North and South groceries

Compared with other villages in this era, Xipo Village in Lishi County can be considered a very lively village, but compared with Chang'an City where Luo Yong and the others are currently located, it is still as quiet as another world.

At the end of September this year, the weather in Lishi County had started to get cold, but fortunately, the snow had not yet fallen, and the road was still convenient.

On this day, some Dinghu people came to Xipo Village and sent a two-foot-high jar to the Lin family's yard. The jar was covered with mud and looked like a wine jar.

"Is this sent by my aunt and us?" Mother Lin looked around the jar for a long time, but she didn't realize that there was anything unusual about this item. It was time for Aunt Luo to ask the Dingda courier to deliver it to them.

"Exactly." The two Dinghu people took a few sips of warm water from the rough pottery bowl handed over by the Lin family child, and said to them with a smile:

"The stuff here is rare and expensive. Just this jar costs at least dozens of pieces." This is not counting the shipping fee that Aunt Luo ordered for them.

"It's so expensive!" Hearing the price, everyone in the yard was surprised. Lin's father and Lin's mother were very distressed about money: "It's such a rare thing, is it worth spending so much money to buy it?"

"After you've eaten it, you'll know if it's worth it or not." The two Dinghu people didn't stay any longer, they left the Lin's house and went to the sheep house to do some shopping.

There are many good things here in Xipo Village. Buy some bean zhe miso sauce and so on from here, and take them to Dinghu County. The market is not worrying, and you can earn a fortune as soon as you change hands.

The brothers in Taiyuan, Xicheng also asked them to buy goods from here, and they planned to do a few other groceries in addition to running the express store. Much lower, but they mainly engage in wholesale, not retail.

"Is this bean zhe newly made in the past two days?" As soon as the two arrived at the sheep house, they entered Liu Huo's shop selling bean zhe.

"The new rice and beans just harvested a few days ago are also new beans this year. The beans made this time are delicious." The young people have gone to work, and only old man Liu and his little granddaughter are left in the shop. watching.

"How many goods can you have now? We both want more." A Dinghu man said with a smile.

"Originally there were about 100 catties, but more than [-] catties were bought early this morning, and now there are less than [-] catties left." The old man said.

"I want them all." A Dinghu man said, "Before the fifth day of next month, you will send another five hundred catties of beans to Qinji Soup and Cake Shop."

"Hey, good."

"How much do you think the total is?"

"Let me see……"

"..."

After buying the bean bag, the two Dinghu people drove the cart of Nu Ma to the next shop.

"Before the fifth day of next month, five hundred catties of beans will be sold and sent to Qinji Soup and Cake Shop, ma'am, can you remember?" Old man Liu asked his granddaughter.

"Remember it." The little girl handed a piece of hemp paper in her hand to Ah Weng to read.

"What are you doing for me? I can't understand." The old man waved his hand, and said again: "Ma'am, just watch in the shop. If someone comes to buy something, go back and call, and I'll go get you Ye Niang." handle."

"Ah Weng, I'll go, I'll help, you look at the shop." The little girl stood up and said.

"What are you going to do? Can you make bean folds or grind mills? Stay here and write the words you have learned in the past two days a few more times. You are the only one in our family who can read. Write the calculations, but I count on you."

The Xu family has earned some money in the past two years, and they have many children. At the beginning of the year, the Xu family brothers found an out-of-town gentleman from the county and asked him to teach their children how to read. By the way, the children in and outside the village followed suit. study.

That gentleman came from Guannei Road, he spoke with a strong accent, and he didn't read many books, but it is still possible to teach these children to read and write.

On the side of the Lin family, ever since the two Dinghu people left, Mother Lin has been talking about how she loves money.

"...With those tens of dollars, how good it is to buy land, to buy all kinds of things..."

"It may not be bought, I think it's probably taken from Luo Sanlang." Lin Dalang said at this time.

"Why do you take this at home if you have nothing to do?" Mother Lin sighed, still feeling sorry for Qian.

"What did those two people say just now is what's in this jar?" Father Lin asked his sons.

"Lychee." That kid Lin Rong rushed to say.

"What are the lychees? Dalang, have you ever heard of them?" Old man Lin lived most of his life, but he had never heard of lychees.

"I've never heard of it, so why don't you open it up and have a look." Lin Dalang said.

"Is it going to open now?" Mother Lin objected.This is not a year or a festival, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars, so you just eat it like this?

"It's such a long way from Chang'an City, I don't know if the things in there are still good, don't let them go again, in case they get damaged again." Lin Chunqiu said at this time.

"I think it's all good." Mother Lin was still reluctant.

"Liulang is right, don't let it go, let's go." Lin's father made a decision.

After the old man said that, Mother Lin no longer objected. The young people in the family were very happy, one of them took a small hammer with a small hammer, one with a knife took a knife, and opened the canned lychee in a few strokes up.

Smelling the scent of lychees that filled the room, all the young and old in the Lin family were so greedy that they swallowed their mouths. Without waiting for the old man's orders, the daughters-in-law went to the kitchen to fetch spoons and earthenware bowls.

Lin Dalang was in charge of distributing the canned food. He first brought up two bowls of canned lychees from the jar, and asked his two older sons to bring them to Weng Po, and then made four more bowls and distributed them to his three sons. And the only daughter of Lin Erlang and his wife.

For the next bowl, Lin Dalang originally wanted to call his wife. The so-called elder sister-in-law is like a mother, and it was his turn. However, Lin Chunqiu was so greedy at this time that he couldn't wait for Lin Dalang to hand over the bowl of canned food in his hand. When he went out, he went up and took it by himself. Lin Dalang felt a little displeased, but for the sake of today's jar, he didn't say anything.

Thirteen members of the Lin family, young and old, were each given a bowl of canned lychees, and they all ate very carefully, savoring and swallowing in small bites.

Lin Chunqiu ate the fastest. After finishing the bowl in his hand, he took the empty bowl to the side of the canning jar and stretched out his hand to make another bowl. At that time, Lin Erlang was sitting next to him. In the past, he was slapped away with a slap.

"Look, Ma'am!" Lin Chunqiu yelled.

"Erlang, what are you doing?" Mother Lin blamed.

"Why don't you ask him why?" Lin Erlang replied.

"Don't be arguing anymore, eat a canned food, why are you arguing again." Old man Lin called Lin Chunqiu over, and handed him the half bowl of canned lychees in his hand: "Eat it, eat it, don't worry about it." It's going to be noisy."

That shameless Lin Chunqiu actually reached out to take it and ate it.

The two rooms of Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang didn't get angry when they saw this scene, but seeing the children in the hall eating happily, they didn't want to make a fuss. It doesn't sound good to go out.

"You've heard that Mrs. Luo sent a can of food back from Chang'an City, and the brothers from the Lin family started fighting after eating it." Who could afford to lose face like this.

The remaining half of the jars of canned food were put in the cellar by them. After that, after dinner every evening, old man Lin asked Lin Dalang and the others to go to the cellar to fetch some canned lychees. Each of them got a small bowl and ate it with relish. up.

This canned food was thirty catties, and the thirteen members of their family had to eat it for seven or eight days before they finally finished it.

"You said this canned lychee, why is it so delicious?" Lin's mother said to Lin's father when he was sleeping that night.

"Why, don't you feel bad about money now?" Father Lin asked her.

"Why don't you feel bad about it? If you ask me to spend so much money to buy it, I will never be willing." Not only Lin's mother is not willing, but most people are also reluctant.

"Expensive is really expensive, and eating is really delicious."

"Wu Lang's daughter-in-law is also determined. If she changes the others, she will definitely not be able to do what she does."

"I heard from Wulang that although she hired some women to help her in Chang'an, she still has to work. She has to get up before dawn every day, and sometimes she has to catch goods at night."

"Hey, young people can't patronize work and not take care of their bodies."

"Her stomach just doesn't move."

"A few days ago I talked about this with Liu Lang's wife, and she used Wu Lang's wife to prevaricate me. If she could be half as good as her, I wouldn't say anything, and pointed at her to give me a few grandchildren. What about my son, what else can I expect from her?"

"Erlang also only has one daughter, alas, there is no need to worry about the boss."

"The grain in the field has also been harvested, why don't you let Wulang go to Chang'an earlier?"

"Hey... such a long road, this back and forth..."

During breakfast the next day, Lin's father and Lin's mother brought up the matter of sending Wulang to Chang'an City, and told him not to come back after the Chinese New Year because of the long journey, but to come back next year during the spring plowing.

Hearing what Ye Niang said, Lin Wulang happily agreed while holding the rice in his mouth.

"Aye, I'm going to Chang'an City too." At this moment, Lin Chunqiu said suddenly.

"What are you going to do?" This time, Lin Wulang asked Father Lin before he could speak, with obvious displeasure on his face.

"I also want to visit Chang'an City." Lin Chunqiu didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said.

"Your sister-in-law has worked very hard doing business over there. Don't make trouble with her again." Lin Wulang said with a straight face.

That day, Lin's mother and Liu Lang's daughter-in-law talked about the inheritance of the family, but Liu Lang's daughter-in-law talked about Mrs. Luo, and Lin Wulang just happened to listen to those words.

Think about it again when the aunt was at home, the two couples didn't take her sister-in-law seriously.

The last time Lin Wulang came back from Chang'an City, Aunt Luo asked her to bring some fabrics for Ye Niang and a few sister-in-laws. As a result, the couple took what they should have and ate what they should eat, but they didn't think about Luo in their hearts. Madam's good.

Lin Wulang grew up in this family, there is nothing Ye Niang can do if he is partial to her, he and Lin Chunqiu are blood brothers, so there is no need to care about everything like that, but he feels very displeased with how these two treat Aunt Luo , let alone let them go to Chang'an City to cause trouble for Aunt Luo.

"Why did I make trouble for her! She is my sister-in-law, she has done such a big business in Chang'an City, I just went to see..." Lin Chunqiu shook his chopsticks and yelled loudly at the dinner table.

"..." Lin Goro pursed his lips and looked at him.This brother of his is always good at nonsense, talking about one set of fallacies, and he can bear it when he was a child, but it gets more and more annoying when he grows up.

"Scream at me! Eat! If you don't want to eat, go to the yard and grind the beans, and grind all the beans soaked yesterday."

"!"

It was the first time that Lin Chunqiu was scolded by his father in such a big way, he didn't eat any food, and ran out of his yard directly, let alone grinding beans.

He only thought that his own mother valued Wulang's daughter-in-law's ability, and now she began to favor Wulang, but he didn't know that old man Lin was thinking of him.

With Lin Chunqiu's temperament, what good can he get if he goes to Chang'an City, he really thinks that Luo Sanlang is a good-natured person.

Back then, when he was a child of thirteen or fourteen, he watched the adults in his village clean up Tian Sheng and his wife, but he didn't even blink his eyes.

Lin Chunqiu and Mrs. Luo didn't get along well. When Luo Yong was in Xipo Village, he could bear it. It was because of their old couple's face. That kid Lin Chunqiu didn't know the heights of heaven and earth, and wanted to go to Chang'an City. Isn't that delivering food to him?

Old man Lin sighed, and told Lin Dalang and the others to keep a close eye on Lin Chunqiu these days and not tell him to run away.

According to Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang, he really wished that he would run out quickly, and it would be best to stay in Chang'an City after going out, and never come back.

But if Lin Chunqiu really went to Chang'an, what would Luo Sanlang think then?I heard that they now have a big shop in Chang'an City, and they can earn a lot of money every day, and Luo Sanlang is a serious court official, and he can see the emperor once in a while.

How can they calculate and offend Luo Yong now?

On the fifth day of October, Goro drove a donkey cart with wheat, green beans, and the black Apu, a total of four people, one donkey and two dogs, and went to Chang'an City together with Dingda Express's cargo team. .