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

The two of them were busy working in the kitchen, and finally put out a table of dishes. Lu Yan sat down at the table and pointed: "Introduce which dishes and who makes them."

Equinox: "I made the stir-fried chicken with celery, sweet and sour meatballs, and this spinach salad. He made this stew, fried shredded potatoes, and stir-fried pork."

Lu Yan ate them one after another and immediately noticed the difference between the two people. Xia Hefeng was more talented in seasoning, but after watching Lu Yan cook for so long in Spring Equinox, she learned almost exactly how Lu Yan used many things. The fried chicken was tender, smooth, and not dry. In comparison, Xia Hefeng's stir-fried pork is slightly dry and hard.

Lu Yan: "Is there starch in the Spring Equinox fried chicken breast? What do you think?"

Spring Equinox nodded: "I saw that when the chef made the burrito in the morning, the chicken breasts he put in were marinated with starch. It was indeed much tenderer than what I had eaten before. I felt that some marinated meat should be added. If you don’t have starch, you won’t be able to make firewood.”

Lu Yan nodded and asked Xia Hefeng to taste the chicken breast made in Spring Equinox to feel the power of starch. Xia Hefeng tasted the difference as soon as he put it in his mouth: "Master, what is starch?"

"Starch is a powdery substance extracted from certain crops. It looks similar to flour and has many uses. You have been imitating me before, but you can't learn many things from these things." Lu Yan said: "It I will teach you every use of it in the future. You first feel the first use of it, which is to lock in the moisture of the meat and make the meat more tender and smooth, not hard or woody."

Xia Hefeng is eager to learn, and he also knows what his problem is. This time he was asked to cook, but he didn't cook what he was best at. Instead, he made a few dishes that he imitated Lu Yan, but the diners gave him bad reviews. He just wanted Lu Yan to see what was wrong with him.

Lu Yan ate a chopstick of Xia Hefeng's stewed meat and did not comment. Instead, she asked Chun Equinox to take a bite and let her comment.

Spring Equinox tasted it carefully and commented: "This stew tastes very good, fat but not greasy, but the soy sauce taste seems a bit strong, and it is not as good-looking as the one made by Master."

Lu Yan asked: "Then do you know why this is happening?"

Chunfen shook her head, and Xia Hefeng looked at her expectantly.

Lu Yan said: "Because he didn't fry the sugar color. When I stew the meat, I fry the sugar color. On the one hand, it increases the richness of the taste and on the other hand, it colors the meat. He didn't fry the sugar color. If he wanted the color to be closer to me, he just added soy sauce. If you put too much, you will feel the soy sauce tastes strong.”

Lu Yan led the two of them to the kitchen: "I will stew the meat completely to show you what fried sugar color means. You have to use it tomorrow anyway."

Lu Yan added water to the pot and a spoonful of sugar: "There are three ways to stir-fry sugar, oil stir-fry, water stir-fry and water-oil mixed stir-fry. As the name suggests, it uses oil, water, both oil and water, and water It is not recommended for novices who are new to the oil-mixed frying method, because if the proportion is wrong, it will collapse, which is a bit dangerous.”

"The oil frying method is the fastest, and the water frying method is slower. Both of them put the oil or water first, then add the sugar, and keep stirring. The sugar slowly begins to bubble, and the big bubbles turn into dense small bubbles. , the color of the sugar will become darker and darker, turning into dark brown, and you can pour the meat pieces in."

Lu Yan poured the pieces of meat into the pot. The light-colored meat was quickly stained with the brown color of syrup after tumbling a few times in the pot, and the color became very attractive. Xia Hefeng's eyes widened. Only then did he realize why the master could make the color beautiful without adding so much soy sauce.

Lu Yan continued: "Next, add soy sauce, stir-fry for a while and add water to cover it, then you can add spices. When I stew the meat, I must add onions, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves. The rest are up to you. , it depends on your preferences, it’s not that the more and more mixed the better, you can slowly explore what kind of flavor different spices can bring.”

While the meat was stewed, Lu Yan led her two apprentices back. Lu Yan talked about the issue of heat during the Spring Equinox, but there were no other issues. In fact, there is not much problem with the dishes prepared by Chun Equinox and Xia Hefeng. Even if some old diners complain that Xia Hefeng’s imitation of Lu Ji is not half as good as that of Chun Equinox, the main reason is that the expectations are too high. Xia Hefeng has no idea about it. Lu Yan's ability to create this flavor under the premise of those little secret recipes is considered a talent.

The apprenticeship banquet ended happily. Xia Hefeng learned two tricks as soon as he became a disciple and went home happily.

I've been working hard all day today, and I'm going to see how Chen Xinghai's resignation is progressing tomorrow. If it's almost done, I'll have to personally send him to Zhuangzi to explain to Zhou Liang and Yingniang.

"Let me ask you something." Lu Sheng suddenly spoke next to her. Lu Yan was thinking about something and was startled inadvertently.

Lu Yan rubbed her heart: "Just ask."

Lu Sheng: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. When you first came home, you said your birthday was during the Chinese New Year. I forgot to ask last year, but I want to ask you this year, when is your birthday?"

Lu Yan's eyes were blank for a moment. She didn't even mention it last year because birthdays were never celebrated in modern times. Her birthday is her parents' memorial day.

Lu Yan's mother's due date was on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which was supposed to be a day of double happiness. But Lu Yan's mother suffered from massive postpartum hemorrhage when she was giving birth to her. She was not rescued and died less than three hours after giving birth to her.

Lu Yan's father, a surgeon, came over after working the night shift and learned the sad news of his wife's death without closing his eyes. Because he was in a trance, he died in a car accident on the road.

On what was supposed to be a day of double happiness, Lu Yan became an orphan without a father or a mother, so she was brought up by four old people: her grandparents, her grandparents, and her grandfather.

Lu Yan knew the news when she was very young. The news spread quickly in the village. Many children said that Lu Yanke had killed their parents. Lu Yan went home and asked what he meant by killing his parents. The elders couldn't hide it even if they wanted to.

Lu Yan actually had a pretty good childhood. The four old people were very kind to her and even left everything to her after their death. My father is an only child and my mother has only one brother. Lu Yan's uncle didn't have much contact with her, but he had no complaints about his mother leaving everything to Lu Yan, and from time to time he would give Lu Yan some living expenses. Lu Yan's life, although without her parents, has always been quite comfortable.

But as the old people gradually passed away, Lu Yan sent away one close relative after another, and in the end she was left alone. So when she first came here, she had no eager desire to go back. She was alone everywhere, so there was no point in going back, and there was nothing wrong with being here.

This is also one of the reasons why both Lu Yan and Lu Yan have a negative attitude towards childbirth. "A woman giving birth is like stepping into the gate of hell" may be an exaggerated description to others, but to her it is an unexaggerated factual description. After all, her mother went to hell because of childbirth, not just with one foot.

As modern medicine is so advanced, countless women will die from postpartum hemorrhage, and a few will suffer from amniotic fluid embolism, a situation that is basically hopeless, let alone ancient times.

Lu Yan was thinking about it and she wanted to go astray, but Lu Sheng waved his hand in front of her eyes: "Hey, what are you thinking about?"

Lu Yan came back to her senses and smiled at Lu Sheng: "Just think of me as the birthday of the beginning of spring."

Lu Sheng felt something was wrong when he heard this, but since Lu Yan said it, it was okay to just listen.

The past is gone, and those who abandoned me can't keep yesterday's day. Things in the past are in the past. Since opportunity has given her a chance to do it again, she will work hard in this life.

The beginning of spring is the beginning of the year and the transition point of reincarnation. From the beginning of spring, the new year will begin. The beginning of spring will be her birthday from now on.