Chapter 70: The Shen Family of Winemaking
The family surnamed Shen in the village who made wine moved here seven years ago, and there was no field, just winemaking, and life was still passable. I don't have much to do with the people in the village.
Therefore, the people in the village prefer to go to the house in the next village to buy wine and drink, and rarely go to Shen's house to buy wine to drink. The Shen family's wine is basically sent to the tavern in the town to be sold.
"Anyone?" Since they moved in later, the Shen family's house was relatively remote, and at the west end of the village, Xiao gently walked through the entire village before coming to the front of their courtyard.
The Shen family did not build a courtyard wall, but a fence made of tree branches, and there were large and small taverns in the courtyard, and the smell of wine wafted into the air. It's not the best, but it's a rare sake.
The Shen family rarely dealt with people in the village, and they didn't know that there was a Mu girl in the village. I was surprised to see someone coming.
"This lady, is there something wrong?" It was the lady of the Shen family who asked. Seeing Xiao gently leading a child, he called Xiao lightly as his wife.
Her family is a sake brewer, and when someone comes, the normal question should not be "Buy wine?" ”。 Xiao said softly that he didn't quite understand.
"Do you sell your wine?" Xiao asked softly. Xiao asked lightly, in fact, because the lady of the Shen family gave her the feeling that their family's wine was not for sale.
"Sell, of course sell, I don't know whose daughter-in-law you are. I don't go out all day, and I don't know each other much. The lady of the Shen family said a little crampedly. Xianggong, someone wants to buy wine. ”
Shen Nianhua walked out of the house, still carrying an oil lamp, opened the simple courtyard door, and said, "This lady, please come in." ”
Xiao Qingqing saw the appearance of the Shen family's lady clearly, whether it was from the dress or from the appearance, she did not look like a peasant girl, but like a young lady who did not go out of one door and no two doors.
I heard that the Shen family moved here seven years ago, maybe it was also a rich family before? It should have suffered some kind of change that made me come to such a poor mountain village.
"Well, I just came, you can call me Miss Mu." Xiao gently followed into the courtyard and corrected. "I live in Mu Mansion."
"It turns out that the god doctor Mu girl everyone is talking about is you." Shen Nianhua still listened to it a few times occasionally, and he knew about the existence of Miss Mu. "How many taels of wine does the girl have?"
Shen Nianhua thought that Xiao Qingqing drank the wine by himself, and felt a little strange, could it be that women are so arrogant these days? It was also because she was a woman that Shen Nianhua felt that Xiao Qing might only play a few taels.
"Bring me twenty catties of wine, and send it to Mu Mansion for your trouble." Xiao said softly and boldly.
There were probably more than 100 people in total, and they drank openly, and they didn't know how much they could drink. But it's already night, everyone has to go home, and they can't drink more, twenty catties, and it's two taels to everyone.
Hasn't someone studied that drinking a moderate amount of liquor every day is beneficial? Rice wine, on the other hand, is more nutritious than liquor.
"Miss Mu, are you telling the truth?" Shen Nianhua was a little excited. He went to deliver wine to the taverns in the town, and four or five taverns combined could bear the weight of a hundred catties. On average, a family is only twenty pounds, which is still the amount of one episode (here refers to the rural market, one episode refers to five days, not an episode of a TV series).
"Just send it over, it's the wine money." Xiao gently handed the wine money prepared in advance to the Shen family lady.
The lady of the Shen family is from everyone's beautiful background, Xiao Qingqing has already determined, just her delicate hands, you can already see it. No wonder the initial questioning made her misunderstood. It wasn't for business.
The lady of the Shen family is from a beautiful background, and she embroiders and makes clothes in the house on weekdays, and rarely goes out. Even when I wash my clothes, I bring water from my own well. Because water is needed for winemaking, Shen Nianhua found someone to dig a well in his yard, which is a sweet water well, which is very suitable for winemaking.
"Okay, I'll send it to you in a moment." Shen Nianhua said. Except for the excitement at the beginning, I didn't see any surprise.
This person should not be an ordinary person, although he doesn't look very good, he can see that although this Shen Nianhua is fat, he is not the kind of fat, he should be covered with tendon meat. There are some calluses on the hands, probably sharpened by holding a sword.
Xiao gently and silently looked at everything in his eyes, and went back without saying anything.
When I returned to Mu Zhai, the meal had already been prepared, and those who had finished trading sat down around the table, and those who had not yet sold cotton were still queuing.
Although everyone had already sat down, no one moved their chopsticks, as if they were waiting for her master to return.
"Miss Mu, the meal is ready." Wan Niang squeezed out of the crowd and said. "Do you think you should let everyone eat now, or wait until the other side is done and eat together?"
There are also people who serve dishes from the kitchen one after another, all of them are croppers, and they are not too hot.
Seeing that there were still more than a dozen people queuing up over there, Xiao said softly: "If you have already sold out of cotton, let's eat it first, and it will be over there soon." I'm going to buy wine, and Uncle Shen will bring it over in a while. ”
As soon as Xiao's words fell, Shen Nianhua came with a carriage, and his actions were quite fast.
Before everyone started to put down the chopsticks, when they saw the wine being delivered, everyone helped to move the wine.
The wine was filled in jars of half a pound, and there were forty jars in all.
Why do you pretend to be half a catty? Because the consumption level here is here, there are too many loads, and they can't be sold, so the wine jars ordered by Shen Nianhua are all half a catty.
Everyone finished the wine with all their hands, and the liquidation over there has been completed.
That's when I started to sit down and eat.
"Miss Mu, I am from the neighboring village, you are so well aware of the righteousness, save us and in the midst of fire and water, we are grateful, this cup is my respect for Miss Mu, Miss Mu is free, I will do it first." Someone began to toast with a wine glass.
"I do these things for myself, and you don't have to be so polite." Xiao said lightly with some embarrassment, she thought that she had not invested much, and what she would gain in the future would definitely cost several copies, and it might even be dozens of times more.
Someone took the lead, and many people came to toast Xiao lightly one after another. Xiao drank a few glasses lightly, then excused himself and said that he couldn't drink it anymore, so everyone gave up.
They are all poor people, this is wine, and meat, where can they afford to eat such expensive food, and they don't communicate much, burying their heads in hard work.
Suddenly, he heard something at the door, and Xiao gently asked Cai'er to take a look. It turned out to be the children of the village, and they came over when they smelled the fragrance.
Cai'er took it upon herself to bring these children in this time, and each of them was given a piece of meat.
Looking at Cai'er's behavior, Xiao Qing didn't say anything, but felt in her heart that this girl seemed to have suddenly grown up and could do things.
"Everyone be careful, eat slowly, and there will be more after eating." Cai'er said in her not too big voice.
At this time, Wang Shi came over with a wine glass.