It has been more than a month since he arrived in this era.
Luo Yong wanted to go out for a walk and feel the customs and customs here.
So when the Niu Dalang asked him to go to the city to help make a bed for his family, Luo Yong agreed without even thinking about it. .
The weather was good, and there was no wind or snow on the day Luo Yong and the others entered the city.
The sky was high and the clouds were clear, and there was a vast expanse of white far and near.
The snow on the road had frozen last night, and the temperature was also low during the day.
At this time, there was no snow.
Dissolve.
Luo Yong was sitting on a bullock cart wearing a dark blue cross-collar robe, and a rabbit skin jacket wrapped outside.
But when he was blown by the small wind while sitting in the cart, he was still cold, and his ears felt as if they were about to freeze.
It just fell off.
Behind the oxcart were Lin Xingle, Tian Yong, and Tian Chonghu.
Tian Yong was Tian Chonghu's cousin and had a good relationship with Lin Xingle.
This time, Lin Xingle asked Tian Yong to go into the city together to make a hot bed for people.
Tian Chonghu got the message and started making trouble.
Come together.
Niu Dalang's cart was already loaded with a lot of dried tofu and fermented bean curd.
Niu Dalang himself sat in the front driving the cart, and could barely fit one person in the back.
These people all called him Luo Yong. sit.
Luo Yong also knew that his current physique was not comparable to theirs, so he took the luggage of several people to the car, found a place to put it, and joked with them: "I'll get tired of sitting in the car after a while.
You guys go up and sit for a while.”
Along the way, everyone was talking and laughing.
Niu Dalang was in his thirties, had seen many markets, was friendly and talkative.
Their Niu family is a merchant in Lishi County.
They have a shop in the city, mainly engaged in grain trading.
Every autumn, in addition to collecting grain in the county, they also go to the villages below to collect grain.
Some of the grain they collect is sold to grain merchants from other places, and some is stored in their own granaries.
In a season like this, the business of his grain store will be worse.
It is approaching the end of the year and it is snowing heavily everywhere in the north.
There are not many grain merchants coming to collect grain at this time.
The locals don't buy much grain at this time.
Autumn is over.
Not long after, every household still had a lot of food rations.
Business will gradually pick up after next spring, and food prices will also increase by then.
Like this autumn, in their Lishi County, the lowest price for one stone of corn was only more than 30 cash, and the highest price was only 40 cash.
Now, in the county town, one stone of corn costs almost 50 cash, and it will rise again after the year.
Some.
At this time of year, there were few people buying grain, and the grain business was not easy to do.
So Niu Dalang and the others sold tofu and dried beans in their own shop, which could increase their income to some extent.
When Luo Yong's fermented bean curd is made, they will have a whole jar when they get it.
They are not afraid if it cannot be sold, and they can still eat it themselves.
Business people are different, they have money in their hands.
I heard that the status of businessmen these days is relatively low, and the sons of businessmen cannot take the imperial examination.
Luo Yong doesn't care much.
Anyway, he doesn't plan to marry and have children in this life, and there are no descendants who can cause him harm.
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As for Luo Yong himself, he had never thought about taking the Laoshizi imperial examination.
Let's not talk about whether he could pass the exam or not.
Even if he passed the exam, so what, the official life was too complicated and restrictive for him, and he didn't like it.
"I heard people say that if there is a disaster somewhere, grain merchants from elsewhere will transport grain to sell it."
Luo Yong is still more interested in doing business to make money.
"Not everyone can do that kind of business.
It has to be a nearby merchant or a big grain merchant.
It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to transport grain across the mountains and rivers, and you have to beware of bandits.
Bandit, if you go too late, you won’t have much money, and if too much food comes from other places at once, you may have to pay for it.”
"There were floods in Shandong and Henan this summer, so we didn't go there."
Niu Dalang sat on the carriage shaft and talked about business with Luo Yong.
"What happened to the grain merchants who are familiar with you?"
Luo Yong asked curiously.
"At least I can earn back some hard-earned money."
Niu Dalang said.
"That's better than nothing."
Luo Yong bared his teeth.
"That's right."
Niu Dalang also laughed.
Seeing his smile, Luo Yong thought to himself, could the merchant who went to Shandong or Hunan to sell grain this summer be the nemesis of their Niu family?
By the time the car drove into Lishi County, it was already afternoon.
It looked like it was about two or three o'clock in the sky, and there were not many pedestrians in the city.
After entering the city gate, there is a spacious dirt road.
There are many adobe houses on both sides of the dirt road.
It is rare to see wooden houses.
Most of them are only one floor.
Occasionally, you can see a two-story house, which seems to stand out from the crowd.
Seeing such a county, Luo Yong felt a little disappointed.
It was too depressed.
Although in the memory of the original owner Luo Sanlang.
Lishi County basically looks like this, but after experiencing it personally, the feeling is a little deeper.
There seems to be nothing else produced in this place except food, but the price of food is very low these days.
I heard that there are paper makers and silkworm farmers in various parts of the south, as well as places that produce various tributes and high-end consumer goods.
If the people here don't follow other people's example and engage in side business, produce a few specialties, and just rely on farming, they will have to farm for any number of years before they can become rich.
The commercial area is mainly concentrated in the south of the city, where the Niu family's residence is.
A large house facing the street is used as a shop.
There are several warehouses and a place for entertaining guests in the back, and behind it is their own residence.
Niu Dalang parked the ox cart in front of the shop and called the shop assistants to come out to unload the goods.
He led Luo Yong and others to the guest room in the backyard to rest.
In the afternoon of that day, Niu Dalang asked the workers in the shop to go out of the city to dig a load of mud and come back.
He also made a room for Luo Yong and the others to remove the adobe.
There was no way, it was too cold outside, and as soon as the adobe was taken out, it froze before it was dry, so we could only take it off inside the house and bake it slowly over a brazier.
There is no need to dry the adobe until it is very dry, it just needs to be almost fixed in shape.
After it is built into a fire kang, it can be baked on a low fire in the kang, which is much faster than drying naturally.
Luo Yong had done this before when he made a fire bed in his own house.
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There were three rooms and a straw shed, and a total of four fire beds were made.
He was now relatively experienced.
The Niu family's first fire pit was in a large room for entertaining guests.
This place looked like it was used for business discussions.
The place was quite big and the fire pit was big enough.
A group of senior men sat together for seven days.
Eight or ten people are not a problem at all, and there can be two small tables in the middle.
Once the fire bed was finished, the old man from the Niu family invited a large group of relatives and friends over to show off to a group of old guys.
"Take a look at this thing that my son had someone fix.
How about it?
From now on I will live here and do nothing."
Old Man Niu sat cross-legged on the kang, laughing loudly.
"You don't have to go down there anymore.
You can eat and sleep up here."
His old friends all expressed their envy.
"Have you seen that stove over there?
It can boil some tea or something.
When you're hungry, you can cook porridge there."
Old Man Niu continued to show off.
"Tsk, it's so warm.
It's a cold day.
If you wrap up your pajamas and lie down on this kang, the gods won't change."
An old man touched the warm surface of the kang with his rough palms and sighed.
"Lie down if you want.
You're welcome.
You can lie down as long as you like."
Old Man Niu said boldly.
Not long after, Niu Dalang walked into the room and saw a scene like this.
A group of old men were lying in a huddle on the big bed that had been installed in their home.
The old man lying there with his back stretched out in the warmest position on the bed was He's a daddy.
"Oh, it's warm."
"This old bone can finally stretch."
"Oh oh oh so comfortable" Don't blame these old men for exaggerating.
The cold protection conditions in this era were really rudimentary.
Not to mention those rich people who can sleep with furs piled up, but in ordinary people's homes, the quilts are stuffed with stuffing, that is, rags and old cloths.
How much warmth can those things keep?
For poorer people, they are still useful.
Made from reed catkins, not to mention its warmth retention properties.
With Old Man Niu helping to advertise this time, Luo Yong and the others didn't have to worry about not being able to receive orders.
After Niu's house, they went to Zhang's, Chen's, Wang's, and Li's This time, instead of laying down the bricks for one house before going to the next one as before, I would just take off the adobe bricks and let them dry at each house, then go to the next house, wait for the adobe bricks in front to dry, and then go back to make the kang.
On this day, Luo Yong and the others were sitting on the bed in a family's home.
Several people poked their heads outside.
Luo Yong saw it and waved for them to come over.
Anyway, Lin Xingle could do the job of making the bed.
He would slip in occasionally.
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It doesn't matter.
"What, you want to learn technology?"
Luo Yong asked them.
"Just taking a look."
Those people scratched their heads and looked very restrained.
"You are all from the city" Luo Yong asked again.
"Yes, my home is right in front.
It's just around the corner from here."
"We are all locals."
"I used to see you when I was working as a handyman in a store, walking with a few students from the county school."
"Sanlang, how did you make this fire bed?
Can you teach us?"
"It's okay if you want to follow me.
I'll be in the city these days and I can guide you."
Luo Yong said in a nice way.
"Sure enough" such a good thing can really happen.
"That's natural.
There are no other requirements, as long as you can abide by one rule."
Luo Yong said.
"What's the rules?"
several people asked hurriedly.
"When you enter other people's houses and help make their fire beds, don't look at them more than you should, and don't take more than one blade of grass that you shouldn't take."
Luo Yong said. "" Those people were stunned for a moment, and then someone immediately said angrily: "Why did Sanlang say this?
How can we, like Meng Lang, do such a thing as a thief?"
"Don't be too quick to get angry."
Luo Yong said, "Although the rules I have set are low, it is not easy to abide by them."
"After you have learned the art of making Kang, you will help people make Kang in Lishi County this year.
Next year, you may go to Taiyuan Prefecture or even further.
By then, our Kang-making craftsmen in Lishi County will also be outsourced.
As the people of the county know, if one or two of them have a bad reputation, who will dare to let us Pankang people from Lishi County enter their homes in the future?"
After hearing what Luo Sanlang said before, those few people immediately became excited and went to Taiyuan Mansion or even further places to help people make bed beds.
That was a large blank market.
According to Luo Sanlang and the others' current wages, There are two buckets of rice for each earthen bed, so how much food should they earn in one winter.
Then Luo Sanlang's subsequent words also made them clear about the importance of reputation, and they were afraid that a piece of mouse droppings would ruin the pot.
"Sanlang's words make sense, I will definitely keep them in mind."
Someone immediately said loudly.
"I will definitely keep this in mind."
"Don't look at things you shouldn't look at, and don't take things you shouldn't take."
"These are the rules.
If anyone breaks the rules, he will be in trouble with all of us."
Seeing that these people seemed to have made up their minds, Luo Yong nodded and said, "Then you guys can follow me to the next house to take off the adobe."
On the second day, Luo Yong and his fire kang construction team were divided into two teams, Lin Xingle, Tian Yong, Tian Chonghu, and two more apprentices were assigned to them.
Luo Yong himself took several newly recruited apprentices to form his own team A team.
Lin Xingle and the others have been working very hard in the past few days.
They put their arms around the fire bed, thinking about earning a few more buckets of rice to go home for the New Year.
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This fire bed is only two buckets of rice, and ten fire beds are the output of one acre of land.
That’s it, where can I find such good things on weekdays?
Luo Yong is not as good as them at work, but he is very good at leading apprentices.
He leads several novices by himself, and his work is not necessarily slower than that of Lin Xingle and others.
When these apprentices have become experienced, then The speed went up quickly.
One group was divided into two groups, and the two groups were divided into four groups and eight groups.
Later, Luo Yong didn't have to work at all.
He only had to walk around the city with his hands behind his back to see the fruits of his apprentices' labor. , I could even give some comments at the beginning, but later I would just praise them.
Lishi County is really lively these days, and every household is making a fire bed.
Rich families buy a few loads of mud from the porters and ask Luo to use their fire bed team to come and build the fire bed.
If you don't have money, you can dig some mud outside the city and make it according to the pattern of the fire pit made by Luo Yong.
If you really can't make it, you can ask Luo Yong to be his apprentice and help him break the adobe bricks for a few days.
Give him a few days of playing tricks and cook a few clay stoves, and his skills will come out immediately.
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chen Zhai, Taiyuan Mansion.
The servant who had just received a quick foot came to report that the young man who went on a study tour last year was back.
He was almost outside the city now.
After hearing the news, everyone in the family hurriedly went out of the city to greet him.
This is the only Miaomiao in their family.
It has been passed down for two generations.
Now he is pointing to him to spread the branches.
But he wants to go out for a study tour like others.
Now he heard that he has finally come back.
How can he sit still?
Hurry up.
I went out of the city to pick up people.
We successfully picked up the person outside the city.
The whole family reunited after a long absence.
Everyone was very happy.
The boy who had just returned from a long trip said to his grandparents: "Ah, grandma, I found a good thing for you this time.
As expected, You will be very happy to see it.”
"What is it?"
The old lady wiped the tears on her face and asked, "It's a specialty found elsewhere."
"It's just a coincidence that I happened to meet him in Lishi County.
You guys come here."
The boy said and waved to the people accompanying him, and two dark-skinned men immediately walked out of the crowd. , it was the uncle who gave the money, and the uncle said to let them pass, so they naturally passed by. "" There were still tears in the old lady's eyes, and her face was frozen.
What kind of specialty is this?
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