lake garden moon

In the morning, Elvis went out after breakfast.Seeing that he was dressed formally, Kang Zhier guessed that he was either going to work or attending some important occasion.

In the afternoon, in the kitchen, Suta and another little girl, Lan Er, stood in front of the kitchen counter, next to Kang Zhier on the left and right.

"Xiaozhi," said Suta, rubbing his hands happily, "I haven't eaten your biscuits for a long time."

"Don't worry, I'll do it for you now."

Kang Zhier washed his hands in the sink, dried them and began to count the ingredients.

"Let's confirm the raw materials we need first."

"Unsalted butter, flour, eggs, powdered sugar, and chocolate chips, baking powder, vanilla extract..."

"Is it all ready?" Suta was a little nervous beside her, because she didn't prepare in advance, and she was afraid that the raw materials might not be ready.

"Well, everything is ready," Kang Zhier nodded, "We can start now."

"First of all," Kang Zhier picked up the eggbeater and eggbeater, "We need to use butter at room temperature for stirring."

"I'll do it." Suta took the butter in Kang Zhier's hand and started to move.

After the butter is evenly stirred, Kang Zhier adds the raw materials into it one by one according to the steps.

"Okay, now let's add powdered sugar, eggs, flour and baking powder in that order."

"You don't need too much baking powder," he taught Suta and the others earnestly, "half a teaspoon is enough, otherwise it will easily turn into a cake."

"Hehe, everyone says that Young Master Xiao Zhi can make delicious biscuits." Lan Er looked at Kang Zhier adoringly, and asked in a sweet voice, "Why is Young Master Xiao Zhi so good?"

Kang Zhier laughed when he heard this.He pursed his lips, and answered Lan'er while sifting through the sieve: "I liked sweets very much when I was a child, and my pockets were full of biscuits everywhere. Later, my sisters went to the baking class and took me with them. I Watch them do it a few times and learn it."

"Young Master Xiaozhi is awesome," Lan'er clapped her hands straight after hearing that, "A cute boy can bake biscuits, which makes him even cuter."

As soon as she said this, the two people next to her couldn't help laughing, and Kang Zhier even stopped laughing.

"What I said is true," Lan'er intertwined her fingers and sighed, "Master Xiao Zhi is super cute. He has a cute face and a good personality, just as cute as a girl!"

"Go on," Kang Zhier shook his head amusedly, "I'm going to blush."

After speaking, his attention returned to baking.

"Okay, back to the topic. Now we add vanilla extract, then raisins, dried strawberries, and sliced ​​almonds, which I like."

According to the number of people, Kang Zhier only prepared three small pieces for the first time.He spread the butter on the tray, spread a layer of wax paper, placed the thin biscuits on the tray, and put it in the oven.

After closing the oven, Kang Zhier took off his gloves.

"Okay, because I'm not very familiar with the oven here, so let's wait and see the effect of the first three pieces. Let's take a rest now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Suta immediately brought out the fruit that he had prepared earlier in the morning from the refrigerator.

"Then let's eat some fruit first."

Kang Zhier happened to be a little tired and felt that his body needed some sugar, so the three of them sat on the island and ate fruit together.

After eating something, Kang Zhier felt much better, and started chatting with Suta and the others.

"correct."

During the chat, he suddenly remembered a very important thing, but he had forgotten it unintentionally.

"Do you know why Elvis came back suddenly?" Kang Zhier asked them.

"I don't know," Suta replied, "I heard that the young master came back suddenly that morning. We were only informed by Bandari when we woke up in the morning."

"So suddenly?" Kang Zhier was very confused, "Is there something urgent?"

"I don't know..." The two fell into thinking after listening.

Suddenly, Lan'er seemed to have thought of something, her expression immediately concentrated, and she said loudly: "Could it be for the sake of—"

Before she could finish her sentence, the glass door of the kitchen was suddenly pulled open from the outside with some force.

The three of them were taken aback, Qiqi turned around and looked towards the door, only to find that Elvis had entered the kitchen for the first time.

"Elvis," Kang Zhier looked at him blankly, and asked, "Why did you come in?"

Elvis had worn a formal suit when he went out in the morning, and now he came back with his suit jacket off and a fancy white shirt and blue tie underneath.

He obviously came back from work outside, but Kang Zhier felt that he was in a hurry and looked a little out of breath, as if he just came back after running a few laps.

Elvis stood there quietly, eyes focused on him.Kang Zhier felt that he might still be breathing calmly, so he asked him, "Elvis, is it hot outside?"

"Do you want to drink water?"

After he finished asking, Elvis still looked at him with that concerned look.A moment later, perhaps after his breath calmed down, he nodded.

Kang Zhier got up, walked to the front of the refrigerator, opened it, took out the ice water, poured a glass, then turned around and walked to Elvis, and handed him the water glass.

"Come on, drink some water."

Elvis looked at him with a lowered face, perhaps because he was too close, and Kang Zhier rarely felt that his serious black eyes did not seem to have much sense of distance.

"Thank you." Elvis lowered his voice and took the water from his hand.

Because of Elvis' rare thank you, an indescribably familiar atmosphere grew between the two.Kang Zhier even felt the change in the air, which made him fall into a state of memory.

Long, long ago, he poured water for Elvis in the same way, and stood face to face with him in a friendly way.

His memories didn't last long, and came to an abrupt end with the loud beep from the oven.

"The biscuits are ready." Suta said beside him.

Kang Zhier came back to his senses, turned and walked towards the oven.

Putting on oven mitts, he took the cookie tray out of the oven and placed it on the counter.

Lan'er and Suta approached from the side.

"It smells so good." Lan'er swallowed greedily.

"The temperature is high," Kang Zhier said as he turned over the biscuit, "it's a little burnt."

After speaking, he picked up the only better piece, broke it off and took a small bite.

"But the taste is okay."

"Come on, try it." He divided the remaining biscuits into two halves and handed them to Lan'er and Suta.

Lan'er put the biscuit into her mouth in one gulp, and boasted after eating, "It's delicious, it's delicious."

"[-] degrees is still high, we can lower the wattage a bit later, or reduce the baking time..."

Just as they were all concentrating on baking biscuits, a voice suddenly came from behind.

"What are you doing?"

The three of them were taken aback again, turned around, and focused their surprised eyes on Elvis.

Elvis hadn't left yet.

"Master," Suta responded in advance, "Master Xiaozhi is making biscuits for us."

"Make biscuits?"

Hearing this, Elvis turned to Kang Zhier and asked him, "Kang Zhier, do you know how to make biscuits?"

Kang Zhier turned his face away and pouted at him, expressing of course.

"I can do so much more."

After speaking, he returned to his original position and began to tidy up the countertop.

"That's right," Suta echoed from the side, and said, "The biscuits made by Master Xiaozhi are delicious, as delicious as the ones bought in pastry shops outside."

After Suta finished speaking, Elvis walked up to Kang Zhier and looked down at the things on the counter.

"What flavor do you want?" He asked coldly.

Kang Zhier froze for a moment before realizing that Elvis was asking himself.He turned around and answered Elvis, "Vanilla."

After the words fell, like a conditioned reflex, he subconsciously asked Elvis, "Elvis, do you like biscuits too?"

Before Elvis could answer, Suta answered quickly from the side: "I don't like it or not, the young master doesn't like biscuits at all. We never prepare dessert for him. Even for afternoon tea, we just prepare Just some fruit and nuts."

Hearing this, Kang Zhi paused, then turned to look at Elvis: "Really?"

For some reason, Kang Zhier felt that after Suta finished speaking, Elvis' expression became a little dignified.He was silent for a while, then nodded.

Kang Zhier nodded in understanding, and then told Elvis: "You don't eat biscuits, and I didn't put any preservatives, so as not to waste them, so I only prepare them for a few people in the garden, and I won't make them for you."

Elvis didn't make a sound, just stood in front of him with lowered eyes.After a few seconds, he nodded again.

Then he turned and walked out of the kitchen.

Two hours later, all the biscuits baked by Kang Zhier were out of the oven.

"Master Xiao Zhi, go and rest," Suta said to him, "Let's pack the biscuits."

"Okay," Kang Zhier nodded, "Thank you for your hard work."

After Kang Zhier left, Suta and Lan Er began to pack the biscuits one by one in ziplock bags.

In the end, there were only some burnt or broken biscuits left, and Suta packed them all in a bag.

"Let's distribute the biscuits first, and clean up when the kitchen comes back," she said.

"Okay." Laner agreed.

Afterwards, Suta came back to clean up the kitchen, put the ingredients on the countertop one by one back into the pantry, and cleaned the baking tools.

Finally she packed everything up and left the kitchen.