North and South groceries

This time, the trip to Lishi County was quite fruitful. With the things Luo Yong brought back, the older and younger members of the Luo family really had a good year.

The happiest thing is Luo Erniang. Thinking about the half a year before, what kind of life it was, and counting the daily loss of money and food at home, she was worried about what she was feeling.

If it is true what the villagers said, if you send your younger siblings to be servants and maidservants, you will become a lowly family from then on, and you can't control your life or death.If you don't do that, can you watch them starve to death at home again?

Who would have thought that Saburo had only woken up for more than two months, and the family had completely changed. Now they not only have enough to eat and live warmly, but also have some income every day.

The income from selling fermented bean curd is very stable. Although their yard does not look as lively as those in the village, they actually earn no less than them. On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Luo Erniang and the others did a lot of Chicken cakes, in exchange for a lot of corn and copper coins.

"31, 32...39, fifty..." In the past few days, when he had nothing to do, Luo Yong taught them how to count. In order to stimulate their interest in learning to the greatest extent, Luo Yong directly took Count the copper plates at home for them.

Wu Lang was very funny, every time he was given fifty Wen, he could count out sixty Wen. Luo Yong was listening with a smile on his face, but refused to remind him aloud, and told him he was wrong after counting. Tell him to count again, and count again, it is still sixty.

Si Niang is two years older than Wu Lang, and she is more sensitive to numbers. Counting up to one hundred has long been difficult for her.

For the past few days, Luo Yong gave her a dustpan of beans and a small stick for her to practice writing with these things.Si Niang was not very patient, and she didn't like to write very much. Every time she wrote, she began to pick beans, and soon she picked up all the beans in the dustpan.

"39, fifty, 51..." Goro was still counting there.

"Why is it fifty after 39?" Si Niang finally couldn't listen anymore, just now she pretended that she was practicing calligraphy seriously.

"39, 39, forty, 41..." Goro always corrected it.

"Brother, I'm hungry." Si Niang said to Luo Yong.

"What do you want to eat?" Luo Yong yawned lazily.

"Sticky bean buns need to be dipped in sugar and bean flour." Siniang said.

"You are the only one who knows how to eat." Er Niang scolded with a smile.She was kneading wool in her hand at the moment, and such soft cashmere was relatively rare in their place. It was the first time knitting wool, and she did it very carefully.

"Then why don't you go out and bring in the bean buns, I just need two." Luo Yong said and handed a big sea bowl to Siniang.

"I want two too." Er Niang also said.

"I want four," Goro said.

"Ah, ah..." The two little ones below were drooling and babbling.

"Wow!" Mai Qing and Dou Li'er said that they wanted to eat too.

Siniang was really greedy, and regardless of the wind and snow outside, she went out with a rough clay bowl. After a while, she brought in a large bowl of frozen sticky beans from the outside, and put them on the kang. The stove was steaming, and a fire was added below.

At this time, Wulang also brought over the jar containing brown sugar and bean flour, and brought a large earthenware bowl, and mixed some bean flour and brown sugar with a spoon.After the bean buns in the pot are steamed, the brothers and sisters will use the brown sugar and bean noodles in this bowl to dip the sticky bean buns and eat them. It is fragrant, sweet, sticky and waxy.

Those families in the village who have been busy for almost a month are also free at this time. Few people come to Xipo Village to buy tofu these days after the new year. It is expected that business will not start to pick up until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Tian Chonghu came to Luo's house again and asked when Luo Yong would teach them how to make tofu. Luo Yong told them to come back on the sixteenth day.

I heard from the aunt and the others that a few days ago there was a married daughter in the village who always brought her man back to her natal home to help make tofu, and then other families in the village became a little nervous, and some even directly put pressure on the family, asking them not to make tofu. The craft of making tofu is passed on to the married daughter.

Aunt Luo also said that in the Lin family, Lin Erlang is the one who wins the heart of Mrs. Lin the most.

At the beginning, Lin Wulang set up a heated kang at home, greedy Mrs. Lin, and then ran to the city by himself. Later, it was Lin Erlang who learned about his mother's thoughts, and went to the city to find Luo Yong and them to learn. After learning the skill of cooking a kang, I bought one for the old man and the old lady when I went home. After this period of time, the old lady said that Erlang was the most filial.

Aunt Luo also said that Qiao Junlin's uncle has become well-off. After years of management, he finally got an official position in Chang'an. Properly managed, there will be further opportunities in the future.

The uncle Qiao Junlin had a very good relationship with Qiao Junlin's biological mother in the past. Later, Qiao Junlin's biological mother passed away, and he has been paying attention to the situation of this nephew. Although he has been in Chang'an for the past few years, he has heard something about the Lin family. This time he asked someone to bring a letter, saying that he wanted to take Qiao Junlin to Chang'an for training.

For such a thing, the Qiao family naturally had no reluctance. It just so happened that their Qiao family also had an official in recent years. If they could get in touch with Qiao Junlin and his uncle, it would be of great benefit.

To put it bluntly, Qiao Junlin and his father couldn't let Qiao Junlin say no to this matter. Of course, he didn't mean to refuse. This son couldn't get along well with the younger brothers and sisters born to his stepmother, and it was not an option to keep him in the country. It was naturally the best thing for my uncle to take him to Chang'an, so that he would feel less guilty about his biological mother.

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What Luo Yong didn't expect was that before leaving, that boy Qiao Junlin ran to Luo Yong's yard to say goodbye to Luo Yong.

I heard that this kid went home during the Chinese New Year, but somehow he came back at this time.

It happened that there was no snow that evening. After a few gusts of north wind, the originally dark sky was blown white, and the temperature suddenly became very low.

"When will you leave?" Standing in front of the gate of his own courtyard, Luo Yong didn't know what to say to the other party for a while, and asked him to come in and sit for a while, but he didn't go in.

"After the Lantern Festival." Qiao Junlin stood slightly lower than Luo Yong outside the courtyard and said with his head slightly raised.

"Are you still in the village on the Lantern Festival?" Luo Yong asked him.

"..." Qiao Dalang paused and said, "Yes."

In fact, the family told him to go back earlier, spend the Lantern Festival at home, and then arrange for him to go to Chang'an.

"Since you are here, come to my house to help make chicken cakes." Luo Yong said.On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, his chicken cakes sold very well. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, they made relatively few cakes, but they were all sold out. This time on the fifteenth day, it is estimated that more people will buy them again. Luo Yong plans to make more.

"..." After hearing this, Qiao Junlin looked up at Luo Yong for a while, then squeezed his fists, turned and left.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Luo Yong laughed out loud, and at the same time shouted to his back: "On the [-]th day, don't forget."

"..." Qiao Dalang walked away without looking back.

Looking at the back of the young man leaving, Luo Yong remembered the scene when he first came to Xipo Village. This boy is not bad, he is quite resilient, and he doesn't like to steal and play tricks. Luo Yong is quite pleasing to the eye.

Those things about the Qiao family may not be a big deal to a guy like Luo Yong who has been a man for two lifetimes, but it is definitely not the case for Qiao Junlin. Not only was he sent to the countryside, but even the maid who accompanied him when he grew up was sent to It was almost impossible to survive.

He is probably already mentally prepared to be self-reliant, but the world is so big and the world is vast, where can he have a place to stand?

Regarding Qiao Junlin's situation, Luo Yong could see all the hesitation and uneasiness of this young man, but he just didn't say much, and the words that floated in his mouth could not change anything at all.

In Luo Yong's life, there was also a difficult time.

He was abducted and sold as a child to a couple who were unable to have children.I heard that many families will treat their children well after they buy them, but it is a pity that Luo Yong does not have such luck.

He remembered that once when he was called to fetch water from the well, he looked down at the rippling water in the well and the swaying light on the surface of the water, and felt like jumping down in his heart.

At that time, Luo Yong was still young, and he didn't have much fear of death, nor much love for life.

For him at that time, time always passed too slowly, and every day was difficult. He knew that as long as he grew up, the situation would change, but the road to growth was so long...

Later, the human trafficking group seemed to be taken over, and many children were sent back to their original parents. Because Luo Yong was too young when he was abducted, he had no memory at all. Those who trafficked him also said that I don't know his origin, and then he was temporarily placed in an orphanage.

Later, he was adopted by Grandma Luo. When he saw the serious old lady for the first time, Luo Yong didn't expect much about his future adopted life.

Unexpectedly, the old woman who looked very serious and rigid was actually very easy to get along with. The two of them had lived together for fifteen or sixteen years. She never spoke loudly to Luo Yong, let alone did anything. Sometimes, the old lady will tell him in her unique calm and rigid tone that it is impossible to do that, why it cannot be done, and the possible consequences, all of which are clearly explained to him. The second time, the third time...

I still remember that when I first went to Grandma Luo’s house, Luo Yong was very greedy. The old lady could cook him four or five meals a day, and she kept telling him to tell him what he wanted to eat, because people didn’t have anything to eat. It's only greedy, so if you eat too much, you won't be slanderous.

So Luo Yong now treats these little dolls in the family with the same attitude, isn't it just greedy, so eat it until you don't feel slanderous.

Speaking of which, Luo Yong wasn't originally called Luo Yong. This name was adopted after being adopted by Grandma Luo.

For a long time, he didn't know who he really was or where he came from.It wasn't until after this crossing that I finally understood.He is Luo Yong, whether in the 21st century or the seventh century, he is Luo Yong, not others.

These days, I have seen the hesitation and growth of that young man in my eyes.

Compared with Luo Yong's childhood experience, that boy Qiao Junlin can almost be regarded as a lucky one, but he doesn't know it himself, and Luo Yong doesn't intend to tell him.