Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 140 Mid-Autumn Night and Mid-Autumn Banquet

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, noble families decorate terraces and pavilions, and folks compete to occupy restaurants and enjoy the moon.

Li Shi, who got out of the handicraft interest group, began to check how people were preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Fortunately, this has become a common practice in previous years. Prepare the incense table for worshiping the moon, hang lanterns in the shape of fruits, birds, animals, and fish and insects, and decorate the pavilions and pavilions that the host will go to when watching the moon. Too much attention was paid to it, but the butler still arranged everything in an orderly manner.

Except that with the addition of the Song family, there are a few more dishes to be prepared, nothing else has changed much.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is another important activity, that is, making moon cakes. This is a rare activity that requires the participation of the whole family.

So even if Wang Lun is particularly unwilling to do it, he still sits obediently and kneads the dough with the elders, stuffs the stuffing, and keeps saying:

"Obviously Wang Yuxiang's mooncakes are so delicious, why do we have to make them ourselves?"

"Look at my hand," Wang Lun showed Mrs. Song his slender fingers, and continued:

"Looks good, my hand, this is the hand for writing articles, but my mother asked me to use it to make cakes. I have completed my studies, so are you afraid that there will be no cakes to eat?"

Wang Yawei gave a gentle "tss" gracefully, and said:

"Grandmother, don't bother with him. You say this every year, and he doesn't feel tired. It's just that his mouth is idle. Just let him recite the book."

Wang Pu also said:

"You said that your hand was used to write articles, but a scholar has not yet passed the exam. I will tell you, when did you pass the exam, and when will I ask your mother to find a bride for you."

"I don't need you to worry about it. You just need to arrange your sister's marriage."

As soon as these words came out, the Wang family immediately turned cold. Song Yun had heard from Bai Zhi that there was something wrong with Wang Yawei's marriage, so she quickly lowered her eyebrows and carefully wrapped the mooncakes, wishing to ensure that the proportions of various nuts in the mooncakes were consistent.

Shen's Song Nian and Song Ce, these three are relatively subtle, and more or less aware of something, only the old lady Song and Song Zhen, who are always silly and sweet, do not know what happened in a daze.

Fortunately, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even if they thought it was strange, they suppressed their curiosity and didn't ask any more questions.

The chef of the Wang family is from Fucheng. He can make mooncakes with the most common fillings such as jujube paste, red bean paste, five kernels, and rock sugar. They always have a very pure northern taste.

Song Yun accidentally remembered the lotus seed paste egg yolk and fresh meat mooncakes that were very popular in his previous life, and then gave a good job to the cook of the Wang family, asking him to try making them.

So this time, there are six flavors of mooncakes. The two families silently wrapped the fillings with dough, made them into balls and put them in the mould.

This mold has the most common round mold, engraved with auspicious patterns and words to show reunion;
There are also some novel ones, such as a little fat fish, which means "more than every year", and two fat dolls, one male and one female, which mean "prosperous population";
The most complicated one is a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon. Because it is too delicate, Song Zhen tried to press two of them. The unevenly wrapped filling was squeezed out, but it was still not completely molded.

It was still Li's dexterity and practice, and he successfully made six Chang'e Flying to the Moon, ready to be baked, one for each child.

Autumn is the season for the fragrance of chrysanthemums and osmanthus, so the entire Mid-Autumn Festival feast is full of flowers. The wine is sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine and chrysanthemum honey wine, which are sweet and fragrant, but the taste of the wine is light enough.

If a warrior who can make a bottle of Erguotou in modern times comes, if he wants to get drunk, he may have to go to the toilet all night.

After the meal, various fruits and moon cakes were placed on the incense table. The two families worshiped the moon and shared a large reunion cake made by the kitchen. Each of them ate a small tooth. up.

For the Song family, no matter how long they will live in Fucheng in the future, this is the first time for them to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in Fucheng, and it is inevitable that they want to visit the Lantern Festival.

But Wang Pu had to entertain his staff and literary guests, and Mrs. Li had to prepare gifts for the Tang family's banquet tomorrow.

The two families are so close, there is no need to be polite, so the three Wang Yawei brothers and sisters simply took the uncle and grandmother's family out to watch the lanterns, while Wang Pu and his wife went to do their own things.

It is still Chengkang Square. After all, this kind of activity can only truly feel the joy of the festival when people and horses are noisy and shoulders are rubbing each other.

The restaurants and restaurants in Fucheng have been redecorated, and other shops have also hung up bamboo lanterns, pasted colored paper, and painted various colors according to different shapes.

To say that the merchants in Fucheng are really shrewd, even at this time, they never forget to advertise.Merchants who sell flowers put up lanterns with various flowers; merchants who buy jewelry draw pictures of beauties covered with jewels and emerald heads on their lanterns; , a basket of steamed stuffed buns, the shape of a cake.

This is nothing.The most frightening thing was that there was a shop selling insect and snake repellents, and there were actually two huge cockroach lanterns hanging in front of the shop.

In fact, ancient people were not very afraid of insects. The main reason is that no matter how clean their home is, as long as they can go out, they will inevitably see insects.

However, a cockroach as long as a finger is not the same as a cockroach as big as a three-year-old child.

Even Mrs. Song, who was able to pinch and play with bugs in the village when she was a child, gave out a disgusted "Hey..." life, and said to Wang Yawei and the others:

"Don't buy anything from this store in the future, there's no such thing as a big festival, making such ugly lanterns to scare people off."

That's true, Song Yunxin said, if you draw Fa Hai subduing Bai Suzhen, doesn't it also represent the meaning of repelling insects and snakes?Why hang a big cockroach?Is this an insect repellent, or a cockroach breeding base?
There are quite a few passers-by who have the same idea. Everyone walked around the lantern market excitedly, passed by this insect repellent shop, and subconsciously avoided it. Bringing the little boy out to visit the Lantern Market, almost ran away as if he had encountered the biggest problem in his life?
A few old people with bad tempers even stood in front of the shop and started cursing.It was understandable, but anyone with a heart problem would have to be frightened to stop beating for a second or two.

After a while, the owner of the shop, a middle-aged man who looked quite strong, came out to scold him. The battle was so fierce that one almost wanted to rush over and say:

"You don't fight anymore!"

Song Yun sighed again, this person really doesn't know how to do business.A modern person like her, who has seen artists and brands doing marketing countless times, knows a truth, that self-deprecation is often one of the best ways to eliminate other people's resistance.

You first come out and say, I am not good at aesthetics, and I am not good at making lanterns, so everyone will think that the person who scolded you is a bit too much.But if you scold people plausibly, others will only think you have a problem.

After watching for a while, they found that there were more and more people around them. Wang Lun hurriedly said to Mrs. Song:

"Grandmother, there are a lot of people down there, especially when we bring our cousins ​​with them. It's not safe. There is a moon-watching building near here, and the location is very good. Every year, many people book a place here to enjoy the moon. My family Although there is no reservation, but my grandfather's house is, let's go there to enjoy the moon and lanterns."

(End of this chapter)