Chapter 50 Mooncake



When I was a child, no matter what I did, I wanted someone to accompany me. I wanted someone to accompany me when I slept and played games.

If I have a conflict with a kid and am isolated by everyone else, I will be very sad.

So much so that she watched some scary zombie movies, and when she had nightmares at night, she was not afraid of the zombies themselves.

If zombies appear in her dreams, she won't be too scared as long as there are other people around, probably because she feels there is always someone to accompany her.

But she didn't know if it was because nightmares could reach deep into one's heart, but she never did anything like this.

Because she grew up in my village and the unit she moved to was small, the location of her dreams was always in the village.

Every time she dreams, she either dreams that the whole village has turned into zombies and she is the only living person, or she dreams that the whole village is human and she is the only zombie.

She is always on the opposite side of everyone else and is always alone. Even though she is a capable zombie, it is still terrifying for her at first.

As I grew older, I would empty my mind before going to bed and not think about anything. If I saw something scary, I wouldn't look at it a second time, for fear that I would remember it and have a nightmare that night.

It is even more impossible for her to watch horror movies and horror stories. The fear for her does not start when she watches them, but when she goes to bed at night.

Apart from some horror TV series I watched when I was a kid, Jianshu has never touched anything related to this element.

Later I started to like reading novels, but I would never touch on this subject.

Gradually, she no longer had any fear of sleeping alone, and she would not feel scared even if no one was at home.

As she grew up, she gradually got used to being alone and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

After all, it's not like she really doesn't interact with anyone. As long as she doesn't stay away from people, this kind of life is really very comfortable.

Jianshu lay on the recliner, looking at the endless night sky and the stars. Tomorrow will definitely be a good day.

The stars in the sky twinkled like fireflies, as if bringing her back to her carefree childhood when she caught fireflies with her playmates.

The next day, Jianshu took a lot of things home after get off work. Tomorrow was Mid-Autumn Festival, and the company had given out a lot of benefits.

For example, she has two kilograms of mooncakes and one kilogram of white sugar, and the mooncakes are all homemade red.

After returning home, Jianshu also prepared to make some mooncakes. He would go to Zhao Mingze's house tomorrow to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together.

She made mooncakes because Tik Tok was popular in her previous life and she didn’t need to work. Besides traveling, she also watched various food bloggers cook and make desserts, and learned a lot.

I didn’t expect that I would actually use it now. Thanks to the almighty Tik Tok!

She was planning to make some with egg yolk and lotus seed paste fillings and red bean paste fillings, but seeing that she had made a lot of jam before, she decided to make some jam-filled mooncakes.

Fortunately, I have the raw materials at home and various small appliances to help, otherwise it would be a huge project.

Even so, it was already late by the time she finished everything.

Jianshu didn't get up too early on the Mid-Autumn Festival. She had agreed with Zhao Mingze to go there in the afternoon.

After all, people enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes at night, so there is no need to go there early in the morning.

Taking advantage of having nothing to do in the morning, Jianshu went to the black market again.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family would like to buy some mooncakes to take home, but there are only a few available, so some people who can’t afford them will go to the black market to buy them.

There are some vintage mooncakes in her space, which she bought when she was traveling. At first, she wanted to reminisce about her childhood, but after growing up, she couldn't find the feeling of eating them again, so she didn't eat them much.

Later, I thought that the raw materials of mooncakes are solid, with heavy oil and sugar, and there is still a good market at times, so I bought some and stored them in the space.

This time, I just sold them all, so the food in the space won't spoil. Jianshu was worried about it, so he opened one and tasted it in advance. He found that the taste didn't change at all, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

The packaging of those mooncakes was different from the ones we have now. Jianshu removed the packaging, wrapped them in oil paper and took them to the black market.

After staying inside for an hour, Jianshu came out with no mooncakes left but more than 30 yuan.

Nowadays, mooncakes need to be purchased with food coupons. A pound of mooncakes costs 78 cents, and you need 600 grams of food coupons.

For many families, money is a small matter, and food coupons are the most important.

Jianshu didn't ask for food coupons, he just sold them all for 90 cents per pound.

This price is a bit cheap compared to the black market mooncake price.

But for Jianshu, she did not lose money, and she did not have the time to sell slowly.

Besides, she doesn’t have many mooncakes, only about thirty pounds. Once they are sold, they will be gone. She will not do this business again in the future.

Selling mooncakes is just a one-time deal. This time I came to the black market with a brand new outfit, so I’m not afraid of being targeted next time I come.

It doesn't matter if it's a little cheaper, just let everyone celebrate the festival, and it saves her some trouble. If it's sold at the original price, who knows how long it will take to sell.

On the way back, Jianshu went to the post office again. He had been there once during this period and bought some stamps.

There were quite a lot of people inside the post office. After all, it was Mid-Autumn Festival, and many people who couldn't go home would send some things back home.

Gao Xue was busy entertaining people, so Jian Shu didn't go over to disturb her.

When her place was clear, Jian Shu walked over, handed her a mooncake, and said, "Happy holidays, Sister Gao!"

Gao Xue was very happy to see Jianshu coming, and she felt a little greedy when she saw the mooncakes she handed over.

Although many people in later generations think that mooncakes are a mixture of sugar and oil, they are high in calories and unhealthy, so it is best to eat less.

But for people nowadays, mooncakes with high content of oil and sugar are considered high-end products, and many families buy mooncakes to share.

If there are many children in the family, they have to share a piece among several people, and each person only gets a little bit, which is not enough.

Although Gao Xue works at the post office, she is the eldest child in a family with many children, and several younger siblings need to go to school. The burden is heavy, so she can only eat a quarter of the mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year.

But even so, she still refused the mooncakes that Jianshu handed over, "Xiaoshu, keep them for yourself. I also bought some at home."

"Sister Gao, you don't have to be so polite. I have to thank you for always saving stamps for me. Don't worry, these are issued by our company, not bought with money, and we have some at home. If you don't accept them, I will be embarrassed to ask you for help in the future."

Jianshu wasn't blindly generous. She always had to show some appreciation when people left stamps for her. A mooncake wasn't much, so there was no need to worry about it piqued someone's appetite.

Stamps are the only way she knows to make a fortune, and it is also a very time-saving and labor-saving way, so she still has to establish a good relationship with Gao Xue.

This is also for the future. If a mooncake can be exchanged for a bunch of stamps that will appreciate in value in the future, she will make a profit.

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