North and South groceries

In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, under the scorching sun, one or two porters carrying plaster can be seen from time to time on the dirt road from Pingyi County.

Recently, the cement business in Xipo Village is not as good as it used to be, and fewer people are picking gypsum from Pingyi County.

Outside Lishi County, the once bustling cement market has shrunk sharply at this time, because not many big merchants from other places will come to them to buy cement, and there are not many people in this market all day long, so the county This reduced the market to half its original size.

Even so, the market still looks very empty. In the past, a large number of foreign merchants drove ox carts and horse-drawn carts and waited for goods there, but now it has become those porters who transported cement from Xipo Village to wait for their goods to be purchased. .

The car rental company next to the cement market is also empty.

This car rental company was jointly opened by a few young people. These people had a good relationship with Ma Jiu at first, and they didn't have any real business students. They wandered around the city all day long, and their reputation was not very good. He has a better background, and has such a reliable father and brother behind him to support and discipline him.

"Excuse me, is Luo Sanlang in Xipo Village accepting plaster recently?" At noon this day, two men carrying burdens put down their burdens outside the shed of the car rental company, and raised their voices to ask the two men who were taking a nap in the thatched shed. The store said.

"What? Gypsum..." The young man in the thatched shed narrowed his eyes bewilderedly, and it took him a while to realize, "Take it, they keep it all the time."

"Oh, thank you." When the two heard that Xipo Village was still willing to accept plaster, they were very happy at once, and they took up the burden and left.

"Hey, you big sun, why are you going, hide here with us." The shopkeeper in the grass shed yawned and greeted them: "Come in and drink some water, I'll give you a message."

"Really?" These two Pingyi people also often carry gypsum to Xipo Village to sell, and they get acquainted with the people in this car dealership back and forth, knowing that they are not evil people.

"Come in, come in, and put your head outside to do something, you don't mind getting too hot in the sun." The man yawned again as he spoke.

"Do you really believe it?" The two put their respective loads of plaster outside the thatched shed, walked into the thatched shed as they said, and sat down on a dilapidated wooden couch.

"You have come to sell gypsum in the past few days. You don't have to go so far to Xipo Village. Luo Sanlang's disciples have built several cement workshops in the villages around Lishi County. Which one do you think is the closest?" Just go there." The young man who was speaking poured two bowls of water from a rough clay bowl and handed them to them.

"Why are there so many cement workshops?" the two Pingyi people were puzzled.

"It's used to repair ditches, you don't know, and there's that waterwheel, isn't our governor Hao promoting it recently?" the shopkeeper replied.

"I have heard about the canal, but I just learned about the cement workshop."

The two poured down the bowl of clean water, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and then, like the shopkeeper in the car rental shop, asked where there were places where cement was burned. If there was one nearer to Pingyi County, Then they won't have to come here anymore.

The store owner of the car rental company really knew it in detail, and even explained everything clearly to them.

Didn't Luo Sanlang say before that if they want to make money, they must first revitalize the pool of water in Lishi County, they must have a source of water, and they must make those outsiders willing to come to their Lishi County, these young people Everyone thinks this statement is very reasonable, especially after they started their own car rental business, and they understand the benefits of making friends and forming good ties, so even if they are facing two poor porters at this time, The young man's attitude was also very warm and friendly.

After the two Pingyi people left, the store owner who had a warm and friendly face raised his leg and kicked his partner who was sleeping like a dead pig on another wooden couch.

"Hey, don't sleep," he yelled.

"What are you doing?" His partner replied in a bad mood.

"Go to the city and find them all," said the man.

"It's noon, why are you looking for them?" The man on the couch turned over and didn't want to get up at all.

"Let's have a good talk. I don't think this matter can be delayed any longer. Hurry up. We need to find some carpenters to build more wooden carts," the man said.

"Are you stupid? The business is almost out of business, and you still make cars?" The man on the couch finally lifted his spirits at this moment.

"You're stupid." The young man said, "Look at Luo Sanlang and the others, since they can now build cement workshops near our county town, when the irrigation system is extended to those places in Pingyi and Dinghu, will they think so?" Also build a few cement workshops over there?"

"...It should be necessary." What does this have to do with making a car.

"Then tell me, when Luo Sanlang opens the cement workshop to them, a load of cement only costs five cents, and you can exchange it for lime gypsum, and you can also do work to pay for it. Will the people on their side repair roads by then? ?” said the man again.

"...It must be repaired." His friend thought for a while and nodded.Even if it is not repaired in the village, the roads from the county will always be repaired.

"So we have to build a car before it's too late." The guy said and kicked his friend again.

"Hey! What you said makes sense!" His friend finally came to his senses at this time, turned over and sat up from the wooden couch, and said happily.

"You go to the city now, we have to be ahead of others in this matter."

"I'm going right now."

"Call them all over, and none of them will be left behind."

"Hey."

"Whoever makes a fuss, we'll kick him out, and don't even think about joining the group next time."

"Row."

These people are currently driving this car rental company, often dealing with those traffickers, and they also deeply understand that in Shizhou, the terrain is always very changeable.

Like the two Pingyi people who brought plaster to sell just now, when they came from them, there were many places where they could not push the cart at all, and could only carry the load. They were halfway there, and they wanted to get a car for a while, so the business of the car rental company came.

Generally, a wheelbarrow flatbed made of wood does not require a lot of capital.

If you don’t need exquisite workmanship, you don’t need to hire those very powerful craftsmen, as long as ordinary rural craftsmen can do it, and the wages are not high. In addition, their local wood resources in Lishi are rich, and they don’t even need to spend money to Buy it, just find a place where there is no owner and chop it up.

Therefore, the cost of renting a car is actually very low. Although the profit is not high, as long as they spread the stalls large enough and accumulate more, the income must be considerable.

This afternoon, when Luo Yong drove the carriage past the car rental company, he was stopped by several shop owners in the car rental company.

"Sanlang Saburo, are you planning to build a cement workshop in Pingyi Dinghu?" a young man asked Luo Yongdao.

"It should be necessary." Luo said carefully, these guys responded very quickly.

"Come, come and sit in the shed." Those people warmly greeted Luo Yong.

"I have to go back earlier." Luo Yong declined.

"We've already memorized the joke you left us last time. Come and check it out." A few young people led horses, dragged people, and used Luo in their thatched hut in a few moments. went inside.

"So fast?" Luo Yong didn't resist.

"Of course, if you don't believe me, come and check." The man said, carrying a straw basket from the side, and saw that there were many large and small pieces of paper in it, and each piece of paper was filled with words. Black square words.

Luo Yong checked briefly, then took a pen and paper from the table next to him, wrote a word on it, and asked them, "Do you know this word?"

"..." Several store owners scratched their heads, and it took a while before someone finally remembered: "Tong, the Tong of Immortal Tonghua."

"What about this word?" Luo Yong wrote another word on the paper.

"Wu, the combination of these two characters is wutong." After recognizing the word tung, it will be much easier to recognize the word wu.

Afterwards, Luo Yong wrote a few more words, and seeing that although these people were not very skilled, they could basically recognize them, so he took out a piece of hemp paper from his sleeve: "Here is the next plot, you guys But listen up..."

As Luo Yong said, he slowly read the content written on the hemp paper. If at this time Luo Yong had another person who traveled from the 21st century by his side, he would probably hear it. It was clearly a masterpiece written by a certain celebrity who was once popular on the Internet.

Internet novels, even in the 21st century, can attract a large number of fans in front of well-informed modern people, let alone in this barren and boring age.

A few days ago, it was also because of the irrigation system. When Luo Yong passed by this car rental company, he chatted with these young shopkeepers and learned that they really wanted to learn calligraphy, but there was no place to learn, and they are now young. I'm a little older, so it's really hard to calm down and recognize characters one by one.

Not being able to read is really inconvenient, especially for these young people who plan to start their own careers and may have to go outside in the future.

Luo Yong thought about it after returning home that day, and then he found a printed online novel from the pile of books in his space, and copied a short paragraph with a pen and paper. , I brought it over to these few people, read it to them twice in person, and then ignored it, and only asked them to read the characters according to the piece of paper.

To say that the charm of online novels is really huge, those young people are completely addicted after a little contact with them, and even Luo Yong read those two times, it is not enough for them to recognize all the words on that piece of paper, So I often have to go to the city to find someone to ask.

The reputation of these few people is not very good, and their backgrounds are very humble. The few scholars in Lishi County don't like to deal with them very much, so this process is more dependent on their faces.

But no matter what, these guys still persevered. Some of them learned better, and they really recognized some characters, and some of them didn't work hard, just listening to stories with their friends.

Luo Yong also found out, but he didn't want to say more. It wasn't that he was begging to teach these people, but he just wanted to help because he saw that they wanted to learn. he goes.

Today's story still made these young people scratch their heads with interest and excitement.

After Luo Yong left, they sat down and memorized the content of this passage while they still had memories. Some were squatting, some were kneeling, and some were crouching on their tattered wooden couches. It seems that it is very hard work.

"What foundation building are you talking about? Is it really that difficult?"

"That must be difficult."

"Otherwise, wouldn't there be gods everywhere in this world?"

"Isn't it a fairy after the foundation is over? After the foundation, there are still pills and nascent infants... What did Sanlang say?"

"It's early, the kid surnamed Wu is still in the Qi training stage."

"The little girl who was with him was lovely."

"Hey hey hey..."

"Then Miss Liu is also pretty good."

"Aren't they all charged?"

"Hey hey hey..."