Mo Yanliang

Chapter 61
Yan Jingshen has never studied ancient folk customs, so he doesn't know which dynasty started eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival.

However, Fengguo people also have the habit of eating cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the fillings are also varied.

But he left home to learn martial arts when he was six years old, and spent the nine Mid-Autumn Festivals at Hu's farm.

It is said that the middle-aged and young eat Lao Tzu to death, and a dozen of their seniors gathered together, and the food was snatched up before they tasted it.

So the mooncakes he had eaten over the years did not leave a deep impression on him, and he felt that they were not even as good as the sugar cakes made by his mother back then.

When Li Shi asked what he wanted to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he blurted out the word "sugar cake" almost without any thought.

This answer was beyond Li's expectation, but it was also reasonable.

During the few years when the Jing family moved back to Lincheng, life was extremely difficult.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating the sugar cakes made by Mrs. Li himself made the father and son very satisfied.

Mrs. Li suppressed her tears back: "Just like your father, he doesn't care about anything, but he likes to eat sugar cakes."

Yan Jingshen added: "It's not that I like sugar cakes, but I like sugar cakes made by my mother."

Knowing that he was trying to make herself happy, Li Shi was still very upset.

"Shen'er, you've been traveling for so long, go back to your room early and rest."

When the mother and son walked out of the kitchen, she suddenly thought of something: "By the way, my mother just wanted to discuss it with you, but now that my health is recovering, the cook should resign.

We are a small family, so we should live frugally, besides, it is very uncomfortable for my mother to be idle and have nothing to do all day. "

There is no need to worry about such trivial matters, Yan Jingshen nodded: "Just according to my mother's wish, pay her a few more days' wages, and don't let them pick it up."

Li Shi was more and more relieved that his son acted so thoughtfully.

While talking, the light in the old man's room went out.

"Mother, this old man Gao..."

"Leave it, it's pitiful to be alone at an old age."

Yan Jingshen didn't know that his mother was kind, but he just used the matter of firing the cook as a joke with her.

The mother and son went back to their rooms to rest without mentioning it.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival has finally arrived.

After dismissing the cook, Mrs. Li started to work in the kitchen early in the morning.

In addition to the sugar cakes that my son ordered, I also made some snacks and some of my husband's favorite dishes during his lifetime.

After the family paid homage to Father Jing, they sat around and had dinner together.

In recent years, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Lincheng has been rainy and rainy, and there is no moon to enjoy.

This year the situation is very different, the sun has just set, and the clear and bright moon is already hanging in the sky.

Many people go out early, and the lively place is comparable to the Shangyuan Lantern Festival.

After all, the Jing family was still in the filial piety period, so they were not in the mood to go out to join in the fun, so they wanted to enjoy the moon quietly in their small courtyard.

Du Juan helped Mrs. Li set up a table in the yard, and put all kinds of melons, fruits and pastries on it.

The old man Gao who was the gatekeeper was embarrassed to disturb him, and Yan Jingshen specially brought him some food and drink.

However, the reality is not as beautiful as they imagined.

During the festive season, we miss our relatives a lot, especially when we appreciate the moon in the absence of relatives.

Mrs. Li just felt that the cold moonlight made her heart cool. Compared with the past twenty Mid-Autumn Festivals in the past, it was a completely different feeling.

Thinking of my husband who would never come back, and thinking of the decades left in my life, I felt extremely sad and cold.

She wiped away her tears secretly, and said to Yan Jingshen: "Shen'er, mother is a little tired, so I went back to the room first. The weather is getting cold, you and Du Juan should not stay too late, go back to rest earlier."

Yan Jingshen wanted to send her off but was rejected, so he and Du Juan could only watch her go.

Looking at the thin and lonely back, the two felt even more uncomfortable.

"Cousin Shen, my cousin and aunt just shed tears."

"Mother misses my father. The two of them have been married for so many years, and their relationship has always been very good..."

Du Juan didn't speak any more, curled up in the chair, holding a sugar cookie in a daze.

She was too young when her parents left, and she didn't even remember what they looked like.

But she had a vague impression that their relationship was also very good.

If father was still there, would he be as amiable as his uncle Jing family, taking him around to play?

If my mother was still there, wouldn't she be as gentle and virtuous as Aunt Jing's cousin, making delicious sugar cakes for herself?
Yan Jingshen himself was not in a good mood, so he couldn't care less about comforting her.

He jumped into the room and lay on the roof looking at the bright moon.

Devil Pepper has already returned to the capital, so he must be enjoying the moon with his family at this moment.

Not only are their identities very different, but their circumstances are also completely different from their previous lives.

At that time, there were only their father and daughter in Xia's family, and after she finished dealing with Jing's family during the holidays, she would go back to accompany her father at night.

The Jing family is a big family, with seven aunts and eight aunts, together they can bring down the roof.

Right now, he only has his mother as his relative, and he finally realized how hard it was for her back then.

A huge career, a young son, an introverted father, a messy in-law's family, and of course his husband who exists in name only.

What a powerful soul lived in her thin body to bear all this.

Maybe it was because God felt sorry for her, so he arranged a completely different life for her.

Now that she has so many relatives to accompany her, even the cold moonlight will feel warm.

very nice……

Yan Jingshen's thoughts flew farther and farther, and he didn't know when he fell asleep.

In the early morning of the second day, he was awakened again by a knock on the door.

"What the hell, I'm asking for lamp oil money again..."

In a daze, what he thought of was actually the shop waiter who was urging for money for lamp oil that day.

He turned over, only to feel that his body was hurting, and only then realized that he had slept on the roof all night.

The knock on the door was more urgent, and it was also mixed with cuckoo's shouts.

"My cousin, my cousin—"

Yan Jingshen sat up slowly, and got off the roof with his hands.

The man who fell from the sky startled Du Juan.

"Shen...Cousin Shen...you are..."

Yan Jingshen waved his hand: "What happened to my mother?"

Du Juan swallowed her saliva: "My cousin always wakes up earlier than me. I made breakfast today, but I haven't seen her, so I came here to have a look."

The mother's living habits are naturally clear to Jing Shen, but she must have been in a bad mood last night and must have slept well, and it's not surprising that she couldn't wake up in the morning.

But he didn't dare to be careless, after all, Du Juan had been knocking on the door for quite a while.

He was inexplicably nervous, and he also slammed on the door a few times.

However, there was still no movement in the house.

Yan Jingshen felt more and more wrong, and kicked the door open.

The two ran in together.

I saw everything in the house as usual, even the curtains were in order, and someone could be seen lying on the bed.

Du Juan was a girl, so she didn't have so many scruples, so she hurried over and opened the curtain.

"Auntie, wake up..." She gently pushed Li Shi who was still sleeping soundly.

(End of this chapter)