After dinner, Zheng Siyuan tidied up and prepared to go home from work.
Qin Huai’s working hours changed, but Zheng Siyuan’s didn’t. Other than guo’er, Huang Ji only sold snacks at noon. Although Zheng Siyuan helped Qin Huai make a lot of Three Meat Buns in the morning, his own fresh meat mooncakes hadn’t been taken off the shelves, and he even made the Zhou Sha Wonton and Paopao Dumpling in the morning.
One could say that Zheng Siyuan’s workload was super doubled.
Now, the super doubled Zheng Siyuan decided to go home and study Mixed Fruit Filling to get back at society.
If Zheng Da were at home this afternoon, the person to be avenged would be his dad, because Zheng Da would have to taste the flavors.
Zheng Siyuan went to the changing room to change clothes.
Qin Huai also went to the changing room to get his mobile phone, and Ouyang had already successfully delivered the snacks to the hospital, helping Qu Jing become the most popular guy in their department again.
As an unqualified errands runner, Ouyang regretfully told Qin Huai that because he first rode a bike and then transferred to the subway to save money, the soup of the Four Happiness Glutinuous Rice spilled out.
At the same time, the unqualified errands runner also complained about the unqualified shopkeepers.
When Qin Huai was packing, he hadn’t separated the packaging, putting the Four Happiness Glutinuous Rice and the soup in the same takeaway box. By the time Ouyang brought the snacks to the hospital, the glutinuous rice had soaked for too long and puffed up a little, so the taste wasn’t very good.
Plus, the hospital did not have good equipment to heat the rice balls, and Qu Jing didn’t think to borrow a pot from the canteen. She simply poured the rice balls into a bowl and microwaved them, almost turning the Four Happiness Glutinuous Rice into sesame sticky rice soup.
Not fully bursting was the rice balls’ final defiance.
However, even though the Four Happiness Glutinuous Rice was already unrecognizable by even the chef, Qin Huai, Qu Jing still sent a five-star review, because she loved drinking sticky rice soup.
Regarding this, Qin Huai held his phone in silence for two minutes, not knowing how to respond. After thinking it over, he could only reply:
You like it, then that’s good.
Qin Huai even wanted to ask Qu Jing if her love for sticky rice soup was because Dean Qu’s skill in cooking rice balls was poor, and he often boiled frozen rice balls into sesame sticky rice paste, deceiving the kids at the orphanage by saying it was sesame sticky rice soup, so that’s why Qu Jing loved sticky rice soup.
Qin Huai hesitated and didn’t ask.
He still believed in Dean Qu’s skills.
Cooking frozen rice balls into sesame sticky rice paste, and then tricking the kids by saying it’s sesame sticky rice soup, is something that Director Qin of the Sanmalu Children’s Welfare Institute did.
At this moment, far away at the Sanmalu Children’s Welfare Institute in Qiu County, Director Qin sat in the director’s office sneezing, then closed the window and continued to happily count money.
Last year, they unexpectedly received such a large donation, and for the first time in years, they had a budget surplus instead of calling the higher-ups to plead for poverty. Director Qin said she had never calculated such prosperous accounts.
Director Qin glanced at the children’s drawings on the table, happily adding cheap watercolor pens to the procurement list.
Heh heh, with money, even if the last batch of watercolor pens isn’t completely used up, buy new ones!
Our Sanmalu Children’s Welfare Institute is standing up now, the kids no longer need to draw blue grass and white trees.
When Qin Huai comes back for the new year, she’ll definitely take the kids at the orphanage to make a dumpling feast for Brother Bao Bao.
Qin Huai didn’t know Director Qin had such plans. If he did, he would surely call Director Qin to persuade her to forget it.
Brother Bao Bao is not that eager to eat dumplings.
If Director Qin really felt bad, she could just destroy those ugly drawings he made as a child. Don’t carefully store them in a file bag as a treasure, and take them out every year when the kids from the orphanage come back to see Director Qin for the new year. He’s tried sneaking them out several times but never succeeded.
After replying to Qu Jing and Ouyang’s messages, Qin Huai waited outside the changing room for Zheng Siyuan. When Zheng Siyuan came out and saw Qin Huai waiting for him, he knew that Qin Huai wanted to talk to him privately about something.
"Do you have new ideas for Mixed Fruit Filling?" Zheng Siyuan asked.
"If you don’t have time to make sticky rice cake and need me to do it for you tomorrow, fine, I’ll come back a bit later tomorrow afternoon."
"Also not this, I think occasionally making a sticky rice cake to relax is quite nice." Qin Huai waved his hand, seeing Zheng Siyuan’s look as if he was a pervert, then continued, "Do you know how to make Double Crab Bun?"
"I googled it a bit and found that it seems to be a bun made with crab roe and sea cucumber. But I couldn’t find a specific recipe, not a single recipe."
Under normal circumstances, no matter how obscure a recipe is, you can find one or two completely incorrect methods online. But Double Crab Bun was peculiar, Qin Huai did a simple search and not only couldn’t find recipes, but almost couldn’t find that snack at all.
Zheng Siyuan’s expression instantly turned to: you really have just fallen in love with Four Happiness Glutinuous Rice for a short time, how many days has it been, and you’ve already changed your heart.
"Did Mr. Gong say he wanted to eat Double Crab Bun?" Zheng Siyuan asked.
"Not at all." Qin Huai felt it wasn’t fair to blame everything on Gong Liang’s head, "It’s a friend of mine who knows about this snack and kind of wants to eat it."
"Now, crabs are out of season, and Double Crab Bun needs the plumpest crab roe and sea cucumber to make. It can’t be done at this time of year," Zheng Siyuan said. "It’s normal that you can’t find information online; this bun is a real secret recipe."
"Back in the day, my master’s master could have the recipe for Double Crab Bun because there was a customer who loved it so much and paid a high price to buy the recipe and asked my master’s master to learn it."
"Later, because the customer loved it so much, he wanted to eat it all year round. My master’s master developed a recipe that used crab roe paste to make Double Crab Bun, turning the plump crab roe into crab roe paste for long-term preservation, but my dad only learned the recipe for crab roe paste, not the recipe for making Double Crab Bun with crab roe paste."