The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 747

Chapter 747: 345 Made a Move (Ten more updates)

Gu Jiao returned to Bishui Alley.

Xiao Jingkong finished school early that day, waiting at the door, looking out anxiously.

Upon seeing Gu Jiao, he dashing over excitedly: "Jiaojiao!"

"Mmm." Gu Jiao took his chubby little hand and walked inside. He looked back over Gu Jiao’s shoulder with an expectant glance.

Gu Jiao paused a bit, and asked: "Are you waiting for your brother-in-law?"

Xiao Liulang was in the countryside. If things went quickly, he would return at the end of the month; if slower, it would be next month.

Xiao Jingkong, with his big eyes wide open, earnestly responded, "I... I... I’m not!"

Gu Jiao raised the corner of her lips, "Soon, your brother-in-law will be back."

"Ah." Xiao Jingkong sighed in a grown-up fashion. "I am worried he might not handle things well. It is his first time on an official mission, and I didn’t get a chance to give him advice."

Gu Jiao chuckled.

Are all children’s conversations interesting like this?

Gu Jiao curiously asked, "What would you like to advise your brother-in-law about?"

Xiao Jingkong responded earnestly: "I need to remind him to cooperate with his colleagues, not to anger his superiors, and not to feel superior just because he’s a newly appointed scholar. He needs to endure hard work and can’t be as leisurely as he was at home!"

His advice was rather reasonable - who had he learnt this from?

Gu Jiao was amused and pinched his chubby cheek.

Kids are really amusing.

The two of them entered the house.

Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun had gone out to pursue their studies, and Yao Family’s lady was in the courtyard, sewing Gu Jinyu’s wedding dress.

Gu Jinyu’s wedding was scheduled for the end of the year, an unexpectedly rushed timeline. For an ordinary family, a standard wedding complete with proper rites could take half a year, and then another half to prepare for the big day and inform relatives.

But Gu Jinyu’s situation was unique—the Emperor had set her wedding date at the end of the year.

"Such a beautiful dress." Xiao Jingkong touched the fabric lying on Prefect Yao’s lap. "Who is it for?"

"It’s for your elder sister Jinyu." Prefect Yao replied.

Xiao Jingkong tilted his head in confusion, "Why are you making such a beautiful dress for her? Jiaojiao doesn’t have one."

There was no malice in the child’s words, just innocent curiosity. He simply wondered why, when both were daughters of Prefect Yao, Jinyu would have such lavish clothing and Jiaojiao would not.

Shouldn’t Jiaojiao, being the elder sister, get one first?

His words left Prefect Yao speechless.

Indeed, when her Jiaojiao got married in the countryside, she didn’t have a proper wedding dress, no dragon and phoenix candles, no loving parents to see her off. She was married off, all on her lonesome.

More accurately, she was treated as an ill omen and chased out the door.

Both of them were forced into the situation and only became husband and wife in name, never consummating their marriage.

Thinking of this, Prefect Yao’s heart filled with remorse, and she had trouble continuing to sew the wedding dress.

"Come eat grapes."

By the old well, Gu Jiao washed and offered a bunch of gleaming purple grapes.

Xiao Jingkong’s attention was quickly captured, and he rushed over. Crouching down, he picked the biggest, most lustrous grape and offered it to Gu Jiao: "Eat, Jiaojiao!"

"Alright." Gu Jiao ate the grape he offered.

Afterwards, Xiao Jingkong plucked another for Prefect Yao, then he didn’t forget to offer a grape to Housemistress Fang, Yu Yaya and the elderly in the neighboring room.

In general, he was a child who could drive one mad with his antics, but when sensible, his actions melted hearts.

The venerable Elder, shaken from his reflections, did not have the mood to eat the grape that Xiao Jingkong enthusiastically offered him.

He was currently troubled over his script.

At the beginning of the month, he had submitted the manuscript for the third volume, chronicling the overthrow of the enemy dynasty by Yunting, the prince hostage, with the sixth princess sacrificing herself to save her own dynasty by becoming Yunting’s concubine.

General Fu returning from a mission found that his beloved was taken by Yunting. In fury, he requested to lead a northern expedition.

He pledged in front of the emperor to not return without rescuing the princess!

He led a hundred thousand soldiers to the Cangshui River for a life-and-death battle with Yunting.

When Yunting was held hostage in Xia Country, he had been graced by kindness from General Fu. Additionally, while General Fu was on his mission, he had received help from Yunting as well.

They should have become good brothers, but instead became adversaries all because of a feud over their countries and a woman.

The third volume ended here.