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193. Ruixue

Compared with Liangzhou City, the citizens of Chang'an City are obviously much richer. At least in Guangdefang, where Aunt Luo and the others' shop are located, the people in the market are still relatively rich.

There are two east and west cities in Chang'an City. Most of the goods sold in the east city are relatively high-end, and the prices are not very affordable, so relatively speaking, they are not as lively as the West City.

The two markets of the East and West are not open every morning, and they only do the afternoon half-day business, so Aunt Luo and their food shops will have the best business by the afternoon. The fastest seller in their house is the braised skewers, which cost a penny, and are delicious and full of food. Some idle people have passed through several workshops and spent half a day to eat one or two braised skewers from the sister’s food shop.

"I heard that for you, can you exchange water for braised skewers?" This morning, Aunt Luo was cooking a slurry and a twelve-year-old girl came to the front of the shop.

"I changed it, did you take the water to change it?" Aunt Luo patted Zheng's eldest daughter, asked her to help watch the heat, and walked to the windowsill and talked to the little girl.

"Look at how many of these I can change?" When the little girl heard this, she happily picked up a small wooden tube in her hand and put it on the counter.

"Come here." This counter is for business. If it is stained with sewage, it will be bad if it leaves a smell. Aunt Luo hurriedly greeted the person to a small door next to him.

"Oh." The little girl walked over with a wooden barrel.

Er Niang opened the small door next to her and squatted at the door. She checked the things in the other party's bucket. She looked at it, and her heart, liver and kidneys had been removed, leaving only some large and small intestines. Fortunately, there were still three goose heads. Maybe their family doesn't like eating this, and they think it's too troublesome to pack up, so they simply chopped it up.

"You can exchange four braised skewers." The aunt said. The main reason is that the three goose heads are not bad. The goose heads taste good when braised, and some customers like to eat this.

"Take it seriously!" The little girl was so happy.

"Natural." Aunt Luo smiled and said, "Which family belongs to? Do the adults in the family know about these things?"

"Everyone knows, my husband asked me to change a bunch of food and he would eat it." The little girl said with a smile.

Aunt Luo brought a wooden basin, poured half of the bucket of goose into the basin, then scooped a scoop of water to help her clean the wooden barrel. Finally, she went to the front of the counter, picked four braised skewers, wrapped a piece of oil paper, and handed them to the little lady.

The little girl hung the wooden barrel on her arms, held the braised strings in both hands, and went home happily. She just heard her husband say that she was like this, and she thought she should be the maid from whom she should be.

"Madam, look, this drink has been cooked?" Zheng's eldest daughter asked Aunt Luo with a loud voice.

Aunt Luo walked over with the wooden basin in her arms and said, "It's almost done, warm it up on low heat. Remember to stir more and don't make the bottom."

"Yeah." The eldest daughter of Zheng responded, squatted and removed the firewood burning under the stove, leaving only a little charcoal in the stove chamber to continue to warm up. The person was still standing in front of the pottery pot. At this time, the fire had just been removed, and the stove was still hot. If you were not careful, it would be easy to make the bottom. Once the bottom was covered, the pot of slurry would not be sold for money.

There are beans, red dates, and some white rice in this slurry. These things are soaked in water and ground into slurry, then filtered the residue, and cooked in a pottery. A bowl can be sold for one cent. This pottery contains dozens of cents.

On the side of the aunt, she carried the pot of goose and mixed it into the backyard.

On the street in front of the Ma Family Guest House is a hall, and behind the hall is the middle courtyard, where there is a row of two-story rooms, there is a parking place for horses and a cattle shed in the yard. Vehicles and animals do not need to come from the hall. There is a side door next to the middle courtyard. The owner comes directly into the store from the hall. The servant groom, led by the waiter of the hall, drove a car around the outside of the guest house and walked in through the side door.

However, if you stay for a while, you can park your car directly in the alley next to you and wait there for a while.

Behind this intermediate yard, there is a backyard, with water wells and large kitchens there, and there is also a row of houses. The aunt and the others have recently lived in the backyard of this Ma's guest house.

Although Luo Yong had bought a yard in Chang'an City before, the yard had been lent to Qiao Junlin and the others, and they were not in Guangdefang. The aunt and the others also had to do business at night. Every day at dusk, the hundreds of closing drums were beaten, and the gate of their Guangdefang was locked. It was okay to walk around the yard, but it was impossible to get out of the yard.

"That person is Aunt Luo, right?"

"I heard that the Luo family is not short of money, so why do they have to deal with such dirty things all day long?"

"How can you not lack money? You don't know how much foreign debt Na Luo Saburo owe."

"Why is this..."

When Aunt Luo held a pot of goose intestine and walked through the middle courtyard, several guests stood by the window and spoke in the guest room on the second floor.

These people did not stay in the hotel here, but because the rooms in the Ma Family Hotel were so comfortable that they made an appointment to come here to have tea and talk. In just one room, it would cost a lot of money in one afternoon.

Aunt Luo had good ears. She heard what those people said upstairs, but she did not look up, but instead carried the handful of things through the aisle downstairs and went directly to the backyard.

Those men called the things in her hands dirty, as if they were touched and people would lose their price, but they didn't know how many people in this world could not afford to eat dirty.

Next to a ditch in the backyard, two women were sitting on the stool, cleaning the debris collected by Er Niang and the others.

These two women were introduced by Aunt Luo, a Yalang from Guangdefang a few days ago. The aunts and the others who came here don’t know many people. If they asked the Ma family to help introduce them, there would be a little more human connection. Such people would be a bit constrained when using them. It would be better to spend some copper coins to call Yalang to introduce them. If they were not used well, they would go back and ask him to change them.

"I just collected some more, you can wash them together." The aunt put the basin of goose on the ground.

"It's good to leave your wife." A woman replied.

"You can just scoop the hot water on the big stove and use it, don't be so reserved."

The aunt saw that the hot water on the large stove was burning and smoke was burning, but the two women here seemed to be using cold water, so she went over to help them carry a bucket of hot water. In this cold winter, if you don’t use it with some hot water, your hands will crack in less than a few days.

In order to burn those fire walls, Ma's guest house consumes a lot of firewood every day. The stove there is also connected to a fire wall in the guest room. It is burned all day long and all day long, so you don't have to feel too distressed when using the hot water. Add some cold water in time after use.

But these two women were really too reserved. They had been here for several days. Aunt Luo had told them several times, but they still didn't go there to make hot water to use.

Xie Yalang said that these two women were neighbors, and their people were poor. I don’t know if it was the habit I developed when working elsewhere or what I had done. I talked very little and were reserved, so I was good at working.

"After washing these, go to the front for dinner." The aunt looked briefly at the debris they had washed, and saw that their work was done carefully, she felt a little satisfied.

"Oh." The two women responded, and there was a hint of smile on their faces. Although their wages were not necessarily much higher than those elsewhere, they ate very well.

When the aunt saw that they were happy when they said they could eat, she also felt a little funny. She told them not to save hot water anymore. She would throw away those miscellaneous items and not ask the guests to taste any strange smells, and then go back to the front to work.

After a while, after they finished all the work on their hands, they saw that the time was almost done, so they went to have a meal in front of them.

As soon as I entered the Grandma Food Store, I saw the young man from Li Shi was selling pancakes. Thinking that Grandma Food Store did not sell pancakes, the two women knew that their lunch today was pancakes.

I saw that a large spoonful of batter was poured onto a large ceramic disc, then swept it with the back of a knife, spread it out, then beat an egg and spread it on the cake, then apply some big sauce, sprinkle some chopped green onion, put a few green leaves, and finally roll it up and fold it, and a little bag of oil paper. A woman reached out to take it, and the other woman continued to wait.

The boys who spread pancakes seemed to know that they wanted a bigger pancake. The batter was enough and the sauce was brushed quickly. They spread out a large pancake, folded it one roll and folded it, wrapped it in oil paper, and it was a heavy piece.

The aunt and the others were making dumplings again at this time, and they didn't know if they had eaten it. Seeing these two women coming to have a meal, they asked the eldest daughter of Zheng to make them a bowl of hot tofu and add marinade. It was hot and the taste was very good.

The two women held the tofu and finished eating bites. They put their pancakes in their arms and went back to the backyard to work.

After a while, heavy snow began to fall in the sky. On the other side, a few men opened the window to enjoy the snow and chanted poems. The words were chanting auspicious snow. A group of men talked and laughed up on the floor, which was very lively.
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