Stepmother Shaoguang

Chapter 30 Mid-Autumn Festival
August is not only the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also He Shaoguang's birthday, which is only a few days away from the holiday.

During the mid-autumn reunion festival, all members of the Lu family gathered in Lilac Garden to accompany the old lady to enjoy the moon and share a share of mooncakes.

Two days in advance, He Shaoguang made an appointment with Shi Nianjiao and Xu Ruyun to teach them how to make mooncakes.

Moon cakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god, and they are actually a kind of worship of the "moon god" by the people.Up to now, eating moon cakes and admiring the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival has become a custom in all parts of the north and south.

Just because of the different regions, the method and taste of moon cakes are also different.

He Shaoguang introduced them carefully, kneading the dough with his hands constantly.

She is going to make three kinds of mooncakes today, classic Cantonese-style mooncakes, Soviet-style mooncakes, and snowskin mooncakes.

Cantonese-style mooncakes have so many flavors that few of them can make them, so they only prepared red bean paste filling and egg yolk.Wuren's was abandoned by He Shaoguang, because she didn't like to eat before.

In fact, she has eaten five-nut mooncakes made by a sister herself. There are no messy fillings put in by the merchants to save costs, and a bunch of ripe nuts are added in a serious manner: pistachios, peanuts, almonds, walnuts Ren melon seeds and green red silk, the taste is not bad, with the aroma of ripe nuts.

Her favorite is the snow skin mooncakes. The skin is made of glutinous rice flour. It is cold in the mouth, sweet and soft.It can also be wrapped into fruit fillings to relieve greasiness.

I don't know if they can get used to the taste of Soviet-style mooncakes, but He Shaoguang didn't prepare much.This is also no need to bake, just fry it in the pan.

Glutinous rice flour is used for the crust of Suzhou-style and snow-skin mooncakes. He Shaoguang has kneaded three types of dough, fried the sesame seeds in advance, and put them aside for later use.Fry the Soviet-style mooncakes first, and after a while, the smell comes from the pot. Shi Nianjiao has passed the first three months, and now her appetite is getting better. The smell makes her want to try a mooncake made by herself.

He Shaoguang broke off half of it for each of them, and put it in his mouth.

As soon as you enter the mouth, you will feel the rich aroma of cooked sesame seeds, which will leave a lasting fragrance in your mouth.The skin of the mooncakes is crispy, with clear layers and a crispy texture. The salt and pepper fillings are fragrant but not greasy. Shi Nianjiao likes it very much. After eating half of it, she wants to get another one.

He Shaoguang went to knock on her hand: "Wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat!"

In fact, freshly made Cantonese-style mooncakes cannot be eaten immediately. You have to wait for a day or two until the oil returns.Otherwise, the taste is so hard that it can knock your teeth off.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mrs. Lu sat at a large table here.Even Lu Fengju, who hadn't appeared for a long time, sat next to Shi Nianjiao again, but the other party didn't pay him much attention.

Xu Ruyun also accompanied Lu Ruqing and fed him a bowl of porridge with yam and lean meat.

Lu Mingzhen and Lu Mingyan were called by the old lady to accompany them in the afternoon, and now they are also sitting under the old lady's hands.

Looking at it this way, only the seat next to He Shaoguang was vacant.

Mrs. Lu noticed that He Shaoguang had been eating with his head down and didn't speak, so she waved to her and asked her to sit beside her, separated by Lu Mingyan.

"You were ill a few days ago. I wanted to visit you, but my old bone hurts like hell when I walk." Mrs. Lu cared about her: "Are you recovering now?"

He Shaoguang nodded obediently: "It's alright, mother should pay more attention to her body, although it's hot during the day, it's easy to catch cold at night."

He Shaoguang's concern made the old lady very useful. People who are getting older like to get along with the juniors more, and feel that they are younger.

In fact, she is only in her 50s now, less than 60 years old, and she is still a middle-aged person in He Shaoguang's eyes.It may be that the life expectancy of ancient people was generally short, and the aristocratic family sat and lay down all the year round, and did not need to do anything by themselves, so their health was relatively poor.

"Mother may wish to order the kitchen to make some nourishing meals, such as steaming the four medicinal materials of Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, and coix coix together with duck, which can have the effect of nourishing qi, invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness." I have read some pharmacological diets before He Shaoguang also learned about some herbal diets that are suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, which are very suitable for Mrs. Lu at this time.

"Yes, the second younger brother and sister know a lot about food. Ah Qing drank the tangerine peel and yam porridge she told me these days, and her cough has improved a lot." Xu Ruyun said a few good words for her in a timely manner.

"Okay, our Lu family's daughters-in-law really have their own advantages." Mrs. Lu said comfortingly, and patted He Shaoguang's hand.

Lu Mingyan was caught in the middle, put down the bowls and chopsticks, turned to Madam Lu and said, "Grandmother, I'm full."

"You only eat so much, and your child is full?" Looking at her grandson who didn't eat much, Mrs. Lu was puzzled: "But today's food is not to your liking?"

Lu Mingyan's expression was light: "No."

He has always been like this, Mrs. Lu didn't feel that he was unhappy, so she let him go.

It was He Shaoguang who looked at him more: something is wrong with this child these past few days, let's just eat less, and talking to her is even colder than before.

Could it be because she was beside him that he couldn't go on.

He Shaoguang thought about it in his heart, so it wouldn't be because he suddenly couldn't figure it out.Have you met the Jiang family recently?Who would instigate it?

After Lu Mingyan got off the table, everyone put down their chopsticks one after another, claiming that they were full.

The servants arranged tables and chairs in the gazebo early in the morning, and the family gathered in the yard to eat moon cakes and enjoy the full moon.

"The moon is sixteen round on the fifteenth day, so why not celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the sixteenth?" Lu Mingzhen was still young and didn't quite understand the meaning of common sayings.

"I don't know how to explain what girl Zhen said." Lu Ruqing is the most knowledgeable among them, but it is obviously too advanced for him to explain to a three-year-old what is Shuo and Wang.

"People set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th in order to let the family members come back in advance, so that they can be reunited on August [-]th." He Shaoguang hugged her and sat on his lap, pointing to the stars in the sky and telling her: "Look, Miss Zhen, the brightest star in the east is the morning star, and it illuminates our way home."

"And over there, that's the Big Dipper. Does it look like a big spoon hahaha."

Lu Mingzhen followed the direction her finger was pointing at and looked at it seriously.

In ancient times, the air was good, the pollution was less, the starry night was clearly visible, and the big stars were much more beautiful than later generations.

Everyone shared the mooncakes they made a few days ago and chatted for a long time over scented tea. It was rare to have such a pleasant time.

Just this night, He Shaoguang once again decided that something was wrong with Lu Mingyan.

In the past, even if he didn't talk much, he would stand next to her with Lu Mingzhen and listen to them.What's more, he has slowly started to show some childishness to her before, and today he is avoiding her far away, preferring to go to Lu Fengju's, and not to get close to her.

Only then did He Shaoguang realize that being a stepmother is not easy.

She sighed deeply, she had no position to ask him to get close to her.

(End of this chapter)