Chapter 187: Mooncakes (2)

Wen Mingtang, who was about to write with a pen, heard the words "oh" and said, "I heard!" I'm going to see Ah Bing and Tangyuan too. ”

When Lin Fei heard this, he nodded, and said to Wen Mingtang: "I painted the lantern light surface of Dali Temple, and the content of the lantern surface is the scene of Chang'e and Jade Rabbit making a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet!" ”

In the end, it's Lin Fei! It has always been straightforward to say, which is completely different from Liu Yuan's hints like beating around the bush!

He is not only refreshing, but Wen Mingtang is naturally arrogant! Immediately patted his chest and promised: "I can save it!" You can't make a mistake when you cast a stick! ”

However, the content of this lamp is really novel and down-to-earth, and I don't know how Lin Fei thought of it.

Seeing Wen Mingtang nodding, Lin Fei said "um" and turned to leave.

After Lin Fei left, Yu Saijiu, who was peeling sugar and frying chestnuts on the side, glanced at Lin Fei who was leaving, looked at Wen Mingtang and said, "When he asked you if you knew about the Lantern Festival, he startled me!" ”

Wen Mingtang paused for a moment and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”

Yu Xijiu squinted at her: "On the day of Lishan, he deliberately ran up the mountain to look for you, didn't he?" ”

After all, he held a banquet, how could he not know what was going on?

"For ordinary men, those who can go to Lishan for a woman and ask her if she knows about the Lantern Festival are most likely interested in her and want to meet to see the lanterns." Yu Saijiu stroked his beard with the appearance of a person who had come over, "But you Lin Shaoqing are ...... Well, I went to Lishan for the sake of eucalyptus, and I specially asked if I knew about the Lantern Festival, but it was to pull people to cast a lot of lanterns for me! ”

Speaking of this, Yu Saijiu couldn't help but shake his head: "I didn't expect you, Lin Shaoqing, to be able to do such a thing with that face that doesn't eat the fireworks of the world!" ”

When Tang Yuan heard this, he hurriedly retorted: "Which one said that we Lin Shaoqing don't eat fireworks in the world?" Our Lin Shaoqing eats a lot, saliva chicken, fried chestnuts with sugar, chestnut roast pork, hot dry noodles, small pot rice noodles, braised duck goods, ......"

Listening to the dumplings report a bunch of dish names like announcing the names of dishes, it really makes the mouth water flow down!

Yu Xijiu threw a chestnut shell over and scolded with a smile: "Don't say it!" Besides, I'm hungry again! ”

Tang Yuan made a grimace at Yu Sacrifice Wine, accepted it when he saw it, and looked down at the contents of the moon cake gift box proposed by Wen Mingtang.

The mold of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum and the legendary story is used to make Cantonese moon cakes: in the choice of fillings, Wen Mingtang picked three common fillings: red beans, jujube paste and egg yolk lotus paste, but at the same time prepared some mochi, ready to add some tricks to the filling.

And the set of peanuts, persimmons and other molds of different shapes are used to make snowy skin moon cakes, and the filling is ready to be made custard flowing heart, which can be regarded as a new idea that everyone has never tasted.

Finally, there is the most common Suzhou-style mooncake in Darong, for which Wen Mingtang prepared two fillings, pork meat and egg yolk and pork meat, but he was ready to make this again on the day of the mooncake.

Suzhou-style moon cakes aside, Cantonese moon cakes and snow skin moon cakes are the first time they have appeared in Darong, and they have never seen it, Wen Mingtang has to spend more effort to teach Ah Bingtong rice balls.

Two days in advance, Wen Mingtang began to make moon cakes. During this period, the fragrance of moon cakes in the furnace came out from the "oven" from time to time, which really made everyone in Dali Temple greedy!

But this time, Ji Caimai was firmly on the side, and he refused to give it to everyone in advance to try even those who were exposed and broken, which was really hateful!

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the entire Yamen of Darong will have a holiday, and this mooncake will not be officially put on the table until the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, after everyone has eaten the twilight food.

Suzhou-style mooncakes, Cantonese-style mooncakes and snowy skin mooncakes are placed in bamboo baskets for everyone to choose from, and each person can get two. If you want to try each of them, if you don't choose to eat with the same person, you have to go to Ji Caimai to buy it separately.

However, if it is too troublesome and you don't care about the money during the festival, you can buy the moon cake gift box directly.

Looking at the gift box that was deliberately withered and comparable to the restaurant outside, Liu Yuancai, who received the moon cakes, took a look at it, and instinctively gave birth to a subtle sense of pain: Look at this gift box that has worked hard to make, you will know that this moon cake gift box will not be cheap! When I asked the price, it was really similar to the moon cake gift box from restaurants such as Hongyan Lou outside.

When he was feeling the high price of the moon cake gift box, the familiar face high roller Yu Sacrificial Wine brought someone to pick up the gift box, looking at the pride of the handymen who carried four or five gift boxes in their hands, Liu Yuan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, and before he could sigh, he saw Yu Sacrificial Wine holding his beard, and he looked like he had picked up a big bargain, and said happily: "I saw Master Wen making moon cakes that day, so I quickly asked the housekeeper at home to return the gift box ordered by Hongyan Building!" Sure enough, compared to the only a few moon cakes in a gift box in Hongyan Building, Master Wen has more than doubled here! What a bargain! ”

Liu Yuan: "......"

The emotion of Yu sacrificial wine is really amazing...... Huh! Fortunately, there are only a few high-rollers like Yu Sacrificial Wine, and most of them are colleagues who hesitate to buy a box like him.

It's a holiday! It's always a little more generous than usual!

The moon cake gift box was sold faster than Ji Cai bought and Wen Mingtang imagined, and before the holiday, most of it was bought by the people of Dali Temple and some old customers.

When everyone is almost gone, there is only a small half of the mooncake gift box left. Zhao Youtong and Lin Fei came over when the kitchen was closed.

Looking at the small and half-unbought mooncake gift box, Zhao Youdang snapped his fingers, turned his head to Lin Fei and said, "Lin Shaoqing, I'm afraid I can't buy so many mooncakes at home!" Isn't this extra mooncake a waste? ”

Hearing this worry, Ji Caimai, who was making an abacus, couldn't help but hold his forehead, he sighed and said, "Zhao Messenger doesn't have to worry, I'm afraid these gift boxes will be sold out before noon tomorrow!" ”

The Mid-Autumn Festival will inevitably attract a wave of new customers and repeat customers, so why worry about this? When he said this, Ji Caimai's tone was firm, obviously he was extremely confident in the mooncakes made by the chef this time.

This self-confidence is not without reason.

For example, high-rollers who deliberately buy more than they need to eat on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when they bring the mooncake gift box home, the family will immediately surround them.

"I deliberately missed half a bowl of rice at dusk today, and I kept my stomach for the mooncakes that Anan got back!" It was his wife who said this, although she was old, she was in good spirits, and she would not be polite to the juniors at all when it came to eating.

Yu Xianjiu twitched the corners of his mouth, and his eyes moved away from his mother, and on the side were his wife, his two sons, two daughters, and his unsuccessful brother.

This group of people are of different ages, but without exception, they are much more mellow than some time ago.

At this time, everyone's eyes fell on the moon cake gift box in his hand, and motioned him to open it quickly: so that everyone can eat moon cakes in advance and come to the Mid-Autumn Festival in the morning!