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

Lu Yan started making preparations for Lu Sheng's birthday when she got back. She spent a lot of money (not too much) to go to the blacksmith shop to buy a barbecue grill and a pair of bamboo sticks. The barbecue grill is like the type of grilled mutton skewers in later generations. It is half a person's height and has a long metal trough on it. The charcoal is placed in it and the skewers are placed on top.

Lu Sheng was amazed. He had no idea what Lu Yan was going to do. He walked around twice and couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"

"How can you not do skewers on a hot summer night?" Lu Yan put her hands on her hips and smiled.

"Lu skewers?" Lu Sheng repeated.

"Tomorrow you go and invite all your good friends over. Come to our house in the evening and I will give you a birthday party." Lu Yan instructed.

Lu Sheng: "I told you there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Let's just have some noodles and that's it."

"No." Lu Yan refused: "I won't miss this opportunity. Anyway, you invite me. Of course, the longevity noodles will not miss you."

Lu Sheng could only nod in agreement.

On the day of his birthday, Lu Sheng invited Xue Zhuoyuan and Zhou Liang as soon as he went to the county school. As soon as they heard about Lu Sheng's birthday, they said congratulations and immediately agreed to go. Lu Sheng went to Class A[-] again to invite Chu Tiankuo, and Chu Tiankuo agreed immediately without hesitation. No one who has eaten Lu Yan's cooking wants to refuse. When I was leaving, I met Zhang Chang and invited Zhang Chang as well.

Zhang Chang's mind has not been on studying recently. He comes and goes at the county school. When he does come, he hangs out at the Cuju court and the office. Hearing that there was a lot of fun, he immediately agreed.

What came for lunch at noon was a bowl of noodles that looked nothing special. This should be the longevity noodles that Lu Yan had promised. When Lu Sheng took it in his hand and stirred it open, he discovered that there was only one noodle in the whole bowl.

It was a piece of trousers noodles, two fingers thick, and seemed to be more than one meter long. Lu Sheng was amazed when he ate it.

Lu Yan is also busy in the afternoon. How can she celebrate her birthday without a cake? Lu Yan is going to bake a cake for Lu Sheng. But there was no milk, which meant no cream. A cake without cream is too boring.

Lu Yan slowly turned her head towards the goat milk she bought to feed the kitten, showing a very troubled expression. Can goat milk be creamed? Does it taste the same as milk? Forget it, I wouldn't dare feed it to the kitten if it gets damaged, so I'd better not waste anything.

What to do without cream?

Lu Yan finally decided to make peach jam cake rolls. There is no cream, but the peaches have fallen recently, so it would be a shame not to eat them.

Wash the peaches, peel off the skin, cut the peach flesh into small dices, add sugar, mix well, and marinate until water comes out. Add a small amount of water to the pot and boil the peeled peach skin until it turns light pink. Remove the peach skin and put the diced peach into the pot and cook. Simmer over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick and the peach jam is ready.

Bake a large square cake piece on a large flat plate, spread a layer of peach jam on the surface, and then roll it up. The peach jam cake roll is ready.

Now that the cake thing is done, the rest is easy. Lu Yan prepared a variety of ingredients, and mutton skewers were indispensable for making skewers. She bought five kilograms of mutton, cut them into small pieces, and marinated them with salt. They also prepared tenderloin slices, pork belly slices, chicken wings, chicken gizzards, and palm treasures. The meat dishes were almost ready, and Lu Yan went to prepare potatoes, tofu, eggplant, and steamed bun slices. The grilled steamed bun slices brushed with sauce are simply a must-have in barbecue. The eggplant is cut in half to make garlic grilled eggplant.

The garlic sauce should also be fried freshly. Chop the prepared garlic and put it into two bowls, one-third in one bowl and two-thirds in the other. Then prepare a few fresh red peppers and chop them into pieces with a knife, and mix them with water. Seed and clean the spices, fry the washed spices, green onions and ginger in a pan until fragrant and then take them out. Put the larger bowl of garlic into the oil pan in two batches, fry until the garlic floats and turns yellow, then add the prepared chopped chili peppers, simmer for a while, then add the smaller bowl of garlic, and add salt Season with sugar and soy sauce, and the garlic sauce is ready. The garlic sauce made in this way is not bitter, astringent or spicy, and has a rich garlic aroma. It is very delicious when used for grilled vegetables and seafood.

During the spring equinox and winter solstice, my eyes would go straight when I smelled this smell, and I wanted to put it in a steamed bun and eat it directly.

It would be a pity to have barbecue without beer. But the objective fact is that there is no beer, but there can be drinks. In summer, you can have sour plum soup.

Lu Yan has a good recipe for sour plum soup, which uses hawthorn, ebony plum, licorice, mint, tangerine peel, roselle and mulberry. Hawthorn and ebony are the main ingredients, while roselle and mulberry are used for color. All other materials were easy to find, and it was the mulberry season recently, but Lu Yan couldn't find the roselle flower anywhere. Probably it hasn't been brought from the south yet.

Sour plum soup, friends, make it according to the proportions in the picture

However, the lack of Roselle would not have much of an impact. Lu Yan mixed the other ingredients together, adding more hawthorn and ebony, less mint, tangerine peel, and licorice, and a handful of mulberries for coloring. Wash them and wrap them in gauze. Put cold water in the clay pot and soak for two quarters of an hour. It is best not to use an iron pot to cook sour plum soup, as the iron taste will be cooked into it. Two-quarters of an hour later, the ingredients have swollen. At this time, light a fire, boil the water, and simmer over low heat for three-quarters of an hour. The sour plum soup is ready.

Take out the ingredients package, add rock sugar into the cooked sour plum soup, wait until it is completely melted, and the sweet and sour plum soup is ready.

Lu Yan put the sour plum soup into a pot, put it in the well and simmered it with well water. Chilled sour plum soup is the best thing to do, but there is no refrigerator and we didn’t buy ice, so we had to use well water to cool down first.

Lu Yan poured a cup for each of the Spring Equinox and Winter Solstice. It was the first time the two drank this drink, and they were immediately attracted by the sweet and sour taste.

When Lu Sheng came with several classmates from the county school, it was almost dark, but there were several lanterns hung in the Lu family's small yard, which were brightly lit.

A big black dog was lying in front of the door, with three kittens climbing up and down on it.

Yinzi saw Lu Sheng coming back from a distance, and immediately stood up and rushed towards him, whining. Xue Zhuoyuan and others were frightened when they saw the big dog, which was more than one meter long and half as tall as a man, rushing towards them. Only Lu Sheng caught it and rubbed its big head.

Lu Yan shouted from the courtyard: "Yinzi, come back to me!"

When Yinzi heard Lu Yan's cry, he immediately abandoned Lu Sheng and ran back to the courtyard. Lu Yan had already filled its food bowl, including large chunks of roasted meat without seasoning, two roasted potatoes and a hard-boiled egg.

Zhou Liang looked very envious: "The dog eats better than me."

Lu Yan burst out laughing: "There is no need to envy it, it is the guard of our Lu family and is a regular employee who does not sign a contract. Our Lu family never treats employees harshly, let alone dogs, donkeys are well fed. If Mr. Zhou stops studying and comes to work at Lu Ji, I guarantee that every meal you eat will be better than it, and you will still get money."

Zhou Liang actually thought about the feasibility and said hesitantly: "Don't tell me, if I don't get admitted to be a scholar this year, I really want to come over and work for you."

A group of people were all shocked. The mainstream thinking in society is still that everyone is inferior in everything but good at reading. If you don't study and work as a waiter in a store, no one can understand it.

"Are you okay?" Xue Zhuoyuan's eyes widened: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Zhou Liang waved his hand: "You bachelors who have enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry will not understand. When you have wives and children, you will know how important money is."

Lu Sheng nodded in agreement. But in my heart, I couldn't help but retort to Zhou Liang. You don't have to choose between money and studying. You can also study and earn money at the same time.

And he knew very well that Lu Yan was not joking at all. She just wanted to reserve a group of employees to expand her business. Zhou Liang, who was good at reading and writing, could directly work as her manager.