It must be Brother
Jiang Xuesui first coaxed Wen Qiao into drinking a small jar of "Huangjin Wanliang" (Ten Thousand Taels of Gold). The wine was light and sweet on the palate, but it was extremely potent. As its name suggested, buying this small jar cost ten thousand taels of gold. The ingredients used to brew this wine were rare medicinal herbs hard to find in the world, and the brewing process was extremely complex and tedious. Obtaining this small jar of "Huangjin Wanliang" required three thousand brewers ten years of painstaking work. This wine was not even stored in the imperial palace; it was a private cellar wine of the old aristocratic families in Jiangnan. It could be said that anyone who could serve this wine to guests must be from an old aristocratic family. Thus, it was a symbol of status.
Wen Qiao came from the Northern Jiangsu aristocratic group that followed the Great Zhao Imperial Family, so he naturally did not recognize this wine and drank it as if it were ordinary light wine.
To be safe, Jiang Xuesui also proposed playing flower cards with Wen Qiao, with Jinping and Yuming as partners, and maids like Baikou and Huamei helping her watch the cards at the table. Wen Qiao lost more than he won and was penalized with two small jars of "Zuihua Yin" (Drunk in the Shade of Flowers). "Zuihua Yin" was also a strong liquor; even a heavy drinker could only manage one small jar at most. After Wen Qiao finished two small jars of "Zuihua Yin," he slumped over the card table and fell asleep, motionless.
"The new young master's tolerance for alcohol must be rare in the world. If the new young master hadn't gotten drunk, I would have dozed off playing flower cards," Yuming yawned. The other maids were also sleepy, their eyes half-closed.
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