After arriving home, Tong Wen Yao burned firewood and planned to grill the charcoal. Because there was no barbecue rack, she made a barbecue net with bamboo strips. As long as the fire was not too big, she could grill it continuously!

Second Aunt went into the kitchen to help Qian's mother cook, and Tong Wen Yao was busy grilling the meat one skewers at a time. Another reason she went to the workshop was to get chili powder. After the chili powder was heated, sesame seeds and crushed peanuts were added, and the grilled meat was mixed with chili powder. The aroma would make the kids next door hungry!

Even Wu Ping and Qiu Zhen came. Qiu Zhen was quick and nimble and quickly lit the charcoal. Tong Wen Yao put the charcoal into a white ceramic pot, set up a net on the mouth of the pot, and then put the mutton and venison on it. Therefore, only about twenty skewers could be grilled at a time. Even so, Wen Jiang was still watching the meat with relish.

Wen Jiang was puzzled. Since the meat was being roasted on a bamboo net, why not weave the net tighter so that the meat could be roasted directly on the bamboo strips instead of having to string them together one by one?

But he didn't ask. He just thought that if this situation happened again next time, he could talk to his sister and see if he could try his current idea.

However, fortunately he saved it for next time, otherwise if he told Tong Wen Yao now, Tong Wen Yao would say that he had such a good idea but didn’t say it out loud, and made me skewer him for so long!

After a while, bursts of fragrance came from the kitchen. Wen Jiang tried to inhale it and said intoxicatedly, "This soup will taste very delicious and not smell of mutton." Tong Wen Yao also smelled it and nodded in agreement.

Qian's mother was only good at making soup, the rest of her cooking was mediocre. But if Wen Jiang wanted to eat someone's food, she would definitely choose her aunt's cooking without hesitation. The food was simply much more delicious than what Cui's mother cooked.

At this time, Tong Wen Yao had just put the rack up, and the meal had already started before she was done. Helplessly, she had to eat some food first to fill her stomach and wait to grill the meat later!

Wen Jiang refused to eat no matter what. He stayed alone beside the ceramic jar. The opening of this ceramic jar was larger than that of ordinary ceramic jars, about 26 cm wide and about 15 cm high. Tong Wen Yao drew a blueprint and asked Uncle Du to make it. The weather was cold, and the spicy strips made in the spicy strip workshop had to be heated, but they were not very tasty when heated. The shops in the town and Cangzhou could not be closed, so she planned to open a barbecue shop and a hot pot shop. Then the spicy strips could be used as a snack before meals. In Cangzhou, the spicy strips needed to be larger. Second Aunt said that one or two merchants had found her in the past few days and wanted to get the goods, so the spicy strips would gradually go the way of merchants in the future.

However, these still need Wu Zhu to come and see, and now the grill is still in the debugging stage, so we have to wait for Wu Zhu to come and discuss it. The amount of dinner is very simple, not to mention that we have to save stomach for barbecue, so Tong Wenyao just ate a little.

The lanterns in the yard were lit. When Wu Zhu arrived, it was just getting dark. It was dim, and one could vaguely see Fushan holding a lantern, with Wu Zhu walking behind him.

A bonfire was lit in the yard, illuminating the entire yard. The light projected people's shadows onto the wall. Tong Wenyao became interested after seeing this and projected her hands into the shape of a wolf onto the wall.

Xin'er was the first to see it and was startled! Tong Wenyao wanted to tease her and waved her hands, and the shadow on the wall moved closer to Xin'er! When Xin'er saw it, she quickly hid beside her mother, not daring to look at the wall anymore. Tong Wenyao then changed the shadow to a little rabbit, "Xin'er, don't be afraid, the big bad wolf is gone, now it's a little rabbit."

Xin'er took a furtive glance and then released her grip on her mother's clothes. Guo'er, who was watching from the side, also imitated her gestures and projected a little rabbit onto the wall, making it even more lifelike than Tong Wenyao's. Xin'er tried to catch the little rabbit on the wall, but missed.

Tong Wenyao saw that everyone was there, so she went to the kitchen to get some grapes and shared them with everyone. Even Wu Zhu ate a few.

"Sister Yaoer, you don't know that I haven't eaten such fresh fruit for several days." Fushan nodded aside. In the past, he could eat oranges with the young master, but now he can't.

Tong Wenyao asked puzzledly, "Doesn't your family at Cangzhou Wharf send goods south? How come you can't eat it?" Wu Zhuyou picked up a small bunch of grapes and shook his head, "There's chaos in the south right now, and fruit is hard to buy."

Tong Bo heard this and asked, "What happened in the south?" Fu Shan, standing nearby, took over. "I heard there were floods in the south, and many people drowned! Our master had planned to go south to buy goods after the New Year, but the people who came back said there were floods in the south, and corpses were everywhere. The water was full of bloated bodies, and even the fruit trees and vegetables were gone. Luckily, they brought some back and were able to sell them for a little money."

Tong Wen Yao was a little surprised when she heard this. The book didn't mention floods in the south, but Fu Shan said that the floods in the south caused many deaths and countless people became homeless and refugees. So, according to the current court, could it appease them?

After smelling the aroma of barbecue, Wu Zhu sat down next to the pottery jar, asking from time to time when it would be ready. His greedy look was exactly the same as Wen Jiang. Seeing Wu Zhu staring at the string in his hand, Wen Jiang tried hard to move to the side, but before she could move to a safe place, Wu Zhu snatched it away.

"If you don't eat it after it's roasted, give it to me!" Wu Zhu's hand speed was so fast that before Wen Jiang could react, it was already in her mouth. Wen Jiang was so angry that her teeth itched and she said in her heart, "Just wait for me!"

He took a skewer that was almost roasted, and then accidentally added most of the chili powder that he had originally put in it. He moved it carefully as before, but in his heart he was expecting Wu Zhu to snatch the skewer from his hand, preferably to give him a spicy kick so that he would grab the food.

But Wu Zhu had guessed Wen Jiang's thoughts. He didn't dare to say anything else, but having followed his father in business for many years, he knew everything about people and affairs! Sometimes he just pretended to be stupid, just like when the Tong family first arrived and he and the little girl fell into the field together. Others really thought he was pushed in, but Wu Zhu knew he did it on purpose, even when he came to their house to practice martial arts.

Before the Tong family arrived, he had already sent people to investigate them. His father had said that the way to cling to someone powerful was to share their hardships before they became powerful. And the Tong family just happened to be included in their investment scope! If the Tong family could really turn things around later, then he would have connections! And business requires connections the most.

Wu Zhu did not reach out to take the barbecue, and Wen Jiang did not want to move where she had put it, but she was embarrassed to put it back, so she could only take it out and eat the extra spicy barbecue she had prepared with tears in her eyes.