Seeing the excitement in Jia's house, many people nearby were shocked: "I didn't expect that Jia Dongxu, who usually seems to be honest, is actually such a person."
"There are many things that you didn't expect. Let me tell you, he not only provoked this one, but also several others." Li Shun said with a mysterious smile, which attracted curious inquiries from everyone.
"Tell me, who else is there?" The people around asked him curiously, pulling his arms.
Li Shun saw the people around him staring at him without blinking, and his desire to show off was instantly satisfied.
"I'm telling you, that...and..." He lowered his voice and said a few names.
"I didn't expect it. He had a lot of fun. Did he spend a lot of money?"
"That's not necessarily true. Let me tell you, half a month ago I saw him entering a supply and marketing cooperative with a woman in her 40s. They bought a lot of things. It was the woman who paid for them. In the end, they were all
He took it away." The description was quite decent. Then he continued
Said: "After coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative, they went into a private courtyard. When I came out, I saw that his pockets were bulging. The woman must have given him a lot of money, and the woman gave it to him with a blushing face."
As he spoke, he looked envious, not sure whether he was envious of people or money.
"Wow, Jia Dongxu doesn't look very good, but he still has this ability. Could it be..." He said with a smirk on his face.
Another neighbor directed the conversation to Qin Huairu: "But this Jia family's daughter-in-law is also unlucky. I wonder if there will be a fuss?" He said as if he felt that it was not good to gloat about others' misfortune, so he closed his mouth again.
"I think it won't be a big deal. After all, they both have children, and Qin Huairu doesn't have a job. If it's really a big divorce, she won't be able to go back to the countryside!"
"That's right, but I usually don't notice that the Jia family is quite rich. I used to always cry about being poor, but now I realize that I actually have so much money. I took out 300 in one go without even blinking. Don't tell me to take it all in one go.
If I pay 300, I won’t be able to make it next month if I pay 30." Li Shun said with envy and no jealousy.
"Who says it's not the case? The factory probably paid a lot of money when the man's accident happened, but it was well hidden and no news came out."
"Then he lent me two yuan last month and didn't say he would pay it back." Li Shun suddenly remembered.
Hearing his words, many people opened their mouths. One said to lend me 8 cents, another said to lend me 5 cents, and another said to lend me ten pounds of cornmeal and two cabbages...
As I talked, I became angry. It is not easy for anyone in this era. The Jia family is obviously rich, but they pretend to be poor and take advantage everywhere. They borrow a little every time, making people embarrassed to chase after him.
After Zhang Yu heard this, he called the Jia family really good. It turns out that the tradition of pretending to be poor and taking advantage has been around since this time. No wonder Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang took advantage everywhere in the TV plot "Siheyuan".
After listening to what they were interested in, Zhang Yu quietly slipped out of the crowd with small steps when they started to complain.
Today is August 15th, the Mid-Autumn Festival. Just watch the excitement, but he has no intention of participating.
He felt a little uncomfortable with the mooncakes on the market now. Two days ago, he made an earthen oven like the video blogger he watched before, and planned to use it to bake some mooncakes and pastries.
He has prepared a lot of materials, and my sister-in-law will probably feel sick when she sees these materials.
In order to make mooncakes that suit his own taste, he also fried the fillings two days in advance.
The Yonghe jujube obtained by signing has a small core, thin skin, thick flesh, natural insect-free, pollution-free, and pollution-free. It was listed as a tribute in the Tang Dynasty.
Rinse the red dates, soak them for four hours in advance, then put them into a pot with water and cook for half an hour. After half an hour, turn off the heat and soak them for four more times. This will make the soaked red dates easier to peel and core.
Then use the end of a rolling pin to mash the red date meat, then put it into a pan and stir-fry over low heat throughout.
Stir-fry until there is no excess water in the jujube paste, it becomes sticky, and the color is red and shiny. Then it can be cooled and poured into a bowl.
The jujube paste is very delicious. In the past two days, he has made a lot of steamed buns to eat with it. It tastes great.
He ate nearly half of the full jar in two days, and it would probably be gone after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Zhang Yu rolled the stuffing prepared in advance into a ball, covered the divided stuffing, and set it aside for later use.
Mix snow-white lard into the flour. There is still a lot of lard cooked some time ago, and then add some sugar.
Boil water to make dough. After kneading the dough, cover it with a white cloth to let it rest for a while. While the dough is resting, make the dough.
In a clean bowl, pour the flour, then add more lard and knead it into an oily dough.
Divide the water surface and oil surface into multiple balls of the same size, then roll the oil skin into a round ball, flatten the water surface, wrap the oil surface into the water surface like a bun, with the mouth facing down, and then roll it into a round ball.
Roll out the wrapped dough into a long strip for the first time, then roll it up from one end, repeat several times. Flatten it into a skin, wrap it with a spoonful of jujube paste filling, wrap it like a bun, and put it on the chopping board
Roll it a few more times and you're done.
The next step is to put it into the earthen oven for baking. First, light a charcoal fire in the oven. After the inside is hot, remove the charcoal, leaving only a little edge, wipe the bottom, and put the prepared mooncakes in.
An hour later, the delicious crispy mooncakes filled with jujube paste were ready. This was what he liked to eat, the old-fashioned puff pastry mooncakes.
After it was baked and cooled down a little, Zhang Yu took out one and stuffed it into his mouth. He felt that it was all melted away with his tongue without using his teeth at all.
The smell of baked mooncakes is very tempting, permeating the whole yard, attracting the children around.
Seeing the children's greedy expressions, Zhang Yu took out one from the stove and gave one to each of them. Zhang Guifang, who was standing next to him, looked at it, wanted to say something, swallowed it, and just went back to the room, his eyes unhappy.
Annoyed, invisible, not distressed at all.
The neighbors were very happy that Zhang Yu gave moon cakes to the children, and they all sent things. This one sent pastries from the factory, that one sent two apples, this family sent some vegetables, and that family sent them to home.
The cakes served...basically no one goes empty-handed.
Zhang Yu filled six puff pastry mooncakes and went to Mr. Sun's house, "Is Mr. Sun at home? I gave you mooncakes."
"I'm at home, Xiaoyu, come in quickly, you can just eat any mooncakes you want." Mr. Sun quickly waved his hand and asked him to take it back.
"I just baked it. Try it. It's not hard, it's crispy. You can definitely bite it." Zhang Yu said and handed the plate to Mr. Sun.
Mr. Sun took one and tasted it. While eating, he connected the pastry with his hands. After swallowing a mouthful, he said: "It's good, it's good. The pastry you made is authentic, and the dates used in the stuffing are also good. It's 60% as good as the previous master's."
It’s a craft.”
Mrs. Sun praised, you must know that before the liberation, Mrs. Sun was born in a wealthy family. He grew up in fine clothing and fine food, and never tasted any delicious food. To get this evaluation, it proves that his craftsmanship is indeed good.
After being exaggerated by Mr. Sun, Zhang Yu smiled sheepishly. In fact, he knew that the pastry mooncakes were delicious this time, mainly because of the rise of various short videos in later generations, which played a great role in the spread of knowledge.
In addition, the rewards obtained by signing in to the system are of the highest quality.
Since yesterday, my sister-in-law has reminded Zhang Yu several times that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the windows must be papered at noon.
This is an old custom in Beijing. Since the weather gets colder after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is said that covering the windows at noon during the Mid-Autumn Festival can block all the sunlight in the house and keep it from being cold all winter.
Although his uncle found someone to buy glass for him, and the windows are now filled with glass. But when he had just finished the moon cake exam and the sun was in the middle, Zhang Yu still found the window paper and papered it symbolically, in order to express his gratitude.
custom.
There were a lot of people in the courtyard today. The reason was naturally that we had three days of holidays starting from the day before yesterday. From the 13th to the 15th, students did not go to class, and many factories also had holidays.
When the neighbors in the yard saw him papering the windows, they all looked at the sky and found window paper and papered them again.
Even though the supply is tight this year, before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1958, all Beijing food markets were bustling with activity.
Various supply and marketing cooperatives, food stores, and butcher shops across the city have prepared a rich variety of festive foods for customers to purchase to celebrate the festival.
In order for people to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival, the supply is particularly abundant these days, so many people plan to take this opportunity to buy more things for their homes.
Well, after my sister-in-law had finished papering the windows for herself, she went out with a basket and walked around to see if she could buy some things that she couldn't usually buy.
Time flies very quickly, the sun goes down unknowingly, and the night of August 15th arrives.
On the night of August 15th, the sky rose, and the tranquility shone on the ground with the silver mist-like light.
Today, the moon is particularly clear and transparent, with a silvery light as pure as water, and a few small stars, hovering in the night, adding a touch of bright color to people's reunion season.
However, many people don't care about admiring the moon, because for the festival, their homes have prepared a lot of dishes that they usually don't want to eat. The children have been wandering around the stove for a long time, looking forward to the adults who are cooking from time to time.
light.
Today, in addition to various customs, there are also rich delicacies. My sister-in-law also prepared the meal early and set a table. The whole family, including Zhang Yu, gulped down the sweet-scented osmanthus duck.
My sister-in-law bought the sweet-scented osmanthus duck from a master chef. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the duck is at its best. The meat is tender and fat. The sweet-scented osmanthus has just fallen at this time, so every year the master cooks a batch of sweet-scented osmanthus duck at this time. This year
Zhang Guifang managed to grab one with great difficulty.
I have to say that the master's craftsmanship is really good. The sweet-scented osmanthus duck is amazing, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat is fat but not greasy.
In addition, he killed a chicken, cooked taro-roasted chicken, fried lotus root cakes, stir-fried the snails he brought back a few days ago, stewed the fish he caught and kept in the Taiping tank, and...
Looking at the pile of delicious food on the table, Zhao Wenzhuo couldn't help but take out the osmanthus wine he brewed last year from under the cupboard and said to the family: "Try the osmanthus wine I brewed last year. It has been brewing for a year. The taste of osmanthus."
It is completely integrated into the wine, and the taste is smooth and not irritating at all.”
I opened the osmanthus wine, poured it into a cup, and found that it was just as said.
Osmanthus wine is the kind of light amber color with the light fragrance of osmanthus. Zhang Guifang couldn't help but take a sip. The taste was mellow and soft, with a long aftertaste. She reluctantly praised: "Not bad, worthy of what I have today."
Good food on the table.”
"Of course, it doesn't matter who made it." Zhao Wenzhuo said proudly, but he also knew how to give up when he was pleased. He would feel the pain after really offending Zhang Guifang. Then he turned around to pick up the vegetables, put them into Zhang Guifang's bowl, and returned the favor.
Calling the children, "Eat quickly! The dishes your mother cooked today taste very good."
Hearing this, the children below secretly smiled, thinking that Zhao Wenzhuo was "interested".
"Why are you laughing? Eat quickly, there are so many good things, and I can't stop your mouths." Zhao Wenzhuo was a little angry and ashamed.
Seeing that he was really anxious, the child below quickly scooped up the rice and pretended that I didn't see anything.
But today’s food was indeed delicious, and Zhang Yu was satisfied with it. Needless to say, the Osmanthus Duck was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the Roasted Chicken with Taro, the taro was soft and absorbed the aroma of the chicken. It was a treat to take one bite. The Double Lotus Root Cake was delicious.
The noodles were golden brown and very crispy when he took a bite. He ate two in a row before changing to the next dish.
After I was about 70 to 80% full, I set my sights on the stir-fried snails. I sucked hard and the plump snail meat and the rich aroma of the sauce entered my mouth. I couldn't help but eat one after another.
After dinner, we prepared things for worshiping the moon. In addition to moon cakes, we also prepared pomegranates and grapefruits.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is when pomegranates are ripe. There are six huge pomegranate trees planted in the courtyard. They have produced a lot this year, so each family has several. The varieties of pomegranates are particularly good, not to mention big and round, and inside
The pomegranate seeds are as red as agate, and when you take a bite, they are sour and sweet.
Move the table into the courtyard and place the tributes. Because of the custom of "men do not worship the moon and women do not worship the stove", only the women in the family worship the moon. After worshiping the moon, they chat with the neighbors in the courtyard for a while and then start eating.
Enjoy the moon with mooncakes.
The yard is particularly lively during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Old children and younger children, as long as they can run, are playing in the yard. The adults in the family are particularly indulgent to the children during this time of reunion. They will not be as usual, because of trivial matters.
, and got angry at the children.
People who live in a courtyard house have many peace jars in the yard that were used to prevent fires. During the day, the elders in the yard ask the young people to clean the jars, dry them in the sun, and then fill them with water.
, look at the reflection of the moon in the vat.
A few naughty children took advantage of the adults not paying attention and threw a few stones into the peace jar, disrupting the shadow of the moon in the jar. In response, the adults just waved their hands: "Go, go, let's play."
Go, don't make trouble here."
The children were laughing and running around, from the backyard to the front yard, and then from the front into the alley, chasing the moon in the alley, shouting, and the adults next to them were not as busy with the children as they used to be.
The children were so noisy that they called the children's behavior "chasing the moon."
The children were playing and the adults were watching, and the atmosphere was harmonious.