In the past two years, more and more people have grown sweet potatoes in Chang'an. By this spring, basically every household has grown sweet potatoes.

Since the beginning of summer, people have dug up sweet potatoes that have not yet grown up to sell. At first, the sweet potatoes were only the size of a child's palm. Recently, there have been many people selling sweet potatoes on the street, and the sweet potatoes have grown quite big.

As the yield of sweet potatoes increases, there is a sweet potato flour that can be used to make pearls. The variety of sweet potatoes is mainly used for consumption. The flour production rate is not very high, but it is still useful.

Aunt Luo and the others have started making pearl milk tea recently, and they are expected to start selling on the Chinese Valentine's Day. Because autumn has begun at that time, the price of sweet potatoes will be cheaper than now.

On this day, these officials came to work and study to discuss cooperation, and lunch was also simple. They only had the same meal as the students. After the meal, Luo Yong asked someone to go to Guangdefang and invited a lady who could make pearl milk tea. They made several bowls of pearl milk tea with these men to eat.

Even if these bowls of pearl milk tea are left in later generations, they are quite good food. The freshly brewed pearls, fresh milk and the best tea leaves that day, cook a pot of milk tea, mix some high-quality cane paste, and sprinkle some nut powder from the north to season, then cool and chill.

On a hot afternoon, the men and women naturally feel satisfied when they serve these few bowls of cool pearl milk tea.

However, this milk tea is good, but few people can afford it. If the sister's food shop wants to sell it easily, it must reduce the cost. Recently, they have been studying this, changing fresh milk to cheese from outside the gate and sugar cane slurry to malt sugar. Naturally, the tea leaves don't need to be better, the most ordinary ones are fine.

The cheese outside the pass was boiled with water and boiled. It was indeed much cheaper than the fresh beef and sheep milk produced in Chang'an. However, sometimes there was inevitably some fishy or fermented smells. How to remove those smells? The people at the Sister Food Store also racked their brains.

During the work day, Luo Yong also told these officials that the people in the Sister's food shop wanted to replace fresh beef and sheep milk with cheese. It was just a gossip, and the men and women were not very concerned about it.

For them, whether this bowl of milk tea should be cooked with fresh beef and sheep milk or cheese is really a small matter that is worth mentioning. They absolutely cannot imagine how much time and energy the women in the Sister Food Store would be willing to spend to solve this small matter.

And the reputation of the Sister Food Store is accumulated bit by bit.

From the beginning, Aunt Luo had to do everything himself, and later recruited many women, and now, many people have even made contributions to Aunt Luo almost surpass Aunt Luo. Many women have deeper feelings for this Aunt Luo than Aunt Luo.

Ajie Food Store has also opened many branches in recent years, mainly concentrated in the Jiangnan area and in various parts of Hedong Road.

At Mengmen Pass, Dinghu County, not far from Luoyong's hometown, there is a sister's food shop. In the area around Dinghu, many women want to work there, but unfortunately one food shop is so big that it doesn't require too many people, so they are full early.

Even so, people always come over to ask if they are still recruiting people. Sometimes the adults at home ask, and sometimes the young ladies look for them by themselves.

There was Fangshan from Linquan who followed the seller in his hometown for several days and found the shop. He just asked this question, but he often returned in disappointment.

Not to mention them, not all the women living in the street where the sister's food shop is located can enter.

No woman from ordinary families wants to go to that shop? Once she goes in, she will not only have work and income, but also have a better position at home. I heard that she can also go to the capital if she does well.

Earlier, there was a woman from a silkworm farmer family in Mengmen Pass. She had a good fortune and married the eldest son of a disciple of Na Luo Sanlang. Later, the young couple followed Aunt Na Luo to Chang'an City and started the first sister's food shop at that time.

People in Mengmen often talk about it, saying that someone met the woman wherever she was. So what happened to her now. Some said that she went down to Jiangnan and became a very powerful manager, who was in charge of several sister food shops in Jiangnan, some said that she is in Luoyang, some said that she is in Chang'an, and all said that she is in everything. In short, she is no longer the poor woman in the past.

Whenever the local girls in Mengmen mentioned this person, they were all envious.

On that day, the second wife of the Huang family went to wash clothes by the well. When she heard the elders and young ladies who were washing clothes by the well, she was talking about this again. She just listened silently without saying a word, but she couldn't help but yearn for it. When she had finished washing clothes, she picked up the basket of clothes and went back to her yard, and she woke up from her dream.

Her house is in a dilapidated courtyard deep in the alley, with all kinds of miscellaneous items piled up. Her sister-in-law was sitting in the corridor and was rubbing twine. She was also a two or three-year-old nephew crawling on the ground to play.

Huang Erniang silently hanged the washed clothes and went into the kitchen to cook. Soon after, she heard the sound of her mother returning, and she was still scolding outside at the top of her voice, saying that she had done something so much today, and she had washed clothes so late, and there was still water flowing at this time. In such a hot day, if she had no clothes to change tomorrow, she would probably be disliked when she went out to work...

Huang Erniang's Aye and his brother are hawkers. They didn't know how much they were doing outside every day. They ran around and rarely paid homes, but they didn't earn much money. Instead, they often made some miscellaneous items in this yard and couldn't sell them, so they naturally couldn't get back the money.

Her mother works in a food shop on the street and gets some wages every month, but she always gets very irritable when she returns home and often yells loudly. Huang Erniang has been used to hearing this family since she was a child. Even her sister-in-law, who has just entered the house for three or four years, is used to hearing it now.

"...I'm lazy all day long, and I'm working hard to support you every day, so what else is there to be inconsistency?"

"I just knew that I was so sad that I was short of food and clothing!"

"Is life not good now? I was as old as you were, but I could really starve people to death."

"I was hungry when I was young, and now I have to work so hard again. I will spread you devastating stars!"

“…”

The supper was still eaten by Huang Erniang and her sister-in-law, and there was also a nephew who was learning to speak. As for Aye and his brother, it was often the same as if they were not there in this family.

The dinner was also very simple, just a pot of unpleasant vegetables and a few mixed breads. During the meal, her mother still cursed and vented her dissatisfaction with life on her daughter and daughter-in-law.

Huang Erniang dreamed of escaping from such a family, but where can she escape? Can she get married? What kind of good family can she get married with a background like her? Even if she gets married into a good family, can others look down on her?

Since her sister-in-law started, Huang Erniang has become increasingly unanticipated in getting married. Her sister-in-law's family is not a good one. After getting married, she married into a family like them.

"Why did you eat first? Don't wait for us?" The few of them were eating, and Huang Erniang's Aye and her brother were back.

"Who knows when you two will return?" Huang's mother knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks, which was not as fierce as before. She sent Huang Erniang and said, "Go and make some food with your brother Aye."

Huang Erniang responded and went away. Knowing that although the girl's noodles were not on her, she still felt sorry for her man and her son. So she took out some good noodles from the jar and cooked two big bowls of ginger.

When she brought the two big bowls of ginger, her mother screamed strangely: "You are a conscientious person! Could it be that you are going to cheat your sister and sell it for money?"

When Huang Erniang heard this, she shivered all over and almost threw the pottery bowl in her hand to the ground. If she really fell, she would have to be beaten and scolded again today.

"What are you saying? You are not going to sell her again. It's Luo Sanlang's machine workshop recruiting people. I heard that it's like the sister's food shop, which is dedicated to some young ladies. If he is willing to accept men, I will go..." The second nun brother held the pottery bowl and sucked the steak in the bowl, and while uttering a lot of words.

"Don't scare me, Luo Sanlang's machine workshop is in Chang'an City. I have heard people say it when I was working on it." Huang's mother said.

"It was the news coming from Chang'an City." Huang's father also said at this time.

"Since we are in Chang'an City, why do we come to us to recruit people? But there are not enough young ladies in Chang'an City?"

"You don't know, the little ladies in Chang'an City also sharpened their heads and wanted to enter. What kind of place is the machine shop? There is money to make and can learn craftsmanship. If the second ladies go in, she will still have so much worries in her life."

"If it's not right, there are only 300 people. How can she be the turn of her? I ran over here thousands of miles away, and it would cost a lot of money alone. Where can I still have that spare money in this family..."

"You woman is short-sighted..."

"She is fourteen years old and can't read. Can someone want her?"

"It doesn't matter if I hear it..."

"If she leaves, what will your aunt do to you? You're going to give birth again."

“…”

"I think it's better not to bother. In another year or two, I'll find a good family with her..."

“…”

After discussing this, they discussed for several days. The Huang family's father and brother got the news early. Within two days, many people in the city began to discuss this matter.

Many young ladies want to go to that machine workshop, but they are also afraid, worried that they are lying to others...

Huang Erniang left after all. On the day of her trip, her mother still went to work early, but Aye and her brother sent her out.

After walking in the alley, Ernie turned around and saw her sister-in-law standing at the gate of the yard, thrusting her big belly and stretching her neck to look at her...

There were more than a dozen young ladies who went to Chang'an City with Huang Erniang. In the past two days, people from north and south were buying groceries at Mengmenguan. Their adults greeted them and asked them to take them to Chang'an City.

Some family members also went there, and Huang Erniang was the only one who carried a bunch, with a few pieces of clothes, a few kilograms of dry food, and dozens of copper coins.

People from north and south were driving trucks to transport goods in front, and the little ladies followed the team and walked step by step.

People in the convoy often called them to sit on the ox cart for a while, and some people told them that they would be fine when they arrived in Xicheng, and they would have to change the water route and take a boat all the way south, without having to walk so many more roads. People from north and south had to book a big ship, and the ship's shipment was not required to be given by these little ladies.

When we arrived in Lishi County, many young ladies followed us on the road, and the cargo transportation team became stronger.

Among the young ladies who walked with them were cheerful. Although they had worked hard, they were also talking and laughing. The people in the convoy were willing to lend them iron pots, and they also used salt and bean paste as they could. Along the way, these young ladies who met by chance cooked together.

If you are in a market, you will raise money to buy some melons and vegetables. Now it is summer and the season when the prices of melons and vegetables are the cheapest. On those rural weed farms, vegetables are not worth much.

Later, when I changed the waterway and arrived at the Fenshui River, there were a lot of fish, which was cheap. Some young ladies brought very little money, and others were not very concerned about it. They still invited them to eat it together. The manager of the north and south groceries also bought meat with them several times, which made the young ladies very happy.

The further you go south, the more people there are in the team. Some young ladies from the same place gather together to form groups of all sizes, ranging from fifty or sixty or sixty, and at least ten people, and they get along well with each other.
Chapter completed!