NOVEL NEXT Chapter 57 Mid-Autumn Festival
After two sedimentations, the wine was finally brewed in the sixth week.
Mao Xi put the wine into a wine vat and took it to the restaurant to officially start selling it.
Zhang Xiucai had never seen such red and clear fruit wine before, so he stepped forward and took a sniff: "Ah Shu, I heard that only the princes and nobles of Beidu can drink it. I have only read about it in books before, saying that Gaochang Country in the Western Region is rich in wine! "
"No, we in Beisu also produce a small amount of wine, but here in Lingnan, it is really rare!" Lou Lan'er was also attracted by the aroma of red wine.
"The wine made this time is better than the last time. Come and try it." Mao Xi made a pot of wine and poured it for everyone. She also tasted it herself. It tasted like red wine.
"Ah Shu, the Mid-Autumn Festival is only half a month away. Should we start selling some fruits and mooncakes?" Mrs. Chen saw that other stores have started selling mooncakes recently.
"Moon cakes must be sold. I'm thinking about other dishes that can be sold with red wine."
"Of course the wine should be paired with meat! We have grilled meat, cured meat, and hot-boiled meat in the store." Luda likes to eat meat and highly recommends it.
Mao Xi flipped through the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Recipes" and found that the Mid-Autumn Festival recipes were not special, but there was a sweet soup called "Wan Yue Soup" that was related to the moon.
Wan Yue Geng is boiled with lotus root powder, longan and lotus seeds. It is especially suitable to eat sweets on the Mid-Autumn Festival, a day of reunion.
The mooncakes are lotus paste, salted egg yolk mooncake and red bean paste mooncake.
In the past two days, Mao Xi and Lou Laner used the kiln to cook sweet-scented osmanthus duck, braised lamb legs, and barbecue skewers, and sold them with red wine, and the sales were good.
Since opening a store in Nanquemen and registering to sell alcohol, Shui Xi has stopped supplying glutinous rice wine to Boss Hu of Qingxiang Building.
Shopkeeper Hu was very jealous when he saw that the business of Liuxiang Snacks was getting better and better. Recently, he heard that a wine called "Cabernet Sauvignon" had started to be sold, and he was even more angry.
Just as they were annoyed that most of the liquor market in Lihua Town was occupied by Ma Xi, Liu Yuying and Gao came to the store carrying two cans of fruit wine.
"Shopkeeper Hu, I have home-made myrtle fruit wine here. It is red in color and sweet in taste. Do you want to try it?"
Shopkeeper Hu tasted it and found that the fruit was fragrant, but not sweet enough.
Seeing that Shopkeeper Hu was still hesitating, Yuying hurriedly stepped forward and introduced: "Shopkeeper Hu, Mao Xi's glutinous rice wine is no longer available to you, right? She is my cousin, and the glutinous rice wine is a recipe passed down by my grandfather. , my fruit wine is made with glutinous rice wine, you see the color is not inferior to her 'Cabernet Sauvignon'."
Shopkeeper Hu has seen the world and will not be fooled by Yu Ying's words. But now, there is a wine similar in color to Cabernet Sauvignon, so let's give it a try for now.
"This fruit wine costs 200 Wen per liter. How about the same price as glutinous rice wine?"
"No problem, it's guaranteed to taste better than glutinous rice wine!" Mrs. Gao was a little dumbfounded when she heard the quotation. She couldn't earn so many copper coins from selling vegetables.
"I'll sell this wine for a few days first, and you can come back a few days later. If it's good, I'll make a reservation with you."
"Shopkeeper Hu still has the vision!" Mrs. Gao beamed, and this path turned out to be feasible.
The mother and daughter returned to Liujia Village, and immediately went up the mountain to pick myrtle, and went home to prepare wine.
"Ayu, you are smarter and asked me to go to Mao Xi's kitchen to find her recipe for brewing wine. I saw that her myrtle looks like dried fruit. This trial was a success!"
"Grandma, we don't have glutinous rice wine anymore. Should we ask grandpa for it again?"
"Let's wait and see how much wine Shopkeeper Hu wants to order. We can just buy rice wine and brew it ourselves. Let's dry these myrtles first."
Three days later, Gao and Yuying went to Qingxiang Tower together.
"Boss Hu, how is this wine selling?"
"That's right. I'll reserve ten dou with you and pay you a deposit of five taels in advance."
Most of the people who come to Qingxiang House to drink are dignitaries. Some of them don’t even bother to go to the snack shop. Naturally, they have never tasted the Cabernet Sauvignon from Mao Xi’s family. With this combination of fruit wine and glutinous rice wine, he, Qingxiang House, can be considered to have “ wine".
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tuigong Temple in Liujia Village.
Today is the holiday and Liuxiang Snacks will be closed for the day.
In the early morning, Mrs. Chen prepared the tributes for worshiping the gods, including: a whole steamed duck, fruits, moon cakes, as well as tea, rice, and rice wine and poured them into small teacups.
She took candles, incense and paper money and took her whole family to worship the gods and burn incense at the Earth Temple in the village.
At this time, Xiaodouzi and Ajiao were extremely excited. The children in the village like to play with incense sticks in the temple after worshiping the gods with their mothers.
After worshiping the gods, Chen and Ma Xi went to take care of the vegetable garden, leaving the two children to play in the temple.
Goudan was also in the temple. He took a small red wooden stick, which was leftover from burning incense, and made a small wax hammer.
"Goudan, how do you do this?" Xiaodouzi asked Goudan.
Goudan demonstrated. He pulled out a piece of wax that was flowing on the table from the side of the candle, stabbed it with a wooden stick, put it on the fire and baked it. After softening, he quickly rolled the wax into a small ball with his hands and wrapped it. Hold one end of the stick.
Then he continued to look for wax on the table, wrapped it, and melted it until the wax hammer became bigger and bigger, like a red lollipop. After the wax cooled, Goudan imitated the little monk, treating the wooden table as a wooden fish, using wax The hammer struck on the table.
Goudan got tired of playing with it, so he gave the small wax hammer to Ajiao. He and Xiaodouzi made a new one each, and the three of them had a great time playing in the Earth Temple.
The villagers didn't stop them when they saw it, and would call them over from time to time to help burn paper.
The little ones loved playing with fire and burning paper. When Chen finished his work and returned to the temple to carry the tributes, the two little ones were covered in paper ashes.
Mrs. Chen patted the paper dust on Xiaodouzi and Ajiao and said, "If you don't go home yet, my sister will cook delicious food for you. Uncle Luda also made two 'bunny lanterns' out of bamboo for you." Playing."
As soon as the brother and sister heard that there were lanterns to play with, they rushed home.
Mao Xi had already prepared a reunion dinner and called Brother Mu and the Liuxiang snack shop clerk to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with their family. Although my father and brother did not go home, everyone enjoyed the meal today.
"Ah Shu, can you pull out some green onions from the ground?" Mrs. Chen asked.
"Pull out half of it, and leave some for the sisters who want it!" Mao Xi smiled.
She also came to Liujia Village, and learned through the memory of the original owner that there was a Mid-Autumn Festival custom of "stealing vegetables and begging for a man."
"Ah Shu, what do you mean leaving some for the sisters?" Lou Lan'er was confused.
Shu Xi explained the folk customs here to Lou Lan'er: "Sister Lan'er, here we have the custom of unmarried women going to other people's gardens to steal vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which means they can find a good husband in the future!"
"Ah, this is the first time I heard about it. It seems that everyone's vegetable garden is going to suffer at night~" Lou Lan'er seemed to be planning to cut onions at night.
As the saying goes: "Steal onions and marry a good man; steal vegetables and you marry a good son-in-law."
The next morning, there were a handful of green onions in the kitchen. Needless to say, Lou Lan'er must have picked them last night.
In Mao Xi's vegetable plot, all the green onions were stolen, and even several mustard leaves were cut off.