Chapter 19: The Mid-Autumn Festival of Drunkenness

It was already dawn, Lu Hong was sweating profusely, and when he returned home, he saw that Lu Xiang'er was still asleep. So he went to the courtyard again and plucked a chicken feather and scratched it around Lu Xiang'er's eye feathers. It wasn't until Lu Xiang'er wrinkled her little face and opened her eyes that Lu Hong ran to the most intimate room to take a bath.

Lu Erniang, who had just entered the house, saw Lu Hong's appearance and knew that he had woken up Lu Xiang'er again. laughed and scolded Lu Hong, and Lu Erniang walked into the house quickly and held Lu Xiang'er in her arms. While patting her, he said softly: "If Xiang'er wants to sleep, just sleep for a while, A-Niang pats Xiang'er." ”

Lu Xiang'er, who was already very angry, immediately lost her temper when she heard Lu Erniang's care. Smelling the fragrance on Lu Erniang's body, Lu Xiang'er immediately raised her head and said with a smile: "A-Niang, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, what delicious food did you make, Xiang'er is hungry." ”

"Okay, A-Niang will go and serve rice, let's eat something simple in the morning, and wait for A-Niang to make something delicious for you in the evening." Lu Erniang nodded Lu Xiang'er's forehead and began to put on her skirt. Then let her wash up, and go to the kitchen to serve food.

After Lu Hong finished taking a shower and changed into a clean robe, the three members of the Lu family started to eat breakfast. After breakfast, Lu Hong wiped the grapes picked back yesterday one by one according to what Lu Xiang'er said, and put them in the jar that Lu Erniang found. And Lu Xianger went to the kitchen to help Lu Erniang make Hu cakes, so that she could eat them at night.

Looking at Lu Erniang and noodles, Lu Xianger remembered the moon cakes in her previous life. Although the mooncakes are becoming less and less of their original taste, Lu Xianger will buy a few pieces every August 15. Brew another cup of flower tea, while looking at the moon, while eating moon cakes, thinking about the parents who have blurred in their memories.

"Xiang'er, what are you thinking?" Lu Erniang saw that Lu Xiang'er was stunned again, and immediately thought that she might not have slept well, so she hurriedly said: "Xiang'er, if you don't sleep well, go into the house and sleep, A-Niang doesn't need your help here." ”

"No, A-Niang, Xiang'er doesn't want to sleep. Xiang'er just remembered a kind of Hu cake she once ate. Lu Xiang'er looked at the white noodles that Lu Erniang bought, and really wanted to eat moon cakes, so she put the origin of the moon cakes on Lu Tai's body. Looking at Lu Erniang's questioning look, Lu Xiang'er pretended to be trying to recall, and said slowly: "Daddy bought a strange Hu cake from a Hu man, and the cake had a filling in it, but it was not vegetables or meat. It seems to be pine nuts, walnuts, sesame seeds, etc. ”

"Can it be delicious?" Lu Erniang thought about those hard fruits, how hard they were to be baked out of the pot, and they couldn't be sharpened. Seeing Lu Xiang'er's yearning look, Lu Erniang said, "That's good." A-Niang went to the county yesterday and bought those fruits, and planned to eat them at night. Since Xiang'er wanted to eat that kind of rice, A-Niang made it for Xiang'er. ”

"A-Niang, you're so nice." Lu Xiang'er watched Lu Erniang come out of the kitchen, and immediately recalled the practice of moon cakes. In ancient times, there was no oven, so you could only use a pot to cook, so you had to make the moon cakes softer. The stuffing inside can't be all dried fruits, what to put in. Lu Xiang'er walked out of the kitchen and walked around the yard.

Suddenly, Lu Xiang remembered that when the owner of this farmhouse moved away, he seemed to have left a small bag of red beans. Boil the red beans and put some sugar on the mooncakes filled with bean paste. Thinking of this, Lu Xiang'er immediately ran into the mud room, almost stepped on a few bunches of grapes, and took out the small bag.

Lu Erniang also happened to walk out of the main room with some walnuts, and saw Lu Xiang'er carrying the small bag very hard, so she hurriedly walked over and grabbed it, and said angrily: "You kid, you can't be idle for a moment, what are you going to do?" ”

"A-Niang, cook this red bean, mash it and eat it in the Hu cake." Seeing Lu Erniang's puzzled expression again, Lu Xiang'er hurriedly said: "Ah Niang, this is what my Ah Niang asked the Hu man how to make the Hu cake, and the Hu man said it." ”

"Oh." Lu Erniang nodded and carried the red beans into the kitchen. Lu Xiang'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she heard a lot about Feng Sanniang recently, and only then did she know that her biological mother was a person who loved to eat.

patted her chest, and then Lu Xiang'er walked into the kitchen and told Lu Erniang how to make those red beans. She first asked Lu Erniang to put those red beans into the pot and boil them in water, and then take them out. Then, the beans are then mashed and mixed with loose sugar and fried in a large pot. Although there are some bean skins, there is no way to do it.

After Lu Erniang reconciled the dough with lard, cut it into small pieces, and then rolled out the small pieces of dough. Lu Xiang'er grabbed a ball of bean paste with her little hands, added some rolled walnut powder, and put it in the dough. Lu Erniang then formed the dough into a ball, pressed it into a cake, and finally put it into a pot to burn. Before long, a smell wafted from the kitchen. Lu Erniang cooled the first cooked Hu cake, broke it from the middle, gave half of it to Lu Xiang'er, and ate half of it herself.

"I didn't expect this cake to be so fragrant." Lu Erniang nodded, thinking that she would eat this cake if she had time in the future. Looking back at Lu Xiang'er with a satisfied look, Lu Erniang smiled and said, "Xiang'er, it's really like your father and mother." ”

As he was talking, Lu Hong was also led to the kitchen by this aroma, and when he saw that Lu Erniang and Lu Xiang'er were both wearing this thick cake, they also picked it up and took a big bite of it. This bite made Lu Hong eat three times in a row, if Lu Erniang hadn't stopped him, he didn't know how many more he could eat.

Lu Erniang glanced at Lu Hong, took a plate with six pieces of Hu Biscuits, handed it to Lu Hong and said, "Wipe the oil on your mouth, and then send this Hu Biscuit to your master to compensate." ”

"Got it, A-Niang." Under Lu Xiang'er's snicker, Lu Hong quickly wiped the oil from his mouth before serving the plate. Before leaving, he also made a grimace at Lu Xiang'er, which made her laugh and laugh, and then strode away.

Lu Erniang finished baking all the Hu cakes, and Lu Hong also came back, with some food made by Aunt Zhao in his hand. It was already noon, so Lu Erniang heated up the remaining steamed buns in the morning and ate lunch with the dishes sent by Aunt Zhao. After lunch, Lu Erniang continued to be busy in the kitchen, but Lu Hong helped Lu Xiang'er make wine. The three members of the Lu family were not idle until the sun went down.

The three of them rested for a while, and when the round moon climbed up the treetops, they began to get busy again. Lu Hong moved the table in the room and three thick mats to the courtyard and set them up, and Lu Erniang brought the dishes she had prepared before to the table. And Lu Xiang'er took a small jar and went to the mud room to serve wine.

When Lu Xiang'er took out the small jar and put it on the table, the table was already filled with eight dishes that were half hot and cold, plus a plate of Hu cakes and a plate of osmanthus cakes bought in the county. Although there are a lot of dishes, the plates are very small, enough for three people, but there is not much left.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, the three members of the Lu family smiled and gathered together. Lu Erniang was in the middle, and Lu Xianger and Lu Hong sat on both sides. The first thing Lu Hong did when he sat down was to carry the wine jar and pour wine into the bowl of the three people. Then Lu Xianger was the first to raise the bowl, first saluting Lu Erniang, and then saluting Lu Hong.

Because today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu Erniang did not block Lu Xianger and Lu Hong from drinking. In fact, during this period of time, Lu Xianger first made toys and earned a hundred taels, and then made wine. Lu Erniang became more and more improper, she was a five-year-old child, and only thought that although Lu Xiang'er was young, she grew up very quickly because of what she had experienced. Regarding Lu Xianger's changes, Lu Erniang is relieved and sad to account for half each, and it is up to her temperament.

After all, if a person hides too many things in his heart, but does not come out, it is easy to get sick. This is what Lu Erniang has deeply realized after he left. She also wants to take advantage of today's festival to get Lu Xianger drunk and release the depression in her heart.

Lu Hong really liked this wine, and Lu Erniang didn't care about him, but he was too addicted. So much so that Lu Xiang'er didn't do anything, and Lu Hong fell drunk in the courtyard again. Lu Erniang had no choice but to put Lu Hong into the house first.

Lu Xiang'er looked at the round moon and thought of her parents in her previous life, as well as her parents who were no longer alive in this life. The two pairs of parents are both biological parents for Lu Xianger, but they are not around. However, Lu Xianger believes that both pairs of parents will be somewhere, watching her and blessing her.

In a daze, Lu Xiang'er seemed to see two couples in modern and ancient clothes, smiling at her. Lu Xiang'er also laughed, laughing so much that tears fell from the corners of her cheeks, and said softly: "I'm not alone, I still have my aunt and my brother." I will definitely live a happy, happy life. You can rest assured......"