Chapter Forty-Eight: The Pig's Contribution Is Great
"Keep your stomach and let you taste a piece for a while, this thing is not sweet, but there is a lot of sugar, in order to protect your teeth, you can't eat too much at a time"
"I know my mother."
With this attempt, her confidence was greatly increased, and she started baking twenty of them in one furnace.
The aroma of the baked mooncakes caused the neighbors and the right to swallow non-stop.
What is Mrs. Qiao's family going to do? It's more fragrant than the dim sum shops in town.
I wanted to find the past, but I felt embarrassed, so I endured it for a day.
This whole day, she didn't do anything, she was baking moon cakes, a family of three, except for making some food in the morning, moon cakes at noon and night.
It's not that I can't take care of it, it's to taste the taste of every mooncake.
In the evening, Qiao Mai vacated a few wooden boxes, wiped them clean, put a white cloth on them, and stacked the moon cakes in them.
A box of 100 yuan, three whole boxes of moon cakes, a full 300 pieces, and there are more than 20 different moon cakes outside, which she left for the children.
After she moved the box to her own room, she put it directly into the space, and only in the space can it not be tasted and kept fresh.
After a tired day, Qiao Mai put the rest of the mooncakes in the children's house and put a few more fruits on them.
"When you're tired, eat some, and my mother won't cook at night."
"Mother's hard work."
"You've worked hard, too."
Closing the door for the child, she cleaned up the yard casually, and went back to the house to sleep.
The next day, the first day of the Full Moon Festival.
She used a rectangular wooden box that was ordered in advance to pack the mooncakes, each box of five kinds of fillings, packed with twelve pieces, and one layer of six pieces.
Twenty-five boxes were packed and ready to be given as gifts.
The family that helped her catch the thief that day, one box for each family, she didn't deliver it herself, and appointed her two sons, as long as they came to help that day, they were all delivered.
Only the right neighbor sent three boxes, because that one was shared by three families.
Yuan Jiaqi was surprised when he received the gift box, but he was not surprised.
Although he didn't go to help catch the thief, he explained the reason, and later made a sign for her personally, and it was not surprising that he would give him a gift.
Chen received the gift, and he was also very surprised, in short, everyone finally put Qiao's gift back to helping catch the thief's thanks.
The neighbors alone sent nearly ten boxes out, and the remaining fifteen boxes, three boxes were left in the space, and she personally sent five boxes to the shop and handed them over to Lu Sanniang.
After receiving the gift, Lu Sanniang was very happy, and immediately opened it to share it with her family, all of whom said it was delicious.
Qiao Mai smiled, carrying five boxes in one hand and two boxes in the other, and went to the mayor's house, where she handed the five boxes of mooncakes to the guards.
"Brother Lao sent this gift to the mayor, and I won't go in."
"Okay."
After the guards went in and came out for a long time, Qiao Mai handed the two boxes of mooncakes in his hands to the two guards.
"I usually bother the two of you, a little heart, it's a holiday, make it yourself, try it."
"Aha, and our share?"
"yes."
"Thank you!"
Qiao Mai said goodbye to them and went home, don't look at her not going out of the stall for the past two days, but she didn't lose anything, everyone in the town knew where she lived, and she found her home directly when she bought things.
Forget about corn, peanuts or something, this fruit is indispensable during the holidays.
If you want to eat fresh, good, you can only look for her, so she doesn't sell less at home.
In particular, she added oranges, apples, pears, and grapes to the full moon festival, and after resting for two days, she sold more goods than usual.
Fengyun and Yunfeng are not less stained, as long as Qiao Mai sells the goods, they can eat them.
After the gift is delivered, we will start preparing the ingredients for tomorrow's treat.
There were a lot of people who came, five of the Lu family, two of the left neighbors, two of the right neighbors, and three of their own families, a total of twelve people.
The two tables need to be put together to avoid being forced to sit down.
Just make do with it, eat well is the main thing, twelve people, the whole twelve dishes, each dish should be a large amount.
To this end, she also made a list.
Skim the home-cooked food they usually eat, and have a garlic elbow, they usually eat stewed and boiled, and change the way of eating.
Let's have another red oil ear silk, there are pig ears in her freezer, and the pig accounts for two dishes, dry pot fat sausage, and steamed pork replaces braised pork, which is not greasy.
Then there are garlic pork ribs, and the pig accounts for five dishes, which shows that the pig has contributed a lot.
There is a pig, then a chicken, there is a child, try to be less spicy, a braised chicken nuggets, and then a fish, the fish should be crispy, this spine is soft, and the child cannot be stuck.
Seven dishes, still far from twelve.
These seem to be all meat, so let's have a few vegetarian ones.
Tofu one, don't want Mapo's, come to a sauce-flavored scallion oil tofu, beans mixed with sesame sauce, there is no sesame sauce in this era, but there are sesame seeds, this is not far from sesame sauce, and it will not be too strange if something new happens.
There are three dishes left, and by the way, let's have a fruit salad, this kid will definitely like it.
There are dried shrimps sold in the market this season, buy two catties, come back to pick them up, and fry them with leeks, which is also a good dish.
There is still one dish missing, some headaches, and these are sold in the town, but there are no more.
By the way, you can have a cold black fungus, there are dry goods stores that sell this, and it is normal to make it yourself.
The menu of twelve dishes was ready, and I immediately went to buy it with a basket.
The son wanted to go with him and wanted to help her carry something, so the mother and son each carried a basket.
Buying in the market, for this meal, really put in a lot of effort.
When she came back, she first let Fengyun steam half a pot of rice, and cooked a braised pork and a green vegetable for the child.
After eating, the three of them didn't rest, and began to sort out the ingredients, all of which were packed up, and were put into the space by Qiao Mai to keep them fresh.
Then, wash all the fruits in a pot and prepare them.
The full moon festival here is the modern Mid-Autumn Festival, but the meaning is different.
Modern attention is paid to the reunion of a family, here is the most complete day of the moon in the four seasons of the year, also called the Lunar Festival.
If they pass, they will follow it, it is a festival, and they will gather together to have a lively time.
That night, Qiao Mai personally went to tell Chen, inviting her to come to the house in the afternoon of the full moon festival and have a meal together for the festival.
Chen was very pleasantly surprised to be invited and happily agreed.
When it came to the Yuan family, it seemed that there was something on his mind, "Qiao Niangzi, who have you invited?" ”
"The shopkeeper Lu's family, the left neighbor Chen's mother and son, and then your father and son."
"They are all female dependents, is it inconvenient for Yuan to go?"
"Who said they were all women?"
"Is there any other man?"
"My son, you should have heard of it, and your son, and Chen's son, aren't they all men?"
Yuan Jiaqi was stunned at this time, showing an embarrassed smile, those two rows of neat and white teeth really shook Qiao Mai's eyes, and the smile was so good-looking.
"I may not be here tomorrow, or I may come."
"Oh? Something at home? ”
"Yes, I'm going to buy a Boxing gift, go home and see, I won't spend the night at home, I should be able to come back in the afternoon."
"It's okay, we'll wait for you together, besides, I have something I want to talk to you about."
"Please!"
"I want you to teach my two sons to read, is that okay?"
The Yuan family hurriedly waved their hands, "How can I teach children that little thing I learned?" ”
"It's just enlightenment, it's good to read and read, I haven't thought about their imperial examination, if it's really this piece of material, it's not too late to send it to the school, if you come to teach them, two taels of silver a month, just teach one afternoon, or one morning, it just so happens that your family Chuan'er also learns together, if Chen's son wants to learn with him, I will want a child to know how to read and write."
"Why don't you go to the school in town?"
Qiao Mai rolled her eyes and couldn't help complaining.
"I would like to send my children there, but the enemy's grandson is going to school inside, and his husband will not accept students for the time being for him, this is because he heard about me, so he did such an act, which is really ridiculous."