Because she was worried that the kitchen was unsafe, Nanny Li took Xia Miaoyuan to the yard outside the kitchen to play.
"Let's play here for a while. The dumplings will be cooked soon, and your dough cat will be cooked too." Nanny Li said as she took a doll and gave it to Xia Miaoyuan to hold and play with.
[Oh, how boring! I might as well play in the small kitchen.]
Xia Miaoyuan arranged the doll's braids into various shapes, suppressing the annoyance in her heart.
“Ouch!”
Suddenly, a woman's voice came from the small kitchen. The voice was not loud and it was impossible to tell who it was.
"What's wrong? Is some distinguished person hurt?" Xiao Luzi, who was guarding the door, ran in immediately.
"Lipin, why are you like this!" The angry voice of Concubine Shu.
Xia Miaoyuan and Nanny Li also ran to the door and looked inside.
I saw Concubine Li holding a tray with a plate of dumplings on it.
Concubine Zhou stood aside, blowing her hand to her mouth, her brows tightly furrowed, as if she was enduring the pain.
Concubine Shu was watching over Concubine Zhou with concern.
Looking down at the ground, I saw more than a dozen dumplings rolling on the ground and a disk smashed to pieces.
It turned out that some of the dumplings had just been cooked, and Concubine Shu stepped forward and took out the cooked dumplings one plate at a time.
Two plates had just been scooped out and placed on the stove, and the eunuch in charge of serving the food had not had time to take them away.
At this time, Concubine Li and Concubine An hurriedly took a tray each and rushed to put the dumplings on their own trays.
Lipin was quick-witted and quick-handed, and she took the initiative. She grabbed a plate and put it on her own tray, and wanted to grab the other plate as well.
Concubine An refused to comply and grabbed the plate with both hands, pushing it towards herself.
While the two were fighting over it, the plate of dumplings fell down.
As a result, when Concubine Zhou was sitting in front of the stove making a fire, a plate of dumplings that had just come out of the pot fell right on her hand.
The scalding hot dumplings immediately burned Zhou Bin's hands red.
"I... I... I'm sorry, Sister Zhou." Lipin apologized perfunctorily, picked up the tray and turned to leave.
As he walked, he said, "The emperor is still waiting to eat dumplings, so the first plate must be served to him first."
Concubine Shu glared fiercely at Concubine Li's back.
The other concubines also glared at Lipin angrily.
While everyone was stunned, Concubine An condescended to take the colander and did it herself. She scooped out another plate of dumplings, held it in her hands and walked out.
"I have to hurry up, too! Otherwise the dumplings will get cold."
Rongpin threw her apron to the ground and scolded, "These two are so lazy and slacking off. They clearly didn't do any work at all, yet they still want to grab the fruits of everyone's labor and bring them to the emperor to claim credit!"
Lady Lu echoed, "That's right, it's always like this. Wasn't it the same when the concubines went to learn silk reeling?"
Xia Miaoyuan scratched his head. "I have some impression of him. In the book, he's a lazy person, used to being cunning and sly. But this behavior of not doing any work and still taking credit for things is really unpleasant."
[Thinking back to when I was working 996, I hated people like this the most.]
The Queen was also very angry at these two sneaky guys. Thinking back to the time when she was suppressed by Concubine Jiang and had no real power, it was okay for them to act like this.
Now that Jiang is gone and she is in charge of the harem, they still dare to do this. They really don't take her seriously.
"Sister Zhou, come with me to apply some medicine." Concubine Shu pulled Concubine Zhou and was about to go out.
"Wait!" The Queen grabbed Concubine Shu.
Concubine Shu was puzzled.
Several small blisters had appeared on the back of Zhou Bin's hand.
"Don't apply the medicine yet, wait a minute."
Shufei seemed to understand the Queen's meaning and smiled slightly.
…
Just as the incident happened in the small kitchen, two dark shadows slipped into the inner room of the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the plan has failed." One of the black shadows whispered with some difficulty in his tone.
Xia Zhengqi stood in the darkness and shouted in a low voice, "What? With the two of you being so skilled, you actually failed?"
"Actually, it was going smoothly at first. Just when my subordinate aimed at him and wanted to shoot the hidden arrow, it got stuck unexpectedly."
Xia Zhengqi...
No way! Is it such a coincidence?
Could it be that Liang Chaozong is really the chosen one? !
Xia Zhengqi was in a state of confusion for a moment.
He sighed silently and said, "You guys go down. We'll discuss this matter later."
After Cheng Feng and Ying Chen left, Xia Zhengqi also walked out and went to the small dining room.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw the gorgeously dressed Concubine Li and Concubine An placing dumplings on the table.
"Your Majesty, you are here! Come and try my cooking!" Concubine Li spoke first in a coquettish voice.
"Your Majesty, these dumplings are just out of the pot and they are delicious. Please try them. I made them myself!" Concubine An was not to be outdone.
"Oh, your nails are so long and inlaid with gems, can you make dumplings with them?" Rongpin's voice came.
The queen and the concubines filed in and happened to see Concubine Li and Concubine An competing for the credit.
Xia Zhengqi had just suffered a huge blow and was in a very low mood. When he walked into the small hall, he didn't even open his eyes to look at Concubine Li and Concubine An.
When he heard the two concubines flattering him, he originally wanted to say a word of praise as a casual response.
But when he heard the words "long nails and jewel-studded nails", he became furious.
Xia Zhengqi immediately focused his attention and looked at the hands of Concubine Li and Concubine An with a sharp gaze. He saw that the four hands really had long nails, and there were colorful gems that sparkled on the nails.
[Hahahahahaha! Lipin, Anpin, are you two stupid?] Xia Miaoyuan covered her mouth and laughed secretly.
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