Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Caught off guard...

Li Shuyao felt more depressed than ever at this moment.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that life is sometimes quite boring.

...At least if I die I won't have to endure the cruel ridicule of others.

Thinking of this, she felt more and more aggrieved, tears welled up in her apricot blossom eyes, and her throat felt a little sour. Woo, she wanted to cry...

On the other side, the emperor had already walked in. He did not look at Song Fuwen who was bowing properly, but instead focused his curious gaze on Li Shuyao.

Seeing that she didn't get up for a long time, he asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter? Don't you want to get up after paying your respects?"

Li Shuyao's body froze for a moment. After regaining consciousness, she slowly straightened up from the ground. She lowered her eyelids and dared not look around. She shook her head silently and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Your Majesty."

"You said that."

"Oh." Li Shuyao's head drooped even lower, and she pinched the hem of her clothes with her fingers to hold back her tears.

"Get up." The emperor said again.

Li Shuyao timidly raised her head and glanced at him. Seeing that he was looking at her with clear eyes, she knew that he was talking to her.

So he carefully got up from the ground and continued to stand there holding the corner of his clothes.

The emperor found a chair and sat down, pointing to the tea table, "Make a cup of tea."

"Huh?" Li Shuyao was a little surprised, "Oh."

It turned out that he was here to inspect the work.

She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly walked to the tea table. She thought for a moment before picking up the teapot and turned to ask, "What kind of tea would the emperor like to drink today?"

She remembered that Emperor Kangxi in history loved to drink Biluochun tea, but isn’t that still available now?

Biluochun was not named until more than 30 years after Emperor Kangxi's death, West Lake Longjing was designated as imperial tea by Emperor Qianlong, and Junshan Maojian was also selected as a tribute during the Qianlong era...

It was still the early period of the Kangxi reign, and because there were wars everywhere, there were only more than ten kinds of tea stored in the Guangchusi Tea Warehouse. The more famous ones were Jiangsu Tianchi tea, Anhui Lu'an tea, and Zhejiang yellow tea. She had heard of them in novels and film and television works, so she had an impression of them.

As for the other things in the tea book, she had never even heard of them. She only studied them seriously during the month or so since she came to the tea room.

To be cautious, she also deliberately secretly recorded the types of tea the emperor drank every day. She was surprised to find that his taste was quite changeable. He drank one kind of tea in the morning and switched to another in the afternoon. Sometimes he could drink Silver Needle tea for six consecutive days, and sometimes he could go without tea for more than half a month.

Every day when Song Fuwen made tea, she would first go to the compartment to ask the eunuchs what they thought. If they gave her clear instructions, she would just take out a set of tea sets and concentrate on making tea.

If three or four sets of tea sets are laid out in a row when the emperor comes back, it means that the emperor doesn't know what kind of tea he wants to drink today, so he can only make a few more cups and send them all over, and then let Eunuch Liang choose which cup to send.

...This is a boss who has a fickle temper and is difficult to serve, but he pays wages on time and does not beat or scold employees at will.

The above is the general impression Li Shuyao has formed of the emperor over the past month.

"Whatever you want." The emperor sat on the chair and changed his posture lazily, supporting his chin with one hand and placing the other hand on the armrest of the chair.

His eyes, filled with curiosity and surprise, fell on Li Shuyao, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, Liang Jiugong quietly took two steps back and then winked at Song Fuwen who was still standing there.

Song Fuwen bit his lip, struggling and hesitating.

The Emperor is here...

Liang Jiugong immediately frowned, glared at her gloomily, and turned to walk out of the tea room.

Song Fuwen was still standing there, she wanted to take a chance for herself.

When Li Shuyao received the emperor's reply, she felt embarrassed at first. She was not familiar with the business yet. Was it really okay to let her, a probationary employee, serve the big boss?

She couldn't help but look at Song Fuwen for help, "Sister Song."

Song Fuwen quickly forced a smile, "Your Majesty, let me do it."

Li Shuyao nodded quickly, "Then..."

"No, just you come." The emperor pointed his finger at Li Shuyao, and nodded in the air, with an inexplicable sense of threat.

Then he glanced at Song Fuwen, who was posing coquettishly beside him, with deep eyes, which quickly became tinged with a hint of frost. He snorted coldly and said, "Get out!"

"Go find Liang Jiugong and accept the punishment yourself."

Li Shuyao and Song Fuwen were both startled by these words and almost dropped the teapot.

After seeing clearly that the person the emperor was talking about was Song Fuwen, Li Shuyao gripped the teapot tightly with trembling fingers, took stiff steps to get water, and then slowly sat down at the tea table to rinse the tea set that had already been washed.

Walking to the tea stand, her slender white fingers moved back and forth on the tea cans, and she quickly did addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in her mind, calculating the total number of teas the emperor had used during this period. She found that Lu'an tea was still the most consumed, so she decisively took the tea can with Lu'an written on the label.

When she returned to the tea table, Song Fuwen had already "rolled" out of fear. Not only that, even the door of the tea room was closed.

Only the emperor and she were left in the room.

Li Shuyao immediately became as dumb as a speechless quail, and was so nervous that she uttered "Aba Aba" several times, which finally turned into an overwhelming cry of "Help, help!"

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Before traveling through time, Li Shuyao was just a carefree college student. Because she came from a well-off family and was an only child, she was extremely doted on.

It can be said that the most aggrieved experience in the past 19 years of my life was just meeting a "weird" roommate - she kept complaining about feeling cold and refused to turn on the air conditioner, and she would talk on the phone every night until one or two in the morning. She would quarrel with others when they were asleep, and when she was asleep, she would wish that everyone in the dormitory could float and walk without breathing.

She has all the "weird" attributes on the Internet.

She alone could bully Li Shuyao and the other two roommates.

During her freshman year, Li Shuyao felt that she had been mercilessly beaten by society, so during the summer vacation, she and her two other roommates read countless palace fighting novels and watched TV dramas in order to learn some experience from them.

At least... I can't be bullied by the same person for four consecutive years, right?

However, today's palace fighting novels tend to deviate from the main theme, talking about true love instead of palace fighting, with confusing and contradictory characters, and boring and deliberate plots. They are simply "ancient domineering president novels" disguised as palace fighting novels.

Only the group palace fighting in "The Biography of Concubine De" was of a certain level, which made her unable to stop watching it again and again. [1]

She was deeply impressed by some of the scenes describing "palace maids ascending to power".

In the original novel, Guo Luoluo Qingyao was guarding the warehouse. Because of her generous attitude and ease in introducing the collections, she was favored by the emperor.

When Wu Yalianchu was bullied by Concubine Tong, she knelt on the ground with a delicate and pitiful posture, gentle and beautiful, which made the emperor feel pity for her. After seeing Wu Yalianchu's face clearly, he was silent for a few moments and took her into the harem.

One palace maiden was chosen for dancing in the Imperial Garden in the cold winter while wearing a thin dress; another was chosen for admiring flowers under the moonlight; another was chosen for catching butterflies; and another was chosen for singing on a boat in the Old Summer Palace... [2]

There are all kinds of strange ways.

But the person in front of him accepted it all without any complaint.

This made Li Shuyao's heart beat fast. She wouldn't...

As he thought about this, his hands quickly took action and he accidentally poured tea into a full cup.

Li Shuyao looked at it, uh...

"Pfft—hahahahahahahahaha!" The emperor on the other side was already clapping the armrests of his chair and laughing heartily.

After laughing, he touched his forehead and said to Li Shuyao, "Do it again."

What's wrong with this? You just love watching people do stupid things?!

Li Shuyao was angry.

She picked up the teacup and quickly poured all the tea leaves into a small basket. The teapot on the tea stove began to steam, so she wrapped her hands with a handkerchief, picked up the teapot and cleaned the teacup inside and out again.

After washing, I picked up the tea spoon and started adding tea. After adding two spoons, I thought it was enough.

The person next to him said at this time: "Add another spoonful." His voice was cold, with a clear and obvious smile, and the distance was quite close.

Uh, close?

Li Shuyao suddenly looked up and found that the emperor had walked over to her without her knowing. He was standing in front of the tea table, looking down at her movements.

Li Shuyao pursed her lips. After the anger subsided, nervousness and fear crept up again. She lowered her eyes, picked up the tea spoon and added a little more, and then added water. After adding the water, she poured out the tea used to make tea for the first time. When she took the cup, her hands were trembling from the heat, and her white and delicate fingertips soon turned red.

The emperor looked at her movements, somewhat puzzled, "Why did it fall out?"

Li Shuyao replied softly, "Even though the tea leaves are stored in a jar, over time some dust will accumulate on them, so they need to be rinsed with tea."

"Oh, I thought he was waking up the tea." As he spoke, the emperor found a stool and sat down.

Li Shuyao paused, as if there really was such a process.

So if she had answered like this just now, would it have made her appear more professional?

Thinking of this, all those bizarre ways of getting to the top emerged in her mind again... She shook her head vigorously in her heart. Forget it, so be it, it's stupid. It's better than fighting in the harem.

She quickly relaxed and tried to ignore the people at the tea table as she continued to add and pour water.

My fingertips are so burned that I can no longer feel the heat. I guess I'll need to apply some burn medicine when I get home. I wonder if Qingyao has any such medicine...

"Why did it fall down again?"

Li Shuyao: "..." Do you have a hundred thousand whys?

Li Shuyao's thoughts were extremely rebellious, but she still looked timid. When she heard this, she whispered, "I saw Sister Song did this before."

The emperor was a little surprised and asked, "Don't you dislike her? Why do you still call her sister?"

Li Shuyao puffed out her cheeks and said, "Because that's what Madam taught me, to be polite."

"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyebrows, thinking that the little palace maid in front of him spoke in an interesting way.

When had such a simple and naive person appeared in his palace?

The emperor intuitively felt that the person in front of him was pretending to be nice to him, but considering the nursery rhymes she had sung in Guo Luoluo's house before... he felt that it was not the same.

He bent his slender fingers and tapped them on the table. He decided to test the waters again. "How did you and Guo Luoluo meet?"

Li Shuyao was suddenly startled.

Then the emperor continued to ask, "I heard that it was your turn to guard the storehouse that day. Did you feel unwilling to do so?"

"Also, what did you say and do when you went to see Guo Luoluo today? What does "clap one, clap two" mean? What about "two eight, two five, six"? Is it a code or a riddle?"

Li Shuyao listened, her heart beating rapidly.

She felt that she was most likely not going to "get promoted", but would be "killed" unjustly.

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