Chapter Thirty-Three
There is a hill on one side of Lingshan County, and there are several mountain pavilions on the hills. One of the mountain pavilions is called "Wenbi Pavilion". Standing in the Wenbi Pavilion, you can enjoy a bird's eye view of the entire East Lake.
Donghu Lake is a larger lake in Lingshan County, surrounded by green mountains, clear water, fishing islands, small villages, lit gardens, banana forests, and gulls and herons shine together, like a mirror covered with jewelry.
Standing on the mountain, watching the afterglow of the sunset and the gorgeous sunset. The entire lake area is like wearing a colorful dress, with dark water and golden light.
At the same time, the air here is also extremely fresh, and the breeze blows on your face, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Donghu Lake is also a place where literati and poets like to visit. The merchants in Lingshan County also saw the business opportunities here. There are many wine shops and tea shops above and below the mountain pavilion, for literati to drink, splash ink, and chant as they sing.
Ran Yunbiao was born as a gentry squire, and his family had hundreds of acres of fertile land. The family was relatively wealthy. Therefore, Wang Zhihui called a banquet and placed it in the Wenbi Pavilion. So four and a half young men sat in the Wenbi Pavilion and drank and had fun.
"Brothers, please drink this cup for the friendship between us and our classmates." Wang Ziying is tall and big, not like a scholar, but like a martial artist, and is also extremely generous.
"There are no more joyful things in the world than classmates. Please invite me." Zeng Gongming first drank the wine in the glass.
Drinking again, Li Sanjian murmured in his heart, making friends with wine, essays on wine, 100 poems on Li Bai's wine fighting, etc. Why do they all rely on wine? Can't do anything without wine?
However, although Li Sanjian muttered in his heart, Li Sanjian still drank the wine in his glass.
The taste was pretty good. Li Sanjian licked his lips and said in his heart that the degree was not high, and there was a faint smell of lychees in the wine.
Li Sanjian, Zeng Gongming, and Ran Yunbiao all drank the wine in the glass in one go, but Sima Du stopped eating it casually.
"Brother Yuan, this wine is called lychee roast. It is brewed with lychee. It tastes pretty good. Why are you..." Ran Yunbiao asked with a hint of dissatisfaction in his heart.
"I can't drink much, I can't drink much, please forgive me." Sima Du bowed.
"What's the harm in drinking this wine for a thousand cups, so why don't you drink more? Brother Yuan refused so much?" Ran Yunbiao was still relentless.
"I'll say less." Seeing that Sima was a little embarrassed, Zeng Gongming pushed Ran Yunbiao and came out to smooth things over, saying, "Brother Fei Yuan is the county school exam, and the school is double-educated. He is about to enter the state school. He is not like you, and he is drinking too much."
Zeng Gongming's words were better than not to persuade him, as they were obviously a hint of sarcasm.
Sima Du’s family has a family background and is one of the rare scholarly families on Guangnan West Road. Sima Du has been well-read since he was a child and has excellent grades after entering the county school. This time he was recommended to Guizhou Prefecture School by Lingshan County School. If the state school is still the case, then it is very likely to enter the Taixue. If he enters the Taixue, his future will be bright.
"Such a beautiful scenery is already intoxicated by it, so why should I borrow the power of drinking?" Sima Du was not angry when he heard this, but just smiled slightly.
"Can the beautiful scenery be eaten as a meal?" Ran Yunbiao snorted lightly and took another big gulp of wine.
"Haha" Li Sanjian saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, so he picked up the wine cup and changed the topic and smiled: "Lychee roast? It turns out that the wine is as its name suggests. It tastes really good. I wonder how it was brewed?"
Some people are born to be unable to drink alcohol and get drunk when they are drunk. Why should they force themselves to do so?
Sima Du nodded slightly to Li Sanjian to express his gratitude.
"What? Han Ren
Brother, are you still planning to make wine?" Zeng Gongming asked with a smile.
Zeng Gongming's estimate is correct. Li Sanjian does have this meaning, but if he is not brewing wine, how can he brew it so well? Without specialized winemaking products and skilled craftsmen, how can he make fine wine? Besides, Li Sanjian knows nothing about brewing wine.
Li Sanjian's money was getting less and less. He had to eat all day long, especially Shankui. His appetite was so shaking that the earth was shaking and earth-shaking. Li Sanjian couldn't hold on for much time at all.
Therefore, Li Sanjian plans to do side jobs while listening and reading. If you set up a "concierge" in the hut rented by Li Sanjian or at the entrance of the county school, you can also subsidize some household income?
County students have some allowances for students, but for Li Sanjian, it is a drop in the bucket.
"Brother Donglin was joking, but he was stupid." Li Sanjian replied, "How do you know the art of brewing wine? You all know that the next family is poor, including the next family, and there are three people who support them. Therefore, I plan to do some small business to supplement the household income and sell some wine to do some business, which is still very good."
The three of them were dumbfounded when they heard this, and they all looked at Li Sanjian like they were looking at monsters. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.
"Don't Han Ren know about the matter of drinking in the court?" Sima Du asked then.
Sure enough, he was a vulgar person in the countryside and didn't even know the court's laws and regulations. Sima shook his head in his heart.
Sima Du despised Li Sanjian in his heart, but showed that there was no abnormality above.
Li Sanjian shook his head confused when he heard this.
Li Sanjian knew that county schools should study the imperial court laws and regulations, but so far, Li Sanjian has not been exposed to it.
"I would like to hear the details." Li Sanjian asked then.
"It's too complicated." Zeng Gongming shook his head and said, "In short, it is the government's wine. It is not allowed for ordinary people to make wine or sell wine. If they make wine privately and sell wine, they will be confiscated and exiled as soldiers, and the worst will be beheaded."
"The households will commit private crimes, and they will be punished." Sima Du nodded and said, "The city walls are twenty kilograms, and the villages are thirty kilograms, and the city is abandoned; the people who have entered the capital with private wine for fifty miles, and those who have entered the capital with private wine for twenty miles, and those who have been executed in five dou; outside the designated number, there are officials who sell wine and enter the land with private wine for one stone, and abandon the market..."
Li Sanjian was shocked when he heard this and couldn't help but secretly say he was lucky. Fortunately, he didn't do it first, otherwise he wouldn't know how to die.
"Since that's the case, where did those wines come from?" Li Sanjian then pointed to the wine shop not far away and asked.
"I bought it from the official wine warehouse." Zeng Gongming replied.
"The small vendors' wine party is being exploited by layers of governments, restaurants or wineries." Wang Ziying also said: "And they are almost all bad wines that are difficult to swallow. Such good wines as lychee-cooked are not something that ordinary people can buy."
Restaurants are not only places to sell wine, but also many wine-making workshops are also attached. They are workshops that can make wine through mai official music or puff, integrating brewing and sales. This is not a wealthy and powerful official wine service, official wine warehouse, and wealthy families cannot operate it. From this point of view, ordinary families cannot open a restaurant even if you have money.
"Drink, drink." Ran Yunbiao picked up the wine cup and said, "They just sell theirs, and I just drink."
Li Sanjian gave Ran Yunbiao a blank look and drank the wine in the glass in one breath in depression.
You don't care, your family is wealthy, Li Sanjian said in his heart, but he cut off this path to make money from Li Sanjian.
From this point of view, doing business is indeed a thorn
Lu, Li Sanjian was secretly glad at this time that if he had planned to do business and become rich, he might have been frustrated.
If you don’t get it right, you have to take your life into it.
"When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky with wine."
"I advise you to have a glass of wine, and you will have no friends when you go west to Yangguan."
"I can even feast around the clouds and eagle, waiting to get the plums up and down the sky. I will climb to the moon and get the soul of the moon, and I will miss the sky even more."
"What a wonder! Brother Han Ren, where does this poem come from?" Zeng Gongming and others thought for a long time but didn't know where the poem Li Sanjian chanted came from?
"This is my best work." Li Sanjian bowed and smiled.
"It's wonderful, it's really wonderful." Zeng Gongming exclaimed: "Brother Han Ren is really good at literary talent, I'm really not as good as me!"
"Donglin is a mischievous praise!" Li Sanjian said modestly.
I have the secret code of Song poetry in my hand, and I write poems and lyrics at will. Although Li Sanjian was humble, Li Sanjian was secretly proud in his heart.
"Brother Han Ren is not only outstanding in writing, but also in his sentence reading skills." Ran Yunbiao couldn't help but praise.
At this time, Huang Huan had already mimeographed the reading method written by Li Sanjian into a book and sent it to the county school sentient beings. After the students learned it, they all felt that it was much easier to read and could easily remember it. Just for this, the sentient beings still admire Li Sanjian.
Sima didn't agree with the tricks of carving and insects. What's the use of doing good poetry? If the meaning of the scriptures is thoroughly understood and the article is well written.
At present, the imperial examinations in the imperial court do not use poetry and essays to select scholars, but use classics to select scholars...
"Come here, I'll send you a few more jars of wine. Today I will not be drunk and will not return."
Four and a half old boys sang, drank and had fun, and a jar of lychees soon came to an end. Ran Yunbiao was still not happy, so he ordered a servant to say.
"My kind brothers, I really can't bear to drink, so I'll say goodbye!" Sima Du stood up and said goodbye.
Ran Yunbiao raised his eyebrows and was about to have an attack. Zeng Gongming quickly secretly pulled Ran Yunbiao.
Ran Yunbiao snorted coldly and took another sip of wine in a muffled voice.
"What's so great about being aloof?" Ran Yunbiao looked at Sima Du's back and snorted coldly.
He scolded him well, and Li Sanjian secretly praised in his heart. Li Sanjian also realized that Sima was indeed a little pretentious. Isn’t it just that he was about to be promoted to the state school?
However, although Li Sanjian secretly praised in his heart, he still advised on the surface: "Brother Mingshi, don't care. If you don't have the power to drink, why force him? Today, the three brothers and I will do it as long as we have fun."
"Brother Han Ren said this very much." Zeng Gongming also agreed: "I am from a scholarly family. How can I look down on me and other people in the market? Let him go, Brother Han Ren, Brother Ming Shi, I would like to pay a cup to both brothers."
"Okay..." Ran Yunbiao's young mind was very polite. Seeing that the two of them were persuading each other, he stopped thinking about it, so he said, "Shopkeeper, get the wine quickly."
"Here, come." At this moment, several men came over with some lychees.
These men dressed in Li Sanjian's eyes, which looked a bit strange, and looked like military uniforms. Li Sanjian was puzzled.
"Brother Han Ren, what? Do you think it's a little weird?" Zeng Gongming asked with a smile when he saw Li Sanjian's surprised appearance.
Li Sanjian nodded.
"Tell you, they are really soldiers in the army." Zeng Gongming smiled.
Chapter completed!