Halfway through, Jiang Yan wanted to stop and look for Lang Zhong to see the injury for Tong Bufu, but was refused.

According to Tong Bufu's original words, "I was blind once, and I knew that it was hopeless, and I couldn't die if I wiped the medicine."

But Jiang Yan thought of Tong Bufu's next important task, and couldn't help but regret it: if Steward Tong had not been blind, he would have received a great reward and a bright future just by offering the liquor recipe with his own hands.

Jiang Yan wanted to go to the city to find Lang Zhong again, but at this time, the nursing home in front of the Su Mansion recognized Jiang Yan.

"It's the Jiang Governor's Mansion?"

"Exactly, I have something urgent to find Lord Thorn Shi, can he be in the house?" Jiang Yan turned over and dismounted, and personally went to help the child not to be confused.

When the nurse saw this scene, he was quite surprised, and after Jiang He got off the horse and took away the luggage, he hurriedly asked people to lead the two good horses who were so tired that they fell to the ground after a long journey to feed them, and led the three of them to walk slowly to the house, while talking.

"Governor Jiang's Mansion came by coincidence, my lord just came back from Jiaxing Mansion in the afternoon, rested for a night, and was going to a neighboring county this morning to supervise the repair of canals and ensure revenue."

"Lord Thorn is really busy." Jiang Yan couldn't help but congratulate himself on his good luck.

Walk into the lobby.

A middle-aged man wearing a patched light casual gown, with a strip of cloth wrapped around his head and a thin bamboo in the middle, and a dignified face with a Chinese character, was holding a pu fan in his hand, and he was fanning it for a while.

This person is the Jiangnan Provincial Thorn Shi Surui.

From afar, Su Rui saw that Jiang Yan was coming, and hurriedly stood up to meet him, laughing before he could speak, but before he could speak, he saw Jiang Yan supporting a man with blood-stained white stripes on his eyes, and was quite surprised: "Brother Jiang, who is this?" ”

"Sit down and talk."

Jiang Yan crossed Su Rui familiarly, helped Tong Buqiu to sit at the door, and personally poured a cup of tea for Tong Buqiu, and poured a sip himself, only then did he feel alive.

He handed the remaining pot to Jiang Yang and explained to Su Rui, who was looking at Tong Bufu: "Brother Su, you don't want to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, I came this time to ask Brother Su for a favor." ”

Suri knew that this classmate, even if he had his own connections, would not take advantage of it.

For so many years, the word "ask" has never been used between the two.

Even if he wrote a letter of recommendation last time, Jiang Yan just asked him to arrange it, and the word "begging" shows that the matter is more serious than going to Jinling Mansion to stuff Jiang Yan's own fancy.

Su Rui thought that Governor Huang had stayed in Jinling for a long time and had not moved the place, and the county lord Jingxian and Anhou were also here, and said in his heart: Could it be that the dispute between King Jin and King Kang involved Brother Jiang, and I want to ask him to be a lobbyist to let the two princes stop wooing Brother Jiang?

"Tell me about it."

Suri sat down on the top seat and poured herself a cup of tea.

As soon as he took a sip, he heard Jiang Yan say seriously: "I got a secret recipe that can increase the annual tax of Jinling Mansion by at least 20 percent......

"Poof...... Ahem, ahem! ”

Su Rui was choked by the tea and coughed, and patted his chest several times with a pu fan before he gasped for breath, he looked at Jiang Yan who was not ashamed of his words, and asked with concern: "Brother Jiang, do you have a fever?" ”

"Brother Su, I'm not talking nonsense, Jiang He, let our Lord Thorn Shi taste the secret recipe."

Jiang He put the jar of wine that his master had brought from Ning Feng in the garrison and placed it on Su Rui's table.

Su Rui frowned when he saw the mediocre wine jar.

He knew that Jiang Yan was good wine, but no matter how good the wine was, it would not make Jiang Yan let out such big words.

Could it be that Jiang Yan didn't have a fever, but drank too much?

"Brother Su, take the look on your face that thinks I'm talking drunk, you can taste it and you will know why I said that."

Jiang Yan simply stepped forward in person, snatched the teacup from Su Rui's hand, poured the tea on the ground, and poured half a glass of wine.

Su Rui saw him pouring himself a few drops of wine, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Jiang, although I am not as good as you, I can also drink about a pound of wine, you only order this less than two taels of wine, can I taste it?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, try it."

Jiang Yan lost his patience.

He also pointed to this wine recipe to solve the disaster of Ning Wuxian's imprisonment.

Su Rui saw that his friend was rarely impatient, and he also picked up the teacup and poured it into his mouth.

Then, the unexpected spicy taste flowed down the throat into the stomach, and the fire seemed to squeeze his facial features together, and when the liquor entered the stomach, the hot feeling surged all over his body, and he suddenly felt comfortable, his eyebrows stretched, and blurted out: "Good wine!" ”

Also pick up the teacup and drink it again.

Syllable!

His hand shook so much that he couldn't hold it steadily, and he broke the teacup.

"This wine is too strong, with Brother Su, your amount of alcohol is enough, and if you have more, you won't be able to negotiate important matters with me." Jiang Yan gestured to Tong Bufu: "This wine is refined by the Ning family when they make perfume, the wine in the Imperial Wine Workshop, there is not one or two spirits in a thousand catties, but the spirits refined by the Ning family have a secret recipe, if such spirits can be produced from time to time, Brother Su thinks that the tax of Jinling Mansion can be increased by a few percent?" ”

"Jinling is the place where the imperial liquor is produced, and it is supplied to the whole country, if this liquor can really be produced steadily, it will definitely be able to increase the tax by three or four percent!" Suri is still a conservative statement.

Even if he didn't like to drink before, he tasted such a strong wine at this time, and he wanted to have another drink.

After drinking the spirits produced by the Ning family, Su Rui understood.

It's not that he didn't like to drink before, but he didn't like to drink those drinks that were light and bland.

Su Rui heard about the Ning family's perfume that swept the entire Jiangnan Province a few days ago, who would have thought that this perfume was actually made of spirits.

"Brother Jiang, the Ning family you are talking about, but the Ning family you recommended last time?"

The Ning family offered such a recipe, could it be that they wanted to hold a banquet in the river, so that he could ask for a high-ranking official for the Ning family in front of His Majesty?

For the sake of the increased tax on spirits, it is not impossible.

"Brother Su, the Ning family I'm talking about is the Ning family you know," Jiang Yan gestured to Tong Bufu: "This is the Tong steward of the perfume shop, and he has mastered the secret recipe for brewing this wine." ”

Su Rui was taken aback, but he didn't expect that the person who came to offer Fang was not surnamed Ning, and he was still an injured person who looked blind in both eyes.

Which one of the Ning family is this?

Tong Bufu saw his name mentioned, groped to stand up, bowed to Su Rui, and gave a military salute with his right hand to his chest: "Under Tong Bufu, I have seen Lord Thorn Shi." ”

"You were a soldier?"

"Discharged under the wounded soldiers."

At this time, Su Rui suddenly remembered that Yu Zhengrong of the Jinling Mansion Garrison had mentioned to him many times that General Ning Fengning helped the wounded soldiers solve the problem of livelihood.

The boy in front of him must be one of them.

"The Ning family is righteous, fortunately they properly settled the wounded soldiers, so they have today's liquor recipe." Suri exclaimed.

Who knows, Tong Bufu shook his head and said: "This recipe was not thought up in the next place, but the masterpiece of my son-in-law, but my son-in-law was imprisoned in Jinling Mansion, so it was inconvenient to come, and only I knew how to steam wine in the whole shop, so only I came to offer the recipe." ”

Imprison? Steamed wine? Donor?

Rao is a thorn Shi Surui, and he was also a little confused by the huge information content of Tong Bufu.

He looked at his friend Jiang Yan, but saw Jiang Yan bowing to him: "Brother Su, I came here for this reason, and I want to invite Brother Su to Jinling Mansion to administer justice for Mr. Ning!" ”

It is difficult to speculate on the emperor's heart by using the matter of dedication to intercede in front of His Majesty.

But Jiang Yan faced Su Rui, so he didn't have such pressure.

Su Rui didn't understand what was going on with that Mr. Ning, but he understood the meaning of Jiang Yan's coming, he was curious about how that Mr. Ning moved Jiang Yan to be a lobbyist, just based on the merits and achievements of the donor, Jiang Yan was definitely not such a person who coveted power.

But at this point, it's more important to do another thing.

"I've drunk the wine, Steward Tong, if you want me to go to Jinling Mansion, you have to brew it yourself, I have verified it with my own eyes, so that I can give it to Your Majesty and ask for credit for you."

"Brother Su, let's say it will take a month to make wine!"

Jiang Yan realized that there is no process for the finished product alone, and the dedication to Su Rui and the dedication to His Majesty are not the same thing at all.

He understood Suri's caution, after all, the stakes were high.

In the same way, he also resented his own incompetence, if he could be as simple as Su Rui in the emperor's heart, wouldn't he have to run this way, and directly play the heavenly listen to the heavens and save Mr. Ning?