11.Midnight Mooncake

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After the incident, several days had gone by. Li Xi Rui has been diligent on taking martial art lessons. Before officially becoming the crown prince's fiancée, she likes to combat. She and her brother even have the same martial art teacher. But after the engagement, her martial art skill become stagnant and her lesson in the 4 arts increased. Now, with her martial art lesson continue, she become less bored. Not really sad but not extremely happy either. Every night she can sleep better because of the exhaustion.

"Miss! Miss!", Xiao Xi shouted from afar. The dagger in her palm almost fall.

Looking over at Xiao Xi, she asked, "What happen to make you run and shouts? It's not proper".

"Miss, forgive this servant, but every year we will go out tonight. So, this servant wanted to ask what should we bring to the moon viewing tonight? Some peach blossom cakes? Or maybe rice cakes with sesame? How about the tea? Or wine if you prefer... or how about...", Li Xi Rui's mind started to drift off from the conversation.

These past few days she has been busy with her martial art lesson that she forgot about the annual moon viewing event. At this event, all the nobles will gather at the lake pavilion owned by the royal family and will be bringing their own food. Usually they will bring cakes and tea or wine. While enjoying the treat, the talented ladies will show their skills. Of course this only apply to the single ladies. Afterward, they will release lanterns to the sky as the concluding show.

In Li Xi Rui's last lifetime, she had challenge the heroine in zither. As a result, not only she lost, she has lost face as ritual only ever allow single ladies to compete. She was the crown prince fiancée; she broke this rule. At that time the decree to annulled their engagement has not been announced. But this event only added to the accusations in the imperial decree.

Thus, Li Xi Rui decided tonight, she won't be competing with the heroine. She would just let her win.

"The treat tonight will be made personally by me. I want to try some of the new recipe I developed", she told Xiao Xi.

"Miss wanted to make them yourself? But what if you get burned by the fire?", Xiao Xi is bewildered. Her miss had never interested in cooking before. She has not even stepped inside the kitchen before. 'The miss have been acting weird since the broken engagement and if cooking can make her feel better, then why not just cook?'. Still feeling a bit weird, Xiao Xi left to inform the cook, Old Pi.

But what Xiao Xi doesn't know is that, Li Xi Rui has been quite unsatisfied with the food she ate lately. She thought maybe her taste bud have been enhanced due to her reincarnation. So she has been thinking to develop new recipes and now, it is the right time to try them.

Going into the kitchen, she asked Xiao Xi about some new stamps that is not have been used before.

'The miss is getting stranger everyday', she thought but left anyway to get the stamps.

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After asking Old Pi to prepare the necessary ingredients for her recipe, she asked all the servant to leave. The servants seem reluctant so Li Xi Rui has to compromise to let Old Pi in charge of the fire.

She starts with the custard filling before moving on to steam the sticky wrapper. While doing so, she saw some fruits that can be used to dye the wrapper. She asked Old Pi to help her squeeze out some fruit juice and use it for the dye. As she steaming the dyed sticky wrapper, Xiao Xi arrive with the new stamps. She used these stamps to make the top designs of the mooncakes.

"Wow miss, it's so pretty. What is this called? I've never see such colorful mooncakes before. All I have seen is the brown mooncakes", Xiao Xi praise her nonstop while looking admirably at the mooncakes.

"These are called snow skin mooncakes. It's different from the baked mooncakes as it is steamed before shaped", she explained to Xiao Xi as Old Pi nodded beside her.

"Miss, I never knew you could cook before!", she exclaimed as she thought, 'that dumb crown prince is truly stupid to let go such beautiful and smart lady'.

"Well, there is a new color I want to try. Xiao Xi, please give me some squids ink", she instructed.

As Xiao Xi give her miss the ink, she patiently watches what her miss is doing. When the new mooncake is produced, her eyes nearly bulging out from the socket.

"This.... it's black mooncake! Wow! I've never see such black moon cake before. And the filling looks like the full moon!", Xiao Xi stood there with a shocked expression.

"Actually, I call it midnight mooncake. I thought it would be perfect for tonight's event", Li Xi Rui feel satisfied with her new creation.

With the maid shocked expression, Li Xi Rui laugh. As laughter could be heard from the kitchen, all the servants feel happy and smiles to themselves. Their miss might not realize it herself, but her strained smile had affected all the servant. She might smile and laugh, but it just seems forced. Today, finally they could hear her genuine laughter again.


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