The Marquis' Wife
Wine deal

The next morning, Adelia wakes up later than usual due to staying up late at night. She felt the cold bed beside her and knew that her husband had been awake for a long time. He told the waiter to bring warm water to clean himself.

Adelia cooked her own yi mien noodles for Lu Shan with a modern recipe that she has been practicing for several days. He called Lu Shan, Lu Cheng and Lu Xiang to the dining table before putting yi mien in front of his youngest brother-in-law.

"Happy birthday Lu Shan".

Lu Shan was surprised and stared at the longevity noodles before him, until he was three years old he had never celebrated a birthday so much that he was confused for a moment.

"Today is the day of your birth and it is worth celebrating. Brother wishes you a long healthy life and always be happy" Adelia hugged Lu Shan and gently stroked her sister's hair.

Lu Shan was still dumbfounded then tears came out and flowed down his cheeks, he had seen some of his peers who celebrated birthdays with family despite envy but he never asked his brother or asked anything about his birthday because Lu Cheng said that they could not celebrating a day like that.

"Thank you Adel, uuwwaaa!!" Lu Shan cried out loud all his envy and all his sadness that could not celebrate his birthday made Adelia go awry and asked Lu Xiang for help.

Lu Xiang got up and hugged his crying sister. "From now on Adel's brother and sister will celebrate your birthday every year. So does Lu Cheng, brother wants you to live a happy life and do what you want".

Lu Cheng's eyes also turned red, he lowered his head trying to hold back the tears that began to reminisce in the eye patch, Adelia's embrace made him unable to stem the tears and fell to the cheeks, he cried silently, he cried in silence, crying happy and grateful to have a family like her brother and Adelia.

Adelia bit her lower lip not to cry, much she missed before being with Lu Xiang, be it his own birthday or the birthday of Lu Xiang and his sister but from now on he and his family will enjoy every precious moment that will become a good memory in his old age.

Satisfied in tears, Lu Shan ate yi mien with a mouthful and smiled so sweetly at Adelia while saying. "Thank you sister Adel" Making Adelia's heart melt, she came forward and wanted to kiss the two flushed cheeks but Lu Xiang's burly hands covered her mouth with a gaze full of warning making Adelia speechless.

Finished Lu Shan finished off all yi mien, Adelia and Lu Xiang gave angpao to their two younger siblings before giving it to the servants.

"Thank you ladies and gentlemen. May this year master pass the exam to be a jinshi and mistress get a cute momongan".

Adelia was stunned and glanced at Lu Xiang who winked at her making her face blush perfectly.

One by one the servants thanked and praised Lu Xiang and Adelia and made the couple happy with their wonderful hope.

Adelia and Lu Xiang went to Fuyuan's restaurant with a small pitcher of fruit wine before going to the temple because they did not want to jostle with visitors if they visited too early.

"You have come, Mr. Lu, madam Lu. Please come in, manager Xu is already waiting for you".

Adelia and Lu Xiang followed the waiter into the house behind the restaurant that was bigger than their house.

"You have arrived. Sit down, prepare tea for them" manager Xu said to his servant.

"Bring me a glass of wine too. This is the fruit wine you made?".

"Yes uncle. This wine has reached 5 months and is more mellow than usual fruit wine".

Manager Xu was very curious about Adelia's confidence in the fruit wine, he opened the wine cover with the help of his servant before being stunned to smell the intoxicating aroma of wine that was thicker than usual.

"It's..." Manager Xu was astonished, from the aroma alone he already knew the high quality of the wine. He was also impatient to pour wine into a small glass of white ceramic, purplish red water that is thick but soft textured and pleasing to the eye is very visible in the glass of white wine.

Manager Xu's eyes widened to feel the wine he had never tasted before, although he did not taste all the wine in the Murong Kingdom, but a little bit of high quality wine he had tasted before and was never as amazing as the taste of wine he was feeling.

A sharp and strong taste but feeling light and not dry in the throat further amazed Manager Xu.

"How many jugs you keep Adelia, uncle will buy them all".

Adelia was satisfied with manager Xu's reaction and smiled happily. "As I said last night, I can only give you 10 medium jugs of wine. Uncle could tell young master Chen to make good use of this wine".

Manager Xu was silent for a moment then inhaled a deep breath, very pleased with the idea Adelia gave him, his hands trembling with enthusiasm. He was very confident, after receiving this wine the young master would definitely raise his status, maybe he would move to Fuyuan restaurant in the larger city.

"alright. Bring 10 jugs of wine. Adelia, let's be honest with this wine you really help uncle and restaurant Fuyuan and uncle can not judge the quality and the price that is appropriate for this wine, what if uncle send this wine to the capital, let young master Chen judge him himself?".

Adelia was stunned then smiled and nodded. Manager Xu's reaction was more than he had imagined, if restaurant owner Fuyuan was to judge right away then the support he got when opening a cake shop in the capital would be greater. He also shook hands with manager Xu.

"Uncle will give you a down payment of 500 silver coins first before knowing the price that young master Chen has to offer".

Adelia shakes. "I'd better give it to you after getting a reply from young master Chen". He did not want to make manager Xu feel guilty if the price offered by his boss was lower than what he offered, he wanted to find out how the restaurant owner was characteristic by betting on his fruit wine.

If the price offered did not match what he expected then he no longer needed to collaborate with Fuyuan restaurant, he said, she made the decision after learning from her husband that her teacher Zhao Fan had a friend who had significant influence in the capital. Adelia did not want to bet on the wrong person and made a big deal for her husband when he got to the capital.

If he is wrong then the worst thing is to lose the recipe of fruit wine, he is not afraid that others will make the same quality of wine as him because it does not have a lotus well like he has.

At first Adelia did not want to sell wine because she wanted to make it a gift but Zhao Fan said that the wine she made was high quality and very risky if known by others who had influential families.

It made Adelia realize that her family would be threatened if she acted inappropriately because she did not have a strong background.