Chapter 495: The Male Protagonist's Cannon Fodder Cousin (18)
Xu Yin received the brocade box and couldn't laugh or cry.
"Did you really return the gift?"
After opening it, I was shocked.
The prefect's wife gave her a set of pure gold headbands inlaid with colorful gems.
Madam Liu gave her a luminous pearl.
"..."
This is too expensive!
Xu Yin held her forehead.
"Is Shopkeeper Zhang still here? Please go back the way he came."
"You must not do it!" Xu Kui advised. "The girl felt that it was too precious and she felt ashamed to go back, but the ladies of the two families may not think so. They may feel that the girl does not give them face."
"..."
In the end, these two treasures were left behind.
Xu Kui's analysis makes sense. Even if she wants to withdraw, she should come to the door in person and explain clearly the reasons before withdrawing. It is not formal to ask shopkeeper Zhang to refund on your behalf, and it is easy for them to misunderstand - I thought you looked down on them, so you can brush them off.
What about face?
But now that she is observing filial piety, it is inconvenient for her to visit her.
After thinking about it, I can only wait until next spring, when the roses and jasmine bloom, extract some mixed essential oils and give them to them.
She would never dare to give away perfume unless she brewed wine with enough concentration to make perfume.
This made her think about it - should she buy a brewery and provide a vodka recipe to try?
She remembered that vodka was also made from grains, including potatoes, corn, barley, and rye, but it was distilled.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this plan is feasible. As long as vodka is brewed, is the mass production of perfume still far away?
"Zi Yuan, ask the nurse to go to Xujiacun and give this letter to Xu Kui. Tell him not to go up the mountain to report back to me. After reading the letter, he can go back to Luo City to buy a winery. I need it."
"Yes, girl."
So Xu Kui went back to Luocheng that day. When it got dark in the city, he went back to Xu Mansion first.
The old housekeeper wondered why the boy came back home at this hour? Could it be that something happened to the girl?
Xu Kui truthfully said that the girl asked him to come to the city on errands.
"Buying a wine shop? What does the girl want from the wine shop?" The old housekeeper thought of the wine that the girl asked him to buy a while ago, stroking his beard and thinking, "Could it be that the girl is using wine to relieve her sorrow?"
He originally thought that the girl was bringing wine to worship the master and his wife.
Xu Kui didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Dad, where are you thinking? The girl is such a disciplined person, how can she drink alcohol during the filial piety period? She said she was fasting, but she really didn't touch any meat. As servants, we spend every day
There are eggs to eat, but she hasn’t even touched an egg.”
"Then she asked me to buy wine a few days ago, and now she wants you to buy a wine shop. Why?"
"The girl is thinking about the family business. Oh, even if I tell you, you don't understand! Anyway, the girl is doing business!"
After hearing what his son said, the old housekeeper stopped asking any more questions.
The next day, Xu Kui was still sleeping when his father woke him up: "Kui, the girl asked you to go back to the city, not to sleep in the house. Get up quickly! Finish the matter early and go back early."
Waiting by your side."
Xu Kui rubbed his sleepy eyes and muttered: "Dad, I have never gotten up so early in Xujiacun..."
"So you've been slacking off, right?" The old housekeeper looked around, saw the feather duster, and took it in his hand as if to hit him. "I asked you to follow the girl and run errands for her. What are you doing? Ah? Sleeping lazily.
Great awakening?"
"I'm running errands and doing odd jobs." Xu Kui was full of grievances.
He was really running errands, running up and down the mountains, running up and down the mountains; running from Xujiacun to Liulicang, and running from Liulicang to Xujiacun. Sometimes he would run two or three times a day, and his legs would become thin from running.
But having said that, his physical strength is much better than before. Now he doesn't cough all the time.
The father said that his coughing problem was caused by the cold he suffered when he was a baby, and he thought he would never get better in this life. Unexpectedly, after running with the girl for several months, he actually got better!
"Then run and show me! Why don't you get up?"
"Get up! Get up now!"
Xu Kui got up from the bed as if being urged by his father. After eating a few bites of breakfast, his father kicked him out of the house and went to help the girl look for a wine shop.
I visited several houses, but either they were unwilling to transfer it, or the scale was too small and did not meet the girl's requirements.
Xu Kui thought he might not be able to complete the task assigned by the girl today.
At this time, a man wearing a black cloak came up from the end of the alley, his voice was cold and low: "Do you want to buy the wine shop?"
"Ah? No, no, no, it's my master's house."
"Come with me."
"..." Xu Kui reacted, "May I ask, strong man, which winery you are from? Maybe I know."
He asked around so many houses that he almost broke his legs.
"He Nian Tang."
"Ah?" Xu Kui was dumbfounded.
Crane, Crane Hall?
Isn't that a winery that specializes in sending tribute wine to the capital?
Judging from the scale, it does meet the girl's requirements.
However, this is a tribute wine shop, how could it be willing to change owners?
However, when he dubiously followed the cloaked man onto the carriage at the alley, all the way to Heniantang in the east of the city, he was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground when he saw the wine shop owner politely presenting the title deed of Heniantang.
"Wait, wait, you want it, how much do you want it for?" Xu Kui used his remaining sense to bravely ask the other party, it was too expensive and he couldn't afford it.
"How much is the transfer price for an ordinary winery?" the winery owner asked with a smile, stroking his gray beard.
Xu Kui: "..."
Is this what you were asking him?
He said one hundred taels of silver, would he be willing to make a deal?
Wake up! This is a tribute wine shop! Is it such a shameless place?
I didn't want the other party to smile and say: "You don't have to be stressed. Luocheng Heniantang will no longer need to contribute wine in the future. I also plan to retire to my former residence, so I transferred it."
"Oh I got it!
Xu Kui breathed a sigh of relief.
Since it is no longer a tribute wine shop, he is not polite.
"One hundred taels?"
"...That's a little too little," the wine shop owner said, glaring secretly at the cloaked man.
Xu Kui looked innocent: "..." Isn't this what you asked me to bid?
Finally, five hundred taels were sold.
Although the purchase price was higher than that of an ordinary small winery, Xu Kui couldn't help but be happy when he thought that the other party was once a famous winery that produced tribute wine.
The girl will be very happy when she finds out, right?
Look at how lucky he is to meet noble people when he goes out and get a big deal!
Xu Kui carefully put the land deed into his arms and happily returned home to tell his father the good news.
The wine shop owner closed the door and kicked the man in the cloak.
"You brat! Not only did I lose nine thousand five hundred taels of silver in vain, but I also gave you a favor."
The cloaked man turned slightly and avoided his master's chain of legs.
The owner of the wine shop was so angry that his beard stood up: "Forget the favor, please return the money to me! Nine thousand five hundred taels, not one tael less!"
"No money."
"No money? You? Who are you fooling!"
"I really have no money. Now I am a pauper who has sold myself out."
After the man in the cloak finished speaking, he jumped out from the wall with a slight jump and disappeared at the entrance of the alley.