Chapter Seventy-Four: Buying Wine
Hearing Fu Zhong's question, Lin Xifeng laughed and haha: "Hehe...... Heavenly secrets must not be revealed. (―)”
When Fu Zhong heard this, he laughed dryly and didn't ask any more questions, he naturally understood that other people's own ancestral recipes would not be easily leaked to outsiders, although he had a good conversation with Lin Xifeng in the past few days, it was far from the point where the latter would completely open up to him.
Lin Xifeng opened the lid of the wine, and suddenly, the rich aroma of wine permeated the wine shop, Fu Zhong shrunk his nose, stared at the wine jar with two eyes getting brighter and brighter, and hurriedly took a porcelain bowl from the side, and Lin Xifeng personally poured him a bowl of wine.
Fu Zhong took a sip of wine, closed his eyes tightly together, and pursed his lips, as if enjoying this particularly delicious sake, and then opened his eyes full of surprise: "Young Master Lin, this wine really deserves its reputation!" Before, I thought it was an exaggeration, but now when I taste it, I know that this wine is not worth it. ”
As soon as Fu Zhong's voice fell, the rest of the people were also busy finding porcelain bowls and competing to pour wine and taste it.
Looking at their excited appearances, Lin Xifeng smiled and said, "If you like it, you can drink it every day in the future, even if it is a big jar." ”
When Fu Zhong heard this, his face suddenly became more joyful, and then he seemed to think of something again, and asked, "Childe, how much do you plan to sell this wine for?" ”
"This wine is unique in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the price will naturally be much higher, and the initial plan is to sell it for 500 yuan per big altar."
"Ahem, cough ......" Fu Zhong, who was drinking wine, coughed a few times at the moment, and was frightened by Lin Xifeng's price, even if it was the best sake in Hangzhou City, it was only more than 100 yuan for a large jar, and he actually wanted to sell it for 500 yuan, which was not the most surprising to him, the most surprising thing was that if they drank a jar of wine every day, wouldn't it be 500 yuan, you know, their monthly salary is only two yuan.
Thinking of this, Fu Zhong hurriedly waved his hand, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "The price of this wine is so high, we naturally can't drink it at will, if we drink it like this, we will drink a month's salary in four days, it is too much for the son to break the bank, it is necessary to ...... it."
"It can produce eighty jars of wine a day, so what is it for you to drink one jar......, you might as well do it," Lin Xifeng said with a smile indifferently.
Fu Zhong turned his head to look at the eager eyes of several people behind him, was silent for a while, and then puffed up his breath and said: "Since Gongzi Lin is so bold, we can't let Gongzi drink wine for nothing, so be it!" In the future, we will work for an hour every day, and we don't need to increase our wages, and we will pay for the extra work. ”
If Fu Zhong was kept away from this wine, he could barely hold back and not drink it, but in the future, he would have to deal with this wine every day, smelling the intoxicating aroma of wine, but he couldn't drink it, and asked himself, it was really difficult for him to do it, so he thought of this compromise.
Lin Xifeng lowered his head and thought for a while, they have been working for ten hours a day now, which is considered to be relatively hard, if it is added to twelve, he will not go in his heart, but if he doesn't add it, Fu Zhong and the others are embarrassed to drink, and after thinking about it for a while, they smiled and said: "You don't need to add an hour, just half an hour." ”
When Fu Zhong heard this, he didn't argue anymore, and he wasn't used to arguing with others, so he smiled and said, "Since the son is like this, we will also rely on it." ”
With a suitable compromise, Fu Zhong was not polite, drank all the sake in the porcelain bowl, and then hurriedly poured another bowl, as if he was afraid that someone would rob him of the wine.
Seeing this, Lin Xifeng hurriedly smiled and advised: "This wine is slightly stronger than ordinary sake, and it is easier to get drunk, you must not get drunk, otherwise you will let me see the joke." ”
"Uh-huh...... Just drink this bowl again. Fu Zhong laughed dryly, and only then did he think of this stubble, his old face couldn't help but blush, he only cared about drinking before, but he didn't think of what to do when he was drunk, and then he greeted his subordinates: "Brothers, it's enough to drink two bowls first, if you still want to drink, just wait for lunch." ”
Lin Xifeng walked out of the wine shop with a smile, the gold-lettered signboard of "Three Thousand Guests" was shining in the rising sun, and after a while, a group of horse convoys came from a distance, Lin Xifeng raised his head, and saw that Ye Tianheng was doing it in the front carriage, it must be this son who brought the Xue family to buy wine, and hurriedly smiled and greeted him.
"This is here, this is here......" Ye Tianheng pointed to the greeting of "three thousand guests" and explained to the guy driving the carriage, and then pointed to Lin Xifeng who came over, and said with a smile: "See, that handsome man in white is the owner of this winery, you can just talk to him about the rest of the matter, he is my brother Lin, you are polite to him......"
"Yes...... yes" The guy driving the carriage was busy, he was just a subordinate in the Xue family, and he knew a little about the relationship between Ye Tianheng and Xue Weiqian, and now listening to the former's orders, he was not bad with his own master.
Mai greeted Lin Xifeng with a smile, and then the latter led the five carriages at the door of the winery.
"How many jars of wine are you going to buy?" As soon as Lin Xifeng saw this formation, he felt that these eighty jars of wine seemed to be insufficient.
"Hehe, the master has explained, get a hundred jars first, and if you don't have enough to drink, you will buy it again." Mai got out of the carriage and smiled at Lin Xifeng.
"Uh...... I don't have that much alcohol right now! Now there are only eighty-two altars, and I don't know if there are enough. Lin Xifeng smiled slightly embarrassedly, the Liu family's wedding banquet only used twenty jars of wine, he didn't expect the Xue family's appetite to be so big, but it can also be seen that the Xue family's status in Hangzhou City is really not low, only when there are more guests, they need more wine.
"That's right...... It's okay, it's okay, let's pull it all back first! If it's not enough, I'll come again tomorrow, anyway, the wedding feast will start at noon tomorrow, and it won't be delayed, today is just to prepare first. Mai waved his hand disappreciably with a smile on his face.
"That's good, brother, please come in!"
"Childe is polite, but this wine is too expensive, and the master is a little uneasy, can you let me taste the taste of the wine first?" The guy bowed his waist and said respectfully.
"No problem, it's human nature." Lin Xifeng smiled, then turned back to Fu Zhong and shouted, "Brother Fu, pour this brother a bowl of wine for him to taste." ”
"Okay!" A cheerful response came from the winery, and after a while, Fu Zhong was seen running out of the winery with a bowl of wine.
The man hurriedly stepped forward to take the porcelain bowl, as soon as he smelled the wine, his expression became surprised, and he put the porcelain bowl to his mouth and took a sip, the expression of surprise and joy continued to repeat on his face, and he put away the porcelain bowl with some reluctance, and then raised his sleeves and wiped his lips, and did not make any comments on the wine, but turned back to the men in the carriage and shouted loudly: "Brothers, you have carried the wine and worked!" ”