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Luo Erniang stayed here in Chang'an for some time, but she couldn't wait. The aunt advised her to leave after the New Year, but she refused.
My brother-in-law Lin Wulang was a little confused about this and privately talked to Aunt Luo: "Why can't you live a good life in Chang'an City? You are willing to run around outside."
"Some people are willing to live a peaceful life, and some people are born to run around. What's the way?" the aunt responded. Those who love to live a peaceful life naturally refer to Lin Wulang. If Lin Wulang was asked to live a peaceful life, he would definitely not want to live a peaceful life, and he would not want to earn no matter how much money he earned.
"It's thirty-two during the Chinese New Year, and there's no place to go." Goro thought again.
"Maybe the marriage has not come." The aunt was not as anxious as Goro.
Although she and Lin Wuro got married early under the arrangement of their parents, they also had a good life after marriage, and they had always had a good relationship.
But since I started running the Grandma Food Store over the years, Aunt Luo has really seen too many unfortunate marriages. Now there are many managers in the Grandma Food Store. They are like not getting married after getting married. The couple sleep in separate rooms and the family is not close to each other.
This is what they have the ability and can make money later. Many people used to have a very hard time.
But even so, there are still not many people who choose to divorce. Even as we do now, the couple lives their own lives and their families are not close to each other. But at least they are considered family members, and their children are always their own children. When they get older, they will rely on their children to support them. After they get old, there will be a place to bury the body. Most of the time, there is no hope for the mother's family.
Relatively speaking, Erniang is much luckier. No matter when she gets married or never marrys for life, the Luo family always has her place, and Luo Yong said this.
If the people in the world were like their Luo family, then many women would be reluctant to get married.
Earlier, there was a girl named Tian Xiang'er in their village, who was Tian Chonghu's biological sister.
A few years ago, Tian Chonghu originally had an elder sister food shop in Guanliangzhou. Later, the shop was taken over by an elder sister food shop in Chang'an. Tian Chonghu followed Luo to Chang'an, and later went to Luoyang with Xu Erlang and others to run a north-south grocery branch. I heard that it was also a good person.
When he calmed down in Luoyang, he picked up Tian Xiang'er too.
Tian Xianger is about the same age as Goro. When she was in Xipo Village, she was thin and small, with her hair dry and sparse. She often told people that she would eat more and eat more weight so that she would get married in the future.
Now she is twenty-one years old, but she is indeed a little fatter than before. She is quite good at it, but she won't mention getting married anymore.
Tian Chonghu and she found a job in groceries in North and South, specializing in making biscuits, without worrying about anything, and they go to work every day.
She once went to the school at the Eucommia Gum Workshop at the entrance of Xipo Village to take classes, and barely recognized a few words, so she often went to the bookstore to rent some paintings to read.
Because her brother is capable, she has no pressure. She earns all the money and spends all her pockets, buys clothes, food, and rents painting books, and lives a very comfortable life.
I heard that a matchmaker talked to her this autumn and wanted to tell her about her family. Tian Xiang'er immediately replied to her and said that she didn't want to marry.
The matchmaker heard that she was unwilling to marry, so she thought the woman was too distorted. She immediately told her a lesson and said that as a woman, she should do whatever she wanted.
Tian Xianger replied to her on the street: "I am living a good life now, why do I have to marry someone and suffer? I have to serve my husband and wife? Are you thinking I am stupid?"
He was so angry that he not only yelled and scolded Tian Xiang'er on the street, but later went to find Tian Chonghu to complain, allowing him to discipline his sister.
Tian Chonghu knew that she and Xiang'er were quarreling on the street, how could he stand on the matchmaker's side at this time? So he said to her: "If you don't live a better life after getting married, then don't marry, whoever wants to marry will marry."
A few months later, the matchmaker went to Luoyang City to talk bad things about the Tian brothers and sisters. Some people were willing to listen, while others were unwilling to listen.
After all, the brother and sister are famous this time, especially Tian Xianger, an unmarried lady in her early twenties, is rare to dare to scold the matchmaker on the street, and it is rumored to be a joke.
During this period, Erniang and the others often mentioned Tian Chonghu because Luo Erniang wanted to organize a team with Aunt and Si Niang to go to Lingnan, thinking about finding a few capable people.
When Erniang first went to Liangzhou City, she originally planned to run a sister's food shop there. Tian Chonghu and Peng Er fought with her at that time. Now, Erniang also said that Tian Chonghu is a capable person, flexible and decisive, and is a good candidate to go to Lingnan.
Si Niang Daotian Chonghu is now under Xu Erlang's management. I don't know if he can leave in the near future. It depends on the situation at the Luoyang branch.
Erniang then wrote a letter to Luoyang. Soon, Xu Erlang's reply arrived, saying that Tian Chonghu could go to Lingnan. The specific situation was asked by Erniang to go to Luoyang before explaining in person. Xu Erlang was also very concerned about organizing a team to Lingnan.
In early December of this year, Luo Erniang set out again for Jiangnan.
This time she brought Qi Niang with her.
Liulang and Qiniang were raised by Erniang since childhood. Not long after they were born, the aunt got married and came again. My grandmother was gone. The family affairs were always in charge of Erniang.
When life is the hardest, I often go hungry. Liulang and Qiniang started to chew thick cakes before they even had their teeth grown. They were not picky about food at all. They were also very heartwarming when calling each other all day long.
The financial conditions have improved over the years, and the aunt and second wife are very generous to give the following small pocket money. They don’t want them to endure hardships, and they are afraid that they will live in Chang'an City. If they are short of money, they will be looked down upon.
After a few years, they were spoiled, especially Qi Niang, who looked a little smart and clever, spoke very well. When she asked her to work, she was a little afraid of heavy things.
Qi Niang looks kind and funny on the surface, and has many friends, which should be considered a good thing. However, according to Si Niang, this person is actually timid and afraid of quarreling with others, so he often pleases and gives in.
Although living in Chang'an City does not need to compete with others everywhere, Er Niang and the others are afraid that she will show her timid and powerless side when she reaches a critical moment in the future.
The aunt and Erniang discussed and decided not to ask her to stay in Chang'an City and let her go to Jiangnan.
Of course, there were also many Si Niang who was promoting the fire.
Erniang and Qiniang went to Jiangnan. Liulang had not returned from building a bridge on Henan Road. During the Chinese New Year this year, only Luo Yong and Siniang and Wulang were left in the Luo family yard.
The aunt has also been very busy recently. During the New Year holiday, her sister's business was very popular. In addition, she had previously dispatched several managers to Jiangnan with her second wife, intending to follow the cargo team to Lingnan. If the conditions there are suitable for opening a store, they will stay in Lingnan and run a new store there.
Under such a busy situation, several capable managers were transferred, and Aunt Luo herself would inevitably have to keep a close eye on it.
Lin Wulang and Fei'er often come here. When the aunt was busy, she had no time to pay attention to them, so the father and daughter had to go out and stroll on their own.
Luo Yong's disciples sometimes came over, and Luo Wulang's friends even ran here in groups. The people coming and going, which made the Luo family's yard quite lively.
At the beginning of the year, Luo Yong received a letter from Apu, saying that his tribe members had settled in Changle County. Now they are registered households of the Tang Dynasty and no longer need him as the leader, so he planned to come to Chang'an and work with other brothers to help Luo Yong manage the industry.
Luo Yong agreed and wrote back to the letter saying that Erniang lacked managers and experienced staff in the workshop in Jiangnan. At these times, he was planning to transfer people from Hexi to Jiangnan and let Apu walk with them, and make arrangements after he came to Chang'an.
It was already the end of the second month of the lunar calendar when Apu received Luo Yong's reply. This was the case when Longyou Dao had already opened the wooden track. If it were in the past, the time it took for this letter to be exchanged would have been longer.
In the cashmere workshop and towel workshop, because Erniang's letter was sent earlier, they had already confirmed the candidates and made all preparations before departure, and were about to set off.
Apu and his friends quickly packed up their salutes, and temporarily hired a wooden carriage to accompany them.
This time, there were several students from Changle Academy walking with them.
There are many tourists in the Jiangnan area, and even more so in Lingnan. Erniang wants to do business with these foreign investors, so she naturally needs some translators.
Most of these students who want to go to Jiangnan are from Han people.
Most of the Han people in Hexi came from the Central Plains to the border land during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Most of them were military households and had their ancestral homes. Among them, there were those in the relevant areas, including those in Hedong, Shandong, and those in Jiangnan.
Young people living in Longxi often hear their elders mention where their ancestors were and what their hometown looked like.
Just a few years ago, these young people would never imagine that they would go to the Central Plains one day to see the hometown that the elderly at home were obsessed with.
The sky gradually became brighter, and the carriages driving out of the new city one by one, and galloped east along a newly built section of railway tracks.
The people sitting in the carriage were full of expectations and a little nervous.
Outside the car window, clear water flows slowly in the Xueling Canal. The snow water from the Daxue Mountains is clear and sweet, shining with ripples in the morning light, which is particularly beautiful.
Chapter completed!