The Red Mansion Is Like a Jade Gentleman

Time is moving forward a little bit. It is said that when Kong Jiayi was just pregnant, everyone in the Lin Manor was very concerned about Kong Jiayi's child. This is a child full of hope!

Apart from the attention of the masters, the maids below are also very concerned about this matter.

why?

I still responded to the poem: the wild fire is endless, and the spring breeze blows and regenerates.

Every time, the servants of Lin's mansion saw that Kong Jiayi was pregnant, and they started to move around again.

Who made Master Lin already old, and Lin Shen spent most of his time studying in Six Arts Academy!Lin Hai is the only target in this family, whoever gets shot if he doesn't get shot!

It has to be said that people develop forward. This time, this big-hearted maid has learned from the experience and lessons of the previous people, and knows that Lin Hai doesn't like to throw herself into his arms, and he doesn't like arrogant maids, let alone What kind of tricks do you like to add fragrance to your sleeves.

Especially before, those who wanted to climb the forest seabed were sold out, not only themselves, but also others.Therefore, servants who generally have no ambitions and want to spend their entire lives in the Lin Mansion in peace will not be able to do anything.Everything depends on your personal connections and timing.

So she planned for nearly two months before she made a move!

This time, this clever servant girl didn't take the route of tenderness. In fact, she couldn't. She was in the inner courtyard, and she couldn't even see Lin Hai's face!It's just that occasionally Lin Hai came to Jiang's place to pay his respects, and it was just a blink of an eye.

But the Mid-Autumn Festival gave this girl a good opportunity.

In ancient times, great importance was attached to these festivals, and each festival is a historical evolution.When it comes to big festivals, except for the Chinese New Year, they are: Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival!

In the true sense, the Mid-Autumn Festival does not come to commemorate Chang'e. "New Tang Book. Volume 19 Chronicles Fifth. Ritual and Music Five" contains "the spring and mid-autumn festivals were laid in King Wenxuan and King Wucheng", and "In the [-]th year of the Kaiyuan period, the Taigong Shangfu Temple was first built, and the Marquis Zhang Liang was married. During the Mid-Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shangwu sacrifices, and the system of sacrifice and music is like writing."

It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed holiday.

And moon cakes are not made by Chang'e fairy.Moon cakes originally originated from the food of the army Zhujie in the Tang Dynasty.During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, the general Li Jing conquered the Turks by relying on the hidden rumors of moon cakes, and returned in triumph on August [-]th.Eating moon cakes has become an annual custom.At that time, a businessman from Turpan offered cakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan, the great ancestor, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cakes, pointed at the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said, "You should invite the toads with the cakes."After speaking, share the cakes with the ministers to eat together.

Because of the inexplicable worship of the emperor.Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, every family enjoys the full moon and eats mooncakes, which has become a custom for a while.

According to the current custom.On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.Happy to eat crabs.After the crabs are steamed with cattail bags, everyone sits around and tastes them, accompanied by wine and vinegar.After eating, drink Suye soup and wash your hands with it.During the banquet area week, flowers, large pomegranates and other seasonal delicacies were placed, and mythological operas of the Mid-Autumn Festival were performed.

The banquet in the palace is more complicated, and a screen should be placed to the east of the place where the banquet is held.On both sides of the screen are placed cockscombs, edamame, taro, peanuts, radishes, and fresh lotus root.In front of the screen, there is an Eight Immortals table with an extra-large moon cake surrounded by pastries and fruits.After the empress leads the concubines and princesses in the harem to worship the moon, they cut the moon cakes into several pieces according to the royal population, and each person tastes a symbolic mouthful, which is called "eating reunion cakes".

The size of the moon cakes in the palace is unimaginable.It is about two feet in diameter and weighs about twenty catties.In addition, the emperor will reward some capable ministers with moon cakes.

The Lin family would get such a big mooncake every year. When Lin Hai saw such a big mooncake for the first time, he was taken aback because he had never seen such a big mooncake.And it doesn't taste good, but it's just for that favor. Every year, the big mooncake is eaten by the servants!

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, because Kong Jiayi is pregnant, so cold food such as crabs cannot be eaten, so Kong Jiayi cooks alone when eating.Because she was pregnant, she naturally couldn't do the job of serving Lin Hai, so Jiang arranged for a maid, Hongmei, to serve Lin Hai at the dinner (in fact, it was just like serving wine and serving dishes).

Hongmei is now, but she is not a big-hearted person, otherwise Jiang would not be able to arrange this kind of thing for her. She is the second-class maid beside Jiang, and she has already betrothed to others. get married.

Although she is not big-hearted, but someone is, if no one is there, she will make a move!

"Hey! Hongmei, why are you doing this? Didn't Madam ask you to serve the young master's dinner?" A maid in a green shirt just stepped out of the kitchen door when she saw Hongmei holding a lot of things, trembling Walking forward, he couldn't help saying in surprise.

Hongmei saw that it was Qingli, the maid who entered the mansion together with her, and said with a smile: "You have been in the mansion for many years, why don't you know how picky the young master is about these things, madam, I am afraid that others will take them by mistake. You specially asked me to come and get it!" Although the work is a bit cumbersome, it is also an honor for Madam to let her do it because she values ​​her.

"There are so many things, you can move there alone! Do you want me to help you?" Qing Li rolled her eyes, as if thinking of something, she said suddenly.

Hongmei shook her head, "I appreciate your kindness. I can move these things alone. It's not a problem." It's not because she's afraid that Qingli will compete to show her face to her wife, but because she's afraid that Qingli will feel something that she shouldn't have. , when the time comes, it will be bad to implicate yourself!

Her mother once said to her, seeing Qingli's eyes rolling, she knew that Qingli was a big-hearted person, so let her stay away from her in the future.Although Hongmei is not particularly smart, she is still very obedient.So how could Qing Li help at this time.

"Since you have something to do, then I won't stop you, hurry up! It would be bad if you delay!" Qing Li said with a smile.

"Okay! Then I'll leave first!" Hongmei would not be polite to Qingli, she turned around and left!But she didn't see, after she turned around, Qing Li's face turned livid.

Qingli shook the handkerchief in her hand, hating Hongmei for her lack of eyes, and she didn't need help.However, thinking of how many plans she had backed up, her face became gentle again. Today is a day that is absolutely her destiny, and only success is not allowed to fail.

Sure enough, just like what Hongmei's mother said, this Qingli has a big heart.

It was finally night, and Lin Shen, who was studying at the Six Arts Academy, also rushed back during the day. Although he had to go back to the academy early tomorrow morning, the family had a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter what.

Lin Hai helped Kong Jiayi sit down carefully, and sat on her left.

Kong Jiayi was pregnant and couldn't eat crabs, so Jiang specially arranged a bowl of old duck soup for Kong Jiayi, which was nourishing but not angry. Lin Hai watched Kong Jiayi eat a bowl of old duck soup before picking it up happily. A hairy crab ate it.

The hairy crabs are the most delicious hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou. It just so happens that Suzhou is also the hometown of the Lin family, so every year when the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the Lin family in Suzhou always sends people to Beijing to deliver the crabs.This crab delivery is also skillful. If the crab dies halfway, you can't eat it.If it's thinner, it won't taste so good!Therefore, it is a skill to send fat crabs to the capital!

Lin Hai grabbed a steamed hairy crab and held it in his hand. Even after it was cooked, it would feel heavy and heavy, which meant that the fat inside was very plump, which made Lin Hai look forward to it.

Among the crab meat, there are "four tastes": thigh meat, short and slender, tastes like scallops; calf meat, long and tender, as beautiful as whitebait; crab body meat, white and crystal clear, better than white fish; crab roe, wonderful Words cannot be compared.

Lin Hai's favorite is crab roe, and he can eat better every time.

I can’t wait to pry open the crab shell with the eight pieces of crabs on the side. I saw that the crab paste and crab roe on the cover are really beautiful. I tasted it. It’s so fresh that I almost swallowed it with my tongue. It tastes really good Extremely!

Smelling the fragrance, Lin Shen stretched out his hand to grab one and ate it happily. The hairy crabs were delicious at this time, and what they ate were the authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs in Suzhou. The taste was simply amazing. Swallow your own tongue.

Although it is a bit troublesome to break crabs by hand, eating crabs is a pleasure.

In addition to eating crabs, there are also pumpkins. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, every family has the custom of eating old pumpkins and burning glutinous rice in August and a half. The Lin family has stayed in Jiangnan for so long, and this custom has also been passed down!

Eating lotus root also means sending reunion, especially eating "lotus root box".People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang often slice lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, with meat and clams in the middle, and fried on the outside until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which is similar to moon cakes.There are two main varieties of lotus root on the market, namely seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root.The lotus root with seven holes is more cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crisp and sweet, white and flawless.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that after the lotus root is cooked, its nature changes from cold to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, and benefiting blood.

Eating taro means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it also means not to believe in evil spirits.Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou Fu Zhi" said: "Playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, which is called peeling ghost skin."Peeling ghosts and eating them has the spirit of Zhong Kui exorcising ghosts, which is respectable.

In addition to these, the necessary sweet-scented osmanthus wine and moon cakes are indispensable. Unfortunately, Kong Jiayi has no luck this year, and can't eat many things.

Waiting for the family to enjoy the moon happily, and after having a reunion dinner, when they were about to leave, something happened suddenly!

I don't know who tripped Qing Li, it was so hard to die, Master Lin looked back for some inexplicable reason, and Qing Li threw Master Lin down all of a sudden.

In the end, the bloody thing happened...

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[Thanks to snowbabe children's shoes for the pink ticket, one fragrant ╭(╯3╰)╮】