"I'll knock!"

Lu Xiaoyao's scream was perfectly executed, covering the entire sequence of events.

Mingmei stood to the side, looking at her with an innocent expression.

"You...you're the mysterious businessman?!"

That evening, a banquet was held in the palace. She was ordered by Emperor Jing'an to come to the Cold Palace to eat boxed lunch with Mingmei, but she never expected what would happen!

This concubine in the cold palace is actually a mysterious merchant?!

The notification sound from the backend completely bewildered Lu Xiaoyao!

"Is there a problem?"

Mingmei raised an eyebrow. Now that the other party knew, she no longer needed to hide it. Holding the lunchbox in her hand, she simply asked, "Do you want to buy some?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Lu Xiaoyao nodded immediately, like a chick pecking at rice. Surprised as she was, she couldn't miss this lunchbox.

I bought two boxed meals directly from Mingmei.

"Lion's head meatballs...aren't you planning to buy a few more?"

Mingmei remembered the effects of the lion's head meatball lunchbox, but Lu Xiaoyao shook her head repeatedly, saying, "I, this little eunuch, haven't formed any alliances, and my forces..."

Lu Xiaoyao drawled, "I only have one godson, Xiao Shizi. As long as he's loyal to me, that's enough. As for the others, there's His Majesty. I don't need to worry about them."

Mingmei: "..."

With this kind of thinking, how can he be the chief eunuch?

Mingmei couldn't understand how Lu Xiaoyao had ended up like this.

The key point is that she herself was quite happy. She felt that as long as she followed the emperor's footsteps, that was enough, and she really didn't do anything underhanded.

It can be considered both stupid and clever.

At least Mu Chen wouldn't bother using her to put her at odds with the Empress Dowager.

Ever since Leng Youyou learned that Lu Xiaoyao had stopped the tea-serving maid, she secretly approached Lu Xiaoyao twice more. Fortunately, Lu Xiaoyao simply pretended to be stupid and fooled her.

However, Mingmei learned from Leng Youyou's perspective that Leng Youyou had also wanted to get rid of Lu Xiaoyao for a long time, but had not succeeded.

Thinking about it, Mingmei looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who was already squatting there eating her boxed lunch. She waved to her and asked her to sit down with her at the stone table in the courtyard.

Perhaps because Mu Chen wasn't around, Lu Xiaoyao became bolder and sat down next to Mingmei, asking curiously while eating, "Can you travel around selling boxed lunches?"

No, it's right here.

Mingmei shook her head, then glanced at the full moon overhead. There were fewer clouds tonight, so many people would surely come in the latter half of the night.

Thinking this made Mingmei feel much better; she could sell her boxed lunches tonight!

"Huh? How come some people can buy boxed lunches?"

Now it was Lu Xiaoyao's turn to be confused. Then, when Mingmei's meaningful gaze fell on her, she heard Mingmei say, "Someone came looking for you on their own."

"Ah! That was last time..."

Lu Xiaoyao suddenly remembered the time with Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang, and shrank her neck in fright, saying, "Oh dear, buying this lunchbox is risky, you could die if you're not careful."

Mingmei: "..."

Very well, she knew that Lu Xiaoyao had misunderstood again. Did she think that Bai Xiao hadn't bought lunch boxes that time?

Thinking about it, Mingmei didn't intend to explain things clearly to Lu Xiaoyao. She just added, "Besides you, there are two other players who haven't bought lunch boxes."

"Yeah?"

Upon hearing that she wasn't last place, Lu Xiaoyao immediately perked up, "Who? Who? Who's slower to react than me?"

No, that's not it.

Regarding Lu Xiaoyao's euphemistic statement that she wasn't thinking clearly and wanted to drag others down with her, Mingmei decided to pull those two out of the water.

"It's just that I can't be in the palace every day because I'm outside." She finished speaking, her bright eyes looking at Lu Xiaoyao with a cool gaze, and said softly, "We see each other often~"

Pfft!

Lu Xiaoyao seemed to hear the sound effect of a knife piercing her heart.

She vaguely remembered that at the beginning of the game, Mingmei had asked her if she wanted to eat boxed lunches. What did she say at the time?

Let His Majesty eat first!

Yes, let the NPCs eat the boxed lunches for the players first!

Lu Xiaoyao, you really can do it!

At this point, Lu Xiaoyao silently buried her head in her bowl and stopped talking. Oh well, she'd just eat her boxed lunch.

After the game ended, Lu Xiaoyao felt she should get her brain checked rather than her mental health checked.

After Lu Xiaoyao finished eating all the boxed lunches, she discovered a sad truth.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that she had eaten two boxed lunches, Mingmei kindly took her for a walk around the Cold Palace area. However, she found that Lu Xiaoyao's almost withdrawn state was even more obvious than before.

"That lunchbox QAQ told me a secret, I know it even if I don't eat it~"

Mingmei: ...

That's for sure, isn't it?

Having been by Mu Chen's side every day, she knows more secrets about Emperor Jing'an than a boxed lunch.

After eating, Lu Xiaoyao looked radiant and quietly added, "Even if I didn't eat, I know you're very important to His Majesty!"

"Now that I know about this, I feel like what I just ate wasn't a boxed lunch."

"Hmm?" Mingmei turned to look at Lu Xiaoyao. "What did you eat?"

"I'm eating dog food! And I even bought it myself with my own credits!"

Mingmei: "..."

No longer mentioning the matter, Mingmei took Lu Xiaoyao for a walk outside, and her mood gradually improved.

Mingmei was even happier when she saw the Zhen brothers, who had appeared before her under the pretense of going out to sober up.

With the question of "#Why does the mysterious businessman look so much like his classmate?" lingering in their minds, the two brothers each bought four boxed lunches without any hesitation.

Of course, during this time, the two of them kept looking at Lu Xiaoyao, who was accompanying the mysterious merchant, with a puzzled expression, as if to say, "Why are you here tonight instead of staying with Emperor Jing'an?"

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