The weather was good these days, so Aunt Luo invited a craftsman to come over and slightly repaired the front and back yards.

When the original owner built this yard, he also paid some money. The pillars and beams were made of good wood, and the roof was also covered with tiles instead of thatched like some families in the city.

By the time Aunt Luo and the others took over, the tiles on the roof seemed a little sparse, and some side houses also had rain leaks.

Aunt Luo bought some tiles and added them, and asked the craftsmen who picked up the tiles to re-tidy up the tiles on the roof.

There is no other place to rest. Only the oyster ash in the corner of the wall is a little peeling. Buy some oyster ash and adjust it to make up for it. Then apply some yellow and dirty walls.

Local people often use oyster grey walls, just paste them outside the wooden structure. Not the entire room is covered, but only three or four feet of heights are pasted along the base of the wall. I don’t know whether it is because of the heavy buildings or the cost issue.

After laying the tiles and applying oyster ash, I went back with the merchant who sold cement and bought a few loads of cement and spread the floor inside and outside the courtyard. The house was roughly rested and recuperated.

Those wooden structures are basically free of movement. The beams and columns look very strong now. The wooden floors on the second floor are not very good, and they need to be repaired and replaced.

After this rest, the shop looked much more energetic than before.

Then hang a sign on the front door and write the four words "A Sister Food Shop". The Wuxian branch of A Sister Food Shop has officially opened.

Aunt Luo punched two stone mills, hired several strong women to make tofu in the yard behind the shop.

In the days that followed, before dawn was clear, early neighbors would bring beans and white rice to their shops to exchange for tofu, and some would come with silk threads and silkworm cocoons. All these things were collected by Aunt Sharu and the others. The only thing that made them a little headache was the river food.

People often catch fish and shrimps from the river and come to the sister's food shop to exchange for tofu. Aunt Luo and others don't like river food very much. However, their shop has just opened, so it is difficult to put on ready-made transactions. After a while, they even bought a lot of them.

If someone wanted these fish and shrimps that day, they would ask them to change them that day. Most of the rest would be filled with food for Aunt Luo and others. Sometimes I couldn't finish them, so I followed the neighbors' appearance, marinated the river food with coarse salt, and hung it up and dried it into dried fish. As for how to eat these dried fish when, who knows?

After the tofu transaction was on track, Aunt Luo and his friends made their hands and quickly made the fish balls. The dried fish in the yard stopped growing.

The price of river food in Wuxian is low, and the consumption level of local people is relatively limited, so fish balls that can be sold for two cents a bunch of fish balls in Chang'an City, but they can only be sold for one cent here, but they are slightly smaller than those in Chang'an City.

Moreover, after many experiments, Aunt Luo and the others increased the proportion of fish to the greatest extent. It was really, it was full of fish smell when they bite it.

In addition to fish balls, tofu, and jujube bean cakes, they also sell braised water, but they are not sold as red braised as Chang'an City, but are used to cater to the lighter tastes of the locals and make white braised water.

There are also dumplings and other foods, which will be sold in the days after that.

However, the dumplings they made this time are more suitable as Xiaolongbao. Although they are not dough-made, they are basically small buns in shape. Some corn starch and some glutinous rice flour are added to the skin of the bun, which are crystal clear and steamed. There is also a soup made of pork bone and pig skin. The taste is very delicious and most locals like it.

The braised bun costs one cent a bun, and a small dumpling costs two cents a basket. Some people only buy half a basket, which is fine.

Although the food in their shops is priced by copper coins, the majority of the food they receive is grain, rice, flour, silk cocoons. When the people in the city go to their shops to exchange tofu, they use more grain. If they want to buy other slightly more expensive food, they use silk cocoons.

Most of the silk is not good, but mainly some brain-like silk, wrapped in a small ball, which cannot be used for weaving, and can only be fed into clothes and shoes. Such silk thread is also called cotton.

When the summer and autumn seasons come to them to collect silk, no matter the best silk or the lowest cotton, people are willing to collect silk, but the price is different.

In Changle County, where Luo Yong is currently located, the local economy depends largely on those Hu merchants who come and go.

Aunt Luo is in Wu County. Although this place is a land of fish and rice, local people want to be prosperous and develop, they also have to rely on the big merchants in the Central Plains. What is better than Changle County is that Wu County is not only a city by the canal, with a territorial advantage, but also their own specialties, which can produce high-quality silk threads and silk.

As for tea, it has not developed much now. The tea ceremony that flourished among the gentry at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was very different from that of later generations. In the process of cooking tea, tea was basically just a ingredient.

In the Jiangnan area before, I didn’t hear anyone growing tea trees on a large scale to open tea gardens. It was probably just that some local people picked the leaves of tea trees on the mountain and used them to the medicine shop for a few dollars.

Earlier, news came from Hexi that Hu merchants and local herders all like tea leaves came. Some wealthy families in Wuxian planned to open tea gardens. However, the situation in Hexi became a little nervous at the end of last year, and they fought with the Turks in the beginning of spring this year.

Once a war broke out in the northwest, not only did the merchants in the Western Regions not come to their Tang Dynasty, but even the merchants in the Central Plains refused to go there. In this case, the tea transaction would probably be delayed. At this time, I wonder when will I have to wait to make money by growing tea?

Aunt Luo was also worried about the situation in Hexi. She was worried that the war had burned Changle County and injured Luo Yong's life. She was also worried that the war caused Changle County's economy to be depressed and the population could not grow. Luo Yong could not achieve results in the local area and could not return to Chang'an City.

Earlier, Luo Yong wrote a letter to her, saying that the white wine trading can make profits in a short time, and the tea business can bring more long-term development to the local area.

Now that there is a war in Hexi, the price of grain must be much higher than usual. Besides, even if Luo Yong has money, it is not easy to buy grain and make wine at this time. And the tea business is even more unsure where to go.

Fortunately, Erniang has been in Hexi for many years and should be able to help her out now.

In the past two years, Aunt Luo has also figured out a truth: no matter how capable his brothers are, he is still weak in front of those aristocratic families, princes and ministers.

Since the Luo family has come out of Xipo Village and since Luo Yong has become an official, they can no longer think about living a stable life. Last time, Luo Yong was excluded from Beijing, but this time, there was a war in Hexi. I wonder what kind of storm will be waiting in front of you next time.

We can't let Luo Yong push him in front of them every time to protect them from the wind and rain.

In addition to business operations in the past two years, Aunt Luo has also begun to consciously screen and cultivate her subordinates.

Women are as good as men, and not all women are willing to spend their whole lives in the food, rice, oil and salt. Aunt Luo hired them to train them, and even solved many family problems for them, gained a certain degree of freedom for them, and unfolded a new life picture in front of them.

Aunt Luo wrote to Luo Erniang before, saying that she had a few good players under her command, and there was no exaggeration among them.

Now she brought a few people to Wuxian to develop new stores. The transactions in Chang'an City are still doing well, with a prosperous business and a stable heart. The money she earns every day is even a big business like the Ma's Trading Company.

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth month of the lunar calendar. In mid-June, a group of Lishi merchants went north after collecting this year's tea in the south, entered the canal in Qiantang, and headed north. When passing Wuxian, I heard that Aunt Luo opened a food shop in Wuxian, so I got off the boat and went to her shop.

At the beginning of this spring, war broke out in Hexi. Many merchants knew that tea transactions were profitable, but they did not dare to accept them at this time. Only these merchants in Lishi still made drastic moves to purchase tea from various parts of the south.

Aunt Luo has been operating in Chang'an City for several years. If she talked about these Lishi merchants, she might be more familiar with and more contact than Luo Yong.

Ma Silang, Wang Huaijin and others did not go south this year, but stayed in Changle County. Aunt Luo heard several other people who had been to Changle County telling about the things in Hexi. In every detail, she was very happy and prepared a lot of food with them. As well as several signature dishes from the Xu family's hotel in the past, they were also made to eat with them.

These Lishi merchants wandered outside all year round and couldn't help but miss their hometown. At this time, they could not help but feel very intimate when they ate the dishes from their hometown in Lishi.

Aunt Luo said that she had been in Wu County in the past two years and asked them to pass by here next time and come to her place. Everyone agreed happily.

Before leaving, Aunt Luo asked them to help her take a bag to Changle County.

Inside the bag was a letter, two sets of robes, and several pairs of cotton socks. These clothes and socks were all the best fabrics Aunt Luo bought from the shop on this street, and the silk cotton collected from her shop were sewn with stitches.

I heard that these people were going to take the north road this year, but Chang'an City, so Aunt Luo did not ask them to bring a letter to Si Niang and others in Chang'an City.

Si Niang and the others stayed in Chang'an City, and they always had no shortage of food and clothing. Azhi was also careful and devoted himself to Si Niang and Wulang and the others. Before leaving Chang'an City, Aunt Luo entrusted those few to Azhi. In addition, she had met Wang Dang and Chen Qi, greeted the Ma family, and even made a special trip to Bai Mansion.

That day, all the men in the Bai family were gone. The old lady received her, and the old woman comforted her and said:

"Auntie, don't worry, let's go. Not to mention that we are the Bai family, the saint cherishes your Sanlang's talent and makes him go to Changle County. It also has a deep meaning. He will not watch his young brother and sister go to Chang'an City."

After seeing off these merchants from Lishi, Aunt Luo still did business every day. If some seasonal fruits in the local area are ripe and canned, she will buy them and make them into batches of canned food and place them in the empty houses in the backyard.

But she didn't know that Chang'an City was also very lively at this time, because Hu Shang got a lot of fine needles from Changle County.

The needle is both delicate and durable, and it can be broken by hand. It costs only a penny for one piece. Many people in the city go to buy it.

There are also some well-informed people who heard that in Changle County, such fine needles can be bought for three for a penny.

This needle is long, short, thick and thin, and it is heard that it is the same price in Changle County.

For a time, everyone yearned for that. Some brave vendors packed their bags and went to Changle County, regardless of the war in Hexi.
Chapter completed!