Tang Dynasty good man

Chapter [-] Thief

Who?I stopped Cheng Chu's hot-blooded behavior. According to him, it is right to sell and buy wine together. In my opinion, this is a mistake.No matter who they are, it may be a coincidence that they can snatch the place ahead of me, but it is most likely that they have received the news of the prohibition beforehand. Those who can receive the news first-hand are unbeatable.

It's normal to stock up on wine. Whoever receives this news must hoard a large amount of wine, and if they don't make a thousand or eight hundred catties at home and wait for the value to increase, they are fools.The wine shop on the north gate was exhausted from fighting the Chen family, and was looking forward to a big customer coming to the door, and the quality of the wine was good. Buying it now is a good match for both.I'm just curious about who booked the venue, although I have a vague feeling in my heart, it's better not to know.

The acquisition operation is still going on, and the acquisition direction of the three families of Xiawang, Cheng, and Chen has been coordinated. Within the scope of Chang'an City, with a radius of several hundred miles, there are mistakes in the killing, and they are not let go.Without high-quality wine, we just have to add an additional process to ordinary shochu. Even the persimmon wine and naphthalene fruit wine in the country are all killed. It is true that the workshop can be kept.

Sure enough, the Cheng family was not built. It is worthy of the quality of the army. It is sturdy and efficient. It was dark and brought back several large carts for the family. Many buyers who were sent out slept in the winery. It will be very dangerous to be pulled out by Cheng Chu for solo practice.

"How is it?" It was already midnight when we got home, most of the courtyard of the Wang family was still brightly illuminated by lanterns, from time to time there were servants from various families who pushed carts to bring in wine, butlers greeted people inside and outside the house, while Accountant Hu sat in the wine cellar On the long table next to him, light up the lamp to keep accounts.

"It's almost that much today." Accountant Hu shook his head in dissatisfaction, "There are [-] catties pulled in front and back, and after steaming, it's less than [-] catties that can be used to make toilet water. It's even worse. Far. And the quality is still uneven, some can be used or not.”

"That's not bad." Although I was upset in my heart, I still had to be firm with my words and not express any unnecessary emotions.In times of crisis, I have to play the role of the backbone, and it is not so easy to be in charge of the family. "Greetings to the butler, no matter who the family is, they have to be rewarded for their efforts. Write down the names, and each person has ten hard-earned money. We will take care of the food and drink. The Cheng family's butler will come to deliver wine tomorrow. Please treat me well."

"Fifteen Wen," Ying came over without knowing when, and interjected from behind me: "The reward is [-]% of the monthly fee, fifteen Wen per day. Let them work hard." She said and put the two red envelopes on the table. Hu’s accountant’s table, “Mr. Hu and Uncle Qian are both busy now. My family shouldn’t be like this, but everyone has rewards, but it’s unreasonable to miss the two elders. The amount is not big. It’s just a Meaning, don’t push back, put it away quickly.”

"Mrs. Xie." Ying's words were beautiful, and Accountant Hu felt at ease. "Brother Qian is still working in the front yard, I will send it over here."

"Not busy, I'll deliver it myself." Ying smiled, turned her head and said to me: "Husband has been busy for a day, and the food in the back house is ready. Go and have a rest, and I still have to work hard tomorrow. Concubine first I'm going to Uncle Qian's." He took a red envelope from the table and walked away.

"Why don't we say that the servants in our family are lucky." Accountant Hu cupped his hands at me.It's not a salute, it means congratulations, as if congratulating me for having a good wife. "When such a big thing happened, I was just anxious in my heart, but I didn't panic, and I was still full of confidence. After all, you and your wife are still in charge of the young master, and there are arrangements for big things, and this is the role of errands. It's a blessing."

"Oh." I nodded, feeling a little sour in my heart.Accountant Hu's praise of Ying is obviously higher than mine.It's no wonder that when Wang Xiu was spending time and money outside, Ying independently chose the Wang family's family background, and the whole family came together through thick and thin. Without Ying's management, this family would have collapsed long ago.Thinking of this, I felt a little more balanced, and said with a smile: "Mr. Hu is busy, I will go in and discuss with them again, and I will still be busy in the next half month."

I ate some dinner at Cheng Chu's house, probably because I exercised a lot, and I was hungry again when I saw the food on the table.I'm a worthless person, and big things don't affect my appetite. I blame myself while eating, so why don't I have any sense of crisis? "Hurry up, sit down and eat something. It's not easy after a busy day." The fourth child, second daughter, and Ying all came in one after another, feeling a little uncomfortable eating and drinking alone.

Ying smiled, sat next to me, poured a glass of wine and handed it over, and moved the plate of rice forward for me, "My husband has had a hard day, and the three women have not moved, you eat yours." Let the second daughter and the fourth child sit next to each other, turned their heads and asked, "Fourth child, where is the farthest the person you placed has gone?"

"Passing through Chang'an Town to the south, there is Nanshan, the water is good, and there are more wine shops. Most of the people haven't come back. I guess there will be results tomorrow." The fourth child took a notebook and came out, "Supply wine for our family There are a total of seven workshops in the village. I greeted them today. They are now rushing to buy some underground wine. The usual price is increased by [-]%. The camp is separated by a mountain road, but the weather is good and the output is larger. The dispatcher will go and collect it."

"It's not a solution." I stopped my chopsticks and wiped my mouth. "It's laborious and inefficient to pull Fei people back and forth. In the surrounding wine producing places, let's go to a few more people at a time and buy them locally. There are too many hoards." Then pull back. The prohibition order has just been issued, and there is still a delay when it is passed on before it is implemented. We still have more time. There is an example of Beimen Winery. Cherish running long distances, don't cherish money, even if you lose capital, you have to survive for two years."

"That's the truth." Ying nodded, "My husband's words are clear. Since you have opened a workshop, you can do business without trouble. If you don't fight for rewards, I'm afraid they won't die!" Turning to the second woman, she said: " From tomorrow onwards, don't be so busy, you can't delay the business of the vegetarian egg workshop if you are in a hurry here, the fourth child will worry about the wine, you can cook the vegetarian egg workshop for us."

The second daughter nodded and muttered something to Wang Ying.It was said in a low voice, and I stretched my ears so that I couldn't hear it clearly, and the fourth child also stretched his head curiously to listen.

"This is a way." After listening to Ying, she patted the heads of the second daughter, turned her head and asked the fourth elder: "What is the exchange method for toilet water and wine? Our family's wine steaming workshop has lost the craftsman's production because of the wheat harvest, so There is no explanation for the order quantity for other customers, so I have to take toilet water to make amends, and ask them to let this matter go, will it work?"

"Success!" The fourth child's eyes lit up.Jealously pushed the second daughter, "Except for a few big restaurants that can't place orders, other high-ranking households will definitely be able to support them. Tomorrow I will go door-to-door to make amends, so I can save the raw materials!" Excitedly patted Kang Yan, "Also, in the next half a month from tomorrow, customers who come to exchange wine for toilet water will get the goods first. I will change the regulations of the toilet water workshop, and send special personnel to the major customers to report all the news. Don’t be afraid of running out of raw materials!” As I spoke, I took off my shoes and climbed onto the kang table to copy the abacus and start calculating the exchange ratio between wine and toilet water.

Second daughter, this girl.I smiled and scratched her nose, which made a great contribution.Ying also held the second daughter in her arms and kept being intimate. She couldn't love her enough.Brainstorming, smart people coming together.As long as you don't make trouble in the nest, it will be great.There is no shortage of smart and capable people in this world. As long as the mind is used in the right place, everything can be conquered.

This method really worked, and the fourth child made a trip.Everything is settled.After receiving the toilet water, the customer who placed the order was very considerate of the difficulty of the wine steaming workshop because of the lack of labor to go to work because of the wheat harvest.Quan Dang ordered toilet water, and hoped to deal with the Chen family for a long time in the future, the more vegetarian eggs and the like, the better.

The reward party celebration held for less than the third anniversary of the toilet water workshop has won the support of most of the old customers. The fourth child deliberately lowered the threshold for the exchange of wine and toilet water, so as to benefit the big rewards.Whether it is new wine or old wine.When you come here, you have to go through the process of distillation, and change them all!It greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the customers. They are all businessmen, and there are not many channels for buying wine. The next day when the news spread, there were carts and carts of various wines in front of the workshop. The workshop is rushing to work day and night, and the wheat harvest has been confiscated.Manpower is tight.Chuang Tzu hired labor at a high price, regardless of gender!

"How?" Now the whole government is mobilizing.The servants who didn't have any work on hand went to work in the wine steaming workshop to earn wages, and those who bought wine from outside should be assigned, and there were not many people in the yard.Now the semi-finished products of the wine cellar are moved to the wine steaming workshop for processing, and only high-grade wine is stored in the cellar. The accountant simply settled in the small yard next to the wine cellar. Rewards are settled immediately, not in arrears.

"Nervous, I'm afraid I'm nervous in half a month's time." Accountant Hu turned over the account book and pointed it out to me, "Since yesterday, the workshop has not stopped at all. The original wine can be supplied now, and the production is still in short supply."

"How much is the difference?" It's not bad to be able to reach this step now, I dare not expect to be able to calculate it all. "With a guarantee of seven thousand catties, is there any hope in half a month?"

"Difficult." Accountant Hu shook his head, "It looks like five thousand catties, four hundred catties a day is the limit, and it's less than four hundred. A few days ago, I wasted a few days to raise raw materials, and five thousand catties is the top." He flipped through the account. Ye, asked hesitantly: "If it takes twenty days or so, our family is a wine steamer, not a wine brewer. If the court prohibits alcohol, can you give our family an explanation?"

"No," I shook my head, "It stands to reason that letting us hoard is already opening the back door. The steamed wine is bright and bright, and people with a little bad intentions can make our family suffer a lot. Where you can't go beyond, try to guard it." Rules, no mistakes."

"Think about it again." Accountant Hu closed the account book helplessly, "What about the workshop at the north gate? I heard that the winemaking workshop over there is not small. If he is not as innocent as we are, he may have some knowledge. .”

"What do you mean? He works during the day, and we work at night?" This is obviously not possible. Let alone the difference in wine, it is difficult to assign it to the shift. They even brew and steam, and the process is also different. "This is impossible."

"Possibly." Accountant Hu picked up the brush and thought for a moment, "Sue him. He sued him for stealing the Chen family's secret method of brewing wine. Although he would at most apologize with a gift in the lawsuit, his reputation would be ruined, and he would never be locked up again. The place where he is. I have talked to him before, or I will rent a workshop, or I will go to court to judge."

"It's a way," I nodded.Now at this point, I can't care less about compassion, my family is the biggest.When Lao Yuan saw Ying, he also came over, and said to Accountant Hu, "It's not too late, let's do it like this." He pulled Ying over and told her to call the fourth child over quickly.

The accountant Hu's plan was unanimously approved. Ying and the fourth child had no intention of appeasing the winery, so they immediately asked accountant Hu to write a pleading, borrowing the name of the Chen family.The fourth child brought Er Niangzi's thugs to go out in person, in name to seek justice, but in appearance to rob.

"Prepare the horse, I'll go with you." If you don't come out, you can't come out, but the scene of the sister-in-law has to be smooth, and if something dirty happens, I will stand behind, and he is a liquor seller.Even if you kill him, you dare not contradict him.

The fourth child is a fast man, and the luxurious carriage is definitely ostentatious. When it stopped towards the entrance of the North Gate Wine Workshop, the storefront blocked half of it and went down. Really stopped, the plaque turned over.Play feigned posture.I didn't get off the horse, so I stopped beside the fourth carriage, waiting for the second lady to lead someone to commit crimes.

The boss looks much more glamorous than before, but there is a little injury on his face, so don't ask.Cheng Chu sent someone to buy wine to commemorate that day.Seeing such a big scene, the boss showed fear, and walked carefully to the side of the carriage, not knowing what to say.Intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at me, probably recognizing it, and lowered his head, not daring to make a sound.

"Do you know how to read?" The fourth child didn't show up in the car. The curtain of the car was opened a small slit and passed the paper to Mr. Hu who was next to the car. "If you know how to read, show it to him. If you don't, read it to him!"

The boss stood alone among a circle of strong men.He shook his head pitifully, indicating that he was illiterate.The clerks in the store watched from afar, but did not dare to go forward, and were stopped by the fourth row of horse-drawn carriages.Mr. Hu recited it first, not only did the boss not understand, but I also looked confused.

"I know you didn't understand. It's not for you to read. It's a pleading paper for the officials." Mr. Hu folded the pleading paper carefully.Pinch in hand. "Originally, your facade is a fake. Do you know who is in the car? The fourth lady of the Chen family! Do you remember? You must have seen it in the toilet water workshop, and the wages are not less for you, right?"

The boss finally knew the purpose of these people, and if the master found the door, there would be good fruit to eat?To admit is to close the door, and not to admit is to go to court to judge, and he is willing to do nothing.Panicked, he took a step back and was sticking to Er Niangzi's body, but was pushed and shoved by Er Niangzi again, and he staggered twice before he stopped.

Mr. Hu was very satisfied with the effect, coughed twice, and said sharply: "It depends on you whether you can go to the hall or not." Pointing to the shop, his tone slowed down, and he said as usual, "Business is good, even the loose ones are sold. Stop it, it seems that you have made a lot of money. Just looking at your outfit, it is not something that a general wine shop can afford. There are also a lot of wives and concubines at home? Children, they should also have children. They will grow up later, It's not appropriate to be the spittle of others for the rest of your life. Do you think this is the truth?"

The shopkeeper looked up at Accountant Hu, wanted to nod, but held back.

"Look, they are all from here. I don't tell you, but you understand." Accountant Hu smiled, and said softly: "If you do your business, Miss Chen Si will not pursue it. After all, it is not easy to start a family business. Who If you have the heart to make other people's wives separate, it's not that you have to fight in the ring. To be honest, if you really fight in the ring, you won't come to your place. Just going through the court, I'm afraid it will ruin your reputation, I understand you."

"Oh?" The shopkeeper seemed to have hope rekindled after hearing this, he raised his head slightly, and the expression on his face changed.

"Nothing else. Recently, the masters who steam wine in the dew water workshop go back to harvest a lot of wheat. It's just the workshop you worked in before. I won't pursue anything else. I just plan to cooperate with you for a few days, seven or eight days before and after. I know that your wine is selling well recently, so I don’t dare to delay your business, so what should you do, we only lend you the furniture for steaming wine.”

"Okay!" The boss agreed without thinking.Suddenly remembered something, and said dejectedly: "The order is huge, and I can't afford it for seven or eight days. There is nothing I can do!" He squatted down dejectedly, and buried his head deeply.

"Oh, hehe." Shopkeeper Hu helped the boss up, "Don't be discouraged, we have a solution. Aren't you brewing and steaming? How long can the steamed wine be steamed? Don't you only open the furnace once when the distiller's grains are out? Steaming, and there is no rest throughout the day, and it will be over soon. Once you meet the day of steaming wine, it will be tight and you will use it first. We are customers, so we still keep this duty."

The boss didn't know what to say, and was a little confused by Accountant Hu's words. He didn't know whether to nod or shake his head.

"Oh, if you don't object, then you agree? Don't worry, I won't use your furniture for nothing," he said, taking out a bag of money from his pocket and stuffing it into the boss's hand. The Chen family's business never treats people badly." Patted the boss on the shoulder, "It's agreed, after the use up, our two families will be evened out, and we will not owe anyone in the future, you see." Open the pleading paper in front of the boss Shaking it, then gently tearing it into several pieces, "It's a write-off, no one will pursue this matter anymore, my wife lives a stable life, and behaves upright. I'm so happy for you!" The guy from the distillery came over and patted the guy on the shoulder, "This guy is strong." He pointed to Er Niangzi and the others, "Go, take these guys to the steamed wine. I'm friends with your shopkeeper. I haven't seen each other for a while, let's have a drink today. Why are you still in a daze? Go!" He gave Er Niangzi a wink, "Go with this little brother and listen to his orders."

The second lady pushed the clerk and went to the back, while the accountant Hu took the shopkeeper's drink instead of the customer, and the entanglement was tight but not loose.The fourth child is a smart person, and immediately sent someone to report back, and hurriedly rushed to the staff and raw materials, as long as the manpower came to occupy the place of operation, it was his own world.

Hey, accountant Hu, a literary thieves, I like it.