It was a little after three in the afternoon when my master and I arrived in Gui City and began shopping for gifts.
My master said that his old friend liked tea.
So we found a specialty tea shop and picked out the expensive ones.
I hadn't known much about tea before. The kind I drank most often was bottled iced black tea that cost three or five yuan.
It wasn't until I entered a high-end tea shop that I realized just how expensive the stuff could be.
Teas costing thousands or even tens of thousands were everywhere.
A small box alone could cost thousands or tens of thousands...
Neither my master nor I knew much about it, so we bought more than a dozen boxes in eight or nine varieties.
Crimson Robe, Dragon Well, Biluochun, Iron Goddess, Pu'er, and so on. Those dozen or so boxes of tea alone cost us more than seventy thousand.
After buying the gifts, we took a taxi to Gong Bo's residence.
It took around three hours to get from the city to where Gong Bo lived.
Mainly because his home was too remote. They called it a forest park, but it was actually deep in the mountains and woods.
By the time my master and I arrived from the city, it was already past seven.
Night had fallen as well...
But the moment I got out of the car, I saw large white-walled villas scattered through the mountain forest.
The villas were brightly lit and occupied quite a large area.
At the entrance stood a pair of massive iron gates, while the surrounding walls were topped with wire fencing.
One look was enough to tell that this was a private estate for the wealthy.
My master glanced up.
"This is the place..."
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