42. Little Lady
After the wave of promotion of the hemp spinning wheel, Luo Yong started to prepare some handicrafts for knitting socks in the village and gave out. The main targets were the unmarried teenage girls in the village.
These unmarried girls are now in a bit embarrassing situation. Because the villagers are worried that the technique of making tofu will be transmitted to other villages, they are unwilling to let their unmarried daughters know the method of making tofu. Gradually, this has become a tacit rule for every household.
Even if there is someone who loves his daughter, he dare not violate the interests of the whole village in this matter. Every time he makes tofu, he must spread his daughter far away.
In contrast, in the surrounding villages, many people want to marry their daughters to Xipo Village. Not only can they eat and drink enough to live a good life, but they may also help their parents' family.
Women still have no status at this time. Not to mention in the homes of ordinary people, even those gentry families, many daughters were married for profit.
Speaking of which, the current legal system does not support women's independence. First, whether women or men, they have to marry at a certain age, otherwise they will be fined. Second, the equal-land system implemented in the early Tang Dynasty did not allocate land to women alone. After men become employed, they can be distributed to land, but women do not.
When the Western Jin Dynasty implemented the land occupation system in the early years, women actually had land. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty implemented the equal land system, women still had land. Even in the Sui Dynasty, women also had land.
In the Tang Dynasty, women were generally unable to get a land, but at this time women still had a certain right of inheritance and widows could get a land. Therefore, there were many female households in society, including female households, some elderly, weak and disabled, monks and nuns, etc., because they were exempted from renting and mediocre orders, so they were called non-class households.
There are female households in Xipo Village. For example, Feng Gouer and his family are female households. There is also an old lady who lives with two daughters-in-law and several grandchildren. Their family is also female households.
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There are not many girls in their teens in the village. If they are not counted as Er Niang, there are only eight people. In addition to an eight-year-old Yin Lan, there are only nine of them.
These nine people have learned spinning from Luo Erniang recently. They used to rub twine at home. Most of them have learned the kind of spinning wheels promoted by the county recently. Now they ask them to spin wool. These little girls get started very quickly. After all, spinning wool is still much easier than twine. The cashmere fiber is soft and even and does not like to tie knots.
This time, Si Niang also spins thread with these young ladies in the village. In two days, Er Niang will teach them to knit wool socks. Si Niang has also been in touch with some of the things about the hair socks before, and after she figured out what was going on, she no longer had any interest.
This time, I couldn't escape no matter what. Not only did the second lady say something, but even the aunt told her. The girl Si Niang was still afraid of the aunt and didn't dare to talk back to her casually.
"Sanlang, are you going to go to the ground again today?" That morning, Luo Yong had just walked out of the yard with a hoe and was teased by several villagers who were about to leave the village.
"I'll go weed." Luo said with a wry smile. In fact, his family only has a few acres of land, and there are so many disciples. One person can pull out the weeds and pull out the weeds. He is just to avoid suspicion. There are so many young ladies in the yard, so what's wrong with him hanging there all day long.
"You are just hiding hard, are you afraid that someone will rely on you?" the villagers joked.
"Nothing happened." Luo Yong smiled, not taking their words. He was not afraid of anything, but just joked about the little girl in the yard. He always felt that he was a bit respectful. After all, the reputation of a girl is still very important.
"Where are you going?" Luo Yong said with a change of topic.
"We are going to Da'ao to see the lambs. Sanlang, do you want the lambs?" said the village man.
"I don't want it." Luo waved his hand.
"If you want it, we will bring you a few of them back, and we will take you all the way." The villager said kindly.
"It's enough for my family to have these pigs. I don't plan to raise sheep." Raising sheep requires manpower. There are only a few babies in his family, so how can they do so many jobs?
Seeing that he insisted, the villagers didn't seem to be polite to them, so they stopped talking.
It takes three or four hours to walk from Xipo Village to Da'ao Village. There is a whole valley of grass in Da'ao Village. Most of the villagers raise goats, which is much more than they do. The price of lambs there is a little lower than that in other villages, but the place is too remote. There are many mountain roads along the way. If a few people were not together, they would not dare to go, because they were afraid of meeting wild animals on the road.
Now the villagers in Xipo Village have also heard that Luo Yong's cashmere socks are very valuable. Although they also know that cashmere is rare, many people still have the intention to raise more sheep. At that time, the sheep at home will be slaughtered in the winter and spring seasons. In this way, every time they kill a sheep, they can get a portion of cashmere, which will accumulate a lot and should be able to sell it for money.
There are also those who think about the elderly and children, who plan to save some cashmere and learn from Luo Erniang and others to knit socks and other things to keep warm in winter.
It was about to be the autumn harvest season, and after the autumn harvest, winter was about to come again. If you were so anxious, you had already started to prepare for the winter.
The girls in Xipo Village have a calculation for their work this winter. They just need to sit on the kang and wear sweaters and socks to make money back, and they no longer need to feel sad when they are excluded from being excluded when they are making tofu for their families.
They also studied very seriously. Every time Luo Yong went back, he could see a bunch of spun wool balls in the basket, and some skillful ones. After just two days of learning, he was able to knit socks with the help of Erniang.
Occasionally, Luo Yong goes back too early, and he will meet girls who have not returned home. Many girls will blush when they see Luo Yong and look shy.
"Brother, don't ask them to coax them. They don't look like this on weekdays. Tian Sanniang caught a snake on the slope a few days ago, and it was as thick as my arms." The girls in the village could pretend to be like one by one in front of her brother. Si Niang was very worried that her brother would be deceived and finally married a tigress.
"It's not as thick as your arms, at most it's as thick as Rokuro's arms." Goro corrected on the side.
"How did she catch it?" Luo Yong said curiously.
"She was shooting pig grass on the slope. When she saw the snake coming down from the tree from afar, she ran over and cut off a sickle." Si Niang said.
"..." Luo Yong recalled the quiet little daughter of the Muramasa family, and felt that she didn't match her.
"There is also that cousin Yin Lan. She is so good at climbing trees. She doesn't want to dig out any other bird nest except for the swallow's nest. In the past two years, his mother said that she is about to get married and she will not ask her to climb trees. There are only more birds around our village." Si Niang continued to reveal the news with a little exaggeration. Yin Lan's cousin sounded a bit tough.
"Yes!" Goro added: "When she was there, the children in the village could not get the bird eggs. In the past two years, she has stopped climbing trees, so everyone can get the bird eggs again."
"My grandmother also made her a very narrow skirt and asked her to walk in small steps in the city." Si Niang said gloatingly. It seemed that Aunt Yin monopolized the bird eggs in the village for many years, which really brought a lot of hatred for herself.
"Brother, do the little ladies in the city walk like that?" Goro asked Luo Yong.
"I don't know." Anyway, the young ladies in Lishi County are definitely not that walking, and they don't know how fast they run. As for what the big city is like, Luo Yong is not very clear.
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Chang'an City, suburbs.
On a wide and flat land, a group of young ladies were wearing Hu clothes and leather boots, and each of them was playing polo while Yan Erfei was playing.
A few days ago, the Ma Family Trading Company transported a group of two-wheeled vehicles with strange appearance from the north, saying that they were called Yan'erfei, and there was a black swallow engraved on the handlebars. Under the black swallow are the small words "Heng's Car Manufacturing Store".
People in Chang'an don't know what the Heng car manufacturing company is, but many people are very new to Yan'erfei, especially after Ma Jiulang of the Ma's business company was riding this kind of car around the city, many young people who love freshness were rushing to buy their car. Many of them didn't buy it, so they hired craftsmen to pick up one by themselves.
Not long after, a game of using Yanerfei instead of horses and playing polo appeared in the city. These little ladies came out of the city to play. The roads in Chang'an City were spacious and flat. It would take no time to ride Yanerfei out of the city.
These little ladies are not skilled in playing. From time to time, some people fall off the car, but they are all agile. They roll on the ground, avoid the cars next to them, and they turn over and get up, ride on the car and continue playing. There are only shouts and laughter from time to time. From time to time, there are cars that often collided with each other. There are those who dare to sit in their own car and reach out to pull other people's cars.
Guo An and others just came all the way from Hedong Road. Before they could enter Chang'an City, they met this group of little ladies playing with Yan'erfei. So a few gentry men said they would not leave and would leave after watching this game.
Just as these people were having fun while watching the rise, the weather was not beautiful, and a few gusts of wind blew, and then scattered raindrops began to fall.
"Oh! It's raining!"
"Go away!"
Everyone knows that the Yanerfei is made of wood and bamboo, and the wheel pad is made of linen, and a layer of sheepskin is tied outside. No matter whether it is wood, sheepskin or linen, it cannot withstand the rain.
When the little ladies saw that it was raining, they got off the car without thinking, flew their own swallows on their shoulders and ran towards the city gate.
Chapter completed!