Chapter 168: Birthday Gift
Xiao Yun frowned and said to himself, "What should I do? The birthday party of the Seventh Prince is clearly going to cheat me. It seems unreasonable to go there empty-handedly, but it seems too late to prepare gifts at this time! Besides, the gifts of the Seventh Prince's birthday party are not ready casually. There are old things like gold, silver and treasures, so at the annual birthday party, Lujiabao has prepared good gifts before receiving the invitation. The people who usually go there are Lu Zhanpeng and Song Fang. I didn't expect that the Seventh Prince will host a banquet this year, so it is reasonable for Song Fang to fail to prepare gifts."
Seeing that Xiao Yun's face looked a little ugly, Song Fang thought for a while and said, "How about this, I'll just treat my gift tomorrow as my brother's, so I won't give it. Anyway, this old man has gold, silver and treasures, and it's not a gift."
Xiao Yun shook his head and said, "How can that be done? Slowly speaking, Song Fang is now the chief manager of Lujiabao. As the saying goes, the fourth-rank official of the prime minister's slave and the fourth-rank official left empty-handed. Wouldn't it be that people underestimate Lujiabao?"
Song Fang thought it was right, but tomorrow will be the birthday party of the Seventh Prince. Now that he will return the gift, he can't remember the solution for a while, and sighed slightly, not knowing what to do.
Xiao Yun thought about it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed and thought to himself: "Grandpa, since it is the birthday party of the 70th birthday, it is the 21st century birthday party. It should be fine to give a cake? I originally wanted to stay on the birthday of Axue and Xiaodie Feifei, but now it is to be used on the birthday of this old fox. Xiao Yun couldn't help but feel a little awkward!"
Song Fang watched coldly, seeing Xiao Yun's face was gloomy and gloomy. He thought he was troubled by the gift of the Seventh Prince's birthday party. He walked up to him knowingly and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, little brother, I'll use Brother Song's gift tomorrow, that's the decision?"
Xiao Yun said: "I appreciate Brother Song's kindness, but I think of a birthday gift?"
"Birthday gift?"
Xiao Yun said "Oh" and explained: "It's the gift of the birthday party of the Seventh Prince!"
"Really, what is it?" Song Fang was overjoyed and asked hurriedly.
Xiao Yun smiled strangely and said, "There is not much time left, Brother Song quickly asked someone to prepare flour and jam." After a pause, he added, "By the way, I have to prepare seventy small candles?"
"What are you doing to prepare these?"
Xiao Yun said: "You will know in a while?"
Although Song Fang was suspicious, Xiao Yun said it carefully and did not dare to neglect it. He immediately ordered his servants to prepare a lot of flour and jam, as well as other ingredients.
When Lujiabao heard that Xiao Yun was going to use flour and jam to make gifts for the birthday party of the Seventh Prince, everyone was curious and stopped their work and came to the hall to watch. Especially Xiaodie, Axue, Lu Chuchu and Lu Feifei, the four women were even more curious. They circled around Xiao Yun for a long time. When they saw Xiao Yun kneading each other, they fried jam again, adjusted the flavors and fermentation agents, and made a lot of spices, which seemed quite like that. The four women became more and more curious.
Xiao Yun surrounded the apron and Song Fang into the kitchen. After playing in the kitchen for a long time, he finally heard Xiao Yun screaming: "Okay!"
The four women were excited and rushed into the back hall. But when Xiao Yun was holding a big round cake in his hand, covered with jam, emitting a burst of fragrance, he was even more surprised that the round cake had four words "Happy Birthday" written on it. The four women had never seen such a strange cake before, so he couldn't help but curiously said, "Brother Xiao, what kind of cake is this? Why is it so strange? There are words written with jam, and it has been divided into several layers. I have never seen it before!"
Xiao Yun laughed and said, "It's weird that you've seen it. This is called a birthday cake!"
"Birthday cake?" the four women muttered curiously in unison.
Xiao Yun took off the apron on his waist, rubbed his hands, and said, "Yes, this is called a birthday cake in our hometown, and it is something that everyone has to eat on their birthday?"
Lu Chuchu showed a look of yearning on her face, licked her chapped lips, and said, "Is this birthday cake meaningful?"
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"Ha, this is a great significance. Do you know that in our hometown, everyone believes that the birthday is the day when the soul is most easily invaded by demons. So on the birthday, relatives and friends will gather around to give blessings and send cakes to bring good luck to expel the demons. It has been passed down to this day, whether adults or children, they can buy a beautiful cake on their birthday and enjoy the blessings given by everyone. Because of their love for children, our hometown people are still celebrating their children's birthday, putting many lit small candles on the cake, and adding a new activity - blowing out these lit candles. They believe that the lit candles have a mysterious power. If the birthday child is allowed to make a wish in his heart and then blow out all the candles in one breath, then the child's beautiful wish will definitely be realized."
"Wow, so good? I would have had such a good birthday cake too!" Xiaodie said to herself as she stared at the birthday cake covered in jam.
"Yes, no one celebrated my birthday yet? If I could have such a good birthday cake, I could blow the candle for a while, even if I was killed, I would be willing!" A Xue murmured at the birthday cake with her hands together.
"Well, although I have celebrated a lot of birthdays, if someone gives me such a birthday cake, I will be very surprised!" Lu Chuchu also closed her hands and looked at the birthday cake with a look of yearning.
Four women surrounded the birthday cake on the table, and everyone showed an envious look. Obviously, this novel birthday cake was not just a small dough for them, but a magic cake that they had never seen before and had hope.
Xiao Yun didn't expect that one of his cakes could arouse the yearning of four women, and he couldn't help but feel moved: "I came to this world for no reason, and I don't know if I can go back. Maybe I'll spend my whole life with these four women in the future. It's rare to make this birthday cake. It's good to have a meaningful birthday for them!"
The thought was moved and he smiled and said, "A few days ago, there were many things in our Lujiabao. I was inexplicably bad, I didn't care about anything, I didn't have time to spend time with you, and I never went to a good place. It's rare that all four of you stay at home. Since you like this birthday cake, let me give you the reward. Today, you Brother Xiao will give you four an interesting birthday together!"
"Really?" Before Xiao Yun's words could be finished, the two little women Lu Feifei and Xiaodie cheered and hugged each other.
However, Axue lowered her head, looked at the birthday cake placed on the table, licked her bright lips, and hesitated: "But, but... But... Brother Song said just now that this birthday cake is a gift for the birthday party for the Seventh Prince... If you celebrate our birthday, then... then...?"
Lu Chuchu also said, "Yes, the Seventh Prince invited you to his palace because he respected you. Now there is no gift in the palace. If we celebrate our birthday, why would you give it to that old fox?"
Xiao Yun smiled and waved his hand and said, "You don't have to care about that much. I have everything. Tonight, we won't care about it. Let's use this birthday cake to celebrate your birthday for four of you!"
As soon as Xiao Yun finished speaking, the four women hugged each other and started to jump.
"Ha, I can't tell. Do you know that there are quite a lot of people? You can even make such a strange birthday cake. It seems that I underestimated you before!"
After hearing Lu Chuchu say this, Xiao Yun felt that this birthday cake was right. Since the last time he visited Xiangshan Temple, Xiao Yun saw that the girl had no Zhao Huan in her heart, he had always wanted to get closer. However, except for the attitude of this woman, the other ones had not changed. Sometimes she loved you even more, which made Xiao Yun feel very hated and loved. Unexpectedly, this time, she could make this proud second lady of the Lu family say this for a cake. Xiao Yun felt that the cake was worth it.
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