North and South groceries

Qiao Junlin had just told Luo Yong the day before that he would stay in Xipo Village until after the Lantern Festival before returning to the city, and he was picked up by a servant arranged by his father the day after.

What can I do if I don’t leave? The old servant came here with the order. If he can’t take his young man back, he will be punished if he goes back. In addition, the Lin family also tried their best to persuade him to go back earlier to prepare for the trip in a few days. If you want to come and play in the future, you can come here anytime.

"So he left?" Luo Yong raised his head.

"How can we not leave?" Aunt Luo sighed slightly.

"That's right." Luo Yong lowered his head and continued to pick out the wheat grains in the basket. This year's wheat grains are small in size, with a lot of bad grains and shriveled grains, and they are especially prone to bugs, but the fragrance is very strong.

Speaking of which, the reason why the Lin family was able to bring Qiao Junlin back and provide them with delicious food and a good place to live was not because of the face of the Qiao family, in order to sell favors to those people, otherwise why would they, could it be that they disliked the food in their own granary? Too much food?

Now that the Qiao family said they wanted to take him back, they naturally had no reason to stop him.To put it bluntly, once the Qiao family spoke, there would be no place for Qiao Junlin at the Lin family, and he had to leave if he didn't want to.

"Where is the one named A Zhi?" Luo Yong asked again.

"Let's go together, I heard that we are going to Chang'an with Qiao Dalang." The aunt said.

"That's pretty good." Luo Yong said.

"Rich people are not good everywhere." Er Niang interjected at this time.

She was sitting on the kang and practicing knitting. A few days ago, she saw Luo Yong twisting the wool with two small sticks, and then he even wove something like a small piece of fabric. I tried it a few times.

She has some talent in handicrafts, and her mind is not stupid. After a few times of groping, she has some experience. Luo Yong told her that as long as she can knit a pair of woolen socks for herself, he will buy her a silver hairpin. .

"I want a silver hairpin." Erniang was happy, but she didn't take the matter of the silver hairpin seriously.

In this era, silver is still very rare, and it is generally not circulated in the market as currency. Ordinary farmers don't even have a few copper coins in their homes, let alone silver.About [-] or [-] copper coins are needed to exchange one tael of silver. How can ordinary people afford such things as silver hairpins.

Regardless of the silver hairpin or not, this woolen stocking still needs to be knitted. If she can really make it, the brothers and sisters in her family will not have to freeze their feet in winter.

"It's the same wherever you go." The aunt answered Erniang's words casually.

"Sister, is life going well in the Lin family?" Erniang asked worriedly.

"Although everything doesn't go as you want, life is going well." The aunt laughed.

In the past few days, the aunt said that she would come to help Luo use them to make chicken cakes, and she ran here almost every day, but the Lin family didn't stop her.As long as Mrs. Luo can bring back some chicken cakes every Friday, Lin Liulang will be very happy. If he is happy, Lin's mother will be happy, and if Lin's mother is happy, Lin's father will have no objections.

Anyway, it’s in a village, and it’s only a few steps to come and go. The villagers also love to visit. These days, there is no entertainment at home. Whoever has nothing to do is bored in the house all day. Even if they are working, they also like to find acquaintances The others gathered together, talking and working at the same time.

Outside the yard, Siniang Wulang is looking at their canteen at the moment. Don’t look at Wulang as he usually is, he is actually a money fan. The whole family counts him as the favorite to stay in this canteen. He just stared at the copper plates of rice and grain with his two black eyes open, and when the people left, he would count the copper coins to see how much more grain was in the urn.

Si Niang also likes to look at the canteen, but Luo Yong looks at it, she should enjoy the status of a small grocery store owner, and is willing to show off in front of the children in the village.

The kang head here is also warmly burned. When no one is shopping, the siblings will count and write a few words for a while, or tease the puppy. In addition, there are a few eggs hatched on the kang head. From time to time, the two would go over to have a look, and look through it twice.

"Si Niang, get me five pieces of fermented bean curd." At this time, a boy about the same age as Luo Wulang came into the store. He was small, but he looked very clever.

"Let me take a look at your rice first." Luo Siniang took the small cloth bag from him on the ground, grabbed a handful of rice and looked at it, nodded decently, and then took the rice out to measure , this amount, she is not satisfied: "Why is the rice you bring over every time is a little bit worse? Did you eat it on the way?"

"You only eat raw rice." The boy replied bluntly: "My mother said that the price of rice in the city has increased now."

"Then don't bring me rice next time, just bring me money." Si Niang was also sharp-toothed.

"Brother said, firewood is also needed." Goro added from the side.

"They don't have time to collect firewood now, they can't finish rubbing hemp thread every day." The kid took his pottery bowl and looked down. At this time, five pieces of beige fermented bean curd were lying quietly on the bottom of the bowl. Smelling the aroma, one piece was smaller than the others, he curled his lips and passed the bowl over: "Give me some more soup."

The fermented bean curd from Luo Sanlang’s family costs only five yuan, and you have to exchange it for one liter of rice. This is still in their village. I heard that some people sell this fermented bean curd in the city, and they only give six or seven yuan for a penny. , and refused to give soup, if you want soup, you have to ask for a piece of fermented bean curd.

It is not used in their village, even if they ask for a little more soup, fermented bean curd is not used.

This soup is also a good thing. A few days ago, his family finished eating the fermented bean curd that his father brought back from Luo's house. The leftover soup was used by his mother to stew the meat. The meat was delicious. Now he wants to He still drools when he gets up, so now every time he comes back to change the fermented bean curd, he needs a little more soup, and when he takes it home, he pours it into a jar and saves it for future stews.

I heard from Na Luo Siniang that their family is still collecting firewood, which is really good. In the past, people in their village had nowhere to sell even if they collected firewood.

It's a pity that his parents are too busy. They have been busy making tofu for the past few days. There is not much business in the first month of the month, and they are busy twisting twine. They need to rub a lot of twine. When paying taxes, not only rice, but also cloth must be paid, and every household must pay.

When it comes to taxes, Aunt Luo is also talking to Luo Yong about this at this time, telling him not to always ask Erniang and the others to do other things, but to twist more twine. A loom, also called Er Niang Si Niang, they learn to weave.

Weaving by oneself is better than exchanging hemp thread for cloth. Besides, when Erniang and Siniang get married in the future, they will prefer someone who knows how to weave.

There is a loom in the Lin family, but now her two sisters-in-law are weaving. When Mrs. Luo first married, Lin's mother asked the two eldest daughters-in-law to teach this newbie daughter-in-law, but that But the two refused to teach them well, always saying that Mrs. Luo was too stupid to learn how to weave.

Now that I think about it, it’s a good thing I didn’t learn it at the beginning, otherwise I can’t run here all day, and I have to stay at home to weave. The loom is so big and I can’t take it out.

"What's so good about weaving? After sitting in front of the loom for a long time, my neck is not good, and my eyes are not good." Luo Yong knew that she had some troubles, so he said this on purpose.

"It's true." Aunt Luo just persuaded him to build a loom, but now she heard what Luo Yong said, but she smiled and said: "Since the two of them have learned these skills from you, they can You don’t necessarily have to learn another weaving.”

While the few people were talking, there was a sound of horseshoes outside, followed by a few low shouts and horse crowing.

Luo Yong thought it was Ma Feiyang coming again.In their Lishi County, there are only a few families that can afford horses. Among them, Ma Feiyang is the closest to him. When he went to the county town to help people cook the kang, Ma Feiyang often invited him out of restaurants. , Then Luo Yong also set up a few large kangs for his family, without asking for wages.

"Is this Luo Sanlang's house?"

As soon as Luo Yong put on his rabbit fur jacket and climbed down from the kang, he heard a healthy voice outside the courtyard.

Putting his shoes on and looking around, he saw a tall man with a high forehead and a high nose bridge. He had regular facial features and exuded a heroic aura. There seemed to be two or three horses outside.

"This is Luo's house." Luo Yong hurriedly greeted him out of the house, it seemed that he was a big client.

A horse racer and a farmer are two completely different temperaments. If this guy says that he is not from the grassland, Luo Yong will definitely not believe it.

"Your Excellency is Luo Sanlang?" the other party asked.

"Exactly, may I ask where the guest came from?" Luo walked a few steps closer, only to see another person outside the courtyard, a total of three people and three horses.

"My surname is Zhao. I'm from Shuozhou. I heard that there is something called fermented bean curd here. It tastes delicious. I'm here to buy it." The other party explained the purpose of coming.

"It's cold outside, let's sit inside the house first, Brother Zhao, don't take offense from the poor family." Luo Yong said and led a few people to his small shop, and the three horses were also led to the yard.

Seeing them coming in, Si Niang Wu Lang went to find the aunt and the second mother and the others with the puppy eggs. The kang in that room was also very warm, but be careful not to let Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi press the eggs.

Luo Yong first carried some stalks to feed the horses, and then entered the house to entertain the three people.

The three men in the canteen were fascinated by the heated kang at this time. They touched the top and bottom of the kang once, and even the few garlic plants planted in a broken jar in the corner were all taken care of by them. It's strange.

Luo Yong poured a bowl of hot water for each of them, sat on the kang and chatted with them.

According to these people, the Zhao family is also a decent family in Shuozhou, and the family is engaged in livestock trading.

A few days ago, Mr. Zhao Jiada tasted a piece of fermented bean curd by chance, and he was shocked. Then he went out after the Chinese New Year, and rode all the way to Xipo Village.

If the memory of the original owner is correct, Shuozhou should be in the north of Hedong Road, next to the prairie. Since the Zhao family is in the livestock business, it seems that they have to deal with herdsmen frequently... Luo Yong immediately thought of wool.

The cashmere obtained a few days ago has all been kneaded into woolen yarn. With Luo Erniang and the others' knitting skills of twine all year round, it didn't take much time to finish knitting a bag of cashmere. Now they are trying to weave socks.

When those woolen yarns were rubbed out, Luo Yong wanted to dye them, but dyeing is really troublesome, and the price of dyes is also very expensive. If you collect them yourself, little by little will add up, and it is not easy, so the dyeing thing has to be put aside put.

The picture of a sweater with a long robe can’t be seen for a while, Luo Yong is thinking now, it’s better to get out the woolen socks first, the socks are mainly for keeping warm, and they don’t really pursue visual effects, whether they are dyed or not, as long as they are The heat preservation effect is good, and the sales will not be too bad.

What he told Erniang earlier that he would buy her a silver hairpin as long as she could knit woolen socks was not joking.

Don’t underestimate the power of a pair of socks. Think about how many people have been fed by those pairs of inconspicuous socks in the 21st century. The more Luo Yong thinks about it, the more he thinks that small commodities are the most suitable for him.

"Zhao Dalang, do the herdsmen over there have the habit of shaving wool?" Luo Yong asked.

"What are you doing shaving wool?" Zhao Chen asked puzzled.

"It's going to be spring soon. You can shave the wool and sell it for money, and it will grow back in a few months, so there's no delay." Luo Yong said with a smile.

It seems that he was lucky to be able to get cashmere in Lishi County last time. During those days, they went to other people's homes every day, and they basically knew what good things were in the homes of those people in the city, so they didn't miss them. Cashmere, those cashmere are cleaned and processed, and the price passed to him by the owner is also very low.

"Who wants the shaved wool?" Zhao Chen wondered, could anyone want that stuff?

"I want it." Luo Yong smiled.

"Really?" Zhao Chen opened his eyes wide.

"Really, wool before Qingming, ten catties of wool for one catty of fermented bean curd, okay?" Luo Yong said happily.

Zhao Chen: I thought it would cost a lot of money to buy fermented bean curd, but in this situation, no matter how I think about it, I feel like I have been taken advantage of...

Luo Yong: It doesn't cost money to purchase, just use some fermented bean curd and it's done, that's great.