Li Xiangyang looked at her and suddenly felt a little hot at the base of his ears. He quickly turned around and pointed at the two large backpacks hanging on the back seat: "I heard you are looking for these, can you see if they are what you want?"
Lin Lan breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this and said sincerely: "Thank you! When I bake the mooncakes, you will be the first to taste them."
"I think the ham mooncakes taste good, can you make them?" Li Xiangyang glanced at her with a smile, took the iron sheet out of the basket and put it on the eaves of the steps.
Lin Lan held the baking pan and smiled: "If there is ham, I can try it."
Li Xiangyang said with a smile: "I have ham at home, and I will supply it to you." In addition to custom-made hams from customers, a batch of his cured hams are also handed over to the cooperative every year.
Lin Lan's eyes lit up: "That would be the best. After the earthen oven is built, I will try it first." She originally planned to make bean paste mooncakes, egg yolk mooncakes and five-nut mooncakes. If there is ham, she can add another variety.
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Lin Yuezhen brought out a cup of tea, looked at the two of them chatting and laughing, pursed her lips and handed him the honey water with a smile.
"You drink water, and I'll get you money."
Lin Lan went into the house and took the money, and then took out a bamboo tube of tea leaves and handed it to him: "This is fried wild tea that my mother and sister-in-law picked in the mountains. It tastes good. You can take it back and drink it. If you like it next time
Bring it to you!”
Li Xiangyang accepted it readily: "Thank you! I have to go back and prepare the pork for the stall." When he got to the door, he said again, "If you want to use ham, just tell me and I will bring it to you."
In the afternoon, after Zhao Dehai and Wang Zhixue came to see it, they took the time to cut bamboo, found a few pieces of wood from the roof of the pigsty, and built a straw shed diagonally against the east wall.
The children helped. Lin Lan went to buy candies and fruits for them to eat. When she saw the old pumpkin on the melon vine, she steamed the old pumpkin with glutinous rice flour and made pumpkin cakes for them to eat.
The next day, Master Lu wrapped the remaining iron sheet on a thick wooden board and fixed it to the door with hinges. It looked somewhat similar to the oven in a pastry shop.
Yang Dingbang saw that his face was so dark that it was almost dripping with water. He knew that he was going to attack Liu Jinbao, so he grabbed his shoulder and looked at him: "Don't mess around, no one can avoid the trouble you cause.
"Thank you, Master Lu!" Lin Lan thanked him politely, paid the wages, and took some kidney bean rolls and mung bean cakes to send the father and son away.
She planned to print her name on the wrapping paper and use this sign when opening a shop.
After the oven was built, Lin Lan bought red paper and kraft paper, cut it and started making paper bags. Xiaodouzi didn't go out to play anymore and helped at home every day. Xiaokai and Xiaoyun came.
When Li Xiangyang learned that the oven was built, he sent a ham to Lin Lan's house and said with a smile: "The two-year-old ham I brought you has the best taste at this time.
"Asked!" Yang Dingbang said with a gloomy face, "He said that in April, Liu Jinbao asked Lao Gui to seduce Lin Lan but failed, and was almost crippled by Lin Lan's sister-in-law. Lao Gui paid Liu Jinbao more than 200 yuan for medical expenses.
Li Xiangyang smiled and nodded: "Yeah! The old man's pickled ham is really good, and the stock made with it is salty and fragrant." He then took out a basket from the back seat and said, "These watermelons are grown on the pig farm.
, sent here for you to try."
Lin Lan also asked them to make a row of plant racks out of bamboo for easy placement of things. She also asked a carving master to carve the name of Lan Xiangzhai Cake, which was the name of her previous shop.
Lin Lan chose the location of the earthen oven in the east aisle. Master Lu and his son spent a day building the earthen oven, leaving only the oven door and chimney unfinished.
Li Xiangyang lifted the basket on his back and put it on the eaves: "These are the leftovers from the fruit sellers, and they are not worth much."
"Okay." Lin Lan went into the house and took a bundle of straw and gave it to Master Lu.
Ye San's heart was moved, thinking that there were few people going out in July and a half, and people would be asleep after drinking wine after offering sacrifices, so he mixed the rat poison that had been prepared long ago with fat meat, threw it into the yard for Rhubarb to eat, and climbed over the wall into the yard to kill it.
Dead rhubarb…
After the oven was completely dry, Lin Lan used flour to test the baking time of each mooncake in the oven, as well as the time it took for the temperature in the oven to rise, and recorded them one by one on the wall.
A few days ago, Liu Jinbao was beaten with a sack again. He couldn't swallow this breath. When he was gambling at Lao Gui's house, he said that he would give two hundred to anyone who killed Lin Lan.
Master Lu grabbed the handle and opened and closed it a few times, and nodded with satisfaction. Seeing that his son had built the chimney, he called Lin Lan and said with a smile: "Okay, bring some grass over here, let me see if the flue is clear?"
Lin Lan saw that the melons were all round, and they didn't look like they were picking out the leftovers. Seeing that he had already put them down, he couldn't say anything and had to accept them. He smiled and said, "When I make the ham mooncakes, I will give them to you and Uncle Li to taste first."
." After that, he asked for the money for the ham and gave him the money for the ham.
"Then I'll wait. I bought the mooncakes for this year's festival from you." Li Xiangyang took the money from Lin Lan and reluctantly rode to Yang Dingbang's house.
Lin Yuezhen looked at her and nodded with a smile, thinking: I think he is particularly enthusiastic about you.
Yang Dingbang looked at him and said with a smile: "The master of suffering is not as active as you."
"Xiao Lin, the stove is not completely dry yet. Let's burn it slowly over low heat. Once it is dry, it can be used." Master Lu said, lighting the straw and putting it into the stove. When he saw the smoke floating out of the chimney, he felt relieved.
He nodded: "Okay, let's let it dry for a few days. Once it's completely dry, it'll be ready when the stove heats it up."
"good."
Liu Jinbao is not popular with the Liu family, but if something happens, the Liu family will definitely protect him."
Li Xiangyang rolled his eyes at him: "Ye San's family came to Lin Lan's house to cause trouble a few days ago. Have you asked him about his motive for committing the crime?"
Lin Lan sent him to the gate of the courtyard and watched him ride away. He went back and looked at the iron sheet and baking pan placed on the eaves of the steps, and sighed: "Li Xiangyang is such a warm-hearted person."
Yesterday we summoned Liu Jinbao, but he refused to admit it and said that Ye San had wronged him just to evade responsibility.
Zhao Dehai helped buy bricks, cement, and dug clay, and Master Lu came to build the earth oven.
Lin Lan saw that the ham he was carrying was withered and yellow in color, the meat was oily, and it smelled like roasted sesame seeds. She praised: "Uncle Li's cured ham is really good."
Lin Lan saw that the basket on his back was full, and said embarrassedly: "There are too many, just take two and try them."
When Lao Gui and Zhang Hua were summoned, they also said that Liu Jinbao never said such a thing, and also said that Ye San heard that Lin Lan was setting up a stall in the eucalyptus forest and the business was booming, so he planned to go to her house to make a profit."
Li Xiangyang punched the table: "Something worse than a pig or a dog..."
Li Xiangyang snorted coldly: "I'm not a melon, so I'll come to your door in broad daylight."
Yang Dingbang warned: "You can teach me a lesson, but don't kill anyone and clean up your tail."
Li Xiangyang nodded: "I know it well."
Mao’s sister-in-law owns a pastry shop, so I consulted her specifically when writing this chapter.