"Wang Wen and He Qingsheng sneaked out from the banquet and walked one after another to the wine kiln of Wang's wine shop. The wine kiln is underground in the west corner of the north courtyard and is covered with heavy wooden boards. Fortunately, because
There was a banquet today, and the waiter had to get the wine at any time, so the wooden board was not tightly covered. The two were about to go down, but they heard the sound of thumping, thumping, thumping in the kiln. Was it a thief? The sound didn't sound like it. A thief must steal something.
It was done lightly, with the occasional sound of moving things or collisions, but the sound was continuous, as if something was beating against a wine vat. It couldn't be some monster, the two were so scared that they held hands, and their palms were filled with tears.
It was a cold sweat. However, due to curiosity, he refused to leave. While hesitating, Wang Wen felt someone tap his shoulder and shouted in shock. When he turned around, he saw that it was one of the Ding brothers who was newly acquired by his father.
The second eldest child was Ding Qusheng. It turned out that although they were still young, they were alone and alone. Wang Qingbo was worried that it would be difficult to explain if something happened, so he ordered the Ding brothers to search in the backyard.
"What, there is a noise in the underground kiln? Let me go down and check it out." Ding Qusheng was bold, picked up a wooden stick, lit a candle, and walked softly into the underground kiln. After walking inside, he took a look and saw a
A white thing fluttered beside the wine vat, like a bird. If you look closely, you can see that it is an egret, the kind locally known as cattle egret. Its head is stuck in the wine vat and cannot get out. It keeps moving.
Struggling, its wings flapped and made a flapping sound. Eight One
Do birds also steal wine? Ding Qusheng was curious and shouted: "Brother, Miss He, you two come in quickly and see what strange thing happened."
The two ran down and took a look. The open wings of this cattle egret were about as long as a person's open arms. Because the wooden lid was not tightly closed when the waiter took the wine, the egret flew in and put its head into the tank.
Drinking wine, he accidentally got stuck in it. Among animals, only monkeys have been heard to drink. During spring plowing, cattle are unable to plow, and villagers will use wine to help them, but they have never heard of birds being greedy for wine. The three of them found it interesting.
After watching for a while, He Qingsheng said: "A drinking egret is rare. Brother Wang Wen, let's catch it with a rope and keep it for fun."
Ding Qusheng's wine shop was by the stream. He often saw egrets rising and falling on the water, and regarded them as companions. He couldn't bear to say: "We'd better let it go. It can also be regarded as an uninvited guest in our banquet today." After hearing what he said, Wang Wen and the others no longer insisted, and the three of them worked together to remove the cover. After the egret was rescued, it moved its legs, turned its head and nodded three times to them, as if to express its gratitude.
He walked slowly to the entrance of the wine cellar, turned back and whispered to them three times.
This egret seemed to have spirituality. Ding Qusheng was curious, so he took out a spoonful of wine from the wine vat and said jokingly: "Miss Egret, please drink this spoonful before leaving."
The egret really came over, took a few big sips, drank the wine, turned back, nodded to the three of them, spread its wings and soared into the sky, circled them three times in the air, and then flew
Gone.
Wang Wen asked curiously: "Junior brother Qusheng, how do you know it is female? Maybe it is the egret brother?"
In ancient times, it was important to enter the school first. Although Ding Qusheng was a few years older than Wang Wen, he formally started to be a teacher a few hours later than Wang Wen, so Wang Wen called him this.
Ding Qusheng said with some pride: "Our family lives by the river. We see them every day, and of course we can tell the male and female."
He Qingsheng teased him: "He is a girl, and your body has been touched and looked at. Be careful that he pesters you and wants to marry you." Just after he finished speaking, his face suddenly turned red and he looked at Wang shyly.
Wen." At this point in the story, Zhu Jinze was a little tired, and the drunkenness kept rising. He turned around and toasted Jin Huabin with a cup of tea and said: "Brother Huabin, rest first, we have to visit several villagers tomorrow.
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"Have a good dream and see you tomorrow morning." Jin Huabin said good night to him and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Zhu Jinze ordered breakfast. Jin Huabin woke up and checked his mobile phone. It was exactly eight o'clock, and there was still no message or text message from his wife Zhang Guifang. If you want to have a cold war, it will be cold enough. I won't let you give in this time.
From now on, you will only get worse. He smiled bitterly and pulled the finger that was about to dial out the phone away from the screen.
After breakfast, the two drove to Huang'ao Village, Hengxi Town. In the car, Zhu Jinze continued his story: "After the apprenticeship ceremony, Wang Qingbo left the Ding family and his son to discuss. Wang Qingbo suggested: "Clean up the Ding family wine shop.
After the remaining wine is finished, it is brewed using the Wang family's techniques and officially sold from the Wang family wine shop. The Ding family takes 80% of the profit and the Wang family takes 20%."
Ding's father shook his head repeatedly and said: "This can't work. After Quanzi became your apprentice, what he did was the work of the Wang family. Now, with your share, my Ding family has become a shareholder of the Wang family, and we have taken a huge advantage."
"This is from your Ding family, the brewing utensils are from your Ding family, and the two sons of your Ding family did the work. I only came up with a recipe and a brand, and that's it." Wang Qingbo said with satisfaction.
: "In these days, I will pass on the recipes and brewing methods to your two young masters without any secrets. Your two young masters are smart and learn things quickly."
Although the income was guaranteed, the name of the shop was changed, and the Ding family's ancestral brewing recipe was lost to him. But Ding's father understood that the recipes from the north would not work in the south. He pressed his fingerprint on the contract.
At that moment, Father Ding's mood was extremely complicated.
After the Ding Family Liquor Store was merged into the Wang Family, the business of the Wang Family Liquor Store increased by 30%. Wang Wen continued to go into the mountains to collect herbs and add them to the wine according to the book given by the Taoist priests. The taste of the wine became better and better, and the types of Wang Family Liquor increased.
In less than two years, it became the leading wine shop in Changtan. The two girls followed Mrs. Ren and made great progress in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially in embroidery. At only eight years old, the embroidery they embroidered can compete with that of the county town.
The embroidery ladies in Zhong Embroidery Village have a fighting chance.
Because they eat and live together during the day, Wang Wen and Mrs. Ren’s daughter Ren Yuheng became close friends and talked about everything. On this day, Ren Yuheng said to Wang Wen sadly: “A few days ago, my father wrote a letter saying that after two years
, the emperor has become angry, and through the activities of his colleagues in the DPRK, he may have hope of being exonerated, and may be demoted and become an official again. However, in order to be exonerated, he needs money for activities, and this money cannot be given to him.
The colleague who said something nice is worth several thousand taels of silver."
Ren Yuheng once again talked about a bad thing that happened to her. As she got older and started to grow, Ren Yuheng became a beautiful girl, which attracted the covetousness of some rich people and wealthy people. Wang's Liquor Store
The few dollars she gave were hugely different from the price they offered. Her identity as a government prostitute naturally aroused the greed of the brothel owners. After they returned home at night, they would find various reasons to persuade them to accept customers from time to time.