The Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony is not complicated. Most people just send some moon cakes and fruits. For those who are more intimate, they can add some food, cloth and the like. There is no need to pay attention to it, it can be used.
There are a lot of fruits in Shiqiao Village. Su Wan randomly arranged a basket of fruits as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift for her two uncles. Most of them were given as some cloth and medicinal materials that could be used to make soup to replenish the body.
As for the Imperial City Jinning Palace and the Zhenguo Palace, she sent two carts of fruits and two boxes of mooncakes casually. Since it took two days to travel, the mooncakes would not be damaged when they arrived, but after all It wasn't fresh anymore, so that's what it meant, but it was fruit. People there liked to eat it, so she gave some more.
As for the families in Guiyan City, since there were actually quite a few of them and their friendship was shallow, Su Wan only ordered people to prepare some fruits and moon cakes and wait until the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival to deliver them to them.
The ones who were more attentive were the Xie family, the Ji family and the Qian family. She also prepared a lot of food to send over.
The mooncakes are made by the family themselves. Madam Gao plans to make the fillings herself and start making them on the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Then she will ask the girls in the family to come over to help. They will be ready soon and can be eaten on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fresh.
The girls have been putting up lanterns these past two days.
Manager Zhang originally wanted to go to Guiyan City to buy a batch and bring it back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Su Wan felt that the ones he bought were not as interesting as the ones he made, so he asked Manager Zhang to invite two people to make them. The lantern craftsmen came over and asked them to help make some, and then asked the girls in the house to make some themselves.
Although the money spent was about the same, the girls in the house were quite happy. Li Lin had some free time and made a pair of palace lanterns with Su Wan and drew the patterns himself.
However, Su Wan was not satisfied, so he took out the two palace lanterns from last year's Chinese Valentine's Day and prepared to hang them up.
On the second day, it was August 14th, and all the female relatives in the house went to the kitchen to help make moon cakes.
Su Wan also went with her. She had learned how to make mooncakes from Wang Weixi before, and she also made them for everyone to eat. Although she couldn't compare to everyone else's craftsmanship, it was still good to eat by herself, especially since Li Lin liked it, so she I thought about making something for him to eat and make him happy.
The courtyard of the kitchen is not spacious. There is only a three-bedroom house with two wing rooms. The wing rooms are used to store things. One is tightly covered with ice and perishable food. One room is used to store some more precious materials.
Of the remaining three rooms, one was separated and used as a warehouse to store grain, vegetables and other items, and the two rooms were opened up and used as a kitchen.
On weekdays, the Gao family and his wife are busy here, which looks fine, but when there are more people here, it becomes a bit crowded and stuffy.
It happened that the weather was pretty good today, so Su Wan asked people to move the table to the open space in the yard. A group of female relatives were making mooncakes in the yard, while Master Gao and Mrs. Gao were baking mooncakes in the house.
The two sides divided the work, and after a busy morning, they did a lot.
After it came out, Su Wan and everyone tasted it and thought it was good. Su Wan had some sent to Li Lin's side, and some to the guard's yard.
The remaining ones were packed with eight pieces of oil paper and placed in the prepared gifts, and the people in the house were asked to give gifts to each family according to the list on the list.
After a busy day, the gifts that should be given were given, and there were nearly two hundred mooncakes left.
Su Wan gave two to each of the female relatives who helped today, and arranged the rest tomorrow. He also asked them to go to Xiaofei to collect one or two silver wages, and then the matter was successfully settled.
By the time she left the small kitchen courtyard, the setting sun on the horizon was casting a red glow. It was almost time for the evening meal. However, Su Wan did not go back to the main courtyard. She took the food box and packed two plates of pastries she had made. Went to the outer courtyard to look for Li Lin.
At this moment, Li Lin was doing business in the study room in the outer courtyard, while Li Fu and Zhao Mingjie were writing at their desks in the next room.
There was a gentle breeze blowing outside the house, and the house was quiet. There was an ice basin placed in the corner of the house, and a coolness slowly came out of it, making it feel cool.
Because it is a self-dug ice cave, the portion is sufficient. In addition to being used in the main courtyard in summer, it is also used in the kitchen to keep food fresh.
Su Wan didn't use much because he was afraid of being hurt by the cold. He used less than one-tenth of it in one summer and autumn. In the kitchen, he only used two-tenths of it in a year, and there was still a lot left.
Manager Zhang took the initiative and sold half to Guiyan City, leaving two-tenths of the remaining, so he made arrangements to use them up and replace them with new ones in the winter, so arrangements were made for the outer courtyard as well.
On weekdays, one pot is given out at noon, and another pot is given in the afternoon. The Zhang family, Sun Xiang, and even Aunt Zheng also get some shares, the amount is different, but they are all there.
As for the guards, there are none.
According to Manager Zhang, no matter what kind of ice a grown man uses, he can't stand the heat in the past. How can he survive the training in the past? When it gets hot, it will cool down when he plunges into the water.
So ice was used in the outer courtyard. In the past, Li Lin himself would not have used it. It was because Su Wan was afraid that she would be hot when he came here that he used some.
"Why are you here? Are the mooncakes finished?"
Li Lin heard the footsteps and looked up to see her stepping into the threshold. He smiled and stood up to greet her. Shanwu Zhucui, who was following her, bowed slightly, then stayed at the door and did not come in.
Su Wan let him pull her to sit on the Arhat chair aside, smiled and picked up the food box in her hand: "I'm here to bring you mooncakes. They have just been baked and are still hot."
After that, she emphasized: "I did this myself."
Li Lin's eyes softened when he heard this: "Then I want to have a taste of Madam's craftsmanship."
Su Wan makes mooncakes every year. They are very small and can be eaten in two or three mouthfuls. But she likes them and says they are too big and would be too greasy to eat in one piece. This size is just right.
Li Lin really likes to eat the mooncakes she made. Although he has eaten a lot of mooncakes, and there are few that are more delicious than hers, it is always different when he eats the ones she made. This mooncake was delivered to him. In his hand, others often can't even think of getting one from him.
Su Wan smiled and took out two plates of mooncakes from the food box. There were eight in each plate, no more and no less.
"This one is for you, and the other one is for Mingjing and Afu. You eat it first, and I'll give it to them."
Um?
For those two boys?
When Li Lin heard this, he felt a little uncomfortable. He turned his eyes around the two plates of mooncakes and said, "Didn't I give them to them before?"
"That was all done by the family." Su Wan looked at his somewhat reluctant expression, and somewhat understood what he was thinking, and wanted to laugh.
"I'll keep it for you. The rest is yours. Just give this plate to them. After all, they are the apprentices you take with you, right? They must always be caring and caring."
