Chapter 168: Dedication
If you ask what Bai Qiuyue has done in the past four years.
She will be proud to tell you that she not only opened an inn, but also ran a winery, contracted a rice base, and opened a rouge shop.
Later, the rouge shop faced a recession for a period of time because of the high cost of the materials selected, because the products produced in the workshop were naturally more expensive than those on the market, but Bai Qiuyue always insisted on good materials, and she firmly believed that good materials could be used to rest assured, so that there was no need to worry about bad effects on the face.
Because of word-of-mouth, it is very popular with Aunt Zhao Xixi, and Aunt Zhao Xixi also introduced many people through her connections.
The lord of Jiahui also used her connections to introduce the business of the rouge shop to some dignitaries around her, these dignitaries and nobles are used to high-end and high-grade rouge gouache, and naturally at first they didn't pay attention to the rouge of the beautiful rouge shop, and then they didn't expect to become the customer of this rouge shop after using it once, and this rouge gouache is similar to what they bought at an expensive price, and they used it once and they were very surprised by this effect.
After that, there was a steady stream of business, because the friends of the lord of Jiahui were all regular customers, and they would come to buy every three or five days, and Zhao Xixi's Huanxi Rouge Shop also did well because of its cooperation with Bai Qiuyue.
Later, she simply proposed that Huanxi Rouge Shop and Beauty Rouge Shop merge together, Zhao Xixi sent someone to see the shop, Bai Qiuyue wanted to come to the Rouge Shop, she didn't come often, she still had an inn to take care of, so she agreed to Zhao Xixi's request, and the income was still shared equally between the two.
And the inn's business is not so easy to do. Although the selection of ingredients and the environment of the inn is very careful in the spring flowers and autumn moon, it is inevitable that they will encounter the suppression of their peers.
The owner of an inn nearby asked people to spread rumors everywhere, saying that the things made in the Chunhua Qiuyue Inn one day were stinky, which damaged the reputation of the Chunhua Qiuyue Inn, Bai Qiuyue naturally found that person and asked for an explanation, since he was so untrustworthy, then don't blame her for going to court with him, and later the county decree said that this person was a rumor-monger, and the owner of the inn thought of the rumor-mongering because he was jealous of the Chunhua Qiuyue Inn, and later lost Bai Qiuyue a sum of money.
There's more than one such thing.
One day, the people who came to the inn to eat said that the soup was not clean, and the stomach was uncomfortable after drinking, and Bai Qiuyue didn't believe it, thinking that they were spreading rumors, but seeing that their expressions were not pretending, Bai Qiuyue was very surprised, this soup is also strictly selected ingredients, according to reason, there will be no problem with the ingredients, that soup is mushroom soup, mushroom soup is generally Lu Qi pays attention to processing, after all, he has been doing it for so many years, and he will not let everyone eat it without handling it well, but the matter is really there, and there is no argument.
All the people who drank this soup went to the clinic for treatment, and the families of these people came over one after another, shouting at Bai Qiuyue angrily and asking her to pay for the medical expenses.
Bai Qiuyue was really panicked at this moment, she felt her panic for the first time at that time, these people said that their family members had food poisoning after drinking the soup, which must be unhygienic ingredients.
Since there was a problem in her own inn, Bai Qiuyue naturally did not shirk the cost of diagnosis and treatment, saying that she would compensate for the cost of diagnosis and treatment.
She first calmed everyone's mood and told everyone not to panic, and she said with certainty that there was no problem with the ingredients. Because she checked it again, Lu Qi also told Bai Qiuyue that there would be no problem with this ingredient, after all, it had been processed many times, and as for what the reason, she would do her best to find it.
She wouldn't just put the trumped-up charges on her head, because Bai Qiuyue firmly believed that there was no problem with the ingredients in her inn, but as for why this mushroom soup made these people drink stomach pain, it was incomprehensible.
Fortunately, there is still soup residue left in that pot of mushroom soup, Bai Qiuyue asked Lu Qi not to pour it, and then let the medicine king go to check the soup residue, in case it is a problem with the ingredients, then he will definitely make amends, but if it is not a problem with the ingredients, there are other reasons, then he will not take the blame on himself in vain, and everything will wait for the identification results before drawing conclusions.
But you have to know that when people decide on something, they can't just let her go easily, they only think what they think, and they don't feel that it has anything to do with her.
The family members of these people who drank the soup poison all asked Bai Qiuyue to come forward to apologize, saying that the poison made people vomit and diarrhea, and they also had a fever, which must be a problem with mushrooms, and even pulled a group of brothers over to smash the field.
I saw that the group of lawless people came over with machetes and didn't care about the people who were eating, slashing everywhere, and slashing the tables and chairs, even people like Ge Chunhua were frightened by this scene, these people were obviously here to make trouble, Bai Qiuyue argued with them, but as soon as she was pushed by the comer, she almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the county lord of Jiahui and the medicine king led a group of people to arrive in time, and the medicine king said in front of everyone that someone deliberately put it in this soup, and there is a poison called Qingxin, which mainly makes people vomit and diarrhea, delirious, and unwell.
And the poison in this soup must not be Lu Qi or the guy in the store, because isn't this a self-smashing sign? Someone must have deliberately framed him, and Yao Wang guessed that it must have been deliberately suppressed by peers.
As for who put the poison in this soup, the medicine king asked Lu Qi to remember it well.
Lu Qi remembered the woman called Narcissus, that Narcissus, who had been in the inn for a few days, looked humble and polite, and did things quickly, saying that she wanted to be an apprentice in the inn, so she won Bai Qiuyue's trust, but after she did it for a few days, she said that she wanted to go back, and her husband at home asked her to go back, and she had to go back, and then she went back.
And when things happened, it was on the day she went back.
That day, she said that she was going to come to say goodbye to everyone, saying that she was reluctant to everyone, and enthusiastically handed the chef to drink water, and then for some reason, Lu Qi's stomach hurt and she wanted to go to the toilet, so she asked this woman to take care of the pot.
And the speed of the woman's drug was also very fast, and she was drugged in that soup without knowing it. Lu Qi thought that it should have been the woman who did it.
Then the woman was gone.
Bai Qiuyue thought about it, the woman named Narcissus was deliberately sent by her peers, it was really doubtful, why the day she left was the day of the accident, and this Narcissus woman came and went in a hurry.
Seeing Bai Qiuyue's awe-inspiring expression, her face was haggard because of this incident, and the county lord of Jiahui was also very distressed, so she comforted Bai Qiuyue and said, "Qiuyue, don't worry, I will definitely help you find the woman who escaped." ”
And she also shouted to these fanatics: "Bold! You guys just broke in and smashed the inn with a machete! You're clearly here to make trouble! Come on, take them down! ”
The lord of Jiahui has always been the kind of person who seems to be tepid, but in fact she has a very imposing temper, she seems to be gentle, but in fact she is very powerful, when she is angry, a pair of eyes are aggressive, and these strong men who come to cause trouble are also frightened by this momentum and take a few steps back.
Later, he was directly caught by the people sent by the lord of Jiahui. Of course, the main investigators of Jiahui County can easily find out, but she is the sister of the princess of the former dynasty and the wife of the Hou Ye, how could she let such a person with bad intentions go unpunished?
Later, after the secret agents she sent to investigate thoroughly all night, they investigated these colleagues who opened the inn one by one, and finally found that the narcissus was actually a woman raised by the owner of Fumanlou outside, and the boss of Fumanlou deliberately let the woman come to the Chunhua Qiuyue Inn to poison and frame them, so that their reputation was damaged.
As soon as the matter of drinking the poisoned soup came out at that time, the reputation of the Chunhua Qiuyue Inn was really damaged, and Bai Qiuyue was also depressed for a while because of this incident, and she was a little skeptical that she could shoulder the expectations of the county lord of Jiahui.
She also once told the county lord of Jiahui that she was worried that she would not be able to open an inn by herself.
But the county lord of Jiahui always stood by Bai Qiuyue's side, telling Bai Qiuyue that all this would be revealed, and asked Bai Qiuyue not to worry.
Later, Narcissus was captured, and the ugly face of the owner of the Fumanlou Inn was also known to everyone, but the owner of the Fumanlou Inn kept saying that it was instigated, and that person Bai Qiuyue also guessed that it should be Wen Yingqian and Chu Mingxuan. She saw that her business was booming, and she was naturally very jealous and wanted to make it bad.
However, the boss of Fumanlou later thought about the consequences and did not confess to the person who instructed him, because he probably also knew that the person who instructed him behind him could not be provoked.
As soon as the turmoil of this matter passed, the business of the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon Inn was as good as usual. And Bai Qiuyue also walked out of that blow.
A sentence that the county lord of Jiahui often told Bai Qiuyue was: "Qiuyue, you have to become a warrior, so that you can overcome all difficulties, and often only yourself can defeat those enemies who are deliberately targeting you!" I believe in you, you can do a great job! ”
Lord Jiahui told Bai Qiuyue that he would also stand behind her in the future, giving her strength and giving her a sense of security! With the encouragement of Lord Jiahui, Bai Qiuyue regained her confidence, and she kept telling herself that this setback was nothing! Cheer up!
Later, she devoted herself to the operation of the inn, and the inn was also run very well by her! The monthly income can be about a few thousand taels, which is very powerful in the Blood Yang City Inn!
However, others don't know that Bai Qiuyue has a lot of worry about the operation of this inn, she has a lot of worry about the purchase and selection of goods, and she does a lot of things herself, she usually wakes up before dawn, because of the hard work, her hair has fallen out a lot, but even though the burden is very heavy, she also keeps working hard.
There are many dignitaries and nobles who come here, they will inevitably have a wine bureau, Bai Qiuyue naturally chooses good wine, but the cost of good wine is too high.
There are some cheap wines on the market, Bai Qiuyue also did experiments, bought them back, and let people who know wine taste them deliberately, they said that some wines are mixed with some water, and some wines are not made of good grain at all.
But for a good wine, the wine merchant will also sell it to her for a large price. In fact, the production cost is not so much, and the price of selling it to her is very expensive, and Bai Qiuyue doesn't think it's cost-effective.
Later, she came up with an idea for wine, why not make her own wine. She remembered a winery.
The winery was her father's old winery, so why not take her father's winery down and produce the wine for the sake of the inn.
She remembered that her father's winery was facing closure due to poor management, and when her inn had income, she planned to revive it, and later, she also went out of her way to learn winemaking techniques and recruited a group of professional winemakers.
The sake she brews in her distillery is made with the best ingredients, and she also uses fruit wine in addition to rice wine. Fruit wine is mainly drunk by women.
At the beginning, when she cooperated with the winery to make wine, Bai Qiuyue was hands-on, including the renovation of the winery's facilities, including the selection of employees.
Originally, the winery had a group of workers who had been working in her father's winery for some years. Later, when the distillery was in a recession, he went to other places.
Bai Qiuyue found the original Bai Mansion's home, Ding Fubo, and asked where these people went, Fu Bo also worked in this winery, and he naturally knew that when he went to find them, they were working outside as coolies, some were planting things in the farmland, and some were fighting wood outside, and Bai Qiuyue called them together and told them that the winery was about to operate, and the key was that the remuneration was considerable, and these people were naturally very happy and willing to join.
The original team of this distillery has a nickname Skinny Monkey, who is a drunkard, quick with his hands and feet, quick eyes, thin but very shrewd, and he makes good wine, because he has been in this industry for some years, and he does it at home. Bai Qiuyue later put him in charge of being the overseer, responsible for the selection and fermentation of this wine. These are all critical. If you are not careful, it will affect the taste of the sake.
And she is assured of the thin monkey's technology, and the thin monkey is naturally conscientious at work, you know, originally he was facing unemployment and had to find a new job, but this river and lake are not easy to mix, everywhere hit a wall, he feels that his winemaking technology is very proud of himself, and the others are not very proud.
And Bai Qiuyue found him, he was naturally very happy, and he told Bai Qiuyue that he was not only very professional in brewing rice wine, but he was also good at brewing fruit wine. He brewed peach wine in the spring, which tasted superb, as well as lychee wine, plum wine, and plum wine, and he mentioned this idea, and Bai Qiuyue was naturally very happy to adopt it.
So in the spring, Bai Qiuyue chose the best peaches to make wine, fermented with glutinous rice, and made the wine so that everyone talked about it, once it was sold, they would rush to buy, and the price of fruit wine Bai Qiuyue set more close to the people, because the color of the peach wine is pink, poured in the bowl, it is very attractive and good-looking, Bai Qiuyue named this wine "Pink Beauty"!
As soon as Pink Lady was launched, many people came to visit.
Later, the inn successively launched the green plum wine, the color of the green plum wine is yellow, the taste is sour, but it is very delicious, has a strong fruity aroma, and is very appetizing.
Bai Qiuyue called the name of this wine "green plum season", and once it was launched, everyone came to buy it. Fame is a hit.
And winemaking, the inn needs to use rice, she thought of the rice shop opened by her father because of poor operation and closed down, but the base of cooperation is still there, so she tried her own ideas, carefully selected seedlings, the seedlings, is the southern rice seedlings, because of the influence of the climate, the northern rice seedlings are not as good as the southern rice, it can be said that there is no harvest, she simply went to the south, carefully selected the seedlings, the base continues to be used for planting.
In the past four years, every summer, she would go there to see the situation of rice in person, and she also planted with everyone in style.
This year is no exception, and this season is also the time to plant a new batch of rice.
Tomorrow she plans to go to the base to have a look.