Chapter 965: Panda Lantern Festival
The sun sets, and the busy day is finally over. Xia Shixuan straightens up and rubs her shoulders, looks at Chen Yibin and says, "I'm so tired, Abin, can you give me a massage when I go back?" As long as Abin dares to agree, I will have a chance. Xia Shixuan wants more than just a massage.
"I'm tired too. I can't even lift my hands up. I still have the strength to massage." Chen Yibin didn't realize that this was a good opportunity, so he waved his arms weakly.
Humph, you don’t know how to give you a chance. You deserve to be single until now! Xia Shixuan was so depressed that she didn’t know what to say, but she had long been used to Chen Yibin’s slowness and recovered after a while. Oh, that’s right, if Abin hadn’t been so slow, he would have been my turn. I’m afraid she would have been eaten up by Sun Qian, Sylvie, Bai Yanni, Sabuki Kaori, Qiao Wenqi, Mo Xiaomo and others long ago?
That's fine. Anyway, I've been with Abin now for the longest time now. Don't rush to take it slowly. You will definitely find an opportunity in the future. After a little rest, Xia Shixuan began to pack up with Chen Yibin and prepare to go home. "Abin, will we continue to work tomorrow?" Otherwise, I won't leave tonight?
"What are you thinking about? It's Lantern Festival soon. There's Lantern Festival that you still have to work!" Chen Yibin shrugged, "Of course I'll have a rest tomorrow. I'll continue to come the day after tomorrow!"
"Yes, I almost forgot." Xia Shixuan felt a little regretful. The family had already agreed to have dinner with the whole family tomorrow, and even the chef had been invited. I'm afraid there was no time to come to accompany Abin, "Then Abin, why are you planning to celebrate the festival?" Could it be that he was having the holiday with Haer alone again? Why would he go to my house with me to spend it?
"Oh, I've agreed to Wenyuan long ago and go to his house when the time comes." This time, I'm afraid there will be only food in the past. I guess they won't let me go to the mahjong table no matter what their family said, and I'm a little upset.
"That's it." Xia Shixuan had no choice but to swallow the unspoken words back, "Then I wish you a happy Lantern Festival in advance. If our family ends early tomorrow, I will come to you for a drink." She was still a little unwilling.
"Okay, I guess Xu Ye will come here too. We will be together at that time, but we have agreed in advance that you two are not allowed to drink me together!" Chen Yibin was still scared of what had happened before.
"No problem, let's go, I'll carry this!" As he spoke, Xia Shixuan stretched out her hand and picked up the portable outdoor stove and followed Chen Yibin. Malfurio's family returned to Haer's chest pocket, and the whole guy slowly walked towards Chen Yibin's manor.
As for the issue of stream water, Xia Shixuan had just agreed with Manager Li that he would pack a few buckets later and personally send them to Xia Shixuan's house. The opportunity to meet the group company's boss in person is very rare. Of course, Manager Li would not be unhappy.
When they got home, Xia Shixuan and Haer lay on the sofa to rest. Chen Yibin entered the kitchen and started working. Today, he was really tired, so Chen Yibin just made a few side dishes and cooked some porridge and finished it. Everyone was having dinner happily together, looking at the moon outside the window. Well, it was indeed fifteenth, and the moon in the sky seemed particularly round. I wonder if there would be more benefits to practicing the turtle breathing technique of the turtle god immortal today?
After dinner, it was almost eight o'clock when the table was packed. But Xia Shixuan still didn't want to leave and wanted to find Chen Yibin for two drinks, but when she turned around, she disappeared. She got up and looked for it. Chen Yibin seemed to be in the kitchen, "Abin, have you finished the meal? Why are you still busy in the kitchen?" It won't take so long to clean the kitchen, right?
"Oh, make some Lantern Festival. Isn't tomorrow the Lantern Festival? You must prepare it in advance." With Chen Yibin's current cooking skills, he can appreciate the vacuum-packed Lantern Festival sold in supermarkets. He must make it yourself. "If you are not in a hurry to go back, you can wait. I will give you some when I'm done. You can take it back and try it with your family."
"Okay, okay." Xia Shixuan was still struggling with what kind of excuses to find for a while, but now she quickly agreed when she heard this, "I can do it, too, why don't I come to help you?"
"Okay, you go and wash your hands first." Chen Yibin replied casually. Not only did he plan to send Lantern Festival to Xia Shixuan, but he also planned to send some to Xu Ye, Bai Yanni, Lu Tiantian, and other friends who were still in Yunzhong City. If you want to make so many Lantern Festivals, it is naturally good to have someone help.
"Hey, what is this? It doesn't look like sesame powder?" It usually takes glutinous rice flour, sesame and sugar to make Lantern Festival, but Xia Shixuan saw a pile of black powder on the chopping board, and didn't know what it was for.
"Oh, this is cocoa powder, you need to make Lantern Festival in a while." Chen Yibin replied casually, then mixed the cooked black sesame powder, sugar, melted cream and honey, stir evenly, compact it, and then roll it into a circle of appropriate size, ready to serve as the filling for Lantern Festival.
"What's the use of cocoa powder?" Xia Shixuan was a little confused. She had also helped her family make Lantern Festival before, but she had never used cocoa powder. Could it be that Chen Yibin invented some new style of Lantern Festival?
"Hehe, what I want to make is of course not ordinary Lantern Festival. I plan to make panda Lantern Festival. You'll be fine!" Chen Yibin smiled and divided the glutinous rice flour into two parts in size. Add water to the larger one, and kneaded it hard to make the glutinous rice balls. This is used to make the rind of Lantern Festival. It will be cut into small pieces to make the rind of Lantern Festival skin later.
"There are fillings and crusts, and the ingredients for making Lantern Festival are enough." Xia Shixuan looked at the pile of cocoa powder. There seemed to be no use for this.
"Don't worry, keep watching." As soon as Chen Yibin finished speaking, he mixed the cocoa powder into the small ball of glutinous rice flour and stirred it evenly. This cocoa powder was the pure black cocoa powder specially found by Chen Yibin. After a while, the glutinous rice flour was dyed black, which looked particularly eye-catching compared to the white Lantern Festival peel.
Just like the previous method of treating Lantern Festival peel, knead it hard into dough, and put it aside after kneading it, "Look at it, the cocoa powder is coming in handy!"
After saying that, Chen Yibin took the glutinous rice ball and kneaded it into strips, and then pulled it into small doughs one by one. The mixed dough of black cocoa powder and glutinous rice flour was also operated. Xia Shixuan looked at it without blinking, and she had already vaguely guessed what Chen Yibin was going to do.
After the preparations were completed, Chen Yibin picked up a glutinous rice ball, pressed it into a round cake with his hands, then scooped a round filling with a spoon and put it in the middle of the Lantern Festival crust, and then wrapped the filling tightly with the Lantern Festival crust. Up to now, it is no different from the ordinary people making Lantern Festival.
But the next thing was different. Chen Yibin took another ball of dough mixed with cocoa powder and glutinous rice flour, divided it into four large and one small five pieces, and pinched the large four pieces into an oval shape. Two were pinched on the Lantern Festival just wrapped, pressed the two in the middle of the Lantern Festival, and then pinched the smallest cocoa powder into a circle and pressed under the two ovals.
"Hey, it's really like a panda!" When Xia Shixuan saw this, she was immediately happy. The white Lantern Festival seemed to be the head of a panda, the two black ovals on the top were like the ears of a panda, the two black ovals in the middle were like the dark circles of a panda, and the small circle at the bottom was naturally the mouth.
"In fact, it can be made more finely, such as adding eyes to the middle of dark circles. But after thinking about it, I had to put the Lantern Festival in water and cook it. After a little time, I couldn't see it, so I'd just be lazy." If it was replaced with steamed ones, I might be able to do this, but it would be better to cook Lantern Festival.
"Ha'er, come in quickly!" Xia Shixuan happily called Ha'er in and brought the Lantern Festival to it, "Look, do you look like you?"
"Yeah! Yeah!" Haer stretched out her claws to take the Lantern Festival, lowered her head and looked at it, then raised her claws to stuff the Lantern Festival into her mouth, probably because she smelled the fragrance of the filling inside.
"I'll go, are you just finished the meal?" Chen Yibin quickly stopped him, "This is still raw. Be careful of diarrhea after eating!" If you want to eat, I can cook it for you later, what's the hurry!
"That's right, you'd better go out and play with Xiaoliu and the others first. When we're done, cook it for you. Abin, can we taste a few in the evening, right?" Xia Shixuan pressed Ha'er's shoulder and let it turn around, and then pushed it back into the living room.
"No problem. Anyway, I have prepared enough materials, so I will give you a try in a while." Chen Yibin agreed with a smile, and then walked over to the stand and made aside for Xia Shixuan. "You should have learned it just now, right? Let's continue to make Lantern Festival with me! I'll try it for you when it's done."
"No problem, it's not very difficult!" Xia Shixuan said confidently. Although my cooking skills are not as good as Li Shiqing, I have been practicing with you for so long. Wouldn't it be easy to make a Lantern Festival?
"Yes, yes, it's just like this. The ears are a little bigger, so the weight left to the eyes and nose is not enough. If you don't look good at that time, it's almost done!" Chen Yibin kept pointing at Xia Shixuan while wrapping around, and the two of them were busy happily.
After working hard for an hour, I finally consumed all the ingredients, and placed a cute Lantern Festival on the table, lined up from one end to the other.
It looked delicious, Xia Shixuan couldn't help swallowing, "Abin, let's cook a few now, let's try it?"
Chapter completed!