77. Southern Sugar Cake
For Luo Yong, there has been no news since that boy Qiao Junlin went to the distant Chang'an City.
But for Qiao Junlin, Luo Yong is not far from him. In Chang'an City where he lives, there are traces of that country boy everywhere.
In the early spring, every household was burning a fire kang. When winter just came last year, Qiao Junlin learned that some of Luo Yong's disciples came to Chang'an City, and also went to the Ma Family Trading Company to say hello to them, and even helped them recruit some work.
At this time, Qiao Junlin was no longer as sensitive as he was at the beginning. He began to face his background and face the fact that he would be despised by many people because of his background in Chang'an City.
He admitted this fact and decided one day to break it. He would become an amazing person, and by that time, his name, his origins would all become a kind of glory.
This is certainly not an easy task. He has been working hard for this matter, with the innocence and stubbornness of a young man. Judging from the current results, he is indeed doing well.
In terms of qualifications, Qiao Junlin is a good man and not good at literature. But diligence can make up for his shortcomings. His cultural course scores are also pretty good, especially those mature and persistent teachers in the college who often praise him very much.
Every time he comes to martial arts courses, it is often time for him to make a big splash. Because of his diligent practice and extraordinary qualifications, he has now left his classmates farther and farther away.
Qiao Junlin often rode the Yanerfei that Luo Yong gave him to practice riding and shooting. He could ride a bicycle with both hands and mop to pull a bow and shoot archery, and he almost hit every shot.
Students from all four subjects say that this is very handsome. Qiao Junlin has performed for them countless times. If the Luo, who was born under the national flag and raised in New China, was lucky enough to admire this scene... No matter what, in the minds of the students, he is indeed very handsome.
Yan'erfei is now quite common in Chang'an City. The price is much cheaper than before. Many families with relatively ordinary economic conditions can afford it. This thing is now gradually changing from a fresh item to a daily transportation tool.
The road conditions in Chang'an City are relatively good, and the road surface is relatively flat, which is very suitable for Yan'erfei's driving.
Due to the popularity of bicycles, there are many car repair stalls in the market, mainly focusing on the car repair chain business. Some people are really clumsy and don’t change the car chain if it breaks, so they have to push it to a nearby shop to find someone to help repair it.
In each of the buildings in Chang'an City, there are usually one or two stalls that help people repair cars in the locations near several main gates. If you repair the car chain, it will cost a penny.
In fact, the bamboo chains transported from Lishi County are about one cent per section. The reason why the charges at the repair stalls are so low is mainly because each bamboo chain is composed of several parts.
Generally, if there is a problem with the bamboo chain, one or two parts will be broken. If you change one part, it will cost one penny. If you change two, it will cost two pennies. If you change one whole section, I’m sorry, four pennies, this is still the combination price.
Therefore, people who are more frugal should buy some chains and put them on themselves, and if there is a problem, they will do it themselves.
In Chang'an City, the price of bamboo chains is generally around 80 cents. Earlier, someone transported a truck of goods to sell them in the market, and a chain costs only 75 cents, and many people rushed to ask for it. Everyone who sold the chain knew that it was the servant next to Du Qilang.
I heard that Du Qilang always ran to Lishi County. Every time he came back, he would bring some good things back. He divided the things with a few friends who were familiar with him, and then he would sell them at the market for cheap. Because all the people in the market like Du Qilang.
Such a chain costs 75 cents per person, and three or five families gather together. After buying a chain, they can be divided into it. They can be used for a long time when they take it home. It should be fine for one or two years. After all, Yan'erfei's bamboo chain is not always bad.
"Click!" A servant was thinking about something in his heart. He exerted force under his feet, and the car chain broke. He thought to himself that he was unlucky and quickly got out of the car to check.
"Yeah, the car chain is broken." An idle person walked out of the shop next to him. He looked like he should be the store owner. He was not doing business now and was idle.
"Not." The servant untied a small cloth bag from the handlebar, and there was a spare chain on it.
This car was originally bought by his husband to play with. Now the freshness has passed, so I felt compassion for them and the servants and put them in the yard for transportation. Not to mention that it is really convenient. When they had something to go out for errands, they could only run on their legs. Since Yan Erfei had this, I didn’t know how much easier it was to run.
The shop owner saw that the servant was carrying a piece of bamboo chain and working it for a long time without removing a piece of it, so he asked him, "Can you do it?"
"I won't meet." The servant told the truth. Their husband passed the novelty of Yan'erfei, but there was a large group of servants in the family who were more experienced than him. They were not as fresh as they were. They rode around and rarely had their turn. Although they had ridden a few times before, they encountered the first time they had broken the chain.
"I'll help you with it, look at mine." Without saying a word, the shop owner took the chain in his hand, compared the damage to the material strip on the car, and removed a corresponding part in a few seconds.
Quickly fix the chain, then put it on the gear, turn the pedals, and work together.
The servant thanked him repeatedly, and the shop owner just waved his hand indifferently, "Go and go, it's just a convenient thing."
In today's Chang'an City, there are many people who can repair car chains for free. In later generations, some old uncles and aunts were playing with their mobile phones and couldn't play with them anymore. They quickly found a young man to ask, "Hey, what's wrong with my mobile phone?" When the young man saw it, he helped them get it done.
In addition to Yan'erfei, peony cushions are also a common thing in Chang'an City today. In some more high-end recipes, the owner will also lay a few peony cushions on the kang in the store.
Earlier, when most people could not buy such cushions, the shop owners were able to attract some business for them. However, the enthusiasm has almost passed, and citizens have basically returned to rational consumption.
Recently, there have been many kinds of peony cushions in Chang'an City, but the most authentic one that everyone recognizes is the peony cushion produced in Lishi County. This thing can be distinguished by a closer look. It is almost the difference between real money and □□. Some people accidentally bought fake cushions, and they regretted it.
Many wealthy families have bought large peony carpets produced in Lishi County. Not to mention, most craftsmen can’t imitate the mats in Lishi County. They may not be able to see them very carefully when they are small. Once they get to the large carpet, they can easily see the gap.
In addition, many wealthy men bought cashmere sweaters from Lishi County to wear. People who wear them said that the clothes were particularly warm.
Nowadays, the turtleneck sweater and robe dress has become a fashion in Chang'an City. This fashion is not enough for ordinary people to catch up with. In the whole winter, there are not many people from Lishi County. There are so many people in Chang'an that they are not enough to be divided. If they have no status, they will definitely not be able to get it.
There are quite a lot of good things in Lishi County. In this Chang'an City, there are probably many noble people who have the idea of Lishi County, but Luo Sanlang's name is also quite famous and has a nickname for coffin boards.
I heard that around New Year's Day, a thief went to their village to kidnap a young lady, but was chased from Shizhou to Fenzhou and pulled the person out. In the end, the young lady found her, and the thief could not save her head.
Those guys who wanted to attack Li Shi County had to think carefully at this time. If they really touched the people under Luo Sanlang, would the coffin board be chased to Chang'an City?
However, it seems to those who have been to Lishi County that the place in Lishi County is still very good. Luo Sanlang's family's delicious date cake is only sold for one cent. Nowadays, there are still a few people in Chang'an City who have never heard of this.
I heard that there was a new Dongpo pork recently, which was very delicious. The reason why it is called Dongpo pork is said to be because Luo Sanlang cooks meat in Xipo Village. The aroma of the meat can always cross the Luliang Mountains and float to the village in Shandong. I don’t know if it is true or false. (Of course it is fake.)
I heard that the saints today also value Nara Saburo and rewarded him with five hectares of fertile land.
In the eyes of many Chang'an nobles, the reward of these five hectares of fertile land is almost the same as not being rewarded. The reason for this is probably because the coffin board was made directly and the swallow flew out to sell it for money, rather than directly dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor.
At Xipo Village, Lishi County, Luo Yong was not sure at this time what changes his appearance as a time traveler brought to Chang'an City in the seventh century.
That afternoon, he went to the Xu family's hotel and then returned with a can of waste oil.
The business in Xu's house has been good recently. Aunt Luo and his wife have also done a lot of business. In addition to ordering date cakes and Dongpo pork, some customers also expressed that they wanted to eat stinky tofu.
So Luo Yong asked the Xu brothers to help him bring another iron pot from the city, and spent several cents of money, and the business was still successful. At the Xu family's house, stinky tofu is not sold as snacks, but as a dish, and a plate costs ten cents. There are many people willing to eat it, and more than ten plates can be sold every day.
As soon as Aunt Luo's stinky tofu was fried, even if she was already using lard in a very planned manner, a lot of waste oil would still be produced every day. The waste lard accumulated. Luo Yong sometimes used them to mix chicken food, but he would not use too much.
Luo Yong thought about it for the past two days and asked the Dinghu people who came to the city every day to buy some hot alkali from Xue Jibufang.
Xue Weng and others used the thing to dye cloth, and there were some things at home. Luo Yong and others shared with him, but Xue Weng didn't make any money. Luo Yong used to hear Xue Weng and others talked about that those who do fur processing also needed to use the thing to use.
A while ago, Luo Yong saw a novel on a smartphone in his space, saying that it would boil lard and caustic soda and add some water to boil it out so that it could boil soap. There is just a lot of waste lard at the moment, so Luo Yong planned to try it out.
Because I used the oil that has been fried stinky tofu, I had to wash the oil before making soap. Luo Yong knew that when I was wandering around the Internet, I saw a guy who set up a stall to fry fried dough sticks and talked about it.
Now he has used this method himself. Although clean water and oil washing is not as magical as the legendary oil cleaning agent, it also has a certain effect of removing impurities.
Wash the waste oil once, let it cool, then add the configured caustic soda solution and boil it. As a result, it will be in the middle of the night.
A can of waste lard, and a large bowl of caustic soda solution were added. Boil it on the kang in a low heat and water. From time to time, I had to add some water to the lard, boil it from 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. Finally, I finally got a can of soap liquid. Because I didn't plan to ask for glycerin, and in order to save salt, I did not perform salting step and directly molded the boiled soap liquid.
Looking at the box of yellow soap liquid and the color texture, Luo Yong couldn't help but remember the days he lived with Grandma Luo when he was a child.
He remembered that at the earliest time, they used this soap at home, which was dark and red in color. At first glance, it looked like a piece of sugar cake steamed with brown sugar and rice slurry. It was a thin piece of sugar cake, wrapped in yellow straw paper. Every time I bought such a piece of soap, Grandma Luo would first cut it into two pieces in half with a knife. After cutting it, it would be about the size of soap that was common on the market later. One piece was used and the other piece was temporarily stored in the cabinet.
There was no mold at this moment, Luo Yong took a pottery bowl and placed it at the top of a shelf near the kang.
When the soap liquid in the bowl is dry tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you will be able to remove the mold. Then take it out and cut it into pieces. After a few days, you can take it out to take it out for bathing and washing clothes.
For the production of this soap, Luo used it for a while and didn't think about mass production. He would refine as much soap as there was waste oil, and would take a break when there was no waste oil.
On this day, Luo Yong had nothing to do, so he carved a soap mold at the grocery store. He didn't want any tricks, so he made it according to the sugar cake mold in his memory.
He always suspected that the soap he and Grandma Luo bought earlier, and those who made soap must have been to save trouble. They bought a few sugar cake molds from the market and took them back as soap molds.
In Hedongdao, don’t think about sugar cakes. Rice is so expensive. I buy some occasionally and use them to make porridge. How can I make sugar cakes?
How many pieces of soap can be made? No matter whether it is soap or sugar cake, put it in this mold and press it, the things you make look the same. It can be enjoyable when placed on the shelves.
"Brother, what is the one in this bowl?" Si Niang and the others soon discovered the extra thing on the shelves.
"Sugar Cake." Luo Yong said casually.
"Love." Si Niang didn't believe it. In her impression, the sugar cake obviously didn't look like this.
"The sugar cakes in the north are made of noodles, while the sugar cakes in the south are made of rice, which is different." Luo Yong taught them.
"Then why do you put it on the shelf and fall into ashes?" Goro didn't believe it either.
"I added some things to it and it will take a few days to taste good." Luo Sanlang continued to lie to the child.
Chapter completed!