After the August of the lunar calendar, the sultry air that had covered Chang'an City for more than two months finally dissipated a little. The weather gradually became a little dry, and it was quite cool in the morning and evening, and the sun was still very strong during the day.

Luo Yong's peppers that he had grown in cooperation with others earlier had basically been collected by this time. Most of the batch of peppers this year were hired to dry them, and then the pepper skin and pepper seeds were sold separately.

Chili skin is cheap. The north and south groceries have been sold for more than a month, and you can buy a large pack of them for a few cents. The pepper seeds have not yet started selling. Someone asked, Luo Yong also said that they would be put on the north and south groceries at some time. As for the price, he did not mention them.

This year, Luo Yong has worked with others to grow so many chili peppers. He dried all the chili peppers to get the seeds. The number of chili seeds accumulated is naturally very considerable.

With so many chili seeds, how can I sell them all in a few months? And the price cannot be too low. In order to achieve this goal, Luo Yong felt that it was necessary to increase the publicity in this area.

It’s just that autumn tigers are in power, and the weather is hot and dry, and this season is not suitable for the promotion of peppers.

Luo Yong thought about it and decided to slow down first, and wait until the weather is cooler.

"Did you keep some chili seeds at home?" This day was the day to buy the last batch of chili peppers. Just as Luo Yongxiu Mu happened to go out of the city in person.

"This..." These farmers helped Luo Yong plant peppers for several months. Not to mention anything else, just picking a few ripe fields that fell on the roadside was enough for them to save some pepper seeds at home. At this time, Luo Yong asked in person, and they didn't know how to answer. They said no, that was too fake. It seemed that there was no, and it didn't seem to be appropriate.

"It's okay." Luo Yong smiled and said, "I know you are all trustworthy. You don't keep your peppers privately at home, nor do you sell them to others on your back. Of course, I won't care about those bits and pieces."

"Hey, there are only two or three who have fallen out of the house, and most of the villagers pick it up and save it home." A villager answered carefully.

They have made a lot of money to help Luo use chili in the past few months because Luo Yong bought chili from them for a high price.

The villagers are not stupid. They know that after these pepper seeds are sold this year, the pepper will not be so valuable next year and next year. If the people in their village still want to have a good income, the best way out is to cooperate with Luo Yong for a long time. They can plant whatever Luo Yong wants, and sell the things they grow directly to groceries in the north and south without worrying about it, and their income is more secure.

This Li Shi Luo Sanlang is not an ordinary person. He used to plant Eucommia ulmoides in Li Shi County, but now the Oshi tree is not ordinary valuable.

There is also the Chameng rice they planted. Now there are people in the suburbs of Chang'an City. They can be planted for two seasons a year, and they don't need to be planted in paddy fields. They can be planted on ordinary slopes. Although the taste is poor, the yield is quite high and it is not suitable for the fields. When the seeds of Chameng rice were first introduced, the price was very expensive.

Nowadays, with this pepper, in the eyes of these villagers in the suburbs of Chang'an, as long as it is planted by Lishi Luosanlang, there is no one that cannot be sold at a good price.

In order to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Luo Yong, the villagers will also supervise and restrict each other. The work of cooperatively growing peppers this year has also been relatively smooth. Although there must be privately hidden, the situation is not serious.

"I will not start selling these chili seeds after a while. Don't sell them now. I will take them out and sell them after they are put on the shelves at our shop, okay?" Luo Yong discussed with these people.

"Of course, Saburo can rest assured!" The villagers agreed. If Luo Yong had not started selling it yet, they would sell it first. It would be obvious that the platform used to dismantle Luo.

"Thank you all this year! I will come to your village again until the spring next year." Luo Yong bowed to everyone with a smile.

"Sanlang, what will we plant next year?" someone asked loudly.

"I should plant some cold melons next year." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Han Gua?" Everyone was surprised.

The cold melon has just been spread from the Western Regions in the past two years. It may have appeared in the manors of those aristocratic families, but it is rare to see it among the people.

This summer, some people sell cold melons in the Western market. The price is quite high, but the supply is still in short supply.

Luo Yong drove the donkey cart and returned to the city with the team carrying peppers, leaving behind a group of villagers, who were nervous and full of expectations.

In those days afterwards, as long as the three or two people in these villages came together to talk, they would not mention the matter of planting cold melons.

Luo Yong, in fact, he also knew that it was not that easy to plant watermelons in Chang'an City in this era.

Watermelon was native to Africa and later introduced to Persia and other places, and then spread to Xinjiang via the Silk Road. It was rare in the Central Plains at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. It was not until the Five Dynasties that all parts of the Central Plains began to grow one after another. By the Song Dynasty, watermelons became very common.

The reason why a species takes so long is that it is because of the extremely closed environment in this era, and on the other hand, it is likely that it takes quite a long time for this species to adapt to a new land.

Those who sell watermelons in the West Market this summer, Luo Yong believes that they should not plant them near Chang'an City, but are planted in places not too far from Chang'an City and have a drier climate. They will be transported to Chang'an City for sale after harvesting.

Watermelon is better than other fruits. After picking it, it will be stored for ten days and half a month. As long as it is properly stored, it will not be easy to rot. However, this is the transportation cost, and watermelon is so heavy.

Luo Yong is now planning to grow watermelons in the suburbs of Chang'an City, so he is mentally prepared to not make money or even lose money in a short period of time.

Moreover, he also has a cheater. If someone else wants to grow watermelons near Chang'an City, it may take longer to explore and cultivate them. However, Luo Yong's space not only contains related agricultural books, but he even has a few packs of watermelon seeds.

Watermelon seeds like this produced by seed companies are usually not very stable in heritability. The first generation is not bad. After the seed is retained, the second and third generations will often undergo trait separation, and the quality of the planted watermelons will decrease significantly.

However, no matter how traits are separated, those excellent genes will never disappear in vain. As long as the funds are in place and time is spent slowly screening and cultivating them, if nothing unexpected happens, a variety with relatively stable traits should be obtained in a few generations.

When Luo Yong thought of the scene of the watermelon he grew in selling big groceries in North and South, he couldn't help but be happy.

In the hot summer, how can watermelons reduce the heat? Summer without watermelons is not a complete summer.

"Sister, I still want to eat cold melons."

On the afternoon of that day, Si Niang led Qi Niang to Chonghuafang to find Aunt Luo. Seeing these two people coming, Aunt Luo was also very happy and led them to the west market to buy a small basket of grapes. The grapes looked normal but the price was not cheap. The girl Qi Niang stuffed grapes into her mouth while thinking about eating watermelon.

"The cold melons are out of season this year. I will buy them with you next year. In a while, it's time to come. My sister will buy them with you to eat them." Aunt Luo coaxed.

Aunt Luo has done a good job in the past two years, and has some money in her hand. She has less pressure on her life. She is much more generous to the following small ones than before. She no longer scolds her like before.

"You want to eat frozen pears!" Qi Niang said happily.

"Okay, the shop here will collect some dates in a few days. If you encounter a suitable pear, I will buy it and send it to your yard." Aunt Luo smiled and said, just a few loads of pears, it would not cost much.

There are many more fruit trees around Chang'an City than in Lishi. Every year when the pears come down during the season, the price is a bit cheaper than in Lishi.

They are next to the West City, and many village vendors like to sell fruits and vegetables here. If they encounter something with good prices and suitable prices, everyone will pick and buy some.

Aunt Luo often buys goods with whole vehicles and does not lower the price. Over time, many people will come to her first when they have goods to sell. The source of goods here is better than elsewhere.

Si Niang and Qi Niang stayed at Chonghuafang for half a day, ate a lot of grapes, and then carried a basket made of wheat straw and carried a few bunches of grapes to the Taixue School to wait for Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin, and took them a donkey cart home with them.

The donkey cart was not too spacious, and the four of them were squeezed to sit together. Qi Niang was still young, and Luo Yong asked her to sit on his lap, so Si Niang sat in the corner with a basket.

As the car was walking, Si Niang suddenly asked: "Brother, how is Zheng's now?"

Luo Yong replied: "It's great. She doesn't raise pigs anymore. I'll ask Xu Dalang and the others to arrange for her to go to the cement workshop to cook."

"Sister said that this basket is sold for a cent, which is not as good as Zheng's one." Si Niang muttered.

Luo Yong looked at his sister, not sure whether this guy missed Zheng or their hometown in Lishi. Why did he suddenly feel a little sentimental? Could it be that puberty has arrived?

"I don't know how the maiqing beans are doing." After a while, the girl said again.

"Next time when my brother-in-law comes, I ask him to bring Mai Qing Dou Li'er here." When they set out to Chang'an, they originally planned to stay here for only one winter and go back, but they stayed for almost a year.

"When will my brother-in-law come?" The girl Qi Niang kept listening to her brother and sister talking quietly. At this time, she heard that Mai Qing Doulier could come too, so she asked.

"He will not come after the autumn harvest. I will write to him in the past two days, asking him to bring the wheat green beans over," Luo Yong replied.

Luo Yong couldn't feel at entrusting this matter to Lin Wulang. In order to prevent accidents on the way, he could take Mai Qing Dou Lier in the house to sleep with him.

"Then Zheng can't come?" Qiao Junlin asked.

"She has a few children in her family, and I'm afraid she can't leave for the time being." In addition to the eldest daughter who helped her sister's food shop, Zheng also has three children to support her family.

When the people from North and South Grocery returned to Lishi to transport goods last time, Zheng's youngest son fell down.

Zheng went to find Xu Erlang and asked him if he could take the children in his family. He lived in the two small houses outside the Luo family yard. Xu Erlang thought about it and agreed. From then on, the mother and son lived there.

Since Da Luo used it, his pigpens never had any piglets. The big pigs were killed when they were raised at a certain time. Not long after, the pigpens were empty, so naturally the Zheng family had no work to do.

Luo Yong had thought of this a long time ago and explained to his disciples early, asking them to arrange for her to go to the cement workshop to cook for the workers.

Their family was very affordable to eat and use. After they could save a few dollars, they sent the two boys at home to study in Xiaohe Village.

I heard that her eldest daughter who worked in Chang'an also asked someone to bring some copper coins back.

Luo Yong sat in the car and told the two girls about the recent situation of the Zheng family.

The girl Qi Niang was still young and didn't know how to think about it, but the more she heard it, the more she became more and more surprised.

"Brother! Why did you think so?" She thought she was just worried about Zheng's current situation.

After all, when he was at home, Si Niang had a lot of dealing with Zheng, and there were Er Niang and Peng Er. As for Luo Yong, he and Zheng had never said a few times.

"Or else do you think I wouldn't have thought of it?" Luo stretched out his hand and rubbed his sister's already loose hair.

He is the head of the family. If he couldn't imagine these things, who else could expect to think of them?

Luo Yong has always seen the situation of the Zheng family.

For the Luo family, the Zheng family was just an employer, but for the Zheng family, Luo Yong was definitely not just an employer.
Chapter completed!