At this moment, the threshold of the blacksmith shop in the county was about to be broken, and it was just a pot of a dozen or dozens of taels of silver, which really scared off many people.

Those who don't have money can't afford it, and those who have money don't care.

As long as they have some family background, they all go to the blacksmith to set the pot.

It's just that they didn't understand such a big secret, why didn't Lu Xu make a closed kitchen, and just show it to people on the street?

Even Lu Wen asked this question, but Lu Xu didn't want to hide it at all.

Now that the iron ore has been dug up, why not use the iron pot?

Promoting the development of gastronomy is everyone's responsibility!

In the past, he was poor and had to rely on fried fritters to support his family, but now, he has such a big advantage as the Guanyang Alliance, even if others know, he is still confident that others will not win against him.

Aside from cooking skills, even the purchase price, he also threw others off a lot.

What's more, he has always made small profits and quick turnover, as long as he calculates, he knows that he is not as cost-effective as buying from him. In addition to the fact that there is no shortage of money, who is idle and has nothing to do to spend a dozen taels to buy an iron pot just to eat a fritter for himself?

The iron pot is really popular, and it has to wait for the iron to drop in price.

As for the study of restaurants and restaurants, then let's learn.

He grew up in food immersion, and with a gap of thousands of years, others may do better than him in a certain dish or a few dishes, but on the whole, he has too many advantages. It's like a full menu on the go.

What he wants is just to be rich and safe, and not to monopolize the industry, the more delicious others cook, the happier he is. If it weren't for the fact that he could only cook and have no other skills to make a living, he wouldn't have to be a cook.

After all, he loves to eat more than cooking!

However, he can't tell others about this, so he can only pretend to be mysterious and secretive, and tell Lu Wen, who is chasing after him, "There is competition to make progress, and the eldest brother has confidence." ”

Lu Wen's reaction was: Phew, I've never heard of such a big fool! Is it normal for the uncle's family to have one or two brains?

was then chased and beaten by Lu Xu and Lu Zhou - Lu Xu took the initiative, and Lu Zhou was hardlifted.

He is generous, the restaurant is happy, and the rich are also happy, but it is difficult for the chef of Quanguanyang.

They have learned steaming and barbecue all their lives, and suddenly they have to learn how to fry and fry.

How to season, how to formula, how to master the heat, what are the classic dishes, and where to learn?

It's originally a stealing teacher, so it's hard to ask Lu Xu, right?

Headache......

As for the regular diners, it's cool.

It's they who innovate the benefits of cooking.

Those who are tired of eating in restaurants and restaurants have run to Lu Xu's shop to taste fresh, not to mention coaxing Lu Xu to change tricks every day to make them uneaten, even if they go to the side to eat spicy hot dishes, it is fresh enough for a while.

It's all shabu-shabu, and it's delicious when people make it.

That fragrant, that spicy, how did you make it?

And Lu Xu sells things at a very generous price, spicy hot skewers cost a penny, although the meat is a little smaller, but the dishes are cheap!

A large piece of radish, a whole piece of cabbage, all for a penny.

In the past, he sold cold vegetables and sesame paste and collected money separately, but now he doesn't charge money for selling Malatang.

People with poor family backgrounds calculated it, and went to Lu Xu's to eat a spicy meal, which didn't cost much more than cooking at home.

So more people came to Lu Xu's shop to eat shabu-shabu, from the morning to his closing in the evening, there was an endless stream of spicy hot stalls, especially at noon, it was overcrowded, and the shop couldn't sit down, so Lu Xu had to go to the alley to set up tables and chairs.

Theoretically, the county government is not allowed to mess around in the alley, but now the officials are eating with him, who cares?!

Lu Xu is not Yan Junqi, not so arrogant, no matter how Luo Shen dislikes it, he sends some coupons to Luo Shen from time to time, Luo Shen doesn't accept it, he gives it to others, anyway, they are all relatives of Luo Shen's same clan, who collects it differently?

The ones he sent were all small, the number of sheets was large, the denomination was small, and the official errand also had an identity to save face, and few people took out a handful at one time, usually with one or two coupons for a meal, and the rest of the money.

Now, the yamen canteen doesn't want to take care of the meal at noon.

Lu Xu is happy to make money, but he is just a butcher who chops ribs, a dock guy who makes fish balls, and Liu Youzi who makes sesame paste.

At first, Lu Xu made fish balls by himself, but within three days, he couldn't do it, so he had to catch someone to make it for him.

Fish balls are good to find someone to help, and sesame sauce is the only one.

In the past, Lu Xu sold cold vegetables, and he consumed more than a dozen catties of sesame paste a month, Liu Youzi was very idle in his small days, and he also sarcastically used too little for Lu Xu.

Now it's okay, Lu Xu sells Malatang, and he can't wait to consume a bucket a day, Liu Youzi doesn't even have time to drink, he grinds sesame seeds at home every day, hurts and is happy, and scolds Lu Xu while collecting cash. When there is a drought and a flood, can't he save more when he is free?

With the popularity of Malatang and the rise of sesame sauce, the restaurant ran to inquire, good guy, this is the only one?!

They gritted their teeth and wanted to scold their mother, what did Liu Youzi eat, how could this thing also be figured out by Lu Xu?

In the busyness, the third aunt couldn't get out of her body after all, she was ruthless, gritted her teeth, and spent money to hire short-term workers to help with the autumn harvest.

Ten days have passed, the autumn harvest of Guanyang has come to an end, and the autumn planting has gradually come to an end.

The weather is very good during the autumn harvest, although today is a little drier than in previous years, but the Guanyang River is all over the place, there is almost no serious drought, and it is a bumper harvest.

The third aunt was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, and promised to pay the grain tax in one gulp, and all the grain would not be sold, and all of it would be kept for Lu Xu.

After the autumn harvest, the most anxious thing is only the fixed grain tax.

It's just that this year, waiting, waiting, the autumn harvest is all busy, the winter wheat is planted, the radish and cabbage are all finished, and I haven't waited for Xin'er yet.

The peasant households who were frightened during the summer harvest and the citizens of Guanyang County, who had been suffering from a grain shortage for the summer, had already begun to ponder whether to store grain, and the tax amount was finally set.

Twenty-one.

The whole Guanyang is stupid.

Squatting outside the county government waiting for news, some people are crying and some are laughing, and Lujia Village is squatting down with his face covered, with old tears.

Volume 3 Returning from a Long Distance

Chapter 79: Meet Again

Everyone paid the land tax for the autumn harvest happily, and this time, Lu Xu was still busy with business in the county, and the third and fourth aunts had already paid it for his family.

Anyway, his family only has those two acres of land, and he doesn't have to pay taxes to open that bit of wasteland.

Lujia Village paid all the field taxes in half a day, came out of the wharf of Yinma Town, and flocked to the large and small shops in the town to buy meat, tofu, sugar, cloth, and snacks for children.

Those who were on a tight budget also bought tofu from the town, and rushed back to the village to buy water and meat with bones at the butcher's house.

The Lu family's grocery store also crowded in a lot of people, usually reluctant to buy snacks for their children, housewives reluctant to buy color threads, reluctant to buy good fabrics, all bought, almost emptied the Lu family's shop.

Grandma Lu couldn't take care of her bad spirits, she kept cutting cloth with a ruler, and Lu Zhou, who was teaching her younger brothers and sisters to read and write during the holiday, had to lead Xiaoyu, Xiaoman, Layue, and Lu Fu to pull cotton for people.

After the autumn harvest and autumn planting, it is the time to be busy getting married, especially in these two months, the weather is neither hot nor cold, and there are more than a dozen families in the village to do happy events.

They have a custom here, the little girl begins to make her own wedding dress after she is married, and if she has a good family, she will make a red wedding dress, and if she has a poor family, she will inlay red edges on the collar and cuffs of the wedding dress and make a red hijab.

Before getting married, both parties have to sew quilts for the newlyweds at home, those who have money tear cloth to make new ones, and those who don't have money must dismantle and wash the old quilts and sew them again.

In the first few days of marriage, the women of the village went to the homes of their good friends to help.

Two days ago, Grandpa Lu asked Tan Stone to send more festive color fabrics and cotton when he delivered the goods, Tan Stone didn't understand very much, one said that it was a happy quilt, and the cooperative cloth shop guys chose for him to sell well and cost-effectively, and the Lu family grocery store left two horses, Grandpa Lu previously felt that this cloth was a little more expensive, I was afraid that it was not easy to sell, but now it is not enough to sell.

Those who bought meat came to buy salt and spices, there were adults and children, holding jars, carrying baskets, there were many people in the shop, adults let the children buy first, and suddenly noticed two large pieces of paper pasted on the outer wall of the grocery store.

The paper is squared, horizontal and vertical, and the grid is drawn while writing at the same time, and the words are very large and neat.

Seeing this, some people couldn't help but praise Lu Zhoulai.

"I see, Xiaozhou has grown up, and he has to be more productive than his brother!"

"I look at it too."

Lu Zhou led Layue to the grocery store every evening to teach Xiaoman and Xiaoyu to read and write, they all had books, but Lu Fu did not. Lu Fu is half a year younger than La Yue, how can Lu Xu destroy such a small doll, but his brothers and sisters are all learning, no one plays with him, and he also wants to participate.

There are usually many children outside the grocery store, and as soon as Lu Fu participated, some people wanted to play along.

A large number of people in Lujia Village are surnamed Lu, and they are all relatives, no matter how big or small, this pile, some are his uncle, some are his younger brother, and some call him uncle.

Lu Zhou's sense of mission rose, keeping in mind the teachings of his eldest brother, spending his pocket money to buy thick paper, laying a good grid, learning the Mongolian book that Lu Xu bought from the state capital, drawing pictures and writing at the same time, opening an enlightenment class outside the grocery store, learning a word, and filling a word on the wall for everyone to see.

However, his initiation class has not been going well.

Literacy is boring, not everyone is willing to learn, and not everyone is as talented in reading as he and Yan Junqi are. Some people learn fast, some people learn slowly, in order to let the slow can also learn, he taught the word "salt" for three days, and there are still people who can't learn, looking at the little dots he drew on the paper and shouting - "sesame"!

Lu Zhou was particularly frustrated, even if he was blind, he couldn't shout "sesame" at a single word! Sesame seeds are obviously two words!

Lu Zhou, who has a future, has not yet figured out how to solve the problem of inconsistent progress, and his group of relatives, who are less than ten years old and less than three years younger, all refuse to do their homework!

Alas......

The adults gathered aside, except for the children, and the conversation was naturally about the price of food.

Rice is more expensive than wheat, and those who grow rice expect to sell it for a lot of money at this time.

In the past, the officials and businessmen who came to collect rice often arrived earlier than the official ships that collected taxes, and they were all waiting at the wharf of Yinma Town to collect grain, but this time I don't know what happened, they didn't see a few grain collection ships when they went to pay taxes.

Not only in Lujia Village, but also in Guanyang County, many people have noticed the same problem.

Lu Xu and Yan Junqi, who also took a holiday and came to settle the accounts for them, boldly speculated: "Is there a new change in the war in the north?" The battle is almost over? ”

Not only Lu Xu guessed, but also businessmen with a keen sense of smell were guessing.

In the past, the ships of the military department were eager to empty their county granaries and not leave them a grain of rice, but now, the autumn harvest has been over for several days, why haven't we seen the official messenger urging grain?

Except for the Guanyang granary, the official grain merchants elsewhere are not in a hurry, and even the grain price has not been reported for a long time.

Yan Junqi also felt the same way, "The price of rice this year will not be as high as in previous years." ”

As a farmer and a food trader, Lu Xu didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy for a while.

Two days later, the official ships that began to collect grain at the wharves finally unified the price -- rice with chaff was 3,500 wen per stone, and the rice polished was more than 40 wen per catty, which was 45 wen per catty lower than last year's and 7 or 8 wen lower than this summer.

The entire farmers in Guanyang were stunned.

This price is already the price of grain five years ago.

But the people who have no land are happy, the price of grain is cheap, their cost of living is low, and they have more money to buy other things, so that they can save for the winter.