North and South groceries

Compared with Liangzhou City, the citizens of Chang'an City are obviously much richer. At least in Guangdefang, where Aunt Luo and the others' shop is located, the common people are relatively wealthy.

There are two East and West markets in Chang'an City. Most of the goods sold in the East market are relatively high-end, and the prices are not very affordable, so relatively speaking, it is not as lively as the West market.

The second city of this thing doesn’t open every morning, it only does half-day business in the afternoon, so Aunt Luo’s food shop also has the best business in the afternoon, and the fastest selling of their family is the stewed skewers. A penny for a skewer, delicious and plentiful, some idlers walked through several squares and walked for half a day, just to eat one or two stewed skewers from my sister's restaurant.

"I heard that in your place, you can use offal to exchange marinated skewers?" This time in the morning, Aunt Luo was making syrup and drink, and a girl of twelve or thirteen years old came in front of the shop.

"It's a change, but you took the water to change it?" Aunt Luo patted Zheng's eldest daughter and asked her to help watch the fire, while she walked to the window sill and talked to the little girl.

"How much do you think I can exchange for these?" When the little girl heard this, she happily picked up a small wooden tube in her hand and was about to put it on the counter.

"This way, this way." This counter is for business, if it is stained with sewage, it will not be good if it leaves a smell, Aunt Luo hurriedly greeted people to a small door next to it.

"Hey." The little girl walked over carrying the wooden bucket.

Erniang opened the small door next to her, squatted at the door, and checked the things in the other party's bucket. It should be in the belly of a goose. Her heart, liver and kidneys have been removed, leaving only large intestines and small intestines. , but fortunately there are three goose heads, probably because people in their family don't like to eat this, and they think it's too troublesome to clean up, so they just chopped it up.

"It can be exchanged for four stewed skewers." The aunt said.The main reason is that the three goose heads are not bad. The goose heads are delicious when marinated, and some customers like to eat them.

"Really!" The little girl was overjoyed.

"Of course." Aunt Luo smiled and said, "Which family do you belong to? If you exchange these things, will the adults in the family know?"

"You know, my husband even asked me to change a skewer to share with him." The little girl said with a smile.

Aunt Luo brought a wooden basin, poured the half bucket of goose offal into the basin, then scooped up a scoop of water to help her rinse the wooden bucket, and finally went to the counter, picked four stewed skewers, and used a A piece of oiled paper wraps a bag slightly, and hands it to the little lady.

The little girl hung the wooden barrel on her arm, held the stewed skewers in both hands, and went back home. She just heard her talk about her husband, so she probably was someone's maid.

"Look, lady, is this drink ready?" Zheng's eldest daughter raised her voice and asked Aunt Luo.

Aunt Luo walked over to have a look at the wooden basin with her arms in her arms, and said, "It's almost done, warm it up with a low fire, remember to stir more, don't get the bottom of it sticky."

"En." The eldest daughter of the Zheng family responded, and squatted down to remove the firewood burning under the stove, leaving only a little charcoal in the hearth to continue warming. She was still guarding in front of the pottery pot. , It's still hot in the stove, if you're not careful, it's still easy to stick to the bottom, once the bottom is stuck, the pot of syrup will not be sold for money.

There are beans, red dates, and a lot of white rice in this drink. These things are soaked in water and ground into a slurry, then the dregs are filtered, and cooked in a clay pot. A bowl can be sold for a penny. This pottery kettle contains dozens of coins.

On the aunt's side, she took the pot of goose offal and went to the backyard.

The side along the street in front of Ma's guest house is the hall, and behind the hall is the middle courtyard, where there is a row of two-story guest rooms, and there is a place for parking horses in the yard, as well as a barn. There is a side door, the owner enters the store directly from the hall, and the groom, under the guidance of the waiter, drives the cart around the outside of the guest house and enters through the side door.

But if you stay for a short time, you can also park the car in the alley next to it and wait there.

Behind this middle courtyard, there is a backyard where the well and the large kitchen are located, and there is another row of houses. Auntie and the others lived in the backyard of this Ma's guest house recently.

Although Luo Yong bought a yard in Chang'an City before, that yard has been lent to Qiao Junlin and the others, and it is not in Guangdefang. The auntie and the others also do business at night. The door of their Guangdefang was locked, and it was okay to walk around in the workshop, but it was impossible to get out of the workshop.

"That person is Aunt Luo, right?"

"I heard that the Luo family is not short of money, why do they have to deal with such filth all day long?"

"How can you not be short of money? You don't know how much foreign debt Luo Sanlang owes."

"Why is this..."

When Mrs. Luo walked through the middle courtyard with a pot of goose intestines in her arms, there were several guests standing by the window in the guest room on the second floor talking.

These people didn't stay here, but because the rooms in Ma's guest house were very comfortable, a group of them met here to have tea and chat. Just such a room cost a lot of money for an afternoon.

Aunt Luo has good ears. She heard what those people said upstairs, but she didn't look up. Instead, she walked through the downstairs corridor with the handful of things and went directly to the backyard.

Those gentlemen call the things in her hands filth, as if people will lose their price as soon as they touch them, but they don't know how many people in this world can't even afford filth.

By a ditch in the backyard, two women were sitting on the ponytail at this moment, cleaning the sewer debris that Erniang and the others had collected.

These two women were introduced by Aunt Luo from a Yalang from Guangdefang a few days ago. Auntie and the others did not know many people when they first arrived. If the Ma family helped introduce them, there would be a few more In terms of human affection, such a person is somewhat restrained in using it, so it is better to spend some copper coins and ask Yalang to introduce it. If it is not used well, return it and ask him to exchange it.

"I collected some more just now, you guys should wash them together." The aunt put the pot of goose offal on the ground.

"Young lady, just leave it alone." A woman replied.

"Go ahead and scoop up the hot water on the big stove, don't be so cautious."

The aunt saw that the hot water on the big stove over there was burning white smoke, but the two women here seemed to be using cold water, so she went to help them bring a bucket of hot water.In the cold winter months, if you don't use it with some hot water, your hands will crack in just a few days.

In order to burn those walls of fire in Ma’s guest house, a lot of firewood is consumed every day. The stove over there is also connected to a wall of fire in the guest room, and it burns all day long, so the hot water is easy to use. Don't feel too distressed, just add some cold water in time after use.

It's just that these two women are too reserved. They have been here for several days. Mrs. Luo has told them several times, but they still don't go to fetch hot water.

According to Xie Yalang, these two women are neighbors, and the people in their area are poor. I don't know if it is a habit formed by working elsewhere or something. Not bad.

"After washing these things, let's go to the front for dinner." The aunt took a look at the sundries they had washed, and saw that they did their work meticulously, and she felt a little satisfied in her heart.

"Hey." The two women responded with a bit of a smile on their faces. They came to this sister's restaurant to work. Although the wages may not be much higher than other places, the food is really good.

The aunt saw that the two of them were happy when they talked about eating, and she also thought it was a bit funny, and told them not to save hot water, throw away those sundries, and don't call them when the time comes. The guest tasted something strange, and then went back to work.

After a while, after the two of them finished the work at hand, and saw that it was almost time, they went to eat in front.

As soon as they entered Ajie's restaurant, they saw the young man from Lishi spreading out pancakes. Thinking that Ajie's restaurant didn't sell pancakes, the two women knew that their lunch today was pancakes.

I saw that a large spoonful of batter was poured on the large pottery disc, and then swept with the back of a knife, a pancake was spread out, and then an egg was beaten on it, spread on the pancake, and then spread Some miso, sprinkle some chopped green onion, put a few leaves of green vegetables, roll up and fold at the end, and wrap it with oiled paper. One woman stretched out her hand to pick it up, while the other woman continued to wait.

The boy who made the pancakes seemed to know that they wanted a bigger pancake. The batter was well beaten and the sauce was brushed neatly. He spread out a big pancake, rolled it up and folded it, wrapped it in oiled paper, and it was heavy. a chunk.

The auntie and the others were making dumplings again, and they didn't know if they had already eaten them. When they saw the two women coming to eat, they asked Zheng's eldest daughter to make them a bowl of hot bean curd with marinade. Teng Teng, the taste is very good.

The two women held the tofu curds in their hands and finished eating one bite at a time. Putting their respective pancakes in their bosoms, they went back to work in the backyard.

After a while, heavy snow fell in the sky again. Upstairs over there, several gentlemen opened the windows to enjoy the snow and chanted poems. They chanted Ruixue. A group of gentlemen were chatting and laughing upstairs, which was very lively .

When the two women downstairs heard about it, they also smiled, holding the big bag of pancakes warm in their arms. No matter how heavy the snow fell outside, no matter how cold the water in the basin was, they didn't feel cold. .