On March 25th, after eating chicken cakes, the Du family's master and servant finally began to prepare for their trip the next day.
That evening, Du Xi talked to Luo Yong.
Luo Yong thought he wanted to say goodbye to him in advance.
However, as soon as this guy opened his mouth, the already precarious image of the noble fell to the ground.
"You mean credit?"
Luo Yong has learned a lot this time.
That's the Du family in Jingzhao.
Do you know that there is a high-ranking official named Du Rumei next to Li Shimin?
Yes, it's their family.
For things like this, even a country scholar like Luo Sanlang who doesn't hear anything outside the window used to do it.
I heard it said.
"Sanlang doesn't believe me," the guy asked.
"This is the first time I have the honor to pay my respects to the husband of the Du family in Jingzhao."
Luo Yong said more politely, but in his heart he was not so polite.
This is the first time we have met, brother, I know who you are, what if you are a liar?
"So" the other party looked regretful.
"In that case, leave me a token."
As the saying goes, "leave a thin line in life", Luo Yong looked at this guy and he must be from the Jingzhao Du family.
After all, there are not so many liars these days.
Besides, his demeanor and temperament are not the same.
It's not like he's just pretending.
In that case, it's better to maintain a friendly relationship with him.
As soon as Du Qilang heard that the other party wanted a token, he reached out and touched his body, but he didn't find anything valuable.
Then he thought about it, took off a jade pendant hanging around his neck and handed it to him.
Luo Yong: "Sanlang must keep this thing safe for me."
Luo Yong took the jade pendant that was still warm and felt a little weird in his heart, but it was indeed a good piece of jade, so he accepted it with confidence.
After that, Du Xi told him that he wanted to buy this and that on credit.
Everyone agrees to it more readily.
This trip to Xipo Village, Du Qilang returned with a full load.
He bought sixty pairs of socks, thirty pairs of mats, and moved a large jar of fermented bean curd to the car.
"Thank you Kui."
Du Qilang called his servant in the car.
"It's very serious."
Xie Kui was driving ahead at this time.
His husband said that he had to hurry back to Chang'an City.
If he goes back late, the weather will warm up and these socks will not be welcomed.
Even if they are kept until this autumn and winter, they will be taken out.
Same, but Du Qilang doesn't have that good patience.
"How about when you return to Chang'an City and exchange these things for cash, I will help you open a fried noodle shop in the shop," Du Qilang said.
"It was prescribed for me" Xie Kui didn't believe it.
"Let's start it together, I will contribute the money and you will contribute the effort."
Du Qilang said.
"If you want to ask me to do work, just say so."
Xie Kui said without giving any face.
"When we make money from selling fried noodles, we will collect more wool.
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By the way, this morning I asked you to take a sneak peek at Luo Erniang's house.
Did you take a look?"
Du Qilang changed the subject.
"I didn't look at anything, and I even got a roll of my eyes."
Xie Kui said depressedly.
"Then Luo Erniang is cheating on you" doesn't seem like it.
"It's their fourth mother."
Xie Kui said.
"Hahaha, that little lady is quite aggressive."
Du Qilang gloated: "It's okay if you don't look at her.
We can stock up on some wool for the future."
Along the way, Du Qilang imagined a wonderful way to make a fortune from wool farming, but he didn't know that the cashmere used to knit the woolen socks was only available in winter.
After spring, as the temperature rises, The goat gradually lost its down, leaving only wool and no down.
At the beginning of April, Zhao Chen from Nashuozhou also shipped the second batch of wool.
This was also the last batch of this year.
He had sent his servants to the grassland to buy wool.
He came back last time to use it.
When we were here, these wool-gathering men hadn't been able to get back to Shuozhou City, but they had caught up this time.
Looking at the oxcarts of wool, Luo Yong was also very happy.
Such a lot of wool should be enough for him to consume for more than half a year.
The things he made should be able to sell for a lot of money.
This time Du Xi only left three taels of silver and moved so many things from him.
Luo Yong was not without heartache.
If it weren't for the fact that the other party was from the Jingzhao Du family, and if he hadn't wanted him to help promote the socks before the end of spring, Luo Yong would never have let him go on credit so easily.
It was the same with the jade pendant here.
Anyway, he You can't really exchange this for money.
Now that someone has gone out to advertise and the materials are in place, Luo Yong feels more at ease.
Even if you have less liquidity on hand now, it will definitely be a matter of time before you make money.
What he didn't expect was that Zhao Chen didn't want fermented bean curd but wanted miso this time.
Didn't he say last time that the reputation of fermented bean curd had spread to their Shuozhou City, so this thing was more valuable?
Why didn't he want bean curd this time?
After asking about it, I found out that this guy actually wanted to sell noodles.
He thought that processing soybean paste into noodles and then selling them would be more profitable, and he might even be able to run a well-known old restaurant. shop.
And he also told Luo Yong that he would not take away all the miso this time because he was worried that he would take too much and put it away.
So he only took part of it back this time, and when it was almost used up, he asked his servants to drive the carriage over to get it.
Luo Yong listened, but felt that it was not reliable, the journey was long, and the cost was too high.
"How long did Dalang spend on the road here?"
Luo Yong asked Zhao Chen.
"Twenty-one days."
Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.
Since the first time he came back to Xipo Village and saw these good things from the Luo family, he has been running between Lishi County and Shuozhou City.
He spent almost all of his time on the road.
Luo Yong was silent.
Even if Zhao Chen didn't say anything, he could still guess the hardships the other party had along the way.
In this era of underdeveloped industrial technology, everything had to rely on human and animal power, and traveling long distances was naturally very difficult.
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"How about I teach you how to make this bean paste?"
Luo Yong said.
"Seriously."
Zhao Chen opened his eyes wide, and his palms on the table unconsciously clenched into fists.
"Of course."
Luo Yong said: "But in the next two years, you have to continue to supply me with wool.
As long as the quantity is the same as this year, I will also prepare the fermented bean curd needed in exchange for the wool."
"In this case, I thank Sanlang."
Zhao Chen stood up and bowed like Luo Yong.
"If the price of wool increases next year, you must remember today's promise."
Luo Yong also stood up and reached out to hold up the other person's arm.
"That's natural."
Zhao Chen's family is also engaged in business.
Ever since he saw the wool felt cushions made by Luo Yong, he guessed that the price of wool would definitely increase in the future.
However, so far, no one else has purchased wool, so this batch of goods , he still sent Luo Yong here.
But by this fall and winter, if someone elsewhere can afford a better price, then the Zhao family will definitely choose to do business with new customers.
But after today, the situation has changed again.
Since Luo Yong was promised to supply him with so much wool next year, he will definitely do it.
As for other buyers, they will have to see what his family collects at that time.
Is there any surplus of wool?
Although the Shuozhou Zhao family is not as good as those big families in Taiyuan and Chang'an, they have also been operating on the grasslands for many years.
When it comes to dealing with herdsmen, they have an advantage over others.
Even if the price of wool increases next year, for them, If you want to purchase so much wool, it shouldn't be a big problem.
If it doesn't work, just send a few people to go deep into the grassland.
In the next few days, Zhao Chen began to learn how to make sauce from Luo Yong, while the men he brought with him went out to collect grain.
The price of food here in Lishi County is still relatively cheap, even cheaper than in Shuozhou and Taiyuan.
They drove the ox cart all the way here.
It is not cost-effective to go back with an empty cart.
At least they can transport some cheap food back.
If you transport it to Taiyuan City and resell it, you can make some money.
As for accommodation, the yard near Luo's house happened to be repaired, so they can all live there these days.
They just need to make a few more beds in the house and squeeze in.
Then you can stay.
Those who go out are not that particular.
Being able to rest in this village for a few days, eat well and sleep soundly is much better than when they are on the road.
By the time this group of people left, it was already mid-April and spring was deep.
In Chang'an City, flowers are flying in April, which is a good time for outing.
Recently, everyone in the city knows that Du Qilang got some soft socks of different colors from somewhere.
I heard they are very warm.
If you put on those socks and put on a pair of leather boots, the soles of your feet will be warm.
It's like holding a heater.
It's just that Du Qilang said that he only got a few pairs in total and refused to share them with others.
Then in the past two days, some people came to him with gifts to change their socks.
Some people changed their socks, while others didn't. , I don’t know whether the thing taken was not to Du Qilang’s liking, or the person taking the thing was not to Du Qilang’s liking.
Qiao Junlin's uncle, whose surname was Hou Minglin, worked in Hongwen Hall as the school secretary, ranking from the ninth grade.
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Although he is a lowly official, he has finally established himself in the city of Chang'an.
He had brought his nephew over earlier and planned to keep him by his side and train him well.
On this day, Hou Lin went to work in the Hongwen Hall as usual.
He felt that there was nothing wrong with him.
However, for some reason, many colleagues and students in the Hongwen Hall were staring at him.
Hou Lin looked at He felt puzzled for a while.
No one paid such attention to him in his normal behavior, and he didn't do anything today.
"Secretary Waiting, come on, let's ask you something."
"something serious" After such an exchange, Hou Lin finally figured out that what these people were looking at was not him, but the socks on his feet.
In recent days, he has spent a lot of time on his nephew, and does not go out to socialize and drink with these people.
The news is somewhat delayed.
This is the first time he has heard about Du Qilang.
Now their colleagues asked him if he knew the origin of the socks and if he could get a pair for each of them.
As for why, it was naturally to show off.
In this era, most official selections did not rely on imperial examinations.
The imperial examination system here was just a little Beibi that was just born, and it was not the opponent of those noble families at all.
At this time, people who wanted to be officials relied on family background and reputation.
The more famous a person was, the easier it was for them to get the attention of the upper class, and the more opportunities they had to get ahead.
Since his colleagues had said so, Hou Lin naturally couldn't refuse.
In fact, he didn't want to refuse, because he wanted to have a good relationship with his colleagues and also wanted to be in the limelight.
Then that night, after Hou Lin returned home, he told Qiao Junlin that he and several of his colleagues had discussed it and arranged for two servants to go to Xipo Village to buy socks, and asked Qiao Junlin to give them a token, so as not to When people got there, other twists and turns occurred.
"After all this time, I'm afraid it's going to be summer."
Qiao Junlin scratched his hair.
He was chewing on books until he was dizzy and couldn't figure out what these Chang'an people wanted to do.
"No problem."
The school secretary said that summer would not prevent them from wearing woolen socks.
As for tokens, Qiao Junlin reached out and touched the piece of paper in his arms.
After thinking about it, he felt a little reluctant to part with it, so he bent down and took off the socks he was wearing. "" The principal student was silent, but he still reached out and took the socks.
He himself has a pair of socks like this, but he doesn't intend to use them as tokens for others, because he still has to wear them.
Qilang of the Du family in Jingzhao is a popular figure in Chang'an City, so he also has what Du Qilang has. , this is such a revealing thing.
The author has something to say: Sorry this update comes a little late I caught 6 and 13 again tonight.
I seem to have a special affinity with these two numbers recently.
The red envelope for Chapter 27 has been given away.
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