Chapter 6 Summer Cake Sending Out

In the beginning of summer, when it was time for the twilight bell, Lin Yan came back from the government office. Grandmother is waiting for him to eat twilight.

After washing his hands and face, and changing into homely clothes, Lin Yan came to the grandmother's courtyard.

"Brother, you are back!" Mrs. Jiang Tai smiled happily.

Lin Yan said with a smile, "I told you not to wait for me, don't starve you."

"Why can't we wait? Aye and Auntie aren't here. I'm eating alone, so it's boring." Mrs. Jiang Tai pouted first, and then smiled again.

Lin Yan's eyes are slender and slender, the ends of the eyes are slightly raised, but the middle part is too straight. It is an atypical phoenix eye. When he is not smiling, it seems a little unapproachable. What are you doing at home today?"

"I sew sachets with Ah Chang, and it's the beginning of summer today."

"Oh, is it?" Lin Yan served his grandmother a night of cabbage and egg drop soup.

Since only the grandparents and grandchildren were eating, they did not divide the food for the sake of fun, but gathered around a large food table just like later generations.

"I knew you were busy and confused!" Mrs. Jiang moved the two plates of cakes over, "This is our own steamed red date cake, these are from other places, pick up one or two of each, which one is better for you to try? eat?"

Today, when we ate at the hall, the sage gave the cakes for the festival and returned to Jingzhao Mansion. The lunch chef also served cakes, and when he returned home, two plates of cakes were placed in front of him. Looking at his grandmother’s eyes, Lin said: Yan smiled and picked up a piece.

"Our jujube cake this year is very good. Well, there is a little more buttermilk." Not only is there a lot of buttermilk, but also more sugar. My grandmother is old and has a dull sense of taste. To take care of Mrs. Tai's taste, the chef made it child heavy.

Lin Yan calmly took a sip of tea, sent over the sweet and greasy pastries, picked up a white round shape, bit down, the glutinous rice skin was quite chewy, the delicate bean filling, and some palace rouge. The meaning of cake, but not so sweet, unexpectedly delicious, "Who sent this?"

The maid behind Mrs. Tai replied, "It's the Guangming Temple at the back door."

Mrs. Jiang Tai also smiled, "Their Master Ci Ming did a good job of assorted wontons, but I didn't expect the cakes to be good too."

No one corrected Mrs. Jiang Tai Guangming that the host was Master Yuanjue, and Master Ciming belonged to Hedong Jingxin Nunnery, and had already passed away twenty years ago, just as no one told her that she was in front of her grandson, and Not the eldest brother she thought she was.

Mrs. Jiang Tai went along and talked about the milk soup crucian carp made by Master Ci Ming, "The soup is fresh, thick and milky white, with some tender green onions floating in the heart, and it is very delicious."

"There will be fresh crucian carp the other day, and let them stew soup." Lin Yan put some shredded bamboo shoots on a small plate for his grandmother.

After dinner, Lin Yan chatted with his grandmother for a while before exiting.

In the study, Butler Zhou handed over the gift lists from the various companies that brought gifts today and the gift list for his own return. Although it is called Lixia Cake, how can there be only cakes? It's all a long list of things.

Butler Zhou is an old man, so he has his own sense of how to receive gifts and return them. Lin Yan just turned it over and handed it back to him.

Butler Zhou smiled again: "There are also two temples and nunneries that also sent cakes, and according to the rules, they gave money to the basket." The owner neither worships Buddhism nor believes in Buddhism. For these monks who come to the door, they only follow the big rules of Beijing. Just go.

Lin Yan nodded nonchalantly, "Just watch and deal with it."

Housekeeper Zhou was self-confident, and smiled more and said, "It's time for Alang to marry a bride. It's like a housewife who is the master of human affairs."

Lin Yan said "um" and lowered his head to read the book.

Butler Zhou was a little confused by the "um" from the master. Did he hear it or just answer it casually?

Shen Shaoguang also ate a day's cake today. There were many good believers who burned incense and offered offerings in the nunnery. Afterwards, these offerings naturally belonged to the nuns in the nunnery. Some of them sent cakes out and pressed baskets in return, as well as summer cakes. As a result, there were a lot of various cakes in the nunnery.

Jingqing picked up two of the tops and meticulously saved two plates, and sent them to Shen Shaoguang in person, smiling: "Thank you for the guidance of Donor Shen in the past two days, and I did a good job of summer cakes and won a lot of face for the nunnery. Mrs. Lu Guogong and Mrs. Ye Shilang all praised it personally, saying that they have the character of royal banquet cakes in the palace." What I didn't say is that the money for the basket is also more generous than in previous years.

During the New Year and festivals, temples and nunneries send food to others, one is to maintain relationships, and the other is to fight the autumn wind. How can serious people let them come back with empty baskets? It is necessary to put some property in the basket, which is called "money in the basket", which is also a way of making money as agreed in the temple.

Shen Shaoguang naturally told her to be polite.

"How many good things I ate from the donor Shen in the past, today I left the tip of the offering, and the donor also tasted ours."

Shen Shaoguang said with a smile: "Then I will try it and see which one is outstanding, and I will eat it according to the gourd painting."

Jingqing smiled and said, "It's not that I'm boasting, tell me to see, there's nothing better than ours."

Shen Shaoguang laughed more and more. She knew that this was Jingqing and grateful for her help. The nun Jingqing does not necessarily understand the Dharma very well, and even she is not shrewd, but she is loyal and sincere, and the nuns in the nunnery are convinced of her.

Shen Shaoguang brewed tea with the remaining pickled peony, and drank tea and ate cakes with Jingqing.

"These pastries, Master Jingqing sent them by himself?"

"Where can I send it here? I only visited a few shops in the workshop, and I know a few outside the workshop. The other ones were given by other senior sisters."

Shen Shaoguang nodded.

Xu Shi was really happy today, and Jing Qing followed the gossip about the house in Beijing.

"The Duke of Lu's family is getting more and more lavish. If he hadn't been in contact long ago, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to enter his house. It can be seen that Concubine Shu in the palace is really favored."

Shen Shaoguang nodded, Concubine Shu was indeed favored.

"I don't know what kind of beauty Concubine Shu is?" Jing Qing whispered, "I think that although Mrs. Lu Guogong is majestic, her color is not very good. But his second mother is a beauty."

The most taboo of chatting gossip with people is to just listen and not talk about it, Shen Shaoguang told her popular science: "The current Mrs. Lu Guogong is the successor, and Concubine Shu is left by the wife of the former room, but I don't know who this second mother is. from a lady."

Jingqing made a second understanding, and said: "Looking at the face, it doesn't look like a mother and daughter, but when they get along, they are very close." Then he sighed, "The lady of the country is really kind and virtuous!"

Shen Shaoguang followed her and said, "It's really benevolent, virtuous and Shuxian."

"Er Niang not only became better and better, but also became more and more enthusiastic about Buddhist affairs. I heard that we are in Chongxian Square, not far from the Guogong's mansion, so she said that she would come to stay for a few days and pray to Buddha."

Shen Shaoguang then sent Shunzui's favor: "She is a faithful girl."

Within two days, Shen Shaoguang became neighbors with this faithful girl.