Lu Xu was stunned, "It's me."
The third aunt was angry and aggrieved: "Auntie, isn't she treating you and Zhouwa well? Why don't you think about auntie?"
Lu Xu: "...ah?"
Lu Xu suddenly remembered that his third aunt was also very good at steaming buns!
Isn’t this...hey, doesn’t he want to eat it himself? Lu Xu scratched the back of his head. His third aunt was used to being frugal, and she couldn't bear to steam white flour buns once a year. He didn't think of it for a moment!
Seeing that his third aunt was about to cry, Lu Xu asked Yuan Maniang awkwardly: "It seems that third grandma's bun shop is opening today?"
Yuan Manniang pinched the cloth and nodded, looking even more embarrassed than him.
The third grandma went to the market to sell steamed buns, and her business was getting better and better. When she met someone from the same village in the town, she asked if she could exchange grains at her house. After thinking about it, the third grandma thought it was feasible and planned to open a bun shop at home.
I came to tell them yesterday and brought a bowl of red bean paste buns!
The third aunt said depressedly: "We opened today, and people from our east end came to change the steamed buns. If my neighbor hadn't changed the steamed buns and told me, I wouldn't have known that it was you who came up with this idea."
Lu Xu sneered, "Why don't you open one, Third Aunt?"
The third aunt pouted: "That's so ugly. In such a big village, all the people are relatives. How can any relative tear down the relatives?"
She stared at Lu Xu aggrievedly and began to mutter, "It doesn't mean that you shouldn't give advice to the third grandma. We are all relatives, and it's not easy for anyone. It's just that, hey, you are older, little one." Hui Xiaoxuan and the others have not had as many ideas as you since they were young. You are the eldest in our family and they all call you eldest brother. You are thinking about ways to make money and think more about your younger brothers and sisters at home, you know?"
Lu Xu nodded like garlic.
He really didn't think about it that much.
He still missed his third aunt very much. As soon as Lu Zhou was born without a mother, the third aunt hugged and fed him. At that time, Yuan Manniang hadn't married into his house, and Lu Ji couldn't cook, so he either took him to the third uncle's house or the fourth uncle's house. Come on, he would eat whatever Lu Hui and Lu Xuan ate, and the third aunt and the fourth aunt would not miss a bite from him.
His third aunt was so angry that she didn't ask them to pay off the debt.
Lu Xu thought for a while, looked at the fresh iron pot that had not yet been unloaded, and suggested: "Third Aunt, how about I teach you how to fry fried dough sticks?"
The third aunt and Yuan Maniang were both confused: "Youtiao? What are youtiao?"
Lu Xu: "It's simple, I'll make it for you to try!"
What Lu Xu did was what he said, Third Aunt did. He only talks about the ingredients and requests, but as for how to double the dough and make it fluffy enough, it is all up to the third aunt.
He put in oil, salt and eggs, which made the third aunt feel distressed. She was not so willing to do it even during the Chinese New Year.
Lu Xu stood aside and kept thinking, "If you don't put oil, it won't be crispy, and it won't taste good after frying!"
While waiting for the noodles to wake up, Lu Xu brainwashed the third aunt again about how soft and delicious the fried dough sticks are. In addition to making fried dough sticks, they can also make sugar pancakes, sugar cakes, and leek boxes. Each one is more delicious than the other. With the iron pot, they also Can pancakes, fried spring rolls, pumpkin cakes, fried twists, fried steamed buns... Fried glutinous rice balls, fried rice cakes, fried sesame balls... using glutinous rice flour.
In short, a gourmet blueprint slowly unfolds in front of you because of the collision of iron pot and oil.
The whole family was stunned for a while, and even Xiaoxia, who was called to help by her third aunt, was obsessed with it.
Xiao Xia asked: "Brother, is it really that delicious?"
Lu Xu: "Of course!"
Xiaoxia: "Brother, have you ever eaten it?"
Lu Xu: Ah this!
Relying on their family's honest duty, no one wandered around the county town. Lu Xu made up nonsense on the spot, "I heard from people in the county that it is a way of eating that can only be found in prosperous places like the capital."
"Oh!" Several people believed it and couldn't help but yearn for it, especially the children who had never been to the county seat and couldn't imagine what the capital city was like.
The third aunt is a pragmatic person. She was a little worried when she heard Lu Xu boasted like this. "Xuwa, this is what the noble master eats. Let's make it. Is there anyone in the village who will buy it? It's oil and salt. How much does it cost?"
Lu Xu comforted her: "It doesn't matter. Let's calculate the cost when it's done. No one in the village will buy it. I'll take it to the county to sell it."
The third aunt felt more at ease now.
The first time I made it, it all depended on the third aunt to estimate when the noodles would be ready. She estimated that it would take two hours anyway. The third aunt couldn't help Yuan Maniang clean up the housework, and asked Lu Xu to do it while it was still dark. After the firewood was chopped, Xiaoxia and Lu Zhou went to the stream to fetch water. After cleaning the kitchen, she and Yuan Manniang went to clean the chicken pens and pig pens, and also watered the vegetable fields.
The family was clearly arranged, and the sky was completely dark.
Lu Xu lit the lamp, and the third aunt felt pain in her heart.
Whether for food or lighting, they all use soybean oil, which costs more than 100 yuan per pound, saving people from eating a pound of oil in a year.
Lu Xu hadn't told her that the half tank of oil would have to be poured into the pot in a while.
If the big iron pan was brought back, the pointed bottom might be able to save some money, but conditions did not allow it, and he only had this one pan. Fortunately, it is deep enough to be usable.
Lu Xu remembered that when he bought a new pot, he had to wake up the pot in the past. The conditions were limited. He cleaned the pot first, lit it and dried it, then put oil on it, wiped it again, and let it stand still.
The third aunt looked at the embroidery pieces that Yuan Manniang had embroidered by the oil lamp, and praised Yuan Manniang for being embarrassed.
"Is this all Xuwa's idea?"
"Xu'er learned it from someone else's embroidery shop, otherwise we wouldn't have known how to embroider like this. Shi Niang next door wanted to go out and embroider overlapping flowers, birds, and insects to make them look real. Xu'er said it was... ...Three-dimensional! Yes!"
The third aunt touched the embroidery piece and was filled with envy.
She is not good at embroidery, she is not as good as Yuan Manniang, but Xiao Xia has followed Lu You, with a calm personality, Xiao Xia does all the sewing and mending at home. The third aunt asked, "I asked Xiao Xia to learn from you?"
"Okay!" Yuan Manniang was very happy. She had never had much confidence. Even if Lu Xu said that she could sell one piece of embroidery for eighty yuan, she still felt vain. But now the third aunt wants Xiao Xia to learn from her. , what does it mean, she embroidered really well!
Yuan Manniang was immersed in the joy of becoming a teacher: "Xiao Yu, Xiao Man, Han Lu, come and learn whatever you want!"
Unbeknownst to Lu Xu, their family was about to become an embroidery class.
The third aunt guessed that the time was almost up, so she opened her face and showed it to Lu Xu.
Lu Xu pressed the dough and looked at the air holes. He thought it was OK, and then taught the third aunt not to knead the dough, but to flatten the dough and make fried dough sticks. "Put the two together and press them with chopsticks. Don't use too much force, otherwise they will not fry open."
The third aunt was so frightened that she could no longer use her strength.
Lu Xu smiled, "It doesn't matter, we can eat it ourselves. It doesn't matter if it's softer or harder. Just make it twice more and you'll be fine."
He asked Lu Zhou to light the fire, pour oil, and prepare to explode.
When the third aunt and Yuan Manniang understood what "explosion" meant, their eyes almost popped out.
"It takes so much oil!"
"Of course you need oil for deep-frying."
The third aunt was trembling, he never said it was such a fried thing before!
"How much oil does this cost?"
Lu Xu explained: "It doesn't take much. It's like boiling dumplings. It doesn't use much water when cooked. If you make more, you can fry a lot of fried dough sticks in one pot of oil."
The third aunt nodded, her flesh still hurt, she frowned and watched carefully how Lu Xu fried the dough sticks.
What is 70% hot, bubbly, slow-fried over low heat, stir evenly...
The aroma gradually wafted from the kitchen, and through the oil lamp, Auntie watched the noodles in the pot turn into a golden color, more golden than mature wheat and autumn leaves!
Lu Xu put the fried dough sticks in the basket to drain the oil. Lu Zhou and La Yue didn't sleep either, lying on one side and watching eagerly.
La Yue's round eyes stared without blinking, and her saliva was about to flow. "Brother, is it okay? Can you eat it?"
"Okay, be careful, go to the yard to eat with brother." Lu Xu picked up one for the third aunt and Yuan Manniang respectively, and then gave the basket to Lu Zhou, "Third aunt, mother, try it."
Lu Zhou was leading the month with a basket in his hand, when he stepped out of the kitchen door, he suddenly saw a fire on the mountain road.
He was startled, blinked and looked again, it was really a fire!
Lu Zhou hurriedly shouted, "Brother, mother! There is a fire on the mountain!"
When Lu Xu heard this, he threw his chopsticks and ran out quickly. His house is close to the mountain, so if there is a mountain fire, he must run quickly! When he came out to have a look, it turned out that there was a patch of fire on the mountain road, which seemed to be torches, connected into a fire dragon.
When La Yue saw it, she ran and grabbed Yuan Manniang's skirt, crying, "Is mother a ghost?"
Lu Xu: "How can a ghost light a fire? Ghosts are afraid of fire. If you go to the kitchen, they won't dare to arrest you."
Lu Yue nodded confusedly.
Lu Xu took a burning long wooden stick from the stove, "I'll go over and have a look, Lu Zhou, go to grandpa and grandpa's house and call the door, saying that there are many people coming down from the mountain."
Lu Zhou nodded, ran towards the village with a sullen face.
"Mother, Third Aunt, take little Xia Layue to Third Grandma's house." Yuan Manniang hugged the sleeping Lu Rui, and led the child out in a panic.
Lu Xu first went to Yan's house to knock on the door, "Jun Qi! Auntie!"
Yan Junqi had just fallen asleep when he heard the noise and jumped out of bed wearing a pair of underwear.
Lu Xu: "A lot of people came down from the mountain, and asked my aunt to take Wenzhen to the third grandma's house to hide."
Yan's mother heard the commotion and quickly came out with Wen Zhen in her arms, "What's wrong?"
Yan Junqi looked towards the mountain road and pondered for a moment, "Mom, you and Wen Zhen go to the third grandma's house. Brother Xu and I will go and have a look."
Mother Yan was a little worried, "You two? Call more people!"
Yan Junqi: "Let's take a look from a distance."
Yan's mother replied, "Be careful and stay out of the way, you know?"
Yan Junqi agreed and ran out to follow Lu Xu.
Lu Xu said anxiously: "Don't go, you go take care of my mother and the others."
Yan Junqi: "That side is in the direction of Guanyang. If the bandits don't come from the west, maybe they are officials from Guanyang. Let's go take a look first."
Lu Xu: "Okay, okay."
Yan Junqi: "Put out the torch, don't let them see it, let's hide."
Lu Xu trotted to the stream and threw the torch into the stream.
Yan Junqi tied up his clothes and said, "We have to ask someone to notify Li Zheng."
Lu Xu: "I asked Lu Zhou to go."
He trotted back and looked at Yan Junqi in the moonlight. Yan Junqi was wearing a fine linen lining with loose hair. His face was serious and worried but not panicked. He was calm as if nothing happened. Lu Xu suddenly laughed, inexplicably feeling that it was no big deal, "You are younger than me, why don't you know how to be afraid?"
Yan Junqi was startled and smiled at him, "Looking at the torches, there are not too many of them. There is no need to be afraid if they are really bandits."
Lu Xu said "Hmm", and relying on his familiarity with the mountain roads, he led Yan Junqi quietly behind the wild trees on the hillside and waited for them to come over.
There was already movement in the village, and lights were turned on in the direction of Li Zheng's house.
Lu Xu felt more at ease.
They waited quietly, the torch was approaching, Lu Xu held his breath, and heard a familiar accent from a distance with doubts: "It's so late, why are so many people in the village still awake?"
"Do they know we're coming back today?"
"No way!"
Another voice said in a particularly familiar voice, "Why is there still a light on at Big Brother's house?"
Lu Xu:......
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