Chapter 38 Osmanthus Cake
When we are living busy days, every day seems to be very long, but in fact, time has passed quietly without realizing it.
Wu Fei Rabbit left, time passed by, and it was already August.
The osmanthus moon falls in the middle of the moon, and the fragrant clouds float outside.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the old osmanthus tree in Osmanthus Village has already begun to bloom, and the fragrance permeates the whole village. Even though Li Xin's home is far away, there is always the fragrance of osmanthus brought by the wind. If you don't get close, go
Smell it, the smell is not strong, a faint wisp is floating in the air, but it is refreshing.
It is said that Jiangnan has three autumn osmanthus and ten miles of lotus. This simple sentence has already made people yearn for it. This is the magic of Jiangnan! The prosperity of Jiangnan has existed since ancient times. The fertile soil, suitable climate and developed transportation are all
The reason why Jiangnan has been prosperous since ancient times is that there is plenty of water in Jiangnan, so water and land transportation is very developed. There is the sea outside, and various rivers inside are crisscrossing it.
The southeastern shape is beautiful, the three Wu cities, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. Smoked willow painted bridges, wind curtains and green curtains, there are hundreds of thousands of homes. Cloud trees surround the embankment and sand. Raging waves roll frost and snow, the sky is endless. The city is lined with pearls, and the houses are filled with beautiful flowers.
Luxurious.
The Qingjia Lake overlaps with Qingjia. There are three autumn osmanthus and ten miles of lotus. Qiang pipes clear the sky, and the water chestnuts sing throughout the night. Old people play and fish for lotus babies. Thousands of horsemen and high-toothed people ride drunkenly listening to flutes and drums, chanting and admiring the haze. Pictures of the future.
Good scene, go back to Fengchi to praise it.
Liu Yong's song "Looking at the Sea Tide" can be said to describe the prosperous scene in the south of the Yangtze River. It is no wonder that some people say that the Jin people invaded the Song Dynasty precisely because of Liu Yong's "Looking at the Sea Tide". Although this is not a place that Li Xin is familiar with
History, but I guess they have something in common! She really wanted to go out and walk around and see the bustling scene here.
She has been in this world for more than half a year, and she has also read some books. The words in the books are strangely the same as the words she is familiar with, but this is not any place she knows. It is not the previous life, nor the familiar one.
Any dynasty in those history. This is a place called Tianchen Dynasty, with the capital of Jiankang. She actually remembers that in the history of her previous life, Jiankang in ancient times was Nanjing, but is Jiankang here equivalent to Nanjing? She does
Don’t know anymore.
However, Jiankang here is also in the south. It is very prosperous as described in the book. Maybe if you have time, you can really go there.
Speaking of which, this dynasty is also very strange. It seems that the geography of this country is still very vast, with its east, west, north and south each having its own characteristics. However, it is strange that it established its capital in the south. It seems that in history, the dynasties that established their capital in the south were all short-lived dynasties!
Or only the Jiangnan part of the country. The Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Southern Dynasties were all very short-lived. Although Nanjing is said to be the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, in fact, the total time it really served as the capital was not long. Then the Southern Tang Dynasty was also a short-lived dynasty, and after that,
The Southern Song Dynasty was more than a hundred years old, and only half of the country was there.
The initial capital of the Ming Dynasty was also in Nanjing, but when the Ming Dynasty became emperor, the capital was moved to Beijing. Speaking of which, building a capital in the south was too remote, and it was not easy to govern the entire country.
On this day, when Li Xin came back from the fields, he took a look at the old osmanthus tree from a distance. It did have a lot of flowers. The leaves were green, red and orange. It looked very beautiful.
Broken flowers are dotted among the branches and leaves, not too obvious, but not completely submerged.
"Dark, light yellow, soft in nature, far away from love, only the fragrance remains. No need to be light green and light red, it is naturally the best among flowers." Li Yian's words are a good portrayal of Osmanthus fragrans.
Looking at the trees full of sweet-scented osmanthus, Li Xin thought of the delicious sweet-scented osmanthus cake. In fact, as long as the sweet-scented osmanthus is pickled with sugar, you can make sweet-scented osmanthus cake at any time, but it seems that only the mid-autumn season is the most suitable! The moon is on the treetops.
, the sweet-scented osmanthus trees are blooming for the first time, the fragrance is lingering, and eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake seems to be a very beautiful thing.
The next day, Li Xin carried a wooden basin and moon scented osmanthus to the village to pick osmanthus flowers. There were many people coming to pick osmanthus flowers at this time of the year. People from the village would come to pick osmanthus flowers, and people from surrounding villages and towns would also come here to pick them.
.Generally, people in the village allow it to pick some flowers, but they are not allowed to harm the trees.
The sisters arrived early, and no one came to pick it at this time. In fact, people usually pick osmanthus flowers to make sachets or the like. Not many people in the village come to pick them. Only some little girls like it and come to pick some occasionally.
In the early morning, there were still some dewdrops on the sweet-scented osmanthus, which looked even more beautiful. They both moved higher stools, and they could reach the branches by standing on the stools.
After picking a wooden basin of osmanthus, Li Xin went home with the moon scent. The family also bought a lot of sugar to eat, so the sugar was a little bit heavy. Wash the osmanthus and let it dry, then marinate it with a layer of osmanthus and a layer of sugar.
Put it in a jar. After marinating for a while, the osmanthus sugar will be ready to eat.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xin took Yuexiang to make sweet-scented osmanthus cakes together. Now that Yueting has a puppy to play with, she doesn’t pester Yuexiang so much. Yuexiang doesn’t have to take her with her all day, and she can also help Li Xin.
With their hands, the two of them made a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. After tasting one piece, it was sweet and refreshing, delicate and fragrant, and rich in cinnamon flavor.
Early in the morning on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xin took Yuexiang and Yueting to the town. Wenbo and Wenhao were also on holiday on the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was considered a holiday after school yesterday afternoon, and they could have a whole day off today.
Seeing Li Xin coming with his two sisters, the two brothers were also very happy. Now they don't see each other every day like before. When they meet, they become closer. Yuexiang brought the puppy with him.
Wen Hao took her to play with the puppy.
After sitting at home for a while, Li Xin took some of his siblings out to go shopping. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there are many mooncakes sold on the street. Knowing that there are all kinds of mooncakes for sale on the street, Li Xin didn't make them by himself.
, but took his brothers and sisters to buy some. When they got to the street, the brothers and sisters went to Pinxiang Pavilion first. Li Xin brought some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to shopkeeper Sun. They were already acquaintances, so they treated them as gifts.
Order holiday gifts!
As for mooncakes, shopkeeper Sun must have received a lot of them on days like this, so she didn't buy any.
Although it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Pinxiang Pavilion was still open. As soon as Li Xin walked in, he happened to meet shopkeeper Sun.
"Miss Li came at the right time. Even if you don't come today, I still want to find you tomorrow. Let's go to the private room to talk!" Shopkeeper Sun smiled and called Li Xin's siblings upstairs. Li Xin thought,
I'm afraid there's news about those potted plants. It's been more than a month, so it's time for news.
If it continues to fail to sell, it will have no ornamental value!
Chapter completed!