The four people who were escorted to the thatched hut, the spy of another family was unceremoniously thrown in a dilapidated house to fend for himself, but he died in two days, Zhao Laosan ordered Zhuang Ding to sweep it with broken grass and bury it hastily. And the three members of the Wen family, there was a doctor who came to bandage Wen Yongxi's wounds.

Wen Yongxi's family is only these three people, mother Wen Yu, sister Wen Shuxian.

The ancestors of the Wen family were also brilliant, but in the generation of Wen's father, they gradually declined. Later, he offended the local gentry in his hometown, and the marriage of the eldest daughter was also blown. In desperation, he sold his property, and the whole family ran away with his baggage. Due to poor management, the family's wealth is shrinking day by day, and finally has no choice but to go to Niutouzhuang in Jintong to work as a tenant farmer to eat.

In the second year of Father Wen's arrival in Niutouzhuang, he was depressed and fell ill. for three years of filial piety for his father. Therefore, Wen Shuxian is twenty-four this year, and Wen Yongxi is twenty-two, and neither of them is married.

The sisters and brothers lived a good life for a few years when they were young, with the same high heart, low eyes, and average work in the fields. Thanks to Wen Yongxi, he knows a few baskets of words, and usually helps people write letters and write some couplets of blessing words or something, plus Wen Yu's and Wen Shuxian do some needlework subsidies, and the family is so-so.

Jing Yong, who is the spy of another family, is a secret agent sent by Xiping Hou to steal the master.

"Jade Pot Spring" is the first successful liquor brewed in Niutouzhuang, and now it is the signature of Shangjing Xiangrui Building, which is unique. At first, it was not sold to the public at all, and it was only for customers who could afford to spend in the 20 wings of Xiangruilou. To this day, the Xiangrui Lou Tiandi wing, a minimum consumption of 1,000 taels of silver, is still in short supply.

After the death of the old Xiping Hou, the Xiping Hou Mansion declined, and the old Xiping Hou had many children and grandchildren, and the cost was huge. Therefore, as soon as the Marquis of Xinxiping became a knight, he worked hard to open up sources and reduce expenditure. Xiping Hou Yan Infrared and Qi Xiangruilou took away the huge profits of his family's industry "Penglaidu", and sent more than a dozen spies to steal the division, and basically the whole army was wiped out, only Yu Jingyong.

Jing Yong was extremely cautious, calm down, summed up the failures of his predecessors, and drew a lot of experience. He mixed in the people hired by Zhao Laosan temporarily, and hibernated in Niujiazhuang for four months, analyzing almost the character of the entire Niutouzhuang tenant farmer, and finally found the breakthrough of Wen Yongxi.

Wen Yongxi is literate and can read and read, although he is quite ambitious, but because this kind of half-bucket of water is the best at pretending. In addition, people's psychology is sympathetic to the weak, many Zhuang Ding tenant farmers know that the Wen family used to be rich and noble, but now they are down, but they don't complain about anything, but they work hard every day, and they are somewhat sympathetic.

Wen Yongxi has always been a polite and polite film, and he is very modest and polite in dealing with people, while Wen Mu and Wen Shuxian rarely show their faces, and only do some exquisite embroidery at home, so that they can sell it to subsidize the family. Therefore, in the Wen family's Niutouzhuang, the word-of-mouth popularity is actually quite good.

Jing Yong caught up with Wen Yongxi, and the two hit it off, and immediately made a plan on how to steal the brewing recipe. Jing Yong first gave Wen Yongxi 100 taels of silver as a deposit, promising that as long as Wen Yongxi could steal the brewing materials of "Jade Huchun" first, he would give 500 taels of silver in succession.

Wen Yongxi is quite crooked, went to the camp, and found another opportunity, knowing that Zhao Laosan's nephew Zhao Dafu was going to marry a wife at the end of the year, the woman was excellent and capable, and the bride price asked for by the woman's family was also relatively high. Zhao Dafu has been in love with that woman for ten minutes, and he has been working as if he was willing to live these days, just to earn a few more copper plates so that he can hold a wedding that he can handle.

Wen Yongxi pretended to be pitiful and deceived Zhao Dafu and said: Wen's mother is getting older, and she fell ill when she was running around in the early years, and now she has pain in her joints every time there is a change of season or rainy weather. He had read a few books before, knew a few home remedies, and used koji and sake lees from sake brewing to pack them with gauze, and put a warm compress on the affected area, which could greatly relieve the pain.

Zhao Dafu didn't suspect it, and immediately secretly helped Wen Yongxi steal a few bags of sake lees koji, but after Wen Yongxi checked it, he said to Zhao Dafu with a disappointed face that he didn't take the right thing, and begged Zhao Dafu if he could take him into the brewing workshop and let him get it himself.

Zhao Dafu naturally refused, Wen Yongxi pretended to be relieved again, and quietly stuffed Zhao Dafu with a silver ticket of one hundred taels, telling Zhao Dafu the "truth". This home remedy of his is actually not for Wen's mother, and he has a deceased father's former friend who is also quite powerful in Shangjing, but he started in the army. In the early years, he fought on the battlefield with Pingning Hou, and he suffered an old injury, and now that he is old, he is also in pain all over his body. Knowing that Wen Yongxi had a recipe at hand and the effect was extraordinary, he first took two hundred taels of silver as a deposit, and asked Wen Yongxi to help him prepare all the things. If the effect is obvious, next, will give more silver.

Zhao Dafu couldn't resist the temptation, and he didn't know that he was deceived by Wen Yongxi, until he was arrested, and he thought that Wen Yongxi was just making up something remedies.

Through Zhao Dafu, Wen Yongxi successfully obtained the wine-making method of "Jade Pot Spring", Jing Yong generously simply gave Wen Yongxi 1,000 taels of silver, and promised again: as long as Wen Yongxi can reveal the layout of the wine-making workshop, the brewing method of all wines, the proportion of raw materials, etc., he will give another 5,000 taels of silver, and take it to help Wen Yongxi's family settle in Beijing.

Wen Yongxi discussed with his mother and sister, and the family felt that this path was feasible. Instead of living under people like this and being a mud leg, it is better to fight, and the rich days will be at your fingertips.

Wen Yongxi continued to deceive Zhao Dafu, repeatedly entered the brewing workshop, recorded the layout and other details unknown to outsiders one by one, and successively took the drawings to Jing Yong, and Jing Yong gave Wen Yongxi 2,000 silver tickets every time he received a batch of drawings. Wen Yongxi was even more energetic, but he didn't expect it to be exposed, and he was caught by Lu Liu.

Now the whole family is imprisoned, and the family has been raided. Wen Yu and Wen Shuxian took care of the crippled Wen Yongxi, cursing and scolding Jintong day and night, without repentance.

Zhao Dafu's side is very different, his fiancée is also affectionate and righteous, knowing that Zhao Dafu married her for the sake of grandeur, so he committed such a big crime. Not only did he dislike Zhao Dafu, but despite the opposition of his family, he insisted on marrying Zhao Dafu.

Zhao Dafu's fiancée is called Ling Yan, the daughter of a tenant farmer in Niutou Village, Zhao Dafu used to work in the highest-paid brewing workshop, and he was a relative of Zhuangtou Zhao Laosan and Wufu. Ling Yan's family naturally wanted to marry their daughter quickly, so that they could get the light of Zhao Dafu.

Now Zhao Dafu is like this, and he has been demoted to the mountains to do hard labor, and the hard labor works for nothing every day without pay, and is only responsible for two meals. Ling Yan's appearance is quite outstanding, and she can handle all kinds of cooking needles and threads, how can the Ling family agree? simply locked Ling Yan at home, ready to help her find another marriage.

Ling Yan is also an assertive and spicy woman, taking advantage of the family's inattention, she climbed the window and climbed the wall to Jintong, kneeling and begging Jintong to make the decision for her: she Ling Yan will live up to Zhao Dafu in this life, and if she is not Zhao Dafu, she will not marry!

Jintong admired Ling Yan and agreed to their marriage. He also told Zhao Dafu that as long as he worked hard in Huanshan, the supervisor would shorten his hard labor time according to his performance.

Zhao Dafu, who is inspired by love, is full of passion and hormones, and works hard every day in Huanshan, never stealing and playing tricks.

Jintong, who felt that he had done a great thing again, continued his daily work arrangement.