Chapter 19 Birthday Cake
"Madam," a man walked in hurriedly, holding up his clothes.
"I heard you crying. What happened?" the man asked anxiously.
As soon as Song Yu Niang saw her husband, the tears that she had finally stopped burst into tears again.
The man was anxious and asked Mrs. Liu: "Sister-in-law, what happened to you? I am so worried."
Before Madam Liu could say anything, Song Yu-niang pulled her husband over and said, "Yu-er just ate a cherry and the pit got stuck in her trachea. She almost got into trouble. Thanks to this girl who found a way to get Yu-er to spit out the pit, Yu-er is fine now."
"So it was the girl who saved my life. Thank you for saving my life." As he said this, he gave Qin Zhi a thank you gift.
"I don't deserve it, it's just a small favor."
"Miss Qin, thank you for saving my cousin," the fat boy Liu Qian also came over at this time, and after knowing the truth, he also thanked Qin Zhi.
"So you are Miss Qin. My son Qian often mentions you, saying that the ice jelly made by your family is delicious. He often asks the servants to bring it back to me, an old woman. Thanks to him, I have eaten a lot of it, and I didn't have a bitter summer this year." When Old Lady Liu learned that Qin Zhi was the girl selling ice jelly, she was very happy.
"Yes, even Yue'er and I have benefited a lot from it." Mrs. Liu also agreed with a smile.
"I am very happy that the old lady likes it. I will tell you the recipe. Whenever you want to eat it, you can ask the maid to make it for you."
"That's impossible. You're a guy who makes money, so how can you just give it away? Girl, to be honest, if it weren't for you today, my sky would have fallen." As he said that, he took off the jade bracelet on his hand and put it on Qin Zhi's hand.
Qin Zhi quickly declined.
"A gift from an elder cannot be refused," Old Lady Liu forced it into Qin Zhi's hand. Qin Zhi had no choice but to accept it.
"Madam, today is your 70th birthday. I haven't prepared anything yet, so I'll go to the kitchen and make you a delicious dessert. I wish you good fortune and a long life."
"That's great. I like the desserts you make, and the ice jelly is most to my liking." Old Madam Liu was happy. It was also a happy thing that her granddaughter turned a disaster into a blessing.
Qin Zhi went to the kitchen after he finished speaking.
There was ready-made milk in the kitchen, so Qin Zhi took some milk and eggs. Then he separated the egg whites, beat the egg whites, poured the beaten egg whites into the egg yolks that had been stirred in advance, and sifted in the flour and stirred well.
When Qin Zhi was helping to light the stove just now, he found that there was a ready-made oven in Liu's house, so he just used the oven to bake the cake. The sweet fragrance filled the room and Qin Zhi almost cried.
Qin Zhi took out the whipped cream from the space while no one was paying attention. He whipped it manually, then put it on the cake base and smoothed it with a long knife. He then put the remaining cream into the piping bag.
Qin Zhi squeezed a circle of peaches on the cake base, a dozen of different sizes, and finally brushed them with pink powder. The peaches immediately came to life.
Qin Zhi inserted a birthday star prop in the middle of the peach, which was of course also a product of the space.
Finally, I used brown sugar syrup to write a big word “Shou” on the cream in the middle.
After everything was done, Qin Zhi came to the front hall carrying the birthday cake on a tray.
By now the front hall had been cleaned up and everyone was talking to the birthday girl, Old Mrs. Liu.
As soon as Qin Zhi appeared, the cake in her hand dazzled everyone's eyes. Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
"Girl, why is the pastry you made so beautiful? The peaches are so lifelike, as if they grew on it. And the birthday boy is so adorable." The more Mrs. Liu looked at the cake, the more she liked it.
"Madam, this is called a birthday cake. A few years ago, a Westerner taught me how to make it. They eat this on birthdays, and the birthday person has to make a wish before eating it." Qin Zhi made up a story about the origin of the cake. In the past few years, there were still many Westerners coming to Qingzhou Prefecture to do business. I don't know if it's because of the language problem, but fewer and fewer people come.
"I want to eat cake,"
"I want to eat, too!"
The person who spoke was Song Yu and Liu Qian's sister Liu Tingting. Song Yu had recovered by now and was playing with her cousin. The two cousins were both five years old, but Liu Tingting was only a few months older than Song Yu.
"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you right away." After saying that, he asked Qin Zhi to help cut the cake.
Qin Zhi took the bamboo knife handed to him by Hong Xing and cut the cake into slices and put them on a plate.
Liu Tingting and Song Yu took the cake and couldn't wait to scoop a piece of it with a small spoon and put it into their mouths. The little girls ate so hard that their eyes narrowed into slits.
Qin Zhi prepared another dish for Old Lady Liu, and it seemed as if she had opened the door to a new world for the old lady.
Then, everyone else present was given a small piece, and everyone praised the cake.
The little fat boy Liu Qian didn’t even have enough to eat.
Qin Zhi had been delayed for a long time and was worried that Shen would be anxious, so he said goodbye to Old Lady Liu and left.
At this time, Shen had already sold out the ice jelly and was just waiting for her little daughter to come back and go home together.
After Qin Zhi and Shen reunited, they were about to go home, but when they passed by Jihe Hall, they were stopped by Doctor Zhao inside.
"Qin girl, today the cousin of the Liu family choked on a fruit pit. May I ask how you handled it at that time?"
Qin Zhi didn't mind telling Doctor Zhao that these first aid methods should indeed be made public. After all, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.
Upon learning that Qin Zhi was going to demonstrate first aid methods, the other doctors in the medicine chamber put down what they were doing and followed him to learn.
Qin Zhi first explained to them how to deal with foreign objects stuck in the throat of infants under one year old. Then he taught them how to deal with children over two years old and adults who encounter this situation. After the explanation, he demonstrated it on the spot. The doctors learned it after watching it and praised Qin Zhi one after another.
After all the hassles today, it was already dark when they got home. Shen and Qin Zhen hadn't eaten a single bite of food all day, and their stomachs were growling with hunger.
Qin Zhi brought out three bowls of instant noodles with some ham in them. The three of them didn't say a word and just inhaled them like a storm.
In the evening, Qin Zhi came to her space as usual. Pinduoduo notified her of the deposit twice, once because Qin Zhi saved Song Yu, and the other time because she made the first aid method public.
Qin Zhi ordered a lot of fruit tree seedlings and flower seedlings on Pinduoduo, and was just waiting for the new house to be renovated before planting them in the yard.
After placing the order, Qin Zhi went to the nearby farmland to take a look. The newly planted rice had already begun to head. The endless rice fields were refreshing to look at.
Qin Zhi couldn't fall asleep lying on the bed in the villa.
It has been almost a month since Zhan Xiao left Qingzhou Prefecture. I don't know what the situation is like in Yuanzhou now. Has it rained there? Is the food I brought enough? Should I get some more food for them? It's better to give it to our soldiers than to put it in the space. When they are full, we can fight the Japanese pirates and beat them to a pulp.