The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 245 Mission Completed
Huang Anyao and Gong Baozhu are both efficient people. They may not be very good at their work, but they are definitely fast.

If you ignore the trivial matter of two small river shrimps falling out of the plate of stir-fried river shrimps, the two of them can be said to be dexterous.

As Qin Huai brought a large bowl of four-happiness dumplings to the table, the dishes were basically ready.

As for why it is basic, it is because Zheng Da's qianhua gongdeng bao is still in the steamer, and he just doesn't serve it. In Zheng Da's words, qianhua gongdeng bao is different from four-happiness tangtuan, which can be served together with other dishes and eaten during meals.

The flower-shaped lantern buns must be served as the last snack and eaten last. If they are served too early and left to cool down, the taste will be bad. It is better to keep them warm in the steamer. He knows his limits.

Huang Shengli said that Zheng Da was just being picky.

Huang Anyao didn't care about the taste, as long as there was something to eat. He not only served the dishes, but also took the bowls, ready to actively serve the dumplings to everyone.

As a result, Huang Anyao was in trouble as soon as he picked up the bowl, and asked his father for help: "Dad, how many of these four-happiness dumplings should each person serve?"

Normally, four-happiness dumplings are served in one bowl. Zheng Da's bowl is big enough to hold four dumplings, and there is still room for some soup, but Qin Huai's dumplings are not normal four-happiness dumplings.

The dumplings in this big bowl are not divided into different shapes, they are blind box dumplings.

Not to mention the size of the four-happiness dumplings, there was also a table of delicious home-cooked dishes on the table. After eating four dumplings, those with a smaller appetite would have about 60% or 70% of their meal, and two more bites of the dishes would be enough to finish the battle.

Sometimes, serving dumplings is a science, and if you don’t do it right, you may offend people.

Huang Anyao didn't even know how to buy fruit, let alone dumplings.

Huang Shengli said calmly, "Just serve yourself some food. Why are you hiding the bowls in front of you like they are treasures? Give them out to everyone."

Huang Anyao understood instantly and distributed bowls to everyone.

Eight people sat at a small round table. Zheng Da and Zheng Siyuan sat next to each other, Huang Anyao and Huang Shengli sat next to each other, Gong Liang's family of three sat next to each other, and Qin Huai sat between Zheng Siyuan and Gong Liang.

Gong Liang looked at the scene and sighed, "It's been a long time since we've had a meal together like this."

Gong Baozhu ruthlessly exposed her father's lies: "Come on, Dad, we have been eating together like this every year. When Siqin got married, we had dinner at our house. There were not enough bowls, so Siqin's husband's bowls were used. My brother and I went to our neighbors to borrow bowls during the New Year. The next day, a rumor spread that our family went bankrupt, so my brother and I went to the streets to beg for food during the New Year."

Gong Liang: …

Gong Liang stood up and scooped four four-happiness dumplings for his daughter.

Gong Baozhu was overjoyed: "Thank you, Dad. I love eating tangyuan the most!"

Gong Baozhu is probably the only one at the table who doesn't eat four-happiness dumplings every day. Living far away and eating less has its advantages, which is the freshness.

Qin Huai chose to eat the dishes first.

Stir-fried river shrimps, fresh river shrimps are stir-fried without too many seasonings, and the original flavor is fresh. Qin Huai ate one by one, enjoying it very much.

Huang Anyao sat opposite Qin Huai, specializing in eel slices. He scooped two dumplings from the bowl and didn't touch a single bite. The eel bones on the edge of the bowl piled up like a small hill.

Zheng Siyuan ate quite evenly, enjoying every dish equally. He took a sip with his chopsticks, then went into the kitchen and got another bowl to scoop himself half a bowl of steamed egg.

Qin Huai tilted his head slightly in surprise. He felt strange when he saw Huang Shengli making such an ordinary steamed egg in the kitchen. Even if it was a home-cooked dish, it would not be so home-cooked as this. He even steamed such a big pot of it. It turned out that someone at the table liked it.

Everyone was eating their food happily, except Gong Baozhu who was eating the dumplings voraciously.

Gong Baozhu enjoyed the 4 blind box dumplings, one made of pure meat, one made of peanuts and melon seeds, one made of almonds and walnuts, and one made of almonds and peanuts.

When Qinhuai made four-happiness dumplings for the first time, Guo Mingzhu revealed that Gong Baozhu loved dumplings stuffed with various fruits, even those that were extremely sweet.

Qin Huai felt that the situation on the field was somewhat beyond his expectations. Was he here to eat today?
Yes.

But there are other tasks besides eating. If we continue to eat like this, the Four Happiness Dumplings will soon become a dragon suit of armor. How can we do this?
Qin Huai ate another river shrimp.

Alas, Huang Shengli’s cooking skills are really great.

This home-cooked dish is so homely.

Qin Huai silently ate the two dumplings in the bowl, both of which were filled with meat, then stood up and scooped up two more dumplings.

Qin Huai scooped the food and smiled as he said, "My cooking skills are still far behind Master Zheng's. If I had known I didn't have the skills, I wouldn't have taken on this job. I'm sorry that you all have to eat the dumplings I made today."

Hearing this, Gong Baozhu opened her eyes wide in surprise: "This glutinous rice dumpling is far from good? This glutinous rice dumpling is much more delicious than the one at the entrance of my elementary school!"

"Uncle Zheng, did you make glutinous rice balls a few days ago? Why didn't you tell me? I love glutinous rice balls the most!"

Zheng Da couldn't stop smiling when he heard that. He thought, I haven't even started to pack it yet, but it's already been packed. He kept saying, "Baozhu likes to eat tangyuan, right? Yes, there are all of them in the refrigerator. Uncle Zheng will pack two big bags for you later. They are all for you. Uncle Zheng made them these past two days."

"Thank you, Uncle Zheng!"

"My dad gave you the ones with peanut and melon seeds filling. I also have some with almond and walnut filling. I'll pack two bags for you later." Zheng Siyuan said.

Gong Baozhu didn't understand and wondered when the four-happiness dumplings had these two fillings. But as long as she had some, it was fine. She nodded repeatedly to indicate that she would eat as much as she was given.

Huang Anyao was still concentrating on eating eel slices.

Gong Liang was eating the food, but when he heard Qin Huai say this, he suddenly realized that he was dazzled by the home-cooked food in front of him and ignored Master Qin.

He really deserves to die. Master Qin has worked so hard to make the four-happiness dumplings for him these days, and now the dumplings are placed in front of him, but he doesn't even cherish them.

In order to prove that he still had four-happiness dumplings in his heart, Gong Liang immediately scooped out 6 of them, filling a bowl.

When Gong Liang scooped the glutinous rice balls, he didn't think anything of it. He had eaten a lot of blind box glutinous rice balls recently and was used to it. After Gong Liang scooped a bowl, Huang Shengli followed closely and scooped a bowl.
When Zheng Da saw that he was falling behind, he realized that this was not going to work, so he quickly scooped a bowl for himself and also scooped a bowl for Zheng Siyuan.

In an instant, more than half of the dumplings in the bowl were gone.

Guo Mingzhu didn't really want to eat tangyuan at first, but seeing that everyone else was eating them, she also had a bowl, but the portion in her bowl was smaller, with only two.

Guo Mingzhu bit off the first one.

Almond and peanut.

"Hey, the first one is filled with various fruits." Guo Mingzhu smiled and said to Gong Liang, "Old Gong, do you remember that the last time we gathered together to eat this kind of four-happiness dumplings was on your birthday that year?"

"You wanted meat-filled ones, and Zheng Da wanted to eat ones filled with various fruits. The two of you ate three big bowls each, but you ate a lot of the ones filled with various fruits and he ate a lot of the ones filled with meat. Huang Shengli almost choked on his glutinous rice balls and was sent to the hospital because of his laughter."

"So many years have passed, and our children have all grown up, but except Siqin, none of them is married." Guo Mingzhu said, looking at Gong Baozhu.

Gong Baozhu:……?
Mom, in this situation, do you also want to follow Uncle Zheng's example and urge marriage?
It was a bad idea. If I had known, I would have asked my brother to take a leave from work and come over for dinner.

Gong Liang smiled without saying anything, scooped up the glutinous rice ball and took a bite. It was filled with meat.

Gong Liang was stunned.

He hadn't thought about it that much at first, but when he bit into the dumpling and his tongue touched the salty meat filling, he suddenly remembered a lot of things. Memories, ties, and youth seemed to be attached to the dumpling again, sliding down the esophagus into the stomach, spreading throughout the body, and finally gathering in his mind in the form of memory fragments.

Gong Liang felt that he seemed to be a little too sentimental recently. Was it because he met Wang Gensheng? Why did he start to reminisce about the past so often?

When Qin Huai saw Gong Liang's expression froze, he knew something was going to happen, so he quickly went up to Zheng Siyuan and whispered to him, asking Zheng Siyuan to convey his words to Zheng Da.

Zheng Siyuan turned his head and whispered to his father, "Dad, Qin Huai asked me to ask you when the flower-shaped lantern dumplings will be served? He just ate two dumplings and is almost full."

Zheng Da was stunned.

It was a wrong decision. I was only thinking about letting the Qianhua Palace Lantern Bun make a shining appearance at the end, and forgot that everyone has a limited appetite.

Zheng Da looked at everyone at the table eating dumplings except Huang Anyao, and instantly realized the seriousness of the matter.

Tangyuan doesn't taste like anything special, but it's actually very filling. You can eat one or two and feel full before you know it.

Zheng Da quickly shouted: "There is still one dessert that has not been served yet. I almost forgot. I will go check it now."

Huang Shengli:?

Zheng Da rushed into the kitchen and took out the steamer without putting it on the plate. Fortunately, the dining table was big enough to move the steamer to the middle.

Open the lid.

A flash of white light appeared, and a golden light shot out from the steamer, blinding everyone. A familiar and exciting accompaniment came to their ears. After listening carefully, it turned out to be the background music of the Chinese Cooking Master Boy, The Great Wall!

At the same time, a bold black subtitle popped up under the steamer.

Clamp flower palace lantern bag!
The above is the picture imagined by Zheng Da.

I remember that our Master Zheng also watched "The Cooking Master Boy" with his son and daughter.

The actual scene was that as soon as Zheng Da opened the lid, Huang Anyao and Gong Baozhu immediately cooperated and made unprecedented sounds of "Wow".

The sound is super loud.

The steamed dumplings with flower patterns are indeed worthy of such praise.

The Qianhua Palace Lantern Bun is a dish that shows off one’s skills. It is difficult to make it taste good, but the appearance can be made good.

The shape of the pliers bag is relatively uniform and fixed, but it does not mean that it cannot be modified at all.

As long as the chef is bored enough, has enough time, and wants to show off, the patterns on the lace can be numerous and complex enough, and the preserved fruits used for additional decoration can be carved first and then added.

The clamp flower palace lantern has eight laces, which cannot be changed. However, you can add some extra small patterns on the edge of the lace, as long as they are not noticeable from a distance but are surprising when you look at them closely.

Zheng Daquan added.

He spent the entire morning carefully carving the Clamp Flower Palace Lantern Bag. It can be said that he added everything that could be added. If he added anything more, it would not be a Clamp Flower Palace Lantern Bag.

Therefore, the clamp-flowered palace lantern bag, which should appear ordinary at first glance but whose complexity can only be seen upon closer inspection, actually appears to be very complex at first glance.

Huang Shengli was stunned.

He had been cooking this morning. He only knew that Zheng Da was fiddling with the flower-patterned palace lantern bags nearby. He had no idea what Zheng Da had done specifically.

The look in Huang Shengli's eyes when he looked at Zheng Da was full of: Are you going to participate in the next celebrity chef selection?
You want to practice making dough fruits and boat-shaped patterns diligently, so you start by practicing with the pliers-shaped palace lanterns?
Zheng Da simply raised the clamp-flower palace lantern bag to a height that did not belong to it.

Huang Shengli was stunned, Gong Liang was stunned, and even Qin Huai was a little dazed.

Qin Huai had seen the previous version of the clamp-flowered palace lantern bag.

How should I put it, the version update is a bit big.

Even people as big as Qinhuai were a little worried that Zheng Da might overdo it and fail in the task that could have been completed.

Gong Liang wouldn’t fail to recognize this flower-patterned palace lantern bag, right?
Qin Huai glanced at Gong Liang secretly and found that Gong Liang was completely stunned, as if he had seen something incredible.

Zheng Da was very satisfied with everyone’s reaction. This was the feedback that he, Master Zheng, deserved!
Zheng Da said with a bit of pride: "It's been a while since I've made shapes for dim sum. Today we're all gathered together for a rare occasion, and it's Xiao Qin's first time to eat at my house. Let me try my hand at this. Come and have a taste of my flower-patterned lantern bun."

"Don't be reluctant to eat them. I'm telling you, dim sum that only looks good is fake. A good dim sum must look good and taste good."

Zheng Da's words brought Gong Liang back to his senses, and he subconsciously said, "If this is just a trial, there are not many good snacks these days. Zheng Da, you have been hiding it all these years. You don't even make such good snacks. What? Are you afraid that I will pester you to cook every day?"

Zheng Da almost couldn't help laughing out loud: "No, no, I know too much. I didn't think of it in the past few years."

Zheng Siyuan: …

Zheng Siyuan picked up a palace lantern bag with a clamp-flower pattern and examined it carefully with a speechless look on his face. He found that there were indeed no problems with it in terms of technology or design.

Take one bite.

The sesame candy filling is sweet and not greasy. They are all sesame candy fillings. The filling of the Qianhua Palace Lantern Bun is different from that of the Sixi Tangyuan. The sweetness is slightly reduced and it is more suitable for soft dough.

Not to mention the bun skin, which is soft and full of wheat aroma. Unlike normal complex-shaped snacks with slightly hard skin, it is a very normal and delicious bun skin.

This is the embodiment of the pastry chef’s craftsmanship.

Many times, for the sake of appearance, some pastry chefs will choose to sacrifice taste to achieve perfection in appearance, which is the so-called good-looking but not delicious.

The flower-patterned lantern buns made by Zheng Da today are undoubtedly both beautiful and delicious.

"Qin Huai, what do you think my dad was thinking? If he had made dim sum like this earlier, he would have become a master of plain dim sum. If he had spent half the effort he put into making the fruit filling as he did today on making the Qianhua Palace Lantern Buns, he would not have made the fruit filling with melon seeds and peanuts." Zheng Siyuan complained while eating.

Qin Huai said that was different. Pretending to be cool once was pure pretense, but pretending to be cool every day required practice.

Qin Huai opened his mouth to make up something nonsense when the game prompt sounded in his mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for completing the side quest [Gong Liang's Desire] and obtaining the quest rewards: [Gong Liang's Memory], [Gong Liang's Affirmation]."

Qin Huai looked at Gong Liang.

Gong Liang has already taken the first bite of the bun.

Looking at his expression, he seemed to be about to cry.

Our Mr. Gong is also a man of temperament.

A touch of emotion will allow anyone to take advantage of any loophole.

(End of this chapter)