At this moment, in the village's vegetable garden.

Lin Atai carried half a bucket of water to irrigate the vegetables.

Grandma Li was digging taro with a hoe. She had a lot more white hair on her forehead and looked at least five years older.

She is about ten years younger than Mrs. Lin, but she looks older than Mrs. Lin now.

"Old Lady Li, what are you thinking about? You almost dug your toes." Lin Atai straightened her cigarette, took off her straw hat, and fanned herself a few times.

The two families' vegetable gardens were next to each other. At that time, in order to make it easier to fetch water, Grandma specially swapped land with Aunt Chen to grow vegetables.

Grandma Li sighed, "I was thinking that we need to move our ancestral graves. We've been having a lot of bad luck lately."

Lin Atai sat on the edge of the field, put on her straw hat, and said calmly,

"Our ancestors have been gone for so many years, how many generations can they still protect? They've probably already given up."

Grandma Li threw down her hoe and sat down to rest for a while.

"That being said, moving the ancestral graves was also for peace of mind," she sighed.

Thinking of the Lin family's granddaughters, and then thinking of the one at home, Grandma Li felt a tightness in her chest.

She asked herself, "I've never mistreated any of my granddaughters, so why has my family suffered such a terrible fate?"

Now, Li Liu's wife, the youngest son, leaves early and returns late every day, and she doesn't even eat the meals Li Liu cooks anymore. She's started to resent Li Liu.

Grandma Li's eyes welled up with tears, and she raised her hand to wipe them away.

She doesn't want to care about anything anymore, so she simply moved out of her youngest son's house to avoid seeing him.

"I should have listened to you and moved out to live alone sooner. When you get old, you'll be disliked no matter which son's house you stay in..." Grandma Li choked up.

Lin Atai opened the kettle to drink water, saying, "I'll lend a hand if I can, but let's not worry about anything else."

Grandma Li nodded. Her children were all debts; she couldn't close her eyes in peace until she could repay them all.

She's figured it out now. It's better to chat with the old women in the village than to have to watch their faces while cooking three meals a day for her son.

In the end, it's still more comfortable to live alone.

"It's most important that you think it through yourself. Let's go to the temple together to get amulets for peace sometime." Lin Atai got up, picked up the red bucket, and prepared to go home.

Grandma Li hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, "Yes, just call out when you're going, and we'll go together."

Lin Atai's eyes curved into a smile as she nodded.

No matter what happens, those who are alive still have to live their lives.

…

The Lin family courtyard.

The chubby girl locked the gate of the shrimp farm and rushed back.

When she returned, her grandmother was helping her make red bean paste.

The kitchen was filled with the aroma of rice, mixed with the scent of chestnuts.

Zhouzhou and Jiaojiao sat on small stools to the side, helping to arrange the boxes.

"Sister Pearl, sit here and wait. My sister said you shouldn't go into the kitchen now that you have a baby." Jiao Jiao's eyes curved into crescent moons as she tugged at the fat girl's sleeve.

The chubby girl simply sat down next to Jiaojiao and reached out to gently pinch the tip of her nose.

"Little Jiaojiao, do you know what it means to have a baby?"

Grandma looked up at them, smiled, and shook her head.

The Lin family's courtyard was quite shady at this time, and the sunlight had already moved onto the walls.

The lemon tree beside them swayed in the wind, its shadow falling onto the stone table.

In the kitchen, Lin Ziyan was kneading dough.

The ingredients needed for snow skin mooncakes include glutinous rice flour, rice flour, and wheat starch.

Mix these powders together, steam them until cooked, cool them, and then knead them into a soft, smooth dough.

Then roll it out into a thin sheet, add the filling, and finally place it in a mold to shape it. Once unmolded, it's ready.

In the past, Lin Ziyan liked to stay at home during school holidays. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, she bought ready-made ingredients online and made mooncakes herself.

Later, I simply learned by watching videos and only bought basic raw materials.

"Sister, is that all?" Xiaoxiao asked, helping out from the side.

"Okay, let's all work together in a bit." Lin Ziyan sprinkled some powder, covered the powder ball with gauze, and breathed a sigh of relief.

She made a lot this time, and she has to give it to many people.

Aunt Wang, Sister Fang, and Grandma Lan's family at the seafood market, as well as the two families next door, Sister Xu Ling, and Professor Shen.

They had already sent mooncakes to her home, and as is customary, she wanted to reciprocate.

In Fuzhou, snow skin mooncakes are more suitable than Cantonese-style mooncakes because the weather is too hot during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Xiaoxiao helped bring out another enamel basin, and the two of them walked out of the kitchen one after the other.

The chubby girl craned her neck to wait, and when she saw them come out, she tried to get up, but Jiaojiao grabbed her clothes.

Grandma prepared all the fillings and placed them on the stone table.

Lin Ziyan walked into the main room and brought out a small table to place the finished mooncakes.

Each table was covered with a disposable transparent tablecloth.

"Wash your hands and get ready to make mooncakes." Lin Ziyan had barely finished speaking when...

Jiaojiao and Zhouzhou immediately got up and went to the well to fetch water to wash their hands.

The wrinkles around Grandma's eyes were layered, but a smile spread across her eyes.

"Wait, I'll join in the fun too." Grandma Lan walked into the courtyard, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan.

"Grandma Lan, if you don't come over soon, we'll start cooking." Grandma said with a smile, and hurriedly went into the main room to get a rattan chair.

The chubby girl looked curiously at the dough covered with gauze, and when her gaze shifted to the filling, she swallowed hard.

Jiaojiao and Zhouzhou were also swallowing hard, just like her.

"Grandma, teacher, you two sit here, I'll demonstrate."

Lin Ziyan kneaded out an appropriate amount of dough, divided it into many portions, and then began to work.

Flatten the dough, put the rounded filling inside, and finally put it into the mold. After unmolding, a delicate mooncake is made.

It's very easy to operate, even children can do it.

"Jiaojiao, I've also prepared strawberry jam. I'll make some strawberry jam filling later," Lin Ziyan said with a smile, watching Jiaojiao kneading the filling.

Zhouzhou's eyes lit up instantly, and she said shyly, "Sister Lin, I want to eat strawberry jam mooncakes too."

When the chubby girl made her first mooncake, following Lin Ziyan's instructions, she thought, "Making mooncakes is so easy!"

Several people worked together.

Finally, everyone divided the work: Jiaojiao and Zhouzhou kneaded the filling, while Atai and Grandma Lan divided out appropriate amounts of dough.

Lin Ziyan, Pangniu, and Xiaoxiao pressed dough, added fillings and molds, and made mooncakes.

"They're flower-shaped, so pretty!" Jiao Jiao lifted her eyelashes and smiled as she pointed to the finished mooncakes.

Zhouzhou smiled and nodded vigorously.

Finally, Lin Ziyan packed the mooncakes into a small box, got up, carried the mooncakes into the main room, and put them in the refrigerator.

"Ah Yan, do we need to freeze it again?" the chubby girl asked.

The others looked at her, their eyes questioning.

"It keeps things fresh, and it tastes even better when chilled."

"Of course, everything that's made now can be eaten directly," Lin Ziyan said with a faint smile.

Grandma Lan smiled and nodded, glancing at the children whose noses were pink, feeling content. "This is what makes it festive. Let's dry some taro too, and then we can brew it with some wine..."

Grandma, "Grandma Lan, are you eyeing my wine again?"

"This year there's plenty; the grape harvest is bountiful."

Everyone burst into laughter, but their hands didn't stop moving.

"Sister, I want a rabbit lantern too."

"I want a pumpkin lantern."

Jiaojiao and Zhouzhou spoke one after the other.

Lin Ziyan: "Okay, you all have to do it together then."

A gentle breeze brings a touch of coolness.

A sweet fragrance lingered in the air, drifting outside...