After this meeting, Luo Yong met Guo An several times one after another. Sometimes it was Luo Yong Qiao Junlin who met Guo An and the others, and sometimes there were some elders of the Guo family.

They had some detailed discussions on the cooperation between the two parties to open a needle shop in Taiyuan Prefecture, and finally decided that Luo Yong's disciples would provide the technology and equipment, and the manual site and specific operations were provided by people. Finally, the money and silk from selling needles were divided into 46%, Luo Yong's disciples earned 40% and the Guo family earned 60%.

Many places in Hedong can produce iron. Opening needle shops in Taiyuan Prefecture not only allows you to obtain local materials, but also very convenient to sell needles to Chang'an and Luoyang and other places, because they can take water and goods can flow downstream.

The area around Taiyuan Prefecture was called Bingzhou in ancient times. Bingzhou originally produced iron tools and had a group of mature craftsmen. Du Fu, who was also born in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in his poem: "How can Bingzhou fast scissors be obtained to cut half of the river in Wusong?" This shows that the scissors in Bingzhou should have been quite famous at that time.

Earlier, in order to create some iron parts, Heng's car manufacturing shop and Yin's wheel shop both went to Taiyuan Prefecture to find blacksmiths.

There was no airtight wall in the world. Luo Yong wanted to open a needle shop with the Guo family in Taiyuan Prefecture. The news soon spread among some well-informed families in Chang'an City.

Not only that, Luo Yong was asking around with the portraits of the two thieves who died in the Luo family's house recently. He didn't know how to make the portrait, but it looked very similar to the real person. He heard that they had made carved papers, like that, and they wanted to get as many as they wanted. They took them to the market to distribute them at will. He also said that if anyone knew these two people, he would go to the north and south groceries. Even if he only knew a little, he would prepare a thick thank-you gift.

"Looking for someone! Looking for someone!"

"Who knows these two people!"

"Looking for people from north and south groceries!"

"Thank you for providing the message!"

On that day, several young men were walking on the street, and suddenly a portrait was stuffed into the hands of the half-sized children.

"Tsk, bad luck." After all, it was a portrait of a dead man. One of the gorgeously dressed young men threw it to the slave beside him. The slave did not dislike it. He folded it a few times and put it in his arms. The dead man was painted on the paper, so he could not use it to stick the wall and the window. If it was cut open, it could be used for use in the toilet, and it would be much cleaner than the toilet.

"That coffin board is really amazing. The portraits printed by their groceries in the north and south over the past few days are so many that they can almost fill in Chang'an City." Another man looked at the portrait in his hand and said with a smile.

"Fill in the stuff, no matter whether he finds these two people or not, what does it have to do with us?" the man said just now.

"Although these two people have nothing to do with us, the needle shop on Hedong Road is closely related to us." Another person next to him said.

"What's the matter? You and I are neither women nor do they make clothes."

"This is wrong."

"Do you still remember Luo Sanlang doing straw paper in Hedong in the past?"

"How much is the price of paper in Chang'an City a few years ago, and what is the price of paper now?"

"This needle making incident is a bit different from paper making. The Guo family in Taiyuan will soon prosper with this east wind."

"I don't think so, even if they earn some money, they are just a small family."

“…”

As the few people spoke, they entered a guesthouse, and after sitting down, they ordered wine and food, and continued to discuss the topic just now.

"Although the Guo family is a bit devastating now, I heard that there are quite a few talented people in their family. Now, Luo Sanlang can help him, so he can do something."

"Unlike some families, what can I do if there are some powers right now? If there are no talent in the family, they will sooner or later decline."

"You are talking about that Qi family."

"Who else can be there for him? Although the Qi family has two high-ranking officials, no one will succeed him. The good situation is that no one will take over. He made such a thing and became the magistrate of Chang'an County. It's really a joke."

It is said that the Qi family and the Luo family have no great grudges. It was just that when someone in the court impeached Luo Yong, their Qi family also got involved. It was not like the Wu family. Wu Censor was even dismissed because of Luo Yong's affairs.

In this case, when the magistrate of Qi County encountered Luo Siniang's case, whether from the perspective of being an official or from the family relationship, he just followed the law. However, the unscrupulous one insisted on showing off his prestige in the Luo family, which seemed to be very disregarded by Luo Yong.

Now, the saint is also dissatisfied with him, and even doubts whether the Qi family has a share this time. The two big bosses of their family must be uncomfortable at this time. In addition, Luo Yong is back now, with the style of protecting the calf in the coffin board, this time this matter must not be gently exposed.

The position of Chang'an County Magistrate is not easy to sit, and it is easy to get into trouble and be unlucky. However, if you do well and get the eyes of the saints and the big men in the court, your future career will be open.

But not everyone has this opportunity. There are only so many official positions in the court, and those important positions are occupied. Once there is a vacancy, the major families will inevitably have to compete with each other.

The position of the Chang'an County Magistrate was taken away by their Qi family last time. However, the Qi magistrate was not good at it. Seeing that he had been in the position of the county magistrate for more than two years and was about to be reborn in this period, he insisted on making such a mess. Now he was hurt and was being roasted on the fire.

These young men were quite gloating when talking about this matter, and were waiting to see how Luo Coffin Board should deal with him.

However, without waiting for Luo Yong to take any action here, Aunt Luo, who was in Jiangnan, started to work with the Qi family first.

This time something happened to Si Niang in Chang'an City. When Aunt Luo heard the news, she immediately packed her bags and went back. After a day, news came from Chang'an City that Yan was the saint who took Si Niang into Princess Pingyang's adorable daughter and became the princess.

Aunt Luo was a little confused. Since the fourth lady had nothing to do, it seemed that her trip back was useless. If Luo Yong was not in Chang'an City, even if he knew who wanted to harm their Luo family, Aunt Luo would be a small merchant, and Aunt Luo would not be able to do anything to those people. However, such a big thing happened this time, with her understanding of Luo Yong, he would definitely go back.

Aunt Luo wrote a letter to the sister's food shop in Chang'an City, asking the shop managers to take care of Si Niang and the others, and also pay attention to safety.

Also, Luo Yongruo returned to Chang'an City and told them to follow Luo Yong's instructions. Even if they sold the entire sister's food shop in Chang'an City, they would not be stingy. If they were willing to come to Jiangnan, they would all come to Jiangnan to develop. If they were unwilling to come, Aunt Luo would arrange for them to go to groceries in the north and south.

Aunt Luo told the managers not to worry about the way out, just help Luo Yong pass the hurdle before he passed. If the Luo family does not exist, the sister's food shop will not be able to be kept. As long as the Luo family is still there, they will have a place to go.

After arranging the matter in Chang'an City, Aunt Luo had to roll up her sleeves and start working with others.

The main reason why she decided to stay in Jiangnan this time was for this matter.

This matter is a long story.

In the past two years, because the technology of making cans has been continuously popularized, although it has not yet reached the level of how ordinary people can do it, but most of the aristocratic families in Chang'an City have already obtained prescriptions.

So many big families bought orchards in Jiangnan and Huainan to transport them to Chang'an and Luoyang every year for family consumption. In addition to daily consumption, they also had gifts and exchanges, as well as various banquets to share with guests.

It can be said that if there is a big family in the south without orchards and cannot make canned food these days, then it would be very out of the way.

When you go out to deal with people, you don’t have any face, and when others show off, they don’t have anything to do. If this continues, you will not be excluded from the circle?

In this environment, the Qi family also bought orchards in the south, one of which was in Wuxian, Suzhou.

I think it is clear that the person who can be arranged to run an orchard in the south will definitely not be an elite figure in the family. The Qi family who was sent to Wu County is not very good, and they are very lustful. After only a year of arrival in Wu County, they have gotten several concubines for themselves, and they are not good at treating the concubines, so they get angry and beat people around.

One of his concubines had been working as a short-term worker in the sister's food shop for more than a month before he took him to take him. At that time, Aunt Luo and his friends were busy making canned food. The shop was short of staff. The neighbors around the world introduced some women and girls to do short-term worker. The Qi family's concubine was one of them.

The woman worked very well, but Aunt Luo also paid attention to it. Two or three months later, because her sister's food shop was getting better and better, she needed to hire one or two long-term workers. At this time, the aunt remembered her, but unexpectedly, her distant relative who was doing raw silk trading on the streets of Wuxian told Aunt Luo that she had been sold by Ye Niang to the Qi family as a concubine.

The couple of Qiansi Shop are also kind-hearted. When talking about the woman from her distant relative's family, they are also very sad. He is such a good woman, why don't he help her find a family that looks like she is living a down-to-earth life? In the money given by the Qi family, he insisted that she be a concubine for others.

He also said that the Qi family's husband was not a good one. He had just arrived in Wu County for a long time, so he had added several concubines to himself. He heard that he was very casual in beating and scolding on weekdays...

Aunt Luo felt very sad when she heard about this, but she really saw too many such things. In the manager of her sister's food shop, there were also concubines. Aunt Luo cherished their talents and spent money to buy them out of her husband's house. Most of these people were more capable.

However, this relative of the silk shop shop is just a little girl who is not very enlightened. There are too many such people in the world, so Aunt Luo can't take care of it. Besides, she doesn't want to have any involvement with the Qi family's husband, so in the end she just insisted on being so hard that she had never heard of it.

I never thought that the aunt didn’t want to be involved with the Qi family, so the Qi family actually bullied them to the Luo family.

These big families have deep roots and cannot be easily shaken, but it will not be too difficult to cut off one of its branches with Aunt Luo's strength.

All this family bullied them to the Luo family. Can they still swallow their anger?

So Aunt Luo found a way to contact her distant relative of the raw silk shop and told her that she wanted to do something. If she was willing to help, Aunt Luo would get her out of the man named Qi no matter how much money and effort it would cost.

The woman named Yan'er agreed without thinking about it at that time. She begged Aunt Luo with tears in her eyes, asking her to buy herself and not let her be beaten to death by the Qi family man.

Then that night, Yan'er annoyed Qi Silang and was beaten. At night, she escaped from the Qi house with her injuries and fled to Aunt Luo's sister's food shop.

Aunt Luo took her in and invited her doctor to come. After hearing about this, neighbors around and around heard about it, some people came to visit her, and they all said that the Qi family was not a thing.

Since so many people knew about this, Qi Silang naturally soon learned that Yan'er was on Aunt Luo's side.

Qi Silang asked the servants in the mansion to come and find Yan'er and wanted to take her back, but Yan'er refused to go back. Aunt Luo said that she had injuries on her body and might as well take her here for two days first and then she would send her back.

The servants had a low status. Since Aunt Luo said so, they had to go back and report their lives like this.

It's just that how could Qi Silang be willing to leave Yan'er outside and embarrassingly, and he lived in the sister's food shop with his wounds. He was watching one by one and the other by his neighbors. He didn't know how much gossip he would listen to at that time.

So that afternoon, Qi Silang went to the sister's food shop in person to look for someone and asked Aunt Luo to hand over the person.

Although Aunt Luo was still blocking her, Yan'er was Qi Si's concubine, so she had no choice but to stand aside.

But the Yan'er refused, and she couldn't wear shoes. She ran barefoot to the river behind the shop: "I told me to go back to your house to live a life that was worse than pigs and dogs. Why not let me jump into this river and die!"

"You jump! If you have the ability, you jump now! You will die clearly! If you have a breath, see how I deal with you then!" Yan'er was so upset in public, and Qi Si was so angry that he became angry and acted violently in front of everyone.

Yan'er was also really strong. She jumped into the water with a "thump". After entering the water, she didn't struggle. She sank like a stone.

When Aunt Luo saw this, her heart was in her throat. She just asked Yan'er to pretend to jump into the river. She never thought that this silly woman would actually jump.

I was very panicked and wanted to jump down and catch her up by myself, but she was a person who couldn't do anything.

Fortunately, the neighbors around the world were very enthusiastic. At that time, several people jumped down, and in a moment, they caught Yan'er.

Fortunately, it didn't take long to fall into the water. After catching it, I spit out a few sips of water. The air was still there. Aunt Luo quickly called someone to invite a doctor and wanted to take Yan'er to the shop for resettlement.

At this time, Qi Si said he would take Yan'er back, but Aunt Luo and the elders of Wu County refused.

So in this way, Yan'er lived in the sister's food shop. She was already injured and jumped into the river in the cold winter. She was very sick for a while.

Aunt Luo felt guilty and invited the best doctor in Wu County to take care of Yan'er and take good care of her every day.

However, Qi Si refused to give up and often asked his family to come and harass him. Over time, not only did the people in Wu County know about this, but even people in other parts of Suzhou knew that there was a Qi Silang in Wu County, who was the husband of the Qi family in Henan Province. He was unkind and lustful and cruel. He spent money to buy women from poor families as concubines, but treated them as animals. After a while, the Qi family's reputation in Suzhou became very bad.

Aunt Luo is ready for a long-term struggle. Since Aunt Luo is here in Wu County, there is no place for their Qi family.

Unexpectedly, Qi Silang was really a shameless person. He was spitted by the local elders in Wuxian who despised him on the street several times, but he couldn't stand it anymore. Without asking what the family meant, he sold their Qi family's orchard in Wuxian, packed his bags and prepared to go home.

Before leaving Wu County, Qi Silang made another trick. He went to his sister's food shop to find someone for the last time, but Yan'er still refused to follow him, and Aunt Luo also said that he would not let Yan'er go with him.

So Qi Silang said, since you want to protect her, then use the money to buy it. As long as you can get five hundred taels of silver, I will hand her over to you.

Five hundred taels of silver was really a big sum in this era. In Wu County, ordinary families only spent dozens of cents a month, and most of them were not copper plates, but were replaced by raw silk grain.

At this time, it was not like so much foreign silver flowing into the Central Plains later. Silver was very rare and the price of silver was very high. For any merchant on Wuxian Street, five hundred taels were a huge sum of money.

However, Aunt Luo agreed.

She first went to find the Chang'an merchants who came to Jiangnan with her, and then found the Lishi merchants who collected tea in Jiangnan. They pieced together and collected 500 taels of rice and handed them over to Qi Silang for Yan'er's freedom.

If the five hundred taels of silver were smashed, the Qi family's reputation in Jiangnan was smashed to the ground and could never be picked up again.

Later on both sides of the canal, there was a story that Aunt Luo was generous and spent 500 taels of silver to save a poor woman who had worked in her shop from the tyranny of Qi Silang.

In fact, if Qi Silang doesn't ask for the five hundred taels and insists on asking Aunt Luo for someone, it will be difficult for Aunt Luo to deal with it.

In order to fulfill the promise between her and Yan'er, if she is forced to stay, it will inevitably be deemed to be deemed. Even in the future struggle between the Luo family and the Qi family, this matter will become the other party's handle.

However, if it is not a good weapon, Qi Silang proudly brought five hundred taels of silver back to his hometown. I wonder if his family would be discounted by his legs.

When Qi Silang's convoy passed Wuxian Street for the last time, Aunt Luo stood at the door of Sister's food shop, raised her hand and gently dusted the dust on her sleeves.

There was not much expression on her face, but her eyes were quite sharp.

The magistrate of the Gou County, named Qi, dared to ruin the reputation of her Si Niang and detained an innocent woman in prison for two days.
Chapter completed!