Living in a big city like Chang'an City, basically as long as you have money, you can eat everything from all over the world.
The same cannot be said for border places like Changle County.
When Azhi and the others first arrived here this spring, they were somewhat uncomfortable.
Apart from anything else, ordinary people here don't even have an oil-paper umbrella because neither tung oil nor bamboo is produced locally.
Some large families may have one or two oil-paper umbrellas.
They are also goods from the Central Plains.
They are very expensive and rarely used.
When not in use, they have the servants and maids of the family carefully collect them for fear of getting dirty. broken.
Ah Zhi has become accustomed to seeing various kinds of oil-paper umbrellas in Chang'an City over the years.
On rainy days, or when the sun is shining brightly in summer, you can see many oil-paper umbrellas on the street, with folded straight handles.
There are various colors and patterns.
If nothing else, just looking at these umbrellas gives off an aura of wealth and beauty.
Since arriving in Changle County, not to mention oil-paper umbrellas, even rainwater has been a rarity.
This is nothing.
At most, I just wear a straw hat when going out occasionally on rainy days.
Water is more precious and needs to be used sparingly on weekdays.
What A-Zhi misses most now is the various snacks in Chang'an City, the cherry cheese in spring, smoothies and cold melons in summer, various fruits in autumn, canned food in winter, and the Pastries from Mi Fang Zhai, desserts from North and South groceries, stalls selling various food in the streets and alleys, and a dazzling array of snacks in Ajie Food Shop Azhi often sat outside in the sun with some women from Changle County doing needlework.
While working, he told them about the various foods in Chang'an City, which made these women and the children watching swallow their saliva.
"Then there is nothing here in Changle County that you don't have in Chang'an City."
That day, a woman listened and felt a little unhappy for no reason.
"Of course there are some."
A Zhi said with a smile: "There are white folded flowers here in Changle County.
There are many white folded flowers, and the price of white folded cloth is also low.
People in this county can only have a job. , there is no one who cannot afford white folded cloth, which is also rare in the Central Plains."
The Central Plains is rich in linen and silk.
To grow hemp and mulberry, you need good fields with rich water and soil.
In order to raise silkworms and produce silk, many families use their best Yongye fields to plant mulberry trees.
Therefore, people at this time often used their best fields to grow mulberry trees.
Yongye field is called mulberry field.
The so-called sea becomes mulberry field, which is this mulberry field.
If you want to get silk, you have to start by planting mulberry trees.
If you want to get linen, you have to start by planting flax, retting and rolling flax.
Neither of these are easy to come by.
Therefore, the fabrics in this era are generally more expensive.
Many people After paying taxes, it was difficult to find a few pieces of fabric to make clothes for my family.
This white folded flower is different.
It is grown directly from the ground.
After picking the catkins, it can be used to spin thread by using the cotton gin.
It can be planted in many dry and saline-alkali lands in Longxi.
Every autumn A lot has been gained.
This has caused the price of local cloth to drop steadily.
In the past, the price of cloth here was much higher than that in the Central Plains.
Now the price of ordinary white folded cloth here is only about three times the price of ordinary linen in the Central Plains.
In another year or two, the price will probably be even lower.
"We also have melons here."
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A child next to her added.
"There are grapes," another child said.
Because A-Zhi is a kind person and often eats with these children, these children have a very good impression of A-Zhi.
"Yes, there are raisins."
Azhi smiled and put down the needlework in his hand, took out a palm-sized cloth bag from his arms, grabbed some raisins from it, shared it with several children present, and then shared it with the other children.
The women shared some, and everyone ate the raisins and chatted again, and soon forgot what they had just done.
In fact, it was not that Azhi wanted to talk to these women about Chang'an City all day long.
She did not think that she was from Chang'an, nor did she mean to look down on Changle people.
Earlier, the women asked her first, wanting to know what happened.
Let Ah Zhi tell them what Chang'an City is like.
It's just that as I talked, I unknowingly said too much, which made some people feel unhappy.
That's all.
I just say less in the future.
Azhi was sold to the Qiao family as a maid since he was a child.
After Qiao Junlin's mother passed away, it was not easy for him and the two of them to make a living under the new mistress.
Later they went to Chang'an City, first living in Hou Lin's courtyard, and later with The Luo brothers and sisters lived together, and later went to Bai Mansion.
Her life experience is much richer than that of ordinary people.
She has met all kinds of people.
When faced with some situations, she is more flexible than ordinary women in dealing with them.
In a situation like today, if someone had just said something to someone else, they might have gotten angry, and the two of them would have started to argue on the spot.
But to A Zhi, this was nothing at all, and it was not worth it.
When angry.
It’s also true that life is a little too comfortable now.
She and Hengzhi are the only two people in the family.
She is responsible for all the money Hengzhi has in his hands.
Although she is not greedy for money, how do she feel about holding the money?
It was also stable, and I had been living such a comfortable life for so long, but unconsciously I started to feel a little careless.
In fact, there are indeed many places in Changle County that cannot be compared with other places.
The biogas lamp that costs three cents a month will make even the people of Chang'an envious.
Earlier, due to the low temperature in winter, those biogas digesters did not produce much biogas.
Luo Yong asked Hengzhi and others to build a boiler, and also asked people to go to the biogas digester to lay out pipes, and then burn charcoal in the boiler.
The hot gas is transferred around each biogas pool through pipes, thereby increasing the temperature in the biogas pool and promoting the production of biogas.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and I don’t know how the progress is.
At this time, seeing that it was already getting late, A-Zhi said that he was going back to cook with Hengzhi.
The women left her to sit for a while, but she couldn't explain.
Not only did she have to cook, but she also had to boil the hot water early.
Every time Hengzhi came back from the machine shop, he was always dressed in black, covered in dust and oil.
Then he went back to his yard.
"What were you talking like that just now?"
"If you talk nicely, you'll get annoyed."
"Azhi didn't say anything bad." "" After A-Zhi left, several women began to complain and persuade in low voices.
"That's what I said."
The woman who spoke looked a little weak.
A-Zhi usually treated them well, and would often share some food with them and their children.
Although everyone did not eat A-Zhi all the time, and sometimes they would each bring some, but in the end they still ate A-Zhi’s food.
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Besides, A Zhi is also Hengzhi’s wife after all, and Hengzhi is Luo Yong’s disciple.
At present, it seems that he is the most effective one.
She is good if she doesn’t put on airs with them on weekdays.
How can they be innocent?
To find the reason why people are unhappy.
Several women murmured in low voices, and then started talking about the boiler.
I heard that after these days, the newly opened biogas pools have been depleted a lot.
If this continues, there will be no biogas available in their city.
They have long been accustomed to the bright biogas lamps, so how can they still use them?
I can stand the dark night.
"If you can't help it, just light an oil lamp for a few days."
"Oh, why don't you go buy that oil lampshade?
That lampshade costs a few cents each."
"Let's see again."
"The oil lamp consumes oil when burning.
If you light it for one night, you can burn out a piece of suet soap."
"Exactly, that much suet is enough to exchange for a piece of suet soap in the shop."
"If you really can't bear it, just go to bed early." "" Speaking of suet soap, the suet soap here in Changle County is also cheap, mainly because suet is not a rare thing.
Especially at this time every winter, as long as a diligent person goes outside the canning workshop and picks up some bits and pieces from the stomach of the sheep, he can refine some mutton oil, although the large pieces of mutton oil must have been used by the canning workshop. people picked it out in advance.
Most of the people in the city took suet to the shops to exchange for suet soap.
There were shops specializing in this business.
The clerk in the shop used a measuring tool to measure the amount of suet brought by the customer, and then used a knife to cut off a small piece from the large piece of suet soap on the counter in exchange.
Sometimes the cut size was not suitable and had to be removed.
A little, or add another one to top it off.
Speaking of which, the suet soap here has become cheaper every year in recent years.
Nowadays, basically every household can afford it.
It is more convenient to use this suet soap to wash hands, face and clothes than in the past. many.
Look at the children running around in the city now.
They are much cleaner than when they were young.
Just as we were talking about the doll, there were the sounds of several children arguing over there.
Azhi just distributed some raisins to the children.
One child ate slowly and had not finished eating yet.
As a result, he was surrounded by several children of herdsmen outside the city.
Those children of herdsmen were surrounded by children.
Judging from their young age, each of them is as ferocious as those little wild wolves.
The children in this city are really not easy to please under their hands.
"What are you doing?"
A woman who was doing needlework here saw her child being bullied and suddenly roared.
The voice was full of anger, like thunder, which made the wolf cubs a little timid.
"If you don't let go after seeing this, I won't beat you to death, you little brat."
Before they could react, the woman put down her work and pounced on her.
She looked so fierce that she scared the little brats.
All of them ran away.
"Next time, you dare to come and take a look at your legs, you are an uneducated little boy."
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The woman cursed and walked over, pulled her child up from the ground, and patted the dust on his pants.
Seeing his son in such a cowardly state, he was also very angry.
He wanted to scold him a few times, but he thought about it and held it back: "Okay, let's go play."
She didn't care at first, but when her temper got worse, she even scolded him fiercely.
Not long ago, one day she scolded her like that, but A-Zhi gave her some advice, saying that she scolded her like this all day long, which made her less courageous as a child, and she would be bullied even more when she went out.
She felt that what A Zhi said was reasonable, and she gradually tolerated her temper with children like hers.
The women here looked at them with smiles, and they didn't care much about the children in the city and outside the city who were playing around all day long.
I heard that the county magistrate has arranged for an official to go to the herdsmen gathering area outside the city in the past few days, specifically to teach people the law there.
It is nothing more than how long it takes to steal, how long to rob, how long to fight and hurt, and so on.
There are really some herdsmen who sit there all day listening to the lectures, and there are also some city people who go there specially to listen.
They are all people who want to join the police force, otherwise who would have the patience to listen to that.
There are also many children listening there.
After all, boys of all sizes in the city and outside the city all hope to be servants in Changle County when they grow up.
When the time comes, he will have food, clothing, and high wages.
If he marries a young woman from a cashmere workshop as his wife, he can earn three hundred cash per month.
If his wife earns another one or two hundred cash, the two of them will have four to five hundred cash per month.
With the income from Wen, coupled with the New Year's benefits, it is really the life of a wealthy family.
The most popular bragging content among young boys in Changle County is this, what will happen to them when they become servants.
Recently, the children of herdsmen outside the city have also learned this.
They spend all day imagining that they can be servants in the future, with a big knife hanging on their waists, patrolling the city majestically, and the young ladies in the cashmere workshops are all vying for it.
I want to marry them.
Just thinking about such a beautiful future makes me so happy that I almost wake up laughing in my dreams. gd1806102: