Although Cao Yuechan is a daughter, her prestige in the Cao family has multiplied in the past three years, and she has long overshadowed her uncompetitive father, and she has the demeanor of the head of the family.

Because her father Cao Tianjiao's goods are not materials for doing business, her mind is not on the wine shop at all. So since she was sixteen years old, Cao Tianjiao has handed over the inside and outside affairs of the winery to Cao Yuechan. In fact, the two men of the Cao family, one old and one young, are too unmotivated to do business, just thinking about enjoying their success.

Fortunately, the ancestors of the Cao family accumulated virtue and allowed Cao Tianjiao to give birth to a smart and capable daughter like Cao Yuechan. In just three years, the declining Cui's Distillery has been revitalized, although it cannot dominate the entire Qingyuan County Liquor Market, but after all, it still retains Cao's Distillery as one of the three major distilleries in Qingyuan.

People want faces, trees want bark, especially Cao Tianjiao's old face, every time he begs for his daughter, his face is panicked.

In the account room, Cao Yuechan was wearing a peony petal pattern big-sleeved shirt, a blue silk half bundle and half draped, a little pink on her elegant and pure cheeks, and a pair of big black eyes full of agility and shrewdness, looking at her uncompetitive father in front of her.

Cao Tianjiao was looked at by his daughter, and his heart was even more empty, his palms unconsciously rubbed back and forth, and he laughed dryly twice, and said: "Chan'er, it is crazy outside that the Cui family has a batch of aged wine, in the hands of that Cui Erlang." ”

Cao Yuechan smiled lightly, spread her hands, and asked, "So what?" What does it have to do with us? ”

"Uh......"

Lao Cao was stunned for a moment, and said hurriedly: "Why is it okay?" Chan'er, you have been in charge of our winery for three years, do you not know the value of this batch of aged wine? If you can get this batch of wine to our house, it will be ......."

"Wait~"

Cao Yuechan interrupted Lao Cao's words and asked a little funny: "Dad, even if Cui Erlang really has this batch of wine in his hand, why should people give it to our family?" ”

Lao Cao said: "It depends on the relationship between our Cao and Cui families." Ten years ago, when his father Cui Jin was still alive, his father and Cui Jin agreed on the marriage of you and Cui Erlang. It's a verbal contract, but it's also a marriage contract, right? “

As soon as Lao Cao's words fell, Cao Yuechan, who was still smiling lightly just now, instantly covered her face with frost, and her eyes were a little more chilly when she looked at Lao Cao.

"Chan'er, don't worry." Lao Cao hurriedly explained, "Dad knows that you have always looked down on Cui Erlang's loser, but in fact, since Cui Jin passed away, Dad has not approved of this marriage." Especially after Cui's wine shop was usurped away by his stepmother, his father looked down on Cui Erlang. Otherwise, after all these years, why is Dad still pretending to be confused and not mentioning the marriage between you? ”

Cao Yuechan sneered: "Hehe, now that people suddenly have a batch of valuable Tibetan wine in their hands, you have changed your mind and want to sell your daughter to exchange for the batch of Tibetan wine in his hand?" ”

"Chan'er, why do you look at your father like this?"

Lao Cao pretended to be angry and said unhappily: "Is your father that kind of person?" You're the tip of your father's heart, how could your father do that kind of thing? It's just that sooner or later, women have to get married, and they have husbands and children. But since you are married, you have to marry someone with a weak personality to be tamed, right? Dad thinks so, if Cui Erlang is willing to dedicate the batch of wine in his hand to our family, then Dad will recruit a son-in-law and let him come to our house. What do you think, now that Cui's industry has been taken away, Cui Erlang is a rootless wanderer. If he can join our Cao family without worrying about food and clothing, he must be a hundred happy with his temperament. When the time comes, Chan'er, you don't have to marry, Cao's wine shop will still be taken care of by you. Dad promised you that no matter whether your brother can make a product in the future or not, this Cao's wine shop will be taken care of by you. ”

Cao Yuechan listened, although the frost on her face gradually faded, she couldn't see her joy and anger: "Hehe, then don't I want to thank you for thinking so carefully and thoughtfully for your daughter?" ”

Seeing this, Lao Cao felt a little more happy in his heart, and waved his hand generously: "What else do you and my father and daughter talk about?" Your clever father knows that your brother's virtue will not be able to inherit the family business in the future. Cao's Wine Workshop will be handed over to you, and my father is a hundred rest assured. So, Chan'er, do you agree? ”

Who knew that Cao Yuechan waved her hand lightly, shook her head and said, "I don't agree!" ”

Lao Cao was anxious again: "Why? ”

Cao Yuechan said: "Help the Cao family take care of the wine shop, and even never marry for the rest of your life, and maintain the family business of the Cao family for you and your younger brother, and the daughter has no complaints." But if you want to pay for my marriage, my daughter can only disagree with a hundred. Besides, Cui Erlang has now been robbed of his family business by outsiders, and his father still calculates him like this, will it be too much of a deception? ”

Lao Cao was a little strange and asked, "Chan'er, haven't you always looked down on that loser?" Why did you speak for him at this time? ”

Cao Yuechan said: "These are two different things. Whether his daughter looks down on him or not has nothing to do with whether his family business has been taken away or not, and he is not the wishful husband in his daughter's mind. The daughter is just talking about things. Moreover, you also said that you had a bad relationship with his father Cui Jin back then, and now that his father has passed away, you want to let him join the Cao family so as to deceive him of the batch of wine in his hand. Speaking of which, the Cao family is going to be poked in the backbone by the people of Qingyuan County. Alright, Dad, let's leave this matter at that. No matter how much trouble there is outside, it has nothing to do with our Cao family. We, Cao's Distillery, will never be involved in this matter! ”

"How's that going to work? Chan'er, that batch of Cui's wine is really valuable, we can't be cheap outsiders! Lao Cao still didn't give up and continued to persuade his daughter.

Cao Yuechan frowned slightly and asked, "Did your old man cause any romantic debts outside?" If you are short of money, just go to the account office to withdraw it. But Hugh will bring it up again. ”

Lao Cao looked embarrassed, and he couldn't hide his daughter from his little. But for the batch of wine in Cui Geng's hand, he still salivated, which was not a small amount.

So he opened his mouth to persuade and lobby, but Cao Yuechan directly issued an eviction order: "Dad, I have to settle the money with Tian Dongjia in the Sihai Warehouse tomorrow morning, and I need to recheck the amount of money." If it's okay, go back first. ”

"This ......" Lao Cao saw that his daughter was determined not to mention the matter of Cui's wine collection to himself, and knew that it would be boring to stay any longer, but he, who was a father, did not dare to offend the daughter of the God of Wealth in the family, so in desperation, he had to hold his breath and withdraw from the account.

Outside the account room, Lao Cao was depressed, and he was wondering with a sad and angry face why he, who was a father, even had to look at the face of a dead girl to live, and was there anyone who was normal? Is there any elder and younger?

Walking in the corridor, Lao Cao glanced at the closed account room, and had already made up his mind in his heart: "This batch of valuable aged liquor, Lao Tzu must get it from Cui Erlang, and it must not be cheap for outsiders!" ”

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South of the city, Zhouxifang.

Cui Geng and Tian Wenkun of the North and South Warehouses made an appointment at a restaurant in the fang, three alleys away from the small courtyard rented by Cui Geng.

At this time, it was already past the meal, and the huge restaurant was empty and quiet, with few diners, just right for talking.

Tian Wenkun scalded a pot of wine, let the guy serve a fresh cut fish, and then withdrew from the people around him and chatted with Cui Gengdan. Even Fu Yao, the warehouse guy who accompanied Mao Bo and Tian Wenkun, was driven out of the restaurant.

I don't know if Tian Wenkun is intentional or unintentional, the hot wine is the Mulan roast brewed by the original Cui family, which is now renamed Fang's Distillery. As for the cut fish, it was freshly caught by the store from Mulan Creek this morning.

The so-called sliced fish is similar to the sashimi that was popular in the island nation of Japan in later generations. However, in addition to cutting into thin slices, the cut fish in the Tang Dynasty was more often cut into thin snowflakes or cut into thin threads. The ancestors of the Tang Dynasty knew how to eat sashimi better than the Japanese.

The people of the Tang Dynasty in the prosperous era are fierce, so the fishing and hunting atmosphere is very heavy, and fishing and fishing are even more common. That's why the dish of chopped fish was very, very famous at the time.

In that era when the types of meat and vegetables were single and seasonings were relatively scarce, the Tang Dynasty was already the world's No. 1 foodie empire at that time.

In the Tang Dynasty, pasta was the staple food, and cakes were the main food, and there were dozens of types of cakes alone. When more Western Fanbang was still drinking blood, the foodies of the Tang Dynasty had already begun to cook dishes in a variety of ways. Among them, the three methods of boiling, steaming and baking are the mainstream. As for the more common stir-fried fried fried stuff in later generations, it didn't start until the Song Dynasty, and it was only popular among scholars and elites.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, when the big families held banquets or the rich and noble children went out for picnics, they brought their own knives to roast the whole sheep and eat their own slices of meat, which was the trend at that time. Especially when the rich and noble children go out for a picnic and have a party, you don't bring a gorgeous and exquisite small short knife to a slice of meat, you are embarrassed to say that your family has money.

The two were drinking wine and eating sashimi, chatting happily. The only regret that Cui Geng regretted eating sashimi without wasabi was really not perfect. Because the mustard at this time is mostly brown mustard and yellow mustard, although it was used in the court of the Zhou Dynasty as early as possible, but at present, it is more classified by the people into natural herbal medicine, and it has not been discovered by people to match with cut fish, which is a pity.

In that ridiculous dream, he vaguely remembered sashimi with wasabi, which couldn't have been more praised. There are also exquisite stir-fried dishes he saw in his dream, as well as two superb spice seasonings, chili pepper and monosodium glutamate that he had never seen in the Tang Dynasty!

When he was eating pure natural sashimi, he was very imaginary, if he didn't make wine in the future and changed to a diet, his buddy might not be able to become the number one food tycoon in the Tang Empire.

Gradually, the dinner came to an end, and Tian Wenkun felt that the foreshadowing was almost over, and he could officially enter the purpose of this visit. So, he picked up the wine jug and poured a small glass for Cui Geng, and said with a smile: "It's really a great pleasure in life to be able to have a drink and chat with Cui Gongzi today, but I hate that someone in Tian didn't know you well earlier, and he didn't know that Cui Gongzi was such a knowledgeable person." ”

Cui Geng picked up a small cup and clinked glasses with Tian Wenkun, drank it in one gulp, smashed his mouth twice and said to himself: "This Mulan Roast is really fading out of the bird's taste." ”

Tian Wenkun was stunned for a moment, then nodded again and again and said with a smile: "Yes, nowadays, whether it is our Qingyuan County or the wineries in various states and counties, the newly brewed wine is sweet and light, and it is rare to have mellow wine." Unless it's an aged wine. By the way, Tian heard that Cui Gongzi had recently obtained a batch of aged wine, I don't know if there is really such a thing? ”

Cui Geng looked at Tian Wenkun's face that was trying his best to keep it calm, and said with a smile in his heart, Big brother, you are really calm, you are willing to say your meaning after eating your two large sashimi, it is not easy.

Then he nodded, and replied with a clear and innocent look in his eyes: "Is there such a thing, but I didn't expect it to spread in the market?" Look, where in the world are there impermeable walls? ”

Tian Wenkun listened, almost choked on a sip of wine, and said secretly, pretend, let you pretend, this rumor is simply what you let out, okay?

However, after receiving Cui Geng's affirmative reply, he still couldn't hide his eyebrows and flew.

Then he asked lightly: "Then how much is this batch of aged wine, and what will Cui Gongzi do with it?" “

Cui Geng sighed for two breaths slightly, stretched out three fingers, and said, "Protected by my ancestors, I left a Tibetan bar with about three hundred altars for my unworthy descendants. As for how to dispose of it, it must be sold. Who made me, an unworthy descendant, lose the family property left by my ancestors? ”

"Three hundred altars?"

Tian Wenkun snorted in surprise, this is a huge amount. Especially the three hundred jars of aged wine, if you put it in your own hands and operate it and sell it to the Lingnan area of Quanzhou, you will have to make a lot of money!

However, the shrewdness of the businessman still made him hold back his urgency, tried his best to keep calm, and said lightly: "Only three hundred altars? That's not much. Since Cui Gongzi wants to sell, what is the price he is ready to make? ”

Damn it, old fox!

His every move changed one by one, and naturally he did not escape the subtle observation that Cui Geng had prepared for a long time.

However, what was waiting for was not Cui Geng's offer, but seeing Cui Geng slowly stand up, he said, "Sell, it must be sold." But how much is the price, how to sell it, there is a novel idea in the next, I don't know if Tian Dongjia wants to hear it? ”

Tian Wenkun frowned slightly, and found that this legendary gentleman didn't seem to be as simple as he thought. Then he stretched out his hand to invite and said, "Let's talk about it~"

"There's no rush for this!"

Cui Geng shook his head and said, "Since the Tian Dong family has invited me to a big meal, then before I say it, I have to show some sincerity." “

After saying that, he turned around and shouted at the wine shop: "Mao Bo, you go home and bring a jar of wine to store, I want to invite Tian Dongjia to be the first to taste the best wine in the world!" ”

The best wine in the world?

Tian Wenkun was a little disdainful in his heart, even if the aged wine in your Cui Erlang's hand is worth a lot, but this tone is really too big, right?

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