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

As expected, the village chief came the next morning without even waiting for two days.

Theoretically, a scholar can only free his own land, but there is a lot of room for maneuver, and almost no one wastes the maximum quota.

The Lu family has a total of more than ten acres of land. In addition to the Lu family's own land, there are still more than [-] acres of tax-free quota left. The village elder has been here long ago to discuss with the Lu family how to use this.

"What we mean is to leave the rest to you. You can decide who the village will give or not, and how to operate it." Lu Sheng said, "But I also have conditions. In a few days, our family will be together. If we go to the county seat, we may have less when we come back in the future, and we have to ask several companies that have been allocated quotas to help take care of our farmland."

The village chief patted his chest: "Don't worry, I know it even if you don't tell me. Just take care of your land and take care of it."

Sure enough, within two days the government official who collected the grain tax showed up. Lu Sheng's remaining tax exemption of more than [-] acres of land was divided among the five households in the village. Including Lu Sheng's family, six households did not have to pay grain tax. The village chief went up and told the officials about this.

The officers waited until the results of the college examination were released before collecting the grain tax, just for this reason. They don't want to offend the scholar. If they accept him for a few days and pass the exam, they won't be able to withdraw, and then they will hold a grudge against them. So they were all mentally prepared, but they were still very surprised to hear that this village was Lu Xiucai's home.

Lu Sheng was a popular person in front of the county magistrate, and the county magistrate valued him very much. Not to mention that they just ate the mooncakes given by Lu Ji two days ago.

Lu Yan and Lu Sheng were also prepared. When they saw a few servants coming to the door, they hurriedly greeted them and asked them to sit in the courtyard: "Brothers, thank you for your hard work. Come and have a drink of water."

There is no good tea at home, but there is hot milk tea and sour plum soup. There were four officials in total, but they refused and one of them sat down with a drink.

It was quite hard for them. They had already taken in a village. After a long day of hard work, they were thirsty and hot. A cup of sour plum soup lifted their spirits.

"Shopkeeper Lu is so good at his craftsmanship!"

"No, my boy loves the mooncakes that shopkeeper Lu sent two days ago."

It was almost noon at this time, and it was probably not too early for the government officials to finish collecting the grain. Lu Yan warmly invited: "Brothers, come home for dinner after your busy work."

Lu Yan asked about it. They were going to another village in the afternoon. They couldn't go back for a day. There was no restaurant in the village. At noon, they usually just found a restaurant to eat or the village chief made arrangements. Since they all ate in the village, Lu Yan naturally Do your part.

Several government officials tried their best to refuse, but Lu Yan was more able to push back than them, so she finally had to agree.

One of the officials lowered his head and smiled: "Looking at what happened, I originally wanted to come to say hello to Lu Xiucai and have a meal."

"Why are you being polite? Several elder brothers have come to the house, how can we not even bother with a meal?" Lu Sheng said.

Several of the servants went out to work, while Lu Yan was at home preparing to cook.

For people who have been hungry all morning, it is better to eat this kind of work meal as quickly as possible. It is really not that convenient to prepare any exquisite stir-fry soup.

When it comes to convenience, making braised noodles is definitely the fastest, fast and delicious. Lu Yan decided to make more kinds of braised food for them to choose from. Let’s make three types of meat dumplings, fried sauce and eggplant diced meat.

There is no need to eat the fried sauce hot, fry the sauce first. Lu Yan’s customary cooking method is actually to mix soybean paste and sweet noodle sauce at a ratio of 1:1 to make the sauce base. However, Lu Yan doesn’t have soybean paste, only sweet noodle sauce, so she changed it and mixed sweet noodle sauce with a smaller amount of bean paste. .

Mix sweet noodle sauce and bean paste, add rice wine and stir evenly. Fry the scallions in oil in a pot. Heat the oil, add the chopped scallions, and fry the star anise and white coriander berries together until the scallions become crispy. Then take out everything in the pot. Add the minced meat into the cooking oil. The moisture in the meat will slowly enter the pot. Boil out the moisture until the oil turns bright. Add the mixed sauce and simmer for a quarter of an hour. The fried sauce will be ready. .

Fried noodles

Next, make the meat dumplings. The meat must be separated into fat and thin parts. First, separate the fat and thin parts of the meat and slice them separately. Heat the oil in the pot, add the fat, cut the fat into pieces, then reduce the heat to let the fat release the oil. After the fat meat is fully oily, add the lean meat slices and stir-fry until loose. After the meat is stir-fried, add white wine to remove the fishy smell, then add the prepared spices, dried chili peppers, and ginger slices. After frying, add vinegar. The amount of vinegar depends on your personal taste. Then add soy sauce and salt and stir evenly. Keep it simmering for three to four quarters of an hour, stirring slowly a few times, and finally add the fine chili powder. Wait until the chili powder is completely cooked and the whole pot turns a bright red color and it is ready to be taken out of the pot.

Meat dumplings

The last thing to stir-fry is the diced eggplant meat. Dice the eggplant, sprinkle with salt, mix well and set aside to drain out the water. Pour the diced pork belly into the pot, stir-fry for a few times, add onion, ginger and homemade pickled bean paste and stir-fry until the red oil is released, then add the diced eggplant and stir-fry. Then pour in soy sauce, salt, and sugar to taste, and then add half a bowl of water. Mix a small bowl of water starch. When the water in the pot is almost dry, pour in the water starch. The soup in the pot will become thicker. You can sprinkle a handful of minced garlic before serving.

Eggplant meat cubes

After the marinade is done, the noodles are cooked very quickly. Lu Yan didn't want to cook it until the others arrived, so she stretched out the dough first and then cooked it immediately when they arrived.

After a while, there was movement in the courtyard. Lu Sheng stood at the door of the kitchen and said to her: "Everyone is here, you can cook some noodles."

Lu Yan nodded and started cooking noodles. Lu Sheng asked a few people to sit down and drink water. Several people were also exhausted, so they sat down and drank a pot of water.

As soon as she put down the water bowl, Lu Yan's noodles were already cooked. Lu Yan came out with a basin of noodles and four empty bowls in her hands. Lu Sheng also went over to help and brought out three bowls of stew.

"Serve your own noodles. You're welcome. Eat as much as you want. If it's not enough, I'll order more." Lu Yan placed the bowls and chopsticks and handed them to the four of them: "The stew is fried sauce, minced meat and diced eggplant. Whichever one you want to eat?" Which, you can eat whatever you want."

Several people took the bowls and started busying themselves without being polite. They also greeted Lu Sheng and Lu Yan: "You can eat too. You can eat too."

Lu Yan gave Lu Sheng an empty bowl and asked him to eat with some servants in the courtyard. He turned around and went to the kitchen.

There was braised noodles in the kitchen that she served separately. She mixed two bowls and took them to the house to eat with Mrs. Xu. Today, Boss Lu went to work again after seeing nothing happened. Only Xu was left in the house, and Lu Yan wanted to eat with her.

The fried sauce is salty and fragrant, and you can eat small pieces of meat in every bite. The meat flavor and the sauce flavor are perfectly blended. Coupled with the shredded cucumber, it is fresh and refreshing; the meat dumplings are soft, red and shiny, and have a rich meat flavor; The diced eggplant meat looks the most attractive, the eggplant is soft and tender, and the sauce is rich in flavor. Each stew is very delicious, and with the chili oil fried by Lu Yan herself, the bowl of noodles will be full in no time.

After the officers finished their meal, they rested in the yard for a while, said goodbye to the Lu family, and headed to the next village.