Since Da Luo Yongtong came here, he would see Er Niang and the others cooking rice in a pottery every day. Although he felt a little inconvenient, he had been getting used to it as time went by.

Everyone knows that iron cauldrons are good, but the price of that iron cauldron is too high. Generally, people will not be willing to buy them for cooking, and the pottery cauldrons are the same. Luo Yong is reluctant to give up. With that money, he might as well buy a few more seedlings to plant in the ground.

After changing into a new pot, Si Niang continued to cook. She was kneading the dough, and Er Niang also came out of the backyard. Today, there was a batch of fermented bean curd at home to be put into the tank. Luo Yong was a little busy because of the pork collection, so the work was taken over by Er Niang.

When Erniang heard that the pottery was broken, she felt a little distressed: "Why are you accidentally?"

Because the pottery cauldrons need to consider the heating problem, they are all selected for better soil making, with fine workmanship, uniform thickness, and regular shape, so the price is naturally much higher than that of ordinary pottery jars.

This is in their house. If someone else's house is replaced, whoever lady cooks the cauldron will be criticized. Money and food are not easy to obtain, and who lives a life is not careful.

"On weekdays, it will naturally become faster," Luo Yong said.

"You talked to her again. When I didn't know, Si Niang must be anxious again. Before the pottery was cooled down, I hurriedly poured the cold water down." When the pottery was hot, I couldn't add cold water immediately. Er Niang and the others knew about such common sense in life.

"Sister, I have touched it with my hands, and it's no longer hot." Si Niang defended.

"Next time, you pour hot water in, don't use cold water." Erniang said to her.

"Oh." Si Niang felt quite wronged.

"I've made up this side, but I need help?" Erniang realized that the tone of her just speaking was not good, so she became softer in her words. In fact, she felt sorry for the pottery, and she didn't mean to blame Si Niang very much.

"Reconcile and let it wake up there." Si Niang said.

"Then I'll help you peel a few onions?" Erniang said again.

"Yeah." Si Niang nodded, feeling a little more comfortable.

Luo smiled and saw the interaction between the two sisters and didn't say much.

In his opinion, these children in his family are all very good, but perhaps sometimes, his so-called good children's standards are still too low for this era. Fortunately, there is a second wife at home.

"Sanlang, change me some big sauce." At this time, a yellow and thin little girl walked in at the door of the grocery store. She struggled to lift a basket of wet bean dregs to the rectangular wooden table in front of the kang.

"It turns out that Xiang'er is here, why haven't you seen you recently?" Luo Yong recognized this little girl. When Tian Chonghu helped him, he brought her here to have a free meal.

Luo Erniang, who was standing beside her, couldn't help but frown when she saw Tian Xianger's little face was dirty and her clothes were dirty and torn.

The village knows more or less about the situation of Tian Chonghu and his family. They live their own lives on weekdays, and no one cares about other people's affairs. They just feel sorry for their two children.

Now every household in Xipo Village earns money and food by making tofu, and lives are much better than before. In this village, except Feng Gou'er, Tian Xiang'er is probably the dirtiest and most worn. Even the Yin Lan sisters who have lost their mother have better food and clothing than Tian Xiang'er.

Tian Xiang'er has all her parents, and there is no elderly person to support her. She only has two children, Tian Chonghu, and Tian Chonghu. How can Tian Chonghu help with his life? How can he live like this?

"My brother fell down a few days ago and was raising him." Tian Xiang'er sniffed and said.

"Why did you fall?" Luo Yong was shocked. In this era, being sick and injured is not a joke.

"I went to the roof to sweep snow two days ago and fell down." Tian Xianger said.

"But please have the doctor read it?" Luo Yong asked her.

"Mengzheng came to see him. Yan did not hurt his bones, so it should be fine." Tian Xiang'er looked at him, but she was talking smoothly.

"When will this happen?" Luo Yong frowned and fell from the roof. He didn't even invite a doctor to see it. Even if he didn't hurt his bones, what if he hurt his internal organs?

"Just after New Year's Day," Tian Xiang'er replied.

"I'll go over and see him with you." Luo Yong said immediately.

Speaking of which, he did not see Tian Chonghu for a long time. Since the boy learned to make tofu from him, he has not come out to walk around. He just stayed at home to make tofu every day. After the New Year, Aunt Yin was involved. After a while, he only learned about Tian Chonghu's injury.

"Why is Sanlang coming?" When they went to the Tian family yard, Tian Chonghu's mother saw that it was Luo Yong, so she hurriedly came out to greet him.

"I heard that Chonghu fell. If Xiang'er hadn't mentioned it just now, I wouldn't have known." Luo Yong handed them the eggs he had brought over.

"It's just that you sprain your ankle. It's not a big deal. You'll come when you come, why are you doing something?" Tian Chonghu's mother refused and took the thing over.

"I'll take a look at him, but this house?" Luo Yong had no good feelings for Tian Chonghu's parents, and he didn't want to say more to them at this time.

When Tian Chonghu's mother saw Luo Yong going into his son's house, she hurriedly followed him in: "Look at how busy I'm so many days, I haven't cleaned up the house."

"Don't be busy anymore, I'll sit down and leave." Luo Yong saw that she was tidying up her things and sweeping the floor, so he also advised her.

The inside of the house is really incompatible with the word "cleanness". It's dark everywhere. I don't know how long it has been for the ground to be swept through. Tian Chonghu was originally lying on the kang. When he saw Luo Yi, he sat up.

Luo Yong greeted him, and felt that the house was not warm enough, so he went to the kang and planned to help burn the fire. However, when he saw that the kang was supposed to be a place to pile firewood next to the kang, there was no firewood at this time, and only a few small branches were left. Looking at the stove, I don’t know how long it took for the ash to be taken out. The ash to be taken out directly. He got up and lifted the pottery jar on the kang and looked at it. There was only a little water at the bottom of the jar. The jar had not been washed for a long time, and it looked unclean, and the water inside was not clean.

What kind of life are you living here?

Luo Yong covered the pottery jar and turned around and sat down on the edge of the kang next to him. The straw mat on the kang was also woolly. It was probably from the time I had just finished the kang two years ago that I had used it until now. The pile of things like quilts on the kang were so worn out that they could not see the shape or color.

Looking at Tian Chonghu again, this kid is obviously much thinner than before.

"I heard you fell down, but it's better?" Luo Yong asked him.

"Even if you sprain your ankle, you're almost ready." Tian Chonghu looked indifferent, his eyes wandered. When Luo Yong saw his slapped look, he felt embarrassed and uncomfortable.

"Let me look at your feet." Luo Yong said.

"What's the good thing? If it weren't for the fact that Jun Zhengfei asked me to stay on the kang for a month, I would have been able to work long ago." Tian Chonghu muttered, and saw Luo frowning with a stern face, somehow, he felt a little weak in his heart, and honestly stretched out his injured foot for him to show him.

Luo Yong checked his injuries and there was no big problem. He should have fallen from the roof before and sprained when he landed on the ground. At this time, he was almost healed. Judging from his mental state, he didn't look like someone who had suffered internal injuries, so he felt relieved.

"You should follow what Tianmura said, stay on the kang for a month, and be careful not to leave any disease roots." Luo Yong said to Tian Chonghu.

"Oh." Tian Chonghu responded absent-mindedly.

Luo Yong knew that he must have felt embarrassed at this time, so he stopped staying at his house. After a few more words of advice, he got up and left the yard.

Tian Chonghu's mother came out to see him off again. Luo Yong waved his hand and said nothing more, leaving his yard directly.

A few days later, after Tian Chonghu stayed on the kang for almost a month, Luo Yong asked him to go to Lishi County with him.

"You can just go into the city by yourself. Do you have to call me if you do something?" The boy Tian Chonghu was a little unhappy: "I, Aye, soaked fifty kilograms of beans last night, and I still want to stay at home to make tofu."

"Isn't you, I can't let you get one?" Luo Yong said.

"They are not doing a good job. Now the tofu in my village is the worst. If there weren't people from outside often coming to receive goods, my business would have been gone." Tian Chonghu sat in the car and moved his butt a little uneasy: "You really don't take the car, my feet are already perfect."

"You sit on yours." Luo Yong said, "Then how did they live when you were not old before when you couldn't live?"

"Just fool around, just starve to death."

"Then let them continue to fool them."

"How can that work? If I continue to press this, I will not be able to get a wife in the future, and my sister will not be able to find a good family in the house."

"I'm starting to think about my wife? Is this a fancy to whom is your little lady?"

“…”

The two of them talked all the way, and when they entered Lishi County, Luo Yong went directly to the place where the iron goods were sold.

At this time, the salt and iron wine were both the official and the private sectors. There were many vendors selling salt and wine in Lishi County, but the ironware was mainly the official sector.

There is a iron shop in the county town, which is private, which mainly helps people process small iron tools, renovate and repair them, etc. Like the two small tools used by many people in the county to make bamboo chains, the iron part of which comes from this iron shop.

There is also an official iron shop where basically the villagers buy grocery knives and farm tools.

"Why is Sanlang coming today? I want to buy farm tools?" Now in Lishi County, no one doesn't know Luo Sanlang. The person in charge of the iron shop was a gentle and goatee-bearded middle-aged man.

"I want to buy an iron cauldron," Luo Yong said.

"How big is the iron cauldron?" The middle-aged man led him to see the iron cauldron. There are three specifications: large, medium and small, and each one was placed there.

The ironware shop has a dark and light, and there are many things in the store, mainly farm tools, with all kinds of large and small farm tools. Compared with the lively farm tools area, the iron cauldrons are placed there alone, and there is still a lot of dust on it. Obviously, no one has been interested in it for a long time.

"How much does this cost?" Luo Yong pointed to one of the iron cauldrons and asked. The iron cauldron was about one foot in diameter, and it was already the smallest in this shop.

"This iron cauldron costs 4,600 yuan." The iron seller replied.

"..." When he heard this price, Luo Yong wanted to say whether it could be cheaper, but at least he still remembered that this was not a roadside stall in the 21st century. Bargaining was not popular at this time, especially in such an official shop, which was even more true.

In the early Tang Dynasty, with the continuous development of iron smelting technology, the use of iron tools has become more common. In the past, iron was more expensive than copper, but at this time, copper was more expensive than iron, but it was not much more expensive.

At this time, one copper coins weighed one qian. According to the current unit of measurement, one thousand copper coins weighed six kilograms and four kilograms, and four thousand six hundred copper coins, which was almost twenty-nine and a half kilograms.

Luo tried the weight of the iron cauldron with his hands, which was about 40 kilograms. Because the smelting and pouring technology were not very developed, the iron cauldron at this time looked quite bulky. Such a big piece of iron lump would not be cheap even if it was placed in later generations.

Luo Yong bought the iron kettle and asked someone for some hot water to clean the iron kettle inside and out.

Nowadays, every household in Shixian County is burning a fire kang, and there is hot water on the kang. Luo Yong knows many people in the city, so it is very easy to ask for some hot water from people.

The scrubbed pot was set on a stove with a firewood, and it was burned with firewood at the bottom. Several large pieces of lard condensed into snow-white paste were added to the pot.

"I just remembered a new business these days. From now on, you will stay in the city and sell this for me." Luo Yong said to Tian Chonghu while busying himself.

"What should I do at home?" Tian Chonghu said.

"This business has a promising future than making tofu." Luo Yong said to him: "You can work for me for three or two years, and the money for getting married will be settled, and your sister's dowry will be settled."

This kid was not lucky and didn't meet Hao Ye Niang. After seeing his family's appearance last time, Luo Yong wanted to get him out.
Chapter completed!