Chapter 188 Mooncake (2)
Wen Mingtang, who was picking up his pen to write, said "Oh" when he heard this and said, "I heard it! Ah Bing, Tangyuan and I are also going to see it."
When Lin Fei heard this, he nodded and said to Wen Mingtang: "I painted the lanterns in Dali Temple. The content on the lanterns is the scene of Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit having a Mid-Autumn Festival feast!"
It’s Lin Fei after all! He always says what he wants to do directly, which is completely different from Liu Yuan and others' indirect hints!
He is refreshing, and Wen Mingtang is naturally heroic! He immediately patted his chest and promised, "I don't have to worry about it! You won't make a mistake when you cast the wooden lot!"
However, the content of this lamp is really novel and down-to-earth. I don’t know how Lin Fei came up with it.
Seeing Wen Mingtang nod, Lin Fei said "hmm" and turned around to leave.
After Lin Fei left, Yu Jijiu, who was peeling sugar and frying chestnuts, glanced at Lin Fei who was leaving, looked at Wen Mingtang and said, "When he asked you if you knew about the Lantern Festival, I was shocked. !”
Wen Mingtang paused for a moment and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Yu Jijiu glanced at her sideways: "On that day in Lishan Mountain, he went up the mountain to look for you, didn't he?"
After all, it was him who organized the banquet. How could he not know what happened?
"For an ordinary man, if he can go to Lishan Mountain specifically for a woman and ask her if she knows about the Lantern Festival, he is probably interested in her and wants to make an appointment to watch the lanterns." Yu Jijiu looked like someone who had experienced it. He stroked his beard and said, "But you Lin Shaoqing... uh, you went to Lishan Mountain for a case, and you specifically asked if you knew anything about the lantern festival, but it was actually to get people to vote for the lanterns you drew!"
Having said this, Yu Jijiu couldn't help but shake his head: "I didn't expect you, Lin Shaoqing, to be able to do such a thing with that otherworldly face!"
When Tang Yuan heard this, he hurriedly retorted: "Who said that we, Lin Shaoqing, don't eat the fireworks of the world? We, Lin Shaoqing, eat a lot, such as saliva chicken, stir-fried chestnuts with sugar, roasted chestnut pork, hot dry noodles, small pot rice noodles, and braised duck. …”
Listening to Tang Yuan announce a bunch of dish names like a dish name, it really makes your mouth water!
Yu Jijiu threw a chestnut shell over and scolded with a smile: "Stop talking! I'm going to be hungry again!"
The glutinous rice balls made a face at Yu Jijiu, then accepted it, and then lowered his head to look at the contents of the mooncake gift box that Wen Mingtang had planned.
The plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum mold is used to make Cantonese-style mooncakes: in terms of filling selection, Wen Mingtang chose three common fillings: red bean, date paste and egg yolk and lotus paste, but at the same time, he also prepared some Mochi, prepare to add some variety to the filling.
The set of peanut, persimmon and other molds with different shapes are used to make snow-skin mooncakes, and the fillings are prepared to be filled with custard filling, which is a new idea that everyone has never tasted.
Finally, there is the most common Soviet-style mooncake in Dairong. Wen Mingtang prepared two fillings, pork meat and egg yolk pork meat, but planned to make this on the day when the mooncakes are distributed.
Putting aside the Soviet-style mooncakes for now, Cantonese-style mooncakes and snow-skin mooncakes are both appearing in Da Rong for the first time and have never been seen before. Wen Mingtang will definitely have to spend more time teaching Ah Bing how to make glutinous rice balls.
So Wen Mingtang started making mooncakes two days in advance. During this period, the aroma of the batches of mooncakes emerged from the "oven" from time to time, which really made everyone in Dali Temple greedy!
But this time, Ji Caimai stayed by the side and even refused to give out the spoiled and spoiled ones to everyone to try in advance. It was really hateful!
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the yamen in Dayong would have a holiday, so the mooncakes were not officially put on the table until the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, after everyone had finished their evening meal.
Soviet-style mooncakes, Cantonese-style mooncakes and snow-skin mooncakes are placed in bamboo baskets in categories for everyone to choose from, and each person can get two of each. If you want to try each kind and don't choose to share it with others, you have to buy it separately from Ji Caimai.
But if you don't mind the trouble and don't care about money during the festival, you can just buy the mooncake gift box.
Liu Yuancai, who had received the mooncakes, took one look at the specially carved gift box, which was comparable to that of restaurants outside, and instinctively felt a subtle feeling of pain: Look at this gift box that took so much effort to make, and you will know that this mooncake is Gift boxes won’t be cheap! When I asked about the price, it was indeed similar to the mooncake gift boxes sold by restaurants such as Hongyanlou outside.
Just when he was lamenting the high price of the mooncake gift boxes, a familiar face named Yu Jijiu came over to pick up the gift boxes. Seeing the arrogance of the handymen each carrying four or five gift boxes in their hands, Liu Yuan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth and said Before he could sigh, he saw Yu Jijiu stroking his beard, looking like he had gotten a big deal, and said happily: "I watched Master Wen making moon cakes that day, so I quickly asked the housekeeper at home to return the gift box ordered from Hongyanlou. ! Sure enough, compared to the few mooncakes in a gift box at Hongyanlou, Master Wen’s store has more than double the number! It’s really a good deal!”
Liu Yuan: "..."
Yu Jijiu's emotion is really shocking... eh! Fortunately, there are only a few high-rollers like Yu Jijiu, and most of them are colleagues who hesitate like him before buying a box.
It’s a holiday! Always be more generous than usual!
The mooncake gift boxes sold out faster than Ji Caimai and Wen Mingtang expected. Before the holiday, most of them were bought by people from Dali Temple and some regular customers.
When everyone was almost gone, only half of the mooncake gift box was left. Zhao Youtong and Lin Fei ordered over while closing the door of the public kitchen.
Looking at the small half of the mooncake gift box that had not been bought, Zhao Youdang broke his fingers, turned to Lin Fei and said: "Lin Shaoqing, I'm afraid I can't buy so many mooncakes at home! Aren't these extra mooncakes a waste? ?”
Ji Caimai couldn't help but raise his forehead when he heard this worry. He sighed and said, "Officer Zhao, don't worry. I'm afraid these gift boxes will be sold out before noon tomorrow!"
The Mid-Autumn Festival will definitely attract a wave of new and repeat customers, so why worry about this? When Ji Caimai said this, his tone was determined, and he was obviously extremely confident in the mooncakes made by the public chef this time.
This confidence is not without reason.
Rich people like Yu Jijiu who buy more mooncakes don't have to wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat. When they take the mooncake gift box home, their family members immediately gather around them.
"I deliberately skipped half a bowl of rice tonight, so I can wait for Anan to bring back the mooncakes!" It was his mother who said this. Although she was old, she was still energetic and was eating better. He would not be polite to the juniors at all.
Yu Jijiu twitched the corner of his mouth and looked away from his mother. Standing next to him were his wife, his two sons, two daughters, and his useless brother.
This group of people are of different ages, but without exception, they are much more mellow than before.
At this time, everyone's eyes fell on the mooncake gift box in his hand, and their eyes signaled him to open it quickly: so that everyone can eat mooncakes in advance and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival early!