The dumpling shop only has one day off for National Day, October 1st. September 30th and October 2nd are considered overtime and are paid double the salary.

On September 30th, Li Yunshu distributed the wages.

Qin Rong and Qin Ye each received 35 yuan including bonuses. Huang Qiuyan only worked seven days in September and still received more than 5 yuan.

In addition, Li Yunshu also gave each of them a box of five-nut mooncakes.

Huang Qiuyan was so happy after receiving her salary and mooncakes.

He became more determined to work hard, repay Aunt Li and not bring shame to Captain Gu.

Let’s talk about Lin Yong. He took a car all the way back to his hometown. As soon as he entered the village, he met his cousin Lin Yongsheng.

"Brother, why are you back?"

Lin Yong was a little uncomfortable with the word "꺗", but he still said with a smile: "I came back to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with you. Why don't you welcome me?"

Lin Yongsheng was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward, put his arm around Lin Yong's shoulders, and said, "How could I not welcome you? You're most welcome! My dad would definitely be happy if he knew you were back. It's been so long since we've celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival together."

The smile on Lin Yong's face deepened. He walked towards his second uncle's house with his cousin. When he passed by Du Taohua's house and saw that the gate was locked, a look of disappointment flashed across his face.

When he arrived at his second uncle's house, Lin Yong took out the cigarettes, alcohol, candies he had bought, and also took out a box of moon cakes.

Lin Yong brought a lot of things back this time. Tang Xiangqin put them away with a smile and went to make tea for him.

Uncle Lin smoked his pipe and looked at Lin Yong and asked, "Why didn't the children come back with you to celebrate the festival?"

The most important thing about the Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion. I will always have my own family. It is quite strange that I did not stay in the city to celebrate the festival with my family, but instead went back to the countryside alone.

Lin Yong couldn't say that the children didn't want to come back for the holiday, so he said, "Junjun is still sick, and Zhang Jiao is carsick. It's not convenient to bring the children back for the holiday, so they stayed in the city for the holiday."

"What about Jianshe and his wife?" Lin Yongsheng asked.

"No time. They are busy at the factory and have to work overtime."

He didn't know whether Lin Jianshe had been discharged from the hospital, and he didn't want to mention this unfilial son to anyone, so as not to be laughed at by his relatives back home.

Uncle Lin nodded and said, "It's good for young people to be busy. Being busy means the factory is profitable and has a bright future."

"Big brother, you're still the best." Lin Yongsheng looked at Lin Yong enviously and said, "When you were young, you were brave enough to go to the city to make a living. You became a worker there. Now your children are also workers in the city, eating commercial grain and getting a salary every month."

"Unlike me, who can only farm in the countryside, and whose children can only dig for food from the crops."

Hearing his cousin say this, Lin Yong was also very proud. If he were not to say it, in this ten-mile radius, the number of people who could go to the city to work as workers like him and still stand firm could be counted on one hand.

But he still said, "Life in the city isn't as easy as you think. Everything costs money. It's not like you in the countryside where you can raise chickens and grow vegetables easily and you don't have to spend money."

Lin Yongsheng nodded and said, "That's right."

Lin Yong chatted with his second uncle for a while, then went for a walk around the village.

The last time I went back to my hometown, I was in such a hurry that Lin Yong didn’t meet many people. This time, if I have time, I will definitely meet them.

Unexpectedly, when the villagers saw him, they asked, "Hey, Yong is back. I heard you got divorced?"

Lin Yong: "..."

Needless to say, this must have been spread by someone from my second uncle's family.

But everyone he met asked him about his divorce, and they all looked like they were enjoying a good show. Lin Yong was in no mood to keep walking around, so he went straight back to his second uncle's house.

When I passed by Guan Taohua's house, the gate was still locked.

Although Lin Yong was very curious about where Guan Taohua had gone, he didn't have the courage to ask his cousins.

At 6:30 in the afternoon, Li Yunshu, who had made arrangements, left work first and returned to the Li family.

After school yesterday afternoon, I went straight back to Li's house. Everyone was waiting for Li Yunshu to have dinner together.

Mr. Li put down his chopsticks and said, "What do you want to eat tomorrow for Mid-Autumn Festival? Tell me now so that Wang can buy the food and make the arrangements."

Li 께냫 and Li Zhenzhen both looked at Li Yunshu.

Li Yunshu asked, "Will Second Brother come back tomorrow?"

Mr. Li nodded and said, "He's coming back, but he won't be back until the afternoon. He has something to do this morning."

Li Yunshu nodded and thought for a moment before saying, "Why don't we have hot pot tomorrow night? Let's buy some thinly sliced beef and mutton, and some fresh vegetables."

"Isn't autumn the season for putting on weight? It's the perfect time for hot pot."

Mrs. Yu smiled and said, "I haven't eaten hot pot for a long time. I think we should eat hot pot tomorrow night."

"By the way, Wanxing also loves hot pot. Let's invite her, Lao Gu, and Zhenyuan over to eat together tomorrow night. It will be more lively when there are more people."

Mr. Li: "늅."

The next day, just after dawn, Li Yunshu rode his bicycle and took Sister Wang to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy vegetables.

In addition to chicken, duck, fish, mutton and beef, Li Yunshu also bought glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, wheat starch, and a mooncake mold.

Everyone must be tired of eating five-nut mooncakes, so she planned to make some fresh mooncakes for her family today.

After returning home, Li Yunshu and Sister Wang put the breakfast they bought on the table.

After breakfast, Sister Wang began to prepare the dishes for lunch.

Li Yunshu cooked the red beans that he had soaked before going to bed last night.

She wants to make red bean paste filling for snow skin mooncakes.

Making red bean paste takes a lot of effort. Li Yunshu worked for the whole morning, twisting, squeezing, pressing and frying it before he finally made the red bean paste.

Although the meal was postponed to the evening, the lunch dishes were still quite rich, including duck, fish and pork elbow.

After lunch and a short nap, Li Yunshu went downstairs to prepare the crust for the snow skin mooncakes.

Sister Wang also started using chicken and pork bones to make broth for hot pot in the evening.

Li Yunshu mixed glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, wheat starch, rice oil, milk, and sugar in proportion, stirred until smooth without particles, and then steamed it for twenty minutes.

After steaming, let it cool, then knead it with dough until it is smooth and soft. The mooncake skin is ready.

Li Yunshu moved all the ingredients for making snow skin mooncakes to the living room before calling his family together.

"Today is Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's make some fresh snow skin mooncakes together." Li Yunshu said with a smile.

Li Zhenzhen: "Snow skin mooncakes? Are they mooncakes with ice as the skin?"

Li 께냫: "Ice shouldn't be used as skin."

Mr. Li and Mrs. Yu looked at each other. This was the first time they had heard of this kind of mooncake.

Li Yunshu grabbed a piece of mooncake skin and rubbed it to spread it out. "Ice skin is not made by packing it in ice. It's called snow skin mooncake because its skin is white and crystal clear."

After hearing this, Mr. Li asked, "Where is this mooncake recipe? This is the first time I've seen it."

Li Yunshu blinked and began to make up a story: "I don't know either. I was working as a helper in a pastry shop a while ago. I saw the owner make them once during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He said they were called snow skin mooncakes, but he didn't tell me the specific recipe."

"I thought it looked good and tasted good, so I memorized the recipe."

At that time, even Hong Kong did not have snow skin mooncakes, so she naturally could not say that it was from Hong Kong.