North and South groceries

Within a few days, a young man who went to Xiaohe Village to sell tofu came back and said that Zou Li was asking his village to arrange two women to go to the city with him on July [-]th.

Inspector Hao wanted to promote the new hemp spinning wheel technology in Shizhou. He had already distributed the finished spinning wheels to the five county magistrates under him, and then these five county magistrates would spread the technology to all townships and districts. .

Although the location of Xipo Village is a little bit off, it is still under the jurisdiction of Lishi County, so it is better to catch up with everything.

There are a total of five counties in Shizhou, namely Lishi, Pingyi, Dinghu, Linquan, and Fangshan.Among them, Lishi County and Dinghu County have a slightly larger population, while the other three counties have a slightly smaller population.

Once when Luo Yong and Zou Lizheng were discussing their experience in raising pigs, they asked him about the population of Lishi County.

"How many people does Sanlang think our county should have?" Zou Lizheng asked him with a smile.

"21?" Luo Yong reported a relatively conservative figure. If it were placed in the [-]st century, let alone a county, any town would dare to have a larger population than this.

"..." Zou Lizheng didn't speak, just shook his head with a smile.

"Thirty thousand?" Luo Yong guessed again.

"..." Zou Lizheng still shook his head.

Luo Yong was silent and said, "Ten thousand?"

"I'm afraid it may not be enough." Zou Lizheng shook his head and smiled wryly, "Your Xipo Village is very lively now, with people coming and going every day, how can it be like this elsewhere."

"The previous dynasty was tyrannical and refused to live with the people. The people had no way to survive, and the population naturally became thinner and thinner. Then, after dynasties changed, wars broke out. Since Emperor Gaozu established the Tang Dynasty, only sixteen or seventeen years have passed. The baby was born in the first year of Wude, and he is only sixteen or seventeen years old now, not to mention that there were wars during the Wude period, and there were also wars in the early years of Zhenguan, and the war was originally to be filled with human lives."

What kind of concept is a county with a population of 1.The second-rate university that Luo Yong studied in the past had 2 students, and those [-] students were scattered on such a large campus, and he didn't think there were many people.

For the first time in his lifetime, Luo Yong felt that the number [-] sounded so desolate.He also knew that the population at this time was sparse, but he didn't expect it to be so rare.

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In the next month or so, tools such as the hemp spinning wheel were vigorously promoted in their land.

This kind of spinning wheel is not a precision instrument, and it does not require skilled craftsmen to make it. Generally, as long as the villagers know how to do carpentry, they can basically tinker with a hemp spinning wheel for themselves. It's just that some people do it well, and some people don't do it well.

The Luo family’s hemp spinning wheel was placed directly outside the yard for everyone to see casually. Some villagers simply brought wooden tools and set up a stall there to do it. The side is really lively.

If there is no man in the family, or if they really don’t know how to do this, they ask the villagers to help them make one, and then send some thank you gifts to them.

With this hemp spinning wheel, the speed of spinning hemp is really much faster, but at the beginning, some people couldn't adapt to life and death, and there were those one or two years old who really couldn't learn it, so they had to give up and continue to use it. Special spinning thread.

Most of the young people learn quickly. Luo Yong looked at Er Niang and the others, and within two or three days they made it very smooth. Even Si Niang and Wu Lang could spin a few times. After sitting for a long time, Si Niang couldn't do it anymore. She would rather go up the mountain to collect firewood and go outside to hunt pigweed than do this.

"With such uncertainty, who would dare to marry in the future?" Er Niang often said something to her.

"Sister, you don't want to marry yourself, why did you tell me this?" Si Niang just ran wildly outside for a long time, and came back with a basket of pigweed, and picked some wild fruits. Cao Mozi, her hair is also messed up.

"I'm used to talking to me, go into the house and take care of it, don't see me, you'll think someone's crazy girl." Erniang said, pulling her into the house.

Luo Yong was listening to the bickering between the two sisters with a smile on his face. This fourth mother is really good-sighted. She often talks back to Erniang on weekdays. It is only when the other party is in a good mood. Waiting for the day when Erniang is really angry So, she quietly went to find a place to nest.

Recently, Tian Chonghu has changed his gender, he makes tofu and sells tofu at home with his parents all day long, and he doesn't run around the village very much, and then Luo Siniang has a faint tendency to become the leader of the children.

Luo Yong looked at the wild fruits she had picked, and they were not bad. They didn't have much fruit here. In the whole Xipo Village, except for a few persimmon trees, Luo Yong had never seen any other fruit trees.

Occasionally eating some wild fruit and adding some trace elements is also good.Luo Yong washed these wild fruits, picked one up and took a bite, it was so sour, it would be a pity to lose it, so he scooped a spoonful of brown sugar from the kitchen and put it in a rough clay bowl and brought it out to the family. These little ones ate wild fruits with brown sugar.

After a while, the auntie and the others came over, and when they saw that their brothers and sisters were eating wild fruits like this, they also laughed: "Eat a wild fruit and dip it in sugar. Look at all of you. I haven't seen you for a few days, but you've gained weight again?"

"Sister, I'm not fat, I've grown taller." Goro said hastily.

"Let me see." Lin Xingle made a gesture to compare Bi Wulang's height, and said, "It really has grown taller."

"Sister and brother-in-law, please sit here for a while today, we will cook porridge later, stay and eat together." Luo Yong said to the two of them.

On the Lin family side, apart from having a lot of land to grow, the family also has a business of making vinegar. Sometimes they are very busy when they get busy. When they get busy there, the aunt will come back less often. It is rare for the two of them to come together today. Luo Just call them to stay and have porridge together.

In order to supplement nutrition for the family, big and small, the Luo family now cooks porridge every afternoon.

Whether it is Luo Yong himself or Erniang, Siniang, Wulang and the others, they are all in the stage of growing their heads at the moment, and they are all very good at eating. They just ate at noon, and they were hungry again after a while.Recently, at two or three o'clock every afternoon, their family either cooks sweet porridge or salty porridge.

Salty porridge is generally white rice porridge boiled with meat and yams.White rice is very expensive in their place. Luo Yong bought it twice, and it was very painful. However, although it is expensive, the white rice at this time is really more nourishing.

The things in the sweet porridge are mixed, basically eight-treasure porridge, not only put such things as sorghum, red beans, millet, and red dates, but also dried longan and dried lychees that Luo Yong bought from the dry goods store in the county, as well as lotus seeds, walnuts, etc. Put a little of everything, just this, for the children of the Luo family, it is simply a top-notch delicacy.

After a while, the aunt and the second mother went to the house to spin and talk together. Si Niang and Wu Lang and the others stayed in the canteen, watching the store while completing the task of recognizing and counting that Luo Yong assigned them today.

Luo used the stove to wash rice and cook porridge, and Lin Xingle went to help light the fire.Today is sweet porridge, Lin Xingle was a little surprised when he saw the southern dried fruits that Luo Yong took out from the urn: "You guys are too willing to eat it."

"Brother-in-law, don't go out and say, if you don't know, you still think there is some gold and silver in my family." Luo Yong said with a smile.He also knew that Lin Xingle was an honest person, and would not have any bad intentions, but he was afraid that he would be careless and tell others about it as something new.

"If you won't let me speak, I will naturally not speak." Lin Xingle agreed.

Even though he didn't say anything, it couldn't stop the fragrance of porridge from wafting out of the yard. At this time, the villagers passing by Luo's yard swallowed hard. I have never smelled such a strong sweet fragrance.

The same is true for Lin Xingle, who is burning in the kitchen. Although his family has some money and food, he lives frugally. He has never spent money extravagantly, like those longan and lotus seeds. I've seen it several times in dry goods stores, but Lin's father and Lin's mother would never buy it.

While eating porridge, Luo Yong saw a child poking his head outside, so he beckoned him to come in.

The child's surname is Feng, and his nickname is Gou'er. Besides him, there is only one grandma left in the family, but his grandma is a little crazy, good and bad.

"Eat as you please, don't go out and talk about it." Luo Yong made him a bowl of hot porridge.

"Hmm." The child didn't mind burning his mouth, so he put his head down and drank it.

"If you go out and talk about it, they will rob you someday." Siniang added.What she said was on point, Feng Gou'er was not afraid of anything else, but was afraid that other children in the village would rob him of food.

"Yeah!" Feng Gouer nodded sharply.

"Eat slowly, don't choke."

Seeing the child swallowing the hot porridge, Luo Yong remembered what Zou Lizheng said to him back then. There are only 1 people in this entire county, and every seedling is extremely precious, but there are so many children. I can't even fill my stomach every day, living a precarious life, and I don't know if I will grow up one day.

This Feng Gou'er looks a little silly, he doesn't know what he will look like when he grows up, some children are late to enlightenment, and they are dull when they are young, so it is not known if they will be able to make a big difference when they grow up.

Luo Yong didn't think that this boy could repay him a favor in the future. After all, his family had food and drink now, so he couldn't just watch the children in the village starve to death.

The child's body is obviously a little weak, so I don't know if such a bowl of sweet porridge can benefit a little.