Chapter 24: The Lady is Coming
At this time, Chen Xiaomin suddenly rushed in, with tears on her face. She pointed at Zhao Yulin's nose angrily and called him a big liar. He had just made a solemn promise in front of his mother, but now he was not agreeing.
Zhao Yulin was confused and said, "How could I refuse?" He just didn't expect Uncle Chen to bring it up so quickly.
When Zhao Yulin traveled through time, he never expected to get married so early. A man who is almost thirty years old sleeping with a fifteen-year-old girl would be jailed and cursed in the future.
Chen Xiaomin leaned against his father and said, "When is it not too early? Brother Liar, tell me."
Zhao Yulin listened and couldn't help laughing.
Haha, this girl is in a hurry to get married.
Chen Xiaomin saw him laughing and his father was laughing at her, so she ran over to Zhao Yulin and punched him on the back with her two pink fists, roaring, "I told you to laugh, I told you to laugh."
When Chen Zhongshun saw his daughter acting coquettishly and cutely, he made an excuse to leave. Zhao Yulin pulled Chen Xiaomin close to his arms and asked, "Are you in such a hurry to get yourself married?"
Aren’t you afraid of marrying into a den of tigers and wolves?
The little girl said happily that she was not afraid.
Zhao Yulin is also a man. He is not greedy for beauty. He is definitely a fool.
In this situation, he also revealed his true character and hugged Chen Xiaomin tightly in his arms.
Chen Xiaomin trembled with excitement in his arms. This was their first intimate contact...
The next morning, Zhao Yulin went to see his mother, and his mother happily said she would give him a red envelope.
Zhao Yulin said no, as he had just given him the New Year's money last night. His mother insisted on giving him more, saying it was the custom and that it was all his earned money.
Zhao Yulin no longer insisted. He took out the jade hairpin given by his mother and returned it to her, asking her to keep it well.
When Tian saw the jade hairpin, she recalled the scene of him being kicked unconscious and couldn't help crying. Zhao Yulin told his mother that the past was the past and that she should believe him and that the future would be better and better.
As soon as he got back, Wu Yuqi arrived and said that Mr. Zhu wanted to see him.
Zhao Yulin followed Wu Yuqi to the backyard. Li Chuan had already dressed him up and sat in the wheelchair designed by Zhao Yulin himself.
He smiled and asked Zhu Congwen, "Have you thought it through? Do you want to go out for a walk?" As he spoke, he walked over and pushed the wheelchair out of the yard.
Wu Yuqi was leading a group of people following about four or five meters behind.
Zhu Congwen smiled and said he couldn't tell, the third young master was doing well in the Southern Song Dynasty, with such a group of people always following him.
Zhao Yulin sighed and said that people have to live, and only by living can they see a more beautiful life. The two came to the dock and looked at the three rivers. Zhu Congwen said that Chuan'er pushed him to watch the fireworks last night. It was beautiful. Thank you.
Yesterday, Zhao Yulin arranged for Li Chuan to push Zhu Congwen forward, hoping that he would change, and it worked.
Zhao Yulin said it was difficult. This was the Southern Song Dynasty. The Mongolian army would attack in a few years. The emperor was weak and corruption was rampant in the government. If we wanted to save our lives, we had to rely on ourselves.
"No matter how difficult it is, can it stop the two of us?" Zhu Congwen spoke.
Zhao Yulin heard that his military temperament had returned and was very happy. He sat on the ladder and had a heart-to-heart talk with Zhu Congwen.
An hour later, the two had become friends.
Zhao Yulin asked him to be a counselor to Lei Man first, responsible for the construction and training of the new army. He sent Zhu Congwen to Lei Man and asked him to design a waist badge, which was an identity card. He required everyone in Cuiping Mountain to have a uniform waist badge.
No one is allowed to enter or leave without a badge.
Zhao Yulin came back and went to Chen Zhongshun to make wine.
The wine merchant helped him transport back all the raw materials needed to make perfume. He then asked Chen Xian to make a new type of distiller the size of a pressure cooker. He added an appropriate amount of honey and tea leaves and used distillation to extract the perfume, which was another brand.
Zhao Yulin made 5,000 bottles, named it Nine Fragrance Fairy Dew, and asked Chen Xiaomin to sell it to wine merchants in Lin'an and Chengdu. These merchants would definitely be able to fetch a good price.
As expected, this fresh and smooth perfume was snapped up by the upper class nobles as soon as it was released. The merchants who came to buy wine were all asking if there was any more Nine Fragrance Fairy Dew at ten taels of silver a bottle. Unfortunately, Zhao Yulin only made 5,000 bottles. The merchants had to settle for the next best thing and buy Nine Fragrance Jade Dew at five taels of silver a bottle. Twenty thousand bottles of Jade Dew were sold out.
Chen Zhongshun smiled and said that he would simply stop making wine and start making perfume to sell.
Chen Xiaomin refused, saying that perfume was their business.
Zhao Yulin's face was burning as he listened to the little girl's impudent and intimate words. He said he would no longer make wine or perfume, but would make up his mind to build the winery in place, improve quality and reduce costs.
Because you can't brew too much of this wine.
Chen Zhongshun also nodded heavily.
The people in the county were stunned. The news that Chen Zhongshun would sell wine after the Spring Festival spread quickly into the city. It was another 30,000 catties of wine, and it was only sold for five taels of silver per catty. There were queues of cargo ships, and the supply could not meet the demand. As a result, the merchants filled up the inns at the dock, and the beggar chickens were all sold out.
The Nine Fragrance Jade Dew and the Nine Fragrance Fairy Dew are even more famous. The Nine Fragrance Fairy Dew has been sold at a sky-high price of fifty taels of silver. Everyone dreams of getting a small bottle of the Nine Fragrance Fairy Dew.
The county magistrate could no longer sit still.
Damn, how much money will they earn from their sales in half a month? How much will that small box of inconspicuous perfume bottles hold? How much money did Zhao Yulin make?
He took the chief clerk Yang Zhishan and crossed the river by boat.
Along the way, Yang Zhishan kept asking the county magistrate what he was doing here?
Checking taxes?
They have paid the full amount.
Inspecting the construction of the new city?
Others didn't charge you a penny, and the house they built was stylish and sturdy, yet you are still collecting taxes from them. What's the point?
The county magistrate went up to the brand new dock, took a walk into the city, and seeing the city expanding westwards, he was dazed for a moment and decided to go home.
As they looked back at Cuiping Mountain from the river, the county magistrate said that this man was not someone he could control.
Climbing up the mountain, You Mazi and his gang watched the New Year's Eve fireworks show on the other side of the river. The fertile land of Sanjiangkou has been deeply engraved in their hearts.
Zhang Yanei wanted to occupy Cuiping Mountain immediately, but he was also aware of the strength of the bandits. He might be able to rob the dock, but it was definitely a dream to attack Cuiping Mountain. You Mazi was itching to say that after the brothers celebrated the New Year, they would go to rob the dock.
During this period, they secretly went into the city to pick up girls, buy New Year's goods, and purchase new clothes and weapons, spending on them. The little money they had was soon gone.
Zhao Yulin's father's concubine, the fifth concubine, gave him a younger brother, and her status increased greatly. She and the eldest concubine slandered the fourth concubine in front of his father. Master Zhao was a soft-hearted person, and Zhao Yulin was doing well in Jiangnan but he didn't care. He was furious.
He vented his unhappiness on his fourth wife.
So, Zhao Yulin’s fourth sister took her fourth mother to the dock on foot and found Ma Jin to ask for permission to cross the river.
When Ma Jin saw the fourth young lady of the Zhao family coming, bringing with her Zhao Yulin's fourth wife, he dared not neglect them and immediately arranged for a speedboat to send them across the river.
When Zhao Sihan saw that the guards at the dock were all very respectful to her, she said proudly to her mother, "Look, these are all my brother's people, and my brother's people are my people."
"Right?" The little girl asked the soldiers proudly with her hands on her hips.
Which of those soldiers would say no? They all nodded in agreement and kept shouting at the fourth young lady to be careful.
Her mother immediately yelled at her and told her not to mess around.
The little girl didn't care at all. She pulled her mother to the bow of the boat to look at the scenery of Sanjiangkou. She opened her young arms and gestured, saying that our third brother had built a big city on Cuiping Mountain.
Zhao Yulin was handling official business when his sister came into the city and broke into the office. When she saw him, she beat him up with her little pink fists and cried, saying that he didn't care about her sister.
Zhao Yulin pulled his fourth sister into his arms with heartache. He knew that his sister would never give in or complain unless the time was tough.
When he saw the bag that Si Niang was carrying, he thought that she was not going to leave after coming here, so he asked her to take him home.
When her mother saw Zhao Sihan and her daughter enter the house, the two women hugged each other and cried.
He did not try to persuade them and asked Chen Xiaomin to arrange for Si Niang and his mother to live in the same courtyard, and Si Mei and Xiao Min to live in the east wing.
Chen Xiaomin was very happy. She knew that Zhao Sihan had a lot of clever ideas. With Zhao Sihan by her side, her energy would increase a hundredfold.
When the two little girls came together, their faces were filled with smiles.
After Zhao Yulin settled his fourth sister and her daughter down, he went to look for Chen Xian.
The Iron Workshop reported that the sample of Zhuge Crossbow had been made. He walked into the test site and saw Chen Xian fiddling with it with a smile on his face, thinking that the effect should be good.
Chen Xian picked it up and explained to him: Zhuge Crossbow can fire two arrows each time. With the help of a spring, winding the arrow is more than half easier and it is full of power. It can easily penetrate three cowhides from a hundred steps away.
Zhao Yulin held it up for a closer look. The Zhuge crossbow was basically made of iron, and its weight was much heavier than that of wood. However, it had a fast winding speed, a high rate of fire, and a long range, which made up for its disadvantage of being overweight and gave it a clear advantage.
Zhao Yulin test-fired three arrows and the effect was indeed good. He asked Chen Xian to keep an eye on it and quickly make a batch of them for the guard team on the other side to use.
In Yibin City in Jiangbei, Prefect Xu summoned Xu Chaolin to give him the document from Jiazhou, saying that the superior official in Jiazhou had sent a curse letter and asked him to quickly put down the bandit problem in Xuzhou.
Even gods have a hard time in February and March. In the eyes of ordinary people, the Chinese New Year is a hurdle. After the Chinese New Year, there is no food and no money. The number of people fleeing famine and begging for food is growing in various places. Some people take risks and become bandits.
Prefect Xu ordered the government troops to go out immediately and first eliminate the bandits who climbed the mountains.
The next day, Xu Chaolin sent out his troops and moved quickly with his cavalry. He just happened to intercept a group of bandits who came down the mountain to rob the people and killed them all.
This was the revenge of the government troops. They had been defeated in successive battles, and this time they were just the right opportunity to kill them mercilessly.
You Mazi was furious when he learned that a 10-man food-grabbing team was wiped out by the government troops. He asked Liu San to take people to retaliate against the government troops, but Zhang Yanei suggested that it would be better to rob the docks so that they could get supplies quickly.
Liu San neither agreed to retaliate against the government troops nor to seize the dock.
He said that they were now being targeted by government troops, and if they offended the third young master of the Zhao family again, they would be attacked from both sides and their climb to the top would be in jeopardy.
You Mazi was furious and roared that this was not allowed and that was not allowed, so how could his brothers survive?
Drink northwest wind?
