North and South groceries

Luo Yong is also very satisfied with the mother and daughter of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family is indeed as steadfast and willing to work as Grandma Yu said.

These days, the mother and daughter have kept the pigpens of the Luo family in good order, and the batch of piglets that were newly purchased a few days ago have also been raised by her to become fat and strong.

Luo's pig feed is mainly bean dregs, grain bran and bran, and some wild vegetables are chopped and cooked together.As for how many wild vegetables to put in a pot of pig food, Luo Yong has no specific requirements, and generally uses as much as he can dig up.

After feeding the pigs in the morning and afternoon, Zheng's mother and daughter would carry bamboo baskets to the fields outside to pick some wild vegetables and pigweeds.Si Niang sometimes catches Wu Lang to help watch the shop, and she also takes the two young children out for a walk. Recently, she usually goes out to dig wild vegetables with Zheng's mother and daughter.

After the time entered mid-September, the weather became colder and colder every day, and the wild vegetables in the field gradually turned yellow. Fortunately, they were only used to feed pigs, and they were washed and chopped, and put in a pot with bean dregs When the bran is boiled together, it is the best pig food.

Zheng's mother and daughter have recently been digging a lot of wild vegetables every day. If they can't use up that day, they tie straw ropes and hang them in a bunch to dry. Outside the wall of Luo's courtyard, a lot of them have been dried. These are reserved for entry. It is used after winter, and after the snow falls, there will be no wild vegetables to dig outside.

"Sister, are you free?" This afternoon, Wulang was arrested by Si Niang again and stayed at home to watch the store. After watching for a while, he saw Er Niang coming out of the backyard, so he asked quickly.

A few days ago, he heard Xu Erlang and others talk about the construction of the ditch. They have started digging the ditch these days. Look at the store at home.

"Okay, you go." Facing Wu Lang, Erniang has always been easy to talk to. He has been well-behaved and sensible since he was a child, and because of his weak bones, Erniang has always treated him with extra care.

"I'll watch them dig the ditch." Goro said happily, and went to watch the fun again.

"Wait a minute, remember to come back and mix chicken food." Erniang called him from behind.

"I know." That boy Wulang ran away without a trace.Er Niang smiled helplessly, this kid is getting more and more lively now, but he is also sensible and knows how to help the family.

Saburo often told her to tell her not to take all the work on herself, and to take care of the little ones in the family from time to time, so as not to make them all a bunch of lazy people in the future.

This is of course very reasonable. Many people in the village said that Sanlang of their family is fond of children, but they don't know that he is not only fond of children, but also put a lot of thought into it.

"Excuse me, I need two loads of cement." At this time, a father and son pushing a cart came outside the Luo family's yard. They pushed the cart down the slope, leaving the teenage boy to watch the cart. The young man entered the courtyard with a dozen copper coins, counted out twelve, and put them on the counter of the grocery store.

"Hey, good." Erniang accepted the copper coins neatly, and then handed the other two bamboo sticks.

The man took the bamboo stick and left the yard without saying anything. It was not the first time he had come back to Xipo Village to buy cement. He exchanged the money for the bamboo stick here, and then he could go to the cement workshop to exchange cement. Yes, two loads of cement are tied to the wheelbarrow, and the father and son push the cart and pull the cart, which is not too strenuous.

These two loads of cement cost twelve renminbi when bought from Xipo Village, and they will be worth at least fifteen renminbi when they are transported to the county. It's no problem selling sixteen or seventeen yuan.

Although those wealthy households had ox carts, after all, it took a whole day to go back and forth from Xipo Village to Lishi County. Anyway, they were not short of a penny or two, and most of them were willing to spend a few more copper coins to buy ready-made ones.

Outside Lishi County, a small cement market has recently formed. First, in order to compete for the cement, some wealthy households ran outside the city to wait for the porters who carried carts. People brought cement from Xipo Village, and most of them were traded there.

A few days ago, the government built a fence around the market, and sent officials to manage it. These officials only paid the entrance fee to the merchants and wealthy households who came here to buy cement, but they did not take any money from the porters. After all, if these porters If you refuse to sell cement in this place, but switch to other places, then this market will have no value in existence at that time, and if you can't buy cement, which merchants and wealthy households will come here.

However, the local small merchants and rich families in Lishi County generally do not come to this market, and rarely buy cement at high prices. They generally have familiar porters and fixed channels.

For the porters, although there is not much profit in cooperating with these people in this county, the advantage is safety and stability. They are all in the same county, and they know each other well.

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On this side, Luo Yong is receiving an old acquaintance——Guo An.

Thinking back not long after Luo Yong woke up, the first clan child he came into contact with was Guo An. In the blink of an eye, two years have passed, and now Luo Yong's mentality is quite different from that time, and his situation is also different. The understanding of this era and the gentry group is much deeper than before.

There is a lot of information in Luoyong Space, although it is not systematic, but it is scattered, as long as you search patiently, you can always find some useful information, and he has also learned from those merchants who have traveled from south to north in the past two years. Hearing all kinds of rumors and getting a glimpse of the leopard, he gradually had a clearer understanding of the status of the gentry group in this era.

The Taiyuan Guo family behind Guo An, although not a first-class family, has a long history, and now there are several people who are officials in the court, and they have a deep relationship with the Qinghe Cui family and the Taiyuan Wang family.

Guo An came here this time and brought bad news to Luo Yong, because Luo Yong's making papyrus annoyed a considerable number of gentry groups, so they boycotted Luo Yong and even the entire Lishi County Attitude, creating public opinion in Chang'an City, belittling Luo Yong and everything he created.

"...Since Liu Shilang was ridiculed in the street, there are few officials and students who ride swallows anymore. The ones that are still used today are mostly servants and peddlers." Guo Anduan sat in the hall of the Luo family, and Luo talks by drinking tea.

Hearing this, Luo Yong frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Then they can use oiled paper umbrellas?"

"Not often." Guo An replied.

"You don't even need an oil-paper umbrella, what about rainy days?" Luo Yong asked with a smile.

"Of course we still use hats and cloaks." Guo An shook his head.

"Then they can use soap?" Luo Yong asked again.

"Soap is still being used." Soap has penetrated into people's lives now, so how could it be possible to just use it if you don't use it.

"That's good." Luo Yong said with a smile: "I think the method of burning soil and dung should not be discarded."

"That's natural." Guo An also laughed, thought for a while, and said: "It's not like everyone."

Luo Yong is not very worried about this kind of resistance. No matter how those people deliberately belittle it, good things are still good. Even if they can't resist completely, how can they convince others.

Besides, the Tang Dynasty was also a very honest and down-to-earth era. People even accepted Turkic war horses and Hu people's attire, just because the opponents were really brave and good at fighting, and the war horses they bred were fat and strong.People in the Tang Dynasty can frankly admit the strength of each other, even if they are their own enemies, they will not deliberately belittle and discredit each other just because they have gone to war with each other.

People at that time could even admit the advantages of their enemies, and they were willing to trade with them or even learn from them.

How could such a group of people refuse to use the advanced technology brought from the 21st century because of some people's unfounded belittling?What's more, Luo Coffin Baner is still very popular among the people, especially after he made papyrus, many children from poor families are full of gratitude to him.

In the hall, tea smoke curled up, Luo Yong and Guo An were sitting and drinking tea.

Luo's method of making tea is also quite simple and rude. Put a few pieces of tea leaves directly into the rough pottery bowl, and then pour the boiling water down. .

Guo An didn't think too much about it. After all, the other party was a country boy, and it's normal for him not to know how to cook tea. It's rare to get tea.

"Er Niang asked me to bring some date bean cakes." At this time, Peng Er came in with a plate of date bean cakes.

"My elder sister is still careful." Luo Yong said with a smile.Dates and bean cakes are not eaten every day in Luo's courtyard, needless to say, Erniang must have seen a distinguished guest at home, and asked Peng Er to go to Xu's guest house to ask the aunt to make it now.

Guo An thanked him, picked up a piece of jujube bean cake and ate two mouthfuls, and took a sip of hot tea from a rough earthenware bowl.

"Fifteen Lang is hungry?" Luo asked with a smile.

"..." Guo An looked at it, and in the blink of an eye, he had eaten more than half of the jujube bean cake on the plate, and was a little embarrassed for a while: "I'm really hungry."

"Since I'm hungry, let's go to Xu's guest house for dinner." Luo Yong now always pulls people to Xu's guest house whenever there are guests at home, which saves time and worry, and doesn't cost much money.

Xu's family always felt that Luo Yong was taking care of their business, but they didn't know how affordable the food prices in Xu's guest house were for a new youth in the 21st century who had experienced rapid economic and social development. , "Buy is to earn."

The two of them walked to the entrance of the village and saw Du Yishan, Guo An's servant who was herding horses, so they called him along and went to the guest house of Xu's family together. Fragrant shredded pork, corn porridge, clay pot chicken, and then asked Guo An and Du Yishan what else they wanted.

It should be enough for the three of them to eat so much, so Guo An didn't want anything else, but Du Yishan opened his mouth and asked for an extra dumpling.

This dumpling in Xu's guest house is also the only one, and it cannot be eaten elsewhere. Du Yishan was sent by the head of the family this year, and came alone with a batch of beans to find Luo Yong in exchange for fermented bean curd. At that time, he ate this dumpling in Xu's guest house. I keep thinking about it, but I can't eat it, but it makes him greedy.

Cold dishes and corn porridge were served the fastest. The three drank a few mouthfuls of hot porridge at the bottom, and then ate a few cold dishes with chopsticks for appetizers.

The corn used to make the porridge is freshly planted in the past few days. It is sticky and glutinous, with a faint rice fragrance, which is very delicious.The three silks are mixed with dried tofu, soybean sprouts and green onion leaves. There is neither kelp nor rice noodles. The taste is not bad, very refreshing.

"If you can put some shredded kelp in here, it will taste better." Luo Yong picked up a chopstick and mixed three shredded kelp, and said to Guo An and Du Yishan with a smile.

"If you really put shredded kelp in it, this dish won't cost three renminbi, it won't cost you thirty renminbi." Du Yishan slurped a mouthful of corn porridge, then picked up a chopstick and stuffed the three shredded shredded rice into his mouth.

The food in this Xu's inn is a little different from other places. The plate of cold salad in front of me is filled with sesame oil and pepper oil. It also has minced garlic, vinegar and a little soy sauce in it. This large plate is only for sale. Three pennies is really delicious and affordable, I just wish I could buy it every day and eat it every day.

"In Chang'an City, is the price of kelp cheaper than here?" Luo Yong asked Guo An.

"It's not cheap either." Guo An said: "Kelp is rarely produced in the southern waters, and the fishermen in the north occasionally get a little. This product is mostly produced in Ryukyu and Goguryeo. The price is naturally high.”

Guo An deserves to be from a noble family, because his family has profound knowledge and he has more opportunities to go out to increase his knowledge than others, so he is well-informed, and he can talk about anything casually mentioned at the dinner table.

Luo Yong also just learned not long ago that kelp is still a rare thing in this era. It is expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it. Occasionally buy a little, and it is mostly used as medicine to treat big neck diseases. People also call it gall tumor.

While talking, two large plates of dumplings were brought up, because the time for dinner was coming soon, the aunt and the others had already prepared some dumpling wrappers and meat fillings, at this time they only needed to add seasonings to mix the dumpling fillings, then wrap them up and put them on the table. Just cook it in the pot.

Aunt Luo and his wife now make a lot of dumplings every day, and the technique of making dumplings has also been practiced. They can be squeezed and squeezed with their hands, and the speed is extremely fast. After the fire was brought to a boil, the aunt had already made two large plates of dumplings.

The dumplings were wrapped with thin skins and big, one bite, tender and juicy, rich and delicious, Du Yishan finished a big plate by himself, and there was still something left to be desired.

Fortunately, at this time, fish-flavored pork shreds and earthen pot chicken were also served. Luo Yong saw that the three shredded noodles on the table had also been eaten, so he ordered another plate of tofu with shallots and a stir-fried mustard greens. Matching, you won't get tired of eating.

The clay pot chicken is made by chopping a young rooster into pieces, putting it in a clay pot with ginger, scallion, soy sauce cooking wine, and slowly simmering it over a low fire. This dish is actually ready-made in the kitchen, and it was ready at noon today. It's not sold out. It's okay to have a meal or two when the weather is cold recently. It's even more delicious when it's hot.

The little rooster, which is more than half a year old, is simmered in a clay pot until the chicken skin is soft and glutinous, and the muscles are still chewy. The seasoning is not much, but it tastes delicious.

Du Yishan ate several pieces of chicken one after another, took another sip of hot porridge, cleaned up the remaining chopsticks on the plate, and then went to the plate of fish-flavored shredded pork. Kind of different.

"This fish-flavored shredded pork is a bit different from the one I ate last time." Du Yishan said, reaching for another chopstick to eat.

"What's the difference?" This was the first time Guo An ate the fish-flavored shredded pork at Xu's guest house. Naturally, he didn't know how this dish had been improved, so he just thought it was delicious. Looking at the thick soup, he had no idea I was worried that it would be very greasy, but it turned out not to be. The taste is fragrant and strong, with a faint refreshing taste. It is delicious and not greasy.

Guo An searched the plate, but he really found something different. In this plate of fish-flavored shredded pork, some sauce-colored vegetable shreds were added, and he chewed it carefully in his mouth. Divided the fragrance of courgettes, it seems that this thing is courgettes marinated in sauce.

He guessed right. When Luo Yong first taught Xu's guest house how to make fish-flavored shredded pork, because there was no pickled pepper, he just used some pickled vegetables instead. The taste was not strong enough, so he added a little more sauce.

This summer when cucumbers are ripe, Luo Yong picked some tender cucumbers and marinated them with the base of a soy sauce tank, and then used these pickled cucumbers to make fish-flavored shredded pork. Of course, the previous pickles were not added.

The taste of this pickled cucumber is still different from that of pickled peppers, but the fish-flavored pork shreds produced in this way have a different flavor, and the taste is good. In addition, he later dug out a kind of fried noodles with cooking oil from the pink notebook. The method of thickening it is much more fragrant than thickening it directly with flour.

Du Yishan had guessed the cucumber, but he couldn't guess the secret of thickening the corn. Even if they did the same after they went back, the taste would still be worse.

In those restaurants and guest houses in Lishi County, there are quite a few people who learn how to cook in Xu's guest house. There are some masters with good craftsmanship, and the cooking is delicious, but there are always one or two tricks that they can't understand. Yes, for example, the method of thickening the fish-flavored shredded pork, how to make the dumpling filling so tender, juicy and full of flavor, how to make the jujube bean cake so fluffy and soft...

These don't seem to be a big deal, but for some people who are savage and delicious, it's like a door to a new world has been opened, and they can't wait to eat every day, every meal.

Luo Yong was thinking at the moment, whether they could ask those old gluttons to help in the road construction in Xipo Village to make the road smoother, so that they would be less bumpy when they come to eat in the future.