Liu Shichu's booming cocktail business made many liquor sellers see business opportunities and began to imitate her cocktails. Suddenly, many liquor shops with the name of mixed liquor and cocktails popped up in the capital.
Some customers don't know the truth or want to save some money on drinks, so they go to those fake wine shops to drink "Colorful". The result is as you can imagine, either the taste is weird and unpleasant, or the taste is plain and ordinary, not as magical as the legend says.
So they all thought that this cocktail was not worthy of its name, but a senior drinker laughed at them that what they drank was not an authentic cocktail. To drink the authentic cocktail, you have to go to Mrs. Liu's "Zuixin" wine shop, which is the origin of the cocktail. .
Liu Shichu's wine shop became famous, gradually overshadowing her and Li's reputation. When everyone talked about her, she was no longer the ex-wife who was abandoned by a certain general, but a wine-savvy person who developed a special mixed wine. However, she managed to improve her reputation by accident.
Liu Shichu struck while the iron was hot and developed many other cocktails. She not only mixed certain types of wine, but also mixed wine with juice, milk, and even sugar to create different flavors.
Needless to say, this novel and unique cocktail is naturally very popular. Even many ladies and girls in the boudoir come here out of curiosity and want to drink these novel drinks.
Liu Shichu took the opportunity to expand the wine shop and set aside one-third of the space specifically for entertaining female customers. This gave the female guests less to worry about, and so slowly more and more female guests came to the door. .
The backyard of Cui Mansion.
Several concubines of Cui Anhua gathered in the garden to drink tea and chat.
"Have you heard about it? Our wife, no, the ex-wife, opened a wine shop. The cocktails she sells are very popular! I wonder what kind of wine this cocktail is and whether it tastes good..." Aunt Zhou winked. Talk to the other aunts.
"What cocktail? This has a weird name, what kind of good wine can it be? Madam, no, Mrs. Liu has really fallen completely now. Even if she is divorced from our master, she is still a young lady from the official family. Why? How can you be willing to degenerate and sell alcohol? You’re not afraid of making people laugh!"
Another concubine, Aunt Chen, said in a weird voice that she had an old grudge with Liu Shichu in the past. She was so happy to know that Liu Shichu and Cui Anhua were reunited with Li Shi. Now she can naturally step on Liu Shichu's feet.
"The wine seller is not an ordinary wine seller. I heard that a small glass of wine can cost several taels or more than ten taels of silver. He is really a profiteer. He must have made a lot of money. I don't know how those people are willing to be taken advantage of. , It’s just wine, is it really that delicious when mixed with several kinds of wine?” Aunt Wang said in confusion. She was most concerned about the money. Knowing that Liu Shichu’s wine shop was doing a booming business, she felt unhappy. Know how hot-tempered you are.
"Who knows whether what she drank was wine? After all, our ex-wife is a very beautiful woman. Only our blind master doesn't like it. How can other men not be fascinated by her when they see her? I heard that she always drinks wine. Go to the shop, those drunkards say they are going to drink, but maybe they are not interested in drinking." Aunt Chen sneered.
"What are you talking about?" Just as the aunts were talking about Liu Shichu in a weird way, a familiar male voice suddenly sounded from behind them.
Several concubines looked over and saw Cui Anhua and Jiang Wenyue with a bulging belly. They stood up in a hurry and said hello to them.
"Who were you talking about just now?" Cui Anhua asked several women with a cold face.
"No, I didn't say anyone..." Aunt Zhou replied in a panic, knowing that the master and the new wife definitely didn't want to hear about the former wife.
However, Cui Anhua already knew who they were talking about, and now he was just asking knowingly: "Who didn't you say? Tell me honestly! You tell me!"
When he pointed at Aunt Chen, Aunt Chen saw that she couldn't hide, so she replied in a low voice vaguely: "I'm talking about my ex-wife, Mrs. Liu..."
"What did you say about her?" Cui Anhua asked in a deep voice. Although he had reconciled with Liu Shichu, he didn't want her to live in too much poverty. After all, she was his first wife, so he heard these concubines say that she was betrayed. Drinking wine, I couldn't help but ask.
"It's said that the wine shop opened by Liu's family is very popular." Aunt Chen replied guiltily.
"Why did Sister Liu open a liquor store? How pitiful... Didn't her family accept her back? Do you want her to show off as a woman?" Jiang Wenyue asked with concern, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, as if I am very worried about the situation of my husband’s ex-wife.
"We don't know about this." Aunt Zhou lowered her head and said, rolling her eyes secretly. This new lady is really good at acting. Wasn't it because of her bitch that the former lady sold wine? What kind of drama are you here to play now?
"Didn't she bring back her dowry and 20% of our family's property? Why does she still need to go out to do business on her own?" Cui Anhua asked doubtfully.
"Twenty percent of the family fortune?!" When Jiang Wenyue heard what he said, the expression on her face almost broke, but she quickly concealed it, but she secretly felt pain in her heart for the 20% of the family fortune that passed her by.
"Perhaps she is not short of money, but just wants to do something to kill time? I heard that she researched all the cocktails in her wine shop. Then she must be very interested in wine, so she has the patience and leisure to study these. ..." Another Aunt Wen, who had always been taciturn, suddenly spoke up.
When Cui Anhua heard what she said, he couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or happy. If Liu Shichu devoted his energy to the wine shop out of interest, then her life must not be as miserable as he thought.
"Then Sister Liu is really leisurely and relaxed... But she is a woman, how can she focus on doing business? In my opinion, she still needs a man who loves her, just like me now... I hope she can have a new life of her own." Jiang Wenyue said kindly.
"Yue'er, you are so kind, yet you still worry about other people's affairs. Now you just need to take good care of your child and give birth to our child safely. Don't worry about other people's affairs." Cui Anhua said gently to his beloved woman.
After hearing his words, the concubines present couldn't help lowering their heads and rolling their eyes. These two people are really enough. Men and women are equally shameless.
Cui Anhua and his concubines don't have much affection for him. After all, he is not at home all year round. He is not a handsome man, but a rough man. They just became his concubines for the sake of glory and wealth. .
It was because I had no feelings for him that I could clearly see their true faces at this moment. Looking at the size of Jiang Wenyue’s belly, it must have been that the two of them were in love when they just and the ex-wife divorced, or even before they divorced. Is the fetus dark?
Now he is pretending to care about his ex-wife in front of everyone. Who can he deceive? If I really felt sorry for my ex-wife, I wouldn't have gotten together in the first place.
