Hehua Gaoyuan is regarded as a good community with top-notch facilities and properties in Hongcheng. It is so good that some aunts and uncles passing by to buy vegetables will stop and sigh.
However, no matter how high-end a good community is, there are also old ladies who use the garden as a vegetable field. This is a fine tradition of frugality and hard work.
There is a family seven or eight blocks away from Jiang Wang's family. It seems that the children have gone out of the province to do business. The huge house is only guarded by Granny Feng.
The garden in front of the house is huge, big enough to build a small pond to raise koi, or put a swing, and plant many flowers.
Granny Feng chose to dig the soil and build up the soil. First, she set up a vegetable shelf that can wrap around pumpkins, loofahs, and cucumbers, and then planted some Chinese cabbage and round-headed radishes in the two fields next to it.
Then go to water and fertilize day and night, and take care of it hard.
She probably guessed that chickens and ducks are not allowed to be kept here, after all, they are too noisy and easy to crawl out of the fence to shit everywhere.
After much deliberation, he actually brought a lamb from the countryside and named it Tuantuan.
The lamb has just been weaned, and when the weather is fine and sunny, it wanders in the small yard, and occasionally goes to the vegetable field to eat weeds. If it is raining and windy, they will take shelter in the small sheep house built with bamboo boards, nest in the thatch pile and sleep peacefully for a long time.
The property owner was faintly worried about the old lady raising chickens, ducks and geese, but she didn't expect that she would bring a lamb, so she could only bite the bullet and go over to discuss it.
"When this sheep grows up, it still has to be taken away. Otherwise, if something happens to it by accident one day, you will feel sad, won't you?"
Granny Feng repeatedly promised to hold the little lamb in her arms like a grandson for a long time after returning home.
Peng Xingwang likes the lamb very much. He found it on the first day when he moved in. Later, he would go to say hello to it when he went to and from school.
On weekends, I went to see it when I had nothing to do. First, I grabbed the fence, and then the old lady knew him well, and gave him a yard key to help take care of him.
Jiang Wang was afraid that the children would cause trouble to the elderly living alone, so he went to visit and apologize with a basket of fruit, and the old woman smiled and told them not to be restrained.
"I'm lonely by myself. I'm very happy to see you all. Come here often."
After Jiang Wang grew up, he didn't show his emotions so much, but occasionally he would accompany Peng Xingwang to help the old lady water and clean the yard, and sit in the sunset and feed the sheep for a long time.
Later, Xingwang heard about the news from the property, and when he went to see Tuantuan again, he was a little nervous, and he had to hold onto the railing to talk to it before leaving.
"You have to eat slowly and grow up slowly."
"Don't grow too fast."
He probably thought of the experience he had when he almost thought he was going to have his kidney cut, and he particularly resonated with these two sentences.
Jiang Wang didn't say anything at the time, until he walked home with Xingwang, and said something without thinking when he opened the door.
"You also eat slowly and grow up slowly."
The child tilted his head: "Huh?"
Ji Linqiu just opened the door to take out the trash, and glanced curiously: "What are you talking about?"
The child also wondered: "I don't know."
Teacher Ji laughed and motioned for them to come to the kitchen together.
"The mixer, the oven, and the raw materials have all been sent by your secretary, and I bought three copies of the materials on purpose to prevent you from messing them up. It's still early, let's try?"
Jiang Wang was slightly dissatisfied: "Two copies are enough, I'm so smart...."
Ji Linqiu handed over two A4 papers: "It's a bit complicated, take a look?"
Jiang Wang silently read the ten lines.
"Ms. Ji... shall we do it together?"
Ji Linqiu had expected it a long time ago, and put on the apron together with him.
October is approaching, and the cold air comes quietly from the mountains and forests. It is bleak and piercing, and it is easy to catch a cold when it blows.
Jiang Wang wanted to be comfortable, so he went back to his room and changed into a set of pajamas before going out to put on an apron.
The two looked at each other, feeling that the other was soft and easy to pinch.
Jiang Wang is tall and has a stretched frame, wearing dark gray plush pajamas like he hasn't graduated from college, and his sense of aggression when doing business has been greatly reduced.
Ji Linqiu was wearing a light brown woolen sweater. The sweater looked very soft, and his broken hair fell to his ears. It seemed that he would be very comfortable to hold.
Jiang Wang couldn't help taking another look, and his eyes fell on the piece of white jade on his right wrist.
"It's easy to get dirty when making desserts, do you want to pick them?"
Hearing the sound, Ji Linqiu raised his hand and shook his head: "No, I will be careful."
Jiang Wang looked at this piece of jade and found that it was of good quality.
The texture is moist and clear, without any dirt or cracks, and it is oily enough, like a cup of snow lightly held by the palm.
When I was young, I used to patronize my teacher, but I didn't take a close look at this pendant.
"Is it downstream seed material?"
"You understand very well." Ji Linqiu flashed his wrist in front of him, and when he mentioned suet jade, he missed it very much: "My father brought it back to me when he went to Xinjiang to support education. I have been wearing it since I was twelve years old."
"So he is also a teacher?"
"Well, a professor of physics at the university, after retiring, he returned to his hometown in the next province to teach middle school students, and he refused to be idle." Ji Linqiu thought of Jiang Wang's visits to him several times before, and could not help subconsciously defending.
"My dad... looked like a sick child after he fell ill. In fact, he was very healthy and liked winter swimming. But teaching... it is too easy to get sick."
Jiang Wang suddenly realized something.
If he never came back, and he didn't bring Ji Linqiu there in the middle of the night to help his father find a bed, would things have gone in a different direction
The man withdrew his thoughts, and changed the topic as if he wanted to protect this secret.
"The color is very good, can I touch it?"
"certainly."
Ji Linqiu was worried about his father's teaching that "a gentleman is fine, jade never leaves his body", so he moved closer and hung his palm in front of his palm.
Jiang forgot the tricks his friend taught him before, and carefully touched the jade on his wrist.
Warm and smooth, bright and clean.
The fingertips stroked from the jade body to the bottom, and gently scraped with the fingertips.
Ji Linqiu bit her lips inexplicably, as if trying to hold back some teasing.
Jiang Wang was sincerely envious that he would always wear the jade as a gift from his father, and he didn't pay attention to Ji Linqiu's expression, so he withdrew his hand to tie the apron.
"Hey... One day I'll do something for Peng Xingwang too."
I am ashamed to buy for myself.
Ji Linqiu realized that he was absent-minded, and quickly responded.
Inner self-warning when wearing an apron.
What do you think about all day long.
Chocolate Melaleuca is simple and simple.
After the batter is made, the crepes are fried layer by layer, and they are placed in a stack like wholesale pancakes.
Then make the cream corresponding to the taste, one layer of cake and one layer of cream are slowly stacked up, cover the top layer when there are about twenty layers, sprinkle some cocoa powder, and you're done.
Ji Linqiu's translation is very detailed, from how much sugar and whipping cream should be stirred, to how many batches should be sifted in, and how many seconds should the batter be baked on a low fire.
do.
Jiang Wang compared the front and back sheets of paper and found something.
"The original eight-page English translation can be shortened to two pages?"
"That's not true," Ji Linqiu pointed forward two paragraphs: "From here to the end, it's all about the origin of this cake."
"This shape originally came from the city of Szeged in Hungary, and was later redesigned by Cafe de la paix next to the Paris Opera House. It was repackaged two years ago and named it q ts Feuille, which means five hundred layers of cake."
Ji Linqiu speaks French very well, even if he only reads a string of words alone, he seems to be able to speak with ease and briskly.
Jiang Wang was touched by this, looked at him and said, "Do you know French?"
Ji Linqiu held back a smile and read a long paragraph of French to him, elegantly and casually.
"When you handed the information to me yourself, didn't you carefully check what language it is in?"
Jiang Wang was dumbfounded: "I'm still wondering why there are so many pinyin mixed in this English."
Peng Xingwang sat not far away to do his homework, and heard the sound mixed in: "Mr. Ji is so handsome! I want to learn too!"
Ji Linqiu's eyes were squinted by the praise, and he continued to tell the two of them.
"This French coffee shop deliberately created a selling point. Not only do the cakes come in six flavors, but they change every month, so it can bring freshness to customers."
Jiang Wang had already heard the money tree ringing.
"They make six, so we can make twelve."
Ji Linqiu thought he was joking; "Where did you get so many together?"
"Chocolate, strawberry, matcha, mango, kiwi, meat floss." Jiang Wang thought very quickly, counting on his fingers: "Durian, sea salt milk cap, Oreo, soy milk, dragon fruit, and a red velvet cherry ,Is it enough?"
Ji Linqiu didn't expect this at all, and asked in surprise, "Can durians be put into cakes?"
Jiang Wang subconsciously wanted to say that in 20 years the streets will be full of durian desserts, but he abruptly stopped the topic and nodded quickly.
He suddenly felt sorry.
I really want to take you to see it twenty years later.
The desserts there are delicious, there are high-speed trains everywhere, and the schools are advanced and open.
The world there must be good to you too.
The two each divided a menu, one was in charge of mixing the batter and the other was stirring the cocoa cream. After finishing it early, they summed up their experience and recorded it again later so that the employees could learn while watching.
Ji Linqiu put his previous experience of baking scallion pancakes here, and as expected, he overturned the car.
The first one was battered, the second one was more than half broken, and the third one was still raw on the edge and in the middle.
When the fourth card was overturned, he finally laughed and cursed in a low voice.
Jiang Wang forgot to add sugar and turned to look at him, then forgot how many spoonfuls he had added.
Ji Linqiu looked frank and frank: "What's the matter?"
"Very charming," Jiang Wang comprehended and praised: "You scold me nicely, I will scold more in the future."
Ji Linqiu thought that the two of us are really weirdos, so he took a breath and continued to make pancakes with him.
Fortunately, I finally remembered to read the instructions later, and said to turn on a low fire, so I spread out a lot of them in a pan, and stacked them with Jiang Wang one by one.
When the twenty-fifth floor was covered, the cake wobbled, like a castle built with cream and soft cakes.
Ji Linqiu used a spatula to carefully handle the cream on the edges, and then sprinkled a layer of light icing sugar, and the appearance immediately improved.
"Insert a small gold velvet shop logo, and some people will believe that it is imported from France." He laughed.
Jiang Wang was looking at the thin layer of cocoa butter on the back of his finger.
Ji Linqiu's skin is so white that it glows, and the skin is even more radiant when stained with chocolate.
Butter up and down with the knuckle movements, especially dazzling.
The man clicked his tongue.
I really want to lick it off.