On the night of August 15th, Chang'an City, the vanguard General's Mansion.

Liu Yu sat alone in the yard, with a small table in front of him, a pot of sake, a porcelain cup, and a slanted look at the rising moon slowly, and always felt that something was missing. After thinking about it, it should be a feeling of reunion.

The family was together, Xu Xuanzhu and the Han sisters made rice unique to the Mid-Autumn Festival in the house. They cooked the rice and mixed it into a ball, and put it in it, which was similar to rice dumplings. They kneaded it into a circle to make it meant to reunite. During this reunion festival, he did not want to return to the Marquis of Dingguo Mansion, where there was really a lack of a harmonious atmosphere of family affection.

Liu Yu raised his glass to the moon and felt that he should recite a poem. He didn't say much, so he suddenly chanted: "I think the heartbreaking place every year is broken, and the moonlit night is short.

After chanting, I couldn't help feeling unlucky. Although the lyrics were hanging on the edge of the bright moon, they obviously had nothing to do with chanting the moon. They said that they were going to worship the grave. Liu Yu thought about it again and continued to chant: "I hope that people will live long and share the beauty of the moon with thousands of miles apart."

This should be a Mid-Autumn Festival poem, a famous line that has been passed down through the ages. It cannot be better. But now he chants it now and feels that it is not suitable for the situation. Finally, the warmth of home is warm, but it seems that the feeling of being dispersed from the world to meet cannot be seen.

If you want to find a sentence in your mind, you will notice the lack of ancient poems known to this brain. Although he is very weak, he has no chance of being a scholar.

"Husband, why don't you stay in the house and see us make a bunch of rice?" Xu Xuanzhu came out with a cloak and wanted to put it on Liu Yu, but found that he was mumbling to himself. He couldn't help asking.

The room was full of joy. Not only did the Han sisters, but also guards such as Lu Chu'er, Cai Yingnu and a group of maids, chatting and laughing together, and there was no strong barrier between the master and the servant. Whether it was the mistress Xu Xuanzhu or the young wife of the Han sisters, they treated the guards and maids like a family.

"What's so delicious about Tuantuan rice? Just add some sugar to the rice. If there is a moon cake, it's great." Liu Yu sighed.

Xu Xuanzhu walked to Liu Yu at this time and said in surprise: "Husband, what is a mooncake?"

"Mooncakes are for something that my husband had eaten before. They were round and similar to pancakes, but they had stuffings inside, and they all have stuffings. It was really delicious."

Xu Xuanzhu thought, "Then we can do it too."

"No, the skin is made with syrup mixed with fine flour. It's very troublesome. Besides, there is no mold or suitable seasoning to make the filling."

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Since Sui Yi accidentally hit her in the kitchen by Sui Yi that day, she has been studying cooking and making pastries at home these days. The "moon cakes" that Liu Yu mentioned are not much different from ordinary pastries in her opinion. Now that her husband has something to ask for, it is time for a wife to show off.

"Since you are interested, madam, then let's study it?"

Liu Yu was also idle at home, and drinking and watching the moon was boring after all, so it would be better to study the fun of new food.

Seeing that Liu Yu was in high spirits, Xu Xuanzhu persuaded him, "Husband, you better stop cooking. I'll do it this time?"

"I am not a gentleman, and the kitchen is not that much. Who is different from the family? " Liu Yu said as he walked towards the kitchen. He remembered that he had seen molds with pancakes at home. Although they had no patterns, they were also round. They stuffed a piece of dough into the pot and then knocked it down. This was also the process of seeing maids before. Now they used it as a mould for mooncakes.

"Besides, except for my husband, I have seen moon cakes, you don't know what moon cakes are like and how they can be made?"

It seems easier than doing.

Although Liu Yu knew that the mooncake crust was mixed with syrup, the flour now is still very rough after all. In addition, there are many mixed substances in the sugar, so it is difficult to make the syrup and flour sticky mooncake crust. After a long time of conditioning, he boiled syrup and flour and mixed flour. In the end, he just kneaded the syrup and flour into a large ball of sticky "dough balls" that sticky. It is still impossible to make mooncakes.

Liu Yu said a little annoyed: "It seems that you can't eat this mooncake today."

While talking, the rice dumplings over there had been steaming in the pot, and Lu Chu'er had already started to join in the fun. She looked at Liu Yu, who was a little depressed with a bad smile on her face.

"When steamed buns, and stuffed."

Since the mooncake crust cannot be perfect, it will be almost the same as it looks like a circle. As long as it is a round shape, even a round cake will achieve its purpose. Liu Yu no longer makes demands.

Mooncake filling is much simpler than skin. There are many good things at home. The dried fruit and five kernels are ready-made. Add some glutinous rice and bean paste to make pastries, which can make a lot of flavors. Soak the lard in it and bake it for a while and it should be a bright and shiny color.

Xu Xuanzhu and the stuffing, Liu Yu is responsible for the packing, and then molding it on the mold. If it is poured out of the mold and it is soft and unrounded, Liu Yu will deliberately make some adjustments. The couple is very busy and happy. The others are coming to help but Liu Yu refuses. Liu Yu is also preparing to name the new food "Couple Cake" to commemorate this extraordinary Mid-Autumn Night.

Moon cakes are made one by one, with not much noodles and more than a filling. There are only a dozen of them in total, which are roughly regular, but Liu Yuzai thinks they look like flattened buns instead of moon cakes. You can't be too demanding to make them for the first time.

"The mooncakes are ready, and now they set up a fire and bake them like barbecue." Liu Yu patted the flour on his hand and ordered Lu Chuer, who was looking at the "mooncakes" curiously.

Lu Chu'er was stunned. She originally thought that the mooncakes should be similar to meat steamed buns, but she didn't expect that they would have to be roasted on fire. These days, there is no precedent for food made from flour to bake on fire.

"Son-in-law, can it work? What should I do if I bake it?"

Lu Chu'er's worries were unnecessary. There was nothing else in this mooncake, and the content of oil was so high. After baking it on the fire rack for a while, the entire surface of the mooncake was wrapped in a layer of sizzling oil.

Because of his lack of experience, Liu Yu had to keep guarding the fire and command Lu Chu'er. After Lu Chu'er accidentally dropped a piece of mooncake into the fire, the baking work was also replaced by Liu Yu. In order to prevent the situation of uncookedness of the outside and inside, Liu Yu deliberately set up several fire racks of different heights, and slowly insulated them with a low heat after the high fire. Until he felt that it was almost done, he moved from the fire to the plate.

Although the shape of the whole mooncake was a little deformed, the color was still very bright. The female guards came to see the first mooncake and commented on each other. Of course, they didn't have the turn to make the tasting.

"Yeah." Liu Yu came over and cleared his throat and said, "Your Tuantuan rice has been steamed a long time ago. Go and eat it quickly, don't eat the pot and the basin."

He drove away the female guards, leaving only Xu Xuanzhu and the Han sisters. The family of four sat at the square table to taste the mooncakes designed by Liu Yu, Liu Yu and Xu Xuanzhu and his wife. Liu Yu cut the mooncakes with a kitchen knife, and fortunately they were all cooked inside. Han Xiaoyi tasted it first, then frowned slightly and said, "It's so sweet."

Her sister Han Xiaoyi doesn’t like sweets, but Han Xiaoting has a special liking for sweets. She almost stuffed half a mooncake into her mouth, then looked at the other three people at the same table and continued to stutter.

Xu Xuanzhu smiled and said, "Eat slowly, you have a bit of a look."

Although the taste of the mooncakes that Liu Yu had eaten before, he made them himself, and it was the first time he felt it was particularly fragrant. The atmosphere he could enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes together was something he had never experienced since he came to this world.

Perhaps it was the Mid-Autumn Festival that people also sighed, and Liu Yu also felt an unprecedented longing for his relatives who could not meet in another world.

For Liu Yu, the mooncakes were just a taste of fresh food. Xu Xuanzhu and Han Xiaoyi didn't eat much, only Han Xiaoting ate a lot. She ate nearly half of the six or seven mooncakes put on the plate. Lu Chu'er couldn't help but beg for one or two pieces to taste for the little sisters.

Seeing that there were more than a dozen mooncakes on the bamboo grate, Liu Yu didn't have any special food, so he asked Lu Chu'er to take a few to the guards to taste. Regardless of the quality of the food, the new food made by his own general and his son-in-law alone was enough to make the female guards flock to him. Lu Chu'er took it over and was divided by the female guards, but unfortunately he could only taste it in a small mouthful.

"Son-in-law, is there any?"

Lu Chu'er ran over with a shy smile and asked if there was any, but her eyes were always staring at the bamboo grate that placed the mooncakes. Now, only Han Xiaoting was still burping while continuing to stuff the mooncakes into her mouth. She didn't even have to eat a bunch of rice. As a young lady, Han Xiaoting's treatment was something other female guards dared not compare.

"It's gone." Liu Yu said angrily, "If you want to eat, please be early next Mid-Autumn Festival."

Lu Chu'er made a face, and Xu Xuanzhu smiled and said, "Chu'er, I will do it for you tomorrow, but I'm afraid it's not as good as your son-in-law."

"It's okay, the general just needs to make it for us to eat. We don't mind it if it's bad."

Looking at Lu Chu'er's smiling appearance, Liu Yu sometimes felt that Xu Xuanzhu was too indulging in these female soldiers. As the commander of the army, although he could be like a sister and a brother, he still needed the majesty he deserved. He had never heard of any general from a family who would cook for the soldiers himself.

However, even Liu Yu was used to Lu Chu'er's presumptuousness, and he felt that it was abnormal if he couldn't see her. Lu Chu'er was by nature the restless person who liked to make trouble.

Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Yu came to this world for a year and a half. Before, he could not find a suitable poem. Now that the whole family is together, looking at the bright moon, I can’t help but want to write a limerick.

"This year, people are reunited, and next year, people are reunited again."

All he could expect was that the family would be together and not separate, and would be as old as ever every year.

The next morning, the family was still having breakfast, so Sui Yu came to visit.

Since she received Liu Yu's instructions to run a commerce department, she has been running around. While Liu Yu has not left home in the morning, she is also preparing to report the progress of the past few days to Liu Yu.

With this chef, Liu Yu also took out a piece of yesterday's mooncake for Sui Yu to taste. After Sui Yu tasted it, he immediately asked, "General Liu, can you tell me how to make this mooncake, or consign it to Yuelaiju?"

"Okay, OK."
Chapter completed!