"It's amber."

Wei Chen smiled slightly, took two delicate white porcelain wine cups, slowly poured the amber wine in the jar, kept one for himself, and pushed the other in front of Sheng Changbai.

Sheng Changbai's Adam's apple shook unconsciously, carefully picked up the wine cup, took a shallow sip, closed his eyes, and let the wine turn in his mouth, savoring it.

"What a good wine!"

Then, Sheng Changbai said with a little regret: "This wine is warm, sweet and clear, the most suitable for the use of literati and scholars, but the output is too small, it has always been priceless and unmarketable, and I am also rare to taste it!" ”

Wei Chen said curiously: "Didn't my brother's uncle's family open an amber wine shop, how could my brother not drink it?" ”

Sheng Changbai sighed and said: "Uncle will send someone to send twenty jars of amber wine every month, but this amber wine is precious, and the gentry in Jiangnan even take drinking this wine as a graceful thing, and my father himself is reluctant to drink it, and most of them are used as gifts." ”

"That brother came to the younger brother, but it's the right one, I don't have anything else, but this amber wine is enough!"

Wei Chen asked, "Brother, do you know why this amber wine is different from ordinary fruit wine?" ”

Sheng Changbai replied: "I heard from the uncle that there is an extremely rare auxiliary material called glycerin, which can make the fruit wine reborn and worth a hundred times." ”

"That's right." Wei Chen laughed and said, "Brother, do you know that this glycerin is from the hands of the younger brother?" ”

"What?!"

Seeing Sheng Changbai's surprised look, Wei Chen smiled and told him how to use the glycerin secret recipe to buy shares and partner with Sheng Wei to do business.

"I see."

Sheng Changbai suddenly realized after hearing this, clapped his hands and applauded: "Admire and admire, the virtuous brother is ingenious, and the foolish brother is ashamed." ”

Admire me?

Wei Chen was a little confused.

In his impression, the scholars of Da Zhou have always looked down on businessmen, which is why Wei Chen has to go to great lengths to find such an agent as Sheng Wei.

So when he heard that someone who was reading admired him, and it was Sheng Changbai who said this, Wei Chen's first reaction was to be surprised.

"What do I have to admire?"

"Why should a virtuous brother be arrogant?"

Sheng Changbai patted Wei Weichen's shoulder, and said with excitement on his face: "Isn't it just to benefit one party when I wait for a scholar to become an official in the court?" Now that you have not become an official, you have really benefited thousands of fruit farmers in Youyang County, so that they can live a good life, this is the way of benevolence that the sage said! ”

"Uh......, there seems to be some truth to that."

Wei Chen, this sweat, how do you feel like a kind of rush of fans chasing stars in her previous life, where is this?

However, after this conversation with Sheng Changbai, Wei Chen also understood what kind of person Sheng Changbai was.

Fangzheng is not old-fashioned, ambitious and down-to-earth at the same time, I don't know how many times stronger than those rotten Confucians who can only talk about the country.

This kind of person should be in the cabinet as the prime minister and dominate the world!

Not long after the two sat in the attic and chatted, Wei Ruyi came to call them for dinner.

Wei Chen and Sheng Changbai went down to the attic and sat around a table with the Zhang family.

Sheng Changbai's family education is very strict, and he has not eaten with his female dependents since he was ten years old, but seeing that Wei Chen and they are all accustomed to it, he did not twist, and sat directly next to Wei Chen, just as a guest.

Wei Ruyi's skills are good, and he went to the market to buy meat and fish and came back, and carefully concocted a large table of meals, so that Wei Chen almost swallowed his tongue.

Although Sheng Changbai didn't say much during the meal, judging from his appetite, he was quite satisfied with the meal.

After dinner, Wei Ruyi packed up the dishes and chopsticks, and took Zhang Xu to rest with Zhang Ming.

It was cold, and it was still freezing rain outside, Wei Chen and Sheng Changbai returned to their attic together, and lit a charcoal fire in the corner of the house, and the room was suddenly warm like spring.

"Brother, I specially asked my aunt to warm a jar of amber wine, you and I can drink it tonight!"

Wei Chen raised a glass to invite, Sheng Changbai happily agreed, and drank happily with Wei Chen.

Outside, the clouds disperse and the moon rises, the shadows of the trees sway, and the candles inside are red and warm.

Not only Wei Chen, but Sheng Changbai was also slightly drunk, he suddenly took the case, and said indignantly: "Brother Xian, do you know, what is the trouble of my henchmen in Da Zhou? ”

Wei Chen was stunned and asked, "Brother, are you talking about the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun?" ”

"Exactly, if I don't recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, I will definitely suffer endlessly in the future!"

Sheng Changbai said excitedly: "According to me, the imperial court should do its best, go north to the Khitan, and restore my borders." If I want to send troops to the Northern Expedition, I Sheng Changbai is willing to put pen to paper and be a pawn under the vanguard account! ”

“……”

Wei Chen was silent.

Sheng Changbai looked at him strangely: "Don't you want my brother to take back the lost land and restore the golden ou?" ”

"Of course, I can't wait to destroy the Khitan tomorrow."

Wei Chen shook his head and calmly analyzed: "But I don't think this is a good opportunity for the Northern Expedition at this time. ”

Sheng Changbai was puzzled: "Why did the virtuous brother say this? ”

"Ten years ago, the imperial court failed to implement a new policy, and the financial and armament problems of the imperial court were not solved, but worsened, which is one of them."

Wei Chen said clearly: "When today's son is old and sick, and there is no heir, the government and the opposition just want to ask the Son of Heaven to establish a prince as soon as possible, I am afraid that I will not be able to think about the Northern Expedition, which is the second."

As for the third, the imperial court only quelled the Southern Barbarian Rebellion the year before last, the soldiers were tired and tired, and there were still party members in the northwest eyeing ......, and now it was not the beginning of the country, and the imperial court did not dare to start a national war in vain when there were strong enemies outside and internal troubles were not peaceful. ”

Although he was deeply frustrated, Sheng Changbai also had to admit that Wei Chen had a point, he drank a sip of sweet amber wine, but he only felt bitter.

"Is there no hope in this life?"

"Of course not!"

Wei Chen shook his head, his eyes were firm, and he said: "Being incompetent in government and regretting the country is the time when my generation is brave and works hard."

One day, I will let Da Zhou raise millions of troops, recover Yanyun, level the Hetao, and break through the lack of Helan Mountain! ”

"Well said!"

Sheng Changbai was just when he was a young man, Wei Chen's words were right for his temperament, and his eyes when he looked at Wei Chen were full of admiration and appreciation.

At the moment, he stood up and raised the wine cup with both hands, and saluted Wei Chen: "The virtuous brother has lofty ambitions and is heroic, worthy of being my big Zhou man!" I can have a good brother as a friend, and I have no regrets in this life! ”

Wei Chen laughed, drank with him boldly, put down the wine cup, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Although the fruit wine is light, it can also be intoxicating, and a pride erupts from Sheng Changbai's chest, and I only feel that the young man I met tonight is really a hero in the world.

Drinking until the wine was gone, that night, Sheng Changbai did not go back to the Sheng family's old house, but stayed at Wei Chen's house, and slept with Wei Chen.

The two talked freely, but they didn't know that the stars outside the building were changing, until the rooster sang three times, and the east was white.