Chapter 543
Three Tea House, is considered a very strange place in Tanjiang City, the reason why it is said to be strange is precisely because the rules here are very strange.
As the name implies, the Three Tea House, has three kinds of tea, which is generally a relatively small number of categories for a teahouse, but it is these three kinds of tea, but the entire business of the teahouse, and even stand here for decades, never lack of customers, the only thing missing is seats.
Lin Ran arrived at the teahouse after ten minutes and met Li Wansan on the first floor. This guy had not changed much as before, but since his old man had recovered last time, he also liked to play with literature and always had a string of bodhi in his hand, playing with it quite effectively.
“Aigoo brother Lin Ran, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, I really missed you!”
When he saw Lin Ran, Li Wansan came forward and laughed, while smiling at Wang Yifeng, who didn’t dare to speak, this guy was not big or small, and he had a heavy hand, so Li Wansan didn’t want to mess with him, so it was better not to talk to him.
“Brother Wan San!”
Lin Ran smiled and responded, following the two of them to take their seats, Wang Yifeng also sat aside, having a sip of tea each.
“I wonder what Brother Wan San is talking about with the merchants who carry goods?”
Lin Ran opened the door.
“Ao, it’s a long story, let me be brief!”
Li Wansan laughed and immediately told the story of the backstocking merchants.
It turned out that in certain industries, there existed a term for back-load merchants, these people existed for the circulation of certain particularly precious goods, they were not like the current couriers, where anything could arrive by sending an express.
They existed specifically for the transport of some precious goods, such as very precious wild herbs, particularly precious jadeite and jade bracelets, etc. Each of these things was so valuable that it would be very easy to damage or lose them if they were transported by traditional fast, and these people were specialised in transporting these things.
At first some backpackers were just footmen, used to carry goods for their employers, but later this gradually developed into a trade, and there were many people who specialized in selling precious items, which is why they became backpackers.
“These people have all kinds of gas-sucking and weird things in their hands, so every time they go to a place, the people they receive are usually the big families, in order to also get the precious items they need from these people first.”
Li Wansan explained with a smile, and as the words fell, the sound of footsteps came from outside the door.
“What a coincidence, he’s here!”
Lin Ran smiled at his words and got up, the three of them all looked towards the door to see that not long after a slightly vicissitudes middle-aged man walked in from outside, he was carrying a travel bag and was winded, he even leaked out a smile when he saw Li Wansan.
This smile, however, came to an abrupt end when he saw the two Lin Ran.
“Brother Wan San, who are these two people? I don’t remember you mentioning that there were others present!”
The middle-aged man with the backed goods’ face sank as he said with some anger.
“Brother Li Xin, don’t get angry yet, these two are my friends, they are very close, it just so happens that they need to buy some things this time, so it’s just right to introduce you to two customers!”
Li Wan San laughed, however Li Xin was still frowning, his eyes glancing at the two Lin Ran before he coldly snorted with disdain.
“Brother Wan San, forgive my clumsy eyes, but I’m afraid these two friends of yours don’t have much strength, the clothes all over their bodies probably don’t even add up to a hundred, and they’re worthy of being introduced to me with such strength?”
“Hey, you D*mn well have to find ……”
Wang Yifeng smiled and was immediately displeased, fortunately Lin Ran stopped him in time and smiled at Li Xin to round up the situation.
“Don’t mind my friend, my brother is a rough guy, as for the strength you are talking about, I think we should be able to satisfy you!”
“Satisfy me? Kid, do you know what the strength I’m talking about represents?”
Li Xin laughed and at the same time got interested, sitting down on a chair on one side with his butt while snapping his fingers.
Soon, a waiter walked in, only to hear Li Xin say skillfully.
“The usual rules, first cla*s bitter tea!”
“Yes sir!”
The waiter seemed to have seen it all before and went straight to make a pot of tea and brought it over at the sound of his voice.
Li Xin poured himself a cup of tea and took a light sip, then poured another cup, but handed it to Lin Ran, laughing disdainfully.
“Here, taste this tea, tell me what variety of bitter tea it is, if you can say it, you have the strength to do so, if you can’t, get the hell out of my way immediately!”
“Brother Li Xin, this friend of mine is not proficient in the tea ceremony, you are ……”
Li Wansan was busy speaking, however, Li Xin interrupted him by waving his hand directly and laughed.
“Brother Wan San, if you have not even had this kind of tea, do you think I need to waste my words with them?”
“But this ……”
Li Wansan still wanted to say something else, but Li Xin directly waved his hand to interrupt, then looked at Lin Ran, his gaze had a teasing and playful look, as if to say again, even if the King of Heaven came today, it wouldn’t work, either answer my question or just get lost.
“Ranzi!”
On the side, Wang Yifeng couldn’t help but come over, but Lin Ran shook his head with a smile, didn’t say anything, and picked up the cup of tea straight away.
Lin Ran first looked at it and saw that the tea was green, then he smelled it and saw that there was only a light fragrance, and finally he took a sip.
The tea went down his throat, a fragrance with a softness, immediately let Lin Ran’s whole spirit a burst, the heart can not help but think of the tea just now Li Wan San gave himself, this between the two is really a world of difference.
“Cut, what kind of bullSh*t tea is this, if it were in my hometown, I wouldn’t even be able to shout the word tea!”
Seeing Lin Ran enjoying himself so much, Pillow Book couldn’t help but laugh.
“You don’t understand, it’s not easy to have this kind of tea in our world!”
Lin Ran said, then looked at Li Xin and laughed.
“Bitter tea, originally a type of Pu-erh tea, but this cup of bitter tea is very soft, I think other tea products should have been added to match, Brother Wan San is right, I am not proficient in the tea ceremony, so I can only tell so much!”
Said Lin Ran, placing the cup of tea on the table and looking at Li Xin as he asked.
“I wonder, am I qualified enough?”
“Hehe!”
Li Xin laughed at his words, Lin Ran’s answer was right, but it was also too right in front of him, making him a bit at a loss as to how to judge for a while, but soon he thought of a solution.
“Barely enough, but I have one more question, do you know how much this tea costs a pot?”
Li Xin asked with a smile.
Lin Ran shook his head at his words, and Li Wansan, who was at the side, was busy explaining.
“Brother Li, this is my friend’s first time in this teahouse, how could he possibly know!”
“So!”
Li Xin smiled at his words and pointed at the teapot and laughed.
“This kind of tea, at three thousand dollars a pot, is made from the finest bitter tea with snow leaf lotus, which is the finest even in the imperial capital!”
Speaking here, Li Xin looked at Lin Ran and laughed.
“And the cheapest thing I have to sell can buy a hundred pots of this kind of tea, boy, do you still think you’re qualified now?”
Chapter 544
“Three hundred thousand? I go, what the hell is this, it’s simply more profitable than even pimping!”
On the side, Wang Yifeng couldn’t help but laugh, as soon as he said that, he immediately tarnished the mysterious identity that Li Xin had posed as not even a little bit left.
Lin Ran and Li Wansan couldn’t help but laugh even more.
But school to laugh, Lin Ran still opened his mouth and said.
“300,000 is indeed nothing with me, brother Li Xin do your best to show what you have, I won’t be stingy if there is a need!”
“Haha, what a big mouth!”
Li Xin smiled at that, in his opinion, how could a truly rich man not even dress himself, not to say that everything was worth a million, but at least one or two things that showed his status, such as a watch, or a tie or something.
The fat man beside him was even more outrageous, dressed in a casual way, I’m afraid that even if he went on a blind date, the girl would be furious.
“Brother Li Xin, this friend of mine is really strong, so you can start!”
Li Wansan was also busy saying, he didn’t know much about Lin Ran’s strength, but the only time he had known was already a big deal, but people just liked to wear these cheap goods, so he couldn’t do anything about it.
“It’s just that!”
Li Xin did not bother to dwell on it, waved his hand and said to Li Wansan.
“For the sake of our old friends, I’ll sell you face today, they can stay, but but first, let’s say that the rules they must also abide by, either they don’t ask, or if they do, they must bid for them!”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry!”
Li Wansan said with a busy smile.
Following Li Xin was to go and prepare things, while Li Wansan this was to come up next to Lin Ran and laugh.
“Little friend Lin Ran don’t take it to heart, those in their line of work are windy and don’t want to waste their time on people who don’t have money, you should also understand more!”
“I’m fine!”
Lin Ran smiled blandly and picked up his tea and drank it.
Seeing that Lin Ran had no intention of getting angry, Li Wansan then sighed in relief and returned to his seat.
On his side, Li Xin quickly prepared his things, but Lin Ran was a little speechless when he saw it, he had thought that this guy would prepare a lot of things, but it turned out that there were actually only three items that ended up on the table.
“Don’t be surprised, these backstory merchants don’t just have one place to go, they will take out three items that the guests have the greatest hope of buying and target them for display so that they can get as many things out of their hands as possible!”
Li Wansan explained from the side.
Lin Ran nodded his head and didn’t ask more questions.
On Li Xin’s side, he was also quickly ready, as he first opened the box on the outside of the first item, followed by an item that looked like a ginseng, which appeared in front of the crowd.
“Boss Li, how about it? Do you recognise this thing?”
Li Xin smiled smugly, not bothering to look at Lin Ran next to him in the slightest, in his opinion, this thing was something that only Li Wansan could afford, as for the two of them, they were afraid that it was just an eye opener.
“Is this …. blood ginseng?”
Li Wansan’s eyes went a little straight as he looked at it, unable to believe that what he was seeing in front of him was the legendary blood ginseng.
“Haha! Boss Li really has good eyesight, yes, this is blood ginseng!”
Li Xin laughed triumphantly, while not forgetting to rush at Lin Ran disdainfully.
“Kid, do you know what blood ginseng is? You don’t have any research on herbs either, do you! Haha ….”
“Brother Li is joking, I still have some research on herbs!”
Lin Ran laughed lightly.
Li Xin was stunned at his words, but then he smiled even wider.
“You have research on herbs? Don’t laugh me to death, do you know what blood ginseng is? Do you know how much this is worth in the market?”
Li Xin said and deliberately lowered his voice, laughing.
“Just this one blood ginseng, a man had 800,000 before, I didn’t even sell it!”
“Eight hundred thousand?”
Wang Yifeng smiled and was immediately helpless, just a palm-sized ginseng actually sold for 800,000, this is simply extortion.
“How about it, Boss Li, do you want to consider getting in?”
Li Xin turned his head to look at Li Wansan and asked with a smile, the latter frowned and pondered, not answering for a while.
Lin Ran saw this but smiled.
“Brother Li, isn’t eight hundred thousand high, I think this ginseng of yours is worth four hundred thousand!”
“Hm?”
Li Xin was stunned at his words and followed by looking at Lin Ran, disdainfully.
“Kid, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand, okay? Four hundred thousand? I want as much as you have! I told you earlier, this is blood ginseng, not ginseng, understand!”
“You haven’t seen the world!”
Li Xin said disdainfully, his eyes filled with contempt.
Lin Ran, however, was not angry, smiled blandly and said.
“It’s true that this is a blood ginseng, but it’s not worth 800,000!”
Lin Ran said, pointing at the blood ginseng, “This blood ginseng is firstly too small, only palm-sized, and secondly, the colour is obviously unnatural, and has a heavy deliberate nature, if I’m not wrong, it should be artificially cultivated. That’s absolutely impossible!”
“You!”
Li Xin’s face instantly sank at his words, looking a little embarra*sed.
“What do you know, artificial cultivation? Do you think this blood ginseng is that easy to cultivate? This is a genuine wild blood ginseng from Laozi!”
“No, no, this is definitely not what you have!”
As soon as Li Xin’s words fell, Lin Ran spoke up again.
“Natural wild blood ginseng is very rare, it only grows into blood ginseng if it happens to come across blood in the place where the ginseng grows, the chances are already small, not to mention that this blood ginseng of yours, as I said, is too unnaturally coloured.”
Saying that, Lin Ran pointed to the colour on the blood ginseng and laughed.
“With natural blood ginseng, the blood is randomly brought to a certain part of the ginseng as it grows, while this strain of yours is almost blood red all over, that alone is enough to show that it was artificially cultivated!”
“On what grounds! What proof do you have!”
Li Xin frowned and scolded, this ginseng was something he had paid three hundred thousand dollars for and was expected to be wild, how could he be willing to believe Lin Ran’s words.
“As I said, students need to happen to come across blood to grow, this ginseng of yours is at least twenty years old, if it really is a blood ginseng, it must have had blood for at least fifteen years, may I ask what kind of animal it must be to provide a constant supply of blood for fifteen years to nourish this ginseng? Other than artificial cultivation, I really can’t think of any other way!”
Lin Ran said indifferently.
And as Li Xin listened this time, he was completely speechless.
“You ….. This …..”
Li Xin looked at Lin Ran and looked at Li Wansan, and for a moment, he couldn’t really find any reason to refute it.
“That’s why I said this thing is only worth 400,000, after all, it’s been cultivated for so many years and a lot of costs have been invested!”
Lin Ran laughed indifferently.
Li Xin was already completely helpless, daring to say that in the end he had really hit himself in the eye.
“Good! Good boy, this is the first time I’ve been hit in the face by a young man on the spot, you can do it!”
Li Xin said as he looked at Lin Ran, his tone could not be seen as angry or helpless, only to see him load the blood ginseng and ask the two directly.
“This blood ginseng is 400,000, which one of you wants it!”
“Me me, I’ll take this, don’t argue with me brother Lin Ran!”
Li Wansan was busy speaking, the smile on his face was about to fly, jokingly, Lin Ran had directly cut the price in half with a few words, he could be unhappy even ghost.
Lin Ran smiled blandly at his words and said.
“I’m not interested in this stuff, just take it as you wish, Brother Wansan!”
