The next morning, Qiu Hanyan and Niu Shanda set off.
Everyone in Taohua Village came to see him off. With his family and the attention of the entire village, Qiu Hanyan got into the carriage and set off for Wen County.
"Third brother, we will wait for you at home." Qiu Yinong waved at the departing carriage.
Qiu Hanyan poked his head out and waved.
After seeing Qiu Hanyan off, everyone went about their business and the village became lively again.
Qiu Yinong also went back to her room to continue embroidering the screen. Half a month after she came back, she had already finished embroidering two pieces and started on the third one.
"Come, Yier, have a bowl of mung bean soup." Mother Qiu came in with a bowl of mung bean soup and placed it on the small table beside the bed.
Qiu Yinong stood up, stretched, and walked to the window to sit down.
Picking up the bowl and drinking it in small sips, Mother Qiu walked over to the embroidery frame and took a look. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "My daughter's craftsmanship is really amazing."
"The peony embroidery is so vivid, and the butterfly looks like a real butterfly perched on the flower."
"Mom, it will be even more shocking once this screen is installed." Qiu Yinong said with a smile.
Mother Qiu exclaimed and looked at her daughter to confirm whether it was real or not. Seeing that her daughter was not joking, she turned back to look at the half-embroidered peony.
“I’m looking forward to the finished product.”
"Mom, I'll embroider one for you when the time comes."
"No, no, no. It's too tiring for my hands and eyes. I don't want it." Mother Qiu waved her hands quickly and said with concern.
Seeing this, Qiu Yinong said no more and started working again after drinking. Qiu's mother stayed for a while, talked with him for a while, and then went out to work.
After lunch, I took a nap and then went to the village to find aunties who were willing to learn how to make snacks.
The simple baking oven was also completed. Qiu Yinong said to the aunts, "From now on, the snacks will depend on you aunts."
"Once the dim sum workshop is open, we will definitely open a store later."
"In the future, our village will also have limited-edition seasonal snacks for sale. When we do, we'll give the aunts a share of the profits from every snack sold. How about that?"
Qiu Yinong said to everyone happily.
The thirty aunts and sisters-in-law present all responded happily: "Okay, we women can also hold up the sky!"
"Hahahaha..." All the young men and middle-aged women in the village are here.
Everyone was imagining the future and smiling from the bottom of their hearts.
When the men heard the woman's voice, they worked harder and the guesthouse had already taken shape.
"Today we are going to learn three dim sum dishes, two baked and one steamed." After putting on her armband, Qiu Yinong began to teach them.
"The first dish is the peach blossom pastry. The most important thing is the pastry crust. The quality of the pastry determines the crispness of the whole pastry."
Everyone watched Qiu Yinong making the dessert quietly. When everyone saw the pink peach blossom-shaped dessert coming out, all the women present exclaimed in surprise.
"This looks just like peach blossoms, it looks both beautiful and delicious."
"I can't wait to taste this."
"Then what should we do?" someone asked the key question.
Qiu Yinong gestured for them to help bring the iron plates, walked to the baking oven, and placed the iron plates one by one.
The oven has been preheated, place the pastries on the upper layer and cover with a lid.
There is firewood burning underneath, and this is a simple oven.
After putting away the peach blossom pastry, Qiu Yinong returned to the table and made two other pastries, one was mung bean cake and the other was golden crispy pastry.
In fact, it is the egg yolk pastry of later generations. The salted duck eggs are provided by each household, and there are a total of thirty-five.
By the time Qiu Yinong had steamed the mung beans and mashed them into a paste, the peach blossom pastry was almost ready.
Everyone was already drooling over the aroma of the peach blossom pastry, which was a darker color.
"Try it while it's hot. We made a lot of peach blossom pastry, so we can give it to our uncles for afternoon tea later."
"I happen to have a can of good tea here. Let my uncles have a taste of it today." Qiu Yinong's words made the women laugh happily.
Chunlan's mother said directly: "Then your uncle is in for a treat today."
"It's delicious, really delicious, sweet but not greasy, and very crispy."
"Really, I've never eaten such a crispy snack. It's so delicious."
"It looks good. This snack will definitely sell well."
"I just don't know if we can do it well." The aunt who spoke felt a little unconfident after eating.
Qiu Yinong encouraged cheerfully, "I didn't learn it all at once either. When I was a kid, I almost burned down our kitchen."
"Ah? There's such a thing, hahaha, okay, if our little six could learn it when he was little, how can we old guys not learn it?"
"That's right, don't look down on yourselves, Achang family."
"Okay, let's study hard."
Qiu Yinong took out a wooden mooncake mold. She made this mung bean cake in a different way.
Wrap the sugared mung bean paste with a thin layer of cooked glutinous rice wrapper and press it with a mold.
The white and transparent glutinous rice skin has a light green color, which is so beautiful and tempting.
"Try it." Qiu Yinong gestured for them to try it.
"This is delicious too, soft and sticky, and has a refreshing feeling. What's going on?"
"I added a little mint juice to the mung beans."
"I see. No wonder it tastes so refreshing. It's because of the mint juice."
The third type of golden crispy pastry is different from the egg yolk pastry. It is still a glutinous rice skin wrapped with mung bean cake and an egg yolk in the middle.
Wrap the puff pastry around the glutinous rice skin, let it sit for a while, brush it with a little egg liquid, and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
"Put it in the oven." Qiu Yinong gave an order, and the aunts picked up the iron plate again and put it into the oven.
During the baking process, Qiu Yinong led them to cut the mung bean cakes and peach blossom cakes into pieces and share them. After all, they didn't make too many and there were many people, so this way everyone could eat.
After the distribution was completed, the aunts started to get started.
After the golden crispy pastries came out, they were cut together, some were left, and the rest were sent to Lao Jiu's house. Qiu Yinong also made tea for each table.
Many children were gathered around the table. Chunlan and the others shouted, "Come here, little ones, it's time to have some snacks."
"What is this and why is it this color?" a little child asked in a baby voice.
Qiu Yinong smiled and introduced: "This is milk tea, made by boiling goat milk, black tea and sugar."
"Goat milk tastes stinky and doesn't taste good." A child frowned.
"It's not bad to drink. Smell it."
Qiu Yinong coaxed the child patiently, and the child came to the bowl and sniffed it: "It really doesn't smell like mutton."
"It's delicious, so delicious." A little girl clapped her hands happily. Chunlan and others distributed the snacks to them. When the children couldn't eat anymore, they sat down and pulled Qiu Yinong to eat together.
"You guys eat, I have to go back to the dim sum workshop."
The dim sum workshop is an idle house of a family. Once the dim sum workshop is built, they will officially move there.
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