On May 22nd, the weather was sunny and the temperature was pleasant.
Xiao Nianzhi got up early and started busy. Since she still needed to prepare birthday cakes, whip cream, and extract butter, she did not change into today's new clothes for the time being, but picked an old one.
He took Isatis and Changshan with him, and called a few more servants to go with him, and first went to the small kitchen in his courtyard to extract butter.
With a few people working together, the efficiency is pretty good.
However, the beating process when extracting butter is indeed rather useless.
Where have all the servants ever done this kind of work?
Everyone was so tired that they were in a trance.
I can't say I'm tired, I just feel...
The arm doesn’t seem to be yours?
Other places are pretty good!
Of course, Xiao Nianzhi didn't let them work for nothing, and the rewards they deserved were not less at all.
So even though I was tired, no one complained.
I even want to pray for more opportunities like this!
After all, who doesn’t like extra money?
After extracting the butter, the remaining work is relatively simple.
Of course, except when whipping cream!
The cake embryo needs to be made, the proportions need to be mastered, and the heat needs to be paid attention to.
Fortunately, Xiao Nianzhi had done a little experiment yesterday and knew the temper of the Feng family's roasting cellar.
However, the roasting cellar is in the big kitchen, and subsequent work must go there.
Fortunately, in the kitchen, other stoves may still be busy, but the roasting cellar is temporarily empty. Xiao Nianzhi and them have no influence on each other, and no one can hinder the other's work.
Xiao Nianzhi was very busy here.
The chefs were so excited that they nearly threw their pots into the sky!
As a birthday boy, Mr. Toyoji actually has no real sense of reality.
In recent years, there really haven't been many times when he stayed in the mansion to celebrate his birthday.
This is a rare occasion, and my mood is different from before.
This year, he found his daughter. Although it was just a grave, at least he knew where her daughter was and it gave him peace of mind.
In addition, he also found his granddaughter.
This is the gift that his daughter left in this world for him, and it is also a thought.
At this time, he was sitting in a pavilion not far from the big kitchen, looking at a little girl in green clothes not far away who was busy, and he could not suppress the smile on his lips no matter what.
Xiao Nianzhi doesn't need to do anything most of the time, because Isatis Lan and Chang Shan have helped before and they know many of the processes.
Therefore, they can all understand Xiao Nianzhi's command, and they also know how to arrange people.
Occasionally, Xiao Nianzhi raised his hand, revealing the ordinary-looking peach wood bracelet on his white wrist, which attracted the attention of the servants.
However, no one was too embarrassed to ask why the second girl was wearing such a bunch of peach trees instead of wearing fine jewelry, gold and silver.
To be honest, Xiao Nianzhi really didn't show it on purpose. He only raised his hand occasionally, and the loose clothes fell down a bit. The cuffs inside were not long enough to extend to the wrists, just exposing the moon-like part.
Ordinary white, and also has the ordinary bracelet.
If you look closely, you will find that the workmanship of the bracelet...
Well, it's not exactly refined, it's even a bit rough.
That's not right. In fact, you can tell that a lot of care has been put into the details. Even if the craftsmanship is not very good, I have put a lot of care into polishing it. I also specially rinsed the oil, and even soaked the oil with incense. After I smelled it carefully, I still felt it.
You can smell the faint peach blossom fragrance on the bracelet.
This is Yan Xingxuan's recognition gift to Xiao Nianzhi.
In fact, Yan Xingxuan didn't know what to give, and it was Xiao Nianzhi's birthday soon.
If you didn't catch up last year, you have to be more careful this year.
But before that, there is another wedding ceremony.
After Yan Xingxuan thought about it, he felt that his sweetheart was not short of gold and silver, or...
Make one yourself?
But what to do is another question.
Yan Xingxuan had been thinking about this matter since his birth until Xiao Nianzhi's marriage recognition ceremony.
In fact, the decision has been made a long time ago, but in the end there was no finished product, so I kept hesitating.
The string in Xiao Nianzhi's hands now seems ordinary and not very well made, but it is already the best among all Yan Xingxuan's finished products!
At least, the beads are polished and rounded, and each bead is about the same size. Occasionally there will be some flaws, but they have all been carefully corrected by Yan Xingxuan.
However, he was new to wood carving and his carving skills were really not very good.
At first, I wanted to engrave characters on it, including Xiao Nianzhi’s name.
However, it later failed.
Until the final product came out, the name was not carved yet.
In the end, I could only pick two of the beads and carve bamboo leaves.
To be honest, today’s bracelets look too plain.
But Xiao Nianzhi still put it on.
She felt that it didn't matter whether it was good or bad, what was important was the thought, and she received it.
For a noble man who usually only pays attention to eating, drinking and having fun, Yan Xingxuan has never been exposed to such things as wood carving before.
Now that I can get started and am willing to do it, it is actually a kind of progress.
Don't expect the other party to do it in one step, that's a genius. If Yan Xingxuan has such ability...
Well, there must be a lot of people trembling, right?
Including Yan Xingxuan himself.
Therefore, as long as you are willing to do it, people will always make progress slowly.
She wore it because she accepted the sincerity of the other party.
As for more choices...
I really can't say anything about this bracelet.
In addition, the weather has been bad these past few days, and the other party has not come, so I have no chance to say anything.
Today is another family dinner, and it is not convenient for the other party to come.
However, Yan Xingxuan had already come to deliver the gift in person early in the morning.
However, Xiao Nianzhi had been busy and Yan Xingxuan was too embarrassed to disturb him, so the two of them did not meet.
After a busy morning, lunch will be ready soon.
Although it was said to be a family banquet, there were quite a few people in the family, so we ended up eating in the banquet living room.
Although everyone is sharing meals, they are not particularly divided.
Xiao Nianzhi accompanied her grandfather at the same table.
Of course, that particularly beautiful big cake was carefully pushed in by the servants.
To this end, Xiao Nianzhi even temporarily modified a table and added wheels to facilitate pushing the cake.
In fact, the servants can carry it over, but I am afraid that they will accidentally bump into it again and fall down, which will be a waste of effort.
The cake has three layers, from bottom to top, from large to small.
From the old longevity star hugging the peach, to the green Nanshan Mountain, to the rising bamboo, they are all excellent metaphors for the choice.
To this end, Xiao Nianzhi also tried a lot of edible pigment colors in advance, just to make the cake more layered and the color more vivid and obvious.
Now it seems that the effect is still very good.
From the pink of Shoudao peach to the green of Nanshan, and then to the deep green of bamboo.
From light to dark is not only the color, but also everyone’s visual experience.
Even though Feng Ning had secretly seen the cake before, she would still be amazed when she saw it again in person.
She thought, it had to be her cousin. With this ability, she was the only one in the whole capital, and no one else could do it!
Thinking of this, Feng Ning raised his little head proudly.
