Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 2018 swells up (three more)

"Make more, everyone will have dinner together tomorrow night, enjoy the moon, and eat moon cakes."

Mrs. Sun nodded happily, and the movement of kneading the dough became more emotional.

On Yang Ruoqing's side, she also prepared mooncake fillings in an orderly manner.

"Sister Lan'er, you are pregnant, don't stand there, come, sit on the stool and peel the melon seeds."

Yang Ruoqing brought a small stool to the side of the small round table and asked Yang Ruolan to sit down.

Yang Ruolan gave Yang Ruoqing a grateful look, and then sat down.

She glanced at the melon seeds and peanuts in front of her, and asked Yang Ruoqing, "Is it my job to peel these?"

Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Peel the mooncakes first, don't worry, I'll peel them with you after I finish filling the mooncakes."

Yang Ruolan smiled and nodded, "It's okay, my job is light, so you should do yours first."

Yang Ruoqing also smiled, turned around and came to the ground at the corner of the stove, and took out a small wooden bucket.

Inside the barrel are red beans soaked in water last night.

Each red bean is a plump and round good bean after picking out impurities and bad beans.

After absorbing the water all night, now he has become a little scruples.

Yang Ruoqing fished them out, put them into a small pot on the pot table, added an appropriate amount of water, covered the pot, and started to simmer.

When it is almost cooked, take it out and put it in a small bamboo sieve with a basin of clean water under the sieve.

The hot, soft red beans have been boiled and swelled up.

Yang Ruoqing picked up the spatula and kneaded vigorously, pressed, rubbed, pounded...

In short, I tried my best to smash the red beans to pieces.

Many of the sputtering red bean paste fell from the gaps in the bamboo sieve into the water basin below.

When the work was over, Yang Ruoqing found a piece of cotton cloth, drank the red bean paste with a basin of water, wrapped it all up, and squeezed out the water with all her might.

Squeeze a lot, then loosen the cloth ball, and the maroon-red lumps left inside are the red bean paste needed for making mooncake fillings.

Heat a small pot and put a proper amount of lard, pour red bean paste into it and stir fry.

"Do you want brown sugar?"

Mrs. Sun poked her head over and asked.

Yang Ruoqing shook her head: "Brown sugar is a bit greasy, and the taste is a bit rough. I prepared Sophora japonica honey!"

While talking, she brought a small jar, and scooped out a spoonful of shiny, fragrant honey from it.

Pour evenly over the red bean paste in the pot, and then stir fry.

The warm and sweet fragrance permeated the kitchen room little by little.

The smiles on people's faces are infected and sweetened.

When the temperature of the bean paste stuffing was about the same, Yang Ruoqing kneaded them into meatball-sized balls and put them aside to cool for later use.

"The red bean paste stuffing is ready, Sister Lan'er, let me peel the melon seeds for you." Yang Ruoqing washed her hands, turned and came to the small table here.

Yang Ruolan smiled and said, "It's almost done."

Yang Ruoqing took a look, and sure enough, the melon seeds and peanuts were all peeled.

There were only a few pine nuts left, and she didn't need to take action at all.

"Okay, then I'll continue, haha."

She smiled, brought a small wooden basin, and put these melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, black sesame and white sesame, all in one piece.

Add some rock sugar granules, pound it with a rolling pin, smash it, and smash it until it is smashed.

Then, add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and the previously cooled cold boiled rice, stir well, knead the stuffing into a ball, and set aside for later use.

"It's almost done here, we can start making mooncakes." Sun's voice also came from the other side.

At first glance, the moon cake dough has already been kneaded by Mrs. Sun, and it has been kneaded into round balls, which are neatly placed on a large clean tray, just like soldiers in line, preparing to send troops to go out. !

"Okay, let's pack it now." Yang Ruoqing said.

The three mothers sat down and started making moon cakes.

Now that the stuffing is ready, the process of making this package is much easier.

Just like making glutinous rice balls, flatten the mooncake skin, put in the round filling, and then pinch it from the periphery.

After pinching it, put it into the mooncake mold that has been prepared on the side.

The bottom of the mold should be brushed with a layer of oil first, and then pressed hard after putting it in.

Knock it on the tray beside it, and it becomes a moon cake with finely carved patterns.

At this point, it's time for the men to step in.

Luo Fengtang and Ahao entered the kitchen room, Luo Fengtang said to Yang Ruoqing: "Qing'er, the iron stove for baking is ready."

Yang Ruoqing said: "Very good, the first batch of mooncakes can be baked with a layer of egg wash on them!"

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Men and women match, work is not tired.

For most of the day, making mooncakes and baking mooncakes, the warm and sweet scent lingered in the sky over the backyard of Yang Huazhong's house.

Not only did the passing villagers stop and sniff a few more mouthfuls, but the whole village's children were drooling looking at it.

The finished moon cakes, Mrs. Sun kept for the family to eat during the festival, as well as those needed for the family banquet tomorrow night.

The rest were all sorted into several copies and sent to relatives and friends.

Between relatives and friends, to put it bluntly, isn't it just this kind of human relationship.

Don't ask for a fortune, just ask for a small gift, and the relationship is maintained in this way.

In the afternoon, Yang Huazhou and Yang Yongjin went back to the village together.

Yang Ruoqing guessed that the two of them would go home for a while, and they would definitely come to Yang Huazhong's house to chat at night.

Sure enough, after dinner, Yang Huazhou, Yang Yongjin's uncle and nephew came together.

Both of them brought moon cakes bought from the county and the county seat.

"My family has said that the mooncakes that Dad brought back from the county are not as delicious as those made by Sanma." Yang Huazhou laughed.

"Here, that's the way it is during the festival. Third sister-in-law, you can accept my mooncakes too."

Mrs. Sun accepted the mooncakes with a smile, and everyone exchanged pleasantries with each other, and then Mrs. Sun went to the backyard, leaving the main room for the men to discuss things.

Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang were also among them.

First of all, of course, it's about business. Yang Huazhou and Yang Yongjin reported to Yang Ruoqing about the business situation of the restaurants they each managed during this period of time.

As well as the thick ledger brought back, as well as other purchases and business records, for Yang Ruoqing to sort out slowly and get a better understanding of the situation.

After finishing the business in the restaurant, Yang Ruoqing began to ask Yang Huazhou about the third brother Yang Yongzhi.

"I thought he would come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival, why didn't he come back?" she asked.

Yang Huazhou said: "I also invited him to come back together, it seems that he also wants to come back to see Hong'er."

(End of this chapter)