Walking in the infinite world

Chapter 40 Mooncakes
Li Guangyin didn't know that his every move was properly arranged.Instead, he felt like he was getting in touch with the truth about the town.

After chatting with the steward of the horse city.He chatted with an old man who came to town to exchange eggs for rice.

The other party's eloquence is not as good as the previous management.However, Li Guangyin felt that the news obtained in this way was more real.He wanted to know the truth about the town and the true face of the city lord.

After asking many people in a row, Li Guangyin finally had a general impression of the town and the city lord Lu.

To put it simply, half of the deeds of the City Lord Lu are true. He is the most powerful person Li Guangyin has ever seen in his life.

Alone and enslaved by horse bandits, he was able to infiltrate the horse bandits and gain the trust of the other party.Then four years later, a bureau was set up to exterminate all the horse bandits in one fell swoop.

The courage and strategy shown in this, as well as the kind of ruthless.All of them are only seen in Li Guangyin's life.

Knowing everything, Li Guangyin was basically relieved.At least Lu Xiao should not be a horse bandit. He should also want to reopen this business route as he said.

This time, Li Guangyin began to seriously think about this matter.He was thinking about the profit it represented.As a businessman, after knowing that there is no danger to life, I immediately returned to this.

This road takes a month or so less than the road he is going to take now.This is undoubtedly a huge advantage.The key is how to convince other people.

Three days later, in the same living room, Li Guangyin saw Lu Xiao again.This time, Li Guangyin salutes with sincere admiration.For a young man in his weak crown, it is rare in the world for one person to dominate a city.In particular, this town is the most difficult city to control because of the sturdy folk customs of the frontier.

But for three days, Li Guangyin saw only one thing.In this city, Lu Xiao is the god of everyone.

"City Lord Lu, I agreed to your previous request. However, we need to discuss the detailed joints carefully."

This discussion between Li Guangyin and Lu Xiao lasted for two full days.The two imagined all possible problems and worked out all kinds of details.

Lu Xiao even asked Li Guangyin to put out his goods, and now there is a trade fair in the town.

Been here for over four years.Lu Xiao has long noticed that the living conditions here are surprisingly poor.In a radius of [-] miles, there is not even a single cave that can fire ceramics.Even simple household utensils such as teacups and chopsticks are seriously insufficient.

In many villages' peasant homes, pottery and wooden utensils are even used.

Now that there are no horse bandits, we don't have to worry about good things being robbed.Lu Xiao wanted to stimulate their consumption concept.Money is money only when it flows.to make the city prosperous.

Li Guangyin agreed to the request without hesitation.For him, after making a plan with Lu Xiao to reopen the business route.He no longer cares about this small business.Because Lu Xiao promised him the promise of being a partner for 20 years.Li Guangyin understood that if this matter was accomplished, it would be enough to ensure the prosperity of his family for 50 years.

In this way, he naturally despised this business of wading through mountains and rivers and carrying the belt of his trousers.

The deal lasted five days.It didn't end until all the villagers who could come around had come.

Lu Xiao dispatched Ding An, with the best twenty swordsmen, to escort Li Guangyin's caravan out of the city.Xiang Qie was walking behind Lu Xiao and said to him.

"If your plan is really successful. We don't have enough swordsmen here. A caravan needs at least twenty swordsmen to guard. We have less than [-] people in total, so it's not enough."

"So we are going to start preparations now. You can go to those cities in the north now and buy some children from there. Although the court has banned the sale of people. But these frontier cities, this phenomenon is very common. We will cultivate from now on, By the time the trade route really opens, it will be enough."

"Just have a plan. My old bones can still function for a few years. I will try to train as many hands as possible for you. Before I die, maybe I can really see the picture you said."

"You can definitely see it." Lu Xiao said with certainty.

"If someone said it, I wouldn't believe it. But you said, I must live until that time and see it with my own eyes. Go back early today."

He seemed to say something casually.Lu Xiao didn't care, but nothing happened.He still decided to go home early.

As soon as I got home, I saw the girl was busy in front of the chopping board.Lu Xiao walked over to take a look, and saw that the girl's face was full of flour, and she seemed a little embarrassed.

"What are you doing?" Lu Xiao glanced at it. There were some doughs on the chopping board. It seemed that something had been added, and it turned yellow.But can't see what it is doing.

"What are you doing?"

"Moon cakes! I heard my dad say it once when I was a kid. When he was young, he went to a distant city with others and saw that the merchants sold them. He couldn't afford it, so he asked them how they made them. When he came back, he told me Pass.

But it's been years and I can't remember how.Tried it a few times without success. "

The girl looked disappointed.She originally wanted to surprise Lu Xiao.But it clearly failed.For a girl who was born in the countryside of the western frontier.Her pastry skills are obviously not enough to complete the dessert-level pasta process of moon cakes.Not to mention she never really learned the detailed craft.Just trying it myself based on a little vague dictation from my childhood.No wonder it was successful.

Lu Xiao looked at the dough on the chopping board, thought for a moment, and then said.

"Let me help."

"No, no." The girl quickly stood up and protected her chopping board. "You are a man, how can you do such a thing?"

"Hehe, don't you know that the chefs in the Zhongyuan Restaurant are all men. I still know a little about moon cakes."

Lu Xiao didn't lie, he really understood a little bit of theory.

Look at the materials on the table.Flour, icing sugar, chestnuts, and some lard.That's all the ingredients.Compared to later generations, it is a bit too simple.

Lu Xiao thought about it for a while, and after rummaging through the boxes, he found some nuts such as walnuts and peanuts.Crushed to make some nutty fillings.

In fact, Lu Xiao himself likes moon cakes with red bean paste or egg yolk the most.But there is no bean paste at all, and he can't make egg yolks.You can only pay attention to the use of nuts and five kernels.Of course, the nut filling is a timeless classic, and he is perfectly acceptable.

The girl was surprised to see Lu Xiao dissolve the icing sugar in the water, then add flour to start kneading again.Then fry all the nut fillings, mix the flour frosting and water, and make a filling ball one by one.

After that, wrap the filling dough with the live dough and make it into the shape of a thick dough cake.Then brush the surface with oil and put it directly into the oven to bake.

　Let me tell you something, don't believe what I said about the pastry craftsmanship.I paid a very heavy price for this, and almost killed the dog in my hometown! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)