Chapter 164: Chapter 164: The Ingenuity Behind Chapter 164: Chapter 164: The Ingenuity Behind Little Taotie wanted to hug Kitty but glanced at the strawberries on the table and decided against it.
She loved cleanliness and knew that if she hugged Kitty, she couldn’t make cupcakes.
“You wait nicely, and I’ll give you strawberries later!”
She crouched down to coax Kitty with a sentence and then heartlessly stood up.
Little Lion, who had just about to snuggle up: “…”
Kitty meowed twice, seeing that its little master ignored it, could only roll on the ground before lying still, its round black eyes staring at Little Taotie, trying to catch her attention with its gaze.
Tao Shen handed Little Taotie a plastic knife and showed her how to cut the strawberries into slices.
Little Taotie nodded, indicating she had learned, her eyes full of bright red strawberries, paying no attention to Kitty.
After Little Taotie cut five strawberries, a “ding” sounded, and the strawberry cupcakes in the oven were ready.
Tao Shen opened the oven, and a mix of strawberry and vanilla scents spread, even Kitty who was lying on the ground jumped up, its round pupils fixed on the pink cupcakes inside the oven.
“So cute!” Little Taotie looked at the soft, pink cupcakes, smiled with her eyes squinted, and reached out to grab one, but Tao Shen stopped her.
“They’re still very hot, wait a bit, let them cool down for a while.”
Tao Shen took out pink, white, and coffee-colored cream from the refrigerator and loaded the cream into a piping bag.
“Let me see the strawberries you cut,” Tao Shen came over to inspect the sliced strawberries Little Taotie had cut, and he kept praising her.
The little girl had strong manual skills, the slices of strawberries were evenly thick, not at all like they were cut by a child.
Little Taotie felt shy as Brother Shen always praised her, and in a soft voice said, “I’m really good at cutting! Mom asked me to cut radish and potato shreds, and I did them really well!”
Upon hearing this, the smiles faded from the faces of Tao Shen and Liu Mingzhu.
Tao Shen asked, “What knife did you use to cut them?”
Little Taotie looked around the kitchen, pointed at a fruit knife, “The big ones I can’t handle, so I use this kind.”
Tao Shen felt a heavy pressure on his chest. His sister was only six years old, and they had let her use a fruit knife to chop vegetables!
If Zhang Cuilian hadn’t already been imprisoned, he would want to give her a beating!
Liu Mingzhu stood up, almost ran out, her nose sour, and unable to hold back, she cried as soon as she left the kitchen.
She sent a text message to her husband, asking which prison Zhang Cuilian was in now.
Tao Tiancheng replied: “Why do you ask this?”
Liu Mingzhu squinted her eyes, replied: “To visit her.”
Tao Tiancheng hadn’t returned home yet, did not know the condition of his wife’s suspected depression was not illness but the influence of Evil Spirit, fearing she might do something irrational, replied, “I will accompany you, don’t go alone.”
Seeing the message, Liu Mingzhu threw her phone on the sofa and did not reply again.
Tao Shen composed himself, touched the cupcakes which were no longer hot, and asked Little Taotie which color of cream she wanted.
Little Taotie chose the white cream.
Tao Shen guided Little Taotie hand-over-hand on how to pipe the cream, creating a cream ruffle on the cupcakes.
After Tao Shen taught her hand-over-hand three times, Little Taotie went on to do it by herself.
After she had applied cream to all ten cupcakes, the next step was to decorate them with the slices of strawberry.
“The first strawberry cupcake is for Brother Shen!” Little Taotie picked up the best-looking one and handed it over.
Tao Shen took it, smiling gently, “It’s so pretty, I almost don’t want to eat it.”
Cheng Guodong and Qin Xin came downstairs, Little Taotie ran over with two cupcakes, her eyes sparkling, her voice full of excitement, “Big brother, second brother, look at the cupcakes I made!”