I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 134 Selling Wine

Bai Jingzhou didn't want money, and Mu Hanzhi thought about it and didn't have to give it to him. He could make up for this favor in other ways.

He smiled and said to Bai Jingzhou: "Thank you very much, brother."

Bai Jingzhou shook his head, "Master Mu is too polite."

Mu Hanzhi said: "My dear brother, don't call me Master Mu from now on. Since we are going to visit each other so often, why not just call me Brother Mu."

Bai Jingzhou did not refuse and called him "Brother Mu" in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.

Mu Hanzhi smiled and gave a few instructions to the steward, who took the order and left. After a while, he brought back two red lacquered wooden boxes.

Mu Hanzhi handed one of them to Bai Jingzhou, "This is a gift for you and your sister-in-law. Since you acknowledge me as your elder brother, our two families will be close friends from now on."

What he gave Bai Jingzhou was a set of four treasures of the study, a copy of calligraphy, and an ancient painting. When he opened the box and showed it to Bai Jingzhou, he mentioned two names that Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan had never heard of, and said that the copy of calligraphy and the ancient painting were the authentic works of xx and xx respectively.

Bai Jingzhou hesitated, not knowing whether he should accept it. Although he had never heard of these two people's names, since Mu Hanzhi specifically mentioned them, they must be famous calligraphers and painters.

Mu Hanzhi saw Bai Jingzhou's hesitation, so he stuffed the box into Bai Jingzhou's arms and said, "Brother, just take it."

After that, he took another red lacquered wooden box from the steward and handed it to Gu Wenxuan, who had been standing beside Bai Jingzhou as a background board, "There are some jade seeds in it, my sister-in-law, take it back and play with it slowly."

Since he was a man, it was not easy for him to give Gu Wenxuan jewelry directly. He also thought cloth or something like that was too cheap, so he simply gave her some of the jade he had brought with him.

What Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan didn't know was that the gift he had prepared for them at first was actually the highest-quality gift box of their Mu family, which contained two cans of tea, two pieces of fine gauze, ten silver ingots weighing two taels each, and a set of medium-quality writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone.

The reason why Mu Hanzhi changed his mind at the last minute and asked the steward to bring a more valuable gift was because Bai Jingzhou planned to teach him how to change his appearance for free.

Although this method is indeed as Bai Jingzhou said, as long as their minds are open, most doctors in the world can learn it, and even innovate and improve it.

But Mu Hanzhi felt that Bai Jingzhou's idea of ​​using the medicinal juice to change the appearance was worth two authentic paintings by famous artists, not to mention that Bai Jingzhou was willing to teach him everything and let him pick up a ready-made one.

"Thank you, Brother Mu." Bai Jingzhou had already accepted it, so Gu Wenxuan stopped being pretentious. The two of them bowed to thank Mu Hanzhi. Mu Hanzhi smiled and waved his hand, saying that they were welcome, and then ordered the steward to prepare the carriage and gather people.

He and Bai Jingzhou had already agreed before that he would take the Mu family's people directly to the town to wait for the delivery.

"Besides wine, do you have anything else to sell?" While waiting, Mu Hanzhi treated Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan to tea, fruit and snacks, while chatting with Bai Jingzhou with a smile.

"Yes," Bai Jingzhou nodded, "but apart from two Ganoderma lucidum and a 50-year-old ginseng, the rest are just worthless ordinary mountain products."

Mu Hanzhi's eyes lit up, "Oh? My dear brother, you have Ganoderma lucidum and wild ginseng?"

Bai Jingzhou smiled, "We have been running deep into the mountains for most of the past six months. Occasionally, if we are lucky, we can still come across some good things."

In addition to wild ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan actually also accumulated some Polygonum multiflorum and deer antlers, but they did not plan to sell these two types.

Mu Hanzhi immediately became interested when he heard it, "Can you show me what you have? If the quality is good, I would like to buy them all."

This was also a good thing for Gu Wenxuan and the others. Since Mu Hanzhi was willing to take over, they also saved themselves the trouble of finding a buyer later. So Bai Jingzhou agreed without hesitation.

Mu Hanzhi and his men moved into a house temporarily rented by the steward. Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan took Bai Jingshan, Fang Youfu and Fang Youcai, and used their homemade rafts to transport wine jars out of the small valley.

They transported the wine jars to a sparsely populated wasteland outside the town, and then used ox carts to transport them to the house where Mu Hanzhi and others were temporarily staying.

The wine brewed by Bai Jingzhou is of excellent quality. After Mu Hanzhi inspected them one by one, he immediately expressed his intention to buy them all.

"Five taels of silver per pound. I'll take as many as you want. Are you satisfied with this price, brother?"

This was not Mu Hanzhi's highest psychological price. Although Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan had saved his brother, he was a businessman after all. When negotiating business with others, it was impossible for him not to leave room for bargaining for the other party.

He waited for Bai Jingzhou to agree or raise the price appropriately, but unexpectedly, Bai Jingzhou patted the wine jar and said to him: "Each jar of wine here is not less than 50 catties. Since Brother Mu is sincere about buying, then give us 200 taels of silver per jar."

Mu Hanzhi was very surprised. He didn't expect Bai Jingzhou to lower the price on his own initiative, and by one or two taels of silver at a time. This made him a little confused about Bai Jingzhou's intention.

Bai Jingzhou didn't let him guess blindly, "But I have a condition. I hope Brother Mu can keep the origin of these wines a secret."

When Mu Hanzhi heard this, he immediately understood what Bai Jingzhou was worried about. He nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, I will never reveal the origin of these wines."

Fearing that Bai Jingzhou would not trust the subordinates he brought with him, Mu Hanzhi added: "You can rest assured about the people I brought with me. They are all my most trusted subordinates, and their families and relatives are also under my control."

To put it bluntly, these people are all servants of the Mu family, and they share weal and woe with the Mu family. However, the Mu family is just a merchant family and cannot employ slaves with signed death indentures, so Mu Hanzhi said that these people are his "subordinates" rather than servants.

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "That's good."

Mu Hanzhi was in a very good mood at the moment. The reason why he was willing to take the risk and do the business in person was because he was in urgent need of a large sum of money.

Bai Jingzhou took the initiative to make concessions, giving him more room to make profits. He was naturally very grateful to Bai Jingzhou.

So in the subsequent transactions, Mu Hanzhi reciprocated the favor and offered prices that were generally slightly higher than the market price.

He bought ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, as well as other medicinal herbs, yam, nuts, dried pheasants and rabbits that Gu Wenxuan and her friends had found in the mountains, and a row of salted fish hanging in the yard. He accepted them all with a wave of his hand.

Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan rounded up the amount and sold forty jars of wine for a total of eight thousand taels.

One ginseng and two ganoderma lucidum were sold for a total of two hundred and twenty taels.

The other less expensive medicinal materials, all added up, were sold for a total of fifty-six taels.

Yams, nuts, salted fish, dried pheasants and rabbits, etc., were sold for a total of thirty-nine taels.