Chapter 28: Amber Wine
After Lin Yan's guidance, Wei Chen finally understood how he was going to go next.
In order to facilitate rummaging through books, Wei Chen simply moved to Yixue's library cabinet.
The miscellaneous servants of the Library Pavilion obeyed Lin Yan's instructions and set aside a clean small room for Wei Chen in the Pavilion, and at the same time took care of Wei Chen's three meals and daily life.
These days, Wei Chen sleeps next to the pile of books when he is sleepy, and when he wakes up, he continues to read with the book, except for asking Lin Yan for advice every few days, he almost stays at home.
When the handyman in the library delivered food, he saw Wei Chen holding the book every day and reading intently, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, and he was worried that Wei Chen was stupid in reading, so he specially reported to Lin Yan and asked him to come and see Wei Chen.
How do you know that Lin Yan saw Wei Chen's thirst for study and his hands couldn't let go of the scroll, not only did he stop it, but also laughed with relief: "Zi is in Qi Wenshao, and I don't know the taste of meat in March." ”
Then he turned and walked away.
Only the miscellaneous servants who were confused were left.
Don't know the smell of meat in March?
Is Mr. Lin saying don't forget to add meat to your meal?
But the meals he prepared for Wei Chen have always been meat and vegetarian, very hearty?
The miscellaneous servants were puzzled, and in the end, out of caution, they talked to the husband in the back kitchen, and raised Wei Chen's food to a higher level.
In this way, Wei Chen ate well and lived well in the library pavilion, lived a very fulfilling life of reading every day, and happily became an ancient otaku.
Just when Wei Chen was busy absorbing nutrients in the library pavilion, Sheng Wei, the eldest master of the Sheng family, was already like an ant on a hot pot, and he was so anxious that he turned around.
After Shengwei acquired a fruit wine workshop, he began to buy fresh fruits to make fruit wine, and then added glycerin to the fruit wine in proportion according to the method taught by Weichen to make a new fruit wine.
Because the color of the new wine is dark red and translucent, and the shape is like amber, Sheng Wei named it "amber wine".
Sheng Wei sent samples of amber wine to the major restaurants in Youyang, and received unanimous praise, and the managers of the major restaurants asked Sheng Wei about the origin of this wine.
Seeing the popularity of amber wine, Sheng Wei was delighted, but fell into new troubles.
Because before Wei Chen left, he didn't teach him how to make glycerin, he only had a total of eight taels of glycerin given to him by Wei Chen, and after mixing 80 catties of amber wine and sending it to major restaurants to taste, there was not a drop left!
On the one hand, there are orders flying like snowflakes, and on the other hand, there is the dilemma of not being able to produce new wine at all, Sheng Wei is simply anxious, no matter how good his self-cultivation efforts are, he finally can't sit still at this time.
He went to Sheng's Yixue and wanted to ask Wei Chen for advice on glycerin preparation, but before he saw Wei Chen, he ran into a wall here with Lin Yan.
As soon as Lin Yan saw Sheng Wei's hurried appearance when he came to find Wei Chen, he knew that it must have something to do with Shangjia.
Lin Yan understood that Wei Chen's current state of learning was very rare, and he didn't want him to be disturbed by Sheng Wei, so he immediately stopped Sheng Wei with a straight face and told him that Wei Chen was in retreat and cultivation in the Library Pavilion, and this time was not suitable for meeting guests.
In this way, Sheng Wei, the founder of Sheng's Yixue, was stopped by Lin Yanyizheng from Yixue.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Sheng Wei couldn't cry or laugh, he was angry and funny in his heart, but he couldn't have a seizure.
Who made him promise when he invited Lin Yan to come to Yixue to be a teacher that he would not interfere in the affairs of Yixue, and it was all up to Lin Yan to decide?
There was no way, Sheng Wei had no choice but to take the road of saving the country and sent someone to Xiyin Village to pick up Wei Ruyi and Zhang Ming.
Wei Ruyi and Zhang Ming arrived in Youyang County, listened to Sheng Wei's explanation of the cause and effect, and then understood the wonderful use of glycerin.
Both of them couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that the things made by Brother Chen are so useful!" ”
Sheng Wei asked them if they knew the formula of glycerin, and the couple naturally shook their heads and said they didn't know.
They only knew that Wei Chen was made of lard, but they didn't know the specific steps.
Maybe Zhang Xu knew, he stayed in the kitchen with Wei Chen all the time, and saw the whole process of Wei Chen's glycerin making.
However, even if they knew the glycerin formula, Wei Ruyi and Zhang Ming would not tell Sheng Wei.
Now that they know the purpose of glycerin, they can also see the value of this thing from Sheng Wei's eagerness, so naturally they will not say it easily.
In the concept of ancient people, the secret recipe is worth a thousand gold, and it is a treasure that can be passed down for hundreds of generations, even if it is guarded with life.
Although the Zhang family and his wife are both rural villagers and have little knowledge, they also know that even if Sheng Wei was once kind to the Zhang family, it is not worth the value of such a secret recipe.
What's more, this secret recipe belongs to Wei Chen, and it does not belong to the Zhang family, and everything about it must be decided by Wei Chen.
Seeing that the Zhang family and his wife were tight-lipped and unwilling to reveal anything, Sheng Wei was also helpless, so he had to retreat and ask Wei Ruyi to go to Sheng's Yixue and call Wei Chen out.
In Sheng Wei's opinion, Lin Yan can stop himself, but he can't stop Wei Chen's family from letting them meet, right?
Sure enough, after Wei Ruyi revealed his identity, he entered Yixue unhindered and met Wei Chen.
Wei Chen finally pulled out of his crazy reading state and bathed in the sunlight outside the library pavilion.
Listening to Wei Ruyi's explanation of the situation, Wei Chen had a number in his heart, and immediately took leave from Lin Yan, and went to the Sheng family with Wei Ruyi.
As soon as he saw Wei Chen, Sheng Wei held Wei Chen's hand tightly, and his eyes were full of resentment.
"Virtuous nephew, you don't know the sun and the moon when you read, but you can make the old man miserable, if you don't come out of the library again, I can only let people light the library with a fire!"
Wei Chen teased: "That library pavilion was built by my uncle with great effort, and it burned down like this, and my uncle was willing to do it?" ”
"What's there to be reluctant to!"
Sheng Wei said disapprenously: "As long as this fruit wine business is done, it is not a problem to build ten more library pavilions!" ”
"Oh?"
Wei Chen also corrected his color when he heard this, although Sheng Wei was joking, it can also be seen that he is optimistic and enthusiastic about the fruit wine business.
It seems that this fruit wine with glycerin is really popular!
Wei Chen didn't go around the bush either, and said straight to the point: "Uncle, now that the matter is over, I will make it clear that I will only teach the secret recipe of glycerin to those I trust, to put it bluntly, that is, my aunt and uncle." ”
"Teach only to those you trust?"
Sheng Wei immediately heard the meaning of Wei Chen's words, that is, he was not among them!
However, Sheng Wei was also mentally prepared for this and was not too surprised.
The power gap between Wei Chen and himself today is not ordinarily large, what Wei Chen can rely on, in addition to the ethereal favor of the school and government, is just the secret recipe in his hand, and it is normal for people to hold the secret recipe tightly.
Maybe when Wei Chen succeeds in his studies and becomes an official, he will rest assured that he will hand over the formula in his hand to himself.
It's just that this day, I don't know when it will be.
In case Wei Chen fails the exam for ten or twenty years, do you want to ......
Sheng Wei hurriedly interrupted his evil thoughts, looked at Wei Chen, who was waiting in front of him, and sighed: "As long as you can not delay the listing of new wine, everything will be done according to what you say!" ”
Seeing that Sheng Wei agreed so happily, Wei Chen was also a little surprised in his heart, thinking that this Master Sheng was really a bright-eyed person, he understood his difficulties at the moment, and he really chose him as a partner.
He arched his hand at the moment: "Thank you uncle for your understanding." ”