Hearing the voice, Hongmi looked up from the ledger and said, "I said I heard magpies calling this morning. Come inside and talk."
Behind the counter is a back room, which is the private resting room of the innkeeper, Hongmi. When the inn is busy, she stays here in the morning and evening.
“Okay,” Mu Run replied.
Hongmi then said to Yang Yang, "Get a plate of donkey meat pancakes, a bowl of mutton offal soup, and a few dishes of pickled vegetables and condiments."
"Coming right away." Yang Yang put the steamed buns on the table and then turned and went into the kitchen.
Mu Run handed Hong Mi a list of autumn tea production. "This season's autumn tea is estimated to total over 1,500 jin of raw tea. If we're only selling raw tea, it should be ready to be shipped out now. If it needs further processing, the time required will vary depending on the process, and the price will definitely be different from that of raw tea."
Hongmi immediately nodded, "I don't sell raw tea. I've already contacted all the tea merchants, and they all want it refined. We can also discuss the price further."
Mu Run said, "Alright, if you're not going to sell raw tea, I'll do it my way for now."
"Go ahead and do it. By the way, is refining tea very complicated?" Hongmi asked curiously about how she refined it.
Mu Run smiled and said, "The main thing is to enhance the aroma through roasting. The aroma is what makes tea so appealing, and roasting is extremely important. The timing and temperature are particularly difficult to control; if you're not careful, you can ruin an entire batch of tea."
"I see. Then what about the roasting?"
"I'll come myself."
"You've worked hard! Here, have a donkey meat pancake."
"No need, I already ate on the mountain, it was also sesame seed cake."
“You’ve already finished eating after coming down from the mountain, have some more to eat.” Hongmi insisted on giving Murun a sesame seed cake filled with donkey meat.
After discussing the tea with Hongmi, Murun ate a donkey meat pancake and drank a bowl of soup before heading back to the mountain to continue working.
Yao Yao was standing at the entrance of the inn talking to a woman.
Mu Run greeted Yao Yao, "Yao Yao, I'm leaving now, you go ahead with your work."
The woman who was talking to Yao Yao looked at her in surprise, "Hua Ling? Is that you, Hua Ling?"
Yao Yao introduced, "My sister is Qiaoyu."
"Qiaoyu?" She was Hualing's colleague who worked as a maid in the Grand Commandant's mansion, and someone who knew Hualing very well.
"Um, I bumped my head, Yao Yao knows, and I lost all my previous memories. I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you just now."
"I heard from Yao Yao that you have a large wound on the back of your head. Are you going back?" Qiao Yu asked.
Mu Run nodded, "Yes, I'll go back to the teahouse and make tea."
Qiaoyu's eyes lit up. "It's perfect that we can travel together for a while. Let's go together."
Mu Run looked at Yao Yao, "You two, aren't you going to chat for a little while longer?"
Yao Yao said, "My sister brought me clothes, and everything's fine now. You two can go together, it won't be boring. Besides, didn't Sister Run say she wanted to see my sister a while ago? Perfect timing."
...
Qiaoyu arrived by carriage, while Murun walked.
On the way back, Mu Run took Qiao Yu's carriage.
Qiaoyu looked at Murun carefully and finally nodded, "You are even more beautiful than before."
"Thank you. How about you? How have you been these past few years?" Mu Run asked.
Qiaoyu replied, "I'm married. He's a nephew of Steward Yang. He's now a registrar in the prefecture and has a son who's almost two years old."
"That's wonderful," Mu Run said with a smile. In this world, for a woman, marrying well is better than anything else.
“Xiao Xing didn’t come to Chongyang Prefecture with us; she went back to her parents’ home. Last time Yao Zong went to the capital on business, I asked him to bring some local products from Chongyang Prefecture with him. It turned out that she had been sold by her family again, this time to a merchant from another region as a concubine. Now she has also lost contact with us, and we don’t know how she is doing.”
Mu Run remained silent, because she couldn't remember who Xiao Xing was at all.
"How does the king treat you? What title has he given you?" Qiaoyu asked.
"A formal title?" Mu Run hadn't really thought about it, because she never even considered marrying Fu Yunchen.
Although the two children are his, it doesn't mean that she is also his.
"No official status," Mu Run said indifferently.
"No official status?" Qiaoyu asked in surprise. "How can that be? What about Miss and Young Master? Are they considered legitimate or illegitimate children? They can't be illegitimate, can they? Illegitimate children have a very low status and will be looked down upon!"
Is it that serious?
"Illegitimate children are as worthless as dogs! Of course, don't get the wrong idea, I'm not talking about you, this is just a common saying. But it shows that illegitimate children are not valued by the world. They are still young now, but if they still have an unclear status when they grow up, it will be very harmful to them."
"this……"
How does the king treat you?
"It's alright," Mu Run replied.
"Now you must seize the opportunity while the king is still willing to pay attention to you and hold on to him tightly. Whether it's a queen or a concubine, preferably a queen, you must make sure that your status is confirmed and registered in the family genealogy. Otherwise, if the king falls in love with someone else one day, whether you marry him or take him in as a concubine, their children's status will be above that of the young lady and the young master, and you will definitely not be able to swallow that insult."
Hearing Qiaoyu's words, Mu Run's thoughts were in complete disarray...
"You'd better hurry up with this matter, don't delay. Even a day's delay could cause problems."
“…Oh.” Mu Run didn’t know what to say. She had never really thought about this kind of thing. She had even considered taking the two children back to Death Valley.
Qiaoyu continued, "I own two shops in the prefecture. One sells silk embroidery, and the other sells tea. Our Chongyang Mountain tea is very famous, known as the King of Tea, and many people find it hard to get their hands on it. Moreover, there are quite a few counterfeit products on the market."
Mu Run understood what she meant. "You want to get tea from me, right?"
Qiaoyu nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, I wonder if you could spare some for me? The price is negotiable, you can sell it to me for the same price you sell it to others, or even more."
Mu Run laughed and said, "Given our friendship, you're definitely entitled to some. How many do you want?"
"Fifty...fifty catties, is that alright?" Qiaoyu asked tentatively. She could only get ten catties of spring tea because of Yaoyao's influence. Saying fifty catties was just an initial estimate, waiting for Murun to reduce it.
To my surprise, Mu Run readily agreed, "Fifty catties, the price of raw tea, I'll give you refined tea, how about that? It should be worthy of our friendship."
"Refined tea? Refined tea?" Qiaoyu asked incredulously. "Is there really such a thing as refined tea?"
"Yes, I was just talking to Hongmi about this. We won't be selling raw tea this year," Mu Run said with a smile.
Qiaoyu immediately grabbed Murun's hand, "You're my sister, even closer than my own sister."
"Haha, just don't let Yao Yao hear that."
"Ha ha ha ha."
The two chatted and laughed as they arrived at Chongyi Peak.
Mu Run and Qiao Yu agreed that she would come to Chongyi Peak to pick up the goods in half a month. After watching Qiao Yu's carriage drive away, Mu Run walked towards Chongyi Peak, thinking about the title Qiao Yu had mentioned to her.
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