Tea Merchant

In the thirteenth year of Guangxu's reign, by the Yongding River. Twelve-year-old orphan Chen Tiansheng lost his parents and lives on the streets. At the most difficult moment, he met Su Jing'an, the shopkeeper of "Su Ji Tea Shop" in Beijing. A bowl of hot porridge and a bun changed the trajectory of Chen Tiansheng's life. From then on, Chen Tiansheng entered the tea trade as an apprentice. Under Su Jing'an's careful instruction, he started from the most basic tasks of sweeping the floor and wiping cans, and then learned step by step how to recognize tea, distinguish tea, fry tea, taste tea, and operate tea. Not only did he learn solid tea business skills, but he also inherited the tea merchant spirit of "being down-to-earth and operating with integrity" from Su Jing'an. The current situation is turbulent and the situation is changing. The Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, the Gengzi Revolution, the Revolution of 1911, Puyi's abdication... The giant wheel of history has rolled over the lives of ordinary people again and again. Chen Tiansheng and Su Jing'an's daughter Su Wanning (formerly Prince Qingchun's Princess) fell in love with each other in times of adversity, and together they experienced the hardships of the tea shop being destroyed, being displaced, and rebuilding their homes. They worked together to develop the Su family tea shop, opening branches all over the country, and exporting tea to Europe and the United States. Chen Tiansheng eventually became "the first tea merchant in the Republic of China."