I heard that you are very rude

Make mooncakes for me?

Do it just for me?

Just do it for me alone?

Li Liren's heart seemed to have been soaked in honey, sweet to the depths of his soul.

The little thing has already said so, he really complied with Chen Mo's words that the money is free, and immediately used the funds in the store the next day to let Yan Yan purchase a batch of high-quality pear wood, and he will personally replace it with his own hands. Chen Mo made a batch of excellent molds.

The mold Chen Mo bought was the kind of crude plastic material in the supermarket. It was cheap and of average quality, and looked like a toy.Li Liren has a wide range of hobbies and has learned some carvings. He may not be able to do complicated root carvings, but it is no problem to carve cake molds for Chen Mo for a few months.

When drawing sketches for molds, Li Yiren always felt that the drawing was not very satisfactory. He remembered an inn owner he met in Lijiang before. The man seemed to know a painter. Li Weiren wanted to find a painter to design for him. Good pattern, he will carve again.

"Boss Li, I'm Li Liren. Last time I went to your inn, I saw a lot of oil paintings hanging there. You said you know someone who paints, can you do me a favor?"

Li Liren called and said his intentions.

On the other side of Lijiang, the innkeeper Li Shimin returned: "Yes, it happens that Liao Ran lives in our inn. I'll give you his contact information, you can get in touch."

Li Liren added the WeChat account of the painter Liao Ran, imagined a few patterns, and asked Liao Ran to help draw them.

Chen Mo took some time in the restaurant to knead some flour, and then made some mung beans to grind into bean paste for filling, and began to experiment with making mooncakes.

Whether the mooncakes are delicious mainly depends on the texture of the mooncake skin and the taste of the filling.If the skin is too oily or too hard, the filling is too greasy or too dry, which will also affect the taste buds.

Chen Mo tried a few times in a row, but the skin was a bit too hard. He took a bite and chewed it for a long time, which was like exercising his teeth, and he almost choked when he swallowed it.

After coughing a few times, Chen Mo secretly said: "If you make it like this and feed it to the old guy, I'm afraid his teeth will fall out."

Li Liren sneezed, is the air conditioner in the store turned on too much?

He contacted Liao Ran in the morning. It happened that Liao Ran was free. Around noon, Liao Ran had already drawn several samples and sent them to Li Kairen.

The effect of professional painting is really different, and Li Liren is very satisfied.

When Chen Mo delivered the lunch, Li Liren put his arms around his shoulders, and under Yan Yan's contemptuous gaze, showed him the picture Liao Ran had drawn: "Which one do you like? I asked a friend to recommend a painter who specially Designed."

Chen Mo: "..."

This person really has a lot of money, but his paintings are really good.

"Is the mold I bought not working?"

Chen Mo felt that his taste was too unique, and the old guy was a little disgusted.

"Hmm..." Li Liren carefully chose his words, "The mold you bought can print either piglets or puppies. It's really not suitable for my grade."

"So you asked someone to draw a picture of flowers blooming and wealth?"

One of the paintings is a peony flower in full bloom, with the word "gui" in the middle, which Li Liren especially emphasized and personally provided the idea for, and it is also the most twitching painting by Liao Ran.But it fits Li Liren's temperament, expensive means rich, and the mooncake skin is baked into golden brown, which suits him even more.

"I want to give it to my parents when it's finished," Li Yiren said, "They like this, after all, they are money lovers."

"What?!" Chen Mo was startled, "Do you want to make it for them?!"

Li Liren asked, "You don't want to?"

Chen Mo waved his hands again and again, and hurriedly said, "No, no! I don't know how to do it at all! Even if I learn it now, it must not taste good! How can I give it to them!"

How ugly!

Chen Mo could imagine that Li Liren's parents were definitely the kind of very noble and picky people, and he really couldn't afford to lose face like this.

Li Liren smiled and secretly squeezed Chen Mo's face: "They all like to eat if they are sincere."

Chen Mo tends to think too much, and there is a small theater in his mind casually.

He felt that the mooncakes he made were no longer as simple as mooncakes when they were served to Li Liren's parents.

Taking advantage of Chen Mo's distraction, Li Liren pinched it a few more times: "I'll carve the mold and give it to you, that's the deal."

Chen Mo nodded in a daze.

After Chen Mo left, Yan Yan lay down on the cash register like a dick: "Boss, when the time comes, Chen Mo has made mooncakes, will I have the honor to have a bite?"

"No way," Li Liren refused cruelly, "All he cooks are for me, if you want to eat, ask Lu Tianyi to buy it for you."

"Oh my God, it's too much." Yan Yan rolled his eyes and watched Li Liren start sharpening the carving knife, so he ran on him, "Why don't we close the shop? Don't delay your carving."

Li Liren raised his head and glanced at Yan Yan: "Yes, it's quite annoying to be interrupted by someone from time to time."

Yan Yan blinked, he was just talking nonsense, but the boss took it seriously?

"Is it really closed?"

"Well, shut it down and give you half a day off."

Chen Mo didn't know that Li Yiren didn't even start his own business because of him. When delivering dinner at night, he tried to bring the moon cakes he made to Li Yiren to eat, and asked him to give some advice.

Chen Mo parked the small eDonkey against the wall, and found the words "Closed for business" hanging on the door of the store.He raised his hand and knocked, and Li Liren came to open the door after a while, and when he saw him, his smile was more beautiful than the sunset.

"I tried to make a few today, and all of them failed in the morning. I couldn't swallow the unpalatable ones. I improved the recipe in the afternoon and found some progress. I want you to try it. You can see how it goes. .”

"it is good."

Li Liren was willing to be Chen Mo's guinea pig. He took off his apron, hung it on the hanger casually, and then went back to the backyard to wash his hands. Looking at the citrus that Yan Yan brought in the restaurant in the morning, he picked up a few good ones Give it to Chen Mo to eat.

Chen Mo squatted by the small table, watching Li Yiren carved half of the mold. Li Yiren's technique was really good, and the carving effect was lifelike. Chen Mo admired this old thing even more.

"How is it? Does it look good?" Li Liren has never been modest. He only has the word "humility" in his dictionary. Seeing Chen Mo's amazed expression, he was secretly happy.

"Well, it looks good," Chen Mo nodded, "Ginger is still old and spicy!"

Li Liren: "..."

"Sit in the chair and I'll tell you."

Li Liren pulled a chair, and the two of them sat leaning against each other. He picked up a mold and said, "This is the wealth and wealth of flowers. You have also seen it. The peony is our national flower. Don't think that seeking wealth is a vulgar thing. Only when the family is well-off can the family live a stable life..."

Li Liren explained to Chen Mo bit by bit.

"This circle represents the moon, and it's just a rabbit inside, you see it too?"

"Yeah," Chen Mo nodded, "The drawing really looks like it." It's much more realistic than the ones I bought in the supermarket.

"After this is done, you can also send some to your home."

Chen Mo was stunned: "No."

"Why not?" Li Liren looked at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo said awkwardly, "My family doesn't like moon cakes."

"Nonsense," Li Liren rubbed Chen Mo's head, "Chinese people eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is auspicious."

"My family often doesn't eat."

"Then you will send it home every year in the future, forcing them to eat."

Chen Mo: "..."

Li Liren turned over another one and said with a smile, "I specially asked to draw this one for you."

"What's this?"

"Didn't see it?" Li Liren put the mold in Chen Mo's hand, "Look carefully."

A villain's head was carved on the mold, with willful short hair, willful eyes, and a slightly pursed mouth.

Chen Mo: "..."

"Who is that ugly?"

Li Liren smiled: "Who else is there besides you? Do you lose your temper from time to time?"

"Fart! Don't you lie to me or play tricks on me, I'm full and lose my temper?"

"At that time, you can use this to make more. I will eat it every day, one bite at a time."

Chen Mo blushed slightly: "I'm not too tired."

"I don't mind."

"Then, try what I made this afternoon, and see if you get tired of it."

"Success," Li Liren took a bite, "It's much better than the ones sold outside, I say you really have a talent for cooking."

Chen Mo was overjoyed: "Really?"

"real."

After Chen Mo received the mold carved by Li Liren himself, his enthusiasm for learning to make mooncakes increased greatly, and his level soared as the Mid-Autumn Festival approached.

His culinary talent not only amazed the restaurant owner, but also shocked Aunt Wang of the neighborhood committee.

Aunt Wang has been deeply regretting Chen Mo's resignation, and she heard him say that their restaurant will launch moon cakes by chance, so she planned to order some from him and distribute them as a Mid-Autumn Festival welfare for the neighborhood committee.

"Xiao Chen, if our neighborhood committee comes to buy it, will there be a discount?"

Facing Aunt Wang's loud voice on the phone, Chen Mo replied in embarrassment: "Auntie, we are a small business, please be considerate and considerate of us, there will be a discount, but it won't be big..."

"Okay, whatever you have! Remember to choose big clothes for aunt!"

"Aunt...we sell by the catty."

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every customer who dined in their restaurant enjoyed a quarter of mooncakes for free.Although Chen Mo felt that the boss was a bit stingy, the comments he received were that the mooncakes were delicious. Some customers bought some on the spot after knowing that the mooncakes were handmade in the store, and the first batch sold out quickly.

The boss was a little overwhelmed and wanted to add the second batch, but the shop assistants quit. They made mooncakes and they all worked overtime at night. Not to mention the overtime pay was only a little bit. Do it, it's not easy.

And the hardest one was Chen Mo, who checked the whole process. After making the first batch of mooncakes, he already had plans to retire.

In the end, the boss can only give up.

What Chen Mo cared most about was when he was doing it for his own family and the Li family.

He first put incense on the statue of Guan Gong in the house, and silently prayed: "Second Master Guan, bless the mooncakes I made, everyone will love them..."

Then he started to make flowers blooming rich and noble, and he was so nervous that he was sweating.

From kneading the skin to mixing the stuffing, he didn't dare to relax in the slightest.In order to take care of the taste of the elderly, he put less oil on the mooncake skin. When making the filling, he made five flavors, five kernels, jasmine, rose, matcha, and mung bean. greasy.

And when he was making his own home, the tip of his tongue seemed to retrieve his childhood memories.

At that time, there were no cake shops in the village, and the mooncakes in his family were all brought back by the way when he entrusted other relatives to go to the town to go to the market.

Those mooncakes are all assembly line products produced by some big factories, they taste greasy and heavy, not delicate at all.

When Chen Mo was doing it, he specially made a large five kernels for his father. Although he knew that oil was not healthy, he knew his father's temper, and he was not happy with oil, so he could only apply a little more.

For others, he made four other flavors.He knew that the family would share the food and taste every flavor.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Mo got off work early, and he made an appointment to spend time with Li Liren.

Li Liren took him to the courier shop in the town, and wanted to send home the mooncakes he made by himself.

Li Liren really did what he said before, he packed a few flowers and sent them to Beijing.

However, when Chen Mo was writing the delivery note, he became hesitant.

After he left home, he basically had little contact with his family. He usually made phone calls, usually because the family said that his younger siblings needed money for school, so he would go to the post office to send some home. He would not do anything else. Take the initiative to contact the family.

Not to mention the Mid-Autumn Festival, he has never been home during the Spring Festival, and sending mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival seems a bit unnecessary to him.

After Li Liren finished writing his express form, he saw Chen Mo holding a pen and didn't write a word for a long time.

So he snatched Chen Mo's list: "You tell me your home address, and I will write it for you."

"Ah." Chen Mo was stunned.

Li Liren: "Quickly tell me, after it's delivered, I'll go home and cook with me."

"Oh, oh oh!"

"My home address is..."

Li Liren grabbed the pen holder and wrote stroke by stroke. Chen Mo stared at Li Liren while talking.

He thought to himself, the handwriting written by the old man is really beautiful, just like himself, with a sense of immortality.

The author has something to say: Hey~ Is it too realistic, affecting the sweetness?

The next book will be more relaxed, the kind where two people flirt with each other.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon~ I bought snowskin mooncakes recently, they are delicious~