Chapter 12: The Way to Wealth
The old man came to the side of the wine tank, bent down and sniffed, looked at Lu Yu and said, "Monkey wine?"
Lu Yu nodded.
The old man seemed to be a little interested, reached into his arms, took out a needle box, selected a silver long needle from it, and said to Lu Yu, "Offended!" and then poked the silver needle into the wine.
After a moment, the old man nodded and withdrew the silver needle. The guy on the side hurriedly handed over a small spoon, the old man took it, scooped up half a spoonful of wine, brought it to his mouth, took a sip gently, his eyes narrowed slightly, and savored it.
After a while, the old man opened his eyes suddenly, looked at the small spoon in his hand, and drank it all up!
After closing his eyes for a while, the old man opened his eyes, looked at Lu Yu and said, "This little brother, can you go inside to talk in detail?"
Lu Yu was slightly stunned, hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes." ”
The old man smiled and said, "That's very good! "Let's go upstairs first.
Lu Yu followed behind, secretly vigilant in his heart.
There was an elegant room upstairs, and the old man let Lu Yu in and ordered the men who came with him to serve fragrant tea.
Lu Yu didn't drink tea, just sat down at the table, waiting for the old man to speak.
The old man saw that Lu Yu was cautious, and he didn't force it. opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Little brother young martial artist, admirable!"
Lu Yu shook his head and said, "Don't dare to be!"
The old man continued: "The old man is a martial artist of the Jizhou Martial Mansion for five hundred and twenty-three years, and everyone is not an outsider!"
Lu Yu hadn't joined the Martial Mansion yet, but he didn't want to make more trouble, so he nodded and smiled, which was considered to be a coping.
The old man saw that Lu Yu didn't seem to have any intention of communicating, so he didn't say anything more. Instead, he said: "Since he is his own person, the old man naturally can't fool the little brother! Your wine is indeed an authentic monkey wine made by the monkeys in the mountains! To get such a big vat, the little brother must have spent a lot of effort!"
Lu Yu nodded and did not speak.
The old man continued: "Little brother, this half of the wine, the old man estimates that it is around one hundred and fifty catties!"
After a pause, the old man stretched out a finger and said, "That's it, how about the old man give you a whole number?"
Lu Yu's heart sank, and he secretly thought, "One hundred taels, this is not enough to catch medicine for my father!" He had never sold items, and he didn't know how to bargain.
Since Lu Yu remembered, he was most influenced by two people. The first is his father Lu Tianqing. Although Lu Tianqing was only a small-town teacher before, he loved to read and could be said to be knowledgeable. Lu Yu has heard and seen it since he was a child, and he has also learned a lot.
The second is Uncle Shi, a miner. Uncle Shi's family was originally a storyteller for generations, but in his generation, because he was treating his wife, he borrowed usury from the mine. In the end, his wife didn't keep it, and he had to sell himself to the mine to pay off his debts. Uncle Shi and Lu Tianqing are the best, when Lu Yu was a child, what he liked the most was to pester Uncle Shi to listen to his story!
I remember when I was a child, my father and Uncle Shi both told Lu Yu that for what they are not good at, it is best to listen more and watch more and talk less!
At that moment, Lu Yu was silent, thinking about whether to change to another company and ask.
When the old man saw the look on Lu Yu's face, he knew that he was not satisfied with this price.
Gritting his teeth, the old man withdrew his fingers and said, "The old man will add two hundred taels to the little brother, one thousand two hundred taels of silver!
"Boom" Lu Yu's brain was shocked, "1,200 taels of silver?
Lu Yu's eyes changed, and he quickly found out to the old man, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If the little brother is satisfied with this price, the old man can immediately present the silver ticket!"
After calming down, Lu Yu thought secretly: "This price has far exceeded my expectations, no matter what, I have to make some profits for others." ”
At that moment, Lu Yu said: "Since this is the case, it will be according to the shopkeeper's wishes!"
The old man was overjoyed, got up and said, "Little brother, wait a minute", and hurriedly left the private room.
After a while, the old man walked back with three silver tickets in his hand.
"Little brother, this is a silver ticket of 1,200 taels, please put it away!" the old man handed the silver ticket to Lu Yudao.
Lu Yu took the 1,000 taels of silver ticket, looked at it and said, "Trouble the shopkeeper, give me two hundred taels of silver!"
The old man was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "I think the little brother wants to prepare some pocket money, and there is it on the silver cabinet now, and the little brother will go downstairs with me to get it." ”
He didn't know that Lu Yu had never seen a silver ticket, and he couldn't tell the real or fake, so in order to prevent accidents, he had to exchange some cash.
The two went downstairs together, took the silver taels on the counter, Lu Yu said goodbye to the old man, the old man said a few polite words, and sent Lu Yu out of the wine shop, which was considered to be the completion of the transaction.
The tea man, who seemed to be the old man's cronies, had been standing beside him. Seeing Lu Yu leave at this moment, the guy couldn't help but ask the old man: "Shopkeeper, even if it is authentic monkey wine, this price is too high, right?"
"You know what? this is no ordinary monkey wine!" rebuked the old man.
The guy scratched his head and couldn't help but ask, "I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary, right?"
The old man stroked his beard and smiled slightly: "How could the old man be wrong! This vat of monkey wine, I'm afraid that when it was brewed, the monkeys in the mountains mistakenly added a few unusual spirit fruits! These spirit fruits alone are already worth the price!"
The fellow was taken aback and stammered, "Spirit...... Spirit Fruit?"
The old man was a little impatient, and reprimanded in a low voice: "What are you arguing about, why don't you go and seal that vat of monkey wine and send it to the wine cellar?"
When the man heard this, he did not dare to delay and trotted away.
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Lu Yu left the winery, his heart was pounding, since he was a child, he had never seen so many silver taels and silver tickets. Not to mention owning!
After thinking about it carefully, Lu Yu felt that the reason why this monkey wine could be sold at such a high price was probably due to the power of those inferior monkey wines that were added at the end!
Touching the stone beads on his waist, Lu Yu couldn't help but feel hot in his heart.
"My stone bead, overnight, can turn ordinary jam into low-grade monkey wine! In this way, wouldn't I have a lot of money! With money, if I work hard to cultivate, maybe it won't be long before I can ......" Lu Yu's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but think of the young man in white again!
"Don't you walk long?"
Lu Yu was taken aback, and when he looked up, it turned out that he was just thinking crankily and almost crashed into a big man.
Hurriedly confessed to the other party, the big man snorted and walked by by mistake.
Lu Yu looked around, only to see that he was walking around for a while, and he didn't know where he went!
Anyway, he wanted to buy medicine for his father, Lu Yu simply didn't look back, so he looked for a pharmacy all the way down the street and bought the materials on the prescription.
Soon after, he found a pharmacy, took out the prescription, and Lu Yu walked in.