Chapter 224: News
After leaving Tunzikou, he didn't go on the same road with Li Yao and his wife, and Ji Moxuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info knew that the two of them were getting married, and it was understandable, but seeing that the two could talk affectionately together because of the relationship between husband and wife, his heart was still sour. It's good to be separated, if several people are on the same road and see them all the time, he feels even more uncomfortable.
Changxingtun is every three days of the month, today is the day of the twenty-third market, the traders of the neighboring towns and villages, all day to this place, making this market very lively. And you can see a lot of herdsmen coming here to barter and trade things with people in the market.
Uncle Ma was eating breakfast at the counter that was almost one person high by the door, and when he saw the couple, he hurriedly went out of the counter to greet him.
"Why doesn't Uncle Ma come out after eating, and he is not in a hurry to see the shop." For Uncle Ma's handling of breakfast, Li Yao was a little blamed. As an employer, she likes her employees to work hard, but she doesn't want her employees to be so sleepless and forgetful.
"I'm used to watching the bustle of eating outside, and being anxious to eat at the back. It's okay, Mrs. Gu. ”
Li Yao was talking to Uncle Ma, and Mama Liu also saw Li Yao through the window, but at this moment she was busy scooping food for the person who bought the rice at the window, so she didn't bother to greet Li Yao. After Li Yao stopped going in and out of the restaurant often, Uncle Ma and his wife went to the restaurant to help.
Huang Erzhu wanted to greet Li Yao, but Li Yao didn't let him.
Seeing this, Li Yao didn't want to disturb Uncle Ma's meal, so she asked him to eat first, and then she asked Fu Jingheng: "Two bowls of sour soup dumplings, okay?" It is stuffed with shepherd's cabbage and mushrooms. Two more steamed buns for you, or shortbread? "The wild vegetables are coming down, and the rice shop is collecting the wild vegetables. Wild vegetable feast, wild vegetable buns and dumplings, etc., these menus are roughly set by Li Yao, so she knows what will be sold in the shop.
"Well, what is Uncle Ma eating? I'll eat the same as Uncle Ma. Fu Jingheng pointed to Uncle Ma's steaming bowl and said. Although he is a native of Nandi, he grew up in Yanjing since he was a child, and he is used to eating pasta in the morning. He looked at the noodles in Uncle Ma's bowl and thought that the marinade in it was delicious, so he mentioned it.
Li Yao only knew that Uncle Ma was eating noodles, but he didn't look carefully, Uncle Ma rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Dumpling noodles, coarse food, let my uncle smile." Your Mama Liu has done a lot today, and everyone in the restaurant has eaten this morning. If my uncle wants to eat, I'll scoop a bowl of it. ”
"Ah, how did I forget this noodle!" Li Yao didn't take Uncle Ma's bowl and tossed it to take a closer look, so she exclaimed this sentence in annoyance and said, "I'll go to the back kitchen and scoop it myself, Uncle Ma, you don't have to go." While talking, she was afraid that Uncle Ma would work for her, so she hurried to the back kitchen.
She went into the back kitchen to scoop food, and the people in line at the window had the same tunzi who knew her, and when they saw her approaching, they greeted her. There are those who call her shopkeeper's little lady, call her boss lady or Fu Xiao's daughter-in-law.
Li Yao can still adapt to the first two titles, but she is a little confused and feels weird about the latter titles. But what she thought in her heart, her face was not obvious, she just smiled and answered the greeting people one by one, and went into the back kitchen.
When scooping noodles, she said in her heart: This is the buckwheat, the herdsmen eat this, the buckwheat dumplings are very famous, she followed her uncle home to visit relatives, and also ate authentic food, how to forget this.
Mama Liu's dumplings are estimated to save trouble, and they are not rolled directly by hand without pressing the bed, so the shape of the noodles is not round.
Although this noodle stew is a lamb minced meat stew, buckwheat noodles and sorghum noodles are not expensive here, so the cost of noodles and meat for a bowl of dumpling noodles will not be expensive there. She felt that eating a bowl of noodles in the morning not only filled her stomach, but also felt that she was very full of energy throughout the day.
When she thinks of soba noodles, she can't help but think of the noodles that are most commonly made for red and white ceremonies in her hometown, and think about whether to plan carefully with Mama Liu and open a window to sell noodles.
But in this case, it is not enough to rely on Mama Liu to make noodles alone, so she has to buy another cook, right? If she buys another cook, she will have to say hello to Chef Lu in the back kitchen.
Although she has Master Lu's deed of sale, as a down-to-earth chef and a craftsman who is becoming more and more skilled, she still has to respect others. In fact, there are also noodle soup cakes in the market, but they are not very special.
"Eat quickly, don't get distracted, no matter how you eat, you can get distracted." Seeing that Li Yao stopped eating two bites of noodles, Fu Jingheng couldn't help frowning unhappily and calling her back to her senses.
"Hmm." I didn't think it before, but now I often come into contact with Fu Jingheng, and then she knows that he is actually like an old pedant who loves to manage people.
It's only been a month since she likes to talk when she eats, and she likes to lie on the bed and read books. But when he said that she listened, except for eating, he was not allowed to speak, and he took care of other problems, and she didn't care about it after that.
Li Yao agreed listlessly, and then took the noodle soup and drank it in one go. Chili, chili, without you, I wouldn't be able to eat deliciously!
Seeing that she only drank soup and didn't eat noodles, Fu Jingheng frowned again, but at this time, the carriage of the day pine came to the door of the restaurant as leisurely as before.
Fu Jingheng looked over because of the movement of the carriage coming.
I don't know if the horses follow the human nature, and the horses that pulled the cart for that day, Li Yao felt that although they were athletic, they didn't look like ordinary horses, but the horses seemed to have the lazy and uninhibited leisurely temperament of that daysong when they walked on foot.
Li Yao pursed her lips and puffed out her cheeks, and said embarrassedly: "I'll say a few words to him, you eat first." Well...... Ah Heng, I really don't want to eat noodles, I suddenly lost my appetite. Her last words were because she was afraid of being spoken, and she involuntarily brought some pleading and coquettishness.
There was no way to beg her to be coquettish, Fu Jingheng first stiffened his face, and then his eyes were helpless. After a pause or two, he said, "...... If you don't want to eat noodles, you won't eat them first, I'll help you eat them, I don't have enough bowls. Yesterday I said that you would see him, so go ahead. ”
While the two were talking, Narisong had already approached the two. When he arrived in front of the two, he also looked Fu Jingheng up and down. Fu Jingheng arched his hand to him calmly.
The three of them exchanged greetings and introduced two sentences, and Li Yao followed that day into the No. 4 private room, and the door was open because of the need to avoid suspicion.
"Thank you for coming when I got married, you really flattered me! Now that you are in this capacity, do I want to see you in the future and give you such a big salute? "Kowtow is not enough, but it stands to reason that she is going to loosen up that day.
"Aren't I still that person, you are casual, I don't pay much attention to it." Nari Song was still leaning back in his chair diagonally, looking boneless, lazy. And Li Yao was standing.
Although she said so that day, Li Yao didn't dare to slack off on him, now that she is a tribal chief, because of her high status, she can't help but feel uncomfortable when she talks and acts in front of others.
She did, and that day Song smiled widely, told her not to be nervous, and then pointed to the chair in front of the door for her to sit down. At this time, Na Risong asked directly: "You have been collecting wool recently, and the movement is not small." What do you do with wool? ”
Knowing that she was buying wool, he first got the news from Gru, and he didn't pay attention to it at first, but then her movements of collecting wool were almost all over the herdsmen tribes in the stone forest, so he took it seriously.
"Make money by buying and selling." Li Yao said simply. She is honest and does her duty, and she is telling the truth.
"Don't you give me less slippery heads, and don't tell the truth to my big brother who is like a brother?" That Risong likes to tease Li Yao very much, one because he does not have the shy little family spirit of a Central Plains woman, and the other because he has some mysteries to be discovered for him, and it is also inexplicably in his eyes. A teenage girl with an age like him is rare.
"Well, now it's only in the early recruitment stage, and it will take some time to find out if it will be successful, in short, you will know in less than three months."
"Like the restaurant, I want to take a stake. You can see whether you can see or bad wool a pound, five to eight dollars to collect, a hundred taels of silver can collect nearly 20,000 catties of wool, this money is not much, even if this deal does not work, I am not afraid of losing money. ”
"What are you staring at me, a small trader, last year I saw so many walnuts and pine nuts on the mountain, and everyone in the tunzi went to pick them up, and they couldn't eat so much after picking them up, why don't you help them sell these dry goods through your pharmacy?"
"Well, you have a point. Anyway, I have a pharmacy with you, so it's also a good idea to collect some dry goods and hoard them for trading...... Your idea of diverting the conversation won't work in front of me. ”
"If you ask me to ask about wool today, then you can wait for me for two or three months, and now I can't tell you clearly for a while, I have to rush to the county seat today, and I will come back to talk to you in detail, okay?"
"Well, our restaurant will be completed in two days, you and I are busy at first, you are busy with the little minister and I am busy with business, so I will hand over the layout of the restaurant to you after the completion of the construction. As for the restaurant menu, I'll wait for you to come back and invite you to dinner, and you'll talk about it after you have tasted our food! ”
"Uh, where am I ......" Why do these people always like to joke about her and Fu Jingheng, Li Yao retorted angrily for half a sentence and then changed her head and said: "You bad profiteer, how much money do you give me to sell coolies for you?" She complained on her lips, and couldn't help complaining in her heart: Tuhao, aren't we friends, it's not easy for me to do housework and watch my children all day long, and now why do you want to squeeze me so much?
"Uh, big brother, am I not good to you? Isn't it the right thing to do to sell coolies! ”
"Then you wait for me to come back from the county seat!"
After answering like this, Li Yao quickly said goodbye, and then ran out of the private room in a puff of smoke, as if something fierce was chasing her behind her. When she got out of the private room, she called Fu Jingheng and left quickly.
As soon as she left, Risong smiled indifferently, and then asked his entourage to quickly order food for him, he said: "I'm really starving, I've been too busy to eat lately." As soon as this girl ran away, she couldn't hear my new news. Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to tell her the news, let's talk about it later. ”
But it turned out that Risong deliberately wanted to tell Li Yao a message today.
The Tunbian immigrants had already had this operation in the time of the first emperor, and it was only in today's hands that it has been implemented in a big way. In the past two years, nearly 300,000 exiled military households have been relocated to this place, and in addition to these exiles, there were originally no less than 300,000 soldiers here. So...... Relying only on the cultivation of land by military households, military rations could not be supplied for a while.
If the imperial court buys the military rations themselves and transports them from far away, there will inevitably be corruption and bribery and the problem of escort costs, so the imperial court intends to enlist the people of this state and neighboring states, and quickly build the official road from the stone forest to the foreign state capital, so as to facilitate the merchants to trade and buy here. Naturally, grain merchants are also indispensable in the business. By giving certain preferential treatment to grain merchants, allowing them to transport grain here and trade directly with the local military camps, the local military food problem can be solved.
That day, Song heard that this idea was proposed by the head of the household department and Gu Ning, the secretary of the Ministry of Works. And that Gu Ning is Fu Jingheng's mother's eldest brother and Fu Jingheng's maternal uncle. Who knows if Gu Ning wanted to come here to meet his nephew when he came up with this idea? But...... Whether Gu Ning can come here or not depends on what he means.
That day, Song was thinking about this, and was about to start eating, when he heard Li Da's voice outside the private room scolding Uncle Ma...... (To be continued.) )