Sure enough, after Chun Xing entered, relying on the tricks taught by Aunt Xu, Liu Jianyi directly accepted her.
However, Chun Xing used Aunt Xu's tricks, which were naturally not as good as those of Aunt Xu herself.
Without comparison, there is no harm.
Liu Jianyi originally disliked Aunt Xu because of Chun Xing. Although Chun Xing was waiting for her, Liu Jianyi became more and more indifferent to food.
One day, when Liu Jianyi was fooling around with Chun Xing, the guards from outside came to report, and Aunt Xu asked to see her.
Liu Jianyi thought for a while and actually let her in!
With the addition of Aunt Xu, Liu Jianyi's previous lack of taste in food was finally satisfied.
Next door to Liu Jianyi's study is his resting place. At this moment, he is sleeping in the dark with Chun Xing in his arms. The physical exertion is too great and he is a bit overdrawn!
Xu Yuniang slowly opened her eyes and carefully lifted Liu Jianyi's arm from her heart.
Then he stood up with bare feet and quietly walked towards the desk where Liu Jianyi was sitting.
She remembered that Liu Jianyi once made a mistake while drunk and said something about where the Liu family's sugar recipes were kept.
At that time, Xu Yuniang just listened and didn't think much about anything else.
Looking back now, I am very lucky that I still remember what Liu Jianyi said after drinking.
Xu Yuniang kept looking in the direction where Liu Jianyi was sleeping, and then anxiously speeded up and searched the bookshelves on both sides, but she couldn't find any mechanism.
This made Xu Yuniang couldn't help but wonder, could it be that what Liu Jianyi said while drunk before was all nonsense?
Just when Xu Yuniang was doubting herself, she touched a book carved on wooden boards. As soon as she moved it, she saw that the original bookshelf was slowly opened, revealing a square hollow in the back.
In the alcove, there is a box.
Xu Yuniang was overjoyed and quickly reached out to get it. After opening it, she took a closer look and found that it was indeed a recipe for making sugar.
She excitedly spread the recipe on the desk, then took a piece of white paper over, and quickly copied down all the contents of the sugar recipe using the trick Liu Jianyi used last night.
After copying the recipe, Xu Yuniang carefully put the box back, started the mechanism, and restored the bookshelf.
Then he rolled up the copied prescription and stuffed it into a hollow silver hairpin on his head, then tiptoed back to Liu Jianyi's side and lay down again.
At dawn the next day, Xu Yuniang meekly knelt down and begged Liu Jianyi to let her go to Anzhen to see her brother off for the last time.
Liu Jianyi couldn't help but soften his heart when he saw her looking so cheerful, and nodded in agreement with Xu Yuniang's request.
That afternoon, a carriage drove away from the backyard of Liu's mansion.
However, three days later, bad news came.
Aunt Xu of the Liu family was eager to see her brother, so she drove all night. Her carriage accidentally fell from a cliff, and she was also shattered to pieces.
When he heard the bad news and saw that the clothes and jewelry that he had gathered back were indeed Aunt Xu's personal belongings, Liu Jianyi felt sad for a few days and then threw them away.
Little did he know that Aunt Xu, who had received the bad news, was already in Magistrate Pan's backyard.
Pan Shujie took the sugar recipe presented by Xu Yuniang and finally laughed happily.
Now that he has connections in the capital, plus the money-making formula in his hand, is there anything more satisfying than this?
However, Aunt Xu and Manager Xu must not be seen by others.
Therefore, Pan Shujie tried out the recipe and made brown sugar as expected. After confirming the authenticity of the recipe, he sent his confidants to send Aunt Xu and Guanshi Xu's family away.
The safest thing in this world is the mouth of a dead person!
Manager Xu and Aunt Xu never imagined that their certificate of surrender would be their life and death certificate.
As expected, Pan Shujie's transfer order came quickly. Although it was not the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River that he thought, it was still a hundred times better than Anzhen.
Pan Shujie happily took his master to take office, but he did not know that at the same time that he left, the entire Mingzhou Prefecture and even the counties and towns below began to sell sugar that was as white as snow.
Pan Shujie was naturally not affected by this sudden blow because he left Anzhen. He even started preparing to open a sugar shop in a new place!
For Liu Jianyi, it was a blow to the head.
"How is it possible? How could the Pei family make such good candy?"
Liu Jianyi held the white sugar bought by the housekeeper and picked it up with shaking hands. There was really no impurity in it. It was whiter than snow!
"What should I do? Young Master!"
Butler Liu was also panicked.
"I don't believe it if they sell it at a reduced price. They must have spent a lot of money on such clean white sugar.
At that time, if we sell brown sugar at a low price, they will also lower their prices."
Liu Jianyi's eyes were red and he yelled at Butler Liu.
"But...but the price of their sugar is only sixty cents per pound. If we lower it again, we will be selling it at a loss!"
Butler Liu couldn't help but persuade Liu Jianyi.
"How is it possible? How can they charge such a price for such quality?"
Liu Jianyi's eyes widened in disbelief.
"I don't care, go...go lower the price. If they sell it for 60 cents, we...we will sell it for 30 cents.
I don’t believe it, you can’t win back customers!”
Butler Liu suddenly smiled bitterly when he heard the eldest young master's words.
If we do this, the Liu family will be like drinking poison to quench their thirst. Slowly, sooner or later, the entire Liu family will be brought down.
But if you don't do this and suddenly lose all your customers, it will be like a sharp sword that directly cuts off all the Liu's income, and the Liu's will also suffer heavy losses.
For the eldest young master, it is really a dilemma.
Although the best way is to cut through the mess quickly, give up the brown sugar business and hand it over to others.
In that case, although the Liu family will suffer a big blow, it can still save some capital and possibly make a comeback.
In fact, Liu Jianyi understands the truth, but how can he do this rationally?
His inability to do so also represents the final defeat of the Liu family.
The Liu Mansion went from prosperity to decline in just one month.
And in this month, the Ning family's house and school were finally built!
It has white walls and green tiles. Although it is still empty inside, the room is spacious and bright.
After Ning Lao Er and Ning Lao San went in and looked around, their eyes were red when they came out. They could actually live in such a good house!
Boss Ning was also very envious. Comparing the old house with this new house, they were completely different.
I couldn't help but regret, why didn't I agree to build a new house in the first place?
"Brother, why don't you build a room too! In this way, we brothers will all live near my mother. If anything happens to my mother, just call out and we can come over immediately to take care of her!"
Ning Lao Er said to Ning Youfu naively.
Boss Ning could only smile bitterly at his second brother and said nothing.
He thought, but how could he have so much silver in his pocket?