The Mid-Autumn Festival has many other names: the festival is on August 15, so it is called "August Festival" and "August and a half"; Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are carried out around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival" and "Moon Eve"; The Mid-Autumn Festival moon is complete, symbolizing reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival", and in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Duanzheng Month".

The custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival has been around for a long time, and it has always been mainly engaged in large-scale sacrificial activities, and it was not until the founding of the early Tang Dynasty that it was listed as a fixed festival for the whole country to celebrate.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been admired since ancient times, but eating moon cakes is a new thing for people in this era. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was no moon cake, and its original form was 'Hu cake'. Legend has it that at that time, merchants from the Western Regions offered cakes to the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Gaozu Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, smiled and pointed to the bright moon in the sky and said, "The toad should be invited to the Hu cake", and after speaking, he distributed the cake to the ministers to taste together.

From then on, 'Hu Cake' became a specific food for Zhu Jie in the army, until the victory of the general Li Jing in the expedition against Xihu, and the triumphant return on August 15, and the soldiers of the whole army returned to their hometown with the bright moon on their heads. After reuniting with the family and elders and tasting the 'victory cake' to celebrate, the word 'moon cake' became widely spread. The 'moon cake', which symbolizes victory and reunion, has a long history.

There is not much sugar, and the price is high, so it is a little difficult for ordinary people to eat sweet cakes, and salty mooncakes are the majority. In these years, the atmosphere of giving moon cakes to each other has not yet been formed, self-sufficiency, making flavors according to their own abilities, and the wind of comparison has not yet been formed.

Because it is a solar term, the flower water workshop closed early for a holiday, and the second daughter rushed back at noon for a reunion, Ying never went out early, and happily gathered all the servants in the family, and each person was rewarded with a small red envelope of thirty Wen and six eggs, and the family was boiling.

Due to the gradual improvement of the family scene, the red envelopes in the New Year's festival are richly rewarded. How much to reward, how to reward, I never interfere, Ying is much stronger than me at this point, and she handles it just right. When to tighten, when to loosen, the scale of proportion should be grasped just right, shrewdness and stinginess are two concepts. Ying fully embodies the meaning of the former. Every time at this time, I dressed neatly like a decent, sat on the big chair in the main hall for 2580,000 yuan, and didn't say a word, allowing Ying and the housekeeper to hold a dividend ceremony. Whenever this time I think of the Empress Dowager Cixi, I want to say that I am also dedicated, and I am at ease when I am a puppet, and I never engage in the 'Wuxu Change'. Hang the curtain and listen to the government. Since my mother-in-law has the ability to take care of the family business better than me, there is no reason to compete everywhere, manhood is to be shown at a critical time, we must not act badly when we appear, and we should not eat and drink honestly when we appear. Others can't see it, and they say some gossip, just as he farts.

The second daughter is a good girl, although she is of noble birth and now she is nourished, but she has never rejected housework. Sooner or later, at home, they are busy with a small task in their hands. Embroidery, small bits and pieces, she did it with relish. I used to sit on the kang with Ying and I, listening to us talk and doing some small handicrafts. Because he doesn't speak, he has developed a set of eyes**, his big eyes are bright and flexible, and he has a variety of charms to use. A variety of meanings emerge from eye contact. Every now and then, I can't help but hug her in my arms and kiss her twice, the small appearance is too distressing.

The second daughter took a few wooden molds for beating moon cakes and sat in front of me to scrub carefully, the mold is finely carved, the lines are more, and it is more troublesome to clean, this job is suitable for the second daughter This kind of detailed person, she likes to show her delicate side in front of me. The handyman at this place of work can be lazy.

"Today I greeted Cheng's family. I can send the cat's eye next month, don't worry about it. "In the morning, Cheng Chu brought a generous gift and rushed over to pay tribute to Wang Xiu's father. Nominally, he is a master, and after fifteen years, it is more or less meaningful. I begged for a jar of eggs and five jars of crickets, mainly crickets, the kind that must be able to fight well. Listening to the tone, it is more urgent, as if his Cheng family is about to collapse, anyway, the old man has already given a death order, and if he loses the battle, he will set fire to the family's origin, which means that the old man is very bad. Cheng Chu said the news when he left, I was gratified, Qin Yu has already reached the martial arts, because he has to take over the military defense of the gateway in the pass, so stay there to familiarize himself with the military terrain, anyway, this handover is to prepare for the old man Cheng to go out of the fortress next year, as long as he comes back before the end of the year, the court will not blame. Seeing that the second daughter's big eyes showed a look of joy, "Madame is not in front of you, why don't you blink your eyes and speak." "I've been busy with cotton these days, and I haven't listened to my second daughter for a few days. In fact, the second girl's voice is very soft, and she listens to it slowly and logically.

"The quilt is warm, thank you, husband." The second daughter got up to wipe the water stains on her hands and poured me a cup of hot tea, "Cat's eye is not in a hurry, it's the second daughter who is greedy, don't take it seriously." ”

"It's a good thing, of course I'm going to take it seriously." The second daughter usually likes to scribble and learn to dress up as an adult, but the jewelry or something is not used by Ying, and she never asks too much. It's not easy to ask for jewelry this time, and I don't know if Ying doesn't mention it. Looking at the small appearance of the second daughter, I felt a little guilty, I was usually careless, and I always treated her as a little girl, and I never thought of adding jewelry to her. Ai touched her little face, "It's a big girl, it's a good thing to love to dress up, and tell me directly what is pleasing to the eye when you look at it in the future." ”

"It's the concubine who bothered the husband, it's the concubine's body that is wrong." The second daughter turned to my back and explained softly: "It's all the fourth child who is not good, she took a big cat eye to show it, saying that it was given to her by her wife, and the second daughter was not convinced, so she asked Mrs. for land." ”

No wonder, let's just say that the second daughter usually doesn't have this habit, it turns out that she eats the fourth vinegar, and it has nothing to do with me. When she was a maid for Ying, she definitely didn't have this idea, because of my arrival, Ying changed her mood this year, and she was generally spoiled and used to the second daughter as her own girl, and the second daughter gradually became dependent on Ying, and she was emotionally close. The fourth child took the things given by her sister and displayed them in front of her, and the second daughter was naturally unhappy, so she had to ask for one from Ying to take revenge, but Ying used up the cat's eye when she played jewelry, and only then did she have the idea of buying it in the black store of the Cui family. If I hadn't found out in time, I would have probably been slaughtered by the Cui family by now.

"Then I don't care, you look for Mrs. to go." I smiled and moved my second daughter from behind. Put your legs and sit down, "You don't have to compare with the fourth child in the future, she doesn't use it even if she brings eighty cat's eyes, you just stand next to her, and you will take revenge." ”

"Giggle...... the second daughter was happy to hear it, and climbed on my shoulder and laughed, "Actually, the fourth child is also a smart person, she borrowed that appearance to pretend to be stupid." If it weren't for the second daughter's carefulness, she would have been calculated how many times, and she was born with a good talent for business. ”

I patted the second daughter on the back and said with a smile: "Then study hard with others, and I still expect you to move the gold and silver mountains back to your family in the future." "Although the two families are relatives and cooperate more closely than with outsiders, small disputes over interests will inevitably arise. The father-in-law also let his own girl toss, and the rights on my side were delegated to the second daughter. The two girls are not fuel-efficient lamps, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and it is strange if they are not intrigued. It's interesting to meet the opponent in chess, and there is no way to let the second girl pick this beam, so she chose the right person. "The distillation workshop is optimistic. In the future, the production of toilet water will come together, and it will be busier than it is now. ”

"Yes," the second daughter nodded, "It's good to be busy." Hee-hee. "The big eyes turned around a few times, trying to pay bad attention," the concubine of the steaming workshop personally grabbed it in her hand and dismantled the small steaming stove of the flower water workshop. Since then, the two have been settling accounts separately. The wine here has to be purchased from the steamed wine workshop to ensure that the flower water is shipped, and the price of the steamed wine must be raised to the highest, so that the profit of Chen Jiadi will be reduced to the lowest. Our family takes money at both ends, and we don't lose at all. The Chen family is dispensable, the medicinal materials can't suppress the family's potential, and we don't buy from his family. "When the second daughter was engaged in the workshop, she put forward the precautions for the supply of raw materials, if you only take medicinal materials from the Chen family, after a long time, they will calculate the total number of various medicinal materials supplied to the workshop. It's inseparable from the ratio of the secret recipe. With a little more thought, it might be better than the original. So after the establishment of the workshop. A total of six suppliers were pulled, and the Chen family took the lion's share. The fourth child has always been obsessed with this matter, and often complains to Ying, Ying is true to the girl's love, but he has a firm position on this matter and does not give the fourth child any chance. Now if you want to hold the steamed wine in your hands according to the second daughter's idea, the profits of the Chen family will be further devoured by the Wang family, and the fourth child still has to quarrel with Ying for a while, hehe.

"Competent! Just as you say. You don't have to consult with me. "What are you discussing, the second daughter's brain is better than mine, is there a reason to discuss with a stupid person? A thousand years of knowledge and insight sounds enough to bluff people, but it's just a matter of a moment, and it's just self-deception. To be shrewd is not as good as Ying, to be smart as the second daughter, to be less understanding than Lanling, to be inferior to Cui Zhang, to be inferior to Cheng Chu in martial arts, to be inferior to Qin Yu in ideals, and to be nothing. I have the same benefits, I have self-knowledge, I know how capable I am, and I am never allowed to exceed my own ability. It's okay to make a cameo as a staff officer, but if you want to lead the starring role, it's a dead end. "Say hello to Mrs. in advance, and if the fourth child comes to annoy you in the future, you two will have a good excuse."

My second daughter's ability is not covered, and the moon cakes that are beaten out are fragrant when they look at it, and they are fragrant when they are eaten. Not to mention the oven and the like, even the conditions of the lack of coal, it is the best to make it look like this, anyway, if you are hungry, what to eat is not to eat.

The reason for the backwardness of the preservation means is that the activity of making moon cakes will not be carried out until August 15, and the whole family is sitting in the courtyard, with all kinds of seasonal fresh fruits on the table, and a plate of murderous moon cakes (I think it is a sunken baked cake) in the middle of the demonstration, looking at the bright moon like a demonstration, wine and shochu, very atmospheric.

It was sunny, the moon was surprisingly bright, and it was the same as my own head on the head, and I didn't even need to light a lantern in the moonlight. Wangcai is blessed, I washed it clean at noon, and happily coquettished under my feet, so I got half a piece of salty sesame stuffed baked cake, ah 'moon cake'.

"Next year, I will personally make moon cakes for the two of you to see the craftsmanship of the husband." At this time, it is the season when the fruit is the most prosperous, and it is easy to get some sugar and pulp filling, and when there are many varieties, people will ignore the taste and play tricks. I got up and poured wine for the two ladies, I was not used to drinking it, and it was still shochu to my appetite. took a wine glass, "Come, the family won't talk so much nonsense, have a drink, and sleep well at night." ”

"That's what my husband said, and it wouldn't be interesting to talk about it at length." Ying drank the wine with a smile, and when she saw the second girl drinking the ground, she pinched the little girl's nose and poured it in, and said with a smile: "It's the same thing as dense water, as for drinking medicine, it doesn't look like drinking medicine." "Stand up and fill your glass," a year has changed since this time last year. Don't say it's someone else, even the concubine herself sometimes can't believe it. When I wake up early and wake up, I'm afraid that the dream has passed, so I will see if my husband is not by my side first," he said and touched the little face of the second daughter, "and then this girl." If there is one less in front of him, the concubine will not be steady, and he will only be relieved when he sees it in his eyes. "Maybe I remembered the bitter things in the past and wiped the corners of my eyes." The concubine is a blessed person, and following her husband is the creation of several lifetimes......"

"It's crooked, it's endless." Stretched out his hand to soothe and pat Ying's emaciated shoulder, "Hurry up and drink, I didn't see the moon grow so big, wait for us to reward it." Don't talk about unhappy things. "Broke a grape and stuffed it into the second daughter's mouth, this girl poured a cup, and gasped." If the wife and the second daughter are capable, our family will never be defeated. If you two are good, you can do everything, whoever talks crookedly about the previous, be careful of beating people for your husband. ”

"No, don't say it again." Ying moved her chair. Sitting next to me, he leaned over, "Don't worry, husband, there are no outsiders in front of me." That's easy to say. Other families, there are those who have the main room and the outer room, which is not strange. But this will never happen in our house. The second daughter has been with the concubine for many years, and she used to be angry and beaten; At that time, Concubine Hou was still young and careless," she said, and pulled the second daughter over and hugged her in her arms, "Don't be jealous, girl." Don't take it to heart. There will be no such thing in the future, and it is too late to feel distressed, let alone do it. ”

"Fight, if you don't obey, you have to fight." I pinched the second daughter's little face, "The girl has grown up, this age has not yet arrived, and someone will have to discipline her in the future, so she is used to it." Don't overdo it. He took the second girl's wine glass and drank it for her. This girl doesn't drink and blushes badly. handed her a piece of mooncake, "Eat it quickly, it's like a monkey's ass." ”

"The moon is good today, it's for our family." Ying greedily pointed to the moon of the public house, "It is said that this immortal lives high, and the moon is afraid that it is full." There is no way to say that the land is expensive. ”

Three sentences do not leave the bank. Ying is now thinking about the land for a day, and even the real estate of the gods wants to have an investment, which is too much, the land business on the moon is so easy to develop? After a thousand years, no one dares to invest in it, "You have hysteria, no one will let go of the land, be careful that other gods will make you divergent." ”

"Hehe...... Ying put his head on my shoulder and chuckled, "You say this person, but he is greedy and not satisfied." Back then, life was not going well, and I just thought that my husband could change his mind. Now that I have a little bit of a good situation, I don't have to go through myself, and the more and more thoughts I have, the longer this hand is stretched. Sometimes I don't think it's good to think about it, but I just can't stop thinking about it, don't I? ”

"This is a good thing," I nodded affirmatively, ** and ability is proportional, without **, the living life is boring, normal. "It's the same for everyone, that's common sense."

"Does that husband have any of these thoughts?" Ying head rubbed back and forth on my face, "The better the situation, the more people think, what about you, what do you think?" ”

"I'm much more noble than you," I poured myself a glass, dried it in one gulp, the wine was good, and the wine began to burn in my stomach, refreshing. "You see, this paper-making workshop, the flower water workshop, and the cotton fields in the back, one by one, are not all my ideas? Whether you make money yourself, or for the country and the people, you have to live in the world to be brisk and comfortable. We can't manage it at home, but we can live better in the future. ”

"Well," Ying nodded, "that's what life really is." Originally, I also thought that since my husband was so capable, he might not be worse than those officials when he entered the court. But after thinking about it, let's not talk about the battle in the open and in the dark, the tolerance in the bare hands is too busy, and what are you talking about. Going well, coming back with a good reputation and a good life is the best; The ups and downs of unsmooth life, there is no hope for the rest of your life, and you are not sure how it will end. Saying that, he closed his eyes comfortably and muttered to himself, "It's better for our family, don't get involved in so many disgusting things, the husband still has a reputation, and the concubine and the second daughter are also living a solid life by their side." Perhaps, a good friend comes to talk about learning every day, and you say, is this knowledge so diligent? I don't think my husband can be a scholar. ”

"Tomorrow, I will ask those who talk about learning to go back the jewelry that was given to you, and you will know the benefits of learning." I smiled and took Ying's little hand and clapped it, "Come, the second daughter sits on my lap and looks at the moon here." ”

hugged the second daughter and Ying without a word, and unconsciously drank a pot down, Ying also grabbed the wine and let go of the amount of wine, the more she drank, the more she drank, the more she drank, the brighter the moon became, and she didn't want to sleep at all. I don't have much to say to my wife, especially after a long time, and the topics I pull are all short topics in the parents, which is not very interesting. Maybe it's the effect of the moon and the earth, the two of them talk about speculation, and they can talk about everything together, especially after drinking a little wine, there is no taboo, and there is a feeling that there are thousands of cups of wine for a confidant. Thousands of cups, I didn't arrive, anyway, how to sleep on the kang ground, I can't remember.

。 Three Heads M.