Shopkeeper Zhou and Zhou Daqing did not expect that it was Mrs. Xu, and they were both a little excited. Since Zhou Daqing sent Mrs. Xu's family to Yuanbao Town, even if they knew that Mrs. Xu lived in Yuanbao Town, the father and son were too embarrassed to come to disturb them. It was because he felt that finding the door like this was too obvious.

"Miss Xu, why are you here?" Shopkeeper Zhou greeted her with a smile.

Xu Qinyu heard the sound and turned around. Seeing that it was Shopkeeper Zhou, she also got up, "Manager Zhou, Chef Zhou, stay safe these days. I came here today because there are some things I want to discuss with Shopkeeper Zhou."

She also directly explained the purpose of her visit, saying that she had made a lot of wine these days, and it was not very popular in the town, so she came to Raozhou City to see if the sales in the city could be opened, and also said that she specifically wanted to ask the shopkeeper next week, I think this wine will sell well or not, and how should I sell it?

After speaking, she opened a bottle of wine.

These small wine bottles are still made of corks, and these corks also cost some silver taels.

The cork is wrapped with wine paper, tied with satin silk, and the silk ribbon and a loop of hemp rope are torn open, then the hemp rope is cut, the wine paper is torn open, and the cork is pulled out. The sweet, faint aroma of fruit wine is overflowed.

Tie Niu has already winked to wash a few wine cups over.

The washed wine cup was wiped clean and sent to the past. The wine cup was not big, and it was also made of white porcelain. A bottle of fruit wine could pour four or five cups. Xu Qinyu poured the wine into the wine cup. The wine he brewed only had the pigment of the fruit, so the wine was pink, not dark in color, very beautiful pink. It was very pleasing to the eyes when poured into the white porcelain wine cup. .

Xu Qinyu asked Shopkeeper Zhou and the others to try it, and even got a piece of iron bull.

He carefully took a sip, and the entrance was fruity and sweet and sour. After this taste, there was a faint wine taste, even the wine taste was not astringent, only wine aroma, three distinct levels, Fruity, sweet and sour, and wine aroma, but Tie Niu didn't understand the level of wine, so he just boasted, "Drink well!" Then he couldn't hold back and drank the wine in the wine cup.

Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't help but praise after tasting it, "Delicious."

In fact, there are also fruit wines here, plum wine and osmanthus wine, one fruit wine and one flower wine. The price of the two wines is not low. The wine taste will be stronger, and there will be a kind of astringent taste. The taste of the wine has a good taste, but in this wine made by Mrs. Xu, Mr. Zhou has no such astringency, and the wine taste is not strong, and there will be a slight wine taste in the mouth at the end. He does not know how to describe it. , think it tastes good, but unlike plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine, this fruit wine is actually more suitable for the elderly, women and children, or people who don’t like spirits.

Shopkeeper Zhou prefers spirits, but drinking this wine feels more like a drink. Anyway, he also likes to drink it. There should be no one who doesn't like this kind of taste, but those who like spirits only drink it as a drink. .

Chef Zhou doesn't drink alcohol, so he thinks this wine tastes just right, not astringent at all, and very delicious.

Xu Qinyu also knew that there were plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine in this era. Wine had not yet appeared in the Dasheng Dynasty. It was also because of grapes that were introduced here. The price was expensive, and no one thought about using it to make wine. No one used wild grapes to make wine before.

She said, "I plan to sell a bottle of this wine for one or two silvers."

A bottle is about a pound.

Shopkeeper Zhou nodded, "The price is not low, but it's not too expensive either."

The price of plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine is similar, but the taste is better than those of plum wine. He thinks that it should be easy to sell if you find the right market. These fruit wines are not sold to ordinary people.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "I just don't know how to open up this market, so I thought, I can consign it to Shopkeeper Zhou first, sell a bottle, and give Shopkeeper Zhou a commission of fifty cents. What's Shopkeeper Zhou's opinion?"

Shopkeeper Zhou hurriedly waved his hand, "Little lady doesn't need to give money. This wine tastes good, someone will definitely buy it, and it can also bring traffic to my inn. Naturally, I don't need to pay commission for the little lady's drinks."

Xu Qinyu still insisted, she said: "This is a business, brothers have to settle accounts clearly, and they must still be paid a commission."

After some negotiation, the shopkeeper Zhou finally accepted, but he was only willing to ask for a commission of forty cents for a bottle.

After discussing this, Xu Qinyu found that the guests of the inn were still going out to eat the morning meal, because it was just the time to eat the morning meal. She, Cheng Ge'er and Feng Ge'er got up early in the morning and went out of the town earlier, and arrived at Raozhou City. It's almost time to eat.

She used to sell food in the inn before, and she happened to teach Chef Zhou. Chef Zhou has not improved the food business of the inn after a year?

It can't be a year, and Chef Zhou hasn't practiced the food she made?

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but ask: "Manager Zhou, didn't I teach Big Brother Zhou how to eat? The restaurant business is still..."

Chef Zhou, who was standing behind the shopkeeper Zhou, scratched his head and said, "In my heart, little lady Xu taught me how to eat. Profit, so, so I haven't cooked those dishes in the inn..."

What I have done is what I used to know, the taste is average, and it is not fresh, so diners are naturally reluctant to stay in the inn to eat.

Xu Qinyu was stunned for a moment, but also did not expect the Zhou family to be so sincere.

She couldn't help but said: "Actually, when I taught Brother Zhou a few things, it was so that Brother Zhou could cook it for the diners by himself. Don't worry, shopkeeper Zhou and Brother Zhou, since they can do these things, they will be in the inn in the future. Do it too, so that there will be more diners, and maybe more people will buy wine.”

Shopkeeper Zhou and Zhou Daqing thanked them again and again.

Xu Qinyu and Cheng Geer haven't eaten the morning food yet. Zhou Daqing went to the kitchen to cook some fish porridge. Although he has never sold these foods in the inn, he often cooks them for his family.

When the raw fish fillet porridge was served, Xu Qinyu found that it was not bad, the color and aroma were all there, she tasted it, the fish fillet was tender and had no fishy smell, and the rice porridge was sticky, but the heat and seasoning were still slightly lacking.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "It's not bad, it would be better if you pay more attention to the heat and seasoning."

Zhou Daqing said that he would work harder, but he actually felt a little bit, feeling that this was the limit of what he could do, such as the ratio of heat and seasoning, he made exactly the same as Xu Xiaoniang, but the taste Nothing can compare to what Xu Xiaoquanta made. It's really that Xu Xiaoniang's culinary talent is terrible.

After eating the morning meal, Xu Qinyu took down the remaining thirty bottles of wine on the carriage, and let the shopkeeper Zhou put it in the inn first. Before she came, she didn't know if she could negotiate this cooperation, so she brought a lot of wine and planned to After the negotiation is over, let Brother Cheng send the first batch of wine.

Putting down the wine, Xu Qinyu said a few words to Shopkeeper Zhou and Chef Zhou, planning to return to Yuanbao Town.

Shopkeeper Zhou suddenly thought of something and said to Xu Qinyu, "Miss Xu can wait for a while, I remember that Mrs. Lu's family will have a banquet in a half month, but she will invite the ladies of Raozhou City to the palace to reward them. Flowers eat wine, I will send all these wines to Mrs. Lu's house in a while, if they get into Mrs. Lu's eyes, these wines will not worry about selling."

In fact, he felt that Mrs. Lu would love to drink such a delicious wine.

Mrs. Lu?

Xu Qinyu didn't know each other, so she couldn't help asking, "Who is this Mrs. Lu?"

The shopkeeper Zhou told Mrs. Lu's origins. This Mrs. Lu was a widow, but she was actually a relative of the royal family.

Emperor Taizu, who has conquered the world, is almost three hundred years away from now, and he is still the brother of Taizu's wife's family. Naturally, several generations have passed. The Lu family has been in the limelight, and after three hundred years, that lineage should be an ordinary prince.

This Madam Lu's father was the hereditary Duke of Lu, as well as the kind of fiefs. The fiefs were not in the southwest and were quite far apart.

And this Mrs. Lu was the eldest daughter of the current Duke of Lu. She took a fancy to Shiling, the son of the leader of the caravan who went to the fief. Go to Shiling.

At first, Duke Lu did not want his eldest daughter to marry, but the eldest daughter made a lot of trouble, and Duke Lu had no choice but to allow it.

I didn't expect that Shiling was really ungrateful. Originally, the family was just a small caravan. Since the name and connections of the Lu family, the caravan became bigger and bigger, and made a lot of money, so he thought about taking a concubine.

Mrs. Lu was reluctant at first, but was coaxed by Shiling to allow the concubine to enter the door. She never thought that this concubine was cruel and moved her hands and feet when Mrs. Lu was pregnant and gave birth. Mrs. Lu almost died and the child was born. It would be impossible to come down, and she also injured her body and bones and could not continue to give birth.

Mrs. Lu later found out that her dystocia was not an accident, but was manipulated by a concubine in the family. She also found out that her husband Shiling and the concubine did not know each other in the past two years. Long before her, the two were already ready to talk about marriage. On marriage.

Mrs. Lu did not use her identity to persecute Shiling. She asked if there were wives and concubines in Shiling's family, and if there were people who wanted to marry, she said that she liked him, and if there were no wives, concubines and fiancées, she was willing to marry him.

It was Shi Ling who coveted the status of the Lu family, but after marrying Mrs. Lu and the Shi family developed, he tried every means to get the person he liked to be a concubine at home.

The woman felt that Mrs. Lu used the family background of the Lu family to make Shiling marry the daughter of the Lu family. She hated Mrs. Lu in her heart, so she acted when Mrs. Lu was pregnant and gave birth.

After finding out, Mrs. Lu sued the government and arrested the woman. The charge was exile, and the woman died on the way to exile.

Shiling evaded himself cleanly, and Mrs. Lu didn't say much later and continued to live with Shiling.

Shiling had no children and half daughters, but he didn't dare to talk to Madam Lu about taking a concubine again.

After half a year, Shiling met a robber while running a business, and died in an accident outside.

Originally, Shiling had a father and other brothers. Even if Shiling was gone, the Shi family's caravan should belong to the Shi family.

But Mrs. Lu was also a good way. After Shi Ling died, everyone in the Shi family caravan listened to her and followed her.

I heard that the Shi family was still noisy for a while, and then they probably couldn’t stay in Raozhou anymore, and the Shi family moved away and did not know where to go.

Later, Mrs. Lu didn't want to go back to her mother's house. She probably wanted to open it up. She didn't want to marry again. Less, the days are also very comfortable and leisurely.

The grudge between Mrs. Lu and the Shi family was over ten years ago.

Madam Lu was almost thirty-eight or nine years old now.

Xu Qinyu was a little stunned, this was even more exciting than the books written outside. This Madam Lu should also have some means, otherwise she wouldn't let everyone in the caravan listen to her, and finally followed her directly.

Since shopkeeper Zhou said to help her bring the wine to Mrs. Lu's house to try, Xu Qinyu planned to wait first. Shopkeeper Zhou asked his son to clean up two famous guest rooms, and Xu Qinyu lived alone for a while. After a while, Brother Cheng and Brother Feng went to another room to rest first.

Shopkeeper Zhou drove the carriage to Lu Mansion with wine.

The Lu Mansion was a five-story house, and in it lived Mrs. Lu and some servants who served her.

After shopkeeper Zhou arrived, he stopped the carriage and knocked on the door. An old lady opened the door and asked him what was the matter.

Shopkeeper Zhou introduced himself, and then talked about some wine. Knowing that Mrs. Lu was going to invite the ladies and wives in the city to enjoy flowers and wine in the future, she came here to propose and deliver the wine. After speaking, she went back to the carriage and held ten bottles of fruit wine in her arms. Down to the old mama.

The old mama said that she knew with the wine in her arms, and told the shopkeeper Zhou to go back and wait for the news.

The people who serve Mrs. Lu are all her confidants, and she will not hide anything from her decision. Even if she gets these ten bottles of wine, she will not say that she will keep it for herself, because the shopkeeper that week was just a small shopkeeper of the inn, and there was no servant. It was reported that no matter what happened to Mrs. Lu, even if the servants smuggled the ten bottles of fruit wine, neither shopkeeper Zhou nor Mrs. Lu would know about it.

But this mammy didn't dare at all. Even though Mrs. Lu was lazy and easy to talk on weekdays, it was also a powerful way to sell her subordinates.

So the old mama got ten bottles of fruit wine and didn't dare to delay, and immediately sent it to Mrs. Lu's yard.

Mrs. Lu is not short of money, there is a father-in-law on top of her, and there is no man or husband's family. There are people in the caravan who help her take care of her. Looking at her in her early thirties, her skin is white and her charm is still there. She has just eaten the morning meal. She is rich, and the cooks in the house are specially invited to serve her alone. At this moment, Mrs. Lu is lying in the courtyard. She was resting on a rattan chair inside, the maid was shaking a fan, helping her to gently fan the wind, and a little maid gently pinched her leg.

Although autumn has just entered, it is still a bit sultry from morning to noon.

Madam Lu was taking a nap. After a while, the maid who was guarding the courtyard door came in and whispered to the two little maids, "The concierge said that someone sent some wine to honor our madam, is madam asleep? Old slave. Would you like to bring the wine in first?"

Mrs. Lu was not asleep, and when she heard the words of the mother, she opened her eyes and said, "Let the doorman bring the fruit wine in."

The fruit wines she drinks on weekdays are plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and most of the ladies and wives who come to the house are the same, but this is the first time have heard of wine.

The grandmother who guarded the gatehouse quickly came in with the fruit wine.

Without Madam Lu's instructions, one of the little maids had already gone to get the wine cup.

The wine cups that Mrs. Lu even used were white jade wine cups, which were cold and cold, and it was very comfortable to drink when the weather was hot.

Mrs. Lu took the fruit wine from the mother's hand, and saw that the bottle of wine was ordinary white porcelain with a few words engraved on it, Xu Ji? It should be the wine brewed by Xu Ji. The bottle looks ordinary, but don't know how it tastes. Mrs. Lu doesn't have to do it herself. A little maid has already opened the cork, and immediately there is a faint fruity aroma and wine smell.

Mrs. Lu couldn't help straightening her waist. She felt that the fragrance was good and dissipated quickly.

When the little maid poured the fruit wine into the white jade wine cup, the color of the fruit wine was peach red, and the peach red and the white jade color were intertwined, which was very beautiful.

Holding up the white jade wine cup, Mrs. Lu sipped her mouth lightly and couldn't help raising her eyebrows.

She is someone who is used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas. She has also tasted a lot of fine wines. This wine is unusual in one sip. The front is fruity, then it has a sweet and sour taste. Finally, she swallows her stomach, and what remains in her mouth is the last trace. The wine was fragrant, not astringent at all, and she immediately asked, "Who brought this wine?"

The concierge's grandmother said, "It's the shopkeeper of the Bafang Inn. She said her surname was Zhou, and she said that there was not much wine. I knew that Madam, you will be entertaining guests in a few days, so I thought of recommending it myself."

Madam Lu said immediately, "Go and invite the shopkeeper of the Bafang Inn."

...

It was almost noon when Xu Qinyu was knocked on the door. It was the shopkeeper Zhou who asked her to come to Mrs. Lu's house with her.

It turned out that it was not long after the shopkeeper Zhou returned, the servants of Mrs. Lu's house came over and said that Mrs. Lu had invited her.

Shopkeeper Zhou said that the person who brewed the grapes was also in the inn, could we go to Fuzhong together.

The servant naturally said yes.

Xu Qinyu knew that this would be a big business if Mrs. Lu took a fancy to it.

She has quite a lot of wine. In the past two months, brother Gong took a few small ones to go to the mountain to pick wild grapes. She has been brewing for two months, and the wild grapes on the mountain have not been picked yet. She has brewed a lot, about 300 jars of wine before and after, and a jar of wine can be divided into seven or eight bottles in the end, there are more than 2,000 bottles, she kept some for herself, and put some in the restaurant, There are almost two thousand bottles left.

Three hundred jars of wine can't even fit in the backyard of her restaurant, some are still in Osmanthus Lane, and even Brother Cheng and his family have some.

Brother Cheng and Xu Feng must also go, probably because they are afraid that she will be bullied.

In the end, the four of them drove the carriage and followed Mrs. Lu's servant's carriage, and soon arrived at Lu's house.

As the old mama entered the house, Xu Qinyu saw the exquisite carving patterns on the screen wall inside the house, as well as the beautiful hand porch. The yard below the hand porch was full of flowers and plants. In this season, the flowers and plants are blooming properly. Prosperous, colorful and beautiful.

Xu Qinyu looked a little greedy, she also wanted such a big house.

After walking for a while, he arrived at the main courtyard where Mrs. Lu lived. Seeing Mrs. Lu, Xu Qinyu knew that she was a lady who knew how to enjoy herself and didn't care much about what outsiders said.

If it were put in modern times, this Mrs. Lu would be envied by many people. She had money and leisure but no men, but it was not that she had no men. After listening to Mrs. Lu's story, Xu Qinyu felt that there should be Mrs. Lu in the caravan. Very capable, otherwise she was just a back house woman from the beginning, and it was impossible for everyone in the caravan to listen to her and be willing to do things with her.

But to Xu Qinyu, these things have nothing to do with her. Mrs. Lu hasn't remarried for so many years, which shows that people are very sober.

The people here think differently from most women in later generations. People in this era will think that no matter how rich Mrs. Lu is, she doesn't even have a man or child, and she will have no support in the future.

Mrs. Lu's appearance is good, and she has been well maintained over the years. She looks white and beautiful with charm.

When she saw Xu Qinyu and Brother Cheng, Mrs. Lu was still a little curious. Why did the shopkeeper Zhou bring his family with him? She thought that Xu Qinyu and Brother Cheng were the children of shopkeeper Zhou.

The shopkeeper Zhou hurriedly said, "I have seen my wife, and the wine that I just sent was made by this little lady Xu. She is the master of my dog, and the dog has learned a few things from her."

Such a young cook?

Mrs. Lu was stunned for a while, but she didn't care too much about Xu Qinyu's cooking skills.

She simply asked Xu Qinyu how many bottles of wine and what price.

Xu Qinyu answered truthfully, saying that there are still about 2,000 bottles at home, and the price of a bottle is one tael of silver.

Without thinking about it, Mrs. Lu said to Xu Qinyu, "I want these two thousand bottles of wine. You can have someone bring it to my house in the past few days."

Xu Qinyu said, "The last batch of wine has not been fermented yet. About 500 bottles of the last batch need to wait for about ten days. The rest can be sent to the wife's house first."

Mrs. Lu naturally said yes.

The two chatted, Madam Lu was curious about how these wines were made, and wanted to buy a wine recipe from Xu Qinyu, Xu Qinyu also told Madam Lu truthfully, "Don't lie to Madam, this recipe is actually very simple, but it came out in the end. The taste of the wine is definitely not as good as mine.”

Don't look at the chores of washing the grapes, which are all done by Cheng Ge'er. She only needs to match the ratio of grapes to rock sugar. Cheng Ge'er also did the jars, but when the first fermentation is done, when is the best time to open the bottle and turn the bottle? For the second fermentation, other people can only get an approximate time to open the jar and turn the bottle for the second fermentation, but she did the second fermentation based on the taste.

It is because the first time that it was not fermented was not the most suitable time, so there would be a feeling of astringency.

Mrs. Lu was a little surprised. In the end, she didn't know if she believed Xu Qinyu's words. She discussed with Xu Qinyu that more wine could be produced. higher price.

The two thousand bottles of wine, Mrs. Lu did not intend to send the caravan to other places to sell at a high price to make money. She planned to keep it for herself and to entertain guests on weekdays.

This wine is much better than plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine. If it can be brewed in large quantities, it is indeed very profitable.

But Xu Qinyu is also very clear in his heart that it is a little difficult to brew a lot of it.

She talked about her current situation, saying that the venue and manpower were insufficient. This year they worked hard to brew and only got 2,000 bottles. She also said that the wild grapes on the mountain are basically gone now, and they are all sold out.With these two thousand bottles, she won't be able to make wine this year.

Mrs. Lu smiled and said: "You don't have enough manpower and space, I can, even if you can't make more this year, you can come next year, how about we work together to make this business next year? I will provide the manpower and space at that time, Miss Xu, come here.Just provide the recipe."