Little wealth

At this time of the morning, the yard is only half sun and half shade.

All the little sparrows on the tree were gone, presumably they flew out early in the morning to look for food and would not come back until evening.The whole yard was silent without the sound of birds chirping.

Just now Josh was making mooncakes on the table where they ate, everything was still on the table and the table hadn't been cleared up yet. Now that guests came, he didn't have time to clean it up.

As soon as I walked into the yard, I saw the things on the table. What did they look like to eat?Bai Luoxi turned her head and asked Jo Xu, "What are these things, what were you doing just now?"

"I was just making mooncakes, and you came just after putting the egg yolks in the stove. Sit down, and I'll get you a glass of water." He led the people into the yard, and Josh moved a few chairs over for them. After sitting down, I went to get an extra folding table and put it on the bed, took the food box from the servant girl's hand and put it on the table, and then went to make a pot of tea for someone.

"Isn't it almost the Mid-Autumn Festival? I've been thinking about making mooncakes for a few months, and then I'll send some over for you to try, but I didn't expect you to come here just after I started making mooncakes. Just in time Help me make mooncakes, and when they are done, you can take some back to eat."

"Moon cake?" What is it?

While looking at Josh with puzzled eyes, Bai Luoxi took the tea and asked Josh to sit down as well. It would be fine to treat them as friends who usually come to visit, and there is no need to entertain them specially.After entering the yard for so long, he didn't see anyone else in the Zhao family except Josh and the child, and asked, "Where are the people in your family?" It seems that they are not at home?

"They went out early in the morning and went to town. Only Niannian and I stayed at home. Fortunately, Niannian and I didn't go out today, otherwise you wouldn't be able to find us." Josh thought that they didn't have mooncakes here , I roughly talked to Bai Luoxi about what mooncakes are. Seeing that he still didn't understand, he smiled and said, "You'll know what it is when we bake it."

"I only prepared the fillings for egg yolk and lotus paste mooncakes today, so we will only make egg yolk lotus paste mooncakes."

Bai Luoxi heard the meaning behind the words, and asked, "Apart from egg yolk and lotus paste mooncakes, are there other mooncakes?"

"Yes, there are too many." Hearing this, Josh explained to Bai Luoxi again that besides egg yolk and lotus paste mooncakes, there are also mooncakes with five kernels, mooncakes with ham and char siu, etc., everything that can be eaten Things can basically be used as fillings for moon cakes.

In his last life, he also heard that some people made crayfish mooncakes and snail powder mooncakes. Anyway, there are all kinds of strange mooncakes, the only difference is the taste.

But usually more people like to eat, probably just those few flavors.

"Oh, so that's the case. I don't know what the mooncakes will be like." Bai Luoxi understood a little bit, and he expressed great curiosity and expectation for this mooncake.

"Wait a minute, I'll take out the egg yolks, and we can make mooncakes." Counting the time, his egg yolks were almost baked, Josh went to take out the egg yolks from the stove, and the baked egg yolks were slightly darker in color , The toasted egg yolk has a faint fragrance.

Sure enough, as soon as he saw him bring out the food, his son followed him with Xiao Nuomi.

"Yes~"

"This is not edible yet, we are going to use it to make mooncakes."

Josh looked at the two little guys running over, and told them that the egg yolk was not edible, and it would take a while to make mooncakes before they could eat it.Fortunately, the two little guys didn't argue about eating, they just stared at him eagerly.

Seeing that Bai Luoxi was also looking at the egg yolks on the plate, he said: "I still have a lot of salted duck eggs. If you like it, I will pack some salted duck eggs for you to eat when you leave later. Steamed porridge is delicious. gone."

"Aren't you going to use this to make mooncakes? I'll just wait for your mooncakes to eat, and I don't want your salted duck eggs." Bai Luoxi just heard that this cake was made from the yolk of salted duck eggs. If the salted duck eggs were to be taken away, wouldn't Josh make mooncakes without egg yolks?

He is more interested in eating mooncakes than eating salted duck eggs.

"As you like." Josh smiled and asked, "Why don't you wash your hands too, and come and make mooncakes with me. Let's wrap them up and bake them, and we will have mooncakes to eat soon."

"Sure, you tell us how to do it, and we'll help you too." Saying that, Bai Luoxi took the child to wash his little hands.Xiao Nuomi is a well-behaved child. He was taken by an adult to wash his hands. He asked the adult to wash his hands and wiped his hands with a handkerchief.

"Come on, you go wash your hands too." Josh also took their little boy to wash his hands, and took two stools for the two children to sit side by side.

He found that as long as Xiao Nuomi was around, their son would be very obedient and easy to control, so he didn't have to worry about it at all.And as long as he is with Xiao Nuomi, their increasingly disobedient son will become well-behaved.

If he could keep Xiao Nuomi at their house, he would have a lot of heart left in the future.It's a pity that Xiao Nuomi is a child of someone else's family, and it is impossible for others to give the child to their family, so this matter is basically unthinkable.

He has already prepared all the ingredients for making mooncakes, and the dough that has been placed for so long should be almost ready. The rest is as long as they use mooncake molds to take out the mooncakes and take them out to bake in the oven.

Josh first demonstrated to Bai Luoxi, "First, knead the dough into balls for later use. This is lotus paste stuffing, first wrap the egg yolk into the lotus paste stuffing, slowly put it in bit by bit, wrap it all up, knead it It's round..."

"Then wrap the lotus seed paste egg yolk in the dough, like just now, wrap it up little by little, and wrap it tightly." Later, in order to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands, use a little flour to make a ball, and finally put it in Inside the mold, press it in, "This must be pressed tightly, and the mooncakes made after a while will look good."

There is a pusher at the back of the mold for making mooncakes today, "Then follow the pusher and push forward."

The whole moon cake was rolled out, with a big blessing on it.

"I'll try it too." Bai Luoxi finally understood, and asked the servant girl to help him roll up the sleeves on both sides, eager to try how to make this mooncake.

It was Qiu Ju who went out with their master today.

Qiu Ju went to help their master roll up their sleeves, and when she saw that their master wanted to help with work, she said, "Master, why don't your servants help too." A few times ago, when the master went into the kitchen to cook, there was a burst of ping-pong. With the sound of pong, she thought their master was going to tear down the kitchen.

"Okay, if you want to help, just come." Bai Luoxi agreed.

Naturally, Josh would not disagree. One more person can help them make mooncakes faster. Fortunately, he asked their carpenter Zhao to prepare several molds, so he took one for Qiu Ju, "Then this You use it. Do you remember what I just said? Just do what I just said."

There are also two little guys next to them who want to, and he also sent a mold to each of them.

Bai Luoxi recalled it in his mind, and said a little uncertainly: "Probably...you still remember?"

Qiu Ju covered her mouth and smiled, and said to their master: "Don't worry, master, this servant will remember."

"I'm going to forget about it in a while, please remember to remind me." Since returning from Josh's place last time, Bai Luoxi has been cooking several times with great interest, but each time the food is a bit different. As you wish.Although Master Fu of his family praised the delicious food he made every time, he knew that the food he made was still a bit unsatisfactory.

After cooking a few times and the results were not satisfactory, he wondered if he had no talent in this area, so he faded away from cooking again.

However, making mooncakes today seemed very simple, and he felt that he should be able to do it. Finally, with the reminder and help of the servant girl, he made the first mooncake.

"It's not bad, it's pretty." Josh watched Bai Luoxi make the first mooncake, and even praised it.

"Don't say that, I know I didn't do well." Bai Luoxi was a little ashamed of being praised, but he still had some self-knowledge in these aspects.

Before the adults could continue talking, the little boy who had been waiting beside him for a long time had already shouted uncontrollably, "Daddy, I want~"

It's not his son who is shouting!

"What do you want?" Seeing that his son stretched his neck and looked into the basin, he seemed to want to make mooncakes too, so Josh had no choice but to go over and teach the child how to make mooncakes. Press it into the mold, let the child press it twice, and teach the child to push the mooncake out, "Yes, that's it, push it slowly."

A whole moon cake was pushed out by them.

"Hee hee~" The little baby who also made moon cakes was very happy, and turned her head to show off to her friends, "Cake cakes."

Xiao Nuomi pursed her lips, holding a mold in her hand and didn't know how to use it, she looked at others enviously, and then at her father opposite.

"Okay, I'll teach you too." Bai Luoxi, who was still being taught by others, had no choice but to get up and teach their little glutinous rice how to make mooncakes.

The first tray of mooncakes was ready, and Josh took the tray to bake first.

I went into the kitchen and took two eggs out, separated the egg white from the yolk, leaving only the yolk for use, and broke the egg yolk with chopsticks, which will be used later.After waiting for a while, I pulled out the tray, brushed the top of each mooncake with egg wash, and pushed it into the oven to continue baking. After about a cup of tea, I went to pull out their mooncakes.

"How's it going?"

Under the watchful eyes of several pairs of expectant eyes, Josh pulled out their mooncakes, the skin of the baked mooncakes was slightly yellow, exuding the fragrance of mooncakes, "It looks like they should be baked. "

"It's a bit hot, let's eat it later."

The freshly baked mooncakes were still very hot, so he pushed the first plate of mooncakes into the oven, closed the wooden door, and added a few sticks of firewood to the bottom to let the mooncakes inside continue to bake.

"Daddy!"

"Okay, it should be ok, let's cut one and try."

"You two sit down, sit back on the stools you just had, and I'll eat it for you." Their son who was in a hurry to eat was already shouting, and Josh had no choice but to test the temperature of the mooncakes with his hands to see if they were right. It was very hot, so I used a knife to cut the moon cake in half, and the two children each had half, "Take it and eat it, be careful not to burn it."

After each of the two children halfed the mooncake, he continued to cut the second one, gave half to Bai Luoxi, and gave the other half to the maid who helped make mooncakes just now.

Knowing that there was a coachman outside, he asked the servant girl to take out two mooncakes for the coachman to eat, and he tasted it himself.

The freshly baked mooncakes were still hot, and the lotus paste was a bit sticky, because he didn't put a lot of sugar in the filling, so the taste of the lotus paste was not very sweet, and the egg yolk inside was very fragrant.Qi Qiaoxu took a bite and thought it was okay, looked at Bai Luoxi who was also eating mooncakes and asked, "What do you think, is it okay?"

"Mmm, it's delicious!" Bai Luoxi took a bite, it tasted sweet and salty, pointed to the egg yolk inside and said: "The egg yolk inside is delicious."

"Just now I asked you to bring some salted duck eggs home and you said no!" Josh laughed at this man and said, "When you leave, I'll pack some salted duck eggs back for you. The salted duck eggs I made by myself But it’s not bad at all, you can’t buy good things outside.”

"Okay." This time Bai Luoxi was not polite to Josh.

Seeing that the two children were having fun, he had no choice but to take the children to play at Josh's house for a while. It was not until after lunch that he saw that the two children were a little sleepy, so he proposed to take the children back.But when he left, besides salted duck eggs and mooncakes, he also took away the recipes for the mooncakes.

And there was an extra contract in Josh's hand, and what was written on it was similar to the last one.

The carriage was waiting outside the door.

Josh took his son to send Bai Luoxi and Xiao Nuomi to the door, and said to them: "Come and play when you have time."

"Okay, then let's go back." Bai Luoxi put the child on the carriage, and then got into the carriage. Before the curtain was lifted, he said to Josh and Anian who were standing below: "Wait until you are free." I'll bring glutinous rice to play with you, if you want to go to the town when you are free, you can also come to our house to play."

As he said that, he told Xiao Nuomi, Josh and the little brother in front of him to say goodbye.

"No, no..." This time when Ah Nian saw Xiao Nuomi getting into the carriage, she knew that Xiao Nuomi was going back with her father, so she cried anxiously from below: "No return, no return, at my house, at my house. My home... woah..."

"Hey, let's let your Uncle Bai and Nuomi go back. We'll go to the town to play with them when we're free in two days." Josh picked up his son who was crying miserably, and said to Bai Luoxi who was sitting in the carriage and Xiao Nuomi waved and said, "You guys go back first, I'll just coax him."

"Brother." At this time, Xiao Nuomi also began to poke her mouth, and her eyes were red.

"Okay then, let's go back first." Bai Luoxi had no choice but to ask someone to lower the curtain, and hugged their little Nuomi, otherwise this one of them would cry along with her.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The carriage gradually went away, only the cry of the child was still floating in the air.

Ah Huang looked up at the crying little master, not understanding why the little master was crying, sobbing anxiously.

"Okay, okay, stop crying, you do this every time, and people won't dare to come to our house to play next time." Josh carried his crying son back home, seeing his son crying The miserable appearance made him dumbfounded, but he could understand the sadness of his son being separated from his little friend.

There was no time to clean up the things in the yard, so he carried the child into the room where they slept.