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

The Double Ninth Festival has passed and the weather is getting colder. Lu Yan has removed the late-night skewers and cold drinks and added roasted sweet potatoes and several hot drinks.

Ying Niang's health has almost recovered, and she will come to the store to help from time to time. Lu Yan was still hesitating about what to do with the five hundred taels of silver. Lu Sheng suggested buying the store directly. She had saved a lot of money in the past few months. If one person contributed half of it, there would be no pressure. But as a career-oriented woman, Lu Yan always wants to expand her career, so rather than buying a house, opening more stores is more in line with her ambitions.

Lu Yan in modern society: What do people who make money think about starting a business instead of buying a house? Is there something wrong with your brain?

Lu Yan now: It’s me, I’m sick.

In short, Lu Yan didn't spend the money and still held it in her hands.

Less than a month after the Double Ninth Festival is the Winter Clothes Festival on October [-], so we have to burn paper on our ancestors’ graves. But here in Hengzhou, we pay attention to the early Qingming Festival and the eleventh evening. We must burn paper early in the Qingming Festival. It is not necessary to burn paper on the eleventh day. Throughout October, people continue to burn paper.

The Lu family was not in a hurry. Lu Yan and Xu started stacking ingots again, and then in October, when Lu Sheng was taking a rest, the family went back to the village to burn paper.

The ancestral graves of the Lu family were on the back mountain. Several people went up the mountain together, and Lu Yan saw the mountain full of hawthorns again. The hawthorns were at their peak ripeness last month, and there are still some at this time, but they will be gone if you don’t pick them. Lu Yan made a prompt decision and burned the paper to pick hawthorns.

Now that she has earned enough money, she can buy a bunch of candies to make hawthorn products.

There are many hawthorn products, such as hawthorn cake, hawthorn strips, fruit bark, hawthorn slices, sugar snowballs... These are divided into dried hawthorn and fresh hawthorn, so the first thing Lu Yan did when she went back was to Wash and core the hawthorn, then divide into two parts. Some of the slices have been dried, and some are ready to be cooked directly.

Because Lu Yan needed to break various things and twist stuffing all year round, she simply made a manual stuffing twister. The principle of modern electric juicers and stuffing twisters is actually to put several blades on the base, usually three. The motor drives it to rotate at high speed, spinning up the items in the space and sending them to its knife to be broken into pieces. The principle of the manual version can be copied, that is, it does not need a motor to drive it, but uses a few gears to snap together and directly extend a handle. Turning the handle can drive the base to rotate, and the things can be sent to the knife to be chopped by the blade.

Wash and core the hawthorns, add water to the pot and boil for a quarter of an hour. Take them out and add a little water to make the hawthorns into a puree. Pour into the pot, add a lethal amount of sugar, and stir constantly. Stir until it becomes thick and take it out.

Hawthorn is a treasure, and hawthorn products are indispensable. Brush the square mold with oil, pour the hawthorn paste into it, and make it about an inch high. Smooth the surface, cover it, and use a bucket to lower it to the bottom of the well water to cool down. The well water is so cold now that Lu Yan sometimes gets toothache from drinking the well water directly to wash herself.

Find a large flat plate, cover it with oil paper, pour a thin layer of hawthorn paste on the oil paper, spread it flat, and put it in the sun to dry.

The hawthorn paste that was left to cool down in well water solidified in a short time. There is natural pectin in hawthorn, which can condense into blocks without adding any glue products.

Turn the square mold upside down and knock out the hawthorn pieces inside. A bright red cuboid, crystal clear and very beautiful. Cut it into pieces and it becomes hawthorn cake.

Hawthorn cake

The newly made hawthorn cake was quickly divided among several people. The taste of hawthorn cake is sour and sweet, delicate and soft. Hawthorn has the effect of eliminating food accumulation, strengthening the spleen and stimulating the appetite, and its sour and sweet taste stimulates the secretion of saliva in the mouth. As a result, the more you eat, the hungrier you become.

I originally ate it as a snack, but I was still hungry after eating it.

Lu Yan: "..."

The hawthorn paste was spread out and dried for a whole day, and it was ready the next day. Peeled off the oil paper, it was a large red piece. Cut into strips and sprinkle with sugar to make hawthorn strips.

Hawthorn strips

Just roll it up from one end without cutting it, roll it tightly into a long strip, then cut it open, and you will get the fruit peel.

Guodanpi

These two foods lasted longer than hawthorn cakes and would not spoil quickly. Lu Yan kept some at home to eat, and wrapped the others in oil paper and took them directly to Lu Ji for sale.

But when it comes to hawthorn products, the one Lu Yan misses the most is the sugar snowballs. The red fruit is wrapped in a layer of white snow-like frosting, and you can't help but salivate just looking at it.

Lu Yan still remembers that when she was in school, there were sugar snowballs sold in the candied haws store. You have to eat the candied haws of apples immediately after buying them, but you can leave the candied snowballs under the desk all night, and stuff one into your mouth from time to time throughout the whole night of self-study. The satisfaction is not comparable to that of candied haws of apples.

Sugar snowballs are more difficult to make than other snacks. The most critical step is to boil the sugar and control the heat. Add a lethal amount of sugar and water to the pot, bring to a boil over medium heat, and boil the sugar. After the sugar boils, a large bubble will slowly appear in the pot. After simmering for a while, the large bubbles will turn into small bubbles, and then you can remove it from the fire. Wait for three to five minutes to let it cool down and turn into syrup. Pour the hawthorn in and stir constantly. As you continue to stir, the sugar will slowly stick to the fruit. As the temperature drops, the white sugar will slowly react with sand, eventually turning into a snow-white sugar shell wrapped around the hawthorn balls.

Sugar Snowball

Lu Ji sells sugar snowballs, eight of which are put in an oil paper bag and eaten with a bamboo stick. They sell them for 20 cents a bag, and they sell well. Lu Yan is now used to this magical state. As long as it is sweet, it can be sold at a high price. There is also a lot of other hawthorn products, but you can't see it. There is only a sugar snowball, wrapped in such a thick layer. Sugar, just by looking at the sugar shell, you know it must be expensive.

Chu Tiankuo and Liu Qingyan made an appointment today to go outside the city to enjoy chrysanthemums. This was the last wave of chrysanthemums and they would stop blooming in a while. The two of them were preparing to catch the last train.

Before going, I happened to go to Luji to buy some snacks to eat on the road.

Liu Qingyan likes the recently released hawthorn products, and she can’t take her eyes away when she sees the sugar snowballs. But the money her father gives her every month is not much, 20 yuan a bag is still a little distressing.

Chu Tiankuo glanced at her and said to Lu Yan: "Shopkeeper, take two packs of sugar snowballs." He started to count the coins.

Liu Qingyan grabbed him: "Don't buy it for me, I can buy it myself."

Chu Tiankuo insisted on paying: "I asked you to come out to play, and Lu Ji is also here, so how can there be any reason for you to pay?"

Liu Qingyan half-compromised: "Okay, then don't buy such expensive ones, buy fruit bark or hawthorn strips." A pack of fruit bark is eight cents, and a pack of hawthorn strips is ten cents, which is much cheaper.

Chu Tiankuo refused to listen and insisted on buying two packs of sugar snowballs: "I've already eaten the others, so I just want to try something new, and I want you to try something new. Oh, let's go, let's go!"

Liu Qingyan couldn't refuse, and the two left together again.

Lu Yan: Don’t tell me, it’s quite interesting to watch a little kid falling in love early.