Chapter Thirteen: The Generous Woman Occasionally Enjoys
"What? You're not selling furniture to make wine?" Li Jin thought looked at Zhao Xing with a puzzled face.
"Yes, brewing!" Zhao Xing replied affirmatively. He then gave a detailed analysis to Li Jinsi and Li Jinwu about the unsustainability of high profits from selling furniture, as well as the geographical advantages and grain advantages of entering the brewing industry.
On the side, Xu Wanting, who had not spoken, lit up her eyes and said in a low voice: "To talk about brewing wine, Master Fu and the wine formula are the key. In Bianzhou, there are wineries everywhere, and the larger ones can sell their wine to Xiyu, while the smaller ones sell locally. They compete fiercely with each other..."
Looking at Xu Wanting's unfinished expression, Zhao Xing nodded while using encouraging eyes to look at Xu Wanting, hoping she would continue speaking.
Being stared at by Zhao Xing, Xu Wanting felt her face burning and the little rabbit in her heart jumping faster. Li Jinwu, who was standing beside her, saw Xu Wanting's red face and couldn't help but feel curious, asking with concern: "Hey, why is your face so red? Are you running a fever?"
"Damn you, big-headed ghost!" Li Jin thought to himself, having already noticed the flirtatious exchange between Zhao Xing and Xu Wanting. He quickly interjected, "Wanting's family is famous for their winemaking, her grandfather and father are renowned masters in Shangdang, but whether they can be invited depends on Brother Xing's influence!" After saying this, Li Jin made a silly face at Zhao Xing, winking at Xu Wanting.
Zhao Xing's eyes lit up even more as he listened, his mind only thinking that with Xu Wanting's guidance, the difficult problem of recruiting Master Fu would be easily solved. But to others, his eyes, which were already somewhat captivating, sparkled with electricity, and Xu Wanting's face turned even redder as she sat across from him at her desk.
Li Jinwu, who was a bit careless, suddenly discovered that there was an ambiguous smell in the room. To say that Li Jinwu himself wasn't brainless, it's just that he had gotten used to being careless and focused on practicing martial arts, so he rarely paid attention to matters between men and women. But as soon as he paid attention and thought about Xu Wanting, who had been frequently sneaking into other courtyards recently, even someone as obtuse as him could sense that there might be some small secrets between Xu Wanting and Zhao Xing that couldn't be ignored.
"My dad and grandpa have been brewing wine according to the traditional method passed down from our ancestors, and their craftsmanship is quite famous in this area. However, there's a rule at home that only passes it down to males and not females, and only to insiders and not outsiders... I'm afraid Little Xing will have to think of another way..." Permitted by three pairs of eyes with different thoughts, Xu Wanting said softly, forcing herself to speak up.
"What's difficult about that? If Xiaoxing marries you, won't you all be one family?" Li Jinwu said with a pretentious expression of ignorance.
Brush, only to see Zhao Xing and Li Jin Si two people simultaneously turned their gaze to Li Jin Wu's face. After a suffocating silence, the room only heard the sound of several people's breathing. Xu Wanting was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a seam in the ground to drill into.
"Into Wu Ge, you...you...you're not a good person, I'm going to accompany my aunt...", Xu Wanting really didn't have the courage to stay any longer, turned around and ran out quickly.
"It's all because of your big mouth!" Li Jin Si complained to Li Jin Wu, "Now the person is gone, we can't discuss it further."
"Actually, um, what Wu Ge said isn't entirely unreasonable," Zhao Xing said with a hint of guilt. "You think if I ask my grandfather to help mediate, the Wen family would agree?"
"Still young and bold like a man, dare to think and dare to do!" Li Jinwu patted Zhao Xing's shoulder like an old hand.
"As long as Aunt is happy, I think this matter can be successful." Li Jin said excitedly, "If you marry Wan Ting, the wine workshop of the Xu family will be yours in the future, and even the money to buy the workshop can be saved. Wan Ting has only one younger sister named Xu Wanlin, who is not yet nine years old, and the Xu family is worried about not having a male heir."
"Alright, I'll go find my mother and beg her to go to Li's village to ask my grandfather to be the matchmaker for me!" Zhao Xing had a heroic expression, but only earned a pair of disdainful glances from the two Li brothers.
Entering the Zhao's house, I saw that Xu Wanting, whose face still had a lingering flush, was following Li Yujiao to learn needlework. The Zhao's face was filled with happiness, as if Xu Wanting were her own daughter.
Seeing Zhao Xing enter the house and not making a sound, Mrs. Zhao put down her work and asked kindly: "Xing'er, weren't you and your brothers discussing something?"
"Mother, um... I have something to say to you, but you and Aunt Wen Ting are busy now, so I'll come back later..." As he spoke, Zhao Xing thought of slipping away quietly. What a joke, with the person involved present, how could he tell his own mother that he wanted to marry someone else's daughter? He wasn't even a "Lolita complex" himself, and in this situation, it was really impossible for him to bring up the topic of marriage.
"Xing Er, Wan Ting is not an outsider, looking at your anxious and hurried expression, you must have something important to tell me, so don't be evasive." Zhao Xing Niang said calmly.
"Ah, you're making me anxious, you're making me anxious, and you don't even observe the enemy's situation. Now we're going to be embarrassed!" Zhao Xing was having a fierce ideological struggle between his left brain and right brain. "Whether I stick my head out or pull it back, it's all just one knife cut after another. This matter will also be known by Wenyin, so I'll just go for broke!" Zhao Xing gave himself a boost of confidence. "Mother, I want to ask you to go beg Grandfather to act as matchmaker for me!"
Xu Wanting, who had been too afraid to make a sound on the side, heard this and suddenly trembled all over, burying her head even lower. Her pretty face, which had just turned from red to white, instantly flushed bright red again. "This little scoundrel is really bold, before Wu Ge's voice has even faded away, he rushes over here to propose to me... But why does my heart feel so happy, and I'm even vaguely looking forward to it?" Xu Wanting was waging a war in her mind.
"Oh, I see my brother is thinking of getting a wife. I wonder which family's daughter has caught his eye?" Li Yujiao asked Zhao Xing with a hint of teasing, having noticed the unusual behavior of the couple in front of her.
"Mother, this girl is right in front of us, I want to marry Wan Ting as my wife!" Anyway, he had already started, so Zhao Xing let it all out in one breath.
"Hehe, my family's Xing'er has a good eye for this! I just don't know if this girl will look up to you or not!" Li Yujiao teased, staring at Xu Wanting.
"Auntie, you're teasing me..." Xǔ Wǎntíng finally couldn't help but speak out in a coquettish tone, while saying this she was also pulling Lǐ Yùjuān's hand back and forth, refusing to let go.
"Alright! Alright! Your mother will go to Li's village tomorrow to beg your grandfather to take charge of you."
"Thanks, Mom!" Zhao Xing said happily.
Xu Wanting, who was standing beside her, somehow gained courage and also stuttered: "Thank you, Auntie, for your blessing!"
"This woman is quite something!" Zhao Xing said to himself, "She has the courage to express her love and expectations straightforwardly in front of men, without being reserved or pretentious. She's truly a rare find in this era."
At the same time, our male protagonist's heart is filled with waves of narcissism, thinking that he is simply charming and radiant, like a scorching sun on a hot summer day, completely forgetting that there was once a madman named Nietzsche who called himself the sun!
