The splendid life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 22 Moon Cake
Nuo'er thought for a while, "Want to eat the crispy rice you made last time?"

It seems that the father and son also like to eat rice, "No problem." Yao Yu went into the house happily and prepared to go. Today, Yao Yu planned to make shredded pork with fungus for the dishes spread on top of the rice.Thinking about the eggs she bought, Yao Yu took out two and prepared to steam a bowl of chicken cakes.

Nuoer still remembers the eggs and egg drop soup that Yao Yu scrambled for the fourth uncle, but tonight there is already rice, in Nuoer's heart, only one delicious thing is enough, "Mother, I will eat it tonight Eggs?"

"Well, let's eat steamed chicken cakes." Yao Yu replied.

"Is it better than egg drop soup?" Nuo'er asked, it was obvious that Nuo'er liked the egg drop soup last time.

"It's a hundred times more delicious." At that time, Mrs. Liu didn't give salt or oil, how could he make any good taste, today's egg cake has salt and oil, and the portion is quite enough.

Upon hearing this, Nuo'er didn't go anywhere, and stood obediently in front of the pot. After a while, the golden chicken cake was out of the pot, which undoubtedly made Nuo'er exclaimed again and again, and even Xie Zhimo kept praising, "Yu'er, why do you have so many thoughts in your little head?"

"As long as you have the heart, you can do it." Yao Yu replied.

Xie Zhimo firmly remembered this sentence, as long as he has the heart, he can do it.

The family of three enjoyed dinner very happily. Early in the morning of the second day, Yao Yu went to Hehua Town again with fish cakes. One thousand four hundred Wen.

In the blink of an eye, Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Yao Yu has saved more than 100 catties of fish cakes, and is waiting to sell them together on the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival. By the way, he will buy some things in the town. Xie Zhimo's legs have improved a lot, and he goes to the mountains to cut bamboo every day. Now the backyard of the house There has been a row of fences surrounded by bamboo, which looks very beautiful.

The third part of the land behind was also reclaimed by Xie Zhimo and planted with onions, ginger and garlic. The one-acre field obtained from the division was planted with cabbage, and of course a lot of fertilizer was applied. Yao Yu was going to help, but Xie Zhimo said Don't let Yao Yu intervene in anything, after all, the taste is too strong.

"What do you want?" Yao Yu packed the fish cakes, and Xiao Wuzi's ox cart will arrive in a while. During this period of time, life is like a war. I go fishing every day, then make fish cakes, and go to town the next day For one sale, Yao Yu always took Xiao Wuzi's car back and forth, and Xiao Wuzi was used to driving the bullock cart in front of their house every other day. This time the situation was special, so Yao Yu made an appointment with Xiao Wuzi in advance to go to town today. .

The money in Yao Yu's hands has already reached more than a dozen taels of silver, which should be considered good in Shuangshui Village, so Yao Yu plans to buy more things on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"There's nothing to buy, just buy some if you need something." Xie Zhimo was wearing Yao Yu's new clothes today, and he planned to go for a walk in the mountains later to see if he could catch some wild game. He hadn't exercised for a long time.

"What does Nuoer want?" Yao Yu asked.

Nuo'er ran up to Yao Yu, blinked her big eyes, and said, "Mom, can I have that kind of round pancakes?" At this time last year, Mrs. Liu bought mooncakes from the town for Mr. Xie. Fourth Xie deliberately opened the layers of paper in front of everyone, and then picked up the mooncakes and ate them bite by bite. It seemed to be a delicacy in the world, and Nuoer still remembered it.

"Okay." Tomorrow is Zhongqiu, and Yao Yu originally planned to buy some mooncakes.

"Sister-in-law." Xiao Wuzi's voice came from outside the house, and Xie Zhimo hurriedly helped Yao Yu lift the fish cake to the ox cart.

"Okay, you guys go back quickly, I'll be back later." Yao Yu waved his hand and got on the bullock cart.

"Xie Laosan's legs seem to be on the mend." There are quite a lot of people who entered Hehua Town today, mostly to buy things that will be needed in Zhongqiu tomorrow. Aunt Wu is one of them. Just now I saw Xie Zhimo helping to move things to the ox cart. That's why he asked with concern.

Because of the previous encounters, Yao Yu had a particularly good impression of Aunt Wu, and now she replied with a smile, "Yes, it's almost good."

"A big man can't rely on women to support him." A woman in the car said, she had seen Yao Yu go shopping in Hehua Town several times by herself.

Yao Yu also remembered this person. The one who said Xie Zhimo’s silver was unclean last time by the river was called Li Shi by the villagers. Yao Yu pretended not to hear it, so he chatted with Aunt Wu. Are you going to buy supplies for tomorrow?"

"Yeah, I saw Zhongqiu, and I haven't prepared anything yet. I'm going to the town to have a look and buy everything I need." The family is busy, and it's rare to make a little money a year. It's not for festivals, and I won't go shopping. these things.

"Aunt Wu, does Aunt Wu know of any good mooncake sellers in this town?" Yao Yu asked.

"It's on West Street. There are several mooncake sellers over there. Every time I go to the one closest to Ximen, it's delicious." Speaking of this, Aunt Wu began to introduce in detail, "The one that makes mooncakes The sweet-scented osmanthus wine is also good, you can buy a bottle, but it's a bit expensive."

Unexpectedly, she really asked the right person, Yao Yu wrote them down one by one, "Thank you, Aunt Wu."

"You child, why are you being polite?" Aunt Wu was very happy.

If it wasn't for selling fish cakes first, Yao Yu would have followed Aunt Wu to buy moon cakes.Arriving in Hehua Town, Yao Yu took the fish cakes to the Bafang Inn. Shopkeeper Wen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yao Yu, "You've come!" In mid-autumn tomorrow, the county magistrate ordered ten catties of fish cakes!Anyone can refuse, how dare the magistrate's family refuse!It's just that the fish cakes in the inn were sold out long ago, and they were waiting for Yao Yu to bring them.No, early in the morning, the county magistrate's servant came to urge him several times. Seeing his complexion getting worse and worse, shopkeeper Wen became more and more anxious.

Yao Yu could guess the reason, thinking about Zhongqiu tomorrow, so he intentionally waited two days to deliver the fish cakes, but the fish cakes delivered today weighed more than 100 catties. Yao Yu smiled and handed the fish cakes to Wen Zhanggui. Someone went to weigh it, and then cut ten catties and prepared to send it to the county magistrate's mansion in person.

"This time the fish cakes are 130 catties, [-] Wen." After the shopkeeper Wen gave the money to Yao Yu, he hurried away with the fish cakes, delaying the voice of the county magistrate. His boss didn't want to beat him to death. Even good.

The waiter from behind smiled and said, "The county magistrate's mansion ordered fish cakes, and they came here early in the morning to urge them several times. If they don't deliver them, the county magistrate will lose his temper."

Yao Yu smiled, "Then I'll go first."

Walking to West Market, Yao Yu found that among the shops selling mooncakes, the family Aunt Wu mentioned had the most. Yao Yu originally wanted to buy one of each flavor, but after seeing that all the mooncakes were of the same flavor, he simply sold fifteen. , and then ordered two jars of sweet-scented osmanthus wine.

Mooncakes cost three Wen each, and two pots of sweet-scented osmanthus wine cost 85 Jin for [-] catties. The total cost was [-] Wen. Yao Yu went to the vegetable market to sell some pork and lard, weighed [-] Jin of fine noodles, and then went back.

When I got home, I found Xie Zhimo's face full of excitement, "Yu'er, you are back, I went to the mountains today, guess what good things I found?"

"Pheasant?" Yao Yu asked.

Yao Yu guessed it all at once, Xie Zhimo was stunned for a while before saying, "You are so smart, you can guess right."

There are not many wild animals in the mountains, and the pheasant is the easiest to find, so Yao Yu will be the first to guess the pheasant, "I bought fifteen moon cakes, and I plan to get five for Sister Fengzhen's family, and Li Zheng's family." Send some too."

"Well, let's go." After Lizheng helped last time, they kept saying that they would come to pay their respects. This time is a good opportunity. Brother Li's house next door takes good care of their family. There is nothing wrong with giving them mooncakes at this time , Besides, this is Yao Yu's own money, and Xie Zhimo won't say anything.

Yao Yu took out a mooncake and handed it to Nuo'er, Nuo'er happily took it, and said, "I'll eat it when I watch the moon at night."

"It's okay, there are plenty, you can eat now." Yao Yu said with a smile, but Nuoer was reluctant and insisted on waiting until night.

After Yao Yu finished speaking with Nuo'er, she turned to Xie Zhimo, "I also bought two jars of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, one for myself to drink, and the other for Lizheng as well."

Xie Zhimo's eyes lit up, wine!How long has it been since he had a drink, and sometimes he really wants to drink a bowl.

"I'll go to Sister Fengzhen's house first." Yao Yu took five mooncakes and went to the next door, "Will you go to Lizheng's house with me when you come back later?"

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Xie Zhimo responded quickly.

Wang Fengzhen was preparing things for Zhongqiu at home, and she would be very busy. Hearing that Yao Yu was looking for her, she quickly stopped what she was doing and walked out, "What's the matter, big sister?"

"I went to the town to buy some mooncakes, and these are for you." Yao Yu was about to hand the mooncakes to Wang Fengzhen as he spoke.

When Wang Fengzhen heard that it was an expensive thing like moon cakes, she refused to accept it no matter what, "Big sister, this is impossible!"

"Sister Fengzhen, why are you always so ignorant? I buy a lot of mooncakes. Besides, during the holidays, your little plums want to eat too!"

Wang Fengzhen's son, Xiao Lizi, had already run behind his mother after hearing about the mooncakes. Seeing what Yao Yu said, he pulled Wang Fengzhen's clothes and whispered, "Mom, I want to eat."

"You child! Moon cakes are very precious! How can you eat as soon as you say!" Wang Fengzhen was about to beat the child, but was stopped by Yao Yu, "Sister, don't be polite to me, take it quickly, later We will ask you for help if we need anything.”

Yao Yu handed the mooncake to Xiao Lizi, "Hurry up, take it in and eat."

Xiao Lizi looked at the mooncake in Yao Yu's hand, and then looked at Wang Fengzhen worriedly. Obviously, he did not dare to take it without Wang Fengzhen's consent.

Wang Fengzhen sighed, "Take it."

Only then did Yao Yu smile, "That's right, I'm going back first, there are still many things to do at home."

After seeing Yao Yu enter the room, Wang Fengzhen continued to work, but neither of them saw a sneaky person standing not far away.

(End of this chapter)