Mrs. Lu was right. The method of brewing wine itself is very simple. It can't stop others from imitating it.

Mrs. Lu saw that there were still a few people with flickering eyes, so she obviously had the intention to write down them. She would not continue to use these people next year, and she would also sign a long-term contract for those who could use them next year. , As long as the winery is there, you can come to the winery to work every summer when you sign a long-term deed. Although you only work for two or three months every year, you can guarantee at least two taels of silver per month.

When Xu Qinyu came to match the ratio of grapes to sugar the next day, Mrs. Lu told her about it.

Xu Qinyu has a similar attitude to Mrs. Lu.

Those two women, it doesn't matter if they can actually make wine, it's just as they wish.

Inside the winery, the wine continued to be brewed, and Xu Qinyu was also running on both sides.

However, with Dongqian as a helper in the restaurant, she is free again. In addition to seasoning stuffing, Dongqian can help with other things when she eats in the morning. At evening, Dongqian can also help with side dishes. She can also help under the spoon, and with her taking care of it, the taste is similar, so she is more leisurely and does not feel so tired every day.

In the winery, the wine has been fermented in batches and started to be bottled and sealed.

Mrs. Lu plans to divide these wines into four batches and ship them to four places, all of which are rich prefectures, and then plan to ship a batch to the capital. To say the most affluent place, it must be the capital. There are many dignitaries in the capital. There is no shortage of money, only food and wine.

Knowing that Mrs. Lu's caravan would still go to the capital, Xu Qinyu wanted Mrs. Lu to help her send 100 bottles of wine to each of her parents and uncle's house.

In fact, knowing that Mrs. Lu was going to transport the wine to the capital, Xu Qinyu agreed, not afraid to let the new emperor and the queen mother know about it in the capital.

The fact that she opened a restaurant could not be concealed from the capital.

She is not really stupid either. She is now a little cook doing a little business. In the eyes of outsiders, she is still raising a large family. The vertical king is at this level. I am afraid that the new emperor and the queen mother will be more at ease. .

After all, in the eyes of the world, businessmen are no better than pariahs.

Regarding Xu Qinyu's identity, Mrs. Lu had already sent someone to inquire, and she knew that she was the wife of the exiled King Shu.

But Mrs. Lu didn't realize what was wrong. Although it was shocking to exile the former queen, now the line of King Shu is an ordinary commoner, and it is good to treat it as a commoner. Besides, the Pei family is now doing business, and the business is in In the eyes of dignitaries, it is the lowest.

Mrs. Lu also knew that Xu Qinyu was just marrying for her cousin, a poor little man pushed out by the Hou family to exile.

When Xu Qinyu mentioned this matter, Mrs. Lu immediately agreed and reassured her that she would definitely help her deliver the wine to the second room of the Hou residence.

Another half month passed, and Mrs. Lu was ready to deliver the first batch of wine to the capital.

The border town is thousands of miles away from the capital, and the transportation of goods is naturally also by water.

There are water bandits on the waterway. Zhen Wu personally guarded the bodyguards this trip, and also brought along the dozen or so people with the strongest martial arts in the caravan. He also attached great importance to this delivery. Fortunately, those water bandits did not appear along the way. He ran a lot in Raozhou, and knew that there were two water-poor bandits on the cliffs on both sides of the Raozhou City Canal.

Another wave of water bandits is very ferocious, not only robbing goods, but also killing people.

Before the official ship was robbed, the court sent officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and the better wave of water bandits disappeared since then. Everyone thought that this wave of water bandits had been wiped out by the court.

However, Zhen Wu felt that the wave of water bandits should not have been wiped out, and may have gone to other places.

In addition, the Boshui bandits suffered heavy losses in the imperial court's suppression of bandits, and they rarely appeared in the past year.

The canals are now safer than before.

Zhen Wu's trip was also safe. The cargo ship traveled slowly by water, and it took seven days to reach Suizhou.

Suizhou is the last stop of the canal waterway, and it is the main road extending in all directions.

After arriving in Suizhou, he walked on the official road for three days before arriving at the capital. After seeing the guide for the soldiers guarding the city gate, he let him go.

Zhen Wuxian sent 200 bottles of wine and a letter from Xu Qinyu to the second room of Dechang Houfu by the caravan.

Xue learned that it was a caravan from Raozhou City, and immediately met Zhen Wu and looked at the 200 bottles of wine that Zhen Wu had brought in. The wine bottles were very delicate, beautiful patterns, and 'Xu Ji Wine' was engraved on them. ' Five words, Xue asked: "Big brother, is this the wine made by Yu Niang?"

"En." Zhen Wu didn't like to talk, just nodded, but also explained to the gentle woman in front of him, "Xu Xiaoniang's wine is delicious, and I also miss you. My wife is currently talking to Xu. The little lady makes wine together for a living, just as the first batch of goods is about to be delivered to the capital, little lady Xu asked me to bring you some wine to taste and a letter."

After handing the letter to the Xue family, Zhen Wu didn't stay for a long time and left the Marquis of Dechang mansion.

Knowing that Zhen Wu was busy, Mrs Xue did not force her to stay. She took the letter and sent the person out, and returned to the inner courtyard to read the letter from Yu Niang to her.

Yu Niang said a lot in the letter, and wrote several ramblings, that is to say that she had a good life in the border area, she was busy every day, and she would tell Xue about the restaurant and wine shop in the letter, and also told her. Xue's mother-in-law and sister-in-law treat her very well. She and her fourth brother are not considered husband and wife, they are considered brothers and sisters.

She also told Xue Shi that her mother-in-law said that if she has someone she likes in the future, she will let her reconcile with her fourth brother and let her marry.

But she didn't want to get married, she was all about restaurants and wineries, just wanted to make more money.

After reading it, Xue Shi couldn't help feeling intimate and emotional.

The sweet thing is that Yu Niang has grown up. After this experience, Yu Niang's temperament has also changed. Although the previous Yu Niang's temperament was a little soft, she was actually a little stubborn.

Yu Niang had liked a child from a poor family before, and she was almost at the point of talking about marriage.

It's not that Xue's family looked down on that poor man, but that he had been in contact with him a few times and felt that his mind was not right.

He coaxed Yu Niang, hoping to come to Dechang Houfu to propose marriage to Yu Niang.

Xue's family didn't say anything to her husband, but she didn't actually plan to let Yu Niang marry that Hanmenzi. She just didn't wait for the Hanmenzi's family to come to propose marriage. The eldest prince had an accident, the queen was exiled, and Yuniang was pushed out to replace her. Marrying and exiled to the border, this is an edict issued by the new emperor in the palace. Even if the Xue family stops it, the old lady of Dechang Hou still asks Yu Niang to give a Xiaojiao to the Shuwangfu.

Yu Niang followed the Fourth Prince to the border town, but the Han family never came, as if she never knew Yu Niang.

Otherwise, if that poor family really likes Yu Niang, why should she send a letter to Yu Niang, or help her on the way to exile.

Judging from the fact that Yu Niang's letter never mentioned that poor family, it can be seen that Yu Niang should also let go of the poor family.

Because the poor family also married a few days ago, and the wife was a concubine who was favored by other Houfu families.

In addition, if the queen can be so generous, Xue Shi is the real peace of mind when she treats Yu Niang.

As for Yu Niang's marriage, she couldn't help much in the capital, she just hoped that the queen would be able to help her in the future.

In fact, even Xue Shi never thought that Yu Niang would return to Beijing one day. She just hoped that she would have a good life in the border area. If she really has no feelings for the fourth prince, it would be better to find a man who cherishes her to marry.

After reading the letter, the Xue family sent some wine to the elder brother Xue Liang.

After Xue Liang tasted the wine, he knew that Yu Niang's craftsmanship had nothing to say. He had never tasted the plum wine and sweet-scented osmanthus wine in the capital. It was too expensive, but the wine made by his niece had a mellow taste and a long-lasting taste. The front was the sweet and sour grapes. The smell, with a faint aroma of wine behind it, is a good thing even for those who don't drink much.

Moreover, the fruit wine is not very intoxicating, and the female relatives can also drink it.

Wine must be expensive, and Xue Liang didn't plan to sell it at the stall, so he kept a few bottles from his family to drink during the holidays.

The rest of the wine Xue's family didn't even give to the third room, Dechang Hou and the old lady to taste, only to the big room.

When Yu Niang was sent to the Prince's Mansion, it was the old lady who spoke to the Marquis of Dechang. The old lady even said harsh words, saying that Yu Niang should honestly marry into the Prince's Mansion because she wanted to compare with Huiniang.

Half of the wine was delivered to the big room. When Yu Niang had an accident, only the elder sister-in-law of the big room, Mrs. Jiang, came to comfort her. The elder sister-in-law was a kinder person. Even the eldest girl, Jin Niang, who was married in the big room, went back to the door and questioned the old lady and Hui Niang. Hui Niang pushed everything on the old lady's head, and the old lady also blamed Jin Niang for not giving Yu Niang a favor. , and also said that Yu Niang is now the family of the sin king, no longer a child of the Houfu, so she has completely cut off the relationship with Yu Niang.

Even though Sanfang and the old lady had come to Xue to ease their relationship, Xue still refused to forgive them.

The big room has nothing to do with this matter. She gets along very well with her elder sister-in-law, and she still gets along with her sister-in-law as usual.

As soon as the wine was sent out, the third room and the main courtyard didn't have it, and they couldn't hide it.

The old lady of Dechang Hou was so angry, "This second daughter-in-law, it was not because of the situation that she married Yu Niang. Now Yu Niang is living well in the border area, and she can still make a lot of money. Isn't this Yu Niang's? Good luck? She's still holding on to this matter, it's really against the sky, I called her to a banquet a few days ago, but she refused to come."

In fact, it was the third son and the little granddaughter who asked her to have a good relationship with the second room. The old lady did not know why, but the son refused to tell her, so she had to agree, but she took the initiative to talk to the Xue family, and the Xue family was still dead and alive. It looks so annoying!

After Xu Qinhui found out, she was also a little angry. She and her father and grandmother had already taken the initiative to reconcile with the second room, but the second aunt was still the same, not salty or indifferent, even the second uncle was similar.

I learned that this time, it was a caravan in the border town who delivered the wine to the second room.

Xu Qinhui found someone to deliver a message to Zhen Wu, wanted to meet him, and wanted him to help her letter to King Shu sent to the border.

As a result, Zhen Wu directly refused and refused to see her.

Xu Qinhui had no choice but to give the letter to his father, and let his father find a reliable person to send the letter to the border town to King Shu.

Xu Shuping found his confidant and sent this letter to Yuanbao Town.

It only takes two or three days to go to the border with a quick horse and whip.

Three days later, the letter was delivered to Pei's house in Yuanbao Town. Pei Weixuan was still outside and didn't return. During the day, there was no one in the house in Laixi Lane. Pei Jianing was also busy recently. Her Linglong Pavilion is about to open and is still busy. Looking for Xiu Niang, Sister Qian and Brother Feng sent them to the yard where Mrs. Zhu lived in Osmanthus Lane, and asked Mrs. Zhu to help watch the two children.

So in the end this letter was sent to Xu Ji Restaurant.

It was the letter that Mr. Wen received. The man was a man in his thirties. He insisted on handing the letter to Pei Weixuan. Mr. Wen was still surprised. When he asked who sent the letter to his son, the man paused and said it was a virtue. A letter from Changhou Mansion.

At first, Mrs. Xue thought it was from the second room of the Marquis of Dechang, and it was a letter from Yu Niang's family. People, Mr. Wen was also vigilant. There was no signature on the envelope, Mr. Wen said directly: "If you don't want to say who sent the letter, you can bring it back the same way, we won't accept it."

The man could only tell the Wen family that it was the letter from the third house of the Marquis of Dechang.

Wen's face turned cold, and he only said that his son was running a business outside and was not in Yuanbao Town.

The man was helpless, and after hesitating in the end, he still gave the letter to Mrs. Wen.

Mr. Wen didn't know who the letter was from the third room of the Marquis of Dechang's mansion to his son.

But no matter who it was, she didn't want to show her son the letter, but her upbringing did not allow her to tear up the letter to her son, she only took the letter back to the house and put it away, and then handed it over to her son and let him do it himself Decided to watch it or not.

Wen Shi didn't hide this from Xu Qinyu. In her opinion, they are all a family, and if there is anything, they shouldn't hide it. Let's discuss it together.

After Xu Qinyu heard it, she just raised her eyebrows. She couldn't understand why the third room sent a letter to the fourth brother.

When the original body was sent to Prince Shu's Mansion, Marquis Dechang, the old lady, and the people in the third room obviously planned to have nothing to do with Prince Shu's Mansion in the future. Why are they delivering the letter now?

Xu Qinyu said: "When the fourth brother comes back, let him read the letter by himself."

Wen Shi nodded, "I plan to do the same."

At the end of the month, Zhen Wu also returned from the capital with the caravan.

It was almost the beginning of the month when he arrived in the capital, and now it is the end of the month. It took him more than a month to come and go. This is the reason why his caravan often travels to the capital. There are businessmen in the capital who help him introduce his wines to several people. Household dignitaries, these dignitaries tasted, immediately ordered a lot of wine, so within half a month, 7,000 bottles of wine were sold out.

After the sale, Xue Wu stayed in the capital for a few days before returning.

When he left, the merchants he had made friends with asked him when he could send the second batch of wine to the capital.

In fact, in the middle of this, the merchants that Zhen Wu befriended did not charge any fees, but being able to connect with dignitaries was the biggest advantage. Naturally, hoped that Zhen Wu would bring more wine to the capital.

For the remaining three batches of wine, Zhen Wu did not plan to continue shipping them to the capital.

Even if the wine sells well, these dignitaries have to think about it, after all, what is rare is more expensive.

Zhen Wu had no choice but to say, "Although there is still some left, it has already been booked with other prefectures and has to be sent there. There are not many wines this year, and more will be sent to the capital next year."

After Zhen Wu came back, he didn't delay, and immediately took the second batch of goods to other states.

The first batch of wine is 7,000 bottles, and the price is set at three taels of silver per bottle. After deducting all costs, there are also the expenses for handling on the road and in the capital, including the money that Mrs. Xu shared, three taels of silver, Probably the net profit is about one tael of silver.

Three taels of silver must be expensive in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is nothing in the eyes of these dignitaries in the capital.

There are still three shipments of the remaining wine, with a total of about 25,000 bottles.

That is to say, all these wines can earn more than 20,000 taels of silver, which is actually not much. The caravan casually earns tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, but Mrs. Lu attaches great importance to wine. Specialize in this business.

So Zhen Wu also tried his best to spread the wine's reputation.

After Zhen Wu left, it was already autumn, and the winery could almost stop working.

A few days ago, not long after Zhen Wu went to the capital, two women who secretly learned how to make wine came to the winery to make a fuss. It turned out that the wine they made had already fermented, and there was a lot of white foam in it. The two of them didn't know why it happened. After counting the days, they changed the altar for the second fermentation. After the second fermentation, they tasted it. It tasted sour and astringent, with a strange sweet taste. The taste was not right at all, so they served the wine Square to make trouble.

Mrs. Lu sneered, "I didn't stop you from stealing wine-making skills, and I didn't even go to the government to sue you. You didn't brew it well, but you came to the winery to make trouble. It's really funny. Come here and tie them up! I'll send it to the yamen."

The two women didn't expect Madam Lu to tie her up as soon as she said so. They were so frightened that they knelt down to apologize again.

In the end, Mrs. Lu didn't make things difficult for them and asked them to let them go.

Only the rest of the winery knew that the steps of making wine seemed simple, but that was not the case at all.

The wine was ruined, the grapes were useless, and the sugar was very expensive. The end result of being greedy was that he lost such a good job and lost two taels of silver.

Although there were some accidents in the first year of wine making, it was considered a good thing, and it would spread in the future. The wine making method looks simple, but it is not so in reality, so as to save the business in the future, the artisans of the winery will also learn from it. The two women brewed secretly.

When Zhen Wu came back with the first batch of money for selling fruit wine, Mrs. Lu came to the door in person and gave Xu Qinyu the silver note of 7,000 taels.

Xu Qinyu just made wine, and she got a tael of silver for a bottle of wine.

Before buying land and a house, gave Xue Shi two thousand taels of silver, and Ning sister five hundred taels of silver, and other miscellaneous expenses in the past few months, but these months have been credited to her account. He only had three thousand taels on hand, and if he added the seven thousand taels, he would have ten thousand taels of silver on hand.

The other three thousand taels are stored in the bank, and the family does not store large amounts of silver or bank notes for fear of being stolen.

Although Xu Qinyu is not afraid of thieves coming to the house, after all there are Mo Yu and Bai Yu taking turns guarding the house, if the thieves come, they will seek their own death.

Holding the thick stack of banknotes in her hand, Xu Qinyu smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth.

She has ten thousand taels of silver!

In the future, it will be a "million-dollar household"!

But this "10,000-yuan household" is different. With 10,000 taels of silver, it is impossible for even some official families to save so much.

And this two thousand is just the beginning!

She hopes that Xu Ji can open all over the country in the future!

In fact, she has some other ideas. She wants Xu Ji to not only cook food, but also to eat, drink and have fun. restaurants only.

After finally depositing 10,000 taels of silver, Xu Qinyu couldn't help but smile these days.

She didn't keep the seven thousand taels of silver note for long, and deposited it in the bank the next day.

...

On the border side, Xu Qinyu and the Pei family live as usual.

But in the capital, many people were alarmed by the wine made by Xu Qinyu.

Those dignitaries and dignitaries have divided the 7,000 bottles of wine, and they will drink some of them during meals on weekdays.

Therefore, it is also used to entertain guests on weekdays, and some people even entertain the new emperor with this wine.

It turned out that although the new emperor ascended the throne, he was still the second prince who only liked to eat, drink and play.

Most of the friends he had made were from aristocratic families.

The new emperor rarely went out of the palace on weekdays, and when he went out of the palace, he also changed into brocade clothes and pretended to be a general son of a noble family.

It happened that the new emperor knew the British prince.

The title of duke of the country is almost hereditary. Generally, it is only after one's own meritorious deeds, or his grandfather's meritorious deeds, that he can be named a prince of the country.

If the ancestors sealed the prince and waited for hereditary inheritance, even if the descendants of the prince did not have great skills, as long as they did not make a big mistake and were stripped of their titles, they would be looked at in the capital.

The Duke of England was named the Duke of England only because of his illustrious achievements with Emperor Gaozu more than a hundred years ago.

But more than a hundred years later, the current descendants of the British government are all mediocre, not very capable, and only inherit the title honestly.

The Prince of England went out with the new emperor to spend the day, and he also brought a few bottles of wine bought at the house.

The new emperor tasted this wine and was amazed. He asked where the wine was sold, and learned that it was shipped from the border.

The new emperor also praised: "It's amazing that someone can make such amazing fruit wine in that kind of place."

Because the wine is delicious, the new emperor also thought about giving the empress dowager in the palace a taste. She brought some back to Empress Fu, and after returning, she presented a treasure to Empress Fu, "Mother, please try this fine wine, it tastes good."

After tasting it, Empress Dowager Fu also praised, "Yes, where did it come from? It seems that this is the first time I have seen wine in the capital."

The new emperor told that it was Empress Dowager Fu who bought it from the family of the British prince and brought it from the border.

Hearing that it was a borderland, the Queen Mother Fu frowned slightly and glanced at the 'Xu Ji wine' on the wine bottle. "

Xu Kee?

How did she remember that after King Shu's line went to the border, the second girl from the Marquis of Dechang opened a restaurant, called Xu Ji Restaurant? Could it be that this fruit wine was also made by the second girl of the Xu family? The family is also useless, and let a girl be a cook to support the family.

Empress Fu's eyes were full of disdain.

Since she dared to face the opposition of civil and military officials to send the queen and the fourth prince to the border, she was naturally not afraid of what great achievements could be made by the king's lineage.

She was conceited because she knew that there were only three women and children left in the line of King Shu, as well as a weak little mute, and the remaining one was poisoned by her since childhood, and it looked like the King Shu who was weak and could not live long, naturally Not afraid of anything.

She didn't send someone to kill Shuwang's line, but she also sent someone to inquire about Shuwang's line.

Knowing that King Shu's lineage went to the border, they all relied on the second girl from Dechang Hou's mansion to set up food stalls to support the family.

But what if you could make some money?

The vertical king's lineage is nothing but a waste raised by a girl's family.

Even if these wines are expensive and can make a lot of money, in the eyes of Empress Fu, they are just a drop in the bucket. The whole world belongs to her, and there are countless gold and silver treasures in the treasury. How can she care that a little cook earns that Point silver.

When Empress Fu thought of this, she was in a good mood, "The wine is not bad."

I have to say that the second girl in Dechang Hou’s mansion is very good at making wine, but don’t know how to cook and eat.