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56. Bullying

Luo Yong lived in Xu Erlang's courtyard that night. After dinner, some disciples from the city gathered here one after another.

After everyone was all here, Luo Yong demonstrated to them the more time-saving felt method he had just figured out recently.

The skills of these more than a dozen disciples are very good. Although the felt making time is not as long as Luo Yong, if you really talk about craftsmanship, Luo Yong is not the strongest among these people.

Xu Erlang lit several oil lamps in the house, but the light was still dim. Luo Yong used such lights to make a demonstration, and then told them about his recent experience in felt making, and then communicated with his disciples.

One of them was a disciple named Yang. This time he took a few wool felt needles made of iron needles. These wool felt needles include single-headed, double-headed and multi-headed. The thicknesses and thicknesses are also different. Luo Yong tried them and found them very useful, so he was very happy.

"This thing was made by Siro?" The reason why there are so many people and great power is probably reflected in these places. Where Luo Yong can't take care of it, others can help him think of it.

"This thing was made by my aunt." Yang Silang said.

"The Er and his wife are both skillful people." Luo Yong praised.

"She also made a lot of copper coins to poke a few more mats," Yang Silang said with a smile.

Speaking of which, after the craftsmanship of wool felt is improved, the early production speed will get faster and faster. But if you want to make the entire felt surface look flat, delicate and exquisite, the last step of piercing is very important. It is quite laborious and will not speed up as the craftsmanship improves.

On weekdays, Yang Silang made felt at home, so his wife brought a few babies to help him do the last step of the snail work. Their speed of doing post-production projects was not as fast as the speed of making felt, so she had to send out the manual work to her neighbors, so she would earn two cents less for a mat.

Yang Silang's wife had suffered and was poor in the past. She felt very sorry for the two cents. She poked the mats like a life-making life at home. At first, she used a thin bamboo stick, and later tied several thin bamboo sticks into a handful with ropes, poking them one by one. However, for some reason, the mats that were poked out were not as delicate as a thin bamboo stick. Although she could earn more copper coins, she was still worried that the mats she was not doing well in her home. Luo Yong would be dissatisfied with her husband, so she had to give up the bamboo stick without using it.

Even so, she was always obsessed with this matter and wanted to improve the tools so that the work of poking the mat can be accelerated. After continuous thinking and trying, she finally came up with such a set of tools. Now, when her husband was making felts, he often used the single-headed and double-headed poking needles she made.

Yang Silang took this set of tools today. In addition to communicating with his fellow disciples, he naturally wanted to give it to his master.

"Since this thing is made by your wife, how can I take it for nothing?" Luo Yong smiled and took out ten cents from his body and handed it to him.

"It can't be so much." The disciple quickly refused. The iron needles of this era are not cheap, but no matter how cheap it is, these gadgets can't cost two or three cents, because the purchasing power of copper coins at this time was very strong, and a bucket of corn only costs about five cents.

"Your wife is so clever, why can't she earn this few cents?" As soon as this tool was made, it provided a lot of convenience for their felt making process. Speaking of which, Luo Yong felt that he had taken advantage of it.

"Master is right. I want a set of such tools, so I will ask your aunt to help me make one." Immediately, someone else paid for this tool.

In fact, once such a tool is taken out, they can make it themselves after seeing it, and they can't spend that ten cents. However, since this thing was created by Yang Silang's wife, she should naturally ask her to make some money. Besides, they have been busy making felts every day recently, and they really can't spare time to make that. Even today, when the master entered the city, they still had to come over after it was dark.

"In this way, I thank everyone for my wife." Yang Silang was also happy.

After he returned, he told his wife about this matter. She didn't know how happy she was. She could get several pairs of tools a day, and earned several dozen cents a day. For an ordinary woman who had never made a lot of money, it was almost like the rain in the sky.

The master and apprentice said a few more words, and Luo Yong asked them to go back early to rest. They were busy for a day. They went back to sleep for a night tonight. They had to get up before dawn tomorrow. After breakfast, they had to start working just before dawn.

The Xu family's yard is not big, but the population is quite large. Now Aunt Xu's family is coming again, and it is a bit crowded. In this case, Luo Yong originally refused to occupy another room alone, but the Xu family was very persistent and freed up the house for him early and refused to let him sleep with others. However, Luo Yong had to accept their kindness in the end.

The next morning, the Xu family got up early to work, and Luo Yong also got up early with them. After using the meal, he refused Xu Erlang's company and drove the donkey cart to the livestock market alone.

Nowadays, his family has many more fields. He will buy the ox that needs to be plowed and plowed. He just went around the livestock market but didn't look at it. The price is much higher than before. It seems that it is because in recent days, many people from other places have bought ox carts in Lishi County.

It is said to be a livestock market, but it is actually a dilapidated yellow-nine street. There are three or five merchants selling livestock on both sides of the street.

Locals want to buy livestock, and sometimes they come here to see it, but most of them rely on familiar people to build bridges, and sell them directly from the villagers. They can also be traded with grain, which is much more affordable than in this county.

Luo Yong drove out of this small street with a carriage, and planned to buy some meat, vegetables and salt, so he went back to Xipo Village. After turning a corner, he saw many people surrounding the street. Luo Yong was sitting on the donkey carriage and looked over there, and then he saw the population transaction under the wall.

Since he came here, Luo Yong knew that in this era, living people could buy money, but he never thought about buying people. He also adopted an avoidance attitude towards these things. He could not be a savior. Instead of feeling uncomfortable in his heart, it would be better to be a cleansing person without seeing them.

At this time, he also followed his usual attitude, put aside his face and just pretended that he didn't see it, and drove the donkey cart to the downtown area.

But before he walked out a few steps, he pulled the reins again, allowing the five pairs to stop.

"Is there anyone who can do farm work?" Luo Sanlang walked to the base of the wall, looked at the row of young men and women waiting to be sold, and asked.

This year, their grain harvest in Lishi County was pretty good, and the grain prices were also very stable. He also developed Yanerfei wool felt and other things. Many families have found income because of this. Although the income is still meager, they are not embarrassed to be unable to survive and need to sell their children.

The young men and women in front of them are pretty good-looking and are both between ten and twenty years old. I think some people have seen that there are many rich people in the city recently, so they pulled out the slaves they bought earlier and reselled them, and bought them at low prices and sold them at high prices. This is what they did when doing business.

"Cough cough!" A middle-aged man in a robe next to him coughed, and smiled and greeted Luo Yong: "It's Luo Sanlang, why are you still in the city today?"

He was polite on his face, but he cursed the bad luck in his heart. He came out today, in fact, just to try his luck. What if he met a fat sheep? Those men from Chang'an City were very rich. If they had a good relationship, they would just take out a 100-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-two-

"I, I can do farm work." At this time, a thin and short boy from the bottom of the wall said timidly.

"What can you do? You have never touched a farm tool even though you have grown up. You dare to deceive your husband. Be careful that I will peel you off!" The middle-aged man said fiercely.

"I can do farm work, too." At this time, another tall and beautiful girl said loudly.

The middle-aged man looked at her in a blink of an eye, his eyes were full of fierceness, and his mind turned around and said, "You fox charming boy, who was sold to serve people at the age of five, what kind of farm work will you do? Could it be that Luo Sanlang was young and kind and had some bad ideas?"

"How much does these two people have to offer?" Luo Yong seemed to have heard what he said at all.

"If Sanlang wants to buy someone to go back to do farm work, he naturally has to choose those who are strong and able to do heavy work. Now, it is not appropriate to buy it back." The man's attitude became a little tougher.

"Just tell me how much it costs." Luo Yong didn't show his face and his attitude was tough.

Seeing that the coffin board could not be explained, the other party was wearing a coffin face and couldn't send it away, so the lion spoke up and said, "If Sanlang really wants to buy it, you can count as a ten-spin copper coin."

"Which family are you?" Luo Yong frowned, looked directly at the other side's Rong and asked.

"..." The man was choked by his question. Could it be that the coffin board was planning to settle the score with him in the autumn? Considering the influence of this man in Lishi County now, thinking about the wealthy merchants and families who had dealing with him. If he offended Luo Sanlang today, his future business would be difficult to do.

"Bah, if you want to sell it for ten cents of money alone, why don't you snatch it?" At this time, among the people watching the people, there were also some people who couldn't listen.

"Last year, I saw you buy children in the city, and only one person would give him 400 cents." Someone revealed his true feelings.

Many onlookers spoke in a word. Most of the people were upright at this time. Many of them had been on the battlefield. They were very bloody and were not very afraid of those evil forces. Everyone felt helpless about the sale of children and daughters of poor families. Since they couldn't survive, it would be better to sell them than to starve to death.

But this person is really unreasonable today. He dared to ask Luo Sanlang for ten-minus coins for the young man and woman who could buy less than a regular amount of money. That girl is fine, but she is still pretty good-looking. He dared to ask for ten-minus coins for the young man who looked black and thin? It's so damned!

"Sanlang, I know this person, he is that..." On the spot, someone turned the origin of the middle-aged man upside down, and even the names of the shops his relatives opened in the city were reported to people.

"I was stunned at some point just now. Sanlang should not be surprised. These are all good goods. I took them out today, and I really planned to sell one of ten coins of copper coins. Since Sanlang wanted to buy it, I would sell one of five coins of copper coins to you. How about it?" The middle-aged man could bend and stretch.

"This two-month money, that one-month money." Luo Yong first pointed to the tall girl, then pointed to the thin black boy.

"Sanlang, you are really embarrassed." The man's face looked very ugly.

"Why are you embarrassed? I think the price is very fair. Sanlang has never bullied you at all." A strong man watching said righteously.

"If it weren't for the many noble people coming to the city recently, they wouldn't be able to sell so many copper coins." Why could so many noble people come to their city? Isn't it because Luo Sanlang, who had to put it in previous years, could the black and thin boy be able to sell for a lifetime? To dream of it, even the pretty girl, it depends on luck and market conditions. It is really kind to be able to give him two cents of money.

"If you are really embarrassed, you can't sell it." Luo Yong said.

If you don’t buy these two people back today and ask them to fall into the hands of the seller again, you will be afraid that a layer of skin will be really peeled off. Luo Yong just asked, if no one responded, it would be fine. Since there was someone responded and he took the lead in this matter, he must be in charge of it to the end.

He must have bought these two people today. You said you won’t sell them? Then we have to consider the consequences. With Luo Yong’s current influence in Lishi County, what’s the difficulty of excluding a few people? So what if he bullies people today?

...

It was noon, and heavy snow fell from the sky.

Luo Sanlang drove the donkey cart out of the city gate, and behind the car was a short and tall pair of young men and women. The two of them finally completed the transaction at the price of the three-stalk money they used to drive, and did not give a penny.

There are so many poor people in the world. Luo Yong has no choice but to those who have completely broken their backbone. There are also some who originally wanted to find a better life for themselves by contacting noble people. He has no intention of blocking the other party's way.

Only these two young men and women dared to say that they could do farm work in front of the trafficker and were willing to be bought by him. Luo Yong could not leave him alone.

If you care about these many other people's affairs, you will definitely cause a lot of trouble in the future...
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