Chapter 261: First Place (2) (1/2)

Chu Lian knew that Royal Princess Duanjia was going to come early today, so she was in the middle of cooking some chicken porridge for the princess!

She ordered Xiyan to make more crystal buns since Royal Princess Duanjia liked them, and then retreated from the kitchen back to her bedroom to change into another outfit.

Right after she finished changing, she heard some noise from Songtao Court’s entrance.

Royal Princess Duanjia immediately told Chu Lian all about what had happened to her just now, giving Chu Lian a huge fright. How lucky that Second Brother had come back to the estate at the right time. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been good if Royal Princess Duanjia had really fallen.

She instructed Wenqing and Wenlan to bring Royal Princess Duanjia to another room to wash up a little and change out of her clothes before the two of them sat down to have breakfast.

Royal Princess Duanjia pouted. “Chu Liu, I missed the chance to watch you cook for me again.”

Chu Lian rolled her eyes speechlessly. “Princess, isn’t it good enough if you get to eat the results of my cooking? Why do you want to watch me cook? Don’t tell me that you’re trying to learn how to cook yourself? If you want to learn how to cook, it’s easy enough. I’ll just write out some of my recipes for you and you can get one of your estate’s cooks to teach you.”

Royal Princess Duanjia quickly shook her head. “I’m not trying to learn how to cook. That’s too troublesome. If I want to eat something good, I’ll just come look for you. Anyway, I can come at any time and you’ll cook for me regardless, right, Chu Liu?”

“Then why do you want to watch me cook?”

“I’m just curious! I want to see how you made all these delicacies step by step.”

Chu Lian didn’t know what to say at all about Royal Princess Duanjia’s strange liking.

Royal Princess Duanjia suddenly reached out with her chopsticks and pointed at the ‘crystal buns’ and ‘crystal dumplings’ in front of her. “Chu Liu, you haven’t made these for He Sanlang to eat before, have you?”

Chu Lian wasn’t sure why Royal Princess Duanjia had suddenly asked such a question, but she shook her head honestly.

Strictly speaking, it seemed like He Changdi had only eaten her wontons and scallion pancakes before? Uh… and that beef jerky she had sent.

Now that she thought about it, he really hadn’t eaten much of her cooking.

“Hahaha…” Royal Princess Duanjia suddenly burst out into laughter, even holding onto her stomach.

Chu Lian tapped the jade bowl in front of her. “Princess, are you going to eat or not? If you’re not going to eat this, I’ll let the maidservants clear it away.”

Royal Princess Duanjia quickly covered the bowl full of chicken porridge protectively and shook her head. “No, don’t clear it! I haven’t even eaten enough! Chu Liu, I just suddenly thought that He Sanlang is rather pitiful, hahaha! He actually hasn’t tasted such delicious buns before!”

Chu Lian glanced at Royal Princess Duanjia helplessly. She was clearly reveling in someone else’s misfortune. Who would laugh like that if they were pitying others’ circumstances?

It wasn’t until Royal Princess Duanjia had filled up her tummy that she let the maidservants clear away the dishes on the table and ordered two cups of honey water.

Royal Princess Duanjia held up the white porcelain teacup with both hands. “Chu Liu, the rankings for the autumn examinations are already out. Take a guess at who the top three are?”