North and South groceries

"Let's go to Luo Si's side." This day, with nothing to do, Bai Yimao said to his brothers again.

As a result, those guys refused to show face this time: "I won't go, you go."

"I'm not going either."

"Bai Mao, go by yourself."

"Hey, I'll sleep for a while."

Bai Yimao didn't really want to go there alone, so he dawdled in the room for a while, and then felt that it was really meaningless, so he went to the next door shop by himself.

He wasn't really stupid, after the few days when his head was hot, he also realized that Luo Si's girl was coaxing them to work. Although he didn't want her to succeed, there was nothing wrong with this small mountain village. For entertainment, think about it, let's play with Si Niang and the others.

Luo Siniang is quite an interesting person, and their Luo family has a lot of fresh things, so Bai Yimao is quite willing to join them.

"Hey, you said that Bai Mao won't really have a crush on Na Luo Si, right?" As soon as Bai Yimao left, the teenagers in the room became active: "We can't even talk about it, he will go."

"Ever since Luo Si gave him wild flowers, I've been looking at Baimao strangely."

"No, what's so good about Luo Si?"

"Hey, don't tell me..."

"..."

A few teenagers were gossiping and chatting happily in the room, and the person involved didn't know at all that they were engraving letters next door.

But it doesn't matter even if you know, instead of staying in the guest house and joking around with them, Bai Yimao thinks it's more meaningful to go to the next door to do something, since he came to Xipo Village, he There have also been some changes in my thinking.

Looking at the fourth wife and five sons of the Luo family, they already have ideas at a young age, and are willing to spend time and energy to turn their ideas into reality. In contrast, the lives of these people seem to be doing nothing and boring.

Bai Yimao felt that his original life was too boring, and he also had the idea of ​​wanting to change, but at this time he didn't know it, he just felt that there was always something in the shop next door that attracted him.

Siniang's method of engraving printing plates is to write on thinner paper first, then cover the paper face down on the wooden board, stick it with paste, and then start carving.

The paper used in this process must be thin enough and not smeared with ink. The price is definitely not cheap, and probably only a family like the Luo family will let a few children waste it like this.

Speaking of which, woodblock printing is actually not particularly unusual. After all, seals have been around for a long time. If you make the seal bigger and have more characters, it will become woodblock printing.

The reason why no one did this in the past is that the market demand was limited. At that time, pen, ink and paper were very expensive, and ordinary people could not afford to read books. Even if someone did woodblock printing, because of the high price, few people bought it at all. However, if the sales of engraving printing cannot increase, then the effort spent on engraving printing plates will not be worthwhile.

Now that the price of paper has come down, if Siniang and the others engage in woodblock printing at this time, they will be able to bring the price down to a relatively low level, taking the route of small profits but quick turnover.

Although this kind of thread-bound booklet is different from the scrolls of this era, the reading experience will also be somewhat different.

But the brochures made by the Luo family are really beautiful, and they are printed with flowers on the paper, making them into a small volume, only the size of a palm, not only easy to carry, but also very small and delicate for young ladies to hold in their hands .

Since the sales are not worrying, Si Niang and the others just concentrate on giving birth. Luo Yong sees that they work all day long at a young age, just like adults, and he feels a little distressed. He goes there to help when he has time, cleaning and cleaning the house Sell ​​goods or something.

That boy Bai Yimao was a bit awkward at the beginning, but later he simply became a free laborer for Si Niang and the others. Luo Yong looked at this boy and he was not bad, but he didn't know that this guy had nothing to do with them. Whether the fourth mother of the family will have any development, even if there is development, I am not afraid. With the fourth mother's temperament, no matter where she goes, she is not afraid of being disadvantaged.

As the weather turns cooler day by day, the corn planted all over the country has begun to enter the harvest season. This time the harvest is no longer a harvest in a small area in the south, nor is it only causing a sensation in a small area in the south, but a nationwide one. sensation.

Compared with this sensation, whether it is the irrigation system currently being promoted in Shizhou, or their North and South Grocery Publishing House in Xipo Village, they all seem so insignificant.

It was right for Governor Hao not to strongly recommend their irrigation method to the imperial court, because the Tang government at this time did not need other things to distract the people from their worship and enthusiasm for the Sixth Valley.

Such worship and enthusiasm contributed to unprecedented national unity, and the emperor's prestige reached an unprecedented height.

It was at the end of this fiery summer that Empress Changsun passed away.

The riches and honor of splashing the sky are no match for the helplessness of life and death.

Empress Changsun came from a noble family and was the daughter of a famous general. Luo Yong didn't know much about this person, but from some scattered information in his space and folk rumors, one can probably imagine that this is a very dignified and wise woman. woman.

At the age of 36, when he was supposed to be healthy and strong, he died so early for some unknown reason.

For the death of Empress Changsun, the people are not just completely mourning. There are some rumors among the people that she was taken away by the gods in the sky. exchange.

Some people even said that their queen remarried to the sky, which made Li Shimin a little dumbfounded.

Perhaps such a statement is also a kind of comfort to the emperor, as long as he thinks that his queen has gone to heaven, not to suffer in the underworld, he can feel more comfortable in his heart.

In such an atmosphere, although the corn that Hou Lin had planted before had grown very well and produced big corn cobs, he couldn't invite friends to come over to watch them at home, so he had to take care of them silently. , Harvest silently.

Some of the harvested corn kernels have brought a lot of income to their family after being sold out. Now in Chang'an City, the price of corn seeds is quite high, and ordinary people can't get them at all.

That evening, Hou Lin talked to his nephew, lamenting that they really owed Na Luo Sanlang too much, but Na Luo Sanlang didn't seem to plan to come to Chang'an City to develop, even if he wanted to repay, he couldn't start.

"Even if he comes to Chang'an City, we can't do anything." Qiao Junlin said.At the beginning, it was only because of Luo's few words that he got in touch with Du Xi. Driven by Du Xi, his current social circle is no longer the same as before.

What I and my uncle couldn't even sharpen their heads, that man could do it with just a few words. With such a big gap, don't say anything in return, it's not bad if you don't hold him back.

"You don't want to say that. If there are children in his family who want to study in Chang'an City, I can still help a little." Hou Lin didn't like his nephew's self-deprecating attitude.

"It's because of his help that I'm too learned." Qiao Junlin shook his head and smiled wryly.Qiao Junlin also heard a little from Dr. Chen about the reasons why he was able to make up for the Imperial College smoothly.

"..." Hou Lin was choked by his nephew and was speechless.

Unlike Qiao Junlin who had many positive contacts with Luo Yong, Hou Lin's impression of Luo Yong was still at the stage of a very capable country boy. As for how much energy he has, if he came to Chang'an City, he would be able to do it again. There is no intuitive concept of how many things are involved.

Qiao Junlin didn't say anything else, picked up his long sword, and went to the backyard to practice swords.

A few days ago, Qiao Junlin danced sword at school, and was praised by several teachers, saying that he danced with both firmness and softness, without losing the rhythm in his toughness. Although Qiao Junlin didn't feel that his sword dance was so rhythmic before, But since the teachers in the school like it, he doesn't mind developing in this direction.

Since you want to be liked by others, sometimes it is inevitable to do what others like.

This is roughly the strategy Luo Yong said, right?It's just a strategy, nothing to do with his own wishes.

The author has something to say:

Xiao Qiao is not a straight child, but he will not grow too crooked, please rest assured.