Du Ba, that little demon star, is finally gone.

Second Master Liu watched the girl clean up the messy dinner table, and sat down next to Mrs. Liu, who had a handkerchief on her forehead and shouted that she had a headache and a pain in her heart.

Mrs. Liu thinks that her grandson is good everywhere, and she doesn't think there is anything wrong with her grandson at all. What's wrong with the sisters who like to stick? It's natural to wait for the child to grow up. Today, she was tossed by Du Ba for a while, and Mrs. Liu only had the words 'egg' left in her mind. Old Madam Liu screamed a few times and scolded Du Bahao at her son.

Liu Erye thought about the kitten steps that his son and sisters came out of a mold, and sighed worriedly to see his sulking son go.

Early the next morning.

Second Master Liu looked at his son who walked in slowly with his sisters, and subconsciously looked between his son's legs.

In the afternoon of the same day, the two delicate and quiet little girls beside Liu Yao, the little master of the Liu family, became four strong boys comparable to calves.

……

Du Xiaoxi and Du Ba were driven out of the gate of the Liu family by Mama Zhao.

Sitting in the sedan chair that sent the two home, Du Xiaoxi looked at Du Ba with admiration, and Du Ba raised his head and accepted his sister's gaze.

"Brother, what did the master tell you to do?"

Du Ba smiled proudly, "The master said that as long as I make the Liu family feel that my brother-in-law is like a female doll today, I will give me a knife, that knife is very powerful, and the little master Huaiming said that it was given to the master by the emperor, and then my knife will be given by the emperor!" Haha-"

After imagining his heroic appearance, Du Ba showed his happy life in Dujia Village like Du Xiaoxi, what grandmother boiled meat and bones to eat every day; What is Brother Seven, who slept in class, got the book wet and was beaten by the master, he was much smarter than Brother Seven, and when he was sleeping, he directly blocked the book, and the teacher in front of him didn't see it at all; The old lady thief of Xiucai's house next door hated it, and said that our family's killing of pigs affected his son's study, and he didn't read it a few years ago? Go up the mountain to pick wild fruits, go down to the river to fish, Du Xiaoxi, a person who lived in Shaanxi in his previous life, listened to it and couldn't wait to follow back to Dujia Village immediately.

The male in the Du clan can spend very little money to go to the clan to enlighten when he is five or six years old, and at the beginning of the year, the seven-year-old Du Qi, Du Ba, Du Jiu and the three people were thrown back to Dujia Village by Du's father to go to school. Du Qi Du Jiu is okay, one just likes to sleep in class, the other listens to the class seriously, Du Ba is the most naughty of the three, he plays missing at every turn, and when he is discovered, he pushes his twin brother's head, who makes you look the most like me? If it weren't for the fact that the master graduated Du Wu a few years ago, Grandma Du would not have sent pork, so the master's family would have been cut off for two months, and Du Ba would have been driven home to herd the cattle.

These few days are not the first thing Du Ba who sneaked away during Mu Xiu came home was naturally beaten by Daddy Du.

Du Ba was beaten, and the next morning, he was taken back to Dujia Village by Brother Du, who had sent pork over.

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Daddy Du is the happiest during the New Year's holiday, which means that his pork will be sold well. The joy of the autumn harvest has not yet dissipated, and at this time, every family is willing to pay for their stomachs. The Du family's pork is not sold ordinarily well.

On the tenth day of August, Du Niang took Du Xiaoxi back to Dujia Village to prepare for the festival, leaving Du Dad and a few big men to deal with the festival sales.

Speaking of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Du Xiaoxi has a deep memory, not for anything else, but for his own moon cakes with a long shelf life.

Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes Du Jia was stunned to eat from August to the New Year, which is a miracle in Du Xiaoxi, who has seen a lot, and the fake child who will stink in two days without refrigerator food seems to be a miracle.

This is antiquity without preservatives!

Du Xiaoxi believes that if it weren't for Du Niang, they estimated that they would eat the moon cakes until the New Year, and they could eat delicious every day in the first month, and his family's moon cakes would be no problem for a few more months. For this, Du Xiaoxi can only worship deeply.

In Du Xiaoxi's view, in Dujia Village, even Shanshui County, and even the entire Shang Dynasty, moon cakes are not only a special food on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also a long-term backup snack.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is no important festival until the New Year, taking advantage of the bumper harvest, every household will make a bunch of moon cakes and store them to eat slowly, eat and eat, and when it is gone, it will be the New Year, and you can continue to eat meat.

There are also mooncakes sold in Shanshui County, but most of the people who buy them are the households in the county, and the rural people make their own.

Of course, I didn't do it at home, but at the house of someone who specializes in making moon cakes

When she returned to Dujia Village on the tenth day of the first month, Du Niang threw Du Xiaoxi to her brothers on vacation, and began to prepare things for August 15 with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Du Xiaoxi also watched the process of making moon cakes in ancient times.

The Du family has its own shop, and there is naturally no shortage of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and they have all the materials needed to make moon cakes.

Grandma Du found out last year's old peanuts, picked up the full grains and roasted them with a flat pan of the spread cake, and after letting it cool, the sister-in-law vigorously rubbed off the roasted slightly charred peanut skin, cut it into small petals of different sizes with a knife, and one of the main ingredients was ready. The remaining raisins, walnut kernels, black sesame seeds, and rock sugar Du Niang have been prepared, and Du Xiaoxi and several brothers have eaten to complete the task of eating half a bowl of melon seeds.

Making moon cake materials is not a big head, the key is to queue up.

Du Wu took a stool early to occupy a seat, and only came back in the evening to say that it was not his turn today, and he would not be his turn until tomorrow morning. Grandma Du listened to the recitation of the Buddha and hurried everyone to sleep.

Du Xiaoxi also breathed a sigh of relief, it was really a deep memory when he made moon cakes last year!

Making moon cakes pays attention to time, and the practice in Dujia Village is to start making them on the 10th day of the first month and stop at the 14th night. After five days of work, there are hundreds of families in Dujia Village, and the time during the day is simply not enough, and many families have to stay up late at night. Last year, the Du family happened to be in the evening, but Du Xiaoxi remembered that the family was making moon cakes under the dim oil lamp, and Du Xiaoxi, who couldn't stand it, didn't catch up with his newly baked moon cakes.

After a simple breakfast the next morning, Grandma Du rushed to Uncle Du Jiu's house with a large team.

Entering the courtyard of Uncle Du Jiu's house, Du Xiaoxi unconsciously took a deep breath, and the whole courtyard was filled with the strong fragrance of moon cakes.

"Grandma Takayama is here! Grandpa Yu's house is your home! ”

Seeing Grandma Du coming, a group of juniors who were lining up greeted with a smile.

Gao Shan is the name of the deceased Grandpa Du, and the juniors in the village all call Grandma Du Aunt Gao Shan and Grandma Gao Shan. Grandma Du responded with a smile, and talked to a few grandmother-level peers about how many mooncakes she wants to make this year, what kind of stuffing, and so on. Du Niang beckoned the two daughters-in-law to hurry up and prepare their things, and Second Brother Du went to see if the firewood he had prepared was enough.

The Du family came by coincidence, but the family in front of it had already been prepared two quarters of an hour, and Grandma Du hurriedly led everyone forward.

"Grandma Takayama has arrived at your house?" Uncle Du Jiu's eldest daughter-in-law, Wang Qiuyue, walked two steps quickly to help carry the things onto the table, and said with a smile: "The head of the house brought back some plums, dates, and dried apricots. ”

Grandma Du shook her hand, "Those fresh ones are not used to eating, bring a pound of red bean paste, the children in the family love to eat this." ”

Wang Qiuyue was not discouraged when she didn't sell it, and when she returned to the house, she weighed a pound full of red bean paste.