North and South groceries

Although Mrs. Lin is still a little embarrassed, she really wants to do this job to earn money.

In the end, after much deliberation, even if it is not for her own sake, it should be for the sake of her two sons. The Luo family is becoming more and more promising now. What is the Lin family doing? They are sticking to a jealous recipe .

Luo Sanlang is still in the filial piety now, and when he is out of the filial piety period, he is not sure what kind of great achievements he will be able to achieve. People who can be rewarded by the Holy Spirit at the age of 16, through the ages, I am afraid that there are not many people who can count on their fingers.

After figuring out these things, the face seemed to be less irresistible. On this day, Mrs. Lin pulled Mrs. Luo to talk, saying:

"Sister-in-law, I'm just a stupid person. I lived to be a few dozen years older, and my mind is still a mess. I can't make out one, two, three. Auntie, it was my sister-in-law who was wrong in the past. You don't have to be serious with your sister-in-law. "

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong, why do you say such serious things, but what's the matter?" The aunt asked quickly.But he didn't mention whether it was serious or not, he just asked her what's the matter.

Only she knows the feeling of being squeezed out by others, so how could it be possible for her to easily wipe it away with just a few words.

"Hi, it's okay." Mrs. Lin hesitated.

"Sister-in-law, if you have anything to do, just tell me." Regarding Lin Dalang, sister-in-law Lin went to Luo's yard, Si Niang had already talked to her about it earlier, that girl is a ghost, she knows what to say If you can't say anything, Erniang can rest assured to leave these things to her.

Mrs. Lin smiled very embarrassedly, and finally said, she just wanted to take the mat work from Luo Yong and come back to do it, and wanted her to help her ask, but she and Lin Dalang were not mentioned The two had already been to Luo's house before.

"I don't know what it is. Since my sister-in-law wants to do it, I'll ask Saburo for you." Aunt Luo agreed to the matter readily after hearing her explain the reason clearly.

It's not that she has to put on a generous gesture, she already knows Luo Yong's attitude, at this time Luo Yong just happens to be short of some workers, since Sister Lin and the others are interested, it doesn't matter if they help them.

Earlier, sister-in-law Lin and sister-in-law Lin pushed her out mainly because she didn't use the loom at home, and made the illusion that she and Mrs. Luo were more skillful and capable than Mrs. Luo. A few sour words.

Now they are doing their own weaving and swallowing the bad results. As for other aspects, the aunt does not intend to do everything. The old couple are still in good health. People who eat and live with each other for 20 years, the relationship is too bad, life is also sad.

If these two people can't swallow the bitter fruit they made themselves, and are only willing to let others suffer but they can't bear half of the grievances, then Mrs. Luo is not afraid of them now. Hide there for a few days.

Luo Yong's current posture is clearly to support her, it's all like this, if she is still so soft and let others squeeze her, even if she is bullied to death in vain, she deserves it.

Speaking of Luo Yong, the aunt somehow remembered that once when she was a child, Luo Yong wet the bed at night.

At that time, Luo's father and Luo mother were busy with the autumn harvest, and the harvest in the field was not good that year. Thinking about the taxes and corvee after autumn and the coming winter, the couple was under a lot of pressure and had a bad temper.

Early that morning, Luo's mother called Luo Yong to dig wild vegetables in the yard, and Luo Yong answered in the house.

After the two of them went to the ground, Luo Yong dared to come out of the house, wiped his tears and said to the aunt, "Sister, my trousers are wet."

What pants are wet? It's obviously peeing pants. The aunt still smells like urine, but she didn't expose him in the end. She just lent him a pair of pants and told him to change the dirty pants and wash them for him. .

Their family was really poor at that time, and it was not easy to scrape together enough cloth for the little ones. Where would there be any extra clothes? Because the aunt had to do housework and often walked in the village, she could do a lot. A change of clothes.

So that day, Luo Yong wore his aunt's trousers and dug wild vegetables outside for a long time. When he came back, his pair of trousers were also dry, so he changed them back.

Thinking about Saburo's capable appearance now, and thinking about his previous appearance of pissing his pants and crying, the aunt couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckling.

Luo Sanlang: "Ah Choo!"

"Brother, did you catch a cold?" Si Niang was holding a frozen pear and sucking it with gusto.

At noon, I ate a large bowl of noodles with fried sauce, and then I took frozen pears from the eaves and soaked them in clear water. It's sweet and refreshing, not to mention how refreshing it is.

"Nothing." Luo Yong sniffed and continued to draw his pattern.

In order to protect his eyesight and avoid short-sightedness, he didn't dare to let himself paint under the oil lamp all the time, so he also paints during the day recently. Take out the book and have a look.

"Si Niang, after eating the pears, you and Wu Lang can grind some flour together." Er Niang said to Si Niang after washing the dishes and chopsticks, wiping the water stains on her hands.

"Oh." Si Niang finished sucking a frozen pear, put the pear skin and pear heart in front of Dou Li'er, clapped her hands, stood up, and went into the house to dig out the wheat.

In order to prevent insects and rats, most of his family's food is packed in urns, especially the more expensive ones like wheat.The wheat that his family took back this summer, some of the land rent was removed, and none of the rest was sold, and they were all kept for themselves to eat. They were filled in several large urns, and more than half of them are left after eating.

On this side, Dou Li'er took the leftover pear peel from Siniang's mouth and bit it back and forth, but she couldn't find any sweetness, so she barked into the room a few times in frustration.

"Wow, woof, I won't give you anything next time, I'll give it to Mai Qing." Siniang's voice came from the room.

"Wang woo..." Dou Li'er lay on the ground pitifully, flicked her tail in boredom, and then turned to look at Mai Qing. Mai Qing was lucky, and Goro saved some for it anyway.

"This frozen pear is delicious, but it's too expensive." Er Niang also picked up a frozen pear from the basin and ate it.

"When our house grows pears, you won't think it's too expensive." Luo Yong finished drawing a pattern, picked up the piece of paper with satisfaction, and put it aside.Speaking of which, paper is really expensive at this time, it is so expensive, but people at this time don’t think there is anything wrong, in their view, paper is a precious object, and it is natural to be expensive.

"It's more than one penny. If it's me, I'll exchange them all for money." A penny is a big deal for her, so even though Mai Qingdou is watching eagerly, she still puts the frozen pear in her hand. Suck until there is not a drop left, even the pear skin and pear heart, she will have to chop them up and feed them to the chickens.

After Erniang finished eating the pears, she started knitting sweaters again. Siniang and Wulang drove five pairs to grind flour in the yard.

Luo Yong continued to draw his patterns. Beside him, after lunch, Liulang and Qiniang babbled and played for a while, then fell asleep on the bed of the kang, and Mai Qingdouli found a couple in the yard. There were two snowfalls in the past few days, but the weather is still cold, and Mai Qingdouli's fur is thick, so she is not very afraid of the cold.

In the afternoon, the aunt brought some vegetables from the cellar of the Lin family, talked to Luo Yong about the Lin family, and helped Er Niang with some chores. After eating a frozen pear, she went back.

Then the next day, she brought Lin Dalang and Mrs. Lin over, along with Lin Erlang and Mrs. Lin.Luo Yong didn't say much, and led them directly to an empty room in the backyard, took out some dyed wool, and taught them how to make wool felt mats.

People from the Lin family hadn't been in the backyard of the Luo family in recent months. When they came in at this time, they saw Fang Fangzheng's huge yard, which was divided into four squares, and there were many large urns in each square. The urns contain clear or thick soy sauce and miso, and these big urns are placed there in such a big way, there is nothing to cover them.

Second Aunt Lin wanted to ask a question or two, but was pulled away by his man, so she swallowed the words again. Thinking about it, she could just inquire about other people's craftsmanship.

Thinking about how powerful this Luo Sanlang is really, let alone the big urns he kept in the backyard, their Luo family is no worse than the Lin family. They sell all the soy sauce and miso sauce, and they don’t know how much money they can make. How much money back.

At this time, Luo Yong had already begun to demonstrate how to make wool felt cushions. While laying wool felts of various colors on a straw mat on the ground, he said to those people: "I don't plan to spread this craft to the outside world for a while. It’s good to learn it, don’t teach it to others.”

"That's natural, Saburo can rest assured." Those people said.

The method of making this wool felt cushion is simple and simple. These few people came to the Luo family to learn for a few days. Except for Mrs. Lin who got a little trick, the others couldn't make a decent pattern for a while.

So Luo Yong took some relatively cheap colors and asked them to make some stripes and grid patterns. In addition, he also made some solid colors, one color on the front and one color on the back, and made them into neat circles or squares. , is also more beautiful.

For these styles, the wages are much lower than those with flower patterns. The solid color one costs only four yuan, the striped one four and a half yuan, and the grid one five yuan.

This is also a new idea that Luo Yong just came up with recently. If his wool felt cushion is easy to sell, not everyone can afford the price of [-] Wen. If you want this kind of cushion, you can't spend so much money to buy it. In this case, it is necessary to develop some low-priced products.

In addition, Luo Yong and several of his disciples are also making some larger cushions recently, which may be called carpets. There are round ones, oval ones, square ones and rectangular ones. A disciple who didn't go to Chang'an has been busy with this job recently, and the ones who stayed this time are also some good craftsmen.

"Sanlang! Sanlang!" A few days later, just after the Luo family had breakfast, Ma Feiyang hurried into his yard, shouting, "How many peony cushions do you have left? Sell them all to me!"

"But you just came back from Chang'an?" Luo Yong came out to greet him with a smile.

"Exactly." Ma Jiulang said: "Your disciples asked me to bring you a message, saying that the cushions brought over this time, each for two hundred yuan, were all sold out, and they made money according to your instructions." Later, I found a small courtyard in Chang'an City and bought it, and now a group of people live in that courtyard."

After finishing, he added: "The money from selling mats alone is not enough to buy a decent yard. I, Aye, lent them some more and told them to buy a decent little yard first, and then help people earn money later." Once you get the money, pay it off slowly."

"My disciples are in Chang'an City, so I need you father and son to take care of them." Luo Yong also agreed with him.

"Sell me how many cushions you have left." Ma Jiulang said the same thing.

"Okay." Selling who is not selling, since this Ma Feiyang took the lead, if someone comes later, he has to tell them to wait.

After the two of them sat down on the kang, Ma Feiyang took a sip of clear water and said, "You don't know, those disciples of yours originally planned to go to our Ma's firm to settle down, but they were blocked before they arrived. Well, when I got the news and rushed over, most of the cushions had already been sold. At that time, I couldn’t afford it, so I had to squeeze in and buy a few from them. People won't allow it."

"Earlier, I thought the mats in your house were good, and I bought a few of them for my own use, but I didn't expect that when this gust of wind blew, it would become so prosperous. When I saw the situation, I didn't even have a carriage. Dare to sit, and ran back on horseback, for fear that others would preempt it.”

After saying this, Ma Jiulang finally realized that this was a business, so there was no reason to push up the other party, so he quickly asked, "How much do you plan to sell this batch of mats this time?"

"Still at the original price." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"One hundred Wen?" Ma Jiulang's eyes widened.Still at the original price?How can this be!

"Exactly." Luo Yong had a childlike expression on his face.

In this era of underdeveloped transportation, it is extremely difficult to be a merchant. If it was reported that the cushions here were only sold for one hundred yuan a piece, and now that the market is good and the price is going to increase, those who have traveled thousands of miles here to buy goods Businessmen, how should they feel?

Wool felt cushions are mainly due to the high cost of dyeing. Like those brightly colored patterns, the material cost of a cushion is about [-] yuan, plus [-] yuan for labor costs, it is only about [-] yuan. Can make a net profit of forty Wen.

This is enough. In the future, when competitors in other places develop, he has to lower the price, which is also impossible.

Right now, he just wants to let those merchants know that the prices of the things in his hands are stable and will not increase indiscriminately. Only in this way, in the future, merchants can rest assured to buy from him.

In the future, even if they hear that there are cheaper sources of goods elsewhere, merchants may not necessarily change places immediately. First, this place is stable and reliable, and second, this place is familiar. After all, it is not easy to buy goods in unfamiliar places. If you don't have those few acquaintances, you may be ruthlessly slaughtered if you pay a toll.

Knowing that the wool felt cushions were still only sold for [-] yuan each, and that he had seized the opportunity to cover all Luo Yong's current inventory, Ma Jiulang was so happy that he was about to fly.

I have to praise my wit and bravery. From Chang'an to Lishi, he, Ma Jiulang, rode alone for thousands of miles. What kind of heroism is this!

Riding back to Lishi County, I plan to ask my family to arrange a few ox carts to pull the goods. In addition to the wool felt cushions, I will also buy another batch of fermented bean curd. In addition, the weather is cold at the moment, and I can also make frozen tofu. buy and sell.

Before entering the city, I met a few people who also came here on horseback.

"May I ask this brother, is Xipo Village going this way?" The few Chang'an people who had just arrived were also afraid of going the wrong way.

"Exactly." Ma Feiyang said with a smile: "Are you going to buy that peony cushion from Luo Sanlang?"

"Could it be that this brother is also..." Those Chang'an people all had an ominous premonition in their hearts at the same time.

"It just so happened that I came from there too." Ma Jiulang's eyes flickered, full of a smile he couldn't hide: "You guys really came to the right place, but Luo Sanlang said that his family The mats are still only sold for one hundred Wen each.”

"Really!" Those people all had expressions of being hit by a pie.

"It's just that I have packed all the mattresses in his house, and I'm afraid you will have to wait." Ma Feiyang said, flicking his horsewhip, and galloped towards Lishi County.

A few people from Chang'an were left looking at each other: "..."