Jia Yingchun of the Red Chamber
Chapter 36
Yingchun originally wanted to do her best to appease Yuanchun's servants, so that Zimo could help Yuanchun without distraction, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
Yingchun will not be foolish and bold, if he dares to confront Jia She, Zimo can only entrust her.
Fortunately, the person looks good, neither dead nor disabled, this family has no interest in the big sister.It's just that Zimo couldn't send out the banknote after entrusting him with it. The family thought that they would have enough food and drink, and Zimo's few hard-earned money probably didn't matter to them.
Yin asked Siqi: "Doesn't she have an older brother? What are you doing?"
Siqi smiled: "I follow the master as a long-term follower. Because of Qiutong, it is very popular!"
Yingchun waved his hand: "Let's go!"
While walking, he thought to himself, the whole family relied on their daughter as a concubine for food, such a family, Yingchun didn't want to mess with it even more.
Forget it, Zimo banknotes should be saved for her.It is also impossible for the eldest sister to want two dowry nuns. She has no family members and no worries about Baoqin, so she may be more willing to follow Yuanchun for the rest of her life.Zi Mo will have a chance to leave the palace, and then return the money to her, and go and settle down.
For a while, when I arrived at Sister Feng's half-la yard, I saw Ping'er was already at the door, greeted by Yingchun: "The second girl is here, and grandma will come down soon!"
Yingchun was very surprised: "Is this a reward for the gods?" While speaking, she looked at Siqi embroidered oranges.Siqi Xiuju hurriedly waved his hands: "It's not me!"
Ping'er smiled: "Girl, don't wrong the two of them, their mouths are locked, just because the girl said she wanted to come over yesterday, grandma didn't ask me to go to the hall, Tate waited for the girl, I also sent it The little girl is reading the newspaper letter on the porch!"
When I arrived at Sister Feng's room, Ping'er served black sesame walnut noodle tea: "Miss, you can make a mat first, and the food will be served right away!"
"No hurry!" She was not missing this meal, so Yingchun sat down with a smile, looked at Ping'er's red lips and white teeth, and her eyes were watery. She couldn't help but think of Jia Lian's good fortune, so she asked, "Is there any news about the second brother?"
Ping'er smiled: "Second girl, stay here!" Folding into the room, there was a sound of the cupboard door, Ping'er took out a red lacquer and gold box, opened it in front of Yingchun, picked up the top one and came out, Passed it to Yingchun: "This is the letterhead from the second master to the girl. Grandma brought it with me last night, and I haven't had a chance to take it out!"
Yingchun thanked Ping'er on her forehead, and then she took out the letter paper, and she couldn't help but curl her lips in secret joy.
This letter was written by Jia Lian himself, and it described the direction of the Lin family's property. Before that, Jia Lian had been in a lawsuit with the Lin family because of the disposal of the property.There is no suspense about everything, but the Lin family is poor and crazy, unwilling to accept this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for wealth and honor, the whole family borrows money to file a lawsuit with the Rong Mansion, and it is bound to take Lin Ruhai's property behind him.
The official wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble, and Jia Lian was stubborn in holding the suicide note, so the two parties were at a stalemate.
After doing business here, Sister Feng's letter arrived. Jia Lian judged the situation, so he withdrew [-] silver from the inheritance, and bribed Mr. Li, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. Mr. Li stepped forward to suppress the magistrate. The right to use the land in Baiqing, the hometown, was transferred to the Lin family for enshrining the tomb of Uncle Lin and taking care of the old house of the Lin family.
Afterwards, Jia Lian accepted Yingchun's suggestion, and according to Uncle Lin's suicide note, he took out half of the Lin family's inheritance, and all the assets under Jia Min's name. The two had a list in their hands, and the government kept a copy. The dowry left by Uncle Lin to Daiyu totaled 50 gold and [-] silver. Yu himself took it into Beijing with him.
Jia Lian also said that it is estimated that returning to Beijing this time will not be peaceful. Once the news leaks out, the old lady will blame him, the second room will complain, and Lao Tzu Jia She will be beaten up in front of him.Jia Lian said that he had paid enough hush money to the handling officials according to the rules, and told Sister Yingchun Feng to keep the secret and never leak the news.
Seeing Yingchun, I felt very comforted. I saw Jia Lian's character correctly.Jia Lian kept his conscience and redeemed Daiyu, himself, and at the same time, the entire Rongfu.Even if the matter is exposed, and it ends up complaining and being beaten, it is nothing more than a trivial matter. At the beginning, he was beaten and scolded because of the stone nerd Yuanyang, but this time the beating and scolding made Jia Lian and Rongguo Mansion a success.Gaining Daiyu Baoyu's lifelong trust, Jia Lian can be said to have made a fortune.
The mood of welcoming the spring is suddenly clear.
Yingchun handed the letter paper to Ping'er: "Let's melt it! You have spent all the writing paper in your hands!"
Pinger Qiaosheng responded.
For a while, when Ping'er entered the room, he brought Miss Qiao in his arms and asked her to bow to Yingchun. Miss Qiao had rouge on her forehead, her pink face, her black pupils were like pearls, and her eyes were small. Mouth opened and closed: "Bow to Second Aunt, and please Second Aunt!"
Instantly, Yingchun's tear glands were concentrated by her glutinous voice, she stretched out her hand to pick up Sister Qiao, and happily kissed her forehead: "You're so smart, Qiaoer, you actually recognize Second Aunt!"
Sister Qiao didn't inherit her mother's dead talk, she rolled her black pearl-like eyes, looked at Ping'er, looked at Yingchun, then poked her own cheek with a small hand, tilted her head, and grinned with her small mouth. He giggled: "Second aunt, it's not Qiaoer, it's Aunt Ping who is smart, and Aunt Ping taught Qiaoer!"
Yingchun was taken aback for a moment, and the more she looked at Sister Qiao's watery eyes, the more she liked her, her heart softened into a puddle of water, and she stretched out her hand to pinch the tip of Sister Qiao's nose: "Oh, what an honest baby, so cute!"
It happened that Sister Feng came in at this moment, and she poked Sister Qiao's forehead with her hand, and said angrily, "I can't teach you no matter what, and I don't know who this is like!"
Yingchun intentionally lowered her face: "Hmph, don't think I don't know, you always talk about people behind your back, why is Miss Qiao still not good at talking at the age of three, could it be that my niece Xiao Gusui will be miserable if she loses her second daughter!"
Sister Feng giggled and said, "Oh, this is wronging the dead. I wish the Bodhisattvas of heaven and earth every day. Bodhisattvas, please show kindness and bless our elder sister. Please think of some aunts who are well-educated and eloquent. Don't imitate her mother. Clumsy mouth and blind eyes. If you don’t believe me, ask Ping’er to see if I’m such a bodhisattva!”
Yingchun laughed at what she said: "I don't ask, who doesn't know that you are Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai!"
When Sister Qiao saw Miss Feng's little hand, she only beckoned, "Mom, hug me!"
Sister Feng picked up Sister Qiao, shook her, and handed it to the nanny: "It's better to coax her, and feed her more milk!"
For a while, Ping'er brought food on the kang table over there, Sister Feng brought Yingchun to the table, and my sister-in-law sat opposite to eat, and Ping'er waited on her.For a while, Ping'er filled the porridge for them and left the door.Then Sister Feng asked in a low voice: "Did you see your brother's letter?"
Yingchun raised her thumbs up and said with a smile: "Second elder brother has become a real man this time. Behind a successful man there is always a virtuous and capable woman. Sister Feng, you have contributed a lot!"
Sister Feng smiled wide-eyed and bared her teeth: "What can I do if I am virtuous, your brother complains a lot!"
Yingchun said sternly: "I'm serious, this is the so-called good wife and husband, less misfortune. Don't believe me, Sister Fengfeng. What you do today will benefit your whole life and future generations."
Sister Feng stopped laughing when she heard the words: "I accept your wise words!"
Yingchun smiled and said: "This is your own blessing. By the way, Sister Feng knows when the second brother will arrive in Beijing?"
Sister Feng said: "I used my uncle's [-] miles to send the letter to the south of the Yangtze River, and your brother also rushed to reply with [-] miles. Because the letter was received, the lawsuit was quickly resolved. I have already set off to return to Beijing. It will take more than a month to travel day and night. !"
Yingchun frowned: "Sister-in-law, do you know the exact date of second uncle's birthday?"
Sister Feng said: "Why don't you know, I do it myself every year, because the second uncle's birthday is in the middle of July, and the ancestors thought that July was not good, so they changed it to June and a half. My aunt kept it from me. , but I don’t know that our two families are old relatives, who doesn’t know!”
Yingchun has a good deal in mind, Yuanchun still has one month to concubine.If Jia Lian can make it in time, he will return to Beijing at that time. In July, the Holy Majesty throws out the bait of visiting relatives, hoping that after Jia Lian returns to Beijing, he will immediately rectify Lai Da and contain the Wang family.
Yingchun felt very sorry, but it was a pity that it would be difficult to have a face-to-face meeting with her eldest sister in the future, and she couldn't warn her in advance when she was in the palace. She only hoped that Yuanchun, after hearing what she said, could dispel the idea of going home and taking a look.
Alas, thinking of Yuanchun's suffering, Yingchun is not sure how to make Yuanchun's decision.
Suddenly, Yingchun remembered her thoughts on brewing wine. Sister Feng is capable, isn't she a good candidate for cooperation?This matter is done, and Sister Feng and himself are good, and Rongfu will also make a living from now on.
Yin asked Sister Feng in a low voice: "Sister Feng once said that your Wang family once obtained red wine from foreign domains. Do you remember that this wine is the original wine given by them, or did your Wang family brew it yourself after getting a recipe?"
Sister Feng smiled when she heard the words: "You can ask the right person. I was still at home at that time. Our family was engaged in maritime business. Many foreigners came to sell gems, cats and dogs with red noses, red hair and green eyes. Huizi came to sell wine and wool felt, and the black men from Koryo came to buy ginseng. I remember our grandpa didn’t like to drink that red wine, saying it was boring, but my grandmother liked it. It’s just that many people don’t like the taste. The business was sluggish and lost money. My grandmother was kind, took all her red wine, and gave him a few carts of tea leaves on credit. When he was happy, he gave my grandmother how to brew red wine. It is very simple to say, my grandmother Sometimes I laughed a lot, saying that the old man is very cunning!"
I know the way to make wine to welcome the Spring Festival, and asking Sister Feng is just to find a basis for myself to make wine in the future: "Do you know what this means?"
Sister Feng pursed her lips and laughed: "Of course I know. Why are you asking this? Do you want to make wine? This is not possible. The imperial court does not allow private wine making!"
Yingchun sneered: "The imperial court does not allow private wine making, because it is afraid of food shortages. Our daughter's family is greedy, and we can make some fruit wine to satisfy our hunger. If there is any surplus, we can buy another few hundred catties, and some high-quality rouge powder Use it, can the court order official still take care of this nosy business?"
Sister Feng was taken aback for a moment, then clapped her hands: "Hey,?" Then she laughed: "But where do we get grapes?"
Yingchun squinted her eyes: "Our family doesn't have a vineyard, so there is no vineyard in this capital? Where do our family get the grapes that are enshrined in the palace every year?"
Sister Feng scoffed: "Isn't there a royal orchard in Changping?"
Yingchun laughed: "Is there no Zhuangzi in our family in Changping?"
Sister Feng frowned: "You mean, we also grow grapes? This grape is not easy to grow, and no one of us understands it? Besides, this thing is difficult to serve, and few people can afford it. It doesn't come with money. In vain, the big family doesn't care, just buy a garden and play by themselves."
Yingchun laughed: "In that case, maybe someone is willing to buy a vineyard?"
Sister Feng said: "It's not difficult to buy a vineyard, but the sales of these grapes are not very good. A few hundred mu of grapes is not a small amount. What about your wine?"
Yingchun laughed: "Well, now that the grapes are on the market, Sister Feng tried to buy a few hundred catties back. Let's try it first. If the wine tastes good, you can drink it and earn a few pennies. Next year, we will buy a hundred mu by ourselves. Xiao Zhuangzi, planting grapes is just for fun, to gain some experience, I'm afraid the business will get better and better. If the wine comes out and it's not cute, let's throw it away, just pretend I didn't say it! In my opinion, as long as the attempt is successful this year, it will not be difficult to get ten thousand and eight thousand silver next year!"
Sister Feng snorted: "You really think beautifully. How dare you think of 1 taels for a hundred acres of land?"
Yingchun pursed her lips: "I just said it casually, it's nothing more than a failure, it's so funny!"
Sister Feng got three thousand pieces of silver from the Zhang family before, and she tasted the sweetness. She was trying to get some silver from this vine, but Yingchun caught her sore foot. Now thinking about it, she is very depressed.And that Zhan Guang is in the mansion every day, and is Sister Feng's big handle every day.Sister Feng dare not take this matter any more.
It's just that Sister Feng likes money and has a good face. She can't wait to pile up the treasury's silver into mountains, so that the old lady can praise her, and then let the two of them inherit the Hou's mansion properly, so that she can also be ordered to wear Xiapi.
These days I have been thinking about saving money to earn money, but now I am moved by Yingchun, and smiled: "It's a coincidence, someone gave our uncle a small farm last year, with a total of one hundred acres. The grapes are already ripe. Many wives in Kyoto have posted posts, and it’s time to go to Changping to pick grapes. Whoever picks them will belong to them. Our family and Dongfu have all got posts. My wife doesn’t want to go, and I’m not going. If you're thinking about it, why don't we go together?"
Yingchun flattened her mouth and sighed: "On the day I left the palace, the clan's residence said that three days later, the family will be stationed in the house to educate the nanny."
Sister Feng stretched out her hand to pinch her cheeks: "Look, how many people can't get the honor and favor, you are annoying!"
Sister Feng arrived quickly, and quickly brought back more than a dozen baskets of grapes, and then bought a large pottery urn, tidied up a disused yard at the foot of the mountain in the back garden, and rescued it.The trees near the mountain are lush and the temperature is relatively low, which is suitable for wine fermentation. Sister Feng found two old ladies from the Wang family who had served the old lady of the Wang family to give guidance, and a small wine-making workshop was established.
On the pretext of being greedy, Yingchun asked Sister Feng for ten catties of grapes, then secretly put them into the space, and brewed them according to the simple winemaking method she knew in her previous life.
Prepare yourself to secretly experiment with the blending ratio of Lingquan. When the time comes, help Sister Feng spread the fame of the red wine people, and then persuade Sister Feng to develop the wine making industry. Apart from land income, she is looking for a way to make money for Rongfu.
Yingchun went to visit Miss Feng's small workshop a few times, but the nuns knew how to make wine and taught the little girls to look good.Yingchun just reminded Sister Feng: "If this wine is to make money, it must enter the mouths of princes and nobles. Therefore, this wine urn must be spotless! Otherwise, it will be a waste of work, why not do it!"
As for the sales of red wine, Yingchun has no worries at all.She has a spiritual spring in her hand, no matter how good or bad the wine is, as long as the spiritual spring is added to it, the red wine will definitely turn waste into treasure and become the most famous health and beauty wine.
Mrs. Jingdu is a shrewd person. Once she sees through the efficacy of this wine, she will feel sorry for those piles of money.Furthermore, the wives of the mansion door all love to drink a few cups, and they can maintain their health and beautify their skin. Who would begrudge a few taels of money!
It is foreseeable that this red wine will be in demand as soon as it comes out.
In the early morning of the third day, Sister Feng specially came to invite Yingchun, and today the wine urn started to stir, so she made an appointment with Yingchun to watch it.And happily told Yingchun that the wine urn was already fragrant.
When the two aunts and sisters-in-law went, the two nuns were instructing a few little girls to stir the wine, asking them to turn three times forward and three times backwards, saying that only in this way can they be fully stirred.There is no need to sniff Yingchun carefully, the aroma of wine is already tangy.
Yingchun checked the wine, it was clear and thorough, and she felt more fond of the two nuns in her heart.
Sister Feng's wine urns are all fifty catties. When Yingchun is inspecting them, Yingchun squeezes the spiritual spring hidden in the silk into the wine urns, adding a drop of spiritual spring to five jars, and only half a drop for the remaining five jars.
On the third day, the educating nuns in the palace entered the mansion, and Yingchun began to learn the rules.The wine thing was out of the way.
I hope that Sister Feng has a proper way to collect money, and won't worry about lending usury.
Moreover, the government affairs of the Rong Mansion will soon be handed over to Jia Lian and his wife to take over, and the money in the mansion should not be ashamed to say that Sister Feng pays for the dowry. Life-saving activities.
I hope Brother Zhang Jin's lesson will become a sword hanging over her head.
Although Yingchun was not planning to enter the palace, but before the marriage decree came down, the future of Yingchun, a well-known beauty, was still hanging on the emperor.
The grandma sent by the palace into the Rong Mansion was surnamed Qian, an old nanny who worked as an errand in the House of Internal Affairs.After teaching Yingchun for one day, Mammy Qian was surprised and asked who Yingchun was a teacher before, and when she learned that Yingchun came from Aunt Feng's school, Nanny Qian said: "My lord, you don't need to learn the rules anymore!"
Since then, Nanny Qian has focused on the training of posture and appearance in the Spring Festival. Originally, Nanny Qian prepared several secret recipes in the palace, which were specially used for women's skin rejuvenation.
Clinker, but seeing Yingchun's skin Saixue, he immediately sighed: "The Duke's Mansion is indeed a century-old family, and this skin rejuvenation method is even better than the old slave's method."
Upon hearing this, Mother Jia also said that the secret recipe given to the Yingchun sisters had worked. She smiled reservedly and generously: "Nurse Qian is polite, most of the things in our house were rewarded by the nobles in the former palace."
Nanny Qian took five hundred silver, an old mountain ginseng, and four-color brocade from Jia Mu, but nothing came out.
Hexiang is a must-have skill for women, and it is usually passed on from mother to daughter. Yingchun's aunt died early, and her stepmother was a half-hearted lady from a poor family. She didn't understand this at all. Study under your name.
Teaching the rules is an errand, and teaching the incense is an extra supplement. Mother Jia prepared four-color outer and inner gifts for Yingchun, and then she formally learned the incense with the mother.
Ten days after Qian Momo entered the mansion, Yingchun became more leisurely again, she only had to follow Qian Momo to fiddle with a few recipes every day, and in her spare time, she figured it out by herself.
Nanny Qian said that Hexiang recipes are introduced every year, but it depends on each person's talent.
Yingchun realizes that she seems to have some talent, as long as the mother has pointed out the fragrance, no matter how many kinds of spices are mixed, Yingchun can always smell it.
Yingchun learned to make incense, bath incense, sweat-repelling incense, Hanxiang, teeth-cleaning incense, balm, and dew.He also taught the court how to prepare two grades of dew, one grade of rose dew and one grade of sweet osmanthus dew.
The Rong Mansion also secretly made jasmine powder, rose nitrate, and rouge ointment. Baoyu was very good at it when he was a child, and Yingchun learned a lot from him.So I took it out to discuss with Qian Mama.The old and the young get along very well.
Mammy Qian was doing business with a business-like attitude, but after a while she developed a relationship with Yingchun as a teacher and apprentice.
Nanny Qian is a shrewd person with a good conscience, she has received preferential treatment from the Rong Mansion, and seeing that Yingchun is honest and kind, and that master and servant get along well, she feels that this is a rare fate, but in her heart she longs for Yingchun to be good.
Afterwards, Nanny Qian taught Yingchun to identify various medicinal fragrances. She took Yingchun to Rongfu Pharmacy and gave five prescriptions to Jiachang. , Fragrance permeates the four major categories of medicinal materials, grab them one by one, label the name and function, and then teach Yingchun to smell the fragrance and know the medicine.
When teaching Yingchun to know the fragrance of medicine, Mammy Qian hinted to Yingchun that one day when entering the palace, it is best to combine the incense by yourself. Since it is incense, incense, rouge and gouache, if it is stained with incense, it is extremely necessary to do it yourself , and don't depend on others.
The meaning of this is of course Yingchun's family is clear, listening to it, I just broke into a cold sweat, and I just rejoice in my heart, I have already found my own way out.
Qian Nanny's teaching period was half a month, and after half a month, Qian Nanny returned to her command with her praise of Yingchun.
Like Aunt Feng, Nanny Qian left Yingchun a word before leaving, which was similar to Aunt Feng's words: Once in the palace, it is better to rely on yourself than rely on the sky and the earth.
At this moment, it is already the beginning of June.
Fengjie red wine has been filtered and added sugar to start secondary fermentation.People who tasted the original wine praised it highly, and Sister Feng's confidence was greatly boosted, and she even went to collect more than a thousand catties of late-ripening grapes to prepare to expand production.
It was only then that Yingchun realized that she had made an oolong mess, and that the previous Lingquan blending experiment was in vain, because she was busy learning Hexiang, and even forgot to come to check the blending effect, so that now, it is impossible to tell the difference, because the wine was filtered and filtered. Tossed and mixed.
Yingchun had no choice but to use the red wine hidden in the space to conduct experiments. After repeated tests, Yingchun found that the blending of Lingquan grape juice was just right according to the dilution ratio of one drop to one hundred. After drinking one to fifty red wine, the skin would ooze out quickly A little dirt, although not much, affects the view.
Ladies and ladies are all face-saving people, once there is dirt on the banquet, wouldn't it be a loss of face.No matter how good things are carried, people will scoff at them.
If one drop of Lingquan is mixed with one hundred grape juices, this embarrassing situation will not occur. Although the beauty effect is weakened, the beauty is that it moisturizes things silently!
Sister Feng produced [-] catties of wine from [-] catties of grapes, which were refilled into five wine vats for fermentation.
Yingchun was worried that the marrow washing of the Lingquan would be too bright, so she secretly tasted the red wine brewed by Sister Feng. After three cups, something brown and unidentifiable oozed out from her skin. Two jars of red wine.
On this day, Sister Feng invited Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Baoyu, Li Wan, Dongfu Youshi, aunts, sisters, brothers, nephews and a lot of people to go to the back garden to taste wine in a row.
Along the way, Sister Feng only bragged about her skills, that she was unique in the sky and unparalleled in the earth, and said that she and he had already posted posts to the four kings and eight princes, the six ministers, the wives of the servants of the left and right, and the ladies and grandmothers. Invite them to come home for a wine-tasting banquet in three days.
For a while, everyone sat in the courtyard and watched the girl pour the red wine from the pottery urn into the white porcelain wine cup. Gluttonous.Everyone was not as good as Sister Feng, so they all toasted and tasted it. After that, everyone praised it.
Seeing this, Sister Feng smiled complacently, pointed at the door of sister-in-law and sister-in-law and uncle, raised her eyebrows and smiled coquettishly: "Hmph, don't think that you are helping me taste wine, it's a kindness, I'm doing it for the sake of your relatives, to give you face Woolen cloth!"
Pointing to Baoyu Yingchun and Tanchun, the three giggled: "You three, you can't take advantage of it for nothing. Hurry up and give me a good name for this drink. I will use it after the three of you!"
Baoyu Tanchun tasted each of them with a smile, savoring them slowly, thinking of both the beautiful and appropriate names.
Yingchun tasted it carefully, and it was similar to the wine blended in my own space. Although it is not as mellow as one to fifty, it is more delicious than all the wines I have drunk in modern times. The spirit of the spring has penetrated into the wine. Long aftertaste.
Of course, the best effect of this wine does not lie in the color and fragrance of the skin, but after drinking this wine, it will slowly make people look like a lotus and their skin like cream.
Sister Feng Ping'er even boasted vigorously that their master and servant now have to have a drink every day, and if they don't drink for a day, they will feel uncomfortable and sleepless at night.
After listening to her master and servant bragging, Yingchun slowly raised her wine cup and smiled at Sister Feng: "Grape wine luminous cup, have you ever heard this sentence?"
Sister Feng was stunned: "What luminous cup?"
Baoyu clapped her hands and laughed: "Sister Feng doesn't study, and now it's obvious. The second sister means that this red wine should be drunk in a luminous cup to make it interesting."
Yingchun smiled on her forehead: "It's exactly what Brother Bao said, not only do you have to drink it in a luminous cup, but you have to pack it in a luminous bottle."
Sister Feng recalled: "What did I say, but the wine jar?" Seeing Yingchun Baoyu's surprise, Sister Feng pursed her lips and smiled triumphantly: "There is no luminous wine bottle and luminous cup, but this glass wine Glass bottles, we have them. Don't think you are knowledgeable, I can't read, but I have seen those red-haired ghost wine cups. I have already ordered [-] glass bottles at Liulichang. The goods will arrive tomorrow! "
At this moment, Yingchun really admired Sister Feng's ability to scare her capital.
Just a glass bottle is worth a lot, and it is a big deal to dare to use a glass bottle to hold wine.It should be noted that the price of this wine bottle is enough to feed a small family for a year.
The next day, Sister Feng ordered [-] glass wine bottles to be delivered first. The translucent glass bottles were filled with red wine, reflecting an amber-like color, and one glance would make one's throat roll.
Baoyu played on the spot and named the red wine --- amber wine according to the color of the red wine.
After lunch, guests came one after another.
However, Sister Feng's face didn't seem to be very good. She posted 36 posts out of enthusiasm, but there were only [-] guests.
The princes and relatives of the Four Princes' Mansion, the Consort's Mansion, and the Junma Mansion did not show up.
Sister Feng didn't plan for these rich and noble relatives to come, but everyone has been in touch with each other over the years, and the post is out of sincerity.Besides, because the red wine tastes delicious and has the effect of health and beauty, Sister Feng is ready to do a lot of work, post a post to the palace, and wants to put more money, so that this and Rongfu will make friends with the four palaces and give it to her winery in the future cheers.
Five hundred catties of grapes, two hundred catties of wine, Yingchun proposes, one catty of amber wine is priced at 30 taels of silver.Five hundred catties of grapes turned into 6000 taels of silver, which is a lucrative business.
However, what Sister Feng didn't expect was that at the wine tasting banquet, an old concubine from the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County unexpectedly came.
Sister Feng was overjoyed immediately.
The rest, Viscount, Earl, Marquis' Mansion, and General's Mansion are the same as the Rong Mansion. In the past, everyone enjoyed the spring banquet and the autumn banquet, and they often came and went. After receiving the post, they ordered grandma to come.
Mrs. Wang Ziteng heard the news, and secretly made an appearance for Sister Feng, calling the officials and wives of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to join in the show, no more, no less, just enough to fill the 36-seat table.
The wine tasting was very successful, and the delicious red wine was loved by all the participants.Sister Feng was furious, and with a big wave of her hand, she came to order his wife to present a catty of amber wine to each of them.
Sister Feng was especially grateful to the old princess of the Beijing Palace, and gave the old princess four bottles of wine at once, hoping that the old princess would make her famous among the princes and relatives for her.
Not to mention, the results of Sister Feng's tossing are not bad, but within three days, the reputation of Amber Wine has risen.
The reason for her fame is precisely the old concubine of the Beijing Palace.
But it was the old princess of the Beijing Palace who suffered from insomnia for many years. She invited countless famous doctors and took countless precious medicinal materials, but nothing worked.
Let's say that when the old concubine went home on the day of wine tasting, Xun Xun fell asleep, and she didn't wake up all night and slept until dawn.
When I woke up the next day, I felt refreshed and full of energy.
At this moment, the old princess didn't expect the effect of red wine.
The old princess is a good drinker, and she has a good capacity for alcohol. Aftertaste of the red wine tasted good yesterday, she drank three glasses every morning and evening. After three days, the old princess felt that her spirit was getting better. The unsightly spots have faded away, and even the back pain that has been painful for more than ten years has been relieved a lot.
The princesses of the four palaces have a very good relationship, and the Beijing Palace also knows that Feng Lazi has posted posts to other palaces. After eating Feng Lazi for a long time, they want to make Feng Lazi famous.
At noon on the third day, the other three old concubines were invited to a banquet, during which they praised the amber wine into a flower.
On the fourth day after the wine tasting, early in the morning, the head steward of the Beijing Prince's Mansion came to his door and wanted to buy the remaining amber wine from Feng Lazi.
The phoenix hot peppers are only two hundred catties in total, and some red wine should be left to make a name for themselves. The two sides negotiated and gave the old princess fifty catties of red wine.
To welcome the Spring Festival, set the price of Amber Light Wine at 30 taels a catty.According to the efficacy of red wine, the price is really not expensive. However, no matter how expensive the wine is, it will be eye-catching, so I have to reluctantly sell it at a low price.
Sister Feng was originally afraid that the Beijing Palace would be too expensive, but in the end, the housekeeper agreed.
Sister Feng was overjoyed.I admire Yingchun in my heart, this one hundred mu of land can really sell for ten thousand taels of silver.
It was only one transaction, and Sister Feng spent fifteen hundred silver in her pocket. The old princess of the Beijing Palace even specially envoyed the housekeeper to come to give gifts, claiming that she still owed Sister Feng a favor.
As soon as the Beijing Palace came out, the four palaces were alarmed, mainly because the princesses also noticed the miraculous effect of amber wine.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining three of the four major palaces, Dongping Palace, Nan'an County Palace, and Xining County Palace each sent their chief stewards to buy amber lights.
All of a sudden, Sister Feng shook her head, and greeted the four housekeepers with a smile, but finally spread her hands: out of stock.
This is not a lie, because when people participated in the wine tasting, each family gave a bottle to each family, just to let them make a name for themselves.
Then, one catty per person from the East and West prefectures will be sent down.
This will remove fifty catties.
When I came back to Beijing Palace, I bought fifty catties.
For the remaining one hundred catties, Sister Feng pays filial piety everywhere.
Mother Jia was the highest-ranking ancestor, weighing twenty catties. Sister Feng packed it in a glass bottle in a proper manner, and sent it directly to Rongqingtang.Jia's mother loves to drink, and also loves to be beautiful.She can afford money to buy wine herself, and what she likes is Sister Feng's filial piety, and she laughs so hard that she can't see her teeth.
Then there are two masters, Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, Wang's uncle Wang Ziteng, father Wang Zisheng, Shi Jiashuanghou, and Xue's aunt.
Sister Feng didn't forget Jia Lian, so she left five catties, and gave Sanchun and Daiyu one catty each, put them in glass bottles, and put them on the desk as ornaments.
Feng Lazi counted with his fingers like this, there was really nothing left, and the complexion of the housekeepers of the four major palaces turned dark.
In the end, it was Jia Mu who came forward and took out all [-] catties of her own and [-] catties, which were shared among the three families.
Jia's mother also told Feng Lazi: "The princes of these families were friends with your ancestors at the beginning. Why is money not money? You are lucky if they like it!"
These words finally wiped away most of the black paint on the faces of the chief executives of the four major palaces.Then, Feng Lazi promised to give priority to the four princes' palaces next time.This sent people away.
The next day, for unknown reasons, the stewards of the three major palaces came to Rongguo Mansion again to sign a long-term supply contract with Feng Lazi.
Feng Lazi was secretly delighted, but he talked about it with others, saying that he was making wine endlessly, and the ingredients were so expensive.Obviously it is to sit on the ground and raise the price.
In the end, the three housekeepers automatically doubled the price of the amber wine to 60 taels.And prepay half a deposit of [-] catties of amber wine in advance.
After that, Sister Feng was almost in a state of excitement, smiling all day long, walking with a jerk, letting go of the affairs of the house to Li Wan, Tan Chunping and the three of them, while she guarded the small wine shop in the back garden every day.I just wish I could brew another thousand or eight hundred catties and make a lot of money.
It is not known until the Spring Festival that Sister Feng brought back a thousand catties of grapes as early as the day when the first batch of red wine was filtered, and brewed it.
Although Sister Feng didn't tell Yingchun, there is no secret in such a small place in the mansion. Siqi went out to inquire, Sister Feng took the opportunity to raise the price, and Yingchun also found out.
What Yingchun thought was to give Sister Feng a long way to make money.With this momentum, Sister Feng seems to want to take all the wealth in the world to herself.
Thinking of it this way, Yingchun felt depressed for a while, regretting that she did something bad in a hurry.The first batch of red wine should not be all added to the Lingquan, but part of it should be deliberately broken to refresh Sister Feng.
Otherwise, it won't raise Sister Feng's appetite.
Yingchun was very depressed, she didn't expect that a small test with a sledgehammer would fail.She was very afraid that she would have a life to make money, but not a life to spend!
Immediately, Yingchun decided to stand by and watch this time to let Sister Feng wake up.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to continue to cooperate in the future, so how can we talk about saving Rongfu!
Yingchun will not be foolish and bold, if he dares to confront Jia She, Zimo can only entrust her.
Fortunately, the person looks good, neither dead nor disabled, this family has no interest in the big sister.It's just that Zimo couldn't send out the banknote after entrusting him with it. The family thought that they would have enough food and drink, and Zimo's few hard-earned money probably didn't matter to them.
Yin asked Siqi: "Doesn't she have an older brother? What are you doing?"
Siqi smiled: "I follow the master as a long-term follower. Because of Qiutong, it is very popular!"
Yingchun waved his hand: "Let's go!"
While walking, he thought to himself, the whole family relied on their daughter as a concubine for food, such a family, Yingchun didn't want to mess with it even more.
Forget it, Zimo banknotes should be saved for her.It is also impossible for the eldest sister to want two dowry nuns. She has no family members and no worries about Baoqin, so she may be more willing to follow Yuanchun for the rest of her life.Zi Mo will have a chance to leave the palace, and then return the money to her, and go and settle down.
For a while, when I arrived at Sister Feng's half-la yard, I saw Ping'er was already at the door, greeted by Yingchun: "The second girl is here, and grandma will come down soon!"
Yingchun was very surprised: "Is this a reward for the gods?" While speaking, she looked at Siqi embroidered oranges.Siqi Xiuju hurriedly waved his hands: "It's not me!"
Ping'er smiled: "Girl, don't wrong the two of them, their mouths are locked, just because the girl said she wanted to come over yesterday, grandma didn't ask me to go to the hall, Tate waited for the girl, I also sent it The little girl is reading the newspaper letter on the porch!"
When I arrived at Sister Feng's room, Ping'er served black sesame walnut noodle tea: "Miss, you can make a mat first, and the food will be served right away!"
"No hurry!" She was not missing this meal, so Yingchun sat down with a smile, looked at Ping'er's red lips and white teeth, and her eyes were watery. She couldn't help but think of Jia Lian's good fortune, so she asked, "Is there any news about the second brother?"
Ping'er smiled: "Second girl, stay here!" Folding into the room, there was a sound of the cupboard door, Ping'er took out a red lacquer and gold box, opened it in front of Yingchun, picked up the top one and came out, Passed it to Yingchun: "This is the letterhead from the second master to the girl. Grandma brought it with me last night, and I haven't had a chance to take it out!"
Yingchun thanked Ping'er on her forehead, and then she took out the letter paper, and she couldn't help but curl her lips in secret joy.
This letter was written by Jia Lian himself, and it described the direction of the Lin family's property. Before that, Jia Lian had been in a lawsuit with the Lin family because of the disposal of the property.There is no suspense about everything, but the Lin family is poor and crazy, unwilling to accept this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for wealth and honor, the whole family borrows money to file a lawsuit with the Rong Mansion, and it is bound to take Lin Ruhai's property behind him.
The official wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble, and Jia Lian was stubborn in holding the suicide note, so the two parties were at a stalemate.
After doing business here, Sister Feng's letter arrived. Jia Lian judged the situation, so he withdrew [-] silver from the inheritance, and bribed Mr. Li, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. Mr. Li stepped forward to suppress the magistrate. The right to use the land in Baiqing, the hometown, was transferred to the Lin family for enshrining the tomb of Uncle Lin and taking care of the old house of the Lin family.
Afterwards, Jia Lian accepted Yingchun's suggestion, and according to Uncle Lin's suicide note, he took out half of the Lin family's inheritance, and all the assets under Jia Min's name. The two had a list in their hands, and the government kept a copy. The dowry left by Uncle Lin to Daiyu totaled 50 gold and [-] silver. Yu himself took it into Beijing with him.
Jia Lian also said that it is estimated that returning to Beijing this time will not be peaceful. Once the news leaks out, the old lady will blame him, the second room will complain, and Lao Tzu Jia She will be beaten up in front of him.Jia Lian said that he had paid enough hush money to the handling officials according to the rules, and told Sister Yingchun Feng to keep the secret and never leak the news.
Seeing Yingchun, I felt very comforted. I saw Jia Lian's character correctly.Jia Lian kept his conscience and redeemed Daiyu, himself, and at the same time, the entire Rongfu.Even if the matter is exposed, and it ends up complaining and being beaten, it is nothing more than a trivial matter. At the beginning, he was beaten and scolded because of the stone nerd Yuanyang, but this time the beating and scolding made Jia Lian and Rongguo Mansion a success.Gaining Daiyu Baoyu's lifelong trust, Jia Lian can be said to have made a fortune.
The mood of welcoming the spring is suddenly clear.
Yingchun handed the letter paper to Ping'er: "Let's melt it! You have spent all the writing paper in your hands!"
Pinger Qiaosheng responded.
For a while, when Ping'er entered the room, he brought Miss Qiao in his arms and asked her to bow to Yingchun. Miss Qiao had rouge on her forehead, her pink face, her black pupils were like pearls, and her eyes were small. Mouth opened and closed: "Bow to Second Aunt, and please Second Aunt!"
Instantly, Yingchun's tear glands were concentrated by her glutinous voice, she stretched out her hand to pick up Sister Qiao, and happily kissed her forehead: "You're so smart, Qiaoer, you actually recognize Second Aunt!"
Sister Qiao didn't inherit her mother's dead talk, she rolled her black pearl-like eyes, looked at Ping'er, looked at Yingchun, then poked her own cheek with a small hand, tilted her head, and grinned with her small mouth. He giggled: "Second aunt, it's not Qiaoer, it's Aunt Ping who is smart, and Aunt Ping taught Qiaoer!"
Yingchun was taken aback for a moment, and the more she looked at Sister Qiao's watery eyes, the more she liked her, her heart softened into a puddle of water, and she stretched out her hand to pinch the tip of Sister Qiao's nose: "Oh, what an honest baby, so cute!"
It happened that Sister Feng came in at this moment, and she poked Sister Qiao's forehead with her hand, and said angrily, "I can't teach you no matter what, and I don't know who this is like!"
Yingchun intentionally lowered her face: "Hmph, don't think I don't know, you always talk about people behind your back, why is Miss Qiao still not good at talking at the age of three, could it be that my niece Xiao Gusui will be miserable if she loses her second daughter!"
Sister Feng giggled and said, "Oh, this is wronging the dead. I wish the Bodhisattvas of heaven and earth every day. Bodhisattvas, please show kindness and bless our elder sister. Please think of some aunts who are well-educated and eloquent. Don't imitate her mother. Clumsy mouth and blind eyes. If you don’t believe me, ask Ping’er to see if I’m such a bodhisattva!”
Yingchun laughed at what she said: "I don't ask, who doesn't know that you are Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai!"
When Sister Qiao saw Miss Feng's little hand, she only beckoned, "Mom, hug me!"
Sister Feng picked up Sister Qiao, shook her, and handed it to the nanny: "It's better to coax her, and feed her more milk!"
For a while, Ping'er brought food on the kang table over there, Sister Feng brought Yingchun to the table, and my sister-in-law sat opposite to eat, and Ping'er waited on her.For a while, Ping'er filled the porridge for them and left the door.Then Sister Feng asked in a low voice: "Did you see your brother's letter?"
Yingchun raised her thumbs up and said with a smile: "Second elder brother has become a real man this time. Behind a successful man there is always a virtuous and capable woman. Sister Feng, you have contributed a lot!"
Sister Feng smiled wide-eyed and bared her teeth: "What can I do if I am virtuous, your brother complains a lot!"
Yingchun said sternly: "I'm serious, this is the so-called good wife and husband, less misfortune. Don't believe me, Sister Fengfeng. What you do today will benefit your whole life and future generations."
Sister Feng stopped laughing when she heard the words: "I accept your wise words!"
Yingchun smiled and said: "This is your own blessing. By the way, Sister Feng knows when the second brother will arrive in Beijing?"
Sister Feng said: "I used my uncle's [-] miles to send the letter to the south of the Yangtze River, and your brother also rushed to reply with [-] miles. Because the letter was received, the lawsuit was quickly resolved. I have already set off to return to Beijing. It will take more than a month to travel day and night. !"
Yingchun frowned: "Sister-in-law, do you know the exact date of second uncle's birthday?"
Sister Feng said: "Why don't you know, I do it myself every year, because the second uncle's birthday is in the middle of July, and the ancestors thought that July was not good, so they changed it to June and a half. My aunt kept it from me. , but I don’t know that our two families are old relatives, who doesn’t know!”
Yingchun has a good deal in mind, Yuanchun still has one month to concubine.If Jia Lian can make it in time, he will return to Beijing at that time. In July, the Holy Majesty throws out the bait of visiting relatives, hoping that after Jia Lian returns to Beijing, he will immediately rectify Lai Da and contain the Wang family.
Yingchun felt very sorry, but it was a pity that it would be difficult to have a face-to-face meeting with her eldest sister in the future, and she couldn't warn her in advance when she was in the palace. She only hoped that Yuanchun, after hearing what she said, could dispel the idea of going home and taking a look.
Alas, thinking of Yuanchun's suffering, Yingchun is not sure how to make Yuanchun's decision.
Suddenly, Yingchun remembered her thoughts on brewing wine. Sister Feng is capable, isn't she a good candidate for cooperation?This matter is done, and Sister Feng and himself are good, and Rongfu will also make a living from now on.
Yin asked Sister Feng in a low voice: "Sister Feng once said that your Wang family once obtained red wine from foreign domains. Do you remember that this wine is the original wine given by them, or did your Wang family brew it yourself after getting a recipe?"
Sister Feng smiled when she heard the words: "You can ask the right person. I was still at home at that time. Our family was engaged in maritime business. Many foreigners came to sell gems, cats and dogs with red noses, red hair and green eyes. Huizi came to sell wine and wool felt, and the black men from Koryo came to buy ginseng. I remember our grandpa didn’t like to drink that red wine, saying it was boring, but my grandmother liked it. It’s just that many people don’t like the taste. The business was sluggish and lost money. My grandmother was kind, took all her red wine, and gave him a few carts of tea leaves on credit. When he was happy, he gave my grandmother how to brew red wine. It is very simple to say, my grandmother Sometimes I laughed a lot, saying that the old man is very cunning!"
I know the way to make wine to welcome the Spring Festival, and asking Sister Feng is just to find a basis for myself to make wine in the future: "Do you know what this means?"
Sister Feng pursed her lips and laughed: "Of course I know. Why are you asking this? Do you want to make wine? This is not possible. The imperial court does not allow private wine making!"
Yingchun sneered: "The imperial court does not allow private wine making, because it is afraid of food shortages. Our daughter's family is greedy, and we can make some fruit wine to satisfy our hunger. If there is any surplus, we can buy another few hundred catties, and some high-quality rouge powder Use it, can the court order official still take care of this nosy business?"
Sister Feng was taken aback for a moment, then clapped her hands: "Hey,?" Then she laughed: "But where do we get grapes?"
Yingchun squinted her eyes: "Our family doesn't have a vineyard, so there is no vineyard in this capital? Where do our family get the grapes that are enshrined in the palace every year?"
Sister Feng scoffed: "Isn't there a royal orchard in Changping?"
Yingchun laughed: "Is there no Zhuangzi in our family in Changping?"
Sister Feng frowned: "You mean, we also grow grapes? This grape is not easy to grow, and no one of us understands it? Besides, this thing is difficult to serve, and few people can afford it. It doesn't come with money. In vain, the big family doesn't care, just buy a garden and play by themselves."
Yingchun laughed: "In that case, maybe someone is willing to buy a vineyard?"
Sister Feng said: "It's not difficult to buy a vineyard, but the sales of these grapes are not very good. A few hundred mu of grapes is not a small amount. What about your wine?"
Yingchun laughed: "Well, now that the grapes are on the market, Sister Feng tried to buy a few hundred catties back. Let's try it first. If the wine tastes good, you can drink it and earn a few pennies. Next year, we will buy a hundred mu by ourselves. Xiao Zhuangzi, planting grapes is just for fun, to gain some experience, I'm afraid the business will get better and better. If the wine comes out and it's not cute, let's throw it away, just pretend I didn't say it! In my opinion, as long as the attempt is successful this year, it will not be difficult to get ten thousand and eight thousand silver next year!"
Sister Feng snorted: "You really think beautifully. How dare you think of 1 taels for a hundred acres of land?"
Yingchun pursed her lips: "I just said it casually, it's nothing more than a failure, it's so funny!"
Sister Feng got three thousand pieces of silver from the Zhang family before, and she tasted the sweetness. She was trying to get some silver from this vine, but Yingchun caught her sore foot. Now thinking about it, she is very depressed.And that Zhan Guang is in the mansion every day, and is Sister Feng's big handle every day.Sister Feng dare not take this matter any more.
It's just that Sister Feng likes money and has a good face. She can't wait to pile up the treasury's silver into mountains, so that the old lady can praise her, and then let the two of them inherit the Hou's mansion properly, so that she can also be ordered to wear Xiapi.
These days I have been thinking about saving money to earn money, but now I am moved by Yingchun, and smiled: "It's a coincidence, someone gave our uncle a small farm last year, with a total of one hundred acres. The grapes are already ripe. Many wives in Kyoto have posted posts, and it’s time to go to Changping to pick grapes. Whoever picks them will belong to them. Our family and Dongfu have all got posts. My wife doesn’t want to go, and I’m not going. If you're thinking about it, why don't we go together?"
Yingchun flattened her mouth and sighed: "On the day I left the palace, the clan's residence said that three days later, the family will be stationed in the house to educate the nanny."
Sister Feng stretched out her hand to pinch her cheeks: "Look, how many people can't get the honor and favor, you are annoying!"
Sister Feng arrived quickly, and quickly brought back more than a dozen baskets of grapes, and then bought a large pottery urn, tidied up a disused yard at the foot of the mountain in the back garden, and rescued it.The trees near the mountain are lush and the temperature is relatively low, which is suitable for wine fermentation. Sister Feng found two old ladies from the Wang family who had served the old lady of the Wang family to give guidance, and a small wine-making workshop was established.
On the pretext of being greedy, Yingchun asked Sister Feng for ten catties of grapes, then secretly put them into the space, and brewed them according to the simple winemaking method she knew in her previous life.
Prepare yourself to secretly experiment with the blending ratio of Lingquan. When the time comes, help Sister Feng spread the fame of the red wine people, and then persuade Sister Feng to develop the wine making industry. Apart from land income, she is looking for a way to make money for Rongfu.
Yingchun went to visit Miss Feng's small workshop a few times, but the nuns knew how to make wine and taught the little girls to look good.Yingchun just reminded Sister Feng: "If this wine is to make money, it must enter the mouths of princes and nobles. Therefore, this wine urn must be spotless! Otherwise, it will be a waste of work, why not do it!"
As for the sales of red wine, Yingchun has no worries at all.She has a spiritual spring in her hand, no matter how good or bad the wine is, as long as the spiritual spring is added to it, the red wine will definitely turn waste into treasure and become the most famous health and beauty wine.
Mrs. Jingdu is a shrewd person. Once she sees through the efficacy of this wine, she will feel sorry for those piles of money.Furthermore, the wives of the mansion door all love to drink a few cups, and they can maintain their health and beautify their skin. Who would begrudge a few taels of money!
It is foreseeable that this red wine will be in demand as soon as it comes out.
In the early morning of the third day, Sister Feng specially came to invite Yingchun, and today the wine urn started to stir, so she made an appointment with Yingchun to watch it.And happily told Yingchun that the wine urn was already fragrant.
When the two aunts and sisters-in-law went, the two nuns were instructing a few little girls to stir the wine, asking them to turn three times forward and three times backwards, saying that only in this way can they be fully stirred.There is no need to sniff Yingchun carefully, the aroma of wine is already tangy.
Yingchun checked the wine, it was clear and thorough, and she felt more fond of the two nuns in her heart.
Sister Feng's wine urns are all fifty catties. When Yingchun is inspecting them, Yingchun squeezes the spiritual spring hidden in the silk into the wine urns, adding a drop of spiritual spring to five jars, and only half a drop for the remaining five jars.
On the third day, the educating nuns in the palace entered the mansion, and Yingchun began to learn the rules.The wine thing was out of the way.
I hope that Sister Feng has a proper way to collect money, and won't worry about lending usury.
Moreover, the government affairs of the Rong Mansion will soon be handed over to Jia Lian and his wife to take over, and the money in the mansion should not be ashamed to say that Sister Feng pays for the dowry. Life-saving activities.
I hope Brother Zhang Jin's lesson will become a sword hanging over her head.
Although Yingchun was not planning to enter the palace, but before the marriage decree came down, the future of Yingchun, a well-known beauty, was still hanging on the emperor.
The grandma sent by the palace into the Rong Mansion was surnamed Qian, an old nanny who worked as an errand in the House of Internal Affairs.After teaching Yingchun for one day, Mammy Qian was surprised and asked who Yingchun was a teacher before, and when she learned that Yingchun came from Aunt Feng's school, Nanny Qian said: "My lord, you don't need to learn the rules anymore!"
Since then, Nanny Qian has focused on the training of posture and appearance in the Spring Festival. Originally, Nanny Qian prepared several secret recipes in the palace, which were specially used for women's skin rejuvenation.
Clinker, but seeing Yingchun's skin Saixue, he immediately sighed: "The Duke's Mansion is indeed a century-old family, and this skin rejuvenation method is even better than the old slave's method."
Upon hearing this, Mother Jia also said that the secret recipe given to the Yingchun sisters had worked. She smiled reservedly and generously: "Nurse Qian is polite, most of the things in our house were rewarded by the nobles in the former palace."
Nanny Qian took five hundred silver, an old mountain ginseng, and four-color brocade from Jia Mu, but nothing came out.
Hexiang is a must-have skill for women, and it is usually passed on from mother to daughter. Yingchun's aunt died early, and her stepmother was a half-hearted lady from a poor family. She didn't understand this at all. Study under your name.
Teaching the rules is an errand, and teaching the incense is an extra supplement. Mother Jia prepared four-color outer and inner gifts for Yingchun, and then she formally learned the incense with the mother.
Ten days after Qian Momo entered the mansion, Yingchun became more leisurely again, she only had to follow Qian Momo to fiddle with a few recipes every day, and in her spare time, she figured it out by herself.
Nanny Qian said that Hexiang recipes are introduced every year, but it depends on each person's talent.
Yingchun realizes that she seems to have some talent, as long as the mother has pointed out the fragrance, no matter how many kinds of spices are mixed, Yingchun can always smell it.
Yingchun learned to make incense, bath incense, sweat-repelling incense, Hanxiang, teeth-cleaning incense, balm, and dew.He also taught the court how to prepare two grades of dew, one grade of rose dew and one grade of sweet osmanthus dew.
The Rong Mansion also secretly made jasmine powder, rose nitrate, and rouge ointment. Baoyu was very good at it when he was a child, and Yingchun learned a lot from him.So I took it out to discuss with Qian Mama.The old and the young get along very well.
Mammy Qian was doing business with a business-like attitude, but after a while she developed a relationship with Yingchun as a teacher and apprentice.
Nanny Qian is a shrewd person with a good conscience, she has received preferential treatment from the Rong Mansion, and seeing that Yingchun is honest and kind, and that master and servant get along well, she feels that this is a rare fate, but in her heart she longs for Yingchun to be good.
Afterwards, Nanny Qian taught Yingchun to identify various medicinal fragrances. She took Yingchun to Rongfu Pharmacy and gave five prescriptions to Jiachang. , Fragrance permeates the four major categories of medicinal materials, grab them one by one, label the name and function, and then teach Yingchun to smell the fragrance and know the medicine.
When teaching Yingchun to know the fragrance of medicine, Mammy Qian hinted to Yingchun that one day when entering the palace, it is best to combine the incense by yourself. Since it is incense, incense, rouge and gouache, if it is stained with incense, it is extremely necessary to do it yourself , and don't depend on others.
The meaning of this is of course Yingchun's family is clear, listening to it, I just broke into a cold sweat, and I just rejoice in my heart, I have already found my own way out.
Qian Nanny's teaching period was half a month, and after half a month, Qian Nanny returned to her command with her praise of Yingchun.
Like Aunt Feng, Nanny Qian left Yingchun a word before leaving, which was similar to Aunt Feng's words: Once in the palace, it is better to rely on yourself than rely on the sky and the earth.
At this moment, it is already the beginning of June.
Fengjie red wine has been filtered and added sugar to start secondary fermentation.People who tasted the original wine praised it highly, and Sister Feng's confidence was greatly boosted, and she even went to collect more than a thousand catties of late-ripening grapes to prepare to expand production.
It was only then that Yingchun realized that she had made an oolong mess, and that the previous Lingquan blending experiment was in vain, because she was busy learning Hexiang, and even forgot to come to check the blending effect, so that now, it is impossible to tell the difference, because the wine was filtered and filtered. Tossed and mixed.
Yingchun had no choice but to use the red wine hidden in the space to conduct experiments. After repeated tests, Yingchun found that the blending of Lingquan grape juice was just right according to the dilution ratio of one drop to one hundred. After drinking one to fifty red wine, the skin would ooze out quickly A little dirt, although not much, affects the view.
Ladies and ladies are all face-saving people, once there is dirt on the banquet, wouldn't it be a loss of face.No matter how good things are carried, people will scoff at them.
If one drop of Lingquan is mixed with one hundred grape juices, this embarrassing situation will not occur. Although the beauty effect is weakened, the beauty is that it moisturizes things silently!
Sister Feng produced [-] catties of wine from [-] catties of grapes, which were refilled into five wine vats for fermentation.
Yingchun was worried that the marrow washing of the Lingquan would be too bright, so she secretly tasted the red wine brewed by Sister Feng. After three cups, something brown and unidentifiable oozed out from her skin. Two jars of red wine.
On this day, Sister Feng invited Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Baoyu, Li Wan, Dongfu Youshi, aunts, sisters, brothers, nephews and a lot of people to go to the back garden to taste wine in a row.
Along the way, Sister Feng only bragged about her skills, that she was unique in the sky and unparalleled in the earth, and said that she and he had already posted posts to the four kings and eight princes, the six ministers, the wives of the servants of the left and right, and the ladies and grandmothers. Invite them to come home for a wine-tasting banquet in three days.
For a while, everyone sat in the courtyard and watched the girl pour the red wine from the pottery urn into the white porcelain wine cup. Gluttonous.Everyone was not as good as Sister Feng, so they all toasted and tasted it. After that, everyone praised it.
Seeing this, Sister Feng smiled complacently, pointed at the door of sister-in-law and sister-in-law and uncle, raised her eyebrows and smiled coquettishly: "Hmph, don't think that you are helping me taste wine, it's a kindness, I'm doing it for the sake of your relatives, to give you face Woolen cloth!"
Pointing to Baoyu Yingchun and Tanchun, the three giggled: "You three, you can't take advantage of it for nothing. Hurry up and give me a good name for this drink. I will use it after the three of you!"
Baoyu Tanchun tasted each of them with a smile, savoring them slowly, thinking of both the beautiful and appropriate names.
Yingchun tasted it carefully, and it was similar to the wine blended in my own space. Although it is not as mellow as one to fifty, it is more delicious than all the wines I have drunk in modern times. The spirit of the spring has penetrated into the wine. Long aftertaste.
Of course, the best effect of this wine does not lie in the color and fragrance of the skin, but after drinking this wine, it will slowly make people look like a lotus and their skin like cream.
Sister Feng Ping'er even boasted vigorously that their master and servant now have to have a drink every day, and if they don't drink for a day, they will feel uncomfortable and sleepless at night.
After listening to her master and servant bragging, Yingchun slowly raised her wine cup and smiled at Sister Feng: "Grape wine luminous cup, have you ever heard this sentence?"
Sister Feng was stunned: "What luminous cup?"
Baoyu clapped her hands and laughed: "Sister Feng doesn't study, and now it's obvious. The second sister means that this red wine should be drunk in a luminous cup to make it interesting."
Yingchun smiled on her forehead: "It's exactly what Brother Bao said, not only do you have to drink it in a luminous cup, but you have to pack it in a luminous bottle."
Sister Feng recalled: "What did I say, but the wine jar?" Seeing Yingchun Baoyu's surprise, Sister Feng pursed her lips and smiled triumphantly: "There is no luminous wine bottle and luminous cup, but this glass wine Glass bottles, we have them. Don't think you are knowledgeable, I can't read, but I have seen those red-haired ghost wine cups. I have already ordered [-] glass bottles at Liulichang. The goods will arrive tomorrow! "
At this moment, Yingchun really admired Sister Feng's ability to scare her capital.
Just a glass bottle is worth a lot, and it is a big deal to dare to use a glass bottle to hold wine.It should be noted that the price of this wine bottle is enough to feed a small family for a year.
The next day, Sister Feng ordered [-] glass wine bottles to be delivered first. The translucent glass bottles were filled with red wine, reflecting an amber-like color, and one glance would make one's throat roll.
Baoyu played on the spot and named the red wine --- amber wine according to the color of the red wine.
After lunch, guests came one after another.
However, Sister Feng's face didn't seem to be very good. She posted 36 posts out of enthusiasm, but there were only [-] guests.
The princes and relatives of the Four Princes' Mansion, the Consort's Mansion, and the Junma Mansion did not show up.
Sister Feng didn't plan for these rich and noble relatives to come, but everyone has been in touch with each other over the years, and the post is out of sincerity.Besides, because the red wine tastes delicious and has the effect of health and beauty, Sister Feng is ready to do a lot of work, post a post to the palace, and wants to put more money, so that this and Rongfu will make friends with the four palaces and give it to her winery in the future cheers.
Five hundred catties of grapes, two hundred catties of wine, Yingchun proposes, one catty of amber wine is priced at 30 taels of silver.Five hundred catties of grapes turned into 6000 taels of silver, which is a lucrative business.
However, what Sister Feng didn't expect was that at the wine tasting banquet, an old concubine from the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County unexpectedly came.
Sister Feng was overjoyed immediately.
The rest, Viscount, Earl, Marquis' Mansion, and General's Mansion are the same as the Rong Mansion. In the past, everyone enjoyed the spring banquet and the autumn banquet, and they often came and went. After receiving the post, they ordered grandma to come.
Mrs. Wang Ziteng heard the news, and secretly made an appearance for Sister Feng, calling the officials and wives of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to join in the show, no more, no less, just enough to fill the 36-seat table.
The wine tasting was very successful, and the delicious red wine was loved by all the participants.Sister Feng was furious, and with a big wave of her hand, she came to order his wife to present a catty of amber wine to each of them.
Sister Feng was especially grateful to the old princess of the Beijing Palace, and gave the old princess four bottles of wine at once, hoping that the old princess would make her famous among the princes and relatives for her.
Not to mention, the results of Sister Feng's tossing are not bad, but within three days, the reputation of Amber Wine has risen.
The reason for her fame is precisely the old concubine of the Beijing Palace.
But it was the old princess of the Beijing Palace who suffered from insomnia for many years. She invited countless famous doctors and took countless precious medicinal materials, but nothing worked.
Let's say that when the old concubine went home on the day of wine tasting, Xun Xun fell asleep, and she didn't wake up all night and slept until dawn.
When I woke up the next day, I felt refreshed and full of energy.
At this moment, the old princess didn't expect the effect of red wine.
The old princess is a good drinker, and she has a good capacity for alcohol. Aftertaste of the red wine tasted good yesterday, she drank three glasses every morning and evening. After three days, the old princess felt that her spirit was getting better. The unsightly spots have faded away, and even the back pain that has been painful for more than ten years has been relieved a lot.
The princesses of the four palaces have a very good relationship, and the Beijing Palace also knows that Feng Lazi has posted posts to other palaces. After eating Feng Lazi for a long time, they want to make Feng Lazi famous.
At noon on the third day, the other three old concubines were invited to a banquet, during which they praised the amber wine into a flower.
On the fourth day after the wine tasting, early in the morning, the head steward of the Beijing Prince's Mansion came to his door and wanted to buy the remaining amber wine from Feng Lazi.
The phoenix hot peppers are only two hundred catties in total, and some red wine should be left to make a name for themselves. The two sides negotiated and gave the old princess fifty catties of red wine.
To welcome the Spring Festival, set the price of Amber Light Wine at 30 taels a catty.According to the efficacy of red wine, the price is really not expensive. However, no matter how expensive the wine is, it will be eye-catching, so I have to reluctantly sell it at a low price.
Sister Feng was originally afraid that the Beijing Palace would be too expensive, but in the end, the housekeeper agreed.
Sister Feng was overjoyed.I admire Yingchun in my heart, this one hundred mu of land can really sell for ten thousand taels of silver.
It was only one transaction, and Sister Feng spent fifteen hundred silver in her pocket. The old princess of the Beijing Palace even specially envoyed the housekeeper to come to give gifts, claiming that she still owed Sister Feng a favor.
As soon as the Beijing Palace came out, the four palaces were alarmed, mainly because the princesses also noticed the miraculous effect of amber wine.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining three of the four major palaces, Dongping Palace, Nan'an County Palace, and Xining County Palace each sent their chief stewards to buy amber lights.
All of a sudden, Sister Feng shook her head, and greeted the four housekeepers with a smile, but finally spread her hands: out of stock.
This is not a lie, because when people participated in the wine tasting, each family gave a bottle to each family, just to let them make a name for themselves.
Then, one catty per person from the East and West prefectures will be sent down.
This will remove fifty catties.
When I came back to Beijing Palace, I bought fifty catties.
For the remaining one hundred catties, Sister Feng pays filial piety everywhere.
Mother Jia was the highest-ranking ancestor, weighing twenty catties. Sister Feng packed it in a glass bottle in a proper manner, and sent it directly to Rongqingtang.Jia's mother loves to drink, and also loves to be beautiful.She can afford money to buy wine herself, and what she likes is Sister Feng's filial piety, and she laughs so hard that she can't see her teeth.
Then there are two masters, Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, Wang's uncle Wang Ziteng, father Wang Zisheng, Shi Jiashuanghou, and Xue's aunt.
Sister Feng didn't forget Jia Lian, so she left five catties, and gave Sanchun and Daiyu one catty each, put them in glass bottles, and put them on the desk as ornaments.
Feng Lazi counted with his fingers like this, there was really nothing left, and the complexion of the housekeepers of the four major palaces turned dark.
In the end, it was Jia Mu who came forward and took out all [-] catties of her own and [-] catties, which were shared among the three families.
Jia's mother also told Feng Lazi: "The princes of these families were friends with your ancestors at the beginning. Why is money not money? You are lucky if they like it!"
These words finally wiped away most of the black paint on the faces of the chief executives of the four major palaces.Then, Feng Lazi promised to give priority to the four princes' palaces next time.This sent people away.
The next day, for unknown reasons, the stewards of the three major palaces came to Rongguo Mansion again to sign a long-term supply contract with Feng Lazi.
Feng Lazi was secretly delighted, but he talked about it with others, saying that he was making wine endlessly, and the ingredients were so expensive.Obviously it is to sit on the ground and raise the price.
In the end, the three housekeepers automatically doubled the price of the amber wine to 60 taels.And prepay half a deposit of [-] catties of amber wine in advance.
After that, Sister Feng was almost in a state of excitement, smiling all day long, walking with a jerk, letting go of the affairs of the house to Li Wan, Tan Chunping and the three of them, while she guarded the small wine shop in the back garden every day.I just wish I could brew another thousand or eight hundred catties and make a lot of money.
It is not known until the Spring Festival that Sister Feng brought back a thousand catties of grapes as early as the day when the first batch of red wine was filtered, and brewed it.
Although Sister Feng didn't tell Yingchun, there is no secret in such a small place in the mansion. Siqi went out to inquire, Sister Feng took the opportunity to raise the price, and Yingchun also found out.
What Yingchun thought was to give Sister Feng a long way to make money.With this momentum, Sister Feng seems to want to take all the wealth in the world to herself.
Thinking of it this way, Yingchun felt depressed for a while, regretting that she did something bad in a hurry.The first batch of red wine should not be all added to the Lingquan, but part of it should be deliberately broken to refresh Sister Feng.
Otherwise, it won't raise Sister Feng's appetite.
Yingchun was very depressed, she didn't expect that a small test with a sledgehammer would fail.She was very afraid that she would have a life to make money, but not a life to spend!
Immediately, Yingchun decided to stand by and watch this time to let Sister Feng wake up.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to continue to cooperate in the future, so how can we talk about saving Rongfu!
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