Chapter 21 Stabilizing the Fundamentals (1)
Maybe he would soon get hungry, or maybe Zhu Youquan already knew that there was a captain to support Huo Chong. Zhu Youquan sat at the door of Huo Chong's house until the evening, but he didn't see Zhu Youquan outside the door the next day.
Huo Chong hurried to meet the captain. He gave the captain a hanging of money. The captain took it with a smile, and then said, "Huo Chong, I can only stay here for one more day. If you have something to ask me for, you have to hurry up."
A dump of money is 100 yuan. It is not a small amount in a remote area like Zhangdian, but Huo Chong felt that the money was worth it. He whispered the request to the headmaster, and the headmaster nodded, "That's all?"
Huo Chong replied with a bitter face: "Those people say I am a bad person, but I am really not a bad person. They only know how to bully me, they are the bad persons."
The headmaster smiled and said nothing, and took the constables away. Huo Chong and his junior brother followed from afar, and saw the headmaster walking all the way to the door of the headmaster's house, and greeted him. The headmaster naturally did not want to offend the official officer, and they all spoke to the headmaster politely.
Let's go, let's go. The captain led the constables out of Liujia Village and arrived at Lijia Village after a trek. When Li Tongshan saw the captain coming, he greeted him with a smile on his face. The captain didn't say much, and after chatting for a few words, he continued to wander around the village.
When the headmaster and the officers walked away, Huo Chong and his junior brother knocked on the door of Li Tongshan's house. Seeing that Huo Chong was coming, Li Tongshan was a little surprised. Although he was a little reluctant, he still invited Huo Chong to come in.
As soon as he entered the door, Huo Chong said straight to the point: "Brother Li, I want a thousand glass bottles."
If it was a normal transaction, Li Tongshan, who heard Huo Chong's order, would naturally have to negotiate the price, and at least he would start talking politely. Li Tongshan just frowned and replied, "Brother Huo, this won't work."
Huo Chong didn't blame Li Tongshan and asked readily: "Brother Li, do those people hate me so much?"
Li Tongshan probably didn't expect Huo Chong to be so straightforward. He was stunned and sighed: "Brother Huo, you have offended too many people this time."
Huo Chong took out something from the bag and shook the distilled liquor in a glass bottle in front of Li Tongshan, "Drink while drinking."
"I can't suppress this wine." Li Tongshan immediately became excited.
Huo Chong took out another smoked rabbit. When he smelled it, Li Tongshan was a little shaken. Huo Chong smiled and said, "I'll let someone roast the rabbit again. It's delicious if it's hot. I'll make this wine lighter and it won't be so spicy when I drink it."
Not long after, Li Tongshan sat face to face with Huo Chong. I don’t know how many times he looked at the glass bottle. Li Tongshan finally said: “Brother Huo, the stove you made for me is really good. But you offended the surrounding villages.”
Huo Chong immediately corrected Li Tongshan's statement, "Don't! Brother Li, at most I offended a few people who wanted to make an idea about me, and I didn't offend everyone in the surrounding villages."
Seeing Huo Chong so serious, Li Tongshan just shook his head.
Huo Chong poured wine for Li Tongshan, "Brother Li, try this."
Li Tongshan picked up the wine glass and sniffed it, took a sip, and his nervous expression immediately stretched out, "This wine is delicious."
Huo Chong smiled. Modern brewing technology mainly involves mixing wine. The so-called five-year-old wine is not the whole tank of wine for five or ten years. The wine is divided into wine head and base wine. The alcohol concentration in the wine head is high, and it is aged for five or ten years. The wine mixed with the base wine is the so-called five-year-old wine for ten years.
Now Huo Chong has new wine in his hands, but just using this blending method can freely control the strongness of the wine without changing the basic taste.
Huo Chong felt relieved to see that Li Tongshan could accept this kind of blended wine. Zhu Erniu was indeed not a bragging person. He could continue to implement some techniques by teaching him.
The two of them drank a drink, and Huo Chong said, "Brother Li, I have to use a bottle. Even if there are not a thousand, three hundred must be needed."
Li Tongshan kept shook his head, "Brother Huo, do you think those people don't know. As long as I burn the bottle, they will know that I'm helping you."
"That's easy. I'll ask the captain to sit at your doorstep. Those people will know that I forced Brother Li to burn the bottle for me. I'm already a bad person. I don't have to worry about the lice or itch if I have too much debt."
Li Tongshan frowned. It seemed that he could hear that Huo Chong's solution was actually a threat. However, Huo Chong didn't care. Since he had used the power of the government, he naturally had to try his best to use it. In fact, Huo Chong said that the head of the captain would not need to lock people. The captain was willing to collect the little money and then walked back and forth.
But the captain knew that Li Tongshan didn't know. Huo Chong wanted to take advantage of this gap in intelligence and information to make Li Tongshan feel that he was even worse off.
Thinking of this, Huo Chong smiled and said, "Anyway, the captain won't come in to catch people, so Brother Li will still help me burn a thousand bottles."
Li Tongshan's face looked even more ugly. However, this guy could calm down. After thinking for a while, he said, "Brother Huo, why not ask the captain to my doorstep. I'll go and make a fire."
Not long after, the sound of locking iron chains sounded at the door of Li Tongshan's house. Huo Chong approached the yard, and Li Tongshan did not make a fire at all, but just stretched his ears into the yard to listen. Compared with Huo Chong's appearance when he went out, Li Tongshan's face looked a little ugly.
Huo Chong walked to Li Tongshan and whispered, "I don't hide it from Brother Li. The Nanman with me last time was the home of Xu County Magistrate. I made these wines for him. Brother Li, you burn the bottle, and the brother will come back in two days and take the things and leave. If he doesn't get it, I can't say he will do something."
Li Tongshan's eyes lit up, and it seemed that he had already understood the relationship in this matter. Huo Chong leaned into Li Tongshan's ear and said sincerely: "Brother Li, I'll tell you about this matter, don't tell anyone."
Li Tongshan, who knew why he was blocked from the door, stopped talking nonsense and just replied: "Okay. I'll go to make a fire now."
When Xu Youlin and a large group of people appeared in front of Huo Chong's house again, the captain had already returned to the county town. Huo Chong asked everyone to come in and sit, but Xu Youlin didn't answer and went straight into the house. He saw hundreds of bottles in the yard and jars of wine were placed under the eaves of the corridor. With so many objects, the originally empty house immediately had the intention of a rich family.
The ferocity on his face disappeared. Xu Youlin smelled the lid of the jar, and asked for wine and tasted it one by one. Then he said to Huo Chong: "Brother Huo, let's talk about the price."
Xu Youlin was so happy, and Huo Chong also replied readily: "Give me fifty taels, take all these."
"No!" Xu Youlin gave Huo Chong a roll of his eyes as much as possible with his slender eyes. As a result, he looked like the sleeping big bad wolf.
Huo Chong raised another price, "Thirty taels."
"Three or two."
"Twenty taels." Huo Chong continued to bid.
"Ten taels. I only have that much!" Xu Youlin's voice was filled with the helplessness of telling the truth.
"Ten taels are fine. You have to leave all the iron guys you brought to me."
"Iron guy? That's not worth ten taels!" Xu Youlin immediately refused.
Huo Chong whispered: "Li Tongshan is not reliable, I want to burn the glass by myself. It's not possible without the iron guy."
Chapter completed!