Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

The days are getting colder and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.

Lin originally planned to make some mooncakes to sell, but the family was almost fully staffed, and since everyone was busy, she gave up.

However, I still made some mooncakes to share with my family, and for this purpose I built an oven next to the kitchen of the new house.

The oven is much larger than later household ovens and can bake dozens of mooncakes at a time.

With an oven, you can make more delicious foods, such as barbecued meat and roast duck.

Early in the morning.

Lin wrapped the mooncakes with oil paper, with six in each package, in three flavors: five-nut, egg yolk, and chestnut, two of each.

"Jingwen, these two packets are for Dr. Xu, and these four packets are for the county government office."

There are still a few packets left to be given to restaurants, and we also need to maintain good relationships with customers during the New Year holidays.

"okay, I get it."

Cui Jingwen followed Sifu into the city to deliver mooncakes, and distributed the remaining mooncakes to the people in the village with whom he had good relations.

The village head’s wife was very surprised to see the mooncakes.

"It smells delicious. Did you make this yourself?"

Lin specially paid a carpenter to carve three mooncake molds. The mooncakes were printed with flowers and were no worse than those sold outside, and even more exquisite.

"It's just in time for the holidays, so I made some extra mooncakes to share with everyone. This is my first year making mooncakes too, so Auntie, please try them and tell me which one tastes best."

"Your cooking is pretty good, it looks delicious to me."

The village head's wife took a deep sniff, smiled, and locked the mooncake away, planning to take it out and share it with the whole family on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Lin family visited the remaining families, and each family received the mooncakes with a smile on their faces.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day before Mid-Autumn Festival. Before leaving work, Lin called all the people who were currently working at Cui's house together.

There was a table in the yard, with two bamboo baskets placed side by side on the table, covered with cloth. Lin stood in front of the table and spoke with a smile.

“Thank you all for your hard work and dedication, which has enabled us to continue to operate. As the leader of the workshop, I would like to thank you all.”

Lin's sincere attitude stunned everyone.

It was clearly them who came to Jingwen Niang to make money, so why should we thank them in the end?

A group of people felt uneasy.

"Mother Jingwen, is this business going to close?"

"Pah, pah, pah, what unlucky words are you saying? But Jingwen Niang, if you encounter any difficulties, just tell us. It's okay to pay your wages later. We all believe you."

Lin smiled.

"There are no problems with the business. I have wanted to say this for a long time. It is your trust and dedication that have made our small workshop possible."

Aunt Wang took the lead and shouted, "Mother Jingwen is so polite. We should thank you. Your family is the only one that can do such an easy job and earn so much. Don't you agree, fellow villagers?"

"What Cuicui Niang said is right. It's hard to find such a good job even with a lantern."

Any further discussion would get off topic.

"Everyone has worked all day, and we'll have to go home and cook, so let's not go back and forth about thanking each other." Lin said with a smile, "Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can take a day off. I've prepared a holiday gift for everyone here, one for each person, as a token of my appreciation."

"What? There's a festival gift?"

Everyone was pleasantly surprised.

When the cloth covering the bamboo basket was removed, it was filled with round oil-paper bags.

"I baked these mooncakes myself. Four per person. Come and get some."

When they heard that the gifts were mooncakes, they couldn’t hide the joy in their eyes.

Although mooncakes are not particularly expensive, they still cost more than ten cents each. I can only afford to buy one or two every time there is a festival, and share them with my children, and just treat it as a festival.

Jingwen's mother was so generous as to prepare four mooncakes for each person, for free.

The aunts immediately gathered around Lin.

The first one to get the mooncakes was Aunt Wang. She had enough money to buy mooncakes, and Lin had already given her six mooncakes two days ago. She was so active simply to show her support for Jingwen's mother.

After she got the mooncake, she suddenly asked in confusion.

"Hey? Why is there a red paper bag stuck on the side?"

Those who received the mooncakes also looked at what they had in their hands. There was a red paper wrapper stuck on each side, which felt a bit rough when pressed.

Lin gestured for everyone to open it and take a look.