Within a few days, a young man who went to Xiaohe Village to sell tofu came back with news that Zou Li was asking his village to arrange for two women to go into the city with him on July 17.
Governor Hao wanted to promote the newly acquired hemp spinning wheel technology in Shizhou.
He had already distributed the several spinning wheels he had built to his five county magistrates, who would then promote the technology to all townships. .
Although the location of Xipo Village is a bit off, it is still under the jurisdiction of Lishi County, so it is relatively easy to get there in time for everything.
There are a total of five counties in Shizhou, namely Lishi, Pingyi, Dinghu, Linquan and Fangshan.
Among them, Lishi County and Dinghu County have slightly larger populations, while the other three counties have slightly smaller populations.
Once, when Luo Yong and Zou Lizheng were discussing their experiences in raising pigs, he asked him about the population of Lishi County.
"How many people does Sanlang think our county should have?"
Zou Lizheng asked him with a smile.
"Fifty thousand" Luo Yong reported a relatively conservative number.
If left in the 21st century, any town, let alone a county, would have a population greater than this. "" Zou Lizheng didn't say anything, just smiled and shook his head.
"Thirty thousand" Luo Yong guessed again. "" Zou Lizheng still shook his head.
Luo Yong was silent and said: "Ten thousand" "I'm afraid it may not be enough."
Zou Lizheng shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Your Xipo Village is very lively now.
People come and go every day.
How can it be like this elsewhere."
"The previous dynasty was tyrannical and refused to live with the people.
The people had no way of living, and the population naturally became thinner and thinner.
Then the dynasties changed and wars broke out.
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty by Emperor Gaozu, which was only sixteen or seventeen years ago, He was born in the first year of Wude, and he is only sixteen or seventeen years old now.
Not to mention that there were wars in Wude years, and there were also wars in the early years of Zhenguan.
The war was originally about taking human lives. " What kind of concept does a county have a population of 10,000?
The second-rate university where Luo Yong studied in the past had 20,000 students.
Those 20,000 people were scattered on such a large campus, so it didn't seem like there were many people there.
For the first time in his life, Luo Yong felt that the number ten thousand sounded so desolate.
He also knew that the population at this time was sparse, but he didn't expect it to be so sparse.
In the following more than a month, tools such as hemp spinning wheels were vigorously promoted in their land.
This kind of spinning wheel is not a precision instrument, and it does not necessarily require skilled craftsmen to build it.
As long as the average villager knows a few carpentry tasks and follows the example of a cat, he can basically tinker with a usable hemp spinning wheel for his own family.
It's just that some people do it well, and some people don't.
The Luo family's hemp spinning wheel was placed directly outside the yard for everyone to look at.
Some villagers simply brought wooden tools over and set up a stall there and followed suit.
Not to mention, the Luo family was doing this at that time.
It’s really lively here.
Those who don't have a man in their family, or who really don't know how to do it, ask their fellow villagers to help make one, and then send some thank you gifts.
With this linen spinning wheel, the speed of spinning linen was indeed much faster.
But at the beginning, some people couldn't adapt.
There were one or two older people who really couldn't learn it, so they had to give up and still use it.
Specialized in spinning and twisting threads.
Most young people learn quickly.
Luo Yong watched Er Niang and the others, and they were very smooth in just two or three days.
Even Fourth Niang and Wu Lang could spin a few times.
Wu Lang was a child who could sit still, and the boy was in front of the spinning wheel.
Si Niang couldn't stand it after sitting for a long time.
She would rather go up the mountain to collect firewood or go outside to hunt pig grass than do this.
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"With such uncertainty, who will dare to marry her in the future?"
Erniang would often say something to her.
"Sister, you are not willing to marry yourself, why are you telling me this?"
Si Niang just ran around outside for a long time and came back with a basket of pigweed.
She also picked some wild fruits and there was a lot of grass on her head.
The last son, his hair is also messed up.
"I'm used to blocking me with words.
Please hurry up and take care of the house.
If you don't see me, you'll think you're some crazy girl."
The second mother said and pulled her into the house.
Luo Yong listened to the bickering between the two sisters with a smile.
The fourth mother was really discerning.
She usually talked back to the second mother.
It was only when the other mother was in a good mood.
One day the second mother would get really angry. , she quietly found a place to nest.
Recently, Tian Chonghu changed his gender.
He spends all day making and selling tofu with his parents at home, and no longer runs around the village and has fun.
Then Luo Siniang has a faint tendency to become the boss of the children.
Luo Yong looked at the wild fruits she picked back.
They were not bad.
There were no fruits in their area.
Except for a few persimmon trees in Xipo Village, Luo Yong had never seen any other fruit trees.
It’s also good to eat some wild fruits occasionally to supplement some trace elements.
Luo Yong washed these wild fruits, picked up one and took a small bite.
It was so sour, and it was a pity to lose it, so he scooped a spoonful of brown sugar from the kitchen, put it in a stoneware bowl, brought it out, and called his family These little ones ate wild fruits with brown sugar.
After a while, the aunt and others came over and saw that her brothers and sisters were actually eating wild fruits like this.
They also laughed: "Eat wild fruits and dip them in sugar.
Look, you all have gained weight again after not seeing each other for a few days."
"Sister, I'm not fat, I've grown taller."
Wulang said quickly.
"Let me see."
Lin Xingle compared Wulang's height and said, "He has really grown taller."
"Sister-in-law, please sit here for a little longer today.
We will make porridge later.
Stay and eat together."
Luo Yong said to the two of them.
Over at the Lin family, in addition to having a lot of fields to plant, they also have a vinegar business.
Sometimes they are very busy.
When things get busy over there, the aunt comes back less.
It is rare for the two of them to come together today, Luo.
Just invite them to stay and have porridge together.
In order to supplement nutrition for the large and small family, the Luo family now cooks porridge every afternoon.
Whether it was Luo Yong himself or Er Niang, Si Niang and Wu Lang, they were all in the stage of growing taller at the moment, and all of them were able to eat well.
They had just eaten at noon, and it didn't take long for them all to become hungry again.
Recently, at two or three o'clock every afternoon, their family is cooking either sweet or salty porridge.
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Salty porridge is usually white rice porridge with meat and yam.
White rice is very expensive in their place.
Luo Yong bought it twice and it was very painful.
However, although it is expensive, white rice at this time is actually more nourishing.
The things put in the sweet porridge are mixed.
It is basically eight-treasure porridge.
It not only contains sorghum, red beans, millet, red dates and other things, but also dried longans and lychees that Luo Yong bought from the dry goods store in the county, as well as lotus seeds, walnuts and other miscellaneous things.
Put a little bit of everything, and this is the top delicacy for the children of the Luo family.
After a while, the eldest mother and the second mother went into the house to spin thread and talk together.
The fourth mother and five young men were staying in the canteen, looking at the store while completing the word-recognition and counting tasks assigned to them by Luo Yong today.
Luo Yong went to the kitchen to wash rice and make porridge, while Lin Xingle went to help light the fire.
What we were cooking today was sweet porridge.
When Lin Xingle saw the southern dried fruits Luo Yong took out from the vat, he was a little surprised: "You are too willing to eat them."
"Brother-in-law, please don't go out and say that if you don't know, you will think that my family has some kind of gold and silver."
Luo Yong said with a smile.
He also knew that Lin Xingle was an honest person and would not have any bad intentions, but he was afraid that he would be careless and treat it as something new and tell others.
"If you don't let me say it, I won't say it."
Lin Xingle agreed.
Although he didn't say it, it couldn't stop the aroma of porridge from wafting out of the yard.
At this time, all the villagers passing by Luo's yard had to swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva.
In this desolate and barren era, some people have spent their entire lives.
I have never smelled such a rich sweet fragrance.
The same goes for Lin Xingle, who has a fire burning in the kitchen.
Although his family has some money and food, they live frugally.
There has never been a time to spend money lavishly.
Things like those longan and lotus seeds, which he only grew up in in the county.
I saw it a few times in dry goods stores, but Father Lin and Mother Lin would never buy it.
While eating porridge, Luo Yong saw a child poking his head outside, so he waved him in.
This child's surname is Feng and his nickname is Gou'er.
Apart from him, there is only one grandma left in the family.
However, his grandma is a bit crazy and has good times and bad times.
"You can eat what you want and don't go out to talk."
Luo Yong gave him a bowl of hot porridge.
"Hmm."
The kid didn't mind that it was too hot to drink, so he kept his head down and drank.
"If you go out and say it, they will snatch it from you another day."
Siniang added.
What she said was to the point.
Feng Gouer was not afraid of anything else but that other children in the village would compete with him for food.
"Yeah," Feng Gou'er nodded sharply.
"Eat slowly, don't choke."
Seeing the child swallowing the hot porridge, Luo Yong remembered what Zou Li was telling him back then.
There were only ten thousand people in this entire county, and every child was extremely precious, but there were so many children.
I can't even fill my stomach every day, and I live a life of precarity.
I don't know if I will grow up one day.
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This Feng Gou'er looks a little silly.
I don't know what he will be like when he grows up.
Some children wake up late and are slow when they are young.
There is no telling whether they will be able to do great things when they grow up.
Luo Yong didn't expect this kid to repay him a favor in the future.
After all, he had food and drink at home, and he couldn't just watch a child in the village starve to death.
The child's body is obviously suffering from some problems.
I don't know if such a bowl of sweet porridge can be slightly beneficial. gd1806102: