He said, "The tea farmers reserve the good tea leaves for their old customers; it's impossible to sell them to me. And do you know how much a brick of good tea costs?"
Zhou Silang used to unload goods for others in Yizhou City, so naturally, he encountered tea merchants and had inquired about the price of tea.
However, the tea he could unload by the box wasn't of the highest quality, and the price was moderate.
Only after directly interacting with the tea farmers this time did he realize that there were so many kinds of tea leaves in the world. He said, "Just such a small brick of tea costs eighty taels, and that's just moderately good. I've heard that some wealthy families with ten or so tea mountains get two bricks of top-grade tea in spring, and each brick costs one hundred eighty taels. There are also tributes for the palace, which are even more expensive; you can't buy them even if you have money."
