Chapter 54 For Mooncakes!
Jiang Mixia took it, scooped some water from the jar, poured it into the bamboo basket, and then held it up to see if there were any water droplets leaking from the bottom of the basket.
Very good, no.
"Looks like it should be compiled?" Song Jingyun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.
"We need to observe for a while to see how long it can last without leaking." Jiang Mixia put the bamboo basket on the table and rolled up her sleeves. "Let's have lunch first."
"good!"
After working all morning, Song Jingyun was already hungry.
Jiang Mixia cut a piece of pork belly, rinsed it, fried it with sugar color, added seasoning sauce, then poured the meat, vegetables and the broth into the rice pot, lit the stove and started steaming.
The steamed rice is full of gravy and has a rich flavor. The pork belly has been in the pot for a long time and is soft and fragrant. It is paired with vegetables such as potatoes and radishes...
Jiang Mixia ate two bowls herself.
After dinner, Jiang Mixia looked at the bamboo basket filled with water again.
Very good, still no leaks.
By the evening, Jiang Youcheng and Liu came back.
I brought back a leg of lamb, a small jar of fermented beans, half a basket of duck pears, and some mooncakes that I bought when I passed by the town.
"This lamb leg was injured by a sheep from your maternal grandfather's family when it got into a fight with another sheep. It died in two days. The dead sheep couldn't be sold at a high price. And it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, so your maternal grandfather said that each family should share a portion of the lamb as a way of celebrating the festival. We happened to be there, so we got a lamb leg."
Liu smiled and said, "We will stew it and eat it tomorrow night. The soybean sauce is watermelon sauce. I will heat it up later and we will eat it slowly. The pears are picked from the trees at home. They are not big, but there is little rain this year, so the pears are very sweet. You can eat these mooncakes first."
As she spoke, Liu stuffed a mooncake into each of Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun's mouths.
Jiang Mixia took a bite and found that her piece was filled with five-nut filling.
Peanuts, sesame seeds, walnut kernels, melon seeds, almonds, and the classic green and red shredded mooncakes. A lot of oil and sugar are used, and the mooncake crust is soft enough. It tastes fragrant and not dry.
Even Jiang Mixia, who hated five-nut mooncakes in her previous life, couldn't help but praise them for being delicious.
It looks like the five-nut mooncakes don’t taste good. It’s not because of the five-nut pot, but because the cooking is not tasty enough.
Jiang Mixia held the five-nut mooncake and ate it with relish.
The mooncake in Song Jingyun's hand was filled with date paste. When he took a bite, it was soft, glutinous, sweet, and his mouth was filled with sweetness.
What kind of divine food is this, it’s so delicious!
Song Jingyun was so excited that she almost shed tears. She just wanted to swallow the mooncake which tasted so delicious in one bite. However, she was reluctant to swallow it whole, so she ate it slowly in small bites.
"Mom said she bought this thing in town. How come I have never seen it before?" Song Jingyun was a little puzzled.
He had tried almost all kinds of food in the town during this period of time. He had tried delicious food, average delicious food, and not so delicious food. However, he had never tasted this.
"Mooncakes are only available on August 15th. They are not sold on other days." Jiang Mixia explained, "Well, just like the rice dumplings eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival, they are something that belongs to a specific festival."
"Does that mean it will be gone after tomorrow?" Song Jingyun asked.
"Almost. Even if there is any, it's just what's left over from the past few days. Once they're sold out, they'll be gone. We won't make it this year. If you want to eat it, you'll have to wait until next year." Jiang Mixia replied.
Song Jingyun, "..."
Although his parents bought a lot of mooncakes this time, they can only eat them for two or three days at most. If he wants to eat such delicious mooncakes again, he will have to wait until next year. "But there is a fifteenth day every month, and the moon is so round, why can't we eat mooncakes every month?" Song Jingyun tried to argue and fight for it.
"But this is a custom, a rule that everyone agrees on. It's like this."
"But..." Song Jingyun's face was full of regret, and even a little heartbroken.
Jiang Mixia saw this and comforted him, "But if you think this mooncake is delicious and want to eat it often, it's not impossible. There are two ways."
"The first way is to learn how to make mooncakes ourselves. The second way is to pay a mooncake shop to make mooncakes for us."
"Mooncakes require an oven, various material proportions, and the techniques of making mooncakes are very particular. If you want to learn it, it will probably take a long time. Moreover, this skill is the capital of those mooncake shops to survive. Even if we want to learn it, I am afraid they will not teach us. So the first method is not feasible."
"It's the second way. As the saying goes, money makes the world go round. As long as we pay enough, the shop will make money no matter what business it does. We are also willing to make some mooncakes for you."
Song Jingyun blinked.
In other words, giving enough money means having mooncakes to eat, and if he wants to eat mooncakes at any time, he needs to have enough money.
Moreover, if this is true for mooncakes, then other foods should be the same.
For example, the rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival! So what he needs to do now is to work hard to make more money.
Well, make more money!
For mooncakes, for more delicious things like mooncakes!
That night, Song Jingyun started to weave baskets crazily under the bright moonlight. Jiang Mixia urged her twice, but Song Jingyun still refused to go to bed.
Jiang Mixia simply carried the young son-in-law to the bed and forced him to take off his shoes and clothes. Only then did the young son-in-law obediently wash up and go to bed.
Seeing her young son-in-law fall asleep soundly as soon as he touched the pillow, Jiang Mixia finally breathed a sigh of relief, closed her eyes and fell into a sound sleep.
The next morning, Jiang Mixia woke up at daybreak.
Being woken up.
I was disturbed by the slight crackling sounds coming from the yard.
Jiang Mixia rubbed her sleepy eyes, yawned, put on her coat, opened the window and looked out, and saw Song Jingyun splitting bamboo strips, making bamboo strips, and weaving bamboo baskets in the yard.
Jiang Mixia, "..."
This is too diligent.
Although being diligent is a good thing, being too diligent...
The skinny little son-in-law had finally gained some weight, but now he got sick from overwork.
Jiang Mixia put on her clothes, went to the yard, brought her son-in-law back to the house, and asked seriously, "Why are you working day and night? Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing." Song Jingyun scratched his ear a little embarrassedly, "I just want to make more money."
“What are you going to do with the extra money?”
Jiang Mixia felt that although her family was not as wealthy as the wealthy ones, they still lived a well-off life in the village and lived a rich life.
"Buy mooncakes and food." Song Jingyun answered simply, "Buy all kinds of delicious food that you want to eat."
Yes, I knew it was because she said last time that you can order mooncakes if you have money. Given the greedy nature of the little son-in-law, it's not surprising that he did this.
Although working hard to make money and being ambitious are good things, the young son-in-law is obviously too ambitious now.
Ahem, today is the author's birthday ~ hehehe
(End of this chapter)
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