Every year the moon reflects the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since I was sensible, almost every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the old mother would let my father go to the "Kunming Guansheng Garden" to order a few boxes of cloud leg red cakes and white cakes and send them to Xuanwei's hometown.
40 years ago, when I went back to Xuanwei with my mother to visit my grandfather and grandmother, it should be the eve of the Spring Festival, the snow outside has not been cleaned, there is still a thick chill in the air, the wooden house in Xuanwei's home looks particularly dilapidated, I heard my daughter come home with my eldest grandson, the old man sat up from the bed with wrinkles on his face, smiled and said, You entrusted people to bring home kunming Guansheng Garden last year, ham red cakes, white cakes are very delicious, the taste is very good.
The old grandfather is an old official of the Kuomintang, although it is good to drink some wine, but the calligraphy skills are solid, almost 70 years old, still invited by the three relatives and six relatives nearby to write the Spring Couplet, until the sky is dark, the street lamp in the depths of the alley is on, and then he is sent back with a crutch.
Back in the somewhat dilapidated home, when grandpa saw me and my mother, his cloudy eyes immediately brightened, and he took my hand and said, "Good, good, good, and grown taller and stronger, like a half-sized guy." Then he turned to his mother and said, over the years, you and Lao Zhang have brought us the mooncakes from Kunming Guanshengyuan every Mid-Autumn Festival, and whenever you see the Big Red Cake, White Cake, and Plum Blossom Brand Two Or Two Lumps of Guanshengyuan Ham that you have brought, it will be like seeing you and the children.
At that time, I was still a child of young age, but I knew that since I was a child, my grandfather and grandmother were accustomed to putting me in the palm of my hand and afraid of spending in my mouth, although at that time I bought the ham big red cake and ham big white cake of Kunming Guansheng Garden, including four boxes of plum blossom brand export packaging "ham lump", which not only had a high price, but also a cake ticket.
To this end, the old mother also secretly saved the pastry tickets delivered every month, saved the salary for the first half of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then pulled me to the Kunming Guanshengyuan store on Huguo Road early in the morning to wait in line to buy ham big white cakes and ham big red cakes, so that the old grandfather and grandmother could taste their favorite "Kunguan" ham mooncakes and experience the longing of their relatives between the two places.
Journalist Zhang Yaohui