Chapter 39 Going to school is so hard! I can't even take a day off.
Friday arrived in the blink of an eye.
Friday is a good day, and it's an even bigger day for the welfare home because Bai Miaomiao, who hasn't been home for a week, will be returning, and Xiao Ba, the newest member of the family, will also be discharged and go home.
Last night, Lou's mother officially announced to everyone that a new member would be joining the family. Everyone was extremely excited because this new family member is only one and a half years old!
He will become everyone's younger brother!
The most excited of all was Wen Xingmou. As the youngest in the orphanage—that's right, Wen Xingrui was two months older than her—she was about to become the older sister the moment Xiao Ba returned home. How could this not be a historic leap?
Therefore, in order to witness this historic moment, Wen Xingmou tried to persuade Lou Lan to let her skip class early this morning so that she could stay home and wait for this sacred moment to arrive. However, Lou Lan ruthlessly refused her.
However, Lou Lan repeatedly assured her that her younger brother would definitely not come home until after she had finished school.
Ugh... Going to school is so hard, I can't even take a day off.
When Wen Xingmou arrived at the kindergarten gate, she grabbed Lou Lanqian and repeatedly reminded her, "Aunt Lou, you must come to pick me up early today. I must get home before my little brother."
"Okay, Aunt Lou will definitely come to pick you up early today."
"Even earlier than Grandma Lin Wuyang, is that alright?"
"Can."
Wen Xingmou finally felt relieved and walked into the kindergarten gate.
How can a good day be complete without a delicious meal?
Of course not.
In An Fusheng's memory, all good days had to be celebrated with a delicious meal.
After breakfast, An Fusheng didn't go digging; instead, he took Wen Xinghe and Wen Xingrui to the market to buy groceries.
The group was extra careful when buying groceries today, picking and choosing, comparing and contrasting before finally acquiring all the vegetables they needed.
Back home, An Fusheng remembered Wen Min saying that the day the children came to the orphanage was also considered their birthday, so he took the two children to a nearby supermarket to buy ingredients for making a cake.
Although An Fusheng himself doesn't eat cake on his birthday, he knows that city people always have cake on their birthdays because it's said that if you make a wish while looking at the cake on your birthday, your wish will come true.
In his previous life, some people in the village would buy a cake from the city to eat when they had a birthday, but An Fusheng's family did not have any connections in the city and did not want to trouble others, so they never bought one. Logically speaking, An Fusheng would not be able to make cakes, but he had an all-powerful older sister named Chunyi!
An Chunyi is An Fusheng's cousin. Because her own house was small and there weren't enough rooms, An Chunyi didn't have a room in her own house. An Fusheng's house happened to have an extra room, so An Chunyi stayed at An Fusheng's house to sleep. Therefore, An Fusheng considered An Chunyi to be like his own older sister.
An Chunyi is the only college student in Fushan Village. After graduating from university, she worked in another province. Once, when she returned home on a family visit leave, it happened to be An Fusheng's grandmother's birthday. So she asked An Fusheng to secretly make a birthday cake for her grandmother.
An Fusheng had an exceptional memory for cooking since childhood. At that time, Sister Chunyi patted his head and entrusted him with the important task: "The cake-making is up to you."
Then An Chunyi took out her phone, opened a tutorial, and guided An Fusheng to make a cake while watching it. As a result, An Fusheng learned how to make cakes before he had even eaten them. And it was the kind of cake that Sister Chunyi certified was even better than the ones made in cake shops.
However, it was already almost noon, so An Fusheng had to make lunch first.
Xiao Ba was discharged from the hospital today. The hospital was quite busy. Lou Lan went to the hospital, and Wen Min didn't come back either. However, even if Wen Min came back recently, he didn't have time to eat lunch, so An Fusheng made a simple lunch as always.
An Fusheng cooked hand-pulled noodles and made a topping of minced meat and potatoes. Although it was simple, it tasted quite good. The three of them ate their fill, and the children got sleepy after playing for a short while after lunch.
After sending the two children to take a nap, An Fusheng started preparing the cake.
An Fusheng is going to make a blueberry chocolate mille-feuille cake today because the supermarket staff said that eating blueberries is very good for children, and chocolate is a favorite among children.
This was An Fusheng's second time making a cake, and it was an important day where only success was allowed. So he put aside his desire to "learn by analogy" and completely copied the cake recipe that Sister Chunyi had taught him.
When Sister Chunyi taught him how to make cakes, there was no egg beater at home, so Sister Chunyi found two large mineral water bottles and had Anfusheng shake the bottles to replace the steps that required an egg beater.
An Fusheng used the old method: he put eggs, sugar, low-gluten flour, milk, cocoa powder, butter, etc. into a bottle, tightened the cap, and then shook the bottle wildly. As expected, he eventually succeeded.
Thinking back to how he and Sister Chunyi used to sneakily hide in the kitchen to make cakes for Grandma, An Fusheng couldn't help but laugh. But then he was filled with emotion. Sister Chunyi had never come back after that trip home, and now he wasn't by Grandma's side either. How would Grandma celebrate her birthday in the future?
After preparing the liquid for the thousand-layer skin, An Fusheng began to fry the thousand-layer skin.
Making crepes was no challenge for An Fusheng, who was very skilled at controlling the heat. The only difficulty was that it was a bit time-consuming. The crepe skins were very thin, and each time only a little bit was poured into the bottom of the pan and spread evenly to make one crepe. An Fusheng shook a large bottle of liquid and estimated that he would need to make hundreds of crepes.
An Fusheng discovered that the non-stick pan in his home had come in very handy again. The rim of the pan was about the same size as a typical cake. An Fusheng couldn't help but exclaim, "You really are useful. I apologize for my previous dismissive attitude towards you."
It took nearly two hours to fry all the liquid into thin, chewy pancakes. An Fusheng covered the thick stack of pancakes with plastic wrap and put them in the refrigerator to chill.
The children should be waking up soon, so An Fusheng went upstairs to check on them, and sure enough, they were already awake.
Wen Xinghe had already gotten up and was playing with puzzles on the carpet, while Wen Xingrui lay on the bed, whimpering and talking earnestly to the ceiling.
Hearing footsteps, Wen Xingrui jumped out of bed and immediately gave An Fusheng a big smile when he saw that it was An Fusheng.
An Fusheng carried Wen Xingrui out, his hand reaching down to touch his genitals. "Did you pee?"
Wen Xingrui shook his head like a rattle drum, seemingly unsure if he understood, but An Fusheng touched a heavy bag and said, "I don't believe a ghost."
An Fusheng skillfully changed Wen Xingrui's diaper and then took Wen Xingrui and Wen Xinghe to play in the kitchen.
Making cakes doesn't require constantly watching the fire or worrying about oil splattering; Anfusheng can watch them while making the cakes.
Previously, when making dumplings, the dining chairs were moved to the kitchen. These past few days, everyone has been eating in the kitchen, and the chairs and tables haven't been moved back yet. An Fusheng put Wen Xinghe and Wen Xingrui in the chairs and moved all the ingredients that would be needed next to the dining table.
"Big brother, what are you doing?" Wen Xinghe smelled a sweet aroma coming from the kitchen.
"I'm planning to make a blueberry chocolate cake."
"Is it a birthday cake filled with wishes?" Wen Xinghe asked.
"right."
"Whose birthday is it today?" Wen Xinghe had no concept of the passage of time, so she couldn't guess whose birthday it was.
"It's kind of like Hachi's birthday."
Although this birthday was customized by Wen Min, it doesn't change the fact that it's a very important day.
Wen Xinghe thought so too. She couldn't help but sit up straighter in her chair and asked curiously, "Big brother, what does blueberry taste like?"
She had tried strawberry chocolate cake and mango chocolate cake. The chocolate was sweet, the mango was sweet, and the strawberry was a little sour, but what did blueberry taste like?
The supermarket was having a blueberry promotion today, buy two get one free. An Fusheng bought two boxes but ended up with three. He didn't need that many for making a cake, so he gave one box to Wen Xingrui and Wen Xinghe as fruit. "You'll see when you try it."
Wen Xinghe picked up a blueberry and ate it. It was so sweet!
The other two boxes of blueberries were stir-fried into blueberry jam.
Add the cooked blueberry jam, heavy cream, and powdered sugar to another clean plastic bottle, shake it vigorously, and the cake filling cream is easily made.
When Wen Xingrui saw An Fusheng shaking the bottle, he stared at it with bright eyes, as if he had discovered a new and interesting toy, and tried to snatch it from An Fusheng's hand.
“Hey, I won’t give it to you.” An Fusheng deliberately waved it in front of him, but didn’t let him catch it.
Wen Xingrui wasn't angry at all; instead, he felt that An Fusheng was playing with him, and he chuckled as he grabbed at him.
"How come you have such a good temper?"
After shaking the cream, you can assemble the cake.
An Fusheng found a stainless steel bowl about the same size as the crepes, peeled off the plastic film that had just covered the crepes and placed it at the bottom of the stainless steel bowl to prevent sticking, and then stacked the cake layer by layer, layer by layer of cream. When he had stacked one-third of the cake, he suddenly remembered that Wen Xingrui had bought a box of Oreo cookies at the supermarket today and had not finished them.
"Wen Xingrui, could you please contribute your Oreo cookies?" An Fusheng asked Wen Xingrui.
Wen Xingrui was engrossed in picking and eating blueberries when he heard An Fusheng call his name. He looked up at An Fusheng.
"Not saying no means that means you agreed."
Wen Xingrui grinned, "Hehe."
An Fusheng casually crushed the Oreo cookies that Wen Xingrui hadn't finished into powder and spread it evenly in the cake layers, eventually covering the entire cake with three layers of Oreo cookie crumbs.
After assembling the crepes and cream into a cake, refrigerate it to prevent the cream from melting and to lower the surface temperature of the cake, making it easier for the chocolate sauce to solidify later.
An Fusheng then melted a small bowl of chocolate sauce with a little milk and dark chocolate.
Finally, I found a flat plate, inverted the assembled crepe cake onto the plate, removed the plastic wrap, and the top of the cake was flat and neat.
An Fusheng then poured the slightly cooled chocolate sauce onto the cake. The chocolate sauce slowly flowed from the center of the cake in all directions. Because the surface temperature of the cake was low, the chocolate sauce, which was already on the verge of solidifying after cooling, solidified little by little before it could flow too far due to the slightly lower temperature.
The final thick layer of chocolate sauce, like a hat, perfectly covers the upper half of the cake.
An Fusheng opened two bags of daily nuts that the children usually snacked and casually sprinkled them on the cake. He then grabbed the dozen or so blueberries that Wen Xingrui hadn't finished eating, washed them, and placed them on the cake. "Absolutely perfect!"
Wen Xingrui, whose blueberries had been taken away, stared at An Fusheng in astonishment.
An Fusheng raised an eyebrow at Wen Xingrui, who was stunned for a moment. Then, Wen Xingrui looked back and forth between An Fusheng and the cake, before finally giving An Fusheng a bright smile.
An Fusheng: This kid's emotions are really stable!
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