Volume 1: The Rising Storm in the Western Regions Chapter 124: Horse Traces(2/2)
The two nodded and said:
"It's natural."
Seeing that the two of them understood each other, Zhang San pointed to the row of tea jars placed in the center and continued:
"The most popular drink in the Western Regions is brick tea. Add milk to brick tea and it becomes milk tea. Other teas are all shipped from Dawei. I'm sure you two don't care about them!"
Zhao Rang liked drinking milk tea in the North, and he also disliked that the tea in the North was not good enough and the milk was not strong enough.
I have been in the Western Regions for so long, but I have never had a good cup of milk tea. Today I came to see the stranger, but I still managed to get it wrong. Zhao Rang said immediately:
"I drink milk tea, I want it strong!"
Zhang San first agreed, and then asked:
"Master, is it stronger, the tea or the milk?"
Zhao Rang replied without thinking:
"Toon!"
Yuan Mingkong ordered a cup of green tea shipped from Dawei. It was the Biluochun he had been accustomed to drinking since childhood.
However, the biluo vernal equinox here is very fine, there are 2 liang for one portion, 6 liang for 1 portion, and the best one is 12 liang for one portion.
Even if it costs two taels of silver for a portion of tea, it is exorbitantly expensive. Ordinary people cannot afford to drink it... But consider that this tea is transported over the mountains and ridges from the south of Dawei. You have to beware of bandits and the sun on the way.
Rain causes tea leaves to deteriorate. After calculating these costs, plus the rent and labor of the teahouse, it is considered reasonable.
Zhang San asked the waiter to order, and he also ordered a milk tea for himself, but it was light tea and thick milk.
The clerk brought over a booklet, which was full of handicap, with as many as forty or fifty types, even compared to Dawei Imperial City.
Zhao Rang opened the book and Yuan Mingkong looked at it with great interest, when a shadow suddenly appeared on the booklet.
When I looked up, I saw two strangers standing across the table without saying a word.
Chapter completed!