The days when I opened a tavern in Zongwu

Chapter 22 Businessmen must operate with integrity
  Doorway.

As if he had not found the target, the middle-aged man retracted his hand that was resting on the hilt of the sword.

After focusing on Huang Rong, the middle-aged man asked: "I wonder what kind of wine your store has?"

Huang Rong pointed to the wooden sign hanging on the wall and said, "The wine and price are written on it."

Following Huang Rong's gesture, the middle-aged man also looked at the wooden signs on the wall.

There are not many wooden signs, only two.

Compared with other taverns that often have more than a dozen kinds of wine, the wine in this tavern is very simple.

The two kinds of wine are "Shaodaozi" and rice wine.

Shaodaozi is Shaojiu, and rice wine is the fermented glutinous rice wine of the previous life. In the Ming Dynasty, it was classified as white wine.

And the price is also marked on each wooden sign.

They all cost one tael of silver and a jug of wine.

If you want to warm the wine, you need to add 100 cents.

In fact, before Huang Rong arrived at the tavern, several people came in to take a look.

However, when they learned that the wine Li Changqing sold in the tavern was as high as one or two, they all muttered and left.

It should be noted that in the Ming Dynasty, rice wine was the most expensive, followed by wine, then red yeast wine and wine made from mung beans.

The cheapest ones are liquor and soju.

The so-called white wine is not the same as Li Changqing's previous life. Although it is named "white", it is actually turbid wine.

Liquor has a turbid color, slightly white, and is cheap.

This is what is meant by the saying "If you buy wine at a high price, it will rise; if you buy liquor at a low price, you will fight".

Soju refers to distilled liquor, but the craftsmanship in this world is not sophisticated enough, so the taste of this soju is not good.

Even the wine from Fenglailou in the city, a pot of liquor or shochu, only costs five hundred coins.

Now in the largest Huichun Building in the city, a bottle of wine only sells for one tael because of the company of a girl.

As for warming the wine, it only costs an extra ten cents, but it costs a hundred cents in this tavern.

Nearly ten times more expensive than other taverns.

How can ordinary people accept it?

However, after the middle-aged man glanced at the three kinds of wine, he didn't care about the prices. Instead, he took out two taels of silver and asked for a pot of shabu knives.

"Can you please give me some side dishes to go with the wine, girl?"

After taking the silver, Huang Rong turned around and looked at Li Changqing.

Knowing what Huang Rong meant, Li Changqing pointed to the room behind the counter.

He walked to the wall facing the door and drank a pot of wine from the wine vat with the "Shao Knife" on it. Then he walked to Li Changqing's side.

"Hey, that person also wants some side dishes to go with the wine."

In response, Li Changqing said in a lazy voice: "There are no side dishes, but in the room behind the counter, in addition to the wine vats, there are more than a dozen large sealed vats, which are filled with garlic peanuts that I smoked before, and a pot of wine. You’ll get one for free, just put it in a bamboo basket and send it over.”

Li Changqing opened the tavern to kill time, not to make himself tired.

Other taverns would prepare cooked dishes such as soy sauce beef early in the morning every day, but Li Changqing had no intention of getting up from bed so early in the morning and getting busy.

Naturally, this garlic peanut, which can bake more than a dozen bags at a time, became Li Changqing’s first choice.

"Garlic peanuts?"

Listening to what Li Changqing said, Huang Rong's eyes suddenly brightened.

Then he entered the room behind the counter as Li Changqing said.

As Li Changqing said, there are not only a dozen wine jars in this room, but also a dozen smaller jars stacked in an orderly manner in the room.

And there are wine bottles, wine spoons and other items neatly placed on the counter next to it.

After opening one of the large tanks, a smell of garlic immediately hit my nostrils.

It's just that the garlic fragrance doesn't have the pungent smell of raw garlic, and it seems much softer.

After picking up a peanut kernel, Huang Rong peeled off the shell and tasted it directly.

As you chew, the crispy texture removes the peanut flavor, and there is also a salty, sweet and strong garlic aroma. Although it is not as amazing as the dishes cooked by Li Changqing, this taste is also the first time Huang Rong has tasted it.

Even a picky person like Huang Rong thought it was a good accompaniment to wine.

It tastes much better than the fried peanuts I have eaten in the past two days.

Listening to the noise coming from inside the house, Li Changqing didn't know why Huang Rong couldn't help but tasted it first out of curiosity.

"This girl is really greedy."

Smiling in his heart, Li Changqing glanced at the middle-aged man at the door without any trace, and then drank the hot wine in his cup casually.

After a hundred interest.

Huang Rong walked out of the house with a pot of freshly brewed wine and garlic peanuts in a bamboo basket the size of a vegetable plate.

However, when passing by Li Changqing, Li Changqing seemed to notice something while breathing, and the hand holding the wine glass froze slightly.

But it returned to normal in an instant, and he just glanced at Huang Rong with a profound look, a look of surprise and doubt flowing in his eyes.

Huang Rong, on the other hand, took the wine and brought it to the middle-aged man at the door, and put the one tael of silver she had just received on the table.

"There are no side dishes in the tavern, so we just have garlic peanuts to go with the wine. You get one for free with every bottle of wine."

After saying that, Huang Rong turned around and walked towards Li Changqing without caring about the middle-aged man's reaction.

However, on the way back, Huang Rong first packed some garlic peanuts and ate them.

At the door, the middle-aged man didn't care about Huang Rong's attitude. He put the money away and looked at the door again. Then he picked up the wine bottle and poured himself a glass.

As the wine in the jug is poured into the cup, the color is as clear as water.

When he saw this wine, the middle-aged man's first thought was water.

Available in the next second.

A wisp of wine aroma suddenly entered the middle-aged man's nose.

The middle-aged man looked surprised when he noticed the aroma of wine.

After hesitating for a moment, he put the wine glass to his mouth and sipped lightly.

Accompanied by a sip of wine.

After the initial blandness, the spicy taste mixed with the rich aroma of wine quickly spread in the mouth.

After a sip of wine enters the throat, the wine instantly turns into a warm flow from top to bottom, making people unconsciously open their mouths and exhale a spicy breath.

But the strange thing is that although it feels spicy in the mouth, the throat is warm and there is no discomfort at all.

Upon discovering this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but lower his head and glance at the wine in his glass in surprise.

Soon, as he drank a glass of wine, the middle-aged man's eyes turned to the garlic peanuts in the bamboo basket on the table.

You know, it feels good to be able to make a picky person like Huang Rong feel good, let alone others.

Naturally, as the two peanuts entered his mouth, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up when he tasted the taste.

After pouring another glass of wine and sipping it, I took a few peanuts and sipped the wine. It can be said that the flavor is excellent.

Taking the man's expression into his eyes, Li Changqing chuckled in his heart.

The wine Li Changqing bought was bought from other wine-making places, but he made some distilling equipment himself.

The craftsmanship also stems from Li Changqing’s memory of visiting a wine making factory in his previous life.

Compared with the soju on the market now, it is certainly much better.

Businessmen should operate with integrity.

If it were not genuine, Li Changqing would have charged one or two cents for a bottle of wine that only cost five cents.

The man at the door was eating peanuts and drinking wine, but in the process, whenever someone walked by outside the pub, the man would quickly turn his head and look away, and then look away again.

And the sword, which seemed to be rusty, was still placed on the table, with the hilt facing the man.

Even though the cold wind blowing into the house brought an obvious chill, the middle-aged man still sat firmly at the door, warming himself with the wine in the glass.

At this time, Huang Rong, who was beside Li Changqing, suddenly lowered her voice and said, "Hey, do you think there's something wrong with the face of the man at the door?"

(End of this chapter)