Rich Parents Found Me After I Got a Tycoon System? Yeah, I'm Not Interested novel Chapter 436

Chapter 436: Chapter 435: Failing to Get the Tree, He Asks for Tea Instead

The aroma was even more fragrant and delightful than the tea he’d had at a top official’s place.

"This tea..."

The moment Yun Zijin smelled the aroma, she knew the staff had used the Lingwu tea she kept in the tea room to brew it.

She rarely served this tea, but she had told the staff that if she was entertaining particularly close guests, they were allowed to brew the Lingwu tea for them.

Since she had brought Lu Yunque home today, and the staff likely saw that he was her boyfriend and also kept calling Yan Shutang "Uncle," they must have decided he was an honored guest who warranted the Lingwu tea.

"It smells wonderful, doesn’t it? This is an excellent tea I came across by chance, and I don’t usually serve it to others. Please, have a taste, Minister Yan."

With that, Yun Zijin picked up her own cup and took a sip.

Lu Yunque had tried Lingwu tea before, so he immediately picked up his cup and took a delicate sip.

Yan Shutang lifted the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and savored it carefully. His eyes lit up.

"Excellent tea!"

Yan Shutang was at a loss for adjectives to praise it. In the end, a thousand compliments could only be condensed into that one phrase: "Excellent tea!"

A smile spread across Yun Zijin’s face. She knew it—no one could resist Lingwu tea.

Even people who didn’t normally like tea would be completely won over by it.

"Zijin, do you have any more of this tea? Could you spare a little for me?"

Even Yan Shutang himself felt a bit embarrassed as he asked.

Tea of such high quality surely had a very limited production. Even if Yun Zijin had some, she couldn’t have much to spare.

But he didn’t have many other hobbies, and drinking tea was one of his favorite things to do in his leisure time.

Now that he’d discovered Yun Zijin had such fine tea, Yan Shutang had no intention of letting the opportunity slip by.

"Don’t worry, I won’t take it for free. Just name a price, and I’ll buy it from you."

Yan Shutang was a public official, after all. The rules stated he couldn’t take so much as a needle or thread from the people, so he had to pay for the tea.

Otherwise... there could be trouble.

"I have a little left. If you’d like some, I can pack up two liang for you to take home."

"There’s no need to pay. I got it from someone else, and I didn’t pay for it back then either."

’It was true she hadn’t paid for it, because it was a reward from the system.’

Of course, Yun Zijin couldn’t tell Yan Shutang the truth; she could only say she’d gotten it from someone else.

’As for who she got it from, she’d just have to say that the person was an eccentric who didn’t like making public appearances.’

’She controlled the narrative, so it wasn’t like Yan Shutang could go against the person’s wishes and demand a meeting, could he?’

’If Yan Shutang turned out to be that kind of person, she would take back the Lingwu tea she was about to give him.’

"No, that won’t do. It’s your business whether you paid for it or not. Public officials are forbidden from taking so much as a needle and thread from the people. That’s the rule."

Since Yan Shutang was so insistent and even cited official regulations, Yun Zijin had no way to argue.

But Yun Zijin didn’t know much about tea and had no idea how to price it. "I don’t know much about tea, so I wouldn’t know how to set a price."

"Why don’t you estimate a value? Whatever you think is fair is fine with me."

It wasn’t as if Yun Zijin needed the money from selling a bit of Lingwu tea; she just didn’t want to put Yan Shutang in an awkward position.

"This tea of yours is even better than the Da Hong Pao from the mother trees that I drank at a top official’s home. Based on past auction prices, that tea goes for about 10,000 yuan per gram. My own savings aren’t that extensive, so let’s call it 20,000 yuan per gram for yours. Two liang is 100 grams, so I’ll transfer two million to you."

’Two million yuan for two liang of tea... Yun Zijin hadn’t expected that.’

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