As soon as the words fell, Dong Shuzhen's eyebrows trembled, but she still closed her eyes tightly and seemed not to hear.

"I know you are pretending to sleep. It's okay. My father-in-law has gone away and he won't come again. Get up. I won't expose you. If you lie down any longer, you won't be able to sleep at night..."

Zhu Xiuyuan said, then scratched Dong Shuzhen's armpit.

"Ah ha ha ha... Husband, stop it, stop it, I won't pretend to be asleep..."

As expected, Dong Shuzhen couldn't bear it. She resisted Zhu Xiuyuan's hand with both hands and almost broke out in laughter.

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In the next few days, Dong Shuyu became even busier.

Because the New Year is approaching, there will be more than ten days before the annual New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, a combined double festival.

The New Year's Day at that time was equivalent to the Spring Festival in later generations, and it was one of the most important festivals of the year.

Coupled with New Year's Eve, this is a big deal. The two major festivals are right next to each other. Those two days are the most anticipated days of the year.

From the imperial court to the people, from high-ranking mansions to ordinary people's homes, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, everyone, whether poor or rich, will have a special event.

For Zhu Xiuyuan and the Dong family, this year is a year of disaster, but it is also a year of harvest.

When they were in Jiangzhou, there were natural disasters first, then man-made disasters, and then they experienced a lot of war!

Faced with life and death crises several times, it can be said that he has experienced the test of ice and fire.

But misfortune brings blessings, and Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng, two sons-in-law, also took advantage of this to rise step by step.

Zhu Xiuyuan went from being a farmer to joining the army as Cao Cao of the Yacang Prefecture of Jiangzhou, and then to being the Sima of Jiangzhou. Finally, he rose directly to the top and became a decorated officer. He was awarded the title of "Jiangcheng Bo" and took root in the capital.

Now he is still a popular person around Chen Huang!

The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty did not dare to show off their talents for a while.

Dong Cheng joined the army from the recorder of Jiangzhou Prefecture, was promoted to the governor of Jiangzhou, then the magistrate of Jingxian County, and finally became the governor of Runzhou Prefecture!

Whether it is Zhu Xiuyuan or Dong Cheng, they have undergone earth-shaking changes!

It gets better!

Therefore, this year is a crucial year for them, and it is also a year of great harvest.

Now that the New Year is coming, we must celebrate it properly.

But the mistress of Jiangcheng Bo's Mansion is still a naughty kid who steals wine. What can she do?

Therefore, preparations for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day fell on Dong Shuyu's shoulders.

She also had to take a troublemaker like Dong Shuzhen to teach her. Therefore, Dong Shuyu was busy with the restaurant business, preparing for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and even taking care of the teahouse business...

So Dong Shuyu is very busy these days.

As for Zhu Xiuyuan, apart from occasionally paying attention to the Shenlei Square, the Shenlei Army Camp, and the preparations for the military examinations, all his thoughts were focused on the brewing workshop in the mansion.

The distillation is no longer a problem, and we are now overcoming the difficulty of blending.

But it was too difficult to reconcile. So many days had passed without a clue.

However, the news that Jiangcheng Bofu had brewed a very fragrant and powerful wine spread like wildfire throughout the capital.

The ancients' pursuit of fine wines, in addition to the aroma and mellowness, actually also tried their best to pursue the strength, that is, the alcohol content.

Because wine brewed from grain has an upper limit on alcohol content, no matter how the brewing process is optimized, its alcohol content will remain that high.

The more you don’t have something, the more you pursue it.

Alcohol content is this thing.

Therefore, mellowness and strongness are two important indicators for evaluating fine wines.

Rumors about the sweet and delicious wine in Jiangcheng's residence have become more and more mysterious since they "fermented" in Beijing for several days.

For example, Zhu Xiuyuan went to Shenleifang for inspection one day. Zhou Dong, who was stationed there, hesitated for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to ask him for a drink, saying that he wanted to experience the feeling of "falling to the ground after just one smell"...

The distilled wine is indeed very strong, and it can be really intoxicating if you smell it too much, but it is far from reaching the level of "falling to the ground after just one smell"!

That's wine, not incense!

This shows how outrageous those rumors are.

But no matter what, for a while, Jiangcheng Uncle's Mansion became a "holy place" in the eyes of many drunkards in the city, and they all wanted to break in and find out.

It's best to taste it yourself.

However, the Jiangcheng Earl's Mansion is an Earl's Mansion after all, and not just anyone can break into it.

This alone deters most drunkards.

As for the remaining drunkards, such as the drunkards with higher status such as the civil and military officials in Chaozhong, they can actually use an excuse to come to Jiangcheng Bo's house to explore it by visiting.

However, this approach doesn’t work for most people.

Because the "nemesis" hat on Zhu Xiuyuan's head was so eye-catching that no one dared to approach it, and they were afraid to avoid it!

Moreover, many civil and military personnel in North Korea and China have hostile relations with Zhu Xiuyuan...

Naturally, this group of people would not make a special trip to visit Jiangcheng Bofu just for this matter.

However, there are always exceptions to everything. Although Zhu Xiuyuan was "unpopular" in the court, he did not have no friends.

The first people to come to Jiangcheng Bo's Mansion for investigation were Dong Cheng's subordinates in the government office, as well as the county magistrates of Jiangning County and Shangyuan County under his rule.

These people themselves were under Dong Cheng's rule and were naturally close to Jiangcheng's Mansion.

So these people formed a group to visit the uncle's house.

The purpose is to see the legendary sweet wine.

I wish Xiuyuan hospitality and fulfill their wishes.

Take out the distilled raw wine and show it to them.

Although everyone was polite, they ignored Zhu Xiuyuan's dissuasion and insisted on tasting the original wine. Zhu Xiuyuan, for Dong Cheng's sake, let them have a taste.

As a result, there were new rumors in the capital the next day.

"The wine from Jiangcheng Uncle's Mansion is the real wine! It's strong enough! It's flavorful enough! I have been drinking wine for more than 20 years, but now it seems that it is all 'horse urine'!"

"The wine from Jiangcheng Bofu is well-deserved to be the best wine in the world!"

"You don't know, drinking that kind of wine is like swallowing a ball of fire! The entrance is spicy and fierce, like a sharp sword slicing through the throat. After swallowing it, you can feel the warmth and fire in your belly. Ha.

In one breath, the strong smell of alcohol rushed straight to my forehead... Oh my god, I have been drinking wine for most of my life, and I have never drunk anything so strong! This is the real wine!"

"I am the same. I used to drink several large jars of fine wine, just to get drunk. But I kept drinking and drinking, but I could never get drunk. I was always just a little bit worse...until I drank the fine wine from Jiangcheng Uncle's Mansion, and I got drunk. I was so drunk.

Completely, haha..."

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Chapter completed!