Because she was worried, Qi Mengmeng did not eat dinner in the hospital. She gave the money ticket to Li Zhuang and asked Li Zhuang to buy dinner for the two of them. Then she went back to the hospital first.
On the way back, Qi Mengmeng kept thinking about how to bring up this matter with Li Laidie. She couldn't just say, "I want to find someone to "see" the child, and ask you to take me there." What if the other person doesn't agree?
After thinking about it all the way, when she was about to reach the family quarters, she finally came up with an idea.
She quickened her pace, almost pedalling until sparks flew, and arrived at the staff quarters at just 5 o'clock.
Qi Mengmeng let Lei Lei play by himself. She went to the kitchen and took out a bag of red beans. She planned to make some red bean cake, which could both please Lei Lei and send some to the neighbors.
As an excellent cake chef, what she is best at is definitely baking cakes and breads, but there is no oven at home, so she can only think of steaming and boiling methods.
Red bean cake requires few ingredients and is not complicated to make, which is just right for her now.
She poured more than half a pound of red beans, washed them clean, and then steamed them in a pot.
In fact, it is best to soak the red beans for three or four hours before cooking them when making red bean cake, but she wanted to use it tonight and couldn’t wait to soak the red beans again.
After the red beans are cooked very soft, take them out and pour them into a large bowl to cool, then take the opportunity to mix some white sugar into it.
When the red beans are almost cool, pour in clean water. After the water covers the red beans, add glutinous rice flour and stir while adding until the red bean and glutinous rice paste becomes thick.
She washed the two lunch boxes, coated them with a layer of oil, poured the red bean and glutinous rice paste in, smoothed the surface before putting them in the steamer.
Put the lid of the lunch box loosely on the lid before covering the pot. This red bean glutinous rice cake needs to be steamed for about half an hour.
Qi Mengmeng cooked a pot of noodles for herself and Lei Lei, and cut half a sausage into it. Because Lei Lei was young, she specially cut the Cantonese sweet sausage.
When Leilei ate it, he smiled happily: "Mom, this meat is sweet."
Qi Mengmeng suddenly remembered that most of the sausages nowadays are smoked at home, and very few are sweet. It seems that in the future, sweet sausages can't always be taken out before finding their source.
Lei Lei is young now, so he can't be too relaxed. It would be even more troublesome if he said something outside.
After the two of them had their meal, the red bean glutinous rice cake was ready. Qi Mengmeng took out two lunch boxes and poured them on the chopping board.
The steaming red bean glutinous rice cake exuded the aroma of red beans. Lei Lei took a deep breath and said, "Mom, it smells so good."
"It's a little hot now, eat it later." Qi Mengmeng was afraid that Lei Lei would get burned, so she pulled him aside to play.
After a while, when the red bean glutinous rice cake was no longer hot, Qi Mengmeng cut the cake into small pieces.
She scooped a few pieces into a small bowl and handed them to Leilei: "Leilelei, try it and see if it tastes good."
Leilei carefully pinched a piece and put it in his mouth. His eyes narrowed as he ate: "Mom, it's delicious."
Seeing that Leilei liked it, Qi Mengmeng cut the red bean glutinous rice cake in another lunch box, put it on a plate, and prepared to take it to the next room.
Lei Lei asked Qi Mengmeng to squat down. As soon as Qi Mengmeng squatted down, a piece of cake was stuffed into her mouth.
Leilei asked happily: "Mom, is it delicious?"
"Delicious." Qi Mengmeng tapped Leilei's little nose and showed him the cakes that she had specially reserved. "Leilelei can eat these slowly. How about we give the other plate to the kid next door?"
Lei Lei had cake in his mouth and couldn't speak. He just nodded.
Seeing that he was not the stingy and cunning person, Qi Mengmeng touched his little head.
She once again confirmed that Lei Lei had a good upbringing and must have a good family background. She couldn't be so selfish and keep Lei Lei by her side. She must find a way to help Lei Lei find his family.
While it was still daylight, Qi Mengmeng took the plate and took Lei Lei to the next door.
The Xu family had just finished their meal. Li Laidie was washing dishes in the kitchen, and Xu Daming was playing with Xu Weiwei. When they heard a knock on the door, they came out.
"Who is it?" Xu Daming looked at Qi Mengmeng standing outside the door and was stunned for a moment: "Who are you?"
"I live next door. My name is Qi Mengmeng." Qi Mengmeng didn't expect that it was Xu Daming who opened the door.
Xu Daming quickly realized that this was Gu Guizhi's newlywed wife. He nodded and said, "I just came back yesterday and haven't been to the hospital to see Guizhi yet. I heard that he has woken up?"
"Yes, he will be discharged next week." Qi Mengmeng answered, and she raised the plate in her hand: "I made some red bean cakes today, bring some to Weiwei."
Before Xu Daming could say anything, Li Lai Di came out and asked, "Daming, who is that?"
"Sister-in-law, it's me. I made some red bean cakes. Bring some to Weiwei." Qi Mengmeng took the initiative to speak.
"It's Mengmeng. Have you eaten?" Li Laidie warmly invited Qi Mengmeng to go into the house. Xu Daming nodded at the two of them and went into the inner room.
Qi Mengmeng came into the room and put the plate on the table, then called Xu Weiwei: "Weiwei, come and try it. Is the red bean cake made by Aunt Qi delicious?"
Xu Weiwei's eyes had long been fixed on the red bean cake. She immediately stepped forward upon hearing this, and fortunately she also remembered to glance at Li Laidie.
"Mengmeng, these look expensive. Just give them to Leilei. Why bring so many?" Li Lai Di looked at the full plate of red bean cakes and felt embarrassed to accept some.
"It's for the child. Leilei can't finish it all by himself." Qi Mengmeng took a piece for Xu Weiwei herself. Li Laidi quickly took a piece for Leilei as well, and let the two children play together next to them.
Qi Mengmeng handed another piece to Li Lai Di: "Sister-in-law, try my cake. If it doesn't taste good, I'll improve it later."
Li Lai Di waved her hand. Qi Meng Meng had already put the cake in her hand. Li Lai Di could only eat it. Her eyes widened instantly: "Mm, it's delicious."
Xu Weiwei beside her also smiled and said, "Aunt Qi's cakes are really delicious."
Qi Mengmeng handed her another piece: "It contains glutinous rice flour, so you can't eat too much. Eat a little today, and the rest should not go bad if you eat it tomorrow."
Li Laidie wanted to get one for Leilei as well, but was stopped by Qi Mengmeng.
"Sister-in-law, Leilei has already eaten at home, don't give him any more. Besides, he hasn't slept well these past two nights, so I don't dare let him eat too much."
When Qi Mengmeng said this, her face was full of worry.
Li Lai Di couldn't help but ask what was going on?
Qi Mengmeng told him about Leilei's crying at night, and finally sighed: "I have never raised a child, I don't know what to do if this child cries at night?"
Li Lai Di understood immediately after hearing this. She slapped her thigh and said, "Leilei must be frightened. These damn human traffickers tortured a good child into this state."
Qi Mengmeng said, "How about I take Lei Lei to the hospital tomorrow and let the doctor take a look. Why didn't I think of it today?"
"It's useless to go to the hospital." Li Laidie said casually.
"Sister-in-law, do you have a solution?" Qi Mengmeng grabbed Li Lai Di's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, although Lei Lei is not my child, I am raising him now. I can't just watch him cry every night."
Li Lai Di first glanced at the inner room and said hesitantly, "I do know a place where I can show the child, but..."
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