On the night of August 15, Chang'an City, the Pioneer General's Mansion.

Liu Yu sat alone in the courtyard, with a small table in front of him, a pot of sake and a porcelain cup, looking at the bright moon slowly rising in the east, and always felt that something was missing. After thinking about it, it should be the feeling of reunion.

The family is together, Xu Xuanzhu and the Han sisters make a unique group meal for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the world in the house, that is, the rice is cooked and blended into a ball, which is sandwiched with filling, which is similar to zongzi, and kneading it into a circle is also to take the meaning of reunion. On this reunion festival, he didn't want to go back to the Dingguo Mansion, where there was really a lack of family affection and a harmonious atmosphere.

Liu Yu raised his glass to the moon, and felt that he should chant a poem, and there were not many catchy ones, so he suddenly chanted: "It is expected that the intestines will be broken every year, the bright moon night, and the short Matsuoka." ”

After chanting, I couldn't help but feel unlucky, although the words were on the edge of Mingyue, but obviously had nothing to do with Yongyue, and it seemed that I was going to visit the grave. Liu Yu thought about it again and continued to chant: "I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles." ”

This should be the word of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages, and the good one could not be better. But now he doesn't feel like it's right for him to sing, and he finally has the warmth of home, but it seems to be scattered and can't see each other.

If I wanted to turn out a more appropriate sentence in my head, I noticed the lack of ancient poetry in this brain, although he was very weak, but he had no chance with scholars.

"Husband, why don't you come to the house and watch us have a group dinner?" Xu Xuanzhu came out with a cloak and wanted to put it on Liu Yu, but found that he was muttering to himself and didn't know what he was muttering, so he couldn't help asking.

The house was full of joy, not only the Han family sisters, but also Lu Chu'er and Cai Yingnu and other guards and a group of maids, talking and laughing together. There is no such strong estrangement between master and servant. Whether it's Xu Xuanzhu, the hostess. is still the little lady of the Han family sisters. Treat the guards and maidservants like a family.

"What's so delicious about Tuan Tuan Rice is to add some sugar to the rice, if only there was a piece of moon cake to eat." Liu Yu sighed.

Xu Xuanzhu walked up to Liu Yu at this time and said in surprise: "Husband, what is a moon cake?" ”

"The moon cake is a thing that my husband has eaten before, round and similar to a pancake. But there's stuffing in it, and it's delicious. ”

Xu Xuanzhu thought about it and said, "Then we can do it too." ”

"No, that skin is made with syrup mixed with fine flour, which is very troublesome, and there is no mold, and there is no suitable condiment for the filling."

"How can you know the Tao if you don't try?"

Since that day she was inadvertently poked by Sui Yi in the house, she couldn't enter the kitchen, and she has been learning to cook and make pastries at home for the past few days. Now the husband has something to ask for, and the time has come for the wife to behave.

"Since you're interested, ma'am. So let's study it? ”

Liu Yu was originally idle at home, drinking and admiring the moon was boring after all, so it was better to study new foods to be interesting.

Xu Xuanzhu saw that Liu Yue was full of interest, and persuaded him: "Husband, you better stop cooking, it's okay for the concubine to come this time?" ”

"I'm not a gentleman, I'm not far away from cooking, I don't pay so much attention to cooking, a family, who cooks differently?" Liu Yu said that he had walked in the direction of the kitchen, he remembered that he had seen a mold of pancakes at home before, although there was no pattern, but it was also round, a piece of noodles was stuffed in, and it was put into the pot with a knock, which was also the process of seeing the maids pancakes before, and now it is just right to use it as a mold for moon cakes.

"Besides, except for my husband, I have seen moon cakes, but you don't know how moon cakes are made and how they are made?"

Easier said than done.

Although Liu Yu knows that the mooncake crust is mixed with syrup flour, the current flour is still very rough after all, and there are many mixed substances in the sugar, so it is difficult to make a sticky mooncake crust with syrup and flour. After conditioning for a long time, it was boiling syrup and flour, and after the final treatment, the syrup and flour were kneaded into a large ball of sticky "dough balls", and there was still no way to make moon cakes.

Liu Yu was a little annoyed and said, "It seems that I can't eat this moon cake today." ”

While speaking, the tuantuan rice over there had already been steamed in the pot, and Lu Chu'er had already begun to come over to join in the fun, looking at Liu Yu, who was a little depressed, with a little bad smile on his face.

"When the buns are steamed, and the stuffing."

Since the moon cake crust cannot be perfect, it is almost the same to have a shape, as long as it is round, even if it is a round cake. Liu Yu is no longer demanding.

The mooncake filling is much simpler than the skin, and there are many good things at home, such as preserved fruits and five kernels, which are ready-made, plus some glutinous rice and bean paste that are special for making pastries, which can make a lot of flavors. Then soak the lard in it, and after a while, it should be a bright and bright color.

Xu Xuan builds and fills, Liu Yu is responsible for wrapping, and then molding on the mold, if it is poured out of the mold and is soft and not round, Liu Yu will deliberately regulate it. The husband and wife were very happy to be busy, and other people wanted to come to help but Liu Yu refused, and Liu Yu also prepared to name this new food "Husband and Wife Cake" to commemorate this extraordinary Mid-Autumn Festival.

The moon cakes are made one by one, there are not many noodles, but there is more than enough filling. There are only a dozen of them in total, which is roughly neat, but Liu Yue feels like flattened buns rather than moon cakes. The first production should not be too demanding.

"The mooncakes are ready, now they are set up on a fire and baked like barbecue." Liu Yu patted the flour on his hand, and instructed Lu Chu'er, who was curiously looking at the "moon cakes" on the side.

Lu Chu'er was stunned, originally thought that this moon cake should be similar to meat steamed buns, but she didn't expect that it would be baked by a fire. In those days, there was no precedent for flour-made food to be baked over a fire.

"Uncle, can you do it? What to do if it's baked? ”

Lu Chuer's worries are unnecessary, there is nothing else in this moon cake, and the high fat content is scary. After a period of time on the fire rack, the entire surface of the mooncake is wrapped in a layer of sizzling grease.

Because of his inexperience, Liu Yu had to stay by the fire to command Lu Chuer, and after Lu Chuer accidentally dropped a piece of moon cake into the fire, the baking work was also taken over by Liu Yu. In order to prevent the occurrence of uncooked batter on the outside, Liu Yue deliberately set up several fire racks of different heights, and slowly insulated them with a small fire after the fire was roasted, until he felt that it was almost over, and then moved from the fire to the plate.

Although the shape of the whole moon cake is a little deformed, the color is still very bright, and the female guards have come to see the first moon cake on the plate, and they are commenting, of course, it is not their turn to try the food.

"Uh-huh." Liu Yu walked over and cleared his throat and said, "Your tuantuan rice has already been steamed, hurry up and eat, don't eat the pot and look at the pot." ”

drove the female guards away, leaving only Xu Xuanzhu and the Han family sisters, a family of four sitting at the square table to taste the moon cakes designed by Liu Yu and made by Liu Yu and Xu Xuanzhu themselves. Liu Yu cut the moon cakes with a kitchen knife, fortunately, they were all cooked inside, Han Xiaoyi tasted it first, and then frowned slightly: "It's so sweet." ”

Sister Han Xiaoyi doesn't like sweets, but Han Xiaoting has a soft spot for sweets, half of the moon cake was almost stuffed into her mouth, and then looked at the other three people at the same table, and continued to eat.

Xu Xuanzhu said with a smile: "Eat slowly, it's a bit of a taste." ”

Although it is far from the taste of the mooncakes that Liu Yu has eaten before, after all, it is made by himself, and it is the first time, so he feels very fragrant. Being able to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes together as a family is an atmosphere he has never experienced since coming to this world.

Maybe it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people are also emotional, and Liu Yu also has an unprecedented longing for his relatives who can't see each other in another world.

Moon cakes are just a taste for Liu Yu, Xu Xuanzhu and Han Xiaoyi don't eat much, only Han Xiaoting eats a lot, and she eats nearly half of the six or seven moon cakes on the plate. And Lu Chu'er couldn't help but be curious, and came over and begged for one or two pieces for the little sister to taste.

Liu Yue saw that there were still more than ten moons on the bamboo grate, so he didn't eat them, so he asked Lu Chuer to take a few of them and share them with the guards to taste, regardless of the quality of the food, just the new food made by his own general and uncle was enough to make the female guards rush to it, and Lu Chuer was divided by the female guards before he took it, but unfortunately one person could only take a small bite to try it.

"Uncle, is there anything else?"

Lu Chu'er ran over with a smile and asked if there was one, but her eyes kept staring at the bamboo grate where the moon cakes were placed, and now, only Han Xiaoting was still burping and continuing to stuff the moon cakes into her mouth, she didn't even care about eating the tuan tuan dinner. As a young lady in a family, Han Xiaoting's treatment is incomparable to that of other female guards.

"It's gone." Liu Yu didn't have a good breath and said, "If you want to eat, please be early in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year." ”

Lu Chu'er grimaced, and Xu Xuanzhu smiled: "Chu'er, if General Ben does it for you tomorrow, I'm afraid it won't be as good as your uncle." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, the general just needs to make it for us to eat, and we don't mind if it's unpalatable."

Looking at Lu Chu'er's grinning appearance, Liu Yu sometimes felt that Xu Xuanzhu was too indulgent in treating these female soldiers, as the commander of an army, although he could be like a sister and brother, he still wanted the majesty he should have, he had never heard of a general who would personally cook for the soldiers.

However, even Liu Yu is accustomed to Lu Chuer's presumptuousness, and he feels abnormal when he can't see it. Lu Chuer is by nature the kind of restless element who likes to make trouble.

Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Yu has been in this world for a year and a half, and he always can't find a suitable poem before, but now that the family is together, and then looking at the bright moon, he can't help but want to make a limerick poem.

"People will be reunited this year, and people will be reunited next year."

What he can hope for is that the family can always be together without separation, year after year.

Early the next morning, when the family was still having breakfast, Sui Yu came to visit.

Since receiving Liu Yu's instructions to set up a business department, she has been running, and while Liu Yu has not left home in the morning, she is also ready to explain the progress of the past few days to Liu Yu.

With this chef here, Liu Yu also took out a piece of yesterday's moon cake and gave it to Sui Yu to taste, and after tasting it, Sui Yu immediately asked: "General Liu, can you tell me how to make this moon cake, or sell it on consignment in Yuelaiju?" ”

"Yes, yes."

Before Liu Yu could reply, Lu Chu'er came out of nowhere, with excitement and excitement in her tone, "Did you say that if you want to eat moon cakes in the future, you can just go to Yuelaiju to buy them?" (To be continued......)