The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 696
Worshiping ancestors in the winter solstice is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years.

The Lu clan naturally has sacrificial activities every winter solstice, every five years, this year happens to be the number of five years.

Except for the descendants of the clan like Lu Da and Lu Jinzhen, who are under the imperial order and cannot return to Beijing to participate, they have been rushing back to the capital to participate in the winter solstice sacrifice. The population is thriving.

The Winter Solstice Ceremony of the Lu Clan kicked off with the ancestral hall sacrifice the day before the Winter Solstice.

The ancestral hall set up incense tables and placed offerings. When he first arrived, Lu Mingyang, the patriarch of the Lu clan, and other respected elders in the clan led the male members of the clan into the ancestral hall.

Offering incense, lighting lamps, knocking bells, and firing cannons, worshiping in order of seniority, performing three offerings, reading ancestor worship texts, and praying for the longevity and well-being of the whole family.

On the day of the winter solstice, as soon as the time came, Lu Mingyang, a man from the same clan, led them to the ancestral tomb for an outdoor sacrificial ceremony.

It is said that there is no taboo to break the ground during the winter solstice, but it is not appropriate to "break the ground" casually on other days. Therefore, going to the ancestral graves on the winter solstice is to add soil to the ancestral graves, which is called renovating the residence for the ancestors to remember the merits of the ancestors.

When the men of the family came back from the ancestral grave, nearly a hundred banquet tables had been arranged in the square outside the ancestral hall to share the sacrificial food.

Of course, the so-called sharing of sacrificial food is just a formality. The banquet on this day was very rich, allowing the clan to enjoy a meal that was different from previous years.

That is, at the time of the winter festival in the clan, Lu Jinkang presented duck down quilts and duck down jackets to the elders, widows and widows of the clan on behalf of the Duke of Zhenguo, and in this way, the duck down products were publicly displayed in front of the world.

Although the gifts were only carried out in the clan, they still caused a sensation. There was an endless stream of people who approached the Duke of Zhen's mansion asking to buy duck down products, but Lu Jinkang politely declined them all.

Although the duck farm still continuously provides clean duck down to Jinxiufang, there are still too many monks and too little porridge. This year, no matter what, it is impossible to sell it to the outside world, not to mention that Su Yunduo has to fulfill his promise to the workshop supervisors.

Of course, eiderdown quilts and eiderdown jackets for relatives and friends in the budget are indispensable.

After the winter solstice sacrifice, the clansmen scattered in other places left the capital and returned to their respective residences before the heavy snow blocked the road with the gifts carefully prepared by the Zhen Guo government.

The gifts prepared by the Zhen Guogong this time are really rich. Although the vast majority of the clansmen failed to get duck down products, each gift contained the three most fashionable and most in-demand items in the capital: preserved eggs, red wine, and the export of Yujiefang. of toiletries.

Lu Mingyang and An's clansmen who were about to be sent away from other places, under Lu Jinkang's repeated persuasion, set off for the hot spring villa. This time they will stay in the villa for about half a month, and old lady Lu will be with them.

This time, because Lu Jinkang was on duty, he didn't personally send a few elders to the hot spring villa, so he specially arranged for Lu Sheng, the captain of the Fuzhong's personal guards, to escort them with a team of personal guards.

Instead, Su Yunduo entrusted the matter at hand to Nanny Ding and several stewards, and specially left Zisu to assist, and she personally sent several elders to the hot spring villa.

It is said that they are sending the elders to the hot spring villa, but in fact Su Yunduo also wants to take the opportunity to deal with some affairs.

No, after arriving at the hot spring villa to arrange the living of the elders, Su Yunduo asked the accompanying Ziyue to invite Peng Zhuangtou, Shen Bao, Zhang Pingan, and Chunlei to hold a temporary meeting, and the first topic to be discussed was liquor purification.

After the Holy One ordered the hot spring villa to continue to refine the liquor, half a month passed and there was no mention of handing over the liquor purification to the Tai Hospital, and there was no new movement in the Tai Hospital workshop.

In private, Su Yunduo talked about this matter with Lu Jinkang a lot, and once asked Lu Jinkang explicitly what the Holy Majesty's plan was. Lu Jinkang only asked Su Yunduo to arrange the hot spring villa to purify liquor to the best of his ability. As for the Holy Majesty's plan, as a courtier I feel that the Holy Majesty trusts me, and I don't want to speculate immediately.

Su Yunduo had no choice but to play by ear.

"Maybe the supply of low-alcohol wine can catch up recently?" Su Yunduo first asked about the supply of low-alcohol wine.

Only by knowing the supply of low-alcohol wine can we arrange follow-up matters accordingly.

"If we can keep up, we can keep up, but our refining ability can't keep up." The person who answered Su Yunduo was Zhang Pingan, the director of the distillery.

Su Yunduo was slightly surprised. In order to let Lu Da and the others rush to the northern city with high-alcohol liquor, the Holy Majesty did order the household department to send a batch of low-alcohol liquor to the hot spring winery.

Since then, because of Tai Hospital's demand for high-alcohol liquor, Tai Hospital has applied to the Holy Spirit for a batch of low-alcohol liquor.

According to Su Yunduo's estimate, after half a month's continuous operation of equipment, the two batches of low-alcohol liquor should have been purified almost. For this reason, she also specially discussed with Lu Jinkang to buy from the winery under the name of Zhen Guogong's mansion. Li brought a batch of low-alcohol liquor over, and was worried that the hot spring villa's purified liquor would be shut down due to insufficient supply of low-alcohol liquor.

She has only been in a daze for a few days because of the winter festival in the clan, so why does she have insufficient refining ability? !

Peng Zhuangtou and the others naturally saw the doubt in Su Yunduo's eyes, and they looked at each other and smiled, and Zhang Pingan continued to explain Su Yunduo's doubts: "The household department sent another batch of low-alcohol wine over the day before yesterday, a total of five thousand catties, let us The wine shop is trying to completely purify it before the end of the year. Because I know that the master is busy these few days, so I didn't send a letter to the master. I planned to go to the city to ask the master for an idea tomorrow, but I didn't expect the master to be here today. coming."

Su Yunduo was naturally surprised and amazed when he heard this, but his previously suspended heart suddenly became solid.

Undoubtedly, the Holy Majesty has decided to hand over the purification of the liquor to the hot spring wine shop. Maybe there will be a decree in these two days, so the next thing the hot spring wine shop should do is to improve the purification ability of the white wine.

Everyone is not a fool, Su Yunduo can figure it out in an instant, most of the people here will naturally have guesses in their hearts after a few days, and now they are all looking at Su Yunduo with burning eyes. Responsible for the expansion of liquor purification capacity.

From the beginning of trying to purify liquor to a certain degree of purification ability now, several people have come from nothing to help each other and have accumulated a certain amount of experience. If the master intends to improve the processing ability, they are confident that they can do it in the shortest possible time. A new purification device with a larger processing capacity will be launched within the time limit.

Facing everyone's scorching gazes, Su Yunduo thought secretly in his heart, and finally did not disappoint everyone, and put the improvement of liquor purification ability on the agenda.

Even if in the end the Holy One still handed over the purification of liquor to the Tai Hospital, the purification device of the hot spring wine shop can be used for other purposes, and it will not be discarded. Compared with Yangjiaji's essential oil refining equipment, it is not bad and even has other advantages.

To increase the processing capacity, it is necessary to increase the purification equipment, and then the next thing is to increase the manpower.

It is not difficult for the Zhen Guo government to increase manpower. Su Yunduo's side just finished the meeting, and Lu Mingyang's side got the news, and directly asked the captain of the personal guard to return to the city to bring fifty people to Su Yunduo.

The people named by Lu Mingyang and personally selected by the captain of the bodyguard, although everyone has a little disability, are all agile, and they are also very organized and disciplined, and they absolutely obey the management, which makes Su Yunduo very satisfied.

As Su Yunduo guessed, the decree that the hot spring wine shop presided over the purification of liquor came down quickly, and even this decree was sent directly to the hot spring wine shop because Su Yunduo was in the hot spring villa.

Since then, the matter of baijiu purification has finally been settled. Of course, the purified baijiu is monopolized by the government, and half of the profits go to the state treasury.

During Su Yunduo's lifetime, the purification of Baijiu in Dongling Kingdom has always been controlled by hot spring wineries, but the purification workshops have opened all over the country.

(End of this chapter)