This trip to Lishi County has gained a lot. With the things that Luo Yong brought back, the older and younger children of the Luo family really had a good year.

The happiest thing is Luo Erniang. Thinking about the past six months, what kind of life it was, and counting the money and food that the family had to spend one day a day, she was worried about how much she felt.

If he really sends his younger brothers and sisters to others as slaves and maids as slaves, he will become a lowly person from now on and have no choice but to live or die. If he doesn't do that, can he watch them starve to death at home?

Unexpectedly, Saburo woke up for more than two months and his family turned into a different scene. Now they not only eat well and live in warmth, but also have some income every day.

The income from selling fermented bean curd is very stable. Although their yard now looks less lively than those selling tofu in the village, it actually earns no less than them. On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, Luo Erniang and the others made many cakes in exchange for a lot of corn and copper coins.

"Thirty-one, thirty-two...thirty-nine, fifty..." These days, when I was free, Luo Yong taught Si Niang Wulang and the others to learn counting. In order to stimulate their interest in learning to the greatest extent, Luo Yong directly counted the copper plates at home for them.

Wulang was very funny. Every time he gave him fifty cents, he could count sixty cents. Luo Yong listened with a smile, but refused to remind him. After counting, he told him that he was wrong and asked him to count again. If he counted again, he would still count sixty cents.

Si Niang is two years older than Goro and is more sensitive to numbers. Counting within one hundred has long been difficult for her.

Luo used this past few days to give her a winnowing basket of beans and a small stick, so that she could practice writing with these things. Si Niang was less patient and didn't like writing very much. Every time she wrote, she started picking beans. Soon the winnowing basket of beans were picked up completely for her.

"Thirty-nine, fifty, fifty..." Goro was still counting there.

"Why is it fifty after thirty-nine?" Si Niang finally couldn't stand it anymore. She just pretended that she was practicing calligraphy seriously.

"Thirty-nine, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one..." Goro always corrected it.

"Brother, I'm hungry." Si Niang said to Luo Yong.

"What do you want to eat?" Luo yawned lazily.

"Sticky bean bread, dip it in sugar and bean noodles." Si Niang said.

"You can eat it." Er Niang cursed with a smile. She was rubbing wool in her hands now. Such soft cashmere is rare for them. She made it very careful and meticulous when rubbing wool for the first time.

"Then you go out and get the bean bag in. I just need two." Luo Yong said and handed a big bowl to Si Niang.

"I want two too." Erniang also said.

"I want four," said Goro.

"Ah, ah..." The two small ones below were drooling.

"Wool!" Mai Qing and Dou Lier said they should also eat them.

Si Niang was really greedy. She didn't care about the wind and snow outside, so she went out with a coarse pottery bowl. After a while, she put a large bowl of frozen sticky bean bags from outside and steamed them on the stove on the kang, adding a set of fire to the bottom.

At this time, Goro also brought the jar of brown sugar and bean noodles, took a large pottery bowl, and used spoons to pick up some bean noodles and brown sugar together. After the bean buns in the pot were steamed, the siblings and sisters used the brown sugar and bean noodles in this bowl to dip the sticky bean buns, which were fragrant, sweet, sticky and glutinous.

The families in the village who had been busy for almost a month were all idle at this time. No one came to Xipo Village to buy tofu these days after the New Year. It is expected that business will not start to recover after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Tian Chonghu went to Luo's house to ask again, asking Luo Yong when he would teach them to make tofu. Luo Yong said that they would come back on the 16th day.

I heard from the aunt and the others that a few days ago, there was a married daughter in the village who always took her man back to her parents' home to help make tofu. Then the rest of the village became a little nervous, and some people even put pressure on the family, asking them not to pass on the skills of making tofu to their married daughters.

Aunt Luo also said that the one who won the hearts of Old Lady Lin in the Lin family recently was Lin Erlang.

Lin Wulang had a fire kang at home, and was so greedy for Mrs. Lin. Then he went to the city himself. Later, Lin Erlang learned about his mother's thoughts and went to the city to find Luo Yong to learn the skills of the fire kang. He went home to sell one for the old man and the old lady. Then over the period of time, the old lady said that Erlang was the most filial.

Aunt Luo also said that Qiao Junlin's uncle was developed and after years of management, he finally got an official position in Chang'an. Although he was only a ninth rank official, it was already very rare for the poor children at the moment. Moreover, it was still an official in Beijing. As long as the management was properly managed, there would be further opportunities in the future.

Qiao Junlin's uncle and Qiao Junlin's biological mother had a good relationship in the past. Later, Qiao Junlin's biological mother passed away, and he kept paying attention to the situation of this nephew. Although he was in Chang'an in recent years, he had heard of the Lin family's affairs. This time he asked someone to bring a letter to him, saying that he wanted to take Qiao Junlin to Chang'an for training.

There is naturally nothing unwilling to do with the Qiao family. It just so happened that the Qiao family has also produced an official in recent years. If they can establish a relationship with Qiao Junlin's uncle, it will naturally be very beneficial.

To put it bluntly, Qiao Junlin could not say no. Of course, he had no intention of refusing. This son and his stepmother's younger brothers and sisters cannot get along well, and it is not a solution to keep it in the countryside. If he could be taken to Chang'an by his uncle, it would be the best. In this way, he would feel less guilty towards his biological mother.

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What Luo Yong did not expect was that before that boy Qiao Junlin left, he ran to the Luo family yard and said goodbye to Luo Yong.

I heard that this kid went home during the Chinese New Year, but not only did he come back at this time.

It didn't snow that evening. After a few north winds blew, the originally dark sky was blown a little white, and the temperature suddenly became very low.

"Which day will you set off?" Standing in front of his yard, Luo Yong didn't know what to say to the other party for a while, and asked him to sit in the house for a while, but he didn't go in.

"After the Lantern Festival," Qiao Junlin said, standing outside the courtyard, slightly lower than Luo, with his head raised slightly.

"Are you still in the village on the Lantern Festival?" Luo Yong asked him.

"..." Qiao Dalang paused and said, "Here."

In fact, the family asked him to go back early, celebrate the Lantern Festival at home, and then arrange for him to go to Chang'an.

"Since you are here, come to my house to help make cakes." Luo Yong said. The cakes he made on his house on the 25th day of the 12th lunar month were sold very well. He made relatively fewer on the 5th day of the 12th lunar month, but they were all sold out. This time, the number of people buying them will probably increase, so Luo Yong planned to make more.

"..." Qiao Junlin heard this, looked up at Luo Yong for a while, then clenched his fists, turned around and left.

Luo Yong stood at the gate of the yard and laughed out loud, while shouting at his back: "Don't forget it on the fifteenth day."

"..." Qiao Dalang walked away without looking back.

Looking at the young man's back as he left, Luo Yong remembered the scene when he had just arrived in Xipo Village. This kid is good, quite resilient, and doesn't like to be scammers. Luo Yong looked at it quite pleasantly.

The things in the Qiao family may not be nothing to Luo Yong, who has been a man of two lives, but it is definitely not the case for Qiao Junlin. Not only was he sent to the countryside, but even the maid who accompanied him to grow up was forced to almost lose his way out.

He was probably mentally prepared to be self-reliant, but the world is so big that there is no place for him to stand in his place?

Luo Yong saw the boy's confusion and uneasiness about Qiao Junlin's situation. He just didn't say much. The words he said were light and could not change anything at all.

There were also a difficult period in Luo Yong's life.

When he was a child, he was abducted and sold to a couple who had not been able to have children. I heard that many families would treat them well after buying children, but unfortunately Luo Yong did not have that kind of luck.

He remembered that when he was called to fetch water at the well, he looked down at the rippling waves in the well and the light shaking gently on the water surface, and he felt a little anxious to jump down.

Luo Yong was still young at that time, and he didn't have much fear of death or attachment to life.

For him at that time, time always passed too slowly and it was difficult to endure every day. He knew that as long as he grew up, the situation would change, but the road to growth was so long...

Later, the human trafficking group seemed to be taken away, and many children were sent back to their original parents. Luo Yong was too young when he was abducted and basically had no memory. The people who sold him could not tell the origin, and then he was temporarily placed in a welfare home.

Later, he was adopted by Grandma Luo. When he saw the old lady with a serious face, Luo Yong did not have much expectations for his future adoption life.

Unexpectedly, the old woman who looked very serious and rigid was actually very easy to get along with. The two lived together for fifteen or sixteen years. She had never spoken loudly to Luo, let alone attack him. Whenever Luo was ignorant, the old lady would tell him in her unique peaceful and rigid tone that she would not do that, why not, and the possible consequences, she would explain it to him clearly. Once it was useless, she would tell him the second and third time...

I still remember when I first went to Grandma Luo’s house, Luo Yong was very greedy. The old lady could cook four or five meals a day, and kept telling him that she would say whatever she wanted. People were greedy because they had no food. If they had eaten too much, they would naturally be no longer slander.

So Luo Yong treats these little babies at home in this way. He is just greedy, so he can eat it until he is not slandered.

Speaking of which, Luo Yong was not originally called Luo Yong. This name was retaken after being adopted by Grandma Luo.

For a long time, he didn't know who he was and where he came from. It was not until this time that he finally understood. He was Luo Yong, whether in the 21st or 7th century, he was Luo Yong, not someone else.

These days, I have seen the boy's hesitation and growth.
Chapter completed!