In mid-May of the eighth year of Zhenguan, after more than 20 days of long journey, Zhao Chen and others finally returned to Shuozhou City. It was very difficult to sleep in the open along the way, but they also gained a lot.

The grain I bought from Lishi County earlier was sold by them when I arrived in Taiyuan City. By the way, I also sold a few cows and a few ox carts at a relatively good price. In addition, I bought a batch of cloth from Taiyuan City and transported it back to Shuozhou City for sale. Naturally, I would make a profit.

After working hard all the way, everyone finally came back, so they handed over the rest to the brothers who had stayed in Shuozhou recently and didn't go out to clean up. They just went to rest by themselves.

Only Zhao Chen couldn't wait to wash away the dust, so he went into the house to talk to his father Zhao Qi.

...

"You mean, Na Luo Saburo not only teaches you the skills of making bean paste, but also means that he also needs to deliver the fermented bean curd for changing wool after the New Year?" Zhao Qi was very surprised when he heard what his eldest son said.

"That's right, I've learned that skill now." Zhao Chen said solemnly.

"Why?" Zhao Qi was puzzled. The Zhao family and Na Luo Sanlang had no friendship, so why did the other party teach them the method of making soy sauce for free?

"The road of Sanlang Road is long, and it is too difficult to get the sauce back and forth, and it is very inconvenient." Zhao Chen said.

After hearing this, Zhao Qi was silent.

The Zhao family started their business by doing business. Their children traveled around the world and saved up their current family business in 20 or 30 years.

In this Shuozhou city, there are those who despise their Zhao family, some who are envious, and some who are jealous. However, they all saw only the Zhao family's current appearance, but there are a few people who will think about what kind of hardships their Zhao family have experienced before they can be today.

The journey is long and the journey is difficult. Nothing can be more deeply experienced than the Zhao family.

In the early years, their brothers went deep into the grassland to trade with the nomadic people on the grassland. It would be fine if they met those kind and kind people. If they met those fierce and domineering people, you would have to peel off your skin even if you were not dead. It was common for all the livestock and all the money and food to be taken away. His two brothers even broke them on the grassland, and even more, the servants followed them.

Now the Zhao family can have its foundation today depends on the business road that they built on the grassland, this road paved with blood...

"Luo Gong is kind!" Zhao Qi sighed.

Thinking of the hardships in his early years, his eyes were red at this time. As time grew, the enthusiasm in his bones had been wiped out a lot by the years. He became a little sentimental. I think it was because his life was too comfortable.

"In this way, I have entered the grassland again in the past few days and greeted the brothers on the grassland, asking them not to sell the wool to others." After a moment of silence, Zhao Qi said again.

"Aye!" Zhao Chen was surprised. His father has been in Shuozhou City in recent years and rarely goes out to walk around. Now he is going to go into the grassland again?

The grassland is incomparable to the Central Plains. Although some grassland ethnic groups have already paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty on the surface, they still engage in robbery behind their backs. Even though their Zhao family has their own business paths on the nearby grassland, they are still very dangerous.

"This old bone has been comfortable for a long time, and it is time to go out and walk around with the brothers on the grassland." Zhao Qi said that his idea was settled.

The people on the grassland needed food, salt and cloth. When this business road was opened, many young and strong people on the grassland also resisted the bandits together, and they all had their lives and blood.

It is much harder to make a living on the grassland than they do. They are afraid that the water and grass are not abundant, the thieves are plundered, and the wolves are afraid...

I haven't seen each other for many years, and I don't know if those old guys were still alive.

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At this time, Xipo Village, Li Shi County, Shizhou.

Luo Sanlang was fertilizing wheat on the ground with several of his disciples.

Over the past few days, he has burned a lot of dirt on the barren slope near his home, mostly made of fine hay, and mixed with some dried pig manure straw in the middle. The soil manure piles burned with these dry manure were very fertile, and the smell of the burned dirt is different. The villagers said that the smell was good, needless to say, it was greedy for fertilizers.

After pouring the burned dirt manure piles on pig urine, they were placed on the slope. In order to avoid rainwater from taking away fertility, Luo Yong also covered the straw curtains on it.

At this time, some villagers began to regret not hearing Luo Sanlang's words and raising a few pigs at home. If they could build a pigpen like the Luo family, raising a few pigs would not seem so troublesome. As long as the urine in the pigpen could be discharged in time, the fertilizer they obtained in the end would not be as dirty and muddy as they had ever thought.

If you are afraid that the yard will smell bad, you can repair the pigpen a little far away from your yard. Originally, many people in their village also built thatched cottages outside, and only one or two wooden barrels at home can be placed and washed frequently.

After making tofu for several months, every household in Xipo Village has accumulated some accumulations. At this time, someone had the idea of ​​buying one or two piglets back to raise them.

I bought two boars and learned from Luo Sanlang that I was ridiculed by the pigs and fed them two hot meals a day. In the end, I not only got two fat pigs, but also a lot of manure.

But in this season, the crops in the fields are at the critical moment. If you want to raise pigs and make manure, you may not be too late for a while.

Besides, the family really can't tell who have to farm and make tofu. They are already too tired to divide the family. Some people are really short of manpower at home, so they have to stop the tofu trading for a few days.

"Sanlang, do you want to sell your pig manure?" When the villagers asked about this, they felt a little embarrassed. When Sanlang told them about raising pigs, they all thought that raising pigs was dirty, smelly and ineffective. Now they started to think about his pig manure again, which was really shameless.

"If you want it, you can exchange a load of bean dregs for two loads of pig manure, what about it?" Luo Yong was easy to speak.

Speaking of which, his eight pigs are still relatively small now, and they don’t produce too much fertilizer. The ten acres of land in his family are enough, but not much.

But if the whole village does not have enough fertilizer for other people's families, he will plant the crops in the fields alone. When the harvest comes, the other family will only have about 200 kilograms per acre of land. Even if he grows three or four hundred kilograms alone, what's the point?

As long as he has money and the villagers have food in their homes, if he lacks food, he can buy it with money. Why bother to keep the little fertilizer and refuse to share it with others?

"If you have too much, I will exchange a few ducts with you." The villagers didn't really want to compete with Luo Yong for fertilizer. They just thought that if the other party had too much, they would exchange a few ducts with him.

In the days that followed, the villagers occasionally came to take Douzha to find Luo to exchange for pig manure.

Some villagers also spent money and grain to ask Luo to help build the pig house with their apprentices. They really couldn't free up their own staff. In addition, the pig houses built by those people were really good. Three or five young and strong men built a pig house together, which was very fast. In order to make these pig houses more withstand use, the villagers asked them to build the stone wall below higher.

After repairing the pigpen and buying piglets, someone asked Luo Sanlang to come and play the pig.

Luo Yong had no intention of eating this bowl of rice, so naturally he did not hide his personal craftsmanship. If anyone wants to see it, he will come and learn the craftsmanship quickly. Next time, he will not have to come to play the craftsmanship.

"hiss!"

Luo used a knife and a few hissing sounds sounded behind him, as if the knife was cut on them.

"hiss!"

Luo Yi cut another knife, and there was another burst of breathing sound behind him.

...

"Master, I'll try it." After a few times of drama, a disciple finally came up with the idea of ​​trying it out by himself.

"Okay, then you can try it." Luo Sanlang was very relieved.

The disciple who spoke was named Liu Huo, which shows how simple his parents' wishes were. He didn't ask for anything else, but just wanted him to survive.

Liu Huo is not good-looking, not tall, and looks a little thin. He is only twenty-five years old, but he looks like he is in his thirties.

Luo Yong heard him say something when he was chatting with him earlier that he was born less than ten months old. He was in the early spring when he was not satisfied with his nutrition, so he grew thin and short. All of their uncles and brothers grew tall and strong.

People like him have shortcomings in nature and acquired nature. If they grow up to such a physique and carry things to the countryside like others, it will definitely be more difficult than others. If they can learn some skills, they can save a little lightly.

Let’s talk about the disciples Luo Yong.

Most of the people who can go to Taiyuan City to put on kangs for people in the middle of winter are active and brave. They can not covet business in Taiyuan City in the beginning of spring and come back in time to help Luo Yong’s farmland, which shows that they are also men who are grateful and can take it down.

Most of these people came with the three brothers of the Xu family at the beginning, and later they rushed over in groups of three and one after another, and they were among them.

Later, some craftsmen who learned to Pankang wanted to recognize Luo Sanlang's disciples, but the disciples had spoken out before, saying that the master did not want to recruit disciples. Since you have learned crafts from him, it would be the same to respect him in your heart. There is no need to perform the rituals of master and apprentice with him.

This is what Luo Yong means. He really needs some helpers around him, but he doesn't want to make too much noise. After all, this is a feudal dynasty. If you mess with those hundreds or thousands of disciples alone, are you disciples or soldiers? Could it be that you want to rebel?

Besides, when there are more people, there are many troubles. It is enough to have more than twenty people coming and going like now. If you want to expand in the future, then let’s talk about it later.

In a blink of an eye, it was late May.

On the 25th, people came in and out of the Luo family yard. Those who came to buy cakes were also bought from the county, and some came to buy cattle and horse carriages. A piece of cake costs one cent. With the current purchasing power of the copper coins, it is not very cheap in their local area, but there are still many people who can afford it, especially on Fridays and three days a month, and there are only those three times a month. There are still many people who are willing to eat.

In the backyard, several disciples of Luo Yong sat in a row in the yard, each holding a wooden barrel, holding Luo Yong's newly made egg beater, banging the egg liquid. After being sent to the level required by their master, they covered the bucket with a clean linen and sent it to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Aunt Luo and Luo Erniang were responsible for mixing the beaten egg liquid with red dates, brown sugar, flour, date paste and other products. Lin Xingle was responsible for setting the fire. He also moved the steamed date cake to the convenience store.

The convenience store is really lively, and there are endless people coming to buy cakes. The voices of people and cattle and horses are endless.

The swallow under the eaves that were hatching eggs occasionally poked out a black head from the mud nest and looked down. The other one went out to find food. Every time he came back, he had to walk around the yard for a few times before leaving.

Luo used the money to cut cakes and collected money, so Si Niang and Wuro were also very helpful.

As for the youngest two, they were locked in the backyard, and they were given food to Zaogao, asked them to play with Mai Qing Doulier, and those disciples who were cooking eggs to help watch, Luo Yong and the others were also relieved.

On the morning of the 25th, two people rode their horses into Lishi County and asked the people in the city for questioning. They wanted to go to Xipo Village and which road they should take.

The people in the city pointed to the direction of the city gate and said, "You two go out of the city and see which road you have the most pedestrians, cars and horses, and then go wherever you go. When you reach the most lively village nearby, it is Xipo Village."

According to the passerby, the two of them found Xipo Village very smoothly. Seeing that the small courtyard at the entrance of the village was very lively, they asked, it was indeed Luo Sanlang's house.

So the two of them divided the work, one of them guarded the horses here, letting the two horses eat grass nearby. Seeing the people coming in and out of the Na Luo family yard, they probably couldn't squeeze in the two big horses at this moment.

The other man took the token to find Narasaburo, asked him to explain their purpose this time, and bought him some cashmere socks. The two of them planned to return to Lishi County after buying the socks, stay there for one night tonight, and set off for Chang'an early tomorrow morning.

The two agreed, so the man who was responsible for watching the horses found a piece of grass outside the village to let the horses eat grass, and also found a place to sit down and rest. Seeing the lively scene of people entering and leaving the village, it was also a bit novel.

The two of them rode all the way from Chang'an City. Although they passed by some towns, they did not expect that they could see such a lively and noisy scene in this small Xipo Village.

At this time, the land was vast and sparsely populated. The entire Tang Dynasty had a population of about 20 to 30 million. How could it not be desolate? People at this time might not feel anything. If Luo Yong had worn it from the 21st century, he would feel very desolate when he saw it.

Chang'an City is indeed lively, but how many Chang'an City can be found in this world?

"Why haven't you come yet? Could it be that Luo Sanlang doesn't recognize the token?" After waiting, he didn't wait until his companion came out of the Na Luo family's yard. The man in charge of looking at the horses was also a little anxious. However, with these two horses there, it was difficult for him to go and see what happened.

After waiting for a while, the guy hurriedly ran towards him with a bunch of things in his arms, and shouted loudly at him while running:
Chapter completed!