North and South groceries

Batch after batch of saplings of Du species took root on the hillsides around Xipo Village. Luo Yong was very concerned about these saplings, and would go to the slopes to see their growth when he had time.

As the temperature rises, most of the saplings have germinated smoothly, and small green leaf buds grow on the branches. Some of them not only do not germinate, but also become drier and drier. There is no way, such a long journey will always cause damage.

This sapling is worth [-] Wen, considering the current grain price, it is enough to buy three buckets of corn, Luo Sanlang is very distressed.

"Why is there someone bringing pork here at this time?" Walking around the slope, when Luo Yong returned to his yard, he saw Erniang and the others were processing pork and suet.

It was almost time for dinner. Normally, if someone brought pork over, it would be around noon at the latest.

"In Xiaohe Village, there was an old man who accidentally fell into a ditch when he was plowing the land today, and broke his leg. The family had no money and food, so we had to slaughter the pigs he was raising and send him to the county town to have his bones picked." Er Niang speak.

"How bad is the injury?" Luo Yong asked.

"It's just that I broke my leg, but there's nothing serious about it." Er Niang shook her head and sighed.

Their place is also within the territory of the Loess Plateau, and there are many ditches and ridges in the fields, and sometimes it is heard that people or livestock fall into the ditches.

But I don't know if it's because of the region or the age. In short, the forest coverage here is very high.It was just the beginning of spring at this time, and there was a patch of green everywhere, and there were usually streams flowing in those ditches and ridges, with clear streams flowing, which was not at all the appearance of the Loess Plateau that Luo Yong knew in later generations.

The family where the old man fell in the family also took two piglets from Luo Yong to raise at home last year. The price of pigs was good a while ago, and his family slaughtered one pig. It's over.

Most of the pork last time was sold to Luo Yong, and he sold it as Dongpo pork. This time, except for Luo Yong's portion, they sold the rest in the city, because The price offered by the county seat is higher than that offered by Luo Yong.

The pork in Xiaohe Village, Xipo Village, is quite famous in Lishi County now. The fat pork they raise here is sweet and not fishy, ​​and it is popular in some restaurants and guest houses in the city.

The Luo family got more than half of this pig.

The pigs were not easy to sell in the city, so they exchanged them with the villagers for money and food in the village, leaving only pig suet oil and large sausage oil to the Luo's yard.

Pork suet can be used to boil edible oil, and the quality of soap produced is also better, such as large intestine oil and some miscellaneous fishy oils in pig stomachs, because the smell is relatively strong, Luo Yong usually only uses them to make smelly soap, and he still uses them The original kind of sugar cake mold is used to distinguish it from other soaps.

In addition, there are a lot of pork belly and two pork legs, all of which can be processed into Dongpo Pork Dongpo Knuckles. Someone will come to buy them tomorrow morning. Even if you make more today, you don’t have to worry about being sold out. There are more and more merchants in the county. With so many people gathered together, the spending power is considerable.

"Don't cook all the meat, save some for dumplings." The Luo family has been eating bean dregs stew for several days, and it's time to improve their food.

People in their place generally call dumplings Jiaozi or Shuijiaoer. Anyway, the pronunciation of Jiaozi dumplings is the same, so there is nothing wrong with Luo Yong.I heard that there are also called wontons or Tangzhonglao pills in other places. It is not surprising that there are several names for a kind of food. After a few hundred years, there will be more names like flat food.

"Want to eat water corners today?" Si Niangwulang and the others were sitting quietly peeling the onions, but when they heard that they were going to eat corners tonight, they all became excited.

"Yes, tonight's water corner, go in and have a look, is there any flour in the room?" Luo Yong laughed.

On this side, Erniang cut a piece of pork belly and put it aside alone. When Luo Yong saw it, she asked her to cut more: "Let sister and the others bring a bowl back later."

Right now, their relationship with the Lin family is pretty good. Lin Dalang, Lin Erlang, has also helped him carry water and water the trees in the past few days.

Most people know how to make dumplings, but if they want to cook them deliciously, there are still many things to pay attention to. For this reason, Luo Yong deliberately turned over the pink notebook in the space earlier, and there is a blogger writing in it. A blog post about making dumplings.

After Luo Yong's learning and selling, Erniang and the others now have a lot of experience in making dumplings.

Just a matter of adjusting the stuffing, which stuffing to put first and which stuffing to put later, there is a lot of attention here, if the order is wrong, the taste will be wrong.Another thing is to add water. As the saying goes, meat dumplings are filled with water. How much water is added is all about how much water is added. If it is added well, the dumpling filling will be tender and juicy. If it is not added properly, either Chai or Xi, anyway, it is not so delicious.

Dumplings are fine foods, and if you want them to taste good, you have to use refined white flour as the skin.

The wheat is ground in the mill for the first time, and the fine white flour is sifted out, which is the fine white flour, the most fragrant and softest wheat core.The remaining crushed wheat grains are then put into the mill for grinding, and it is inevitable that some wheat bran will be ground and mixed into the flour. There is no way, and there is no machine that can grind wheat these days.

Once the white flour dumplings were made, the little Doudings of the Luo family were really happy. The brothers and sisters ate while making the dumplings, and it was so lively that it seemed like it was New Year's Eve.

Liulang and Qiniang couldn't help, Luo Yong looked at the sky, guessed that the aunt and the others should be back from work, so he made a bowl of dumplings for the two little ones, and told them to squat outside the yard to eat. If you see your elder sister and brother-in-law passing by the entrance of the village, tell them to come here to play poker.

As a result, the two of them didn't come back as soon as they went out. Luo Yong ran out to see them, and saw that they were still squatting there: "I cooked another pot of dumplings, do you two want to eat?"

"Eat." The two said together.

"Okay, let's go in quickly." Luo Yong told them to go in quickly.

He is just a worrying life. There is such a big little baby in the village running around all over the sky, and all the adults are very relieved. There is no one like him who always has to stare at him.

Maybe it's really like what the aunt said, if you continue to raise them like this, you will have to make all the little ones in the family delicate in the future. If you get someone like Lin Liulang, he won't be able to bear it.

Speaking of which, Lin Chunqiu's marriage has not yet been settled. Yao Maoyun didn't want to talk about it earlier, but now it's almost settled.

Just as he was thinking, he saw the aunt and the others coming from the entrance of the village. Luo Yong waved at them, and the couple smiled and walked up the small slope here.

"Have you guys eaten?" Luo asked with a smile when the two of them approached.

"I've already eaten." Aunt Luo replied.

"That's just right, we can have supper right now." Luo Yong smiled and led the two of them into the yard.

"Is this wrapped in dice again?" Lin Wulang smelled it as soon as he entered the yard, and only Luo's dice could smell it.

"No." It's all from my own family, and I didn't bother to go to the hall to toss it, so I just served it at the grocery store: "You two eat some first, and then take a bowl back when you're done."

The dumplings made today are really delicious. The dumpling skin is fragrant and springy. The dumpling filling is tender and juicy. The pork filling is mixed with freshly grown chives. It is delicious and not greasy.

Lin Wulang was originally a sincere person, and he was polite at first, but after Luo Yong tried his best to persuade him a few times, he really let go of his arms and started to eat. Good guy, I have already eaten dinner, and I ate it twice. Big bowl of dice into the stomach.

Luo Yong was quite happy to see that he could eat so much. At this time, the medical technology was too backward, and those with good physical fitness must be able to carry it better than those with poor health.

The aunt also ate a big bowl, and she was a little embarrassed after eating.

Although people at this time did not treat women as harshly as they did after the Song Dynasty, she was still a woman after all. If she ate such a big bowl after eating, she would definitely be laughed at if she said it.

"Sister, do you still want to eat?" Si Niang's girl fished out the last pot of dumplings from the clay pot with her chubby belly.

"Don't eat." The aunt waved her hand, she was already full, and she still ate. "Sanlang, these dice are delicious, how about making some and selling them at the inn?"

"This stuffing needs to be prepared freshly, and it's delicious when it's freshly wrapped. How can you two be so busy?" The few things sold in Xu's guest house now, except Dongpo pork, which is ready-made, stinky tofu and jujube bean cake They are also sold on the spot.

"I can't be too busy anywhere, just do some work and be free." The aunt said with a smile: "The children of Xu's family are also good. Let them help run errands when they are busy."

At this time, the children are very easy to handle, let them help with a little work of running errands and passing on messages, and occasionally make one or two more things like jujube cake and dumplings to satisfy their hunger. Yes, the adults in the family are not unhappy. Children just want to eat. If they don’t eat, they will not grow well. If their bones are too weak, it will be difficult to raise them.

"That's okay, it's a bit troublesome to make this corner. Another day when Erniang is free, let her teach you." In the past, my aunt also made dumplings with them, but the Luo family made dumplings more often, and the technical level They have been making progress. After all, the aunt does not live with them. After a long time, it is inevitable that she will fall behind.

After eating the dumplings, the two sat for a while, seeing that it was getting late, they got up to leave.

Luo Yong put a large bowl of dumplings in a large rough pottery bowl and asked the two of them to take it back. He said that Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang had worked hard for him to carry water and water the trees. The reason why I said this more was to avoid misunderstandings. There is the matter of him embarrassing the Lin family with a bowl of Dongpo meat.

In the end, this bowl of dumplings was brought back to the Lin family. Because the relationship between the two parties has been good recently, Lin's father, Lin's mother and others naturally did not think in the wrong direction. It is also very happy to eat together.

In the end, halfway through the meal, Lin Dalang's eldest son suddenly howled, saying that Lin Chunqiu kicked him secretly, Lin Dalang blamed Lin Chunqiu, why did you kick him for nothing, Lin Chunqiu said that he just touched him, he was a country boy, Why is it so delicate.

At this time, although the whole society is still emphasizing agriculture and despising business, the old farmer who is a farmer is still swearing at people. Besides, whoever is a parent does not want their children to have a big future in the future. Come on, what happened to the country doll, didn't you grow up in the village yourself?

Sister-in-law Lin quit, and started arguing with her uncle face to face.The Lin family only had three grandchildren, she gave birth to two sons, and Mrs. Lin gave birth to a daughter.So Mrs. Lin is more stubborn at home, at least more than Mrs. Lin.

This big family lives together, and it's good that they don't quarrel on weekdays, but once they quarrel, all the dissatisfaction accumulated in their hearts will explode, and the matter will become more and more troublesome, and the two brothers will push and shove again.

"What are you arguing about! Do you want to lose face just because of these few corners?" In the end, it was Lin's father who lost his temper and yelled so loudly that the matter calmed down temporarily.

Speaking of it, this is really not a matter of a few dime.

Anyone who is not blind can see what happened tonight in this room. It is clear that Lin Chunqiu thinks that Lin Dalang's son eats too much and secretly kicks him.

If it was in the past, Lin Dalang's son would not have dared to say anything, but recently Lin Dalang and his wife became more and more dissatisfied with Lin Chunqiu, and they often talked about this in private on weekdays, and children would look at each other. After hearing these words, he Dare to howl tonight, knowing that his parents will support him.

Mr. Lin insisted on saying that the conflict between the two brothers was a matter of a few dime, this time it was barely passed, and Lin Dalang and his wife wanted to save face, so they didn't continue to quarrel, but they don't know what will happen next time.

To put it bluntly, brothers in this ordinary family don’t get along, and at most it’s just quarreling. If it’s left in the family or even the emperor’s house, it will kill people, and it’s not just their own life. When there is a dispute, it is not a group of people who lose their heads.

Luo Yong just sent a large plate of dumplings to Xu's guest house for his disciples, and then came back to make soap, and told Erniang and the others to go to bed, and he was here alone.

As a new youth in the 21st century, he is really not used to the daily routine of sunrise and daily rest. If he does not occasionally stay up all night, he feels that his life is incomplete.

At this time, he was stirring a large pot of soap ingredients with the stirring device removed from the egg beater, while concentrating on looking at a computer screen in his own space.

In order to save power, he tries not to take his computer and mobile phone out of the space. He only takes it out when he needs to turn the pages, and puts it back quickly after turning the page. If he looks at it, he can see the things in his space if he concentrates.

What he was reading at the moment was an introduction to the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in a certain historical novel, and Du Ruhui was naturally mentioned in it. To be honest, the internal strife in the Du family was really fierce.

In the battle for the throne between Crown Prince Li Chengqian and Wei Wang Li Tai, the Du family can be seen everywhere. Du Ruhui’s younger brother Du Chuke supports Wei Wang Li Tai, and Du Ruhui’s second son Du He supports Prince Li Chengqian. He jumped to encourage Li Chengqian to kill his father, that is, Li Shimin, but he didn't know if it was true or if he was taking the blame for others.

Du Ruhui's eldest son, Du Gou, was more unlucky. He was implicated by his younger brother when he didn't do anything. He was exiled to Lingnan and died in the border fields.

Counting the time, it seems that Du Gou is still teaching people to fish for needle-fish in Laizhou at the moment, and Laizhou is in the northeast of the later Shandong Province.

But the Du family is indeed full of talents, and they can still turn things around.

In the mid-Tang Dynasty more than 100 years later, there was a folk saying, Weidu in the south of the city, go to Tianchiwu. This Du is talking about the Jingzhao Du family. Du Fu and Du Mu are also the blood of this family. This is probably the family background in the legend. The foundation is deep.

Luo Yong yawned, withdrew his attention from the space, rubbed his temples, looked into the jar with his head, and then added a little wormwood juice into it. This time he planned to use the hot method to make wormwood soap.

Perhaps because the medical conditions were too backward, people at this time attached great importance to the use of wormwood in their lives, and they generally accepted the taste of wormwood.

At that time, people generally admired Chen Ai, and this time Luo Yong also used Chen Ai's soup. If it was new Ai, he was worried that it would be more prone to rancidity and affect the shelf life of the soap.

In the long night, Luo Yong was making soap by himself, looking at the words in the space. Although he was in the same era, those princes and generals were full of wind and clouds, and it was still like reading a novel to him.