Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 168;

Chapter 160 IX Success

Three or four miles to the east of Lantianxin County Yamen, a meandering river comes out from the depths of the Qinling Mountains and flows southeast.

The widest part of this river is four to five miles wide, and the narrowest part is less than [-] meters. It has never stopped flowing. It can be called the mother river that nurtures Lantian people. More than half of Lantian people live near the banks of the river.

On a day in November, the northwest wind howled and roared, and it went straight into people's collars.

In this kind of weather, ordinary people seldom go out, but today is different, the river is densely packed, men, women, old and children add up, there may not be thousands of people.

The masters of the Gongshu family came out and busily commanded the villagers to dig and fill the narrow river...

Carts of cement and broken stones were continuously pulled from behind the Zhuangzi where the county government was located.
The river course is only a few miles away from Zhuangzi, and dozens of horse-drawn carts and donkey carts shuttle back and forth. This scene is more lively than the market and temple fair.

On the bank of the river, a group of people stood facing the wind. Beside Li Yu, there were a few well-behaved maids and servants, their faces flushed by the cold northwest wind.

"Patriarch, I don't understand these things, you just keep looking at the arrangements."

Looking at the bustling scene in the river below, Gongshuban replied calmly;
"Don't worry, Mr. Lang, everything is under control. First, dig out the narrow place and both sides to make it smooth, and use local cement to make it two feet thick.
The river channel below was widened and deepened. After three to five days, the cement was dry and the water was diverted, and the rest was repaired.

In ten days, the work will be completed before the big cold, and now it is the end of the year, so the nine places that have been selected will be finished, and the rest will not be too late until the beginning of spring.

There are these strong laborers, division of labor and cooperation, and exerting energy in one place. This kind of trivial matter is nothing to worry about. "

Li Yu looked at the river below, and then at Gongshuban's confident expression, feeling relieved.

"Patriarch, don't worry about embanking the river, it's just that the construction of the waterwheel took a lot of work, why don't you go and see it?"

"What are you looking at? I discussed with them a few days ago, the size, and the points that need to be paid attention to are also clearly explained.
The wood is well prepared, and dozens of masters rushed to work together. If it can't be built, why are you still alive? Pack your bags and leave here as soon as possible, don't be ashamed of yourself in Li's village! "

Bull, great!This is the sigh in Li Yu's heart, it is worthy of a millennium inheritance, a descendant of Master Lu Ban's blood.

This group of people is probably the most advanced engineering team in Datang.

"Patriarch, if there is nothing important, then went back to the mansion?"

Everything has been arranged properly, Li Yu is standing here just to join in the fun, watching the busy people below, he is also deaf ears staying here, it is better to go back to the mansion and eat less cold wind.

"Let's go!"

Gongshuban simply answered two words, which was considered a response, and walked towards another construction battlefield.

"Lang Jun!"

Li Yu slowed down when she heard Rong Niang calling softly, "What's the matter?"

"Mr. Lang, how could he ask the lady of the Zou family to attend her bed last night? This matter has spread throughout the mansion. The slaves heard that the lady of the Wang family did not get up to eat this morning.
Mrs. Situ didn't even take a step out of the courtyard, so she was very angry!Mr. Lang is too careless about this matter, why is there such a commotion? "

Forehead!
Li Yu touched his forehead in embarrassment.

"Miss, you don't know something, it's all a misunderstanding!"

Rong Niang looked at Li Yu in surprise; "Misunderstanding? This morning, the slaves woke up early and came to the mansion to be on duty.
Seeing the lady of the Zou family get out of the man's couch with my own eyes, can this be a misunderstanding?

Besides, Mr. Lang spent the night with those maids who were on duty. Mr. Mr. Lang and Mrs. Zou spent the night alone, taking off all their clothes in the same bed. Who would believe it if they said it was a misunderstanding? "

It's over, this is really yellow mud falling on the crotch, it's either shit or shit.

"Rong Niang, you don't know, the lady came last night, and I was washing her feet, so I asked her to go to the backyard. I wanted to explain to her about the land exchange and subsidy.
However, that lady misunderstood me, and she took off her clothes when she came in. This...although we are in the same room and on the same couch, but I didn't do those secret things and only slept for one night. When the lady leaves, I will never knew,
... I am still a boy! "

In order to prove his innocence, Li Yu brought up the Tongziji matter in a hurry.

"puff……"

Rong Niang covered her face and smiled, "It's useless for servants to know, for the two ladies, how to explain clearly is the most important thing.

The two ladies are going to be concubines for Mr. Lang. Now that the two of them have not had their turn yet, they were given the first place by this foreign monk. How can they not be angry.

Mr. Lang still thinks about how to persuade him, it is not easy for slaves to intervene in this matter. "

Scratching his head, Li Yu also felt that he had nowhere to start.

What kind of thing is this? I was a ghost, and I really listened to what the Zou family said, got into the bed and talked about it, and fell asleep while talking.

After entering the mansion, Li Yu also felt embarrassed, so instead of going to the backyard, he went directly to the wine making yard, and could smell the aroma of wine from a long distance away.

Surprised by Li Yu's surprise, he ran in frantically.

"Sir, please slow down..."

Rong Niang led the three maids, while reminding Li Yu to walk carefully, while chasing into the wine making yard.

Seeing a group of servants who were still working, and Daniel, Zeng Gui, and Li Yu shouted, "Daniu, Agui, where is Guanshi Liu?"

"Lang Jun is here, Guanshi Liu is in that room, you can just go inside, and I still have to work.

Manager Liu said that this pot must be finished today, and I can't delay..."

Agui and a few servants next to him gathered the rice on the ground with wooden boards, raised their hands and pointed to the room inside.

"There, sir, there."

Li Yu raised his legs and walked into the house, watching Liu Zheng, the steward of the workshop, directing two servants to seal the wine jar in the house, Li Yu looked excited,
"Guan Liu, is this wine ready?"

"Ah, it's Mr. Lang who came, it's done, I tried twice, it's not a failure, it's just that there are some shortcomings in spicy.

Even so, those two pots of baijiu were much better than the dirty wine sold in Chang'an City!Those two pots came out and were placed in a wing room in the yard.

In the next three times, I basically grasped the heat, and the taste was only a little bit inferior to those distilled by Langjun, which can hardly be ignored.

The old man thought, if it is kept for two years, the wine will taste even better. "

As the old man Liu was talking, he picked up the wine grapes and handed Li Yu the full one.

"Lang Jun will know once he tastes it, and see if the old man has lied."

"Okay, I will talk about it after I have a taste."

Excited, Li Yu drank the two taels of white wine handed over in one breath.

A ball of flames shot down from his throat immediately, and the whole way of eating was like a knife stabbing into his stomach.

"Eating too vigorously. This kind of wine is not the usual turbid wine. If you eat like this, I'm afraid you will get drunk after three cups."

While muttering, old man Liu hurriedly went outside to fill a ladle of clean water and brought it in.

Li Yu really drank too much, took Guanshi Liu's gourd ladle, and drank a few gulps of water, gulp, gulp, to suppress the alcohol that wanted to overflow.

"Uh……"

Li Yu, who breathed a sigh of relief, had time to relax.

Rong Niang quickly took the silk scarf, and wiped the water that flowed from the corner of Li Yu's mouth to her neck.

"Well, it's really good. It's fifty degrees. The ones that I distilled from the prepared turbid wine are at least 52 degrees.

What you made is a little bit off the mark, Mr. Liu, but it is already very rare! "

Hearing Li Yu's praise, Guanshi Liu was very happy, and forgot to ask what the number of fifty degrees was.

Explained; "Don't worry, Mr. Lang, the old man has made wine all his life, and he has enough confidence. With ten pots of experience, he can go a step further and catch up with those that Mr. Lang made."

"Okay, that's great. You should be rewarded for your merits. Ma'am, I will reward his father and his son with a piece of cloth juan each, and two hundred coins each."

"promise."

Rong Niang obediently agreed.

"Thank you, sir, for the reward!"

Old man Liu is also happy to receive the reward, now the whole family can add two new clothes!
"You don't need to thank me, this is what you deserve. This reward is another one. You can still get this month's statute, and there will be no missing one."

This is no nonsense!
Li Yu's face was flushed with wine and excitement, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

Guanshi Liu can understand Li Yu's mood, isn't he like this?
It had been several days, and I was still so excited that I couldn't sleep. Looking at the delicious wine I brewed by myself, Old Man Liu was the same, and I couldn't be more excited.

A few people walked out of the back room where the wine was stored. Li Yu looked at the servants in the yard who were gathering up the wine koji to dry, and couldn't help but knelt down and grabbed a handful.

Li Yu asked casually;
"This distiller's yeast is pretty good. It has such a strong fragrance. What is it made of?"

"Returning to Lang Jun, this distiller's yeast is something that the old man has been groping for all his life. It is made from a mixture of rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and millet.

The old man also learned this skill from Aye and has been tinkering with it all his life. "

Old man Liu Zheng was proudly showing off his skills.

"Oh? It also combines five kinds of Lianggu. If so, it should be called Wuliangye!"

Li Yu's heart was full of turmoil. Could it be that the name of Wuliangye was passed down from him to future generations?

(It's purely fictitious, please don't spray it.)
"Wuliangye? Wuliangye! That's right, it really sounds good, isn't it just five kinds of grains, brewed?
Lang Junxin took it with his hands, it is such a nice name, from now on this wine will be called Wuliangye! "

"How much of this has happened,"

Li Yu really wanted to know how much came out, and whether it was enough to take to Chang'an City, so that the generals could taste it, so as to pave the way for future sales.

"Returning to Mr. Lang, after the first two trials, one stone of grain (53 kilograms) can already yield five buckets of wine ([-] milliliters), and each time two stones of grain yield ten buckets of wine.

There have been three pots out these days, with a total of thirty buckets of wine.

The old man packed every three buckets into a big jar, sealed it, and put it into the room just now. "

"Then what about the two pots before? How many are there?"

Li Yu was still thinking about the two pots before, it was just that the degree was not good, and it was not bad, so it would be a pity to throw it away, and take it to Chang'an City to give someone a favor, wouldn't it?

"Your Majesty, please follow me."

Li Yu followed old man Liu into a side room, took a sip and tasted it, it seemed that he was in his early forties.

Although there is no authentic [-]-degree wine, it can be regarded as a high-quality wine in this Tang Dynasty. Just looking at the crystal clear color, there is no second wine in the whole Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu looked at Old Man Liu and asked;

"How many of these are there?"

"Returning to Mr. Lang, there is not much wine out of the first two pots, only three buckets of rice per stone, and more than ten buckets out of the two pots."

(End of this chapter)