Chapter 3115 Lively
Seeing this, Bai Shan simply ordered Mr. Cui, "Have someone bring out the long table and put the breakfast prepared by the kitchen on it so that the guests can help themselves."
He was too lazy to invite everyone to dinner. Socializing was tiring, and so were the polite speeches. He still preferred to take Zhou Man to see the cargo unloaded from the ship.
Yin Huo was standing beside him. Upon hearing this, he turned his head to look at him and smiled.
Bai Shan glanced at him and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"They won't think you're lazy, just too lazy to deal with them. They'll probably praise you for being smart."
Not many people really cared about breakfast these days, as skipping a meal wouldn't hurt anyway. Instead, the cargo unloaded from the ship was more attractive.
In particular, many of the gentry and merchants had never seen the fresh goods being unloaded from the ship, so they forgot about being hungry for a moment and all watched with great interest with their hands in their pockets.
There weren't many types of breakfast items, just steamed buns, dumplings, pies, wontons, and soy milk.
The chef who made wontons simply had the stove moved over so that he could make wontons for them on the spot. However, few people ate wontons. Most people chose buns and pies, which they could eat while watching the farmhands bring down the goods.
Bai Shan ordered a pie and a bowl of wontons, found a seat and sat down, eating while watching.
Zhou Manze took a curious look around, came back and sat next to him, saying, "They brought all kinds of valuable things on the boat."
Bai Shan smiled and said, "It's not easy to go out to sea, but you have to bring valuable things with you, right?"
Zhou Man asked, "Are you planning to ask their merchant ships to transport salt?"
Bai Shan raised an eyebrow and shook his head directly, "No."
He took a bite of the pie, turned his head to look at the bustling crowd, and after chewing for a while, he whispered, "We've discussed it carefully recently and feel that merchant ships are not as safe as official ships. His Highness has promised me that he will send two official ships when the time comes. We don't even have to worry about the crews, they are equipped with navy."
Zhou Man's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but look around. Then he lowered his voice and said, "Oh my God, does this official ship belong to Beihai County from now on?"
Bai Shan said vaguely: "It depends on the situation." But he would try his best to make them belong to Beihai County.
Zhou Man couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
Governor Guo was chatting with someone and was about to look for the host, Bai Shan, when he saw a couple huddled together not far away, their heads almost touching. He couldn't help but twitch his lips again and simply waved someone over, saying, "Go and get Magistrate Bai."
Bai Shan immediately ate all the wontons in a few bites, wiped his mouth and stood up. "I'll go and greet them. You can go look at the things yourself and buy anything you like."
He left Daji behind and said, "Just follow Manbao and don't let anyone bump into her."
Daji agreed.
Zhou Man touched her belly and said to Daji, "Let's go call mother and sister-in-law and let them come and take a look."
In order not to cause them trouble, Zheng and Xiao Qian stayed in the villa in the morning. When they heard the sound of firecrackers, they just stood at the door and looked at them from afar, and did not come to join in the fun.
At this time, Zhou Man went back to pull them, "Bring some money, let's go see what good things there are."
He also called Lan Xin along, "You go and take a look too, but you are still young, so you have to follow us closely and don't let anyone bump into you."
Lan Xin happily agreed.
As the group walked down the mountain, Bai Erlang and Mingda came out and immediately waved to them when they saw them. "Come and see! This is cotton cloth from the south. We feel it's finer. Can you feel it and see if it's fine?"
Everyone came forward to take a look.
Zheng's eyes lit up as she touched it, and she said happily, "This cloth is good. We can buy two pieces and make small clothes for the child."
Xiao Qian touched it with the back of her hand and found it very soft and delicate.
Mingda then said to the senior palace maid behind him, "Let's buy two too."
"Yes." The senior palace maid stepped forward and asked the price.
The waiter smiled and quoted a price, and Xiao Qian instinctively tried to bargain, "That's too expensive, can you make it cheaper?"
Zheng was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded excitedly, whispering, "It's just been brought down from the boat, so it must be cheaper than what you get outside, right?"
The clerk smiled bitterly, "Madam, this price is already the cheapest. You can't buy such cloth at this price anywhere else..."
However, the waiter was still willing to give them a little less, so he wiped off the remaining five cents.
After paying, they did not take the money away, but asked the waiter to write it down and have them send it to the villa later.
Everyone continued to visit other stalls.
Some porcelain was taken off the ship, but because it was fragile, it was placed directly in the larger open space at the back. So some precious and fragile items were placed at the back, and each family took up a large area to display their things.
The gentry and merchants who came to watch the ceremony seemed to be more interested in these things. They gathered together with great interest, watching the shop assistants open the boxes and carefully take out one treasure after another.
Yin Huo stood among them. He reached out and picked up an inkstone, just looked at it and put it down. In a blink of an eye, he saw a waiter carefully taking out a set of tea sets from a box, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Many people also saw it and gathered around. "What a beautiful piece of tea! It looks fine from a distance, but up close it's as smooth as green jade. Is this tea set newly made?"
"Yes, this is something our company spent a lot of effort to buy. The adults are all connoisseurs, so you can take a look."
Yin Huo smiled faintly and stepped back from the crowd to make room for them. Zhou Man and the others were still standing on tiptoe to peek inside. When they saw him come out, they hurriedly asked, "What's in there?"
"Some porcelain," Yin Huo said with a smile, "the tea set they just took out is quite nice."
Bai Erlang then asked, "Then why don't you buy it?"
It can't be that you are short of money, right?
But anyone here might be short of money, so maybe it's impossible for Yin to be short of money?
Changshou also said: "Master, if you like the small one, go and buy it now."
"It's not worth it," Yin Huo stopped him and said, "Although the glaze is beautiful, I'm afraid it can't even compare to the sets we usually use when it comes to making tea. Besides, when it comes to drinking tea, it's all about having a happy and peaceful mind. There's no need to go out of your way to look at the tea sets."
He even said directly: "The things here are not suitable for you, and there are too many people. Let's go somewhere else to look?"
Zhou Man and the others looked inside and found that it was indeed not something they would buy, so they held hands and went to the other side.
They sell tea over there.
Unlike the ordinary tea sold by Zhou Silang, which is sold at a low profit but quick turnover, the tea here is much more refined and is carefully packed in boxes or jars.
It was completely different from Zhou Silang just stuffing things into the sack.
Of course, the customers we face are also different.
Most of the people who buy tea from Zhou Silang are herdsmen on the grassland. Most of them don't care whether the tea tastes good or not. They just want to eat tea with milk and meat because of the environment. So even if Zhou Silang picks a bunch of old tea leaves, they can throw it into the milk and cook them together without batting an eyelid. After cooking, they can even chew and eat it.
The customers here are wealthy, tasteful and demanding, so of course the prices are also extremely high.
(End of this chapter)
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