The two aunties and sisters of Yin have just set off on the road, and in the Liangzhou City, Luo Erniang and the others have already started a tofu deal with a few people.

Over the past few days, the price of cashmere in Liangzhou City has been rising steadily. Luo Erniang has not bought much now, and has not hired anyone to help process cashmere.

The cashmeres that were purchased earlier, including the four remaining assistants and the female family members of the Zhao family, can be fully processed before the beginning of autumn, and all of them are processed into cashmere threads.

The Zhao family in Shuozhou is also a family that has risen from poverty. They have really lived a better life, which is less than ten years ago.

Moreover, merchant families like them pay attention to the courage to take risks and fight, and their perseverance. The women of the Zhao family, like the men of the Zhao family, are all very hard-working.

Zhao Chen's father Zhao Qi has a very big advantage. As a family member, he always only cares about character and family background when it comes to marriages of his son and nephew. Of course, he still has to have some requirements for his in-laws' family status when marrying a daughter.

This is also a tradition that has been continued from Zhao Qi's father, so the female relatives who lived in the same yard with Er Niang and the others recently have different origins. Some are from high-ranking families, some from small-sized families, and even a daughter from a porter's family.

The Zhao family did not have any extravagant atmosphere. Before their home house was built, these female relatives were happy to help Luo Erniang and the others do some handicraft work and earn some pocket money for themselves and the children at home.

In order to thank the Zhao family for their care, Luo Erniang also taught them the skills of spinning cashmere thread.

After no longer buying cashmere in large quantities, Er Niang and the others were much freer than before. Because they had made tofu several times when they were preparing food for the hired workers, the response was very enthusiastic. So after they had free time during this period, they wanted to make some tofu to sell.

Among the four hired workers in Erniang, there is a woman named Wu. Her husband's surname is Xi, so she lives a few steps away from Erniang and her yard.

The Xi family and his son are diligent and kind. When they were shipped and purchased goods earlier, if they saw them, they would come to help. There was an old lady in the Xi family who was old and had bad health. She stayed in the yard all day, cleaned the house, knitted straw sandals, and fed the chickens in their family. Occasionally, she would carry a basket to go out to buy vegetables. She would not sit around the entrance of the alley all day long, and the parents and the other families would not finish it.

Erniang had a good impression of this family, so she decided to sell tofu and needed to hire someone to help, the first thing she thought of was the family surnamed Xi.

On this day, she mentioned this matter with Awu. Yan wanted to ask her man and two sons to help make tofu. In addition to two meals a day, she also gave her another three cents and asked Awu if she liked it or not.

Awu was naturally full of joy. Her man and her two sons were moving goods to others outside. This was the best time. Sometimes when she went out to be a porter, she would be more dangerous if she endured hardships.

Besides, when working elsewhere, there is no good food here for Luo Erniang and the others. Not to mention wages, just two meals a day, someone would be willing to do this job.

Awu's man and son are also willing. This job is close to home, it is not dangerous and very stable, and it is well eaten. The father and son can earn three cents a day, which is already a very good job in Liangzhou City.

It is not easy to make tofu in the yard here anymore. After all, this is not the yard of Erniang and the others. There are still many people living in the yard. Once the tofu is made, it is a tofu basket, a stone mill, a large pot and a big stove. People come in and out of the yard, occupying space and making noise.

Erniang and the others sold several sets of cashmere sweaters and pants that they had just knitted recently. The price of cashmere has also increased recently, and these sets of sweaters and pants can also be sold at a good price. With this money, and I made some money in a few days ago, I borrowed some from Zhao Chen. Then Erniang and the others bought a small square yard in an alley near the street outside.

Before leaving, Luo Yong told her that if she was short of money in Liangzhou City, she would ask Zhao Chen to borrow some first. If she couldn't pay it back, Luo Yong would help her repay it in the future.

He also said that if you can earn money, you don’t have to think about sending it to your home. These days, you are either copper plates or cloth, and the transportation costs alone are a lot. It is better to buy some industries in Liangzhou City. The land and houses in Liangzhou City may have to increase prices in the future. It is best to buy a few more places.

At this time, Er Niang and the others were going to make tofu, and they just needed a place. They saved some more on hand, so they simply borrowed some from Zhao Chen and bought such a yard.

When Er Niang told Zhao Chen about this, Zhao Qi was there, and the old man was surprised. Why did this teenage lady have such an idea? Ordinary juniors, who are as old as Er Niang, rarely have their own ideas even if they have become married and have big things like buying industries.

"The Luo family is really a bit unusual." After Er Niang left, Zhao Qi said to Zhao Chen.

"When Luo Erniang was at home, she didn't look outstanding, but she could stand alone after she came out." Zhao Chen said.

"She is not outstanding yet?" Zhao Qi said in surprise.

"The Luo family also has a Si Niang. She is eleven or twelve years old and can watch the store by herself. I have seen her deal with a matchmaker." Zhao Chen said.

"Why, Luo Sanlang is not afraid of her making mistakes in the business? " Zhao Qi was even more surprised.

"He doesn't feel sorry for something wrong, he doesn't feel sorry for his girl." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"She is a teenage lady, and she can deal with the matchmaker even more. If she says something inappropriate..." The matchmaker's mouth was afraid of Zhao Qi, the old fried dough stick.

"That coffin board is not afraid of these." Zhao Chen waved his hand. The matchmaker's mouth is scary, but isn't that scary? In their place, no matchmaker would be so uncomfortable to go and go to him.

"The dozens of chickens in the Luo family have always been raised by their children. Sometimes they die, and Luo Sanlang didn't feel sorry for them. Once, he sent a chicken plague, and most of the chickens in his family died, which made the little babies in his family lose their golden beans. Later, he began to sweep the chickens frequently, and when he saw the sick chickens, he would catch them and lock them up."

Zhao Chen also felt a little touched about Luo Yong's method and attitude of educating children. He is now an older male bachelor and has not yet gotten married. When he has a child in the future, he plans to raise him like this.

On this side, after some preparation, Er Niang and the others quickly opened the tofu shop near the entrance of the alley.

Although the price of COFCO in Liangzhou City is high, beans are not very expensive, because beans are easy to grow anywhere, and many people in Liangzhou also grow them.

Erniang and the others asked someone to drill a big stone mill, and used this big stone mill to grind the beans very quickly. If it is a fully soaked bean, just grind it with a dish that is delicate enough. You can directly use a bucket to collect it, filter out the bean dregs, and put it in a pot to cook.

The ones used to order tofu are still sour sauce. Although they have tried brine tofu gypsum tofu in the past two years, they still like sour sauce tofu the most after eating them all over the end.

As soon as the tofu in the yard is made here, many people in Liangzhou City will know about it.

There were rumors in the city before that Luo Erniang, who now lives with the Zhao family, is the elder sister of Luo Sanlang, who is now making the tofu, which confirms the rumor.

The tofu made by Luo Erniang and the others this time is priced at two yuan per cent, which is twice as high as the price in Lishi County. If compared with Xipo Village, it will be more than twice as high.

Because in this Liangzhou city, not only are beans a little more expensive than in Lishi, but also are not easy to obtain firewood, firewood, and water.

There is less rainfall in this place, and the plants and trees are not as lush as Lishi. The price of firewood is naturally higher, and it is not convenient to draw water. Er Niang and the others have to pay extra money to hire people to fetch water when making tofu.

However, the wealthy merchants and wealthy families in Liangzhou City think that the price is very fair. You can buy two pieces of fresh tofu the size of a palm for a penny. Everyone thinks it is quite worth it. Even if a family with a poor family background can occasionally buy one or two to eat fresh food.

In the past two years, their lives in Liangzhou City have been better than before. The cashmere and soap transactions in the city are very prosperous, and there are more merchants coming and going than in previous years. As long as the local people are willing to work hard with others, they can earn some money and food.

The tofu workshop of Luo Erniang and the others was just opened, and the business was very popular. The tofu they made was not enough to sell every day.

In order to make more tofu, they get up to work before dawn every day, and keep it dark until it gets dark, and have to light an oil lamp for another hour or two.

As the saying goes, life has three hardships. It is indeed hard to make a living by raising a boat and selling tofu. Especially in this era, people rely on manpower everywhere, stone mills rely on manpower to carry them, and clean water depends on manpower to carry them. When baskets of tofu are moved in and out, they also need to spend effort everywhere.

However, although selling tofu is a small business, it accumulates a lot of money, but it is also quite effective. As the day after day of work, Erniang quickly accumulates the funds on hand.

As soon as they got busy, no one did the work of knitting sweaters. In Liangzhou City, the price of cashmere sweaters is much higher than that in Shizhou, and it would be a pity not to make this money. Er Niang didn't know that the two aunt Yin and sisters were already on the way to Liangzhou City.

"Er Niang, I'll scoop some water." On this day, Luo Erniang and the others were busy. There were endless people buying tofu in the yard, and the crowds were crowded. A neighbor came over with a wooden barrel and shouted to Luo Erniang.

"Hey, just scoop it." Luo Erniang was standing by the stove at this time, stirring the soy milk burning in the big pot. When she heard her say she wanted to scoop the water, she turned her head and spoke to her loudly.

The extra slurry made from tofu has been developed by people in Liangzhou City recently.

In the past, when people from Xipo Village made tofu, they not only left a small amount of slurry to ferment into sour slurry, but most of the excess slurry was poured out directly, and some were reluctant to pour it out, so they used it to cook pig food. However, people from Liangzhou City used this slurry as detergent, and could use it everywhere.

This matter is also related to the relatively shortage of water in Liangzhou. Most local people use water very much. At the beginning, the father and son surnamed Xi saw that the extra water from tofu was warm and hot, and it was quite clean, so he used it to wash his hands and faces directly. After a few days, he found that his hands and face were much cleaner than before.

After this incident was spread, people often carried buckets to Erniang and her yard to ask for water. It was useless for Erniang and her to keep so many of this stuff, so they were very generous. As long as someone came to ask for it, they would let them scoop it at will.

However, there are already many people in the yard, so some people are added to scoop water at this time, which can sometimes appear crowded and messy.

In addition, there are inevitably some soups when making tofu. When everyone stepped on it, the whole yard seemed a bit muddy.

Erniang wanted to buy some cement and come back to rectify it, but the cement in Liangzhou City was so expensive. In the past, a load of soil cement was only five or six cents in their village. When he inquired about the price of cement here, Erniang immediately gave up.

Most of the cement here in Liangzhou City comes from Chang'an City, and the ex-factory price is relatively high. Coupled with the freight and the profits stripped off by merchants during the transfer, a load of cement cannot be saved without 70 or 80 yuan.

After hearing this, Zhao Chen sent someone a few loads of cement. The guest house they built this time also used a lot of cement. Because of the large amount, they contacted a large merchant who specialized in selling cement, and the price was naturally slightly lower than that on the market.

Erniang and the others used these loads of cement to level the ground of the yard, and then built two rows of laundry pool-like structures that were half a person high, similar to those of the laundry pool, inside and outside the pool. When pressing tofu, they could directly put the tofu basket on top, and then the slurry water flowing out of the basket would fall into the sink below.

These two sinks are connected to the two pools outside the yard. The two pools are built on the left and right sides outside the gate of the yard. They are less than half a person tall and about two feet wide. They are relatively long and can contain a lot of slurry water.

Later, when the neighbors around here wanted water, they could no longer go to the yard to ask Luo Erniang and the others for help, and even didn't even have to say hello, and just take a bucket to call him.

Some people were not familiar with Luo Erniang, but because they were relatively poor, they had never bought tofu. They were embarrassed to come to them to make water. Now they saw two large pools built outside their yard, and many people went to make it, so they went there too.

When using this kind of slurry to wash clothes and bathe, there will be a faint bean fragrance on your body. Everyone likes this smell very much and says it smells good.

A Confucian businessman who came from Chang'an City was a little curious after smelling this smell on several local people. After asking, he learned the reason and immediately sighed and even took the initiative to name the two pools at the door of Luo Erniang and the others.

The word "Su" means cleanliness, and it is appropriate to name these two pools. On the one hand, it is naturally to praise Luo Erniang's Suxin meaning, and on the other hand, it is to point out that the water in this pool has a clean purpose, and in addition, it is also to vaguely encourage people to be kind.

Although he named someone else's pool without permission without the permission of the owner, it has to be said that the name was quite good, and the people of Liangzhou City also thought it was very good, and then the name naturally spread.

Then, what is a little embarrassing is that there are many followers who are not well-educated and enthusiastic.

Every now and then, I could hear someone say that someone gave Su Xinchi a poem, writing parallel prose, or something, but they didn't write well. After all, in a border area like Liangzhou City, how many romantic talents can there be?

Although Luo Erniang had not read many books, they had scholars and had been slightly influenced by the men who had lived in the Xu family's house before, so she could hear that these guys were just copying them, regardless of whether they were suitable or not. As long as they were praising people, they would be really useful when they were caught.

Luo Erniang was so embarrassed that she was praised by these people. She stayed in their yard to make tofu all day, and she wanted to not walk outside without a single step.

It was thousands of miles away, and Luo Yong was also embarrassed at this time.

Because His Majesty the Emperor suddenly issued an imperial edict for no reason, and praised him with no clue, saying that Luo Yong was a kind and talented person. Although he had no intention of career, the emperor loved talents and was reluctant to let such a good talent be left in the wilderness. So the emperor decided to build a cement road from Chang'an City to Lishi County, so that Luo Sanlang would often go to the capital to meet the saints...

Luo Yong was also a little stunned after listening to this imperial edict.

This is a brainless person, which one is going on?

His Majesty the Emperor has given him such a face and he has to build a cement road for him. So what should I use to repay him?

Canned recipe? Will this gift be a little too lighter?

After thinking about it, I always feel that something is wrong.
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