The seafood was all ready, so of course Zhenzhen arranged for the red bean paste too. She took out the red beans and soaked them in water first. When Fan Tianyu came back, she brought out the pressure cooker to cook the red beans. Red beans are hard to get fully cooked, and only this way can they get soft and glutinous. Of course, just using the pressure cooker wasn't enough—after cooking them in the pressure cooker, she used a blender to mash the red beans into a paste before putting it back in the pot to simmer until the liquid turned thick and syrupy.
Mei Mengchen also loved eating sweet rice dumplings, so Zhenzhen took a small milk pot and added plain water. When the water boiled, she put the dumplings in. As soon as the dumplings floated to the top, they were ready. Once the excess liquid in the red bean paste boiled down, the red bean paste rice dumpling soup was done and ready to serve.
