Early the next morning, when Lin Ping'an had just woken up, the maid Xiaocui told him that Yan Xiaoxiao had been waiting in the hall for a long time.

So he got up quickly, washed up briefly, and went to the hall.

"Sister Xiaoxiao, why did you come to me so early?"

He asked with a smile on his face.

"Do you still have that wine, my father-in-law asked me to ask you for more."

Hearing this, Lin Ping'an immediately smiled, he spread his hands and said:

"No, I only did so much yesterday."

Yan Xiaoxiao frowned when she heard this, and then said, "Then you hurry up and make some more." ”

"What do you do if you don't have money?"

Lin Ping'an said with a smile: "Yesterday's wine cost fifty taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Yan Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and her mouth shouted:

"Fifty taels of silver? How can it be! You didn't mean to lie to me, did you? ”

Lin Ping'an nodded at Fang Wen on the side: "You ask Uncle Fang." ”

Yan Xiaoxiao turned her head to look at Fang Wen, but saw Fang Wen nodding and said, "That jar of wine is produced by Tianxiang Building, and it did cost fifty taels of silver." ”

Yan Xiaoxiao suddenly gasped, and muttered:

"Fifty taels of silver can only make a small jar of wine, so how much does it cost to make a large jar of wine?"

"At least one hundred and fifty taels of silver."

Lin Ping'an said while thinking in his heart: "The jar of wine I bought yesterday is only five catties, and after purification, it is estimated that it is only more than three catties at most, so it takes at least one hundred taels of silver to make a jar of wine, and the extra fifty taels is of course my own profit." ”

Yan Xiaoxiao was a little confused, she felt that one hundred and fifty taels of silver was a lot of money, more than half a year's worth of money, which was really a bit exaggerated.

Seeing Yan Xiaoxiao like this, Lin Ping'an asked:

"What's going on, what did you say about the wine dean who drank it yesterday?"

"He didn't say anything, he was just drunk, and he came together this morning to let me come to you and beg for a drink."

Yan smiled and replied.

Lin Ping'an had long expected that this would be the result, shook his head and said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, if you want to drink, then let the dean take the silver." ”

Yan Xiaoxiao thought about it and felt that this was very reasonable, so she turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

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In the flower room, Hua Fangfang's eyes widened when she heard Yan Xiaoxiao say that the small jar of wine yesterday was made with fifty taels of silver.

He looked at Yan and smiled and asked, "This kid shouldn't deliberately slander me, right?" ”

"I asked Fang Wen, that jar of wine was indeed bought from Tianxianglou, and then remade by Lin Ping'an, and when it was taken out, there was only that small jar."

After Yan Xiaoxiao said this, she added: "Lin Ping'an said that if you want to make a large jar of wine, you need at least one hundred and fifty taels of silver. ”

Hua Fangfang was silent for a long time when she heard this, and her expression was very hesitant.

He reached out and grabbed the empty wine jar yesterday and put it under his nose and sniffed it, and finally gritted his teeth, took out three hundred taels of silver tickets and handed them to Yan Xiaoxiao, and exclaimed:

"Well, let him get two jars of this wine first."

Yan Xiaoxiao looked at the two silver tickets in her hand, she was really a little surprised, she knew that Hua Fang loved to drink, but she had never seen him drink such expensive wine, as for the wine in Xianglou that day, he only drank it once in a while.

"Father-in-law, isn't this too wasteful?"

She asked at the flowers, really a little distressed.

Hua Fang waved his hand and sighed: "My father-in-law has this hobby, except for flowers and wine, let's get two jars to try it first." ”

So Yan Xiaoxiao turned around and went out helplessly, and walked to Lin Ping'an's courtyard again.

In the courtyard, Lin Ping'an sat there alone in a daze.

"Isn't one hundred and fifty taels too expensive?"

He muttered in his mouth: "At this price, it is estimated that few people can afford it, if you want ordinary people to afford it, you have to make cheap and good wine." ”

In fact, he also knew that as long as the wine was purified, the taste of the wine would become very strong, so the fifty taels of wine from yesterday was indeed a bit extravagant, and when the time came, he would buy some cheap wine to purify it, and maybe the taste would not be bad.

So he asked Fang Wen, "Uncle Fang, what is the price of ordinary wine in Beijing?" ”

Fang Wen thought for a while and replied: "The price varies, there are three or five taels of silver per altar, and there are also more than ten taels of silver per altar, of course, if the young master wants a cheaper one, there are less than one or two taels of silver per altar." ”

"It is estimated that there are dozens of patterns and one altar."

Lin Ping'an thought in his heart: "It's really not good, so I can only use mixed wine to purify." ”

Thinking of this, he asked Fang Wen:

"Uncle Fang, how much silver do we have?"

"Twenty taels."

Fang Wen raised two fingers, shook his head again and again, and said:

"Young master, these twenty taels can't be used to buy wine anymore, otherwise, our family will be waiting to drink the northwest wind."

After saying this, he sighed heavily and muttered:

"The end of the year is approaching, how can you spend this day?"

He was also wondering in his heart at the moment, since he was sent here to be a butler, how could he only give two hundred taels of silver?

What kind of medicine is sold in this dean's gourd?

Lin Ping'an scratched his head, a little helpless, he couldn't buy wine without money, and it was impossible for him to buy some grain to rebrew.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Yan Xiaoxiao walk in again.

"Here you go, three hundred taels of silver."

Yan smiled as she spoke, and handed the silver ticket in her hand to Lin Ping'an: "Father-in-law asked you to get two more jars of wine." ”

Lin Ping'an's eyes suddenly lit up, he stretched out his hand to take the silver ticket, and said in his mouth: "No problem, you can just come and get it tomorrow." ”

Fang Wen on the side was really a little shocked when he saw this scene, and said that this kid was too bold, and he even had to earn the dean's money. ”

But as soon as he thought of the twenty taels of silver in his bosom, he immediately remained silent.

After leaving with a smile, Lin Ping'an handed the silver ticket in his hand to Fang Wen, and said with a smile:

"Uncle Fang, please go and buy two jars of wine from Tianxianglou, and then buy ten jars of more than ten taels of silver and one jar of three or five taels of silver."

Fang Wen took the silver ticket, and was a little suspicious in his heart: "Could it be that the young master is going to sell wine to earn silver?" ”

An hour later, Fang Wen bought all the wine back, and Lin Ping'an called someone into his room and closed the door.

In addition to two jars of fifty taels of silver and one jar, Fang Wen also bought twenty jars at a cheap price according to Lin Ping'an's instructions.

"It seems that only the wine from that Xianglou is used as the mother wine."

Lin Ping'an thought in his heart, poured out a small part of the wine from Tianxianglou in an empty jar, and then poured a large part of the wine of a dozen taels into it, and finally poured in some wine with a few taels of silver per jar, so that a whole jar of wine was made.

So he began to purify, and after a busy time he poured the purified wine into an empty jar, and did the same thing, and in just one afternoon, all the wine was purified.

Lin Ping'an sat there, wiped his sweat, and thought about it in his heart.

This time, he only used up one jar of wine from Tianxianglou and another twenty jars of lower-priced liquor, and purified a total of sixteen jars of wine, and the cost was two hundred taels of silver.

If one jar of wine sells for twenty taels, sixteen jars of wine is three hundred and twenty taels, and the profit is one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and on average, the profit of each jar of wine is probably less than eight taels of silver.

"It seems to be a bit more profitable."

He thought to himself, and decided that it would be most appropriate to sell each jar of wine for only eighteen taels of silver.

After making up his mind, Lin Ping'an opened the door and asked Fang Wen and the others to move all the wine out.

In the hall, Lin Ping'an opened a jar of wine and said to Fang Wen and the others:

"Come, taste it, and see what it tastes like?"

Fang Wen was the first to scoop a scoop and put it under his nose to smell it, and exclaimed: "It smells like good wine." ”

After saying this, he took a sip and tasted it carefully in his mouth, then he took a second sip, and finally poured this scoop of wine directly into his mouth, and then he still admired it:

"Young master, your wine-making skills are really high, after drinking wine for so many years, I have never drunk such a good wine."

"How does it compare to the wine I made the day before yesterday?"

Lin Ping'an asked with a smile.

Fang Wen thought for a while and said, "It should be exactly the same, I still remember the taste of that wine the day before yesterday, it is the same taste." ”

Hearing this, Lin Ping'an immediately relieved his heart, and said to several other people: "You can also taste it." ”

The rest of the people are obviously also people who love wine, seeing Fang Wen drinking wine, they have long been a little impatient, at this moment, when they heard this, they scooped out a scoop of wine and put it in their mouths to taste it carefully, and after a while, everyone suddenly let out bursts of admiration.

"It seems that this plan is feasible."

Lin Ping'an looked at the appearance of everyone and thought in his heart: "In the future, I will use the most expensive wine in Tianxianglou as the mother wine, and then mix and purify it with other relatively low-priced wines, and the taste of this wine will definitely not be bad." ”

While thinking, he asked Fang Wen to put away these jars of wine, and waited for Yan Xiaoxiao to pick up the goods tomorrow.

Seeing Lin Ping'an's satisfied appearance, Fang Wen asked, "Young Master, do we really want to buy one hundred and fifty taels of this wine?" ”

Lin Ping'an shook his head and said with a smile: "This time, I plan to sell only eighteen taels and one altars." ”

As soon as these words came out, Fang Wen's whole person was a little confused, he looked at Lin Ping'an, and hesitated:

"But didn't you say yesterday that you were going to sell it to Miss Xiaoxiao for one hundred and fifty taels?"

Didn't you have the capital yesterday...... Lin Ping'an Zhengse said:

"The dean treats me like a mountain, and gives me all this courtyard, so I'm embarrassed to let him give money, so let's send him directly to the old man's four altar bar tomorrow."

"But the three hundred taels of silver have been used."

Fang Wen shouted, obviously not understanding the logic of Lin Ping'an's words, he shouted in his heart:

"Young master, you said that you were embarrassed to collect money, but you obviously took three hundred taels of silver tickets!"

Lin Ping'an thought about it and understood the meaning of Fang Wen's words, so he re-explained:

"I mean, in the future, our wine dean here will drink it openly, and it won't cost money!"

After talking for a long time, he still received three hundred taels of silver from the dean...... Fang Wen nodded, feeling that the young man in front of him was thicker than himself.