When I woke up the next day, it was already three strokes.

Xu Jin'er didn't come today, probably because her father went to practice martial arts.

Liu Xu stretched his waist, feeling that his body was very tired, and he didn't do any strenuous exercise, why was he so tired. Alas, this scholar's body really has to be exercised well, and his body is too weak, Liu Xu couldn't help but think.

When I got up and dressed, I wore a set of moon-white cotton shorts and a azure slanted robe. Ancient clothes are really troublesome to wear, Liu Xu couldn't help but secretly sneer. When he first came here, Liu Xu studied for a long time before he figured out how to wear this clothes. The most unbearable thing is that there are no underwear at this time, and a three-foot-long cotton cloth is used as a crotch cloth, which is as uncomfortable as it is. No, I'll have to find a tailor as soon as possible and let him make himself some pairs of underwear to wear. Liu Xu finally understood that the crotch cloth of the sumo wrestler was learned from our ancestors.

When Liu Xu had eaten a full meal and carried two wine jars to the street, ready to go to the great cause of selling soju, it was almost noon.

Liu Xu's family lives in Cangnan Lane, and when he goes out a few hundred steps to the west, it is the intersection with Xinyue Street. There is a restaurant standing at the intersection of the street, and the signboard has three golden characters "Juxiang Building". Walking into the restaurant, the shopkeeper of the restaurant is rich and rich, and he is settling accounts with an abacus on the counter.

Liu Xu hurriedly put down the wine and saluted with his fists: "Uncle Qian is good, I wish Uncle Qian a prosperous business and a wide range of financial resources." ”

"You kid, come here to eat again. Not to mention, this abacus made by your kid and the abacus formula you taught are really easy to use, and calculating accounts is much faster than calculating chips. For the sake of your boy's abacus, I didn't say it, I have to serve you with good wine and meat today. ”

When Liu Xu first came to the Great Song Dynasty, he once went to this restaurant at the entrance of his house to eat, and when he saw the fat Qian Fugui Uncle Qian struggling to hold the abacus and settle the accounts, he made the abacus and taught him to use it. In just one month, the abacus has been used everywhere in Qingzhou City. It is said that the money and grain master of the state government thought it was easy to use after using it, so he promoted it in the state. There are even some merchants who have brought the abacus to Bianliang. Now Liu Xu, who is the inventor of the abacus, is also famous, and Juxianglou, which is the earliest use and promotion of the abacus, has also greatly improved its popularity in Qingzhou City, and the passenger flow has increased greatly. Since then, every time Liu Xu goes to Juxianglou for dinner, Uncle Qian does not charge money. Liu Xu was already poor in making a living, so he was naturally happy to eat and drink.

"Uncle Qian, I'm not here to eat your wine and food for nothing this time, ah, I'm here with good things", he raised the two wine jars in his hand.

"Yo, when will you Liu Erlang be polite to me", Liu Xu had an older brother who died early when he was a child, so Liu Xu was the second.

At this time, the running hall served a few drinks and dishes. Liu Xu was not polite when he saw it, so he sat down at the table.

"Uncle Qian, sit down, let's have a bowl. But let's drink a bowl of one jar, but if you have more, you can't drink it, and the rest is useful to me, hehe. ”

"I just thought you were generous, but you were stingy again. Drinking two bowls is enough, it's not enough to rinse your mouth", Uncle Qian is also a good drinker.

"Uncle Qian, don't be busy blowing it first, drink it and then talk about it. Besides, I want to wait for you to be full, and give everyone a bowl to taste. These two jars are good wine, and we all have good neighbors in this street, can I not think about everyone? ”

"Gotta pour it for me. You're a great kid with this mouth. Since being hit by a horse, you kid has suddenly opened his mind, what a blessing in disguise. ”

Liu Xu took the wine, scooped a bowl of soju for Uncle Qian, and poured a bowl himself.

"Come, Uncle Qian, I respect you and thank you for taking care of you."

Uncle Qian picked up the bowl, took a sip, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Good wine, strong enough, this wine is strong enough, and the first line of fire goes straight to the heart." You kid, where did you get such a strong wine, I've been running a restaurant for decades, and I've never heard of such a strong wine. And this wine is as clear as water, without a single impurity, even the clearest and cleanest jade liquor in the Great Song Dynasty is not so clear, and it is a good wine. Uncle Qian picked up the bowl and drank it all, and yelled, "Cool."

Liu Xu didn't expect the chubby Uncle Qian to be so heroic when he drank wine. Seeing that Uncle Qian finished drinking, he hurriedly poured a bowl of two pots for Uncle Qian.

"Come on, Uncle Qian, try this bowl of two pots again. But you have to drink slowly, this wine is too strong, don't get drunk, I'll have something to discuss with you later. ”

Uncle Qian ignored Liu Xu, took a sip from the bowl, and savored it.

"This bowl of wine is stronger than the bowl just now, and it is strong, and the mouth is like a knife, and the stomach is like fire, which is really delicious. This is the fucking wine that men drink. Your kid seems to be really good to your Uncle Qian, and he doesn't forget to honor your Uncle Qian if he has good things. Just now you said that you wanted me to help with something, let's say, after drinking your good wine, I was embarrassed to refuse what you said. ”

"Uncle Qian, I used to rub your food all the time, and the kid is embarrassed. If there are benefits, I can't forget you, this time I came to you to make a fortune together. Later, I want to give this wine to the guests who come to your place to eat, each person has a bowl to taste, if everyone tastes delicious, let everyone help publicize it, and I will put the wine on your consignment in the future, how about it? ”

"You made this wine yourself?" Qian Fugui said in shock.

"Of course, I made it, have you ever seen such a fine wine before?" Liu Xu enjoyed Uncle Qian's worship very much.

"Such a fine wine can be sold well, but if you brew it privately, it's okay to sell a few jars less, but I don't dare to sell it if you have more, you have to go to the government to get the documents that allow you to open a winery to make wine."

Liu Xu said: "I naturally know this, don't you have no money in hand?" I'll sell a few jars from you first to earn some money, so I can go to the yamen to do some work, so that I can open a wine shop." And this wine is complicated to brew, a stone of grain can only brew such a jar or two, I can't make much in a day, you want to sell more I can't give it to you. Liu Xu boasted that the cost was several times larger. In fact, one stone of grain weighs more than 100 catties, and one jar of wine weighs ten catties, and one stone of grain is enough to brew five or six jars of wine.

"That's good, this kind of good wine will definitely sell well, how much does that jar of wine cost?"

"This wine uses a lot of grain is secondary, the important thing is that the process is complicated, and it can only be brewed after nine steaming and nine boiling, so naturally it can't be cheap." After saying that, Liu Xu regretted it, how could he say that this wine needs to be steamed, this is a magic weapon to make money by himself, but fortunately, Uncle Qian didn't pay attention, so Liu Xu continued: "Well, let's sell it for five yuan a jar." I didn't sell a jar to Uncle Qian, and you always have money for consignment money. ”

After Liu Xu came to the Great Song Dynasty, he was crazy for lack of money, so he marked it at a sky-high price! You must know that at this time in the early Song Dynasty, one stone of rice was only 500 wen, while wheat and sorghum were not easy to peel at this time, the taste was not good, and the price was cheaper, and one stone was less than 400 wen. As for making sake from sorghum, as long as it is ground, it is better, and it is better to make sake with the skin. After the sorghum with water and koji fermented in one stone and 400 wen, five or six jars of wine can be steamed. Liu Xu asked for five times, and he felt a little embarrassed. However, Liu Xu thought that his wine was a patented product, and he monopolized the high wine industry, so of course he had to pursue the highest profits.

Although the business of Qian Fugui Restaurant is good, the net income of a day is only a few dollars, and the consignment money of each jar is also a considerable amount of income. This kind of soju has never been seen before, and it is sold on consignment in Juxiang Building, which can attract many drinkers, and it is self-evident that the business is booming.

Uncle Qian groaned: "The people who come to our house to eat and drink are all neighbors in the street, and they don't have much money. The real rich families all go to the Nanyang Riverside Restaurant to eat and drink. It is estimated that few of the people who come to us to eat wine can afford to buy a whole jar. Can this wine be sold in bulk? ”

Liu Xu thought about it, and what Uncle Qian said was also the truth. The living expenses of ordinary people in Qingzhou City are only one or two dollars a month, and it is unrealistic to let ordinary people take out a few months' living expenses to buy a jar of wine to drink.

"If the whole jar is not easy to sell, just sell it in bulk, just a dime of wine", Liu Xu wanted to say how much a dime of wine (about two taels) was sold, but he really couldn't calculate it for a while.

Liu Xu, who was accustomed to the decimal system in later generations, came to the Great Song Dynasty to know: One catty of the Great Song Dynasty is sixteen taels, and the Great Song Dynasty has always had money not one thousand Wen, but seven hundred and seventy Wen. When he first arrived here, Liu Xu really made a lot of jokes about this. Five dollars a jar, how much money a dime, you really have to sum it up.

Liu Xu silently summed up for a while in his heart before he said: "Uncle Qian, then buy a dime of fifty Wen, let the drinkers taste it, and help publicize it", Liu Xu said in his heart: Don't point to making these small money from the neighbors, the rich people in the Great Song Dynasty have it, and when the advertisement goes out, when their wine shop opens, I'm afraid that no one will come to buy it.

At this time, the table was almost full of drinkers in the store, and Liu Xu said: "Uncle Qian, you can give this wine to everyone to taste, don't say that I made it, everyone should taste it, just let them come to you to buy it." Someone asks you where you got from, and you find an excuse for yourself. As for the name of the wine, it is called Yunmen Yao and Guzhou Erguotou. ”

"Don't worry, this is something that your Uncle Qian can still do, let's just wait to make money, and then you will open your own wine shop, don't forget to take care of your Uncle Qian."

"That's nature."

So Uncle Qian gave a big reward today, giving each of them a bowl of wine, and everyone was amazed after drinking it. This wine is as strong as fire, its clear as water, for the people of the Song Dynasty who are accustomed to drinking low-alcohol muddy wine, its sensational effect can be imagined. I am afraid that in a few days, countless people in Qingzhou City will know that a small restaurant called Juxianglou is selling fine wine that is as clear as water and as hot as fire.

Liu Xu watched everyone drink a bowl of soju, and his expression was fascinated, and he couldn't help but pout, a group of dirt buns, isn't it just a bowl of high-grade soju that is no more ordinary in later generations, as for it?

At the same time, in the Xu's martial arts hall not far from the restaurant, when Wang Erzhu, the little apprentice of the martial arts hall, came to the martial arts hall to describe the fine wine he tasted in the restaurant to the master Xu Yanxin, Xu Yanxin also pouted, a group of soil buns, drink a bowl As for that, I drank a jar.

Liu Xu felt that there was a bright light in front of him, as if he saw a golden mountain beckoning to him. Liu Xule went home to make wine, ready to start his own wine-making business.

ps: 1 abacus, there is an exact record that it should have appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also said that it has appeared since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it is different from the current abacus, and the mountains and rivers default to the lack of abacus in the early Song Dynasty.

2 Shochu, before the Yuan Dynasty, most of it was brewed wine, and many people tried many ways to create a high degree without success, and it was not until the Yuan Dynasty that the distillation method was invented. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded: "Shochu is not an ancient method, since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, its method uses strong wine and dregs into the retort (referring to the steamer), steaming the gas, and using the vessel to carry the dripping dew." ”

3 stir-frying, there should be no stir-fry before the Song Dynasty, there seems to be very few records of stir-fry in the early Song Dynasty, until the end of the Song Dynasty, there was no stir-fry dishes, and at that time, most of the chefs who could stir-fry like to cherish their own secret skills and not pass them on, so stir-fry did not appear widely, and the mountains and rivers defaulted to the fact that there was no stir-fry in the early Song Dynasty.

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