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Chapter 109

Take the soap locusts, wash your hands carefully, and then squeeze the grapes. "As long as you hold it hard, you can put it in the wine jar, sprinkle some sugar, not too much, it's a matter of a handful."

Wine cannot be made without sugar, because sugar is an important factor in the fermentation of grapes.

In Dadu, the price of sugar is not cheap, and this sprinkling is enough for the family to use for a long time, so Chu Jiu and Wang Buliuxing make wine here, and Wanniang over there always looks at this side, obviously feeling distressed these sugars.

It's just that she also knows that although the things made by Chujiu seem a bit wasteful, they can be sold for money. Beer is an example.

After pinching the grapes and sprinkling the sugar, Chu Jiu and Wang Buliuxing used wine lees and water to mix them evenly, pasted the seals, put them in a cool room, and told everyone not to touch the wine earthen jar.

"Looking at it now, it should take more than a month to drink it. Don't open all the wine jars, keep them sealed and keep them for a more delicious taste." Chu Jiu said this to Wang Buliuxing, and Wang Buliuxing nodded. Finally look at the ninth day.

"Girl, I've always wanted to ask you, where did you learn these prescriptions?"

When Chujiu decided to start brewing wine, he guessed that he would be asked, so he prepared an excuse early on, saying that he read it in a book, and thought it was fresh at the time, so he read it a few more times and wrote it down. really useful.

Although Wang Buliuxing was skeptical, he didn't investigate the matter any further.

Afterwards, Wang Buliuxing made a divination and counted the days, and Yijiang Chunshuitang opened. Because it was a new shop, not many patients came to the door. More or less it came from the name of Nine Ghosts and Immortals.

Therefore, on the day of opening, Yijiang Chunshui Hall, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are few people outside.

It's just that none of the congratulatory gifts were light in weight. Among them, the white jade statue of the patriarch sent by Chang Qizuo was the most precious. Not only Chang Qizuo, but also some people they didn't know in the ninth day Congratulations.

This made Cang Yuhe a little panicky, after all, gifts are reciprocated, why does the other party need them to send a gift in return, and if they really send a gift in return, what should they give.

Chu Jiu questioned those people carefully, and realized that they were all descendants of the official family, who got along well with the Chang family brothers, and they all gave gifts along with them, which was to save face for Yijiang Chunshuitang.

So I asked Cang Yuhe not to think about returning the gifts for the time being, and to accept the things first. These things look simple, but in fact they have other uses. Each of them can guarantee the peace of mind of Chunshuitang.

At the same time as Master Bai Yu sent a jade pendant, when Chu Jiu saw the jade pendant, he knew that Chang Qi blamed it not to annoy her, which made Chu Jiu heave a sigh of relief, because she still didn't want to understand that she was wrong. Where is it? It's better not to take the blame seriously.

After receiving the jade pendant, Chu Jiu wrote a letter and asked the person who sent the patriarch's portrait and jade pendant to send it back.

The letter was mostly words of thanks, thank you for the congratulatory gift, and also thank Chang Qizuo for helping them get ahead in the admiral's mansion that day.

Chang Qizuo quickly replied to the letter, with only four words: good writing on a piece of paper.

Chu Jiu's face burned when she saw it, and the blame was clearly because she laughed at her poor handwriting.

Sighing, Chu Jiu thought in his heart that he should really practice his calligraphy in his free time.

Chu Jiu didn't reply to the letter, Chang Qizuo wrote another letter to her nervously instead.

After six or seven days, Chang Qijiu wrote back and told Chujiu that he was already at the Extinct Wing Pass and would go back to find her soon, and asked her to take the jade pendant.

When Chu Jiu read the letter, he couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth. He was rushing to the South Pass while contacting her. In just six or seven days, he was already thousands of miles away.

How should I reply to him?

Just as Chu Jiu was thinking, he suddenly heard Eleven calling her "sister", so she came back from her thoughts.

"Sister." Eleven reached out and pulled Chu Jiu's sleeve, and called out again.

Shaking Chu Jiu's sleeve lightly, Chu Jiu quickly put away the letter in his hand.

"What's the matter?" Chu Jiu asked softly, Eleven took out a handkerchief, opened it, and saw that it was a bracelet that had been broken in two.

Chu Jiu took a closer look, and found that the bracelet was very familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this bracelet was exactly what Wanniang had been wearing all the time.

"Why did it break?"

Hearing Chu Jiu's question, Eleven told Chu Jiu what happened outside the admiral's mansion that day, "Mother said that although this bracelet is worthless, it was passed down to her daughter-in-law by Aunt Fu, so Mother has always been very precious. , I was forced to take it off that day, but I didn't want to break it."

Although Aunt Fu is Cang Yuhe's biological mother, according to the rules, these legitimate sons and concubines must call the old lady their mother, and they are not allowed to get close to their biological mother.

After hearing what Eleven said on the ninth day of the ninth day, she couldn't help but frown. It's true that Aunt Fu is the daughter of the Fu family, but before she married, the Fu family fell into decline. The head of Cang Yuan married her just out of face Entering the door, so this bracelet is probably one of her best dowries.

"Come on, let's go out and see if there is a jade shop nearby." Chu Jiu said and led Eleven out of Yijiang Chunshuitang.

After inquiring all the way, after walking for a long time, I found a jade shop called Qing Baorui. The shop is very large, divided into two floors. The stone-carved lotus pedestal has a statue like Feitian on it, with a luster that can only be found in jade, which made Chu Jiu feel deeply that Qing Baorui is really rich.

Entering the door, Chujiu looked at the jade shop. The decoration in the shop is exquisite, the color is mostly uniform crimson red, which looks very thick, the top is hung with red silk, and the walls are covered with calligraphy and paintings.

At this time, the store was full of people, those ladies and ladies, all of them were beautiful, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were like a cloud of fans, and the fragrance powder on their bodies was mixed together, which made their noses a little pungent.

"If not, let's go out first." Chu Jiu reached out and touched the top of Eleven's head, and Eleven shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

Then the two found the clerk in the shop. The clerk looked like a teenager. He looked them up and down, with a flash of contempt in his eyes, but he still asked with a smile: "Is this young master planning to give this man a gift?" What kind of jewelry does the young lady buy? We are the largest jade shop in the Southern Tang Dynasty, even the women in the palace will buy our custom-made Bu Yaochai."

"We don't want to buy jewelry, but we want to repair this bracelet." After Chu Jiu finished speaking, he took out the two bracelets, and the guy looked at the fineness of the bracelet, and immediately pouted.

But immediately put on a smiling face again, "Please follow me, both of you."

The young man led the two of them to a long table. Behind the long table sat a few old men with gray beard and hair. They should be jade craftsmen who specialize in repairing jewelry.

(End of this chapter)