To Hold One’s Joy

  Chapter 393 Xiuyue enters the palace

  Under the order of Concubine Xiao Gui, the palace servants retreated one file at a time, leaving only a confidant palace maid standing behind.

   "Miss Luo, how is the business in the restaurant recently?" Concubine Xiao Gui asked Luo Sheng calmly.

  Luo Sheng was naturally calm, and said calmly: "Thanks to your mother, the business of the restaurant is still good."

   Concubine Xiao leaned on the beauty's couch: "Miss Luo has a heart, and every time I go to pick up the beggar's chicken, there will always be delicious snacks."

  Luo Sheng smiled: "The cook often tries to make some snacks. I thought that the freshly baked dim sum tasted good, so I asked Aunt Dou to bring it for the empress to taste. As long as the empress doesn't dislike it."

   "Why would you dislike it? It tastes great, much better than the one made by the royal chef in the palace."

  The girl looked proud: "It was my luck that I picked up a cook with extraordinary cooking skills."

   Concubine Xiao's eyes flickered slightly: "Uh, that cook named Xiu Gu was picked up by Miss Luo?"

  Luo Sheng nodded slightly: "Well, I met it on the way back to Beijing from Jinsha. After eating the tofu nao made by Xiugu, I thought it was delicious in the world, so I took him away."

   Concubine Xiao was silent.

   This is in the style of the legendary girl Luo.

   "Are these snacks Miss Luo likes to eat?" Concubine Xiao Gui asked calmly.

  Luo Sheng shook his head without thinking: "That's not true. I discuss with the cook what new dishes the restaurant will introduce on weekdays. As for these trial snacks, they are all played by Xiu Gu at will."

   Speaking of this, the girl became more and more proud: "Anyway, whatever Xiugu cooks is delicious."

   Concubine Xiao's heart skipped a beat.

  Could it be that the girl in front of her is not the girl Luo in front of her, but the cook in a restaurant, who uses these snacks to imply that she will have a baby early?

  If this is the case, it will become even more confusing.

  How could a little cook have the guts to do this, and what is her purpose?

   Concubine Xiao's slender fingers brushed over the small table, and picked up the teacup placed on it: "I like the steamed glutinous rice with red dates sent this time, I like it very much."

   "If the empress likes it, I will go back and tell Aunt Xiu, and ask her to do it next time."

   Concubine Xiao took a sip of tea with downcast eyes.

  Tea is good tea, but I feel blocked after drinking it.

   Concubine Xiao Gui tried a few more words, but couldn't find anything.

  Miss Luo seemed to be ignorant.

   Having said that, if Miss Luo wrote this matter, and now she gives her response, the other party has no reason to pretend to be confused.

   No matter how daring Miss Luo is, she won't have the time to tease a noble concubine.

  Concubine Xiao Gui gradually put her doubts on the cook.

   That cook may have a history.

  Concubine Xiao Gui conceived the idea of ​​calling the cook into the palace after thinking this way.

   Fortunately, Miss Luo was called into the palace today, so it was easy to see her cook.

  Concubine Xiao Gui put down the teacup and said with a smile, "I can't wait for the next time."

  Luo Sheng was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, you can ask Nanny Dou to go to the wine shop to get it at any time."

   "Teaching him to fish is worse than teaching him how to fish. Can Miss Luo make it easier for the cook to come to Yuhua Palace to teach the people around me?"

Luo Sheng laughed and said: "Your Majesty, you are welcome. Of course, there is no problem with such a trivial matter, but my cook is all focused on cooking, and she is very clumsy in other aspects. If she comes into the palace and offends Her Majesty, I hope you will Haihan."

   "Miss Luo, don't worry, how can I care about a cook." Concubine Xiao said, her heart moved slightly.

  She said that Miss Luo was not that simple, so she proposed to let the cook into the palace, and she said about protecting the cook first.

   Was it because she was afraid that she would leave the cook behind?

   "The wine shop will be open at night, and the chef is inseparable. When I go back, I will let Xiugu come into the palace. How does the empress think?"

  Concubine Xiao Gui nodded: "Just follow Miss Luo's arrangement."

   "Then I will take my leave first." Luo Sheng stood up.

  Concubine Xiao Gui nodded slightly to the maid beside her: "Send Miss Luo out for me."

  Luo Sheng left the palace and went straight back to the Governor's Mansion.

   It was still morning at this time, not the time for Xiuyue to go to the restaurant.

  As soon as he returned to Xianyun Garden, Luo Sheng called Xiuyue into the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Clean up, the palace sedan chair is waiting outside."

   "Girl—"

  Luo Sheng patted Xiuyue's hand: "Don't be afraid, I'll wait for you to come back."

  Longtan and Tiger's Lair, of course she is worried about letting Xiuyue go alone.

   But there are some things that have to be done, even if you know that there are many crises, you have to embark on that thorny road.

  She is like this, and so is Xiuyue.

  They are the lucky ones who survived after the destruction of the Zhennan Palace.

  Xiuyue tightly clenched that cool hand: "Don't worry, I will come back safely."

   She is the only one of the princess's four maids left, how could she have the heart to let the princess go on alone.

   "Go, go early and come back early."

  Luo Sheng kept sending Xiuyue out of the courtyard.

  The magnolia tree in the courtyard has passed its flowering period, and the vermilion pomegranate flowers are in full bloom.

  Luo Sheng walked into the house under the sunlight that fell in the courtyard.

  In Yuhua Palace, the atmosphere is slightly condensed.

  Although there was no joy or anger on the face of the imperial concubine, the clever palace servants were keenly aware that the empress was not in a very happy mood.

  The maid in charge of the transmission had no choice but to bite the bullet and stepped forward, saying respectfully: "Madam, Miss Luo's cook, Miss Xiu, is here."

   Concubine Xiao Gui raised her eyes and said calmly, "Tell me."

   Not long after, a woman with a light veil came in with the palace servants, and respectfully paid her respects: "The civil woman Xiugu pays her respects to the empress."

  Concubine Xiao Gui looked at Xiuyue and said, "Get up, you don't need to wear a veil."

   "The appearance of the civilian woman is ugly, and she is afraid of shocking the empress."

  Concubine Xiao Gui raised her lips and smiled: "No, take it off."

  She had seen this cook when she was in Beihe paddock, if she was surprised, she would not have waited until now.

  Furthermore, she is not a delicate girl who grew up in a honey pot. She has already hardened her heart after experiencing bad things, so she is not so easy to be scared.

   If you really want to say that it caused her emotional changes, it was those snacks with profound meanings.

  Thinking about this, Concubine Xiao looked at Xiuyue with cold eyes.

  Xiuyue took off her veil silently.

  The palace servants who had never seen Xiuyue were secretly surprised.

   No wonder the cook was wearing a veil, so her face was so terrifying.

   "Xiu Gu, I like the dim sum you made very much, so I asked Miss Luo to ask you to come into the palace to teach the servants how to cook."

  Xiuyue bent her knees: "Thank you, Ma'am, for your love, but—"

   "But what?"

   "The culinary skills of the folk women are humble, and it is a great fortune to be liked by the empress. However, due to the rules of the teacher's school, at most one person can be taught."

   Concubine Xiao's heart skipped a beat.

  Compared to her questioning and ignorance when testing Miss Luo, this cook obviously has a problem.

  Concubine Xiao Gui remained silent, and followed Xiuyue's words: "You all step back, Tao Hong stays."

  Except for a festive-looking maidservant, the rest of the palace staff retreated silently.

  The hall became empty for a while, Concubine Xiao got up and walked in: "Come here."

  Behind the screen, there is a smaller and safer space, which is suitable for asking questions about "born a baby early".

  (end of this chapter)