After three days, the oven, oven and molds for making the mooncakes, as well as all kinds of fillings, are all ready.

Therefore, Chen Xu couldn't wait to go home after the morning court, and set up a posture in the restaurant, Shui Qingwen, Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan, Xing'er and Yu Ji, together with several personal maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter, came to help, kneading the dough, mixing the stuffing began to get busy, and the housekeeper and a group of stewards, kitchen workers and cooks crowded a large group of people all around to watch the extremely complex and magical moon cakes that Hou Ye wanted to make.

There are two kinds of noodles to prepare to make moon cakes, one is the dough, which is ordinary dough, and the other is the pastry, which is a dough kneaded with sesame oil, and then it should be wrapped in the dough to make the moon cakes more fragrant and soft after baking.

As for the stuffing, there are five-kernel stuffing with walnuts, sesame seeds, dried apricots and dried plums mixed with lard and fructose, marinated duck egg yolks, osmanthus and red bean paste mixed with honey, and even bacon mixed with pepper and pepper powder.

It doesn't matter whether these fillings are delicious or not, it doesn't matter if you like to eat them or not, the important thing is that the flavors must be rich and diverse.

Chen Xu wore a white coat with a high hat and rolled up his sleeves to roll out the dough with ghee in person, just like making buns in later generations, the dough for making moon cakes was done, and after everything was ready, he put it into the five-kernel filling and kneaded it into a ball, and finally put the wrapped dough into the mold brushed with a layer of sesame oil and pressed it tightly, and after finishing it, gently knocked out the moon cakes, one with patterns on it, and a moon cake with a blessing word in the middle.

Looking at this moon cake that was a little too deformed, a few black lines popped out of Chen Xu's forehead.

I thought that the moon cake production was simple, but I didn't expect it to be this virtue.

Nima Laozi, a disciple of the immortal family, has such a bad face, why is it so ugly.

"Wow, the mooncakes made by Brother Xiaoxu are so beautiful, Yu Ji also wants to make a more beautiful ......"

Looking at the beautiful mooncakes on the board, Yu Ji picked up a mold and shouted.

Chen Xu's face darkened.

Shui Gentle, Meng Wan and Ying Shiyan covered their faces with their arms and sneered, and they couldn't straighten their waists.

"Okay, my brother taught you to make an osmanthus bean paste filling!" Chen Xu frowned and began to wrap the second moon cake again, and after getting it done, put it into the mold that Yu Ji took, and after pressing it tightly, I saw Yu Ji snap the mold back with both hands, and then took away the mold, and saw a beautiful and perfect moon cake with a round and round shape appeared in front of everyone.

"Wow, my mooncakes are really prettier than Brother Xiaoxu's!" Yu Ji cheered excitedly all over the room.

"Yu Ji is so powerful, happy mid-autumn, this implication is also very beautiful!" Ying Shiyan looked at a few seal characters on the moon cake and praised with a smile.

"Brother, I'm going to make one too!" Xing'er is getting older now, and she has become much quieter under Chen Xu's education, and she has more playmates at school on weekdays, and she is no longer so sticky to Chen Xu, but her habit of showing off has not changed.

Chen Xu had to make a big five-kernel stuffing and put it in, but the dough was too big, so he had to scrape off the excess dough with a bamboo knife, and after pressing it tightly, Xing'er raised the mold with both hands and snapped it over, Chen Xu was afraid that the moon cake was too big to get down, and he used a rolling pin to knock it lightly on the back of the mold twice, Xing'er took the mold away, and saw a huge moon cake with a diameter of more than five inches round and neatly appeared in front of everyone, surrounded by gear-like patterns, and there was a peony pattern with entwined branches on the face, The four big characters of the full moon in the middle look very clear.

"Apricot is also very powerful, this one is big and beautiful, and the word blessing also means beautiful!" Shui praised softly with a smile, and Xing'er immediately began to proudly show off to the cooks and servants who were watching around.

"Okay, everyone has already seen it, the production method is very simple, let's do it together and bake the mooncakes, and you can eat mooncakes of various flavors later......"

Chen Xu smiled and began to knead the dough again, Shui Qingrou and Ying Shiyan Mengwan and others started to work together, each chose a mold to start making the filling, with the sound of popping and knocking the mold, seven or eight moon cakes of various styles and fillings soon appeared on the board, the size is also different, and the patterns and words on it are also different, but most of them are relatively regular, and the first crooked and boastful moon cake made by Chen Xu is surrounded in the middle, which looks particularly eye-catching.

"Hee-hee, husband, this is the most distinctive!" Meng Wan's delicate little face smiled like a flower.

"Hehe, make a mistake, watch your husband do it again!" Chen Xu smiled dryly and buckled the mold in his hand, then took it away, and watched everyone ...... The shriveled mooncakes reappeared on the board.

A group of cooks all laughed and twisted their heads to the side.

Chen Xu's face instantly dripped, and he couldn't help but pick up the mold and take a few looks, and found that there was nothing wrong with the mold.

Looking at a circle of wives and maids who were smiling and smiling, and a group of kitchen workers turned their heads and couldn't bear to look at them, Chen Xu twitched and made a moon cake again.

"Smack~"

The mold was removed, and an equally crooked mooncake was revealed.

The three ugly mooncakes are placed together with a sense of déjà vu, as eye-catching and unique as standing out from the crowd.

Nima, don't you want to be so shabby!

Chen Xu was heartbroken and dropped the mold.

"Husband, you ...... The mooncakes you made are so distinctive! Ying Shiyan leaned on Chen Xu's shoulder and laughed.

"Brother can only eat it by himself for a while!" Apricot smiled heartlessly.

"Brother Xiaoxu, don't be sad, eat the mooncakes made by Yu Ji for a while!" Yu Ji shook Chen Xu's arm to comfort.

"Husband has been busy for a long time, go to rest and drink tea first, we will be ready for a while!" Shui gently pushed Chen Xu out of the crowd with crooked eyebrows, and told the little maid to pour tea for Chen Xu.

"Husband, go outside the yard to bask in the sun!" Meng Wan mended the knife at Chen Xu's back.

Uh, well, Lao Tzu was disgusted by a group of daughters-in-law.

Chen Xu reluctantly walked out of the restaurant step by step, lay down on the rocking chair in the courtyard, and the two little maids helped beat their legs and rub their shoulders after bringing hot tea.

"Comfortable~" Chen Xu took a sip of hot tea, basking in the warm autumn sun, closed his eyes and began to enjoy the decadent life of the exploiting class.

There was a slight sound of footsteps outside the courtyard, Chen Xu opened his eyes in a daze, and saw Fan Caiying and Fan Caiwei two sisters coming together, with colorful long skirts, hair buns like clouds, skin like jade, eyebrows and eyes like picturesque, convex lips and white teeth, like two delicate flowers with a gust of fragrant wind came to Chen Xu.

"Master Hou~" The two sisters saluted together.

Chen Xu smiled and waved his finger at the restaurant and said, "No courtesy, they are all making moon cakes inside, you guys should go and have a look, it's fun!" ”

Fan Caiying glanced at the restaurant, heard the laughter coming from the laughter inside, and smiled with a little surprise: "Since it's a fun thing, why is Master Hou basking in the sun alone in the yard?" ”

"Hee-hee~" The two little maids who were pounding their legs and rubbing their shoulders suddenly covered their mouths and couldn't straighten their waists with a smile.

Looking at Chen Xu's slightly embarrassed smile, Fan Caiying pulled her sister into the restaurant, and soon there was even more lively laughter inside.

Alas, Chen Xu covered his forehead and continued to bask in the sun.

I don't know how long I lay down, Chen Xu was seduced by a strong smell of incense and opened his eyes, and found that the two little maids who were beating their legs and rubbing their shoulders were gone, and only heard laughter and shouting from the kitchen.

Hey, it looks like the mooncakes are about to be baked!

Chen Xu got up with a grunt, rubbed his cheeks and walked towards the kitchen, and sure enough, when he entered the kitchen, he saw that there were hundreds of people gathered next to the oven, and a stronger smell permeated the entire kitchen.

"Hurry up, Master Hou is here!" A steward shouted, the onlookers scattered a road, Chen Xu walked in with a figure-eight step, and saw that in the red charcoal oven, an iron oven had been baked, the door was closed, and a fragrant and attractive smell was emanating from the oven.

"How long has it been baking!" Chen Xu squatted down in front of the oven.

"Back to the master, it's been baking for almost two quarters!" A cook hastened to answer.

"It's so fragrant, hurry up and open the oven to see, don't bake it!"

Chen Xu commanded, and a chef hurriedly put on thick linen gloves and turned on the oven, and a stronger sweet smell came to his face, and suddenly the crowd around him burst into a violent commotion and the sound of swallowing saliva.

There are two grids in the oven, on which are placed more than a dozen mooncakes, large and small, and the surface has begun to turn brown.

"Master Hou, it looks like it's cooked...... Goo Dong~" The chef swallowed saliva and rubbed his hands.

"It should be almost, take out the baking sheet!" Chen Xu stood up and retreated to the side, and the two cooks put on thick linen gloves and took the baking tray out of the oven and placed it on the wooden table next to it.

Looking at the more than a dozen fragrant mooncakes that were still making sizzling sounds, a group of domestic servants all widened their eyes and kept adding their mouths, and many people felt that they couldn't walk.

Daqin is an era of food scarcity, although the diet of the people of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion is very good, better than the ordinary civilian family to eat and drink, in and out of the carriage and horses looks majestic, but most of the time is just full and warm, delicious food is still limited to Chen Xu's family and the steward guard class, ordinary slaves eat and drink is actually very ordinary, two meals a day in addition to the food tube is full, meat is also half a month can only be eaten once, but it is this half a month once a meat, but also make 90% of the people in the world envy the rich life, Because of the current Daqin, seventy or eighty percent of the people can't eat two meals of meat a year, as for the various delicious foods made by Chen Xu, the domestic servants can occasionally taste a little bit with the smell, and the stewards and guards like steak can't eat it, it's too expensive, even if Chen Xu's wealth and generosity can't satisfy the six or seven hundred people in the mansion to eat one piece each, and the housekeeper will not let Chen Xu spend so much, as an era of strict hierarchy and class, a slave is a slave, and if you eat and drink without starving to death, it is the grace of the lord, Moreover, a master like Chen Xu, who is full of meals and has to distribute profits and several sets of clothes every year, the entire Daqin can't find a second one.

Therefore, moon cakes are extremely cumbersome from production to success and the ingredients are complex and expensive, ordinary domestic servants are not able to eat, and the current people around the kitchen are regarded as the high-class servants of the Hou Mansion, responsible for the main affairs of the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard, so they can still come up to watch, as for the lowly slaves who are rewarded by the emperor for raising horses and removing dung, guarding the door and sweeping the floor, the identity is equivalent to 9527, and there is no chance to smell the fragrance, so you can only listen to the senior domestic servants after hearing a few words and bragging to the outside world.