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After the wave of promotion of hemp spinning wheels, Luo Yong began to prepare some manual work of knitting woolen socks in the village, and the main distribution targets were the unmarried teenage girls in the village.

These unmarried girls are now in an embarrassing situation in Xipo Village, because the villagers are worried that the technology of making tofu will be spread to other villages, so they are unwilling to let the unmarried girls know the method of making tofu. Gradually, this has become the tacit rule of every household.

Even those who love their daughters dare not offend the interests of the whole village on this matter. Every time they make tofu, they have to send their daughters away.

In contrast, there are many people in the surrounding villages who want to marry their daughters to Xipo Village. Not only will they be able to eat and drink enough to live a good life, but they may also help their natal family.

At this time, women still had no status, let alone in the homes of ordinary people, even those of the gentry, many daughters would be married off in exchange for benefits.

Speaking of it, the current legal system does not support women's independence. First, no matter whether a woman or a man, they must get married when they reach a certain age, otherwise they will be fined. Land property, men can be allocated land property after they become adults, but women do not.

In the early years when the Western Jin Dynasty implemented the land occupation system, women actually owned land. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty implemented the land equalization system, women still owned land. Even in the previous Sui Dynasty, women also owned land.

In the Tang Dynasty, ordinary women could not be allocated land, but at that time women still had certain inheritance rights, and widows could also be allocated land. Therefore, there were many female households in society, including female households, some old, weak, disabled, and monks and nuns. Qu, etc., because they were exempted from rent and mediocrity, they were called non-class households.

There are women households in Xipo Village, like Feng Gouer’s family, they are women households. There is also an old woman who lives with two daughters-in-law and several grandchildren. Their family is also a woman household.

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There are not many girls in their teens in the village. If the second mother is not counted, there are only eight of them, plus an eight-year-old Yin Lan, there are only nine in total.

These nine people have learned spinning from Luo Erniang recently. They were all used to twisting twine at home in the past. Most of them have also learned the kind of hemp spinning wheel promoted in the county recently. Now it is called They spun woolen yarn, and these little girls were very quick at it. After all, spinning woolen yarn was much easier than twine, and the cashmere fibers were soft and even, and they didn't like to be knotted.

This time, Siniang also spun yarn with these little girls in the village. In two days, Erniang would teach them to knit woolen socks. Siniang had also come into contact with woolen socks before. After she figured out what was going on, she started No more interest.

This time, there was no way to avoid it, not only did Erniang talk, but even the aunt told her, and the girl of the fourth mother was still more afraid of the aunt, and did not dare to talk back to her casually.

"Sanlang, are you going to go to the field again today?" This morning, Luo Yong had just walked out of the yard with a hoe, when he was teased by several villagers who were about to leave the village.

"I'm going to weed." Luo Yong said with a smile.In fact, his family only has a few acres of land and so many disciples. One person can pull out two handfuls of weeds, and what kind of weeds can weed.He did this to avoid suspicion. There are so many young ladies in the yard, so what's the matter with him laying there all day long.

"As long as you hide frequently, are you still afraid that someone will depend on you?" The villagers joked.

"What's the matter." Luo Yong smiled, and didn't pick up their words. He was not afraid of anything as a man, but he just made fun of the little girls in the yard. He always felt a little disrespectful, after all, the reputation of girls It still matters.

"Where are you going?" Luo Yong changed the subject.

"We're going to Da'ao to see the lambs, Sanlang, do you want lambs?" asked the villager.

"I don't want it anymore." Luo waved his hand.

"If you want, we'll bring some of them back for you, anyway." The villager said kindly.

"It's enough for my family to have these pigs, and I don't plan to raise sheep." Raising sheep also requires manpower. There are only a few dolls in his family, so how can he do such a lot of work.

The villagers saw that he insisted and didn't seem to be polite to them, so they didn't say any more.

It takes three or four hours to walk from Xipo Village to Da’ao Village. There is an entire mountain meadow in Da’ao Village. Most of the villagers raise goats, which are much more than theirs here. The price of lambs there is higher than other people’s. The village is a little lower, but the place is too remote. There are many mountain roads along the way. If it is not for a few people, I would not dare to go, for fear of encountering wild animals on the road.

Now the villagers in Xipo Village have also heard that Luo Yong’s cashmere socks are very valuable. Although they also know that cashmere is rare, many people still think about it and plan to raise a few more sheep. They are specially slaughtered in winter and spring. In this way, every time a sheep is slaughtered, they can get a share of cashmere.

There are also those who are thinking about the elderly and children in their hearts, so they plan to save some cashmere and weave them into socks and other things like Luo Erniang and the others to keep warm in winter.

It's almost the autumn harvest time. After the autumn harvest, winter is coming again. Those who are so impatient have already started to prepare for the winter.

The girls in Xipo Village have settled their jobs this winter. They only need to sit on the kang and knit sweaters and wool socks to earn money back. Feeling sad about being excluded.

They are also very serious about learning. Every time Luo Yong goes back, he can see balls of spun wool in the basket, and there are some handy ones. After just two days of learning, he can already use Er Niang's help. It's time to knit socks.

Occasionally, Luo Yong went back early, and would meet girls who hadn't come home yet. Many girls would blush and look shy when they saw Luo Yong.

"Brother, don't ask them to coax you. They don't look like this in normal times. That Tian Sanniang caught a snake on the slope a few days ago, and it's as thick as my arm." Those girls in the village In front of her elder brothers, Niang was good at pretending one by one, and Si Niang was very worried that her elder brother would be cheated, and finally marry a tigress and come back.

"It's not as thick as your arm, at most it's as thick as Liu Lang's arm." Goro corrected from the side.

"How did she catch it?" Luo Yong asked curiously.

"She was cutting pigweed on the slope, and when she saw the snake coming down from the tree, she ran to chop it with a scythe," Siniang said.

"..." Luo Yong recalled the quiet little daughter of the village Zheng's family, and felt a little bit wrong.

"And Yin Lan's cousin, she is amazing at climbing trees. Except for swallow's nests, she dares to dig out any other bird's nests. In the past two years, his mother said that she was about to get married, so she was not asked to climb trees. , there are more birds around our village." Si Niang continued to reveal the news with a little exaggeration, and that Yin Lan's cousin sounded a bit tough.

"Yeah!" Goro added from the side: "With her in the past, the children in the village couldn't dig out bird eggs. In the past two years, she stopped climbing trees, and everyone can dig out bird eggs again."

"Her aunt also made her a very narrow skirt, and told her to walk in small steps like the little ladies in the city." Si Niang gloated. It seems that Aunt Yin has monopolized the eggs in the village for many years. It really pulled a lot of hatred for myself.

"Brother, do all the little ladies in the city walk like that?" Wu Lang asked Luo Yongdao.

"I don't know." Anyway, the little ladies in Lishi County must not walk like that, and they can run fast. As for the big cities, Luo Yong is not very clear.

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Chang'an City, the outskirts of the city.

On a piece of open and flat land, a group of young ladies dressed in Hu suits and leather boots were playing polo on a Yanerfei.

A few days ago, Ma's Trading Company brought a batch of strange-looking two-wheeled vehicles from the north. They said they were called Yan'erfei. There was a black swallow carved on the handlebar. small print.

People in Chang'an don't know the origin of this Heng's car manufacturing company, but many people are very new to this Yan Erfei, especially after Ma Jiulang of Ma's company rode this kind of car around the city, many The young people who love novelty are scrambling to buy his family's car. Many of them didn't buy it, so they hired craftsmen to make one by themselves.

Not long after, there was a polo game where Yan Erfei replaced horses and played polo again. This group of young ladies came out from the city to play. The roads in Chang'an City are spacious and flat, and riding Yan Erfei to come out of the city is nothing. how often.

These little ladies are not proficient at playing. From time to time, some people fall off the car, but they are all agile, rolling on the ground, avoiding the cars next to them, turning over and getting up, riding on the car and continuing to play. , I only heard the yelling and shouting, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time, and there were cars colliding with each other from time to time, and there were those who were bold enough to sit on their own car and stretch out their hands to pull other people's cars.

Guo An and the others happened to come all the way from Hedong Road at this moment, and before they entered Chang'an City, they met this group of young ladies playing Yanerfei, so a few gentlemen of the gentry said they couldn't leave, and they wanted to read this One more game.

Just when these people were having fun and watching excitedly, the weather was not good, a few small winds blew, and then sporadic raindrops began to fall.

"Oops! It's raining!"

"Come on!"

Everyone knows that Yan'erfei is made of wood and bamboo, and the wheel pads are made of linen, and a layer of sheepskin is stretched on the outside.Regardless of whether it is wood, sheepskin or linen, they can't stand the rain.

Seeing that it was raining, those little ladies immediately got out of the car without even thinking about it, carried their respective Yan'er on their shoulders, and ran towards the gate of the city.

"Hahaha!" These gentry men not only didn't react in any surprise, they even yelled loudly for them: "Run faster, don't ask Yan Erfei to water the rain."