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Qiao Jiwei also taught Fei Cui how to make fish tofu. In his spare time, Fei Cui and the villagers brought the fish tofu to the county town for sale.Before leaving, Qiao Jiwei specifically told her to go with the men in the village and not to leave alone.

Fei Cui drove back to Qian's house in an ox cart with the money she earned in her arms. At this time, Qiao Jiwei was cooking dyes, and Qian Dayong also came back after collecting the millet in the field.

"It's all sold out?" Qiao Jiwei raised his head when he saw Jade came home.

Jade said: "Yes!"

She took out all the money in her pocket to give to Qiao Jiwei, but he only took half of it.That's pretty much the cost.The other half was returned to Jade's hands.

Emerald was puzzled, and showed Qiao Jiwei the other half of the money in his hand, "Master, this..."

Qiao Jiwei smiled, "Keep the flowers for yourself."

Fei Cui said dumbly: "But I can't spend so much, I just buy a headgear and clothes."

Qiao Jiwei found a stick to stir in the pot: "Then keep it as dowry money, and I can find a good husband's house for myself."

"Young master, you..." Fei Cui couldn't help being a little annoyed when her young master mentioned this matter, but since he said so, she no longer cared about her words, "When I left the mansion, my wife was discussing about the young master's marriage. At this time, the Young Madam almost already has it in her stomach. I see, the Young Master will marry a wife in a few years and have a second Young Master. Only then can I worry about my dowry money."

The speaker had no intention of listening but the listener was interested, Qian Dayong listened to all the words of Fei Cui, his heart was sour and sweet, he didn't know what it was like, at this moment, his mind was filled with the words "Young Master Marries a Wife", lingering .

Qiao Jiwei was not forgiving, "He's getting more and more tricky here, no matter how big or small, I don't know who I learned from, and I'm a teacher."

Fei Cui snorted, "Of course it's you, master." Then she hopped into the room, and was scolded again by Qian's mother, saying that there was no girl like her.

Qian Dayong said tenderly to Qiao Jiwei: "Xiaowei, tell me the truth, when do you plan to get married!"

Qiao Jiwei was taken aback, he didn't expect such an honest person like Qian Dayong to tease him, it must be Fei Cui who started it, and he followed suit.So he also learned from Jade, and made fun of Qian Dayong: "Of course it was after the 'big brother' married his wife."

Qian Dayong did not hear the unknown meaning in Qiao Jiwei's words, and continued to lower his eyes and ask: "What if I don't marry for the rest of my life?"

"This..." Qiao Jiwei couldn't answer, why did Qian Dayong's question suddenly become heavy.

But when I think about it deeply, I feel that it is okay to be a partner with Qian Dayong for the rest of my life. This person treats him with nothing he dislikes, nor does he have any bad guts. He is an ideal partner for him.

But he didn't understand Qian Dayong's intention of asking this question, whether he was going to continue to make fun of him or be serious.Just as he was about to respond to Qian Dayong's question, a foreign accent suddenly sounded outside: "Is anyone home?"

Qiao Jiwei went outside and opened the door, and saw three or five men standing outside.A person is carrying a lot of things in his hands.

A man was the first to speak: "Is this the Qian family?"

Qiao Jiwei nodded: "Yes."

"Buy some fish tofu from your house."

Qiao Jiwei pointed to a fish tofu shop in the village: "There are."

Coming to buy fish tofu cannot be called an excuse, but to explain the purpose of coming. It turns out that it is a prescription to spend a lot of money to buy fish tofu.

Hearing that these people came from Jindi, Qiao Jiwei was the first to think of Xinghuacun wine and the famous line of Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu, "The shepherd boy points to Xinghuacun".

In this way, this group of people are Shanxi merchants. This group of people has traveled all over the years, and recently just settled here, so that they can sell some things and collect some raw materials. They must have the means to expand their business to such a far place.

Now that I suddenly became interested in dyed linen, I must have seen the business opportunities in it.

For ordinary people, the seller Fangzi would definitely not agree, after all, Fangzi means a job for a lifetime.But Qiao Jiwei didn't think so. Since someone wanted to buy it, he would sell it, but he definitely didn't use a lot of money as the price.

Qiao Jiwei corrected his expression: "It's okay to ask for a prescription, but you must exchange it with a wine making recipe!"

This is called "equivalent exchange". All the Shanxi merchants were shocked, and they intuitively felt that the young man in front of him was not simple, and he had a long-term vision.

But handing over the prescription of Fenjiu is no small matter, and several people have to go back and explain to the owner to see what the owner means.

The owner visited them the next day and agreed to teach them the techniques of brewing.

Shanxi merchants agreed so readily because wine was not what they peddled when doing business.The reason for making wine is just to relieve homesickness.

But Qiao Jiwei is still not loose on this side, and he still needs to discuss with shopkeeper Guo.

Although Qiao Jiwei and shopkeeper Guo had many conflicts and were rivals before, but now they seem to be bound together by their core interests.Shopkeeper Guo, like Qiao Jiwei, does not want to spread the dyed recipe.

If the dyeing recipe is passed on without the consent of shopkeeper Guo, shopkeeper Guo may complain.I'm afraid it will be difficult to communicate in the future.

So when the head of the Shanxi merchants invited him to go with him, Qiao Jiwei refused with excuses.If he went, the shopkeeper Guo might think that he had already colluded with the Shanxi merchants and waited for him to get caught.In terms of major events, Qiao Jiwei and shopkeeper Guo are still interdependent. Compared with Shanxi merchants, this end is naturally closer.

These days shopkeeper Guo has been recruiting weavers, buying machine looms, expanding his voice to several nearby state capitals, and his business is booming.

When the Shanxi merchants found this place, shopkeeper Guo was supervising labor to move the loom into the weaving room. Shopkeeper Guo’s side was even more difficult than Qiao Jiwei, so shopkeeper Guo had to think about it before handing over the dyeing recipe. Shanxi merchants have been migrating, and the sackcloth they make has to be sold far away, which does not constitute much conflict with his family's business.Besides, the output of dyed linen has increased recently, and the price has also stabilized accordingly. The most profitable period has passed. Finally, Shanxi merchants promised to send a batch of silk juan cloth and Shu brocade here at cost price every year, and the shopkeeper Guo let go.

Then came the signing of the contract. Qiao Jiwei, Guo's shopkeeper, and the Shanxi merchants each pressed their red handprints, and the cooperation was concluded.

Afterwards, the Qian family and the Shanxi merchants exchanged their skills.A red-faced old man from Jinzhong was in charge of teaching Qiao Jiwei the craft of brewing wine at Qian's house, while Qian Dayong was in charge of delivering the craft of dyeing linen.

In fact, brewing Fenjiu is much more troublesome than dyeing sackcloth.Making distiller's koji, fermenting, and distilling each step takes a long time and a lot of raw materials, which is far from being accomplished by one person.

And Qiao Jiwei had never been exposed to the technology of wine making before, so the old man had to teach him from scratch.Teach him to ferment first, then take a bag of wheat as raw material, and Qiao Jiwei will follow the steps of wine making in turn. Qiao Jiwei will help him to get acquainted with the texture.

On Qian Dayong's side, Qian Dayong taught a young man in his early twenties.This young man is the concubine son of this group of Shanxi business leaders, he looks bright and handsome, and he is an acquaintance, "Brother Dayong" is so affectionate, if there is something he doesn't understand, he will ask Qian Dayong, Qian Of course, Dayong would not turn a blind eye and give him a positive response.

Qian Dayong added enzyme dye to the blue dye, and said: "You have to be careful when adding this kind of thing, otherwise, even the dye solution will be burned. Come, come!"

The young man took the spoon with a smile. At first, he added it decently, but in an instant, it became more intense. Qian Dayong hurriedly grabbed his arm, and couldn't help covering the young man, "Enough, don't add more. .”

This was a normal behavior at first, but from a distance, it seemed that Qian Dayong was hugging the young man tightly from behind, performing the scene of concubine love, treating each other tenderly, and being passionately in love.

Qiao Jiwei noticed the change, glanced over there curiously, and then turned his head away.

This scene was also seen by the young man's father, who instantly turned pale with shock, thinking that Qian Dayong was molesting his son.His son was born of a beautiful concubine, and he doted on him tightly, he would not allow anyone to covet his son.

The leader of the Shanxi merchants took an opportunity to pull Qiao Jiwei into the back room, and said in a low voice: "I think your eldest brother is not very disciplined, and he is too close to my son. You'd better talk about him, saying that the elder brother is like a father." Okay, but even if the parents have done something wrong, the children should persuade them, don't you think?"

Qian Dayong and the young man's intimate actions also made Qiao Jiwei feel a little blocked, and for some reason, but he was a little confused in his heart, but he didn't. He gave the Shanxi merchant leader a comforting smile: "My elder brother is a real person. You always think about others when you do things, and you won’t have any unreasonable thoughts about your son. Don’t worry. Maybe we misunderstood that time. The eldest brother may just teach your son how to make dye solution. After all, we only met for a few days, and we are still two men... …Not too possible."

Seeing what Qiao Jiwei said, the head of the Shanxi merchants couldn't say anything more, so this trivial matter was overturned.

In the next few days, Qian Dayong often noticed Qiao Jiwei glanced at them, and it was him himself.Qian Dayong was very puzzled by this.

Qian Dayong suddenly felt that Qiao Jiwei was jealous, and he didn't know how he thought of this.

In fact, this young man who studied dyeing solution is good-looking and has a good figure, Qian Dayong is also happy to see it.But after putting him and his Xiaowei there, Qiao Jiwei couldn't help but look more handsome and kind-hearted.When he looked at his Xiaowei, he felt that the clear water was looking forward to the fish, if there were no fish in the water, the water would become stagnant water; he felt that the trees were looking forward to the yellow birds at dusk, if there were no bird nests on the tree , this tree has become the bitter dead branch.

Besides, these two people were incomparable. Qiao Jiwei was the person he vaguely wanted to spend the rest of his life with, while the young man who learned how to dye cloth was just a stranger who got in touch with him because of some trivial matters.For this reason, he deliberately distanced himself from the young man, and looked at Qiao Jiwei's face from time to time while teaching the young man.

Qiao Jiwei was exhausted physically and mentally from learning wine making in the past two days. He fell asleep with Qian Dayong on his back as soon as he lay on the bed.

This misunderstanding cannot be allowed to continue, but in the past two days, outsiders were always present, and he has been unable to speak to Qiao Jiwei.