108. Return
Before dawn the next day, Wu You went out. There was a nearby village with a market that day. He rushed over early and spent money to buy some pigs, sheep and miscellaneous things back.
In this era when ordinary families can’t see meat and fish for a few years, things like pigs and sheep are going to the water, as long as the price is cheaper, it is naturally someone who buys them.
But these things are not easy to clean up. Especially for large intestines, they taste very strong. Even if you put more onions, ginger and garlic, they still have a strange smell when cooked. A large part of the reason is that the cooking methods and cooking tools are too backward. At this time, ordinary people could not afford iron cauldrons, and they didn’t know that there were cooking methods such as stir-frying braised dishes.
Wu You bought the water and bought two more pottery jars.
Take these things home, wash the two pottery jars, and then pour the marinades cooked last night into two jars. In the future, these two jars will be specially used to cook brine, one for mutton offal and the other for pig offal.
While Wu You and his wife were busy cleaning up pigs, sheep and mixed meat, Luo Yong looked in the yard and called Teng Qiao to help. They cleaned the straw shed outside the yard for firewood, and moved a Hu bed from the hall and put it in. They put a few short straw mats on it. They sat there and used it as a nursery for his newly-entered apprentice.
Wu You is not a simple person, but as an indigenous in the seventh century, his business consciousness is far inferior to Luo Yong.
A square thatched yard is covered with a house on three sides, and a fence and a courtyard wall on one side. I don’t know, but at first glance it looks like a farmhouse courtyard, without opening the door to do business.
At this time, Luo used them to stop the carriage outside the yard, and the two of them sat in the air-flowing straw shed on three sides. When they saw the people coming from the official road next to them, they knew that they had food and water supply.
When the sun is at its peak, the brine of this day will be boiled and the fragrance will float to the official road. Some pedestrians and merchants who have been on the road for most of the day will stop here to use some food water. In this summer, the sun is so vicious that it is not easy to travel.
Overall, there are not many pedestrians passing by on this official road. It is quite good to have an hour to pass by. Some of them are from nearby villages. They just pass by here and don’t come in to have dinner at all. At most, they just stand outside the yard and have a few words to talk to Wu You and the others.
But even so, they sold more than 30 meals this day. One of them not only ate here, but also bought a meal for his porters. There were nearly twenty meals here, and some scattered ones.
A meal costs two cents, which seems very cheap, but the one cent here is equivalent to the purchasing power of Luo Yongsheng’s first four yuan.
In addition, the business was still underdeveloped at this time, and ordinary people didn’t have much money in their hands, so it was very difficult to make money, so these two cents were also a great existence for people at this time.
When counting the money at night, Wu You's aunt Aguo was so excited that her hands were trembling. In just one day, she could actually earn this money. If it were the past, she would not have earned so much in a few months.
"This place is too far from the village. What are your plans in the future?" Luo Yong asked Wu You on the side.
"I'll invite my two wife brothers to help these two days." Wu You knew what Luo Yong meant. In the past, their family was poor and out of poverty, and it was nothing to live in this place where there was no village or shop. Now that the brine business is done, people nearby know that their family can make money, and it's hard to guarantee that someone will have to make a bad idea.
"That's good." Luo Yong nodded: "There are quite a lot of merchants who come and go from here to Lishi County. Then I will ask someone to bring you some soy sauce, other pepper and fennel, etc., you can buy it yourself."
"Master is going to set off?" Wu You asked.
"Let's leave early tomorrow morning." Luo Yong nodded.
After coming out for so long, he was worried about his family. He didn't have his own coffin to keep him in a hurry. Er Niang and the others didn't know whether they were irritated by the merchants. The Chameng rice planted a few days ago was not like that. There was also the Eucommia ulmoide leaves on the slope, which was almost time to pick.
Before going to bed, Luo Yong gave Wu You another idea, asking him to build a few grass pavilions on the roadside outside, then lay a bed in the grass pavilion, put a short table and straw mat. If the passers-by buy food from your house, they can also eat food there. Even if they don’t buy food, they can lend it to them to avoid the scorching sun, storm, and make a good relationship with others. If this continues and operates slowly, the place should also be a bit popular.
Anyone who does business should know that popularity is wealth, especially for the catering service industry.
When it comes to making good relationships, Luo Yong has also been quite touched recently.
If he wanted to talk about scheming methods, Luo Yong would probably not even be able to match the disciple in front of him. He had also missed Yan Huo earlier. He had never had any plans for others, so he was not good at observing and calculating. He simply stopped competing with those people with scheming and strategy. After thinking about it, only by making good connections is his correct development path.
The next day, Luo Yong and Teng Chao set off again, and their carriage continued to head north again.
"Teng Chao, do you think I am stupid?" In the scorching sun, Teng Chao sat in front of driving the carriage. Luo Yong sat in the carriage and tied up the curtains, snuggled boredly on a few silk cloths, and shook his body as the carriage moved forward.
When Teng Chao heard this, he couldn't help but grin. It seemed that this young man had been a little stimulated these days. He remembered his husband's advice to his servants on weekdays, so he said in his mouth: "Those who know that he is foolish are not great fools, and those who know that he is confused are not great doubts."
"The great confusion will never understand it all your life, and the great fool will never work forever." Luo Yong didn't understand this truth. After all, he has been a little stimulated recently.
He raised his right foot to his left knee, and stretched his waist in the narrow carriage. Luo Yong asked Teng Chao: "When will we arrive in Lishi County?"
"It's almost done." Teng Chao shook the reins and the horses pulling the cart in front increased their speed again.
On the sixth day of the seventh month, their carriage finally arrived outside Lishi County. Before the car entered the city, Luo Yong heard someone shouting at the top of his voice: "Come on, come on, everyone who passes by will come, take a look, take a look at my paring knife..."
"I'm still selling paring knives." Luo Yong smiled. It's been a month since the paring knives, and there is still a market for this paring knives.
"Originally, we sold five cents each, but now we only have four cents left. However, as long as we can sell a paring knife, we still have more than one cent to make a profit. As long as we can make a profit, we have to continue selling it."
Luo Yong's disciples were all very happy when they heard that their master had returned. Their big group of old and young men finally found their backbone again.
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At this time, in Chang'an City.
In a farmland belonging to the royal family, a small piece of corn seedlings were quietly growing.
Originally, in the paddy fields next to them, some corn seedlings were planted in the water like rice. As a result, they turned yellow in less than a few days. The remaining ones planted on dry land grew very well.
In the present city of Chang'an, people are mourning for the death of the Supreme Emperor, but after a few months, they will be excited and excited by the emergence of a new grain.
This crop is resistant to drought and barren, and does not pick up land. If you take good care of it, the yield per mu can reach nearly ten dan, which is undoubtedly a myth for the current general situation where the yield per mu is only one or two dan.
Moreover, this crop is very full and hunger-resistant. Although this food tastes poor compared to rice and white flour, it will become a life-saving food for those poor people who are struggling on the food and clothing line every day.
Among the many grains in the space, Luo Yong finally chose corn first. After all, nothing is more important than filling his stomach.
As for whether his small package of grain can be taken seriously and whether it can be planted smoothly, Luo Yong was not too worried. If he doesn't do it once, he can find an opportunity to put it on the second and third time. Anyway, there are still many corn seeds in his space.
Chapter completed!