Duan Tingxuan hurriedly apologized with a smile, but heard Su Nuannuan said unhappily: "Alright, stop talking. Did the old lady send you here to complain? Go stand on the cart and hold the cake stand. You won't be afraid if the maids push it faster."
Duan Tingxuan looked at the wheelbarrow and the cake stand on it that was surrounded by a cloth curtain, and said with a curled lip, "So this is why you asked me to come over. Who can't do this kind of work? Why do you have to ask me to come over here?"
Su Nuannuan snorted coldly, "What are you talking about? Who can be as stable as me? Just go if I tell you to. Do you want the old lady to stretch her neck like a goose?"
Duan Tingxuan suddenly realized and said with a smile: "So you saw that my lower body is stable. In fact, Madam has been doing horse stance for so many days, so you should have made some progress, right?"
This was obviously a stab in the back. Su Nuannuan had been doing the horse stance for more than two months, and she had to follow his method to breathe in and out for a quarter of an hour every night, but it didn't work at all. Hearing this, well, the scumbag dared to bring up such a thing. She glared at him and said angrily, "If you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have remembered it. Do you want us to settle the score here? I've been doing the horse stance for two months..."
Before he could finish, the young marquis had already put away his smile and said seriously, "Stop making trouble, Nuannuan. It's important to go to the North Courtyard to present the birthday gift. Do you really want the old lady to be stretched into a goose?" After saying that, he took a few quick steps and jumped onto the cart lightly. He held the cake stand with one hand and tried to lift the curtain with the other hand to take a look. He muttered to himself, "Let me take a sneak peek and see what this birthday cake looks like?"
"Don't move, beware of turmoil."
Su Nuannuan's words suppressed the young marquis's "wolf ambition". Helplessly, he had to let go of his hand and said with a pout: "Forget it. If you don't want to look, then don't look. Anyway, you will know in a while."
In this way, the crowd accompanied the wheelbarrow and quickly came to the North Courtyard where many guests gathered. The young marquis stood on the wheelbarrow, looking majestic, but in fact he was very uncomfortable in his heart. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that his "heroic posture" was a bit silly. If possible. He would rather not be in the spotlight like this. But... it's done, it's too late to regret now. So he can only comfort himself in his heart: It's not shameful, not at all. I am honoring my grandmother, no one can say anything. The ancients had colorful clothes to entertain their parents, and I am just standing on a wheelbarrow. What's this? Damn, next time this happens again. I must find someone else to come, at least this wheelbarrow must be cleaned up, right? Cover it with red and colorful things, don't pull it out in such a shabby look, it's embarrassing.
But soon the young marquis found out that he was worrying too much. It was true that he was the center of attention. But everyone's eyes were on the tall cake on the unicycle. Who would have the time to look at him?
"Madam, there are so many people here today. There is no room for everyone to stand in the hall. Since everyone is curious, why don't we go to the yard and see what the cake looks like?"
Madam Yang suggested with a smile, and her dislike for Su Nuannuan was reduced a lot: although the scene of the fierce woman chasing her son in Meiyue Tower was really rare in the world, and it made her so angry that her liver ached, but since returning to the backyard, this woman has not caused any trouble. The only time she made trouble was when she made the second room look bad, which also helped her vent her anger. Afterwards, her husband never mentioned it in front of her, probably because he understood that his good son and daughter-in-law were not doing a good thing. This made Madam Yang secretly happy for a long time. In addition, with the dim sum dishes and the recent ice cream sent to her room, her disgust for Su Nuannuan slowly melted away under the attack of these delicacies.
"I'll do as you say."
Old Lady Fang was also very happy: her grandson and his wife had escaped death, but who would have thought that they would become such caring people. After living for so many years, this year's birthday was the happiest. Because she was leaning on a dragon-headed cane, the second and fourth princes and Madam Yang personally supported the old lady out of the door. At this time, the courtyard was crowded with guests. The female family members were in the corridor, and the male guests were on the long bluestone road. They were all looking at the cake stand on the wheelbarrow and whispering and talking endlessly.
Under Duan Tingxuan's command and supervision, several maids carefully moved down the cake stand. It turned out that there were four wheels under the stand. They pushed it all the way to the center of the yard. Old Lady Fang smiled and said to the Second Prince beside her, "Forget it, it's right there. Let Tingxuan lift the curtain. I want to see what Nuannuan has come up with this time."
Jiang Changning agreed and walked out of the crowd to pass on a message to Duan Tingxuan, whereupon the young marquis nodded, and several maids retracted the bamboo poles supporting the cloth curtain, and the seven-layer cake slowly revealed its true appearance, causing exclamations and admiration from the crowd.
Old Lady Fang and Madam Yang were also stunned. They saw that the big cake in the yard was divided into seven layers. The top layer was a sculpture of an old birthday star holding a longevity peach. The old birthday star was wearing red clothes, with kind eyes and a sweet smile. In one hand he held a dragon-headed cane, and in the other hand he held a huge peach. The tip of the peach was bright red, and the bottom was light pink, which was very mouth-watering.
Although the cake below does not have such amazing sculptures, it is also beautiful with flowers. The big cake at the bottom is so big that one person may not be able to hug it. On it is a picture of pine and crane for longevity, with green pines and white cranes, surrounded by auspicious clouds, birds singing and flowers blooming, just like a fairyland.
I don't know who started clapping, and then the cheers and applause flooded the whole yard like a tide. Old Lady Fang walked down the steps tremblingly, excitedly looking up at the big cake, and after a long while she turned to look at Su Nuannuan and said, "Good boy, did you make this this morning? How... How is this possible? Did you have three heads and six arms?"
"Old lady, I know you are praising me, but can we not be so horrified? The one with three heads and six arms is Nezha, not me." Su Nuannuan said with a smile, which caused a burst of laughter. But the prince gasped and said, "Don't be fooled. If you don't have three heads and six arms, how can you make such a wonderful thing in one morning? Fourth brother is in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ask him to ask the craftsmen in the Ministry of Internal Affairs if they have this ability?"
Su Nuannuan said, "Although it was only made in one morning, the preliminary preparations started three days ago. If you don't believe me, ask our master. His arms are still sore. It took him most of the day to make the cream, and he made 20 to 30 kilograms, and he had to make it in various colors. Fortunately, he has strong internal strength. If it were someone else, they would have collapsed from exhaustion."
Old Lady Fang smiled and said, "Okay, I know Tingxuan is filial, you don't need to push the credit onto him."
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