Chapter 720: Closing the Internet (I)
The tea house is in the tea house, on the far left side of the house behind, on the inside of the stairs where Shalihai descends, the first floor, two warehouses on the second floor, and one warehouse on the right side. The water boiling room comes to the kitchen, then the living room, then the other warehouses and a rest dormitory, and then the two tea houses.
The water boiling room and kitchen are arranged on the other side, probably because they are afraid of affecting the tea. The living room is a place where the boss and clerks usually eat and have temporary rest. Other warehouses are used to store dry goods such as salt, sugar, rice, flour, etc., vegetables, sauce, vinegar, etc. are stored directly in the kitchen, and the temporary dormitory is a large-scale shop room for clerks to temporarily rest or on duty.
As soon as Lin Mo entered the warehouse, Zeng Wen rushed in front of him were six or seven rows of large containers that were as high as the floor. There were six or seven floors one by one, and there were bamboo-woven boxes on it, and most of the shelves were full.
With the cooperation of Zeng Wenchong and the team members, Lin Mo opened some boxes to check. In fact, the quality of the tea can be roughly determined through the boxes.
On the second floor below the container, the bamboo box is relatively roughly woven. It is mostly loose tea with several layers of oil paper and simple boxes. On the top, there are more finer and tighter bamboo boxes, and the boxes are mostly packed into boxes of tea.
"There are many kinds of tea in the warehouse. Although they can only be classified as ordinary tea, the quality is relatively good. Even the two-layer loose tea below is of excellent quality among loose teas. The average price of these loose teas is estimated to cost 20 to 30 yuan per pound.
Each of them here has four boxes of tea, and the single box weighs twenty or thirty kilograms. Each one is estimated to be one tumbler. The large cabinet has six floors. Single rows of large cabinets are divided into three, three and six is eighteen, totaling eighteen tumbler. The seven rows of containers are 26 tumbler.
The quality of the third floor and above is significantly more, and the overall rough estimate is 30 yuan per pound. Then the tea value of this warehouse is more than 3,700 yuan, and the value of the detailed calculation is even higher."
Hearing this number, Zeng Wenchong widened his eyes and couldn't help but say, "I don't think that tea is expensive? I didn't expect that the one in this room was worth thousands of oceans."
"Of course I don't feel much. A pound of tea is worth a few cents. We don't drink much tea. We can probably still win if we buy one dollar of tea a year. The cost is small, and we naturally have the illusion that tea is not very valuable. When we come in and see this room of tea, it is difficult to realize its total price."
"Indeed..." Zeng Wen nodded and replied: "Although I was a little mentally prepared before coming in, when I saw the loose tea, I probably stayed at the level of a few hundred yuan. But why do they save so much tea? There are two warehouses left!"
"It should be the annual consumption of teahouses. When such a large teahouse is booming, it is not surprising to use a few boxes of tea every day. Moreover, most teas are better for spring tea. Spring tea has just passed the season, so the tea in the warehouse has basically not consumed much."
While talking, the team members had finished recording, and the two entered another warehouse through the door next to the stairs. This warehouse was smaller than before, with only four rows of large cabinets, one on both sides facing the wall, and two in the middle back to back. The storage method of goods was the same as the one just now, but the bottom floor was not placed.
Through the box, it can also be seen that it is higher than the previous warehouse. The bamboo box strips are thinner and tighter. Some boxes are made of simple patterns with color difference bamboo strips, and the bamboo strips are covered with a layer of oil, which is obviously undergoing some special treatment.
As expected, there are finely packed good tea inside, and the paper-wrapped tea boxes are made of fine materials, and some are even packaged directly in porcelain jars. Although the tea category is not very expensive, it is also a famous good tea. Moreover, the source of the origin is gathered in many production areas in East China and central China. It can be said that there are many types.
After some inventory records, although the warehouse is smaller than the one with the packaging and separation, the pure weight of a single box of leaves is reduced, but its value is much higher than that of the warehouse. Anything like tea that can be called with a name is much more expensive than ordinary tea.
The warehouse upstairs is opposite to the small warehouse downstairs, while the warehouse is opposite to the teahouse's "boss" bedroom and study room. Then the room is the living room, the reception room and the office. Of course, the reception room here refers to the hosting of espionage activities, that is, Sha Lihai breaks into the room, and you can see the blood dripping of the body outside the door.
When you enter the warehouse on the second floor, it is the same as the small warehouse downstairs. It is still four large and high cabinets, arranged in the same arrangement, but only five floors. However, you don’t have to worry about being more turbulent from the ground, so the overall amount is the same as the small warehouse downstairs.
Lin Mo checked the two rows of people in the door, and as Lin Mo expected, the best teas in the teahouse were stored on the upper floor, such as West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Baihao Junshan Silver Needle, Maofeng Maojian Houkui and other famous products and treasures, Lin Mo saw them, and each one was packed and stored in several boxes.
Of course, these famous teas are also divided into good quality, most of which are of medium and high quality, and not many of them are of high quality. Some are old teas from previous years, but gathering so many kinds is probably quite a bit of painstaking.
In the last two rows, Lin Mo couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and told the team members to continue unboxing, take out the tea leaves and smell them.
"What's wrong? Are there any problems with these teas?" Seeing Lin Mo's appearance, Zeng Wen rushed over and asked in a low voice.
"There is no problem with tea..." Lin Mo shook his head and explained: "But it surprised me a little. These tea bricks and tea cakes are all Pu'er, and they are medium and high-quality.
Pu'er is produced in Yunnan. In recent years, the situation in the southwest region has been chaotic, resulting in trade routes blocking. This tea is rare here. Although the price may not be very high, it is more difficult to search than the two cabinets before. I didn't expect that there were six or seven boxes."
While speaking, Lin Mo took out a pack of another kind of tea from the opened box, opened the pack and checked it, and then took out a pack from the other box to check it.
"This should be Sichuan tea, produced in the Emei Mountain area of 'Snow Buds'. The other one should be Sichuan tea. I can't tell which one it is, but it is also a good tea of good quality."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Lin Mo checked several more, but didn't make any sound again, until he saw another one. Lin Mo took a piece of tea and tasted it.
"The taste is fragrant, fresh and refreshing, with tight, round and smooth appearance, green and moist color, and white as jade. It should be called "Yu Green". It is produced in the Enshi area of Hubei. Enshi is located west of the Three Gorges and belongs to the mountainous area facing the southwest province."
After a while, I checked another one and then said, "The shape of this tea is tight, slim and curly, with a hair covering, and a green color. It should be from Qiannan."
After checking all the tea leaves, Lin Mo clapped his hands and said, "Although most of the two rows of stored tea cannot be recognized, it is estimated that they are all teas from remote areas near the southwest or near the southwest.
The more unified feature is that the tea is of excellent quality and it is difficult to find on the local market, especially so many kinds, so the effort will not be small."
Zeng Wenchong heard this and said in confusion: "What did they spend so much effort to collect? Are they really just focusing on running a teahouse?"
Lin Mo heard this and smiled and said, "Building a teahouse is not the purpose, it is just a means to achieve the goal. But because management is not the purpose, this effort is spent."
"Uh..." Zeng Wenchong was confused when he heard this, and said, "This is too confusing. I don't seem to understand it?"
Lin Mo explained with a smile: "If you want to run a teahouse, then what you are pursuing is profit. Although these rare and difficult-to-find teas can attract some favored or curious customers, because teas are rare and difficult to find, it takes a lot of time, thought and even money to search for, and the profit is much smaller than other easy-to-find teas.
Take the tea in this warehouse as an example. Although the tea in the front two rows is expensive, you can basically buy it by finding a big tea dealer. Even if you can't get together, you can just find a few more. Moreover, the supply of goods is generally relatively stable. You don't have to worry about finding a tea dealer to supply it once.
But these teas are different. Because the local situation is chaotic, it is difficult to build a stable supply. If the supply is unstable, it is difficult to form a stable sales channel. This means that it is necessary to spend more money in the process of purchasing and selling, thereby diluting profits. Because the unstable profit is not high, many big tea merchants are unhappy in doing this business.
Although some small and medium-sized tea merchants are willing to do it if they have money to make, it is even more difficult for them to form stable channels. Small-scale businesses cover a small range. It is considered wrong for a single small and medium-sized tea merchant to have one or two kinds of tea.
And more, it may be that there will be no next year this year, or even simply accidentally received a batch of such goods. If you sell it out, it will be time-consuming and laborious to search for this kind of rare and difficult-to-find tea. In addition, the thinner profits, do you think teahouses that aim to pursue profits will be thankless in this way?
But this teahouse is to get information from customers, and people who are interested in curiosity are mostly rich and leisurely people. These people generally have a certain status and the task objectives of the teahouse are mostly this type of people, so they spend these thoughts."
"Well..." Lin Mo pondered for a while and said, "You can mark this situation. Check the source of tea and the causes and consequences of collecting these teas. Some unusual behaviors may often be caused by some special reasons!"
Zeng Wenchong was a little confused and wanted to ask, but seeing Lin Mo was looking at the cabinet on the left side carefully, he didn't ask, but just asked his subordinates to mark it.
"Second cousin, you searched a little bit in detail! There should be a secret room behind this wall, right?"
"Secret Room?" Lin Mo said, confused Zeng Wenchong again, and said, "This small warehouse is the same size as the one downstairs!"
After saying that, Zeng Wenchong ran to the door, looked outside, then took back to look inside, looked at the head... It was repeated three times...
"The walls inside and outside are the same. If the house is divided into a secret room as a whole, what about the stairs? The stairs are connected to the walls! To separate the secret rooms, you have to demolish the stairs and re-open them. This stairs are obviously a long time ago and there are no traces of rebuilding."
Lin Mo replied, "I didn't say that the secret room was newly built. I guess it was built with the house. If you want to make the house layout of this teahouse, you obviously went to the big store when it was repaired. I guess the secret room was brought to store valuable things when the boss built it.
There is a secret room inside, I am sure of this. When I came here just now, I came in, and the partition wall between the big room next to me was the one with the big room next to me. I knew how long it was. This small warehouse must be at least one and a half meters wide enough. I found something wrong downstairs, but I haven't found the entrance yet."
The back door, or side door of the teahouse, should be more accurate. The house next to the warehouse, the side of the small room on the first floor, is on the L-shaped staircase on the second floor, and the upper half is against the wall. The small side door of the teahouse is under the staircase.
"Have you found the entrance yet?" Zeng Wenchong was stunned when he heard this. He walked to the high cabinet and looked around, and carefully checked it. He really didn't see any traces of the entrance.
"I have noticed it upstairs and downstairs. This big cabinet is close to the wall, full of tea leaves, and the cabinet feet are not equipped with wheels, so it is difficult to move. It should not be in these two warehouses, but I already have some ideas."
Zeng Wenchong heard this and said, "Is it outside not in the warehouse? It's not right! If you lose the concealment of the secret compartment outside, you may not be able to hide it from the rest of the store. I guess it was explained earlier, could it be underground?"
"What underground? You won't even hold your head and think about it?" Lin Mo laughed and pointed at his finger.
Zeng Wenchong was puzzled for a moment, then slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "Atl, hey... I really didn't expect this..."
Zeng Wenchong immediately arranged for people to go to the two rooms next to him and searched the ceiling inch by inch. After a while, two small secret doors were found, one in one room.
There were multiple flashlights found in the teahouse. After someone took them out, Lin Mo found a chaise bar with a strange shape in the room, which could be easily removed from the bottom.
Lin Mo used this thing to carefully push the cover of the secret door open. After turning it over 90 degrees, the flip board was stuck. When he shone with a flashlight, he could see a bamboo ladder hanging on the beam of the room, and the bottom was against the secret door.
Lin Mo looked at the thing in Fan's hand, reached up and hooked the horizontal steps of the bamboo ladder, gently hooked it inward, and the bamboo ladder fell into the secret door and jumped up and down a few times.
Lin Mo continued to hook and pull it down, and he could pull it down. When he was about to pull it to the head, he found that there were two rubber ropes tied on it. Lin Mo held it and set up the bamboo ladder to climb the first step, then took the gun and stepped on the horizontal line and finished it in one go.
Carefully go up the ladder and signal the person below to hold the bamboo ladder. Lin Mo squatted on his legs and used force. A fish jumped in the attic and rolled twice, holding a flashlight in his left hand and holding a gun in his right hand to quickly check the situation in the attic.
Fortunately, there was nothing wrong. Lin Mo knocked on the floor twice, and the two team members of the third team who were already on the bamboo ladder immediately went up one after another, beware and checked the surrounding situation more carefully, eliminated the dangers and covered the team members of the third team members to the attic.
"Lao Zeng, you see that there are bamboo ladders and secret doors on the room on the other side, and you see the traces of the floor slabs in the middle of the attic. It is obvious that people are walking for a long time, and there are probably quite a lot of people.
I think there are more tricks in the attic than expected. I think we will lead the team separately and explore both sides. Be careful and let the three teams come first."
Chapter completed!