Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1215 - 383: Shadow, Scalding_3

Chapter 1215: Chapter 383: Shadow, Scalding_3

Mo Yan and Xin Er listened to their innocent younger sister’s words, watching her clumsily yet earnestly making mooncakes, feeling a bitterness in their hearts. No one corrected her on the mistake in address, hoping only that she would grow up happy, free from cares for her entire life. But could their wish really come true?

The three sisters joyfully made mooncakes, and under Mo Yan’s guidance, Shengsheng finally produced what could be called a perfect mooncake after "ruining" more than twenty doughs and over thirty salted eggs.

Mo Yan and Xin Er spared no effort in their praise, which, in the eyes of the adults, seemed exaggerated, but it made Shengsheng extremely happy; she felt as if she had indeed made the most beautiful mooncake.

She held the mold high and said loudly, "I’m going to give this mooncake to my stepmother tomorrow by myself."

"Very well, Sister will wrap it up nicely for you, and you can deliver it to Aunt Cui in person," Mo Yan said with a smile as she pinched the little nose, encouragingly.

Despite the little one’s bravado, she becomes quite shy in front of unfamiliar people. Whether she would speak up in front of Cui Qingrou tomorrow remained an unknown, let alone personally delivering the mooncake.

When the three had made two hundred lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncakes, Lixiu and her team had also finished the red bean paste and rose fillings.

The red beans and roses had been taken out of the Space by Mo Yan. The red bean filling was sandy and fragrant, with moderate sweetness that wasn’t cloying, while the rose filling looked pretty and had an aromatic scent, making these fillings even better than the lotus seed paste and egg yolk.

There were rose and egg yolk mooncakes on the market, but their taste and texture didn’t come close to those made by the Mo Family. In the end, they made three hundred and fifty red bean mooncakes and the same number of lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncakes, while the rose and egg yolk mooncakes reached a whole seven hundred. Aside from distributing three kinds of fillings to each of the three hundred workers in the orchard, they planned to turn the remaining rose and egg yolk mooncakes into gift boxes to be given to friends and relatives, allowing them to taste something unique.

"It’s going to be very lively tomorrow with so many people celebrating the festival together, it’s just a pity that Miss Liu and her family will be spending the New Year at the Shen family; otherwise, it would have been even more boisterous," Xin Er said with a hint of regret as she placed the mooncakes into the oven.

"The Shen family doesn’t live in Jing City, so it can’t be helped if they can’t make it back. Next year, Sister Lan will definitely stay in Jing City to spend it with Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu. Then we can all get together again," Mo Yan felt a twinge of regret too, but thinking about next year lifted her spirits again.

Once married to the Shen family, Ting Lan was technically supposed to be their member, and apart from delivering holiday presents to her maternal family, she should be celebrating the festival with her in-laws. But Shen Ji doted on her greatly and indulged her in this matter, having already agreed to bring her parents to Jing City next year in advance, so that both families could celebrate the festival together. This would not only foster relations but also make his wife happy.

Making a total of fourteen hundred mooncakes took the six of them the entire morning. After a hasty lunch, Mo Yan placed the oven on the large traditional stove.

Baking mooncakes required careful attention to the temperature, and not trusting others with the task, Mo Yan herself sat by the stove, adding charcoal and meticulously controlling the fire.

Before long, wisps of sweet aroma started to waft out of the oven, and Mo Yan grew even more cautious, not wanting a moment of negligence to burn the mooncakes or leave them undercooked.

The sweet fragrance grew stronger and soon filled the kitchen and drifted outside, attracting not only Xin Er and the others but also Mao Tuan, who had been snoozing in a corner of the yard. The creature hummed its way into the kitchen, paws perched on the stove platform, desperately sniffing at the oven with drool pouring out like a waterfall, quickly dampening a patch of ground.

Mo Yan couldn’t help but be amused by Mao Tuan’s sorry state, laughing uncontrollably.

Far from feeling ashamed, Mao Tuan seemed to take pride in its behavior. It grinned at Mo Yan, saliva flowing more freely as if silently urging her to hurry up, for it could hardly wait any longer.

"Thank goodness Little Flower isn’t at home. Otherwise, this oven would have been knocked over," Xin Er giggled as she pinched Mao Tuan’s ear, swiftly retreating before its paw could reach her.

Mao Tuan glared ominously with wide, tiger-like eyes and let out a low growl at Xin Er, though its paws remained still. Although this creature couldn’t tolerate anyone but Mo Yan disrespecting it, the King of the Forest, even if people from the Mo Family really touched its whiskers, it would just roar and never actually harm them.

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