Yu Zizhen, who had returned to her previous life's appearance, disguised herself as a man, dressed herself up as a second-generation rich man who came to Beijing to see the novelties, a fool and a spendthrift from a nouveau riche family. She used a little trick to make her matchmaker come to her on her own initiative, and then, as was very consistent with her character, she spent about twice the market price to buy the whole family from the matchmaker.
The matchmaker felt that there was no difference between selling the person directly to the stupid son of a merchant from another city and going to great lengths to send the person to another city to be sold. The most important thing was that by doing so, not only did she not have to spend extra money on transportation and labor to send the family out of the capital, but she could also take the opportunity to make a fortune. It was simply perfect.
Yu Zizhen, who was treated as a sucker by her, was also very satisfied because she knew that the little money she spent could be earned back by this family soon.
As for the other family, they were local merchants in the capital who inherited their ancestors' business and specialized in brewing wine. Although they could not be said to be wealthy, they lived a prosperous and respectable life thanks to the several brewing recipes left by their ancestors.
However, no matter how great the ancestral legacy is, it cannot withstand unfilial descendants. In order to pay off the gambling debts of his only son, the third son of the family secretly sold the secret wine-making recipe left by his ancestors.
After the truth was revealed, the old man in the family was so angry that he died. The eldest and second sons separated the family property with their third brother in anger. However, their nephew who was addicted to gambling did not let them go just because of the separation.
After he had spent all the property that his family had allocated to him, he pestered his eldest uncle, second uncle and a group of cousins, begging and threatening them to help him pay off his gambling debts.
Of course, the two families disagreed, so the desperate gambler, with the rogue idea that if he didn't live well, neither would you, set fire to his family's winery and the shop in front of it one night.
The guys who stayed in the winery and shop to guard the night were burned, and one of them even had his leg broken by a falling piece of wood. The guys' families couldn't find the gambler who had already escaped. Although the gambler's parents could be found, they had a shameless look on their faces, saying "I don't have any money, but I will give you my life". So everyone had no choice but to go to the guys' boss to claim compensation.
The two families were quite responsible. Not only did they cover all the medical expenses for the clerk's injuries, they also paid him monthly wages for lost wages.
After the two guys recovered from their injuries, they even paid them a large sum of money as compensation for their disfigurement, even under the urging of their families.
Yes, although the injuries of the two guys have healed, with the current medical level, the scars on their bodies and faces will never be removed.
This amount of money is not small, but compared with the penalty they have to pay to their cooperating merchants, this amount of money is not worth mentioning at all.
Those who have placed orders with their winery and even paid deposits will all be compensated one by one according to the contract.
As a result, the two families lost everything. Not only were their savings drained out, but the houses and shops they had purchased in previous years were also forced to sell off. Even the private money, dowries, gold and silver jewelry of the women in the family were taken out and given to the men for emergency use.
After listening to the system's retelling of the whole story, Yu Zizhen was moved by the character of the two families and decided to bring them under his wing and let them help him with the liquor business.
She has money, uh, well, it's the corrupt officials she targets who have money, and she can take it at any time.
She also has recipes for making wine. As long as she is willing to exchange her points for them, the system can provide her with at least one hundred or eighty kinds of wine recipes.
With a little effort, she can actually have people make strong liquor and various fruit wines that are not available in this era.
Brewing, perfume making, papermaking, and salt making are the pillar industries that she will use to make huge profits in the future.
If it weren't for the system, these skills could be exchanged for anything with points. Even if Yu Zizhen exchanged ten more cores, she would not dream of competing with the long-standing great families such as the Zhenbei Palace and the Jingguo Palace for the right to govern the world.
After hurriedly settling the two families in the small courtyard with two entrances that she had rented a long time ago, Yu Zizhen took the new mooncakes that she asked Madam Zhang to make to the palace for the banquet.
The palace banquet was scheduled for noon so that everyone could return home in the evening to enjoy the moon with their families.
Just like the palace banquet during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to a variety of delicious food, Mrs. Lu also arranged for actors to perform singing and dancing.
What was different from the Dragon Boat Festival was that after all the actors had left the stage, she actually asked the emperor's concubines and the young men and women from various families to perform their talents on stage.
Half of the emperor's concubines were eager to try, while the other half were not interested. Those who were eager to try had ambitions to become the empress dowager, while those who were not interested just wanted to be a quiet decoration in the harem.
The young men and women from various families were basically all lacking interest. If it weren't for the powerful Lu family, most of them would have supported the young Lu. In fact, they hoped that the emperor, the empress dowager and the queen would leave as soon as possible.
They thought that after these three left, they would go play pot-throwing, guess coins, appreciate flowers, and tell gossip with their friends. Wouldn't that be much more interesting than performing some stupid talent show?
Yu Zizhen shared the same idea as them, and with her status, she didn't need to sacrifice her precious time to warm up the party for Xiao Lu, so she sat there quietly without moving.
She showed the mooncakes she brought to Xiao Yuanjin and others.
The popular mooncakes nowadays are Beijing style, so Yu Zizhen asked Madam Zhang to prepare Cantonese and Suzhou styles.
In addition, the variety of mooncake fillings she brought was far richer than those in the palace, and the taste was much better.
A few people gathered together, enjoying mooncakes and chatting in low voices.
Yes, this time Yu Zizhen was merciful and shared the mooncakes she brought with Chen Hushan and others.
Perhaps it was because the atmosphere here was too harmonious and relaxed, so the young men and women who were forced to perform on stage were somewhat displeased with them. After they tasted a round of mooncakes, Wan Jingrong's sister took the lead in attacking them.
She smiled, stood up, and raised her voice to Yu Zizhen, "I've heard that the Prince of Zhenbei is a rare martial arts genius. It's rare that we're all gathered together now, why don't you show us a few things and open our eyes?"
Yu Zizhen raised his eyelids and saw her standing next to Wan Jingrong, and immediately guessed that she must be a female member of the Wan family.
She replied coldly, "Your vision is narrow because you have small eyes and little experience. In your situation, simply watching me demonstrate my martial arts is useless. If you really want to quickly improve your vision, I suggest you go get your canthus opened."
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