Liu Xu was a little busy in the next few days.

Since he received a gift from Liu Xu and promised to help, Liu Xu has been busy with the preparation of the winery.

First of all, you have to find a big yard, and it is best to bring a store. Liu Xu went around Cangnan Lane and Xinyue Street near his home, but he didn't find a suitable one. As for other places, Liu Xu was not familiar with them, so he asked his father-in-law to inquire. Among the apprentices of Xu Yanxin Martial Arts Hall, there are three teachings and nine streams, and they are well-informed.

The yard quickly found a lot, but Liu Xu didn't find a suitable one after looking at it. In the end, Xu Yan said: Just get it in the backyard of the martial arts hall. The backyard of Xu Yanxin's martial arts hall is originally large, and the backyard is separated together, and then the house facing the street can be used as a store by opening doors and windows. It also saves a lot of trouble next to the martial arts hall, and those markets in Qingzhou are splashy, and few dare to come to the vicinity of the martial arts hall to cause trouble.

There was a place for the winery, and Liu Xu was busy renovating the house, building a large firewood house and several large stoves. I used to steam wine in the courtyard, and it was okay in autumn, but it was too cold in winter. Moreover, steaming wine in the courtyard is not as clean and hygienic as in the firewood room, Liu Xu feels that there are still requirements for the hygiene and quality of the wine, and he has to be responsible for making so much money from others!

The next thing that Liu Xu is most worried about is that there is no suitable partner. This bit of my own skill is so easy to learn, I can learn it by watching others once. People who don't have a solid foundation really can't do it. People have learned, turn around and leave, and their own technical advantage is gone.

In the end, Liu Xu was helpless, so he still asked Xu Yanxin for help, but he didn't expect that the things he was worried about were not at all in Xu Yanxin's place. Xu Yanxin waved his hand and said: "This matter is easy to do, let Erzhu and the bolt help." These two boys, I told them to keep their mouths tight, so that they didn't dare to let out a fart. If you really can't do it, let your mother-in-law also go and help, anyway, your mother-in-law is also idle at home. Close the back door of the store when pouring, except for the two pillars and bolts, no outsiders are allowed to enter, so as to ensure that your craftsmanship will not be stolen. ”

Erzhu and Bolt are both orphans adopted by Xu Yanxin, who grew up with Xu Yanxin since he was a child, like a godson, and is an absolutely reliable person. Xu Yanxin has no children under his knees, and plans to take them as righteous sons after Xu Jin'er gets married.

Liu Xu remembered that he had to hire a shopkeeper in the shop, so he asked his father-in-law for help.

Xu Yanxin listened: "This is also easy to do, I will say hello to Ning Hao, his family is a big cloth merchant, let him help find one, it really can't work, so I will borrow one from his store and use it first." ”

Xu Yanxin easily handled his two troublesome things, Liu Xu couldn't help but be overjoyed, having a good father-in-law is a good worker. I have been worried about things for a long time, and people have arranged them in a few moments.

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Although busy, Liu Xu still gets up early in the morning every day to go for a run and exercise. Liu Xu feels that his physical fitness has improved recently.

Every day when I go to the long pavilion, I still meet Cui Lao, and Liu Xu will always play a few games with Cui Lao.

At the beginning, Liu Xu's sword took a biased way to always win Cui Lao, and later Cui Lao continued to ponder and deduce Liu Xu's chess path, but gradually reversed the disadvantage, and occasionally won a few games against Liu Xu. Liu Xu knew that his chess strength was actually slightly inferior to Cui Lao, and the more Cui Lao became familiar with his chess path, the more difficult it would be for him to win him. Fortunately, he has seen many chess games summarized by later generations, and it is difficult for Cui Lao to fully understand Liu Xu's chess path for a while. Cui Lao himself is also a person who loves to win by surprise, seeing Liu Xu's endless tricks, he can't help but feel itchy, and he waits for Liu Xu to play by the long pavilion early every day.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Xu is rarely idle, his wine shop is almost busy, and he plans to officially open after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

When Liu Xu ran to the edge of the long pavilion, Cui Lao was already waiting under the long pavilion early. At this time, I was deducing with a few chess friends that I played a few games of chess with Liu Xu yesterday.

When Cui Lao saw Liu Xu, he smiled and said, "Yo, you kid is here, I thought you wouldn't be here today!" What's wrong with your little brewery? is a good scholar, not good at studying and relying on the imperial examination, but learning from others to do business and open a workshop, it is really insulting! ”

Liu Xu and Cui Lao play chess every day, and they have long been familiar with each other, and they have long lost their scruples when they speak, so they said: "You are always in love, I have read books for a few days, and I am not a reader." Besides, I have to support my family, why is it humiliating to open a winery? ”

Cui Lao scolded with a smile: "Originally, a smart boy just didn't have to be on the right path. Since ancient times, farmers and businessmen have been at the end. If you don't take the fair and honest road of reading exams, you have to use it in crooked ways. Just like you play chess, you go off the rails. ”

Cui Lao often plays chess and chats with Liu Xu these days, and Liu Xu is free and natural in front of him. Nowadays, few people can talk and laugh like Liu Xu in front of Cui Lao's powerful aura. Liu Xu comes from later generations, can jump out of the shackles of the times to look at problems, and often can say some thought-provoking opinions, sometimes Cui Lao didn't feel what was going on at the time, and when he went back, he thought about it, but the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became. Later, Cui Lao asked his men to investigate Liu Xu, and found that the abacus and soju that are now circulating in Qingzhou were actually invented by Liu Xu, and he couldn't help but take a look at Liu Xu's cleverness. Therefore, Cui Laocai disagreed with Liu Xu's fact that he was not good at studying, but went to open a wine shop, and felt that a good smart person was not used on the right road, so he couldn't help but have the heart to advise.

"Cui Lao's words are not right, how can business become a crooked and evil way? The saint has clouds, no agriculture is unstable, no business is not rich, and the saint has never despised the merchants. Just like my Great Song Dynasty, the production of the north and the south is different, if there is no business travel, the goods cannot pass through the north and the south, and the goods cannot be used to the fullest. The southerners have no use for chariot and horse leather, and the north has no silk tea. It can be seen that business is very important to the Great Song Dynasty, and without business, it will be difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to make the country rich and the people strong. Liu Xu is one of the few people who dares to directly refute Cui Lao, and dares to directly say that Cui Lao is wrong.

Cui Lao was not annoyed: "I wanted to persuade you to study well, but you are full of crooked reasoning and play chess!" Cui Lao thought about Liu Xu's words, but it made sense, his family already had countless businesses, so he naturally understood the importance of business. This young man has a special idea, but he is a talent, and he will investigate more in the future, Cui Lao can't help but think. In an agrarian society, few people can see the importance of business so clearly. In the era of official position, power is the most important, and for individuals, studying and becoming a professional is also the best way to gain social status. But from a macro perspective, business is indeed crucial to promoting the prosperity of the country and the strength of the people.

In the two games, Cui Lao and Liu Xu each won one game. Liu Xu decided to go back, but Cui Lao was still not happy.

"As soon as I got up, I was leaving, and after another game, I just came up with a few moves, and this game didn't work. One more game, let me use the guarantee to win against you. ”

"Your old man is so old, and it is time to 'watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, and follow the clouds outside the sky', why are you still so competitive when you play chess."

"Nonsense, of course playing chess is to win, why are you not enterprising, and 'watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, and wandering with the clouds outside the sky', you kid wants to be a hermit. Let me tell you, those who run to Shangli to be hermits are all incapable people. Hurry up and play chess. ”

Liu Xu had to play another game with Cui Lao, but although Cui Lao used a few tricks in this game, Liu Xu still won.

Liu Xu couldn't help but say proudly: "Look at it, keep a normal heart, don't deliberately pursue victory or defeat, in order to be invincible, this is called desirelessness is rigid." ”

"Let your kid win by luck, where did you say so much, but just now your two sentences of 'watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, and wandering with the clouds outside the sky' are written with some talent. Will you go to the Nanyang poetry meeting tonight? Seeing that you can make a few crooked poems, you might as well make a few poems for everyone to evaluate, and maybe you can earn a name for talent. ”

"I don't know how to do poetry, poetry is originally for cultivating love, and it falls down after saving the meaning of comparison. Originally, I didn't want to go to the poetry club, but my wine shop is about to open, and I haven't found anyone to write a plaque yet, so I want to go to the poetry club to see if I can find someone to give a plaque. ”

"Listening to the first few sentences of your words, it seems that you are elegant, and the last few sentences directly expose your real surname. It's a good poetry meeting, but you are going to find someone to inscribe your own tavern, which is really insulting. ”

"It's not once or twice that I've insulted Sven in the eyes of Elder Cui, it's not bad this time. If you don't swipe your pen and give a plaque to the title, I won't be able to insult the poet. ”

Cui Lao scolded with a smile: "I'm ashamed to give you a plaque for that small wine shop, you should go to the poetry club to find someone to inscribe." Gone, I'm, fight again tomorrow. ”

Liu Xu couldn't help but be speechless, why did he look down on my small wine shop so much! It's really not good, then you can only find Wang Zeng to give a plaque, how can people be champions in the future, and the plaque he gave will appreciate in the future!

Liu Xu often plays chess with Cui Lao, and knows that Cui's surname is Cui, and he seems to have a good family background, but he doesn't know Cui Lao's true identity. Cui Lao, named Yu, is the patriarch of the famous family of seven clans and five surnames Qinghe Cui Qingzhoufang. Now Qinghe Cui's ten rooms, with Qingzhou house strength is the most strong. Qinghe Cui family is a famous family since the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a wealthy family that has been inherited for thousands of years, only the Tang Dynasty Qinghe Cui family has produced 26 prime ministers, and its wealthy heritage can be seen.

If Liu Xu knew that his chess friend Cui Lao was the patriarch of Qingzhou Fang, who was now the strongest Qinghe Cui, he would know that Cui Lao said that he was embarrassed by the inscription, which was really not a joke!

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