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After the meal, Qi Jintang said: "I'm new in office. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, I have to set up two tables of wine and waiters to invite the people below. I thought about setting it up at noon, so that we can go back to our respective houses in the evening for reunion. It's our first time to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. I I want to stay with you."
"I don't know what the local customs are, so why not ask what they were like in the past, so as not to be picked on when you first come here." Hehua said with a smile, "I'll just wait for you to come back in the evening and enjoy the moon together."
Liu's mother was cleaning the dishes when she heard this and said: "My father and my grandmother are both from the north. They don't know the customs here. On the night of August 15th, every household in addition to wrapping moon cakes, fasting, and burning incense, the female family members Most people go out to walk on the moon, and worshiping the moon in the middle of August to ask for a child is very effective."
He Hua was originally listening with great interest, but when she heard the last sentence, she immediately blushed, stood up, and said, "Mother Liu said whatever."
Qi Jintang smiled and said: "We are still young, so we are not in a hurry to have a child. We will talk about it in a few years."
After hearing this, Ma Liu praised her repeatedly: "I really know how to care about grandma. Grandma is so lucky." He Hua's face became redder and redder, and she stood up and said, "Xiao Zhen, let's go, I will teach you how to make osmanthus candy." "The two of them went to the kitchen. The sweet-scented osmanthus had been washed and dried in a cool place. The lotus flower found a clean jar, boiled it in a pot of water for disinfection, took it out to control the water inside, and then Add layers of sweet-scented osmanthus and layer of sugar, then seal the mouth of the altar tightly and put it in a cool place until it can be opened and used in a few days.
Xiao Zhen smelled the scent of osmanthus remaining on her hands and said excitedly: "Grandma, this flower smells so good. I will pick it again and let's pickle it in more jars!"
"What are you doing with so much pickling? Are you going to sell it on the street?" Seeing her eagerness, Hehua wanted to pick off the tree and said with a smile, "I'll spare the tree for now. You can go find it." Do you have any glutinous rice? Soak some and buy some lotus roots tomorrow morning. Pick some sweet-scented osmanthus and let’s make sweet-scented osmanthus sweetened lotus root to eat.”
After that, he counted the days and found that the Mid-Autumn Festival was only seven or eight days away... Then he asked Liu's mother: "What kind of fillings do we put in the rice dumplings when the official lady comes to visit us in August and a half?"
"As for grandma, there are some with meat fillings, some with scallion oil, some with ham fillings, and some with assorted sugar fillings..." Liu's mother replied with a smile.
Xiao Zhen only frowned when he heard this, and said in a stunned tone: "Scallion oil stuffing... My dear, I have only eaten scallion oil pancakes... but not scallion oil mooncakes. How can I eat this!"
He Hua was so amused by her that she went back to the house to get a pen and paper. She first listed the four fillings mentioned by Liu's mother, and after thinking for a moment, she added lotus paste, egg yolk, bean paste, jujube paste, five kernels, taro paste, and sweet-scented osmanthus. Six kinds, after thinking about it, I made ten kinds. They were perfect and would look good when given away... I also laid out a new paper to list the ingredients. Qi Jintang came into the room and hurriedly raised his head and asked him: "How many people over there want it?" The one who gave me mooncakes...I just calculated how much we need to wrap."
"The county magistrate, the chief registrar, the official, the historian, and the head catcher all have to be given away." Qi Jintang walked to Hehua and looked at the list she made, "There are many kinds of stuffing, so I'll count them as ten per mention. , these people each carry two bags, and there are also many other handymen in the remaining three shifts of yamen, jailers, sedan bearers, warehousemen, waiters, etc. It is too busy for everyone to deliver, and the fee is really too high, so it is better to just Wrap it up in four bags and take it to the servants' room for them to use...How about it's a festive occasion?"
"You are the eldest master, so of course I will listen to you." He Hua noted that this is the Jiuti moon cake. In addition, plus the ones that he eats and places for worshiping the moon, the servants also get some points. How about seven plus eight plus We have to wrap one hundred, thirty or forty moon cakes, so we might as well just count them as one hundred and fifty moon cakes.
Before he could even calculate how much noodles, oil, and stuffing materials he had bought... Qi Jintang pulled him inside to take a nap. Although the two of them had no chance to be intimate along the way, the weather in the south was really too hot, and they were both in different ways. There was a lot of work to do, but I took a peaceful nap.
Qi Jintang was thinking about having to go to work in the afternoon, so he woke up after half an hour of sleep. Seeing that Hehua was sleeping soundly with her clothes half-covered, he couldn't help but go over to steal some incense, and kissed him until Hehua was awakened. Get up.
"It's not too boring even on a hot day." He Hua grabbed the cattail leaf fan next to her pillow and shook it a few times, "You disturbed me when I couldn't sleep."
"You can sleep a little longer and have enough energy to wait for me in the evening." Qi Jintang reached out and touched He Hua's face, then hurriedly ran away before she could say anything.
He Hua resisted the corners of her lips that were about to rise, pulled the handkerchief over her face and closed her eyes to rest for a while. Then she got up to wash up, and went to the kitchen to look at the mooncake mold that Liu's mother had found. It wasn't very good. She frowned with satisfaction and asked Liu's mother: "If we find someone to carve molds now, how many days will it take to get ten molds?"
"Hey, grandma is asking about this. I have to go out and ask the craftsman to find out." Mother Liu said not very clearly.
"Then I'll draw a picture. You can take the picture to the craftsman and ask him. Ask him if he can make ten of them. How many days can he get them at the earliest? You can give him less labor, but they must be more exquisite." Lotus According to her previous memory, she drew a mooncake style with a square in the middle and a pattern around it, and asked Ma Liu to take it out and ask the craftsman, "As long as there is time to make mooncakes, just leave it and let the craftsman start making it." "
After telling Ma Liu to take care of these things, Hehua went back to calculate the amount of fillings, made a list and gave it to Miao'er to buy. After all the work, she went back to the house and before she could sit down, Xiaozhen came in and said: "Grandma , Mrs. Zeng Dianshi came to hand over a greeting card and said she would come down to visit grandma later."
Hehua rubbed her forehead. She really had no experience in dealing with these official wives, but now that she has such a status, she still has to socialize with them.
Fortunately, the other party was quite polite and handed in the post first. Hehua quickly combed her hair, tied it up, changed her clothes, sent Miaoer and Xiaozhen to decorate the flower hall, put melons and fruits, rummaged for the tea sets, and found out Xiaoxiu brought fine tea leaves and asked Xiaozhen to prepare a tea stove to boil water.
Everything was almost tidied up, and Mrs. Zeng had also arrived. Miaoer went out to welcome the people in. Hehua only reached the door of the flower hall, and saw Miaoer leading a woman in her thirties wearing a gold-plated loose coat with large sleeves. She He walked two steps forward and said, "This is Mrs. Zeng, please come in quickly. We have just settled down and everything is still in a mess. I apologize for any slightness."
"I've met Madam Magistrate." Mrs. Zeng stepped forward and saluted with a smile on her face, "I came here just because the Magistrate and Madam had just arrived and wanted to see if there was anything I could do to help. In the end, Madam Lao was waiting for me. It’s my fault.”
"We have just arrived here, and I am young and ignorant. I have to rely on your help here. My master also said this morning that after the house is tidied up, I will invite all the ladies to come and get together. From now on, we should go out and get closer. ." Hehua welcomed Mrs. Zeng into the room and seated the guests and hosts. Miao'er and Xiaozhen brought tea to them.
Mrs. Zeng opened the tea lid and smelled it and said, "Mrs. Magistrate, the good tea here is so good for me now."
"We didn't bring anything with us because of our long journey. These are just things that my sister-in-law in the south packed for me. Life at home doesn't just consist of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. It won't be enough without anything."
"That's right, that's right!" Mrs. Zeng said with a smile, "My lord and madam are both from the north, so they may be a little uncomfortable when they first arrive here. When I came here with my master, I couldn't understand much of what was said. I'm not used to eating, and I can't stand the hot and humid weather, but I've really suffered a lot. Now that I've been here for a long time, I feel like it's not bad here. The soil and water in the south support people. Although it's a little more miserable here, the county is also It’s nothing big, I live a leisurely life, which is pretty good.”
Hehua didn't know where her words were going to end up, so she just smiled and listened without speaking, nodding her head from time to time to show that she was listening attentively.
"Actually, the biggest thing I don't get used to when I come here is getting along with southerners and us northerners. Southerners are so calculating and want to pick out one coin after another. It's also difficult to get along with them. They always stick together. , leaving me alone, now God finally has a vision, my wife is also a northerner, I will get closer to my wife more in the future, and you should not dislike me."
"Mrs. Zeng's words are unreasonable. It would be better for everyone to move around more in the future." Hehua roughly heard what she meant. Whether it was because of the northerners from the south or not, she was squeezed out by other official wives and arrived early. I came here to seek an alliance, so I only said some vague words and didn't make any promises to her.
Mrs. Zeng originally saw that Hehua was young and new here. When she brought up the subject of being from the north, she should be easily persuaded. Unexpectedly, she turned out to be difficult to deal with. After talking for a long time, she couldn't get a word out of it. If he was right, the contempt in his heart was reduced a little. He chatted some gossip about local customs and other customs, then stood up and left, saying: "I'm really bothered today. Madam, if you need to tell me anything, I'll send my servants." Tell me."
"Mrs. Zeng, you're welcome. I'll post a message in a few days to invite you to come and get together. Then be sure to enjoy the scenery." He Hua also got up to see off the guests.
After she left, she immediately wrote a note and sent it to Qi Jintang. Not long after, she got a reply. Seeing that it listed the names and residences of the county magistrate, chief registrar and others, she found the post and wrote it one by one. I received the invitation and invited the ladies to come home to enjoy the osmanthus and drink wine on August 16th. I sent Miaoer to deliver it to each house quickly, lest Mrs. Zeng use her own words to say anything to mislead others.
After finishing all the work, he rubbed his sore neck. When he looked at the time, it was time to prepare dinner. He couldn't help but sigh: "It's been such a fulfilling life."
Miao'er pursed her lips and smiled and said: "Grandma has been saying that she was bored on the road. Now she is busy and feels tired. I will give Grandma a squeeze on her shoulders to relax her."
"If you're just busy, that's it. It's been a tiring day." Hehua stood up, took a deep breath, cheered up, and said, "Let's go take a look at dinner."
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