When Mrs. Lu said this, she actually thought that the little lady in front of her was unwilling to sell the recipe, and she didn't force it. Even if she worked with Xu Xiaoniang to make this wine business, for her, it was impossible to spread too much in the early stage, about every year. It also added 120,000 taels of silver. She did not lack this 20,000 taels of silver. She thought that it would be fine if the little lady was unwilling to sell the formula to her.

But if the little lady is willing, she will give the venue and manpower next year, so that the little lady can make more wine, and both of them can make money.

In short, this business still depends on the wishes of Mrs. Xu.

Until next year, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Xu will work together to make wine. They bought land in the nearest village in Yuanbao Town, built a workshop, and made wine as long as it can be shaded. The people under her hands will start Helping to pick and wash grapes and finally to seal the altar, Mrs. Xu did not avoid her people.

It is indeed inevitable that this wine-making method seems too simple.

There are also people who are selfish and secretly try to brew it by themselves. After the second fermentation, the brewed wine tastes either too sweet or too sour, or very astringent, or it tastes ordinary and cannot be brewed at all. Lady this wine tastes.

Only then did Mrs. Lu believe that it was not that Madam Xu refused to sell the wine, but that others could not make such delicious wine with the same recipe.

Later, Mrs. Lu also sent out the men who secretly brewed wine.

Naturally, these are still later stories, and now Mrs. Lu is still waiting for the little lady in front of her to answer her words.

For Xu Qinyu, there is money to be earned.

Naturally, she readily agreed, and discussed specific matters with Mrs. Lu, such as the construction of the follow-up workshop, as well as the arrangement of the staff and the share of the brewed wine.

There is no room for shopkeeper Zhou and Cheng Ge'er and Feng Ge'er to interject with these words, so they can only sit silently and wait.

Shopkeeper Zhou discovered that even though Mrs. Xu was young, she could already be on her own, and she was so good at cooking that she didn't even have stage fright when talking about business with Mrs. Lu, and she talked eloquently.

Even Mrs. Lu was a little surprised, the little lady in front of her was only a dozen or so? Talking about business with her is more sophisticated than many patriarchs of aristocratic families, and he thinks very clearly about all aspects.

The result of the final discussion between the two was that the workshop and the manpower Xu Qinyu would not intervene, picking grapes and washing grapes, and these chores did not need her to do any of these chores. She only took time to match the ratio of wine to sugar. The altar is sealed, and she will control the time for the first fermentation.

Even the money needed for the wine jars and bottles for bottling did not need her to pay, and even the cost of sugar was paid by Mrs. Lu.

In short, she is a person. In the front, she moves her hands to allocate the ratio of grapes to sugar. Later, she moves her nose to see when it can be fermented in bottles.

The wine is sold to Mrs. Lu at the price of one tael of silver per pound. As for how Mrs. Lu opens up the market, where it is shipped, and what price it sells, she will no longer care.

After half an hour of talking like this, Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "I really didn't expect a teenage lady like you to be so eloquent and able to talk to me eloquently, and I actually agreed."

Mrs. Lu originally thought that she would contribute to the workshop, and her people would help with the chores, but Xu Qinyu would pay for the remaining wine bottles and sugar, and it was almost the same as it is now. Buy wine for a penny or two.

Now the result is that Madam Xu only uses her own money, not any capital.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said: "Even if I don't have to pay any capital, I promise Mrs. Lu that I will only make a contract with you to do the wine business, and I will never do this business with other people, and even if some people follow the example of wine in the future. , and there is absolutely no such taste, so Madam Lu is not at a loss."

More than that, Mrs. Lu will not sell these wines too cheap, and will definitely ship them to other rich state cities, sell them several times, and earn more than her.

Madam Lu smiled and said, "Then write the deed first."

In fact, excluding all the costs and manpower, she shipped these wines to rich places to sell, and she earned more than Xu Qinyu, but there were a lot of things to worry about. Just on the way to the rich places, she had to ask the escort agency to escort her. .

She is also a businessman. If she wants to make more money, she will naturally squeeze the other party. This is also the nature of the businessman. She also thinks that the other party is just a person, and it is too cost-effective to even put the grapes in the altar.

But she was still convinced by the little lady in front of her.

To be honest, the most profitable business in this business is Mrs. Xu, so you don't have to worry about anything.

Mrs. Lu asked the maid to get a pen and paper and write the deed. Naturally, the deed also stated what Xu Qinyu had said before. She only worked with Mrs. Lu for this business, and the taste of the subsequent wine also required Mrs. Lu. Satisfied, if the taste changes, Mrs. Lu can ask Xu Qinyu to compensate and so on.

After signing the deed, Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "It's getting late, Mrs. Xu, the shopkeeper of the week, and two brothers will stay for dinner?"

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "After discussing such a big business, I should treat Mrs. Lu to a banquet. It's a pity that I can't accompany Mrs. Lu for today's evening meal. I have to go back to Yuanbao Town, otherwise I will be closed when the time comes." In the city, the restaurant is still open at home, so I have to be busy before dawn tomorrow."

Mrs. Lu knew from shopkeeper Zhou's words that Xu Qinyu could cook, but she didn't expect that she would open a restaurant.

"I didn't expect Miss Xu to open a restaurant at such a young age. She really is young and promising."

These words are naturally polite words, and Mrs. Lu could not have expected that Xu Qinyu's culinary skills are just like the wine she brews, which is endless aftertaste. She will taste Xu Qinyu's cooking skills when she goes to Yuanbao Town next year. It's amazement plus regret, regret that didn't meet Miss Xu in Yuanbao Town earlier.

After Xu Qinyu and shopkeeper Zhou left, Xu Qinyu thanked shopkeeper Zhou, saying that if it hadn't been for shopkeeper Zhou, she would not have known Mrs. Lu, and she would discuss such a big business next time. He also planned to give the commission for the two thousand bottles of wine to shopkeeper Zhou, which was about eighty taels of silver. How could shopkeeper Zhou be willing to ask for it? He said that Mrs. Xu was willing to teach Daqing how to eat. Both he and Daqing are grateful for making these meals, so naturally they can't accept the money.

In the end, Xu Qinyu didn't force it. After returning to the inn, he talked to Zhou Daqing about some techniques and seasoning methods of cooking, stewing, stewing and steaming vegetables. is very useful.

It was almost the end of the day, Xu Qinyu, Cheng Geer and Feng Geer set off to return to Yuanbao Town.

The next day, Mrs. Lu sent someone to Yuanbao Town, and it happened to be the time to eat Chaoshi, and there was a queue at the gate of Xuji Restaurant.

The man who came to pick up the goods was a man in his thirties, with a burly figure and a dignified appearance. He had thick eyebrows and narrow eyes, but he was not very talkative.

It was Brother Cheng who received him. He knew that this person was Zhen Wu, the leader of the caravan under Mrs. Lu, so he was serious.

Zhen Wu first moved all the wine from Xuji Restaurant to the carriage, and Cheng Geer said: "There are two batches of wine on the Osmanthus Alley, and one batch needs to be fermented for eight days before it can be unsealed. When the head comes with me to pick up the goods, I will tell Escort Zhen which batch it is, pay attention to it, and put it away for another eight days when I go back."

Zhen Wu handed over the two thousand taels of silver bill to Brother Cheng, and Brother Cheng gave it to Xu Qinyu when he returned to the back kitchen, and Xu Qinyu asked him to lead people to Osmanthus Lane to carry wine.

There were about seven or eight people in the caravan. When they were moving things in Osmanthus Alley, someone couldn’t help shouting, “Boss, we haven’t eaten Chaoshi when we came here. Xuji’s Chaoshi smells delicious, or let’s eat here. ?”

Zhen Wu glanced at the diners queuing up, and said, "Go get the wine first, and find another place to eat later."

Brother Cheng can't help it. It's the busiest time right now, and there are so many diners queuing up, all of whom are holding plates, and it's not easy to get food for them from the back kitchen. Seven or eight people eat, and it seems that their appetite is quite large. If you can eat half of the food that the back kitchen is preparing now, other diners will wait too long.

These men scratched their heads and wanted to say something more, but Zhen Wu had already got into the carriage and drove the carriage away.

The others had no choice but to keep up. They didn't want to eat Chaoshi from other restaurants and food stalls. They just felt that Xuji's Chaoshi smelled too delicious and attractive. They wanted to try it, but there were too many diners. , the boss also let them go, so they could only keep up with them.

Brother Cheng took them to Osmanthus Alley, loaded the wine stored by the Pei family and the Wen family into the carriage, and then Zhen Wu brought them back to Raozhou City.

When Mrs. Lu saw Zhen Wu, she opened a bottle of wine for him to taste. Zhen Wu directly squeezed the small white porcelain wine bottle and drank the wine inside.

Mrs. Lu said helplessly, "You are really chewing peonies."

Zhen Wu said, "The sweet and sour taste is what you like."

He likes spirits, but the person he likes is delicate and fleshy, very soft.

Madam Lu couldn't help but look at him, and finally sighed, "Why do you do this?"

In the situation she was in Shi's house back then, Shi Ling's death had nothing to do with her. Even though she was willing to live with Shi Ling later, she never slept with Shi Ling again. She didn't forgive Shi Ling, but she didn't know What to do in the future, I thought about living in Shi's house first, and see what my plans are in the future, but I didn't expect Shiling himself to be unlucky, less than half a year later, he died in an accident while running a business.

The Shi family's caravan is mainly managed by Shi Ling.

As soon as Shi Ling died, the rest of the Shi family naturally wanted to take over the business that Shi Ling had been holding in the past few years with the caravan.

She is a woman, even if she is the daughter of the Duke of Lu, but the Duke of Lu's mansion is thousands of miles away from Raozhou City, and it is so ineffective every day, she can't compete with the Shi family, if Zhen Wu didn't come forward Help her, I'm afraid the Shi family doesn't even want to return her dowry, and wants to drive her away.

Zhen Wu was two or three years younger than her, but his words carried a lot of weight in the caravan. Zhen Wu helped her make a fuss at Shi's house with people who were willing to talk to him, and got her dowry back, as well as Shi Ling's Most of the earning went to her, too. The caravan was also divided into two. Zhen Wu led half of the people to follow her, and the rest went to the Shi family. Zhen Wu also devised a plan to make those people and the Shi family have disputes over interests, and the caravan left the Shi family. , The Shi family even lost their caravan and business, and Zhen Wu secretly suppressed her. The stone man couldn't bear it, so she could live her current life only by leaving Raozhou City.

In fact, Mrs. Lu has always known Zhen Wu's thoughts for her, before Shi Ling died and she didn't know Shi Ling's character.

Back then when she was pregnant, she met Zhen Wu, and he looked at her like a wolf.

Later, Zhen Wu helped her, and she followed him.

Over the years, Zhen Wu has helped manage the caravan and business, and all the money earned is in her name.

Zhen Wu has been with her for more than ten years. He neither takes a wife nor takes a concubine. She is the only one. She also said that the two of them are fine and let him marry another. He didn't want to marry again, but Zhen Wu didn't speak every time, just looked at her deeply and left angrily.

He was only angry for two days, and finally he took the initiative to come to her and coax her.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Lu couldn't help but soften her heart.

She naturally has feelings for Zhen Wu, and she knows that no matter how many times she tells him, he probably won't get married and have children, and as long as he wants, she will accompany him like this for the rest of her life.

Mrs. Lu pulled the tall and burly man to sit down and took the initiative to sit in his arms.

Only then did his anger subside a little, and he hugged the person.

Mrs. Lu asked him about his trip to Yuanbao Town, and then asked Mrs. Xu, and said that she opened a restaurant and could taste Mrs. Xu's craftsmanship.

She was thinking that when Zhen Wu and the others in Yuanbao Town were supposed to be eating Chaoshi, Mrs. Xu opened the restaurant again, and they could sit down and eat something.

Zhen Wu shook his head, "That little lady's restaurant business is very good, and there is still a queue at the door, so I haven't tasted her craftsmanship, but it should be very good and smell good."

Mrs. Lu was a little surprised. It seemed that Mrs. Xu was still a bit powerful. She opened a restaurant at such a young age and dared to talk business with her. I don't know which girl taught her, she is quite capable.

Mrs. Lu told Zhen Wu that she and Mrs. Xu were going to make wine in a winery. I am afraid that they will have to buy land and build a workshop near Yuanbao Town after the year.

Zhen Wu nodded, reassuring her.

...

Xu Qinyu was busy at the restaurant until she went back in the evening. She counted the silver notes and found that it was exactly 2,000 taels. She kept the 2,000 taels of silver notes in her box and took out dozens of taels from it, intending to give them to Brother Cheng. their reward.

Although the wine brewed was 2,000 taels, it cost about 500 taels, except for the wine bottles and sugar, which was equal to 1,500 taels of wine she made this summer. It is the income of the restaurant for more than two months.

In fact, this winemaking is due to Chengge’s efforts and their efforts, so everyone will be rewarded.

The next day, Xu Qinyu went to the restaurant and called a few children over. He said that he made a lot of money from the winemaking this time, and everyone contributed, so everyone had a red envelope.

Brother Cheng, Brother Gong and Xu Feng contributed the most. They were the main force when they went to the mountain to pick grapes, and each gave 10 taels of silver.

Next is Big Girl Luo. She is not as strong as the three young boys, but she works diligently and quickly, washing grapes and drying them most of the time, so she was rewarded with eight taels of silver.

There is also Xu tune to get six taels.

Xu Yu and Xu Shun were too young, so they got four taels.

Even the youngest Luo Erniu was rewarded with a tael of silver because she also helped wash the grapes.

This red seal Xu Qinyu had agreed before, so everyone blushed happily and accepted it.

Luo Da Niu and Luo Er Niu also wanted to give the reward they got to the Lin family, and asked the Lin family to return the thirty taels of silver from the Luo family.

Lin didn't want it, let the two girls collect the money by themselves, and told them that they earned it by themselves and kept it for themselves. You can use this money.

Lin felt that it was just right to give the Luo family five hundred pennies a month, and she really wanted to give the nine taels of silver to her daughter in one go. She was afraid that Mrs. Luo would be blinded by money and would come up with some bad intentions to harm Xu Ji. not good.

Only then did Da Niu and Luo Er Niu save their money.

Da Niu Luo is a few years older than Er Niu, and she already has her own ideas. She is no longer just thinking about playing and eating. She wants to learn white cases from Little Lady Xu. I hope she will be more diligent and smarter, and Little Lady Xu is willing to accept her in the future Apprentice, after she learns to make pasta, if Mrs. Xu is willing to let her be a master in Xuji, she is willing to stay in Xuji, if not, she can also open a pasta stall to support her and her sister .

And Er Niu's idea is relatively simple. She and her sister don't have beautiful headbands and silk flowers. She wants to buy two beautiful headbands and silk flowers for her sister and herself.

Xu Feng and the others have been little beggars for several years, and they have suffered enough to meet such a good master as Xu Qinyu.

...

The days that followed went by quickly. Autumn and winter came, and when winter started, Xu Feng led the other three to buy two winter clothes. Apart from the red seal given by the previous master, they now have 100 per month. You can get paid wages.

They just worshipped Mrs. Xu as their teacher a few days ago, and the big girl also worshipped together. Now all five of them are Xu Qinyu's little apprentices.

Xu Qinyu is willing to accept them as apprentices because they really want to learn cooking. Big girl and Xu Tiao have some culinary talents in their bodies. Big girl is better at pasta, Xu Tiao is more sensitive to smells, and others Several are also willing to follow her to learn and do.

You don't have to be talented to be a cook, as long as you are diligent and willing to learn and practice, you can still make delicious food.

So a month ago, Xu Qinyu planned to accept them as apprentices, so he simply accepted them all.

Xu Feng and the four of them are still living in the small utility room of the restaurant. Xu Qinyu hired a carpenter to build a wooden bed with bunk beds in it, which can save space and is enough for them to live in. Now they have their own wages, A few days ago, they got a red seal of wine, enough for them to buy things for themselves.

Xu Ji's business has always been very good. In addition, Xu Ji helped the disaster victims in the early summer, and received praise from the magistrate Yang. Even if some restaurants were jealous of Xu Ji's business, they would not dare to use any tricks to deal with Xu Ji. I'm afraid that it will be the same as the previous Ping An restaurant, or that the county magistrate Yang will track down and fight against it. In short, even if some people are envious of Xu Ji's business, it has been so safe and sound for half a year.

The weather in the southwest is quite normal this year, unlike last year when it started to snow heavily in the early winter. In the early winter of this year, just put on a thin jacket and it hasn't snowed yet. will wait a month before there will be a few games one after another. Snow, and then it will be the end of the year, and then spring will begin, and the weather will warm up.

Days passed, and another month passed in a blink of an eye.

Xu Qinyu doesn't have much free time, and Xu Ji is too busy. She doesn't have time to think about her fourth brother. When she comes back to wash up at night, she always falls asleep. Even if she takes two days off every month, she is mostly sleeping. , but she is still worried when she thinks of her fourth brother occasionally.

Because the fourth brother has been running the business for almost a year. At first, he went out in the spring after the new year, and it will be New Year's Day in one month, and the fourth brother has not returned yet.

If you don’t worry about it, that’s a lie. Generally, it takes two or three months to run business in the state city of Dasheng. Even if you go to other countries on the land to do business, it will only take four or five months, and it should take half a year at most. It's been almost a year since the fourth brother was born, and haven't even sent a letter back.

Sometimes even Xu Qinyu couldn't help but think wildly, worried that the fourth brother had died outside.

No wonder she was thinking about it, she really didn't see anyone running a business for almost a year and still didn't believe it.

Even Mrs Wen was worried that the fourth brother was worried about a heart disease. He was sick a few days ago. Fortunately, it was not serious. After taking the medicine for a few days, she felt better. Xu Qinyu asked her to rest for half a month. Brother Cheng's mother, Mrs. Meng, went to the restaurant and worked as a shopkeeper for half a month to help settle accounts.

Mrs. Meng has always been at home. Her master is a businessman. Brother Cheng and Brother Gong also get paid every month. In addition, Brother Cheng and their elder sister, Sister Tao, are also helping Ning Jie’er make bags. She was paid monthly for starting work, so Mrs. Meng was not short of money, so she could just take good care of Auntie Bai inside and out at home.

Now Wenjia Sanfang has bought the rented yard, and life is prosperous.

In the past two days, Mrs. Wen took a rest for seven or eight days, but couldn't take it any longer, so she went back to the restaurant to continue helping.

But it could be seen that Mrs Wen still had her son in mind.

It's not that Pei Weixuan didn't want to go back. Even he didn't expect the sea to be so big, so magnificent and so dangerous.

From the start of the trip, he encountered four major storms. Three times, he found the island because he could see the sky and escaped on the island. The entire army was almost wiped out. Such a big ship was just like a small boat on the sea. It was beaten to pieces by the torrential rain and sea water, but fortunately it survived.

Afterwards, they really met other countries. The people here have blond hair, green eyes, and deep faces. It is very rare to see them.

Pei Weixuan found what he wanted here.

Huo Ye looked at the baskets of crops, as well as the seeds of other fruits and vegetables that he had never seen before. He couldn't believe that His Highness took them out to sea, almost dying, just to find some crops?

But His Highness said that they were of great use, and Huo Ye obeyed His Highness, but he still couldn't figure out what great use these crops could be?

After getting what he wanted, Pei Weixuan didn't plan to move on and wanted to return.

But it is already winter, they can only stay in a strange country for two months, and they can return to Dasheng after the spring.

Xu Qinyu never expected that, she just casually told her fourth brother that some crops with a high yield per mu in her later generations would allow everyone to have surplus food, and even in times of natural disasters, the victims would be able to surviveIn the disaster year, the fourth brother actually got a boat and went to sea to avoid the fate of being starved to death.

The boats here are different from those in the later generations. They go out to sea slowly, and they can only be driven by the sail system.

She didn't know where Pei Weixuan was at the moment, but that night, the sky was dark and snowflakes began to fall.

I went to bed early at night, and when slept in the middle of the night, there was a sudden knock on the door outside, which woke up the Pei family.

Wen Shi thought it was Brother Xuan who had come back, so he hurried to open the gate in a long coat, but found that it was not Pei Weixuan.