When the corn on their area is ripe, many merchants and vendors come to them to collect corn.

That's not about fighting harvest, but about single harvest. A ripe old corn cob that can be used as seeds can be collected at a penny. But you have to let them pick and choose. If the quality is worse, you won't be able to sell at such a price.

Recently, people have sent corn to the Luo family yard every day. At that time, Luo Yong lent everyone corn kernels. They came back at this time but there were a lot of corn on the cob.

Everyone has calculated how many big corns can get a bucket of corn kernels after rubbing them off. Because the vendors who came to them to buy corn recently like the whole corn, they gave it this way.

The children of the Luo family have stopped making bean paste recently and have dried corn in their own yard all day long. The corn cobs and corn kernels are all drying all over the floor. If anyone comes to buy corn cobs, they will ask them to choose them themselves. It costs a few cents to pick them.

Not to mention, there are quite a few hawkers coming to collect corn in Shangxipo Village recently. Hawkers come in and out of the Luo family yard all day long. The children of the Luo family squat there and guard them. They go to collect money when they meet someone who has chosen it. A corn cob costs a penny, which is not a waste.

After dinner every night, these guys have to come to Luo Yong to count the money. After that, they have to keep accounts. When the money in the clay pot has saved up a thousand pennies, they will string them together with a hemp rope.

This summer, their family earned several stagnants of money by selling corn cobs alone. In addition, most of the corn kernels were sold, and only a few corn kernels remained at home, and they were packed in a half-human-high pottery jar, and one pottery jar was barely filled.

"Brother, let's have burritos tomorrow." On the evening of the day, after putting the last bit of corn into the pottery jar, the girl Qi Niang swallowed her saliva and said to Luo Yong.

"Okay, Brother Ah, let five pairs grind cornmeal for us tomorrow morning." Luo Yong stroked the broken hair stained on her forehead with his palm. This little girl has also put in strength these days. Look at the sweat, her face has become much tanned.

The next morning, Luo Yong not only grinds the cornmeal, but also went to the Xu family's hotel to tinker for half a day, and fry a large plate of ginger for the children at home.

If you want the croquette to be crispy, you have to add alum and edible alkali. It is not rare to use edible alkali in Guanzhong since ancient times. As for alum, it was brought by a merchant in the south. He said that if this product was added to make paper, the paper made in the end would be very delicate and smooth. He had not tried it before, but he kept these alums.

Eating too much alum is not good for the health. However, during the process of making the croquette, Luo Yong didn’t know if there were other things that could replace the alum to bloat, and if it was eaten in small amounts, it should be no hindrance.

"Brother, what is this?" Liulang was holding a big broom to clean the yard. The corn was drying in the past two days. Their yard was quite dusty. Wulang, who was responsible for cleaning the yard, was still in school today, so Liulang took the broom and started to sweep the floor.

At this time, he saw Luo Yong come back with a basin of things, throwing the broom down and coming up. He was already smelling the smell, it smelled so fragrant!

"This is a scoop, do you want to try it?" Luo Yong broke up half a scoop and handed it to him.

"Brother! I want it too!" The girl Qi Niang ran out of the backyard as she heard the sound.

"Okay, I'll give you half too." Luo Yong also handed her half to her with a smile.

"Brother! What is this? It's so delicious!" The two children each held half a croaker and followed each other.

Sure enough, children love puffed foods. Luo Yong also liked to eat fried dough sticks and ginger when he was a child. As long as it is crispy in his mouth, it will be very happy to eat.

"It will be even better after a while." Luo Yong put on a pottery pancakes on it. The batter was prepared before, the sauce, vegetables, leaves and eggs were prepared, and the chopped green onions were cut.

Otherwise, what about pancakes and pancakes? Pancakes have to be served. The batter today is made from the corn flour made of fresh corn that has just been ground in the past few days. It tastes very good. Then beat an egg, apply sauce, and add a few slices of vegetable leaves, and then sprinkle with chopped green onion and roll a roll...

"Crack!" After biting this bite, these little babies knew what the real pancake flavour tasted. They were no longer half-finished products from the past, but were finally formed after thousands of years of development and maturity.

"Tasteful!!!" The little dolls responded very enthusiastically.

"Brother, I want it, you can make another one with me!" The girl Qi Niang begged.

"Be good, you eat one first, wait and send a few to the Xu family's guesthouse. I'll make one for you when I come back." Luo Yong was still afraid that they would be overeat.

"Hey, what are you eating? Why don't you wait for me?" The boy Goro shouted as soon as he came back, as if he had suffered a huge grievance.

"Hmph, if you don't study hard, you will know how to eat all day long." Si Niang said while gnawing on the pancakes.

"Where have I not studied well?" Goro stopped Yan'erfei and ran to Luo Yong a few steps: "Brother, fry me a big one, I'm so hungry."

Luo Yong spread a lot of pancakes on this day. In addition to the food he ate, some were also delivered to the Xu family's guesthouse. The Xu family, along with Luo Yong's other disciples, as well as the men and merchants who lived in the hotel, also tasted it. Everyone said that Luo Sanlang was good at cooking.

However, Luo Yong only worked hard occasionally. After this day, he refused to cook again. Si Niang was cooking at home. Si Niang wanted to learn to fry ginger. Luo Yong considered that she was too young and was afraid that she could not control the amount of alum and dough alkali, and thought that frying was a bit dangerous, so he told her that she would teach her when she was sixteen years old.

Speaking of which, the difference between Si Niang and Luo Yong is a bit big. After Luo Yong's New Year, Xun's younger age is eighteen years old. Si Niang is only thirteen. If she has to wait until she is sixteen, she will have to wait for three years.

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Not long after the summer harvest, the civilians who had been building roads from Chang'an City flocked to Lishi County. Because of the sufficient staff, the officials responsible for organizing road construction were also very capable and experienced, and the road was quickly repaired.

This road set out from Chang'an City last winter and continued to collect corvee labor. The previous civil servants returned after serving corvee labor. When they arrived at a new place, new people continued to increase in the number of people in Lishi. When they arrived at their Lishi, all those who participated in the road construction had basically been replaced by the people in Lishi.

The work of building cement roads is not too tiring. At this time, it is not in the twelfth winter when the weather is bad. As long as you finish the 20 days of corvee service, you can save a lot of hemp thread and linen this year. Many local people are quite willing, but unfortunately they don’t want much manpower.

Just as His Majesty the Emperor said before, this cement road was only built to Lishi County. After connecting with the cement road to Xipo Village outside the county town, the project was over.

For those officials who supervised the construction of roads, Luo Yong inevitably had to entertain them. The location was on the second floor terrace above the hall of the Xu family's living room. Although the food was not a delicacy, the dishes in the Xu family's living room were famous for their delicious food, and such a hospitality was not rude.

During the meal, the official who had talked to Luo Yong about canned prescriptions said: "Sanlang doesn't need to worry about this toll. I have already agreed to your Majesty for you."

"Thank you!" Luo Yong was happy in his heart and quickly bowed to thank him. However, are all officials of the Tang Dynasty so versatile? They can be responsible for negotiations and supervise road construction, or... Could this guy be sent out to be responsible for road construction because of the toll?

I feel a little embarrassed to think about it this way. Luo Yong also knows that the emperor is short of money. Why do you think you haven’t been employed for corvee these years? If you don’t employed corvee, you can collect more cloth and go up. That’s all money, which is very useful in the process of foreign trade.

So Luo Yong said he would not pay the toll, so would the emperor be unhappy?

"Eat and eat, come and try this Mapo tofu. The sauce used in this dish, but I made it recently. It was the first time I took it out today. Although it was still lacking in heat, it tasted good." Luo warmly greeted the official to eat the dish.

He added chili peppers to the newly made bean paste in his home, so when cooking, he did not add fresh peppers. The fermented chili taste was a little more fragrant than fresh peppers, and the spicy taste was not that strong. It was easier to accept for the people of the Tang Dynasty who often had to release garlic when eating various cold dishes.

The official put out his chopsticks and added a piece of tofu to taste, said it was good, and then changed the spoon to scoop it, and ate it with the soup and tofu: "Why is this dish called Mapo tofu?"

"..." Luo Yong was stopped by him, and he didn't have time to make up this story.

"Hi, it's just a random name." Luo Yong called it haha.

"It's a bit interesting," the official said seriously.

"If you like it, you'll get a can of marmalade from me. With that sauce, this dish is very simple to make."

When he thought that this guy was sleeping in the open for more than half a year, it was probably because of his own relationship. Luo Yong was very generous. You should know that he didn’t have a few chili peppers on hand now, and the amount of spicy bean paste he made was very small.

"No, no." The official waved his hands repeatedly. Since Tang Jian was demoted for taking someone else's lambs, which of these little officials dared to collect things randomly.

"Since you can't collect it, you can buy a can with me and go back." So Luo Yong said again.

The official scooped a spoonful of Mapo tofu with another spoon and ate it, then nodded: "Serious, then I will buy a can with you."

"If you want to buy tofu, go to Sister Luo's food shop to find Aunt Luo." After Luo Yong said that, he asked someone to make a few bowls of white rice and come up: "Come on, this Mapo tofu must be eaten with white rice, which tastes the best."

Then, the official stayed in the Xu family's guesthouse for three days, and then he ate Mapo tofu with white rice for three days.

Before leaving, he spent twenty cents and took a small jar of bean paste from Luo Yong. The jar of bean paste was about two liters. Luo Yong sold it as an ordinary sauce. He told him that only ten cents would be enough, but he insisted on giving twenty cents.

As for tolls, there will be special documents sent to various post stations. In addition, when this official built cement all the way, he specially spent some time to greet the officials of the large and small post stations that had been passed by. As long as the transporter's route was clearly stated on the way, it was to help Luo Yi transport goods, the officials at the post station would not charge them tolls.

Luo Yong originally thought that this matter might have to be done with some trouble, but he did not expect that the other party was thinking so thoughtful. He was really a person who focused on promises. Because he had agreed to Luo Yong before, he had to ensure that his promises could be implemented. Even if these things later had nothing to do with him, Luo Yong would be grateful for such a person who kept his promises and made his promises.

Look at himself again. He had said before that he wanted to build a road, but where is the road now?

Earlier, when Xu Erlang and others came back from sending the threshing machine, the spring was already deep. It was the time for spring farming to be busy. After the spring farming was over, I finally finally got a breath of rest. Thinking that they were too tired at that time, Luo Yong did not mention this matter. Later, after harvesting wheat and corn, it was the moment that came.

Even at this moment, Luo Yong still didn't want to move.
Chapter completed!