"Qiao Dalang, are you going to release new wine in the liquor workshop these two days?"

On this day, Qiao Junlin, Luo Yong and others came back from the open space northwest of the city. On the way, they met several Hu people living in the city. The Hu people came over to ask.

"A batch will be released tomorrow at the Yin hour." Qiao Junlin replied.

"I know, thank you Qiao Dalang." After hearing this, the Hu people also bowed like Qiao Junlin as they were like Han people, and then left.

"These Hu people learn Chinese very quickly." After they were far away, Luo Yong said to Qiao Junlin and the others with a smile.

When I met these people a few days ago, they didn’t know how to speak Chinese, and communication was all about gestures.

I heard that whenever they came back from the end of the wine recently, they used some cashmere exchanged from outside the pass to find a hawker selling maltose in the city, exchanged some maltose and went home, and then used the maltose to coax the half-boys from the neighbors and asked them to teach themselves to speak Chinese.

Regarding this group of Hu people who sell wine tails, Luo Yong has also heard about their origins. Their country is an unknown small country and is not particularly far from the Tang Dynasty.

I heard that the old king died two years ago, and the new king was lewd and indecent, living a luxurious life, forcing the people of this small country to no avail.

Among these people, there were a few who were very smart. They contacted a Sogdian caravan who had been to their country and asked these Sogdians to take them through the desert and came to the Tang Dynasty.

The Sogdian caravan agreed. They asked these Hu people to help their caravan transport goods. Along the way, they only gave very little rough food, and did not pay a penny of wages, but at least they did what they promised and brought these people to the Tang Dynasty.

After arriving in the Tang Dynasty, the Sogdian caravan did not stop in Dunhuang. They walked all the way east, intending to go to Liangzhou City and trade directly with the Central Plains merchants who went to Liangzhou City to buy goods from the Central Plains region.

When the Hu people who helped them carry the goods passed by Changle County, they decided to stay here.

They didn't want to go to a faraway place. They had family members to stay in their hometown. Changle County is a good place and was friendly to them, the poor Hu people, and they could earn food and money here.

Some of them planned to earn money from here and take it home to pay taxes that their families could no longer bear, and some wanted to bring their families here to live, but that was too difficult. There were elderly people and children at home, and it was almost impossible for them to travel through the desert.

At the time of Yin, it was three or four in the morning. In fact, when the hour came at 9 o'clock that night, many people were lined up outside the winery to occupy a seat in their old clothes and torn quilts.

When these Hu people came, some local vendors in Changle County had already occupied the most sheltered place under the eaves, so they had to find a wall next to those people.

It is late autumn now, with the sun shining during the day, and the weather is not too cold, and the temperature will become very low at night.

The night patrol officers didn't say anything when they saw these people. Changle County was so big, and there were only so many people coming and going, all of whom were familiar faces. As long as they were sure that these people were indeed waiting for the end of the wine, the officers would not drive them away. The curfew in Changle County was actually not very strict.

Some people used pottery basins to light a fire under the wall outside the winery. Some people talked around the fire, some people sat in the corner without saying a word, and some were very enthusiastic, and they simply wrapped themselves in a quilt and huddled under the wall to sleep.

The long night is long, Changle County seems particularly quiet at night, with a little bit of clearness in the cold air, not as dusty as the day...

After a while, there was finally a movement in the winery. The craftsmen lit torches in the yard and were about to start steaming the wine. Soon, the fragrance of the wine wafted out.

The vendors smelled the aroma of the wine, each tidied up their own wooden barrels, and lined up outside the winery gate.

On the other hand, those who worked in the tofu workshop have also gotten up now. They all went to the tofu workshop in groups in three or five under the cold morning.

A few days ago, the magistrate Luo spent some money to expand the tofu workshop to double the size of the original size, and the night shift was cancelled. From then on, there were only two shifts left in the morning. In the morning, the shift was about to start work, and at that time of lunch, the shift was about to start work. After dawn, the shift was about to start work until the evening.

As soon as the tofu workshop started construction, the night in the county town was over. Soon, the fried dough sticks in the city all got up to work.

There are also some shop assistants who have to boil hot water in the shop early and boil corn porridge.

When it was getting dark, the door of the liquor workshop finally opened. Two young men working in the workshop came out to maintain order and asked the vendors to line up to buy wine, each of which could only buy two barrels.

The number of wine at the end is limited, and there are many people who want to buy it. These are the ones in the forefront, so you can naturally buy them. If some people are lazy and come late, they will have to take a chance. If the batch of white wine steamed in the winery this time is large and the wine at the end, they can be sold, otherwise they will have to go home empty-handed.

The vendors stood in the queue carrying wooden barrels. The people in the back even stretched their necks to look, watching the people in front go in one by one, and then came out with heavy loads one by one, and were anxious and nervous.

Those who bought wine in front were naturally happy. They did not waste this night. Now many people in Dunhuang and Jinchang and other places like to drink this wine. If you sell this burden of wine, you can make a lot of money.

"Aye, but you bought it?"

“Buy it.”

"The grandma made a squid at home and asked you to go back and eat soon."

"Why."

"Aye, go quickly."

"Don't worry, take these few cents and buy a pound of fried dough sticks and go home."

"Why!!!"

Half-year-old man pinched these copper plates in his hand and went to the fried dough stick stall. Along the way, he saw many food shops that had opened and the guys were cleaning.

The steaming pancake shop on the street was steaming hot steam, and the fragrance was carried by the morning breeze, and the city was floating around, but it was still not as good as the bean fragrance floating from the tofu workshop. Every day, when the tofu workshop was boiled, the aroma of beans could be smelled in most Changle County.

The fried dough stick stall had already opened at this time. Many wealthy families in the city sent their families here to buy fried dough sticks every morning, as well as those restaurants. If the customers in the store wanted to eat, they would ask the young man to come and buy it.

There were also a group of Hu people sitting on the street, holding a large bowl of coarse pottery and drinking hot soy milk. They were holding hot fried dough sticks in their hands. The child was swallowing his saliva. These Hu people had no family members and no one cooked for them. They ate this every morning. After they finished eating, they went to the street to buy a few pancakes and put them in their arms. Then they were about to go out of the city and go to the market on the grassland outside the pass to sell wine.

"I want a pound of fried dough sticks!"

"Okay, wait."

“…”

"Don't get so close, be careful of the oil pan."

“…”

"I haven't?"

"It's soon."

“…”
Chapter completed!