nycdaug Chapter 122 Leaving
Chapter 122 Leaving
"Sister! Sister!"
Lin Yan was woken up early by Lin Yu's series of calls. She had gone to bed late the night before and was still half asleep.
"What? Stop yelling!"
"Has Young Master Xiao left?"
Hearing this, Lin Yan's mind cleared up a bit. She got up and opened the door for him, and saw Lin Yu standing outside the door with red eyes, holding a few books.
He said softly, "Yes. He needs to go home too!"
Lin Yu lowered his head, "Why didn't they say goodbye to us?"
He got up early in the morning and saw that there were several books in his study. When he looked through them, he found that they were annotations of the Five Classics. He was startled and realized what was going on.
Lin Yan patted his head, "These books are what he wanted to tell you!"
"I understand," Lin Yu said in a muffled voice.
The others only realized the three had left when it was time to eat. However, Lin's parents knew that the young master had only come to see the doctor, so they just sighed a few times.
The family wasn't familiar with Xiao Jingzhi to begin with, so they didn't react much. Quan Sinian, however, harbored suspicions about Xiao Jingzhi's identity and overthought things. His suspicions only deepened after learning that his surname was "Xiao."
After Xiao Jingzhi and the other two left, the Lin family's life remained largely unchanged, except for the occasional work at the winery.
It's almost the end of the year.
There's still no sign of the wine from the Forget-Worry Winery, but the yeast has been successfully produced.
The name "Forget-Worry Winery" was decided by Lin Yan against everyone's wishes. Otherwise, according to Fu Bo's opinion, it would have been called something like "Lin Family Winery" or "Yan's Winery," names that would make Lin Yan blush.
With the whole family involved, Lin Yan and Fu Bo each gave 10% of the profits to the family. The whole family contributed their technical expertise as shares, taking 20% of the distillery's profits.
The workers at the distillery were being bossed around by Quan Rongxing. Quan Rongxing was definitely not satisfied with these country bumpkins, after all, they were a group of inexperienced, rough men.
Many steps in koji making require meticulous attention and are very demanding, but there was no other way; they couldn't find other brewing workers, so they had to teach them from scratch. Fortunately, each person was only responsible for a part, making it easier to learn. After more than three months of practice, Master Quan finally seemed somewhat satisfied.
Once the yeast starter is ready, they can start steaming the grains. They steam the sorghum and rice husks together until they gelatinize, then mix in the yeast starter and put it into fermentation pits to wait for fermentation, which takes time.
Lin's father's leg has healed, and he can walk briskly now. He helps out at the distillery every day and has given up the carpentry work he used to long for.
Li Zhongwei continued to drag Lin Yan to class every day, just like before. Lin Yan no longer had Xiao Jingzhi, the top student, and had to listen to the lessons by herself, which made her feel extremely bitter.
Until he remembered Quan Wenxue at home, he dragged another one along.
However, Quan Wenxue is clearly a good student. Even when she doesn't understand medical knowledge, she takes notes diligently and asks questions of the teacher or consults books on her own when she encounters something she doesn't understand.
This made Li Zhongwei keep an even closer eye on Lin Yan, assigning her homework every day. Fortunately, Lin Yan did have some basic knowledge and was able to apply it to various medications, achieving good results. Li Zhongwei was quite satisfied with this student.
For some reason, this girl could survive no matter what kind of medicine she planted; this medicine solved a major problem for him. This allowed Li Zhongwei to stay at the Lin family and not leave.
Before the Lunar New Year, Lin Yan received two more great gifts, one from the capital and the other from a merchant caravan from Daye.
Zhao Yuncheng somehow acquired some exquisite and novel gadgets and sent them here with the caravan. The letter only stated that he wanted to ask for wine. Lin Yan could only smile and remain silent in response.
Lin Yan sent him another batch of wine to the capital. Her family's stock of plum wine was almost gone, and she had stopped making more because she had started making new wine.
Thinking that Zhao Yuncheng runs a treasure pavilion in the capital, yet all the good stuff is being sent to him, he couldn't help but find it a little funny.
Xiao Jingzhi's letter was straightforward; it contained five thousand taels of silver notes, which she said were her share of the profits from selling glass mirrors.
"This is money for my New Year's gift!" Lin Yan sighed, clutching the stack of silver notes. Just how much did this guy sell it for?! He made so much money! And it's only been three months.
However, this money came at a timely time, as the distillery was not profitable in the early stages, and this money was just what it was needed.
Just as she was thinking this, she felt something tugging at her. Lin Yan knew who it was without even looking down.
Looking down, she saw a yellow and white dog wagging its tail and tugging at her trouser leg.
"No! What are you doing?!"
The puppy grew the fastest in the first six months, and in the last three months, it's already up to Lin Yan's calf height. Except for Li Zhongwei's herb garden, which doesn't welcome this little guy, it can wander in anywhere.
Lin Yan picked up Bu Huang and said, "Let's go! Let's go out and play!"
Lin Yan went downstairs, and the plum blossoms planted in the courtyard had already bloomed. The red plum blossoms were so beautiful and elegant that everyone who passed by would stop for a while to admire them.
This tree was grown using branches that Lin Yan borrowed from Li Deshan's house and nurtured with her supernatural abilities. If this guy saw how tall this tree had grown in his yard, I wonder if he would be astonished.
Quan Wenxue was painting plum blossoms by the window, her figure slender and her temperament graceful. Lin Yan put down her yellow clothes and stood to the side to watch.
On the paper, red plum blossoms bloom, their branches casting sparse shadows—it's beautiful.
"That's a beautiful drawing, amazing!"
Lin Yan sighed. She wasn't very good at these things, but she loved watching them.
Quan Wenxue smiled and said, "The plum blossoms in your house are blooming so beautifully. It's a pity there's no snow. If it snowed, the white snow and red plum blossoms would definitely be even more beautiful and artistic."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yan laughed and said, "That's unlikely. Yun'an is different from the capital. The weather here is warm, and even in winter, it rarely snows."
Quan Wenxue sighed, "I've noticed it too. If this were in the capital, people would already be wearing fur cloaks. Here, all you need is a thin cotton coat, and you don't feel cold at all. You really don't know how big the difference is until you experience it yourself."
"The Huainan area must be quite warm!"
“It’s like this in spring and summer, but in Huainan, the weather is damp and cold in winter, which is even harder to bear than in the capital! But the scenery is very beautiful!” Quan Wenxue said, with a nostalgic look in her eyes.
Lin Yan felt the temperature outside. "My mother said the other day that this winter is colder than usual!"
"Well, it's not deep winter yet, the temperature should drop further."
As Quan Wenxue spoke, she looked at Bu Huang running outside and smiled. Then, under the plum tree on the paper, she added a small yellow and white dog.
The fluffy puppy, with its ears perked up, stood under the tree, a few red plum blossoms falling on its body.
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