Moving from the city to the countryside

After returning from Guangzhou, the Mid-Autumn Festival followed.Zhu Wenxuan has not celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival at home for many years, so he took the initiative to contract this year's Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet.

Now Grandma Zhu is the oldest in the Zhu family. In the past, when Zhu Wenxuan was not at home, it was the festival when Uncle Zhu took Grandma Zhu to his house.Grandma Zhu insisted on living at home this year, and Zhu Wenxuan also meant the same.After all, when living at the uncle's house, the uncle must have paid for the groceries himself.Uncle Zhu and Aunt Zhu couldn't hold back Grandma Zhu, so they had to agree.

There are many people who give mooncakes to Grandma Zhu during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Before the fifteenth day, the family has already received a lot of mooncake gift boxes.Zhu Wenxuan wrote down one by one, and was going to return the gift from house to house.Guo Jianjun came to Cengfan one day, and he also brought a box of double yellow lotus paste. Zhu Wenxuan knew it was not cheap by looking at the packaging.There are a total of eight mooncakes, and his family and the uncle's family each divided four.The taste is really not comparable to more than ten yuan per catty outside.

After eating, Grandma Zhu boasted in front of him: "Xiao Guo really knows how to shop."

Zhu Wenxuan said in his heart: This must not be bought in the town. There are no such good mooncakes in the town, and the bigger cities are similar.He planned to return a gift to Guo Jianjun when he came down, but it definitely couldn't be mooncakes. He couldn't buy better mooncakes to send back, so he had to find another shortcut and send some homemade dim sum or something else.

This year's family banquet, there are more people than in previous years.In previous years, it was Grandma Zhu, Uncle Zhu and his wife, and Zhu Wenxia's family.Zhu Wenxia's husband's parents are long gone, so every year the family spends the Mid-Autumn Festival with Uncle Zhu's family, and this year is no exception.Zhu Wenjie's family hardly came back for the Mid-Autumn Festival. One was that Ya'an was not close, and the other was that Zhu Jiajia's child was going to a dance class.The family usually come back to stay for a few days during the National Day.

When people say that this year's family banquet is more crowded than in previous years, they are not referring to Zhu Wenxuan, but Zhu Dalan's family.Zhu Dalan was married in Hanyuan County. Her husband was Cao Shumin, an accountant of the Grain Bureau.The couple have an only son, 25 years old, named Cao Ke, currently unmarried.

The two elders of the Cao family are still alive and living with them, so they usually won't come back for this kind of festival.But this year, the two elders were picked up by the eldest son, and the family is going to come back for the holiday.Cao Ke's company had a three-day holiday, so he came with him.

In this way, the family banquet included Zhu Wenxuan and Grandma Zhu for a total of ten people, including Zhang Xinyang's little meatballs, and it was not a problem to squeeze into a table.Zhu Wenxuan originally thought that Guo Jianjun would spend the holidays alone at home, so he planned to let him come too, but Guo Jianjun, who always loves food and has a cheeky face, refused.

"Are you really not coming? I'm already drawing up the menu." Zhu Wenxuan had the phone in one hand and a pen in the other, planning to lure someone with the menu.

"It's not suitable for me to go to your family banquet, next time." Guo Jianjun leaned on the balcony of the hotel, with a cigarette in his hand, but his eyes drifted far away.

Zhu Wenxuan: "..." It's better to pretend that you don't understand such meaningful words.

"By the way, we haven't found the owner of the clothing store since we came back from Guangzhou. Will it affect you?" He was worried that people would think that they would stop renting the shop and transfer the shop to others.

Guo Jianjun said: "Don't worry, the shop is reserved for you. I went to see him that day, and the better I can go to him for an interview after the Mid-Autumn Festival, besides, his family will also celebrate the festival."

"That's good." Zhu Wenxuan held the phone, as if he had nothing to say, but he didn't want to hang up, so he put the phone to his ear, trying to distinguish the breathing sound of the other party that he couldn't distinguish at all.

Guo Jianjun suddenly asked, "Are you blushing?"

"Huh?" Zhu Wenxuan was startled, and the pen fell to the ground.He subconsciously turned his head and glanced at his face in the mirror on the closet. It wasn't red, but the expression in his eyes was flustered and guilty.

"Hehe..." Guo Jianjun said with a muffled laugh, "I'm just kidding, go to bed early, I'll see you in a few days."

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Wenxuan's heart was still pounding.Why didn't he realize that Guo Jianjun's voice sounds so magnetic through the phone before, especially when he laughs, it's low and deep, not light, but just like others, tall and fierce, and can't stop it when it hits his ears .

On Guo Jianjun's side, because of the little boss's phone call and the soft and pleasant voice on the phone, his mood warmed up a lot.He threw away the cigarette butt, went back to his room, took a shower, and went to bed early.The situation of insomnia every time I came here in the past did not happen this night.

The next day, Zhu Wenxuan went to the town to buy vegetables early in the morning.The town is rushing to the market every [-]th, and he has already been there once on the [-]th day, buying moon cakes and fruits.The moon cakes are big sesame moon cakes, filled with red bean paste, and the whole family eats them at family dinners.He didn't buy any more mooncakes when he was young, and there were many mooncakes in various flavors. Moreover, the eldest lady would bring them when she called and said that Zhu Wenxia's family would definitely bring them too.

For the family banquet, Zhu Wenxuan only prepared eight dishes, but the portions were sufficient.He was lucky, as soon as he entered the vegetable market, he came across a cart of hairy crabs shipped from other places.This thing never existed before the highway was not open to traffic.He bought twenty, and subconsciously planned to save a few for Guo Jianjun when he came.

The Mid-Autumn Festival not only eats moon cakes, but also eats taro, duck, chestnut and pumpkin rice. "Shunde County Chronicles" has a record: "August looks at the sun, and taro eats snails." Taro is used to cook pork ribs, but there are too many microorganisms in snails, so Zhu Wenxuan does not consider eating it.

The duck is directly bought in the market ready-made smoked duck, the authentic method of Sichuan, the smoked duck has a golden red color, tender meat, with green onion and sweet sauce, the taste is unique.

Chestnuts are stewed together with chicken. The clear soup tastes good for men, women and children.The chickens are raised at home, and the chestnuts are wild in the mountains behind, and someone specially picks them and sells them in the countryside.The stew is so bad that Grandma Zhu is not afraid of bad teeth.

Pumpkin rice, because it is eaten by a family, so choose a slightly larger pumpkin.Use a knife to remove the top cover of the pumpkin into an M-shaped shape, and then hollow out the pulp and seeds inside.The glutinous rice is soaked early in the morning, steamed in a pot first, scooped a spoonful of sugar and mixed well, then put into the pumpkin cup, sprinkled with goji berries, dates, raisins and dried cherries, covered with a pumpkin lid, and steamed for another 10-[-] minutes. Can.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also popular to eat lotus root.Zhu Wenxuan plans to use lotus root to fry fungus, but the lotus root is bought, and the fungus is still on the tree.So, Zhu Wenxia's husband was sent to climb the walnut tree in the yard to pick the black fungus he saw last time.

Emerald Shrimp, just by the name, you know it is a beautiful dish.The ingredients and method of this dish are simple, that is, cucumber and shrimp are fried together.However, the shrimp should be handled carefully, otherwise it will affect the taste and color.Remove the head and shell of the live shrimp, cut a knife on the back of the shrimp, remove the mud intestines after blanching, and then fry it with cucumber slices with skin.

Green cucumbers, light pink shrimps, the combination of clear fragrance and fresh shrimp flavor, both beautiful and delicious, even Zhang Xinyang's small meatballs can be smashed to satisfy the gluttony.

Hairy crabs are also easy to clean and troublesome to clean.Use a toothbrush to clean the crab's back, abdomen and mouth, then brush the sides, feet and pincer roots.Then grasp the double forceps to open the abdominal cover, and squeeze out the excrement from the inside out in the middle.After that, clean the dirt and crab claws in the belly cover, and the fluff of the crab claws must also be washed. After washing thoroughly, steam it in a pot.Use cold water in the steamer, put ginger slices in it, and steam for 7 to [-] minutes on high heat.The dipping dish is minced ginger, chopped green onion, sugar and vinegar, which will not affect the original flavor of the crabs, but also neutralize the coldness of the crabs.

The last dish, with a relatively tall name, is called Peacock Kaiping Fish.Wash the grass carp and scrape off the black film in the belly, cut out the flower knife with scissors, and sprinkle with cooking wine and pepper.After marinating, put it on a plate into a peacock shape. Mix chopped pepper, salt, sugar, green onion, garlic, and minced ginger into a sauce to coat the fish and put it in a steamer.Unlike steaming crabs, the water in the steamer for steaming fish should be boiled in advance. Cover the pot and turn on high heat first, then change to medium-low heat after steaming, and steam for 8 minutes.

Before starting to cook, Zhu Wenxuan also fried pumpkin pancakes and lotus root clips for everyone to use as snacks to fill their stomachs.Finally, when all eight dishes were on the table, no one was willing to move their chopsticks for a while.Every dish is very beautiful, the smoked duck is cut into small pieces without damaging the original appearance of the whole duck, and the side of the plate is decorated with shredded vegetable leaves and carrots.Let’s not talk about the peacock opening its tail. The pumpkin rice in the middle is so sweet that you can’t bear to eat it.

Both Zhu Wenxia and Cao Ke took out their mobile phones to take pictures, and Zhu Wenxuan also took pictures. He also sent an MMS to Guo Jianjun and Cao Cheng on QQ.Cao Cheng called directly and yelled, "Xiao Zhu, please feed me."

Zhu Wenxuan said with a smile: "You come, I will feed you when you come."

Cao Cheng cursed him for a long time, and then said that he must find time to come and have fun during the National Day, and he also wanted to eat such a beautiful table full of dishes.

After Zhu Wenxuan finished chatting with him, he hesitated for a while staring at the MMS message sent to Guo Jianjun, but he still didn't call.

Guo Jianjun looked at his younger brother who was eating mooncakes, smiled and said, "Maybe I won't have to bring you Sanquan dumplings during the Spring Festival this year."

Guo Jianan froze for a moment, "Brother, have you found me a sister-in-law yet?"

"Yeah." Guo Jianjun couldn't help but reached out and stroked his head, "He cooks delicious food, next time I come to see you, I'll bring you something he cooked."

Guo Jian'an smiled and said, "Okay!"