North and South groceries

Because of Mrs. Yin's captivity, the guest house just built by Xu's family failed to open in a relaxed and lively atmosphere. They just held an opening ceremony hastily and started doing business.

Aunt Luo and Lin Wulang have also gone to work there. Next to the big kitchen in Xu's guest house, there is also a small kitchen specially prepared for the two of them.

Luo Yong took the materials for making jujube cakes from home, and if there are guests who want to order jujube cakes, they can make them here.As for the braised pork, it is still taken from Luo’s yard at present. The main reason is that Luo’s sales are large, and a lot is made every day. Because Xu’s guest house has just opened, the sales volume has not yet increased. A few jars from Luo's house are enough to sell.

This braised pork is easy to sell, and the profit is quite considerable, but the supply of meat is still a bit behind. For this reason, Luo Yong has not been thinking less recently.

This morning, Luo Yong took a piece of charcoal from his stove and went out of the yard, and then drew a table on the outside of his courtyard wall. Each grid represented a day. He first wrote the date in the grid, and then Some trapezoidal patterns are drawn below the date to represent rice liters and rice buckets. The shapes are the same, but the rice buckets and rice buckets are smaller.

"Sanlang, what are you painting?" A few villagers just came back from Xu's guest house at the entrance of the village. They saw Luo Yong painting and drawing outside the wall of his house. It looks strange from the outside of Luo's courtyard.

"This is Dou, this is Sheng, and this is the date." Luo Yong pointed out the words and pictures in the form to them one by one, and then said: "Tomorrow is the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. Look here it says the tenth day of the first month." There are eight characters, five buckets of rice and two liters of rice are drawn here, representing the purchase price of pork on this day, ten catties of pork is exchanged for five buckets and two liters of corn."

The few villagers scratched their heads and looked at it for a while, and finally saw something wrong: "Why are there fewer and fewer as you go to the back?"

"Nowadays when the pigs in the village are growing, it is not worthwhile to kill them early, so I have to exchange some more corn." Luo Yong said.

"Is it worth a liter of corn in one day?" The price dropped so fast, it was heartbreaking just looking at it.

"I'm in a hurry now, so naturally I need to exchange more corn. After the beginning of spring, the piglets I scattered earlier will be ready for meat." The reason why Luo Yong drew this form is to show the villagers Create a little tension.

"Oh, it's only one liter of rice a day..." It really made them feel bad.

The pig is growing, and it hurts to kill it now, and the meat price is so good at this time, and it hurts to miss it, which is really embarrassing for two people.

After these villagers went back, they told their neighbors about this matter. After a while, many people gathered outside the Luo family's yard, and they all looked at the different pork prices that day and felt distressed.

Most of the pigs in these families in Xipo Village were raised later than the Luo family, and they were smaller than the Luo family. They originally planned to raise them for another three to five months, and then slaughtered them after a year, but now they are sold at this price. As soon as the watch was done like this, many people began to shake their hearts.

"If it is killed tomorrow, then ten catties of pork can be exchanged for five buckets and two liters of rice. This price is really good."

"Usually it's only around three or four fights."

"This time the pig has grown faster than before, and now the price is good. It should be a good deal to sell it at this time."

"No, no, the two pigs in my family have been able to eat and grow recently. They look different every day. I have to keep raising them. When I see that they don't grow so fast, I will kill them again."

"It should be a good deal to raise the two ends of my house for another half a month."

All the villagers chattered, and each of them thought in their minds which day would be the most cost-effective to slaughter their own pigs. Is it because their own pigs are growing faster, or is the price of Luo Sanlang's pork falling faster?

There were also people who even entered Luo's courtyard and agreed with Luo Yong on the date of buying and selling pork.

"Sanlang, I'll kill a pig tomorrow, and I can produce dozens of catties of pork. Will you go and collect it then?"

"Okay, I'll collect it when the time comes. Do you want money or food?" Luo Yong took a pen and wrote down the matter in his notebook. If he didn't write it down in time, there would be chaos later on. .

"If you want money, you can give me some fermented bean curd at that time." Everyone in the village knows that in such a transaction, if he is willing to accept fermented bean curd for money, Luo Sanlang will lower the price of fermented bean curd a little.

"Is ten cans of fermented bean curd enough?" Luo Yong asked her.

"Enough is enough." Ten cans are enough for the family to eat and to send to relatives.

As soon as the man left, two women came in again: "Sanlang, my family is going to slaughter pigs tomorrow, will you collect the pork, or will we send it to you?"

"There will be pork tomorrow, how about killing that pig in your family later?" Luo Yong discussed with her.

"Why is there someone who came earlier than me?" The woman who spoke also laughed. She still gritted her teeth and made a decision with great difficulty. Don't get ahead of others.

"If you occupy the next day, the people behind will naturally have to go to the back." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Then I'll take the day after tomorrow." The woman agreed.

"After tomorrow, my family will also kill one." Another woman who came with her also said.

"Okay, I can only collect pork from that one pig a day, and I can't be too busy." Luo Yong explained to the two of them.

"It's good to kill one head a day, and those Dinghu people will be too busy." The two also said.

Apparently, they also planned to hand over the job of killing pigs to those Dinghu men, and they only needed to spend a little bit of pigs in the water, saving worry and trouble, and not delaying their own tofu making.

The character of Wang Dang's gang of brothers is also trusted by the villagers, and they are not worried about being ignorant of them.

Speaking of it, this pig raising business is really good. Since the villagers followed Luo Sanlang's example, they first passed the boar, and then fed it with hot food twice a day. The pig grew fast and well.

Recently, some Dinghu people have come to the village again. They are willing to do the work of cleaning up the pigsty and killing pigs. They just need to feed some bean dregs pigs into the water. It is much more convenient.

Recently, many villagers went to buy piglets to raise piglets before they were slaughtered.

Anyway, the family makes tofu and bean dregs, so it doesn't take too much burden to raise a few more pigs.Judging by the current momentum, the price of pork this winter should not be too low.

Luo Yong was in the grocery store, and while listening to the villagers outside talking about raising and selling pigs, he usually looked carefully at the pottery cauldron on the top of his kang.

In the pottery kettle, lard is boiling right now.When cooking lard in a pottery kettle, you must be very careful. You don’t dare to cook too much each time, you only dare to cook a little bit, and you don’t dare to burn it too big. Accidentally broke the pottery pot, not to mention wasting a pot of oil, and it might cause a fire. The houses in his house are all thatched roofs, so they can't stand the fire.

When it was almost time for dinner, Siniang Wulang came back with five pairs of Liulang Qiniang, Mai Qingdou and Lier.

These few people like to go to Xu's guest house recently, because the aunt and his wife are there, and the Xu family is also there, so Luo Yong doesn't worry too much, and he doesn't stop these few who want to go to play.

To be honest, after this group of little dolls left, the house was much quieter, and anyone who had raised children knew that kind of refreshment, especially those who had more than one child at home.

"Brother, how about eating Hoto tonight?" Siniang automatically started preparing dinner as soon as she came back.

"Okay." Luo Yong replied.It's not good to have dinner ready.

"Brother, look, the old man of the Xu family gave us a lot of dried reeds." After Wu Lang took the five pairs to the barn and settled them, he came over here with a small basket of dried radishes, and said to Luo Yong.

"When you go over tomorrow, remember to bring a jar of lard with you." The reeds are radishes, and dried reeds are naturally dried radishes.

"Brother, how do you eat this dried reed?" Wulang and the others now know that his elder brother knows how to eat it best, and he can think of any new way to eat it. If the usual way to eat this dried reed is nothing more than Chew raw and cook soup, if the condition is better, use it to stew meat.

"It should be fried and eaten. I will eat Hoto tonight. Put these dried reeds first, and I will make them for you to eat tomorrow." There are meat and salted beans at home, so it should be possible to fry a plate by then, although there is no Chili is still a bit regretful.

The two brothers were talking here, and Si Niang quickly scooped out the lard that had been boiled and let cool in the pottery pot, and touched the edge of the pottery pot, feeling that it was not very hot. , So I added two scoops of clean water, and then heated up the fire in the stove, planning to cook Hoto in the pottery pot that had just been boiled with oil.

For people at this time, there is absolutely no reason to wash such a pottery cauldron with so much oil on it. They must add water to cook all the oil stars and eat them.

As a result, the fire in the stove burnt a few times, and there was only a crisp sound of "ping", followed by a sputtering sound, Si Niang screamed twice, and then called Luo Yong: "Brother! The cauldron is leaking! "

"I know." Luo Yong was staying aside at this time, how could he not know that his house was leaking.

Fortunately, there is more than one pot in Luo's house, so just move another one over from the stove at this time.Speaking of which, the brothers and sisters have always liked to cook at the grocery store, and the pot here was indeed used the most by them.

When Luo Yong brought a pottery pot over from the stove, Siniang Wulang had already cleaned up the broken pot, and pulled out the firewood that was dripping with water from the stove. If it can't be burned, even the ashes of plants and trees that have absorbed water in the stove have to be cleaned out.

The three brothers and sisters put a pot on the stove together. If the pot is not installed properly, the fire inside the stove will start to smoke at the joint between the pot and the stove. Before long, the whole house will be smoky. Very uncomfortable.

While changing the pot, Si Niang's girl was still distressed: "For the sake of Hoto's taste, I deliberately left some lard in the bottom of the pot. I knew it would happen, and I should scoop it up just now."