Therefore, it is conceivable that the sales of straw paper are very large, the scale of the paper factory in Shidu at that time is quite large, the sales of straw paper go everywhere, along the river to the downstream pull, along the road with horses to help camels, there are also like the cattle and they are picked by a team of porters with their shoulders, transported to various places around the area, exported to Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

The price of this kind of straw paper is cheap, and the centricard can't collect much centigold, and because the paper mill has a large sales volume, it relies on small profits and quick turnover, and the business is bigger, so it has to be done everywhere, and no little ghost can be let go.

Therefore, the paper mill has a good relationship with the centika along the road, similar to paying the current annual fee, so the centika sees the straw paper, all the way to release, without looking at it, no need to check.

Shidu's paper is very famous in the local area, so that there is a sentence that slips away: "Shidu paper, Wudu umbrella, Shanxi girl don't need to pick", I heard Lao Li Tou say that his home is in Shanxi, and Da Lang took a beautiful daughter-in-law, which is also Shanxi's.

In the past, there was a paper merchant named Wang Jixian, who developed here, and wanted to build a big house, so he used "comparison technology" to recruit carpenters: each carpenter made a wooden box, put a piece of paper in the box, and after the wooden box was immersed in water for a period of time, open the box, and if the paper in the box did not have any water stains, the carpenter could stay and work.

The carpenter who stayed behind built a big house for this boss Wang, with 108 rooms, 36 patios, 4 fish ponds, and 2 wells; The water of the fish pond is not drought, waterlogged, rotten or smelly, and communicates with the outside, mainly for fire prevention water.

The great thing is that the whole house is built with a wooden wedge tenon to hold the whole house, without an iron nail and other methods to connect, if you want to completely disassemble the house, you must start from the last wooden wedge tenon, and then retreat, otherwise, only if it is destroyed, it can be demolished.

This is now the famous "Ten Big House", three dogs when they were young to pick wheat straw when they passed by, but did not go in, this time they made an appointment with Xiucai, together to go in and visit, it is indeed very big, the house is connected to the house, it takes a long time to finish, of course, there are people living in the house, you can't go too inside.

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It's almost "July and a half" (Midyear Festival, Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), Sangou has been picking for almost a month, the skin has tanned a lot, the body is much stronger, the waist board is much straighter, and the person is also a lot more energetic.

used to look like a relatively thin scholar, but now he is a vigorous young man, with a medium-high stature and not outstanding appearance, although he is not very conspicuous in the crowd, but he will not lose a lot of the previous scholar's weak spirit.

Yes, it's almost July and a half, time flies so fast, I really want to go home and spend July and a half with my family, I used to be at home, every year on this festival, my mother would make a lot of fried pasta.

The most is a thing called "door bolt", after kneading the dough (the dough is mixed with sugar, or salt), cut a lot of thin dough pieces that are two fingers wide and middle finger long, and then use scissors to cut two openings in the middle, stretch one end of the dough into the mouth and wrap it out, and then put it into the oil pan to fry, crispy and yellow, pick it up, and let it cool before eating.

When Sangou was a child, he often didn't wait for it to cool, so he couldn't wait to catch it and eat it, his mouth was so hot that his mouth hurt, and his mouth was full of oil; On weekdays, some people take this out as a refreshment to entertain guests, although it is also delicious, but it is not as fragrant as the pot that has just come out of the pot, and it is fragrant and rich.

In addition to the "door bolt", the mother can also cut a four-finger long and wide dough sheet with scissors into a similar window flower, the window flower is flat, but the cut out of the noodle strips can be pulled out, and then pinched together, into a three-dimensional flower, and then put into the oil pan to fry, out is a brown and fragrant fried noodle flower, not only beautiful, but also delicious.

What's even more delicious is the oil fruit, the dough is wrapped with sugar filling, fried out, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant and sweet, but this is too stomach-occupying, and you will be full after eating a few.

All these fried should be put in a large bowl, accompanied by other dishes, fruits or snacks, placed on the table in the middle of the hall, lit incense, and invite ancestors to taste, especially the ancestors who died in a foreign land, and today they are invited to eat, which can be regarded as a custom of worshipping ancestors.

This is not yet half of July, on the street of Shidu, someone put out these fried foods to sell, Sangou bought some, wrapped up and took it back to the inn for everyone to taste, everyone said it, the customs of this festival seem to be similar, much the same.

While eating snacks, Niu Gu also said that the three dogs said well, and after a few days, did this business, the three dogs did not have to do it first, scraped together enough money to go home, just in time to go home for the "July and a half", because after the seven and a half days is almost six or seven days to September, and the school will start soon, and it can not be delayed any longer.

Xiucai was very envious that Sangou had books to read, Sangou patted him on the shoulder, and said, when you have time to come to Xishan School to find me in the future, I can find some books for you to read, you can learn by yourself, I don't understand it, keep it and ask me to answer it together.

Xiucai smiled, very grateful to Sangou for his kindness, not to mention the future, live a good now, yes, you have to live a good now, everyone is very touched by this sentence, eating snacks, and drying up the wine in the wine glass.

Early the next morning, Niu Gu took everyone to the paper factory, loaded the straw paper and incense paper, and the group set off along the road to Damen Ridge.

As soon as Sangou picked out the burden out of the paper factory, he heard someone shouting at him from behind, turned his head to see, the original Laifu who grew up with the same village, immediately responded to him, and told everyone, saying that he saw an acquaintance in the village, you go first, and I will come later.

Stopped and chatted with Laifu, Laifu is the son of Tulangzhong in the village, after he finished his private school, he did not go to primary school with Sangou, and directly studied Chinese medicine with his father at home, preparing to inherit his father's business.

This time Laifu is to accompany his mother back to his grandmother's house, his grandmother's house is on the street of Shidu, play for a few days, this morning came out to go to the pharmacy to buy some herbs to pick home, this met Sangou.

A few days ago, Laifu heard in the village that Sangou went out to find a job to make money during the summer vacation, and it turned out that Danpu City was a porter, and the two exchanged a few words; After learning that the grandparents, parents, and siblings at home are all very good, Sangou said goodbye to Laifu with peace of mind.

When it was over, Laifu asked Sangou when he would go home, and Sangou replied that he should go home for "July and a half"; After walking a few steps back, he turned his head and wanted to ask Laifu how Mingyue was, but the words didn't come out of his mouth.

It's better not to ask, I'll go home in a few days, or I won't be able to see it; Seeing that Laifu had already gone away, Sangou also turned his head to carry the burden, trotted all the way, and caught up with the big team.

As mentioned earlier, this straw paper family does not charge cents of gold, and when I saw an unfamiliar porter, I just flipped through it to check it to see if there was anything else entrained, and if there was no, I let it go.

However, Niu Gu is different from everyone, dragging at the back, holding some paper cigarettes and stuffing them into the hands of other people's cards, and making a familiar face under the guise of a relationship, in case of accidents.