176. Stone
Luo Yong felt that these children in his family were growing very fast. When he just woke up, Liulang and Qiniang were all small meat dumplings that could not even speak clearly. Now he could no longer fool her.
Luo Yong is open-minded. It is good that he can't fool him. He won't suffer any losses when he goes out in the future.
"Okay, then let's eat corn cakes tonight." Dad Luo agreed readily, and then he went into the house to get the cornmeal.
Yang Silang: “…”
So that night, the Luo family really ate corn cakes and the vegetables they washed out earlier were stewed by Luo Yong with a few shrimps and a large pot of shrimp and cabbage soup.
There are salt shops in Xiami Town for sale. The things coming from the beach are naturally not cheap. And there are probably no artificial shrimps at this time. They are all wild things. In this era, tools are backward, so the fishing process is very difficult.
Finally, Luo Yong wanted to give the shrimp meat to Liulang Qiniang to eat. But after thinking about it, he really didn't want them to develop the habit of eating alone. He even took such a single favor for granted. So the brother and sister ate the shrimp meat in small pieces each one, and finally one extra piece was added and given to the Zheng mother and daughter.
The former daughter of Zheng is no longer here, but she has changed to a younger daughter who is a little older. She is also very good at work and is better than her sister. She is just too close to Luo Yong, so Luo Yong will pay a little attention now. She let Zheng come to take the meals on weekdays, instead of her daughter.
So even though Luo Yong had a lot of things during this period, he never thought about asking the mother and daughter to help. After all, their family doesn’t even have an elder, and it is easy to be rumored to be rumored.
Luo used a obviously alienated attitude, which also made Zheng and her daughter very uneasy, wondering if their behavior of replacing people this time was not suitable, and if it made the owner displeased.
It was not until Luo Yong once asked Zheng if she wanted her daughter to learn some arithmetic. If she wanted to learn, she would take a lot of time to go to the Xu family's house every afternoon. The mother and son were relieved and knew that Luo Yong was not disliked by her, so she was still avoiding suspicion.
These days are passing day by day, and Luo Yong cooks it in front of him day by day. As the weather is getting cooler and cooler, the autumn harvest season is coming soon.
I heard from some merchants from the south that the army fighting against Tuyuhun had already returned to the court. Fu Yun, the Khan of Tuyuhun, died, and his son Murong Shun surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. The battle of Tuyuhun came to an end since then.
When the pears on the Luo family's pear trees began to ripen, Luo Yong picked some of the sweetest pears that were pecked by birds, peeled off the wounds and pear skins, cut them into small pieces and grind them with a stone mill, then filtered off the meat residue, added a small amount of water, served them in a ceramic jar, and cooked them on the stove. While cooking, he cut a few more pears and put them in a large piece of pear meat in the ceramic jar and cooked them together.
After the cooked pear juice and pear meat are put into the canned bottle, they are put into the pot and steamed. After steaming until it is almost done, the bottle cap is tightly covered while it is hot. Since then, the first batch of canned pear meat this year has been made.
These canned foods were not sold in a can. Instead, when Wang Dang returned to Xipo Village, he paid some money and asked them to help take them to Liangzhou City.
The city of Liangzhou is a border area with little rainfall, not lush vegetation, and there are very few fruit trees. This year, the pears at home grow very well, and Luo Yong wants Erniang, who are far away, to taste them.
I don’t know if it was enough fertilizer or what, but the fruits produced by the pear trees planted by the Luo family two years ago were even sweeter every year.
The fruit is so delicious this year, and the children at home are very happy. Liulang Qiniang's two always wandered under the pear trees if they have any problems, and led the two big dogs and donkeys at home to run there. Whenever they picked up a pear falling from the tree, they were like picking up some huge treasure. Luo Yong could hear the wool sounds of wheat green beans from a distance, and the shouts of five pairs of Ang'en.
At the end of the ninth lunar month, Luo Erniang, who was far away in Liangzhou City, finally received the porcelain jars that Luo Yong sent to him.
Looking at the shell of the jar, I really couldn't think of what Luo Yong would send them. When he opened the lid of the can and smelled the fragrance of pears, Erniang knew that this should be the fruit that came from their own pear tree.
After work this day, Erniang called Tian Chonghu and Tian Xianger over, as well as the Yin sisters who had just arrived two months ago, and Peng Er and ate most of the cans of canned pears that they opened today.
When Sanlang returned from buying pears from the county town for the first time, Erniang thought he was spending money randomly.
It was really not easy to buy pears that time. In such a cold day, Shen Weng and his team tried their best to transport their best pears from Pingyi County to Lishi County to sell them. I don’t know how much they broke on the way. Finally, they arrived in Luo Yong’s hands, which cost about ten cents and seven or eight pears.
Although Erniang felt expensive in her mouth, she was still very happy in her heart. When she grew so big, it was the first time she had eaten such sweet and juicy fruits. The taste of those pears was deeply engraved in her memory from then on.
Later, I planted pears from home. None of the brothers and sisters in the family were unhappy. I saw the pear blossoms bloom in spring, and in summer, I saw the small pears hanging on the branches. When autumn comes, I waited under the trees for the pears to eat every day.
Er Niang really didn't expect that now that she was so far away from home, she could still eat the pears at home.
The next day, Luo Erniang took two more canned pears and gave them to Zhao Chen and others. Erniang and others can now do business in Liangzhou City, which is inseparable from the protection of the Zhao family.
The Zhao family's base camp is in Shuozhou, Hedong, and its relationship network is spread throughout the grassland. However, in Liangzhou, it is not as deep as the roots of the tree. However, with their power, ordinary people will not easily come up to provoke.
After eating the canned pear, Zhao Chen and his son were also shocked because in their impression, although pears can be regarded as a relatively durable fruit, if they do not put them in the cold storage, they will usually be kept for three or seven days.
Not only were these canned pears not in the cold storage, but they were also driven by Wang Dang and others. After about a month, the pear juice and pear meat in the jar did not change at all, which was incredible.
"You said Luo Xiaolangjun, is it true that he knows some magic skills?" Zhao Qi sighed to his son Zhao Chen after eating a small bowl of cool and moist canned pears.
"I don't know either." Zhao Chen shook his head and smiled bitterly. If Luo Sanlang knew some magic skills, he wouldn't be able to believe it at all.
"How about calling this thing a god-like drink?" Zhao Qi asked.
"Good." Zhao Chen nodded.
Therefore, in the near future, the people living in this dry plateau city finally ushered in a cool and moist drink. The people in the Zhao family called it Shenxian Drink, which was expensive, but there were many buyers.
In order to talk to Luo Yong about the sale of canned pears, Zhao Chen brought a few people and rode his horse to Lishi County in person.
At the same time, on the west side of the Tang Dynasty and across the Yellow River, His Majesty's canned meat factory was also being built in full swing. Some nomads on the nearby prairie heard the news and rushed to the Chengzhou market.
Judging from the market conditions of last year's autumn and winter, there should be no need to worry about the prices of mutton fat soap and cashmere this year. What herders are most worried about is the sales of mutton.
At this time, I heard that Tian Khan saw a large-scale canned meat factory in Chengzhou City, preparing to purchase a large amount of mutton from herders. For a time, many herders flocked to Chengzhou Market. If nothing unexpected happens, this year's Chengzhou Market will probably be several times bigger than last year.
It is said that the grassland is sparsely populated, but if the herders on this prairie are concentrated in one place, the number should not be underestimated.
The value of this canned factory is definitely not just about purchasing cheap mutton. When the herdsmen began to rely on this factory, a thin rope was put on their necks, which may not be fatal, but it was enough to guide the direction.
Next time, if the Hu people in the north dare to invade, His Majesty the Emperor will send an imperial edict to stop production in this canned factory in Chengzhou and stop purchasing the local mutton that is flooded, which will definitely bring a fatal economic blow to many nomads in the north.
The bigger the emperor's canning factory was, the more people they expected to buy mutton, the greater his influence would naturally be.
Many ethnic minority leaders in the north know this truth. They did not think about stopping it, but how could they stop it unless they wanted to harm the interests of their tribes and become public enemies of the entire tribe.
By that time, there is no need for those people to do anything. Political competitors will first jump out and give them a fatal blow.
Politics has always been a bloody battle after a storm, and there will be no real calm.
This time in Tuyuhun, after the death of the old Khan Fuyun, the new Khan Murongshun was supported by the Tang government. This process of power struggle will definitely not be gentle and peaceful, and bleeding is essential.
On the Tang Dynasty, during the process of governing, Li Shimin had always known how to win people's hearts and established his prestige from the bottom of the people, thereby weakening and undermining the influence of the aristocratic families.
On the side of the aristocratic group, it is obviously not a good person. They will never watch the ruler dominate and the decline of the minister's power.
Chapter completed!