The Second Princess was surprised, "Third sister, where did you learn these pastry designs? I’ve never seen them before."
The Great Princess laughed, "Oh, there are pastries that even Second Sister doesn’t know? Second Sister, you’ve been living too miserably."
"There are countless delicacies in the world, even if you eat a different one every day, you wouldn’t finish them in two lifetimes," Li Yuzhu said with a smile, "Some of these pastry styles were made by Nanny Sun for me, and some I saw in books."
The Second Princess was deflated, "Nanny Sun isn’t my nanny, no wonder I’ve never had these pastries. And those written in books, who knows from which country they are, I certainly can’t try them."
Li Yuzhu laughed and said, "Second Sister, you can’t taste those pastries, but I’ve written the recipes for you, you can make them yourself."
The Second Princess immediately turned her worry into joy, "Right, right, I’ll make them myself."
Li Yuzhu carried a bowl, "I’m going to get some goat milk, Guoguo loves goat milk cakes the most. Second Sister, make some more."
Li Yuzhu went to the sheep pen in the backyard, and she saw that the Princess Consort Luling was carrying Guoguo to see the sheep again.
"It’s so early, Guoguo is here to see the sheep again?" Li Yuzhu smiled as she pinched Guoguo’s little hand.
Guoguo gave her a slight smile, extended her other hand, and pointed at the sheep, "Mom."
Li Yuzhu laughed, "This is a sheep, not mom."
"Mom!" Guoguo stubbornly shouted.
"It’s a nanny goat, not mom, Guoguo, come, say it with Auntie, sheep." Li Yuzhu worried that the child had a speech issue, patiently corrected her.
But Guoguo still insisted on her term, "Mom, mom!" She even angrily kicked the Princess Consort Luling, "Mom!"
Li Yuzhu laughed angrily, "It’s baa! Baa baa — come, Guoguo, say it with Auntie, baa —"
Guoguo snorted and turned her head away.
No matter how Li Yuzhu taught her or coaxed her, Guoguo just ignored her.
"She even has a temper?" Li Yuzhu found it both funny and exasperating.
"Why is this child so stubborn, whose temper did she learn from?" The Princess Consort Luling was also amused yet exasperated.
"Like dad." Li Yuzhu thought of Prince Luling, who had the best temper in the family but once he was serious, not even ten oxen could drag him back.
He was willing to be demoted, just to persuade the Emperor to do the right thing.
The Princess Consort Luling was amused, "Yes, like your dad, hahaha!"
Guoguo glanced back at them and snorted again, turning her head away.
This made both of them burst into laughter.
Li Yuzhu brought back some milk to the kitchen, where the Second Princess was already making the first type of pastry.
Seeing her coming with the goat milk, the Second Princess laughed and said, "Just in time, just in time, I’m about to make the second flavor."
Li Yuzhu rolled up her sleeves and helped out as an assistant.
Once the two types of pastries were done, the Great Princess walked into the kitchen, "How many of your pastries are done? That Miss Chai has already arrived."
The Second Princess glanced at the small hourglass on the table and said in surprise, "It’s only the first quarter of the Si hour, not even halfway through the morning, and she’s here already? So early."
The Great Princess looked into the oven and hummed lightly, "Second Sister, not much pastry done, did you eat them, or have you been slacking off?"
The Second Princess put on a crying face, "No, I was working very hard."
"That Miss Chai, her illness has recovered, but her temper hasn’t improved, I don’t like her." The Great Princess furrowed her brows, "I’ll stay here and watch you make pastries, I don’t want to see her."
Li Yuzhu said, "After her illness improved, I’ve met her several times, and she hasn’t lost her temper."
The Great Princess sneered, "That’s because you cured her illness, of course she’s polite to you. Us, who didn’t treat her illness, aren’t favored."
The Second Princess became worried, looked at the baking oven, furrowed her brows and sighed, "Then... what should I do? I’ve already tried my best."
Li Yuzhu put on cloth gloves, took the baked pastries out of the oven, and stacked them on a plate.
"Elder Sister, did you talk to Miss Chai?" Li Yuzhu blinked and asked her.
The Great Princess lifted her chin and hummed lightly, "I don’t want to talk to her."
Li Yuzhu laughed inwardly, she understood now, Miss Chai must have upset the Great Princess in some way.
"Elder Sister, mother said to invite Miss Chai for tea, how can we, the peers, not accompany the guest? Let’s go, you’ve been sitting here too long, mother will be displeased." Li Yuzhu picked up the plate of pastries and stood up.
The Great Princess had no choice but to stand up as well.