: Fighting!

On the 28th year of Kaiyuan to the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the opening of the new winemaking workshop has arrived.

The wide courtyard has an altar, with a portrait of the ancestor Du Kang enshrined on it, and three small tributes are placed underneath: chicken, fish, and pig's head!

Li De, Zheng and his two fat sons were all dressed in gorgeous clothes and led the young and small guys to stand in front of the altar, waiting for the auspicious time to arrive.

When opening a business, you must choose auspicious day and auspicious time. This is a rule passed down since ancient times.

For this reason, Li De also found a fortune teller and specially divined a divination. The result shows that the second day of the second month of next year is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is suitable for sacrifices, praying for blessings, opening... There are no taboos!

But Li De didn't listen to the fortune teller because he didn't want to wait for more than two months. Now time is precious. The winery workshop opens one day late, which is equivalent to making money one day late.

More importantly, if you sign a contract with those big merchants, you must provide them with a sufficient amount of distilled liquor within the specified time. If the date is delayed, you will have to compensate you ten times the deposit, which is an astronomical number!

So, after careful consideration, Li De chose to open the business on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month because this day happened to be Zheng's 39th birthday... The birthday was added to the business, and the two happiness was coming.

By the way, Zheng is born in the first year of Dazu (the year name of Wu Zetian). The zodiac sign is Ox, the five elements are Fire!

"Husband, as soon as the new winemaking workshop opens, it will inevitably have a prosperous business and a lot of money. This will take a few years. Husband is one of the few billionaires in Guanzhong. I will congratulate you first!"

"Haha, when we are one husband and wife, we are rich and rich, we will naturally have the benefits of our wife. The wife is waiting to live a comfortable life of luxury and food, so that slaves can call maids."

"Dad, what about us?"

"Don't worry, I won't forget. You will be a rich young man in the future. You can bring more gold and silver to Chang'an City to have fun, haha!"

...

Fantasizing about the good days of cooking oil in the future, Li De and Zheng couldn't help but feel proud, so beautiful that they almost forgot what their surname was.

However, while being proud, Li De looked around and found that there seemed to be one person missing.

"Where is Manager Sun?"

"If you go back to your home, Manager Sun runs around and works day and night for the sake of the winemaking workshop. As a result, he accidentally gets infected with the cold wind and so he takes a few days off and rests at home."

"Okay, I got it."

Manager Sun put in a lot of effort to open the winery workshop quickly, and he lost several pounds of weight.

However, Li De and Sun were not grateful at all. On the contrary, the couple planned to find a suitable opportunity to deal with Manager Sun. In this way, one person knew that they had stole Erguotou secret recipe, and it was more safe.

"Master, the auspicious time has come, it's time to worship the ancestor."

"good!"

The housekeeper, Hou Si, came over and handed over three lit high incense.

Li De held the incense in his hand, pushed the gold mountain, turned the jade pillar, bowed three times to the portrait of the ancestor Du Kang, and said some words to pray for blessings and business prosperity, and then inserted three high incense sticks into the incense burner.

As soon as Na Zhi had just inserted the incense, a strange wind suddenly blew in the air, blowing out all three incense sticks.

What's the situation?

"It's okay. It's probably because the owner's fortune is too strong. Three high incense sticks are not enough, so just add three more." Hou Si is very good at flattering, and lit three high incense sticks and handed them over.

Li De took it in his hand, bowed respectfully, prayed devoutly, and inserted it into the incense burner... As a result, another strange wind blew, and all three high incenses were destroyed!

Li De didn't believe in evil and lit three high incense sticks himself. As before, he was blown out by a strange wind as soon as he was inserted into the incense burner.

‘Third burn incense, three times they were destroyed. This is too evil. Could it be that the ancestors refused to give food?’ The big and small guys could not help but mutter in their hearts. Several of the masters came over with courage: “Boss, the wind blows the fragrance, it’s not auspicious today. Why don’t we open the business in another day?”

"Hmph, if you open one day later, you will make money one day later. It's just a few gusts of wind. What's so scary? Let's open the business as usual!"

"Boss, think twice!"

“Open!”

"yes!"

The boss said the words, but the guys didn't dare to disobey, so they had to bite the bullet and act.

First, the fermented raw materials are moved out of the warehouse and placed in huge steamers. Then, the ignition is heated and the wine is steamed out, which condenses into liquid when cooled, and then guided out of the steamer with bamboo tubes...

To put it short, half an hour later, the first batch of distilled liquor was out of the pot. The guys immediately served a large bowl and respectfully delivered it to Li De: "Boss, try our new brewed bar!"

"Okay...wow!wow!"

As soon as the new wine was in the mouth, Li De sprayed it out. He felt sour, bitter and astringent, which was even worse than the water for a month of washing the pot.

At the same time, several masters came over to taste the new wine, and kept bent over and vomiting wildly, almost spitting out all the bile... This was too unpalatable.

Li De and Zheng were both a little stunned. After they got the secret recipe, they tried it three times in a row. The wine was steamed every time, which was no worse than Erguotou on the market. How did it turn into a water for a pot?

Something went wrong with the material?

Something went wrong with the operation?

Or did it really hit the evil god?

...

Can't figure it out!

"What should I do if my boss?"

"Clean the steamer and let's steam it again, hurry!"

"Yes, then these pots... no, what about these steamed wine?"

"Take them all aside, don't get in the way!"

"yes!"

Under Li De's urging, the guys carried dozens of tanks of "brushing water" next to each other, then cleaned the steamer, moved out the raw materials, and ignited them again...

After such a busy hour, the second batch of distilled wine was out of the pot. Although I had not tasted it yet, the strong sour smell in the air told everyone that I might have been ruined again this time.

Who will try the wine?

"Brother Zhang, are you here to taste this first bite?"

"No, no, Brother Li has been a wine brewer for more than 30 years and is experienced. Let's come on."

"No, I've been feeling unwell recently and my taste is not very sensitive. Brother Zhang will come to taste the new bar."

...

Several masters gave in to each other, and no one was willing to come forward to taste the new wine, for fear of spitting out the internal organs. In the end, there was nothing we could do, so they had to send a guy to try it!

"Very, vomit...splash!"

I saw the young man plucking the courage to walk over, carefully tasted a small mouthful, and immediately fell to the ground like lightning strike, twitching all over, foaming at the mouth, and falling into a coma.

If last time I put the water for a month on the pot, then this time it was a Chinese medicine soup!

It is not an ordinary Chinese medicine soup, but uses more than a dozen of the bitterest medicinal herbs, including Coptis chinensis, Sophora glutinous rice, Gentiana, Pinellia, Shandou root, etc., and made with more than a dozen of the most bitter medicinal herbs, and added three pounds of horse urine and three pounds of cow urine as the medicine introduction!

Bitter, astringent, sour, fishy, ​​smelly... It is all full of flavors. It makes people crazy when you smell it, and drink it makes people bump into the wall. Even if you take a look at it, you can spit out the overnight meal!

...

how so?

What's wrong?

After failing to steam wine twice, Li De and Zheng's eyes turned red in an anxious manner. They vaguely realized that something was wrong, but they couldn't figure out what was wrong?

"Come on, come and call Manager Sun quickly. He has rich experience in this area and must know what the problem is!"

"Boss, Manager Sun is bedridden at home and recuperate!"

"I'm so angry that I'm still suffering from illness. I'll send someone to find him immediately. If I can't get out of bed, I'll let someone carry him here."

"yes!"

While sending people to find Manager Sun, Li De urged the guys to continue distilling the third batch of wine to see if he could find out the problem.

The sent people came back soon, but they were unable to bring Manager Sun back. To be more precise, they did not find Manager Sun at all!

"What, can't find someone?"

"Yes, boss, we searched back and forth several times, but there was no sign of Manager Sun at all. I heard from nearby neighbors that he went back to his hometown in Bashu to recuperate and left early this morning!"

"What, I'm back to my hometown... It's impossible, it's absolutely impossible!"

Li De and Zheng looked at each other and felt something was wrong.

If Manager Sun was really seriously ill, he should be bedridden and well-educated. How could he go back to his hometown in Bashu? It is difficult for a strong person to travel thousands of miles of Shu Road, let alone a patient?

Take a step back and say that even if Manager Sun insists on going back to his hometown in Bashu, he should come over and say hello instead of leaving without saying a word!

There is only one answer. He did not go back to his hometown, but hid!

Why hide... I must have done something shameful. In connection with the bad situation in front of me, is it that there is something wrong with the Erguotou secret recipe he sent?

If there is any problem, why did the first three trials succeed?

Li De and Zheng thought hard, but before they could figure out their ideas, a new disaster came...it was on fire!

"It's not good, it's on fire, the steamer is on fire!"

"Don't panic, everyone, don't panic, get water and put out the fire quickly!"

"Not good, the steamer here has also caught fire!"

...

It turned out that when the third batch of wine was distilled, one of the steamers had some problems. The wine that should have flowed out of the conduit suddenly emerged from the top of the sky pot and splashed everywhere. Some of them flowed into the stove fire below, causing a fire in an instant.

The guys quickly fetched water to put out the fire, but before they could put out the fire, several steamers caught fire one after another... For a moment, thick smoke rolled, and the fire snake jumped everywhere, and the fire spread rapidly.

You should know that because time is too tight, the hundreds of barrels of "purifying water and medicine soup" that were steamed before were not moved into the warehouse, but were randomly piled up near the steamer.

Although the two cannot be drunk, the alcohol content inside is not low. After encountering the running fire snake, it immediately started to burn... and ignited the surrounding houses!

At the same time, God helped, but he was helping the situation, bringing waves of wind.

For a moment, the wind leveraged the fire, and the fire helped the wind to power. The thick smoke rolled, and the flames soared into the sky, and half of the sky was reflected in red!

Seeing this, the big and small guys gave up putting out the fire and fled in all directions, looking for a safe place to save their lives... and sat down and watched the new winemaking workshop turn into ashes!
Chapter completed!