As soon as they walked out of the courtyard, they saw several carriages approaching the palace not far away, followed by a large group of people.
"My lord, it seems to be Dayong and the others, and the ones behind them should be the newly purchased slaves." Xiao Chu said.
Several people stopped and looked at the approaching carriage.
"Xu~~"
The two people driving the carriage jumped out of the carriage and knelt on the ground: "Dayong, Ma Xiaojie, the prince!"
Before Zhao Bin had time to speak, two more people emerged from the carriage.
"Myolie!" Zhao Bin shouted in surprise.
"Your Majesty!" Xing'er made a move to jump off the carriage. Zhao Bin took two quick steps and stepped forward to pick her up. Zhao Bin hugged Xing'er and took her off the carriage. Behind Xing'er was a delicate and beautiful woman, Zhong Lixue, but Zhao Bin paid no attention to her.
"My lord, you can't!" Xing'er said coquettishly.
"What's wrong!" After placing Xing'er on the ground, Zhao Bin asked, "Why didn't you say hello in advance when you came back?"
Xing'er didn't reply, but straightened her clothes, and then she also knelt down.
"What are you doing? Didn't you say you don't have to kneel?" Zhao Bin hurriedly stopped him.
"No, Your Majesty, you can't break the rules." After saying that, Xing'er still knelt on the ground: "My slave, Xing'er, please give your regards to Your Majesty!"
"Okay, okay, An! An! An! Get up quickly, you guys should get up too!" Zhao Bin motioned to the three of them.
"Let's go back to the house. Xiao Chu, arrange the people behind you."
Zhao Bin took Xing'er's hand and strode into the palace. Ling'er and Cui'er also ran out when they heard the noise. When they saw Zhao Bin leading Xing'er in, they both ran over happily.
Ling'er took one of Xing'er's arms and said, "Sister Xing'er, you are back! You miss us so much."
"Yes, Sister Xing'er, why did you come back?"
"I miss you too, but the capital is really busy."
"Lao Wu, go tell the kitchen to help Xing'er and the others tonight, and send someone to the greenhouse to pick some fresh vegetables!"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Wu ran toward the dining room with the wine jar in his arms.
In the evening, the palace prepared a large table of dishes. Cao Li, He Miao, Yang Guangtai, Qin Fang, Wei Xiang and others were also present.
There are also Xiao Chu, Lu Biao, Zhou Hu and others. Except for Chunxi, Xu Ling from the second team, and Tian Qi from the third team, almost all the core personnel of the palace are present.
Wang Wu finally reluctantly took out the wine jar.
Cao Li stood up and said, "Miss Xing'er! I'd like to give you a toast on behalf of the people of Yancheng. If you hadn't made so much money in the capital and bought so much food, the people of Yancheng wouldn't be able to survive this winter!" "
"Mr. Cao, you are so polite. How dare Ling'er take credit? Everything was planned by the prince. Xing'er also congratulates Mr. Cao on his promotion."
After saying that, Xing'er took a sip of the wine in the glass.
"Ahem, why is your prince's wine so strong?" Xing'er coughed twice and asked strangely after being choked by the strong wine.
"Hahaha, this is the wine that my bride brought out today. How about it? Come and raise a toast to Ling'er and Dayong for their contribution to Yancheng in the past six months."
Everyone present picked up their wine glasses, and He Miao even drank the wine in one gulp. Wang Wu reminded him with a depressed look: "Master Cao, please drink slowly! Drinking is very harmful to your health."
Wei Xiang also reminded, "Yes, Mr. Cao, please drink slowly."
"It's okay! Tsk, it's really a good wine."
Wei Xiang thought to himself, is this a no-brainer? The three of them got this wine after a hard day's work. That's all. It doesn't matter to you. The three of us are not at a loss!
The people at the table were chatting and laughing, talking about salt training, opening a restaurant, annihilating the Jie tribe cavalry, and everything that had happened in the past six months.
After having their fill of wine and food, Cao Li and others wisely left.
After everyone left, Xing'er greeted: "Xue'er, come here to pay homage to the prince!"
Zhong Li Xue was startled at first, then regained her composure. She came to Zhao Bin quietly, lifted up her dress and knelt down and said, "My slave Zhong Li Xue comes to see the prince. May the prince be safe!"
"Get up."
Zhao Bin looked up and down at the fair-skinned woman in front of him: "She is indeed a stunning beauty, but she looks a little bit like an internet celebrity!"
Xing'er didn't know why, so she asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, what does it feel like to be an internet celebrity?"
"nothing"
"The slave will go down to rest first. Your Majesty, please don't be too tired tonight." Xing'er asked with a smirk on her face.
Zhong Lixue on the side understood what Xing'er meant, and her face suddenly turned red with embarrassment.
Zhao Bin pulled Xing'er over and let her sit on his lap. He pinched Xing'er's nose and said, "You still want to run away. I will fight you for 300 rounds tonight."
"Your Majesty! This slave has been traveling for several days. Her body is covered with dust and she hasn't taken a shower yet," Xing'er said.
"Then let's wash together. Cui'er has already sent someone to prepare hot water."
"Don't you want to try something new, Your Majesty?"
"I just want to taste you." Zhao Bin said with a wicked smile.
It would be false to say that Zhao Bin doesn't like beauties, but compared to other beauties and his real woman, he still cares more about Xing'er who sacrifices for him.
"Okay, okay, the prince can taste whoever he wants! Let's go, my slave will help you bathe." Xing'er stood up from Zhao Bin and said.
"Xue'er, come and help too."
"Yes, Miss." Zhong Lixue replied without even daring to raise his head.
"From now on, just call me sister Xing'er in the palace. There is no need to call me miss. There is no miss in the palace." Xing'er reminded.
"Yes, Sister Xing'er."
For Zhong Lixue, who had just arrived in the palace for the first time, everything was strange, including strange people and strange rules, especially to the King Yan in front of him.
He didn't know what kind of person this King Yan was, was he lustful? brutal? Or something else.
Her fate has been determined to be a slave, but this is not a blessing. All her family members have died tragically.
As a woman, I am lucky to be able to survive safely. As for being a wife, a concubine, or a slave, it is better than being sold to a brothel.
In the bathroom, Xing'er skillfully took off her coat, but Zhong Lixue was still a little nervous after all.
In fact, Xing'er had already told her before she came that she was mentally prepared to a certain extent, but she still couldn't let it go when the matter came to her.
Looking at her like this, Zhao Bin felt strange, so he said, "Xue'er, you'd better go down, we don't need you here."
Zhong Lixue was a little surprised and looked at Xing'er who was taking off her clothes at a loss.
"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Xing'er asked curiously.
"It's okay, I'm not used to having strangers around."
Xing'er raised her hand to signal Zhong Lixue to leave.
Xing'er raised her legs and entered the tub, and teased with a smile: "Why are you so shy, Your Majesty?"
"How could I be shy? I just want to stay quietly with you for a while." Zhao Bin hugged Xing'er into his arms, and the two of them nestled in the warm hot water.
"Does the prince dislike her?"
"It's hard to say whether we like her or not. She is a beautiful woman, but we haven't asked her if she is willing."
Xing'er got up from Zhao Bin's arms and said, "My lord, you never asked me if I was willing?"
"Why haven't you asked? I must have asked, and you still said, I am willing."
"Lying, I didn't tell you that."
"Then why don't you ask again, are you willing?"
"My slave, my heart and soul are all princes." After saying this, Xing'er returned to Zhao Bin's arms.
Zhao Bin enjoyed the delicate body in his arms wantonly, and it took a while before the two of them slowly walked out of the bathroom.
Because they felt pity for Myolie's bumpy journey, there was no fierce fight as imagined that night, and the two fell asleep sweetly relying on each other.
The next day, Zhao Bin and Xing'er had breakfast and came to the front yard. Zhao Bin noticed bursts of green smoke rising from the yard next door. After asking, he found out that Wang, Wu and Xiao Chu had gotten up early in the morning and ran to the next door to make wine. .
Zhao Bin said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "These two guys are so reluctant to part with the half-jar of wine last night."
"Your Majesty, the wine last night was really good. If you can sell it, you will definitely make a lot of money," Myolie said at the side.
"Let's go, I'll take you to have a look." Zhao Bin took Xing'er's hand and walked to the yard next door.
Pushing the door open and walking into the house, Wang Wu and Xiao Chu were startled: "Damn, Prince, you... shouldn't be," Wang Wu said, rubbing his head.
"What the hell shouldn't it be?"
"Your Majesty, what time of day is this? You shouldn't have gotten up so early?"
"..." Zhao Bin rolled his eyes at him.
Xiao Chu hurriedly defended himself: "Your Majesty, it's not my fault. I didn't come here. It was Wang Wu who pulled me out of bed."
Zhao Bin was too lazy to care about these two things. Myolie walked to the boiler and looked at two different boilers, pointed at one of them and asked, "Your Majesty, what is this for?"
"This is a distillation furnace. The distilled wine passes through the pipe, is cooled down, and finally flows out through the other side. The concentration of the wine that comes out will be relatively high."
"How much can you produce in a day like this?"
"I don't know about this. It's very simple. As long as there are enough stove pipes, it should be okay to have as many as you want." Zhao Bin scratched his head and said.
Myolie thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, one of the important reasons why I came back this time is that the business of Wangjiang Tower has declined recently, and the attendance rate has dropped by half."
"If you eat too much hot pot, you will get angry. Secondly, our price is too high. Only the rich and powerful and the children of aristocratic families can afford it. No matter how good the food is, you will get tired of it if you eat it every day. And the weather is getting warmer, so eating hot pot Naturally, there are fewer and fewer people. This is normal."
"What the prince said is true, but this will greatly reduce our income. I originally wanted to discuss with the prince whether to lower the price, but now that I see this wine, I feel that there is no need to lower the price." Xing'er said
"Oh? You want to sell wine? But this wine is not for sale" Zhao Bin asked
"I know what the prince means. The prince is worried that large amounts of wine will cause food shortages. We don't sell wine separately, we only sell it on the dining table in Wangjiang Tower.
I believe that this kind of fine wine is enough to bring back those rich and powerful people. This way, we don’t have to consume large amounts of food to make wine, and we can also ensure the business of Wangjiang Tower. "
Xiao Chu said from the side: "This is a good idea."
"Well, if it is just a small-scale self-production and self-marketing, it is indeed no problem. Then let's do it. Didn't Dayong bring back more than a thousand people? Just select some people and rebuild a larger workshop."
