In the Luo family, Luo Siniang's brothers and sisters also sat around the house reading letters that night.
In fact, I had read it before.
The aunt and her husband were there at that time.
They had already gone back.
After dinner, the children took out the letter and read it again.
What should be explained has been explained before.
This time Luo Yong wrote a letter, mainly about tea.
The letter he wrote to his family was nothing more than to report that they were safe, and then told them some things about Hexi.
Several children read his letter as a travelogue about the customs and customs there, and they read it with great interest.
At the end of the letter, as the head of the family, Luo Yong inevitably told the family members to study hard and exercise frequently.
"Go to bed early, I have to study tomorrow morning."
"Sister, please take me to Bai's house tomorrow."
"Why are you going to Bai's house?"
"I want to ride a big horse" "You little brat, you can't even climb on a horse's back, yet you're still riding a big horse."
"I'm going, I'm going" "When you grow taller."
"When will that wait?"
"Then it depends on whether you grow up quickly or not." "" Luo Siniang often goes to the Bai family to take classes recently.
The elders of the Bai family hire people to teach their children in martial arts.
Most of these big families attach great importance to the training of the next generation.
The adults of the Bai family often go to the battle in person and serve as guest teachers. role.
Luo Siniang is good at arithmetic, and can memorize the Book of Songs and other things very smoothly.
Even compared with the children of the Bai family who have received a good education since childhood, her foundation is not too bad, and her learning ability is very strong.
Her joining can put pressure on some lazy children of the Bai family and encourage them to work hard.
The adults of the Bai family are naturally happy to see the results.
Of course, they also want to support the Luo family to some extent.
As for the Luo family, Master Zhao still comes to teach every day.
For someone of Qiniang's age, it would be good to follow him to lay the foundation.
However, in Siniang's situation, it is not suitable.
Recently, more and more women have come to take classes here.
Some of them really want to learn how to read but there was no way to do it before.
Now they heard that there is such a place.
Even if they get up early every day and walk through half of Chang'an City, they still have to learn how to read.
Come and listen to the class.
These women are here to listen to the lectures, and they will also bring some kind of training to Master Zhao.
Basically, they eat all kinds of food.
Master Zhao, who is over seventy years old, has a glowing face.
If he lives another ten or twenty years, it will be nothing. question.
There are also people who bring things to Siniang Azhi and the others.
This has happened for a long time.
Luo Yong had asked them to push them away in the past, saying that if they collected things at this time, some women behind them who could not take out things at home would I no longer dare to come to this courtyard to attend classes.
Luo Yong was not at home recently, so when they met someone who brought something over, A-Zhi and the others still pushed it away.
Many women who can read here are very grateful to the Luo family.
They can't help with anything else, but they clean the yard every day after class.
Hou Lin was there at breakfast the next morning.
He was in a good mood today because he also received a letter from Qiao Junlin yesterday.
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After breakfast, the four mothers, five men, and six men were waiting for the school book, and each of them rode a Yanerfei and went out.
The Yanerfei they use at home are all upgraded versions: steel bearings, Eucommia rubber wheels, spring sheepskin seat cushions, and gear chains are all made of steel, while only the body is still made of wood.
This car rides very fast, without worrying about breaking the chain, and it is very comfortable for people to sit on it.
It is much more comfortable than those hard ox carts and carriages.
Therefore, there has been a Yanerfei trend in Chang'an City recently, and many people think that they have it.
Yanerfei is proud of a car like this.
Of course, the real wealthy bosses can use Yanerfei's technology to transform their own ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages.
There are not many such vehicles at present, and there are only about ten or twenty in the entire Chang'an City.
In late February of the lunar calendar, Chang'an City was already looking like an early spring scene.
There was already a moist smell in the air, and the trees on both sides of the street were sprouting buds.
Many people in the city have plowed the vegetable fields in their yards, and some have raised vegetable seedlings on the kangs in their houses.
They will move them to the ground when it gets warmer in a few days.
Si Niang is now a fifteen-year-old girl.
Today she is wearing an ocher top, brown bottoms, black trousers under the bottoms, and a pair of black rubber-soled leather boots.
This girl has also gained a lot of height recently.
She is no longer as plump as her brother raised her in the past two years.
She looks quite upright and energetic.
When she was practicing martial arts with the Bai family children on the school training ground, , is even more heroic.
Although he is still young, he already has some grace.
The Bai family also has a teacher who specializes in educating girls.
Si Niang went there once before under the advice of the Bai family elders, but after that time she never went there again.
However, Si Niang also felt that it was not suitable for her family to have even one person with talents in this field.
She planned to train Qi Niang in this field when she grew older.
Of course, she was not yet familiar with this idea.
Mom said that the girl was probably not happy either.
If she started to make a fuss, the roof would fall off.
Forget it, let’s wait until brother comes back.
Brother: If you let me do this when you go back, then I might as well not go back.
Different from the color of early spring in Chang'an City, there is no smell of spring in Changle County at this time, and everything is dry and yellow.
Luo Yong is determined to build infrastructure inside and outside the county, but he has neither money nor people.
There are only a few hundred households in Changle County.
Recently, in the tofu business, everyone who can move has started to work in the workshop.
Those who work are working in the workshops, carrying tofu to sell, and those carrying tofu to sell.
There are not many idle people left in the whole city.
Spring plowing is about to begin again, and those living in the villages below will have to go back to farm, and manpower will be even tighter.
Therefore, we have to put the infrastructure and other things on the back burner.
The most important thing right now is to let the people in the city and outside the city earn money as soon as possible, so that they have enough money in their hands, and make Changle County lively.
When the migrant population increases, there will be a surplus labor force, and then the next step of construction work will be carried out.
As for making wine, this matter cannot be rushed.
Luo Yong handed over this matter to Qiao Junlin.
He has just found someone to cultivate distiller's yeast in the county government.
It will also take some time to cultivate distiller's yeast with ready-made liquor.
These people I have never been exposed to liquor before, so I had to make some detours.
The reason why this matter is handed over to Qiao Junlin is to increase his capital and reputation.
When he returns to Chang'an City in the future and interacts with those Chang'an children, he will be able to gain more confidence.
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If he is managed and promoted properly, he may even be sought after for it. .
Brewing still takes time.
What Luo Yong is most concerned about right now is the restaurants and wine shops in the city.
He goes there from time to time to understand their daily operations, how many Hu businessmen they received that day, and how many Hu businessmen stayed.
How many Hu businessmen have left, and what is the reason why they failed to retain them?
"Aren't we all rushing to Dunhuang to see the goods?"
"It will be at least two months before the caravans from the Western Regions arrive in Dunhuang.
These people are rushing to get there, fearing that they will fall behind others."
"Well, when doing business, you must be early." "" There is really no way to do this.
Dunhuang is where the Hu merchants trade.
There are many goods and a big market.
The peak trading season of this year is coming soon, and those people must want to go there early. , find a good place to live, and then go out to look at the goods every day.
If you are lucky, you can buy a batch of good goods, transport them to Liangzhou and other places and change hands, and you can make a lot of money.
On this day, a food shop owner told Luo Yong that after the spring, there would be few people killing sheep here, and mutton was difficult to buy.
At the government-run vegetable shops, it is better to buy more mutton now and use it.
It is salted and hung to dry to make bacon.
Luo Yong also knows that goats start to shed their cashmere after spring, and no cashmere can be harvested from killing sheep at that time.
Therefore, many herdsmen now choose to kill sheep in winter.
The situation should be similar across the country.
"Son, let's buy more mutton in the next few days."
Just after Luo Yong said this in the morning, in the afternoon, a farmer from the suburbs came to sell three sheep.
He moved so fast that Luo Yong felt that this guy was a relative of the store owner before he ran away.
The sheep was not bad, and the asking price was reasonable, so Luo Yong bought it.
The man scraped off the cashmere, collected the copper coins, and went home happily.
After the three sheep were slaughtered, the blood, the sheep's blood and the things in the water were all consumed in one meal by a tofu workshop and the servants in the yamen.
Even the bones of the sheep were picked out to make soup.
Luo Yong first soaked the remaining pure meat in water, then mixed the seasonings and marinated it.
After marinating, he hung it to dry in the sun.
When it was almost dry, he hung it in a small room in the backyard of the county government office and smoked it.
This smoke lasted for several days.
It was so smoky that at the beginning, the officials in the county government were not used to it.
But in the next few days, the smell of bacon came out and made people salivate. .
The bacon was finally hung on the beams of the government-run vegetable shop.
Magistrate Luo County told the old police officer who was looking after the shop that as long as someone came to eat at the restaurant in their county, and the shopkeeper came to buy food, no matter how much the person bought or how little he bought, he would be allowed to deliver bacon according to the number of people, and there was no need to pay more.
Give it away, just three tablets per person.
On this day, several Hu merchants passed by Changle County, entered the county town, and found a restaurant to eat.
When they got there, they ordered a pot of corn porridge and a cold dish, among other things.
They met another caravan on the road a few days ago.
The other caravan told them that the new magistrate of Luo County in Changle County taught the food shops in the county some cooking skills.
Among other things, the cold dish was It's really good.
It goes best with corn porridge.
It's affordable, big in portion, tastes good, and very refreshing.
People who have been walking in the Gobi Desert for a long time will basically not like it when they hear the delicious taste and the price is very reasonable.
No, as soon as they entered the shop, they didn’t ask anything else and just ordered cold salad. vegetable.
Not long after, corn porridge and salad were served by the store, along with a small plate of bacon, which was said to be a gift from their county.
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When those Hu businessmen saw that the county was stingy, they would either not give it away, or they would give something decent.
What's the point of giving away these pieces of bacon?
In their area, bacon is not valuable at all. , these people were traveling all day long, and they didn’t eat less.
The shopkeeper put down his things and went down.
The Hu merchants had just ordered a few more dishes, and he had to cook them quickly.
These Hu merchants were drinking corn porridge and eating cold vegetables.
The people from the caravan did not lie to them.
The cold vegetables here are really delicious.
Such a big portion only costs a few cents, which is a good deal.
"This bacon is delicious."
When I was getting excited about eating, someone on the table suddenly said this.
"Tsk, why have you never eaten bacon?"
Others were very disapproving.
"It's really delicious.
If you don't believe me, try it."
"Eh" “Why is it so delicious?”
“It’s strange that this is mutton” "It's just mutton."
"Shop shop shop" "Hey, a few customers want more."
The shopkeeper was busy in the kitchen, and when he heard the customers in front of him calling him, he ran out quickly.
"This bacon is delicious, we want another plate of bacon," said a barbarian.
"Hey, we have this bacon.
I can go to the government-run shop to cut it.
It's just that the price of this bacon is more expensive.
It costs thirty cents per catty.
If you think it's suitable," the shopkeeper said.
"It costs thirty cents" “How much does a pound of mutton cost here?”
"I passed by here before winter last year and I heard that a pound of mutton here can be sold for less than three cents."
"Are you trying to trick us?"
"No, no, how can a small store deceive people?"
The store owner waved his hands repeatedly: "A catty of mutton costs three cents.
That was the price last year when winter just started.
Now this clean mutton is sold for five cents.
Besides, the bacon is more expensive than the ingredients.
Here we are.
You can’t buy it locally.
We, Magistrate Luo, brought it here from Chang’an City.
It’s not much, so we’ll use less.”
These barbarians also know that the people in Chang'an City eat very carefully.
There may be some expensive seasonings used in this mutton.
If that is the case, thirty cents per pound is not expensive.
"Look, do you still want to buy this mutton?"
the shopkeeper asked them again.
"Forget it, let's bring those tofu dishes up quickly."
At thirty cents a pound, it's not that I can't afford it, but I just can't bear to part with it.
No matter how delicious it is, it's not just mutton.
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After the store owner went out again, the barbarians on the table started talking: "One kilogram costs 30 fen, so we ate several fen just now."
"This can buy a big plate of cold dishes."
"The magistrate of Changle County is not stingy."
"I heard people say that the Luo family sisters and brothers are very rich.
It's true."
Several people were sighing while eating.
After the meal was finished, the store owner and others brought up a small bowl of goat's milk.
The goat's milk looked strange, as it was gray-brown.
"Please try the milk tea given by our county.
Our magistrate Luo used the tea he brought from Chang'an City and boiled it with our goat's milk.
It tastes very good.
I heard that the tea is precious and that those in Chang'an When people make tea, they only put a small amount in it.”
"Thank you." "" These barbarians were much more polite this time.
They each carefully took their own bowl of milk tea and tasted it with great treasure.
I heard that the literati in Chang'an really like to make tea.
I didn't expect that these people would receive such courtesy here in Changle County.
Tsk, this milk tea is really delicious.
While drinking milk tea, these barbarians chatted with the store owner for a while.
Then they knew that this milk tea was not for sale, because Magistrate Luo came from Chang'an City this time and only brought not much tea with him.
Tea is not popular in Hexi these days, and even if you have money, you can't buy tea. .
Behind this shop is a courtyard.
The owner lives in a few rooms, and the rest are guest rooms.
After asking the price, these Hu businessmen decided to stay here tonight.
At dusk, under the guidance of the store owner, they went out for a stroll and visited a tofu workshop.
Changle County is a small town.
The streets are dusty and the houses are low.
There is really nothing interesting to see.
The tofu workshop is still a bit fresh and lively.
On the way back, they met the police patrolling the city again.
They saw him once when they first entered the city, and again when they were sitting in the shop eating, and now they saw him again.
"When will they continue patrolling?"
"There are people all night long.
There are people scheduled for the day and night.
After the guests go back, just sleep peacefully.
Our city is very peaceful."
They did sleep peacefully that night.
The next day, when these people went to the front shop to have breakfast, they saw these city patrollers again.
In addition, there are many people carrying burdens out of the city.
I heard that they carry tofu and sell it, and their income is very good.
As I looked at it, I somehow felt a sense of intimacy with this dusty little town.
“What guests want to eat in the morning?”
"Everyone has a bowl of corn porridge, a plate of cold vegetables, and two kilograms of cooking cakes."
"Okay."
“Are braised dried beans available?”
"have" "I want another half a pound of braised dried beans."
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