The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 916 - 916 420 Reunion (third update)

Chapter 916: 420 Reunion (third update) Chapter 916: 420 Reunion (third update) Of course, they didn’t forget Xiao Jingkong’s special vegetarian diet for Moon Festival, which also included “crab”… steamed buns, made from flour and tofu skin.

“Let’s eat in the courtyard, where we can also enjoy the moon!” Fen Lin suggested.

Xiao Jingkong was the first to express his agreement.

Fen Lin and Lin Chengye went to move tables. With so many people, one table wasn’t enough, so they joined two together.

Gu Jiao didn’t participate in the cooking. She was making mooncakes in a small stove room at her grandfather’s place, where Xiao Liulang was also present.

His cooking skills weren’t great, but he could manage tasks like chopping firewood, starting fires, and carrying water.

Xiao Liulang had never eaten mooncakes before, but he could tell that what Gu Jiao was making was a kind of pastry with filling. The fillings were abundant, including mixed nuts, red bean paste, and salted egg yolk with lotus seed paste.

“Can you make date paste ones?” he suddenly asked.

“I haven’t made them before, but it should be doable,” Gu Jiao replied, “though it seems we’ve run out of red dates at home.”

“I’ll go buy some!” Xiao Liulang stood up and declared.

Gu Jiao gave him a strange look, not recalling him being particularly fond of date paste.

“Alright,” Gu Jiao nodded.

Xiao Liulang went to the nearby marketplace and bought red dates. Under Gu Jiao’s guidance, he washed, pitted, and mashed them into date paste.

Because they had no oven, the mooncakes could only be steamed, which made them quite different in texture from the mooncakes of a previous life. However, Gu Jiao put a lot of effort into the molds, creating mooncakes that were round, flower-shaped, and also had very adorable patterns and characters.

When Xiao Jingkong saw the cute little pig head on his mooncake, he was so excited that he whooped with joy!

Gu Jiao picked out a few sugar-free mooncakes and placed them in a food container: “These are for great-auntie.”

The Empress Dowager was spending Moon Festival in the Imperial Palace and couldn’t come out.

Gu Jiao planned to deliver them to her later.

To her surprise, Xiao Liulang took on the task himself: “I’ll deliver them to great-auntie.”

Gu Jiao eyed him briefly, “Okay.”

“Jiaojiao! Jiaojiao! Come quickly and look!” Xiao Jingkong had seemingly discovered a new world and excitedly dragged Gu Jiao out.

By the time Gu Jiao returned to the stove room, Xiao Liulang had already gone out with the mooncakes.

Apart from those few sugar-free ones, he had taken the date paste ones as well.

On Vermilion Bird Avenue, the entire street was permeated with a festive atmosphere.

However, a courtyard behind a peach tree was exceptionally cold and quiet.

Because of the silence, the laughter and cheerful voices from other courtyards could be heard all the more clearly.

The windows were wide open.

Princess Xinyang and Yujin sat opposite each other by the window, with a table full of sumptuous dishes positioned between them.

Yujin cracked open a plump crab and said with a gentle smile, “Today is Moon Festival, so why not set aside vegetarianism, princess? This is crab delivered from the palace; would you like to try it?”

“It was prepared for you to eat,” Princess Xinyang said.

Yujin sighed.

The sounds of children playing and adults chiding next door made their side seem even more desolate and quiet.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of their silent courtyard.

“Who is it?”

The little maid, who was washing clothes in the courtyard, asked.

Another round of knocking was the response.

“Coming, coming!” The little maid put down the half-washed clothes, stood up, dried her hands on a towel hanging from the clothesline, went to the door, and opened it, asking, “Who is it?”

“Huh? Where is the person?”

The little maid looked around, puzzled at seeing no one, scratching her head, “I’m sure I heard someone knocking.”

She was about to close the door when she suddenly noticed a food container placed at the doorway.

“Eh? Who put this here?” she muttered.

“What happened?” Yujin watched from below the corridor as the little maid behaved oddly and asked.

The little maid turned around and said to Yujin, “Madam Yujin, someone just knocked and left this food container here.”

Yujin, always cautious, went to the door to inspect the tightly closed food container. Instead of opening it right away, she called Long Yi over to open it.

“Be careful, there might be hidden weapons inside,” Yujin said.

She wasn’t sure if Long Yi understood her.

But in the end, there probably wasn’t any hidden weapon that could surprise Long Yi anyway.

Long Yi opened the food container, and a rich aroma of date paste wafted out.

Yujin was taken aback and saw that inside were pastries that were uniquely designed instead of any hidden weapon.

The princess loved eating date paste cake.

But hardly anyone knew that.

“What is it?”

Princess Xinyang approached with a neutral expression.

The little maid hurriedly bowed in greeting.

Yujin took the food container from Long Yi’s arms and handed it to her, saying, “This was left here, I don’t know by whom.”

Princess Xinyang picked up a mooncake with date paste filling and stared at it for a long while.

The little maid asked cautiously, “Should we throw it away? Could it be poisoned?”

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