443. tide period
When Huang Erniang and his group arrived in Chang'an City, it was the hottest season of the year in Chang'an City at the end of the sixth lunar calendar.
The fleet entered the city along the artificial canal that communicated between the Wei River and Chang'an City. Before he could see the city wall, he had already seen the prosperous scene before he could see it.
The farmers and vendors walking on the river bank and the little kids in the countryside playing and playing in groups were mostly wearing colorful clothes, with bright colors and various patterns vaguely.
When the fleet was docking and resting, a peddler came to sell it. They had everything on their load. The most popular among the young ladies were those colorful head flowers, which could buy two for a penny.
Someone bought it here just now. Soon, another vendor came over there. A very similar head flower, you can buy three flowers for a penny. The young ladies crowded together to look at the head flower, and they didn't care about the hot weather and sweating profusely, and they were all very fresh.
People from north and south groceries said to the young ladies that there are many such head flowers in Chang'an City, with almost the same price, but the styles are much more than here, and they are more picky.
But there were still many young ladies who couldn't help but love it. They bought it for money. They put the flowers they bought on their heads, and watched the scenery on both sides of the straits in the summer breeze, and entered Chang'an City all the way.
The two east and west cities in Chang'an City opened after noon, and their fleet entered the West Market at that time in the afternoon, so these young ladies had a great experience of the prosperity of the West Market.
It was the first time they had seen such a crowd of people. There were many cargo ships like them parked on the ferry. Countless civilians were carrying goods back and forth. Instead of carrying them on their shoulders, they moved the goods into bags of low cars and dragged them to the ashore.
Several leaders on the boat there went to organize the unloading matter, and the girls here waited on their respective boats, and the boatman refused to let them get off the boat, for fear of getting lost.
Soon, someone pushed a very tall object like a tower on the shore. There was also a ramp that pushed it over. There was a pole on the tower, with a hook hanging from the pole, and the ramp hanging on the hook. The few people below worked together to shake the handle. The little ladies on the boat next to them had not seen clearly how they made it. The ramp was loaded easily, and the villagers who were carrying the goods dragged their cars and got on the cargo ship from the ramp...
After the unloading matters were arranged, the people from the north and south of the grocery store hired dozens of carriages to load the young ladies one by one and transported them to Shengpingfang.
The carriage is just an ordinary rented carriage. The one who pulls the carriage is a low-legged horse. The carriage is also very simple. The weather is hot now, and many carriages only have cloth curtains in front and back. At most, a horizontal bar is used to prevent the people in the car from falling. The cloth curtain may not be washed very diligently, and it is inevitable that there will be some smell. The little ladies don’t care. They lift the curtains to see the scene along the street, and they are reluctant to miss it at all...
After that, they were arranged in the yard of Shengpingfang. Although the houses there were not repaired for a long time, they were still considered to be a living person.
Later, they were divided into ten people in groups, and each group selected a group leader. Under the leadership of each group leader, they began their study and life in Chang'an City.
It is not July at this time, and there are still some time before the official registration on the first day of August. However, there are quite a few women from other places who came to Chang'an City early. Anyone who found the Luo family was arranged here.
The news soon spread in Chang'an City. Some young ladies who lived elsewhere gathered to Shengpingfang after hearing about this.
So many people live in this courtyard, and they have to eat and drink every day, and there are many trivial chores. Luo Yong handed over these things to Wulang and Qi Niang to take care of.
Liulang went to Henan Road to repair the bridge earlier. He is now focusing on his studies at the Machine House and is indeed studying well. Luo Yong planned to let him study there first and wait a few years before looking at the situation. He is only in his teenager now. As long as young people are willing to study hard, they will definitely have a way out and will not worry about anything.
Relatively speaking, Goro and Qi Niang have a bigger problem. Goro is not very concerned about anything, and looks like a wild crane.
Qi Niang is too concerned about everything, greedy for freshness and lacks concentration. Although she is a little clever, she lacks perseverance. In short, these two people are more worried about Luo Yong, and it is obviously not good to let go like this.
"Isn't it just that you don't like to care about those chores..." Qi Niang hummed and revealed her old story.
Luo Yong had coaxed them to work since childhood. When they were in Xipo Village, they hadn't been able to walk yet. Luo Yong coaxed her and Liulang to feed chickens, and always put a high hat on them, which made them think that if they didn't feed the chickens properly, their family would go bankrupt. They were very worried and worked diligently every day.
"Don't I have no time? Otherwise, I will change it and I will take care of those things. You will be the county magistrate for me." Luo Yong looked up at Qi Niang. After only a few days of care, he started to hum.
"Brother, why don't we ask someone to take care of it?" Qi Niang wanted to give up now.
"Then you can come and have a look with me." Luo Yong didn't really want to hold the brother and sister to work in the Textile Academy.
A few days after Luo said this, Qi Niang really recommended several candidates to him. Luo Yong looked at it one by one, but was not very satisfied.
Qi Niang looked for it and couldn't find a suitable one, so she went to find the aunt to help her. The aunt's managers were carefully selected and trained through great efforts, especially if she had to arrange to manage the textile college. Such a person was also a top talent under her command, so how could she give up easily?
The aunt came to ask Luo Yong, and Luo Yong said that there was nothing. Qi Niang didn't want to work and wanted to find someone to put the jar on the jar, so she told her not to take it seriously.
As a result, the aunt scolded Qi Niang, saying that she was seventeen years old this year and was still thinking about playing all day long, so she was in charge of the textile school. What a great job, no other lady could ask for it.
Qi Niang didn't want to care about these things at all, the main reason was that there were too many things and it was too complicated, and she felt too tired.
Fortunately, a few days later, Goro finally found a good candidate.
That man was born as a slave from a friend of Goro's family. His ancestors were barbarians in the southern mountainous areas. No one can tell clearly which mountainous area and which tribe they were.
I only know that his great-grandfather was kidnapped by human traffickers, tied it up with ropes, and drove all the way to the outside of Chang'an City, selling the house of Wulang's friend, and cultivated land in the manor outside the city. Later, he married a woman who was also a slave and gave birth to children. He passed down from generation to generation and became closer to the owner's family.
This person's big name is Zhou Xing. Zhou is the surname of his master's family. Because he has been slaves for generations, he gradually followed the surname of his master's family.
Originally, Zhou Xing's family lived with the owner in Guangfufang. Last autumn, there was a primary school in Chang'an County. The one in the north of the city was not far from their residence at that time, so Zhou Xing sent his two grandchildren there to study, but they were all very outstanding.
At the beginning of spring this year, Zhou Xing went to beg his master, saying that he wanted to get rid of this humble family for his children and grandchildren.
The family said that it is not easy to change the household registration, so why would he let his two grandchildren study first? Zhou Xing and his son and daughter-in-law are still working in the mansion, so they can make a living. If his two grandchildren really have any future in the future, we will make a long-term plan.
Zhou Xing was unwilling to do so and revealed that his father and brother followed the master to take refuge everywhere, and he was loyal to him for generations, and even lost his life to protect his master. He asked the master to care about this friendship and release their family.
This incident was a little unhappy later, but the Zhou family finally released their family and brought them out from the accumulation of several generations of his family's ancestors and helped change their household registration. This approach is benevolence and righteous.
For this matter, many familiar families also had some rumors, saying that Zhou Xing used kindness to repay him, saying that he was not a good person and was not as loyal as his father and brother.
There are also those who used to be slaves in the Zhou Mansion with them, and some of them looked down on their family. When they met on the road, they would spit on them to show their contempt and disgust for them.
After leaving the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Xing's family's life was indeed much harder than before. Goro and the others had met him on the street earlier, and at that time he was carrying a load to sell cakes along the street.
This man was originally a relatively high-ranking manager in the Zhou Mansion, but now he seems to be very down and many people cannot understand his choice.
This time, the Women's Textile Academy was going to recruit managers. Wuro's friend, a young man from the Zhou family, remembered that his old servant Zhou Xing had come.
Although he was dissatisfied with his behavior of leaving the Zhou family even if he hurt his old love, he still couldn't believe that he was so down and out. So the young man told Wulang that he might as well call Ah Xing. Even if he couldn't become a big manager, he would be better than being a hawker outside.
On the second day, Luo Yong sent someone to invite Zhou Xing to come and talk.
Zhou Xingnian is less than fifty years old this year, and she has a goatee-beard, and she looks like a little old man. She is in good spirits and does not have any decay of being ready.
Luo Yong knew after a few words of conversation with him. He was indeed a smart person. He was very sensible in advancing and retreating, and his words and behaviors made people feel very kind.
Luo Yong asked him why he left his old master's house. He said that this was the time of tide and that he would not leave. If a poor man wanted to jump into the dragon gate, he would follow the tide of fish. Whether it would be successful or not is all in the present day.
"Have you ever seen the hungry people who eat with the lucrative food. In the early years, the famine in Guanzhong was in trouble. Many people went to seek food outside the pass. The farthest way was to go to Hexi and Lingnan. If there were only those three or five people on weekdays, how could they go to these places?"
"Now that paper and pen are cheap, and food is abundant, there are countless young people reading and literacy in Chang'an City. When these young people are ready to study, they will find a way out for themselves, just like hungry people chasing food, with a large number of people, a vast and eagerness to seek food, which no one can stop them."
That afternoon, after Luo Yong talked to Zhou Xing, he personally sent him outside the gate of the Chang'an County Public Mansion.
Chapter completed!