North and South groceries

The earlier batch of dyed wool was about to run out at this time, so Luo Sanlang went to Xue Weng's again. This time he chose more colors, dyed more wool, and Er Niang rubbed the wool these days. The wool that came out was also dyed.

But this time the deposit he gave was less than last time, fortunately Xue Weng could trust him.

After all, everyone knows that Luo Sanlang has the skill of making fermented bean curd by hand, and a small pot of fermented bean curd can be sold for five yuan. It seems that his lack of money is only temporary. Give him some time, and he will be able to save enough money to pay the money get the goods.

Lishi County is too small, and the business is not easy to do. Several generations of Xue Weng's family have been dyeing cloth in this county. On weekdays, the neighbors come to dye, and most of them are indigo, ochre, green and so on. These colors are cheaper and they earn less.

There are not many people who can come to them to dye bright colors, but they still have to prepare those dyes in their shop. If not, the rich families in Lishi County will have to go to other places to dye cloth in the future. clothed.

It's just that, if those expensive dyes can't be used up in time, they will become worse and worse over time, and the dyed colors will become worse and worse.

Therefore, the fluidity of these dyes is especially important to Xue Weng and the others. Sometimes, even if they earn a little less, they still have to do the business they need to do, so they can replace the things in the store with new ones.

Mr. Luo Xiaolang's family is not rich, but he is quite generous in dyeing, he is willing to dye any precious color.

Xue Weng summed up, if this Luo Sanlang came to him to dye the colors twice, he would have to go to Fenyang to borrow some dyes from his old friends in the same industry. He consumes, and now it can be regarded as Feng Shui's turn.

Coming out of Xueji Cloth Shop, Luo Sanlang took over his donkey cart from the buddy of the cloth shop, sat on his newly built donkey cart, and wobbled out of the city gate.

The donkey pulling the cart is really a good donkey, tall and strong, pulling the donkey cart on the road, walking vigorously and lightly, without any effort.

Ever since he got this big donkey, Luo Yong only felt that everything was good. The stone mill was also pulled by donkeys, and the well water was also pulled by donkeys. After asking someone to come to the house to help drive a donkey cart, it was no problem to carry goods and people. Next, it is really a must-have donkey for home travel!

Luo Sanlang liked it very much, and even named the donkey Wudu.

Five pairs are good for everything, but the taste is a bit heavy, and I like the miso made by Luo Yong the most.

When I came back to Luo’s house for the first time, it chewed a lot of dried bean dregs first, then found the sauce jar by smelling the smell, and refused to leave there. Luo used to guess what it meant, so he fed it a mouthful of soybean paste , and then the donkey lived happily in Luo's house.

Luo Yong is also not sure if donkeys can eat sauce. He heard people who raised cats and dogs say that cats and dogs can't eat salty food, so what about donkeys?

So Luo Yong didn't dare to feed more, and gave a little bit every time.Especially when the five couples ask him for some sauce every time they finish their work, Luo Yong usually won't refuse, just give him a little bit, let him have a taste.

The Luo family now has a lot of bean dregs, and the livestock love to eat them, but they only eat bean dregs, and they are afraid of their flatulence, so they still need to add some other things, such as wheat husks, fine bran, straw and wild vegetables.

When the weather gets warmer, Luo Yong plans to collect some wild vegetables from the children in the village. Now the adults in the village are very busy, and those idle labor forces must be used when they should be used.But in this case, he'd better make a few foods that children like and put them in the canteen, even if they are too expensive, he can't ignore the cost even if he wants to change some pigweed and wild vegetables, so what is the right thing to do? Woolen cloth……

Luo Sanlang swayed along the way, sitting on his donkey cart, feeling very relaxed and comfortable, the spring breeze blowing on his face seemed to be a little warmer than the previous two days.

After returning to Xipo Village and entering the entrance of the village, there was a slope from the dirt road that entered the village to his yard. Luo Yong thought that he would have to get out of the car and walk a few steps when he got here. After walking a few steps, the car was quickly pulled up the slope by it, and entered the yard in a blink of an eye.

"Ang...Ang...咴咴咴!" Entering the courtyard, the five couples stopped to take a breath, and immediately began to ask for credit.

"Five pairs, you're back! Are you hungry? Do you want to eat bean dregs?" That boy Wu Lang asked his donkey before he asked his elder brother.

"Ang Ang... 咴咴咴! 咴咴咴!" The donkey continued to bark.

"You can feed it some water first." Luo Yong said and went into his own canteen next door, scooped out half a spoonful of miso from the sauce jar, put it in a rough clay bowl, and handed it out to Wulang to feed.

That boy is very rare for his big donkey. Since he has a donkey, wheat, green beans and beans have to sit in the back row.

Luo Yong went into the house by himself to drink a glass of warm water, and then went to the backyard, looked at the tofu that was growing mold, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, he salted a batch of tofu that was almost moldy until pottery. In the jar, after a few days of marinating, you can pour wine into it.

As soon as he was busy, he was busy until it was dark, and Erniang Luo also went to the backyard to help him after she finished knitting a pair of socks.

By the time the family sat in the living room for dinner, it was already dark and the oil lamps were lit in the living room. The brothers and sisters sat around the big kang to eat. On the table were a plate of blanched bean sprouts, a plate of mixed tofu, Bowl of egg custard, rice is corn rice.

Luo Yong remembered that in the 21st century, the price of this kind of millet was quite expensive. The better ones could be sold for seven or eight yuan, and the cheaper ones could be sold for about four yuan.

The reason why it is so expensive is that the output should be relatively low, not as high as the yield per mu like rice and wheat.It’s the 21st century, and the yield per mu is still so low, let alone now, more than 1000 years ago. If the weather is good and the weather is good, a better field can produce about two to three hundred catties.

There are corn, potatoes, and many miscellaneous things in Luo Yong's space. Corn and potatoes can fill their stomachs, and those miscellaneous things can also enrich their food varieties, but now he dare not take out any of them.

As far as the things he has been doing at home recently, they are all technical and technical things. You can say that you heard them from people, you can also say that you read them from books, and you can even say that you came up with them yourself. It can be said that one day I met an old fairy while walking on the road.

But what can he say about those corn and potatoes?

This corn rice is nutritious, but it is not as soft, glutinous and sweet as rice. Luo Sanlang couldn't help but sighed as he ate it.

"Why does Sanlang always sigh, but he's tired?" Luo Erniang asked concerned.

"Nothing." Luo Yong shook his head.

"If you're tired, don't go to the ground tomorrow." Er Niang was still a little worried about Luo Yong's body, although he looked much healthier now than when he just woke up.

"I have nothing to do, let's go to the field together tomorrow." The work in the field is so heavy, how could he let Luo Erniang do it alone, and besides, he is not tired, but just suddenly feeling a little emotional. One day I will travel through... Forget it, I don’t care if I don’t want to.

"My sister came over today and said that tomorrow she and her brother-in-law will help us plow the land, and after a few days of work, we will return it to the Lin family." Erniang said again.

"Oh, sister, did you say anything?" Luo Yong replied.

"She told me not to go to the field if I have nothing to do." Er Niang said with a smile.

"Then you don't want to go, the family can't do without people, Si Niang Wu Lang is too young, those pigs have to be fed." Luo Yong said casually.

"Then if you are tired, come back and replace me." Er Niang said.

"Okay." Luo agreed with his mouth, but he didn't think so in his heart.

It's not without reason that the aunt specifically told Er Niang not to go to the ground for the next two days.

Luo Yong heard from his aunt earlier that the Lin family was showing Lin Liulang recently, and she was also afraid that the other side would fall in love with Er Niang, so she didn’t come here very often these days, just to reduce the sense of existence of herself and Er Niang, called Those at the head of the family should not think of Er Niang.

It's no wonder that Mrs. Luo looked down on her little uncle, but Lin Chunqiu is really arrogant, how can a person like that know how to love others and love himself with all his heart.She didn't want Erniang to marry him and be his mother.

Now the Luo family is different from the past. If the second mother wants to marry, she has more choices. She can choose a good-natured gentleman with good character and good family background.This can't be blamed on her being a philistine, after all, it is a major matter related to the lifelong happiness of her own sister, and now is not the time for her to be generous.

She knows all those thoughts, after all, she is still a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, no matter how precocious she is, how deep can her mind be.

The old people in the Lin family probably won't understand it, so they are afraid that they will think about Aunt Luo, after all, Lin Chunqiu is their most beloved youngest son.

Now he said that he asked Lin Wulang to come over to help him plow the land. Although he also said that it was a situation of exchanging labor, no matter who looked at it, it was the Luo family who took advantage of this matter. His family had just bought a donkey. There is no decent plow at all, but the Lin family has cattle, tools and people.

Luo Yong intends to persuade Aunt Luo not to worry about things here, but that is a big sister's disease. If you don't let her worry about it, she may not be happy, or she will feel sad, thinking that Luo Yong They are out with her.

Think about it or forget it, what to do, if something happens to her in the future, I will definitely let her take care of it.

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On the Lin family's side, the old couple were also talking about this after dinner.

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"Hmph, I really think I'm a treasure. I thought everyone was thinking about her, and I didn't even look at her family. There was no adult in the family. We don't think she beat her parents by her fate. On the contrary, she Think of us coming to our house..."

Thinking of her precious youngest son being disliked by others, the old lady of the Lin family had a stomach full of injustices to say, her son is good everywhere, there is absolutely no reason why he is not good enough for the second mother of the Luo family.

"Don't be so loud." The old man said quietly: "Isn't it just a treasure, and now there are many people who want to ask his second wife."

"I think back when my aunt came to our house..." The old lady didn't take it seriously. In her opinion, when a girl from their Luo family was able to marry into the Lin family, it was Gao Pan. Why is life better now? Take Joe.

"All right, all right, we are married to someone else's daughter-in-law, and we didn't give him rice and noodles for nothing, so there's nothing to talk about." Seeing her voice getting louder, the old man hurriedly stopped her.

"You still don't let me say it." The old lady was pretending to say at the moment: "I think when their family was in trouble, the aunt ran to her mother's house all day long, and the five acres of wheat field in his house now, right? The aunt helped plant it at the time? How can a daughter-in-law go back to her mother's house to work all day long? It is our family, if it is changed..."

The old lady talked more and more vigorously, and the more she talked, the more she felt that the Luo family was shameless, taking advantage of their family for nothing, and now they are guarding against them like thieves. How is her Liulang different from other people's Xiaolang up?

To have good looks, to have family wealth, to have so many brothers in the family, no matter whose family the girl is married to, she will only have a happy life.

"Tomorrow, I will ask Wulang to help them plow the land. I really think I have a big face, so I will help. I have to say something about changing jobs. With her small body, Saburo, what kind of job can I change?" Mrs. Lin is now His mood can no longer be described as dissatisfaction, it is simply out of anger.

"..." When it came to this matter, Mr. Lin didn't say anything. He was quite dissatisfied with this matter. At this moment, he had already started to think in his heart. Living life, you can't turn your elbows outward.

As for the fact that he called his brothers to help his daughter's family plow the land every year, he has selectively forgotten it at the moment.

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On the second day, when the Lin family had breakfast together, Mrs. Lin gave her old man a wink, asking him to say something.

Mr. Lin also wanted to say something at this time. The more he thought about the things about the Luo family last night, the more shameful he felt.

"Sister! Brother-in-law!" At this time, Luo Siniang's voice sounded in the courtyard outside.

Early this morning, Lin Wulang got up to sweep the floor. The yard was cleaned and the gate was opened.In fact, it was because he was worried that his parents would talk to him, so he acted extraordinarily fast in the past two days.

"What's the matter? It's so early in the morning." The aunt put down her chopsticks and went to the door to ask.

In her heart, she complained that Si Niang was a careless girl. She had been looking at the old couple for the past two days, but this girl was fine. She ran out to the yard and yelled so loudly when she was having dinner early in the morning.

It's not that she doesn't know that the couple are a little dissatisfied with her these days, but they are about to enter the spring farming, and Saburo's small body is really worrying. His body couldn't stand the toss again and again, it hurt the foundation, and it won't be able to recover in the future.

Let's just look at the face, at least let Chun Geng get away with it for a while, and when the summer harvest comes, I think San Lang's body will be stronger than now.

"Sister, a lot of people came to our house early this morning, and they said they would help our family to plow the land. My brother asked me to come over and tell them to come to your side to help when the few acres of land are plowed. Oh, our family's land , you and your brother-in-law don’t need to go, it’s enough with them.”

Si Niang's small voice was quite clear, and she spoke very slickly, she clarified things clearly with a few clicks.

"Who are you here so early?" The aunt could not help but smile on her face.

"It's those people who learned how to cook a kang from brother." Si Niang was about to leave after finishing speaking: "Sister, I won't tell you now, brother is cooking delicious food at home."

"Okay, then you go." The aunt smiled and waved.

In the room.

Mother Lin picked up the porridge bowl and took a sip of the porridge silently.

Father Lin: Fortunately, I didn't say anything.

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One day, Zhao Chen, Luo Yong, and the five couples met again together.

Zhao Chen saw how smoothly Luo Yong was using that stubborn donkey, and asked Luo Yong, "Hey! This is the donkey I gave you in exchange for it back then? Why is it so obedient now?"

Luo Sanlang: "Clam?" Isn't it always so obedient?

The five couples quickly said loudly: "Master, don't listen to his nonsense, I have always been a good donkey."