In the evening, Lao Jiu, who was asleep, woke up slowly, moved his fingers, and subconsciously touched the surrounding wine jugs, but after a while, his hands were still empty.

"Huh?" Lao Jiu opened his eyes slightly, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the window, so that it was not so dazzling.

Lao Jiu felt that the house seemed to be much brighter, and the scenery gradually became clearer, and he realized that the house had been cleaned up at some point.

The wine jugs scattered on the floor are gone, the wooden tables and chairs are neatly arranged in the room, and the bluestone floor has been cleaned.

"Humph! Must be a new guy, extra to do it. Lao Jiu seemed to be surprised by such a change, stood up, and staggered towards the cellar again.

"Nine Princes!"

Coldly, Wang Dong's voice came, Lao Jiu felt very uncomfortable, slowly turned around, looked at Wang Dong and said, "What Jiugong?" Just call Lao Jiu. ”

"How can you do that, how can you say that you are also an elder." Wang Dong came closer, "By the way, Jiugong, I see that there is still some chestnut rice in the rice bowl in the kitchen, and I cooked dinner by the way." ”

"Hey...... Whatever you want, you won't stay here long anyway. ”

"Won't you stay long?"

Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Jiugong meant when he said this, but when he came back to his senses, he found that Jiugong had already carried two pots of wine from the cellar and walked back.

"Come, have a drink with me." Pulling out a chair, Jiu Gong sat down and poured out a glass of wine.

"Sit down."

"Jiugong, I don't know how to drink."

"Can't drink?" Jiugong frowned, "As a dignified seven-foot man, how can he not drink?" Come, this glass of wine, count me and you to wash the dust. ”

"That'...... All right. ”

Hard-headed, Wang Dong picked up a glass of wine, respectfully made a "please" gesture to Jiugong, and then closed his eyes and drank it all. It's like drinking poison.

Sake in the stomach, Wang Dong drank ancient wine for the first time in his life. The reason why he rejected Jiugong was not because he had never drunk wine, but because he was a little jealous of this ancient wine. After all, it's the first time, and it's still quite nervous.

Just like Wang Dong ate the food of this world for the first time, the feeling at that time was really difficult to swallow, like a fish in his throat. But now, isn't he adapting well?

I thought that this ancient wine would not taste good. Unexpectedly, the taste of sake is a little different from what I expected. In the spicy wine, there is even a bit of sweet taste, lingering on the tip of the tongue, savoring it, it is actually a little sweet.

"Unexpectedly, the ancient wine was quite delicious." Wang Dong sighed for a while, "Perhaps, compared with modern times, the ancient spring water, in the twenty-first century, is like the juice and jade liquid stored in zài." ”

Turning his head, Jiugong over there had already drunk a few cups by himself.

"Jiugong, don't we have to open the door to do business in our wine shop?" Wang Dong was puzzled.

"Doing business? Haha......" Jiugong burst into laughter, "Who would come to this remote place to drink and have fun?" I went to the big wineries in the city. ”

"The price of our liquor store should be much lower than in the city, and passers-by should consider coming to us." Although Wang Dong didn't know why he chose to build the wine shop here, since it was far away from the bustling area of the city, it should have some advantages in terms of operating costs.

If the cost is reduced, the price of the drink will be reduced accordingly. This is still very cost-effective for ordinary people.

Unexpectedly, Jiugong continued to shake his head: "In these years, ordinary people have difficulty eating, where is there money to drink." ”

"Having trouble eating?"

Listening to Jiugong's words, Wang Dong couldn't help but be stunned, if he remembered correctly, he was in the Zhenguan era, the most famous Zhenguan rule period in history, how could there be ordinary people who couldn't even afford to eat?

"Heh, I don't know why, since I changed the name of the year, there have been three consecutive disasters," Jiugong said as he drank his wine, "I don't know if the current emperor touched Tianwei and sent down the punishment." ”

"Three catastrophes in a row?" Wang Dong knew for the first time that in the Zhenguan era, not all the people could live and work in peace and contentment.

Especially at the beginning of Taizong's succession, Datang suffered disasters for three consecutive years. There were even rumors in the market that this was God's punishment for the mutiny of Taizong Xuanwumen, and rumors spread for a while, which made people panic.

Fortunately, Taizong is a Ming monarch who is rare to see through the ages, and he did not pay attention to these gossips.

Today, after Jiugong's reminder, some pictures appeared vaguely in Wang Dong's mind. These pictures were seen before he was rescued by Sanniang, when he suffered a heavy head injury and his memory was intermittent, and there were indeed many refugees-like people on the screen.

As Jiugong said, the three-year catastrophe has left the people of Datang without even food, and how can they have the money to buy wine and eat? In addition, the wine shop is located in the middle of nowhere, and the people who have the financial resources to eat and drink are either rich or expensive, so how can they come to this kind of place?

It is precisely for these reasons that for three consecutive years, the business of the liquor store has become more and more bleak, and until now, almost no one cares about it.

"Doesn't the owner of the liquor store know about this? Why not close it out and move on to another business? Wang Dong said.

Jiugong continued to drink a glass of wine and said, "Other business? What can be done? ”

"What can you do, you Datang people should know better than me." Wang Dong secretly said in his heart, "It's really brainless, the business is not as good, and I refuse to change my business to do it." ”

"Since the people don't have anything to eat, why don't you open a restaurant?"

"Restaurants?" Jiugong laughed, "There is a way, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and there is no rice chestnut and flour as the staple food, what do you use to open a restaurant?" ”

The Wang family, which has a huge grain store business, is still in a situation where there is no grain to sell, which shows how far Datang has reached the shortage of grain.

"That ......"

"Forget it, what kind of business to do, let the masters worry about it, we, the subordinates, don't worry about it." In the blink of an eye, two pots of wine had already entered Jiugong's stomach, his cheeks were flushed, and he looked drunk and hazy.

Wang Dong was puzzled, since no one could afford to buy the wine here. Why, then, can Jiugong drink it without any scruples? Isn't he afraid that those masters of the Wang family will come to check the accounts? After all, with his way of drinking, the amount of alcohol he drinks every month is very staggering.

However, he could no longer get answers to these doubts from Jiugong's mouth. Jiugong, all day long, can be described as "drunk life and dream death". He didn't care about the liquor business, as if it had nothing to do with him.

But Wang Dong is not such a person, instead of living a muddy life like Jiugong all day long, it is better to think about how to bring this small wine shop back to life.

People are like this, once they are idle, they will love to "think crankily and meddle in things" like Wang Dong, and it is precisely because of this that human beings will develop so rapidly.