Chapter 48： Pigs contribute a lot

Chapter 48 The contribution of pigs is great

"Keep your stomach, I will let you taste a piece later, this thing is not sweet, but it contains a lot of sugar, in order to protect your teeth, you can't eat too much at a time"

"Got it, mother."

With this attempt, her confidence has greatly increased, and the next batch of 20 bakes will be baked.

The aroma of the baked mooncakes made the neighbors and the right house salivate non-stop.

What is Mrs. Qiao's family going to do? It is even more fragrant than the smell from the dim sum shop in the town.

Wanted to find the past, but felt embarrassed, and endured it for a day.

During the whole day, she did nothing but baked mooncakes. The family of three, apart from making some meals in the morning, made mooncakes at noon and night.

It's not that I can't take care of it, it's because I want to taste the taste of each mooncake.

At night, Qiao Mai took out several wooden boxes, wiped them clean, put a white cloth inside, and put mooncakes inside.

One box is one hundred yuan, and there are three big boxes of mooncakes, a total of three hundred yuan, and there are more than 20 different mooncakes outside, which she left for the children.

After she moved the box into her own room, she put it directly into the space. Only in the space can the smell not change and keep it fresh.

Tired all day, Qiao Mai put all the leftover mooncakes in the children's room, and put some fruits for them.

"Eat some when you're tired, mother won't cook at night."

"Mother, you have worked hard."

"You have worked hard too."

Close the door for the child, she tidied up the yard casually, and went back to sleep.

The second day is the first day of the full moon festival.

She packed the mooncakes in a rectangular wooden box that she ordered in advance. There were five kinds of fillings in each box of mooncakes, and there were 12 mooncakes in each box, with six pieces per layer.

Packed twenty-five boxes, ready to give as gifts.

The family who helped her catch the thief that day had a box. She didn't deliver it herself. She appointed her two sons. Anyone who came to help that day gave them away.

Only the neighbor on the right gave three boxes, because that house was shared by three families.

Yuan Jiaqi was both surprised and not surprised when he received the gift box.

Although he didn't go to help catch the thief, he explained the reason, and later made a sign for her himself, and it was expected to give him a gift.

Mrs. Chen was also very surprised when she received the gift. In short, everyone concluded that Mrs. Qiao's gift was a gift of thanks for helping to catch the thief.

Neighbors alone gave away nearly ten boxes, and the remaining fifteen boxes, three boxes were kept in the space, and she personally delivered five boxes to the shop and handed them over to Lu Sanniang.

After receiving the gift, Lu Sanniang was very happy, and immediately opened it to share with her family, and everyone said it was delicious.

Qiao Mai smiled, carrying five boxes of mooncakes in one hand and two boxes in the other, and went to the mayor's house. She handed the five boxes of mooncakes to the guard.

"Brother, please send this gift to the mayor, I won't go in."

"OK."

After the guards went in and came out not long after, Qiao Mai handed the two boxes of mooncakes to the two guards respectively.

"I usually bother the two of you, a little thought, it's the holidays, I made it myself, try it."

"Aha, what about us?"

"yes."

"Thank you!"

Qiao Mai said goodbye to them and went home. Even though she didn't leave the stall for the past two days, she didn't lose anything. Everyone in the town knew where she lived, and they went straight to the house when they bought things.

Corn, peanuts and so on are fine, these fruits are indispensable during the holidays.

If you want to eat fresh, well, you can only find her, so she also sells goods at home.

Especially when she added oranges, apples, pears, grapes and other fruits during the full moon festival, after two days of rest, she actually sold more than usual.

Fengyun and Yunfeng are not less rich, as long as Qiao Mai sells, they can eat.

After the gifts are delivered, we will start preparing the ingredients for tomorrow's treat.

There were quite a few people here, five from the Lu family, two neighbors on the left, two neighbors on the right, and three from my own family, a total of twelve people.

Two floor tables need to be put together to avoid forced sitting.

Let’s just make do with it. Eating well is the main thing. For twelve people, there are twelve dishes, and each dish needs to be served in large quantities.

To this end, she also made a list.

Skip the usual home-cooked dishes, and have garlic elbows. Usually they eat stewed pork, so change the way of eating.

Let’s have red pork ears again. She has pig ears in her freezer. The pigs take up two dishes, dry pot fat intestines, and steamed pork instead of braised pork. This is not greasy.

Let’s add garlic pork ribs, and pigs account for five dishes, which shows that pigs have made a great contribution.

There is a pig, then a chicken, if there is a child, try to avoid spicy food, a braised chicken nugget, and then a fish, the fish should be crispy, the spine is soft and cannot hold the child.

Seven dishes, still far from twelve.

These seem to be all meat, so let’s have some vegetarian ones.

Here’s tofu, don’t use mapo, let’s have sauce-flavored tofu with scallion oil, mixed with sesame paste, there is no sesame paste in this era, but there are sesame seeds, which is not far away from sesame paste, and new things are not too far away. It would be too weird.

There are three dishes left, by the way, let’s have a fruit salad, the kids will definitely like it.

There are dried shrimps sold in the market this season. Buy two catties, pick them up when you come back, and stir-fry dried shrimps with leeks. It is also a good dish.

There is still one dish short, which is a bit of a headache. These are the only dishes sold in the small town. Are there any more?

By the way, you can have black fungus in cold sauce. Dry goods stores sell this, so it’s normal to make it yourself.

The menu of twelve dishes is done, and I immediately go shopping with a basket.

The son wanted to go with her and wanted to help her carry something, so the mother and son each carried a basket.

Buying a lot in the market, for this meal, I really worked hard.

When she came back, she asked Fengyun to steam half a pot of rice, and cooked a piece of braised pork and a piece of vegetables for the child.

The three of them didn't take a break after eating, and began to organize the ingredients. They were all packed, and Qiao Mai took them into the space to keep them fresh.

Next, wash all the fruits in the same pot and prepare them.

The full moon festival here is the modern Mid-Autumn Festival, but the meaning is different.

Modern people pay attention to family reunion. This is the day when the moon is fullest in all seasons of the year, also called Luna Festival.

When they celebrate, I will celebrate with them. It is a festival, and we will gather together to have fun.

That night, Qiao Mai personally went to tell Mrs. Chen that she was invited to come to the house in the afternoon of the full moon festival and have a meal together for the festival.

Mrs. Chen was very surprised to be invited, and happily agreed.

When it came to the Yuan family, it seemed that they had something on their minds, "Miss Qiao, who did you invite?"

"The shopkeeper Lu's family, the left neighbor Chen's mother and son, and then your father and son."

"They are all female relatives, is it inconvenient for Yuan to go?"

"Who said they are all female relatives?"

"Is there another man?"

"My son, you should have heard of it, and your son, and Chen's son, aren't they all men?"

Yuan Jiaqi was stunned and showed an embarrassed smile. Those two rows of neat and white teeth really dazzled Qiao Mai's eyes, and his smile was so beautiful.

"I may not come tomorrow, or I may come."

"Oh? Something at home?"

"Yes, I'm going to buy a boxing gift, go home and have a look, I won't stay at home overnight, I should be back in the afternoon."

"It's okay, we'll wait for you. Besides, I have something else I want to talk to you about."

"Please say!"

"I want to ask you to teach my two sons to read, can you?"

The Yuan family got up and waved their hands, "How can I teach children what I have learned?"

"It's just enlightenment, reading and literacy is good. I haven't thought about their imperial examinations. If it's really this kind of material, it's not too late to send them to school. If you come to teach them, you can teach them for two taels of silver a month. You can only teach them for one afternoon or one morning. It just so happens that your family, Chuan'er, is also learning together, and if Chen's son wants to learn, he will also take it with him, and I will help the child learn to read and write."

"Why don't you go to the school in town?"

Qiao Mai rolled his eyes and couldn't help complaining.

"I would like to send my children there, but my enemy's grandson goes to school there, and his husband temporarily refuses to accept students because of him. He did this after hearing about me. It's really ridiculous."

(end of this chapter)