The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 916

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.