The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 is a festival that both ancient and modern people attach great importance to, and it is even more important in the ancient times when family ethics were emphasized, and the whole family must be reunited, so as to symbolize good fortune and prosperity.

Chi Yue gave the workers in the workshop a holiday three days ago, and a total of seven days on weekends, which can be regarded as a long vacation for himself, and he has a complete rest.

When she went home, she and Chi Xin bought some mooncakes on the side of the street to take home.

At this time, the moon cakes are just filled with peanuts and sesame seeds, and there are no more tricks. Chi Yue couldn't help but miss the five-kernel mooncakes, bean paste mooncakes, and even mooncakes filled with various fruits she had eaten in modern times.

Her favorite thing to eat is the five-kernel mooncake, which is called a sweet and delicious one, and she can't stop drooling when she thinks about it! It's a pity that this place doesn't seem to have been invented yet, and Chi Xin has heard it, but he has never heard of it.

Chi Yue was not reconciled and decided to make it herself.

When she returned, she went to the stove to work tirelessly.

Ikegetsu is mixed with lard and peanut oil, sugar, lye and baking powder, and then mixed into a large piece of noodles and fermented in a pot.

When she woke up the next morning, the noodles had already fermented and formed, so she didn't care about eating and began to make mooncake filling.

Chi Hao Chi Xiaoxue likes to eat snacks such as nuts, because there is never a shortage of such things at home, and Chi Yue brings some back for them from time to time.

The almonds, walnuts, sesame seeds and melon seeds needed to make moon cakes are easy to find at home, and she picks them up for stuffing. As for the olive kernels, which are not available here, she replaces them with peanuts, which are the least lacking in the family.

She smashed all of them, mixed them together with sugar and peanut oil, and dug a hole in them to beat a raw egg, meaning reunion.

Put the fermented noodles on the cutting board, Chi Yue began to roll out the moon cake crust, and then wrapped a moon cake crust with the filling, each beat a raw egg, wrapped it, and put it in a round mold to shape.

The round moon cakes were baked out by her on the pan until they were golden brown, and then she picked them up and put them aside to cool.

The moon cakes were still hot and hot, and Chi Hao Chi Xiaoxue couldn't wait to grab them and taste them, shouting "I want to eat" and "I want to eat", and asked Chi Yue to slap her hands a few times, so that she didn't burn the two little gluttons.

When it finally cooled down, Chi Haochi Xiaoxue was like two hungry for a few days, grabbed the moon cake and took a big bite, and after a few bites, he couldn't stop nodding like a rattle.

"Second sister, the mooncakes you make are so delicious!" Chi Xiaoxue's cheeks were bulging, and she couldn't help but praise in a muffled voice.

"It's better than what you sell outside." Ji Hao also agreed, took a sip of the overflowing saliva, and ate it again.

Zhou and Chi Xin couldn't help but come over and savor them one by one.

"Yue'er, where did you learn this craft? It's even better than what you bought in town. Zhou looked at Chi Yue incredulously, she had never eaten such delicious moon cakes.

"Yue'er, if you take this mooncake to the market and sell it, you think it will definitely be snatched up." Chi Xin said to Chi Yue in surprise and continued to taste it in small sips.

Chi Hao ate the fastest, and when he ate the innermost egg, he felt soft and smooth, like an egg tart, not to mention how sweet and delicious the taste was. His little face suddenly became as bright as a flower, and he couldn't stop shouting: "The eggs in it are so delicious, so delicious that I will fly!" ”

Chi Xiaoxue couldn't help but speed up her bite, and when she finally ate the "treasure" inside, she suddenly showed a face of great enjoyment, and shouted, "I'm going to fly too!" Second sister, I want to eat one more, give me another one! ”

Chi Yue amusedly took a mooncake for each of the two little things, let them dig up the "treasures" inside, and responded to Zhou's question, "I just had a whim, thinking about mixing these good things together, what would it be like?" But I didn't expect it to suit your taste. ”

As she spoke, she picked up a moon cake, took it into her mouth and tasted it, bowed her head slightly, and said with a serious attitude: "If there is really a strong fragrant taste, it is softer than the outside, it seems that my method is not bad." ”

Hearing that this method was actually figured out by Chi Yue herself, Zhou and Chi Xin only felt so admired that they threw themselves to the ground. It is better to say too many words that praised her in the past, and if she says it again now, it will inevitably seem angry, and it is better to say something practical.

Therefore, Zhou proposed: "Yue'er, since this moon cake is not available in other houses, then you might as well make more and send it to your grandmother, which can be regarded as the etiquette we should do in the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

For many years, since the family lost their husband and the Zhou family was driven out of the old house, they have never spent the Mid-Autumn Festival with the old house.

But every year, whenever there is some money left, the Zhou family must send some good things to the old house on the eve of the festival as a sign of his daughter-in-law's heart.

Although the old mansion has always been given and received, and she has never reported any good looks to her, and Grandma Chi always says some ugly words to sarcastically mock Zhou, but Zhou feels that peace of mind is the most important, and it is a matter of course to honor the elders during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it should not be with the desire to reciprocate, and it is not to take it to heart with an indifferent or even harsh attitude towards them.

This year, she originally planned to send some black eggs that Chi Yue brought back, and then go out to buy some moon cakes to send together, but at this time, she saw Chi Yue's homemade moon cakes and felt that it was appropriate to replace them.

I didn't want Chi Yue to hear it, frowned slightly, and said hesitantly: "Let's send some good things to the old mansion during the New Year's holidays, but where have we ever gotten a good word from them and a little bit of their good face?" Mother, if you want me to say, since we have drawn a clear line with the old house, we shouldn't do this thankless and stuffy by ourselves. ”

Zhou disagreed, "After all, they are your grandmother, even if they are separated, this blood relationship will still not be able to get rid of, Yue'er, you should never say such ruthless words." ”

Chi Yue sneered, "The uncle's family used to be intimate with grandma, but since the separation, Leng refused to send anything to him, and asked grandma for things from time to time." Grandma just told others about it, and she added us to it, but we never gave them anything to eat. If Aunt Liu hadn't heard this and told me, we would still be kept in the dark, and we might not know how to be poked in the back of someone, but we don't know how to defend ourselves! If you want me to say, it is better to provide for these ungrateful white-eyed wolves than to provide for a pig and a sheep, and these animals are more grateful than they know, not only will they not arrange to frame people, but they also know how to shed a few tears when they leave their masters. ”

Chi Yue complained about the ingratitude of the old mansion, as well as the stinginess of the uncle's family, and hated it so much that her teeth itched, and she wished that Zhou could listen to her words, so she cut off contact with this layer of the old mansion, and no longer put good things into the mouth of the person who is never satisfied.

Zhou had another idea, she shook her head helplessly, "I know that you can't listen to my mother's words, I just think that my mother is stupid, and she wasted her money for food, but one day, you will understand your mother's hard work." ”

But Chi Yue thought left and right, and couldn't guess Zhou's intentions.

They finally got rid of the entanglement of the old house, but Zhou was stunned that she was willing to be this wronged boss, and her hot face was upside down to other people's cold butts, she wanted to change to anyone, and she would not understand Zhou's intention to do this.

What's more, the Zhou family has been humiliated by Grandma Chi is uncountable, and he has been suppressed for so many years, and now that his life is better, he should be happy and quiet, knowing that enjoyment is, but he rushed to listen to other people's humiliating and mocking words, what is this not looking for abuse?

Chi Yue twitched her lips a few times, and wanted to say something, but she knew that the Zhou family would not listen to her anyway, so she would not waste her lips and tongue again.

Chi on the side has always listened to Zhou's words, and said to Chi Yue at this time: "Yue'er, you just listen to your mother, your mother has her own intentions for doing this, we are still young, as long as we do what our mother says, ask more about what to do?" ”

Chi Yue was reminded by Chi Xin, and only then did she realize that she was just a twelve-year-old female doll.

If she is too crowded with the Zhou family and refuses to do what she says, she will be disobedient and unfilial in the eyes of others.

And the Zhou family takes great care of her on weekdays, she has already regarded the Zhou family as her own mother, and she has gained a lot of warmth here, she should listen to his words and make her heart be obedient.

Chi Yue hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll do some more, and let my mother send it." ”

So saying, he went to work inside.

Seeing that Chi Yue was willing to listen to his words, Zhou Shi smiled on his face, and also went to help him.

Nearly in the evening, they made a large basket of mooncakes, more than 30 of them.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhou went to the old house with more than 20 five-kernel mooncakes and four catties of black eggs.

The remaining dozen or so, Chi Yue wrapped, thinking about taking them to Chi Carpenter's house, by the way to see if his condition improved.

Half of the more than ten that came out of the oven before have been eaten by two small things, and now it seems that I am tired of eating, so I only ate two or three and threw them aside, and went to eat the others.

Chi Xin took four or five of them and wanted to take them to taste the jasmine and osmanthus that she had befriended in the village.

Chi Yue thought of Xiao Cui, so she simply wrapped up the remaining six and prepared to take them to Xiao Cui's family.

Xiaocui is her only trusted friend in this village, and she often brings them food, and if there are any good things, she will definitely think of them.

Just as he was about to carry a bag of mooncakes and go out to visit the carpenter of Chi first, a group of people poured in front of the door, causing Chi Yue to stop.

"Oh, where are you going? Look at you with such a big package in your hand, it can't be that you're going out to visit relatives, right? ”

A woman smiled and shouted sharply, put an eight or nine-year-old child in her arms on the ground, patted his buttocks, and urged, "Go, tell Aunt to go, Aunt will give you something to eat." ”

But the little man did not move, and stood in place.

A woman with gray hair and about the same age as Grandma Chi followed up unceremoniously reprimanded the child, "I'm still not sensible when I'm so old, and I won't scream when I see my aunt, I really don't know how your father and mother raised you at home, you didn't come out to be embarrassed and make people laugh!" ”

After the reprimand, regardless of the face of the child's father and mother on the side, he instantly changed to a smiling, charitable and gentle face to Chi Yue, and said softly: "Yue'er, where are you going?" Where's your mother? ”

Chi Yue searched her intestines and scraped her stomach, and remembered who this group of uninvited guests was.

This is also a group of unconscious. If they don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, they come uninvited, and they don't know what they are thinking?