Living in a metropolis like Chang'an City, basically as long as you have money, you can eat anything from all over the world.

Border areas like Changle County are not good. This spring, Azhi and the others were a little uncomfortable when they first arrived here.

Not to mention anything else, the ordinary people here don’t even have an oil paper umbrella, because the local area does not produce tung oil or bamboo.

Some big families may have one or two oil-paper umbrellas. They are also goods coming from the Central Plains. They are very expensive and are rare to take them out for use. When they are not in use, they will carefully collect the servants and servants at home, for fear of being broken.

Azhi has been used to seeing all kinds of oil paper umbrellas in Chang'an City over the years. On rainy days, or when the sun is fierce in summer, you can see many oil paper umbrellas on the street, folded straight handles, various colors and patterns. Not to mention anything else, just looking at these umbrellas, it exudes a rich and beautiful atmosphere.

Since I came to Changle County, not to mention oil-paper umbrellas, even rainwater is a rare thing.

This is nothing. At most, it is to wear a straw hat to go out on rainy days. The water source is more precious and needs to be used in daily life.

What Azhi misses the most now is the various dessert foods in Chang'an City, the cherry cheese in spring, the smoothies and melons in summer, the various fruits in autumn, the canned food in winter, the cakes from Mifangzhai, the desserts from north and south, the stalls and food shops selling various foods in the streets and alleys, and the various snacks in the Ajie Food Shop...

Azhi often sat outside with some women in Changle County basking in the sun and doing needlework. While working, she told them about the various foods in Chang'an City, which made these women and the onlookers swallow their saliva.

"Then, is there nothing in our Changle County that you don't have in Chang'an City?" On that day, a woman felt a little unhappy as she listened.

"Of course there are some," Azhi smiled and said, "There are white buns in Changle County. With more white buns, the price of white buns is also low. If the people in this county can have a job, there is no one who cannot afford white buns. This is rare in the Central Plains."

The Central Plains are rich in linen and silk. Planting hemp and mulberry fields must be a good field with abundant water and soil. Many families use their best Yongye fields to plant mulberry trees in order to raise silkworms. Therefore, people at this time often call Yongye fields mulberry fields, the so-called sea turns into mulberry fields, which is the mulberry fields.

To get silk, you have to start with planting mulberry trees. To get linen, you have to start with planting hemp and rubbing hemp. Both of these are not easy to obtain. This makes fabrics in this era generally more expensive. After paying taxes, it is difficult for many people to make some cloth for their families to make clothes.

But the white stacks are different. They are planted directly from the ground. After picking the tidbits, they can be used to spin the thread by rolling them with a cotton gin. Many dry saline-alkali lands in Longxi can be planted, and there are a lot of harvests every autumn.

This has caused the local cloth prices to fall steadily. In the past, the price of cloth here was much higher than that of the Central Plains. Now, the price of ordinary white cloth here is only about two-thirds of the price of ordinary linen cloth in the Central Plains. In another year or two, the price will probably be even lower.

"We have melons here." A child next to her added.

"There are grapes!" Another child also said. Because Azhi is kind and often eats some food with these children, these children have a good impression of Azhi.

"Yes, there are raisins." Azhi smiled and put down the needle and thread in his hand, took out a bag of cloth the size of a palm from his arms, grabbed some raisins from it, and separated them with the children on the scene, and then divided them with the women. Everyone was eating raisins and talking about gossips, and soon forgot about the one they had just now.

In fact, it was not that Azhi had to tell these women all day long about what Chang'an City was like. She didn't think she was a Chang'an person, nor did she look down on Chang'le people. The women had asked her first to ask her to know what Chang'an City looked like and asked Azhi to tell them.

But as I was talking, I said a little too much without realizing it, which made some people feel unhappy. It would be fine if I could say less in the future.

Azhi was sold to the Qiao family as a maid since childhood. After Qiao Junlin's mother passed away, it was not easy for them to make a living under the new hostess. Later, she went to Chang'an City, first lived in Hou Lin's yard, later lived with the Luo family brother and sister, and later went to Bai Mansion.

Her life experience is much richer than that of ordinary people. She has seen all kinds of people and is more flexible in dealing with some situations than ordinary women.

In this situation like today, someone was just yelled at for nothing. If someone else was replaced, they might get angry and the two would start a quarrel on the spot. But for Azhi, this is nothing at all and it is not worth being angry.

It’s also true that life is really a bit comfortable. She and Hengzhi are the only ones at home. He gives her the money to care for. Although she is not a greedy person, she feels safe with the money. After living this comfortable life for a lot, she unknowingly begins to feel heartless.

In fact, there are indeed many places in Changle County that are not as good as other places. Just the biogas lamps worth three cents a month, even Chang'an people will be envious of them if they say it.

Earlier, because the temperature in winter was low, those biogas tanks did not produce much biogas. Luo Yong asked Hengzhi and others to build a boiler, and then asked people to go to the biogas tank to arrange pipelines. At that time, burn carbohydrates in the boiler and transmit the hot gas around each biogas tank through the pipeline, thereby increasing the temperature in the biogas tank and promoting the production of biogas. More than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, and I don’t know how it is progressing.

It was not too early to see at this time, so Azhi said she was going back to cook with Hengzhi.

The woman kept her sitting for a while, but she couldn't say that she not only had to cook, but also boiled hot water early. Every time Hengzhi came back from the machine shop, she was covered in black, dust and oily. As she said that, she went back to her yard.

"What did you do just now?"

"Speak well and get angry."

"Azhi didn't say anything bad either."

"..." After Azhi left, several women complained and persuaded him in a low voice.

"I just said that." The woman who spoke was a bit guilty and weak.

Azhi treats them well on weekdays and has some food on her body, so she often gives it to them and their children. Although everyone doesn’t eat Azhi’s, and sometimes they will bring some of them, they still eat more of Azhi’s.

Besides, Azhi is Hengzhi's wife after all, and Hengzhi is Luo Yong's disciple. At present, it seems that she is the most powerful one. It is good that she has not put on airs with them on weekdays. How could they have the reason to find people for nothing?

Several women muttered in a low voice, and then talked about the boiler.

I heard that after these days, the newly opened biogas tanks have been consumed a lot. If this continues, they should not have biogas available in the city. They have long been used to the bright biogas lamps, so they can't stand the dark night.

"I can't say that I'll need to light the oil lamp for a few days."

"Oh... Is it because I want to buy that oil lampshade, which costs a few cents per lampshade."

"Let's take a look."

"The oil lamp is also costing oil. After lit one night, you can burn a piece of mutton fat soap."

"That's right, so much mutton oil is enough to change to a piece of mutton fat soap when you put it in the shop."

"If you really can't bear to give up, you'll go to bed earlier."

“…”

Speaking of mutton fat soap, their mutton fat soap here in Changle County is also cheap, and the main thing is not rare.

Especially at this time of winter every year, as long as people who are more diligent, they can pick up some sheep's belly outside the canned workshop and go back to refine some sheep's oil. Although large pieces of sheep's oil must have been picked up by the people in the canned workshop in advance.

Most people in the city took mutton oil to the shop to exchange for mutton fat soap, and there were shops that specialize in making this business.

The shopman used a measuring instrument to measure the amount of mutton oil brought by the customer, and then used a knife to cut a small piece of mutton fat soap from the counter as exchange. Sometimes the cut size is not appropriate, so a little bit of it has to be removed, or another extra head is added.

Speaking of which, the mutton fat soap in their place has been cheaper every year in recent years. Nowadays, basically every household can afford it. Using this mutton fat soap to wash hands and faces and clothes is always much more convenient than in the past.

Look at the dolls running around the city now, they are much cleaner than when they were young.

Just as I was talking about the doll, there were a few children arguing.

Just now, Azhi distributed some raisins to the children. One of them ate slowly and had not finished eating it yet. As a result, they were surrounded by children from the herdsmen outside the city. Although the children of the herdsmen were young, they were as fierce as those little wild wolves. The children in the city were really not good to bet under their hands.

"Hey! What are you doing?" A woman who was doing needlework here roared when she saw her child being bullied. The voice was full of energy, like thunder, which made the wolf cubs feel a little timid.

"What do you think! I won't let go, let me see if I won't beat you to death!" Before they could react, the woman put down her work and rushed over. Her very fierce look scared the little boys to run away one by one.

"I dare to rob it next time! I won't discount your legs! An uneducated little..." The woman walked over cursingly, pulled her child up from the ground, and patted the dust on his pants.

Seeing that his son was so cowardly, he was so angry that he wanted to scold him a few times, but after thinking about it, he went back: "Okay, let's have fun."

Originally, she ignored her, and even scolded her fiercely when her temper came up.

Some time ago, one day she also cursed like that, but Azhi persuaded her a few words, saying that she cursed like this all day long, and even scolded her for being a child, and she would be bullied when she went out.

She felt that Azhi was right, and later she gradually endured her temper when facing these children.

The women here just smiled and looked at the children in and out of the city and were playing and making fun all day long, and they didn't care much.

I heard that the county magistrate has arranged a officials to go to the herdsmen's gathering area outside the city in the past few days, and specifically telling people the law there. It is nothing more than how long it takes for the robbers, how long it takes for the robbers, how long it takes for the slaughter, how long it takes for the slaughter, how long it takes for the slaughter to fight and hurt people, and so on.

There are really some herders sitting there all day without any trouble, and some city people come to listen to them, all of whom are trying to join the team of employees, otherwise anyone would have the patience to listen to that.

There are also many children listening there. After all, boys of all sizes, all of them are eager to work as servants in Changle County when they grow up.

At that time, if you have food and clothing, you will have high wages and marry a young lady in a cashmere workshop as your wife. He can earn 300 cents a month, and his wife will earn 100 cents a month. The two of them will earn 400 cents a month. In addition to the New Year’s Day benefits, it will be the life of a rich family.

This is the most popular bragging content for little boys in Changle County now. After they become servants, what will happen?
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