‘No, not for all the tea in China,’ she said with a certain amount of finality. Although, just why she would want that amount of tea, even with her legendary thirst, was not something she bothered to clarify. Not only that, there is also the matter of the storage.
Admittedly, she does have a lock-up down the back of the estate, but I doubt she would get much in the way of the tea from even a small Chinese province in there. Not that I know much about the average annual tea production statistics for China… or anywhere else for that matter. But I do presume they would be considerable. After all saying: ‘No, not for all the tea in China.’ does presuppose there will be a not inconsiderable amount of the aforesaid product in the aforesaid country. After all, it is not that impressive if that ‘All the tea in China.’ is only enough to make one weak cupful, is it?
Well, not only that, we have to be a bit careful these days with China becoming the economic superpower it has become. After all, it could be that its current industrial might has been bought about through a downgrading of its tea-producing sector, what with all the agricultural workers migrating to the cities seeking new jobs and so on. It could be that nowadays there is hardly any tea in China at all.
Anyway, after I’d pointed all this out to her, she hit me.
Then, after studying the effect that had on me, she hit me again… just to be sure.
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