North and South groceries

After Luo Yong came back from the outside this time, the first thing he did was to arrange the production of Eucommia gum.

Before the eucommia seeds matured, they first picked eucommia leaves on a small scale. After the eucommia seeds matured this year, large-scale harvesting began. Not only the leaves, but also some twigs were picked back to ferment glue.

The fermentation speed at room temperature was not fast enough, so Luo Yong asked people to build fermentation tanks in several abandoned cement kilns.

In the past, when the business of their cement workshop was the most prosperous, dozens of cement kilns were built, but now most of them are idle. Like the big earthen kilns that are almost as tall as a house, the insulation effect is particularly good. Yes, building a fermentation tank in it, and then properly heating it, can greatly increase the fermentation speed.

Most of the eucommia glue produced earlier was supplied to Zhao Chen and the others. After all, the production of canned pears was in a hurry. In addition, Luo Yong also asked the craftsmen to start researching and making eucommia glue wheels.

In the end, everyone worked together to make several wheels. After considering the cost and performance, Luo Yong selected a wheel with soft wood as the inner tube and Eucommia gum as the outer tire, and let everyone gradually invest in it. Production.

Yanerfei with this kind of wheels, if you apply tung oil on the body for waterproofing, even in rainy and snowy weather, it will not affect the use much.

For the first batch of Yanerfei made in this way, Luo Yong asked a few disciples to catch up with the bullock cart, followed Zhao Chen and his team of canned food, and sent these Yanerfeis to the people who were building the road on the Guannei Road. In the hands of disciples and long-term workers.

Seeing that it will start to snow soon, snowy days will bring great difficulties to road construction, so after this year's winter, their road construction work will be suspended for a period of time, and they will wait until next year's spring. Restart.

With these Yanerfeis, they will be able to ride Yanerfei back by themselves at that time. The road back has been built on concrete roads. Riding Yanerfei is naturally much easier and faster than not being able to do it. a lot of.

Luo Yong's side, he will stay at home until next spring when he comes back this time.

This made the children in the family feel very happy. Brothers and brothers followed each other all day long. Even if Luo Yong's complexion was a little smelly in the first two days when he arrived home, the children in his family were not afraid, anyway, as long as they did nothing wrong. No matter what, my brother will not be fierce to them no matter if he is in a good mood or not, even if he does something wrong, he will not be particularly fierce. Their brother is not scary at all.

"Brother, let's pick peppers today." Early in the morning, the two little ones, Liu Lang and Qiniang, went to Luo Yong's house again.

"Well..." Luo Yong turned over and didn't want to talk to them.

In fact, he also wanted to put the bolt on the door and come to sleep, but that way, these two guys would have to knock on the door early in the morning, and then Luo Yong would have to get up and open the door for them. The door is ready.

The door panels at this time are not as detailed as those of later generations. Like the door panels of Luo Yong’s room, they get stuck in the door frame after closing, and it takes some effort to push them open. Besides, there are two big dogs in the yard. , Luo Yong slept very peacefully anyway.

"Brother, are we still making pancakes today?" The two little ones took off their shoes and climbed on Luo Yong's body.

"Don't eat pancakes anymore." Luo Yong said with a yawn.The Guozi were deep-fried and filled with alum, Luo Yong didn't want them to eat too much.

"Then what are we going to eat today?" the boy Liu Lang asked while pulling Luo Yong's arm.

"I don't know..." Early in the morning, he hadn't woken up yet.

"Brother, let's eat pancakes..." Qiniang discussed with him.

"No..." Luo Yong hummed.

"Let's eat pancakes..." Liu Lang also said as he tugged on his brother's sleeve.

"No..." Luo Yong turned over again, lying on the kang, burying his head in the pillow and continuing to sleep.

"Brother..."

"Brother, let's eat pancakes..."

"Brother..."

"Brother, are you asleep again?"

Luo Yong lay there motionless.

The two little ones felt a bit bored, rolled around on the kang, found a comfortable place to nest, and after a while, both yawned.

As soon as the three of them slept, they slept until the sun was up. The two of them, Siniang and Wulang, didn't call them when they got up. Everyone said that brother had worked hard to build the road on the Guannei Road. After going out for a few months, the whole person was dark. A lot, but the head seems to have become a little taller.

When the Ma family drove the ox cart to deliver the rice, Luo Yong and the others just got up and were sitting in the room of the grocery store, eating corn porridge and pancakes.

"Why did you send white rice again this year?" Hearing that the other party was here to send white rice, Luo Yong was also a little surprised. Last year he sold the seeds of Champa rice to the Ma family, so Ma Feiyang and the others sent white rice over last autumn and winter. I don't think it's strange to use it, but I gave it away again this year.

"It's not much. Shiro and Jiulang haven't come back from Shannan Road, so I asked the two of us to bring them here." The person who spoke looked like a steward of the Ma family.

"Why be so polite." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Not much." The man said, "There are only two bags of white rice, and the rest is paddy. When you want to eat, you can pound it yourself. If you pound it early, you may spoil it later."

These two people helped the Luo family move the cartload of rice into the house, but they refused to stay any longer. They said goodbye to Luo Yong, and Dang even drove the ox cart back.

Since the concrete road from Xipo Village to Lishi County has been repaired, the time to travel between these two places has been shortened a lot. What used to take half a day to complete the journey can now be completed in less than half a day. Well, they went back at this time, and when they arrived in Lishi County, it should be still early.

Looking at the huge pile of rice, Luo Yong thought for a while, and then said to Liu Lang Qiniang and the others beside him: "Today we won't eat pancakes and glutinous rice, brother and you make the same new food."

"Huh?" As soon as the new food was mentioned, the two children became excited.

"Both of you, go get two liters of beans to soak." Luo Yong said to them.

"Brother, what do you want to eat?" Si Niang also came in at this time.

"Dou Zhe." Luo Yong said.

"What is Douzhe?" These children all looked curious.

"You will know when I make it." Luo squatted down to wrap a bag of rice, untied a thin thread from the mouth of the bag, and poured it into a pottery urn by the wall.

This pottery urn was originally used to hold rice. The rice in his house was sold by Siniang and the others earlier, and then this pottery urn was empty, but it was not dirty. Siniang wiped it once a few days ago. .

"Brother, the beans are ready!" Liulang Qiniang came back within 2 minutes of going out.

"But put it on the kang to soak?" Luo Yong asked them.

"Yeah!" The two nodded straightly, brother had told them long ago that if the beans want to soak faster, they have to soak them on the kang, because there is heat there.

"Then you bring a wooden basin, let's soak the white rice too." Luo Yong said again.

"Oh." The two little ones went away again.

The beans are soaked, and the white rice is also soaked, and then these two things are soaked, so that they can be ground and refined.

Luo used to go to the sheep house to talk to people. The two little ones in the family guarded two wooden basins, one big and one small, and waited eagerly. It's time to go up the mill and grind it. From time to time, the two of them have to touch a grain of white rice out of the basin to try it out. They try it again and again, and the longer they wait, the more they feel that the time passes really slowly.

It was so easy to wait until the sky was getting dark, and brother came back from the outside, and the two said to him: "Brother, this rice hasn't been soaked yet."

"Let me take a look." Luo Yong went over to look, and it seemed that it was about the same. He stretched out his hand to pinch a grain of white rice and tried it. It was indeed hard, but it was almost ready to be ground.

That night, Luo Yong lit a torch in the yard. The brothers and sisters first ground rice milk and then soybean milk, and then roasted soybean milk in the room at the entrance of the courtyard.

Luo Yong’s technique is really not very good. The baked bean curds come in all shapes, but the taste is quite good. The freshly baked bean curds are still in the shape of cakes. After cooling down, cut everything and it will become silky. , this bean zhe is eaten in the same way as vermicelli. It can be boiled, fried, and hot pot, but the taste is softer than vermicelli.

At this time, the freshly baked tofu is hot, and the children in the family eat it with pickled vegetables, and they can eat several at a time. At the beginning, they could eat one when Luo Yong baked one, and they could eat one after Luo Yong baked another. Eat another one, each one, the stomach is like a bottomless pit.

"Oh, I can't eat anymore." Goro rolled on the kang with his stomach in his arms.

"Oh, I can't eat anymore." Liu Lang also followed his elder brother's example, rolling on the kang with his stomach in his arms.

"I can't eat this anymore, how much more are there?" Luo Yong joked with them.

"I can't eat any more, bro, save it for tomorrow." Qiniang looked at the big bucket of rice milk and soy milk, and suddenly felt her stomach was fuller, and immediately begged for mercy.

"I can't eat anymore! I can't eat anymore!" Liu Lang yelled over there too.

"Idiot, who told you to finish eating in one meal?"

Si Niang was sitting on the edge of the kang, holding a hot bean-rolled pickle in her hand, biting slowly one bite at a time. Then a little bit, it would be nice if more beans could be put in.

"Brother, can I save this for tomorrow when I make it?" Goro also came over at this time.

"Hmm." Luo Yong was shoveling the bean zhe in the pot with a wooden spatula at this time. The white rice they have here is really expensive these days, and he would feel distressed if it was just such a bean zhe that was burnt.

"After it cools down, cut it into shreds, put it on a basket to dry and put it away, and then you can cook it or fry it." After shoveling up a bean bag, Luo Yong used another piece of pigskin on the Wipe the pan.

"Is it delicious?" Several pairs of eyes looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"Delicious." Luo Yong nodded.

"Gudu." The children swallowed again.

Just now I yelled that I was too full, now when I heard Luo Yong said it was delicious, I became greedy again, Luo Yong felt that after a while they probably had to have another round, until tomorrow, I really don’t know if there will be leftovers How many beans are folded.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Luo family's current economic conditions were not bad, they would probably be eaten up by them.