Fu Xiaojian made a total of two kinds of cakes, moon cakes and sugar cakes. The production of mooncakes requires special molds, the skin is thicker, the baking time is longer, and the filling inside is richer, which can be said to be rich only brown sugar, sesame seeds and red date paste. This is also something he found with great difficulty, and he naturally can't ask for too much in the era of scarcity of materials. Even this kind of simple mooncake can only be afforded by the working class with a better family environment. The other is for ordinary families, sugar cakes, there is only one kind of filling in the sugar cake, that is, white sugar, Fu Xiaojian sprinkled a layer of sesame seeds on it in order to make this sugar cake look beautiful and delicious.

When Fu Xiaojian and Jiang Daqing were busy inside, they heard a familiar voice outside, and immediately came out of the kitchen.

"Mother, why are you here, and Aunt Li, you are all here. Fu Xiaojian happily pulled Song to chat, but his eyes kept poking behind her.

"What are you looking for?" Song asked.

"No, didn't you look for anything?"

"Let's find Xiao Huan, hum, I see that this daughter-in-law hasn't married yet, so I'm about to forget my mother. Song said as he spoke, but his eyes were wrinkled together with a smile.

"Mother~" Fu Xiaojian scratched his head embarrassedly, wanting to ask, but he looked embarrassed to ask.

"Xiao Huan, I didn't come. ”

Hearing that Xiao Huan didn't come, Fu Xiaojian couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but he didn't want his mother to be too worried, so he asked with a smile,

"Mother, why are you here?"

"I'm going to pick up Aunt Song, you must come over for such a big event as opening, if you are too busy tomorrow, we can also help." ”

"By the way, mother, come and taste my cake, this first pot has just risen. ”

Fu Xiaojian handed the hot sugar cake that had just come out of the pot into Song's hand, watched her bite down, and looked at her expectantly,

"Mother, how is it?

Song chewed twice and said,

"The taste is okay, but the heat is not grasped well, the carbon is too much, the inside is not enough to lose, and the outside is a little mushy. ”

"Really?" Fu Xiaojian took the uneaten cake in Song's hand, and found that it was indeed the case.

"Well, I'll change it again. ”

That night, Xing Youyou looked at the things on the table, couldn't help frowning, looked at Fu Xiaojian and asked,

"Uncle, why are there only mooncakes today?. ”

"yes, it's a bit mushy. Xing Youqian picked up the mooncake and looked at it and said.

"Oh, this is all a failure, the fire is a little bigger, a little mushy, but the taste is still delicious, this kind of can't be sold, and the opening and selling will leave a bad impression, so we have to refuel ourselves." ”

Xing Youyou looked at the two large baskets of cakes on the table, and felt that his throat was so dry, he went to the kitchen, washed a glass of water with Fu Xiaojian's leftover red date paste, added some white sugar, and sat back on the table in the courtyard with satisfaction.

The moon and stars in the sky are scarce, and the bright moonlight is sprinkled all over the earth, like a thin veil on it, so that the surrounding scenery seems to be clear and can't seem to be seen clearly.

Xing Youyou took a bite of the cake, tasted the homemade jujube water, and smiled with satisfaction on his face. She propped her head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, staring intently, as if she wanted to see if there was a handsome guy named Wu Gang cutting down the osmanthus tree in the moon.

Zhang Xiaochuan saw that she drank the ugly-looking water, but she smiled so sweetly, and also picked up her quilt and took a sip.

"Well, it's delicious, no wonder, little clever. ”

Xing Youyou's nose was scraped again, and his face, which was still smirking and intoxicated a second ago, suddenly became puffed up,

"Why scratch my nose again, nasty. ”

"Don't scrape your scrape whom. Zhang Xiaochuan asked funny.

"You can shave the second brother, the second brother likes you the most. ”

Zhang Xiaochuan turned his head and glanced at Xing Youqian next to him, and said with a smile,

"Look at your second brother, can I scratch it?"

Xing Youyou followed Zhang Xiaochuan's eyes and saw that his stupid second brother was running in circles in the yard, and said while running,

"You can't catch me, you can't catch me, grandmother, you see, no matter how fast I run, the moon can't catch me. ”

"You run, be careful that at night you fall asleep, the moon catches up with you and cuts off your ears. ”

Song's words frightened Xing Youqian and immediately covered his ears with his two hands,

"Grandma, is the moon really coming to cut out my ears?"

Everyone looked at Xing Youqian's funny expressions and movements, and laughed in the bright moonlight.

The next day, the whole family got up early in the morning, Xing Youyou also used the two yuan Zhang Xiaochuan gave her to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a large roll of firecrackers and hang them on the edge of the door. The leisurely teahouse opened with the sound of crackling firecrackers.

In order to attract more customers, Fu Xiaojian set up a shed outside the store and put out all the mooncakes made yesterday, and Song's, Li Lilian and Jiang Daqing were selling outside. But even so, there are only more people watching and fewer people buying.

Xing Youyou had an idea, so he learned from the previous market, and went home and wrote a large-character version with Xing Youliang's brush: "One for three, buy two get one free." ”

When she was about to put the cardboard on the stall, she was stopped by Fu Xiaojian,

"Eh, buy two get one free, isn't that a loss?"

"How could it be, we used to sell two cents for one, buy two for four cents, three for six cents, now three for one, three or six cents, not only is there no loss, but everyone buys at least two, our little sister is smart. ”

Xing Youqian said this, Fu Xiaojian understood it, and put the cardboard in the most conspicuous position.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for people to surround like a tide,

"Is your sugar cake really buy two get one free?"

Song replied with a smile,

"Yes. ”

"Mooncakes too?"

"Yes. Li Lilian served with a smile.

"Well, give me ten of each. ”

"I want it too, I want thirty sugar cakes, it's a good deal, and it only cost the money of twenty sugar cakes. A chubby peasant woman said.

Soon, there were fewer and fewer sugar cakes on the stall, and there were not many moon cakes left, Fu Xiaojian and Jiang Daqing were so busy in the kitchen that they were about to fly, and they didn't even have time to drink saliva and go to the toilet.

Xing Youyou looked at the door of the store full of people, and he was very happy. But the supply and marketing cooperatives are cold here, and the door is full of birds.

A man of medium stature, triangular eyes, and a hooked nose was pacing back and forth in the deserted supply and marketing cooperative, his hands behind his back, his frowning brows made the originally messy eyebrows even more ugly, his face was angry, and he said to a fat black woman beside him,

"What's going on? Why haven't the mooncakes been sold today?"

The man's scolding frightened the fat black woman shrunk her neck and replied,

"No one came to buy it, how can you sell it?"

"Nobody came to buy it, what about the people? Where did all the people go?"

The man's tone became more and more angry, and the voice of the black fat woman became quieter,

"Everyone ,,, everyone went,,,"

"Louder!"

"Everyone went to the leisurely teahouse, which was newly opened today. ”

"Leisurely Teahouse?"

The fat black woman swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued,

"Yes, it's newly opened today, and their mooncakes are not only sold cheaper than ours, but they also buy two get one free, so no one wants to buy our cakes anymore. ”