North and South groceries

After helping Luo Yong to plow the fields and repair the pigsty, Xu Erlang and others went home.

At that time, when I returned from Taiyuan City, I didn't rest much after I got home, so I went straight to Xipo Village. At this time, I should go back and reunite with my family.

Only this time when I returned home, my mental outlook was much better than when I returned from Taiyuan City.

Although Luo Yong is also working here these days, he eats enough and sleeps soundly. With the ingredients they took before, plus the rich food experience that Luo Yong brought from the 21st century, these days Luo Yong The food at home is indeed quite good.

After two days of rest, these people started to move again, and there were some ready-made jobs before them.

Now all the villages are busy with spring plowing, and farmers don’t have much time to go to the city, so they can carry some groceries from the city to the countryside to sell, as well as tofu, fermented bean curd, soy sauce, miso, etc. from Xipo Village , are also very marketable.

Whenever these people came to Xipo Village, they would inevitably go to Luo's house to have a look. If they saw any heavy work, they would do it right away.

If there is really no work, then chop a few pieces of firewood, or go to the pigsty to see if the straw in there should be replaced. How can a clean scholar like their master let him do it? Those filth, but they don't think that their master is a fierce man who has even passed a pig.

With these people coming and going frequently, Luo Yong really felt a lot easier.

It's just that since he has the title of master, has received the ceremony of master, and enjoys the many conveniences brought to him by these disciples, it is not easy to ask them to pay for themselves to live in other people's homes in the village. They lived in the backyard, and after thinking about it, it was a little inconvenient, so they discussed with the village official, saying that they wanted to build another small courtyard on the barren slope next to their own yard, and give his disciples a resting place. .

The village chief is also the head of the village, but this position actually has no real power these days. Generally, it is the owner and the west. If there is any serious matter, you have to go to Li Zheng. In Xipo Village.

However, as far as building a small courtyard is concerned, there is basically no need to find Lizheng. As long as the villagers in the village have no objections, it will be built if it is built. These days, the land is sparsely populated, and there is wasteland everywhere. There are not even two people in the village near the entrance of the village. Even if Luo Sanlang didn't mention this matter, ordinary people can't have an opinion.

When Luo used the past, the village Zheng’s family was washing beans and preparing tofu. Hearing him mention this matter, he immediately agreed. He just told him that the yard should not be too large, nor could it be used for other livelihoods. , all in all, let him act in a low-key manner.Luo Yong naturally agreed.

The villager’s surname in Xipo Village is Tian, ​​and the surname Tian is considered a common surname in this small village. There is a faint tendency to form a group. Earlier, when Luo Yong asked people to work at home and promised to teach them how to make tofu, many people with the surname Tian No one came, not even Muramasa's family.

This time after the year, they all came over, and it was his eldest son who came to Muramasa's house.He studied a month or two later than others, and naturally earned a lot less money and food. Many people in the village now make jokes about these people surnamed Tian behind their backs.

Today, Luo used to talk to the village official about repairing the house, but the other party didn't behave abnormally. It's unknown if there is any careful thought behind the scenes.

Compared with the Lin family, Luo Yong was a little more wary of the Cunzheng family. After all, the Lin family was in-laws, and Luo Yong was familiar with their ways of doing things. The Cunzheng family was a little different, and he needed to be more careful in the future.

"Hey, Saburo Saburo." When Luo Yong passed by the front yard of a certain family in the village, he was stopped by someone.

"Why?" Luo Sanlang stopped and asked the family behind the fence with a smile.

"Sanlang, you can take two yuan back to eat the hot tofu just out of the pan." The young woman in the courtyard said enthusiastically.

"Okay, I'll ask Si Niang to bring you beans later." Luo Yong didn't take their tofu for nothing.

"I want more beans." The host in the yard said quickly.

"It's just one or two pieces of tofu, Sanlang, just take it and eat it." The woman said the same.

"Aniang, I don't want beans, I want to eat cakes." At this moment, a little bean in his family tugged at the corner of his aunt's skirt to express his opinion.

"What kind of cake to eat?" His mother slapped him back.

"Tofu for cake, you can do a good business." Two peddlers in the yard who were waiting to buy tofu said with a smile.

"Hey, I'm so greedy, I'm laughing at you." The host quickly filled a basket with tofu.

"At such a young age, he can speak clearly." Luo Yong boasted.

"I don't know anything else, I always tell me to eat and eat." The mother also smiled.

Luo Yong went far away with a bowl of tofu, and heard the little doll yelling at his mother for cakes...

When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, he met some villagers who were carrying hoes and burdens, and they told Luo Yong, "I heard that those in the county who have learned skills from you now call you masters and apprentices. I also learned the craft of making tofu from you, from now on...

Luo Yong didn't wait for them to finish, he interrupted quickly: "Don't do those empty rituals, if you really ask someone to put incense on me and confess me, how will you walk around in the village in the future?"

The villagers all laughed, and said that if there is anything useful in the future, let Luo Yong speak up, and don't be polite to them.

Separated from this pedestrian, Luo Yong couldn't help but reached out and rubbed the muscles on his face.

He was withdrawn in his previous life, and he usually didn't smile unless it was necessary. His whole body exuded the aura of not having anything to say to me, so his popularity was not very good.

Later, when he became a shopkeeper, he often drove alone on the mountain roads for hours and hours. In such a quiet world, he only felt at ease, and these words, loneliness, have always been Nothing to do with him.

After coming here, he took advantage of this young body. No matter how you look at it, he is a clean boy. When he smiles, it is easy to give people a sense of intimacy. When he is not smiling, he must be a quiet boy.

Luo Yong couldn't help thinking about what he looked like when he was a teenager in his last life. He was fourteen or fifteen years old, and it was the time when he was rebellious in the second year of middle school. In addition, the atmosphere at that time was relatively free and open. During the rebellious period, everyone are also more understandable.

Luo Yong remembered that once, he was angry in the room alone on the weekend, and he kicked the wall with his foot when he got angry, but he kicked a hole in the wall after a few kicks, because their old house was really old. , plus that wall is not a load bearing wall either.

Grandma Luo didn't say anything, but this incident made him stand out in front of the neighbors at that time. They all said that Luo Yong was crazy and told his son to stay away from him.

Fortunately, this happened in the 21st century. If it happened in the [-]th century, then Luo Yong would never be able to live in that small place in the future.

Thinking of these things, Luo Yong couldn't help but think of Qiao Dalang again. He wondered how that kid is doing now, whether he has arrived in Chang'an City, and whether he can adapt to life in Chang'an City.

For Qiao Junlin, the matter of Qiao's family will inevitably become a shadow on his growth path, until one day his heart is strong enough to penetrate the haze, no longer confused, angry and restless, learn to With the attitude of an adult, calmly face the world in front of you, as well as your own heart.

Just like Luo Yong back then, he walked out of the world of his childhood step by step.

Back in his yard, he looked up and saw Goro squatting at the base of the wall feeding the donkey, with a basket of dried bean dregs beside him.

Seeing this scene, Luo Yong couldn't help laughing: "Don't tell it to eat so much bean dregs, be careful of flatulence."

"Ang...Ang...咴咴咴!" When the five couples saw Luo Yong coming back, they rushed over to beg for miso.

"Good boy." Luo patted its big hairy head with his hand, but didn't give miso, and went straight to the kitchen with the bowl of tofu.

"Ang...Ang..." The donkey followed closely behind.

"Wulang, send two liters of beans to Shuang'er's house." Luo Yong didn't want the donkey to enter the kitchen, so he stretched out his hand to push it twice, but it didn't push, so he ignored it, anyway, it wasn't the first time. Fortunately, the donkey didn't pull around in the house.

"Oh." Goro ran to the commissary to measure two liters of beans, walked out of the yard with short legs.

When Mai Qingdouli saw that he was going out, Wang Wang followed. The two puppies were raised by Luo for two or three months, and they have grown up a lot now. They are not as round as before. It's grown a bit, but it's still the same hairy look.

"Come back, take the bowl." Luo Yong shouted hastily.

When Goro heard the sound, he immediately turned back, took the pottery bowl and ran out. The two puppies followed him in and out, their tails flicking like fans, and they didn't know what they were excited about.

Shuang'er is the child who just begged for cakes from his mother. His mother finally got such a precious son after giving birth to three daughters in succession. Normally, the villagers often heard his mother scolding him loudly, but It's all thunder and rain, and that kid is not afraid at all.

Shuang'er Yeniang obviously wanted to have another son, so she gave him such a nickname.

In the afternoon, Xu Erlang and his brothers came to Luo's yard to get fermented bean curd. Luo Yong told them about a piece of land he had begged from Village Zheng to repair the house.

The three brothers are very happy. They often come to Xipo Village to buy goods. Sometimes they sell goods outside for a day and come here late at night. Adding up the three brothers will cost a few copper coins, and two or three copper coins are half a bucket of rice. For people who are hungry, this is like cutting their flesh.

So the three brothers began to throw mud bricks this afternoon. They planned to build a house to live in first, and when they had free time in the future, they would build a few more next to that house.

In the evening, a few more came one after another. Seeing the brothers of the Xu family throwing mud on the slope, they went to ask them what they were doing, but the master's family wanted to repair the pig house again?After some questioning, they found out that Luo Yong had obtained a piece of land for them, and told them to build a few houses here, and they could spend the night here when they came to Xipo Village later.

He was overjoyed at the moment, put down the burden, rolled up his sleeves and fell into the mud with the three of them.When other hawkers passed by, they heard about this, and they were all very envious.

In fact, Luo Yong also had his own intentions for doing this.

Since these people call him Master, they also treat him with the respect of a teacher, and they think they respect him more in their hearts. He wants to build a small courtyard for them in a piece of land next to his own courtyard, and his disciples will come in and out in the future. , this small courtyard would not be too deserted.

This yard is also very close to the Luo family's yard. If something happens in the future, if Luo Yong shouts at his own house, people will be able to pass by here. In fact, this is a group of free part-time bodyguards, who are on a rotating basis.

Time passed day by day, and the yard was completed day by day. The weather became warmer and it stopped freezing at night, so Luo Yong asked five pairs to pull a cart of fertilizer and water to fertilize and water the wheat fields.

With this donkey, it is really more convenient. If he is asked to carry it on his shoulders, he does not know how tiring he will be.

Seeing that the delivery date agreed with Guo An is approaching.

On this day, Luo Yong checked the quality of the batch of fermented bean curd he had recently made in the backyard. The quantity agreed with Guo An was 550 cans. In fact, he made far more than that. Except for Guo An, he I also want to sell here.

In addition, soy sauce and miso have been made all the time, and the experience will be accumulated bit by bit after batches of production. Presumably, the quality of soy sauce and miso produced in the future should be better.

"Sanlang, someone is looking for you outside." Erniang walked over quickly at this time and whispered to Luo Yong.

"Who is it?" Normally, if someone was looking for them, they would just yell out loudly and finish. Why are they so solemn this time?

"I don't know, it's the gentleman from Chang'an." Erniang said.

"Let me take a look." Luo Yong said, reaching out to reseal the jar he had just opened.

"You go, I'll clean up here." Erniang urged.Obviously, he was afraid of neglecting the distinguished guests.

"Okay." Luo used this to go to the front yard.

When Luo Sanlang walked to the front yard, he happened to see a young gentleman getting off the carriage. The man had a clear face and a tall and straight figure. He was wearing a dark brown suit and stepped on a pair of wooden clogs. There was a rattling sound.

This is the legendary son of the gentry, right?Luo thought about it.Although the Guo An I met earlier was considered to be from a noble family, but he still has to wear such a set of clothes to look more aristocratic.

"Your Excellency is Luo Sanlang?" The tone and demeanor of this man when he spoke, all revealed a sense of leisure and ease, but the clothes were very tall and elegant, and the combination of the two fit them very well.

"Exactly, what is your Excellency?" Luo Yong asked.

"I'm Jingzhao Du, my name is Xi, and I'm seven." The other party said with a smile.

"It turned out to be Du Qilang's visit. I don't have anything to entertain a poor family. Why don't you go in and drink a bowl of hot water." Luo Yong led Du Xi into the living room.

That Du Xi was also cheerful, so he went into the room with Luo Yong, sat on the kang and drank a few sips of hot water.

He had already seen this kang last night in Lishi County, and the people in the county all said that this thing was created by Luo Sanlang, and they only need to light a small fire in the small stove at the top of the kang, and they can spend the winter safely without fear of the severe cold.

But now that it's spring, Du Qilang is more interested in the cashmere socks and fermented bean curd. Needless to say, fermented bean curd, cashmere socks are still easy to wear at this time, and the temperature in spring is still a bit low.

When Luo Yong heard him ask about cashmere socks, he guessed that the other party must have seen Qiao Junlin.After these socks were woven by his family, he hadn't sold a pair yet, but he gave several pairs as gifts, including Qiao Junlin, Mrs. Luo, and the gentlemen from the county school who had taught him before.The others have not traveled far in the local area recently, and only Qiao Junlin went to Chang'an.

Luo Yong looked at the color of the other party's clothes, got up and found a pair of medium-thick cashmere socks of the same color from the closet next to him.

Du Qilang did not avoid suspicion, and took off the pair of socks on his feet in front of Luo Yong, and put on the pair that Luo Yong handed him. After wearing it, it was really soft and warm, and he was excited. , Wearing socks, I went to try on the clogs on the ground.

"I forgot about these clogs. If you want to wear clogs, you need to change these socks. You need to separate your thumbs." Luo Yong looked at the other party's pair of clogs, which are similar to those of later generations. Flip-flops are similar, and it is not easy to wear flip-flops with fingerless socks.

"It's nothing, just squeeze." Du Qilang said, squeezed with hands and feet, and he squeezed in.

The author has something to say:

Luo Sanlang: Brother, your aristocratic style has fallen to the ground.

Du Qilang: It's okay, you can pick this up.