Whenever the red dates of my mother-in-law's house are ripe, it indicates that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Every year a week before the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother-in-law prepares all kinds of fillings, sets up the fire that she has used for half her life, and starts to make moon cakes. My mother-in-law never eats mooncakes sold outside, and she makes them by herself every year. After I married into my in-law's family, I also fell in love with handmade mooncakes. The handmade moon cake material is delicious, crispy and delicious, unlike the moon cakes sold in the store from various food factories, there is more sugar and oil, and it tastes sweet and greasy, and you will have diarrhea if you eat too much. My mother-in-law's mooncakes are just like the stuffy noodles she makes, which are considered to be the top level in Taigu County, enough to create a brand, and even my mother can't catch up with her. I have racked my brains to think about this question, because subconsciously, I don't want my mother to be inferior to my mother-in-law. Later, I figured out that my mother was a child born in a poor family, and she couldn't eat moon cakes at all when she was a child, and when she grew up, she encountered a national famine in the 60s, and she couldn't eat moon cakes either, and at that time, the family lacked oil and grain, and she couldn't even afford the fillings used to make moon cakes, so how could she talk about making moon cakes? Therefore, if you have seen and eaten it, you can taste it and make it. If you've never paid for a mooncake, can you make it?

Whenever my mother-in-law beats moon cakes, Lu Tao will take me back to my mother-in-law's house to help, and I am happy to go in order to eat my mother-in-law's moon cakes. It happened to be Saturday, and Lu Tao took me and Yangyang home early in the morning. When we stepped in the door, we saw that the sister-in-law's family had arrived before us, and the brother-in-law and his family were also there, so it felt like the New Year.

Every time I beat the moon cakes, my task is to keep the fire and turn the moon cakes, I don't need to wrap the filling and demolding, my mother-in-law always says that the moon cakes I wrap are either more or less, or not too big or too small, uneven. Look at the stove fire, this job is easier than wrapping moon cakes, but the temperature is not cold before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, although I have put on long-sleeved clothes and pants, but maybe one day the temperature will rise and I have to wear a half-sleeved shirt, at such a temperature, I guard a fire, when the moon cakes are baked golden and crispy, my face is also baked red, and my forehead is oozing sweat. But I can stand it, in order to eat mooncakes, and enjoy it.

Although my mother-in-law still likes to point fingers at me, but I don't mind, I can see that although she always shows her dissatisfaction with me on the surface, in fact, my arrival is very happy for her heart, our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been together for four or five years, the problem is that I have always refused to fully obey her, I am the most dangerous element in this family who is prone to rebellion, so my mother-in-law has to keep pressing me, lest her son Lu Tao can't control me that day.

While the women were making mooncakes, Brother Lu Tao and his father sat silently at the head of the bed. As far as I know, my father-in-law has had a lot of ups and downs, and he has worked as a child laborer, a teacher, a policeman, a rightist, a policeman, a government leader, and so on, but he rarely mentions his past, perhaps because the past is more painful than joyful, and he doesn't want to look back. The two third generations of the Lu family were noisily playing in the yard, and this time it was Yueyue who took the initiative to play with Yangyang, because Yangyang brought a roller skate when she came! I saw through the window that Yangyang was helping her sister to learn to roller skate. Yangyang is willing to play with anything, and Yueyue is very shrewd, she only plays with other people's toys, never shows her own toys, I don't know if Yueyue wants to do this or her mother taught her, anyway, Yangyang always looks honest and careless in front of his little cousin. The only person who didn't do anything was the daughter-in-law of the little uncle, who heard that she was pregnant and was protecting the fetus and recuperating. Seeing my brother-in-law's daughter-in-law being treated so leniently, my inner feeling was sour, when I was pregnant, no one treated me as a pregnant woman, and I did all the work. But these are all in the past, and I only think about it occasionally and don't mention it to others anymore, just like my father-in-law doesn't want to mention his experience.

We usually start making mooncakes at 9 a.m. and finish work at 11 a.m. to start making lunch. Just as we were taking out the last pot of moon cakes and preparing to cook lunch, there was a sudden cry in the courtyard, and everyone immediately rushed out to see Yueyue lying on her back facing the sky, her feet wearing Yangyang's roller skates.

"Oh, what kind of roller skating is good to play with? Having money to buy some delicious food for children is better than anything else, what kind of roller skates to buy? Strange and dangerous!" Although Yueyue was not seriously injured, but her buttocks hurt a little, my mother-in-law still counted me down.

"Yangyang, let's go home!" I listened to my mother-in-law's words, and pulled Yangyang up to leave.

"Why are you going?!" Lu Tao stepped forward and stopped me.

"I'm not talking about you, it's that roller skates are really too dangerous, let the child play less, what if they break? But Yueyue is too naughty, what kind of roller skating does the girl skate, Lu Fan, take care of your daughter!" Seeing that I was leaving, my mother-in-law added another sentence, I could hear that she was leaving me, I endured it, and I didn't want to fall out with my mother-in-law before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I stayed again.

On the 15th of August, I didn't want to eat mooncakes because I had eaten too much before. There are a lot of procedures for the Mid-Autumn Festival at my mother-in-law's house: before eating, the whole family should line up to kneel in her small Buddha hall to worship the Buddha, I still insisted on not entering the Buddha hall, Lu Tao took Yangyang in, also knelt, worshipped, incense and lit the lamp, my reaction to this is not as repulsive and fierce as before, let Yangyang play it as a game, he will confirm his own beliefs when he grows up and goes to school, and will figure out whether there are gods and ghosts in the world. My mother-in-law saw that I was far away from the Buddha hall and gave me a few blank eyes, but she didn't say anything, she was worried that I would lift my legs and leave.

After worshipping the Buddha, I have to worship the moon god at night, I am willing, I like the big and round moon. In the evening, after my mother-in-law had set up the offering table in the courtyard, I, like everyone else, made three gestures to the sky, and then put on three sticks of incense. My mother-in-law was very satisfied with this, and there was a smile on her face that was not easy to be noticed. After seeing that I had finished worshipping, my mother-in-law said to me, "In the future, you have to learn from others, and don't always twist your strength and go against others." "I listened without words, because I didn't want to hear it, I was who I was, and I was a person who had a hard time imitating others.

Actually, my favorite was August 16. This is not because the moon on the 16th is rounder than the 15th, but because the 16th of August is the birthday of the father-in-law, and the meals on the father-in-law's birthday are much more abundant than the Mid-Autumn Festival.

My mother-in-law has always taken good care of my father-in-law who is not in good health, I have long said that I admire this point of my mother-in-law, but I always feel that my father-in-law is taken care of too well, so that he has no freedom and right to speak. When the father-in-law gets up, what time to eat, what to eat, whether he can go out for a walk, all of these are all up to the mother-in-law, and the father-in-law himself has no decision. Sometimes I want to serve a bowl for my father-in-law before eating, but I don't dare to do it, I don't know how much to give my father-in-law that, how much to serve, more dry or more soup, I can't decide this, even Lu Tao can't decide, serving rice to my father-in-law is a technical job, probably in the hands of my mother-in-law to take a qualification certificate to competent.

Every time I meet a festival or someone's birthday to eat at my mother-in-law's house, it is an opportunity to enjoy delicious food, I once thought, if my mother-in-law opened a restaurant, she will definitely make a fortune, just create a "Lu Granny Home Cooking", this brand will definitely be popular.

But after enjoying the delicious food, there are a lot of pots and pans waiting for me to wash, I washed, while looking at the wife of the uncle who is also a daughter-in-law, my heart is very uncomfortable, for the sake of her now that she is pregnant, even if she has a child in the future, or let people serve, then I would rather go down to the restaurant to eat, than come. Remembering the scene of my mother-in-law constantly serving food to my concubine at the dinner table, I wanted to leave the table several times, although when I was pregnant, I was in the period of discord between husband and wife and divorce, but such an obvious contrast made me still difficult to accept.

The program after dinner is to observe the talent show of Yueyue and Yangyang sisters and brothers, Yueyue sings and dances, can write and draw, and also performs abacus mental arithmetic, etc., and Yangyang is the audience most of the time, when he is on the field, he first practiced a set of martial arts boxing invented by himself, which seems to combine the essentials and essence of various martial arts schools, and it seems to be nothing, but Yangyang is also humming and haha, quite imposing. What is odious is that his uncle denied everything in one sentence:

"Don't look at you tossing like this, you can't withstand your sister's fist!"

I was not convinced, and said, "Why don't you try it? Don't think that my son has been letting her sister all the time, and you think that my son is a wretch!"

Yangyang also sang a song, it was a song by Zhang Yu, "It's all the moon that causes trouble", the mother-in-law frowned when she heard it, and said, how to let children sing love songs? I said that I usually like to listen to this song, and Yangyang learned it after listening to it more. But the little uncle said, no wonder Yang Yang pinched other girls' buttocks, you usually don't pay attention to the education of children! As soon as I heard Lu Tao and glanced at him, I knew that he passed this secret to his family. Seeing that the family's words were all critical of me and Yangyang, I used the excuse that Yangyang had to go home to write and take Yangyang away.

My Mid-Autumn Festival will take nearly half a month to finish, and I will spend a few days at my mother-in-law's house, and I will go to my mother's house in the countryside to continue it, because my mother is still waiting for me to eat her mooncakes. Although the mooncakes made by my mother are not as delicious as those made by my mother-in-law, I want to affirm my mother's credit with several times the expression of love for eating. When I eat moon cakes, I have to bring a big bag with me, only in this way can my mother deeply feel how important she is, the more I see that I can't make moon cakes or other things, the more my mother has a sense of superiority, she is afraid that one day I will not have to do it with her.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, that is, the end of this August, and when I enter September, my weight will increase by more than five pounds, because I eat too many mooncakes. (To be continued.) )