On the Luo family, Luo Siniang and his sisters also sat around the house to recite the letter that night.

Actually, I read it before. The aunt and the couple were there at that time. They have already gone back now. After dinner, a few children took out the letter and read it again.

What should be explained before was almost done. This time, Luo Yong wrote back the letter mainly for the matter of tea. The letter I wrote to his family was nothing more than to report peace, and then told them about the customs and customs of Hexi. Several children took his letter as a travel note, and read it with great interest.

At the end of the letter, as the head of the family, Luo Yong inevitably reminded the family to study hard and exercise diligently.

"Go to bed early and you will have to study tomorrow morning."

"Sister, you can take me to the Bai family tomorrow."

"What are you going to the Bai family to do?"

"I want to ride a horse!"

"Little brat, I can't even climb up the horse's back, and I'm still riding a big horse."

"I'm going, I'm going..."

"When you grow taller."

"When will you wait?"

"That depends on whether you grow fast or not."

“…”

Luo Siniang often goes to the Bai family to take classes recently. The elders of the Bai family hired people to teach the children at home to learn martial arts. Most of these big families attach great importance to the cultivation of the next generation. The adults of the Bai family often act in person and play the role of a teacher.

Luo Siniang has good arithmetics, and she memorizes them all so well. Even compared with the children of the Bai family who have received a good education since childhood, her foundation is not too bad. In addition, her learning ability is very strong. Her joining can bring pressure to some lazy and lazy children in the Bai family and promote their efforts. The adults of the Bai family will naturally be happy to see it. Of course, they also have the intention of supporting the Luo family.

As for the Luo family, Master Zhao still comes to teach every day. It is good to follow him to lay the foundation, but Si Niang's situation is not suitable.

Recently, there have been more women coming to them to listen to the class. Some people really want to learn to recognize words but had no channels before. Now I heard that there is such a place that even if you get up early every day and walk through half of Chang'an City, you still have to come to listen to the class.

These women will also give Master Zhao some training to attend classes here, and basically eat all kinds of food. Master Zhao, who is over 70 years old, is blushing. It is not a problem to live for another 10 or 20 years.

Some people also brought things to Si Niang Azhi and the others, which has been happening long ago. Luo Yong once asked them to push them all, saying that if they collected things at this time, some women who could not take things out of the house would not dare to come to this yard to attend classes again.

Recently, Luo Yong is not at home, and when he meets someone who sends things, Azhi and the others still refuse. Many women who recognize words here are grateful to the Luo family, and they can't help with other things. However, after class every day, they will clean the yard.

Hou Lin was there when he had breakfast the next morning. He was in a good mood today because he also received a letter from Qiao Junlin yesterday.

After breakfast, Si Niang Wuro Liuro and waited for the proofreading, and each rode a Yanerfei and went out. The Yanerfei they used in the family were all upgraded versions: steel bearings, Eucommia rubber wheels, spring sheepskin cushions, and gear chains, which were also made of steel, and only the body was still wood.

The car rides fast, so you don’t have to worry about breaking the chain. It’s very comfortable to sit on it, and it’s much more comfortable than those hard ox and horse carriages. So a trend of swallow flying has recently started in Chang'an City, and many people are proud of owning such a swallow flying.

Of course, the real tycoons can use these techniques from Yan'erfei to transform their own ox carriages. There are not many such cars at present, and there are only about 10 or 20 cars in the entire Chang'an City.

Chang'an City in late February of the lunar calendar is already a scene of early spring. There is already a damp atmosphere in the air, and the trees on both sides of the street have also sprouted tender buds.

Many people in the city have turned over the vegetable fields in their yards, and have raised vegetable seedlings on the kangs in their houses. After a few days, they will move them to the ground.

Si Niang is now a fifteen-year-old girl. She is wearing an ochre top and a brown lower robe. She wears black underwear under her lower robe and a pair of black rubber-soled leather boots under her feet.

This girl has also grown a lot recently. She no longer looks like she was raised by her brother two years ago. She looks quite energetic. When she practices martial arts with the Bai family children on the school training ground, she is even more heroic. Although she is not old, she has already become a bit charming.

The Bai family also has a husband who specializes in teaching girls. Si Niang went there once before with the advice of the elders of the Bai family, but after that time, she never went there again.

However, Si Niang also felt that there was not even a talent in this area in their family, which was indeed not suitable. She planned to train Qi Niang in this area when she grew up a little later. Of course, she had not told Qi Niang about this idea yet. The girl was probably unhappy. She wanted to make trouble and the roof could be overturned. Forget it, let's wait until my brother came back.

Brother:...I'll let me do this when I go back? Then I'll better not go back.

Unlike the early spring color of Chang'an City, Changle County can't even smell the smell of spring at this time, and it is dry and yellow everywhere.

Luo Yong was determined to do infrastructure inside and outside the county town, but he had no money or anyone. There were only a few hundred families in Changle County. Recently, the tofu transactions were all moving. Those who could work in the workshops worked and the tofu sold were carrying tofu and selling tofu. There were no idle people left in the whole city.

As we are about to enter spring plowing again, those who live in the village below will have to go back to farm, and the manpower will be more tense.

Therefore, those infrastructure construction and other things have to be put back. The most important thing now is to make the people in and outside the city earn money as soon as possible, so that they can have extra money in their hands, make Changle County lively, with more foreign populations and surplus labor, and then the next step of construction work will be carried out.

As for making wine, it was too urgent to be so hard. Luo Yong handed over this matter to Qiao Junlin. He had just found someone to cultivate wine chorus in the county government. It would take some time to cultivate wine chorus with ready-made white wine. These people have never been exposed to white wine before, so they have to take some detours.

The reason why I handed this over to Qiao Junlin was to increase his capital and reputation. When I returned to Chang'an City in the future and interacted with those Chang'an children, I would be more confident. If the business was properly hyped, I might be sought after.

It takes time to make wine. What Luo Yong is most concerned about now is the food shops and restaurants in the city. They often have to go over to see them and understand their daily business conditions. How many Hu merchants were received on that day, how many Hu merchants stayed, and how many Hu merchants left. What is the reason why they failed to retain people.

"Are you all rushing to Dunhuang to see goods?"

"It's at least two months before the caravans from the Western Regions arrive in Dunhuang. These people are like rushing their lives, and they are afraid of falling behind others."

"Oh, you must do business early."

“…”

There is really no way to do this. Dunhuang is the place where Hu merchants trade. There are many goods there and the market is large. Seeing that the peak trading season of this year is coming soon, those people must have wanted to go there early to find a good place to live, and then go out to see the goods every day. If you are lucky, you can buy a batch of good goods and ship them to Liangzhou and other places and make a big profit.

On this day, a restaurant in a food shop told Luo Yong that after the beginning of spring, there would be no one here to kill sheep, and it was difficult to buy mutton. At the official vegetable shop, it would be better to buy more mutton, marinate it with salt, hang it up and dry it, and make bacon.

Luo Yong also knew that goats began to fade after spring, and at that time, they could not receive any cashmere when they killed sheep. So now many herders choose to kill sheep in winter, and it should be similar across the country.

"Seriously, I'll buy more mutton these days."

Luo Yong had just finished this in the morning, and in the afternoon, a farmer from the suburbs rushed over to sell the three sheep. He was so quick that Luo Yong felt that this guy was the relative of the store and didn't run away.

The sheep was pretty good and the price was reasonable. Luo Yong bought it. The man scraped away the cashmere, collected the copper coins, and happily went home.

The three sheep were slaughtered out, and the things that sheep and blood goat were put into the water, a tofu workshop and the servants in the yamen were consumed in one meal, and even the sheep bones were removed to make soup.

The remaining clean meat was soaked in water first, then mixed with seasonings to marinate. After marinating, they were hung to dry. After almost drying, they were hung in a small house in the backyard of the county government office and smoked.

This smoke lasted for several days, and it was so smoky. At the beginning, the officers in the county government were still a little uncomfortable. In the next few days, the fragrance of bacon came out, making people saliva.

The bacon was finally hung on the beam of the official vegetable shop.

The magistrate of County Luo told the old man who was looking at the shop that as long as someone came to their county’s food shop for dinner and the store came to buy vegetables, no matter how much the other party bought, he would ask him to deliver bacon according to the number of people, and there was no need to give it more, and each person would just be three slices.

On this day, several Hu Shang passed by their Changle County, entered the county town, and found a food shop to have dinner. Once there, they would first order a pot of corn porridge and a cold dish.

A few days ago, they met another caravan on the road, and the other party told them that the new Luo County Magistrate of Changle County taught the food shops in the county to make better food skills. Not to mention, the cold dishes are really good, and they are the most suitable with corn porridge. They are affordable and have a large portion, good taste, and are very refreshing.

People who have been walking in the Gobi Desert for a long time, they hear it is delicious and the price is very appropriate, so they basically don’t like it. As soon as they enter the shop, they don’t ask anything else and order cold dishes first.

Soon, the corn porridge and cold dishes were brought up by the store, and a small plate of bacon was also served together, which was said to be delivered by their county.

When the Hu merchants saw that the county was also very stingy. They either didn't give it or just gave it a decent idea. What's the matter with these pieces of bacon? In their place, bacon is not valuable at all. They are traveling all day long and eat a lot.

The shop put down the things and went down. Just now, these Hu merchants ordered several other dishes, so he had to cook them quickly.

These Hu merchants were drinking corn porridge and eating cold dishes. The people from the caravan did not deceive them before. The cold dishes here were indeed delicious. It only cost a few cents to pay for such a large portion.

"This bacon is delicious." Just as it was getting excited, someone suddenly said on the table.

"Tsk, why have you never eaten bacon?" Everyone else disagreed.

"It's really delicious. If you don't believe it, please try it."

“Huh…”

"Why is it so delicious!"

"Strange! Is this mutton?"

"It's lamb."

"Shop! Shop!"

"Hey, what do you want for a few customers?" The shop was busy under the kitchen. When he heard the guests in front of him called him, he hurried out.

"This bacon is delicious, we also want a plate of bacon." said a Hu man.

"Hey, there is some bacon. I'll just go to the official shop to cut it. But the price of this bacon is more expensive, and it costs thirty cents per catty. If you think it's suitable..." said the shop owner.

"It actually costs thirty cents!"

"How much does a pound of mutton cost?"

"I passed by here before winter last year and heard that a pound of mutton is sold for less than three cents."

"Are you cheating us?"

"No, how can the shop cheat people?" The shop waved his hands repeatedly:

"A pound of mutton costs three cents, which was the price when it was just winter last year. Now, the pure mutton has to be sold for five cents. Besides, the price of this bacon is expensive because of those ingredients. We can't buy it in this place. We were all brought by our magistrate Luo from Chang'an City. There is not much, so we can use a little less."

These Hu people also knew that the people in Chang'an City ate fine food. Maybe some expensive seasonings were used in this mutton. If this was true, thirty cents per pound would not be expensive.

"Look, do you still buy this mutton?" the store asked them again.

"Forget it, I'd better bring those tofu dishes up quickly." It's not that I can't afford it for thirty cents per pound, but I just don't want to give it up. No matter how delicious it is, it's just mutton.

When the store went down again, the few Hu people on the desktop said:

"A pound costs thirty cents, so we have eaten several cents just now."

"This can buy a big plate of cold dishes."

"The county magistrate of Changle County is not stingy."

"I heard that the Luo family brothers are very rich, but it's true."

The few people were feeling and ate. After the meal was over, the store owner brought a small bowl of goat milk with him and others. The goat milk looked weird and turned out to be gray-brown.

"Please try the milk tea given to our county. It was cooked with the tea he brought from Chang'an City with the goat milk here. It tastes very good. I heard that the tea is precious, and those Chang'an people are only willing to put a little bit when they cook tea."
To be continued...