Lin Zezu was free at home, so he simply called Sister Jiang, Little Xin’er, Zisu, and four other maidservants to the backyard. He had Chonglou move over a tea table and a small stove, and then he began to lecture them on tea.
"You must listen carefully now. We are going to open a very different kind of teahouse in the future. I have designed this teahouse to operate on a membership basis; it is not for the general public, but specifically for high-ranking officials and nobles. To put it plainly, we are going to earn money from the wealthy—the silver held by officials, powerful gentry, ladies, young misses, and rich matrons. That is how I have positioned the teahouse we will open."
"When you hear about wealthy gentry, high-ranking officials, young heiresses, and noble ladies, do you feel they are high and mighty, beyond reach? Do you feel so inferior just looking at them that you wouldn't even dare to speak to them? Deep down, do you think that these officials, gentry, and noble ladies possess such 'golden bodies' that they are beyond compare? And is it even more foolishly believed that whatever they say or do must be right?"
Chapter 158