On this side, Lin Wulang wanted to have a child, and Aunt Luo was secretly anxious.
Thinking about it, she was actually a little too old.
She is twenty-seven years old and has not yet given birth.
In this era, people are basically treating her as infertile.
Auntie Luo's old restaurant is right next to the West Market.
Aunt Luo has been there for a long time and is quite familiar with the shopkeepers in the surrounding shops.
She heard someone say that there was a medicine seller in the northeast corner of the West Market, surnamed Yang.
His medicine shop was not big, but it had a good reputation among the women in their area.
He said that he had several wives in the past, so he I got pregnant after taking his medicine.
On this day, Aunt Luo went to the old shop in Guangdefang to handle some matters.
After finishing her work, she saw that it was still early.
After thinking about it, she went to find the medicine seller named Yang.
She didn't know that the medicine seller surnamed Yang actually didn't have much ability.
He just cured a few people by luck and earned a reputation with a few prescriptions handed down from his ancestors.
Human abilities may not be as good as those of ordinary doctors.
This person is quite honest.
He said to Aunt Luo: "I just have a few dead prescriptions here.
If some people have the right symptoms, they will be useful if they take them.
If they don't have the right symptoms, they will not only be useless but may also cause harm."
"We ordinary people like us can't find a good doctor, so we just eat like this.
How can you behave like this?
I heard that your brother is familiar with Sun Simiao, why don't you go to him?
In this world, if we talk about using medicine to treat There is no one better than him."
Aunt Luo naturally knew that Sun Simiao was good at medicine, but although she had managed her sister's restaurant in a decent manner over the years, she was still just an ordinary businessman.
People like Sun Simiao always felt very far away to her.
When she got home that night, Aunt Luo told Lin Wulang about the matter.
After some deliberation, the two decided to go to Zhongnan Mountain south of Chang'an City to seek medical treatment.
Perhaps Sun Simiao took it for Luo Yong's sake.
He was willing to give her a medical consultation.
Even if he couldn't ask Sun Simiao to see her personally, it would still be a good idea to ask his disciples to take a look at her.
A few days later, Aunt Luo arranged the work at hand, drove a carriage with Lin Wulang, and headed for Zhongnan Mountain in the wind and snow.
Traveling in winter was difficult, and Apu and his group often encountered wind and snow as they headed west.
When we set out early that morning, the sky was clearly bright and the wind was not strong.
However, before noon, the sky turned dark, the wind howled, and it was about to snow heavily again.
Fortunately, there is a village not far ahead, but this is not the location of an inn.
Ordinary people would not stay in such a small wilderness village unless they had to, for fear of encountering a shady hotel.
However, the tea merchants said that they had rested here two years earlier to avoid the rain.
Every time they passed by here in the past two years, they would stop to have some hot meals.
Most of the villagers here came from nearby villages.
They built some houses next to the post road and earned some money from passing merchants to supplement their living.
They were not thieves.
At this time, some people in the thatched courtyards in front also noticed the arrival of their team.
Coupled with the weather, it was inevitable to stay here, so some villagers came boldly to solicit business.
These days, not only travelers are wary of locals like them, but locals are also very careful about those who pass by, for fear of encountering a group of evil people.
If they felt something was wrong, they would not dare to come forward to solicit at this time.
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They would just huddle in the house, with the door closed, and no matter how many people outside shouted, they would not agree.
Both sides were vigilant and contacted carefully.
The people in the team finally divided into several groups and each chose a store to stay.
Apu Dugou and Azhi were led by the tea merchants from Hedong Road to a yard they were familiar with.
The yard was very clean, and everything inside and outside the house was neatly arranged.
They all look kind.
It was Aweng and his eldest son of this family who had just gone out to solicit business.
At this time, they welcomed a group of people into the courtyard.
The two or three daughters-in-law of the family were busy pouring hot water with everyone, making the big and small people come out.
The little boy brought bowls of hot water to the guests' hands.
A-Zhi walked outside for half a day.
He was hungry and cold, and his body was a bit frozen.
At this time, he came to sit down in the living room of this family, took a bowl of hot water, took a few sips carefully, and his whole body slowly began to feel...
It's warm again.
Take a look at the stoneware bowl in your hand.
It is a bit thick, but it is very clean.
Even in this winter when they eat mutton every day, they have washed this bowl without even a trace of grease.
It is obviously Rub it carefully with plant ash, then scrub it clean with clean water.
The tea merchants were talking to the host, because they had known each other before, and the two sides were quite warm.
The old man's sons brought corn mush and stewed mutton from the kitchen, and the people in the house were eating. , while ordering some other food with them.
Sheep are cheap in winter.
After their group came out of Chang'an City, the farther west they went, the cheaper the sheep were.
When they reached this place, the locals ate mutton almost every meal.
Fortunately, corn has become popular in various parts of the Tang Dynasty in the past two years.
Because it is easy to grow and has a high yield, many farmers cook some corn porridge and corn paste in winter.
At least eating some grain is better than eating meat. .
During the dinner, the tea merchants and the host family told Du Gou and others about the formation of their village.
"A few years ago, there were no villages in this place, and the roads were full of trees and grass."
"We don't have a few decent fields, and we can't support a few people.
How can we have a village?"
"" Although the location next to the post road is not bad, in such a location, it is easy to be targeted by evil people.
It would be even worse during a war.
That is to say, in the early years, this road was paved into a cement road.
Later, due to the development of Longyou Road, more and more caravans plied this trade road.
If there were villagers nearby who were quick-thinking, they ran to the inn.
I went to do some small business nearby, and I did make money.
Many people saw it and followed suit.
"At first, I just carried baskets and burdens to sell goods.
As time went by, I felt it was not enough.
Some people built thatched sheds there, and some built thatched yards."
"Originally, there were a few counter travelers in that place.
The wealthy households in the town arranged for their families to run the business, and there were also merchants with strong financial resources.
These people did not want to be robbed of their business by nearby villagers, so they said that these villagers were doing business as merchants.
We need to seize their fields and turn them into merchants.”
The nearby villagers were indeed frightened at first, but they had finally tasted the benefits before, and now they were always uncomfortable when their income suddenly stopped.
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So some people secretly sold goods in front of the inn, and as time went on, they built it there.
Built a thatched shed Later, those merchants and wealthy households did not know how to do it, so they called some policemen and smashed these straw huts and courtyards.
Then conflicts broke out.
Some people were arrested, but the angry villagers were not afraid, and the two sides often clashed. , and even developed into armed fighting.
"In those days, our place was very chaotic.
Every time businessmen passed by, they left in a hurry and refused to stay for more than a day."
Speaking of this, the old man sighed.
"In such a fight, there will inevitably be deaths and injuries."
Du Gou was also quite aware of these civil wars.
After the two sides fought for several months, everyone became a little tired of it.
As soon as the foreign caravans arrived at their place, they came and went as if they were fleeing for their lives.
Some people were killed and maimed in this fight.
The work inside was also delayed.
Later, the county magistrate found a few squires who were quite prestigious in their local area to act as peacemakers, and released the villagers in the cells.
Both sides took a step back and did not allow the villagers to do business next to the inn, and then pointed out In this deserted place, they were allowed to sell some of their home-produced grains and vegetables.
As long as their farming was not delayed, their farmland would not be taken away.
So gradually, the current village came into being.
While talking about these things, everyone thought of some of the inns they passed before.
There was a grass market next to the inn, where it was quite convenient for local people to buy and sell goods, and there was no strict time control.
Thinking about what happened in this village, and considering that they had passed by some deserted inns before, maybe it wasn't that the people in those places were cowardly and unwilling to do business next to the inn, but that they were not allowed to do business.
Among the people present, the one with the least knowledge is probably Azhi.
She was originally from Shizhou.
She was sold to Qiao's family by her parents when she was a child.
She has been living in Lishi County since then, and later went to Chang'an City with Qiao Junlin.
After seeing Lishi County, Chang'an City, and the scenery along the way from Lishi County to Chang'an City, she thought that this was probably how it would be under the sky.
No matter where she went, the mountains and rivers would always be there.
They are similar landscapes, and the people are also similar, so there is no big difference.
Now she no longer thinks that way.
People in the world look similar, but they are very different on the inside.
Although there are always poor and rich people, some people are poor and cowardly, and some people are extremely poor.
Some people are unkind for the sake of wealth, while others are charitable and charitable.
No matter whether the mountains, rivers, vegetation and trees are the same or different, the people in this world are always different.
After eating, the host arranged for them to rest, and asked them if they had any clothes to wash.
If they washed them at this time, they would bake them on the kang and they would be completely dry tomorrow morning.
The men were not polite and took out their dirty clothes one after another.
The old man's son packed them in a basket and took them to wash with the women at home.
A-Zhi also had some clothes to wash, but she didn't want to put her own clothes with those men's clothes, so she said she would wash them herself.
The place where the women wash clothes is under the kitchen, in a thatched hut, which is simply furnished and quite spacious.
Two young daughters-in-law are sitting on small stools, washing clothes in a wooden basin, and there is an older one. , sitting under the stove to light the fire, the three of them worked and talked at the same time.
A Zhi carried her few clothes in, and the older woman brought her a wooden basin standing by the wall, and neatly scooped a few ladles of hot water from the pot, and mixed it with most of the bucket of water.
She diluted the cold water from the vat and poured it into her wooden basin.
So Ah Zhi sat there washing clothes, listening to the three women talking.
There was a fire burning in the stove.
Although there was no fire in the room, it was not very cold.
Not long after, a few more children came over and asked for dried corn kernels from their mother-in-law, saying that they wanted to exchange them for maltose on the street across the street.
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These children also know how to look.
They all saw customers giving money just now.
The adults at home have made money today and are in a good mood, so it should be easier to ask for sweets.
The older woman sent them: "Go, you just ate yesterday, and you want to eat again today."
But those few children refused to leave.
They were cooing around their grandma, some were tearing off their clothes, and some were cheating by climbing on their grandma’s back.
All of them were doing everything for the one or two pieces of candy.
I tried my best.
However, there was a little girl who squatted next to A-Zhi obediently and watched her wash clothes.
A-Zhi has lived in Chang'an City for many years, and has no shortage of food and clothing.
Especially when he later lived in the Bai Mansion, he even purchased clothes for all seasons.
Although he dressed low-key when going out, in front of this little In the girl's eyes, she is also very beautiful and fashionable.
Ah Zhi looked at the well-behaved little girl in front of him and felt a little fond of her.
Later, she applied suet soap to the clothes in the basin, scrubbed them, and poured out the dirty water.
The woman who was lighting the fire hurriedly brought her a bucket of warm water.
Azhi took advantage of this moment and took out three copper coins from his arms, handed them to the girl, and asked her to take them to buy candy with her brothers and sisters.
The children roared out of the yard, regardless of the wind and snow blowing outside.
"What are you doing with their copper coins?
These dead children are like greedy worms in their mouths, and their stomachs are like bottomless pits.
They never have enough to eat." said the woman who brought her water.
"No child of this size is like this."
A Zhi replied with a smile.
A bucket of warm water was poured into the basin, and she put her clothes in and continued scrubbing.
"People from your big place are definitely not like us.
Our place is poor and our children are particularly greedy."
"In the past two years, we can still make noises about eating caramel.
In our time, it was good to have two flour pancakes a day to satisfy our hunger."
"Auntie Dalang and the others didn't eat well when they were young."
"At that time, it was rare to eat candy once or twice throughout the year, but they were still better than us.
From the age of seven to eight, they were never hungry again."
They had barely said a few words when the sounds of the children coming back came from the yard.
The older woman opened the straw curtain and went out to ask, only to hear the children outside say that the candy seller saw that they bought them with copper coins instead of using grain to buy them, so he gave them two more pieces. gd1806102: