Chapter 122: Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet
Yu Zizhen, who recovered to the appearance of her previous life, disguised herself as a man, dressed herself as the second ancestor of a loser who went to Beijing to see the strange, the nouveau riche from other places, and the foolish and rich people, and made her Ya Po take the initiative to find herself, and then she was very in line with the personality, and bought this family from the Ya Po at a price of about twice the market price.
Ya Po felt that there was no difference between her stupid son who directly sold people to foreign merchants and her painstaking efforts to send people to other places and then sell them, and the most important thing was that she not only did not have to pay another sum of money for carriages, horses, and labor to send the family out of the capital, but also took the opportunity to make a lot of money, which was perfect.
Yu Zizhen, who was regarded as the wronged leader by her, was also very satisfied, because she knew that the little money she spent would soon be able to help her earn it back.
As for the other family, they were originally local merchants in the capital who inherited the ancestral foundation and specialized in winemaking, although the family could not be said to be wealthy, but relying on a few wine-making recipes left by their ancestors, they also lived a solid and prosperous life.
However, no matter how big the ancestral foundation is, it can't be worth having unscrupulous descendants, in order to pay off the gambling debts of his only son, the third child of the family secretly took out the secret recipe left by the ancestor to sell.
After the East Window incident, the old man in the family was angry to death, and the eldest and second brother broke up with their third brother in anger, but their little nephew, who was a bad gambler, did not let them go because of the separation.
After he tossed up the little property he had been allocated, he entangled his eldest uncle, second uncle and a group of cousins, crying and threatening to ask these two families to help him pay off his gambling debts.
Of course, the two families disagreed, so the desperate gambler, with the rogue mind that I don't feel good for you, don't think about it, one night, a fire set fire to the wine shop at home and the shop in front of the wine shop.
The guys who stayed at the liquor shop and the shop vigil that night were burned, and one of them even broke his leg by falling wood, and the guy's family couldn't find the rotten gambler who had slipped away, and although the father and mother of the rotten gambler could find it, they were all scoundrels who "didn't want money, I want to give you my life", so everyone could only go to the guy's owner to claim compensation.
The two families are quite responsible, not to mention the money for the man's treatment, and they also pay the man's lost work fee on a monthly basis.
When the two guys recovered from their injuries, they even paid each other a large sum of money under the quarrel of the other party's family, as mental compensation for their disfigurement.
Yes, although the injuries of those two guys have healed, with the current level of medical care, the scars on their bodies and faces cannot be removed for a lifetime.
This amount of money is not small, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the liquidated damages they have to pay to the cooperative merchants.
Those who have placed orders in their winery, and even have given a deposit, they all have to pay one by one according to the contract.
As a result, the two families went bankrupt, not only were the silver deposits in the family emptied, but the mansions and shops that had been placed in previous years were forced to be sold, and even the private money, pressed box silver, gold and silver jewelry of their female dependents were all taken out by them and handed over to the men for emergency.
After listening to the system relay the whole story, Yu Zizhen was moved by the character of these two families and decided to include them under his command and let them help him do the wine business.
She's got money, uh, well, it's the corrupt officials she's targeting who have money, and she can get it whenever she wants.
She also has a recipe for winemaking, as long as she is willing to exchange points for it, the system can provide her with at least 180 kinds of recipes.
In this era, there are no high-quality wines, all kinds of fruit wines, and if it takes a little effort, she can actually make them.
Winemaking, flavoring, papermaking, and salt making are the pillar industries she will use to make huge profits in the future.
If it weren't for the system in hand, these skills could be exchanged casually as long as there were points, and even if Yu Zizhen changed ten more cores, she would not want to compete with the great clans such as Zhenbei Wangfu and Yasukuni Mansion for the right to govern the world.
hurriedly settled the two families in the small courtyard of Erjin that she had rented a long time ago, and Yu Zizhen took the new-style moon cakes she asked Zhang Niangzi to make to the palace for a banquet.
The feast is held at noon, so that everyone can go back to their homes in the evening to enjoy the moon with their families.
Like the palace banquet during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to various delicacies, Xiao Lu also arranged for the servants to perform songs and dances.
What is different from the Dragon Boat Festival is that when all the servants quit, she actually proposed to ask the emperor's concubines and the sons and girls of each family to perform their talents on stage.
The emperor's concubines are half eager to try, half are not interested, the part that is eager to try is ambitious to become the queen mother, and the part that is lacking in interest is just to be an ornament in the harem.
The sons and girls of each family are basically all lacking in interest, if it weren't for the strength of the Lu family, most of them would have to cheer for the little Lu family, they actually hope that the emperor, the queen mother, and the queen can leave quickly.
They wanted to go with their friends to throw pots, guess coins, enjoy flowers, and gossip with their friends. Isn't that more interesting than performing some kind of dog plutony?
Yu Zizhen had the same idea as them, and with her identity, she didn't need to sacrifice her precious time to give Xiao Lu a hot spot, so she sat still motionless.
She showed the moon cakes she brought to Xiao Yuanjin and others.
The popular moon cakes are Beijing-style, so Yu Zizhen asked Zhang Niangzi to prepare Cantonese and Suzhou-style.
In addition, the types of moon cake fillings she brought are far richer than those of the moon cakes in the palace, and the taste is much more delicious.
Several people got together and chatted quietly while tasting mooncakes.
Yes, this time Yu Zizhen was very merciful, and also distributed the mooncakes she brought to Chen Hushan and others to eat.
Perhaps because the atmosphere here is too harmonious and relaxed, so that those sons and girls who are forced to perform on stage are somewhat unpleasant to them, and after they have tasted a round of moon cakes, Wan Jingrong's own sister took the lead in attacking a few people.
She stood up with a smile, raised her voice and said to Yu Zizhen: "I heard that the prince of Zhenbei is a rare martial arts genius, it is rare that everyone is gathered together right now, why don't you show one or two, let us all open our eyes?" ”
Yu Zizhen lifted her eyelids, saw her standing next to Wan Jingrong, and immediately guessed that she must be a lady of the Wan family.
She replied coldly, "Your vision is narrow because your eyes are small and you have little knowledge." In your case, it's useless to just watch me show my martial arts. If you really want to improve your horizons quickly, I suggest you just go and open the corners of your eyes. ”