North and South groceries

Luo Yong sat behind the long table, and there were bowls of chicken cakes on the table, and asked the villagers to pick whichever one they liked.

"I want this one! Auntie, I want this one!" A child tiptoed over the table and looked back and forth several times, then pointed at a piece of cake, turned his head and yelled at his Auntie.

"Don't shout." His mother slapped his finger back with a slap, and swept her eyes into the rough clay bowls on the table, raised her finger to point to another piece of cake, and said, "We want this one."

"Aunt..." The child wanted to say something more.

"That's all, don't argue anymore." His mother made a decision.She said this piece was bigger, so it must be this one.

Luo Yong opened the rice bag they put on the table, stretched out his hand to grab a few grains of rice and looked at it, yes, it was the new rice of this year, and the quality was not bad, so he took the rice liter and measured two liters of rice from the bag Come out and pour it into a pottery urn half a person's height by the table.

This rice liter is similar to the rice bucket that Luo Yong had seen in textbooks in his previous life. It is made of five pieces of wood and made into a square bucket with a wide top and a narrow bottom. Shengdouzi is estimated to be heavier, but the specifics are not clear, because their family does not have a scale, and ordinary people do not have that kind of delicate objects.

"Sanlang, I'll pick two more, and I'll supply you with the missing corn later, that's good." When Luo handed over the piece of cake she picked, the woman said again.

She thought about it, and decided to buy an extra piece to go back to honor her in-laws, and the other piece, which she planned to give to her parents when she went to sell tofu at her mother's house tomorrow.

Speaking of which, the family backgrounds of both sides of her in-laws’ and mother’s families are decent. It’s not that they can’t afford two liters of rice cakes, but they just don’t want to part with them. Now that they’re making tofu, they’re earning money every day. Naturally, it is necessary to relax.

"What do you buy Ye Duo for? Saburo will still be making it tomorrow." Before Luo Yong said anything, the villagers on the side shouted first, and while shouting, they swiped the cakes they liked towards him.

"I won't do it tomorrow, how can I sell it out? From now on, I will do it every five days." Luo Sanlang laughed.

"That's right." Everyone nodded in agreement, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. It doesn't matter if they do it every day, the children in the family can't make trouble if they want to. It's because Sanlang's family didn't do it, and it's not that they don't buy it.

They don't know that there is such a thing as "hunger marketing" in this world.Cakes like this, not to mention in Xipo Village, even in Lishi County, there are limited people who are willing to eat them. Two liters of rice can be exchanged for a square piece, and many people feel distressed just thinking about it.

If Luo Yong sells it every day, some people may not be able to buy it for their children once in ten days and half a month.If he only sells it on the fifth and third days, then only those three days in a month, and after today, he will have to wait for another ten days. Thinking about it, he will only eat these three times a month, and he won't be able to eat much. Bar.

It can be foreseen that every five days in the future, the villagers of Xipo Village will definitely run to Luo's yard in groups. The three-day business may not be less than that of selling cakes every day. They also save trouble, the cakes just out of the pan are also fresh, and if they sell well, there will be no stocks. Such a virtuous circle, Sanlang's cake selling business will naturally prosper forever.

"The rice in your bag is not enough for one liter. Take two more cakes and remember to add four liters of rice. I don't ask people to pay on credit." Luo Sanlang said to the woman just now.

"I'll bring it to you in a while." The woman happily picked out two more cakes. If she went home to get rice first, and when she came over again, the big cakes would probably be picked out by others. When it's over, of course I'd better pick out the cake first, and fill in the rice later. If I had known that the brown sugar chicken cake steamed by Luo Sanlang was so delicious, she should have brought a few more liters of rice over just now.

She started here, and some of the villagers followed suit. Sanlang said that this cake would only be made once every ten days, today it was fifteen, and next time it would be twenty-five. Let’s buy an extra yuan or two. The whole family ate it separately, and the sweet mouth is good, haven't you seen the expression on the face of the kid who just got the cake that was so delicious.

However, there are also people who are thinking about being patient this time and waiting until the 25th day to buy a few more for the Chinese New Year. After the 25th, it will soon be New Year’s Eve.

Here, Luo Yong is selling cakes in the thatched shed, and over there, Si Niang and Wu Lang led two puppies to the village. Put a few pieces of brown sugar chicken cakes just out of the pan, and asked them to take them to Aunt Luo, which was what Luo Yong had agreed with her before.

As for Er Niang, the family can't live without her, and there are two little dolls, Liu Lang and Qin Niang.Besides, there is Lin Liulang in the Lin family, Luo thought to himself, he has to be on guard against him, a young master like that is really not a good match.

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"Hello, Luo Si."

Not long after Siniang and Wulang walked, several children gathered together. Not every household in the village was willing to buy this kind of cake for their children. That small piece of cake would cost two liters of corn. It is true that some families cannot afford it.

These children were wandering around the Luo family's yard just now, and they couldn't eat the cake, and it smelled good. When they saw Luo Siniang and Luo Wulang coming out of the yard with a food box, they immediately joined them. The kid in the lead even called Luo Siniang Luo Si, making him feel like a quack.

"What are you doing?" Si Niang was not tall, but she was very imposing.

Being able to be called Luo Si by the head of the children in the village is naturally because Luo Siniang has some prestige among these children in the village.If it were someone like Goro, he would have to be called Duner. There is no way, even in the world of children, if he is not aggressive enough, he will not be able to get out.

"What are you holding?" the child asked.

"It's none of your business to give my elder sister something." Luo Siniang said angrily.

The siblings walked all the way, and those children followed, always asking about the food box in their hands, but Luo Siniang didn't answer at all, and led Wulang to the Lin family compound.

Wulang followed Si Niang with his head held high and his chest held high. Whenever this happened, he felt that his sister was extremely reliable, and he was particularly at ease following her.Luo Siniang is a formidable character, and the boys of the same age in the village dare not provoke her, let alone the little girls.

The group of children followed all the way until they reached the door of Lin's house, and then dispersed.Luo Siniang turned her head to look at the back of them leaving, grabbed Wulang's hand and hurried into the Lin family's yard. She was not as calm as she appeared on the face. If those children really rushed to grab them, how could she stop them alone? Can live.

As for Goro, he was never expected to get into fights.

The head of the child just now, named Tian Chonghu, is one year older than Luo Siniang, ten years old.The Tian surname is the largest surname in Xipo Village. There are only more than 20 households in their small village, and the Tian surname accounts for more than ten households. They also like to hold groups on weekdays.

As for Tian Chonghu, as a kid, he can live his life with whatever kind of parents he has. After planting their own fields, they can live a good life, but their lives are worse than others.

Tian Chonghu is the eldest in the family, and he has a younger sister who is six years old this year. I heard that there was originally a younger one who died shortly after birth.

There are also rumors in the village that Tian Chonghu's parents are going to sell her six-year-old sister to the city to be used as a little girl. Earlier, this kid heard that word from somewhere, and went home and made a big fuss, saying I want to use a hoe to kill his father, and now he takes his sister with him wherever he goes.

Tian Xiang'er is six years old this year. She is yellow and thin. She looks like a little tail, wandering around with her brother.

When the weather is warm, Tian Chonghu can go to the nearby mountains to get some wild fruits and the like, and when he is lucky, he can even catch rabbits. Anyway, she can eat whatever she wants, and with his brother around, her share is indispensable anyway.

Recently, the weather is too cold and it snows all the time. I dare not go to the mountains for fear of encountering wolves. If there is no food in winter, wolves will come out from the deep mountains. In the past, children in the village were also taken away by wolves.

Tian Chonghu discussed with a few older children in the village and wanted to go out to sell tofu, but they were too young and did not have much strength, and the tofu was too heavy to go far away, and there were too many people going nearby, so it was not easy to sell .

Luo Siniang just thought that people like Tian Chonghu wanted to steal her cake, but there was nothing like that.It is true that they are greedy for those cakes, but they are currently looking for those fermented bean curds in Luo's yard, and they will definitely not grab them at this time.

Fermented bean curd is more expensive than fine tofu, and it’s not too expensive to sell one or two jars outside, and you can make some money, but a family like Tian Chonghu’s is definitely not willing to give him the five cents as the principal Yes, I'm afraid that it will be gone after tossing. Such an older child is unreliable to anyone.

So Tian Chonghu thought, it would be great if he could get some fermented bean curd on credit with Luo Sanlang.

He just followed Luo Siniang and the others, the words came to his lips several times, and he swallowed them again, he really didn't know how to say it.

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Luo's side.

When Si Niang and the others came back, they brought back a lamb rib, and Aunt Luo came with them.

Although the Lin family is the richest in Xipo Village, they are also a family that saves food and money very carefully.

When the batch of fermented bean curd from the Luo family was ripe last time, Aunt Luo brought a big jar of fermented bean curd home. The jar was much larger than those of the helpers in the village.At that time, the Lin family ate the jar of fermented bean curd. They didn't give any decent gifts in return. Some of them still remembered the millstone back then. Saburo just gave the basket of tofu, and the gift in return was obviously light.

This time Luo Yong asked Siniang Wulang to deliver cakes, and some people in the Lin family were still thinking about it, but Mr. Lin wanted to save face, so he asked Aunt Luo to cut a lamb rib from the kitchen and bring it over.

In fact, Luo Yong didn't really care if he didn't return the gift, but his elder sister was really nice. She made food at home, so he asked the younger ones to give her a few yuan to taste. With her, the Lin family naturally couldn't do it. Neither made any representations.

In terms of life, the Lin family is actually a good family. Aunt Luo has been married for so long, and she was not asked to work in the fields, nor was she told to spend day and night at home kneading thread and spinning cloth, eating and drinking. You have to work, but relatively speaking, it's pretty good in this day and age.

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In any case, it is always a joy to have meat, especially for the little ones in the family.

"I went to the cellar and brought over a manjing so that we can cook soup together." Aunt Luo handed the lamb ribs and manjing to Erniang.

A turnip is not a good thing, but in this season, it is really not easy to eat fresh vegetables. The Lin family has a cellar to preserve the vegetables in autumn, but the Luo family does not have them.

Turning around to look at the thatched hut at the entrance of the courtyard, the crowd has not dispersed yet, the villagers have left, here are a few more hawkers, all from the city, and they come to Xipo Village together to buy goods, they are going to stay in the village tonight, listen The villagers said that Luo Sanlang made a delicious brown sugar chicken cake, so they all came over.

These people didn’t bring any corn, so Luo Yong told them that one penny and one piece of cake was a little too expensive for those hawkers, but the cake smelled really sweet, and it was different from those cakes sold in the county, so the few people At the same time, I spent a penny to buy a piece and try it first. I didn't expect that the entrance was very soft and sweet, with a strong taste.

The cake made with egg white is naturally different from the ones in the city that are fermented with flour.

In order to steam the two pots of cakes, Qiao Dalang's arms would be sore for several days. There is no egg beater these days, and the operation is completely manual.Luo Yong and Luo Erniang also started to fight, but mainly relied on Qiao Dalang, Qiao Dalang did a good job, the two chopsticks could be swung like hot wheels in his hands, Luo Yong and the others couldn't compare at all.

When the first pot of cake was steamed, Luo Yong also cut a piece for Qiao Dalang. He ate half for himself and left half for A Zhi.Ah Zhi is now completely like a peddler, imitating the appearance of those peddlers who walk around the streets, and also speaks carelessly. If Qiao Junlin's parents see him, they will be shocked.

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After Luo Sanlang finished selling the cakes, he closed the courtyard door and went into the kitchen. The aunt and Erniang had already cooked the soup.After being frozen in the straw shed outside for a long time, drinking a bowl of hot mutton soup is really refreshing.In addition, I also steamed some bean buns, and eating bean buns with mutton soup is also good.

Auntie was not in a hurry to go back, so she ate dinner here, and it was not her turn to do housework today at the Lin family, so it would be okay to go back later.

After all, there are many people in the Lin family compound. Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang are married and have children. That mother Lin who can't wait to put her heart in her armpit, this big family, everyone has their own thoughts, living in such an environment, Aunt Luo is sometimes annoyed.

It is said that the Lin family originally had a Shiro, but when he was in his teens, he fell ill and died.These days, many people have this kind of thing, and it is not uncommon. In this era of underdeveloped medical technology and inconvenient transportation, life always seems particularly fragile.

After dinner, the siblings sat in the room and talked.

Aunt Luo said that those in the village who haven’t learned how to make tofu seem to be a bit overwhelmed recently. There are two women in the village who often come to talk to her two sisters-in-law. He leaned forward, trying to find out what she had to say.

Luo Erniang also said that she was asked about it before, and then Siniang Wulang also echoed it.I don't know if anyone has found someone who has learned how to make tofu, but so far, apart from those who have learned from the Luo family, no other people have made tofu for sale.

Now those people are just making indirect comments from the aunt and the second mother, and there are few people who directly ask Luo Yong.

This is not difficult to understand. Luo Sanlang has been studying since he was a child, and he doesn't often walk around in the village. The villagers don't know his temperament very well. If he asks him face to face, if Luo Sanlang asks them back: "Why didn't you come?" How to answer.After all, I'm more familiar with Da Niang Er Niang and the others, so let's ask them first.

"Let's talk about it after the New Year's Eve." Luo Sanlang said.Living in the same village, you can't do things too badly, and it's not a bad thing to get a few helpers for nothing.

But there should always be some time for those who chose to believe in him early on to earn a little more money, otherwise how can the gap be revealed?

Only when the gap is shown, the people in front have tasted the sweetness, and Luo Yong will say something in the future, these people will take him seriously.

"The next time someone tells you this, just ask the head of their family who they plan to call over next year." Luo Yong thought for a while and said again.

This time the candidates should not be too careless. Last time Luo Yong offered such conditions, they were unwilling to come and learn. Except for a few who refused to believe, the rest of the people had more or less problems of one kind or another.

Luo Yong also didn't want to get a few unworthy people to come to Luo's courtyard to make things difficult for him, especially those with bad character.So it is necessary to choose the most suitable person from those families. If the adults can't do it, then replace the child. After all, the child is better to be trained.

After sending Aunt Luo away, Luo Yong went to the stove to look again. The tofu and bean dregs that were mixed a few days ago are still being processed. The season is not right for making sauce at this time, and the mold grows slowly.

Since we are going to sell groceries, how can we miss miso and soy sauce.

Those beans are used to make miso, and the bean dregs are used to make soy sauce. Luo Yong has never made these two things, but read a novel stored in a smart phone in the space, and made according to what was written on it. The plot of miso and soy sauce was made. It was the first time and the season was not right. I don't know if it can be done.

The author has something to say:

Tian Chonghu: You can credit me some fermented bean curd.

Luo Sanlang: How can a good man get credit, you should come to my house to work.