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

Real functional soap needs to extract essential oils from flowers. Although it is the beginning of spring, it is still very cold. The plum blossoms have faded and other flowers have not bloomed. I can only wait until spring blooms before making it.

Simply styling soap, the key lies in pigments and molds. Pigment is easy to handle. When she first made the Liu Fang Feast, she used purple cabbage as the pigment. Now she can also do it, both blue and pink. As for molds, modern silicone soft films are used and can be broken off directly when demoulding. However, there is no silicone available now. In order to solve the problem of difficult demoulding of finished soap, Lu Yan specially asked Mr. Lu to customize a batch of bottoms. Removable molds made into flower shapes.

Soap has to be made and life has to be lived.

Ever since the Song family sent rice, Lu Yan has been holding back her energy to eat rice. She looked at the pile of sausages hanging at home and decided to make claypot rice for lunch.

Claypot rice is actually not difficult to make. Lu Yan also took the initiative to buy a casserole in the town and cook it on the small stove where Lu Sheng usually boils medicine.

Lu Yan took two sausages, one spicy and one sweet, steamed them and sliced ​​them. Soak the rice for two quarters of an hour first to prevent the core from being cooked when cooking. Add water to the casserole and bring to a boil. After the water boils, pour in the rice until the water slightly covers the rice. Wait until the water evaporates, then add the cut intestines. Close the lid and pour oil from the sides of the pot, allowing the oil to seep into the bottom of the rice.

While the rice is simmering, make a sauce, just use soy sauce and sugar. Simmer the rice for about a quarter of an hour, then open the lid and crack in an egg, then pour in the sauce. Wait until the eggs solidify and turn white, then you can take them out of the pan. Don't open the lid immediately after the pot is brought down, as the remaining heat will simmer the eggs thoroughly.

Claypot rice has clear grains and is sweet and full. When you eat it, the crystal clear rice grains absorb the essence of the sauce and sausage. The rich and salty taste explodes in your mouth. Only after the overbearing salty taste has passed can you feel the uniqueness of rice. of sweetness.

The rice formed a layer of crispy rice on the bottom of the pot, and Lu Yan flipped it up and ate it. The crispy rice was golden and crispy, and it crunched into pieces when you took a bite, leaving a long aftertaste.

Claypot rice

Lu Sheng had never eaten rice several times in his life. It was a rare thing and he ate it with gusto. Lu Yan is a northerner herself, and she has a northern stomach. She can eat rice but not steamed buns, so she has no problem getting used to it here. But there is a saying, some dishes are delicious with rice, such as the mapo tofu I made before.

In the afternoon, Lu Yan cut two more sausages, one spicy and one sweet. She cut them into thumb lengths and skewered them, and added them to the meat dishes.

The newly added sausage was welcomed as always, and some old diners came over to ask Lu Yan: "Miss Lu, did you make this sausage yourself?"

Lu Yan nodded: "Yes!"

The old diner was happy: "Miss Lu, will you sell the sausage? I want to buy the sausage alone."

Someone heard this and came over: "Me, me, I want to buy it separately too."

Lu Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, then I'll bring it over tomorrow."

Lu Yan kept thinking about this when she went home. She thought it would be a good idea to sell sausages individually. She didn't have to make them every day, but could make a bunch of them at once. Moreover, it is very seasonal, so it can only be sold during this period. When the weather gets hotter in a while, she will not dare to dry the sausages anymore, and people will not be able to sell them if they want to eat them.

Lu Yan went home and told Lu Sheng about the matter, and the two discussed the pricing of sausages. There are really few sausages sold in the shop, but the butcher shop can help with processing. Mix the ingredients at home, go to the butcher's shop and ask someone to help you fill it. If you provide casings yourself, you will be charged a processing fee of [-] cents per catty. If you ask for a casing from the butcher shop, the processing fee will be [-] cents per catty. Then there are the restaurants. Different restaurants have different prices. A plate of sausages can cost from a dozen to dozens of cents.

It is indeed cheaper to make it yourself, but whether it tastes good is another matter. After all, the seasonings are made by yourself. Lu Yan's pricing definitely cannot be calculated like this.

"How about selling it for fifteen cents each?" Lu Yan said. One pound of meat can be used to make three sausages. Lu Yan and the butcher shop owner have long been familiar with each other. The price of meat is fifteen cents per pound. Including the cost of seasoning, three sausages cost about twenty cents, which is less than seven cents for one. But the time cost also needs to be added, it takes ten days to dry once, so even if you sell it for fifteen cents, you don't actually make much money.

"It's cheap. I still want to sell it for twenty cents." Lu Sheng said.

"Twenty won't work, seventeen or eighteen is fine." Lu Yan taught her the secret of pricing: "If you order twenty cents, people will think you are more than twenty cents. If you order eighteen cents, people will think you are more than twenty cents." It’s more than a dozen cents. It feels much worse, although it’s only two cents short.”

Lu Sheng suddenly realized: "Then eighteen essays."

"The sweet ones are eighteen cents each, and the spicy ones are seventeen cents each." Lu Yan agreed. After all, sugar is really expensive.

The next day, Lu Yan brought ten spicy and ten sweet sausages. The price is indeed very good, and the old diners who have a lot of money want to take away one or two.

When the stall was about to close, Song Bowen also came. As soon as he arrived, he asked: "I heard that your sausage is going to be taken out?"

"Yeah, there isn't much left. You want me to give it to you." Lu Yan said.

"That's great. After eating the few you gave me during the New Year, my mother will be thinking about it. If you want to sell it, give me fifty." Song Bowen clapped his hands, took out a tael of silver and threw it directly into Lu Yan's pocket. In the bamboo basket: "Thirty sweet ones and twenty spicy ones."

Lu Yan was stunned: "Huh? My family doesn't even have that many! If you want so many, I have to make them for you now."

"Then make it now." Song Bowen said.

"This will take ten days to dry, and you won't be able to get it until at least ten days. Is it appropriate for you to give me money now?" Lu Yan couldn't laugh or cry.

Song Bowen didn't care at all: "Can you still swallow my money?"

Lu Yan also smiled: "Then I'll send it directly to your home."

Song Bowen was delighted: "That's a good relationship."

Lu Yan received Song Bowen's order and went to prepare it immediately. Fifty sausages require about seventeen pounds of meat, and the boss has to prepare them for the water. Lu Yan ordered ten sets of seventeen kilograms of meat at the butcher shop. The owner of the butcher shop was shocked and quickly prepared it for her. It was not until the next day that everything was ready.

Lu Yan couldn't finish all this work alone, so she called Lu Sheng to help. Although Lu Sheng dislikes this stuff very much and usually hides as far away as possible, he will agree whenever Lu Yan asks him to help.

The two worked hard all afternoon and finally took out the casings. Go and process the seventeen pounds of meat again. By the time everything was filled and left to dry in the yard, it was already evening.

Lu Sheng struggled all day, and his nose was full of the smell of sewer and raw meat. He said he wanted to go back to the house to take it easy, but he never came out again, and he didn't even eat dinner.

Lu Sheng had lived for more than ten years, and for the first time he became resistant to meat.