"Actually, because the wine is more expensive to brew, those wines are made in the Zhuangzi of the Western Regions, and only the grapes there are the best. The cost of round-trip shipping is too great. ”

Zilan explained with a smile.

"Even if it's expensive, we like it so much, come and sit down."

"We've hunted a rabbit, let's roast it together."

Cui Hao took the rabbit down.

"Okay, give it to me, I'll peel it."

"Good sister, how much can you earn in that fragrant building in a year, I see many people eating and drinking in your restaurant."

Li Qi's sister tilted her head and looked at her with a smile.

Zilan smiled lightly, "That restaurant actually doesn't make much money from my family, and it is a partnership between several restaurants, and I don't know the specifics." ”

Xianglou's business still has the emperor's dry shares in it, and he has to pay a lot of silver to the emperor every year, so he can be so stable, this is an open secret.

It is not so exaggerated for the remaining two families to share profits together, and it is precisely because of this that everyone did not continue to embarrass his family.

"Sister is afraid that I will leak my secrets, how can it be, I am just curious to inquire, Brother Hao, you know that I am just curious, but if Sister Song is inconvenient to say, forget it."

Li Qi's sister is called Li Jiuniang, which means ninth, and names like Jiuniang and Liuniang are particularly common, and it can also be seen that they are very casual, and they don't even have an official name.

Only when it is time to wait for the time, the father will give the word, which is the girl's name.

Zilan tilted her head and looked at Cui Hao, then lowered her head and didn't say anything, but her expression was much colder.

"Miss Li, men and women can't stand it clearly, not to mention that I already have a fiancée, I've told you many times, it's okay to call me Brother Cui or Cui Gongzi, it's really inappropriate to call Brother Hao like this.

If you are like this, I will not be able to get along with Li Qi in the future, how precious is the girl's reputation, I can't affect your reputation, then it will be my fault. ”

Cui Hao lowered his head slightly and spoke coldly, looking at her face, he also re-hung a cold touch, and there was no trace of temperature.

Li Jiuniang was reprimanded in person like this, and she couldn't pull her face for a while, "I, I ......, I thought we grew up together." ”

"We only met a few times in the academy, we didn't grow up together, Lan'er and I grew up as childhood sweethearts. We are in love with each other, Lan'er is the person in my heart, and I don't want her to have any misunderstanding and unhappiness.

The Cui family's century-old family rules expressly prohibit taking concubines to marry the outer room of the small Tongfang, and once it is found that they are expelled from the clan, they will never be changed. ”

Having said that, I don't understand that it is a mallet anymore, Jiuniang got up and ran away crying.

Miss Ma shook her head, and bowed slightly towards Zilan, seemingly a little embarrassed and embarrassed.

"My brother and Brother Li played very well, I didn't have much contact with Sister Jiuniang in the past, I really didn't know that she would be so rude, and please Sister Song don't blame me, I really don't know her thoughts."

It means that we don't know each other, we've only met a few times, and it has nothing to do with me.

"It doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with Sister Ma. It's Cui Hao, are you too strict, Li Gongzi's face is a little unbearable. ”

Zilan also felt embarrassed, but Jiu Niang's title was indeed too ambiguous, obviously she loved Cui Hao.

She glared at Cui Hao fiercely, meaning you wait.

"There are girls from the Li family who are young and ignorant, if they don't make it clear earlier, it will only hurt her, what does it matter to me as a man, others will only say that I am romantic, but what kind of blow is it to girls, I don't think I need to say more."

Li Qi comforted his sister not far behind them, and the people who practiced martial arts had very good ears and could hear clearly.

Sighed and lowered his voice to speak in his sister's ear, "Sister, you are dead, Cui Hao only has the eldest lady of the Song family in his eyes, and that is the person he has been looking forward to for many years."

I have known the eldest lady of the Song family for a long time, and when Cui Hao didn't say kiss, her face was very gentle, you don't have any chance, and the Cui family doesn't look down on our family. ”

"Woooooooooo Elder brother! ”

Li Jiuniang cried in a mess, and Li Qi sighed helplessly.

is as arrogant as Cui Hao, for the sake of the eldest lady of the Song family, he would rather lower his body and take Song Ziyan to make classmates and friends, and even take care of other brothers of the Song family, doing so much is not only for the relationship between the two families, but also to please Song Ziyan and the Song family, and want to hug the beauty.

Jiuniang was sent home by Li Qi after crying, and it was embarrassing to stay again, but he himself stayed to clean up the mess for his sister.

"Brother Hao, I'm sorry, my sister is young and ignorant, Miss Song, I also apologize to you, my sister is a young man, Mu Ai, has always liked Cui Hao, but he has already expressed his attitude more than once.

The family also persuaded my sister, thinking that she had stopped thinking about it, who knew that she would do this, and I would let my mother reprimand my sister when I went back. ”

Li Qi solemnly apologized.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little thing, but why did your sister ask about Xianglou. Let me tell you the truth, the biggest proprietor of Xianglou is the emperor, and my grandfather personally entered the palace to talk about it.

Every year, Xianglou has to hand over 100,000 taels of silver to the emperor for the filling of the treasury and the military salary in northwest Fujian and other places, so this matter is not suitable for publicity, not because I am stingy and unwilling to tell others how much money I have earned. ”

Zilan simply made it clear, I told you that my mother's incense building has to hand over 100,000 taels to the emperor every year, why do you think I dare to sell it so expensive, but those royal relatives and nobles don't dare to put a fart.

The border gates in the northwest of Fujian and other places are not calm, there are often small frictions, Fujian often has to suppress bandits and clear pirates, which costs a lot of silver, plus natural and man-made disasters, the amount of silver needed every year is huge.

Xianglou is indeed very profitable, but after giving the emperor 100,000 taels, only a small part of it is divided between the Song and Yang families.

It's just that a family can get 20,000 taels, and sometimes it's not enough.

"That's right, my family knows about this, in fact, the profits of the Song and Yang families are only more than 10,000 taels per year, and there are about 20,000 taels a little more, and all the big heads of eighty percent have been given to the emperor to fill the treasury, so I don't want to say it, after all, the emperor's face is not good-looking."

Cui Hao spoke coldly.

This is an invisible exchange, in those years she worked hard to make money for the family, in fact, it was also to fill the hole, Xianglou was not able to make so much money at the beginning, it was a loss at the beginning, but she still had to give money, where did the money come from, it could only be made up.

Even if it is so difficult, this is still an opportunity for the Song and Yang families, an opportunity that can't be bought with money, and more opportunities for the family's sons, and others can't ask for it.

Every year, so many transferred officials are waiting for backup, and the scholars who are held every three years are also waiting for opportunities, why do you have to give Song Jiaerlang a chance, everyone is in the imperial examination.

This is the opportunity that Zilan used his ability to make money to give the Song family Erlang in exchange, I solved the problem of silver for the emperor, and the emperor read that he would give the official position for the sake of the loyalty of the two families, it was that simple.