A hexagonal gift box woven with bamboo strips. The inside is woven into a grid with bamboo strips. A juicy rice dumpling is placed in each grid. Finally, the lid of the gift box is woven with bamboo strips. Take the red Seal the paper.
Just looking at it from the outside, I feel that this gift box is extremely exquisite. When I open it, a strong aroma of rice dumplings comes to my nose along with the unique bamboo fragrance of the gift box. It smells very good.
At this time, just open a rice dumpling and put it in your mouth...
Excellent enjoyment, don’t speak lightly!
The rice dumpling gift box sent by Buyunlou is beautiful, delicious and exquisite, and is loved by many people.
Many people were proud to receive the gift box of rice dumplings from Buyunlou. Those who did not receive the gift box of rice dumplings went directly to Shopkeeper Ge and asked for them openly.
For a while, Buyunlou’s rice dumpling gift boxes were in short supply. Shopkeeper Ge even claimed to be unwell because of this incident and hid for a few days.
While the rice dumplings were fragrant, guests came to Xia Mingyue's home.
The visitors are Fan Pingyang, Zhang Mingyi and others from the county school.
These people were the first to come to Xia Ming’s mooncake stall and order all kinds of food from her, and Xia Mingyue heard that these people were all on the list for this spring festival. Quite good.
"I haven't congratulated the few names on the gold list yet." Xia Mingyue smiled and said, "I wonder why some of you came to see me today?"
"We are here to bid farewell to Madam Xia today." After Zhang Mingyi said this, he led a few people and saluted Xia Mingyue.
"Farewell?"
"Exactly." Fan Pingyang said, "A few of us have passed the Jinshi examination. The imperial court has assigned us official positions. We will go to our respective posts soon. , I don’t know what year or month I will come here again after this farewell, so I came here to say goodbye to Madam Xia.”
They are all students from all over the country who came to study in Jinqiu County.
The road to study is always arduous, tedious, boring and even depressing. Even if there are erudite teachers and teachers who teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and classmates who can grow together and support each other, they still often feel confused and frustrated many times.
In such a life, being able to meet Lady Xia, who often brings them great taste and psychological satisfaction, also adds a lot of interest and joy to this monotonous and boring life.
This is like looking up at the dark sky in the long night and discovering one or two extremely bright stars, which makes them no longer lonely and has a lot of life and hope.
These students have an indescribable deep friendship with Madam Xia and even Xia Ji Shishi.
I also felt that before they went to take office, they had to say goodbye to Xia Mingyue anyway.
Xia Mingyue felt warm in her heart when she saw that everyone respected her so much. She felt relieved that everyone was going to different places and it would be impossible to see them again in the future.
"You are all the pillars of the country. You are here to serve the court and be loyal to the country. I hope you will have a bright future in the future, never forget your original intention, and achieve great success."
Xia Mingyue congratulated her and asked Fan Pingyang, Zhang Mingyi and others to salute again, "Thank you, Mrs. Xia."
"When do you plan to set off?" Xia Mingyue asked.
"Tonight we held a thank you banquet in Buyun, and invited the mountain chief and his masters to go together. We will go back to the county school in the evening to catch up on old times, and we will set off at noon tomorrow." Fan Pingyang said.
Tonight was destined to be a candle-lit night talk, and we needed to take a short rest tomorrow morning, so the departure time was arranged at noon.
"I wish you all a safe journey in advance." Xia Mingyue sent her blessings again. After talking for a while, seeing that it was getting late, everyone left and headed to Buyun Tower.
After seeing everyone off, Xia Mingyue first went to Buyun Tower and explained to Shopkeeper Ge that Fan Pingyang and others must be careful at the thank-you banquet tonight, and give On a good price.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Xia." Shopkeeper Ge said, "I have arranged for someone to serve in the private room and serve a few dishes, which will definitely satisfy everyone."
Those who organized the teacher-appreciation banquet were students who already held official positions, and those who came to the banquet were the county schoolmaster and other teachers. They all trained up pillars of the country. Such people should be treated well when they come.
Shopkeeper Ge has been doing business for a long time. He considers these things thoroughly and does everything in detail.
Xia Mingyue personally went to the back kitchen of Buyunlou to cook a few signature dishes for the teacher-appreciation banquet, and then returned home.
Zhang Mingyi and others will leave tomorrow, and Xia Mingyue is thinking about giving some small gifts to everyone.
But the weather is hot at this time, and most of the food will easily go bad if left for half a day. The food to be sent out must be delicious and very durable, so that it can be eaten for at least two or three days. OK.
After much thought, Xia Mingyue finally thought of something - grilled naan.
The grilled naan is fragrant and delicious. After baking, the texture will change from soft and crispy to a crispy texture after it is cooled. The skin of the grilled naan is dry, wrapped in a cage cloth, and can be stored for several days. , and the deliciousness will not diminish at all.
This kind of food can be said to be very suitable for giving to Fan Pingyang and others.
Due to the different raw materials used in making naan, naan is divided into whole naan, half naan, sugar naan, oil naan, vegetable naan, etc. After many people's own improvements, sesame naan and walnut naan appeared. Naan, pumpkin naan...
In short, there are various styles, but no matter which one, the taste is wonderful.
Today's news came suddenly. Xia Mingyue didn't have many raw materials on hand, and it was her first time trying to make naan, so she planned to make a simpler salt-and-pepper sesame naan.
Mix flour, yeast, eggs and water together into a smooth dough. After fermentation, knead it into a dough and make it into a round cake of suitable size.
Brush the round cake with thin oil, sprinkle with sesame seeds, salt and pepper, and pepper, poke holes, put it in the oven, and bake slowly until the aroma is completely released, the skin of the bag turns brown, and the inside Once cooked, slowly remove from the oven.
The freshly made grilled naan is soft and delicious, full of pepper aroma and suitable saltiness. It does not need to be paired with anything else. It tastes delicious and leaves a fragrant aroma in your teeth and cheeks.
Due to frequent visits to Buyun Tower in recent days, Xia Mingyue is used to the delicacies cooked by Lou Shanzi and others. Now when she suddenly eats such fragrant and delicious grilled naan, she feels that it has a different taste, even better than a soup basin. I asked for a big roasted naan, and actually ate half of it in one sitting.
I even felt there were some shortcomings.
But this is enough to show that her baked naan was quite successful.
Xia Mingyue recognized and pleased with her craftsmanship and baked all the remaining naan.
Having been busy from midnight until early morning, Xia Mingyue baked all the naan pancakes.
The prepared grilled naan is stacked together, the thick pile is as tall as one person, and it looks very spectacular.
Leaving part of the baked naan for Jiang Zhuguo and others to try, Xia Mingyue put most of the naan into baskets, covered it with a clean cloth, and pushed the flatbed cart to the county school. (End of this chapter)