Started as a poor little girl

So the family exchanged glances and agreed. Then they started picking up snails together. They carefully picked up the snails one by one and put them into the basket.

Li Lulu's fingers were nimble, and soon the basket was filled with snails. She was so happy. Where in the modern world could you find such pure and natural, pollution-free snails? These were actually golden apple snails pretending to be giant snails. She had to eat her fill today.

After returning home, everyone took the snail meat to the river to process and clean it. Li Lulu, her mother and her aunt took turns putting the snails into clean water, adding salt and rubbing them vigorously until there was no mucus on them.

During this process, the aunt also talked about how they cooked snails when they were young, which made Li Lulu understand why her mother said they were unpalatable.

When they got home, Li Qingping had already cooked the meal, and Li Lulu rolled up her sleeves to prepare cooking.

First, I stewed the goose that my brothers brought back two days ago. When they came back last night, they bought a big goose. Li Lulu and the others had already cleaned and chopped it up when they came back from the river.

Put the chopped goose pieces into cold water, add onion segments, ginger slices, and white wine, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and use warm water again to wash off the foam and blood attached to the goose meat.

Pour oil into the pan, add sugar and stir-fry until it turns dark brown. Quickly pour in the blanched goose meat, stir-fry until the goose meat is colored, then add bay leaves, star anise and other seasonings.

Stir-fry the goose meat until it is colored, add hot water to the same level as the goose meat, add dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, salt, and rice wine.

Then it stewed, and when Li Lulu finished frying other dishes in another pot, it was almost done. Li Dashan lit the fire to control the heat, as grandpa was very good at lighting fires.

The snail meat is also being fried. Add appropriate amount of cooking wine and salt to the water, and blanch the cleaned conch meat in the water.

Dice the ginger and garlic, cut the dried chili into small pieces, put the blanched conch meat into cold water and let it sit for a while to make it more crispy.

Heat the pan with cold oil, add the peppercorns and fry over low heat until fragrant. Add the minced garlic and ginger and fry over low heat until fragrant.

Add dried chili peppers into the pot and fry over low heat until fragrant. Add conch meat into the pot and stir-fry. You can add appropriate amount of salt, chili powder and thirteen spices.

"Brother, please help me pick some perilla leaves in the backyard." Li Xiaoyang quickly went to the backyard to pick some perilla leaves.

This perilla leaf was found by Li Lulu on the roadside. There are a lot of them on the roadside in their village, but the villagers didn’t know what they were used for. Only Li Lulu used it to cook from time to time, so only people at home knew that it could be used for cooking.

After adding perilla leaves, the snail meat is ready to be served. It smells delicious and Yuanyuan in the yard is already crying with greed.

"Sister Lulu, it smells so good! Yuanyuan thinks it must be delicious." Tap, tap, tap. Wu Yuanyuan ran to the kitchen. Looking at the delicious snail meat, tears flowed from the corners of her mouth.

"Ouch! Why is our little greedy cat drooling?"

Yue Xiangmei came in with a basin and saw Wu Yuanyuan staring at the food with drooling. She quickly put down the basin, took out a handkerchief to wipe it clean for Wu Yuanyuan, and picked up a piece of snail meat with chopsticks for her to taste.

Wu Yuanyuan looked very satisfied after eating the snail meat, and she obediently went to the yard to chase butterflies.

The dishes were ready, and Li Qingping went to Li Qingsong's house and called everyone in his family to eat together.

In the evening, everyone sat together, and today's snail meat became everyone's most popular dish. The snail meat was fried with a fragrant aroma, and its color, aroma and taste were all great.

Everyone enjoyed the food, chatted and laughed. This sumptuous dinner became a wonderful memory of Datan Village.

As night falls, the bright moonlight shines all over the earth. In the fields, frogs croak one after another, adding a touch of vitality and vigor to this quiet night. Listening to the beautiful frog croaking, you will have a good night's sleep.

The next day, Li Lulu had been in the village for almost a month. She wanted to go to Maple Leaf Town to see how the shop was doing. Yue Haitang also went back with the three siblings.

She had stayed in the village for too long and was worried about her husband, so she had to go back to the pastry shop to check.

When she came back, she saw some hooligans blocking the door of the shop. Li Lulu immediately knew why.

Their business was so good that it aroused the jealousy and dissatisfaction of other vendors.

Especially some people who are a little powerful, they feel that their business is threatened. They decided to take action to teach this young girl a lesson, so that she can't run her store, and it would be best if she can't stay in this town.

She was very calm. She gave the jade token Xiao Jinnian gave her to her elder brother and asked him to go to the government office to resolve the matter. After all, professional matters should be left to professionals.

She strode into the store, and these thugs didn't stop her at all because they thought she was just a little girl.

"Lu Lu, you're finally back. These ruffians have come to make trouble several times. I have also gone to the government several times, but the government just ignored me." Wu Qingshu was helpless and disappointed. It turned out that the government was in cahoots with these people. How could ordinary people survive?

Li Lulu had already anticipated this situation, so she took out Xiao Jinnian's jade token. Even the little county magistrate knew about this thing. There were special secrets on it, but she had no idea what it looked like.

"Uncle, don't worry, I have a way to handle it. Please tell me first if anyone in the shop is injured!" Li Lulu was worried that these helpers she had carefully trained would be injured. She was not afraid of these ruffians because she had a way to deal with them.

“These scoundrels stand at the door of the shop every day, scaring the customers who come to the store. They dare not come in. They also spread rumors that the food in the shop is unhygienic. They even hired some people to make trouble in the shop and smash things.” Wu Qingshu was a scholar, and he was also a little scared. Moreover, the six pretty girls in the pastry shop were scared by the hooligans and dared not come out.

"Uncle, please calculate the losses and settle the accounts so that I can find them and send them back to me."

The people in this town are all small fry, with no big backers. At most they have a county magistrate, but would the county magistrate dare to challenge the prince?

This incident gave Li Lulu a new idea. To avoid these hooligans, she had to go and see if Boss Zhong had anyone who knew Kung Fu, and buy a few to look after her shop. Who would dare to come and cause trouble?

It's fine if no one makes trouble! Anyway, this burly man is standing at the door, so who dares to make trouble?

"Take them all back." The captain ordered the ruffians at the door to be taken away.

"Sister, I have brought the shop owner here." Li Xiaoyang looked very happy. He beat the drum and went to the court. He showed the jade tablet. The county magistrate knelt down immediately after seeing it and sent someone to deal with the matter immediately.

The county magistrate was not a corrupt official, he was just lazy. He usually let the legal advisor take care of those small matters. Who knew that the legal advisor would be such a person, accepting bribes and helping others to make money. Now he has hit a wall.

He had met a jerk. Why did he have to offend that girl when he could have offended anyone else? It was Prince Jin who ordered the arrest of Old Lady Li. Before Prince Jin returned to the capital, he also reminded the county magistrate to take good care of the little girl. The prefect above had already informed him.

Now, he has been offended by his master and his cronies! If King Jin knew about this, he would have to chop off ten heads.

"Miss Li, the county magistrate invites you to his mansion for tea. Would you like to go?" The county magistrate had given a strict order to the shop owner. If this young lady found out, they would all be finished. He was especially respectful to Li Lulu.

"Well, since the county magistrate has asked the shop owner to come and invite me personally, I will definitely go. But you have to wait for me. I can't go empty-handed! After all, it's not right to go to a visit empty-handed."

Li Lulu went to the pastry shop diagonally opposite, packed some pastries, and gave some to the shop owner before leaving.

"Lulu, let me go with you!" Li Xiaoyang looked at his sister worriedly. He wanted his sister to agree to let him go with her.

But he was disappointed. Li Lulu shook her head and did not agree to him.

"Brother, please help out in the shop! I have other things to do later!"

Although he was a little disappointed that his sister didn't take him with her, he believed that his sister would be fine. He returned the jade token to his sister. This thing must be very important and he was afraid of losing it.

This must be something belonging to some important person, otherwise the county magistrate would have knelt down when he saw it.

Li Lulu and the shop owner came to the county magistrate's yard. Tea and snacks were ready. Unfortunately, the pastries were bought from Li Lulu's shop. There was a little deer printed on their pastries to prevent others from copying her things.

The mold was designed by myself, so no one else can copy it.

"My lady greets you, sir," Li Lulu bowed.