North and South groceries

For these children in his family, Luo Yong has always herded sheep and grazing, and did not ask them too much what to do here, and let them grow naturally most of the time. guide.

This is very different from the current general background. At this time, every household is governed by patriarchs. The big and small things in the family are decided by the elderly, and young people seldom have the time to make decisions by themselves.

Luo Yong can't control other people's families, so he hopes that these children in his family can live and study freely, start with some small things, and slowly learn to make up their own minds, so that they will have their own opinions when they grow up.

Luo Yong is not afraid that they will make mistakes, no matter what mistakes they make, as long as they can bear it by themselves, this can cultivate their awareness and sense of responsibility for their own actions early on, and when they do something, they must also be responsible. Give them as much sense of accomplishment and satisfaction as possible.

Luo Yong has never raised children and has little educational experience, but in his impression, children with healthy minds and healthy personalities should be raised in this way.

So just now, when Goro told him with a depressed face that this broom is for sweeping the barn, Luo was actually very beautiful in his heart. Look at his children, at such a young age, they started to care about these things at home. With a sense of responsibility, when he grows up in the future, he will definitely be a very reliable and good young man.

For dinner, I had thick noodle pancakes with cabbage and tofu soup.

Mrs. Luo and her husband sell dumplings, jujube bean cakes and other things in Xu's guest house, and they consume a lot of white flour every day. The extra rough noodles produced when grinding those white noodles have almost become the staple food of the Luo family now. A few members of the family couldn't finish it, and the rest was sold to the Xu's guest house, where they were used every day to make miscellaneous noodles and oily buns.

The freshly ground rough noodles in the past two days still have a strong smell of wheat. Add water to make a paste, then spread them into thin pancakes, spread a little miso, and then put a few green onion leaves and a few strips of egg , roll it up and eat it in your hand, it is very fragrant.

The womb cabbage grown next to the pigsty at home is fat, tender and sweet. Put a spoonful of onion oil in it and boil it with tofu to make a soup. The taste is also very sweet.

After dinner, Erniang and Peng Er went to wash the dishes together, and Luo Yong took a few small ones, and while cleaning the kang noodles, he taught them to recite the nine-nine formula.

The nine-nine formulas in Chinese history are divided into small nine-nine and big nine-nine. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the big nine-nine had not yet appeared, and everyone just memorized the small nine-nine, which is the nine-nine multiplication table of later generations. Nine nine eight one began to memorize, has been memorized until two two as four.

Both Siniang and Wulang have reached the age where they can recite Jiujiu formulas, while the other two younger ones are still at the stage of counting addition and subtraction with their fingers.

Listening to my brothers and sisters reciting the nine-nine formulas, Liulang and Qiniang also followed suit. In fact, they don't know how to recite at all, they just learn from it. Today you see that he learned it very well, and tomorrow he will turn his face away. I forgot again, when you ask him, Xiaomai will shake his head with a confused look on his face. Children are like this, and teaching children requires special patience.

"...Our soy sauce costs two cents a liter, and people say they want to buy two liters, how much should you charge?" After reciting the Jiujiu formula, Luo Yong lay on his side on the kang, propped his head on one arm, and gave him The two little dolls had arithmetic problems.

Speaking of which, Luo’s soy sauce was originally priced at three renminbi a liter, and it was sold for two renminbi a liter. The main reason is that the raw materials for making soy sauce are relatively cheap, that is, some bean dregs and bran, which sell for two renminbi a liter. There is still money to be made, everyone can afford it, and everyone is happy.

"Four pennies." Qiniang's girl responded quickly. In fact, this question was not difficult for the two of them. They spent a lot of time looking at the grocery store with Fourth Niang. This arithmetic problem is not a problem. son.

"..." Liu Lang crouched on the side and broke his fingers a little depressed. He also knew this question, but he couldn't react as quickly as Qiniang.

"Then what if someone wants a piece of soap?" Luo Yong asked again.

"..." The two children counted with their fingers, and it was Qiniang who was ahead of Liulang in the end: "Jiuwenqian!"

"That's right, it's nine coins." Luo touched Qiniang's head with his hand, and asked again: "Then they said, "Oh, your cement is so good, I still need to buy a load of cement, so you need a total of [-] yuan?" How much do you charge?"

"..." The two younger ones were silent, such a large number, ten fingers is not enough to count.

"Do you know how much a load of cement costs?" Luo Yong asked with a smile.

"Liu Wenqian." This time, Liu Lang was ahead.

"How much did you pay for those two things just now?" Luo Yong asked again.

"Nine coins." Qiniang said loudly.

"Six Wen plus nine Wen, how much is that?" Luo Yong continued to ask.

"Woo..." Qiniang counted her fingers, but she couldn't count them out, she rolled on the kang head and played foolishly.

"!" Liu Lang was relatively more patient, frowning, counted his fingers and toes, and finally counted out, but he seemed to have no confidence, tilted his head and whispered to Luo Yong: "Fifteen cents?"

"That's right! It's fifteen cents! Hmm!" Luo Yong stretched out his hand and dragged him into his arms, kissed him big on the top of the head, which made the boy giggle, wrapping his small arms around Luo Yong's neck , soft and tender, with a touch of excitement on his face, he just answered the question posed by brother correctly.

At first Qiniang just lay on the side and watched enviously, and then she also cheekily got into Luo Yong's arms and acted like a baby. Although she didn't answer the question correctly, brother is still her brother .

On the other side, Siniang and Wulang are sculpting soap molds under the oil lamp. Their goal is to carve the content of "The Essentials of Enlightenment" that Wulang recently learned from school into soap molds word by word, and finally make a complete set Soap mold engraved with the full text of "The Essentials of Enlightenment".

This is not an easy job. The two of them are good at still young, Si Niang is too ugly to write, and Wu Lang is not good at carving. With the cooperation of the two, the soap mold they made is barely usable.

But Luo Yong also said that when they actually finish this set of soap molds, their skills will definitely improve a lot. In the future, they will make the second and third sets, and they will definitely be much better than now. Only with practice will there be improvement. .

Luo Yong always encourages his children to make something. If they want to make soap molds, Luo Yong provides wood for them and asks someone to saw them to a suitable size for soap molds.

At first, Erniang would dislike the two people for throwing sawdust everywhere. Seeing that they cut their hands, she felt very distressed. Later, she gradually got used to it, and found some fun in it, and suggested Siniang and the others carved some patterns on the soap mold.

Recently, because Peng Er doesn't have to feed the pigs anymore, Er Niang and the others can often have some free time. They sometimes take a piece or two of Si Niang's scrapped wood to carve for fun, but compared to Erniang is obviously more interested in patterns when it comes to text.

Peng Er's aesthetics are relatively avant-garde. Once she said that she wanted to carve some patterns of swords, guns, swords and halberds on the soap mold, which shocked Er Niang. What's so good about those things?In the end, he and Siniang found a little common language.

After a busy day, the time spent with these children at home always seems extraordinarily comfortable.

However, this kind of comfort does not happen every day. Like a few days ago, when digging pits, burning cement and picking leaves, Luo Yong was so busy all day long that his feet didn't touch the ground. Sleeping, and before dawn the next day, I went to the cement workshop again.

Now these works have finally come to an end, cement production is on track, the fermentation tank has been repaired, and the leaves of Eucommia trees on the mountain have also been hired to pick.

Right now, he can relax a little in the past few days. After a few more days, he will almost start thinking about the processing of Eucommia gum. This busy work will probably last until the beginning of winter this year.

Luo Yong slept very soundly that night, and when he got up, the sun had already climbed high.

It was already September at this time, and the weather was getting colder and colder every day. The villagers had already started this year's autumn harvest work one after another. The crops that Luo used were basically handed over to his disciples for management. I don't care much about myself.

After breakfast, Luo Yong drove the donkey cart to the city. He planned to ask Hengzhi to help him build a pedal threshing machine. Using that threshing machine for threshing work can greatly improve labor efficiency.

Luo Yong had thought about this earlier, but he forgot about it when he got busy. At this time, he went to Hengzhi to do it. He didn't know if it would be too late, and he didn't know if he could do it smoothly.

As a result, his donkey cart had just reached the sheepfold when it ran into Tang Jian and others who were riding towards him.

Luo Yong had no choice but to go back together with those people, and ordered some food and wine in Xu's guest house to entertain the group of people for dinner.

This time around, Tang Jian seemed to be much more enthusiastic than the last time. Luo Yong naturally couldn't put a cold face on him when he became enthusiastic.

That Tang Jian was very interested in Luo Yong's recently made cement, but he also had one thing he couldn't figure out: "Xipo Village is far away from Lishi County, and it will take a whole day to go back and forth. If Sanlang Wouldn't it be convenient to build this cement workshop next to the county town?"

"Your words are wrong." Luo Yong smiled and cupped his hands at Tang Jian, and said, "If I build this cement workshop next to the county town, where will those porters go to earn money?"

Tang Jian thought for a while, and there was indeed some truth in these words, but he always felt that something was wrong, so he said: "There is no reason to seek far away."

"Some people spend money and some people make money. Only then can people's livelihood economy and the market flourish. It doesn't matter if it is far away." Luo Sanlang still smiled.

Tang Jian nodded, this time he understood clearly, this kid made it clear that he wanted to cheat those rich people into spending money wrongly, no wonder he always felt a little uncomfortable, the reason was that Tang Jian himself belonged to a group that might be cheated.

Luo Sanlang: How can this be called cheating? This is clearly increasing jobs.