He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

It was almost noon when several people came out of the melon field, and they were all a little hungry.

"I'm hungry. What's for lunch?" Lu Sheng said.

"Let's catch a chicken." Zhou Liang said.

Lu Yan nodded, thought about it and decided to make ground pot chicken.

She knew that in most novels, the protagonists would choose to make beggar's chicken when having picnics, but beggar's chicken really took too long, at least two or three hours to simmer, which was too time-consuming.

The place where Zhou Liang raises chickens is not far from the melon field. It is also a large area of ​​land with dozens of chickens running around. Zhou Liang caught a small rooster, which looked like it weighed less than three pounds. Lu Yan took it directly into the kitchen and cleaned it up.

Kill the chicken, remove its feathers, wash it, and chop it into pieces for later use. First make some dough and cover it in a basin to let it rest for a while.

Heat oil in a pan, add garlic, and stir-fry until the garlic turns slightly yellow and wrinkles. Continue to add onion segments, ginger slices, star anise, cinnamon, and dried chili peppers, and stir-fry until fragrant. Put sugar in the pot and boil until it becomes brown syrup, add chicken pieces and stir-fry until browned.

Fry the chicken pieces until the surface changes color and is about three to four times ripe. Add wine and soy sauce, add water to cover the chicken pieces, cover the pot, and simmer over low heat for two-quarters of an hour. When it is simmering for a quarter of an hour, add the cut potato cubes inside.

While the chicken pieces are simmering, take out the dough, knead it, divide it in half, and cut it into small pieces. Prepare a bowl of water, round up the small portion and soak it in the water. Lu Yan stretched the other half into lasagna.

When the chicken pieces are simmering for two-quarters of an hour, open the lid, add salt to taste, and add water to cover the ingredients. Take out the small dough balls soaked in water and tear them into oval-shaped dough pieces. Place them one by one on the edge of the pot. Place all the cakes around the pot, cover the pot, and simmer for another quarter of an hour. Before taking out the pot, Sprinkle with chopped green onions and the ground pot chicken is ready.

In fact, the taste will be richer if you drizzle two spoons of red oil on it, but Lu Yan didn't bring it, so this is not available. It would be troublesome to make it fresh, so we can only do this first. But this is already pretty good. As soon as the pot lid is opened, the whole room is filled with the unique aroma of ground pot chicken, which makes people salivate.

After three-quarters of an hour of stewing, the chicken pieces have been stewed very soft and delicious, and they can fall off the bone with just one bite in your mouth. The potatoes in these stews are always the most popular. The potato cubes are stewed so soft and delicious that they melt in your mouth. The dough cakes stuck around the pot are also very delicious. The lower part of the cake is soft and soaked up the soup, but the upper part is baked and crispy when it sticks to the iron pot. The two textures are subtly blended together.

Ground pot chicken

For someone with a big appetite like Lu Sheng and Zhou Liang, it was impossible to be full with just a few pieces of noodles. He had almost eaten the food in the pot, so he added another pot of noodles with the soup. The noodles I stretched were strong and strong. The white noodles were stained with the brown soup and became very appetizing. Several people finished another pot of noodles before they were truly satisfied.

Zhou Liang rubbed his belly with satisfaction and sighed: "It's been a long time since I've eaten the food cooked by Shopkeeper Lu. If Shopkeeper Lu can come to Zhuangzi to cook, we will be very lucky."

Lu Yan laughed twice: "Just wait, I will come over and cook when guests come."

Zhou Liang sighed: "I really envy Lu Xiandi. He can eat the food cooked by shopkeeper Lu every day without having to pay for it."

Lu Sheng was suddenly called out and was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously looked at Lu Yan, and Lu Yan also looked at him. The two looked at each other, feeling a little awkward for some reason, and looked away.

Ying Niang looked at the two people's eyes and said meaningfully: "I don't know how many more years I can eat. Will I not be able to eat when shopkeeper Lu gets married?"

Zhou Liang didn't know anything, so he still echoed: "That's right! Brother Lu Xian, cherish it more!"

Lu Sheng took a deep look at Lu Yan. Lu Yan felt terrified, afraid that he would be in danger if he spoke again, so she said before he could speak: "I won't marry."

Zhou Liang thought she was joking: "You can't just say everything just to answer the question!"

"I'm not kidding." Lu Yan said: "I have business on hand, and there will be more in the future. What if I marry someone with such a big business, can my husband's family let me come out and continue to run it? I can't give it away."

Zhou Liang and Ying Niang were both speechless. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is really no way to refute.

"You may not give up." Lu Sheng said slowly.

"What did you say?" Lu Yan turned around.

"I say not necessarily." Lu Sheng repeated: "Your husband's family may not allow you to continue to open a stall. Not all families require their daughters-in-law to stay at home." At least not in his family. Boss Lu and Xu It is absolutely impossible to trap Lu Yan.

Lu Yan understood the hidden meaning of Lu Sheng's words, coughed to cover it up, and quickly changed the subject: "The chess and card room has been repaired, right? Let's go and have a look."

After several people had eaten and drank enough, they moved to the chess and card room.

The chess and card room was repaired according to Lu Yan's request. There was a big room in the middle, where various chess and cards could be played. Around the big room were ten small rooms, which were used for playing horses and cranes. Ma Diao is something similar to mahjong in ancient times. Four people per table, three losers and one win, is very popular. But Lu Yan doesn't know how to do it, doesn't want to learn it, and is determined not to play with Ying Niang.

Lu Yan came to play other chess games.

Among these chess, only Gobang did not require her to make the pieces and draw the drawings herself. She could just use Go.

Lu Yan laid out the chessboard on the table, separated the black and white pieces into a box on each side, and then asked Lu Sheng to sit down: "Come, sit down, and play two games with me."

Lu Sheng didn't believe it: "You want to play chess with me?"

Lu Yan sneered: "Backgammon! I remember I played it with you, come on!" (Chapter [-] The two of them played backgammon)

Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes: "I remembered. Okay, come on."

The two of you came and went underground. Lu Yan is a master of backgammon in modern times, and Lu Sheng is very good at Go and backgammon. The two of them played until the entire chessboard was almost full and there was still no winner. Lu Yan made a stop gesture: " If it doesn’t stop, let’s play something else.”

I'm so angry that I can't play backgammon, but I don't believe you can't play checkers and flying chess!

Lu Yan took out another box of checkers. Several people could play checkers together, so she simply asked Ying Niang and Zhou Liang, who had been watching, to join the battle.

The rules of checkers are very simple. If there are four people, they occupy the four corners. Whoever jumps all his pieces to the opposite camp first wins. You can jump directly to the six positions connected by straight lines, or you can jump every other position. If conditions permit, you can continue to move forward.

As soon as they came up, Lu Sheng and Lu Yan occupied the two seats directly opposite, while Zhou Liang and Ying Niang were one space away from each other, which meant that both of them were empty.

Lu Yan took advantage of being familiar with the rules and gameplay, and was unstoppable all the way. Lu Sheng had just started playing and was still in the exploratory stage, so he was lagging behind.

Lu Yan was overjoyed, she felt that she had definitely won. As a result, she found that she was happy too early. Lu Sheng deliberately left a chess piece in his own camp, dead or alive.

He wouldn't come out, and he wouldn't let Lu Yan in. Lu Yan was extremely anxious. Seeing that Ying Niang and Zhou Liang had already ended the battle first, she was still standing here.

Lu Sheng smiled slightly: "I lost, but you can't win either."

Lu Yan is so angry! ! !