Aunt Yin and her sisters have just started on the road here, but in Liangzhou City, Luo Erniang and the others have already started a tofu business with a few people.
These days, the price of cashmere in Liangzhou City has been rising steadily.
Luo Erniang doesn't buy it much now, and she doesn't hire anyone to help process cashmere.
The cashmere purchased earlier, with the help of the four remaining helpers and the female relatives of the Zhao family, can be completely processed before autumn, and all of them can be processed into cashmere thread.
The Zhao family in Shuozhou is also a family that rose from poverty.
Their life has really become better in less than ten years.
Moreover, what a merchant family like theirs values is the courage to venture and fight, as well as perseverance.
The women of the Zhao family are as capable of enduring hardship as the men of the Zhao family.
Zhao Chen's father, Zhao Qi, has a very big advantage, that is, as the head of the family, he always only looks at character, not family status, when it comes to the marriages of his sons and nephews.
Of course, marrying a daughter still requires some requirements for the in-laws' family background.
This is also a tradition inherited from Zhao Qi's fathers, so the female relatives who live in the same courtyard with Er Niang and the others recently have different backgrounds.
Some come from high-ranking families, some from small families, and even some There was a daughter from a porter's family.
The Zhao family is not arrogant and extravagant.
Before the guest house was built, these women were happy to help Luo Erniang and others with handicrafts to earn some pocket money for themselves and the children at home.
In order to thank the Zhao family for taking care of her, Luo Erniang also taught them the art of spinning cashmere thread.
After they stopped buying cashmere in large quantities, Erniang and the others were much freer than before.
They had made tofu several times when preparing meals for the employees, and the response was very enthusiastic.
So after having free time, they I wanted to make some tofu to sell.
Among the four hired hands that Er Niang has now, there is a woman named Wu.
Her husband's surname is Xi, and she lives only a few steps away from Er Niang's yard.
The Xi family and his son are both hard-working and kind-hearted people.
Earlier when Er Niang and the others were shipping and purchasing goods, if they saw them, they would come over to help.
There is also an old lady in the Xi family.
She is old and has poor health.
She stays in the yard all day, cleaning the house, knitting straw sandals, feeding their chickens, and occasionally carrying a basket out.
When shopping for groceries, she is not like other old ladies who sit idle at the entrance of the alley all day, chatting endlessly about things happening here and there.
Er Niang had a good impression of this family, so she decided to sell tofu.
When she needed help, she first thought of the Xi family.
On this day, she mentioned this matter to Awu, saying that she wanted to ask her husband and two sons to help make tofu.
In addition to two meals a day, she would also give three cash and ask Awu if he liked it.
Awu was naturally filled with joy.
Her husband and two sons were outside moving goods for others.
This was the best of times.
Sometimes they went out to be porters for others, which was not only difficult but also dangerous.
Besides, when it comes to working elsewhere, Luo Erniang and the others have good food here.
Not to mention the wages, there are people willing to do this job just for two meals a day.
The man and son of Awu are also willing.
This job is close to home, has no danger, is very stable, and the food is good.
The three of them can still earn three Wen per day, which is already a very good job in Liangzhou City. of work.
It is not suitable for a place to make tofu in this yard.
After all, this is not Er Niang’s own yard.
There are many people living in the yard.
Once the tofu is made, there are tofu baskets, stone mills and There are big pots and stoves, people coming in and out of the yard, taking up space and making a lot of noise.
Erniang and the others sold a few sets of cashmere sweater pants that they had just knitted recently.
The price of cashmere had just gone up recently, and these sets of sweater pants were also sold at a good price.
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With this money, plus some earned from selling cashmere a few days ago, and some borrowed from Zhao Chen, Erniang and the others bought a small, square yard outside in an alley near the street.
Before going out, Luo Yong told her that if she was short of money in Liangzhou City, she should borrow some from Zhao Chen first.
If she couldn't pay it back, Luo Yong would help her pay it back in the future.
He also said that if you earn money, you don’t have to think about sending it home.
These days, it’s either copper plates or cloth.
The transportation fee alone costs a lot.
It’s better to buy some properties in Liangzhou City.
Land and houses are likely to increase in price in the future, so it would be best to buy more.
At this time, Erniang and the others were making tofu and needed a place.
They had some money on hand, so they simply borrowed some from Zhao Chen and bought such a yard.
When Er Niang told Zhao Chen about this, Zhao Qi happened to be there, and the old man was surprised.
How could this teenage girl have such an idea?
The younger generation of ordinary people, as old as Er Niang, even if they are married, rarely make their own decisions on major matters such as purchasing a property.
"This Luo family is indeed a bit unusual."
After Er Niang left, Zhao Qi said to Zhao Chen.
"Luo Erniang didn't seem to be a standout when she was at home, but she can still stand on her own after she comes out."
Zhao Chen said.
"She's not a provocateur yet," Zhao Qi said in surprise.
"There is also a fourth mother in the Luo family who is able to run a store by herself at the age of eleven or twelve.
I once saw her dealing with a matchmaker."
Zhao Chen said.
"Luo Sanlang is not afraid that she will make mistakes when it comes to business matters."
Zhao Qi was even more surprised.
"He doesn't feel bad if something goes wrong.
His little girl feels bad for herself."
Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"She is a teenage girl, but she can deal with the matchmaker very well.
If she says something inappropriate," the matchmaker's mouth would be scary even for a veteran like Zhao Qi.
"The coffin board is not afraid of these things."
Zhao Chen waved his hand.
The matchmaker's mouth is scary, but the coffin board is not scary in their place, and no matchmaker would be so thoughtful that he would make him uncomfortable.
"The dozens of chickens in the Luo family have always been raised by their children.
Sometimes they died, and Luo Sanlang didn't feel bad.
Once there was a chicken plague, and most of the chickens in the family died, causing the chickens in his family to die.
The little baby dropped the golden beans, but later he began to clean the chicken pen frequently, and would catch sick chickens alone and lock them up. " Zhao Chen also has some feelings about Luo Yong's method and attitude in educating children.
He is now an older male bachelor and is not yet married.
When he gets married and has children in the future, he plans to raise them in this way.
On this side, Erniang and the others quickly opened the tofu shop near the entrance of the alley after some preparations.
Although the price of grain is high in Liangzhou City, beans are not very expensive, because beans are easy to grow no matter where they are, and many people in Liangzhou grow them.
Erniang and the others asked someone to make a big stone mill.
They could use this big stone mill to grind the beans quickly.
If the beans are fully soaked, they only need to grind them once and they will be fine enough.
They can directly catch them with a bucket, filter out the bean dregs, and put them into the pot.
Go cook.
When ordering tofu, they still use physalis.
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Although they have also tried marinated tofu and gypsum tofu in the past two years, in the end, after eating it, they still like physalis tofu the best.
As soon as the tofu is cooked in the yard here, many people in Liangzhou City will know about it.
There were rumors in the city that Luo Erniang, who is now living with the Zhao family, is the sister of Luo Sanlang from Lishi.
Now that the tofu is being made, this rumor has been confirmed.
The tofu made by Luo Erniang and others this time was priced at one penny and two yuan, which was twice as high as the price in Lishi County.
If compared with Xipo Village, it was more than twice as high.
Because in Liangzhou City, not only are beans a little more expensive than in Lishi, but firewood and water are not easy to come by.
There is less rainfall in this place, and the vegetation is not as lush as that in Lishi.
The price of firewood is naturally higher, and it is not convenient to draw water.
Erniang and the others have to pay extra money to hire someone to fetch water to make tofu.
However, the rich merchants in Liangzhou City all think that the price is very fair.
You can buy two palm-sized pieces of fresh tofu for one penny.
Everyone thinks it is quite worth it.
Even those from less well-off families occasionally buy it.
You can buy it once or twice to enjoy it freshly.
In the past two years, their life in Liangzhou City has been better than before.
The cashmere business and soap business in the city are very prosperous, and there are more merchants coming and going than in previous years.
As long as the local people are willing to work hard with others, they can earn some money.
Money and food.
Just two days after Luo Erniang and her friends opened their tofu workshop, business was booming, and they couldn't sell enough tofu every day.
In order to make more tofu, they got up and worked before dawn every day until it got dark, and they would light oil lamps and work for another hour or two.
As the saying goes, there are three hardships in life.
Making a living by punting a boat, blacksmithing and selling tofu, making tofu and selling tofu is indeed hard work, especially in this era, everything depends on manpower.
The stone mill must be pushed by manpower, and the clean water must be picked up.
That basket It takes effort to move a basket of tofu in and out.
However, although selling tofu is a small business, the little money can add up to a lot, and the money can be made at a very fast rate.
During this day after day of work, Er Niang quickly accumulated funds on hand.
As soon as they get busy here, no one will do the knitting work.
In Liangzhou City, the price of cashmere sweaters and pants is much higher than that in Shizhou.
It is a pity not to earn this money.
Er Niang didn't know that Aunt Yin and her sisters were already on their way to Liangzhou City.
"Er Niang, let me scoop some slurry water."
On this day, Luo Er Niang and the others were busy.
There was an endless stream of people buying tofu in the yard, and there was a lot of noise.
A neighbor came over with a wooden bucket and said to Luo Er Niang.
Er Niang shouted.
"Hey, just go ahead and scoop it out."
Luo Erniang was standing by the stove stirring the soy milk in the big pot.
When she heard her say that she wanted to scoop out the milk water, she turned around and spoke to her loudly. .
The excess water produced by making tofu has recently been developed into new uses by the people of Liangzhou City.
In the past, when people in Xipo Village made tofu, except for leaving a small amount of pulp water to ferment into physalis, most of the excess pulp water was thrown away directly.
Some of them were reluctant to throw it away and used it to cook pig food.
But the people in Liangzhou City use this slurry as a detergent.
It can be used everywhere for washing dishes, clothes, hair and face.
This incident is also related to the local water shortage in Liangzhou.
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Most local people are very economical with water.
At first, the father and son surnamed Xi saw that the extra slurry for making tofu was warm and clean, so they directly I used it to wash my hands and face.
After washing for a few days, I found that my hands and face were much cleaner than before.
After this incident spread, people often came to Er Niang's yard with buckets to ask for syrup.
It was of no use for Er Niang and the others to keep so much of it themselves, so they were very generous, as long as someone came to ask for it.
Just let them scoop it out.
However, there are already a lot of people in this yard, and now more people are added to scoop out slurry water, so it will inevitably look crowded and messy sometimes.
In addition, when making tofu, there will inevitably be some soup and water.
With everyone stepping on it, the whole yard looks a bit muddy.
Er Niang wanted to buy some cement for renovation, but the cement in Liangzhou City was so expensive.
In the past, a load of soil and cement in their village cost only five or six cents.
As soon as she found out about the price of cement here, Er Niang immediately became a little worried.
Back off.
Most of the cement here in Liangzhou City comes from Chang'an City, and the ex-factory price is relatively high.
Add in the freight and the profits that merchants strip off during the process of changing hands.
A load of cement cannot be purchased for less than 70 to 80 yuan.
After Zhao Chen heard about this, he sent a few loads of cement over.
The guesthouse they built this time also required a lot of cement.
Because of the large amount of cement, they contacted a large company that specializes in selling cement.
For merchants, the prices are naturally slightly lower than those on the market.
Erniang and the others used these loads of cement to level the floor of the yard, and then built two rows of half-person-high structures similar to laundry pools on both sides of the yard against the walls.
There were places to put wooden frames inside and outside the pool.
When pressing tofu, you can place the tofu basket directly on top, and then the slurry water flowing out of the basket will fall into the sink below.
These two water troughs are connected to the two pools outside the yard.
The two pools are built on the left and right sides outside the gate of the yard.
They are less than half a person tall and about two feet wide.
They are relatively long.
They can hold a lot. slurry water.
From now on, if the neighbors in the area want water, they don't have to go to the yard to ask Luo Erniang and others for it.
They don't even need to say hello, they can just go there and fetch it themselves with a bucket.
Some of them were not familiar with Luo Erniang at first.
They had never bought tofu because they lived in a tight life.
They used to be too embarrassed to come to them to make water.
Now they see two large ponds built outside their yard. , many people went to fight, so they went too.
If you use this kind of water to wash clothes and bathe, you will have a light bean scent on your body.
Everyone likes this smell and says it smells good.
There was a Confucian businessman who came from Chang'an City.
After smelling this smell on several local people one after another, he became a little curious.
When he asked about it, he learned the reason.
He immediately sighed and even made his own decision to Luo Er.
The two ponds in front of my mother's house were named "Suxin Pond".
The word "Su" means clean, so it is appropriate to name these two pools Su Xin Po.
Firstly, it naturally praises Luo Erniang's plain heart, and secondly, it points out that the slurry in this pool is clean.
In addition, it also has the vague intention of persuading people to do good.
Although he named someone else's pond without the consent of the owner, I have to say that the name was quite good.
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The people in Liangzhou City also thought it was good, and the name naturally spread.
What is a little embarrassing is that there are many followers who lack literary talent but are more than enthusiastic.
Every once in a while you can hear someone say that so and so has written a poem for Su Xinchi, a parallel prose or something, but they are not very good at writing it.
After all, in a borderland like Liangzhou City, do you think you can really do it?
How many talented people are there?
Although Luo Erniang has not read many books, there is a scholar in her family, and she has been slightly influenced by the gentlemen who lived in the Xu family guest house before, so she can somewhat tell that these guys are just copying the words.
It doesn’t matter if it’s appropriate or not, as long as it’s something that compliments others, then just grab it and use it.
Luo Erniang was so praised by these people that she felt embarrassed.
She stayed in their yard making tofu all day long, and couldn't wait to take a step outside.
Being thousands of miles away, Luo Yong was embarrassed at this time.
Because His Majesty the Emperor suddenly issued an imperial edict out of nowhere and praised him without any reason, saying that Luo Yong was a benevolent and talented man.
Although he had no intention of pursuing an official career, the Emperor loved talents so much that he was really reluctant to let him do this.
His precious talents were left in the wilderness, so the emperor decided to build a cement road from Chang'an City to Lishi County to facilitate Luo Sanlang's frequent visits to Beijing. . .
Luo Yong was a little dumbfounded after hearing this edict.
This is so nonsense, where did it come from?
His Majesty the Emperor has shown such favor to him that he even built a concrete road for him, so what should he give in return?
Is the gift of canned prescription a little too light?
After thinking about it, I still feel that something is not quite right.
This road was really built for Luo Yong.
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