The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 14
The capital city is always lively, and in this early autumn season, the biggest excitement in the capital city took place in a restaurant called Please Jun Lai.

In the afternoon of this day, the sun was quiet, and there were quite a few guests who invited you to the restaurant. Everyone tasted wine with each other and talked about anecdotes about the capital, which was a good way to pass the time. From the table.

"What kind of wine is this? It's clearly mixed with water!"

A burly man threw his wine glass on the table in a fit of anger. Seeing this, the owner of the restaurant showed a panicked look on his face, and hurried over: "Please calm down, this wine is from the Liu Family Winery in our shop." The ones that came in were never opened before being served to the guest officer!"

"Hmph, bullying me, haven't you ever drank Tanxiang wine? This wine has been mixed with water. If you don't believe me, try it. You must tell me a reason today, or I will make a fuss today."

The man was so strong that the owner of the restaurant had no choice but to pour a glass and take a sip. After tasting, his expression changed slightly, and he said: "It's really different from the Tanxiang wine I drank before. Please calm down, this has absolutely nothing to do with our restaurant. It was the Liu Family Winery who made a fake out of it, and we will waive your wine payment for you today, but we will definitely let the Liu Family Winery give an explanation on this matter."

After the restaurant owner finished speaking, the guests next to him started talking again.

"Yesterday, I heard that the Liu Family Winery bought a lot of wine in the capital. Could it be that the Tanxiang wine was too late to brew, so they adulterated it?"

"Looking at the situation today, it must be so."

"Since this is the case, it seems that there is another good show to watch."

When many guests were discussing here, Hu Ming, the owner of the restaurant that invited Junlai, had already ordered someone to invite Liu Wei. The wine in the Liu Family Winery was adulterated, so he had to ask for an explanation.

And as soon as the news got out, the restaurant was not too crowded to invite you to come to the restaurant, but suddenly a lot of people poured in.

Willow's Winery.

A few days ago, Liu Wei was tossing things in a room of the Liu family winery. Later, after buying wine from other wineries in the capital, he even ordered people to move in dozens of jars. People don't understand what Liu Wei is doing inside.

Because Liu Quan is an old servant, he has some understanding of Liu Wei's actions, but understanding is understanding, but he doesn't understand. This afternoon, when he saw Liu Wei coming out of the house happily, he couldn't help but said happily: "My lord, But the new wine you said has been brewed?"

Liu Wei smiled lightly: "That's right, Uncle Liu, let's have a drink."

As he spoke, Liu Wei took out a very small wine glass. Seeing that Liu Wei only took out such a small glass, Uncle Liu thought that the wine was very precious, so he only allowed himself to drink it. I didn't dare to say too much, so I didn't pay attention to it.

But when Liu Quan picked it up and was about to drink it, a servant hurried over and said, "My son-in-law, it's not good, it's not good, someone is inviting you to the restaurant to make trouble, saying that the fragrant wine we sold is mixed with wine. It’s a fake, and now Boss Hu Minghu asked the son-in-law to reason.”

Hearing this, Liu Quan suddenly showed a worried expression: "This is simply slander, the wine sold by our Liu family winery is all genuine Tanxiang wine, how can it be adulterated?"

As he said that, Liu Quan ordered the servant again: "The one who cleans himself is clear, you go and tell the person who invited you to the restaurant, our Liu Family Winery has always done business honestly, he wants the young master to reason, let him come to our Liu Family Let the winery reason, or else, go to the Kaifeng government office."

Liu Quan is seldom so strong, and the reason why he is so, is naturally to maintain Liu Wei, then inviting you to the restaurant is Hu Ming's territory, and Liu Zhou is going to be at a disadvantage, but in Liu's winery or Kaifeng government office, that is another situation.

But as soon as Liu Quan finished speaking, Liu Wei smiled lightly and said: "No need, I will go to invite you to the restaurant, Liu Shu, bring this altar of wine, let's go and have a look."

"Master..."

"Okay, didn't you just say that the clearer is self-clearing? We are not adulterated, so we are still afraid of them?"
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Please Jun Lai restaurant has never been as lively as it is today, and it has never been so crowded.

There was a lot of noise inside, and Hu Ming was surrounded by everyone, talking about his experience of buying wine at Liujia Winery, and his bitterness after the wine was adulterated.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside the restaurant: "Here comes Liu Concubine!"

The voice fell, and the already overcrowded Please Jun Lai restaurant immediately gave way, and then saw Liu Wei and his old servant Liu Quan walking in, and Liu Quan was still holding a jar of wine in his arms.

After seeing Liu Wei, Hu Ming immediately became tough, and walked up to Liu Wei in three steps at a time, and said: "Liu Concubine, you deceived me so badly, you sold me wine adulterated with fakes, but You have hurt me, you...you must give an explanation today."

When Hu Ming said this, the people next to him immediately joined in the fun.

Liu Wei looked as usual, and smiled lightly: "I heard that Boss Hu's restaurant had adulterated Tanxiang wine, and my son-in-law rushed over immediately. This is not only related to the reputation of Boss Hu's restaurant, but also to the reputation of my Liu family winery. Reputation, but before the matter is clear, Boss Hu should not rush to shirk responsibility."

Seeing that Liu Wei was so calm, Hu Ming felt a little guilty, but now that the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, he had no choice but to bite the bullet, push the crowd away, pointed to a jar of wine on the table, and said, "Liu Concubine, that wine I bought it from your Liu family winery, but the wine inside is adulterated, try it if you don’t believe me.”

Liu Wei glanced at the wine on the table, but didn't taste it, and still smiled lightly: "The wine is adulterated, and I know it even if I don't taste it, but is that wine sold to you by our Liu Family Winery? Fragrant wine, that’s another story.”

"You... what do you mean, you want to cheat?"

Liu Wei shook his head: "It's not that my son-in-law wants to play tricks, but let me ask you, the wine jar on the table belongs to my Liu family's winery?"

Hu Ming sweated on his forehead: "No... no, each jug of wine in your Liujia winery is between ten and twenty liters. If the guests only need one liter, we will naturally have to change to a smaller wine jar, but the wine It was poured from the jar of your Tanxiang wine, but it is not fake."

Liu Wei nodded and said, "Then where is the wine jar that poured out this wine?"

"It's... It's gone!" Actually, the wine jar is still there, but Hu Ming didn't expect Liu Wei to ask such a question, and the wine jar didn't think of tampering, if it was taken out, it would be exposed .

Liu Wei was not in a hurry, and said: "This is strange, why is the good wine jar gone?"

"I've run out of wine, so I don't know where the wine jar is!"

"What, did you drink all the wine?" Liu Wei suddenly showed surprise, and then said with a light smile: "Since that jar of wine has been drunk, why is it that only this small jar of wine was drunk out?" What about leave?"

Speaking of this, Liu Wei's face suddenly changed, and he said coldly: "I see clearly that you invited Jun to the restaurant to adulterate the wine, and you want to use this to entrap my Liu Family Winery?"

Hu Ming faltered for a while, the people around him were watching the fun, and even seeing cold sweat on Hu Ming's forehead when Liu Weiwen asked him, they couldn't help but understand the matter a little bit.

But just when everyone thought that Hu Ming would admit it, Hu Ming suddenly sneered and said: "Liu Concubine is so eloquent, I can't argue with you, but this wine is adulterated by your Liu family winery, otherwise why would you want to make a fuss?" The purchase of wines from other wineries in the capital is due to the lack of supply of Tanxiang wine, which is why we came up with this method."

As Hu Ming spoke, he suddenly became stiff again, and some people beside him suddenly realized, and they echoed again and again, saying that Liu Wei's wanton purchase of wine from other wineries was very problematic.

Liu Wei saw that these people finally brought the topic to his big purchase of wine from other wineries, so he couldn't help showing a smile, and after his smile showed, Hu Ming next to him suddenly had an ominous premonition.

In fact, before buying the wine, Liu Zhou didn't want people to know that it was his Liu family winery who bought it, but after the purchase, he didn't have to care about it anymore, and he even felt that the more others knew, the better.

But when the news came, he was still taken aback, because he felt that the news came out too fast, and it was obviously impossible for Chu Xikuang to betray himself.

Something is wrong, but Liu Wei doesn't know what went wrong.

But now, it's not the time to think about that.

The people next to him wanted Liu Wei to give an explanation, a reasonable explanation.

Liu Wei smiled lightly: "Actually, the reason why my son-in-law bought so much wine from other wineries is because I thought of a new wine-making and processing method, but this method requires a lot of wine, and my Liu family winery does not have that much wine. It just so happened that Xiangqianli Winery was selling wine cheaply at this time, so I asked someone to buy it. As for why we asked Changan wine merchants to buy it, it was naturally because they were afraid that the people at Xiangqianli Winery would find out that it was our Liujia Winery who wanted to buy it instead. Willing to sell it."

After Liu Wei explained in this way, Hu Ming snorted coldly: "Hmph, what kind of winemaking process actually needs so much wine, if you don't explain it clearly, it will be difficult to convince the public."

Liu Wei shrugged: "Since my son-in-law is here, I will naturally satisfy you all. Uncle Liu, please bring out our newly brewed strong wind wine."

Liu Quan was stunned for a moment, but soon realized that Liu Wei was talking about the jar of wine in his arms. Although he didn't understand what Liu Wei was going to do, he still took it out.

"This wine is called Liefeng wine. It is made by reprocessing ordinary wine through dozens of processes in my Liujia winery. This wine has a strong taste and is more mellow. If you can drink three bowls, you will be drunk if you drink any more, and if you have a poor capacity for alcohol, you may be drunk after one bowl."

After Liu Wei said this, the people present immediately shouted. They usually drink more than a dozen bowls and still feel nothing, but Liu Wei said that this strong wind wine will get drunk after three bowls. Who would believe it?

(End of this chapter)