In the conference room of the main hall of the palace, except for the people who were absent from illness, the people who had originally participated in the discussion of cultivating the blood essence grass gathered here.

Percius held the official document sent from Danyu City in his hand, and after reading it, he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction: "The Danyu Plain has already started to prepare for cultivating the Blood Essence Grass, and at this rate, there should be plenty of time. ”

"It's very efficient." Lan Xian touched his chin, and it was difficult to hide the admiration in his tone, "Approaching the harvest season, and with the resistance of the local nobles, the officials of Danyu City can still abide by the orders issued by the royal city and carry them out without hesitation, these people deserve a lot of praise." ”

Persius closed the official document with a serious expression, without the slightest intention of joking: "After this matter is completed, I will personally award the honorary medals to the officials of Danyu City, and promote the best of them to serve in the palace." ”

The crowd applauded symbolically in accord.

"Everyone must learn from the officials of Danyu City, as long as we can maintain this momentum, we will definitely be able to save the day this time." Pertheus tapped his knuckles on the table twice and said, "It's not early, you all go back and rest first, if there is an update on the progress in Danyu City, I will have someone to inform you." ”

The crowd rose to bid farewell to His Majesty and departed one after another.

...

It was late at night at the end of the meeting, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold wind in winter was extremely fierce, blowing on the face like a knife cutting, and no matter how thick the cotton clothes were, it seemed to be drilled through, bringing bursts of biting cold.

In the Chancellor's Mansion, Bao Erdian did not return late at night, and dozens of servants in the palace did not dare to sleep, even if they had no work on their hands, they had to stay at the gate until Bao Erdian returned, or asked someone to send back an edict to let them rest.

If they don't have both, they have to keep it, which is the cultivation of being a servant of the minister.

At the end of the street, there was a faint sound of wheels, and the carriage drove out of the darkness and stopped in front of the mansion, and the coachman pulled back the curtain of the door, and the servants who waited in the cold wind bowed their heads.

Bao Erdian walked out from behind the curtain, he was already fat, and he was wearing a thick warm coat, and the whole person looked like a meat mound.

A servant stepped forward, kneeling on the ground with his hands on the ground and his back arched, and Baldian stepped on it and kicked off the carriage.

Seeing the servants neatly guarding the outside of the mansion, Bao Erdian showed a satisfied smile on his face, nodded and said, "Jason will stay for a while, and everyone else will go back to the room to rest." ”

"Good night, sir." The servants responded in unison, and retreated to the mansion.

Bao Erdian walked in the door, and Jason, the housekeeper of the mansion, followed with a low brow, and asked with concern: "My lord, I am so busy and tired so late, do you want me to ask the kitchen to make you some supper?" ”

Bao Erdian waved his hand: "I don't need supper, make a pot of tea, as usual, and send it to my office." ”

Jason paused for some reason, but quickly responded, "Yes." ”

When he returned to his office, the attentive servants had heated up the fireplace early, and it was very warm, and he took off his coat and sat down in his chair as if relieved, his fat flesh was soft and collapsed, like a lump of pork belly that had just been melted out of the freezer.

Before going to bed, Bao Erdian has the habit of sitting in the study to drink some Pu'er and read books, without this link, he will always be unable to sleep steadily, he casually picked up half of the book on the table and continued to read.

After a while, Jason brought the brewed Pu'er, he took the teapot and made a cup, and put it in front of Bao Erdian: "My lord, the tea is ready, it is a little hot just burned, you should be careful." ”

"Hmm." Bauer replied, picked up the teacup and took a small sip.

It's okay if you don't sip it, this sip can have an accident, and Bauerdian paused directly, spit out the tea in his mouth back to the teacup, and then poured it on Jason.

Jason was spilled with hot tea, but he didn't even dare to wipe it, and knelt on the ground with a frightened expression: "My lord? ...”

Bao Erdian put the cup on the table heavily, the ceramic cup body shook a little crack, and he said with a straight face: "You take me for a fool? Think I can't taste it? This isn't this year's foggy and rainy Pu'er. ”

In addition to the type and quality of Dogulander's tea, it will also distinguish whether it is the best or not according to the season.

Most tea plants will start to grow slowly during the "drip dew" season, and the tea leaves that can be harvested before the "fog and rain" are extremely delicate, green and fragrant, which is the best tea in the out-and-out tea, and the tea leaves harvested after the fog and rain are relatively average.

Due to the generally low temperature before the fog and rain, the growth rate of tea trees is slow, and there are very few tea trees that can meet the picking standards, and the price of tea is naturally very expensive.

Like the kind of foggy and rainy pu'er that Bao Erdian usually drinks, the price is more than 100 times higher than that of ordinary pu'er.

This steward had just arrived a few months ago, and he didn't know that Bao Erdian's tea appreciation ability was so strong, and he could tell whether the tea was picked before or after the fog and rain, and he was speechless for a while.

In the end, he could only kneel on the ground and beg for mercy while slapping himself: "My lord... I'm sorry... The little ones shouldn't hide it from you... Spare me this time..."

Bao Erdian was in a good mood today, seeing that the steward had swollen his face, he didn't think much about it, but just asked with a straight face: "Why don't you give me a mist and rain Pu'er?" Don't you know what kind of tea I usually like to drink? ”

"Adult, the little one knows, it's just..."The steward hesitated, looking a little crying without tears, "It's just that the fog and rain pu'er in the house just ran out yesterday, and now it's winter, and the fog and rain pu'er on the market has long been sold out, I really ran all over the teahouses, and all of them are out of stock..."

Bao Erdian sneered and said: "Then you are lucky, take second-class tea leaves to make this pot of tea, and want to use it to fool me?" ”

The steward trembled, bowing his head to the ground and not daring to move.

Bao Erdian's face was full of displeasure: "I can't even buy some tea, and I have to come up with some bad ideas on my own, trying to fool me around." Hmph, I'm in a good mood today, I don't care about you, I'll be fined a month's salary, and then I will work in the back kitchen for half a year to give you a long memory. ”

Compared with punishments such as whipping, this was already very merciful, and the steward hastened to say yes.

"Let's go down." Bao Erdian shook his hand and sent the steward away.

After the steward left, Bao Erdian picked up the teacup that had just cracked and looked at it, and couldn't help but say to himself: "Stupid people really come every year... But it's no wonder that he has to pay me again, and he can't buy tea, so he was forced to make this decision... It's not easy. ”

Bao Erdian pondered for a moment, took up a pen and wrote a pen-free edict, ready to hand it over to the account office tomorrow.

After he finished writing, he felt a little sleepy, and was about to go back to his room to rest, when he accidentally caught a glimpse of the teacup on the table with tea stains remaining.

To make a difference...

But there is no tea...

Buy...

Can't buy...

A few key words suddenly began to entangle in Bao Erdian's mind, and he slowly froze in place, his eyes becoming more and more hollow, and he muttered in a trembling voice: "It's not good... Something is going to happen! ”