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

The next day, Lu Yan put the stewed water on the market. The price was one penny more than the stewed ones, five cents each. As always, I cut a piece for everyone to try for free.

At first, everyone heard that it was put into the water, and they were very skeptical about whether this thing was edible? As soon as Lu Yan lifted the lid of the jar and smelled the overbearing aroma, half of everyone's doubts were eliminated.

If you put that little piece of free meat into your mouth, no one will be able to refuse it.

Fragrant, so fragrant! How come the water is more fragrant than the meat!

Some people also raised questions, "Little lady, water is very cheap these days. What you sell is only a penny cheaper than meat. Isn't it too expensive?"

Lu Yan smiled: "The sewer is cheap, but I made the smelly sewer taste like this, but I added a lot of spices. The spices are much more expensive than the sewer. Does it taste different to the meat?" If you want to make good things well, you don’t need to use too complicated materials, but if you want to make bad things well, don’t you have to use good materials?”

Everyone thought that this was indeed the case. To be able to make the smelly sewer smell like this, the young lady didn't know how many good spices she used. They couldn't produce this taste by buying water themselves.

Today, as always, almost everything was sold out at Chenshi. It took a while for Song Bowen to come.

Lu Yan took out a food box and handed it to him: "This is the braised food I made. It is braised with sewer. It tastes good. I'm afraid that the master and his wife won't be able to accept the ingredients. If that's the case, just give it to the servants at home." .”

Song Bowen handed the food box to the boy beside him and cupped his hand at Lu Yan: "Miss Lu, I have something to ask for today, can we take a moment to talk?"

The two went to the only teahouse in town and got a private room on the second floor.

"Miss Lu, since I have something to ask you, I won't beat around the bush and tell you straight." Song Bowen got straight to the point, "As you know, my family's business is the Four Treasures of the Study and the bookstore. The most important thing is the Four Treasures of the Study. Business. My family is already one of the best in Kaiyuan Town, and my father has always wanted to expand the business to the county. The most critical step is whether we can reach a cooperation with the county school this year and let the county school purchase from my family."

Lu Yan nodded, indicating that she understood.

"Our Yaoshan County is big or small, with four subordinate towns," Song Bowen continued. "There is a family in Jinxiang Town not far away that also wants to do this business. His family and ours The quality and reputation of both companies can be said to be equally matched, so the final decision on who will win this business has not yet been determined.”

Lu Yan groaned and suddenly realized: "Is this what has caused your father to be so worried that he can't eat lately?"

"That's right." Song Bowen said, "It's the Double Ninth Festival now. Jinxiang Town held a chrysanthemum banquet two days ago, specially for several teachers from the county school and the adults in charge of procurement. But according to reports, several adults reacted Ping Ping, I didn’t say yes or no. We definitely have to do it here, but my father has no idea how to do it specifically to win the points of those adults. So I want to invite you and your brother, Come and help us organize this one.”

Lu Yan was confused: "What does it have to do with Lu Sheng?"

Song Bowen smiled bitterly: "I have no choice. Lu Sheng's literary talent will definitely make several teachers take a look. And if Lu Sheng passes the exam next year, he will naturally go to the county school to study, so I I think I’ll take Lu Sheng with me when the time comes.”

Lu Yan's pupils shrank. She knew that Lu Sheng was a scholar, but she never thought about the imperial examination. She always felt that Lu Sheng was still a child.

"I agreed to this, but as for Lu Sheng, I have to go back and ask him before I give you an answer." Lu Yan said.

Song Bowen nodded quickly: "This is natural."

Lu Yan returned home with a lot of questions.

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Lu Sheng couldn't help but ask her, "What's wrong with you?"

Lu Yan glanced at Lu Sheng: "Let me ask you, are you going to end next year?"

Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment by the question. After thinking about it, he asked Lu Yan: "Do you know how much money this costs?"

Lu Yan was stunned when she was asked: "Can you elaborate?"

“Both county examinations, government examinations and college examinations require recommendation. The county examination requires five people to sponsor and one rural student to recommend, while the government and college examinations require two rural students to recommend before they can take the exam. "Lu Sheng said, "This junior student usually needs to spend some money to ask others for help, usually one to two taels of silver. This means that if I take the exam, I will have a lot of money just for the recommendation."

Lu Yan narrowed her eyes: "I understand, please continue."

"In the past few years, I was not unable to end, but you have also seen the conditions at home. I thought that when it was absolutely foolproof, it would be done once. So I didn't end up before." Lu Sheng continued, "Most of our family is now You earned it, so I have to ask you, do you want me to end next year?"

Lu Yan was simply confused by the question: "Of course! How can I afford you with this little money? Test, test, test."

"Okay, let's take the test then." Lu Sheng nodded, "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

After roughly knowing Lu Sheng's situation, Lu Yan told everything that Song Bowen had entrusted to her.

"What do you mean?" Lu Yan asked, "Should we take this job?"

Lu Sheng thought for a while: "Take it."

So Lu Sheng went to the stall with Lu Yan the next day. At the end of the morning, Song Bowen met Lu Sheng for the first time. This can be regarded as the first meeting between the two netizens.

Lu Sheng looked like a ten-year-old child, a head shorter than Song Bowen, and his height only reached Song Bowen's chin. Song Bowen was shocked when he saw Lu Sheng. Although he knew that Lu Sheng was young, when he came into contact with Lu Yan, he always thought of her as someone about the same age as him. Subconsciously, he always felt that Lu Sheng should be about the same age as him. As a result, he Ji Shi is considered dead after seeing the light of day.

However, the Lu family siblings both have inner maturity beyond their appearance, and the three of them soon started talking about the topic.

"Our people heard what several of the edicts who attended the banquet said about their chrysanthemum banquet." Song Bowen said, "One said it was commonplace and nothing new, and another said it was full of flowers and superficial."

Lu Yan hissed: "It sounds like they have no new ideas and nothing new."

Song Bowen nodded: "I also asked about it. The dishes they invited the chef from the largest restaurant in town to cook for the banquet should be the same as the regular banquet. They probably didn't want to make a fuss about the banquet, they just wanted to borrow it. Appreciating chrysanthemums is arty for a while, but it doesn’t make it interesting.”

"What scholar has not participated in a few chrysanthemum banquets?" Lu Yan sneered: "It seems that we still need to think of something new."

"It's not just novelty." Lu Sheng said: "The superficial appearance of flowers and brocades means that they are superficial, but the essence is still people can't look at."

Lu Yan fell into deep thought.