Rebirth, end of the world, time travel, escape famine, make money!

Time quickly came to late September.

The annual Mid-Autumn Festival reunion festival is here again.

This was the first Mid-Autumn Festival they had experienced since their arrival.

This time last year they were still fleeing famine.

Today they have a stable life.

Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the arrival of Liu Qianxue and her sister, they made a lot of moon cakes of various kinds in advance and sold them in the shops in the capital.

Although their shop is not a specialized dim sum shop, the mooncakes they make are delicious.

The craft of making mooncakes has a long history, and the dynasty they lived in was no exception.

About ten days in advance, many dim sum shops have launched mooncake gift boxes.

Liu Caixia went to these shops and bought a few, then opened them and let everyone taste them.

"Sister Caixia, these mooncakes are too sweet and greasy. The mooncakes we make are much more delicious than this. We can definitely make a fortune by taking advantage of this opportunity."

"Well, it's definitely not as delicious as what you guys made."

Yes, Liu Qianxue and Sun Yaqing also made a few plates of mooncakes today. The mooncakes they made have richer fillings, including traditional red bean paste, red bean paste and mung bean paste.

There is also the very popular lotus paste. Speaking of lotus paste, salted duck eggs had not yet been invented at that time. Liu Qianxue and her friends made their own salted duck eggs and salted chicken eggs in advance, and then they could make mooncakes with lotus paste filling.

They also tried making Yunnan ham mooncakes. The making process of Yunnan ham mooncakes is more complicated. There are no authentic Yunnan ham, so they use ordinary fresh meat. It is more appropriate to call it fresh meat mooncake.

In addition, there are five-nut mooncakes, jujube paste mooncakes, and the regular cheapest thin ice mooncakes.

All the mooncakes were cut into small pieces and placed on a plate. Liu Caixia and Liu Caiyun brought the adults and children in their family together to taste them.

The children were so happy that they held different flavors in their hands and ate them happily while spinning around together.

"Really delicious!"

"Uh-huh……"

Liu Qianxue and Sun Yaqing did not succeed in one try, after all, the ovens at that time were different from modern ovens.

There was an oven in the yard made of blue bricks and yellow mud, which was far inferior in terms of sealing and control of the temperature.

The two of them succeeded after trying several times.

"Okay, let's make as much as we can every day and try to sell it in the shop. I think there should be no problem."

Liu Caixia ate the sweet food and then took a bite of the fresh meat mooncake to relieve the greasiness. She gave the sisters a thumbs up to express her appreciation.

"I also think that it tastes much better than what is sold now. It's because we have no experience. If we open a dim sum shop ourselves, we can make it and sell it earlier. Why would we need to do these things?" Liu Caiyun nodded while eating.

It seems that the mooncakes they made received unanimous praise from adults and children. Liu Qianxue and Sun Yaqing looked at each other and were very happy.

"Yes, Sister Caixia, we can open a shop of our own. After the food factory is built, we can do all these things. There are also some snacks that are easier to make. We can also make candies ourselves. When the fruits in the orchard are harvested, we can also make candies with various fruit flavors."

"We can open another shop. In the future, our potatoes and sweet potatoes and other derivative foods can support a shop. With some other miscellaneous businesses, we can just open a grocery store. Making sugar requires sugarcane or sugar beets. Our stall is too big and we can't grow enough on our own fields."

"Yeah, let's do what we can first. We can make cakes and cookies."

"Okay, those who have nothing to do these few days can help make mooncakes and test the waters first!"

Liu Caixia and Lin Weizhong would bring the finished mooncakes to the shop near the academy in the city every day.

A table was set up at the door of the shop, on which was a plate with mooncakes cut into small pieces and small bamboo sticks inserted on them for people to taste.

In this way, the mooncakes from the delicious food shop became famous in one day.

Not only the students and teachers of the academy, but also the shops and merchants around came to buy. There were not enough to sell on the first day, so two trips of mooncakes were delivered to the city every day in the following days.

On the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Weizhong and Shen Wanshan agreed to take the prepared Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to the provincial capital to deliver them.

Lin Weizhong drove a carriage with a servant. The carriage was loaded with mooncake gift boxes they had prepared in advance. There were eight mooncakes in it, four red bean and green bean ones, two each of red bean and green bean, two lotus seed paste, and two fresh meat, making up an auspicious number eight.

What Shen Wanshan prepared was osmanthus wine. He specially bought the famous osmanthus wine from other places in the south of the Yangtze River. He prepared two bottles for each person, each bottle weighing two kilograms.

The gifts they gave were not particularly grand, but they were thoughtful and appropriate for the occasion.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to send holiday gifts, Lin Weizhong and Shen Wanshan finally met the prefect.

"Your humble servant pays respect to His Excellency the Prefect!"

Magistrate Zhang had heard from Chief He about Liu's father many times before. This time he had the opportunity to meet him because he was not busy during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he took the time to meet him and learn about the two new grains, potatoes and peppers.

Magistrate Zhang came from an ordinary family. Although his family was not poor, they were not rich either. They only had a small carpentry shop in the town, and the whole family supported him, a Jinshi.

Therefore, he was able to rely on his own ability to get to the position of prefect, in addition to marrying a good wife, because he was a neutral party and a royalist like his father-in-law, firmly doing things for the people, and his reputation was still good. He was also one of the officials that Prince Qing took the initiative to ask the emperor for.

"Master Liu, I often heard Chief He and Minister Chi mention you, and this time I finally saw you in person. Thank you for the potatoes you brought back last time, we all love them. This time I met you to find out for sure whether the yield can really reach the 1,000 kilograms per mu you said."

"Sir, it's normal for the yield to vary. We only planted this once before and the yield per mu was indeed that much. Then there was a severe drought, so the yield was definitely not that high when we planted it again, so the yield cannot be counted. But when I bought it back, the merchant said that this thing is very common in their area, and the yield is more than 1,000 kilograms per mu."

"How much land do you plan to use for planting next year? How many seeds do you have? At the end of this year, the Northwest reached a ceasefire agreement with Meng State. The court issued a new decree to vigorously develop farming, increase food production, and appease the people who migrated from the Northwest as much as possible to ensure that these people who fled famine do not starve to death."

"Your Excellency, I plan to plant potatoes on ten to fifteen acres of land, depending on how much wasteland we have reclaimed. We have another batch of seeds before the New Year, and we have planted one season in the county. I will try to plant two seasons given the climate here. If successful, even if the harvest is not that high, we can still harvest a lot more food a year, which can at least ensure that everyone will not go hungry."

"Great! If you can grow this for two seasons, the soil requirements are not that high. If you promote it, you will have done a great deed! Don't worry, I will not be greedy for the credit that belongs to you. I will report everything to the prince truthfully, and Prince Qing will definitely report it truthfully as well."

"Thank you, sir. I am just lucky. I don't know anything. My ancestors have been farming for generations. I dare not think about getting promoted, and I don't have the ability to do it. I dare not ask for rewards. As long as my family can live in peace here, that's enough."