Chapter 21: The Secret History of the Lin Family
From ancient times to the present, brothers have fought for the inheritance, but there have been some small changes here in the Lin family. Mr. Lin has a younger brother, this person has not been doing business since he was a child, Mr. Lin has opened a restaurant with his hard-working hands, built a wine-making restaurant, and gave birth to three daughters, but Brother Lin is still alone, watching the life of the eldest brother become more and more prosperous, it is impossible for Brother Lin not to be blushing, and finally paid his attention to the father of Mr. Lin.
In this way, through the complaints and pleadings with his father, the little brother Lin forced his father to persuade the old man Lin to give a winery to the younger brother, as a filial son, although the old man Lin was unwilling, he still gritted his teeth and admitted it.
If the younger brother can live a good life, it can be regarded as a prodigal son, who would have thought that the brewery would face closure after not operating for a year in his hands, at that time, the old man Lin also wanted to bring the brewery back, and promised to give the little first money, but who would have wanted to kill a Cheng Cheng halfway, Wang Mengfa, who had just debuted, bought the brewery at a high price, which made the old man Lin angry and completely cut off the relationship with the younger brother.
The secret history of the Lin family is very simple, just a matter of a few words, but this matter makes Jia Yi feel shameless, but unfortunately, more than ten years have passed, even if Jia Yi has more ways to grind the wicked, but now there is nothing he can do, the brewery is not coming back, can only think of other ways, in order to distill the wine to buy rice wine on the market, the time is short, maybe there will be nothing, but if the time is a little longer, after the rice wine seller finds out the problem, it is strange not to increase the price.
Headache, Jia Yi pounded his head while thinking of feasible countermeasures, he knows some of the winemaking process in later generations, but this process is not a short time to achieve results, from the cultivation of koji to the brewing of wine, it takes at least half a year, during this period also needs a lot of manpower and material resources, just money is not a small amount.
"Could it be that I'm too eager for quick success?" Jia Yi raised his head and looked blankly at the starry sky, and couldn't help but ask himself.
When he traveled to the Tang Dynasty, Jia Yi felt a little inexplicable at first, but there was not too much tension and confusion, he thought that after learning all kinds of knowledge in the later generations, he came to the Tang Dynasty even if he was lying down, he could make a lot of money, and said unceremoniously, he regarded the Tang Dynasty people as stupid and rich soil buns, after the beginning of the smooth, he became more and more sure of this, in the later generations there will hardly be eaten things, here can be regarded as food, then just want to order something novel in the later generations, The money didn't fly over before it was a bang.
However, now that Jia Yi has finally recognized his ability, the development and success of anything requires a process of slow accumulation, even though he has a knowledge reserve that no one in this dynasty can match, but if he wants to exchange these things for money, it will take a long process, and it is ridiculous that he was thinking about how long to do how big things at the beginning.
The inn has been built again, then continue to build, the brewery can no longer be recovered, then slowly make money, and then find a way to retake it, as for those major events in the Tang Dynasty, Jia Yi was directly buried in his heart, and it became extremely difficult to even make money at this time, who else do you want to help?
After calculating the money on his body, the materials for building the inn and the wages of the workers, and then the furniture that needed to be purchased and built after the inn was built, there were still about ten pieces of money left on his body in the end.
Edible oil does not need to be purchased for a long time, and the rapeseed piled up in the oil press room of the second courtyard is enough to be useful for more than a year. At the moment, the only thing that can continue to make money is distilled spirits, so it is better to find a way to make some money from distilled spirits.
In this year's rice wine, there are 500 jars of wine, four jars of wine can be distilled out of one jar, and ten jars of wine can be steamed out of five jars of wine at most, and they can be sold in Chang'an City.
Even though there are a lot of good wine people in the small Duqu County, this wine is still a little insufficient for publicity, not to mention that it can only be sold in Chang'an, and it is the most cost-effective to sell this wine as an heirloom.
After figuring out the key here, Jia Yi's face was full of smiles again, smiled at Lin Ruyu, and said softly: "Don't think about these things, it's a big deal, we will build the brewery ourselves in the future." ”
"I know you have the ability, but this brewery is the first property that my mother and my father worked hard to build, and now that my mother has passed away, this brewery has become a piece of my father's heart, so ......"
The daughter-in-law moved her mouth, her husband broke her leg, Jia Yi felt that she was the character who needed to break her leg now, but since the old man had been waiting for more than ten years, why should he care about this short period of time.
"Okay, before we get married, I'll use this brewery as a dowry to marry you." After Jia Yihao finished speaking, he thought that he would be able to get Lin Ruyu's excited embrace, but after loading the fork, he looked back and saw that Lin Ruyu was already running towards her own room with her hands on her face, without even a reward.
"Alas......" sighed and sighed at the conservatism of women in this year, Jia Yi also shook his head and returned to his room, starting to distill the wine tomorrow, and the next few days will be busy again.
Buying rice wine is not a big deal, there are several wineries in this Duqu County, twenty jars of rice wine is very easy to get your hands on, the wine jars are very large, each one weighs one hundred and ten pounds, this kind of physical work naturally can't be done by yourself, beckoned to Zhang Daren who followed behind him, and waited until he walked to him, stretched out his finger and pointed to the wine jars lined up on the ground, smiled, and walked slowly towards Lin Mansion.
When Zhang Daren, who was tired like a dead dog, returned to the Lin Mansion, Jia Yidu had already prepared lunch, and now that he was short of money, the meals were relatively simple, and a few vegetarian stir-fried dishes exuded a unique fragrance, but they let everyone eat heartily.
The work of distilling liquor is boring and boring, Jia Yi squatted in the distillation room, watching the liquor that exuded a rich aroma of liquor flowing out of the diversion tube drop by drop, his eyes were sinking and sinking, always thinking about just closing and sleeping well, when the sound of swallowing saliva came from the door, Jia Yi's eyes that had basically closed would open suddenly, and he looked out of the door viciously, the long-awaited face.
"Zhang Daren, I warn you, this is my last net worth, I want to use it in exchange for money, if you dare to drink secretly, I will fight with you."
Rao is Zhang Daren, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, after seeing Jia Yi's appearance, he couldn't help but be timid, and knew in his heart that Jia Yi's words were not a lie, he was serious, although he wanted to taste the deliciousness of the wine again, but reason still made him turn his head and stay away from the steaming room.
After three days of torment and three days of waiting, Jia Yi didn't care about collecting the inferior wine in the last furnace, quickly covered the wine jar, and left the steaming room with the wine jar in his arms.
The five jars of wine were neatly placed on a board car, and they would be able to go to Chang'an tomorrow and sell them in the East Market.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Jia Yi and Zhang Daren pushed the cart and slowly marched towards Chang'an, the city gate of Chang'an City will be opened at sunrise, and the curfew will be lifted after sunrise.
The two yawned, pushing the cart along the road to Chang'an City, the darkness before dawn not only cut off all the light, but also let the cold fall on the world, the two people who were sleepy, were constantly blown by the cold wind, and sneezed at the same time, and then continued to slowly march towards Chang'an City.
When the day changed to a touch of fish belly white, the tall city wall of Chang'an City was already in sight, and a long queue had formed outside the city gate that was still tightly closed, and Jia Yi, who saw this queue, couldn't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart, looking at people who got up earlier than himself, but they didn't know that the people standing outside the city gate now were not from the counties around Chang'an, but they were sleeping outside the city for a night, and they were all poor people, how could they have the money to go to the guest house.
......When the sun on the horizon showed a small horn, the tall city gate slowly opened from the center with a dull sound, and two columns of city guards came to the outside of the city with neat steps, looking at everyone standing outside the city with cold and arrogant eyes, and the city gate officer walked to the front of the queue with lazy steps, raised an arm high, and shouted softly: "Prepare to enter the city." ”
The long queue began to pour into the city at a snail's pace, and the gate officer and two soldiers meticulously checked the luggage of everyone who wanted to enter the city to prevent anything that might jeopardize the safety of the city from slipping into the city.
"What's in this jar of yours?" When it was Jia Yi's turn, the city gate official looked like he would pull out the handle of the knife at any time with one hand, and pointed to the fine wine on the cart with the other, as if he wanted to open it and check it out.
"Lord Qiqi, this is a fine wine handed down by the villain's family, and I plan to take it to the East Market today to sell it in exchange for daily money."
"Open it and take a look."
Jia Yi walked to the edge of a jar with a smiling face, grabbed the lid with both hands, and gently tugged on the cover, and the lid was dragged up, at the same time, the rich aroma of wine came out of the jar for the first time, and spread around, whether it was the officers and soldiers guarding the city, or the people who were preparing to enter the city, they were attracted by the aroma of wine at the same time, and looked at Jia Yi here.