Grandma Yan took the necessary things to the living room, Mrs. Liu continued to bake mooncakes in the kitchen, and Song Fuyu led everyone to start tinkering with the packaging.

"Ziyuan, go to the kitchen and bring out the cooled mooncakes, and also take out a few of the frozen ones from the refrigerator."

When he entered the kitchen, everyone's eyes were on his back. When he brought out, everyone's eyes instantly focused on the mooncakes.

"Come here and cut it open and taste it. It smells so good."

The moment they took it out of the oven, they were already impatient. If Xiaoyu hadn't said it was too hot and would be bad for the esophagus, they would have wanted to try it right away.

"This snow skin mooncake really lives up to its name. It is crystal clear and looks like a work of art. I don't want to eat it just by looking at it."

"This one is hard right out of the refrigerator. It needs to be cooled for another half an hour before it can be eaten. Let's try the traditional dough mooncake first."

Song Fuyu picked out three mooncakes from the plate.

This time, we made three flavors of traditional mooncakes: red bean paste, egg yolk and the ever-popular five-nut mooncake. The snowy mooncakes only have red bean and mung bean fillings.

There were exactly eight people in the living room at this time. They had just finished lunch, and a whole mooncake was a bit too much for one person, so she went back and forth a few times and cut the mooncake into eight small pieces with a knife.

After she cut the first one, the two old men picked up a small piece and put it in their mouths without her asking.

"fragrant!"

“It smells so good!”

“It’s much tastier than the ones sold at the supply and marketing cooperative!”

Her original intention of making mooncakes was to give them to others as gifts, and the most important thing was that the mooncakes from the supply and marketing cooperative only had one flavor. Not only were they expensive, but they were also hard and not very tasty. It felt like she needed to use all her strength to chew them.

Older people have bad teeth, so naturally they don’t like it.

"Leave it for another day or two, and let the mooncakes absorb some oil, then they will taste better."

After all the three mooncakes were cut, she took a piece of egg yolk mooncake and put it in her mouth first.

This is her favorite flavor, and she has to make it herself every year because the egg yolk mooncakes she buys outside have smaller and smaller egg yolks. If she makes it herself, she can choose bigger egg yolks. If they are still too small, she can just put two!

"It's already delicious now. If I hadn't just finished lunch and my stomach was a little full, I would really like to eat the whole thing."

After Mr. Jin finished speaking, Grandpa Yan immediately became proud.

"Hehe, luckily I'm smart and I deliberately ate a little less at lunch just now."

The food Xiao Yu made was always delicious, so he was smart enough to only eat until he was 60% full at lunch. He was not like the reckless old Jintou, who would eat until his throat was full before he finished.

"You old bastard, you are so cunning even when eating."

"You are the old man, what do you mean by playing tricks? I am just trying to stay healthy!"

"Xiao Yu said that eating until you are 70% full at every meal is better for your health!"

"You are uneducated, you don't understand!"

The two old men, who are over 150 years old in total, will really start fighting over the slightest disagreement. As long as they stay in the same space, they can quarrel hundreds of times a day.

"Grandfathers, how about we stop arguing later and get down to business first?"

"We in the Yan family are all cultured people. I'm too lazy to argue with him."

"snort!"

"You can't even read a few words, but you still have the nerve to call yourself an intellectual. Your face is thicker than the walls of the Forbidden City."

Seeing that everyone else was waiting for them to finish, the two of them felt embarrassed to continue bickering, so they each said a sentence and then stopped.

"Xiao Yu, just tell us what we want to do, and we'll do as you say."

"Ziyuan and Uncle Wu, you two will be responsible for cutting the kraft paper and colored paper into square sizes."

"Grandpas, your calligraphy is one of the best in the entire compound, so you two will be in charge of writing on the colored paper. You can write idioms like "happy family", "full moon and beautiful flowers", "good luck and good fortune"... What you write specifically is up to you."

After being praised by her, the two old men immediately became much more interested and urged Yan Ziyuan and Wu Xingmin to cut the paper quickly so that they could show off their skills.

"Grandma, Mom, let's wrap some single mooncakes, and some in groups of two or four. There are no requirements, just wrap them tightly."

Among them, Yan's mother's package is the fastest and best.

When I was sent to the army as a team doctor, I often had to pack medicine for patients. I could fold the paper packages with my eyes closed.

They were busy with the mooncakes all day long.

"It's been a long time since I felt surrounded by such sweet smells."

"Yeah, even though I never stopped, I feel really good. This might be the sense of fulfillment that Xiaoyu often talks about."

"There are still two days until the Mid-Autumn Festival. If you want, I can continue to lead you to make other cakes in the next two days. But we don't have to be busy all day like today. We can make it more relaxed."

"Okay, your grandma Jin and I will come over to play after breakfast tomorrow."

Grandpa Yan gave this shameless man a cold look. He really didn’t want to complain about Old Jin anymore.

When Yan's father returned home from the army, he smelled a rich, sweet scent before he even entered the door. When he entered the house, the scent was even more fragrant.

"What delicious food did your family make today? Why does it smell so good?"

"Changsheng, you came back at the perfect time. You came back just as we finished wrapping the mooncakes."

"The table is full of mooncakes?"

When I walked into the living room, I felt that this small area was surrounded by mooncakes. The wrapped mooncakes were placed everywhere, and there were cut kraft paper and brushes and ink on the coffee table.

"This is the result of our entire day's work. Come and try it. It's definitely better than anything you've ever had before."

Yan's mother took a small piece of five-nut mooncake and handed it over.

The tastes of the Yan family fathers and sons are similar. Without exception, they don't like to eat food that is too sweet. In order to cater to their common taste, Song Fuyu deliberately put less sugar to keep the original flavor of the nut filling of the five-nut mooncake.

“Yes, it is delicious.”

"Is this Xiaoyu's idea again?"

After all, Grandma Yan and Mother Yan could only cook the most ordinary home-cooked meals. After Sister Liu came into the family, they cooked less often, and their cooking skills declined rapidly. Now they can barely cook enough to be eaten.

"That's right. Xiaoyu's cooking is delicious and he also likes to try out new foods, which broadens our horizons."

"In addition to this, there are also snow skin mooncakes in the refrigerator. I'll thaw one for you to try later."

I sorted the mooncakes according to their flavors, took out the ones for giving away and put them away. After I had distributed them all, there were less than a hundred left for myself.

Except for Brother Yan who is not in Beijing, we have to give some to other brothers and sisters. So when you add it all up, the mooncakes made today are not that many.

Fortunately, I still have time in the next two days, and I can make some other delicious food.

The old couple from the Jin family finished their dinner at the Yan family before getting up and preparing to go home.

"Old Jin, you must bring your two rations tomorrow, otherwise you won't be able to enter tomorrow!"

"Look at you, you're so stingy!"

"Don't worry, tell Mrs. Liu not to buy food tomorrow. We will not only bring food rations, but also buy food for you. We won't take advantage of you in the slightest."

"You are sensible!"