Chapter 47 The Chiang Family Distillery
The next day, the meeting was over, and everyone went their separate ways. Zhang Qiang took the Min'er sisters to the Jiang family wine shop in Baiyanggou to find the once famous Jiang Weichen, ten years ago he was a famous brewing master in this Xing'an Mansion, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, when he was young and ignorant and was pulled to gamble by some fox friends and dog friends. As a result, all the family property was lost, and in the end, there was an empty workshop left, and the wife and children also went to the father-in-law's house in the county. Now he lives alone in the winery and gets drunk every day, relying on selling some soju to maintain a state of starvation, Min'er feels that such a person is not a good partner to cooperate with, but Ling'er wants to go and see, after all, his skills are first-class. As the saying goes, the prodigal son doesn't change his money, if he can really change his past, it would be a good partner, wouldn't he? Of course, if he doesn't change his will, then it's better to find someone else.
"Miss Min, the house in front of you is it." Zhang Qiang pointed to the deepest part of Baiyanggou and said about the house far away from the village.
"He's really fragrant with wine, and he's not afraid of deep alleys." Ling'er couldn't help but sigh when she saw it.
"His family's winery used to be very famous, and it seems that this road was built by his father at that time. If he really had the spirituality of making wine, the business of this winery was very good at that time. Every day, people line up here to buy wine, but unfortunately he got off the road and the wine shop was over. Zhang Qiang couldn't help sighing.
"He has the skills to turn over, is it easier?" Ling'er doesn't understand that people with skills can still starve to death in these years?
"He has technology, but his technology is family heirloom, how can it be passed on? And who would dare to believe him? If it weren't for their village chief seeing him pitiful and giving him some food from time to time, it is estimated that he would have died a long time ago. Zhang Qiang explained that the technology of this era is not revealed by family.
"Then he can go to work in someone else's workshop?" Min'er was also very puzzled, why this person would rather starve to death than go out to find something to do.
"Who can use him? Other people's workshops are afraid that he will learn his own unique skills, and he is so spiritual. The other is afraid that he will gamble again, and if his hands are tight for a while, he will do something again. Besides, he is also a shaft man, and he won't leave this empty wine shop at all. When it comes, you wait a minute, and I'll knock at the door. Zhang Qiang jumped off the ox cart and stepped forward to knock on the door, but he didn't think that the door was not bolted at all, and opened it with a light touch. Seeing this, the Min'er sisters went in with Zhang Qiang, and when they entered the yard, they entered the barren grass that was high for one person, but there was a small hairy road in the middle. Zhang Qiang shouted as he walked in front:
"Anyone? Is anyone home? But no one answered, and several of them felt a little hairy in their hearts, and it was not a wonderful feeling that such a large house had no sound at all.
"Is there anyone there?" Zhang Qiang unconsciously raised his voice. But there was still no answer, and a few people came to a house at the end of the grass road, which seemed to be the place where the guests used to meet. After a few people went in, they found that it was quite neat inside, and there was nothing empty, can the room be untidy?
"Is anyone there?" Zhang Qiang shouted again.
"Come in if you have something, leave if you have nothing to do, what are you shouting?" A drunken voice came from within.
"Then we're in." Zhang Qiang motioned for them to be behind him, and he went in alone, asking them to wait for his greeting.
When Zhang Qiang entered, he saw a person lying in tattered clothes on a pile of haystacks, with two or three empty wine jars next to him. Seeing that his clothes were tattered but still neat, he let Sister Min'er in. When the sisters came in, they saw him like this, and they didn't know if he was the person they were looking for.
"May I ask if you are Jiang Weichen?" Min'er said politely.
"Is it Chadi? Isn't it possible to get out of the ground again? The man on the ground opened his drunken eyes and glanced at them, and then closed them.
"If so, I'd like to talk to him about rebuilding the brewery. If not, then we'll leave without bothering you. Ling'er said at the right time. I saw that the man opened his eyes all of a sudden, and there was still a trace of drunkenness in those eyes?
"Are you serious?" Jiang Weichen originally wanted to wait for death here, but now that he heard such words, how could he not be excited? But when I looked at the person in front of me, it was obvious that this twelve or thirteen-year-old girl was in charge, and I still didn't want to open it, and I actually believed the words of a little doll.
"Then it depends on whether you are Jiang Weichen or not, and it also depends on whether you want to revitalize the ancestral industry again? Is there such determination? Min'er was very serious at this time, which was not her usual style, mainly to make him believe in their sincerity.
"Hey, let's go, I just can't think about it anymore." All of a sudden, he collapsed like a deflated ball on top of the hay.
"There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of those who have a heart. Where there's a will, there's a way. Ling'er said, and Min'er continued:
"We can find someone else, but you don't necessarily have the next chance. Are you going to talk to us, or are you going to keep lying here? Min'er could see that he didn't believe it because of their age, but it was nothing, anyway, as long as he made the first batch of wine, even if he ran to gamble again in the future, it would be a big deal not to cooperate.
"Okay, I'll talk to you, please come with me." The person who had been paralyzed there jumped up at once, and led the three to the wing room on the west side of the courtyard.
"A few of you, please take a seat, it's not a secret, only this room has tables and chairs left in the entire wine shop." He said with some embarrassment.
"It's okay, if our talks go well, let alone tables and chairs, anything can come back." Min'er felt that he must be a person with a story, and he couldn't see the greedy eyes of a gambler from him, but a kind of clarity.
"I don't have anything, only family skills, and now this brewery is only a little stronger than the ruins. You can't make wine at all. "When they left, they took everything with them, leaving him alone.
"What do you need to do if you want to get drunk again?" Min'er has to talk about the specifics of cooperation according to the situation.
"Then you have to renovate the house, then you have to customize the guys, and finally you have to prepare the food. These are estimated to be five hundred taels of silver, which is still a low statement. Jiang Weichen has always wanted to turn over, but he is penniless, the wine shop is empty, and others don't believe him, so he hasn't turned over in the past ten years.
"Wait a minute, sister, come out, I have something important to say." As soon as Ling'er heard so much silver, and then looked at Min'er's expression, she knew what Min'er was going to say, and immediately interrupted her, and pulled her out of the door without saying anything.
"You girl, what are you pulling me out for?" Min'er doesn't think it's a good partner, not to mention that she doesn't have that much cash, and even if she does, she won't take it out. Who knows if he'll gamble again? Besides, it's not like there's no alcohol out there.
"Sister, listen to me first, I know what you think. But have you ever thought that if we sell those fruit wines and medicinal wines in the future, they only need to cut off the source of wine we use, and we will be finished? You must know that each wine has a unique taste, if we change the wine halfway, the taste will change, this is not the most serious, if the people who cut off our wine source also use our method, then we will not become less authentic than them? Then our previous efforts and efforts are all homely. Besides, for long-term development, we must continue to innovate and change. Jiang Weichen is a good collaborator, we pay for it, isn't it just right for him to contribute? In the future, when this winery is built, we are also the masters? Ling'er analyzed Min'er.
"But where do we get all that silver?" Min'er also knew that if the brewing workshop at home was much better than selling it outside, what about the silver?
"Sister, have you forgotten what I and the village chief have been doing in the past few years? Do you think I'm really stupid to be used by the village chief? Only I know about this paper-making technology, and even the village chief only knows a rough idea. As long as we sell this, won't we have silver? If you don't say anything, you can sell it for thousands of taels. Ling'er saw that Min'er's eyes instantly turned into ingots, and she knew that Min'er was moved by her.
"Alright, let's go inside." When the two entered the house, Min'er said straight to the point:
"It's a big deal, I can't let you do it alone, I'll send someone to help you when the time comes. You can rest assured that we will not do those indiscriminate things, and we will not covet your family's skills. But you have to make the wine we want according to our requirements, and of course, you can continue to study it. However, we have one condition, although this winery is still called Jiangjia winery, we are the same masters as you, and the silver we will earn in the future will be divided equally between our two families. I will also arrange for someone to be in charge of the management of the workshop, and you will be in charge of making and researching new wines, and of course, you will also have the right to participate in the affairs of the brewery. To put it bluntly, our two partners open a winery, are you willing? When Jiang Weichen heard this, the taste in his heart couldn't be said to be good or bad, thinking that this Jiang family wine shop would be someone else's family in the future, and he was reluctant to give up. But when I think about it, I'm still half a master, which is not bad, it's much stronger than now.
"I do, I just don't know when it will start?" Jiang Weichen was very anxious and hoped to start work immediately.
"This is thirty taels of silver, you take it and clean it up first, and then find someone to renovate the house. I'll send someone over in a few days, and you can tell him what to do when the time comes. Min'er put the silver on the table and didn't sign any paperwork, in fact, this was her intention, she wanted to see if this person really wanted to get back on her feet.
"That's how you gave it to me? Don't be afraid......" He didn't continue, but everyone understood what he meant.
"Since we have cooperated, then I am willing to believe you, and we will come back in a few days, and we will sign a formal document with you to bind both of us." Min'er's expression is now changed to her smile, her smile is very friendly, it seems to be a smile and not a smile gives people a very natural feeling, of course, if you know her, you will find that the smile does not reach the bottom of the eye.