"That's because they are orphans, and they have to work for the general after they finish their studies, and our children are not orphans."

"I thought they were orphans, and I wanted to throw the children at the door of the school and pretend to be orphans, so that they could study and learn their skills." One said: "That's the school opened by the general himself, and in the future, they will be able to serve the general if they learn well, no better than us digging in the soil and wandering around?" ”

Following Zhao Hanzhang, even if there is another war, the chance of survival is better than following them.

So as soon as the regulations came out, he was also the one who immediately sent the children to the school.

But more people are not allowed to go to school in order to let their children work for the family.

Three-year-old children who can't even speak a word abound, but they can pull into the field to pull weeds, and at the age of five, they can go to the ground to plant seedlings, sow wheat seeds, vegetable seeds and catch insects......

If it's bigger, you can take a hoe.

Farm work is menial but requires a lot of manpower.

They were given land, and they had to pay taxes every year, and they couldn't do it without hard work.

Six out of ten households in Luoyang City are orphans, widows, and elderly people with children, and there are no young people, which means they need to spend more time in the fields.

Zhao Hanzhang also knows this, she also has a headache, and there is no better way at present.

When it comes to manpower, she can't get them a machine to share the labor.

Zhao Hanzhang sighed again and again, and when he came out of the water mill and walked back, he slowed down his horse and walked towards the capital leisurely.

At this time, the sun had set, and a large fire began to be lit at the city gate, and everyone continued to line up to check into the city.

Because they were divided into six groups, the speed was very fast, but they brought too many goods, and there were many that needed to be counted and calculated, so there were still many people and convoys blocked outside.

Knowing that the city gate would not be closed tonight, the people of the organic spirit made cakes and steamed buns at home, and asked the soldiers guarding the gate, and after knowing that they could still come in when they went out, they immediately went out with their things and sold them down the line.

Now all those who are left are stewards and guards, and their owners have already gone into the city.

But the guards in charge also had a desire to eat and drink, and were naturally willing to nibble on dry food when they didn't, and now the merchant picked up a corner of cloth, and the heat in the bamboo basket rushed out, and rose in the afterglow of dusk, and then the fragrance dispersed with the smoke, and scrambled to drill into their noses.

The guys' stomachs couldn't help but rumble, and the steward, who was filling in the information for entering the city at the last bit of light, couldn't help but look at it.

He glanced at the team in front of him, and estimated that there was still half an hour before they arrived, so he took a roll of materials, put them away, walked over with his hands behind his back, and asked, "How do you sell this bun?" ”

The merchant bent over and said, "There are two of these unstuffed three pennies, and one of the two pennies that are trapped." ”

"What filling?"

"Mustard pork stuffing and cabbage pork stuffing."

When the steward heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there a lot of meat?" ”

The merchant smiled and said: "It's not much, but it's full of oil and water, the meat of our buns is all fat, and it's a little thin. ”

When the steward heard this, he immediately said, "Bring us twenty-eight buns without filling, and thirty more with filling." ”

Twenty-eight of them remained here, including him.

The steward turned his head and said to the guards: "Separate, two buns per person, take it and quickly return to your place to guard, take care of the things, and wait for the owner to make a move, and have our own good days." ”

The guards happily responded and lined up in groups.

The merchant happily opened the curtain and brought them the buns, of course, there was nothing to load, one person stuffed a bun with no stuffing, one stuffed with stuffing, and finally left one without stuffing and three stuffed, and the steward took it himself.

The merchant wrapped him in a leaf, and quietly put an extra meat bun in it.

The steward was very satisfied with this, counted two pennies to him, and then gave him another string of money, and said with a smile: "You can see if you can count?" ”

The merchant smiled, where could he figure it out? So he turned his head and shouted into the distance, and in a few moments, a half-grown teenager ran over.

The merchant said: "Xiaoliu, this steward asked for twenty-eight vegetarian buns and thirty stuffed buns." ”

The young man said before his words fell: "One hundred and two texts." ”

The merchant showed him the money.

The young man's fingers quickly grabbed the copper coin and slid it over, and after a while, he handed it back to the merchant, "Count." ”

The merchant was happy, and said to the steward again and again: "Enough, enough, thank you for your patronage." ”

The steward nodded, looked at the young man curiously, and asked, "Is this your son?" ”

"Huh? No, no," the merchant hurriedly smiled and shook his hand: "This is the neighbor's child, he is very good at reading, especially at arithmetic." ”

Not far away, someone called out again, "Xiao Liu", and the young man immediately turned around and ran after saluting the steward and the merchant, and settled the account for the other person.

The steward couldn't help but sigh, "This is really amazing, in the past, who would have imagined that a scholar would run to settle accounts for a merchant?" ”

The steward of the convoy next door came over with a cake, "Once upon a time? Have you ever seen the gates of the capital open all night for us and other business travelers? ”

After drawing his hand in a circle, he said: "Look, there are only me and other sluts left outside the city, what if the city gate is closed?" But the general actually opened the city gate all night so that we could enter the city, and asked the officials of the county government and the students of Taixue to check for us all night. ”

"This has happened before, but it is a sin if a thought flashes through it." Therefore, under the general, no matter what happens, he does not doubt it.

The departing merchant soon returned with his burden, and his steps were so fast that he had finished selling his things, and smiled at the steward as he passed them, and trotted into the city.

Ordinary people like them can enter and exit the city gate very quickly, and there is no need for special inspection, just let the soldiers guarding the gate glance at the empty bamboo baskets when they enter.

As soon as the merchant entered the city, he became even faster, almost all the way home.

His mother, daughter-in-law, and two widowed sisters-in-law were leading a group of children to make steamed buns, and his mother covered the kneaded dough with a cloth towel and placed it on the stove.

The temperature here is high, and the sobering speed is faster, about two quarters of an hour.

Seeing him come back with a bamboo basket, he was stunned, "Didn't sell it?" ”

The old lady sighed in her heart, it was over, and they kneaded a lot of dough.

The merchant grinned and said: "It's all sold, A-Niang, there are still a lot of people outside to buy it, is there a pot out of the pot, I'll pick another load to go out." ”

The people in the kitchen were all in good spirits, and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, there are just two pots, I'll put them on for you." ”

The merchant took out the money he earned tonight and gave it to his mother, "You take it, so that I don't let it fall off, many people go out to sell it with food, I estimate that it can be sold for two more trips, and you can make four more pots." ”

When the old lady heard this, she became sad, "There is not so much wheat flour at home." ”

These buns are made by mixing wheat flour with soybean flour, and there is still a lot of soybean flour, but there is not much wheat flour.

Who would grind that much wheat flour at home?

The merchant thought for a while and said, "You can do as much as you can, I'll pick and sell it first." ”

"Be careful on the road."

"Don't worry, the soldiers guarding the gate tonight are very talkative, and there are Zhao Jiajun patrolling outside, no one dares to bully us."

If it were other soldiers, they would be really afraid, not only afraid of the bandits on the road grabbing the buns, but also afraid of those soldiers robbing, but the Zhao family army would not.

The old lady also put her mind at ease and asked the fifth daughter-in-law to send the fifth daughter-in-law.

See you tomorrow

(End of chapter)