What is Lotus Cake? If the water doesn't know, but if you are a native of Shonan Prefecture, you can probably tell the origin of this thing accurately and clearly.

Like the glazed retort, it is another treasure of Huadianfang.

When Bai Sulian's father-in-law was still there, lotus cake was his best snack, and even helped him win the top spot in the pastry subject of that year. But this snack disappeared with the death of the man.

I have to say that the decline of Huadianfang back then, and the inability of lotus crisp to reproduce is also one of the reasons.

At this time, I found this booklet that recorded the practice of lotus cakes, and the paranoid and crazy expression on Bai Sulian's face suddenly changed to a smile of warm memories.

For her, Lotus Cake is not only a dim sum that has made Huadianfang famous, but also a testimony of her feelings with her deceased husband.

Because this snack was made especially for her by her father-in-law back then. It was precisely because of this snack that she finally chose to break through the shackles of the world and became the wife of the poor boy without a name.

Bai Sulian's father-in-law used to be a wandering pastry chef, he has been wandering around since he was a teenager, and in the process of continuous learning, he is also constantly trying to innovate. Wealth was like a flash in the pan for him, so he was always a homeless man with little property until he met Bai Sulian in Shonan County.

At that time, Bai Sulian was still a sixteen-year-old boudoir lady, and most of her life was only spent in her own embroidery building, and only a few festivals in a year could she go to the most prosperous streets in Xiangnan County accompanied by her personal maid.

Meet him. It was Chinese New Year's Eve when she was sixteen years old, and she secretly ran to the street to watch fireworks with her maid, but was unexpectedly dispersed by the crowd. She has always longed for freedom. When she was really alone, she found that freedom was far from being as simple as she imagined.

She didn't know the way home, and she didn't have any money on her, so in order to avoid being rubbed by strangers, she subconsciously went to the sparsely populated place, but she didn't expect that the more she walked, the more wrong it became. Although there are fewer passers-by, the streets and alleys are even more unfamiliar.

The eldest lady who has not suffered any setbacks since she was a child. She could only wrap herself in a thin smock, huddle in a sheltered corner, helplessly watching the people who passed by come and go, hoping that her family would find her sooner.

Soon. She was found, but this person was not her family, but a strange man.

He walked up to Bai Sulian so suddenly, holding a steaming bowl of wontons in his hand. held it in front of Bai Sulian.

"It's cold, isn't it? Let's eat~"

Bai Sulian raised her eyes and looked. found that this was a man who looked very young, but had vicissitudes of life. He didn't smile, just leaned over to look at her with such an expressionless face, but it made a hot current suddenly gush out of her heart, just like the bowl of wontons between the two of them, exuding an alluring heat.

At that moment, Bai Sulian completely forgot all the advice her father told her, and subconsciously stretched out her hand. I caught the bowl of kindness from a strange man.

The fingers of the two inadvertently touched each other, and Bai Sulian withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted. A defensive look immediately appeared on his face. But this man still had the same expression and posture, as if he didn't realize how rude Bai Sulian's actions were just now.

Bai Sulian, who was a little embarrassed, finally took the coarse porcelain bowl in shame this time, and then sipped a small sip of the soup with green coriander floating under the gaze of the other party.

Although she was lost, Bai Sulian didn't feel too hungry at this time, she sneaked out after eating at home, so at this time she was just trying to live up to the kindness of others. But when the soup in her mouth spread with a strong umami flavor, she suddenly found that this bowl of ordinary-looking wontons had a supreme taste no less than the delicacies of the mountains and seas.

From the lady's eating method at the beginning, to the later gulping, Bai Sulian quickly eliminated a whole bowl, and when she raised her face from the bowl with a lingering concern, she realized that the appearance she had just eaten was really a little unsightly.

She felt embarrassed, but soon she realized that the other party was even more embarrassed than she was.

"No ......"

The man spread his hands a little helplessly, and behind him was a small stall that could be picked on his shoulder, and the conspicuous cauldron was on the stall, and there was not much heat coming out at this time.

Is he a wonton seller? So the action he handed over the bowl before was just selling it to me?

Bai Sulian couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, but she immediately realized a new problem.

"I ...... I didn't bring any money......"

Yes, although she was dressed gorgeously, she was actually penniless, Bai Sulian's fingers pressed on the coarse porcelain bowl, and her fingers, which had just warmed up and changed color, were blue and white at this time.

"Ang~ It's time to close the stall, this bowl is for you, no money will be charged."

Taking the empty bowl casually, the man turned around and took up his stall, then nodded at Bai Sulian, and left like that. Only Bai Sulian stood alone in place, looking at his back in a daze.

Will he turn back? Won't he look back?

At this time, Bai Sulian felt as if there was a deer crashing into her heart, those two sentences kept replaying in her mind, and the expectations in her heart also became slim with the back of the other party gradually drifting away.

However, just as she was about to give up, the man suddenly turned around and shouted at her.

"Hey! It's so late, why don't you come home at a girl's house? ”

……

This is the first time Bai Sulian and her father-in-law met, a somewhat dramatic, but ordinary encounter. He sent her to the door that night, and they didn't have a chance to see each other for a long time after that, until Bai Sulian thought that the meeting that night was just a divergence in her life, and I was afraid that there would never be an intersection again.

Kitchen move, the imperial examination among chefs, the opportunity to leap into the dragon gate.

Shonan County selects two teams to participate in the competition every year, and these two places have been in the hands of the three most prestigious restaurants in the county, "Shilu Pavilion", "Delicious Xuan" and "Sheng Shan Lou". These three take turns every year, and the so-called selection competition is just a formality.

But even if it is a formality, it is a rare event in Shonan County, and many people will go to watch. And Shilu Pavilion is the property of Bai Sulian's family, so she was naturally allowed to get a chance to go out. (To be continued......)