Chapter 187 Mooncake (1)

  The mid-autumn festival is approaching, and as the bright moon above the head passes by each day, the already bustling Chang'an Night Market has also become lively. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, at night, you can see men and women who have carefully dressed and dressed everywhere on the streets of Chang'an, bowing their heads and whispering. When it comes to happiness, they can still look at each other and smile at each other.

The guards of the Jingzhao Mansion, who were patrolling the streets, saw this situation, but they did not show the "knowledge" and "joke" eyes of ordinary pedestrians. Instead, they stepped forward and unceremoniously interrupted the charming atmosphere , waving his hand to chase people away: "It's not yet Mid-Autumn Festival! What are you doing? It's so late, why don't you go home?"

  The men and women whose whispers were interrupted froze, looking at the group of guards with stern faces who were disturbing people's interest, they were naturally in a bad mood.

   "What are you doing? It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, what does my two affairs have to do with you?"

"You also know that it's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's not really the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's so late, and the streets are almost deserted, why don't you go home soon?" the guard of "Strike the Mandarin Duck" shouted, looking at the two people in front of him. The "lover" who was caught out said, "Leave your name and address. I'll come to the door tomorrow and ask when you're going home!"

  The faces of the two young men and women were extremely ugly when they heard the words: the parents at home are not as strict as these guards, why is this?

   The quarrel erupted immediately!

Seeing the quarrel not far away, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu who passed by twitched their mouths, looked at Huang Zhong, the leader of Jingzhao Mansion's guards, and said: "This... Although you won't let them stay on the street at night For the good of the two of them, but things like this...are you taking too much care of them?"

Huang Zhong gave a salute to Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, twisted his serious face, sighed, opened his mouth, hesitated to speak, but finally said: "You don't understand, I'm waiting for their benefit! "

As for how to "be good for them", Huang Zhong refused to say anything, just shook his head and said: "Anyway, don't wander around in the street at night! Especially for such young and pretty people." Ladies, if you encounter villains, your lover will not be able to protect them alone, and if something happens... hey!"

Hearing Huang Zhong's emotion, although he didn't directly say what happened, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu vaguely guessed something, they looked at each other, Liu Yuan stepped forward, coughed lightly, and asked Huang Zhong: "Has something happened to a young lady recently?"

Huang Zhong shook his head, glanced at Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu who had already guessed something, thought for a while, and said: "My lord won't let me tell you, and my lady's family won't let me tell you either. After all, if this kind of thing gets out, little girl My wife and the rest of the family can't hold their heads up!"

  Although they kept saying "don't let me talk about it", but judging from the words "the little lady's family members don't let me talk about it" and "I can't hold my head up", it's clear that I've said almost the whole thing.

  Looking at Huang Zhong's serious and upright face in front of him, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu coughed dryly and understood: "That's right!"

Seeing that the two of them understood the meaning of the words, Huang Zhong coughed and said again: "I'll be patrolling the streets these days, trying not to let these people wander around outside, just stay until the Mid-Autumn Festival, There will be a lot of people and the night will be released, and there will be more fires, fights, etc., and if we have no resources at that time, I will ask the two temple officials and colleagues from Dali Temple to help take care of one or two!"

  Hearing this, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu hurriedly nodded and said "it should be" "it should be".

Huang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief seeing that he had brought the words of the lord, but when he was about to leave, he was stopped by the two people behind him in time. Turning around, he saw Bai Zhu lift the lantern in his hand, and said to him: "Don't forget In order to report the lanterns that I will participate in the lantern festival!"

   This is also the reason why the two of them came to find Huang Zhong. To participate in the lantern festival, they had to report to Jingzhao Mansion in advance: they always hold the lanterns made by the entire Dali Temple, how can it be justified if they don’t get back a beauty lantern?

Looking at the two who are bound to win the beauty lamp, Huang Zhong twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling a lot of "colleagues are very interested" but did not forget to reveal it, saying: "My family members also remember to vote for their own lanterns. A few wooden sticks are safer!"

   There are quite a few people participating in the Lantern Festival this time!

   Really calling friends and friends just for a beauty lamp! The two of them nodded their heads immediately when they heard the words, and when they returned to Dali Temple, they talked with the crowd, and they sighed unceasingly. All agreed.

   It’s okay to slap your face once in a while!

Grabbing a handful of fried chestnuts and chatting while eating, at this moment, I saw Ji Caimai passing by the lobby door with a few carpenters carrying a large stack of boxes. Everyone who was eating fried chestnuts couldn't help but I was taken aback for a moment: "Ji Cai bought the mooncake gift box for Mid-Autumn Festival already ready?"

  The speed of this group of carpenters is much faster than they thought! The square-sized gift box is divided into upper and lower layers, and a poem of "chanting the moon" is engraved on the outside, which looks quite elegant.

  Ji Caimai turned the mooncake gift box and checked it carefully. He was very satisfied, tilted his head, and asked Wen Mingtang: "What do you think, Master Wen?"

  Wen Mingtang nodded and said, "Not bad!"

   As expected of the carpenter recommended by that picky Lin Shaoqing, this craft is really good!

   Seeing that the employer was "satisfied", several carpenters breathed a sigh of relief, because with Lin Fei, a picky "employer", in front of them, Ji Caimai, Wen Mingtang and others were simply too "talkative" to set off.

However, because of Lin Shaoqing's "pickyness", their craftsmanship was forced to improve a lot. These days, because of their outstanding craftsmanship, they have received a lot of orders for moon cake gift boxes. In addition to the public chef of Dali Temple, there are many There are various styles of gift boxes in restaurants and literary museums. But without exception, two lines of "Yin Yue" are engraved on the gift box. Among so many poems, the most beautiful ones are these two sentences inscribed by the chef of Dali Temple.

   "A bright moon rises on the sea, and the world shares this moment."

  Even Lin Fei, who has always been picky, praised these two lines of verse, and then asked Wen Mingtang: "Who wrote it?"

  Wen Mingtang pointed to the name in the lower right corner, and said, "A famous hermit named Zhang Jiuling."

  Lin Fei nodded when he heard the words, glanced at her, and said, "You cook well, but your poetry is only at the level of 'three or two kittens'. You really can't write such poems."

  Wen Mingtang: "..."

   Is this praising her cooking skills or mocking her poetry writing skills?

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he looked at the stack of mooncake molds in Wen Mingtang's hand: the round molds had a set of patterns such as plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum; There is a set of molds for legendary stories such as reclamation of the sea and Nuwa mending the sky; the last set is for peanuts, persimmons, jade ruyi and gourds with strange shapes.

Seeing that Lin Fei's eyes fell on the last set of moulds, Wen Mingtang took the initiative to explain without him opening his mouth: "This set has metaphors, namely 'Miaobi Shenghua (peanut)', 'Good persimmon (persimmon)', "All the best (jade ruyi is the same as "Fulu (gourd) auspicious". "

  Lin Fei: "...this trick is good!"

  Wen Mingtang said "Yes", and when he was about to start drawing up the contents of the gift box, Lin Fei said: "There will be a lantern festival in Jingzhao Mansion on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dali Temple will also participate in it. Do you know?"

  (end of this chapter)