In this era, there are no wheat grinding machines.
The white flour used to make dumplings is to grind the wheat grains in a stone mill first, sift out the whitest and finest wheat core, and then grind them into white flour. flour.
The remaining coarse grains with skin are ground and then sifted to remove the wheat bran, and the result is thick flour.
The Xu family guesthouse makes three oil-dregs buns for a penny every evening, and uses thick flour to make deep-fried buns.
Thick noodles are also used to make soybean noodles, and thick noodles are used to make jujube and bean cakes.
Only these dumplings use white noodles.
White flour is really very expensive.
The fat dumplings made from this white bread only cost six cents per pound.
If you use someone with clumsy hands to make the dumplings with thick skin, you will lose money in the end.
The more you gain, the more you will gain.
Nowadays, Luo Yong and the others can sell hundreds of kilograms of frozen dumplings every day.
The merchants who live in the Xu family guesthouse always buy dozens or hundreds of kilograms of dumplings when they leave.
There are often people rushing to buy them in the city.
Ox carts and horse carts came to buy, and baskets of large dumplings that were frozen hard were carried to the carts.
Selling dumplings like this day by day, the income is also good.
Mainly, mutton is cheap and water spinach is not expensive.
Speaking of mutton, the local mutton in Lishi County is already cheap, but compared with some small border towns in the north, it is still more expensive.
In the past, in their Lishi County, about three liters of corn could be exchanged for one pound of meat.
If they moved to places close to pastoral areas, the price of meat would be cheaper.
About two liters or even less than two liters of corn could be exchanged for one pound of meat.
Meat.
Recently, here in Lishi County, basically only about two liters of corn can be exchanged for a pound of mutton.
At Chengzhou Market, one liter of corn is generally exchanged for one pound of meat.
Earlier, His Majesty the Emperor had sent capable officials to Chengzhou to purchase mutton for canning.
I heard that this official had a reputation for being upright and selfless.
After he arrived in Chengzhou, he had many notices posted outside the city for the purchase of live sheep.
As expected, some herdsmen brought their naked sheep to sell them in exchange for money.
After receiving the grain and cloth that satisfied them with the quantity and quality, some herdsmen and merchants who were still waiting to see the food went there one after another.
Within a few days, a batch of canned meat was shipped out of Chengzhou.
On this day, another group of prairie people came out of the city carrying a lot of cloth and food on their shoulders and handbags.
There are also controls on entry and exit in this city.
If you want to enter the city to sell mutton, you must first report your tribe name and confirm that you are indeed from this tribe before you can enter.
After entering the city, there will be soldiers following you. , and they are not allowed to wander around the city.
"What's wrong?
I got a good price in exchange for it."
As soon as the men came out, a large group of people immediately surrounded them outside the city.
Although there is no limit on the number of people who can enter the city to sell sheep, to many prairie people, this tall and solid city is like a beast.
The city gate is the beast's mouth.
They don't want to enter unless necessary.
Therefore, when these tribes arrange for people to go into the city to sell sheep, they often choose some relatively smart and capable young and old men.
In addition, they must ensure that their tribe has sufficient manpower outside the city.
Even if those who enter the city have an accident, their The tribe will not embark on the road of being annexed and extinct.
Generally speaking, in this area of Chengzhou, the relationship between the grassland people and the Han people is such a relationship of mutual cooperation and mutual defense.
"Yes, as those people said before, the price is more reasonable than the vendors in the market."
A man carrying a large bag of millet on his shoulders said with a smile.
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"That's good, that's good."
Those waiting outside the city also looked happy.
"Hey people over there, don't block the city gate if you have nothing to do," a soldier guarding the city shouted.
Nowadays, the situation in this city-state area is relatively complicated.
The officials above are also afraid that someone will take advantage of the chaos to launch a sneak attack.
They have been giving instructions to the officers and soldiers guarding the city all day long, just for fear that they will be even the slightest bit lax.
"Let's go, go back first, don't keep them waiting."
These prairie people did not intend to stay here longer.
Even if they divided the cloth and food they had exchanged, they carried and carried them.
After a while, they walked far away, and the area at the city gate suddenly seemed empty again.
Many of the officers and soldiers guarding the city looked here, and then focused on those who were about to enter the city at this time.
When they returned to their tribe's garrison, many women and children came out to welcome them.
They surrounded the men and sent the cloth and grain they had exchanged to the tribe leader.
Their tribe has always been like this.
The materials exchanged for each transaction must be handed over to the tribe leader first.
At that time, their tribe leader will keep part of it, and the rest will be distributed to the herdsmen under his banner.
Their tribe is relatively peaceful and friendly, and the patriarch and his family are not very extravagant and greedy.
I heard that in some tribes, the leaders would exploit and drive the herdsmen in the tribe like lambs.
In such tribes, fights and sacrifices are common.
"Yeah, yeah, eat some candy, I want some candy."
A group of children followed, pestering their adults for candy.
They had just arrived at this market in the past few days, and they were very surprised to see that there were so many vendors selling various items in this market this year.
Not far from this station, there is a stall that specializes in exchanging caramel for dried meat.
Three kilograms of dried meat can be exchanged for half a kilogram of caramel.
If it were left in the Central Plains, no one would care about it, but on these grasslands But the children still circled around the stall all day long.
"Okay, let's exchange for sugar."
A man unloaded the bag of grain on his shoulders, came out of the tent, picked up his baby, and laughed.
On the other side, a woman trotted back to her tent, put a bag of dried meat in a straw net bag and handed it to the father and son.
They have sold out of cashmere and soap in the past two days, and the sheep were sold at a good price today.
They don't have to worry about starvation this winter and next spring, and it doesn't hurt to keep less dried meat at home.
The candy seller was from Guan Nei, and he looked a bit honest and cowardly.
When the men on the grassland said a few words loudly, he would start to shrink his neck unconsciously.
He heard that their hometown was also very poor.
A caravan passed by their village earlier and said they were going to the Chengzhou Market.
He inquired with others and learned that there were no candy vendors in the Chengzhou Market last winter. , so he packed some wheat grains and millet and went to Chengzhou with the merchants.
Before leaving, his mother was still holding on to the door frame and crying, fearing that he might not survive when he returned.
However, this man was also a bit stubborn in his bones, and he held his neck and refused to look back.
The dolls at home are getting older day by day, and the boys from wealthy families are sent to study, and the girls are given beautiful clothes.
Their family has nothing, but they only know how to make candy, and every now and then they make something similar to the dolls.
My own children sometimes help others to satisfy their cravings, and they can earn some food.
The people in the caravan told him that when he went to the Chengzhou Market, if there were no other vendors selling candies, they would ask him to increase the price.
The people on the grassland were in no shortage of dried meat.
In addition, they rarely go to the market in a year and a half, so even if the price is higher, they will definitely buy it.
So this man offered the price of three kilograms of mutton for half a kilogram of caramel.
He was still feeling guilty at first, fearing that no one would buy his caramel.
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As a result, within two days, the dried meat in his tent was piled up.
It has become a hill.
Making candy is also hard work, but he is not tired at all, because this is the first time in his life that he can really taste the feeling of making money.
"Change it to caramel."
At this time, another man from the prairie threw a bag of dried meat onto his wooden cart.
Although this man's Mandarin was not standard, he could still understand it.
"Hey."
The Guannei man who was selling the candy quickly used his rough-made steel scale to weigh the dried meat.
Then he did the math and weighed the corresponding amount of candy and handed it over to the other party.
The man on the grassland took the candy, turned around and left without saying anything.
Anyone who has done business in this market for a few days basically knows that these grassland people are like this.
They have no formality and rarely greet others.
They get used to it after seeing them more.
"Yeah, yeah, I want some candy, I want some candy."
The man walked out of the crowd with a bag of candy.
His baby was jumping up and down beside him.
His father ignored him, so he jumped up.
His whole body hung on his father's arm.
The man smiled and strode towards his tent with a child hanging on one hand.
The man selling sweets in Guannai raised his head while he was busy, and happened to see such a scene.
A smile appeared on his honest face.
His eldest son is about the same age, but he is not as strong as these little cubs on the grassland.
When he makes money and goes back this time, he will buy them a lot of delicious food so that they all look like him.
These little babies on the grassland are generally strong.
I heard that the Chengzhou market is the busiest in the winter months.
When spring comes, all these barbarians will go back to the grasslands to graze.
These few months in winter happened to be the off-season for farming, so he could come here every year to sell candies.
""At this time, several extraordinarily strong Hu people came over.
I don't know which prairie they came from.
They didn't speak Chinese at all, and they were chattering without knowing what they were talking about.
"Hey, hey."
The people in the pass didn't care what they said.
They just accepted the dried meat, weighed the candies for them, and calculated the weight carefully.
They didn't dare to have the slightest thought of being greedy for ink.
I heard that these grassland people are the most willing to accept death.
If he really dared to do that, he would be beaten to death in this market.
Two days ago, a group of Hu merchants from the west got into a fight with a small tribe on the grassland.
Because those Hu merchants bullied the grassland people and didn't know how to count, they tricked them.
As a result, when those people came to their senses, Immediately he mounted his horse, picked up his sword, and went to fight for those merchants.
I heard that several of those Hu merchants were chopped down, and finally the city's officers and soldiers were dispatched to drive all these two groups of people away from the market.
As for catching the murderer, no one even mentioned it. "" Those grassland people don't know what they are talking about.
"Hey, hey."
The man selling the sweets just nodded and bowed, speeding up the movements of his hands to weigh the sweets for them.
"Brother, brother," another group of little children ran over.
They were all strong and their legs swung like a whirlwind when they ran.
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"Hahahaha!"
Those barbarians quickly lifted up the group of little dolls and hung them on themselves.
When the candy seller finally weighed their candies, he took them and gave each of them a piece to the children, and then several people This person, with a string of dolls hanging on his body, left the stall with big steps.
The person in Guan Nei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, wiped a few drops of sweat from his forehead, and continued to do his business.
When someone came up to buy candy, he nodded to them.
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