The Connoisseur
The first great painter in the county was Ji Taomin, and the first connoisseur was Ye San.
Ye San was a fruit seller. He is a fruit seller and other fruit sellers are not the same. Not a store, not a stall, and not carrying a stretcher down the street. He specializes in delivering fruit to the big houses. That is, to 20 or 30 families. These people he knows very well, the gatekeeper and the dog know him. At a certain date, he came. Inside, when you hear him knocking on the door, you know: it's Ye San. Carrying a gold gabion basket, a small scale in the basket, he walked into the hall, raising his voice to address the master. Sometimes the owner came out to meet him, sometimes he spoke through the door. "Weighing for you--?" -- "Five pounds." What fruit, is not even need to see, because to what season to send what fruit are certain. Ye San never said the price of selling fruit. The people who buy the fruit will never treat him badly. Some people pay at the time, most of them are to the next festival (Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year). Ye San weighed the fruit, placed on the eight fairy table, said "excuse me", and left. His fruits do not need to pick, each is good. The advantage of his fruit, the first is to get the first of the four seasons. The market has not seen this kind of fruit, he already has in the basket. Secondly, they are big, uniform, very fragrant, very sweet and very beautiful. His fruits are all passed through his hands, with scars, insect eyes, crowded baskets, broken skin, discolored, too small all picked off and sold to other fruit vendors at low prices. His fruit are original, some are directly to the production area to pick up, are "tree ripe", - not in the rice bran smothered ripe. He went out a lot and spent more time buying fruit than he did selling it. He also likes to run around a lot. Four villages and eight towns, which garden, what family, what a famous good fruit tree, he knows, and and the owner of the garden for many years to deal with, as familiar as in-laws. --Other fruit sellers can't make such an effort and don't know these ways. Walking around, you can see a lot of good scenery, know the local customs, can be useful to talk about, and good for health. He rarely gets sick, because he walks a lot.