"In fact, it is because the wines consume a lot of money. Those wines are brewed on Western Regions farms, and only the grapes there are the best. The round-trip transportation cost is too high."

Zi Lan explained with a smile.

"Even if it's expensive, we like it so much. Come and sit down."

"We hunted a rabbit, let's bake it together."

Cui Hao took the rabbit down.

"Okay, I'll peel it."

"Good sister, how much can your Xianglou earn in a year? I think many people are eating and drinking in your restaurant."

Li Qi's sister tilted her head and looked at her with a smile.

Zi Lan smiled slightly, "In fact, my family didn't make much money in that restaurant. It was done by several companies together, and I don't know the specific ones."

Xianglou's business also has the emperor's shareholding. He has to pay a lot of money to the emperor every year, so he can be so stable. This is an open secret.

The remaining two companies share the profits together are not so exaggerated, and it is precisely because of this that everyone does not continue to make things difficult for his family.

"Sister is afraid that I will leak the secret? How could it be? I was just curious to inquire. Brother Hao, you know I am just curious, but if Sister Song is inconvenient to say it, forget it."

Li Qi's sister is Li Jiuniang, which means ninth place. Names such as Jiuniang and Liuniang are very common. It can be seen that they are very casual and do not even have a formal name.

Only when the father is in the air will he give the words, which is the girl's name.

Zi Lan tilted her head and glanced at Cui Hao, lowered her head and said nothing, but her expression became much colder.

"Miss Li, men and women can't understand clearly, let alone I already have a fiancée. I have told you many times that you can call me Brother Cui or Mr. Cui. Brother Hao is really inappropriate.

If you do this, I will not be able to interact with Li Qi in the future. How precious is the girl’s reputation? I cannot affect your reputation. That would be my fault."

Cui Hao lowered his head slightly and spoke coldly, looking at her face, he looked cold again, without any warmth.

Li Jiuniang was scolded in person so much that she couldn't stand it for a moment, "I, I..., I thought we grew up together."

"We have only met in the academy a few times, and we didn't grow up together. Lan'er and I grew up childhood sweethearts. We are in love with each other, Lan'er is the person in my heart. I don't want her to have any misunderstandings or unhappiness.

The Cui family’s hundred-year family rules are explicitly prohibited. Taking concubines and marrying Xiaotong’s outdoor rooms will never change once they are discovered and expelled from the clan.”

When he said this, he didn't understand it anymore, so he got up and ran away crying.

Miss Ma shook her head and bowed slightly to Zilan, as if she was a little embarrassed and embarrassed.

"My brother and Brother Li have had a good time. In the past, I didn't have much contact with Sister Jiu Niang. I really didn't know that she would be so rude. I also asked Sister Song not to blame me. I really didn't know what she was thinking."

It means we are not familiar with each other, and we have only seen each other a few times, and it has nothing to do with me.

"It doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with Sister Ma. But Cui Hao, are you too strict? Mr. Li's face is a little overwhelmed."

Zi Lan also felt quite embarrassed, but Jiu Niang's name is indeed too ambiguous, obviously she admires Cui Hao.

She glared at Cui Hao fiercely, meaning you are waiting.

"The Li girl is young and ignorant. If she didn't explain it clearly earlier, it would only hurt her. What's the point of being a man? Others will only say that I am romantic, but I don't think I need to say more about what kind of blow the girl is."

Li Qi comforted her sister not far behind them. The martial arts practitioners have a good ear and can hear clearly.

Sighing and lowering his voice, he spoke in his sister's ear, "Sister, give up. Cui Hao only has the eldest daughter of the Song family in his eyes, who is the person he has been looking forward to for many years.

I had known the eldest daughter of the Song family for a long time. When Cui Hao mentioned her, she looked very gentle when she mentioned her. If you don’t have any chance, the Cui family will not look down on ours.”

"Wuwuwuwuwuwu! Brother!"

Li Jiuniang cried so hard that Li Qi sighed helplessly.

As arrogant as Cui Hao, for the sake of the eldest daughter of the Song family, he would rather lower his figure and take Song Ziyan to make friends with classmates and friends, and even take care of other brothers of the Song family. He did so much not only for the relationship between the two families, but also to please Song Ziyan and the Song family, and just want to hold the beauty.

After crying, Jiu Niang was sent home by Li Qi. It was embarrassing to stay, but he stayed to clean up the mess for his sister.

"Brother Hao, sorry, my sister is young and ignorant. Miss Song, I apologize to you too. My sister, a boy Mu Ai, has always liked Cui Hao, but he has expressed his attitude more than once.

My family also advised my sister, thinking that she had stopped thinking. Who knew that she would do this? When I went back, I would ask my mother to scold her sister."

Li Qi apologized solemnly.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little bit of trivial matters, but why did your sister ask about Xianglou? Let me tell the truth. The biggest boss of Xianglou is the emperor, and my grandfather personally went to the palace to discuss.

Every year, Xianglou pays 100,000 taels of silver to the emperor for filling the treasury and military pay in northwest Fujian and other places. Therefore, this matter should not be made public. It is not that I am stingy and unwilling to tell others how much money I have earned."

Zilan simply made it clear that I told you that my mother’s Xianglou would pay 100,000 taels to the emperor every year. Why do you think I dare to sell it so expensive? But those royal relatives and nobles dare not give up any of them.

The borders in northwest Fujian and other places are not calm, and there are often minor frictions. Fujian often needs to suppress bandits and pirates, which consumes a lot of money. In addition to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the amount of money needed every year is huge.

Xianglou is indeed very profitable, but after giving the emperor 100,000 taels, only a small part of it was divided by the Song and Yang families.

Only one family can get 20,000 taels, sometimes it is not enough for this number.

"That's right, my family knows this. In fact, the profits of Song and Yang families are only more than 10,000 taels a year, and a little more than 20,000. Eighty percent of the big heads have been filled with the treasury for the emperor. I won't say that, after all, the emperor's face is not good."

Cui Hao then spoke coldly.

This is an invisible exchange. In those years, she worked hard to make money for her family, but in fact she was also trying to fill in the pit. Xianglou could not make so much money at the beginning. She lost money at the beginning, but she still had to pay money. Where did the money come from? She could only move around and get everything.

Even so difficult, this is still an opportunity for the Song and Yang families. An opportunity that cannot be bought with money will give family members more opportunities, and others will not come if they want to ask for it.

Every year, so many officials are waiting for the subsequent reimbursement, and scholars who are serving three years are also waiting for opportunities. Why do you have to give you a chance to Song’s family? Everyone is in a state of imperial examinations and openly.
Chapter completed!