Shi Qiu sat on a wicker chair, his gray hair loosely pulled up, basking in the dappled sun under the sparse shade. Looking up at the locust blossoms on the tree, the sweet taste is like a freshly brewed wine.

"Grandmother."

With the child's crisp and immature call, Shi Qiu raised his eyes and saw his son Zhiwen coming with his wife, and the little grandson happily jumped and ran in front.

Shi Qiu looked at the scene in front of her, smiled, just in time a gust of wind passed, blowing down a few blooming acacia flowers and falling on her body, Shi Qiu picked up the flowers, remembering this scene, it was clear that she had experienced it.

At that time, she was still in Huainan, there was a stout old locust tree growing in the backyard of the house, in Huainan, the locust tree was relatively rare, every spring, there would always be a partner who came over and looked up at the strings of sweet locust flowers in her home.

Shi Qiu remembered that at that time, the business of Daddy's Wine Shop was still booming, and the family was not a wealthy family, but a wealthy family. A clever mother-in-law likes to pick it off when the acacia flowers are in full bloom, mix them with flour and sugar, put them in a pot and steam them over high heat, and steam them out to a group of greedy children.

In my childhood, I was very greedy for the taste of acacia flowers, smelling and eating them, and felt that it was the happiest taste in the world.

The gentleman who was invited to teach at home praised her for being a smart child, but the mother-in-law who taught the female red said that Shi Qiu was the stupidest girl she had ever met.

Daddy always didn't care about these things, he would just pick her up and throw her high and catch it, and then let Shi Qiu ride on his neck and take her to see the wine-making workers at work, and to see the many, many wines stored in the cellar.

Maybe it's because the family sells wine, Shi Qiu was born with the smell of wine in her mother's belly, or Shi Qiu's temperament follows her father who loves wine like her life, and she can secretly drink a few cups at a young age, and her face is not red and her heart is not beating, except for a wine burp will betray her, and she can't see that the little girl is a person who has secretly drunk alcohol.

Regarding the matter of stealing alcohol, Shi Qiu remembered that his father only laughed and didn't say anything, but her mother didn't allow her to drink, coaxing her to say that if the child was drunk, it would be stolen by traffickers, and then found that Shi Qiu had never been drunk, so he changed it to that the child drank too much wine and would not grow tall.

Most of the time, I believe it when I don't drink, and I don't believe it when I drink.

Everything in the family is harmonious and beautiful, and Shi Qiu feels that there is nothing to worry about except for her lazy uncle.

Her uncle also loves to drink, but not like her and her father, although he loves wine, but he can stay sober, in Shi Qiu's memory, his uncle is an out-and-out drunkard, drunk when he gets drunk, and the wine is inferior, he drinks too much, he goes around drinking crazy, and asks his father for money to go out to gamble, not only that, Shi Qiu also secretly heard the mother-in-law at home say that his uncle also went to the kind of place where all women spent money to sleep.

For this matter, my mother was very disgusted, but I also had a headache, my father was a real person, a mother's compatriot, he couldn't ignore this younger brother, even if he met a reprimand every time, but he took care of the trouble caused by his uncle, and his uncle had no money, and he still cared.

Shi Qiu didn't like her uncle, and she didn't like the aunt in her uncle's room, as well as her uncle's sister, Shi Juan, who should be extremely close to her in terms of blood relationship.

Shi Juan is an arrogant and domineering and crying nose master, any good thing in this house, if Shi Qiu has it, she will have it, Shi Qiu has it, she doesn't have it, she will try her best to grab it, or cry and cry, her uncle and her hands will come over, in short, it will go to her sister Shi Juan. When I was a child, a group of children played, and everyone liked the reasonable Shi Qiu, and they didn't like the willful and reckless Shi Juan.

Life is smooth and smooth, but there are always stumbles, time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is when she is eight years old.

At this time, Shi Qiu, who had grown into a half-grown child, followed behind his father, stood on tiptoe and stretched out his hand, and was already able to reach his father's shoulder. Sometimes Shi Qiu suddenly patted his father's shoulder, and then squatted down quickly, when his father turned his head suddenly, he couldn't see anyone behind him, so he scratched his head strangely, and then looked at it, Xiaoqiu was squatting in the world, and he couldn't stand up with a smile.

Normally, this trick will be seen through after being used once, but Shi Qiu often uses it on his father, but he can always maintain a fooled surprised appearance, and he will laugh when he sees Shi Qiu being amused again and again.

Shi Qiu has a very high talent for wine, now that she is older, when her mother is busy with chores, she will go to the courtyard of winemaking, and taste the newly brewed wine with her father.

From this proud thing, the people in the wine shop came in and out, and they all called Shi Qiu a little shopkeeper, Shi Qiu giggled when he heard it, and felt that this was a very revealing thing.

The comfortable days are lived, and there are setbacks in life, Shi Qiu doesn't know if she has done something wrong, God will suddenly give her a blow to the head, making it difficult for her to straighten her waist for many years.

There are a lot of wineries in Huainan, large and small, the number is not clear, the winery of the Shiqiu family is the leader in this wine shop, with the wine of conscience, won the reputation of the people of Huainan, and the business is becoming more and more prosperous, gradually covering the limelight of other wineries.

This made some people unable to see it, so they began to look for trouble everywhere, wanting to use other methods to bring down the Shiqiu family's winery.

Daddy is a loyal and honest character, who will only make good drinks, smooth things in the business field, and see how special.

There is a powerful winery, and when it began to be rumored everywhere, the Qiu family's wine was not good, and the father's temper came up, and he quarreled with that family for a few words.

In this world, kind-hearted people always feel that saying a few words, at most, is the most ruthless thing they can do, and Daddy will never be able to guess it, those people fight, and they want his life!

Shi Qiu remembered that her father was beaten to death in the alley, and after she got the news, when her mother hurriedly went to see it, her father was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and blood came out of his mouth and ears.

At this moment, Shi Qiu felt that the sky had fallen, her home had lost its support all of a sudden, and she was also afraid that she would be dazed and sad, and her little heart would be lost.

Daddy left, with great grievances, my mother ran to the government to complain, and was stopped by the official messenger several times. It is said that those who killed their father spent silver to buy off the official of the government, and the official master held the silver and buried his conscience.

Later, Shi Qiu found that people's hearts were so dark that they could lose their conscience, and his mother went to the government every day to complain, and was favored by the cronies of the official family, and since then, his mother has not returned home for several days.

Shi Qiu was very frightened, and asked people everywhere to look for it, and some people said that he saw that his mother was taken into a carriage, and that person was the nephew of the official master, and he was the most notorious hooligan in this Huainan.

When Shi Qiu passed, he was held in his arms by the mother-in-law of the family, covering his eyes, Shi Qiu struggled, and through the gap between his mother-in-law's fingers, he saw the mother who was salvaged from the well water, and her mother's body was covered by a broken mat, and the exposed half of her arm was bare outside, and it was full of bruises and purple traces.

Suddenly, Shi Qiu's world collapsed, and all her joy and happiness stopped at the age of eight.

But there is a saying in this world, called "Misfortune does not go alone", or the bad luck in this world sees who is easy to bully, so he desperately tries to make up.

Shi Qiu's lazy uncle, after the death of her parents, not only failed to play a role as a relative, but also failed to repay the slightest brother and sister-in-law's nurturing kindness.

Even if Shi Qiu is arrogant, but after all, her arms can't twist her thighs, and all the things that her father struggled to do belong to the black-hearted uncle, and the things that originally belonged to her have also become her sister Shi Juan's.

Or afraid that sweeping her out of the house will attract tongues, her uncle is extremely "kind-hearted", and drove Shi Qiu to the place where the mother-in-law and maid of the original house lived, and let Shi Qiu wash and wash and do all the things that a maid should do.

It didn't take long for the winery under my uncle's control to do more and more bleak business, and the people who bought the wine said that the problem was the wine, and the uncle's new winemakers were cheating and tricking, just brewing the wine, regardless of whether it tasted good or not.

Her uncle realized this, so he invited back a few old winemakers, and the old winemakers did their own duties, only saying that the last taste was under the control of the shopkeeper and the little shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was gone, but the little shopkeeper was still there, so her uncle hit Shi Qiu's body with the idea.

Now that she is a year or two older, she has experienced so much, Shi Qiu is no longer the innocent appearance she was at that time, she pondered for a moment, and then responded to her uncle's request.

She was in Huainan, one by one, and after hard persuasion, she went to recall the original workers again, and discussed with his uncle that each family's wages should be increased by half in order to do this work.

His uncle was afraid that the winery would lose business, so he agreed without much thought, and since then, Shi Qiu has been soaking in the winemaking yard every day, learning and studying the taste of various liquors with many old workers who have worked for decades.

Some people said that Shi Qiu defecated the greedy uncle in vain, Shi Qiu only smiled and said nothing when she heard it, she let her uncle see the immediate benefits, and let him climb higher, the more painful it would be to fall in the future.