roccoschili Chapter 137 Stall
Chapter 137 Stall
After the winter solstice, the thirteen states enter the winemaking season.
The process of making wine from wisteria flowers is quite complicated and takes about a year. After brewing, it must be kept for at least another year before the unique fragrance of wisteria flowers can be tasted in the wine.
However, making Shouteng fruit wine is not that troublesome. If there are young children at home, you don’t even need to add a starter. Just mash the ripe fruit and put it in a jar, pour in clean water, and it will be brewed in a month.
The wine brewed at this time is this kind of fruit wine. If it is brewed now, it can be drunk during the New Year.
As the carriage heading home had just entered Qing County, Bai Zhi smelled the eye-popping scent of vine fruit in the air.
The people of the Thirteen States usually pick half-ripe vine fruits to eat, which have just the right sweetness and sourness. Only at this time of the year will the people let the vine fruits all over the mountains and fields ripen and rot and fall to the ground, and then pick up the sweet yellow fruits on the ground to take home and make wine.
Qing County is mountainous and there are many rattan vines on the mountains, so after the winter solstice, the whole Qing County is like soaking in sugar water, with a choking sweet fragrance everywhere.
Bai Zhi didn't like the pungent smell, but she couldn't cover her nose with both hands holding the gifts she bought from the provincial capital, so she could only run faster and faster and hide all the way back to the Lin Mansion.
In the main hall, Qiao Wanwan was chatting with Lin Ruogui, and they were talking about when Bai Zhi would be back.
"Miss me?" Bai Zhi walked into the room with a big smile on her face and shouted, "Mom, I'm back!"
"Azhi!" Lin Ruogui smiled and walked over to take the things. Seeing Baizhi wearing only thin clothes, he kept complaining, "What's wrong with you? You're sweating all over. Did you run back? It's so cold. Why don't you wear more clothes..."
"Okay, mother, it's not cold here. It's not even snowing. How can it be colder than the capital?" Bai Zhi didn't let Lin Ruogui take it. She stuffed the bag into the hands of Qiao Wanwan, the strong man. "Captain Qiao, are you well?"
After waking up, Qiao Wanwan returned to Qing County to recuperate for only half a month, and her injuries were almost healed. The wounded soldiers were not seriously injured and would soon be able to return to the city defense camp. Only Qiao Wanwan, although she seemed to recover quickly, Fang Zhiheng wanted her to rest until November. Bai Zhi did not dare to neglect it, and forced Qiao Wanwan to rest until November.
The calf who had been complaining about getting bedsores every day finally returned to her cowshed.
Qiao Wanwan took the good stuff and snorted, "It's better not to have it. You just know how to order me around."
Lin Ruogui looked outside for a moment and asked, "Did you come back by yourself?"
"King Jing is so busy, I just came back on my own."
"That's right. The imperial examination just ended, and the government office must be very busy. You can't help much there, so it's better for you to come back."
Qiao Wanwan threw her bag on the seat and grabbed Bai Zhi's arm: "You're back just in time." She said to Lin Ruogui, "Master Lin, I want to borrow Bai Zhi for a while."
"Hey, hey, hey? What are you doing? I've just been rushing for half a day. No matter how big the matter is, I should sleep for a while." Bai Zhi wanted to pry Qiao Wanwan's hands away, but unfortunately Qiao Wanwan's hands were so strong that no matter how hard she pulled, they wouldn't move at all.
"Sleep after you're done. I'm waiting for you to come back. You don't know that during the days you were away, Zhou Shensi's stall blocked the entire North Tenth Street. This matter does not violate Dayan law, and there is nothing I can say. You go and talk to her and ask her to go home."
"Why do you care about her if she doesn't violate Dayan law?"
"Come on, follow me and you'll know." Qiao Wanwan dragged Bai Zhi out without saying anything.
When they arrived at North Tenth Street, Bai Zhi finally understood why Qiao Wanwan was concerned about this matter - this was not a street stall, it was clearly a row of small shops set up in the middle of North Tenth Street.
Baizhi walked and looked, there were vine fruits, herbs, clothes and food. There were waiters in front of each stall, and there were two waiters from Wenxianglou.
"Although it's a bit big, isn't it good?" Bai Zhi said with a smile, "Captain Qiao, I closed the Wenxiang Tower, and my guys have no money to earn. I can't just starve to death."
Qiao Wanwan twisted Bai Zhi's head in frustration and looked in several directions: "These stalls have blocked the shops on both sides. Even if Wenxianglou doesn't open, they still have to do business. With Zhou Shensi blocking the way, customers only look at the stalls outside and don't even come in."
"Do you still have the time to take care of other people's business?"
"Several shopkeepers had a fight with Zhou Shensi a few days ago, and I was unlucky enough to pass by while on duty." Qiao Wanwan said expressionlessly, "Several shopkeepers asked me to judge the matter, but how can I judge? I can only go to Zhou Shensi to mediate and ask her to move to another place. You know Zhou Shensi, and you can't block her way to wealth when you talk about other businesses. Otherwise, it's like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, which doesn't make sense at all."
Bai Zhi: "This is indeed..."
"So I have no choice but to bring out this big Buddha of yours." Qiao Wanwan suddenly lowered her voice, "And it's not just this. Look, aren't there a lot of barbarians on the street?"
On the way here, Baizhi noticed that there were a lot of barbarians on this small commercial street, all of them were busy with some new things that were not found in the barbaric land.
"You know that the common people don't like the barbarians. No one wants to sell things to them. But Zhou Shensi doesn't care about that. She takes money from everyone. The common people have been complaining about her these days."
Judging from Qiao Wanwan's expression, it was obvious that not only the people had complaints about Zhou Shensi, but she herself also had complaints about Zhou Shensi.
For the barbarians who once trampled their homeland on horseback, what they disliked the most was the camp of the army defending the city.
Bai Zhi was not moved at all. In her eyes, the rise and fall of the country and the responsibility of every man were not as important as a well-beaten chicken.
But you can't offend your customers if you run a shop, otherwise you won't be able to make a living in the future? Bai Zhi nodded: "Okay, I'll go and persuade him."
Qiao Wanwan smiled and said, “Waiting for your good news!”
There was no sign of Zhou Shensi in the shopping street, so Bai Zhi asked a waiter and found Zhou Shensi in Wenxiang Tower.
After entering the house, Bai Zhi's eyes went dark - this ancestor who was as unafraid of boiling water used Wenxiang Tower as a warehouse.
"Hey, Boss, you're back?" Zhou Shensi was looking at the account book. There were two black streaks under her eyes, and her gray face made her look more like a dead person. "That's great. Give me a hand."
Bai Zhi: "...Who is the boss of whom?"
"You see those two rows of stalls outside?"
"I saw it."
Zhou Shensi said proudly: "I put it there."
"I know." Bai Zhi took the account book out of her hand, "Don't look at it, I'm looking for you because of the stall outside."
"Buy a stall?" Zhou Shensi rubbed his hands and said, "Who wants to buy? If you buy, I'll give you a discount. A stall can make a lot of money in a day..."
Bai Zhi interrupted her expressionlessly: "Stop running the stall. I'll find you another job."
"Ah?" Zhou Shensi's eyebrows drooped, "Why? Do you know how much money I can make in a day?"