Baozi Xishi's Struggle

During this time, a regular customer who often comes here to buy steamed buns bought some sweet cakes, walked a few steps, and then came back to ask, "I only know that Miss Shen's steamed buns are delicious, but I didn't expect that the sweet cakes are also so soft and sweet. Will you make sweet cakes to sell when you open the stall tomorrow, or do you only sell them during festivals? It would be great if such good sweet cakes could be sold on weekdays."

Li was happily helping to pack and sell the cakes. When she heard this, she quickly responded, "We will also sell them tomorrow. Our sweet cakes are not only sold during festivals, but we will also make some in the mornings. If you want to buy some, just come over tomorrow."

After hearing this, the customer said expectantly: "Then I will come to buy it tomorrow. I just like to eat sweet things. Eating a piece of sweet cake in the morning and a bowl of sweet porridge would be like a god's life." After saying that, he left with the sweet cake, feeling satisfied.

Shen Yu didn't expect that people here are so fond of sweets. Four baskets of red bean paste and candied date buns and four baskets of sweet cakes were very popular and were sold out as soon as they came out of the pot.

After the customers left, she looked at the empty steamer and said, "I didn't expect it to sell out so quickly today. Mom, let's close the stall."

Li agreed, turned around and saw the empty steamer, clapped her hands, and said with some regret: "Oh, I was only thinking about making money, how could I forget that my family also needs to eat sweet cakes, and I didn't save a few pieces in advance, what should I do?"

Shen Yu was stunned when he heard this, and smiled helplessly: "Do you still want to eat sweet cakes today?"

Li said, "Of course, we have to eat vegetarian food today. If we don't eat sweet cakes, we can only eat vegetable buns."

Shen Yu took the opportunity to induce Li: "Mom, we had sweet cakes and candies yesterday at noon and in the evening. Let's eat vegetarian food today. Vegetarian dishes are also delicious when they are prepared."

Shen Yu was not a picky eater in modern times. She loved both sweet and salty food. However, no matter how delicious something was, she couldn't eat it for every meal, let alone for the whole day. After eating two sweet meals in a row yesterday, she wanted to retreat at the smell of sweetness.

Li shook her head and said, "That won't work. Don't you see how popular sweet cakes are today? Everyone wants to eat sweets. Although our family is not rich now, we have money coming in every day, so of course we can afford sweets."

Shen Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and whispered: "Eating sweets will only cause tooth decay and stomach acid. Does eating sweets today mean that I will have a lot of money tomorrow?"

Li didn't hear the first part of her words clearly, but she heard the following words "wealth is rolling in". She said hurriedly, "That's the reason. You must eat something sweet."

After saying that, he looked at the sky and saw that it was not too late, so he urged: "Stop talking about this, let's pack up the stall and send it back home. We still have the sticky rice cakes steamed yesterday at home, which are also fragrant and sweet. It's the same if we go home to eat some. After eating, we can go to the temple to burn incense and offer sacrifices early."

As he spoke, he urged the three siblings to move faster. When Yutao and Yucheng heard that they could pack up their stalls and go to the temple, their movements became more agile.

When she got home, Li brought out the sticky rice cakes she had steamed yesterday and said, "Fortunately, we steamed more yesterday, otherwise we wouldn't have had breakfast this morning."

Shen Yu didn't want to eat the rice cake when she saw it. It was too sweet. She liked a light and refreshing sweetness, paired with a glass of sweet and sour orange juice, not this kind of strong sweetness. It was okay to eat a small piece, but if she ate too much, she really couldn't stand it.

She glanced at the kitchen and said, "Mom, the sticky rice cakes are cold and the dough is ready. Let's make some scallion pancakes and cook some porridge. It will be quick."

Xu Ri Recently, Shen Yu has been cooking some home-cooked meals in different ways every day. Yu Tao and Yu Cheng's mouths have also become picky, and they all followed suit: "Mom, let's make scallion pancakes. We ate sweet yesterday and we will eat sweet today. We want to eat salty."

Li looked at the sky. Since the red bean paste buns and sweet cakes were selling fast today, she closed the stall half an hour earlier than usual. There was still plenty of time. Even if she cooked and ate before going to the temple to offer sacrifices, it would not be too late.

Looking at the three people's eager eyes, he nodded helplessly and said, "Then you have to hurry up. If it's too late, I won't wait for you. I'll leave first." After saying that, he went to prepare the things he would take to the temple.

When the three of them saw that Li had agreed, they cheered and Yutao said, "Sister, I'll wash the rice and cook the porridge."

Yucheng hurriedly moved the firewood, saying as he did so, "I'll light the fire, and you just need to make the cakes."

Shen Yu originally thought that she was the only one who didn't want to eat sweets in a row, but she didn't expect that the two little ones had similar tastes to hers. She couldn't help but smile. She decided to try making delicious food from now on, now she had an ally.

She agreed, tied on her apron, washed her hands, pinched off a piece of the dough, and kneaded it on the dough board until it was smooth. This dough was kneaded last night and put aside to let it rise slowly. It was not yet risen enough to make dumplings, but it was just right for making cakes.

Shen Yu kneaded the dough, took a large bowl, added two spoonfuls of flour, and added appropriate amounts of salt and pepper powder. He poured some vegetable oil into the large iron spoon for cooking and put it on the stove. When the vegetable oil was hot, he quickly poured it into the bowl of flour. There was a "sizzling" sound when the oil was poured, and the aroma of the pepper oil was stimulated. The whole room was filled with the aroma of the pepper oil. He used chopsticks to stir it evenly, and the oil crispness of the scallion pancake was ready.

After washing the green onions, drain and shake off the water, chop into chopped green onions, put in a bowl and set aside.

Sprinkle some dry flour on the dough board, take the kneaded dough, roll it into a thin sheet, spread a layer of pastry, sprinkle chopped green onions evenly on the pancake, and carefully roll up the dough from one side. Then roll it into a round plate, hide the head and tail inside, and roll it into a round pancake with a rolling pin, and the green of the green onions can be faintly seen through the dough.

Yutao had already put the rice in the pot. She asked Yucheng to watch the stove and cook the porridge over low heat. As Shen Yu instructed, she lit another fire and put a deep flat pan on it. When the pan was hot, she poured some vegetable oil into it. Shen Yu moved the rolled scallion pancake into the pot with a rolling pin and carefully turned it with a wooden spatula until one side was golden brown. She then turned it over and fry it until the pancake was crispy and golden on both sides. It was done.

The frying pan was quite large, so Shen Yu made two scallion pancakes. She planned to take some with her to the temple. If Li forced her to eat sweet cakes again, she would use the scallion pancakes as a shield.

The cakes are ready and the porridge is cooked.

Li took a bite of the crispy, salty and fragrant scallion pancake, drank a sip of the fragrant and tasty rice porridge, and then looked at the sticky rice cake that had been specially heated and placed aside, but looked sweet and greasy. Comparing the two, she was shocked to find that her desire to eat sweet cakes had changed at some point, and she had no appetite for them.

She was a little confused about her transformation. She picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake at a loss. After hesitating for a moment, she broke off most of the cake and put it back. She took a small piece and took a bite, but felt that it lacked the sweetness of yesterday.

Shen Yu saw that Li finished a piece of scallion pancake, picked up the glutinous rice cake and took a bite, and then stopped eating. She was a little dazed, so she asked with concern: "Mom, why don't you eat anymore? Why do you eat so little? Are you feeling unwell?" In fact, she was worried that Li had eaten too much glutinous rice cake with sugar and it was difficult to digest.

Li said with some doubt, "It's strange. In previous years, during the Ghost Festival, I ate milk cake three times a day and never got tired of it. I even felt that I couldn't eat enough. It tasted sweet and I thought to myself, how wonderful it would be if I could eat sweet cake every day. Could it be the life of the emperor? But this year, I thought I still wanted to eat it every day, but when I really asked me to eat it, why can't I eat it?"