Pastries are one of the most common foods in the extravagant Jaffa Province.
Whether it is the lingfa flour cake and chicken fat rolls that appear on the "crab feast", or the lotus flour cinnamon sugar cake and the pine goose oil roll that appear when Jia Mu is feasting on the Grand View Garden; whether it is those exquisite small noodle fruits, or ruyi cakes and auspicious fruits, they are all extremely exquisite and refined, so that readers can almost leave saliva across the text.
How exquisite are the pastries in Jia Province? Grandma Liu's words are the most interesting: "Our most clever sisters and children there can't hinge such a look, I love to eat, and I am reluctant to eat, so it is better to pack some home and make tricks for them." ”
These exquisite pastries are just a testament to the extravagant life of Jia Fu. However, a kind of pastry that once appeared in Ningguo Mansion was not so simple in use. To a certain extent, it represents Qin Keqing, one of the "Twelve Nobles of Jinling", an unspoken appeal in his life. Although this kind of pastry is ordinary, it is a kind of existence that even Wang Xifeng can't help.
This ordinary pastry is the jujube mud yam cake.
Date paste, definitely not a precious food, is one of the most common dim sum ingredients in ancient and modern times, and the same is true of yam, which can be eaten by every household. Of course, for Jia Fu, when making this kind of pastry, it may be more exquisite in procedure, more exquisite in proportion, and may also be embellished with some more beautiful and generous accessories that can also increase the taste. But in any case, this jujube mud yam cake is definitely not a rare food.
However, it was also these few pieces of jujube mud yam cake that made Qin Keqing, who was sick and almost dying, never forget.
Qin Clan said, "Whether it's good or not, spring will know, now that the winter solstice has passed, it's not good, or it's good, I don't know." The aunt went back to the old lady, the wife rest assured, yesterday the old lady rewarded the date mud stuffed yam cake, I poured two pieces, it seems to be moving. Sister Feng said, "I'll send it to you again tomorrow, and I'll go to your mother-in-law's place to have a look, and I'm going to hurry back to the old lady's words." ”
How rich and powerful is the Ningguo Mansion? There are hundreds of people up and down, and the kitchen is also full of skilled chefs, can't even make a few pieces of yam cake? Why did Qin Keqing have to let Wang Xifeng send her a few pieces of cake from the RongGuo Mansion?
This matter, to put it bluntly, is actually not so complicated. What Qin Keqing wanted was not a real jujube mud yam cake, but an attitude of Jia Mu. These pieces of jujube mud yam cake sent by Jia Mu are, to a certain extent, the representative of Jia Mu.
Why did Qin Keqing get sick? In the current version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is said that she was after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and somehow she suddenly fell ill. This is because the author deleted the story of "Tianxiang Lou". However, there are still many clues left in the book. Qin Keqing's illness was caused by the fact that her affair with Jia Zhen was exposed.
In this case, Jia Mu's attitude towards Qin Keqing was very important. Only when Jia Mu forgave Qin Keqing for the mistakes she had made in this matter, could the old lady send someone to send Qin Keqing her jujube mud yam cake that she had "overcome and moved" again, so that she could recover her health as soon as possible. If Jia Mu could not accept such a thing and resolutely did not forgive Qin Keqing, Qin Keqing would only have one way to die, and the jujube mud yam cake would not save Qin Keqing at all.
Therefore, what Qin Keqing wanted was not the real jujube mud yam cake, but an attitude of Jia Mu. In this matter, Wang Xifeng could not help his "girlfriend". She could only comfort Qin Keqing, "Ming'er will send it to you again", but in the end, she did not send It to Qin Keqing.
An ordinary jujube mud yam cake actually represents Qin Keqing's unspoken appeal, that is, she longs to get Jia Mu's forgiveness. However, it was obvious that Qin Keqing did not wait for the answer she wanted, and soon after, she became the first character in the "Twelve Pieces of Jinling".