Chapter 239
After talking about the progress of the brewery, Wei Ruo ignored the Yun family and left immediately.
Yun had many things to say to her eldest daughter, but they were all stuck in her throat.
Yun was a little angry, but she didn't know how to express her anger.
She now loves and hates her eldest daughter. Externally, her eldest daughter is smart and capable and is praised by others, but only the family knows how little this eldest daughter takes her as her mother seriously.
It happened that she still had no good way to deal with her, not only because of the guilt for many years, but also because the eldest daughter's wings were hardened and she always had a way to threaten her and the Wei family.
Yunshi was angry, but thinking about the praise given to her eldest daughter by the outside world and the contributions her eldest daughter had made to the family, Yunshi's anger subsided again.
Alas, I missed those thirteen years after all. If I had raised him under my knees since childhood, I wouldn't be like this now.
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As soon as Wei Qingwan returned home, she heard about Mrs. Tongzhi’s visit to Xiaowei’s Mansion.
Wei Qingwan's face couldn't help but darken. Although she already knew that Wei Ruo was attracted by Mrs. Tongzhi, her mood still darkened when she heard that things were going well again.
In Taizhou Prefecture, apart from the Yuan family, the Xu family has the highest background and status, and Xu Fengyuan is the eldest son and grandson of the Xu family. If this marriage takes place, it will definitely be the Wei family who has the highest status.
From this point of view, Wei Qingruo's future is bright. On the other hand, her future was bleak and uncertain.
Her current situation is very worrying. Wei Qingruo doesn't tell her everything, and there are people who are against her everywhere. Xu Yaojun failed to harm her last time, and she doesn't know what ideas she will have in the future.
She didn't know what she had done wrong, why she always had to endure this, even though she didn't take the initiative to provoke them, they still pushed her into an embarrassing situation.
Wei Qingwan sat in front of the dressing table, lost in thought. After a while, she took out a jade pendant the size of a copper coin from the dressing box.
This happened to the young master who rescued her in the peach forest that day. Someone came into the forest to look for her. The young master left in a hurry in order not to be seen by others. She found that she had no time to return the dropped jade pendant to the young master, so she had to put it away first to avoid being seen by others.
Judging from the quality of the jade pendant, it can be seen that the young master at that time came from a good family and was able to help, which shows that he was of good character.
I don’t know if she and he will have a chance to meet again...
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Zui Xianju.
Fan Chengxu looked through the account books for the past month and couldn't help but smile.
Since cooperating with Xu Heyou, Zuixianju's business has been better than before, and its monthly profit has increased by almost 10%.
Don’t underestimate this 10%. Originally, Zuixianju was the number one restaurant in Taizhou Prefecture. It would be great if it could maintain its original profits. It would be very difficult to increase it further. It would be great if it could get an additional 10%. Not easy.
"This Xu Heyou is indeed interesting. If he had been born a few years earlier, I might not have been able to do anything about him." Fan Chengxu smiled with a smile on his lips.
"Young Master, don't worry. This Young Master Xu has some abilities, but he can't compare with you, Master." Shopkeeper Shen said hurriedly.
"It's hard to say." Although Fan Chengxu is confident, he is not arrogant, and he does not dare to say too much about some things.
Shopkeeper Shen smiled and said yes.
"I heard that this Xu Heyou was going around trying to persuade people to re-grow rice seedlings a while ago?" Fan Chengxu asked. "Yes, he visited the farmland everywhere, and when he saw problems, he persuaded the owner to plant new rice seedlings, but not many people listened to his advice. But recently, a large number of rice seedlings died of disease, which verified Mr. Xu's previous statement. Many people did not listen to Mr. Xu's advice. Everyone regretted it, but those who listened to Mr. Xu are now grateful to Mr. Xu and regard him as a great benefactor." Shopkeeper Shen replied.
"It's interesting." Fan Chengxu commented, and then asked, "Are there any bad seedlings on my farm?"
Fan Chengxu has been rooted in Taizhou Prefecture for several years, and he has purchased some properties.
"Sir, something happened at Zhuangzi in Taizhou Prefecture, but please don't worry, the proportion of rice seedlings is not large, and it will not have a big impact on this year's grain output." "Next time Xu Heyou's people come to deliver things, please bring them with them
. Letter, saying that I have something I want to talk to him about." Fan Chengxu said.
"Yes." Shopkeeper Shen immediately wrote it down.
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Wei Ruo’s brewery is finally completed.
The raw materials for making wine are grains and potatoes. The grains are mainly sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, corn, and wheat. Except for corn, which does not exist yet, the others are relatively common grains, and rice, glutinous rice, and wheat are not the same. His own village has property.
The main types of potatoes are sweet potato and cassava, among which sweet potato Wei Ruo is not lacking.
There is also no shortage of auxiliary materials required for fermentation such as rice husk, rice bran, sorghum husk, etc.
Wei Ruo, who is the key to fermentation of koji and distiller's sake, had already arranged for people to search for it when he started preparing for the brewery.
The brewing process of liquor is mainly divided into seven steps: raw material crushing, batching, cooking and gelatinization, cooling, fermented fermentation, cellar fermentation, and wine steaming.
Relatively speaking, this is Wei Ruo's most complex workshop currently. If such a workshop wants to achieve high output, it will require more manpower than previous workshops.
However, Wei Ruo does not plan to increase production at this stage, but only plans to make small high-quality products.
Originally, Wei Ruo did not plan to make wine on a large scale because she felt that in this era when food was not abundant, increasing food production and feeding more people was the first priority.
And using grain to make wine is an act of destroying grain. One kilogram of grain can fill the stomach, but the wine brewed from one kilogram of grain cannot feed people.
But liquor can be sold at a high price, which can be exchanged for more resources, and can play the same role as Sibao Zhai. This is worthwhile for Wei Ruo at this stage and will help increase Wei Ruo's expansion speed.
Because the brewing process is relatively delicate and some techniques need to be kept secret, Wei Ruo is also very careful in selecting the workers in the brewery. In addition to being hard-working, they must also be of decent quality.
The preliminary selection work was handed over to Manager Yu. Wei Ruo believed in Manager Yu, and Manager Yu had more contact with everyone in Zhuangzi and had a deeper understanding.
Manager Yu was very concerned about this and carefully selected for several days before submitting a list of ten people in total.
Today, Wei Ruolai met these ten people at the brewery, made some simple inquiries, put them through some tests, and finally selected six of them.
Then Wei Ruo handed over the "training guide" he had written long ago to Manager Yu.
"I would like to ask Manager Yu to train them according to what is written above." Wei Ruodao.
"Okay, boss, please rest assured. I will train them strictly in accordance with the boss's requirements so that they can serve for the boss as soon as possible." Manager Yu solemnly promised Wei Ruo.
(End of chapter)