North and South groceries

This burnt loess is also called soil cement. The main raw material is loess, in addition to [-] to [-] percent slaked lime, and less than half percent hemihydrate gypsum.

Yellow mud is easy to handle, they are everywhere here, slaked lime is slaked lime, which can be obtained by adding water to quicklime, and only [-] to [-] catties of slaked lime are needed for every [-] catties of soil cement, and the amount is not particularly large.

As for the hemihydrate gypsum, you can also buy natural gypsum and process it. This is simple, just control the heat a little and burn the solid gypsum into powder.

Ever since they started making paper here, the amount of lime used has been increasing. Recently, people often come to their area to sell lime. There are carts and loaders. If Luo Yong looks suitable, he will buy some.

Lime is something that Xipo Village does not produce, but it is not a rare thing. If the villagers in some villages can find limestone on the hills near their homes, they pick up those stones and pile them up, and burn them into powder with fire. It can be sold for money. If a load of lime can be sold for seven or eight yuan, it is considered relatively good. Recently, more and more people sell lime, and the price is getting lower and lower.

Earlier, I bought some to make paper, and the amount was not too much. Luo Yong didn’t think it was expensive for a load of lime, whether it was five or six or seven or eight. Now it is used to burn soil and cement, and the price is not cheap.

In addition, gypsum in this era is only sold in pharmacies, and Luo Yong is also worried that the price will be relatively high.

Before dawn on this day, Luo Yong set off early with those Dinghu people who were going to the city to deliver goods.

It rained two days ago, and there were many puddles on the dirt road entering the city. Luo Yong was fine, after all, there was still a donkey cart, and those Dinghu people walked on two legs, and they trampled their feet in a short while. mud.

Luo Yong has been thinking about the feasibility of using soil cement to pave the road. The soil cement is mainly made of yellow mud, and its strength is lower than that of ordinary cement. When building roads, bulls and horses are trampled on, and I'm afraid I can't bear it.

Perhaps they could pave a path of earth and cement on one side of the main road for walking and biking?

When the soil and cement are burned, Luo Yong will first build several fermentation tanks for the production of Eucommia gum, and then start to build ditches.

The next step is about road construction. It is impossible for Luo Yong to do it by himself, and he has to see what other people think. After all, lime and gypsum are things that need to be bought. I owe a lot of debt, and I can't afford that money.

Thinking about things in my heart, the one-morning trip didn't seem so long. After entering the city, Luo Yong went directly to the pharmacy for those who ordered barbarians to deliver goods and those who sold goods.

There are only two pharmacies, one large and one small, in Lishi County. Entering from the main road at the gate of the city, there is a small pharmacy in a small alley not far in front. That pharmacy has a good reputation. Luo Yong used to be in the county While walking, he had heard it mentioned before, so this time he went there first.

"Why is Sanlang here today?" The owner of the pharmacy is also a doctor sitting in the shop, a thin man in his early forties.

"I'll buy some plaster." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Why do you buy gypsum, but to clear the fire?" The storekeeper said and went to the counter, holding a small scale in his hand, and was about to open the lattice of the wooden cabinet containing the gypsum.

"I bought it for other purposes, so I need to buy more. How much is the price of this plaster?" Luo Yong asked.

"How much do you want?" The other party turned around.

"If the price is not too expensive, I will ask for half a load first." Luo Yong replied.

"That much?" The other party was surprised.

In this era, gypsum has not been developed for other uses except for medicine. The owner of this shop really can't figure out what to use for buying so much gypsum.

But he didn't ask too much, just said: "I still have more than one bucket of high-quality Anyi gypsum in my treasury, but if you don't use it for medicine, ordinary gypsum should be fine, and I have two and a half buckets of Pingyi gypsum in my treasury." If you want the gypsum produced there, you can just take it for eight cents."

"?" Luo Yong was taken aback. Two and a half buckets of plaster cost only eight cents, which was cheaper than he imagined.

"If you want more in the future, I'll tell the porter in Pingyi for you to have them carry the plaster and send it to Xipo Village. It will cost about twelve or thirty cents per load." The other party said again.

"Then I will trouble you sir." Luo Yong quickly thanked him.Although he didn't understand the market, it would take two days to travel barefoot from Pingyi County to Xipo Village. If he came from a farther place, the journey would be even longer. Not too expensive.

"What's the matter? Those plasters are born with good quality, and they are not good for medicine. If you use them there, they can make a living for those porters." It's a lot, and if you sell it to Xipo Village, you can sell some tofu and other things on the way back, and you can earn some money and food.

After buying the plaster, Luo Yong drove the donkey cart out of the alley, and outside was the widest and straightest street in Lishi County. It was noon, and the street was bustling with people.

On the other side, a few porters who carried loads happened to pass by. Luo Yong raised his eyes and saw the poles on their shoulders that were bent by the weight, the sweat on their faces, and the gloves on the rough soles of their feet. Broken sandals.

This kind of hard work is very common in this era.

Only this time, Luo Sanlang no longer drooped his eyelids, and then walked past them with some complicated emotions.He just sat quietly on the donkey cart and looked at these people, and when they approached, he greeted them with a smile.

"What are you carrying and where are you carrying it?" Luo Yong asked with a smile.

"This is Chi Yan from Anyi, and he needs to carry it to Ma's Trading Company." The porter in the lead put down his burden, took off his bamboo hat and fanned the wind, and asked with a smile, "This is Luo Sanlang."

"How do you know I'm Luo Sanlang?" Luo Yong has no impression of these people in front of him.

"It is said that Luo Sanlang is gentle and handsome, and he has a big donkey with a special air. I looked at you from a distance just now, and I guessed that you are Luo Sanlang." This man has been tanned by the sun all year round. It looks very white.

"I heard people say that the gypsum in Anyi is also very good." This is what Luo Yong just heard from the pharmacy. At this time, Anyi, which later became Yuncheng, had a Yuncheng salt pond there.

"The place that produces gypsum is Pinglu, not too far from our Anyi, but they are in Shanzhou, the capital of Ji Province, not in our Hedong Province." The other party explained to Luo Yong.

"So that's the case, but I made a mistake." Luo Yong silently recorded this matter in his heart. These days, there is no Internet like later generations. If you don't understand anything, you can check it online at any time, so memory and accumulation are particularly important. .

"Why don't you use a cart to push such a long distance?" Luo Yong asked again.

"It was originally pushed by a cart, but it rained two days ago, and the mountain road was difficult. The cart could not pass Luliang Mountain, so we had to use a pole to carry it." The other party replied.

"It's been hard work." Luo Yong said.

"What's the matter? In the past, those of us who picked salt were most afraid of rainy days. At that time, oil paper was expensive, and we didn't know how much salt we had to pick to buy one. If we didn't buy oil paper and caught up with rainy days, that would be true. Call Tian Tian Ying, now it’s better, the price of oil paper has come down, we can all afford it, those of us who pick salt, there is no one who doesn’t know Luo Sanlang..."

Luo Sanlang drove a donkey cart through Lishi County, greeting people from time to time with a smile on his face. He looked like an immature young man, but in fact, he had already carried a heavy weight on his shoulders.

Whether in the seventh century or the 21st century, Luo Yong had a very inconspicuous childhood in his life. Such ordinaryness and inconspicuousness have always been engraved in his bones, making him believe that he is just an inconspicuous little person. , for many things in this world are powerless.

So when faced with other people's suffering, the former Luo Yong would often choose to avoid it, because he was helpless, seeing too much and thinking too much was nothing more than increasing troubles.

But in this world, who has that ability?

That's right, without the sundries in that space and the memories of his two lifetimes, Luo Yong would be just an ordinary little person, but who is born extraordinary?

Maybe what he really lacks is not ability, but courage and courage.

It's time to open your eyes and take a good look at the world, then roll up your sleeves and do what you can for those who are struggling.