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85. Pingyi people

After a few spring rains, the weather began to become warm and humid. Luo Yong's disciples began to busy help their master sow seeds again, driving the cows and holding the carts, sowing the seeds into the soil one by one.

The original fields of the Luo family, plus the fertile land in the newly obtained five hectares of land, are only about one hundred acres of land, and this spring they are farming this hundred acres.

After turning over and over, I turned over and over again, I carefully renovated the Luo family’s 100 acres of land and cultivated so carefully. I think these fields should have a good harvest this year.

Most of the land of this hundred acres still have beans, and a small number of them have corn.

The Luo family is not making the tofu for fermented beans themselves, but they use beans to process for the villagers. Because of the long-term large amount of this transaction, it is close to them, so the villagers only accept the beans left over tofu as rewards.

This bean dregs are also very useful nowadays. They can not only use bean dregs to help clean the pigpens, but also use them to hire people to do farm work in the fields. This spring, many people in Xipo Village can hire helpers with bean dregs. Those who earn bean dregs and go back. Some of them keep their own food for food, some are used to exchange for some pig farmers in other villages for food, and some are used to exchange for mashed sauce and fermented bean curd and other items. Some are kept for their own food, and some are sold for them.

The Luo family does not make tofu, so they do not produce bean dregs. The bean dregs used for pig farming at home are basically exchanged for fermented bean curd sauce.

Luo Siniang sat in the convenience store every day. From time to time, the adults and children from the village came to her to change things. Although it was an inconspicuous small transaction, both parties made a lot of profits.

The villagers didn't eat all of these things when they changed them. It was inevitable that they would go back and forth between relatives. This time, they brought two cans of fermented bean curd for this relative, and the relatives returned some twine. Next time, they brought a liter of soy sauce for their relatives there, and the relatives there gave them some grain that they didn't have at home.

In the past, these were all things that cost money and food to exchange for. Now, just exchange them with bean dregs.

After the busy spring plowing period, every household could stop and take a breath.

Luo Yong's disciples also went home to reunite with their families. They took a few days off and then slowly considered their subsequent livelihoods.

From last autumn and winter to the beginning of spring this year, whether those who went to Chang'an City or stayed in Lishi County, they all earned a lot of money and food. At this time, there was no pressure, just relax and rest for a while.

Luo Yong had no time to rest here, and more and more people came to him to buy soap. Now most of the people living in the Xu family's guest house were waiting for Luo Yong to place orders here.

The Xu brothers and the others had no rest, and Hengyu and his son probably had no rest. I heard that the city has been very lively recently.

"Twill, twine! Who wants twine? "Whoever wants twine?" After digging the 60,000 tree pits, Wang Dang and others repaired and expanded Luo Yong's yard, and then started a small business nearby.

They first bought some fermented bean curd and soy sauce from Luoyong, and then carried these things to various villages in a car to find people to change the twine. When they returned to Xipo Village, they used these twine to exchange with the villagers for bean dregs, and finally used bean curd and Luo to exchange fermented bean curd and soy sauce.

"Is the twine this time good? The twine you recycled is not good." The villagers heard the shouts and gathered here. Since the villagers in Xipo Village made tofu, they have less and less time to spin the hemp, so many people are determined to stock up on some twine at home.

"I was wrong last time, and this time Ahe and I went out to collect it. It must be fine and even." Wang Dang patted his chest and promised, and then picked up the bundles of twine on the car for everyone to take a closer look.

"But it's better to exchange half a stone bean dregs for one pound of hemp?" The villagers looked at the hemp thread carefully and were quite satisfied. There were not many such good crafts in their village.

"That's right." Wang Dang smiled.

"Wait, I'll go back to get the bean dregs." Someone immediately decided to change it.

"I'll change some too." The adults in the village were busy making tofu, and the young ladies were busy knitting sweaters. No one was spinning hemp. If they didn't exchange more bean dregs for the house now, they might have to spend a lot of money and grain to exchange for it in the future.

This car of twine was divided up by the villagers in a short time, and it was exchanged for a lot of bean dregs. It turned out that this car could not be loaded at all. Wang Dangben asked Ah He to stay here and watch. He pushed the cart one by one and transported the bean dregs to the Luo family yard.

Most of the bean dregs I received today were in the Luo family's yard, and half of them were transported back to their own yard. I don't know if this small business can last long. According to Ahe's intention, they also raised a few pigs themselves.

"If someone has wheat, you can change it and I will buy it with you at the market price." On this day, after completing the transaction of fermented bean curd for bean dregs, Luo Yong said to Wang Dang.

The wheat he collected from his family in summer has been eaten up, and he has exchanged some with the villagers, but it is still not enough. If he goes to the city to buy it, it will take a lot of effort to leave it to Wang to act like this.

The wheat this year is about to come down, and someone should be willing to sell old wheat at this time. After the wheat harvest, Luo Yong has to buy more new wheat. His family didn’t grow it last year, so naturally there will be no wheat to harvest this year, so they all have to rely on buying it.

"You don't have to get money, just change me some soap." Wang Dang said with a smile. Since he dug the 60,000 tree pits, he has become much more relaxed, and he is debt-free and light.

"If you want soap, you have to collect lard and exchange it with me. The wheat is not good." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"I can't collect lard. Nowadays, those merchants are collecting oil in the city. They carry all the lard from Lishi County up there, and they can't buy it everywhere."

Wang Dang didn't want to collect oil. Didn't he be able to steal those people? In the first three liters of corn could get a pound of pine oil. Now those people can exchange it for a bucket of corn. Wang Dang can't have the family background to get involved with them.

Speaking of which, the families who raised pigs last year have made a lot of money this time.

I sold pork for Luo earlier, and then immediately used the money to buy the pigs and raised them. It should not be a loss. I hid it at home after I could sell it. At this time, I guess I would regret it.

Recently, the price of piglets in their place has been very expensive. It is not cost-effective to buy piglets at this time. If the meat and oil prices fall next year, and I have worked hard to raise pigs, I may have to lose money.

"There is no way to do without lard. There are so many eyes at the entrance of the village." The reason why those merchants bought lard everywhere was naturally to exchange it for Luo Yong for soap: "Let me look at the pot of soap behind it."

"Okay, that's all I said." Wang Dang naturally knew that there was no chance of this matter.

As the two were talking, before Luo Yong got up and returned to the backyard, he saw several worn-out men entering the yard: "But Luo Sanlang's house?"

"That's right, I'm Luo Sanlang." Luo Yong walked out of the grocery store and listened to the other party's accent, he had a vague guess in his heart.

"We are from Pingyi County. Last winter, you made an appointment with Weng Shen. Today we will send him pear seedlings." One of the older men said.

"Shen Weng?" Luo Yong noticed that the other party was using "replacement" instead of "help".

"Shen Weng left before the New Year." People here are used to saying that death is gone.

"I've left." Luo Yong said sadly.

"Sanlang doesn't need to worry. The old man sold those pears last year and earned some money. His children and grandchildren were filial, so he also let him live a few good days before he sent them away." The other party said.

"Is Shen Weng's family okay? I remember that someone came to sell pears with him a few years ago, and there was a young man who was about the same age as me." Luo Yong asked Shen Wen.

"Shen Wei is right behind. I can't walk fast if I drive a few pigs, so I will come here first." A young young man next to me said.

"You even drove the pig over?" Luo Yong was surprised.

"We heard that the pig price in Lishi County has been high recently, so we exchanged some pigs with the food from our family and rushed here to sell them. Many villagers are together, and there are many people on the mountain roads." Pingyi County borders Lishi County. From Shenwei and their villages to Xipo Village, you don't have to pass through the county, but you can go directly to the dirt between the villages and the villages and walk closer. They passed through several villages and walked for two days before they arrived.

The pear seedlings were just outside the yard. Luo Yong went out to see them. Because they wanted to walk the mountain road, they did not use a car, but tied the seedlings up with straw ropes, then tied them directly in with a shoulder pole, tied them up one by one, and carried them to carry them.

Luo Yong had 53 seedlings in total, including twenty-one large seedlings and thirty-two small seedlings. Earlier, Luo Yong had agreed with Weng Shen to twenty large seedlings, and thirty small seedlings. Obviously, the other party gave three more.

"These pear seedlings are good. Can these big seedlings bear fruit this year?" Luo Yong asked.

"As long as you are not hurt, you will be able to bear fruit this year." One of the young men said: "At the beginning of spring, Shen Wei said he wanted to send the seedlings over, but we were afraid of missing the spring plowing. Although it was a little late at this time, it was at least considered to be before the pear tree blossomed."

"Nothing happens, it is natural that spring plowing is important." Luo Yongyan said.

For farmers at this time, nothing is more important than the crops in the fields. The tofu trading in Xipo Village is quite profitable, but when it comes to spring plowing, not every household has to stop doing business and work in the fields.

"It's getting late at this time, so why don't you talk about it first. I'll plant these saplings for you." Wang Dang interrupted while scratching his neck.

"Do you know where the plant is suitable?" Luo Yong asked him.

"Don't worry, I'm more ripe than you in your home. I have helped people plant pear trees before and will choose a good place for them."

In Wang Dang's opinion, although Luo Yong is smart and capable, he is still a scholar. If you want to talk about crops, it is really not as good as him and his brothers. They have no land at home and have helped others with all kinds of work. It is no problem to plant a few fruit trees.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, brothers." Luo Yong didn't want to leave these pear saplings overnight, and it was difficult to leave these plain people who came from afar.

"What's the hard work?" Wang Dang squatted over and packed the saplings, and then carried them up the slope. Soon, several more people ran down from the slope. They smiled and said hello to Luo, and then carried them away in a few loads.

There are two roads from Luo Yong's grandfather's yard to this side. One is to walk outside the entrance of the village, and the other is to walk inside the village. It is on the small slope in front of the Luo family. You can see several small trees from afar. Luo Yong's grandfather's yard is behind the small trees.

These Dinghu people were very grateful for Luo Yong's yard lent to them to live in. After they repaired the yard and moved it in, they felt as if they had taken root in this village.

Recently, someone went back to Dinghu County to pick up his family. I believe that it won’t take long before the originally depressed and dilapidated courtyard will become a bustling and large courtyard.

At this time, Si Niang and Wulang also carried pig grass on their backs, and Liu Lang Qiniang and their own donkeys, donkeys, and dogs.

This afternoon, Goro came back from the school and after dinner, he did homework with Si Niang for half an hour. Then the siblings rushed to grind two buckets of wheat in five pairs.

Later, Peng Er went to the backyard to replace Luo Yong. Luo Yong looked at the grocery store and asked them to go out to play. Not only did Si Niang and Wu Lang need to play, but his Liu Lang and Qi Niang also had to go out to let go and let the children go all day long.

"Wuron, look at the shop, Si Niang, go to the Xujiake House and ask them to prepare some food." As he said that, Luo Yong asked the plaintiffs again: "How many people have you come this time?"

"No, no, no, we brought our own dry food." The older man heard that Luo Yong was going to treat them to dinner, so he quickly refused.

"It's okay, that's the guest house opened by my disciple, and the price is not expensive." Luo Yong smiled and said, "Si Niang, please ask them to prepare meals for ten people, plus a few of our family, so we'll eat there tonight."

"I won't cook tonight?" The girl's eyes lit up.

"I won't cook anymore, I'll eat there." I have to give the one I've had to have a vacation occasionally.

"Okay, I'll go now." I heard that I could go to the restaurant without cooking tonight, so Si Niang was so happy that she went out of the village.

"What should I do?" The plain people were a little restrained.

"It's okay." Luo waved his hand and said, "If you know you are driving pigs, the people living in the guest house may have to rush to pay the bill for you, but I have agreed with you that the price of pigs here and live pigs will be sold for three cents per pound, which is lower than this price, so you must not sell them."

"Take it seriously?" A live pig can be sold for three cents per pound. So what is the price of pork?

On their side, if a pound of pork can be exchanged for three liters of corn, it would be a relatively good price. At the current price of grain, three liters of corn costs less than two cents, and it would have to be clean pork. After a pig pinched his head and tail, he released blood, removed his internal organs and bones, there was not much clean pork in total.

A pound of live pig costs three cents, and that one live pig of sixty or seventy pounds can be sold for about two hundred cents. This is simply...

"Stay here for a night of rest. You can also go to Lishi County to see tomorrow. Lishi County is no longer what it used to be." Luo Yi stretched out his hand and signaled the few people to go to the entrance of the village with him.

"Wen Shen came to Lishi County last year, and after he returned, he always said that it was lively here."

"Who are those people just now?"

"They are from Dinghu County."

"I heard that Dinghu County is also very wealthy."

"Dinghu County is in our Shizhou, and it was originally a big county."

"There is a Mengmen Pass over there."

The few people were talking at the entrance of the village while waiting for the people who were driving the pigs from behind. During the conversation, Luo Yong learned that Shen Wei's father had leg problems and his mother was weak and could not do heavy work.

There is also an older sister on the Shenhui who got married last autumn and her husband's family is in the village next to them. This time his brother-in-law also came with him.

After waiting for a long time, I finally saw a few people coming over with a group of pigs.

Whether it was humans or pigs, they looked dusty. If it weren't for the age of Shen Wei, Luo Yong wouldn't be able to recognize which one was him. The two of them said hello and drove the pig to the Xu family's house together.

There are many merchants living in the Xu family's guesthouse. When these merchants saw them coming over with a group of dirty pigs, they not only did not look disgusted, but also happily welcomed them out. They were like seeing relatives, making the barbarians at a loss and almost thought they had entered a black shop.

These many merchants, plus nine young and old people who came from Pingyi County, came to join in the fun again, and the whole room was filled with the huge hall of the Xu family's guest house.

Aunt Luo finished her work and didn't eat with them. She took some food from here and ate with her second wife Peng Er and others. They didn't come here, but just sent a few young people in the house. The children all liked to be lively. With so many people, they started chatting from all over the world, and they felt very interesting.

Then Yang Dalang also gave advice to these plain people: "...Your place is close to this place. In the future, you can plant a variety of beans, soybean oil is squeezed, soybean oil is sold with Luo Sanlang, soybean meal is used to raise pigs. When the pig is raised, fat meat is sold with Luo Sanlang, and lean meat is kept for yourself."

After that, I would like to sigh again: "Oh, it's so good to have land."
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