Uncle is short of money, and Liu Guiyuan has also been short of money recently, why? Her family spent more money to build this brick wall and two doors, and originally planned to get it up and down for five taels of silver, and finally settled, a total of more than seven taels!

Coupled with the living expenses during this time, buying rice and noodles, buying clothes and goods, as well as the pearl powder that their three sisters usually put on their faces, the last count of the money in their hands, there are only nine taels of silver left, in the words of her second sister, this money is really not spent!

No, it's just that August 15 is coming, and she's thinking about making some moon cakes or something to sell for a while, and making a lot of money next to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Uncle was in such a hurry that he almost stepped on my puppy." Liu Huahua stood outside the gate of the courtyard wall, holding the aggrieved little milk dog in his arms.

"Uncle was really in a hurry, and he felt like he put down his things, and he set off before he rested." Liu Hongjube had some regrets.

"Uncle is not in a hurry, I wanted to ask him to make me a set of good-looking molds, alas!" Liu Guiyuan learned the tone of the two sisters and pretended to sigh.

"What do you want molds for?" Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua both looked at her with curiosity.

"Eldest sister, second sister, August 15 is coming, I want to use a mold to press the moon cakes to sell, but not baked, but steamed and eaten in a fresh style." Liu Guiyuan smiled and gestured.

The crust of this moon cake is mainly made of cooked glutinous rice and wheat flour, and the moon cake filling can be lotus paste, bean paste and fruit and other respective fillings, but this kind of moon cake has a fatal drawback, that is, it is not easy to preserve at room temperature.

If in the future generations, the snowy skin mooncakes made in advance will be put in the refrigerator and freezer, and they will not be afraid to sell for half a year, but here is ancient times, there is nothing, and the weather is still so hot, if you want to make snowy skin mooncakes that are not easy to melt, you have to put more thought.

"Cheng Dong hasn't gone far yet, why don't you catch up and call him?" Grandma Luo didn't want to disappoint Guiyuan, so she hurriedly reminded her.

"No, uncle, we have to hurry up and make it high, that thing is a quantity, there is no time to make it for me, I will buy the same one in town, let's go, let's cook and eat first, and then talk about it after eating." Liu Guiyuan held Grandma Luo and called the two sisters into the hospital to close the door.

It's the end of July now, and the things about the Mid-Autumn Festival in the town must have been sold, among which there are naturally shops that sell moon cake molds.

After lunch, Liu Guiyuan and Liu Huahua borrowed an ox cart and went to the town, and the two went to the woodware shop first, and the shopkeeper heard that they were going to buy moon cake molds, at least ten, so they smiled and pointed to the box on the west side of the door, telling them to pick their own.

Liu Guiyuan saw the moon cake mold with his own eyes, only to know how clever the hands of the ancients could be, most of these molds are separate and independent, because different patterns are large and small, some are longevity patterns, some are bat patterns, some are lotus flowers, and some are plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemums.

However, in order to unify the size, Liu Guiyuan still picked a round mold, a total of ten, and after paying the money, he went to his aunt Zhang Xiangqiao's cake shop and borrowed something from her.

"Auntie, I thought of you borrowing some powder, the kind you basked in the sun last time."

The last time Liu Guiyuan came to her aunt's place, she accidentally discovered the existence of Cheng Fen, and she knew how high the wisdom of the ancients was, and she had long known that kneading wheat gluten could get another kind of flour, but she didn't know whether this kind of flour was popular.

"Cheng Fen, it's a coincidence, I've made a lot of it recently, you can use it."

Zhang Xiangqiao's business in the store has just started, and she is not very busy every day, so she simply spends all her time studying flower cakes, and by the way, she prepares more flour, so that she does not have to rush to make it when the business is busy in the future.

"Well, then I still have something to do at home, so I'll go back first." Liu Guiyuan walked out with half a bag of powder, turned his head and said to Zhang Xiangqiao halfway through: "Auntie, I'll make a few snowy moon cakes when I go back, and put them in your shop for consignment when the time comes, okay?" ”

Nine times out of ten, snowy skin moon cakes will be popular, Liu Guiyuan wants to use it to promote his aunt's shop and increase his popularity, in fact, the pastries made by his aunt are really good, but there are too many peers in Qinghe Town who make cakes, and she can't compete for a while.

"Okay, yes, but I don't have many diners in this small shop, and I won't be able to sell it when the time comes, don't blame me." Zhang Xiangqiao winked at her.

"No, after August 15, I guarantee that your potpourri shop will have a prosperous business." Liu Guiyuan promised with a grin.

After borrowing the powder and buying a few temporary materials, Liu Guiyuan and Liu Huahua hurried back.

When she got home, Liu Guiyuan led the eldest sister and the second sister to start making snowy moon cakes, glutinous rice flour she had at home, but she was afraid that it would not be enough, so she still bought some from the town, and then mixed it with flour, adding crushed sugar, a little fine salt, and her homemade snow-white emulsified oil.

To make snow skin, she uses emulsified oil, which she mixes with sesame oil and lard and stirs it constantly, hoping that it will not affect the taste of snow skin mooncakes.

After the ice skin formed a soft dough, the noodles were allowed to rest on the pot and cooked, while she began to discuss the mooncake fillings with her two sisters.

"Eldest sister and second sister, you two said that it is good to put what kind of filling, it is better to put that kind of home-style filling, otherwise you will have to trouble getting it." Liu Guiyuan asked the two of them.

"Put the bean paste filling, I like the red bean paste, sweet, red, put it in the ice skin to reflect the redness, it looks good." Liu Huahua was the first to express his thoughts.

"Longan, don't you say that you can make fruit filling, I think about wild loquat to make jam, and it's weird to fill it into the filling, the little doll likes it." Liu Hongzao thought about it and gave her own thoughts.

"That's okay, then a red bean paste, a loquat jam, do you have any other ideas, grandma, what kind of stuffing do you want to eat?"

When Grandma Luo was feeding the chickens to drink water and building the courtyard wall, the chicken coop was renovated by the way, leaving a dog hole next to it, and when the grouse went out in the morning, three chickens came out of the dog hole, and it was estimated that they were thirsty when they suddenly got in.

Grandma Luo fed the chicken, kicked it out, and then said with a smile: "What can I think, there are only a few kinds of fillings for moon cakes, but I have been wanting to eat sesame seeds recently, maybe make a sesame filling?" ”

"Okay, why not, I'll choose another pumpkin filling, suitable for all ages."

There are several pumpkins planted at home, and because they want to build a courtyard wall, they can only pull out the roots, so Liu Guiyuan wants to arrange all the pumpkins.

The three sisters discussed with Grandma Luo, and each prepared the filling of their own choice, only half of it was done, Tian Rubai came in from outside, and during this time he would come over every day to teach Liu Guiyuan a few literacy exercises, of course, mainly to teach Liu Guiyuan.

"Brother Bai, you sit and play for a while, and we'll be ready soon."

Taking advantage of Tian Rubai's recent vacation, Liu Guiyuan agreed with him to teach her to read and write every day, and she studied extremely diligently, so that she could write and keep accounts in front of others in the future, and she didn't have to secretly list vertically behind others' backs.

Tian Rubai shook his head, said that he was not in a hurry, opened the "Four Words Miscellaneous Book", copied a few big characters on the paper, and then turned his head to see that they were still busy, so he asked if he wanted to help.

"No, it's all done, here it is."

Liu Guiyuan washed her hands and followed the past to practice calligraphy, she just pounded the pumpkin puree, and waited for the ice skin and a few fillings to cool down and fill the filling, this is simple.

"What's that, Guiyuan, you study hard, I'll go to Sister Jin Di's house to rub ice powder."

Liu Huahua only learned the words for two days, and she was impatient to learn, in her words, she would rather rub two buckets of ice powder than write those crooked words.

Liu Guiyuan was helpless, so he could only shrug his shoulders and continue to follow Tian Rubai to learn to read, then again, the three sisters are not counted as her, Liu Hongzao is the most concerned about literacy, but in order to avoid suspicion, she can't come directly to learn, every time Liu Guiyuan has learned, and then transfer it to her.

This is also something that cannot be helped, since ancient times, there has been a difference between men and women, even in their farmhouse, it is necessary to pay attention to what should be noted. Fortunately, Liu Guiyuan is only eight years old, Tian Rubai is 11 years old, and there is an elder like Grandma Luo in the family, and outsiders can't find it.

After learning today's words, Liu Guiyuan thought that there was not enough sugar at home, so he planned to go to the village chief's house to buy some, that's right, since the village chief's house wholesaled low-priced white sugar, she will never buy it from the town again, who calls it cheap.

"Brother Bai, wait, I'll go to the village chief's house to buy some sugar."

"Then you have to hurry, my eldest uncle's sugar is running out, and several brothers in the family are going to take the township test for a while, and no one will have time to buy in the town for a while."

"No, so much sugar has been used up, you have to pay attention, the price of white sugar is high, don't press too much and can't sell it out."

Liu Guiyuan frowned, a little worried, her family fried some watermelon candy every day or two, and she had saved a lot of it so far, but it is conceivable that the Tian family has four rooms, and the watermelon sugar will only be saved, and if it can't be sold, it will all be smashed in her hands.

"No, it won't." Tian Xiaobai smiled slightly, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth, and whispered: "It doesn't matter if you tell you this, our fried watermelon candy has begun to be sold, and the response is not bad......"

It turned out that the Tian family sent the fried watermelon sugar to the merchants who had been cooperating with Tai'an Fucheng for many years, and the businessman's surname was Jin, who was used to being opportunistic for many years.

"Then what's the use of him, watermelons are selling well during this period, who will spend money on more expensive watermelon sugar?" Liu Guiyuan couldn't figure it out now.

Tian Rubai knew about this situation, and explained with a smile: "I heard my uncle mention that some areas in the south do not grow watermelons, they only grow seed melons, and the watermelons grown in other places are bitter and astringent, and they are very unpalatable, so it is estimated that he plans to send them there to sell." “

It turns out that Liu Guiyuan subconsciously thought that this time and space could grow watermelons everywhere like later generations, but she forgot that the watermelon varieties of later generations were improved by many scientists and finally became popular.

"You're right, watermelons look ordinary in our place, but they may be in demand elsewhere, no wonder he said it is useful."

Selling watermelon candy as soon as possible is only good for Liu Guiyuan, and she has not forgotten Tian Jiaxu's profit.