1843年正是清朝道光年间。杭州清河坊鼓楼拐角有一家著名的“神仙居”茶馆,从早到晚热气腾腾,门庭若市,顾客盈门。每天这批茶客中,有个十六七岁的小青年叫胡雪岩,是“开泰”钱庄的小跑街,常到茶馆和人谈生意。胡雪岩很快发觉每天坐在茶馆角落有个英俊后生衣衫褴褛,但风度不凡。他很少与人说话,总是捧着一本书在读。每天喝茶非喝到茶馆快打烊才肯走,惹得茶博士老奚落他:“哼!茶客都像你这样,那我们茶馆迟早要倒灶。” 1843 is the Daoguang Qing Dynasty. Hangzhou Qing Hefang Drum Tower corner has a well-known “Shenxianju ” teahouse, steaming from morning till night, dignified, customers Yingmen. Among these tea-makers, there is a 16-year-old young man named Hu Xueyan, who is a trotter of the “Kai Tai” bank. He often talks about business with teahouse. Hu Xueyan quickly found himself sitting in the teahouse corner every day a handsome posterity ragged, but demeanor. He rarely spoke to people, always holding a book in reading. Every day, drinking tea not to drink teahouse fast 打 烊 only willing to go, provoked Dr. tea old ridiculed him: “hum! Tea are like you, then we teahouse sooner or later toppling. ”