Gu Yanyue didn't buy her tricks. She just smiled and said, "That would be too much trouble for Miss Liu. Besides, by the time Miss Liu brings the chicken soup in from outside the palace, it will probably have passed its peak taste. Miss Liu, please teach me how to make it. After all, I don't know when His Majesty became craving for this bowl of chicken soup."
"Your Majesty, actually I don't have to be sent in from outside the palace. You can use another method to send me in from inside the palace." After saying that, Liu Yanyan smiled faintly at Gu Yanyue. In fact, the hint contained in this was almost exposed.
When Liu Yanyan said this, everyone below gasped. They had not expected that Liu Yanyan would be so bold as to hint in front of the Empress that His Majesty should take her as his concubine.
Gu Yanyue just smiled at Liu Yanyan's words and didn't take it too seriously. "How about this, I ask Miss Liu to make the simplest tomato scrambled eggs. Even His Majesty knows how to make this dish. Miss Liu can make this chicken soup, so I think she can make it too."
Yu Wenran suddenly heard Gu Yanyue calling his name, and then heard Gu Yanyue comparing his cooking skills with Liu Yanyan and praising him. His heart suddenly blossomed with joy, and his eyes turned to Liu Yanyan. He was also looking forward to Liu Yanyan's answer. After all, even he could tell that Liu Yanyan's chicken soup was bought, so how could Gu Yanyue not know it?
"Well, well, well..." Liu Yanyan hesitated, "I think we should put the tomatoes in first?"
Gu Yanyue glanced at Yuwen Ran, who immediately understood and retorted, "No! You should blanch the tomatoes in boiling water and remove the skin."
After he finished speaking, Yuwen Ran looked at Gu Yanyue with an expression asking for praise. Gu Yanyue was not in a position to praise Yuwen Ran in public in front of so many people, so she just secretly gave Yuwen Ran a thumbs up.
Then Gu Yanyue stood up and said, "Miss Liu is so incoherent that she can't even make a simple dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes. I wonder how she made this chicken soup? Or is this chicken soup not made by Miss Liu at all?"
Liu Yanyan hadn't expected Gu Yanyue to expose her lie about not being able to cook in public. She could only stand up with Gu Yanyue and replied dryly, "Nonsense! I made this myself. Could it be that because His Majesty likes my chicken soup, you, Your Majesty, are jealous and are humiliating me like this?"
Gu Yanyue was so angry that she almost laughed at Liu Yanyan's words. How could she not know what Yu Wenran liked to eat?
If this bowl of chicken soup didn't taste similar to hers, you'd think Yuwen Ran would have drunk every last drop. She was jealous of the person who brought her the soup just because Yuwen Ran liked the soup she'd made. It was the biggest joke she'd heard this year.
Gu Yanyue raised her red lips, giving Liu Yanyan the most fatal blow. "I sold the recipe for this bowl of soup to that restaurant. If that's the case, if it weren't for me, I don't think Miss Liu would have been able to stew such a delicious soup today."
Liu Yanyan was stunned and stood there motionless. She had no idea that the recipe for this bowl of soup was actually sold by Gu Yanyue to the restaurant. This meant that Gu Yanyue also knew how to make this bowl of soup. So, wasn't her hypocritical question about how to make this bowl of soup just a trap for her to fall into?
"Empress, you're targeting a minister's daughter like this. Isn't that against the rules?" Just when Gu Yanyue thought Liu Yanyan was helpless, the Queen Mother suddenly jumped in. "Or are you so jealous that you can't even tolerate a minister's daughter bringing soup to the Emperor? And if it weren't for your jealousy, you wouldn't have only Princess Xiao Yuntun and no princes. Who will inherit the throne in the future?"
Seeing that the Queen Mother had come out to rescue her, Liu Yanyan walked out and knelt in the center. Tears kept welling up in her eyes. It was obvious that Liu Yanyan had to spend a lot of effort to prevent the tears from falling.
She spoke angrily, "Empress Dowager, this isn't the Empress' fault. It's all my fault. But the chicken soup I made today was accidentally broken by a maid, so I thought of sending the maid out of the palace to find the best chef in the capital to make a bowl of chicken soup for Your Majesty to nourish him. These servants didn't discuss this with the Empress Dowager beforehand, and they took the chef's credit for it. I beg the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and Your Majesty to punish us!"
After listening to Liu Yanyan's speech, Gu Yanyue couldn't help but stand up and applaud her.
This Liu Yanyan really has a strong taste of green tea and white lotus. If it were placed in modern times, it would be either the kind of prosperous little white lotus or the peerless little green tea. In short, it is not a good thing.
She now had to be thankful that Liu Yanyan was born in ancient times. If she were born in modern times, she would be a green tea who specializes in stealing other people's boyfriends. However, it seemed that she would be similar in ancient times. She saw that Liu Yanyan's eyes had never left Yuwen Ran since she came into the hall with her.
What's more, what she said to herself clearly meant that she wanted her to join the empress dowager in persuading Yuwen Ran to take her into the harem.
She is not stupid, so how could she allow someone in the harem to cause trouble with the Queen Mother?
"Your Majesty, your words are wrong." Yu Wenran saw that the Queen Mother had already brought the matter up to Gu Yanyue, and frowned at Liu Yanyan. His impression of her had completely soured. "If the Queen was jealous, those concubines in the harem would have appeared in the cold palace by now, and they would still be sitting here in the palace and attending the banquet peacefully?"
The Queen Mother was about to open her mouth to refute Yuwen Ran, but Yuwen Ran didn't pause and continued speaking, but his words were directed to the court officials below: "It just so happens that the Queen specially prepared some cakes for this Lantern Festival banquet. She didn't sleep all night yesterday, and she led the palace maids from Fengqi Palace to squeeze into the small kitchen and made nearly a thousand cakes in one go."
After saying that, Yuwen Ran asked the palace maids to bring up the cakes that Gu Yanyue had made yesterday and placed them on the tables of the court officials below. Even the tables of the Queen Mother and Liu Yanyan were filled with cakes made by Gu Yanyue.
Seeing that all the cakes had been served, Yuwen Ran smiled and said, "Wouldn't you like to try them? The Queen's cake-making skills are first-rate. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing so many cakes in one sitting before. So today, it's thanks to all of you that I can feast on them."
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