Dali Temple Small Dining Room 2

Chapter 187 Mooncake ([-])

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and as the bright moon above the head passes by each day, the already lively Chang'an Night Market has also become lively.Before Mid-Autumn Festival, at night, the streets of Chang'an can be seen everywhere carefully dressed men and women bow their heads and whisper, and when it comes to happiness, they can still look at each other and smile at each other.

The guards of the Jingzhao Mansion, who were patrolling the streets, saw this situation, but they did not show the "knowledge" and "joke" eyes of ordinary pedestrians. Instead, they stepped forward and unceremoniously interrupted the charming atmosphere , waving his hand to chase people away: "It's not yet Mid-Autumn Festival! What are you doing? It's so late, why don't you go home?"

The men and women whose whispers were interrupted froze, looking at the group of guards with stern faces who were disturbing people's interest, they were in a bad mood.

"What are you doing? It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, what does the matter between the two of us have to do with you?"

"You know it's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's not really the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's so late, and the streets are almost deserted, why don't you go home soon?" the guard of "Strike the Mandarin Duck" shouted, looking at the two people in front of him. The "lover" who was caught out said, "Leave your name and address. I'll come to the door tomorrow and ask when you're going home!"

The faces of the two young men and women were extremely ugly when they heard the words: the parents in the family are not as strict as these guards, why is this?
The quarrel broke out immediately!
Seeing the quarrel not far away, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu who passed by twitched their mouths, looked at Huang Zhong, the leader of Jingzhao Mansion's team of guards, and said: "This...although you won't let them stay on the street at night It's for the good of the two of them, but things like this...are they being taken too far?"

Huang Zhong gave a salute to Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, twisted his serious face, sighed, opened his mouth, hesitated to speak, but finally said: "You don't understand, I'm waiting for their benefit! "

As for how to "be good for them", Huang Zhong refused to say anything, just shook his head and said: "Anyway, don't wander around in the street at night! Especially for such young and pretty people." Ladies, if you encounter villains, your lover will not be able to protect them alone, and if something happens... hey!"

Hearing Huang Zhong's emotion, although he didn't directly say what happened, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu vaguely guessed something, they looked at each other, Liu Yuan stepped forward, coughed lightly, and asked Huang Zhong: "Has something happened to a young lady recently?"

Huang Zhong shook his head, glanced at Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu who had already guessed something, thought for a while, and said: "My lord won't let me tell you, and my lady's family won't let me tell you either. After all, if this kind of thing gets out, little girl My wife and the rest of the family can't hold their heads up!"

Although he kept saying "don't let me talk about it", but judging from the words "the little lady's family won't let me talk about it" and "I can't lift my head up", it's clear that I've said almost the whole thing.

Looking at Huang Zhong's serious and upright face in front of him, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu coughed dryly and understood: "That's right!"

Seeing that the two of them understood the meaning of the words, Huang Zhong coughed and said again: "I'll be patrolling the streets these days, trying not to let these people wander around outside, just stay until the Mid-Autumn Festival, There will be a lot of people and the night will be released, and there will be more fires, fights, etc., and if we have no resources at that time, I will ask the two temple officials and colleagues from Dali Temple to help take care of one or two!"

When Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu heard this, they hurriedly nodded and said "it should be" "it should be".

Huang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief seeing that he had brought his lord's words to him. When he was about to leave, he was stopped by the two people behind him in time. When he turned around, he saw Bai Zhu lift the lantern in his hand and said to him: "Don't forget In order to report the lanterns that I will participate in the lantern festival!"

This is also the reason why the two of them came to find Huang Zhong. To participate in the lantern festival, they had to report to Jingzhao Mansion in advance: they always hold the lanterns made by the entire Dali Temple, how can it be justified if they don't take back a beauty lantern?

Looking at the two who were bound to win the beauty lamp, Huang Zhong twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling a lot of "colleagues are very interested" but did not forget to reveal it, saying: "I ask your family members to remember to vote for their own lanterns, how many more?" A wooden sign is safer!"

There are many people participating in the Lantern Festival this time!
It's really calling friends and friends just for a beauty lamp!The two of them nodded their heads immediately when they heard the words, and when they returned to Dali Temple, they talked with the people, and they all sighed. All agreed.

It's okay to slap your face once in a while!

Grabbing a handful of fried chestnuts and chatting while eating, at this moment, I saw Ji Caimai passing by the lobby door with a few carpenters carrying a large stack of boxes. Everyone who was eating fried chestnuts couldn't help but I was taken aback for a moment: "Ji Cai bought the mooncake gift box for Mid-Autumn Festival already ready?"

The speed of this group of carpenters is much faster than they thought!The square-sized gift box is divided into upper and lower layers, and a poem of "chanting the moon" is engraved on the outside, which looks quite elegant.

Ji Caimai turned the mooncake gift box to check it carefully, and was very satisfied. She tilted her head and asked Wen Mingtang, "What do you think, Master Wen?"

Wen Mingtang nodded and said, "Not bad!"

As expected of the carpenter recommended by the picky Lin Shaoqing, this craftsmanship is really good!
Seeing that the employer was "satisfied", several carpenters breathed a sigh of relief, because with Lin Fei, a picky "employer", in front of them, Ji Caimai, Wen Mingtang and others were too "talkative" to set off.

However, because of Lin Shaoqing's "pickyness", their craftsmanship was forced to improve a lot. These days, because of their outstanding craftsmanship, they have received a lot of orders for moon cake gift boxes. In addition to the public chef of Dali Temple, there are many There are various styles of gift boxes in restaurants and literary museums.But without exception, two lines of "Yin Yue" are engraved on the gift box.Among so many poems, the most beautiful ones are these two sentences inscribed by the chef of Dali Temple.

"A bright moon is born at sea, and the world is here."

Even Lin Fei, who has always been picky, praised these two lines of verse, and then asked Wen Mingtang, "Who wrote it?"

Wen Mingtang pointed to the name in the lower right corner, and said, "A famous hermit named Zhang Jiuling."

Lin Fei nodded when he heard the words, glanced at her, and said, "You cook well, but your poems are only at the level of 'three or two kittens'. You really can't write such poems."

Wen Mingtang: "..."

Is this praising her cooking skills or satirizing her poetry writing skills?

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he looked at the stack of mooncake molds in Wen Mingtang's hand: the round molds had a set of patterns such as plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum; There is a set of molds for legendary stories such as reclamation of the sea and Nuwa mending the sky; the last set is for peanuts, persimmons, jade ruyi and gourds with strange shapes.

Seeing that Lin Fei's eyes fell on the last set of moulds, Wen Mingtang took the initiative to explain without him opening his mouth: "This set has metaphors, namely 'Miaobi Shenghua (peanut)', 'Good persimmon (persimmon)', "All the best (jade ruyi)" is the same as "Fulu (gourd) auspicious". "

Lin Fei: "...that's a good trick!"

Wen Mingtang said "Yes", and when he was about to draw up the content of the gift box, he heard Lin Fei say, "There will be a lantern festival in Jingzhao Mansion on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dali Temple will also participate in it. Do you know?"

(End of this chapter)