Luo Yong was also very satisfied with Zheng's mother and daughter.
Zheng was indeed as hard-working as Grandma Yu said.
Over the past few days, the mother and daughter have kept the Luo family's pig pens in order.
She has also raised the new batch of piglets that were purchased a few days ago to be fat and strong.
The Luo family's pig feed is mainly bean dregs, grain bran and bran, with some chopped wild vegetables added and cooked together.
As for how many wild vegetables should be put in a pot of pig food, Luo Yong has no specific requirements.
He usually uses as much as he can dig out.
After mother and daughter Zheng fed the pigs every morning and afternoon, they would go out to the fields with bamboo baskets on their backs to pick wild vegetables, pigweed and grass.
Si Niang sometimes caught Wu Lang to help look after the shop, and she would also take her two younger children out for fun.
Recently, she usually went out to dig wild vegetables with Zheng and her daughter.
After the time entered mid-September, the weather became colder day by day, and the wild vegetables in the fields gradually became a little yellow.
Fortunately, they only used them to feed the pigs.
They took them back, washed them, chopped them, and put them in a pot with bean dregs.
Cook the bran together until it's hot, and it's the best pig food.
Zheng's mother and daughter have been digging a lot of wild vegetables every day recently.
If they can't use them all that day, they tie straw ropes and string them up to dry.
A lot of them have been dried outside the wall of Luo's courtyard.
It will be used after winter.
After the snow falls, there will be no wild vegetables to be dug outside.
"Sister, you are free."
On this afternoon, Wulang was caught by Si Niang again and stayed at home to look after the store.
After watching for a while, he saw Er Niang coming out of the backyard and asked him quickly.
He heard Xu Erlang and others talking about ditch repairs a few days ago.
They have started digging ditches in the past few days.
Wulang feels fresh and wants to go see the excitement every day, but he can't beat Siniang and is always detained by her.
Check out the store at home.
"Okay, you go."
Er Niang has always been easier to talk to Wu Lang.
He has been a well-behaved and sensible person since he was a child, and because of his weak body, Er Niang has always been particularly attentive to him.
"I'll go watch them dig ditches."
Wulang said, happily running back to watch the fun.
"Wait a minute, you must remember to come back to mix the chicken food."
Er Niang called him from behind.
"I know."
The boy Goro disappeared in a flash.
Er Niang smiled helplessly.
This boy was becoming more and more lively now, but he was also sensible and knew how to help the family.
Saburo often told her not to take on all the work on her own, and that the little ones in the family should always be in charge, so as not to turn them into a bunch of lazy people in the future.
This certainly makes sense.
Many people in the village say that their Sanlang is spoiled by children, but they don't know that he is not only spoiled, but also puts a lot of thought into it.
"Excuse me, I need two loads of cement."
At this time, a father and son pushing a cart came outside the Luo family's yard.
They pushed the cart down the slope, leaving the teenage boy there to look at the cart.
The young man entered the yard with a dozen copper coins in his pocket, counted twelve coins, and placed them on the counter of the grocery store.
"Hey, okay."
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Er Niang accepted the copper coins neatly, and then handed the other party two bamboo sticks.
The man took the bamboo stick and left the yard without saying anything.
This was not the first time he came back to Xipo Village to buy cement.
He exchanged money for the bamboo stick here, and then went to the cement workshop to exchange for cement.
Two loads of cement were tied to a wheelbarrow.
One of the father and son pushed the cart and the other pulled it.
It was not too strenuous.
These two loads of cement were bought from Xipo Village for twelve cents.
Once transported to the county, they would be worth at least fifteen cents.
If you meet wealthy households from other places who come to Lishi County to buy cement, you can pay whatever you want.
It's no problem to sell it for 16 or 7 cents.
Although those wealthy households owned bullock carts, it still took a whole day to walk back and forth from Xipo Village to Lishi County.
Anyway, they were not short of one or two cents, and most of them were willing to spend a few more copper coins to buy ready-made goods.
Outside Lishi County, a small cement market has recently formed.
At first, some wealthy households rushed to the outside of the city to wait for the porters carrying carts in order to collect cement.
Later, gradually, many People picked up cement from Xipo Village, and most of them traded there.
A few days ago, the government built a fence around the market and assigned officials to manage it.
These officials only collected market fees from the wealthy merchants who came here to buy cement, but did not take anything from the porters.
After all, if these porters were If you refuse to sell cement here and move to another place, then this market will have no existing value.
If you can't buy cement, no wealthy businessman will come here.
However, the local small businessmen and wealthy families in Lishi County generally do not come to this market, and rarely buy cement at high prices.
They usually have porters they are familiar with and fixed channels.
For the porters, although there is not much profit in cooperating with people from the same county, the advantage is safety and stability.
They are all from the same county, and they know each other well.
On this side, Luo Yong was receiving an old acquaintance, Guo An.
I think that not long after Luo Yong woke up, the first clan member he came into contact with was Guo An.
Two years later, Luo Yong's mentality is very different now from that time, and his situation is also different.
His understanding of this era and the gentry as a group is also much deeper than before.
There is a lot of information in Luo Yong's space.
Although it is not systematic, it is scattered.
As long as you search patiently, you can always find some useful information.
In the past two years, he has also learned from the merchants who come from north to south.
After hearing various rumors and taking a closer look, I gradually gained a clearer understanding of the status of the gentry group in this era.
Although the Guo family in Taiyuan behind Guo An is not a first-class family, it still has a long history.
Several people are now officials in the court and have a close relationship with the Cui family in Qinghe and the Wang family in Taiyuan.
Guo An came this time and brought bad news to Luo Yong, because Luo Yong's original making of papyrus angered quite a few gentry groups, so they boycotted Luo Yong and even the entire Lishi County. attitude, creating public opinion in Chang'an City, belittling Luo Yong and everything he created.
"Ever since Minister Liu was ridiculed in the street, few officials and students have stopped riding Yan'er.
Those who still use it today are mostly servants and hawkers."
Guo An was sitting in the hall of the Luo family, talking with Luo Yong Drink tea and talk.
After Luo Yong heard this, he frowned, thought for a moment, and asked, "Then they can use oil-paper umbrellas."
"Not often."
Guo An replied.
"I don't even need an oil-paper umbrella, what should I do on a rainy day?"
Luo Yong asked with a smile.
"Of course I still use a hat and a cloak."
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Guo An shook his head.
"Then they can use soap?"
Luo Yong asked again.
"Soap is in use."
Soap is now deeply ingrained in people's lives.
How can it be said that it is not used?
"That's good."
Luo Yong said with a smile: "I think the method of burning soil and dung should not be abandoned."
"That's natural."
Guo An also laughed, thought for a moment, and said, "Not everyone is like that."
Luo Yong is not too worried about this kind of resistance.
No matter how deliberately those people belittle it, good things are still good.
Even they themselves can't completely resist it, so how can they convince others.
Besides, the Tang Dynasty was also a very honest and down-to-earth era.
People even accepted Turkic war horses and barbarian costumes, just because the other party was indeed brave and good at fighting, and the war horses they raised were fat and strong.
The people of the Tang Dynasty could frankly admit the strength of each other, even if they were their own enemies, and did not deliberately belittle or discredit each other just because they had a war.
People at that time could even admit the advantages of their enemies, and were willing to trade with them or even learn from them.
How could such a group of people refuse to use the advanced technology brought from the 21st century just because of some unfounded disparagement?
What's more, Luo's coffin board is still very popular among the people, especially After he made the straw paper, many children from poor families were full of gratitude to him.
In the hall, tea smoke curled up, Luo Yong and Guo An sat across from each other drinking tea.
Luo Yong's method of making tea is also quite simple and crude.
He directly puts a few tea leaves into the stoneware bowl and boils the water.
He neither knows how to cook tea nor knows much about Kung Fu tea.
This is how he has been drinking it since he was a child. .
Guo An didn't think too much about it.
After all, it was normal for the other party to be a country boy who didn't know how to make tea.
It was rare to get tea leaves.
If the soup was clear and watery, just drink it.
"Er Niang asked me to bring some jujube bean cakes."
At this time, Peng Er came in holding a plate of jujube bean cakes.
"My sister is still careful."
Luo Yong said with a smile.
Date and bean cakes are not eaten every day in the Luo family's courtyard.
Needless to say, it must have been made freshly by Er Niang when she saw a distinguished guest coming to the house and asked Peng Er to go to the Xu family guest house to find her aunt.
Guo An thanked him, picked up a piece of jujube bean cake and took two bites.
Then he picked up the earthenware bowl and took a sip of hot tea.
He found it extremely delicious.
He took a sip of snacks and a sip of tea.
He was so happy after eating.
"Shishiro is hungry?"
Luo asked with a smile. "" Guo An looked at it.
In the blink of an eye, he had eaten more than half of the jujube bean cake on the plate.
He was a little surprised for a moment: "I'm really hungry."
"Since you're hungry, let's go to the Xu's guest house for dinner."
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This saves time, worry, and doesn't cost much.
The Xu family always felt that Luo Yong was taking care of their family's business, but they didn't know how affordable the food in the Xu family guest house was for a young man in the 21st century who had experienced rapid economic and social development.
To describe it, "you will earn it if you buy it".
The two of them walked to the entrance of the village and saw Guo An's servant Du Yishan herding horses, so they called him up and went to the Xu family guesthouse together.
Luo Yong opened his mouth and ordered a few dishes, including dumplings, mixed shredded pork, and fish.
After eating shredded pork, corn porridge, and chicken in clay pot, I asked Guo An and Du Yishan what they wanted.
It should be enough for three people to eat, so Guo An asked for nothing more, but Du Yishan opened his mouth and asked for an extra dumpling.
This dumpling is the only one in Xujia Guesthouse and cannot be eaten anywhere else.
This year, Du Yishan was sent by the head of the family to bring a batch of beans to Luo Yong to exchange for fermented bean curd.
At that time, he had eaten this dumpling in Xujia Guesthouse.
After returning, I keep thinking about it, but I can't eat it, but it makes him greedy.
The cold vegetables and corn porridge were served the fastest.
The three of them drank a few mouthfuls of hot porridge as a base, and then ate a few chopsticks of cold vegetables as an appetizer.
The corn used to make the porridge is freshly grown in the past few days.
It is sticky and glutinous, with a faint rice aroma, and is very delicious.
The three shredded noodles are made from shredded dried tofu, soybean sprouts and scallion leaves.
There is neither kelp nor rice noodles, but the taste is quite good and very refreshing.
"If you can put some kelp shreds in here, the taste will be even better."
Luo Yong took a chopstick and mixed the three shreds, and said to Guo Andu and Du Yishan with a smile.
"If we really put in the shredded kelp, this dish would cost not just three cents, but even thirty cents."
Du Yishan took a mouthful of corn porridge, picked up another chopstick, mixed the three shreds, and stuffed it into his mouth.
The food at Xujia Guest House is a little different from other places.
It's just a stack of cold vegetables, with sesame oil and pepper oil in it, minced garlic, vinegar and a little soy sauce in it.
This big plate is for sale.
Three pennies is really delicious and affordable.
I just wish I could buy it every day and eat it every day.
"In Chang'an City, the price of kelp is cheaper than here," Luo Yong asked Guo And.
"It's not cheap either."
Guo An said: "Kelp is rarely produced in the southern seas.
Fishermen in the north occasionally harvest it, but only a small amount.
This product is mostly produced in Ryukyu and Goguryeo.
After several turnovers, it reached the Central Plains.
The price is naturally very high.”
Guo An deserves to be from a noble family.
Because his family is well-educated and he has more opportunities to go out and expand his knowledge than others, he is well-informed and can talk about anything casually mentioned at the dinner table.
Luo Yong also just learned not long ago that kelp was still a rare thing in this era.
It was expensive and ordinary people couldn't afford it.
They bought some occasionally, and they were mostly used as medicine to treat big neck diseases.
At this time, People also call it galls.
While talking, two large plates of dumplings were also brought up.
Because dinner time was coming soon, the aunt and others had already prepared some dumpling wrappers and meat fillings.
At this time, they only needed to add seasonings, mix the dumpling fillings, wrap them up and put them on the table.
Just cook it in the pot.
Aunt Luo and her wife now make a lot of dumplings every day, and they have also mastered the technique of making dumplings.
They squeeze and squeeze one with their hands.
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The speed is so fast that Lin Wulang just keeps the fire under the stove burning brightly and waits for him.
The fire was boiling, and the aunt had already made two large plates of dumplings.
Each of these dumplings were made with thin skin and big, tender and juicy, rich and delicious taste.
Du Yishan finished a large plate by himself, and he was still a little bit unsatisfied.
Fortunately, the fish-flavored shredded pork and clay pot chicken were also served at this time.
Luo Yong saw that the three shredded noodles on the table had also been finished, so he ordered another plate of tofu mixed with green onions and a stir-fried mustard greens.
There must be a meat and vegetable dish.
Pair it well so you won’t get tired of eating it.
The clay pot chicken is made by chopping the rooster into pieces, putting it in a clay pot with ginger, green onion, soy sauce and cooking wine, and slowly simmering it over low heat.
This dish is actually ready-made in the kitchen and was made today at noon.
It's not sold out, so it's okay to have a meal or two as the weather gets cooler recently.
If it's warmed up, it'll actually become more flavorful when you eat it.
The chicken, which is more than half a year old, is simmered in a clay pot until the skin is soft and glutinous, and the muscles are still chewy.
There is not a lot of seasoning, but it tastes very delicious.
Du Yishan finished eating several pieces of chicken in succession, took another sip of hot porridge, mixed the three shredded shreds with only one chopstick left on the plate, and then went to the plate of fish-flavored shredded pork.
After eating this chopstick, he felt A bit different.
"This fish-flavored shredded pork seems a little different from what I ate last time."
Du Yishan said, reaching out and picking up another chopstick to eat.
"What's the difference?"
This was the first time for Guo An to eat the fish-flavored shredded pork from Xu's Guesthouse.
Naturally, he didn't know how this dish had been improved.
He just thought it was delicious.
Looking at the thick soup, he was originally worried.
It would be very greasy, but the result is that it is not greasy, the taste is fragrant and strong, and it is slightly refreshing, delicious but not greasy.
Guo An searched on the plate, and he found something different.
This plate of fish-flavored shredded pork had some sauce-colored shredded vegetables added to it.
He chewed it carefully in his mouth, and there were also some Judging from the fragrance of courgette, it seems that this thing is pickled courgette with sauce.
He guessed right.
When Luo Yong first taught Xu's guest house how to make fish-flavored shredded pork, because there were no pickled peppers, he just used some pickles instead.
The taste was not strong enough, so he added a little more sauce.
This summer, when courgettes and cucumbers were ripe, Luo Yong picked some tender cucumbers and marinated them with the base of the soy sauce tank.
Then he used these pickled cucumbers to make fish-flavored shredded pork, without adding the previous pickles.
The taste of pickled cucumbers is still different from that of pickled peppers, but the fish-flavored shredded pork made this way has a different flavor and tastes good.
In addition, he later found out from the pink notebook a kind of fried noodles with cooking oil.
This method of thickening is much more fragrant than using flour to thicken it directly.
Du Yishan guessed the courgette, but he couldn't guess the secret of thickening it.
Even if they followed the same recipe after they went back, the taste would still be worse.
In their restaurants and guesthouses in Lishi County, there are many people who have learned how to cook in Xu's guesthouses.
Some of the chefs are good at cooking and the cooking is quite delicious, but there are always one or two tricks that they can't figure out.
For example, how to thicken fish-flavored shredded pork, how to make dumpling fillings so tender, juicy and full of flavor, how to make jujube bean cake so fluffy, fragrant and soft These may not seem like a big deal, but for some people who are naughty and delicious, it is like being opened to a new world, and they can’t wait to eat it every day.
Luo Yong was wondering at this moment whether the old gourmets could help with the road construction in Xipo Village and make the road smoother, so that they would be less bumpy when they came to eat in the future. gd1806102: