his frown, "Come in quickly. You've been tired all day. I don't know what's so important that you have to do it after dark."
Shen Xuan then told Xue Fenglin about Zhong Xiaomei, and said to him, "In the future, you can just let her do the chores like washing clothes and chopping firewood at home, and you don't have to do the work yourself."
Xue Fenglin thought of Zhong Ge'er's matter when he heard this. He was silent for a while before saying, "The Zhong family's parents are like this, and the children they raised are not necessarily good. Do you really want to help her?"
Shen Xuan didn't know what happened between Zhong Ge'er and Xue Fenglin before. After hearing what Xue Fenglin said, he smiled and said, "I don't like Xiaomei Zhong either, but oranges born in the south are oranges, and oranges born in the north are tangerines. She is only fourteen years old this year, and there may be a chance for her to change."
"Now that she has realized that she has to make money on her own, she is ambitious. She is better than Wang Xiaolian, right?"
Xue Fenglin didn't refute after hearing this. He just nodded and said, "It's fine as long as you have an idea."
He was born in a marquis's mansion, and most of the servants in his family had tragic life stories. Unlike Shen Xuan, he had no sympathy for such people.
However, Shen Xuan was different from Xue Fenglin. If he had no sympathy, he would not have picked up Xue Fenglin who had fallen at the entrance of Yunshui Village.
Xue Fenglin only hoped that this little sister Zhong would not be like her brother and let down Shen Xuan's kindness.
Chen Xuan's stall on Jinli Street these days has gradually opened up sales. Except for the first day when he only sold 150 cups of tea, he sold a full 200 cups every day thereafter.
Because his tea tastes good and his name is auspicious. At first, only the students of Lezhou Academy came to him to buy tea, but gradually, even the teachers in the academy knew the reputation of this honey custard tea.
Master Qin was one of the teachers at Lezhou Academy. Recently, after class, his students would ask their servant to go to Huacao Lane to buy a cup of honey custard tea.
It is said that the tea tastes excellent and only 200 cups are sold a day. If you go too late, you won’t be able to buy it.
In order to maintain their sense of authority, the teachers in the academy never ate or drank with the students.
The academy hired a cook for the teachers, who cooked at noon. The tea was also brewed with mid-range tea leaves, so they didn't need to buy any extra tea.
But Master Qin had heard so much about honey custard tea and often saw his students drinking it from green bamboo cups that he began to envy them.
The tea he liked best was usually jasmine tea, but the tea purchased uniformly by the academy was always Biluochun, which always lacked a bit of flavor when he drank it.
The honey custard tea in the students' hands just happened to have jasmine tea base. Just by passing by, Master Qin could smell the fragrance of jasmine in the tea.
The tea leaves used in this honey custard tea are really good, Master Qin thought to himself. So one day, when there were fewer classes in the afternoon, Mr. Qin left the academy early, thinking that he must buy a cup of jasmine-flavored honey custard tea to try.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Master Qin arrived in front of Shen Xuan’s stall, he saw him collecting things.
"Stall owner, give me a cup of jasmine honey custard tea." Master Qin hurriedly took out ten cents and said.
Upon hearing this, Shen Xuan looked at Master Qin with some embarrassment before saying, "Master, I'm really sorry. All the tea in the stall has been sold out today. Please come back early tomorrow!"
Master Qin: “…”
How come it sells so fast?
He felt more and more regretful, and his desire to drink the honey custard tea became stronger.
The next morning, Master Qin got up early and was the first to arrive in front of Shen Xuan's stall before class and before breakfast.
Shen Xuan recognized that the middle-aged man in front of him was the gentleman from the academy who wanted to buy tea from him yesterday. Then he quickly smiled and said, "Master, you came really early today, but would you still like a cup of jasmine tea?"
Seeing that Shen Xuan still remembered him, Master Qin nodded and said, “That’s right.”
After a while, Shen Xuan prepared a cup of tea and brought it to him, saying, "Master, if you like it, come again next time?"
Master Qin nodded, gave Shen Xuan ten coins, and took the teacup away.
When he arrived at the academy, Master Qin sat down in front of his desk and couldn't wait to take a sip.
A rich jasmine scent is refreshing, and the sweet and sour fruity aroma fills the entire mouth.
Master Qin opened his eyes wide. He didn't expect the tea to taste like this. It was more refreshing and delicious than he had imagined.
No wonder those students are eager to buy it every day and are afraid that they will not be able to buy it if they go too late.
He couldn't help but took several big gulps. When he couldn't drink any more, he put the cup on the table and prepared for today's class.
Master Qin went to teach his students for a while. During the break, he came back from the classroom and wanted to continue tasting his jasmine custard tea, only to find that the half cup of tea left on his table was gone along with the cup!
Master Qin was shocked and immediately shouted, "Where is the teacup on my table?"
"What teacup? Isn't it on the table?" Master Shen next to him said.
"It's not this one, it's that green bamboo cup." Master Qin said hurriedly.
"Isn't that a student's cup?" Master Shen finally realized what was happening, and then he said apologetically, "Just now the cleaning lady from the academy came over, and I thought it was a student's cup that was randomly placed there, so I asked her to take it away."
When Master Qin heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed. But it was difficult to say anything to his colleagues who were teaching together, so he could only say, "It's okay, I'll go buy another cup later."
"What kind of tea is so delicious? Even you are so obsessed with it?" Master Shen couldn't help asking, and he also became curious about this honey custard tea.
"It tastes wonderful." Master Qin said to Master Shen after hearing this: "Although it tastes sweet and sour, it doesn't have the astringency of sour plum soup, and it still has the fragrance of tea. It tastes better than the Yunding Maojian tea in Guiyun Tower."
"Really? This tea is not expensive, how can it get such praise from you?" Master Shen was a little greedy after hearing this, so he decided to go buy a cup with Master Qin to try.
So at noon, when the gentlemen of the academy were having lunch, they found that Master Qin and Master Shen were each holding a green bamboo cup, which contained honey custard tea bought outside.
After a few days, all the teachers in the academy would send someone out to buy a cup of tea from Shen Xuan every noon. When the students in the academy saw it, they praised the honey custard tea even more.
Just saying that it was a tea that all gentlemen loved to drink, even the students who had not been very interested before went to buy some to try.
Because this tea became famous in Lezhou Academy, gradually, people spread the reputation of honey custard tea to the elegant gathering in Guiyun Tower.
The teachers hired for Lezhou Academy were all famous and talented scholars, and they were also well-known among the literati in Lezhou city.
Hearing that they had recently become fond of drinking the honey custard tea sold at that stall, some guests at the gathering followed suit and sent their servants to buy some.
After tasting the tea, these guests often become regular customers of Shen Xuan. Whenever they go to the elegant gathering to meet friends, they will spend money to buy a cup of honey custard tea.
For a while, Shen Xuan’s tea sold out so quickly that sometimes it was all sold out just after noon.
Widow Ge saw that Shen Xuan's business was so good, so she advised him to sell more every day. However, Shen Xuan insisted on selling only 200 cups a day and would not sell any more.
After all, he was the only one running the stall, and selling 200 cups a day was exhausting enough.
If he were to add more staff and there were no reliable people, it would be better for him to buy less and make his tea a rare commodity.
For example, recently, a distinguished guest at a gathering asked him to save a cup of tea for him, and he accepted two tips.
These tips are worth one or half an ounce each time, which is enough to sell dozens of cups of tea. It can be considered a virtuous cycle.
Mr. Wu, the son of the prefect of Lezhou, is hosting a banquet at Guiyun Tower today.
He booked the most luxurious room and ordered the best dishes and Genting Maojian tea in the restaurant. He invited all the literati and scholars in Lezhou City to discuss the past and present with them.
However, halfway through the banquet, he discovered that many guests had asked their servants to go to the stall outside Guiyun Tower to buy additional tea.
Could it be that the tea I treated myself to was not good enough? Master Wu frowned and asked the servant beside him to find out what was going on.
After some inquiries, I found out that there was a new tea stall on Koi Street, selling a kind of honey custard tea. It is said to taste great and the quantity is limited each day. These scholars and literati were very fond of this tea and would often ask their servants to buy it for them to drink.
After hearing this, Master Wu simply sent someone to buy all the remaining tea on Chen Xuan's stall. It just tells the guests not to feel restrained and just drink.
After he tasted it himself, he found that the tea was indeed delicious, so he specially packed a few cups to present to his father, Magistrate Wu.
As a result, Shen Xuan's honey custard tea became even more famous. Not only students and literati in Koi Street, but also some noble officials and their families came here specifically to drink a cup of Shen Xuan's tea.
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