258. Confluence
Compared with other villages in this era, Xipo Village in Lishi County is also a very lively village. But compared with the Chang'an City where Luo Yong and their current location, it is still as quiet as another world.
At the end of September of this year, the weather in Lishi County had already started to get colder, but fortunately it had not yet snowed, and the road was quite convenient.
On this day, several Dinghu people came to Xipo Village and delivered a jar more than two feet high to the Lin family yard. The jar was covered with mud, looking like a wine jar.
"Is this what the aunt brought to us?" Lin's mother looked around the jar for a long time, but she didn't see what was strange about this item. When Aunt Luo traveled thousands of miles to invite the Dingda Express to deliver it to them.
"That's right." The two Dinghu people took the stone pottery bowl handed over by the Lin family's child and fed a few mouthfuls of warm water, and said to them with a smile:
"There are rare things here, and they are expensive. Just this jar, it will cost at least dozens of cents." This did not count the freight rate of Aunt Luo's courier for them.
"It's so expensive!" When people in the yard were surprised when they heard the price, Lin's father and mother felt sorry for money: "It's so rare that it's worth spending so much money to buy it?"
"When you have eaten, you will know whether it is worth it." The two Dinghu people did not stay many times, and said goodbye from the Lin family and went to the sheep house to purchase.
There are many good things in Xipo Village. Buy some beans, soy sauce and other items from here. Take them to Dinghu County. There is no need to worry about sales, and you can get a profit when you change your hands.
The brothers in Taiyuan, Xicheng also asked them to buy goods from here, intending to do some grocery transactions while operating a express delivery shop. If they sell goods internally, there is also an internal price, and the freight cost is much lower than others. However, they mainly engage in wholesale and do not intend to do retail.
"Is this bean break made in the past two days?" As soon as the two arrived at the sheep house, they went to the shop where Liu Huo and his family sold bean breaks.
"The new rice I just made a few days ago is also the new beans for this year. The beans I made this time are delicious." The young people have gone to work, and the only ones Liu and his granddaughter are left in the shop.
"How much goods can you have now? We both want more." A Dinghu man said with a smile.
"Originally there were about 300 kilograms, but I was bought with more than 100 kilograms early this morning, but now there are less than 200 kilograms left." The old man said.
"I'll ask for it all." A Dinghu man said: "Before the fifth day of next month, you will send another 500 kilograms of beans to the Qinji soup cake shop."
"Oh, OK."
"How much does it cost in total?"
"I'll take a look..."
“…”
After buying beans, two Dinghu people drove the cart pulled by the horse and headed to the shop next to them.
"Before the fifth day of next month, 500 kilograms of beans will be given to Qinji soup cake shop. Auntie, have you recorded it?" Old Man Liu asked his granddaughter.
"I've remembered it." The little girl handed her a piece of hemp paper in her hand to Ahon to show it.
"I can't understand what to do for me." The old man waved his hand and said, "Auntie, watch in the shop. If someone comes to buy something, go and shout from the back, I'll go and help you."
"Ahon, I'll go and help, look at the shop." The little girl stood up and said.
"What are you going to do? Can you make bean folds or push mills? Stay here well and write the words you have learned in the past two days a few more times. We are the only one who can read the literacy in our family. In the future, we will rely on you."
The Xu family has earned some money in the past two years, and their family has many children. At the beginning of the year, the Xu brothers found a foreigner from the county and asked him to teach his children to read. By the way, the children in and outside the village also learned from them.
The gentleman came from Guannei. He spoke with a heavy accent and didn't read many books, but it's okay to teach these children to recognize words.
On the Lin family, since the two Dinghu people left, Lin's mother has been there talking about the money that she felt sorry for.
"......If you have those dozens of stagnant money, it's great to buy land. What kind of things to buy for this stagnant..."
"It may not be just bought. I think it's probably better to get it from Luo Sanlang." Lin Dalang said at this time.
"What's the point of taking this at home if you have nothing to do?" Lin's mother sighed, still feeling sorry for the money.
"The two of you just said what is the jar filled with?" Lin's father asked his sons.
"Lychee." The boy Lin Rong rushed to say.
"What kind of lychees are? Have you ever heard of them?" Old Man Lin lived for most of his life and never heard anyone talk about lychees.
"I haven't heard of it, so why don't you open it and take a look." Lin Dalang said.
"Now it's going to be opened?" Lin's mother opposed. This is a thing that is not a year or a festival, and it's just a few dozen cents of money.
"Come from Chang'an City, it's so far away, I don't know if the things there are still good. Don't let them go again, if they are broken again." Lin Chunqiu said at this time.
"I think this is all good." Lin's mother was still reluctant to let it go.
"Liu Lang's words make sense, don't let it go, let's go." Lin's father made the decision.
The old man said this, and Lin's mother no longer objected. The young people in the family were very happy. They all held small hammers and knives, and opened the canned lychees in a few strokes.
Smelling the fragrance of lychees all over the room, the Lin family, all of them were so hungry that they swallowed their saliva. Without waiting for the old man's instructions, several daughters-in-law went to the kitchen to get the spoon and the pottery bowl.
Lin Dalang was responsible for the canning. He first made two bowls of lychees from the jar and asked his two older sons to take them to their mother-in-law. Then he made four bowls and distributed them to his three sons, and the only daughter of Lin Erlang and his wife.
Lin Dalang originally wanted to call his wife to his wife. The so-called eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and it is his turn. However, Lin Chunqiu was so greedy that he was too hungry at this time. Before Lin Dalang could hand out the canned bowl of food in his hand, he walked up and took it over. Lin Dalang was a little displeased, but for the sake of the jar of canned food today, he didn't say anything.
The thirteen people of the Lin family, each of whom was a canned lychee, ate them very carefully, and tasted and swallowed in small mouthfuls.
Lin Chunqiu ate the fastest. After eating the bowl in his hand, he brought the empty bowl to the canned jar and reached out to make another bowl. Lin Erlang was sitting next to him. As soon as Lin Chunqiu reached out his hands, he slapped him open.
"My mother, look!" Lin Chunqiu shouted.
"Erlang, what are you doing?" Lin's mother blamed.
"Why don't you ask him what he is doing?" Lin Erlang replied.
"Don't make arguing, eat a canned food well, why do you have to start arguing again?" Old Man Lin called Lin Chunqiu over and handed him the half bowl of canned lychees in his hand: "Eat it, eat it, don't make arguing."
Lin Chunqiu's shameless person actually reached out to take it and started eating.
Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang's two rooms didn't call each other when they saw this situation. However, seeing that the children in the hall were eating deliciously, they didn't want to make trouble. Besides, if it started to make trouble at this time, it wouldn't be nice to spread.
"You heard that Aunt Luo sent a canned food from Chang'an City, and the Lin brothers all started to eat." Who can afford to lose this face?
The remaining half of the canned jar was put in the cellar. After a while, after dinner every evening, Old Man Lin asked Lin Dalang and the others to go to the cellar to make some canned lychees. Each person got a small bowl and ate it with relish.
This canned food was thirty kilograms, and the family of thirteen people ate it for seven or eight days before finally finishing it.
"Why do you think these canned lychees are so delicious?" Lin's mother told Lin's father when she was sleeping that night.
"What, don't you feel sorry for the money now?" Lin's father asked her.
"Why don't you feel sorry? If I ask me to spend so much money to buy it, I will never let it go." Not only Lin's mother is reluctant, but most people are reluctant.
"It's really expensive, it's really delicious."
"Goro's wife is also determined. If she had changed to a few others, she would definitely not be able to do this."
"I heard from Wulang that although she hired some women to help her in Chang'an, she also had to work. She had to get up before dawn every day, and sometimes she had to rush the goods at night."
"Hey, young people can't just spend time on their work and don't care about their bodies."
"Why is there no movement in her stomach?"
"A few days ago, when I talked about this with Liu Lang's wife, she actually used Wu Lang's wife to make excuses me. If she could be half as good as others, I wouldn't say anything and just pointed at her and gave birth to a few grandchildren for me. What else can the people next to her count on her?"
"Erlang has only one daughter, so he doesn't have to worry about the boss."
"The food in the field has been collected, so why would you better let Goro go to Chang'an earlier?"
"Oh... so far, so back and forth..."
During breakfast the next day, Lin’s father and mother mentioned asking Wulang to go to Chang’an City. The road was so long that he told him not to come back during the New Year and to come back next year when the spring plowing is plowing next year.
After hearing what Ye Niang said, Lin Wulang agreed happily while purging the rice into his mouth.
"Aye, I'm going to Chang'an City too." At this time, Lin Chunqiu suddenly said.
"What are you going to do?" This time, before Lin's father could speak, Lin Wulang asked him first, and he was obviously displeased.
"I also want to go to Chang'an City to have a look." Lin Chunqiu didn't think there was anything wrong with his words.
"Your sister-in-law has worked very hard on business there. Don't make trouble with her again." Lin Wulang said with a stern face.
That day, Lin's mother and Liu Lang's wife talked about the matter of inheriting the family line, but Liu Lang's wife was involved in Aunt Luo, and Lin Wulang just said that the words were just right.
Thinking about the old lady when she was at home, the couple didn't take her sister-in-law seriously.
Last time, Lin Wulang came back from Chang'an City, Aunt Luo asked her to bring some fabrics to Ye Niang and a few sisters-in-law. As a result, the couple took what they should take and what they should eat, but they didn't think about Aunt Luo's goodness.
Lin Wulang grew up in this family since he was a child, and there was no way that Ye Niang was partial. He and Lin Chunqiu were brothers and did not have to care about everything so much. However, when the couple treated Aunt Luo like this, he felt very displeased in his heart, and would not let them go to Chang'an City to cause trouble for Aunt Luo.
"Why did I cause trouble for her? She is my sister-in-law. She made the transaction so big in Chang'an City. I just went to see it..." Lin Chunqiu shook his chopsticks and shouted loudly at the dining table.
"..." Lin Wulang looked at him with pursed his lips. His brother was a mess, and he talked about one by one, and he could tolerate it when he was a child. When he was older, he became more annoyed.
"Tell me a lot! Eat! If you don't eat, go to the yard to push the mill and grind all the beans soaked yesterday."
"!"
Lin Chunqiu grew up so old, this was the first time he was scolded by his father like this. He stopped eating and ran out of his yard, let alone grinding beans.
He just said that his mother valued Goro's wife's ability, and now she is biased towards Goro, but she doesn't know that Old Man Lin is just thinking about him.
With Lin Chunqiu's personality, what can I ask for when I go to Chang'an City? I really think that Luo Sanlang is a good person.
At that time, he was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, watching the adults in their village deal with Tian Sheng and his wife, but he didn't even blink.
Lin Chunqiu and his wife were incompatible with Aunt Luo. In the past, Luo could tolerate it when he was in Xipo Village. It was because of the face of the old couple. Lin Chunqiu didn’t know that the sky was high and the earth was so strong that he wanted to go to Chang'an City. So wasn’t he delivering vegetables to him?
Old Man Lin sighed and told Lin Dalang and others to take care of Lin Chunqiu these days and not to ask him to run out.
According to Lin Dalang and Lin Erlang's meaning, I really hoped that he would run out quickly. It would be better to stay in Chang'an City when he went out and not come back.
But if Lin Chunqiu really went to Chang'an, what would Luo Sanlang think then? I heard that they have opened a very large shop in Chang'an City, and they can earn a lot of money every day. Moreover, Luo Sanlang is a serious court official, and he can meet the emperor every time.
Now, where can they be able to calculate and offend Luo Yong?
Chapter completed!