Chapter 12 Go to Chang Garden
While Gao Chong ordered people to continue distilling fine wine, he introduced some fresh dishes to Ding Zhou while telling and talking. Ding Zhou nodded while remembering that his confidence suddenly increased a lot.
After Gao Chong finished introducing the article, the servants had completed the distillation of two more jars of fine wine. Gao Chong asked them to fill a pound of exquisite jars, hand over everything here to Ding Zhou, and then took the wine to see his mother.
Most of the cake on the table had gone. Looking at Gao Chong's puzzled eyes, Li snorted coldly, "Look at when it's already? The sun is running west. If I hadn't kept it for you, Erlang would have eaten it up for you."
"Thank you, mother. I'm not very interested in this, so I'll keep it for my second brother! Mingyue, go to the kitchen to get a few side dishes and ask my mother to taste my newly made wine."
"This child is so lazy. He comes from the kitchen himself. I don't know how to prepare a little, and he also makes you Aunt Yue work hard."
"It's okay, it's okay. The little prince has been tired for a day. I'll go!" Mingyue said, turning around and walking out.
Gao Chong held his exquisite wine jar and said, "Mom, look, this is a fine wine I re-brewed. How effective is the product?"
"Look, you can do anything else?" Li took the jar and opened the lid with a bang, and a mellow smell of sweetness hit his nostrils.
"What a good wine! Just smelling the fragrance makes me want to taste it. Dalang, I find that you are like a different person now. You used to be unscrupulous."
Gao Chong touched his head and said, "I don't know what's going on. Since that injury, there have been a lot of things in his mind, and it seems that he has opened his mind all of a sudden."
"It's all blessed by our ancestors. Tomorrow I will take you to the ancestral hall to worship our ancestors."
Gao Chong didn't want to bother with this issue, so he nodded and agreed. At this time, Mingyue brought a servant with a few plates of side dishes.
Gao Chong quickly filled two cups, gave one cup to his mother with both hands, and one cup to his maid Mingyue, and said, "Mom can taste it, but this thing is more powerful; you can drink it slowly in small mouthfuls."
Li glanced at him and sipped it gently. The hot feeling made her quickly pick up a few bites of the dish before she could calm down.
"Your wine is good, mellow and refreshing, and there is no sour feeling at all. Unfortunately, it's just too spicy. If we want to push it out in our Song Dynasty, it will take a certain amount of time to let people adapt slowly. However, I am very optimistic about its prospects. If people adapt to this taste, other wines will become slurry and will never be able to sell them anymore.
If it can be sold to the north and the western Xia, it would be amazing. I think they will lose all their money and steal the blame."
Gao Chong patted his hands and said, "Heroes have similar views, but their mother is the same as I think. I also want to use this poetry meeting to launch our wine so that they can help our family promote it."
Li looked at Gao Chong for a while. In order to promote his son's Double Ninth Festival, Cai Jing asked you to serve as a foil for you. How could his son finally make the Gao family's fine wine and food promotion conference? Isn't this a bit overwhelming?
"Why do I follow you to Changshan Garden the day after tomorrow?" Li was a little moved. His son rarely gave him a glory. This time she had such a chance to make her feel excited.
"Mom! Just listen to the news at home! I am a child after all, and I can forgive you for making a fuss. If you go there, it will be a big difference. Isn't this a shame for others?"
"That's right! Then I won't go. Dalang, I want to send this fine wine to your grandfather and Uncle Gao Gongtai of Bianliang. What do you think?"
"Mom is really planning. This is essential. We can't help but give more. They all have relatives and friends, which makes us famous."
Although Li claimed to be a good drinker, he was drinking this kind of high-value wine for the first time, and he was in a good mood and was a little drunk after not long. He couldn't walk steadily on the shaking road and was helped by his maid Mingyue to rest.
Ding Zhou has rushed to prepare a lot of property in the past two days, and went to Changshan Garden early on the Double Ninth Festival.
On this day, almost all the literati and gentlemen from Zhending Mansion arrived at Changshan Garden, and there were more than a hundred people. In addition to these men, even the little ladies who usually stayed in the gate without leaving the gate, many little ladies came.
The officials in Zhending Prefecture were almost all, and even Dong Cai, who was the prefect and the military and national affairs, asked his confidant, his younger brother Dong Wen, to attend.
Dong Cai and his other younger brother, Dong Wu, who served as the head of the Zhending Army and Horse Army, did not study much and generally did not appear in such occasions. However, Dong Wen had studied and also had a scholar from the Liao Kingdom, and could be used as a ritual.
Since it was a Double Ninth Festival held for the son of the Tongzong family, there was certainly the figure of young people. All the well-known young talents in Zhending Mansion arrived in Changshan. Of course, the women in the brothels were indispensable.
With the rise of handicraftsmen in the Song Dynasty, people were still relatively wealthy; officials also had a lot of salaries, so entertainment activities were very rich. Every city had such trellis, such as Bianliang City, which was claimed to have 72 trellis houses of different sizes; among them there were hundreds of trellis.
Although officials prohibit recruiting prostitutes, even the officials have to go out to steal incense, and the above and below are effective. This ban is the same. If there are not many familiar sisters in the yard, they will be embarrassed to play with them.
There are many fans coming today, and most of them are just some innocent people. However, in the dust and life, who can do nothing but cares about it?
The people at the scene were divided into several groups, one was the Song Dynasty officials composed of Cai Jing, Dong Wen and others, and the other was the young talents composed of Cai Songnian and others.
Dong Wen looked around and laughed: "Look at these innocent men, they all revolved around the young men, but no one paid attention to us old men."
"I'm pretty, so we old men are not as attractive as those young people!" Everyone laughed loudly after hearing this.
Cai Jing said: "My dear sirs, today is the Double Ninth Festival. Since it is a poetry meeting, there is no need for fighting poetry. This time, Dong Guanjun, Zhao Zhubu, Mr. Gao and his subordinates will be invited to make a judgment together."
"It is our honor to be able to listen to Lord Cai's teachings on his poems. I must follow the leader of Lord Cai."
"Oh! Looks like it's Cai Songnian, Official Cai is here!" The crowd suddenly remembered a burst of exclamations, and saw a young man in green coming slowly.
This person is about five feet or eight inches tall, and his current size is about 180, and his face is full of books. This young man is very polite and will smile and nod when he sees him, making everyone feel like he is bathed in spring breeze.
However, Gao Chong felt a sense of arrogance in his eyes that was out of place with everyone around him. This is a proud person. If he does not get his approval, it will be difficult for anyone to sincerely be loyal to him even if he can get him.
"Official Cai." With a cry, two handsome women flew out of the crowd. They rushed to Cai Songnian and surrounded him left and right, wishing they could throw themselves into their arms.
Gao Chong found that Ding Zhou's expression was a little gloomy and said in a slight moment: "Manager Ding, do you know these two women?"
Ding Zhou snorted coldly and said, "These two are the Xingshou (a senior prostitute) in Henglou, named Bai Xiuying, and the other is the Xingshou of Qunyulou, Xinjie Qunyulou, and are both the top brands there. Henglou, Qunyulou and Feiyunlou are also the three famous buildings in our Zhending Mansion now.
There is also a competitive relationship between the three buildings, especially Bai Xiuying, Yu Min and Zhu Rui from Feiyun Building have been competing for the position of the leader of Zhending Mansion; however, Zhu Rui is different from them, she is an expert in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Zhu Rui is really known as the junior teacher in ours. Many people have to throw her out a hundred pillars when they see her. Even so, you may not be able to see her. But the more this happens, the more money the young men throw in, just for such a face, so Feiyun Tower has always been the leader of the three famous buildings.
The two women who rushed up were Bai Xiuying and Yu Min. Speaking of which, Bai Xiuying turned out to be the first (top brand) in the upper hall of our Yanfeng Tower, but was bought by the people of Henglou with gold and silver, and now they are working for Henglou.
In order to gain the position of Henglou's head office, she often spread some rumors in the brothels and accused our Gao family. Even her wife had some rumors, which caused a very bad impact."
Gao Chong was listening quietly, but later he heard that his mother was involved, and his face suddenly changed: "No matter what Feiyun Tower, Qunyu Tower, or Heng Tower, there will definitely be only one Yanfeng Tower in the future!"
Even Cai Songnian kept smiling at these two women, nodded at them and then came to the crowd. The position of the manager was not high, but he felt as if he was among the big figures.
There was a burst of compliments around him, and Cai Songnian saluted everyone and stood beside him. Bai Xiuying and Yu Min followed him closely, fearing that others would snatch it away.
Two young men in white came over and said, "Brother Cai, it's such a blessing. It makes us envious."
Cai Songnian said modestly: "I wonder if the two brothers are honored?"
The first young man with a slightly thin figure said, "Just Dong Xiu, Lord Dong Cai is really my adopted father."
Another young man was much stronger, so he was a little inappropriate in his clothes and clothes of a scribe. He also said, "In the lower Gao Shida, my father is Gao Qingyi, the referee of the poem this time."
"Oh, I admire you for a long time! I admire you for a long time!" Cai Songnian's face did not change at all, and she raised her hand and replied in a routine manner.
Dong Xiu and Gao Shida didn't care at all, and then said, "We all heard from the old man that Brother Cai is the most young talent today. We are not good at learning and cannot study. Please cover up for us later."
Chapter completed!